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The glass bead game by hermann hesse5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() > LE JEU DES PERLES DE VERRE, de Hermann Hesse (Calmann-Lévy), n'est pas un roman d'anticipation, mais une exploration de la vie intérieure. The science aspect of the game or the Costalians is used only to whet the reader's curiosity at the beginning and is never developed. ![]() It did not deliver, and I don't think it should have been nominated for a retro Hugo award. This book was a great disappointment because of the intriguing idea of the game and because I so thoroughly enjoyed Hesse's surreal Steppenwolf and was hoping for something similar. ![]() I felt similarly after reading Camus' The Stranger, but at least Camus seems to have intended a hollow feeling. The supposedly uplifting argument he gives falls flat and leaves one hollow. ![]() Instead the book is about finding meaning and purpose in life, but in this he also fails. Hesse provides elaborate details of the most mundane aspects of everyday life of the Costalians and of the curation of the game without ever introducing any struggle for why any of it matters. The title refers to a game built upon a system for describing all human potential by a future society of monk-like intellectuals (Costalians). A long rambling story devoid of interesting characters, novel ideas, or gripping conflict. ![]()
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Half lost sally green5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() And lately Nathan has started to suffer from visions: a vision of a golden moment when he dies, and of an endless line of Hunters, impossible to overcome. But the amulet is not so easily acquired. There is an amulet, protected by the extremely powerful witch Ledger, which could be the tool Nathan needs to save himself and the Alliance. Nor is Nathan any closer to his personal goal: getting revenge on Annalise, the girl he once loved, before she committed an unthinkable crime. Their most critical weapon, seventeen-year-old witch Nathan Brynn, has killed fifty-two people, and yet he's no closer to ending the tyrannical, abusive rule of the Council of White Witches in England. An enthralling fantasy in the Harry Potter tradition.- Time Magazine on Half Bad The magical, stunning conclusion to the internationally acclaimed Half Bad trilogy. ![]()
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Lauren conrad style 20225/13/2023 ![]() ![]() It is no wonder a Fair Isle is the "it" pattern of the winter season for everything knit. They combine the advantages of a work-to-weekend versatility and an on-trend attitude.
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Western Kisses by Carré White5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() As women from the Clan Scott fan out across the battlefield to collect the spoils of war, one woman breaks off from the pack. Her newest series, Bachelors of the Prairie, is available now on Amazon.Īfter a nasty skirmish along the England/Scotland border at Bog Wood, a badly wounded knight has crawled off to die. When she's not writing, she loves to travel and explore new places for story ideas. The romance anthology, Western Kisses - Old West Christmas Romances, is an Amazon top 100 bestseller.Ĭarré lives in Colorado with her husband and two children. Her Colorado Brides Series has been a historical and western top 100 bestseller. Just copy and paste the following link into your web browser:Ĭarré White is a USA Today bestselling author of contemporary and historical romance. Follow my blog at SIGN UP FOR Carré's NEWSLETTER! ![]() Her newest series, Bachelors of the Prairie, is available now on Amazon. Carré lives in Colorado with her husband and two children. The romance anthology, Western Kisses - Old West Christmas Romances, is an Amazon top 100 bestseller. SIGN UP FOR Carré's NEWSLETTER! Just copy and paste the following link into your web browser: Carré White is a USA Today bestselling author of contemporary and historical romance. ![]()
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Watership book5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Still, as one born after Hiroshima I can testify that a small Hampshire township, however large the number of names of the fallen on its village-green war memorial, is more than a world away from any unpleasantness on the European mainland or the high or narrow seas that lie between. ![]() Captain Frederick Wentworth in Persuasion, for example, is partly of interest to the female sex because of the 'prize' loot he has extracted from his encounters with Bonaparte's navy. I think this comes close to affectation on the part of some of her admirers. ![]() One of the things that causes some critics to marvel at Miss Austen is the laconic way in which, as a daughter of the epoch that saw the Napoleonic Wars, she contrives like a Greek dramatist to keep it off the stage while she concentrates on the human factor. “It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and so painfully died. ![]()
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Amo jones malum part 15/13/2023 ![]() ![]() MALUM: PART #1 Is the fourth full length New Adult novel in Amo Jones ‘Elite Kings Club’ series.īoys like Nate are lethal, because you fall for their charm, their jokes, and their beautiful faces. Her story is not like the rest of them, because her story is dead. I’m Nate Riverside-Malum, the one your girl whispers about to her friends and whose initials are scratched down your back. My name is Tillie Stuprum, and my story is not like the rest.Įverything she thought she knew is a fabricated version of the truth. Her eyes may not glisten with stars, but they roar with fire, and when she finally reaches her peak, it’s that same fire that will burn. He may be a Malum, but she is a Stuprum, born into this world but neglected by the choice of her mother. Those secrets were guarded by the boys that were about to smash her world open and tear it all apart… There were things this little girl didn’t know, things she was about to find out and secrets that have been kept from her. ![]() Sucked into a dark vortex of lies, hate, and deceit, and spat out by money, glitz, and power. One day, she fell down The Elite Kings’ rabbit hole. ![]() Once upon a time, there was a young girl who lived in a battered trailer, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks. “Love is savage, love is blind, love is something they may not find…” ![]()
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The words to leonard cohen's hallelujah5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() It works in 16 X Over Sampling mode, each level of has 32bit input resolution, which greatly increase dynamic contrast, analysis power and more natural and delicate sound. ★ Hifi High Quality Sound: Musician Aquarius R2R DAC adopts self-developed and designed digital.The digital input has optical, coaxial, USB and 2* I2S, AES balanced, to meet the needs of different people for the use of device. ![]() ★ Various Input & Output Transmission Signals: Perfect digital audio input interface, support XLR balanced output and RCA output.Small linear error, high decoding speed, and low digital noise.It not only ensures the low distortion of the audio signal, also ensures low background music noise. ★ R2R Series, True Balanced DAC: Each channel is equipped with an independent high-speed FPGA to control the decoding through 4 sets of 0.005% R-2R network.Dual crystal oscillator design accurately restore audio signals with different sampling rates, greatly reducing jitter and significantly improving stability. ![]() ![]()
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Unsinkable by Jenni L. Walsh5/13/2023 ![]() But unthinkable moments of challenge and resilience change Daphne in ways she could never expect, including an eye-opening encounter where she must come to terms with the secrets in her own past. She sees it as an opportunity to help the country she loves and live up to her father's expectations. ![]() ![]() When the Special Operations Executive invites her to be an agent in France in World War II, her childhood of anonymity and her love of languages make her the perfect fit. She throws herself into education, collecting languages like candy in a desperate attempt to finally earn her father's approval. Miraculously, Violet survives, but her obligation to her mother and siblings still remains, leaving Violet to wonder if she'll ever be able to put her tumultuous life at sea behind her and pursue a life and love all her own.ĭaphne Chaundanson grows up as an unwanted child after her mother died in a tragedy. But disaster strikes again, this time as the Britannic strikes a mine. When the world enters the Great War, she becomes aboard as a nurse, helping men who could very well be her brothers. Her distraught mother is too ill to work, that responsibility falling to Violet as the oldest of nine. Her childhood was fraught with illness and death in her family. No one can understand why she would return to sea, but Violet is simply trying to survive. ![]() ![]() Violet is a stewardess and wartime nurse who not only survives a shipwreck but also two sinkings, one on the infamous Titanic. ![]()
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Sin in the second city5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Not everyone appreciated the sisters’ attempts to elevate the industry. Whereas lesser madams pocketed most of a harlot’s earnings and kept a “whipper” on staff to mete out discipline, the Everleighs made sure their girls dined on gourmet food, were examined by an honest physician, and even tutored in the literature of Balzac. ![]() Courtesans named Doll, Suzy Poon Tang, and Brick Top devoured raw meat to the delight of Prince Henry of Prussia and recited poetry for Theodore Dreiser. Operating in Chicago’s notorious Levee district at the dawn of the last century, the Club’s proprietors, two aristocratic sisters named Minna and Ada Everleigh, welcomed moguls and actors, senators and athletes, foreign dignitaries and literary icons, into their stately double mansion, where thirty stunning Everleigh “butterflies” awaited their arrival. Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history–and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. ![]()
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We need new names novel5/13/2023 ![]() At church, she watches the adults “toiling up the mountain, trying to look like angels in their flowing robes that have now lost their whitneness.” Later, when she is given a gift by an aid worker Darling says “Thank you very much,” to show the woman she knows English. ![]() ![]() ![]() No one holds back from truth-telling in We Need New Names, but especially Darling. “Right now she is busy cleaning kaka off some wrinkled old man.” “Well, go, go to that America and work in nursing homes,” Bastard says to Darling, when she brags about her Aunt in America. They are all decked out in cast-off T-shirts given to them by aid-workers, advertising brands they can’t afford and colleges they’ll never attend. The kids’ names give you a clue of how wanted they are at home. Every day Darling leaves Paradise to traipse around the city’s nicer neighborhoods in a pack of children, stealing guavas, defecating on trash heaps, while around them their country unravels. As the book begins she is around 10 years old and living in Paradise, one of the worst slums in an unnamed African country. ![]() The instrument for all this music is Darling, the book’s skeptical, fiercely opinionated narrator. ![]() |