From national bestselling author K'wan comes a novel about one of the deadliest women to ever happen to the streets--Eve. The only family Eve Panelli has ever known is the infamous Twenty Gang. Orphaned as a small child, Eve quickly learned the art of the hustle, and by age seventeen she had spent two years in prison. But now Eve is eighteen, back on the streets of Harlem with her gang and up to one of her old tricks: strong-arm robbery. Despite her edge, she's got a soft spot for Felon, the up-and-coming street king. Eve's life takes a serious turn when the powerful DeNardi family, the city's biggest drug supplier, tries to tighten its hold on Harlem. And when Eve's best friend, Cassidy, is murdered in the crossfire, Eve seeks revenge--starting all the way at the top.
The #1 bestselling author Iris Johansen delivers the first in a trilogy that will begin to answer questions that have haunted her legion of fans for over a decade, in her next novel of breathtaking suspense Eve Duncan's mission in life is to bring closure to the families who have experienced the agony of a missing child. As a forensic sculptor, she is able to piece together bones, create a face, and bring an identity to a child who would have otherwise gone unidentified. Eve is brilliant, driven, and tormented--because her own daughter, Bonnie, was taken from her years ago. But now, with the help of a CIA agent, Eve has uncovered some startling new evidence: A man with a connection to Bonnie that had been all but buried. His name is John Gallo. He's from Eve's own past. His whereabouts are unknown. And he might just be the missing piece to the puzzle that has haunted Eve for years...
Mad scientist or brilliant artist? Dr. Manny Loewe makes history by creating, Eve, the world's first ever living humanoid with real DNA. His joy in creating her is matched only by her voluptuous physical beauty and her enormous capacity for love. Yet it is these very features that ultimately bring her to the edge of ruin, and him to a shocking resolution. There was always much more at stake than she could ever have imagined.
Eve: mysterious, tantalizing, alluring, wanton. Deep within this desirable but strange girl burns the violent fire that could destroy a man.Clive Thurston had swindled his way to fame. He thought he knew the ropes and women. Maybe he did. But he didn't know Eve, otherwise he'd have realized that he was just another fly stumbling into the deadly web of a woman who was beautiful to look at, but lethal to love.
From the author of the twenty-five-million-copy bestseller The Shack comes a captivating new novel destined to be one of the most talked-about books of the decade. Eve is a bold, unprecedented exploration of the Creation narrative, true to the original texts and centuries of scholarship--yet with breathtaking discoveries that challenge traditional beliefs about who we are and how we're made. Eve opens a refreshing conversation about the equality of men and women within the context of our beginnings, helping us see each other as our Creator does--complete, unique, and not constrained by cultural rules or limitations. When a shipping container washes ashore on an island between our world and the next, John the Collector finds a young woman inside--broken, frozen, and barely alive. With the aid of Healers and Scholars, John oversees her recovery and soon discovers that her genetic code connects her to every known race. No one would guess what her survival will mean... No one but Eve, Mother of the Living, who calls her "daughter" and invites her to witness the truth about her own story--indeed, the truth about us all. As The Shack awakened readers to a personal, non-religious understanding of God, Eve will free us from faulty interpretations that have corrupted human relationships since the Garden of Eden. Thoroughly researched and exquisitely written, Eve is a masterpiece that will inspire readers for generations to come.
Extrait: FIDELI FIDELIS VE J sus parle. M RE ensevelie hors du premier jardin, Vous n'avez plus connu ce climat de la gr ce, Et la vasque et la source et la haute terrasse, Et le premier soleil sur le premier matin. Et les bondissements de la biche et du daim Nouant et d nouant leur course fraternelle Et courant et sautant et s'arr tant soudain Pour mieux comm morer leur vigueur ternelle, Et pour bien mesurer leur force originelle Et pour poser leurs pas sur ces moelleux tapis, Et ces deux beaux coureurs sur soi-m me tapis Afin de saluer leur lenteur solennelle. Et les ravissements de la jeune gazelle La ant et d la ant sa course vagabonde, Galopant et trottant et suspendant sa ronde Afin de saluer sa race intemporelle. Et les d passements du bouc et du chevreuil M lant et d m lant leur course audacieuse Et dress s tout coup sur quelque immense seuil Afin de saluer la terre spacieuse. Et tous ces filateurs et toutes ces fileuses M lant et d m lant l' cheveau de leur course, Et dans le sable d'or des vagues n buleuses Sept clous articul s d coupaient la Grande Ourse. Et tous ces inventeurs et toutes ces brodeuses Du lacis de leurs pas d coupaient des dentelles. Et ces beaux arpenteurs parmi ces ravaudeuses Dessinaient des glacis devant des citadelles. Une cr ation naissante et sans m moire Tournante et retournante aux courbes d'un m me orbe. Et la fa ne et le gland et le coing et la sorbe Plus juteux sous les dents que la prune et la poire. Vous n'avez plus connu la terre maternelle Fomentant sur son sein les faciles pis, Et la race pendue aux innombrables pis D'une nature chaste ensemble que charnelle. Vous n'avez plus connu ni la gl be facile, Ni le silence et l'ombre et cette lourde grappe, Ni l'oc an des bl s et cette lourde nappe, Et les jours de bonheur se suivant la file. Vous n'avez plus connu ni cette plaine grasse, Ni l'avoine et le seigle et leurs d bordements, Ni la vigne et la treille et leurs festonnements, Et les jours de bonheur se suivant la trace. Vous n'avez plus connu ce limon qui s'encrasse force d' tre pais et d' tre nourrissant; Vous n'avez plus connu le pampre florissant, Et la race des bl s jaillis pour votre race. Vous n'avez plus connu l'arbre charg de pommes Et pliant sous le faix dans la m re saison; Vous n'avez plus connu devant votre maison Les bl s enfants jaillis pour les enfants des hommes. Ce qui depuis ce jour est devenu la fange N' tait encor qu'un lourd et plastique limon; Et la Sagesse m me et le roi Salomon N'e t point d partag l'homme d'avecque l'ange. Charles Pierre P guy (Orl ans, 7 janvier 1873; Villeroy, 5 septembre 1914) est un crivain, po te et essayiste fran ais. Il est galement connu sous les noms de plume de Pierre Deloire et Pierre Baudouin. Son oeuvre, multiple, comprend des myst res d'inspiration m di vale en vers libres, comme Le Porche du Myst re de la deuxi me vertu (1912), et des recueils de po mes en vers r guliers, comme La Tapisserie de Notre-Dame (1913), d'inspiration mystique, et voquant notamment Jeanne d'Arc, un personnage historique, symbole de l'h ro sme des temps sombres, auquel il reste toute sa vie profond ment attach . C'est aussi un intellectuel engag apr s avoir t militant socialiste libertaire, anticl rical, puis dreyfusard au cours de ses tudes, il se rapproche partir de 1908 du catholicisme et du nationalisme; il reste connu pour des essais o il exprime ses pr occupations sociales et son rejet de l' ge moderne, o toutes les antiques vertus se sont alt r es (L'Argent, 1913). Le noyau central et incandescent de toute son oeuvre r side dans un profond patriotisme d'essence religieuse.
Why do women live longer than men? Why do women have menopause? Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer's? Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty, when suddenly their scores plummet? And does the female brain really exist? In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, she covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. Eve is not only a sweeping revision of human history, it's an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. Bohannon's findings, including everything from the way C-sections in the industrialized world are rearranging women's pelvic shape to the surprising similarities between pus and breast milk, will completely change what you think you know about evolution and why Homo sapiens have become such a successful and dominant species, from tool use to city building to the development of language. Picking up where Sapiens left off, Eve is a landmark book, offering a true paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is and why it matters.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024FOYLE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023LONGLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST IDEAS BOOKS OF 2023ONE OF THE TELEGRAPH'S FIFTY BEST BOOKS OF 2023ONE OF PROSPECT'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023ONE OF DUA LIPA'S SERVICE95 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR '5 INSPIRING READS TO KICK START THE NEW YEAR''Funny and very important' Chris van Tulleken, bestseling author of Ultra-Processed People'Educates and emboldens' Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry'Should revolutionise our understanding of human life' George Monbiot, bestselling author of Regenesis'A vast and revolutionary history of female evolution' Sunday TimesHow did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies?In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, she covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. Eve is not only a sweeping revision of human history, it's an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. Bohannon's findings, including everything from the way C-sections in the industrialized world are rearranging women's pelvic shape to the surprising similarities between pus and breast milk, will completely change what you think you know about evolution and why Homo sapiens have become such a successful and dominant species, from tool use to city building to the development of language.
C' tait au cours de l'ann e 1913. En six mois, au retour d'une marche Notre-Dame de Chartres, Charles P guy crit avec fougue, ferveur et foi un long po me sur la Cr ation qu'il publiera en d cembre dans les Cahiers de la Quinzaine. L'oeuvre parut extravagante. Elle l' tait sans doute par sa longueur inusit e, qui comporte huit trag dies en cinq actes et 8000 alexandrins d'une seule coul e, mais aussi par son mode d'expression po tique: des alexandrins de facture classique, soigneusement rim s et rythm s, et solidement arrim s comme pour une travers e au long cours.
Charles Peguy (1873–1914) is a French poet and essayist, whom Pierre Manent refers to as "one of the most penetrating critics of the historical and sociological points of view which dominate modern consciousness." Praised by T.S. Eliot and Geoffrey Hill, among many others, Peguy's contemporary influence and importance has increased despite the infrequency with which readers find his work translated into English. As Roger Kimball remarks, Peguy was certainly "a creature of his time…[but] also a writer whose insights continue to resonate today" largely in part to Peguy's confrontation of modern hubris and his "rootedness in lived experience." Kathleen Curran Sweeney provides the English reader with a much needed translation of Peguy's long poem, Eve, first published in 1914. Considering Peguy's length and depth in Eve and its syllabic poetic meter, this is not an easy undertaking. Yet Sweeney manages to convey an authentic Peguy in English and at last provides access to Christ's discourse with Eve, an epic encounter that conveys literary genius enthralled with memory, charity, and the transformation of this contemplation in light of the theological perspective of the Incarnation and the redemption of man by God.
Exiled to a desolate and harsh New Earth, in this Paradise Lost retelling, Eve faces relentless toil, pain, and the resentment of Adam, who blames her for shattering their Paradise. But even in this barren world, Eve's curiosity only grows. When Eve and Adam discover a thriving civilization in the fertile valleys of Mesopotamia, Adam is able to find peace, while Eve fights an irresistible pull further. She yearns to understand why she was created, to understand the god that made and abandoned her. Can Eve find contentment with the vestiges of Eden that remain? Or will she dare to taste the fruit forbidden to her, once more? In the end, Eve seeks to know the limits to her own power, to sate her hunger, once and for all. Navigating loves, betrayals, and the duties of motherhood from Nippur to the coastal city of Canaan and across the Aegean Sea to Cyprus, Eve will go as far as it takes. But how many Edens will she forsake, along the way, to discover who creates them? Will Eve cross the threshold from dust to divinity, at last? Or will she return to the river valley, empty-handed, a fractured family left in her wake? For who before Eve has known the minds of the gods?
Eve, the universal name for the feminine, is the title of Betsy Orient Bernfeld's new poetry chapbook. It takes place in the home, in the court, on the sea, on the road, on the run. A woman gives birth in a tree, learns to raise the mailsail alone on the ocean, encounters violence against women, lives with fertility and infertility, suffers through an eating disorder, smokes cigars with the guys, hides in plain sight. It addresses loves, losses, dreams and a woman's touch: "Think of a feather . . . don't hold your breath when touching, imagine blowing a feather." Bernfeld is a librarian, lawyer and writer in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Eve, the universal name for the feminine, is the title of Betsy Orient Bernfeld's new poetry chapbook. It takes place in the home, in the court, on the sea, on the road, on the run. A woman gives birth in a tree, learns to raise the mailsail alone on the ocean, encounters violence against women, lives with fertility and infertility, suffers through an eating disorder, smokes cigars with the guys, hides in plain sight. It addresses loves, losses, dreams and a woman's touch: "Think of a feather . . . don't hold your breath when touching, imagine blowing a feather." Bernfeld is a librarian, lawyer and writer in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Love EveBy: EveLove Eve addresses our relationship with God and our difficult social issues, failing at feeding the poor, the myths of climate change, and all we need to do to prepare for our quickly approaching end.About the AuthorProceeds off this book will go to help the poor for food, water, and shelter.
A young girl, Eve, raised in a virtual reality embarks on a deadly cross-country quest to save her father… and our dying planet.WHAT WORLD HAVE WE LEFT OUR CHILDREN? When the ice caps melted, most of humanity was lost to the hidden disease that was released. Now, a mysterious girl named Eve has awoken in secret and must deal with a world that’s nothing like the virtual reality she was raised in. In order to save her father and accompanied only by Wexler, her robotic caretaker and protector sheathed in her favorite teddy bear, Eve must embark on a deadly quest across the country. Along the way, she will have to contend not only with the threats of a very real world that await her, but the lies we tell our children in the name of protecting them. In the spirit of his critically acclaimed and award winning novel Changling, novelist Victor LaValle (The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle’s Destroyer) and illustrator Jo Mi-Gyeong (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance) deliver a powerful dystopian adventure about the world we leave behind… and the price that must be paid to restore life to a dying planet. Collects Eve #1-5.
Tanya Stone's latest collection is a masterful showcase from the poet whose writing and imagery are capturing the hearts and minds of artists, lovers, and dreamers alike. With artful and nuanced looks at gender, romance, loss, and family, Eve is a deeper dive into Stone's poetic voice with spoken word. Each emotion here is raw and vivid, resting inside of imagery that brings connection, acceptance, and a knowing of the human experience.
