![]() ![]() ![]() Sutanto is a fun crazy captivating mystery. ![]() Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. As a protective mother hen, will she end up having to give one of her newfound chicks to the police? What Vera does not expect is to form friendships with her customers and start to care for each and every one of them. Vera knows the killer will be back for the flash drive all she has to do is watch the increasing number of customers at her shop and figure out which one among them is the killer. Why? Because Vera is sure she would do a better job than the police possibly could, because nobody sniffs out a wrongdoing quite like a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands. swipes the flash drive from the body and tucks it safely into the pocket of her apron. Vera doesn’t know what comes over her, but after calling the cops like any good citizen would, she sort of. Then one morning, Vera trudges downstairs to find a curious thing–a dead man in the middle of her tea shop. She likes nothing more than sipping on a good cup of Wulong and doing some healthy detective work on the Internet about what her Gen-Z son is up to. Despite living alone, Vera is not needy, oh no. ![]() Vera Wong is a lonely little old lady–ah, lady of a certain age–who lives above her forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q SutantoĪmazon / B&N / Kobo / Google Play / Apple / BAM / Book Depository ![]()
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![]() ![]() There's Herman Brown, the hard-eyed construction baron who fueled Johnson's rise by trading campaign contributions for lucrative government contracts. There's LBJ's daddy, Sam Johnson, the principled state legislator whose cotton farm went bust, casting the family into humiliating indigence. ![]() Caro's tireless research, discerning analysis and sharp pen have allowed him to create a mesmerizing world, populated by characters suitable for a Greek tragedy or an HBO series. "The Years of Lyndon Johnson" is my "Game of Thrones," the thing I jabber on about at the office water cooler. All things being equal, short is better than long, and I'm sure Caro could have trimmed plenty from his saga without weakening his case.īut to me, this is one of those rare instances where too much is not enough. ![]() Time is precious, and attention is limited. It's as if the 76-year-old author has made a deal for immortality, as long as he can just tease the reader into waiting another 10 years for him to get on with it. ![]() "At the same time, he wants to make sure that the reader is panting for the next installment to arrive, hence a lengthy tease to the next work-in-long-progress. Caro assumes the reader has not read any of the others in the series, so endlessly recounts what he wrote in them," Nelson wrote. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We will open up tickets to the general public on February 15. From now until February 14, ONLY paid subscribers can sign up for tickets. ![]() If you’re a paid subscriber, you’re in luck. We’ll send out more details in the coming week, but in brief: in order to keep the event intimate and interactive, we’re capping the conversation to only 35 people. And so, on March 7th, at 2pm ET, Adaam and I will venture into a Zoom space for a lively, free, virtual conversation on eschatologies, catastrophes, and general doom. We sent the newsletter to both of them, and asked: hey, would you two want to talk more about this? To each other? In front of a live audience? ![]() In Uncertainty #3: Cancel Vultures (written in the wake of our conversation with the doomsayer himself, Peter Turchin ), Adaam cited two folks we’ve interviewed who have similarly mused on the reasons for our society’s (impending? current?) collapse: the historian Niall Ferguson and former CIA analyst Martin Gurri. In a move surprising no one who’s ever listened to us for more than two seconds, the theme is apocalyptic. □ We’re hosting our first ever virtual event! □ Before we get into the meat of it, special announcement time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. 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We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Those that survive return to orbit as seasoned veterans, converting their exotics into advanced technology, and taking on ever more challenging drops. Prospectors flocked to Icarus to complete contracts to extract exotics and conduct research for various factions. Valuable beyond reckoning, these ‘exotics’ sparked a gold rush and fueled political tensions back on Earth. Yet when they discovered the cause of the failure - exotic matter - new interest was ignited. ![]() The xeno-engineers salvaged what they could, released modified embryos and halted the terraforming process. Icarus became a joke, a symbol of humanity reaching for the stars and failing. Icarus was once destined to be a second Earth, but when terraforming collapsed - the air turned toxic and humanity’s hopes of colonizing a new world died. From their orbital station, prospectors drop to the planet surface to explore, harvest, craft and hunt while seeking their fortune. ![]() ICARUS is a PvE survival game with both Mission-based and persistent Open World modes for up to eight co-op players.Įndure a savage wilderness on Icarus, an Earth-like terraformed planet now considered humanity’s greatest mistake. Now with Open World Game Mode - Play the classic survival experience ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If some young readers subject to or familiar with similar storms (or a bit foggy on what a metaphor is) need explanation or discussion about depression to clear the air, the comforting message nonetheless shines brightly. In this Caldecott-honor book, kids will see what Sophie does when she gets angry. People do lots of different things when they get angry. Parents, teachers, and children can talk about it. Kelp, who turns out to be “a very good listener,” acknowledges the cloud matter-of-factly, and Nimbus comes to understand that though she may have up days and down days to come, weathering the latter with an accepting friend will make them easier. For children, anger can be very upsetting. There, she discovers that recognizing and getting to know the cloud actually makes it shrink-and just as she’s feeling a bit better, Kelp gallops into view, which sets the stage for a joyful reunion depicted in the sweet, softly hued illustrations with an exuberant rainbow swirl. The more she tries to ignore it or bottle it up, the bigger it gets…until it finally breaks out in a storm that sends her fleeing all company to huddle alone in a gloomy forest. Harking back to Not Quite Narwhal (2017) in both cast and tone, Sima offers a friendship tale in which Kelp’s close and aptly named pal Nimbus acquires a dark little cloud that rains when she feels down. When Sophie gets angry-really, really angry. Emotional storm clouds come between two unicorn friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() Additional violence includes Lakshmi held captive and threatened with a knife, the girl biting and injuring her rapist, and a police raid with fighting. The camera stays close on Lakshmi, her face, and her reactions as she initially battles back with fury. Scenes of sexual violation are kept in soft focus and are never graphic there's no nudity. That said, it's always clear that Lakshmi is living in a brothel with other girls and women - all of whom have been forced into sexual slavery. Brown and his team have made a film that isn't exploitative it's intended to educate and inspire. As harrowing as Lakshmi's story is, director Jeffrey D. ![]() Parents need to know that Sold, based on the book by Patricia McCormick, is the fictional tale of one very young Nepalese girl's tragic journey from childhood to life as a sex slave in India. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, his temper and quick fists got him in trouble with the Hong Kong police on numerous occasions. The talented and athletic Bruce also took up cha-cha dancing and, at age 18, won a major dance championship in Hong Kong. This was the only formalized martial arts training ever undertaken by Lee. ![]() ![]() Bruce was later beaten up by a street gang, which inspired him to take up martial arts training under the tutelage of Sifu Yip Man who schooled Bruce in wing chun kung fu for a period of approximately five years. At the age of 12, Bruce commenced attending La Salle College. Approximately one year later, the family returned to Kowloon in Hong Kong and at the age of five, a young Bruce begins appearing in children's roles in minor films including The Birth of Mankind (1946) and Fu gui fu yun (1948). Lee was born Lee Jun Fan Novemin San Francisco, the son of Lee Hoi Chuen, a singer with the Cantonese Opera. and they all have their roots in the phenomenon that was Bruce Lee. The influence of East Asian martial arts cinema can be seen today in so many other film genres including comedies, action, drama, science fiction, horror and animation. North American and European cinema and audiences the way it has over the past four decades. Movies in the early 1970s, it's arguable whether or not the martial arts film genre would have ever penetrated and influenced mainstream Bruce Lee remains the greatest icon of martial arts cinema and a key figure of modern popular media. ![]() ![]() ![]() Impostors is the fifth book in the Uglies series, the first of which is Uglies. /rebates/2fImpostors-Scott-Westerfeld2fbook2f40498197&. This description comes from the publisher. With Impostors, master storyteller Scott Westerfeld returns with a new series set in the world of his mega-bestselling Uglies-a world full of twists and turns, rebellion and intrigue, where any wrong step could be Frey's last. With Impostors, master storyteller Scott Westerfeld returns with a new series set in the world of his mega-bestselling Uglies -a world full of twists and turns, rebellion and intrigue, where any wrong step could be Frey's last. As the deal starts to crumble, Frey must decide if she can trust him with the truth.and if she can risk becoming her own person. ![]() ![]() But Col, the son of a rival leader, is getting close enough to spot the killer inside her. ![]() When her father sends Frey in Rafi's place as collateral in a precarious deal, she becomes the perfect impostor-as poised and charming as her sister. Her only purpose is to protect her sister, to sacrifice herself for Rafi if she must. So while Rafi was raised to be the perfect daughter, Frey has been taught to kill. Their powerful father has many enemies, and the world has grown dangerous as the old order falls apart. But Frey's very existence is a secret.įrey is Rafi's twin sister-and her body double. Frey and Rafi are inseparable.two edges of the same knife. ![]() ![]() ![]() Watch as Oprah gives a tour of her newly redesigned guesthouse.įor the spacious, high-ceilinged living room, Andre Walker and David Simmons used glorious taffeta draperies and plush seating grouped around a black marble fireplace. We felt like kids at Christmas, and she was Oprah Claus," David says, sounding, well, like a kid at Christmas. ![]() It was all just sitting there waiting for us to start reupholstering. "She has an amazing collection of heirloom quality furniture from the farm she used to own in Indiana. "We went to the finest place for furniture that a person can go to-Oprah's storage space," Andre says. Before they could say, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, it was time to shop. So she called on her hairdresser and confidant of 20 years Andre Walker and his partner of 10 years David Simmons. After designing every room in her Santa Barbara home, Oprah was ready to turn the design reigns over to someone she trusted. ![]() |