![]() The result is a passionate and steely critique of the rate at which China is developing-and what happens to those who get in the way. Based on a real-life blood-selling scandal in eastern China, the novel is the result of three years of undercover work by Yan, who once worked as an assistant to a well-known Beijing anthropologist in an effort to study a small village decimated by HIV/AIDS as a result of unregulated blood selling. ![]() ![]() The novel focuses on one family, destroyed when one son rises to the top of the Party as he exploits the situation, while another is infected and dies. The directors hope to drain the townspeople of their blood and sell it to villages near and far. Set in a poor village in Henan province, it is a deeply moving and beautifully written account of a blood-selling scandal in contemporary China.Īs the book opens, Ding Village’s town directors, looking for a way to lift their village from poverty, decide to open a dozen blood-plasma collection stations. Officially censored upon its Chinese publication, Dream of Ding Village is Chinese novelist Yan Lianke’s most important novel to date. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Trust allows the team to leverage each other's skills and focus on work without worry about motives. Great teams comfortably share weaknesses and skill deficiencies and ask for help. ![]() The first dysfunction is a lack of trust caused by team members' failure to understand and open up to each other.Patrick Lencioni, who has coached hundreds of CEOs and Fortune 500 companies' crews, presents a powerful model to overcome The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and build world-class teams.įor example, learn a story of a CEO who completely reorganized a broken executive team of a high-profile Silicon Valley firm, discover powerful insights and build world-class teams. But nearly every organization struggles with teams mired in organizational politics. If you can get everyone in an organization to move in the same direction, you can dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, anytime. ![]() ![]() ![]() Honest and hopeful, Between Breaths is an inspiring read. She addresses her time in rehab, her first year of sobriety, and the guilt she felt as a working mother who could never find the right balance between a career and parenting. The now-A&E Network reporter reveals how she found herself living in denial about the extent of her addiction, and how she kept her dependency a secret for so long. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, in Between Breaths, Vargas discusses her accounts of growing up with anxiety-which began suddenly at the age of six when her father served in Vietnam-and how she dealt with this anxiety as she came of age, eventually turning to alcohol for a release from her painful reality. Beloved former ABC 20/20 anchor Elizabeth Vargas share the truth about her alcohol addiction and anxiety disorder in this honest and emotional memoir.įrom the moment she uttered the brave and honest words, "I am an alcoholic," to interviewer George Stephanopoulos, Elizabeth Vargas began writing her story, as her experiences were still raw. ![]() ![]() ![]() impressionnante liste de liens classés et généralement encore accessibles Études queer: bibliographie (établie par Samuel Minne)ĭans The John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism mis en ligne, les articles de Richard Dellamora et de Bonnie Zimmerman offrent des synthèses brillantes et érudites sur la théorie et la critique littéraires gays et lesbiennes.Ĭollectif de Yale, Teaching Queer Literature ![]() ![]() ![]() Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Rick's first novel featuring the heroic young demigod, was the overall winner of the Red House Children's Book Award in 2006. He lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife and two sons. Rick Riordan is an award-winning mystery writer. Rick Riordan Is The Mythmaster - The Greek Gods are alive and kicking - "A cracking read". She couldn't shake the feeling that something was about to go terribly wrong. Part of her wanted to kidnap Percy right now, get on board and get out of here while they still could. In The Son of Neptune, Percy, Hazel, and Frank met in Camp Jupiter, the Roman equivalent of Camp Halfblood, and traveled to the land beyond the gods to complete a. ![]() Its massive bronze hull glittered in the sunlight. The third book in the mega-bestselling Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan, now with fresh and exciting new cover art by graphic novelist Nilah Magruder. She heard that whispering laughter again, as if the presence had followed her from the ship. Annabeth felt as if someone had draped a cold washcloth across her neck. One fatal prophecy seven brave demigods a quest to find - and close - the doors of death. ![]() The Mark of Athena is the explosive third part in Rick Riordan's number one series - Heroes of Olympus. ![]() ![]() ![]() People are so quick to forgive male characters, who do some shitty horrible things (obviously different from this particular situation) but then you have a girl, with one of the saddest back stories from tsc, who was used and actually regrets her actions and is changing for the better, and you treat her like a monster? Why is it so difficult to offer her the same sympathy you do to the white men from these books? Like, people act as if her life with Tatiana was fun when she actually says: the only thing that gave my life some meaning was Jesse. ![]() But it seems to me all the pain and abuse she's a suffered, plus all the things she did to help should free her from any extra punishment. And as soon as she's free from Tatiana's grasp she takes the bracelet off him, bc Tatiana wouldn't be able to hurt her anymore (are we forgetting Tatiana hit her when her power didn't work on James?). And you people want her to get her marks stripped? She explicitly says she didn't want to do what she did to James, that it was wrong, that she didn't enjoyed any of it. She goes through a horrible interrogation, gets her power taken out in the most painful and horrific way, her brother completely forgets about her and her only friend dies. You want grace to go through more pain? We know from chain of iron that Tatiana beat her repeatedly, that she was pimped out to young and old men, and she was used as a mere doll by Belial, besides all the grooming and psychological abuse she suffered from Tatiana. ![]() ![]() I looked up to him, so unbelievably mad that he was making me feel things I had no business feeling, and whispered, “Then die.” The part that was supposed to like other boys? You took it with you. “I don’t know what to do with wonderful things. His chest caved, and he took a ragged breath, jerking me to his body. “Every painful goodbye starts with a wonderful hello.” I smiled sadly, leaning into his palm, feeling my eyes bright and vivid with unshed tears. I already want to rip the world apart when someone else touches you.” “If we keep this going, and something happens, goodbye would be too much to take. ![]() He cupped my cheek, and I didn’t know why, but it felt a lot like a breakup. ![]() The never-ending tango of Vaughn Spencer and Lenora Astalis. ![]() ![]() ![]() In riveting prose, These Truths tells the story of America, beginning in 1492, to ask whether the course of events has proven the nation's founding truths or belied them. And it rests, too, "n a dedication to inquiry, fearless and unflinching", writes Jill Lepore in a groundbreaking investigation into the American past that places truth itself at the center of the nation's history. The American experiment rests on three ideas - "these truths", Jefferson called them - political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. ![]() In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. ![]() ![]() It is a searing, seminal book that marks the arrival of a bold, unignorable voice in American fiction. Here, monsters aren’t just individuals, but entire nations. Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland is a genre-bending work of Gothic fiction. Finding the truth will mean uncovering the secrets of the compound she fled but also the violent history in America that produced it. To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family, Vern has to face the past, and more troublingly, the future-outside the woods. Forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go, she unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of, her body wracked by inexplicable and uncanny changes. ![]() There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world.īut even in the forest, Vern is a hunted woman. ![]() Vern-seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised-flees for the shelter of the woods. ![]() A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Still Waters When the body of a murdered man literally falls at Elizabeth Stuart's feet, she's able to wash away the blood-but not the terror. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Compact Disc. Someone with secrets worth killing for-and the power to turn this beautiful haven into a. But someone has a stake in silencing her suspicion. Now it’s up to ex-court reporter Marilee Jennings to decipher the puzzle of her best friend’s death. New Eden, Montana, is a piece of heaven on earth where one woman died in her own private hell. Once before, Laurel’s cries against a monstrous evil went unanswered. But when a ruthless predator strikes too close to home, she’s lured into a perverse game from which there may be no escape. ![]() That once-burning obsession had destroyed her credibility, her career, her marriage-and nearly her sanity. Yet nothing will stop her from digging beneath the town’s placid surface for the truth-except the killer.Īttorney Laurel Chandler did not come back to Bayou Breaux to seek justice. Unwelcome newcomers to Still Creek, Minnesota, she and her troubled teenage son are treated with suspicion by the locals, including the sheriff. When the body of a murdered man literally falls at Elizabeth Stuart’s feet, she’s able to wash away the blood-but not the terror. ![]() |