The fortunes of jaded women7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() This prophecy will reunite estranged mothers, daughters, aunts, and cousins-for better or for worse.Ī multi-narrative novel brimming with levity and candor, The Fortunes of Jaded Women is about mourning, meddling, celebrating, and healing together as a family. Mai is convinced they might drive her to an early grave.ĭesperate for guidance, she consults Auntie Hua, her trusted psychic in Hawaii, who delivers an unexpected prediction: this year, her family will witness a marriage, a funeral, and the birth of a son. ![]() Though Mai’s three adult daughters, Priscilla, Thuy, and Thao, are successful in their careers ( one of them is John Cho’s dermatologist!), the same can’t be said for their love life. She’s divorced, and after an explosive disagreement a decade ago, she’s estranged from her younger sisters, Minh Pham (the middle and the mediator) and Khuyen Lam (the youngest who swears she just runs humble coffee shops and nail salons, not Little Saigon’s underground). Oanh’s current descendant Mai Nguyen knows this curse well. It started with their ancestor Oanh who dared to leave her marriage for true love-so a fearsome Vietnamese witch cursed Oanh and her descendants so that they would never find love or happiness, and the Duong women would give birth to daughters, never sons. Everyone in Orange County’s Little Saigon knew that the Duong sisters were cursed. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For example, I Am a Lesbian was published in 1962. When she was a child, Bradley stated that she enjoyed reading adventure fantasy authors such as Henry Kuttner, Edmond Hamilton, and Leigh Brackett, especially when they wrote about "the glint of strange suns on worlds that never were and never would be." Her first novel and much of her subsequent work show their influence strongly.Įarly in her career, writing as Morgan Ives, Miriam Gardner, John Dexter, and Lee Chapman, Marion Zimmer Bradley produced several works outside the speculative fiction genre, including some gay and lesbian pulp fiction novels. Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series, often with a feminist outlook.īradley's first published novel-length work was Falcons of Narabedla, first published in the May 1957 issue of Other Worlds. ![]() ![]() ![]() But that’s the difference between Ben’s book and most: he shows you what it’s really like to make hard decisions, without offering you a three-step formula. Just because there is no formula doesn’t mean things are hopeless. Ben, however, provides insight into what to do after you screw up. ![]() Most management books focus on how to avoid screwing up - or at least covering your ass if you do. The hard thing is waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat when the dream turns into a nightmare. The hard thing is getting people to communicate within the organization that you just designed. The hard thing isn’t setting up an organizational chart. The hard thing is when those “great people” develop a sense of entitlement and start demanding unreasonable things. The hard thing isn’t hiring great people. The hard thing is laying people off when you miss the big goal. The hard thing isn’t setting a big, hairy, audacious goal. The book is one of the best business books I’ve read in a long time. ![]() “There’s no recipe for leading a group of people out of trouble,” writes Ben Horowitz in The Hard Thing About Hard Things. There is no formula for dealing with complexity that’s always changing. You’re reading something with no practical value and you’re not really learning anything. The problem with most business books is they present a formula for problems that ultimately have no formula. ![]() A Fatal Debt by John Gapper7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Because the fictional events are loosely based on actual events, one of the fun parlor games for those who followed the credit crisis will be to match Gapper’s banks and bankers with real life counterparts. The book’s timeline tracks that of Wall Street’s collapse - the fall of Lehman Brothers, and the Congressional hearings that forced titans of finance to bow before an endless sea of lawmakers and special investigators - with characters and plot points that are drawn from the people and events that marked the meltdown. ![]() It soon becomes apparent that Shapiro was using his young therapist as a convenient alibi, forcing Cowper to uncover Harry’s secrets to save his reputation and career. In a matter of days, Shapiro is accused of murdering a fellow financier and Cowper is accused of negligently setting loose a mentally unstable patient. Because the banker has donated generously to the hospital, Cowper acquiesces to Shapiro’s wish to be released. Ben Cowper, a psychiatrist at New York-Episcopal Hospital, who treats a powerful, but disgraced, bank executive named Harry Shapiro. And so A Fatal Debt, the new novel by Financial Times columnist John Gapper, is a welcome change - a fast-paced book that should entertain finance aficionados and fans of detective fiction alike.Ī Fatal Debt follows the story of Dr. ![]() History of the 1619 project7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() People who do not know where they are coming from are apt not only to repeat the mistakes of the past but to be afflicted all life-long with a sense of identity confusion and lack of direction. There is general agreement that a core requirement for good education of young people is a thorough understanding of the past. How for instance do you treat the Civil War, or the Asaba Massacre, or the Kano pogroms? Other people have suggested that the anomaly might be due to difficulty in getting historians to agree to a common version of history that could be equally taught to an eight-year-old Ibo girl in Awka and a Fulani lass of the same age in Sokoto. ‘They’ did not want future generations to learn about the horrible injustices that have led the nation to its present dire straits. It is an oft-repeated complaint in intellectual circles in Nigeria that some people deliberately took the study of History out of the national educational curriculum several years ago to keep the sordid details of Nigeria’s past out of the minds of present and future generations. ![]() Removed by S.J. Pajonas7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Learning the truth may put all of humanity in jeopardy as the great exodus from Earth begins. With the help of Jiro, a man who teaches her self defense while stealing her heart, Sanaa realizes Mark Sakai is holding back important truths about her life, her job, and her family. Mark Sakai has many plans for Sanaa that will take her into a web of lies and danger. War looms on the horizon, and Sanaa must help Sakai determine the key players and their weak spots before it's too late. Her task: spy on the corrupt leaders of the city who are playing politics and pulling strings in the hopes of earning a ticket on the next ship leaving a planet now in its final death throes. Sanaa Griffin is ripped from the job she always loved and reassigned to work for the mysterious Mark Sakai. ![]() One of the last remaining pockets of survivors are preparing for the inevitable future - they either find a way off the planet or be left behind to die. The year is 3103, and the Earth is dying. ![]() The iron king maurice7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This was the original game of thronese(tm) George R.R. Whether you are a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. Martin "Blood-curdling tale of intrigue, murder, corruption and sexual passion" - The Sunday Times "Dramatic and colourful as a Dumas romance but stiffened by historical accuracy and political insight" - The Sunday Times "Barbaric, sensual, teeming with life, based in wide reading and sound scholarship.among the best historical novels" - The Times Literary Supplement, e~Iron kings and strangled queens, battles and betrayals, lies and lust, the curse of the Templars, the doom of a great dynasty e" and all of it (well, most of it) straight from the pages of history, and believe me, the Starks and the Lannisters have nothing on the Capets and Plantagenets. This was the original game of thrones" - George R.R. Reviews "Iron kings and strangled queens, battles and betrayals, lies and lust, the curse of the Templars, the doom of a great dynasty - and all of it (well, most of it) straight from the pages of history, and believe me, the Starks and the Lannisters have nothing on the Capets and Plantagenets. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jason's attitude would put him and Batman in danger on many occasions, leading to Batman placing him on inactive duty. While Dick was very talented and natural when fighting crime, Jason was full of repressed anger and he had a rebellious nature. Batman trained him, and soon they were fighting crime as the dynamic duo but Bruce noticed a difference between Dick and Jason. ![]() After learning that Jason was an orphan, Batman took him in and revealed all his secrets to him, hoping to replace Dick Grayson as the new Robin. Batman has arrived too late to prevent the bomb from exploding and now the only thing he has left is hope.īatman remembers how he met Jason when the kid was trying to steal the wheels of the Batmobile, and almost managed to if not for Batman's arrival. Synopsis for "A Death in the Family - Chapter 5"Īfter the explosion, Batman searches among the ashes and rubble of the warehouse where Robin was supposed to be along with his real mother Sheila Haywood. 2 Appearing in "A Death in the Family - Chapter 5". ![]() Alter by H.R. Truelove7/5/2023 ![]() This chunky book is not one you can just breeze through. Trulove weaves a multi-POV, multi-world, and multi-dimension/reality action Sci-Fi that will make your head spin. It was a great read and I can’t wait to dive deeper into the Alter universe. I’m a bit late with this but here is my review of Alter by H. “A visitor in my head, whose thoughts were a plague on my mind.” Lennox, Ch. We lived like animals, surviving on wild game-on luck-or with the help of a visitor like Wisdom.” “No sun shone outside it was lost behind the gray that blanketed all of the Dark World. With a little help from the voices in her head, Laura needs to fight to save herself, the world she lives in-and every other world in the multiverse. When she discovers what hides behind her unusual abilities, Laura’s reality is blown to pieces, and she must learn to make sense of her supernatural gifts. There, she’s promised, lies the truth she’s been after her entire life.īut as her eighteenth birthday looms closer, Laura’s already complicated life takes a sudden turn. After spending years in a medical center for seeing visions no one else can, Laura is transferred to the Tomlinson Institute of Research. There are many voices in Laura’s mind but no one, WHO DO YOU TRUST WHEN YOU CAN’T TRUST YOURSELF? ![]() Anne bronte grey7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She was the last of the six children of Maria Branwell and Patrick Brontë, who was an Irish Anglican clergyman. Early Life and FamilyĪnne Brontë was born on 17 January 1820 in Market Street, Thornton, west of Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire. After her death, her sister Charlotte prevented the republication of her book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is why Anne’s work is not as well known as her sisters. It is thought she died from tuberculosis. She originally published her works under the name of Acton Bell, along with her sisters who also had pseudonyms, but they admitted to them in 1848 and were celebrated in London literary circles.Īnne died in 1849 while in Scarborough. ![]() She is the youngest of the Brontë sisters and was considered to have written the first sustained feminist novel.Īnne worked for most of her life as a governess, before she published her first book of poems with her sisters. Notable Works: Agnes Grey (1847), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)Īnne Brontë (17 January 1820 – ) was an English novelist and poet, best known for her two novels Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.Born: January 17, 1820, Thornton, England. ![]() |