This summer brings big changes for Melly: her parents split up, her best friend ditches her, and Melly finds herself falling for a girl at camp named Adeline. On a journey that will take them through a land full of dangerous people and hard choices, it will take everything they have to just to stay alive. In a ruthless world ravaged by a pandemic, an accident of fate draws loner Rachel and idealist Alice into a mission to find Alice’s lost brother. But everyone around them thinks their ‘fake’ marriage is real, and Lo has to convince herself that she can’t be falling for her straight best friend, can she? Meet You at the End of the World by Natasha West CameronĬhildhood best friends Lo and Cara cook up a crazy plan to get married in order to claim Lo’s inheritance money and avoid debt. *almost all of these books are either indie published or self-published and therefore not usually available in physical copies, but you can find them on kindle!* Marriage of Unconvenience by Chelsea M. Hi everyone! Sapphic recommendation posts are something that we post quite often, so today, I’m bringing you some sapphic romance books that you may not have heard about and that have less than 1000 ratings on goodreads (at least they do at the time I’m writing this lol)! – Amber ❤
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This contemporary fairy tale sports surprising secrets, hidden identities, and an anonymous narrator whose personal stake in revealing the story is gradually exposed. Isabella Cordage is your typical Yale University student. Under Geoffrey's tutelage, which comes in the form of Bruce Springsteen lyrics, Isabella becomes the model of everything good and chic - until tragedy strikes: an airplane piloted by Geoffrey, with the Prince as passenger, crashes, and only one body washes ashore. Princess Izzy and the E Street Shuffle Beverly Bartlett 5 Spot, Mar 2006, 12.95. Determined to find herself a trustworthy adviser, she enlists her former car mechanic Geoffrey and brings him and his wife to live with them in Bisbania. But being the wife to the heir to the throne is a complicated matter, and Isabella's every aching misstep soon earns her the title Dizzy Izzy. From gigabooks (Spokane, WA, U.S.A.) AbeBooks Seller Since SeptemSeller Rating. Spunky, plucky Isabella Cordage has taken Bisbania's royal family by storm, having fallen in love with the Prince. Princess Izzy And The E Street Shuffle - (Advanced Reading Copy - First Edition). The Princess Diaries for adults! This clever and witty debut follows a fictitious princess whose royal advisor is a mechanic who takes his advice from Bruce Springsteen. As Anton Kaes notes in his seminal From Hitler to Heimat, the more than three hundred films of this sort released in this decade “painted an unabashedly idealized, nostalgic picture” of the country, replete with “cliché-ridden, Agfa-coloured images of German forests, landscapes, and customs.” 1 With the German economy flourishing again some ten years after the end of the cataclysmic war, most West Germans deemed it wise to ignore the traumatic past, for “looking back would have slowed down the progress.” 2 The so-called Heimatfilm (“homeland movie”) in particular developed into a hugely popular genre in the 1950s, equivalent to the American Western. Papas Kino (Daddy’s Cinema) was the derogatory term applied to the post-war West German films that reproduced the conventions of movies made in the fascist era. A lifelong avid reader, he encouraged his children and grandchildren to pursue knowledge from reading. While George retired from teaching professionally in 1979, he continued promoting the value of curiosity, books, and learning. After settling in the Seattle area, he met and married Donna Lee Truitt in 1952, moving to the Kitsap Peninsula in 1964. He graduated from Cooley High School in Detroit, MI in 1941 after spending a brief part of his youth in Kelso, WA. George was born in Chicago, IL on February 22, 1923, and while it was the anniversary of George Washington’s birth, he was named after his uncle, George Isaac Smith. He also served as the Local Union President of the American Federation of Teachers. For 28 years he taught English in the Tacoma School District, including Stewart Jr. He later earned a Master’s Degree in Education from the University of Puget Sound. Following his military service, he attended the University of Washington and graduated with a degree in English in 1951. George served in the Navy during World War II as a sonar operator, primarily in the South Pacific and later at Fort Warden overlooking the Strait of Juan de Fuca. A teacher and nature lover, he was also known for his wit, humor, and fondness for dogs. George passed away on Augat his home near Port Orchard, WA. The author extrapolates well and helps to give broader explanations that this non-scientist appreciated. This is an engaging and humane treatment of the subject, which by its nature can be incredibly specific and detailed. Who regarded me with a (brief) look of awe I haven’t seen for 15 years. "This book has allowed me to hold forth for a good 10 minutes on all the issues surrounding the recent gene editing discussions in the news to my husband. Majestic in its ambition, and unflinching in its honesty, The Gene gives us a definitive account of the fundamental unit of heredity – and a vision of both humanity’s past and future. This is a story driven by human ingenuity and obsessive minds – from Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel to Francis Crick, James Watson and Rosalind Franklin, and the thousands of scientists still working to understand the code of codes. It reorganizes our understanding of sexuality, temperament, choice and free will. It intersects with Darwin’s theory of evolution, and collides with the horrors of Nazi eugenics in the 1940s. The story of the gene begins in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 where a monk stumbles on the idea of a ‘unit of heredity’. Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function. By Siddhartha Mukherjee, and and, avg rating Short film collaboration with experimental video artist Adebukola Bodunrin. *Nominated for 2019 Ringo Award for Best Artist and Best Original Graphic Novel* *Nominated for 2019 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist and Outstanding Graphic Novel* *Nominated for 2019 Harvey Award for Book of the Year* *Winner of the DiNKy Award for Diversity in Comics* *Winner of the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics* *Nominated for 2019 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: Reprint* *Vulture - Top 10 Graphic Novels of 2018* *Paste Magazine’s #1 Graphic Novel of 2018 (tie)* Soon, it becomes clear that only one version of each individual can survive, and a psychological battle for dominance begins. When the procedure experiences a fatal complication, the couple is faced with severely disfigured, though intellectually superior duplicates of themselves. UPGRADE SOUL is the story of an elderly couple who become the guinea pigs of a visionary procedure that aims to revivify them by filtering toxins from their bodies on a molecular level. Featuring an original reactive score by acclaimed experimental composer Alexis Gideon and interactive design by award-winning interactive artist Erik Loyer. The groundbreaking immersive UPGRADE SOUL iOS app is the definitive version of the award-winning science fiction graphic novel written and illustrated by Ezra Claytan Daniels. Starring Wendell Pierce, Marcia Gay Harden, David Dastmalchian, and Phil Lamarr LISTEN TO THE AUDIBLE ORIGINAL AUDIO DRAMA With a new introduction by Darren Aronofsky About 11,000 years ago, certain human beings developed agriculture-a major milestone in human history. Beginning about half a million years ago, the first human beings emerged in Africa, and eventually migrated around the rest of the world in search of game and other sources of food. In Part One of the book, Diamond sketches out the course of recent human history, emphasizing the differences between civilizations. Yali wanted to know, “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo … but we black people had little cargo of our own?”-in other words, why have European societies been so militarily, economically, and technologically successful in the last 500 years, while other societies have not approached such a level of achievement? The book is framed as a response to a question that Diamond heard from Yali, a charismatic New Guinean politician. In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond outlines the theory of geographic determinism, the idea that the differences between societies and societal development arise primarily from geographical causes. Lesser known are Mauldins second and even third acts as one of Americas premier political cartoonists from the last half of the twentieth century, when he traveled to Korea and Vietnam Israel and Saudi Arabia Oxford, Mississippi, and Washington, DC covering war and peace, civil rights and the Great Society, Nixon and the Middle East. The first career-spanning volume of the work of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin, featuring comic art from World War II, Korea, Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm, along with a half-century of graphic commentary on civil rights, free speech, the Cold War, and other issues.Īrmy sergeant William Henry "Bill" Mauldin shot to fame during World War II with "Willie & Joe" cartoons, which gave readers of Stars & Stripes and hundreds of home-front newspapers a glimpse of the war from the foxholes of Europe. The connection between Woolf, Queen Camilla and Possingworth Manor was Violet Trefusis, whose mother Alice Keppel was Queen Camilla’s great-grandmother and the long-time mistress of King Edward VII. Case in point, Possingworth Manor, which can boast connections to both Virginia Woolf, author of “Orlando” and many other highly esteemed writings, as well as newly crowned Queen Camilla. The East Sussex manor, about 1.5 hours from central London, was first recorded around 1281, though the current house is thought to have been completed in 1657 by Thomas Offley, whose initials appear along with that date above a doorway to the house. It’s not all surprising that an English manor house dating back four centuries would have some interesting associations with royalty, both aristocratic and literary. But now Church's widow is accusing Harry of killing the wrong man, and to make things worse, Harry has just received a taunting note that appears to be from the Dollmaker himself. 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THE BLACK ECHO One Sunday Harry Bosch gets a call out on his pager. A Harry Bosch Novel Print length 512 pages Language English Publisher Orion Publication date 7 Sept. |