![]() ![]() Vaughn's immersion in all things nerdy has always underpinned her books, from the werewolf reinvention of her popular Kitty Norville series to the superhero worship of her duology “After the Golden Age” and “Dreams of the Golden Age.” With her new novel, “Questland,” she takes that fandom to the greatest extreme possible: by using Dungeons & Dragons, sci-fi blockbusters, and a multitude of other geek staples as the raw material for a glorious hybrid of mash-up and homage. Dick Award winner and New York Times bestseller has walked it like she's talked it - by appearing at numerous science fiction and fantasy conventions by advising and teaching up-and-coming spec-fic writers and by enthusiastically participating in the communities of geeks, cosplayers, and gamers that love her books. Throughout her decades-long career, the Philip K. Carrie Vaughn is a speculative-fiction author, but she's just as passionately a fan. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The hero of this book, 34-year-old, much sought-after vet tech, farrier, sometime "horse whisperer" and recent divorcee Clay Tahoma, is on his way to the Virgin River, California area to take a job at friend Nate Jensen's ( "Under The Christmas Tree" from That Holiday Feeling) veterinary clinic and stables. Anyway, once I started it and finished the first chapter, I felt like I was coming home. I received an advance copy of "Promise Canyon" from Net Galley, but haven't had a chance to read it until a few days ago (kicking myself for letting it linger so long). She can wring the emotions out of you, just by the way she uses words and constructs her sentences (my God, she had me crying for a horse in this one!) And her characters? I've totally fallen for each and every one of her heroes, and just when I think I've settled on a favorite, she goes and conjurs up another one that I'm mad about! I just know that fans of this series are going to fall hard for the handsome, kind, honorable, hard working, patient, and sexy Navajo, Clay Tahoma. The best way to describe Robyn Carr's writing? To me she is a master storyteller, one of the best in the business. Why, you say? Because this series by Robyn Carr is just so darn good, and I've been raving about each and every book, that I think I've run out of fantastic things to say. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And Ananya’s parents want the girl to marry a Tamilian guy. Krish’s parents want the boy to marry a Punjabi girl. ![]() What’s the issue? Their parents are as traditionalist as any Asian family could be. The funniest bits are when the couple have to convince their in-laws to approve of their intended marriage. Now, the plot does feel clichéd at the initial reading, and the book was more than generic in its opening chapters, but it later on becomes so witty that you forget the romantic angle and are forced to focus on the humor instead. Krish is a Punjabi from Delhi and Ananya is a Tamilian from Chennai. Narayan, so Bhagat is definitely not the first non-native author of English that I’ve come across.Ģ States, as the name implies, follows Krish and Ananya who are from distinct regions of India but end up becoming a couple during their MBA years. Whoever is reading this review should first be made aware that I’ve read another Indian scribe who wrote in the English language, R.K. I’ve been aware of Bhagat ever since the movie 3 Idiots was released in 2009-as its script is based on Bhagat’s 2004 venture Five Point Someone-and following the international success of that movie, it came as no surprise that his other books were also cinematically adapted later on by Bollywood. When I used to discuss literature with my university classmates, the name Chetan Bhagat and his novel 2 States always seemed to pop up during our frequent conversations. ![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing on recent findings from political science and other fields ranging from history to anthropology, Mercier shows that the narrative of widespread gullibility, in which a credulous public is easily misled by demagogues and charlatans, is simply wrong. In this lively and provocative book, Hugo Mercier demonstrates how virtually all attempts at mass persuasion-whether by religious leaders, politicians, or advertisers-fail miserably. Why people are not as gullible as we think Not Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe-and argues that we're pretty good at making these decisions. ![]() Witches' Confessions and Other Useful Absurdities From Circular Reporting to Supernatural Beliefs ![]() Propagandists, Campaigners, and Advertisers Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-350) and index Contents ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus, the print run of books that are published in the country tend to be small. ![]() ![]() Unlike in the US, the market for books in the Philippines is not well-developed yet. For shipping options and rates for international orders, email us accordingly. If you are ordering hardbound and coffee table books, or if your order is more than two light-weight books, email us for exact shipping costs via media mail. We can also ship via Fedex or UPS upon request. If you are willing to wait for delayed deliveries, you can also ship via regular Media Mail which cost only $5.95 for light-weight books. Please email us so we can quote the exact Priority Mail charge if the books you are ordering are large and hardbound or heavy books, or coffee table books. A USPS Flat Rate padded envelope would fit 2-3 normal-size books. This way, you will receive your order faster, insured and with a tracking number. Due to problems encountered by USPS during this pandemic, we suggest that you ship via Priority Mai lflat rate envelope which costs $11.20 for shpping & Handling or PRIORITY MAIL FLAT RATE PADDED envelopE IS $12.50 FOR SHIPPING AND HANDLING. You have the option to ship either via Media Mail or Priority Mail. ![]() ![]() Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he’s been emailing, will be compromised. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli: Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. ![]() ![]() Incredibly compelling and sensitively told, None of the Above is a thought-provoking novel that explores what it means to be a boy, a girl, or something in between. Gregorio: A groundbreaking story about a teenage girl who discovers she’s intersex…and what happens when her secret is revealed to the entire school. ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout the twentieth century, Michigan became home to nearly every political movement in America that emerged from the grassroots. Blouin, Director of the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan "A real contribution to Michigan history that gets to the root of the movements in twentieth-century American history that upon reflection can bring a certain discomfort and unease." ![]() ![]() “Philosophy” is a word which has been used in many aspects, some shallow, some in a deeper sense. This book is an unrelenting critical analysis of western development of thoughts throughout the whole period, and it is–at it seems–an attempt by Russell to rescue philosophy from the rigidity and dogmatic arguments invented by scholastic schoolmen since the medieval ages. ![]() In my opinion, I think one should at least grasp the context and notion of the western historical development of philosophy in order to comprehend what Bertrand Russell trying to put forth into his book. I got fascinated by Rusell’s writing throughout his opinionated philosophical view for other’s school of thoughts. Thought-provoking and absolutely stunning. ![]() But between theology and science there is a No Man’s Land, exposed to attack from both sides this No Man’s Land is philosophy.” ![]() “All definite knowledge–so I should contend–belong to science all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. ![]() ![]() ![]() He also covered the 1917 revolutions, and was close to Lenin and Trotsky. ![]() There he taught himself the language and became a journalist on the Daily News at the start of the Great War. Stuck in a marriage where he didn't love his wife, Ransome ran away to Russia in 1913, although he regretted having to leave his daughter behind. Sedgwick is one of those teen authors whose books are crossover adult reads too, and I can't recommend this one highly enough - it has revolution and politics, spies and intrigue, romance and family drama, all steeped in Russian fairy tales. Published in 2007, Marcus Sedgwick's wonderful novel also tackles Ransome's time in Russia. What many people don't know is that years before he wrote the children's classics, including Swallows and Amazons, for which he is so fondly remembered, he lived and worked in Russia at the time of the revolution. There has been renewed interest in the beloved children's author Arthur Ransome lately due to the publication of a new biography: The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome by Roland Chambers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Especially at the current time, it’s really useful to have a window into what makes Russia and Russians tick. It’s not a chronological history, it’s a report from the past, with all the caveats that that requires. There is some grim reading about personal hardships, the worst of them from the Communist era. The subsequent collapse of Russian society, except for the super-privileged, has lent the Soviet years some undeserved retrospective legitimacy. ![]() There was good in the old system, in the sense of social solidarity and a sense of common purpose, but it was outweighed by the grinding poverty and brutal oppression. Here she takes on the lived experience of the break-up of the Soviet Union, mainly (though not only) as it affected Russians, simply told through their own testimony. ![]() Another in the grim sequence of Nobel Prize winner Alexievich’s accounts of her country’s history (I have previously read Voices from Chernobyl and Boys in Zinc). ![]() |