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3) Everywhere an oink oink: an embittered, dyspeptic, and accurate report of forty years in Hollywood
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares scandalous and laugh-out-loud tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies.
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this vibrant guide to Black language, journalists jarrett hill and Tre'vell Anderson translate beloved colloquialisms distinct to the Black community, diving into what these phrases mean, how we use them, and why we can't live without them"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Their mother and stepmother are long dead, Hans is deeply in debt from gambling, and the countryside lies in ruin, its people starving in the aftermath of a brutal war. Greta has a secret, though: the witch's grimoire, secreted away and whispering in Greta's ear for the past two decades, and the recipe inside that makes the best gingerbread you've ever...
Author
Series
Lady Petra Inquires volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
London, 1815. Lady Petra Forsyth, daughter of the Earl of Holbrook, has made a shocking proclamation. After losing her beloved fiancé in an accident, she announces that she will never marry. Instead, she plans to continue enjoying the best of society without any expectations. But when gossip suggests that a friend has died of a fit due to her “melancholia” while in the care of a physician, Petra vows to use her status to dig deeper—uncovering...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In Dimpna Wilde's veterinary practice, a meteor shower has elevated the usual gossip to include talk of shooting stars, but there are also matters nearer at hand to discuss- including the ragtag caravan of young people selling wares by the roadside. One of their members is a beautiful young woman named Brigid Sweeney. On the night of the meteor shower, Dimpna finds Brigid's body tied to a tree, her left hand severed. She has bled to death. The deeper...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Learn how the insights of evolutionary psychology can help managers become more effective, instinctual leaders.
Take a deep dive into the world of human instincts with psychologist Nigel Nicholson, Professor of Organizational Behavior at the London Business School. This course explores the ten most important innate human instincts that shape who we are, how we interact, and how we behave, from shared faculties like loss, aversion, and empathy to...
Author
Series
Lore Olympus volume 5
Publisher
Del Rey, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is Persephone's birthday, and she receives the ultimate gift: Hades confesses his desire for her, leading to their first kiss. But that doesn't necessarily make things easier for the goddess of spring, who is still in over her head in gossip-driven Olympus. Persephone feels intense guilt over the official breakup between Hades and Minthe, she is struggling to find her footing in her fast-paced job, and--worst of all--the shades of her past are...
10) Best be prepared
Author
Series
Nora Best mystery volume 4
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nora Best is enjoying the quiet life . . . finally. She's parked up the Airstream on a quiet stretch of beach and is now a seventh-grade teacher in a small peninsula town in the Pacific Northwest. Her biggest worry is keeping up with her quick-witted bunch of students. No drama. No danger. And most importantly - no one turning up dead. Until they do, that is . . . When a local environmental activist - and dad to one of her most troublesome students...
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