![]() ![]() Recent Brown graduate Andrea Sachs dreams of writing for The New Yorker, and, when she is offered a job as assistant to the Miranda Priestly, she is assured that one year of working with Miranda will open doors anywhere in the magazine world. But the book is hindered by weak characterizations and superficial plotting, and when “the devil” isn’t “on-stage,” the book falters badly. Those who work in the industry and know the personalities skewered may get a lot of entertainment from recognizing people they know. The Devil Wears Prada is billed by some as brilliant satire and a wonderful picture of the world of fashion magazine publishing. ![]()
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Set in a brand-new, Norse-inspired world, and packed with myth, magic and bloody vengeance, The Shadow of the Gods begins an epic new fantasy saga from bestselling author John Gwynne.Īfter the gods warred and drove themselves to extinction, the cataclysm of their fall shattered the land of Vigrið. ![]() ![]() But Vincent is also in Paris to escape a painful betrayal: her husband, Cillian, has published a bestselling book divulging secrets about their marriage and his own past, hinting that when he was a teenager, he may have had a child with a young woman back in Dublin-before he moved to California and never returned. At forty-four, she enjoys strolling the streets of Paris and teaching at the modern art museum she has a vibrant group of friends and she’s even caught the eye of a young, charismatic man named Loup. Vincent, having grown up as the privileged daughter of artists, has a lovely life in many ways. An irresistible story of a woman remaking her life after her husband’s betrayal leads to a year of travel, art, and passion in Paris, from the award-winning author of This Close to Okay. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whether bound by ancient magic, delicious pastries or a freshly brewed cup, they may become something deeper than Viv ever could have imagined. But the true reward of the uncharted path is the travellers you meet along the way. And Thune's shady underbelly could make it all too easy for Viv to take up the blade once more. Yet old rivals and new stand in the way of success. And help might arrive from unexpected quarters. If Viv wants to put the past behind her, she can't go it alone. Now she sets her sights on a new dream - for she plans to open the first coffee shop in the city of Thune.Įven though no one there knows what coffee actually is. High fantasy, low stakes - with a double-shot of coffee.Īfter decades of adventuring, Viv the orc barbarian is finally hanging up her sword for good. ![]() ![]() In the tradition of her bestselling novel, Nefertiti, and through her strong, independent heroines fighting to make their way in a male dominated world, Michelle Moran brings nineteenth-century India to rich, vibrant life." ![]() Told from the unexpected perspective of Sita Queen Lakshmi s most favored companion and most trusted soldier in the all-female army Rebel Queen shines a light on a time and place rarely explored in historical fiction. Although her soldiers may not appear at first to be formidable against superior British weaponry and training, Lakshmi refuses to back down from the empire determined to take away the land she loves. Instead of surrendering, Queen Lakshmi raises two armies one male and one female and rides into battle, determined to protect her country and her people. But when they arrive in the Kingdom of Jhansi, the British army is met with a surprising challenge. ![]() India is fractured and divided into kingdoms, each independent and wary of one another, seemingly no match for the might of the English. When the British Empire sets its sights on India in the mid-nineteenth century, it expects a quick and easy conquest. ![]() ![]() Synopsis: From the internationally bestselling author of Nefertiti and Cleopatra s Daughter comes the breathtaking story of Queen Lakshmi India s Joan of Arc who against all odds defied the mighty British invasion to defend her beloved kingdom. ![]() ![]() ![]() Within a few weeks, she had taken refuge and been ordained-the second Western woman to become a Tibetan Buddhist nun. She trained with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche briefly in London before traveling to Dalhousie, India, where she met her guru, Khamtrul Rinpoche. And what might have seemed like a teenager’s naïve remark soon became an imperative. ![]() “That book transformed my life completely,” Tenzin Palma reveals. Her mother, who had considerable appreciation for spirituality, encouraged the daughter’s interest. The announcement did not fall on deaf ears. Before finishing the borrowed book, she told her mother, “I’m a Buddhist.” In that randomly selected volume, she immediately recognized the path she had been longing to travel. ![]() Born Diane Perry in England, Tenzin Palma was eighteen when, during a family trip to Germany, she read a book about Buddhism entitled The Mind Unshaken. Is there such a thing as a calling? How do you find and recognize your teacher? Is a cave necessary? Can a woman reach enlightenment in one lifetime? Can a woman reach enlightenment at all? These are the brave questions she must have asked herself during her twelve years of solitary retreat. Cave in the Snow is the biography of Tenzin Palmo, who was the second Westerner to be ordained a Tibetan Buddhist nun and who, like Milarepa, endured a twelve-year retreat in a Himalayan cave. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. True Grit is his most famous novel - first published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian TerritoryĬharles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's foremost comic writers. Mattie Ross is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. ![]() ![]() ![]() As her bombarded land turns white, she and her husband Martin huddle under a blanket and reminisce: the one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds the eleven-inch rainfall (that broccoli turned out. Still, this is a satisfying, instructive book.-Robert Eagan, Windsor P.L., Ont. When the hail starts to fall, Atina Diffley doesn’t compare it to golf balls. One might quibble with Diffley’s attempt to reconstruct dialog from journals too often her speeches sound stilted, and her repeated use of the “I say” phrase has a numbing effect. Verdict All readers will enjoy the organic ethic beautifully demonstrated in the author’s close observation of and deep deference to nature. Those seeking inspiration will enjoy the story of a single mother’s dogged effort to follow her bliss. Like her own farm, this book offers an abundant crop: practical-minded readers will appreciate the how-to’s of soil building and crop rotation as well as information on the rigors of meeting FDA organic standards. ![]() Threats to her livelihood are legion: ever-encroaching suburbia, foul weather, nitwits spraying poison too close to the vegetable patch, and pipeline companies seeking eminent domain are just some struggles she’s survived to tell. ![]() Organic farmers have a tough row to hoe, as Diffley-half of the husband-and-wife team who built Minnesota’s Gardens of Eagan, one of the Midwest’s first certified organic produce farms-knows too well. Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works. ![]() |