5/24/2023 0 Comments The Knockout by Sajni Patel![]() ![]() ![]() Kareena's bid for the Olympics could very well make history-if she has the courage to go for it. Admitting her feelings for Amit will cost Kareena more than just her pride-she'll have to face his parents' disapproval, battle her own insecurities, and remain focused for the big fight. Which is inconvenient, since she's starting to fall for Amit Patel, who just might be the world's most perfect Indian. ![]() Despite pleasing her parents, excelling at school, and making plans to get her family out of debt, Kareena's never felt quite Indian enough, and her training is only making it worse. If only her sport weren't seen as something too rough for girls, something she's afraid to share with anyone outside of her family. She's landed the chance of a lifetime, an invitation to the US Muay Thai Open, which could lead to a spot on the first-ever Olympic team. ![]() If seventeen-year-old Kareena Thakkar is going to alienate herself from the entire Indian community, she might as well do it gloriously. A rising star in Muay Thai figures out what (and who) is worth fighting for in this YA debut full of heart. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Vita nostra book![]() The institute uses terror and coercion to keep students in line, yet they don’t outright punish them. ![]() She quickly finds out that the institute’s “special technologies” are unlike anything she has ever encountered like the books being impossible to read and the lessons being maddening. Even though Sasha doesn’t want to go, she feels that this is the only place she should be at. As her schooling and summer end, her domineering mentor makes her move to a remote village and use her gold coins to enroll in the Institute of Special Technologies. Every time she completes one, she is rewarded with strange gold coins. ![]() He directs her to perform certain tasks, and she is powerless to refuse. While vacationing with her mom, Sasha Samokhina meets the mysterious Farit Kozhennikov. Translated from Russian by Julia Meitov Hersey, Vita Nostra is a dark version of Harry Potter. It may not be for everyone, yet for those who chose to go on this journey, it’s worth it. ![]() Have you ever read a book that boggled your entire mind? A book so confusing that you have to double check to make sure that you read it right? Recently, I read a novel like that called Vita Nostra by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko. ![]() ![]() will race through the pages as Emma pieces together clues and will have plenty to ponder as they anticipate the next installment., Praise for The Lying Game: "The Lying Game is a stay-up-past-your-bedtime type of thriller.full of amazingly believable plot twists and turns." - Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) (starred review) "A thrilling mystery with just the right doses of romance and danger." - School Library Journal "A fun and fast-moving mystery. ![]() ![]() Praise for The Lying Game:"The Lying Game is a stayuppastyourbedtime type of thriller.full of amazingly believable plot twists and turns.", A fun and fast-moving mystery… will race through the pages as Emma pieces together clues and will have plenty to ponder as they anticipate the next installment., A fun and fast-moving mystery. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments White Devil by Stella Purple![]() Our audience comes to us for rigorously tested recipes, science-driven cooking techniques, robust equipment reviews, and stories that offer cultural and historical context to the foods we love to eat.ĭotdash is among the largest and fastest growing publishers online, and has won over 50 awards in the last year alone, including Digiday's 2020 Publisher of the Year. ![]() ![]() Serious Eats, a Dotdash brand, is an award-winning food and drink website visited by over 7 million hungry readers every month. Stella's Desert Island Food: "Boat Drinks from my fave bar in town (Ona in Lexington, KY) because surely I'll be able to forage and fish and clam my way to survival on an island, but how else can I keep myself cool, happy, and refreshed? It's like a coconut milk and rum slushie spiked with bitters, and I love it." About Serious Eats Stella served as the pastry editor at Serious Eats from 2016 to 2019. When not in the kitchen, Stella spends most of her time polishing Star Trek quotes, re-watching Battlestar Galactica, and playing video games. She's also the James Beard Award–winning cookbook author of BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts, a New York Times best-seller. Stella Parks is a CIA-trained baking nerd and pastry wizard, dubbed one of America's Best New Pastry Chefs by Food & Wine. ![]() ![]() ![]() She uncovers a rich, powerful African-American philosophy of education by reading African-American narratives from Frederick Douglass to Maya Angelou and carefully critiques the most popular theoretical explanations for group differences in achievement. In the first piece, Theresa Perry argues that the dilemmas African-American students face are rooted in the experience of race and ethnicity in America, making the task of achievement distinctive and difficult. Young, Gifted and Black provides an understanding of how these forces work, opening the door to practical, powerful methods for promoting high achievement at all levels. Each author addresses how the unique social and cultural position Black students occupy-in a society which often devalues and stereotypes African-American identity-fundamentally shapes students' experience of school and sets up unique obstacles. In three separate but allied essays, African-American scholars Theresa Perry, Claude Steele, and Asa Hilliard examine the alleged ‘achievement gap’ between Black and white students. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Heart of darkness book![]() Marlow first learns from the Accountant of Kurtz - a "remarkable" agent working in the interior. Marlow speaks with an Accountant, whose spotless dress and uptight demeanor fascinate him. He leaves Europe in a French steamer.Īt the Company's Outer Station in the Congo, Marlow witnesses scenes of brutality, chaos, and waste. After learning of the Company - a large ivory-trading firm working out of the Congo - Marlow applies for and receives a post. For the rest of the novel (with only minor interruptions), Marlow narrates his tale.Īs a young man, Marlow desires to visit Africa and pilot a steamboat on the Congo River. Marlow begins telling the three men about a time he journeyed in a steamboat up the Congo River. ![]() The anonymous narrator, the Director of Companies, the Accountant, and Marlow sit in silence. Heart of Darkness begins on the deck of the Nellie, a British ship anchored on the coast of the Thames. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Hell bent a novel![]() ![]() The culmination of two years of research, and featuring hundreds of interviews with yogis, scientists, doctors, and scholars, Hell-Bent is a wild exploration. Populated by athletic prodigies, wide-eyed celebrities, legitimate medical miracles, and predatory hucksters, it's a nation-spanning trip―from the jam-packed studios of New York to the athletic performance labs of the University of Oregon to the stage at the National Yoga Asana Championship, where Lorr competes for glory. He was studying Bikram Yoga (or "hot yoga") when a run-in with a master and competitive yoga champion led him into an obsessive subculture―a group of yogis for whom eight hours of practice a day in 110- degree heat was just the beginning. Benjamin Lorr walked into his first yoga studio on a whim, overweight and curious, and quickly found the yoga reinventing his life. Author Benjamin Lorr wandered into a yoga studio―and fell down a rabbit hole Hell-Bent explores a fascinating, often surreal world at the extremes of American yoga. ![]() ![]() While Malaysia is haunted by the legacy of British colonialism, the Philippines was subject to Spanish colonisation and is still reckoning with the ever-present spectre of American imperialism.īut as the novel begins, the reader realises that it is one Hero De Vera and not Paz who is the novel’s focal point. ![]() It is a small masterpiece on the politics of class, education, and immigration. The novel begins with a stunning prologue, fiery and alive, about a woman named Paz. This one takes on themes of queer love and desire, toxic dynamics in upper-class families, and presents the possibility of salvation within the extended lines of those families. ![]() It comes in at around 400 pages and is what would typically be described as a “family saga”. ![]() Elaine Castillo’s debut novel is a sprawling, big-hearted love letter to Filipino people, culture, and history. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments James bond 1953 casino royale![]() ![]() The author's first book and the first appearance of James Bond, who has probably had a greater impact on society and popular culture than any other fictitious character since Sherlock Holmes. ![]() A copy in well used, but not irredeemable condition but free from any restoration. Original black cloth with red heart vignette on upper cover and titles on the spine, in gun metal grey dustwrapper designed by the author.Ī near fine copy, with a neat inscription to the front endpaper and a bookplate to the rear pastedown, in a good dustwrapper, which has some small chips to the corners of the spine ends and a couple of closed tears with associated creasing. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Tom in huckleberry finn![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Pap confronts Huck and warns him to quit school and stop trying to better himself, Huck continues to attend school just to spite Pap. Because Pap has a history of violence and drunkenness, Huck is worried about Pap's intentions, especially toward his invested money. One day Huck discovers that his father, Pap Finn, has returned to town. Instead of obeying his guardians, however, Huck sneaks out of the house at night to join Tom Sawyer's gang and pretend that they are robbers and pirates. Readers learn that the practical Huck has become rich from his last adventure with Tom Sawyer ( The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) and that the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson, have taken Huck into their home in order to try and teach him religion and proper manners. Consisting of 43 chapters, the novel begins with Huck Finn introducing himself as someone readers might have heard of in the past. ![]() |