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WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO SHARE? HOW MUCH ARE YOU WILLING TO PAY? “Portico is a thought-provoking thriller. I’m already casting the film version in my mind.” ***** Goodreads review “Pacy, thrilling, suspenseful and complex to keep your attention… this is a must-read for anyone who likes intelligently-written thrillers – political, techno, or otherwise.” ***** Amazon review “The best of this genre I have read for a long time.” ***** Amazon review It’s 2030. A world of driverless electric cars, touchless screens and social media that knows what you want before you do. When jaded journalist Curtis Soren meets the new powerful boss of the government’s mysterious Ministry for ...
One of Food & Wine's Best Cookbooks of Fall 2023 • One of the Boston Globe's Best Cookbooks of 2023 • One of Smithsonian's 2023 Ten Best Books About Food • A Los Angeles Times Best Cookbook of 2023 • A Vice Best Cookbook of 2023 • A KCRW Good Food Best Cookbook of 2023 • A National Post Best Cookbook of 2023 • A WBUR Here & Now Best Cookbook of 2023 • One of Wine Country's Ten Best Cookbooks of 2023 A captivating tour through Rome’s centuries-old Jewish community with more than 100 simple, deeply flavorful, vegetable-forward recipes. “Naming the book Portico is my way of saying, ‘Welcome. I’m glad you are here.’” A leading authority on Jewish food, Leah Koenig cel...
“Tiger in the Portico” is neither the heroic story of defeating a man-eater nor is it a story of bloodshed where the mammal emerges victorious. In fact, it is just the reverse – it is about two sisters running for their lives when they come face to face with a tiger. They run, and the tiger runs too! Things take a dramatic turn when the tiger comes in contact with a fanatic lover, a lousy forest officer and a bunch of noisy villagers. What happens next? Who escapes finally? The tiger or the girls? In Anju Darshini’s beguiling short story collection, dreams and reality blur, exploring the dark and strange corners of our minds. Concentrated mostly in the pockets of downtown India, the stories wrap the extraordinary within the ordinary!
In the Odes, Horace writes of his own work, “I have built a monument more enduring than bronze,”—a striking metaphor that hints at how the poetry and built environment of ancient Rome are inextricably linked. This fascinating work of original scholarship makes the precise and detailed argument that painted illustrations of the Trojan War, both public and private, were a collective visual resource for selected works of Virgil, Horace, and Propertius. Carefully researched and skillfully reasoned, the author’s claims are bold and innovative, offering a strong interpretation of the relationship between Roman visual culture and literature that will deepen modern readings of Augustan poets...
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