📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #memoir)
📜CALL THE MIDWIFE📜
by Jennifer Worth
❗#1 bestseller
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➡️ Beautifully written and utterly moving, The Midwife will touch the hearts of anyone who is, and everyone who has, a mother. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London's East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while delivering babies all over London--from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives to the woman with twenty-four children who can't speak English to the prostitutes and dockers of the city's seedier side--illuminate a fascinating time in history.
📜CALL THE MIDWIFE📜
by Jennifer Worth
❗#1 bestseller
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➡️ Beautifully written and utterly moving, The Midwife will touch the hearts of anyone who is, and everyone who has, a mother. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in post war London's East End slums. The colorful characters she meets while delivering babies all over London--from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives to the woman with twenty-four children who can't speak English to the prostitutes and dockers of the city's seedier side--illuminate a fascinating time in history.
📚 Best GHOST STORIES 📚
🔻"The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
🔻"The Woman in Black" by Susan Hill
🔻"Mexican Gothic" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
🔻"The Canterville Ghost" by Oscar Wilde
🔻"The Little Stranger" by Sarah Waters
🔻"The Graveyard Apartment" by Mariko Koike
🔻"The Silent Companions" by Laura Purcell
🔻"Dark Matter" by Michelle Paver
🔻"The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
🔻"The Woman in Black" by Susan Hill
🔻"Mexican Gothic" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
🔻"The Canterville Ghost" by Oscar Wilde
🔻"The Little Stranger" by Sarah Waters
🔻"The Graveyard Apartment" by Mariko Koike
🔻"The Silent Companions" by Laura Purcell
🔻"Dark Matter" by Michelle Paver
📚 Book of the Day (#nonfiction #classics #psychology)
📜GAMES PEOPLE PLAY📜
by Eric Berne
❗all time classic
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➡️ We think we’re relating to other people–but actually we’re all playing games. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Forty years ago, Games People Play revolutionized our understanding of what really goes on during our most basic social interactions. More than five million copies later, Dr. Eric Berne’s classic is as astonishing–and revealing–as it was on the day it was first published.
We play games all the time–sexual games, marital games, power games with our bosses, and competitive games with our friends. Detailing status contests like “Martini” (I know a better way), to lethal couples combat like “If It Weren’t For You” and “Uproar,” to flirtation favorites like “The Stocking Game” and “Let’s You and Him Fight,” Dr. Berne exposes the secret ploys and unconscious maneuvers that rule our intimate lives.
📜GAMES PEOPLE PLAY📜
by Eric Berne
❗all time classic
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➡️ We think we’re relating to other people–but actually we’re all playing games. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Forty years ago, Games People Play revolutionized our understanding of what really goes on during our most basic social interactions. More than five million copies later, Dr. Eric Berne’s classic is as astonishing–and revealing–as it was on the day it was first published.
We play games all the time–sexual games, marital games, power games with our bosses, and competitive games with our friends. Detailing status contests like “Martini” (I know a better way), to lethal couples combat like “If It Weren’t For You” and “Uproar,” to flirtation favorites like “The Stocking Game” and “Let’s You and Him Fight,” Dr. Berne exposes the secret ploys and unconscious maneuvers that rule our intimate lives.
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #childrens)
📜PIPPI LONGSTOCKING📜
by Astrid Lindgren
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➡️ The beloved story of a spunky young girl and her hilarious escapades. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Tommy and his sister Annika have a new neighbor, and her name is Pippi Longstocking. She has crazy red pigtails, no parents to tell her what to do, a horse that lives on her porch, and a flair for the outrageous that seems to lead to one adventure after another!
📜PIPPI LONGSTOCKING📜
by Astrid Lindgren
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➡️ The beloved story of a spunky young girl and her hilarious escapades. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Tommy and his sister Annika have a new neighbor, and her name is Pippi Longstocking. She has crazy red pigtails, no parents to tell her what to do, a horse that lives on her porch, and a flair for the outrageous that seems to lead to one adventure after another!
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🔸 Обзор книг на английском
🔸 Разборы необычных слов и фраз из книг
🔸 Мысли и наблюдения
🔸 Викторины и розыгрыши
Все это и многое другое можно найти на канале у Алены.
☝️ Не обязательно быть гуру английского, чтобы стать частью сообщества: посты публикуются с параллельным переводом 😉
🔸 Мотивация на чтение и изучение английского
🔸 Обзор книг на английском
🔸 Разборы необычных слов и фраз из книг
🔸 Мысли и наблюдения
🔸 Викторины и розыгрыши
Все это и многое другое можно найти на канале у Алены.
☝️ Не обязательно быть гуру английского, чтобы стать частью сообщества: посты публикуются с параллельным переводом 😉
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #crime)
📜THE INSTITUTION📜
by Helen Fields
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➡️ To beat them, she’ll have to join them… ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
On a locked ward in the world’s highest-security prison hospital for the criminally insane, a nurse has been murdered and her newborn baby kidnapped. A ransom must be paid, and the clock is ticking.
Forensic profiler Dr Connie Woolwine is renowned for her ability to get inside the mind of a murderer. Now she must go deep undercover among the most deranged and dangerous men on earth, and use her unique skills to find the baby – before it’s too late.
She has five days to catch the killer.
But with the walls of The Institution closing in on her, will her sanity last that long?
📜THE INSTITUTION📜
by Helen Fields
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➡️ To beat them, she’ll have to join them… ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
On a locked ward in the world’s highest-security prison hospital for the criminally insane, a nurse has been murdered and her newborn baby kidnapped. A ransom must be paid, and the clock is ticking.
Forensic profiler Dr Connie Woolwine is renowned for her ability to get inside the mind of a murderer. Now she must go deep undercover among the most deranged and dangerous men on earth, and use her unique skills to find the baby – before it’s too late.
She has five days to catch the killer.
But with the walls of The Institution closing in on her, will her sanity last that long?
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #contemporary)
📜LAND OF MILK AND HONEY📜
by C Pam Zhang
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➡️ The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world’s troubles.
Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body.
In this atmosphere of hidden wonders and cool, seductive violence, the chef’s boundaries undergo a thrilling erosion. Soon she is pushed to the center of a startling attempt to reshape the world far beyond the plate.
📜LAND OF MILK AND HONEY📜
by C Pam Zhang
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➡️ The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world’s troubles.
Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body.
In this atmosphere of hidden wonders and cool, seductive violence, the chef’s boundaries undergo a thrilling erosion. Soon she is pushed to the center of a startling attempt to reshape the world far beyond the plate.
📚 Book of the Day (#nonfiction #climate #sociology)
📜THE PARROT AND THE IGLOO📜
by David Lipsky
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➡️ In The Parrot and the Igloo, best-selling author David Lipsky tells the astonishing story of how we moved from one extreme (the correct one) to the other. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
With narrative sweep and a superb eye for character, Lipsky unfolds the dramatic narrative of the long, strange march of climate science. The story begins with a tale of three inventors—Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and Nikola Tesla—who made our technological world, not knowing what they had set into motion. Then there are the scientists who sounded the alarm once they identified carbon dioxide as the culprit of our warming planet. And we meet the hucksters, zealots, and crackpots who lied about that science and misled the public in ever more outrageous ways. Lipsky masterfully traces the evolution of climate denial.
📜THE PARROT AND THE IGLOO📜
by David Lipsky
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➡️ In The Parrot and the Igloo, best-selling author David Lipsky tells the astonishing story of how we moved from one extreme (the correct one) to the other. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
With narrative sweep and a superb eye for character, Lipsky unfolds the dramatic narrative of the long, strange march of climate science. The story begins with a tale of three inventors—Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and Nikola Tesla—who made our technological world, not knowing what they had set into motion. Then there are the scientists who sounded the alarm once they identified carbon dioxide as the culprit of our warming planet. And we meet the hucksters, zealots, and crackpots who lied about that science and misled the public in ever more outrageous ways. Lipsky masterfully traces the evolution of climate denial.
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #romance)
📜THE BLONDE IDENTITY📜
by Ally Carter
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➡️ A unique, delightful, hilarious, unputdownable romance… I’m wonderstruck by The Blonde Identity!" — Ali Hazelwood, New York Times ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
It’s the middle of the night in the middle of Paris and a woman just woke up with no memory.
She only knows three things for certain:
1. She has a splitting headache.
2. The hottest guy she has (probably) ever seen is standing over her, telling her to run.
And oh yeah…
3. People keep trying to kill her.
She doesn’t know who. Or why. But when she sees footage of herself fighting off a dozen men there’s only one explanation: obviously. . . she’s a spy!
Except, according to Mr. Hot Guy, she’s not. She’s a spy’s identical twin sister.
📜THE BLONDE IDENTITY📜
by Ally Carter
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➡️ A unique, delightful, hilarious, unputdownable romance… I’m wonderstruck by The Blonde Identity!" — Ali Hazelwood, New York Times ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
It’s the middle of the night in the middle of Paris and a woman just woke up with no memory.
She only knows three things for certain:
1. She has a splitting headache.
2. The hottest guy she has (probably) ever seen is standing over her, telling her to run.
And oh yeah…
3. People keep trying to kill her.
She doesn’t know who. Or why. But when she sees footage of herself fighting off a dozen men there’s only one explanation: obviously. . . she’s a spy!
Except, according to Mr. Hot Guy, she’s not. She’s a spy’s identical twin sister.
📚 Book of the Day (#nonfiction #biology #memoir)
📜NERVOUS📜
by Jen Soriano
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➡️ With Nervous, Soriano boldly invites us along on a journey toward healing, understanding, and communion. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
The power of quiet can haunt us over generations, crystallizing in pain that Jen Soriano views as a form of embodied history. In this searing memoir in essays, Soriano, the daughter of a neurosurgeon, journeys to understand the origins of her chronic pain and mental health struggles. By the end, she finds both the source and the delta of what bodies impacted by trauma might need to thrive. In fourteen essays connected by theme and experience, Soriano traverses centuries and continents, weaving together memory and history, sociology and personal stories, neuroscience and public health, into a vivid tapestry of what it takes to transform trauma.
📜NERVOUS📜
by Jen Soriano
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➡️ With Nervous, Soriano boldly invites us along on a journey toward healing, understanding, and communion. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
The power of quiet can haunt us over generations, crystallizing in pain that Jen Soriano views as a form of embodied history. In this searing memoir in essays, Soriano, the daughter of a neurosurgeon, journeys to understand the origins of her chronic pain and mental health struggles. By the end, she finds both the source and the delta of what bodies impacted by trauma might need to thrive. In fourteen essays connected by theme and experience, Soriano traverses centuries and continents, weaving together memory and history, sociology and personal stories, neuroscience and public health, into a vivid tapestry of what it takes to transform trauma.
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #fantasy #romance)
📜ONE DARK WINDOW📜
by Rachel Gillig
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➡️ Elspeth needs a monster. The monster might be her. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom of Blunder—she needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient, mercurial spirit trapped in her head. He protects her. He keeps her secrets.
But nothing comes for free, especially magic.
When Elspeth meets a mysterious highwayman on the forest road, her life takes a drastic turn. Thrust into a world of shadow and deception, she joins a dangerous quest to cure Blunder from the dark magic infecting it. And the highwayman?
Together they must gather twelve Providence Cards—the keys to the cure. But as the stakes heighten, Elspeth is forced to face her darkest secret yet: the Nightmare is slowly taking over her mind. And she might not be able to stop him.
📜ONE DARK WINDOW📜
by Rachel Gillig
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➡️ Elspeth needs a monster. The monster might be her. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom of Blunder—she needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient, mercurial spirit trapped in her head. He protects her. He keeps her secrets.
But nothing comes for free, especially magic.
When Elspeth meets a mysterious highwayman on the forest road, her life takes a drastic turn. Thrust into a world of shadow and deception, she joins a dangerous quest to cure Blunder from the dark magic infecting it. And the highwayman?
Together they must gather twelve Providence Cards—the keys to the cure. But as the stakes heighten, Elspeth is forced to face her darkest secret yet: the Nightmare is slowly taking over her mind. And she might not be able to stop him.
📚 Book of the Day (#fiction #crime)
📜NONE OF THIS IS TRUE📜
by Lisa Jewell
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➡️ Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday.
A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school.
Josie’s life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can’t quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alix’s life—and into her home.
📜NONE OF THIS IS TRUE📜
by Lisa Jewell
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➡️ Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday.
A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school.
Josie’s life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can’t quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alix’s life—and into her home.
📚 Book of the Day (#nonfiction #memoir #war)
📜OWNER OF A LONELY HEART📜
by Beth Nguyen
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➡️ From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fragmented by war and resettlement. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her father, sister, grandmother, and uncles fled Saigon for America. Beth’s mother stayed—or was left—behind, and they did not meet again until Beth was nineteen. Over the course of her adult life, she and her mother have spent less than twenty-four hours together.
Owner of a Lonely Heart is a memoir about parenthood, absence, and the condition of being a refugee: the story of Beth’s relationship with her mother.
📜OWNER OF A LONELY HEART📜
by Beth Nguyen
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➡️ From the award-winning author of Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, a powerful memoir of a mother-daughter relationship fragmented by war and resettlement. ---------------------------------------------------------
📗About:
At the end of the Vietnam War, when Beth Nguyen was eight months old, she and her father, sister, grandmother, and uncles fled Saigon for America. Beth’s mother stayed—or was left—behind, and they did not meet again until Beth was nineteen. Over the course of her adult life, she and her mother have spent less than twenty-four hours together.
Owner of a Lonely Heart is a memoir about parenthood, absence, and the condition of being a refugee: the story of Beth’s relationship with her mother.