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  This Is Going to Hurt - Secret...

  Adam Kay

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  Now an AMC+ series starring Ben Whishaw  
  The acclaimed multimillion-copy bestseller, This Is Going to Hurt is Adam Kay’s equally ""blisteringly funny"" (Boston Globe) and “heartbreaking” (New Yorker) secret diaries of his years as a young doctor. 
  Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships. Welcome to the life of a first-year doctor. 
  Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights, and missed weekends, comedian and former medical resident Adam Kay’s This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the front lines of medicine. 
  Hilarious, horrifying, and heartbreaking by turns, this is everything you wanted to know—and more than a few things you didn’t—about life on and off the hospital ward. 
  And yes, it may leave a scar.

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  Decluttering Kitchen

  Tobi Dunkley

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  Decluttering Kitchen: The Essential Guide on How You Can Improve and Organize Your KitchenAside from being the place where you prepare food, studies show that people like to congregate and stay in the kitchen. The kitchen is one of the most used rooms in a household. Modernizing your kitchen can take one of two routes. The first route is less expensive but may take more time. It includes painting, wallpapering, and re-decorating to give your kitchen a modern facelift. The second route can be much quicker, but also much costlier. This route includes new appliances, new cupboards, or even a new layout. Your only limit is how much money and time you have to give. Choosing which way to go would primarily depend on how much money and time you have to give. A modern look is having the bare essentials or a minimalist approach to kitchens. Besides providing a new look, less clutter holds less dust, which requires less cleaning. Less small appliances and items on the cupboard make the room appear larger too. This audiobook will give you proven and useful tips and advice on how you will declutter your kitchen to look even cleaner and more organized. Get insights on how you can improve your kitchen whether you do minor or major renovations and decluttering. To learn more, get a copy of Decluttering Kitchen now!

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  How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart

  Florentyna Leow

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  20-something and uncertain about her future, Florentyna Leow is exhilarated when an old acquaintance offers her an opportunity for work and cohabitation in a little house in the hills of Kyoto.
  Florentyna begins a new job as a tour guide, taking tourists on elaborate and expensive trips around Kyoto's cultural hotspots. Amidst the busy tourist traps and overrun temples, Florentyna develops her own personal map of the city: a favourite smoky jazz kissa; a top-shelf katsuobushi loving cat; an elderly lady named Yamaguchi-san, who shares her sweets and gives Florentyna a Japanese name.
  Meanwhile, her relationship with her new companion develops an intensity as they live and work together. Their little kitchen, the epicenter of their shared life, overlooks a community garden dominated by a fruitful persimmon tree. Their relationship burns bright, but seasons change, the persimmon tree out back loses its fruit, and things grow strange between the two women.
  How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart is a collection about the ways in which heartbreak can fill a place and make it impossible to stay.

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  What is Queer Food? - How We...

  John Birdsall

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  A celebrated food writer's expansive, audacious excavation of the development of modern queer identity and food culture. 
   
   
   
  Food in America and Europe has long been shaped, twisted, and upended by queer creatives. Beloved food writer John Birdsall fills the gap between the past and present, channeling the twin forces of criticism and cultural history to propel readers into the kitchens, restaurants, swirling party-houses, and humming interior lives of James Baldwin, Alice B. Toklas, Truman Capote, Esther Eng, and others who left an indelible mark on the culinary world from the margins. Queer food is brunch quiche à la Craig Claiborne, Richard Olney's ecstatic salade composée, and Rainbow Ice-Box Cake from Ernest Matthew Mickler's White Trash Cooking. It's the intention surrounding a meal, the circumstances behind it, the people gathered around the table. 
   
   
   
  With cinematic verve and prose that dazzles, What Is Queer Food? is a monumental work: a testament to food's essential link to a modern queerness that reveals how, like fashion or tastes in music, food has become a language of LGBTQ+ identity.

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  The Influence of Ancient Egypt...

  Omar Khalil

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  The fascination with Ancient Egypt’s visual and structural aesthetics has significantly influenced Western art and architecture, especially during the 18th and 19th centuries. Known as the Egyptian Revival, this movement emerged as part of a broader romantic and neoclassical interest in ancient civilizations. Following Napoleon's campaign in Egypt and the publication of Description de l'Égypte, Europe became enamored with Egyptian motifs, leading to their incorporation into a wide range of architectural projects. 
  One of the most recognizable contributions of Egyptian Revival architecture is the use of obelisks and pyramid forms in public spaces and memorials. These iconic shapes, once central to Egyptian religious and ceremonial design, were reinterpreted in cemeteries, government buildings, and monuments across Europe and the United States. The Washington Monument in the U.S., for instance, is a clear example of how Egyptian form was adapted to convey power and permanence. 
  In interior design and decorative arts, Egyptian Revival made a mark through bold geometric patterns, lotus flower motifs, and symbolic elements like the sun disk and winged scarab. Furniture, wallpaper, jewelry, and textiles adopted these styles, evoking the mystery and majesty of the Nile. This decorative trend became especially popular after the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, which triggered a new wave of Egyptomania in the early 20th century.

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  Norse Mythology - Epic Viking...

  History Retold

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  Are you ready to explore the incredible and captivating world of Norse mythology? 
  With Epic Viking Tales this book is here to bring you on an unforgettable journey through the myths of Vikings gods and Ragnarok. 
  This book is an essential guide for anyone looking to learn about one of the oldest and most fascinating mythologies in history. From the creation story of Ymir, the legendary battle between Thor and Jörmungandr, and the apocalyptic event known as Ragnarok, this book brings these tales to life with vivid descriptions and entertaining stories. 
  For those who are already familiar with these stories, this book offers an unprecedented look at some lesser-known tales from Norse mythology that will thrill readers of all ages. With exciting characters, epic stories, and far-reaching consequences, this book is sure to provide hours of entertainment. 
  This book is a must-have for any fan of Norse mythology. So what are you waiting for? Let’s go on an adventure together!

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