![]() ![]() broader than her book's title implies.' Los Angeles Times Cline goes for the jugular straightaway in this exploration of the consumer love affair with cheap clothing. Self-deprecating about her own lack of style - she has a thing for fleece-lined sweatshirts - Cline writes with the zeal of a reformed shopaholic.' Businessweek ![]() ' Overdressed is the fashion world's answer to consumer-activist bestsellers like Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma. It will inspire you to find a path back to being well dressed and feeling good about what you wear. Overdressed will help you slow down and consider some surprising alternatives, from upcycled vintage to cutting-edge, locally made fashion. She even describes how high-end designers work in tandem with cheap retailers to keep us shopping. She travels undercover to factories in China and Bangladesh, where the pressure to produce every-cheaper trends is causing unprecedented harm. Our closets are overlfowing with garments we barely wear, and clothing has become a disposable good.Įlizabeth Cline set out to uncover the true nature of the cheap-fashion juggernaut, tracing the surprising impacts on the environment, middle-market and independent retailers, and the U.S. Stores ranging from discounters like Target and fast-fashion chains like H&M to department stores such as JCPenney now offer the newest trends at unprecedentedly low prices. ![]() The declining price of clothing has fundamentally changed the way most Americans dress. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In a hotel room in Venice, where shes just completed a routine assassination, Villanelle receives a late-night call. ![]() “Jennings provides plenty of spy craft and scenic and sensual atmosphere laced with betrayal in this adrenaline-fueled sequel to Killing Eve: Codename Villanelle. The basis for KILLING EVE, now a major BBC TV series, starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer. Jennings' deadly and sophisticated story will leave readers eager to see what happens when these two powerful women come head to head. Killing Eve is a high-stakes, thrilling follow up to the newest voice in spy fiction that the world has been dying for. In this sequel, Eve, the former M16 operative and the novel's heroine, reveals a new side to her strengths, while coming ever closer to a confrontation with Villanelle, the evasive and skilled assassin Eve is hunting. spy race around the world, crossing powerful criminal organizations and dangerous governments, each trying to come out on top. We last saw Eve and Villanelle in a spy vs. "If you want us to remain silent - if you want to retain your freedom, your job, and your reputation - you need to tell us everything, and I mean everything." ![]() ![]() ![]() cover an extraordinary variety of topics-e.g., nature, science, mathematics, politics, folklore, and history. The dramatist reaches even higher in the supersagas Otter's Children and Zangezi, achieving a Wagnerian fusion of action, poetry, history, theory, and the musical rhythms of incantation. In The Little Devil, The Marquise des S., and the sardonic Miss Death Makes a Mistakes, Khlebnikov finally finds a stageable theatrical form, in a mixture of satire, colloquial speech, and poetic reflections on art and immortality. ![]() The Girl-God, symbolist-inspired, is a mélange of stylistic shifts and impossible scene changes. But it is in the dramatic text that we best see Khlebnikov's struggle to find a workable form for his vision. The fictions, ranging from the mysterious "Murksong" to the epic "Yasir," show a great variety of styles and themes. They chronicle the artist's imagination in his feverish search for a poetics that could be as diverse as the universe itself. Paul Schmidt's are the first translations of these works into English. ![]() The second volume of the Collected Works consists of Khlebnikov's fiction (thirty-five short stories, dreams, mysteries, and fanciful folktales), his plays, and his unique supersagas, a syncretic genre he created to encompass his iconoclastic view of the world. In Russia a powerful and growing mythology surrounds this Futurist poet and his reputation elsewhere continues to mount. Velimir Khlebnikov, who died in 1922 at the age of thirty-six, is one of the great innovators of literary modernism. ![]() ![]() Jay Kristoff takes a different route and built his world from the ground based on these ideas. The result is basically our reality with a few magical elements added to it. Too often do authors think of a cool concept (what if there were three suns in the sky?), but forget to think of all the implications that would have on literally every aspect of that worlds inhabitants. I cannot stress this enough: this is worldbuilding done right. ![]() From the physical world, to the shadow-magic, from political intrigue to religious beliefs: everything is integrated and thought out to perfection. Although I would never want to visit it for obvious reasons, this world is one that I can picture vividly in every aspect. Worldbuilding can make or break a fantasy novel for me, and I have to say that the world of The Nevernight Chronicles is one of my favourites of all time. ![]() ![]() ![]() I know him as much for his honesty as I know Baby Freddy’s mother for her dedication to confirming the gossip that comes her way. ![]() That’s what Brendan, my sort of best friend, tells me at least. I called bullshit at the end of each one.Įxcept now we know the procedure is 100 percent real and 0 percent bullshit because one of our own has gone through it. Every single news station was interviewing different representatives of the Leteo Institute to find out more about the “revolutionary science of memory alteration and suppression.” It rained that weekend, so I hung out with my friends at the Laundromat, chilling in front of the security guard’s old TV. And when I saw the headline “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow!” on the cover of a newspaper, I mistook it as something boring, like the cure for some new flu-I didn’t think they were talking about memories. The first time I saw a poster on the subway promoting the institute that could make you forget things, I thought it was a marketing campaign for some new science fiction movie. ![]() ![]() It turns out the Leteo procedure isn’t bullshit. ![]() ![]() ![]() “ONE MINUTE THE teacher was talking about the Civil War. Included in this collection are: Gone, Hunger, Lies, Plague, Fear, and Light. Michael Grant's Gone series has been praised for its compelling storytelling, multidimensional characters, and multiple points of view. And time is running out: on your birthday, you disappear just like everyone else. Sides are being chosen, a fight is shaping up. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents-unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers-that grow stronger by the day. And no way to figure out what's happened. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet, no television. There are teens, but not one single adult. In the blink of an eye, everyone disappears. These page-turning thrillers invoke the classic The Lord of the Flies along with the horror of Stephen King. ![]() This collection contains all six books in New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant's breathtaking dystopian sci-fi Gone saga. ![]() ![]() ![]() It could be his daughter Lettice who wanted to get freedom from the strict father and inherit his fortune. So when he was found shot at the vicarage, many people became murder suspects. BBC Radio 4 dramatised the story in 2003 with June Whitfield and the graphic novel adaptation was first published in France in 2005 under the title L'Affaire Protheroe. Agatha Christie detective 36345 1446 96 175 99 6 Colonel Protheroe was not a good man. The novel was adapted for the screen, first with Joan Hickson in 1986 and again in 2004 with Geraldine McEwan in the starring role. I think this is the best you have done - almost". Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie 178,005 ratings, 4. "Dear old Tabbies" she wrote to Christie, "are the only possible right kind of female detective and Miss M is lovely. Dorothy L Sayers was particularly complimentary of this novel. Not only are we formally introduced to the village of St Mary Mead and the "Parish cats" otherwise known as Miss Marple and her friends, but several other recurring characters including the vicar and his wife, Leonard and Griselda Clement, who also appeared in The Body in the Library (1942) and 4.50 from Paddington (1957). ![]() Not a book club exactly, The Crime Club was a series of mystery titles published and promoted under the name. It was the first of her mysteries to be published as part of her publisher Collins’ new Crime Club series and the first novel to feature Miss Marple. Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple. The Murder at the Vicarage is one of Agatha Christie’s most popular books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Neither was the worst thing she could possibly do: fall in love with her future husband. While the rude, elusive Dante isn't her idea of a dream partner, she agrees to their arranged marriage out of duty.Ĭraving his touch was never part of the plan. King of Wrath from the bestselling author of the Twisted series By: Ana Huang Be the First to Write a Review About this Book Paperback 400 Pages Dimensions (cm) 19.6x12.8x2.8 Edition Number: 1 Published: 13th December 2022 ISBN: 9780349436326 Share This Book: Paperback RRP 22.99 13. Her stories range from lighthearted to dark, but they all have HEAs with plenty of banter and swoon sprinkled in. Marrying a blue-blooded Russo means opening doors that would otherwise remain closed to her new-money family. King of Greed (3) To be released fall 2023 About the Author Ana Huang is an author of primarily steamy New Adult and contemporary romance. Vivian Lau is the perfect daughter and her family's ticket into the highest echelons of high society. he can't bring himself to let her go.Įlegant. There's only one problem: now that he has her. ![]() ![]() ![]() He'll do everything in his power to destroy the evidence and their betrothal. It doesn't matter how beautiful or charming she is. The billionaire CEO never planned to marry - until the threat of blackmail forces him into an engagement with a woman he barely knows: Vivian Lau, jewellery heiress and daughter of his newest enemy. Dante Russo thrives on control, both personally and professionally. A brand new steamy billionaire romance from the bestselling author of the Twisted series. ![]() ![]() ![]() The whole thing kind of blows up on page 62 when Maureen finds out from her Master Sergeant that her parents told ROTC to enroll her and it all comes out that there was no 'computer glitch' and that Francine begged her parents to put her in classes without Maureen in an attempt to separate her from her sister. Maureen has also been enrolled in ROTC or whatever version of ROTC exists in this universe. Francine is thrilled with this, Maureen is nervous and upset. In the beginning, we learn that a 'computer error' made it so that the girls aren't in all the same classes this year. Maureen is the more fearful one, the one who wants to stay with her sister all the time, the one who gets the best grades and the one who is the main character of the book. Francine is the talkative one, the social one, the outgoing one. ![]() Although they are identical in appearance, the girls are pretty different. This was a pretty good book about two twins entering the 6th grade together. She always smiles at me - I think she likes me. You're not supposed to eat in the library, but Mrs. She had even decided to run for class president, and was forming a campaign committee and everything. But Francine wasn't right about everything. ![]() ![]() Also aboard The Nightflyer ship is a powerful telepath with the ability to mentally and physically torture everyone on board, and a reclusive captain who only appears in holographic form. The year is 2093 and a team of scientists embark on a voyage deep into space to make contact with a mysterious alien life form. Yet whilst the adaptation of Martin’s fantasy novels was ground-breaking and exciting when it premiered in 2011, Nightflyers feels like a compilation of sci-fi films and TV shows from the past ten years it looks impressive but what it lacks is originality and depth. Indeed, if ambition were all it took for a show to be a success, Nightflyers would be raking in the awards. Blending horror with psychological thrills, this space-set science fiction show certainly has the epic scale and ambition of Game of Thrones. ![]() Martin will be enough to tempt viewers to watch Nightflyers, the new show adapted from the author’s 1980 novella, which hits Netflix on Friday (1 February). Just the mere mention of the name George R. ![]() |