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Bender by Stacy Borel7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It was a very hard decision for me to put it on the back burner while I worked on Hitchhiker. And I know most of you were anxiously awaiting the release of the next book in The Core Four Series. I know that it has been a year since I have released anything. I wanted to take a moment to thank each and every one of you. ![]() The publication/use of these trademarks is not authorized, associated with, or sponsored by the trademark owner. The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of various products referenced in this work of fiction, which have been used without permission. Names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing. Cover and Interior Design by Kassi CooperĪll rights reserved. ![]()
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A princess ate my daughter7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From premature sexualization to the risk of depression to rising rates of narcissism, the potential negative impact of this new girlie-girl culture is undeniable-yet armed with awareness and recognition, parents can effectively counterbalance its influence in their daughters' lives. The stakes turn out to be higher than she ever imagined. Cinderella Ate My Daughter is a must-read for anyone who cares about girls, and for parents helping their daughters navigate the rocky road to adulthood. or do they?In search of answers, Peggy Orenstein visited Disneyland, trolled American Girl Place, and met parents of beauty-pageant preschoolers tricked out like Vegas showgirls. But how dangerous is pink and pretty, anyway? Being a princess is just make-believe eventually they grow out of it . . . And commercialization has spread the message faster and farther, reaching girls at ever-younger ages. ![]() Somewhere between the exhilarating rise of Girl Power in the 1990s and today, the pursuit of physical perfection has been recast as the source of female empowerment. Peggy Orenstein, acclaimed author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers Girls & Sex and Schoolgirls, offers a radical, timely wake-up call for. Sweet and sassy or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from infancy onward, telling them that how a girl looks matters more than who she is. Peggy Orenstein, acclaimed author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers Girls & Sex and Schoolgirls, offers a radical, timely wake-up call for parents, revealing the dark side of a pretty and pink culture confronting girls at every turn as they grow into adults. ![]()
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Matt haig how to stop time7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() He has been many things in many times because, by the strictest of definitions, Hazard isn't really a time traveler either - he's just lived a very, very long time. And all of that might have been very annoying if he hadn't also been, well, not an aluminum siding salesman exactly, but just a regular guy. He's been in rooms with Josephine Baker and Lillian Gish. Worked for him, playing the lute for his productions. ![]() In How To Stop Time, the new novel from Matt Haig, the main character, Tom Hazard (which, not for nothing, is a fantastic name for a time traveler - or anyone else) knew Shakespeare. No one ever remembers the past life where they were the second-most-successful aluminum siding salesman in Columbus, Ohio. It's like people who believe they can recall past lives: They always seem to have been Napoleon or Cleopatra. Sometimes this is the purpose of the time travel ( Let's kill Hitler! being such a famous occupation of the chronologically gifted that it has spawned its own sub-genre of semi-historical fiction) and sometimes it's just a pleasant diversion, but it always seems to happen. Hitler, Jesus, Shakespeare, the king of this or that. ![]() In (almost) every single one of them, the time traveler's most notable experience is meeting other people who aren't time travelers who were, in their proper moment, just famous as all hell. Here's what drives me crazy about time travel books. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title How to Stop Time Author Matt Haig ![]()
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Rules for Vampires by Alex Foulkes7/8/2023 ![]() Can Leo convince the Ghostly Realm of her innocence and earn her freedom, or will she be trapped there forever?Ī monstrously funny and devilishly dark new adventure in Alex Foulkes's Rules for Vampires series, illustrated throughout by the award-winning Sara Ogilvie, Ghosts Bite Back is perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket and Skulduggery Pleasant to sink their claws into. Summoned to the Ghostly Realm for the murder of the Orphanmaster, Leo must complete three tasks to prove herself worthy of her unlife, each more treacherous than the last. Leo the vampire and Minna the ghost have battled together side-by-side, they're sisters-in-arms, they're best friends, and they'll have to work together to vanquish a new, deadly threat. ![]() The two factions have despised one another for all eternity. The spookiest story you'll read this year is the ghoulish follow-up to Alex Foulkes's highly acclaimed Rules for Vampires.Ī vampire and a ghost being friends is unheard of. Straighten your cape and ready your fangs. ![]()
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The goldfinch by donna tartt7/7/2023 ![]() Young Theodore Decker, having escaped the terrorist explosion, then escapes foster care in The System. ![]() The novelist herself uses the painting as a guide to navigate irreconcilable dualities–good and evil, hope and despair, safety and danger, perfection and flaw, life and death, a wager and a sure bet. The Goldfinch‘s captivating allegory The Goldfinch, a novel by Donna Tartt The book is about the boy and the painting finding their true home. He and the painting are survivors, and he holds on to it for dear life, as a talisman and a burden. In the fictional world of the book, the young hero takes the painting from the Met during a terrorist attack. The painting of the bird is real–a small, rare 17th-century Dutch masterpiece housed in the Mauritshuis in the Hague. ![]() The reason I tore through Donna Tartt’s bestselling, mega-sized novel The Goldfinch is the almost Dickensian tale of a boy unmoored from his family and drifting through households and locales in a surreal state of drug-and-alcohol-induced stupefaction, all the while holding on to that invaluable painting, “The Goldfinch,” packed in a pillowcase. ![]() Forget about the eponymous Fabritius painting. ![]()
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Essential labor angela garbes review7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() A first-generation Filipino-American, Garbes shares the perspective of her family's complicated relationship to care work, placing mothering in a global context-the invisible economic engine that has been historically demanded of women of color. ![]() In Essential Labor, Garbes explores assumptions about care, work, and deservedness, offering a deeply personal and rigorously reported look at what mothering is, and can be. In response to the increasing weight placed on mothers and caregivers-and the lack of a social safety net to support them-writer Angela Garbes found herself pondering a vital question: How, under our current circumstances that leave us lonely, exhausted, and financially strained, might we demand more from American family life? The Covid-19 pandemic shed fresh light on a long-overlooked truth: mothering is among the only essential work humans do. ![]() ![]() Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Changeįrom the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America, and an exploration of mothering as a means of social change. ![]()
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Solo leveling vol 2 light novel7/7/2023 ![]() If an order gets stuck at customs, sent back or even lost during the delivery process, we will not be held liable for this. The courier's handling of the package is out of our control. WHAT HAPPENS IF MY ORDER GETS STUCK OR LOST?Īll of our orders are sent with insured shipping and handling. *Please note, our carriers are doing their best to get your orders to you on time, but please plan ahead to ensure on-time delivery. We will do our best to ship out your orders as soon as possible. Please be aware that due to the high volume of orders received and restrictions of movement due to COVID-19, the following lead times are estimated only. Orders are shipped out directly from our warehouse in the Philippines. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us at WILL I RECEIVE MY ORDER? At Hapi Manga Store, we are committed to ensuring that your shopping experiences result in complete satisfaction, and sincerely regret any disappointment you may have encountered.Īs always, our primary goal is to keep our customers, our employees and our community safe. ![]() ![]() This applies for all of our delivery methods. Please be advised that due to COVID-19 precautions and increased shipping volumes, you may experience delays in receiving your order. ![]()
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Winter of the world trilogy book 37/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Into this turmoil steps her mother's formidable friend and former British MP, Ethel Leckwith, and her student son, Lloyd, who soon learns for himself the brutal reality of Nazism. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. ![]() Winter of the World Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. The Williams, a Welsh coal-mining family, is linked by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Fall of Giants The first in Ken Follett's bestselling Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. Ken Follett Century Trilogy War stories, Series Collection 3 Books Set Titles in the Set are: Fall of Giants, Winter of the World, Edge of Eternity. ![]()
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Black and Blue by Ian Rankin7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() His investigation takes him north to the oil rigs of Aberdeen, where he meets the Bible Johnny media circus head-on. The Bible Johnny case would be perfect for Inspector John Rebus, but after a run-in with a crooked senior officer, he's been shunted aside to one of Edinburgh's toughest suburbs, where he investigates the murder of an off-duty oilman. Nicknamed "Bible Johnny" by the media, he is a new menace with violent ambitions. ![]() ![]() "Bible John" terrorized Glasgow in the sixties and seventies, murdering three women he met in a local ballroom-and he was never caught. And convict Lenny Spaven died just to prove a point. Oilman Allan Mitchelson died for his principles. Johnny Bible killed to steal his namesake's glory. Bible John killed three women, and took three souvenirs. ![]() |