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Thread!.Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.New Release: Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Long Way Up” is a new original series that follows Ewan and Charley’s previous adventures in “Long Way Round” and “Long Way Down.” The series will join an expanding offering of acclaimed unscripted series and films including the recently announced Fireball,” an original feature documentary directed by acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog and Professor Clive Oppenheimer the soon-to-premiere 2020 Sundance US Grand Jury Prize award-winning documentary, “Boys State” and the acclaimed, five-time Emmy nominated – including for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special – “Beastie Boys Story. Also joining them are their longtime collaborators, directors David Alexanian and Russ Malkin, following them in their electric Rivians. The new series will follow Ewan and Charley as they journey through Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and up through Colombia, Central America and Mexico. ![]() ![]() Watch as two friends ride around the world together and, against all the odds, realize their dream. Covering 13,000 miles over 100 days through 16 border crossings and 13 countries, starting from the city of Ushuaia at the tip of South America, Ewan and Charley journey through the glorious and underexposed landscapes of South and Central America in their most challenging expedition to date, using cutting-edge technology on the backs of their electric Harley-Davidson LiveWires in order to contribute to the sustainability of the planet. Long Way Round DOCUMENTARY In 2004, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman embarked on an epic challenge to bike 20,000 miles across 12 countries and 19 time zones in just 115 days. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The girl finds her surroundings pleasant in Shanghai, and she is schooled in the arts, literature, and in pleasuring men. from the University of Paris, Sorbonne, and held faculty appointments at the Chinese University and Baptist University in Hong Kong. HIs wife sends her daughter to relatives in Shanghai, and she herself enters a Buddhist nunnery. Mingmei Yip Born China Website Genre Romance, Historical Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers edit data Mingmei Yip was born in China, received her Ph.D. Peach Blossom Pavilion, story of the last geisha in China, is told with amazing insight as if the author had lived in the tumultuous China of a century ago. Precious Orchid's life changed when her father was accused and found guyilty, executed, leaving his family to a life of dishonor. Subtitle: "Behind its doors, a world of sensuality and intrigue awaits." Opens in California, where a young woman and her fiance arrive to record her great-grandmother's story, which itself begins in China. Trade paperback designed with flyleaf fold-ins. ![]() Conrad author lord jim7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. The novel is counted as one of 100 best books of the 20th century. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with his past. ![]() The other participants evade the judicial court of inquiry, leaving Jim to the court alone. However, the Patna and its passengers are later also saved, and the reprehensible actions of the crew are exposed. A few days later, they are picked up by a British ship. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. ![]() Judenrein by Harold Benjamin7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() A Yeshiva boy, turned Green Beret, turned junkie, excommunicated by his one-time faith and now the potential savior of people he doesn’t even like. The alien's method of disguise, the Transference Protocol, allows the extraterrestrial to reanimate the body of a dying host so that the alien can seamlessly walk among Earthlings. Tashan Zho, an alien scientist, is sent to Earth on a rescue mission. He must act quickly, or his home planet will, devastating the Earth. ![]() However, while searching for her, the alien is caught in a gang war. It Gives You Strength, by Philip Raymond BrownĪn alien visitor to the primitive planet Earth has one mission-to bring a child home. Military science fictions, steampunk novels or thrillers with extraterrestrial elements that take place on Earth are also welcomed on the following Goodreads list. The set should be a war, or something military related. We are looking for Alternate History books that are more sci-fi focused with elements like time travel, aliens, or future technology. ![]() Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Because they’re struggling financially, the brothers agree to accompany her in exchange for any gold that they discover. Jesse and Will ask the still-disguised Kate to stay on their ranch, but she’s too focused on tracking the Rose Riders to take them up on their offer. ![]() Though Abe turns out to have died years earlier, his sons were told to adopt any Thompson that ever arrives looking for him. She then heads toward the nearby town of Wickenburg looking for Abe, the man her father always told her to find if he died. ![]() Kate Thompson seeks revenge at any cost after her father is killed by a gang of robbers who believe he had information about a mythical gold mine.ĭisguised as a boy, Kate quickly tracks a wounded gang member into town, where she interrogates him, confirms he is part of the notoriously vicious Rose Riders gang who now have her father’s gold mine maps, and summarily executes him. ![]() Silas Marner by George Eliot7/5/2023 ![]() He remains poor and isolated but fortunately, he symbolically adopts a golden-haired baby girl who is later married, and ends up staying in his home, a case that overturns his situation. He also owns a good amount of gold, which is stolen later together with the money by Dunsey, and the case ignored. He gets a lot of money as an herbalist but people mistake him for witch doctor. He suffers false accusations of theft and isolation by his religious friends, a situation that forces him to abandon not only his Godly faith but also his people and leaves for Raveloe, a village worse than his former. Silas is a foreigner, rich in skills, in Raveloe village, a case that, coupled with his catalepsy sickness, makes his neighbours suspect him in everything that happens. ![]() It depicts Eliot’s attitude towards religion.Įmploying the elements of literature, Eliot uses characters like Silas Marner, a miser and a weaver, Godfrey Cass, Squire’s son, Eppie, Silas adopted girl, William Dane, Silas’ friend, among others. ![]() ![]() Written by George Eliot, ‘Silas Marner’ is a captivating tale published in 1861 and set in the beginning of the 19 th century. ![]() Bill watterson7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() The most controversial thing in the village is the billboard outside the First Baptist Church. They live a couple of miles from the 19th-Century clock tower at Hudson (pop. He snores and attacks anything that moves. But there are three cats: Sprite and Pumpernickel, who are normal, and Juniper Boots. Wife Melissa, also an artist, drives a Volkswagen that barely makes it to the store and back.īill and Melissa Watterson have no children. ![]() Despite a sudden surge in his income, Watterson is content with his Honda Civic. So home remains the rented, century-old doll house that was all Watterson could afford two years ago when he was earning minimum wages as makeup editor for “a sleazy, tabloid shopper.”Ĭalvin and Hobbes are born daily on an undersized drawing board in a 9x9 room that’s a cell overlooking a driveway. Maybe as a superstition, he feels that if anything is allowed to change Watterson it also will change Calvin and Hobbes. Sleeping late, enjoying slow moments, knowing only simple concerns are his pleasures. Similarly, he’s opposing attempts to intrude upon his unassuming life style. ![]() The straight mind and other essays7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() “A Genderless Future?” Chapter 1 in Sex / Gender: Biology in a Social World. Edited by Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle. “Mutilating Gender.” In The Transgender Studies Reader. “Tell Grandma I’m a Boy.” In Trans Forming Families: Real Stories About Transgendered Loved Ones. “Biological Essentialism: Our Bodies, Ourselves?” In Women and Gender: Transforming Psychology. “Gender & Social Construction: Who? What? When? Where? How?” Social Construction: Class, Gender, Race Disability… “The Race for Theory.”įilm: Diagnosing Difference. “Not by Degrees: Feminist Theory and Education.” In Feminist Theory: A Reader. “ Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person,” Huffington Post, May 8, 2014. “ For the White Person Who Wants to Know How to Be My Friend,” DePaul University.Ĭrosley-Corcoran, Gina. ![]() “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” (PDF) Amptoons. “Oppression.” In The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory. “Anti-Essentialism and Intersectionality: Tools to Dismantle the Master’s House.” Recommendedįrye, Marilyn. Prejudice, Discrimination, and Oppression = Hackett, Elizabeth, and Sally Haslanger. ![]() |