As our protagonist Lo Blacklock discovers that no one believes her account of a crime she thinks she witnessed, she struggles with cycles of disbelief and self-doubt as she decides what to do next. There's also an intriguing psychological aspect to this book. travel journalist handling a lot more thrills, chills, and action. And, of course, instead of a Belgian detective solving the crime, there's a U.K. But in The Woman in Cabin 10, the boat is a state-of-the art cruise ship on its maiden voyage in the North Sea. In fact, reading this book reminded me a bit of Death on the Nile for the modern age. And a narrator that you might be able to trust. No way for anyone guilty (or innocent) to escape in middle of the ocean. A glamorous vacation on a luxury yacht? Lavish dinner parties and fascinating conversation? And how about that nice lady in Cabin 10?īut one of the passengers has gone missing!Īs a huge Agatha Christie fan, I adore these types of mysteries: A boat full of people, each with their own secrets.
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As a nation struggles to rebuild, who can escape retribution? Everything is barreling towards an international revolt…and only the wiliest ones will be prepared for what comes next.Īmnesty: In Amberlough City, out of the ashes of revolution, a traitor returns, a political campaign comes to a roaring head, and the people demand justice for crimes past. Each one harbors dangerous knowledge that can upturn a nation. It’s been a while since I’ve done a series review, but The Amberlough Dossier Series by Lara Elena Donnelly is definitely one that left an impression.Īmberlough: In Lara Elena Donnelly’s glam spy thriller debut, a Nebula finalist for Best Novel, a double-agent sacrifices all his ideals in order to save his smuggler lover before a government coup takes over their decadent city.Īrmistice: In a tropical country where shadowy political affairs lurk behind the scenes of its glamorous film industry, three people maneuver inside a high stakes game of statecraft and espionage. Ken Jennings was a map nerd from a young age himself, you will not be surprised to learn, even sleeping with a bulky Hammond atlas at the side of his pillow, in lieu of the traditional Teddy bear. Some even draw thousands of their own imaginary maps, lovingly detailing worlds that never were. Some pore over million-dollar collections of the rarest maps of the past others embrace the future by hunting real-world cartographic treasures like "geocaches" or "degree confluences" with GPS device in hand. counties, for example, or all 936 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Some crisscross the map working an endless geographic checklist: visiting all 3,143 U.S. In a world where geography only makes the headlines when college students are (endlessly) discovered to be bad at it, these hardy souls somehow thrive. Much as Brainiac offered a behind-the-scenes look at the little-known demimonde of competitive trivia buffs, Maphead finally gives equal time to that other downtrodden underclass: America's map nerds. Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks is Ken's followup to his 2005 best-seller Brainiac. Before that point, Western culture did not include the concept we now call “sexual orientation” or “sexual identity.” Sexual desires were things anyone could experience, whether they were appropriate or inappropriate, sinful or virtuous. Prior to the invention of the term “heterosexual” in the late 1860s, she wouldn’t have had to worry about it. This difficulty set Blank on the path of uncovering the history of “heterosexual,” hoping to find evidence along the way that would make it clearer how a relationship between a cisgendered woman and a person who is genetically neither male nor female might be defined. Straight opens by revealing how the female author’s long-term relationship with a genetically intersex partner made it hard for her to accurately indicate her sexual orientation to others, for instance on the forms used by her doctor’s office. Who, and what, is “heterosexual”? How did we come to think about ourselves, and our sexualities, in terms of something called “heterosexuality” and what does it mean that we do? These questions are at the core of Hanne Blank’s Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality, a look at how Western culture came to devise and adopt the idea of “heterosexuality” as well as how the idea has changed over time. Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality. Nishat is entering her Transition Year in her Irish high school, has just come out to her parents with unhappy results, and has a crush on her worst enemy's cousin. It helps show ways to respect everyone's differences while also showing how alike growing up can be for everyone. I recommend this for middle school up to adult. Flávia's white cousin has made Nishat's school life difficult. Flávia's mother is from Brazil and black. The relationship she and her sister have is a real plus also. It's tough for her parents to accept but they do love her. Nishat's family is from Southern Asia but live in Ireland. Also the story works in the importance of respecting someone's culture in a way that adds to the storyline instead of being preachy. The school where much of the story takes place is a Catholic school, but the main character is Muslim. The setting is Ireland, but it has characters from Korea, Brazil and Bangladesh. Sometimes it feels like stories are trying so hard they forget to have a good plot. Also it is so diverse without taking away from the plot of the story. This story is made for younger readers than me, but I liked it way more than most books for younger readers. Now, for the first time ever, these treasured tales from the 1980s are available in a single hardcover volume, featuring over 600 pages of Pérez’s unmatchable artwork and showcasing some of the most exciting moments of DC’s Modern Age! In collaboration with co-writer Len Wein and inker Bruce Patterson, Pérez sent on to craft Wonder Woman’s adventures for years, and his masterful stories ranged from heart-stopping battles with the Titans of myth to heart-warming interludes with Diana’s trusted network of friends. More than four decades after making her debut in ALL STAR COMICS #8, the World’s Greatest Heroine was comprehensively reimagined in 1986 by legendary comics creator George Pérez - and this new incarnation of DC Comics’ fabled Amazon Princess quickly rose to unprecedented levels of popular and critical acclaim. Writer/director Tom Federle is a former Broadway dancer who wrote the book this movie is based on and is the showrunner for “High School Musical: The Musical.” Every moment in "Better Nate Than Ever" reflects his own deep love for musicals and for the people who create them. He also knows that Wicked should have beat Avenue Q for the 2004 Tony award and that somehow, some day, he is destined to perform. That is the case with the title character of “Better Nate Than Ever,” a Pittsburgh seventh grader who knows all the lyrics to “Corner of the Sky” from the 1970s musical Pippin. Also unfortunately, those middle schools are often a far distance from Broadway. Unfortunately, theater kids often have a really tough time in middle school. If not for the mysterious but unquenchable spark in the kids born loving plays and musicals, who would tell our stories? These are the children and teenagers who grow up to create “ My Fair Lady,” “ Hamilton,” “Mamma Mia,” “Les Miserables,” and “The Sound of Music.” They are the people who make us laugh, cry, stand up and cheer, and dance in the aisles. Beyond these languages and the several other Eastern European languages that Snyder can read, his books have been translated into dozens more. In addition to his academic work, popular bestsellers, and YouTube lecture series “Timothy Snyder Speaks,” Snyder also writes frequently for the New York Review of Books and has lectured and fielded interviews in French, German, Polish, Ukrainian, and English about his recent work. He has played an important part in leading a number of prominent American scholarly and historical organizations, including the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Snyder has won dozens of scholarly awards, including the literature award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Hannah Arendt Award for Political Thought. Snyder’s research ranges from intensive biographies to broader histories of 20th-century Europe (like Bloodlands: Eastern Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, which brought him to international prominence), and popular bestsellers about the present-day. He studied political science and European history at Brown University, then completed his PhD as a Marshall Scholar at the University of Oxford. Timothy Snyder was born and raised near Dayton, Ohio. Good thing we have the seven deadliest and most badass men on the planet on our team… The twist? The mercenary and Russian mafioso who snatched the sweet, innocent little girl is a vicious, evil, sadistic thug with a grudge against Nick.Īnd the fallout from this mission will be jet fuel on the flames of that grudge, pulling everyone around Nick into the vortex of violence and vengeance. He hired the best of the best, the scariest, nastiest, toughest-and sexiest-security experts in the business.Īnd now he has the mission of a lifetime: the three year old daughter of two A-list celebrities has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom. After Roth and Kyrie holed up in their island fortress estate in the Caribbean, Nick started a private security contracting company: Alpha One Security. Ex-Army Ranger, former personal security for the one and only Valentine Roth, mercenary, assassin, pilot, and my lover. Nicholas Harris is a professional badass. *Listening Length: 4 hours and 18 minutes* The author tries to write as if Junie is talking/thinking, so it jumps around quite a bit, as an easily distracted five-year-old would. Or either that, the particular 7 year old I am with is a better reader than most. Along the way we get a lot of cute antics from the independent and talkative five year old.īut I must say, I'm surprised/impressed kids can read this and do well with it. Junie gets a fancy mushy valentine from a secret admirer and then sets out to solve the mystery of who sent it. I of course knew the ending well before the end, but that's probably because I'm 28 and not 7. I eagerly accepted, having heard good things about them and wanting to know what all the fuss was about. Jones books with her, and asked if I'd like to read one. One of the little girls who I brought to the zoo on Saturday had two Junie B. |