![]() The East India Company's founding charter authorised it to 'wage war' and it had always used violence to gain its ends. In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected taxes through means of a ruthless private army - what we would now call an act of involuntary privatisation. A book of beauty' - Gerard DeGroot, The Times 'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India. THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary subjects ![]() Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2023. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The short text and lively cover art will attract young readers, who will howl at the atrocious puns-and repeat them at the earliest opportunity. Logan uses the dictionary and experiments with Scrabble(tm) tiles as he races against the clock to find the required answers. There is an emphasis on problem-solving and self-reliance as well. The language concepts are deftly explained and the clever, wordplay-filled dialogue provides numerous examples. This lighthearted fantasy would be an excellent classroom read-aloud. ![]() Logan has three days to collect seven oxymorons, seven anagrams, and seven palindromes-or the 'pun'-ishment will continue forever. ![]() According to the professor, there is only one way to break the spell. His family and friends think he's just smarting off, but Logan quickly realizes that he is under a curse. But what did the strange old man mean when he said that Logan should be 'punished?' Suddenly, the boy starts speaking in puns-really awful puns-and he can't stop. "Logan knows he shouldn't have been playing tag in the library reference stacks and he's sorry that he crashed into Professor Wordsworth. ![]() ![]() ![]() When meeting these lethal creatures eye-to-eye, Lia must learn to accept a life-altering truth and learn to stand her ground against forces she could never imagine. What was supposed to be an extended family camping trip turns horribly wrong.Īll Liala wanted for her 21st birthday is to reconnect with her long-dead mother at the place her parents met and they used to visit until her mother’s death.ĭespite an old woman’s warning, the camp of her extended family and friends is eventually set up at a secluded little piece of paradise… and right in the middle of the local werewolf pack’s territory. ![]() This is a paranormal horror erotica novel,Įxclusively available on Amazon including Kindle Unlimited. ![]() Get a digital copy for the special SALE WEEK price of $2.99ct instead of $4.99! ![]() ![]() ![]() Kerman’s husband, Larry Smith (see, there’s a difference right there, they never broke up), is an accomplished writer and editor, and has presumably never written a whiny piece about nearly wanking. ![]() Kerman had the additional indignity of half a decade between her trial in 1998 and her sentencing in 2003, years where she was being strung along and unable to make life plans. Kerman comes across as much more aware of her privilege in the memoir, and her situation is a fair bit shittier. ![]() But it turns out that the changes made to Piper for the show are largely responsible for her ability to vex.Kerman’s career – a jobbing editor and producer – is swapped out for a boutique soup company in the show. Given that she’s based on a real person who is lurking around in the credits, I figured this was an awkward, unfixable, holdover. I’m not alone in finding Piper Chapman somewhat annoying. Piper Kerman was named as a co-conspirator in a drug ring and served 13 months of a 15-month sentence from February 2004 to March 2005. The real Piper served time in FCI Danbury (just over the border in Connecticut rather than the New York of the show’s Litchfield). Piper Chapman is based on Piper Kerman, loosely in some aspects and closely in others. ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, Grey isn't interested in love, no matter how pretty, or delightfully outspoken, the lady. ![]() But when his mother is widowed yet again and he meets the charmingly unconventional woman managing his stepfather's funeral, he's shocked to discover how much they have in common. Grey's focus on expanding his dukedom allows him little time to find a wife. ![]() A series of stepfathers and a difficult childhood have left Fletcher "Grey" Pryde, fifth duke of Greycourt, with a guarded heart, enviable wealth, and the undeserved reputation of a rogue. From New York Times best-selling author Sabrina Jeffries comes a sparkling new series about an oft-widowed mother's grown children who blaze through society in their quest for the truth about their fathers.and in the process find that love just might conquer all. ![]() ![]() ![]() The combination, in Straley’s hands, is potent. ![]() But Straley also brings a mythological element – the possibility that, as you may have guessed, a woman married a bear – that elevates the story to a mystical plane which I seek in fantasy and science fiction more often than in thrillers. An imperfect investigator/detective (I’m looking at you, Tess Monaghan and, to a lesser extent, Guido Brunetti) who has little regard for the system under which justice is dispensed, even when they work within it. This story, set in the early 1990s, has everything I want in a mystery. She knows the official version – that a mentally unstable man whom her son hired to help with hunting trips that her son guided killed him – but she wants to know the truth. ![]() A Native woman living in an assisted living facility hires him to find out the truth behind her son’s death. After working for – and being fired from – the public defender’s office in Alaska as an investigator, Younger advertises his own investigation services. He has a serious alcohol problem and a wanderlust in this introduction to the character, he is still mourning his father, who has recently died, as well as mourning the loss of a romance and his six-month’s-long sobriety. In the preface, the author says that he once heard of a woman who married a bear, and he believed it.Ĭecil Younger is the son of a well-known judge in Alaska, but he’s a failure. The Woman Who Married A Bear is the first of the Cecil Younger novels, written by John Straley. ![]() ![]() ![]() Blain, Four Hundred Souls begins with the arrival of twenty enslaved Ndongo people on the shores of the British colony in mainland America in 1619, the year before the arrival of the Mayflower. Kendi, author of the number one bestseller How To Be an Antiracist, and fellow historian Keisha N. ![]() ![]() An epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, Four Hundred Souls is a chronological account of four hundred years of Black America as told by ninety of America's leading Black writers.Ĭurated by Ibram X. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, Steve shares even more relationship wisdom. ![]() ![]() But behind the laughter is his sincere desire to help women understand men. Whether it's why women should enforce a "90-Day Probation Period" before they give their men sexual "benefits"-the way Ford motor company withholds medical and dental benefits until an employee has been on the job for 3 months-or explaining to women why men would rather "fix it" than talk about it, Steve Harvey's advice is always spot-on and laden with warmth and humor. In conjunction with its second movie sequel to be released this summer, Steve Harvey has updated his classic with new advice and insights. With over two million copies sold, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man has become a bestseller around the world. The # 1 New York Times smash bestseller Revised and expanded with new material. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lexi Ryan takes readers on a rollercoaster ride we won’t forget and leaves us begging for more of this story and world.” - Catherine Cowles, author of the Wrecked series ![]() “An enchanting story of magic, adventure, and the lengths we will go to for the ones we love. I highly recommend and am in dire need for the next book!" - Carrie Ann Ryan, NYT Bestselling Author of the Elements of Five Series Complete with twisted fae, love triangles that make my heart pound, and exceptional world building, These Hollow Vows is a must read for fans of Sarah J Maas and Jennifer L Armentrout. "Lexi Ryan wrote a beautifully broken and epic fantasy that completely blew me way. Prepare to fall for your newest book boyfriend.” - Lisa Maxwell, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Magician Brie is a smart, capable heroine readers will love to root for in a dazzling new world filled with magic and romance. “A sexy new take on fae fantasy, THESE HOLLOW VOWS swept me away from the very first page and left me breathless and impatient for the next installment. With two very different love interests, lots of heated moments, and a spectacular ending, this is the fantasy romance I have been craving” - Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series These Hollow Vows is a lot like the world of Faerie – seductive, enthralling, and dangerous. Praise for These Hollow Vows “Sexy, surprising, and full of secrets. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tommy confronts the ethical dilemma of standing up for the weird kid and the angst of school dances: My hands were shaking and my stomach was excited like the time my dad accidentally drove into a fire hydrant. Angleberger peppers his chapters with spot-on boy banter, humorously crude Captain Underpants style drawings, and wisecrack asides that comically address the social land mines of middle school. Compiling a series of funny, first-person accounts of Yoda's wisdom from his friends, Tommy hopes to solve this mystery to determine whether to trust Yoda's advice about asking a certain girl to dance. ![]() From another, he is simply the green paperwad animated by Tommy's misfit friend, Dwight, who wear shorts with his socks pulled up above his knees and stares into space like a hypnotized chicken. From one perspective, Origami Yoda is a finger puppet that offers cryptic but oddly sage advice to Tommy and his classmates. Is Origami Yoda real? is the question that plagues sixth-grader Tommy and drives the plot of this snappy debut. ![]() |