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... bad-ass experience that way. A friend suggests she get a job on The Glorious Fool, a ship that has seen a lot of ... much to my delight. Devi is initially pretty bored in her new job and isn't sure she'll make it a whole year if all she ...
... abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break up, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can ... and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding job. Wintering explores how she not only endured this ... the hardships that arise before the ushering in of a new season. Katherine May Wintering: The Power of Rest and ...
Sera Fleece is recently divorced, out of a job and at extreme loose ends. Her only emotional outlet is ... and loneliness. When Rachel suddenly stops posting new episodes and there are no new updates on her social media, Sera is thrown for a loop. ...
Though Ann Leckie's new novel involves larger issues of political intrigue and ... from the home (and even the planet). They give Enae a job to do that will take hir out into the universe. Enae is ... where he comes from. He keeps his head down and does his job, but knows there's something missing. When he's ...
... memory, emotion, and time. Dirty Computers are feared in New Dawn, a totalitarian regime where thoughts are a ... memories: happy, sad, good or bad. This seems like a cool job, but the idea that whoever controls our memories ... dystopian novels like The Handmaid's Tale , Brave New World , Fahrenheit 451 , and 1984 where the government ...
... Things . In this novel set in early Twentieth Century New York, a young woman, who is displayed by her father as a ... life in Germany during World War II, a young teacher, newly married to a military surgeon, struggles to keep her ... food writer and restaurant critic, a young woman gets a job as an assistant at a food and cooking magazine in New ...
... at the height of and in the epicenter of the epidemic, 1988 New York City. Kevin Doyle lost his beloved partner, ... funeral, of one of his closest friends, Kevin loses his job and then drinks himself into the hospital. Now he's ... face his feelings and figure out how to start to build a new life without Francesco. The pain and rage of Kevin and ...
... Popular audiobook narrator and actress Julia Whelan's new novel is about a famous audiobook narrator and actress ... all too well. But really, the universal need to adjust to new realities is something we all face in different ways. ... back to Los Angeles and finds out that she's landed the job of a lifetime duet narrating the "lost" books of a ...
... man as part of a business transaction and moves with him to New York City. Danticat, Edwidge. Everything Inside . ... the lives of migrants from Haiti. Ellmann, Lucy. Ducks, Newburyport . This large stream-of consciousness novel is ... novel, an Indian-American pharmaceutical rep loses his job, renames himself after Don Quixote, and uses his old ...
... historical mystery set in 1921, a white woman escapes from New York City with a gunshot wound and a large pile of cash; ... even more racist, is an African-American man who lands a job as an attorney at a powerful law firm and fears for the ... young woman from urban Bangalore, India loses her job and moves to a rural area in Kashmir to find an old ...
... and nervous about An Easy Death the first in a brand new trilogy. Would my old Harris excitement return? Or the ... is back. An Easy Death introduces readers to a whole new world and time and a great set of characters, centering ... of her team, killed on her last assignment, she takes the job. And the shootouts ensue (interspersed with magic and ...
... on the moon where he's currently living. He's taken a job as a barrista and though he sings along to the music of ... Dyesi convinces him to enter the competition to become a new god. Phex is skeptical, but figures he's got nothing to ... as Phex ventures out of his taciturn shell to not only form new connections but find his own strength as a leader was ...
... them both safely home to South Africa. Cook, Diane. The New Wilderness . In this dystopian novel, a couple whose ... finds himself in financial trouble, and takes on one last job to try to pay off his bills. Dimaline, Cherie. Empire ... tells the story of a suicidal young writer who takes a job as a personal assistant to a famous Hollywood actress ...
... and each poppy seed on her cake, but she also had a job she liked - teaching grade schoolers - and she even ... way she meets Seamus Joseph O'Reilly (19 letters), finds a new place in her family and a new role in life. This charming, bittersweet novel hit all ...
... to Princeton, 1775-1777 . Bazelon, Emily. Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass ... Crisis and Its Lessons . Bilefsky, Dan. The Last Job: The “Bad Grandpas” and the Hatton Garden Heist . ... Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us . The Stonewall Reader . Ed. by New York Public Library. Thompson, ...
... tune into business and technology trends, or explore new software, this collection--created and curated by ... 900+ books from the "For Dummies" series 150 titles for job-seeking and career development Hundreds of books and ...
... she’s a shaman, she is immediately called upon to use her newfound powers of oneness with the City to rescue it from a ... description to get me started. Sharon is a pretty brand-new shaman who is still struggling to understand just what ... but unsure just how to go about such a thing. Her day job as a barrista certainly doesn't fulfill her (especially ...
Anne Capestan knew she’d be punished for her itchy trigger finger, but ... the Parisian police commissaire was lucky to still have her job, but is stunned when she learns that she is to lead a ... for an American audience. Translator Sam Gordon does a fine job rendering the original into comprehensible English while ...
... pages (one of whom was celebrating her first day on the job), assisting patrons until into the early morning ... of our staff’s response - their willingness to face new challenges and commitment to their communities, even ...
... library works with partners to offer classes for: business, job skills, and technology. We also host service providers ...
... Auschwitz by a Polish boxer. Hansen, Ron. She Loves Me Not: New and Selected Stories . This is a collection of 19 short ... Moyes, Jojo. Me Before You . A young Englishwoman takes a job as caretaker for a recently paralyzed man, and throws ... . In this intricate mystery, a graphic designer who takes a job as a night clerk at a mysterious bookstore discovers ...
... boy loses his mother, a 28-year-old man loses his job, and a 48-year-old man, who has been mute for many ... novel, which spans more than two centuries, begins in New York state in the 1830s, when a young girl loses her ... also lost the ability to speak. In the hope that studying a new language may help, she signs up for a class in Greek, ...
... novel narrated by a writer from Sri Lanka serving time in a New York prison, who edits an in-house magazine which has ... who is unexpectedly given extra vacation leave at her job, decides to travel to visit four old friends she has not ... from a disadvantaged background works her way up to a good job at a cable news network, but her success is threatened ...
... a loveless future? The Duchess Deal launches Tessa Dare’s new Girl Meet Duke series on a solid note. Dare takes the ... liked both Emma and Ash as people, Dare doing an excellent job drawing out their spirited natures underneath the insecurities. The story is hardly new or surprising and there’s a bit of silliness about ...
... . A struggling theatrical set-designer in Chicago lands a job that could be her big break, but then an unexpected act ... is a man who, after his wife leaves him and he loses his job, delivers a load of marijuana for his brother, with ... to fame as an inventor of minimalist nouvelle cuisine. Newitz, Annalee. The Future of Another Timeline . In this ...
... the constant racism and harassment she experiences on her job. Ebook Cash, Wiley. When Ghosts Come Home . In ... of realism and the supernatural, the appearance of a new bright light in the night sky sets off a series of ... which has been hired to evaluate the special effects in a new science fiction film. Miller, Nathaniel Ian. The ...
From the acclaimed cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My ... black Americans left their rural homes in the South for jobs in cities in the North, West, and Midwest in a movement ... the complexion of America and provided black people with new economic opportunities, it also disconnected them from ...
This 1986 classic has found a new audience through a popular adaptation on Hulu. This is ... of Offred, one of the unfortunate "Handmaids" under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred's persistent ...
... in England tries to make friends and fit into her new life, but she still has strong attachments to her old ... heritage. Ebook Gillham, David R. Shadows of Berlin . In New York in the 1950s, a Jewish German woman who survived ... in the 1970s, an idealistic young Black nurse takes a job at a family planning clinic, and is horrified to realize ...
... screams for help, the woman disappears under her bed. I knew immediately what was going on at this point. But sweet ... We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson And a new young adult book I'm looking forward to: The Tenth Girl ... a haunting twist. A young teacher named Mavi starts a new job at the Vaccaro School located in a haunted Argentinian ...
... an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother ... who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, The Leavers is the story of how one ...