Female Fortune by Jill Liddington5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() It argues that, far from being excluded entirely from British industry, disability and disabled people were central to its development. ![]() The burgeoning coalfields literature used images of disability on a frequent basis and disabled characters were used to represent the human toll of the industry.Ī diverse range of sources are used to examine the economic, social, political and cultural impact of disability in the coal industry, looking beyond formal coal company and union records to include autobiographies, novels and oral testimony. And yet disabled people remained a constant presence in the industry as many disabled miners continued their jobs or took up ‘light work’. ![]() During this time, the statutory provision for disabled people changed considerably, most notably with the first programme of state compensation for workplace injury. The book considers the coal industry at a time when it was one of Britain’s most important industries, and follows it through a period of growth up to the First World War, through strikes, depression and wartime, and into an era of decline. This book examines the British coal industry through the lens of disability, using an interdisciplinary approach to examine the lives of disabled miners and their families. However, the experiences of the many disabled people within Britain’s most dangerous industry have gone largely unrecognised by historians. ![]() Coalmining was a notoriously dangerous industry and many of its workers experienced injury and disease. ![]()
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Agent cormac series5/27/2023 ![]() Gridlinked is followed by The Line of Polity, the second title in the Agent Cormac series. ![]() Meanwhile, the ice-bound planet of Samarkand hides deadly secrets beneath its surface. Without it, he has only his wits (and Shuriken, a throwing star with a mind of its own) to rely on.Ĭormac�s disastrous last mission also haunts him � as a psychopath and a murderous android track him across the galaxy, seeking revenge. Years spent mentally linked to the Polity�s AI network have eroded his humanity, and this gridlink has to be severed or he�ll die. But Agent Ian Cormac has his own problems. Earth Central Security suspects sabotage � and assigns a legendary investigator. When a portal to other planets explodes on Samarkand, thousands are killed and a terraforming project is obliterated. ![]() The hunter becomes the hunted in Gridlinked, the first sci-fi thriller in Neal Asher's compelling Agent Cormac series. ![]() Gridlinked: The First Agent Cormac Novel Neal Asher € 14.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time for this item will be 2 - 3 weeks. ![]() Curtis sittenfeld pride and prejudice5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In defense of my snobbishness, I’m not necessarily an Austen purist. To point out where exactly those differences are would require me to divulge the plot of Eligible, which I won’t do because once you take away its few twists there is little left to enjoy. Though the novel more or less ends up where its predecessor does (albeit with a surging degree of absurdity toward the end), the points of tension in the plot differ. The characters and setup take directly from the original, but once Sittenfeld has the stage laid, Eligible diverges to tackle issues like financial independence, hate sex, feminism, reality shows, and gender identity. ![]() Liz Bennet writes for a women’s magazine, Jane Bennet is a yoga instructor, Kitty and Lydia are CrossFit fiends, and Darcy and Bingley are doctors. In Sittenfeld’s version, Hertfordshire is Cincinnati and Pemberley is a California mansion. Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Prep, The Man of My Dreams, American Wife, and Sisterland, takes on a modern adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice in her novel Eligible. ![]() A hidden witch debora geary5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But I've never been jealous of them until now. I've felt a lot for characters before : admiration, pain, fear, love. Well, I can, but all I can FEEL is longing. And maybe it is, but I can't see it that way. And what Geary does so well is convey that safety blanket to the reader. These series' characters have this in spades. Who support and guide and meddle with each other. Who are nearby and spend lots of time together. I want a huge group of people who love me and each other. I mean I have never had much of a family (four people create love but not much of that family feeling) and I can finally admit that I would give my right kidney to have one. I don't mean I want these characters to come to life and be my friends. And all of the established characters have money coming out of their asses. The new characters may have had difficult lives but they grow and bloom. They all have the capacity and ability to love deeply and have patience in abundance. Its because I desperately want what they have. Its not because of the writing (which is fine, but nothing spectacular) or the characters. It took me until this book to begin to realize why I enjoy them so much. I love these books and I hate myself for it. I should throw aside the Witch books (all of them: A Modern Witch A Hidden Witch A Reckless Witch Witches on Parole Witches Under Way Witches in Flight) in distaste because everything is too fucking perfect.īut I don't. By all rights I should hate all of Debora Geary's books. ![]() The rules of magic hoffman5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet, the children cannot escape love even if they try, just as they cannot escape the pains of the human heart. But when her children visit their Aunt Isabelle, in the small Massachusetts town where the Owens family has been blamed for everything that has ever gone wrong, they uncover family secrets and begin to understand the truth of who they are. ![]() And most importantly, never, ever, fall in love. Difficult Franny, with skin as pale as milk and blood red hair, shy and beautiful Jet, who can read other people’s thoughts, and charismatic Vincent, who began looking for trouble on the day he could walk.įrom the start Susanna sets down rules for her children: No walking in the moonlight, no red shoes, no wearing black, no cats, no crows, no candles, no books about magic. Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows that her three children are dangerously unique. An instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick from beloved author Alice Hoffman-the spellbinding prequel to Practical Magic.įor the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man. ![]() 45 pounds by ka barson5/26/2023 ![]() By official measurements, I am in fact morbidly obese. Ann, age 16 and size 17, is the main character. ![]() ![]() She wasn’t the wallflower, background character that everyone teased and was the butt of jokes but only appears for a little while. She wasn’t the quirky friend who has a great personality, never mind what she looks like. There was a fat girl in it and that fat girl was the main character. I had only one reason for reading 45 Pounds (more or less) by K.A. It’s all about feeling comfortable in your own skin - no matter how you add it up! Welcome to the world of infomercial diet plans, terrifying wedding dance lessons, endless run-ins with the cutest guy Ann’s ever seen-and some surprises about her NOT-so-perfect mother.Īnd there’s one more thing. So Ann makes up her mind: Time to lose 45 pounds (more or less) in two months. Her Aunt Jackie is getting married in 8 weeks, and wants Ann to be her bridesmaid. Here are the numbers of Ann Galardi’s life: ![]() Genre: Contemporary, Chick Lit, Humor, Coming of Age, Body Acceptance Published July 11th 2013 by Viking Juvenile ![]() ![]() ![]() Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! 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She is the girl many young girls want to be in life. And in the end it also shows how history repeats itself or how life is a cycle when Winter's sister has fallen into the same trap." ![]() Winter never sees her downfall until the very end. The book mainly discusses her problems with spending money on ridiculous items and how she never realizes the problem with it. She uses her good looks and her game to manipulate everyone (including her immediate family) into getting what she wants. This mentality brings her to the destructive point in her life. Winter also sees no problem with spending a few hundred dollars on an outfit and other luxuries. Winter feels isolated and needs to go back to the ghetto and brag to her friends and complete strangers. They finally move out of the ghetto and into a rich, suburban area. Her father spoils her rotten and her mother feeds into this. She grows up in the ghetto with a father who is a drug kingpin. Throughout the novel, she is constantly trying to "stay on top". Winter Santiaga is a spoiled, materialistic, troubled teenager. ![]() Jennie paul gallico5/26/2023 ![]() Peter has a careless, insane adventure with a Siamese, almost loses Jennie and when he finds her, fights to the death for her.and awakens to being a boy again, ready to own a kitten of his own.Ī deep knowledge of cat lore and legend, feline psychology and behavior aims this toward a cat-loving audience, while its message of loneliness and love will find a reception among those who have a feeling for sentiment. Back in London, they find the old man dead, Peter revisits his old home, and Jennie finds the young mistress she thought had abandoned her but leaves her for Peter. In Glasgow, they are again homeless, escape vicious dogs to find safety high up in the towers of a bridge and discover they can't get down, but they achieve momentary fame when they are rescued. She saves his life, takes him to visit an old man who wants them to live with him, lures him into a trip aboard a London-Glasgow coastal boat (quite a wonderful captain and crew here) where they pay for their passage by catching mice and rats, and Peter saves Jenny from drowning. ![]() ![]() The story of Peter, 8, who in delirium after an accident, lived the life of a cat, offers a challenge to the storyteller's art-a challenge which is met with a certain amount of success.įor Peter, although knowing he has been transformed into a cat, still retains the knowledge that he is a little boy, and it is as a boy he acts, even after his good friend, Jennie Baldrin, gives him a thorough education in how to act and think like a cat. ![]() Still life book louise penny5/26/2023 ![]() Glass Houses: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel #13) (Paperback): The Nature of the Beast: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback):Ī Great Reckoning: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel #12) (Paperback): The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback): How the Light Gets In: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback): ![]() The Beautiful Mystery: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback): The Brutal Telling: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback):īury Your Dead: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback):Ī Trick of the Light: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback): The Cruelest Month: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback):Ī Rule Against Murder: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback): ![]() ![]() This is book number 1 in the Chief Inspector Gamache Novel series.Ī Fatal Grace: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback): ![]() AuthorWrite something about yourself. 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