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“Dazzling,” ( People) “Exuberant,” ( Vogue) “marvelously entertaining,” ( The Dallas Morning News) Marisha Pessl’s mesmerizing debut has critics raving and heralds the arrival of a vibrant new voice in American fiction. At the center of this “cracking good read”4 is clever, deadpan Blue van Meer, who has a head full of literary, philosophical, scientific, and cinematic knowledge. But she could use some friends. Upon entering the elite St. Gallway school, she finds some—a clique of eccentrics known as the Bluebloods. One drowning and one hanging later, Blue finds herself puzzling out a byzantine murder mystery. Nabokov meets Donna Tartt (then invites the rest of the Western Canon to the party) in this novel—with “visual aids” drawn by the author—that has won over readers of all ages..
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Small Talk: The Art of Successful Socialising
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Water Culture
H2O. The Dead Sea. Rain. Acid rain. Heavy water. The Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean, the source of the Nile. A tap, and on and on More than 1 billion people have insufficient water to sustain life. The World Health Organisation has the figures The River Jordan, the Biblical epitome of water, is dying, like a man with his throat cut, his blood seeping down a drain. In Water Culture, Francesca Sorrenti of ske group, in collaboration with Ocean Futures Society's Jean-Michel Cousteau, has collected a kaleidoscope of the elemental qualities of water in a series of photographs that are breathtaking to behold in their fantasy and equilibrium. They chose the works of Mario Sorrenti, Nan Goldin, Fabien Baron, Andres Gursky, Eugene Smith, and Boris Michailov, among others, to represent this world. Against these extraordinary images are set the records of the follies of mankind, the greed and despair and ignorance of the source of life that will again leave a bewildered albatross or a seal coated in oil by another Amoco Cadiz that has spilt 250,000 tons of human degradation into the oceans..
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Mentality
There comes a time when a man needs to be a man, and when a man needs to think before he leaps. De’Quan Jones’ wedding day is supposed to be a happy occasion, but it’s not when one of his flings shows up at the wedding, trying to stop it. What will the outcome be? Alvin Player is a married man with two children and a beautiful wife who is having an affair with his wife’s friend. Whom will he pick in the end? LaRome Sullivan is caught up in a web of secrets from his girlfriend, who wants to become his wife. Will it happen? Dexter Manning can’t let go of the death of his fiancée until he falls for a married woman. Will the relationship last? Kevin White is a big-time lawyer and womanizer who gets tired of being caught in the middle of his best friend’s drama. Will Kevin get what he wants? If you thought women have drama in their lives, you haven’t read anything until you read Mentality..
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The Marianka Waltz
During the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, two young lovers are separated; Josef is conscripted into the army while Marisha is forced to work in the salt mines. Even though they are miles apart, their love flourishes When their chance comes to leave Poland for a new life in the United States, Josef and Marisha pack their few belongings and immigrate to Grand Rapids, Michigan. They believe in the American Dream and eventually find it. The Marianka Waltz is their true story..
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