Get Rec’d with Amanda – Quantity 48

My Pet Ft

When the letter R all of a sudden vanishes, an entire city goes upside-down on this side-splitting image e-book of alphabet chaos that’s Can I Be Your Canine? meets P Is for Pterodactyl .

Just a little lady wakes up someday to search out that R , an important piece of the alphabet, has vanished! Instantly, she has pet ft as a substitute of a ferret . Flocks of cows change crows flying within the sky. Big sneakers (not shores!) dwell on the sandy seashores of her city.

What might have occurred to the eighteenth letter of the alphabet? Did it get misplaced—or stolen? A method or one other, the city must be saved!

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Uncooked Canine

A NEW YORK TIMES AND INDIE BESTSELLER!

Half travelogue, half culinary historical past, all capitalist critique—comic Jamie Loftus’s debut, Uncooked Canine , will take you on a cross-country highway journey in the summertime of 2021, and reveal what the creation, tradition, and sophistication affect of scorching canines says about America now.

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“Clever and humorous” —ANDY RICHTER • “Revealing, humorous, unhappy, attractive, and insatiably curious” —SARAH MARSHALL • “A wild journey” —ROBERT EVANS • “Deeply incisive and hilariously sincere” —JACK O’BRIEN • “Gonzo but weak” —GABE DUNN • “Sizzling canine Moby-Dick ” —BRANSON REESE • “One of many freshest and most insightful new comedic voices of this decade.” —LINDSAY ELLIS

Sizzling canines. Poor individuals created them. Wealthy individuals discovered a method to cost fifteen {dollars} for them. They’re excessive tradition, they’re low tradition, they’re sports activities meals, they’re children’ meals, they’re hangover meals, and so they’re deeply American, regardless of having no foundation in any way in America’s Indigenous traditions. You possibly can love them, you’ll be able to hate them, however you’ll be able to’t keep away from the nice American scorching canine.

Uncooked The Bare Fact About Sizzling Canine is an element investigation into the cultural and culinary significance of scorching canines and half travelog documenting a cross-country highway journey researching them as they’re served immediately. From avocado and spice within the West to ass-shattering chili within the East to a complete salad on a slice of meat in Chicago, Loftus, her pets, and her ex eat their means throughout the nation in the course of the unusual summer time of 2021. It’s a quick window into the 12 months between waves of a plague that the American authorities has the assets to mood, however not the curiosity.

So seize a canine, lay out your picnic blanket, and dig into the scrumptious and inevitable product of centuries of violence, poverty, and ambition, now rolling round at your native 7-Eleven.

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The Weaver Takes a Spouse

Haughty Woman Helen Radney is considered one of London’s most lovely ladies and the daughter of a duke, however her sharp tongue has frightened away most of her suitors. When her father gambles away his fortune, the duke’s solely likelihood for recouping his losses lies in marrying off Woman Helen to any man rich sufficient to take a bride with nothing to advocate her however a beautiful face and an eight-hundred-year-old pedigree. Enter Mr. Ethan Brundy, as soon as an illegitimate workhouse orphan, now proprietor of a Lancashire textile mill and considered one of England’s richest males. When he glimpses Woman Helen at Covent Backyard Theatre, he’s immediately smitten and vows to marry her. However this commonest of commoners may have his work reduce out for him if he hopes to win the guts of his aristocratic bride.

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Younger Queens

The boldly unique, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots—three queens exercising energy in a world dominated by males.

Orphaned from infancy, Catherine de’ Medici endured a tumultuous childhood. Married to the French king, she was widowed by forty, solely to develop into the ability behind the French throne throughout a interval of intense civil strife. In 1546, Catherine gave delivery to a daughter, Elisabeth de Valois, who would develop into Queen of Spain. Two years later, Catherine welcomed to her nursery the beguiling younger Mary Queen of Scots, who would later develop into her daughter-in-law.

Collectively, Catherine, Elisabeth, and Mary lived by the ocean adjustments that remodeled sixteenth-century Europe, a time of increasing empires, non secular discord, and populist revolt, as ideas of nationhood started to emerge and concepts of sovereignty inched nearer to absolutism. They might be taught that to rule as a queen was to wage a relentless battle in opposition to the deeply entrenched misogyny of their time.

Following the intertwined tales of the three ladies from girlhood by younger maturity, Leah Redmond Chang’s Younger Queens paints an image of a world wherein a girl might wield energy on the highest stage but stay on the mercy of the state, her physique serving because the foreign money of empire and dynasty, sacrificed to the desire of husband, household, kingdom.

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