Although Jess resists, she soon finds that once the spirit world has marked her, it will not easily let her go. Ah Ma is bent on getting Jess’ help to destroy a real estate developer who threatens to demolish a local temple devoted to Ah Ma’s god. Or rather, a single voice: that of her dead grandmother, her Ah Ma, a woman Jess never met. She’s living with her parents and helping them move from the United States to Malaysia, a country she hasn’t called home since before she could walk. It plunges readers headlong into the often troubled and usually sarcastic mind of Jess Teoh, a recent Harvard graduate with far more on her plate than finding gainful employment.Īs Black Water Sister opens, Jess is adrift. Zen Cho’s Black Water Sister is one such book. These books don’t just pull you in they tug at the edges of your consciousness, cultivating a new reality that you can slip into as easily as an old T-shirt. Sometimes a book makes you forget everything: the water boiling on the stove for tea, the lunch or dinner that has long since gone cold.
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Nahal Tajadod, and Pierre Lecoq First published in 2013 2 editions in 1 language. TEHRAN, LIPSTICK AND LOOPHOLES is a fascinating look at the constraints and contradictions of contemporary life in Tehran from the author's unique standpoint of being both a native of Iran and a foreigner. Author of Shahnameh, Passeport à liranienne, Tehran, lipstick, and loopholes, Le livre de Chams de Tabriz, Avec le vent, Laffamé, Mani le Bouddha de Lumiere, Les porteurs de lumière. She embarks on a bizarre and circuitous journey, meeting a colourful cast of characters along the way: two photographers who specialise in Islamic portraits, a forensic surgeon who trades in human organs, a madam who wants to send prostitutes to Dubai and a grandmother who offers a live chicken to an implacable official. Ī wry and humorous account of the author's quest to get her Iranian passport renewed. TEHRAN, LIPSTICK AND LOOPHOLES is a fascinating look at the constraints and contradictions of contemporary life in. A wry and humorous account of the author's quest to get her Iranian passport renewed. Then they can go their separate ways and pretend it never happened.īut the thing about fake-dating is that it can feel a lot like real-dating. So they strike a deal to be publicity-friendly (fake) boyfriends until the dust has settled. Unfortunately apart from being gay, single, and really, really in need of a date for a big event, Luc and Oliver have nothing in common. In other words: perfect boyfriend material. He’s a barrister, an ethical vegetarian, and he’s never inspired a moment of scandal in his life. To clean up his image, Luc has to find a nice, normal relationship…and Oliver Blackwood is as nice and normal as they come. Now that his dad’s making a comeback, Luc’s back in the public eye, and one compromising photo is enough to ruin everything. His rock star parents split when he was young, and the father he’s never met spent the next twenty years cruising in and out of rehab. Luc O’Donnell is tangentially–and reluctantly–famous. He catalogues his experiences with the craft in nine personal sensibilities that range from Materials, Sound, Temperature, Light to Composure, Seduction, Tension and Intimacy. He uses Brahms’ music and Nietzsche’s philosophy to communicate the power of art, music and architecture as well as the intensity, mood, thoughts and magic they produce. A free verse in elucidating Zumthor’s affinity for architecture, its presence and beauty. Moreover, the book explains his style and approach as he negotiates with the physicality of the form and material to produce emotional sensibilities that stimulate and move people.Ītmospheres, written in an active voice almost seem like a dialogue in self-reflection and analysis, meandering through questions, answers, examples, thoughts and anecdotes. The book poses Peter Zumthors’s understanding, values and biases about atmosphere and architecture and how construction is not just a physical or an aesthetic phenomenon but rather a philosophical one. They encapsulate the enrichment Zumthor talks about, the seamless amalgamation of his personal and philosophical trials with architecture and its propinquity with vicinal landscapes. A few of his famous structures are Therme Vals, Klaus Field Chapel, Kolumba Art Museum, Swiss Sound Box and Kunsthaus Bregenz. Peter Zumthor, a Swiss architect is well known for his tempered, atmospheric attentiveness towards his built form and their surroundings. "Jennet was a character that I fell in love with instantly. Pushed to the limit of their abilities, they must defeat the Dark Queen. Together, Jennet and Tam enter the Dark Realm of Feyland, only to discover that the entire human world is in danger. The last thing he needs is rich-girl Jennet prying into his secrets, insisting he’s the only one who can help her. Too bad the rest of his life is seriously flawed. But she doesn’t suspect the virtual world is close enough to touch - or that she’ll be battling for her life against the Dark Queen of the faeries. ~ Award-winning YA Urban Fantasy/Gamelit~ Book 1 in the USA Today bestselling Feyland series~įeyland is the most immersive computer game ever designed, and Jennet Carter is the first to play the prototype. 2011 C2011 Type Books Physical description xvii, 360 p. It's a nuanced exploration of what we are looking for-and sacrificing-in a world of electronic companions and social networking tools, and an argument that, despite the hand-waving of today's self-described prophets of the future, it will be the next generation who will chart the path between isolation and connectivity. 11, 2011 A clinical psychologist takes a critical and sometimes disturbing look at the psycho-social dangers of mixing technology and human intimacy. Always on Growing up tethered No need to call Reduction and betrayal True confessions Anxiety The nostalgia of the young - Conclusion: Necessary conversations - Epilogue: The letter Summary In "Alone Together," MIT technology and society professor Sherry Turkle explores the power of our new tools and toys to dramatically alter our social lives. ALONE TOGETHER WHY WE EXPECT MORE FROM TECHNOLOGY AND LESS FROM EACH OTHER by Sherry Turkle RELEASE DATE: Jan. Nearest neighbors Alive enough True companions Enchantment Complicities Love's labor lost Communion - Part 2. Photo: Richard Howard Spring 2011 Liz Karagianis We’re lonely. Sherry Turkle says if you don’t teach your children how to be alone, they only know how to be lonely. The robotic moment: in solitude, new intimacies. Sherry Turkle’s new book Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other reveals that we’re so busy communicating that we neglect each other. Object Details Author Turkle, Sherry Contents Author's note: Turning points - Introduction: Alone together - Part 1. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art. How Sir John Received a Belated Birthday Greeting How Sir John Did Battle With Four Hundred Wizards Where on earth will Sir John find a human who is worthy of being his apprentice and finally defeat Palomides once and for all? Contents This is no easy task for dragons hate humans even more than wizards. Whichever one wins shall prove once and for all who is the strongest. In ten years time, the apprentices shall meet and duel instead of their masters. They shall each pick and train an apprentice. Realizing he is growing too old to continue fighting Palomides, Sir John enters into a wager with the crafty magician. Every ten years the rivals meet for a duel and each time the duel ends in a draw. But he has never been able to vanquish his arch-foe, Palomides the wizard. Sir John the Worm is a dragon knight and the greatest wizardslayer who ever lived. Smashwords Edition About The Dragon and the Apprentice Book One of The Chronicles of Sir John the Worm Intense, emotional and resonant, A Very Large Expanse of Sea is a riptide that pulls readers in. While immersing themselves in gorgeous prose, readers will feel for Shirin as she stands up for her beliefs in the midst of hurtful words and violence, and they’ll cheer as she experiences first love and laugh-out-loud moments. Tahereh Mafi, best known for her Shatter Me series, has stepped away from fantasy to pen this incredibly realistic novel based on her own experiences. But when Shirin is paired with Ocean James in biology class, he slowly begins to chip away at the walls Shirin has constructed. When Shirin joins in and perfects her power moves like crab walks and head spins, she becomes someone else-someone who isn’t afraid of being hurt. The one place she feels comfortable is in the dance studio with her brother and his break-dancing team. Having grown used to the misconceptions, name-calling and outright racism hurled her way for wearing a hijab, Muslim-American Shirin has developed a tough exterior and an even tougher interior. A year after 9/11, 16-year-old Shirin is starting yet another first day of school at her third high school in two years, and she’s over it. One charmingly awkward date turns into two and soon the men are meeting off the clock. Adding to his confusion is the way his latest client, the sexy but stoic Rock, makes him feel things he hasn't wanted in years. Carter has just four months left on his contract with an escort agency, and he doesn't know whether to feel relieved or afraid. But after a year of watching gorgeous Carter Montgomery come and go on the arms of other men, Rock can no longer resist the cravings he's denied for so long. Bonds of Denial Wicked Play, Book 5 By: Lynda Aicher Narrated by. Now a grown man with a military career behind him, Rock continues to deny histrue desires, even while working. Discover more authors you’ll love listening to on Audible. Return to BDSM hotspot the Den with books 57 in Lynda Aicher's Wicked Play eroticromance series BONDS OF DENIAL A male/male erotic romance It's been twenty years since Rockford Fielding's father punished him for kissinganother boy. Now a grown man with a military career behind him, Rock continues to deny his true desires, even while working security at The Den, the most decadent sex club in town. Browse Lynda Aicher’s best-selling audiobooks and newest titles. It's been twenty years since Rockford Fielding's father punished him for kissing another boy. A male escort and his stoic client test the boundaries of their relationship at an exclusive Twin Cities sex club in this erotic m/m romance. There are people named Kerouac and Wisconsin, and a number of boys professing their undying love for Satchel not long after meeting her. Each chapter begins with a snippet telling us about the actual chosen one, Satchel, and her 'indie kid' friends. They've lived through several 'apocalypses' that may or may not be gently poking fun at some popular YA books (vampires, zombies, Gods and Goddesses). The Rest of Us Just Live Here is the story of Mikey and his friends, who are pretty much just trying to graduate high school. But let's not forget that The Rest of Us Just Live Here wasn't something that burst into existence during that week. He has written an actual, full-length YA novel that embodies all the great things about the hashtag. But never fear! For those missing the joy of #VeryRealisticYA, Patrick Ness has come to the rescue. |