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KENT-STREET EJECTMENT. To take away the street door: a method practised by the landlords in Kent-street, Southwark, when their tenants are above a fortnight's rent in arrear.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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The best supernatural mystery stories keep one foot firmly grounded in reality while stepping into the unknown. When realistic investigators encounter impossible threats, the tension skyrockets.
When ordinary officers enter a demon’s lair with nothing but a badge and keys, the story forces both the characters and readers to re-examine what kind of law still applies in the dark.
🔗 Check out the Detective Bishop Flamme book review on Book Below
#bookReviews #Books #ReviewBookings are officially open for Rutherglen’s first-ever Book Festival. Taking place from 29 October to 21 November – with a special additional event on 7 December – the festival brings together author talks, readings, conversations, storytelling & creative workshops.
All events are FREE, but places are limited – explore the programme and book your favourites now!
Improve Your Pitch: Get feedback on your pitch from an author of <100 books for children! Chris will critique a selection of submitted pitches (Deadline 9/15) live so everyone can learn. This event is free & open to all.
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1291: The Crusaders' Last Stand
"This is the dramatic story of how two centuries of crusading ended with the fall of a single city—a catastrophe that remade the medieval world."
🔗 https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300306316/1291/
#History #Histodons #Medieval #Crusades #Reading #UniversityPress #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon
https://www.wacoca.com/media/?p=752579 「戦場」で笑ってはいけないのか 私たちが頭の中でつくりあげた「戦争像」と実態 | AERA Books #book #books #書籍
Brentwood Public Library, public library in Missouri.
How do you Rebuild when Everything is Gone?
The First Knight Shaman begins in the immediate aftermath of the Great Quake of 2040. But this story is about the work of cultural reconstruction. The Elk Creek Tribe is trying to translate a founder’s ideals into daily life under constant pressure. That tension — between aspiration and survival — drives much of the novel's emotional thrust.
The presence of Rodney, a young man who can interact with the recently departed, literalizes that struggle. Spirits are not only callbacks to the past; they influence choices in the present. Through this device, the novel asks: who owns the past, and who gets to interpret it for the future?
The Elk Creek Tribe probes meritocracy versus heredity. The founder, Justin Earl Knight, casts a long shadow, and Rodney’s status as an unacknowledged son complicates every question of lineage, authority, and legitimacy. Does blood, charisma, ritual power, or the slow accumulation of earned trust make a leader?
War in The First Knight Shaman is raw and pragmatic. Attacks over water, shelter, and ecological niches force characters into ethical compromises. But violence also becomes a measuring stick for communal values: do you become what you fight, or can you rebuild something different from the ashes? The story refuses tidy answers, instead offering the messy reality of people navigating impossible choices.
While set in 2042, the book resonates with current anxieties about climate, governance, and fractured societies.
Ultimately, this is about what it takes to stitch a society back together: memory, leadership, courage, and the willingness to face ghosts — literal and figurative — to imagine a future that honors what was lost while building something new.
Find the complete series here:
https://mybook.to/6OoXw
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September Audiobook Stack 📚🎧
With the kids heading back to school, I’m finally getting back into a reading/listening rhythm. I got a little behind on my summer reading list, so September is looking like a bit of catch-up.
On the list:
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence—Before It’s Too Late by @pluralistic
Unseen Existences: Of Heaven, Earth, and the Divine Mystery in All Things — Brian Zahnd
The Emotionally Destructive Relationship: Seeing It, Stopping It, Surviving It — Leslie Vernick
On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts — James K. A. Smith
A slightly eclectic mix of AI, spirituality, and relationships. 😄
📚 Never Let Me Go by: Kazuo Ishiguro
As a child, Kathy–now thirty-one years old–lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for t...
https://bookblabla.com/book/never-let-me-go
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #sciencefiction #generalfiction #literaryfiction
"He is beginning to suspect that perhaps a writer, any writer, has no country other than Storyland"
Talking of young Flaubert, but there's clearly an echo of Shafak's own life in that line. Sometimes a scribe's words are written by a quill, dipped in an inkwell of the author's soul .
#books #livres #AmReading #bookstodon #ElifShafak #InOneBriefMomentAllEternity
https://www.wacoca.com/media/?p=752600 「どうして、大人には危機感がないんですか」 ゴールドマン・サックス出身の教育家が高校生に「希望」を見た理由 | AERA Books #book #books #書籍
#PoemaDelDía Hoy estamos leyendo
"Menguante", de Isidora Scarlazetta (Chile, 2000) https://franciscocenamor.blogspot.com/2026/09/poema-del-dia-menguante-de-isidora.html
Liberoamérica @LiberoEditorial (2 de enero de 2021).
Oh, rats! 📚
I forgot it's #ShortySeptember (fewer than 200 pages). 📚
Another fun one. Guess I just have to find some more books. 🎉 😇
“Wake” from Library on Fire, now available for pre-order, along with my first and second volumes of poetry at
http://nihtgengapress.com
On the Fact and Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut’s Dresden
“Terror wasn’t the only weapon the Nazis used against the American prisoners. Sometimes, they used propagandistic persuasion as well.”
Susan Farrell Considers a Source of Inspiration for Slaughterhouse-Five
https://lithub.com/on-the-fact-and-fiction-of-kurt-vonneguts-dresden/
Books about Dresden at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/33537
The ISBN was invented in 1970. Your books don't care
https://www.shelvd.org/blog/isbn-invented-1970
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49507976
#HackerNews #ISBN1970 #books #publishing #history #literature
My husband discovered the 'cozy' British TV mystery, "BOOKISH," because one of his idols, Mark Gatiss, wrote it and stars in it. Zack soon became bored with the mystery genre pacing, but I've found a new favorite! #markgatiss #bookish #books #sellingbooks #bookselling #bookseller #vintage #period #periodpiece #1940s #england #britain #britainafterthewar #worldwartwo #worldwarII #wwII #devotedcouple #romance #mystery #excitement #interesting #anglophile #anglophilia #london
Chapter 3 - "Message In A Bottle"
Skenn lands on the planet Tagen to request assistance from an old ally. His presence isn't exactly welcomed, but his ally owes him for helping him out years ago. But the favour he is about to ask is one that will result in him having to relocate again.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nesciofer/116993230333372078
Libro terminado. Historia maravillosa que he disfrutado de principio a fin. Me ha encantado que la trama no fuera como la de la película. Así he podido leerlo sin saber lo que iba a pasar. Libro recomendadísimo. #books #libros #reading #lectura #ELCastilloAmbulante
https://www.wacoca.com/media/752356/ 好きな人がいると毎日が楽しい!幼馴染は「いつものパターン」を心配するけれど『道端葉のいる世界』【#2】 | ほんのひきだし #book #books #書籍
He sent boats packed with $100M in cocaine. Set up safe houses with gold in Hong Kong. And made meth deals with North Korea.
#books #bookreview #Nonfiction #CrimeBoss #MustRead
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/criminal-mastermind-paul-le-roux/
#WritersCoffeeClub Aug. 31: How did this month go for you, writing-wise?
The same as the last several months: poorly. I did work on some #TTRPG-related stuff, though, both for my home game and in preparation for StartPlaying.
I also started recording another audiobook (title TBA when I'm finished), and I recorded one of my short stories, "Forgotten Dreams," for audiobook release.
For Christians navigating the hype and fears around AI, Divine Design for the Digital Age brings thoughtful, Scripture-based perspective. Community, what are your thoughts on tech and faith right now?
#Christianity #Technology #Books #Faith
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#WordWeavers Aug. 31: What's one thing you hope readers remember long after they finish your story?
That I spun an entertaining yarn that inspired them to leave a review, tell their friends about it, and perhaps even buy another of my books. Unless they're in Hollywood, then I hope they're inspired to option it.
Banned book of the day: Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful (2018) — Arwen Elys Dayton
https://www.banned-books.org/book-of-the-day/2026-08-31?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=book-of-the-day
#BannedBooks #Censorship #FreedomToRead #Books #IntellectualFreedom
All the books I’ve read in August. It was a good reading month! I cried so much while reading „Fishbone Cinderella“
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https://www.wacoca.com/media/752395/ 雑誌「MUSICA」掲載 14年間のインタビューをまとめた “ALL-TIME INTERVIEW BOOK” 発売日&表紙公開!!!|SHISHAMO Official Website #book #books #書籍
Yet another set of books from the charity shops near me. At this rate I will die before I can read them all. Anyway, I have gone for something a bit different from my usual sci-fi stuff. #books #bookstodon #chekhov #johnboyne #dostoevsky #alisonmoore #benjaminhoff #charityshop #physicalmedia
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Жана-Крістофа Гранже наявний текст в додатковому вікні натисніть ALT на
малюнку #100дописівукраїнською
#книги @rada @ua #books @books @readit @bookclubreadit
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https://www.wacoca.com/media/752428/ 「お母さんなんて死ねばいいんだ」何度演じてもOKが出ない…行き詰まる二世女優を誘ったのは?『私たちは愛されている』【#1】 | ほんのひきだし #book #books #書籍
Aaargh, asshole love interest in "Of Human Bondage" shows up *again* after taking the guy's money and vanishing *again*, and now she's been reduced to turning tricks. 🙄
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The Gift of the Land and the Fate of the Canaanites in Jewish Thought
"The chapters examine the theological, ethical, and political issues connected with the gift and with the fate of the Canaanites, focusing on classical Jewish texts and major Jewish commentators, legal thinkers, and philosophers from ancient times to the present."
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199959808.001.0001
#Reading #History #History #Bible #Theology #Politics #Ethics #UniversityPress #OUP #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon
ON KEATS, WHO DESIRED THAT ON HIS TOMB SHOULD BE INSCRIBED--
'Here lieth One whose name was writ on water.
But, ere the breath that could erase it blew,
Death, in remorse for that fell slaughter,
Death, the immortalizing winter, flew
Athwart the stream,--and time's printless torrent grew
A scroll of crystal, blazoning the name
Of Adonais!
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
https://palimpseste.vercel.app/#text/cf194647-c269-4de0-8c9a-7cc6417075f3
#gothic #bookstodon #books #literature
Nothing can be more characteristic than the turbulent pretensions to meekness and simplicity in this address. Again, the versatility and adroitness of Richard is admirably described in the following ironical conversation with Brakenbury:—
— William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
https://palimpseste.vercel.app/#text/ed7fb51a-743a-42cb-a55b-9f5869815ba6
#lit #bookstodon #books #literature
Three of my favourite characters ever - flamboyant dodgy medium Mrs Ashton, her redoubtable girlfriend Braddie, and docklass detective Maisie. "Terror" builds on "Murder" an even nastier opponent and a more puzzling mystery.
Both books 99p on Kobo and Azon.
The print bundle of both saves c £3!
https://stephencox.co.uk/product/both-crooked-medium-books-discount-price/
#books #queer #indieauthor # spooky #Victorian #England
Dismantling the West’s temples of plundered African artworks—essay collection reassesses the 'colonial encounter' https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/31/dismantling-the-wests-temples-of-plundered-african-artworksessay-collection-reassesses-the-colonial-encounter?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Books #Africa
A curator’s crucial perspective on Hong Kong’s burgeoning art scene in the 1980s and 1990s https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/31/a-curators-crucial-perspective-on-hong-kongs-burgeoning-art-scene-in-the-1980s-and-1990s?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Books #HongKong
The Future Starts With Us by Gordon Brown review – the ex-PM’s recipe for beating populism
By Gaby Hinsliff
Global crises are tightly linked to how we treat each other at the local level, argues this optimistic book
#Politicsbooks #Books #GordonBrown #Culture #Economics #Societybooks #TheGuardian #GabyHinsliff