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![]() ![]() Soon, Lucie is spinning a web of deceit that involves her family, her fiancé and ultimately herself, as she tries to deny George entry into her world – and her heart. But several years later, when George unexpectedly appears in East Hampton, where Lucie is weekending with her new fiancé, she finds herself drawn to him again. The daughter of an American-born Chinese mother and a blue-blooded New York father, Lucie has always sublimated the Asian side of herself, and she adamantly denies having feelings for George. ![]() She can’t stand it when he gallantly offers to trade hotel rooms with her so that she can have a view of the Tyrrhenian Sea, she can’t stand that he knows more about Casa Malaparte than she does, and she really can’t stand it when he kisses her in the darkness of the ancient ruins of a Roman villa. On her very first morning on the jewel-like island of Capri, Lucie Churchill sets eyes on George Zao and she instantly can’t stand him. The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with the glittering tale of a young woman who finds herself torn between two men. ![]() Born in Singapore, he has called New York’s West Village home since 1995. Kevin Kwan is the author of the international bestsellers Crazy Rich Asians, now a major motion picture, China Rich Girlfriend and Rich People Problems. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Among his works are the children's books Coraline, The Wolves in the Walls, and The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish the Sandman graphic novels series and the fantasy novels Stardust and Smoke and Mirrors. Neil Gaiman is an award-winning author of novels, short stories, children's books, and graphic novels. He is the illustrator for The New York Review Children’s Collection books The Backward Day and The Wonderful O. He won a Caldecott Honor in 1950 for illustrating Ruth Krauss’s The Happy Day, and in 1957 he was awarded the Caldecott Medal for his pictures in A Tree Is Nice by Janice May Udry. ![]() Marc Simont (1915-2013) illustrated nearly a hundred books. He won a Tony Award for his popular Broadway play, A Thurber Carnival. Though hampered by failing eyesight, Thurber wrote nearly forty books, including collections of essays, short stories, fables, and children’s stories. He began writing for The New Yorker in 1927 after his friend E. James Thurber (1894-1961), one of the outstanding American humorists and cartoonists of the twentieth century, was born in Columbus, Ohio, and launched his professional writing career as a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch in 1920. ![]() ![]() But of course, being a skilled journalist, I was able to craft my questions so carefully, she had no choice but to blab. So there was concern the cauldron could be leaky. Keeping the secrets is crucial to the multi-million dollar marketing campaign. In the last few months, fake chapters have shown up on the Internet and a British printing company employee was caught trying to sell stolen book pages. She does give us some clues later on, but there’s good reason why Rowling so closely guards her chamber of secrets. But, you know, if you’re prepared to take that risk.” Katie Couric: “Can you tell me a little bit about this book, or will you have to kill me?” ![]() ![]() Clearly, I felt it was my mission to get Rowling to start spilling her Bertie Botts Beans. As titillating as that one line from the new book was, I was counting on a little more 411. All the publishers will say is “deeper secrets, darker powers, stronger magic.” So we decided to go straight to the source - the author who’s cast this spell over us mere muggles: J.K. ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout the period that Africa has participated in the capitalist economy, two factors have brought about underdevelopment. Trade has existed for several centuries colonial rule began in the late nineteenth century and has almost disappeared and the investment in the African economy has been increasing steadily in the present century. “The things which bring Africa into the capitalist market system are trade, colonial domination, and capitalist investment. It also takes the form of loans to African governments, which have to be repaid with interest. ![]() ![]() Imperialism, on the other hand, as manifested for instance in Europeans’ ownership of land and mines (and banks, factories, etc.) in Africa, entails the outflow of revenue from Africa to the foreign owners, which forestalls African development. They also set the prices of the manufactured products they produce, which of course are higher than those of the former category. For example, the big capitalist countries effectively establish the prices of minerals and agricultural products and “subject these prices to frequent reductions,” thus harming Africa’s economy (depriving it of revenue). The former has to do with the terms of trade. Like Robin Hahnel in The ABCs of Political Economy (2003), he postulates two main mechanisms of underdevelopment: exploitation through trade and exploitation through investment (i.e., imperialism). Walter Rodney’s classic How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) is certainly worth reading. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha.and the secrets of her heart. Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life-a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.Īlina Starkov has never been good at anything. Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’d thought it was funny, until the following week when he rang the bell at Mom’s house for Sunday night dinner. ![]() So I left him with my mother’s-she could scare away any man with her talks of babies and marriage-and flew back home. After a whirlwind trip, he demanded a real phone number this time. A year later, Hunter and I met again at the birth of our friends’ baby. I thought about him often, but after my last relationship, I’d sworn off of charming, cocky, gorgeous-as-sin men. The next morning, I headed home to New York leaving him behind in California with the wrong number. But for some crazy reason, it had the opposite effect on me. His blunt, dirty mouth should’ve turned me off. Hunter held me tightly while we danced and suggested we explore the chemistry sparking between us. I caught the bouquet he caught the garter. Stealing glances at each other throughout the night, there was no denying an intense, mutual attraction. We met at a wedding-him sitting on the groom’s side, me sitting on the bride’s. My relationship with Hunter Delucia started backwards. From #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Vi Keeland, comes a sexy standalone romance, ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The other involves losing his heart to an ambitious journalist determined to expose the truth at any cost… One happens to be a wee international smuggling operation. He’s a rakish dandy with a heart of stolen gold and two teeny tiny secrets. Local blacksmith Monsieur Sébastien le Duc is the pillar of his community-when he’s not pillaging elsewhere. She’s definitely not falling head-over-heels for the deceptively charming subject of her front-page column. Eve learned the hard way that men are not to be trusted. Unpaid and under-appreciated journalist Miss Eve Shelling never goes anywhere without a trusty notebook and her overprotective Duenna-who happens to be a bullmastiff. A hidden identities, enemies-to-lovers, feel good romp from a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author: ![]() ![]() Going through the arch, from mud into snow, from bright sun into the pallid luminescence of a snowfall, from her past into her future. All to answer if Sabriel is capable of growing to the needs of her dire quest. Along this journey, the reader will experience moments of wonder, moments of apprehension, and moments of fear. In her mind, she carries the words of the ever-changing book of the dead, and on her body, a sword and seven bells of seven sizes, each if rang true will carry its sound even beyond life. The book tells the story of Sabriel and her journey into the Old Kingdom, a place filled with magic and wonders and ruins where dormant evils await in shallow graves. As to what I am, I was once many things, but now I am only several. ![]() Either way, I'm glad that I started because I was hooked by the writing style from the beginning. ![]() Maybe it's because I've been living under a rock, but by coincidence, I had not seen any posts or commentaries about it here before I start reading it. This was my first book by Garth Nix and I was not expecting to like his writing so much. Sabriel is the best fantasy novel I read in more than a year. All woven by beautiful charming language which gives the whole novel the feeling of a fairy tale, or of a waking dream being imagined just before the all-consuming sleep. Talking cat, magic bells, abandoned castles, a journey into an old kingdom, the eerie feeling of impending darkness. ![]() ![]() Prince Aleksander, would-be heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is on the run. ![]() This guide draws back the curtain and reveals the inner depths of Westerfeld’s fascinating alternative world. Loaded with detailed descriptions and elaborate illustrations of Darwinist beasties and Clanker walkers, weapons, transport, and uniforms, this manual highlights the international powers that Deryn and Alek encounter throughout their around-the-world adventures. The Manual of Aeronautics is a guide to the inner workings of the Darwinist and Clanker powers. In addition to the three novels, there is The Manual of Aeronautics, a lavishly illustrated, full-color companion. But their paths cross in the most unexpected way, and together they embark on an around-the-world adventure, one that will change both their lives forever. In this striking, futuristic rendition of an alternate past where machines are pitted against genetically modified beasts, Aleksandar Ferdinand, a Clanker, and Deryn Sharp, a Darwinist, are on opposite sides in the war. Their Leviathan is a whale airship and the most masterful beast in the British fleet. ![]() ![]() The British Darwinists employ genetically fabricated animals as their weaponry. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. ![]() |