![]() Mike is being tormented at school by a loud-mouth named Andy Simms, who calls Mike "Macaroni Boy." But when dead rats start appearing in the streets, that name changes to "Rat Boy." Around the same time Mike notices that his grandfather is also physically sick. Money problems only add to Mike's worries about his beloved grandfather, who is getting forgetful and confused. But it's 1933, and the Depression is bringing tough times to everyone. His father's large Italian family runs a food wholesale business, and Mike is used to the sounds and smells of men working all night to unload the trains that feed the city. ![]() Mike Costa has lived his whole life in The Strip, Pittsburgh's warehouse and factory district. Extra material: An Author's Note is included in the back of the book. ![]() ![]() During the Great Depression, a boy who faces bullying stumbles upon a mystery and comes of age in this novel that integrates fact and opinion and has a rich 1930's vocabulary. ![]()
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![]() ![]() An agent has disappeared, and rogue variant organization Abel’s Army is likely the culprit. She and long-time love Alec are officially a couple, and for the first time, she has everything she wants.īut the air is tense at FEA headquarters. ![]() Tessa has finally made peace with her life as a Variant. The stakes are higher than ever-lives of promise cut short or fulfilled a future ruled by fear or hope-in the electrifying conclusion to Joelle Charbonneau's epic Testing trilogy. This is the chance to lead that Cia has trained for - but who will follow? Plunging through layers of danger and deception, Cia must risk the lives of those she loves-and gamble on the loyalty of her lethal classmates. Gifted student and Testing survivor, Cia Vale, vows to fight. The rebel resistance plots against a government that rules with cruelty and cunning. In a scarred and brutal future, The United Commonwealth teeters on the brink of all-out civil war. Cia is ready to lead the charge, but will her lethal classmates follow her into battle? ![]() In book three of the Testing series, the United Commonwealth wants to eliminate the rebel alliance fighting to destroy The Testing for good. ![]() ![]() The “animism of cybernetic-materialism” as I will call it in this brief essay concerning the way structures and architectural spaces of knowledge and power are given the voice to define what a human being’s life should look like. In speaking of this perspective of life, I recall the song by the British rock group The Police, “Spirits in the Material World.” For him, inanimate objects are life forces, as such as neural technology has life – a key feature of the philology of cybernetics, a science derived from the Latin “kybernets” loosely meaning “the force in living things,” which also includes computer viruses and complex systems running the missiles of Pentagon. Herein lies Murakami’s use of inanimate objects, of how materials become spirited and animated, to characterize the anatomy and biology of power. Illogical, paving way for the crafting of fantasy and stories of world-building. Strip the self from the shadow and life becomes absurd. One that speaks and haunts the human spirit. ![]() The Berlin wall was “torn down” because it could no longer speak for the ideological quarrels that separate the ideas of economic-philosophers Frederick von Hayek and John Maynard Keynes, the ideologues of the free enterprise and command economies in the history and story of “commanding heights” (or base and superstructure) of societies, as the Russian revolutioner Vladimir Lenin wrote about in a famous essay concerning the highest stage of capitalism. The Wailing Wall of Jerusalem perhaps responds to those who confessed their life’s shortcomings a ritual of repentance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Estos terceros utilizan cookies para mostrar y medir anuncios personalizados, generar información sobre la audiencia, y desarrollar y mejorar los productos. Esto incluye el uso de cookies propias y de terceros que almacenan o acceden a información estándar del dispositivo, como un identificador único. Si estás de acuerdo, también utilizaremos las cookies para complementar tu experiencia de compra en las tiendas de Amazon, tal y como se describe en nuestro Aviso de cookies. También utilizamos estas cookies para entender cómo utilizan los clientes nuestros servicios (por ejemplo, mediante la medición de las visitas al sitio web) con el fin de poder realizar mejoras. Utilizamos cookies y herramientas similares que son necesarias para permitirte comprar, mejorar tus experiencias de compra y proporcionar nuestros servicios, según se detalla en nuestro Aviso de cookies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their lives are on the line the trap has been set! Meanwhile, Thanh still hasn't trusted Mục yet. The fates of two unlikely companions intertwine on the spider web of a criminal mastermind who has been evading arrest for the past 40 years. ![]() On this journey, she meets Điền Mục, a young ghost catcher who can't see ghosts but was raised by a 500-year-old spirit and has about zero experience in human interactions. told from the perspective of a comedic protagonist!Īn eerie children's nursery rhyme lures Thanh - an intelligent college girl with an unnatural level of trust issues - into an adventure of her lifetime. A heart-pounding journey of betrayal and bond, strength and perseverance, with the looming threat of ghosts, demons, and black magic. Spirited Away meets Coraline in the Suburbs of Hanoi, Vietnam with a twist to the genre. Well translated to English.' - Reedsy Discovery. ![]() Well translated to English." - Reedsy Discovery. 'A Vietnamese Brothers Grimm tale A little bit of creepy to read while curled up with on the couch. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Eyes. "A Vietnamese Brothers Grimm tale! A little bit of creepy to read while curled up with on the couch. Tôn Ngc Sn: Hóa Thn S K, t Chu Tc quc, s ca Hng ip, s gi Chu Tc quc, hn ti tìm Tng Ngu, hn vn d cho rng Vng Lâm là ánh lén Hng ip, nhng hn xém chút na thì b Vng Lâm git cht, không dám li làm càng na. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. ![]() ![]() With Petrarch he laid the foundations for the humanism of the Renaissance and raised vernacular literature to the level and status of the classics of antiquity. 21, 1375, Certaldo, Tuscany), Italian poet and scholar, best remembered as the author of the earthy tales in the Decameron. There are theories which postulate that concepts of. Giovanni Boccaccio, (born 1313, Tuscanydied Dec. The premise of The Decameron is that a group of noble youths have fled plague-ravaged Florence and headed to an estate in the country to wait until the Black Death has finished with the city. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio is a work which stands between the Middle Ages and Modernity. ![]() If you would rather not register a library preference, you can instead choose a library for this search only. Eventually, Boccaccio returned to Florence, and there he began to work on The Decameron. Your library choice here will be registered for future searches. If you don't see your library in the list below, you can ask us to add it. ![]() He wants to provide both distraction and advice through his stories and hopes they are pleasing to those reading them. He was inspired by love and wished to give something back to all of the ladies who must suffer for their love in silence. FTL: Choose a library The Online Books Page Choose a library Giovanni Boccaccio provides a brief explanation of why he wrote The Decameron and what it means to him. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Best known for Our Southern Highlanders (1913) and Camping and Woodcraft (1916), Horace Kephart’s keen interest in exploring and documenting the great outdoors would lead him not only to settle in Bryson City, North Carolina, but also to become the most significant writer about the Great Smoky Mountains in the early twentieth century.Įdited by Mae Miller Claxton and George Frizzell, Horace Kephart: Writings extends past Kephart’s two well-read works of the early 1900s and dives into his correspondence with friends across the globe, articles and columns in national magazines, unpublished manuscripts, journal entries, and fiction in order to shed some deserved light on Kephart’s classic image as a storyteller and practical guide to the Smokies. ![]() ![]() When your heroine is infiltrating a household and she's supposed to be an illiterate city girl with a consumptive mother, she should probably not 1) use her real name, 2) actually admit she's a playwright's daughter, 3) be escorted back to the hero's home by the newspaper editor and his bodyguard (both of whom the hero has already met), 4) have an editor who requires her to break her cover and come in for meetings inconvenient to the household's schedule, and 5) READ to the aforementioned staff for their entertainment. Look, when there are exactly four people in your hero's household: the one who's sailed with the hero forever and has simply taken up residence, one footman who's briefly mentioned, a nympho maid who's tupping the briefly mentioned footman, and the lush of a housekeeper who's been there all 20 drunken years-but he doesn't suspect the NEW MAID, who, by the way, is the only one who can be hired because nobody wants to work for him, of being the one to be behind his sudden popularity in the gossip columns, you have an insurmountable plot hole. * lack of observational and deduction skills * lovely descriptions of hero (that NEVER happens for me) ![]() ![]() ![]() The internet spoiled the Neil/Andrew relationship about halfway through the first book, so I spent the entire first part of the series trying to see when this slow burn was going to start. ![]() Okay, I have to get something off my chest: there’s a difference between slow burn and NO BURN. The violent criminal aspect seems to appear for pure shock value, while the sports sequences seemed inconsequential to the fact that people are literally being murdered. The problem is that this series can’t decide if it wants to be a sports anime or a mobster film, so it doesn’t deliver on either. Violent like hockey, but played similar to lacrosse? Lmao sign me UP. ![]() I truly enjoyed the fictional co-ed sport of Exy. I think this stems mostly from the fact that I spent three books suspending my disbelief like it had cut class too many times. I’m going to be honest I don’t know how I really feel about this series. ![]() ![]() Sedaris squirms to avoid 's', speaking with a mouthful of alphabet soup minus one letter. ![]() 'Go Carolina' sees the youthful Sedaris coached by Agent Samson, a speech therapist, to overcome his lisp. Like the bored child he says he was when growing up, Sedaris tweaks tales incorrigibly, such as when detailing his father's predilection for hoarding food until it's rotten, or when, with preening self-parody, he mocks an earlier incarnation as a performance artist.ĭivided into 'One' and 'Deux' (which he thoughtfully translates), the most successful stories involve reminiscences of his suburban childhood. ![]() While there is an undeniable tang of reheated leftovers, Sedaris writes with the magnificent gusto of the neurotic, who, in overreaching their means, find solace in corkscrew hyperbole. ![]() |