![]() ![]() The door of the elevator shuts and we head to the parking lot as he makes two more calls, speaking in Russian.īy the time he’s finished, I’m breathing so harshly, I can barely focus on what’s going on around me. Wake him up if you have to… We’re heading to the church…make sure Emily has everything she needs before we get there.” He places his phone to his ear as he slowly but firmly guides me to the elevator. “Because it’s the only way to keep you close.” He checks his watch. Why the hell would you even want to impregnate me?” ![]() “Are you even hearing yourself? How could you do this to me?” It takes everything in me not to shout as if I’ve lost my mind. His methodical, apathetic tone, coupled with his words, nearly send me into a state of hysteria and pure black rage. ![]()
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Not all of Gay’s difficult women are as compelling at the rest. The world has hurt these women, and so they act out: They are loud, they are angry, they take up space, they are unreasonable, they are difficult. The crazy woman just wants to pick up her briefcase from her one-night stand’s apartment, which is why she’s blowing up his phone with texts. ![]() The frigid woman runs long distance so that she can feel the power of her body. ![]() The loose woman likes men whose job titles end in the letters er. In the title story, Gay devotes herself to finding specificity in the abstraction of difficult woman archetypes. In “Best Features,” she’s a fat woman who is quietly furious at how worthless the world considers her to be. In “La Negra Blanca,” she’s a mixed-race med student who moonlights as a stripper and is constantly fetishized by men who think of her as a white girl with a black girl’s ass. In “I Will Follow You,” the difficult woman was kidnapped by a child molester when she was 10 years old. ![]() ![]() The astonishing range of works illustrated here fully demonstrates the variety and brilliance of Gainsborough's art. A second essay examines the development of Gainsborough's technique and working methods, from his early works and life in Sudbury, Suffolk, to the grand studio and gallery at Schomberg House, London, where he spent his final years. In their essay, Michael Rosenthal and Martin Myrone explore his dynamic involvement with the social world of his day, as he endeavored to forge an art that engaged meaningfully with contemporary life. This book, published to accompany a major international exhibition covering the artist's entire career, reveals the sheer range, quality, and originality of Gainsborough's work from his engagingly naturalistic landscapes and touching images of children to his sophisticated and glamorous society portraits. 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After a betrayal derailed her interior design career, Liz Bennet found a fresh start in New York. ![]() Book Synopsis A sparkling contemporary retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in the tantalizing world of New York City burlesque, perfect for fans of The Kiss Quotient and The Roommate. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on Ox圜ontin. Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. ![]() There is so much to unravel and I know the conversations will be lively. I selected this novel as one of my best book club picks for September 2020 and I highly recommend that your book club reads this one in the future. 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But despite Selena’s suspicion, she feels drawn to Finch and has a sinking feeling that from now on the two will be inexplicably linked to one another. Clair sees right through Finch, and she knows something is seriously wrong with her. ![]() Finch doesn’t know why she woke up after her heart stopped, but since dying she’s felt a constant pull from the school and the surrounding town of Rainwater, like something on the island is calling to her. But something monstrous, and ancient, and terrifying, wouldn’t let her drown. Months before school started, Finch and her parents got into an accident that should have left her dead at the bottom of a river. WILDER GIRLS meets THE CRAFT in this Sapphic horror debut that asks: What price would you be willing to pay to achieve your deepest desires?įinch Chamberlin is the newest transfer student to the ultra-competitive Ulalume Academy… but she’s also not what she seems. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() " Brown's plots are like a depth charge of nitromethane dropped in a bucket of gasoline. ![]() RED RISING - GOLDEN SON - MORNING STAR - IRON GOLD - DARK AGE - LIGHT BRINGER So begins Darrow's long voyage home, an interplanetary adventure where old friends will reunite, new alliances will be forged, and rivals will clash on the battlefield.īecause Eo's dream is still alive-and after the dark age will come a new age: of light, of victory, of hope.ĭon't miss any of Pierce Brown's Red Rising Saga: But now they need Darrow, and Darrow needs the people he loves-Virginia, Cassius, Sevro-in order to defend the Republic. Lysander longs to destroy the Rising and restore the supremacy of Gold, and will raze the worlds to realize his ambitions. Marooned far from home after a devastating defeat on the battlefields of Mercury, Darrow longs to return to his wife and sovereign, Virginia, to defend Mars from its bloodthirsty would-be conqueror Lysander. The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains.īut the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend. Description Darrow returns as Pierce Brown's New York Times bestselling Red Rising series continues in the thrilling sequel to Dark Age. ![]() ![]() ![]() Strategic prescience! Four years later, we had witnessed the bombing of civilians, the siege of Sarajevo, broken ceasefires, failed mediations and Srebreniça. 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The thrilling sequel to instant New York Times bestseller All the Stars and Teeth, called “captivating” by Tomi Adeyemi, “Vicious and alluring” by Hafsah Faizal, and “phenomenal” by Adrienne Young. ![]() |