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The End of Men By : Christina Sweeney-Baird READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Set in a world where a virus stalks our male population, The End of Men is an electrifying and unforgettable debut from a remarkable new talent that asks: what would life truly look like without men?Only men are affected by the virus; only women have the power to save us all. The year is 2025, and a mysterious virus has broken out in Scotland--a lethal illness that seems to affect only men. When Dr. Amanda MacLean reports this phenomenon, she is dismissed as hysterical. By the time her warning is heeded, it is too late. The virus becomes a global pandemic--and a political one. The victims are all men. The world becomes alien--a women's world.What follows is the immersive account of the women who have been left to deal with the virus's consequences, told through first-person narratives. Dr. MacLean; Catherine, a social historian determined to document the human stories behind the male...

Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1) By : Rebecca Roanhorse READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : The first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and woven into a tale of celestial prophecies, political intrigue, and forbidden magic.A god will returnWhen the earth and sky convergeUnder the black sunIn the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world.Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man?s mind. Her ship carries one passenger. Described as harmless, the passenger, Serapio, is a young man, blind, scarred, and cloaked in destiny. As Xiala well knows, when a ma...

Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7) By : James S.A. Corey READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace.In the vast space between Earth and Jupiter, the inner planets and belt have formed a tentative and uncertain alliance still haunted by a history of wars and prejudices. On the lost colony world of Laconia, a hidden enemy has a new vision for all of humanity and the power to enforce it.New technologies clash with old as the history of human conflict returns to its ancient patterns of war and subjugation. But human nature is not the only enemy, and the forces being unleashed have their own price. A price that will change the shape of humanity -- and of the Rocinante -- unexpectedly and forever... Book Det...

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5) By : Martha Wells READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : This short story is told from the point of view of Dr. Mensah and follows the events in Exit Strategy.Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory was originally given free to readers who pre-ordered Martha?s Murderbot novel, Network Effect. Book Detail : Author : Martha Wells Pages : 19 pages Publisher : Tor Books Language : eng ISBN-10 : 57623348 ISBN-13 : 9781250838865   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting : PC, Android, Apple, Ipad, Iphone, etc. ================*================  

The Taking of Jemima Boone: The True Story of the Kidnap and Rescue That Shaped America     Full Book : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/56554585   Book Synopsis : On a quiet midsummer day in 1776, weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone and her friends Betsy and Fanny Callaway disappear near the Kentucky settlement of Boonesboro, the echoes of their faraway screams lingering on the air.A Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party has taken the girls as the latest salvo in the blood feud between American Indians and the colonial settlers who have decimated native lands and resources. Hanging Maw, the raiders? leader, recognizes one of the captives as Jemima Boone, daughter of Kentucky's most influential pioneers, and realizes she could be a valuable pawn in the battle to drive the colonists out of the contested Kentucky territory for good.With Daniel Boone and his posse in pursuit, Hanging Maw devises a plan that could ultimately bring g...

Freedom     Full Book : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/55711668   Book Synopsis : A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the New York Times bestselling author of Tribe.Throughout history, humans have been driven by the quest for two cherished ideals: community and freedom. The two don?t coexist easily. We value individuality and self-reliance, yet are utterly dependent on community for our most basic needs. In this intricately crafted and thought-provoking book, Sebastian Junger examines the tension that lies at the heart of what it means to be human. For much of a year, Junger and three friends?a conflict photographer and two Afghan War vets?walked the railroad lines of the East Coast. It was an experiment in personal autonomy, but also in interdependence. Dodging railroad cops, sleeping under bridges, cooking over fires, and drinking from creeks and rivers, the four men forged a unique reliance on one another. In Freedom, Junger weaves his account of this journe...

The Chanel Sisters     Full Book : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/51085433   Book Synopsis : A novel of survival, love, loss, triumph?and the sisters who changed fashion foreverAntoinette and Gabrielle ?Coco? Chanel know they?re destined for something better. Abandoned by their family years before, they?ve grown up under the guidance of pious nuns preparing them for simple lives as the wives of tradesmen or shopkeepers. At night, their secret stash of romantic novels and magazine cutouts beneath the floorboards are all they have to keep their dreams of the future alive.The walls of the convent can?t shield them forever, and when they?re finally of age, the Chanel sisters set out together with a fierce determination to prove themselves worthy to a society that has never accepted them. Their journey propels them out of poverty and to the stylish caf?s of Moulins, the dazzling performance halls of Vichy?and to a small hat shop on the rue Cambon in Paris, where a business takes hol...

Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much     Full Book : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/56898297   Book Synopsis : A hilarious and whip-smart collection of essays, offering an intimate look at bisexuality, gender, and, of course, sex. Perfect for fans of Lindy West, Samantha Irby, and Rebecca Solnit?and anyone who wants, and deserves, to be seen. If Jen Winston knows one thing for sure, it?s that she?s bisexual. Or wait?maybe she isn?t? Actually, she definitely is. Unless?she?s not? Jen?s provocative, laugh-out-loud debut takes us inside her journey of self-discovery, leading us through stories of a childhood ?girl crush,? an onerous quest to have a threesome, and an enduring fear of being bad at sex. Greedy follows Jen?s attempts to make sense of herself as she explores the role of the male gaze, what it means to be ?queer enough,? and how to overcome bi stereotypes when you?re the posterchild for all of them: greedy, slutty, and constantly confused. With her clever v...

The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit     Full Book : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/30687200   Book Synopsis : Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality--not out of anger at the world, but simply because he preferred to live on his own.In 1986, a shy and intelligent twenty-year-old named Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the forest. He would not have a conversation with another human being until nearly three decades later, when he was arrested for stealing food. Living in a tent even through brutal winters, he had survived by his wits and courage, developing ingenious ways to store edibles and water, and to avoid freezing to death. He broke into nearby cottages for food, clothing, reading material, and other provisions, taking only wha...

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest     Full Book : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/54976983   Book Synopsis : From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest--a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery.Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; she's been compared to Rachel Carson, hailed as a scientist who conveys complex, technical ideas in a way that is dazzling and profound. Her work has influenced filmmakers (the Tree of Souls of James Cameron's Avatar) and her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide.Now, in her first book, Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths--that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complex, interdependent circ...

The Other Einstein     Full Book : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/28389305   Book Synopsis : A vivid and mesmerizing novel about the extraordinary woman who married and worked with one of the greatest scientists in history, written by New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict!In the tradition of The Paris Wife and Mrs. Poe, The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. It is the story of Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated and may have been inspired by her own profound and very personal insight.Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Most twenty-year-olds are wives by now, not studying physics at an elite Zurich university with only male students trying to outdo her clever calculations. But Mitza is smart enough to know that, for her, math is an easier path than marria...

An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination     Full Book : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/56470423   Book Synopsis : Award-winning New York Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang unveil the tech story of our times in a riveting, behind-the-scenes expos? that offers the definitive account of Facebook?s fall from grace. Once one of Silicon Valley?s greatest success stories, Facebook has been under constant fire for the past five years, roiled by controversies and crises. It turns out that while the tech giant was connecting the world, they were also mishandling users? data, spreading fake news, and amplifying dangerous, polarizing hate speech. The company, many said, had simply lost its way. But the truth is far more complex. Leadership decisions enabled, and then attempted to deflect attention from, the crises. Time after time, Facebook?s engineers were instructed to create tools that encouraged people to spend as much time on the platform as possible,...

The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul     Full Book : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/57459420   Book Synopsis : The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates turns to two other heroes of the nation: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.Upon his election as President of the troubled United States, Abraham Lincoln faced a dilemma. He knew it was time for slavery to go, but how fast could the country change without being torn apart?Many abolitionists wanted Lincoln to move quickly, overturning the founding documents along the way. But Lincoln believed there was a way to extend equality to all while keeping and living up to the Constitution that he loved so much--if only he could buy enough time.Fortunately for Lincoln, Frederick Douglass agreed with him--or at least did eventually. In The President and the Freedom Fighter, B...

Barely Functional Adult: It?ll All Make Sense Eventually     Full Book : https://lobibook.blogspot.co.uk/assin/49203394   Book Synopsis : From the creator of Barely Functional Adult, a painfully relatable webcomic with over 125k followers on Instagram, comes a hilariously poignant collection of beautifully illustrated short stories that chronicle the ever-evolving perspectives of your twenties on work, therapy, identity, heartbreak, friendship, and more.?Wielding her trademark balance of artful humor, levity, and heartbreaking introspection, Meichi Ng?s indisputably relatable collection of short stories holds a mirror to our past, present, and future selves.Featuring a swaddled, gender-neutral, Barely Functional Adult as its protagonist, who says all the things we think but cannot say, this book is equal parts humorous and heartbreaking as it spans a spectrum of topics including imposter syndrome, therapy, friendships, first loves, letting go of exes, and just trying to find your purp...