6/10/2023 0 Comments Sweet series by wendy higgins![]() ![]() In the light of her affections, Kaidan must undergo his toughest test of all, a battle of the heart. The daughter of a guardian angel and a fallen one, she makes him wish for more than he could ever deserve.ĭetermined to save all the Neph from their dark lives, Anna joins forces with Kaidan to overcome the Dukes' oppressive ways. Until he meets Anna Whitt-smart, feisty, and inexplicably good-the one girl seemingly immune to his charms. Thankfully for Kaidan, he's good at his job. Disobeying his father would mean certain death. As the son of the Duke of Lust, Kaidan has learned his father's ways, becoming a master of passion, a manipulator of chemistry. hot girls-but seducing them is part of his duty as a Nephilim, slave to the demon Dukes. ![]() Bad boy Kaidan Rowe has never wanted for anything-money, popularity, musical talent. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() As the family sinks further into debt, Stephen is sent to spend the summer with his Uncle Charles. Simon Dedalus, Stephen’s father, struggles to support his family. Stephen complains when he is beaten and accused of lying in class, and when his complaint is accepted by Father Conmee, Stephen feels victorious. When Stephen returns to school, the priests institute a regime of increased corporal punishment after several boys are caught engaging in gay activities. When Stephen’s family gathers to celebrate Christmas, a huge argument erupts over dinner about Parnell and his politics. ![]() After Parnell dies, tensions increase in Stephen’s family. Many of the adults in Stephen’s life, such as his family, are divided over Parnell’s policies. Though he struggles with his faith and his loneliness, he eventually begins to make friends.Įven though he is just a young boy, and the political ramifications are beyond him, Stephen is struck by the political and religious debates surrounding the politician Charles Stewart Parnell. He is an intelligent boy, but he struggles to get to grips with the school’s behavior code. Stephen is mocked by his classmates, and feels isolated and homesick. The school is run by strict Jesuit priests who have a stern set of rules. As a young boy, he attends Clongowes Wood College. Stephen Dedalus grows up in Ireland in the final years of the 19th century. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Sweeney todd sondheim![]() “Company” dealt with a single man whose encounters with his married friends were less than encouraging “ Follies,” with the illusions of show business vs. Many of his musicals were sardonic and downbeat. His talent, evident from his early collaborations with Leonard Bernstein (“West Side Story”) and Jules Styne (“Gypsy”), became even more pronounced and sophisticated as he grew as a composer and conceiver of musical subjects. No one could deny Sondheim’s abilities as a lyricist - in that realm he easily rivaled the great Cole Porter. ![]() And while his critics claimed his songs lacked the whistle-ability factor of Richard Rodgers or even Lloyd Webber, his musicals continued to be revived, reappreciated and reappraised over the decades. ![]() ![]() Though he never achieved popular success on the order of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sondheim altered and broadened the boundaries of American musical theater with great daring and aplomb, basing his tuners on such disparate sources as the ancient Roman playwright Plautus (“A Funny Thing”), a film by Ingmar Bergman (“A Little Night Music”) and American political assassinations (“Assassins”). ![]() ![]() ![]() What follows is the formation of a tenuous but heartening bond between Jo, Gabe, and Ursa as all three undergo transformative journeys. Soon, she also comes to rely on her neighbor, Gabriel Nash, an enigmatic and skittish man with his own complicated history, to help her care for Ursa until she can find out more about her history. Unsure of her course of action following Ursa’s repeated visits and her belief that Ursa is not telling the truth, Joanna initially calls the police but decides to allow Ursa’s visits after her conversation with the officer. The novel begins with Ursa’s introduction into Joanna’s life, a bizarre event that sees Ursa explain her supposed origins, her alien name, her planet, and the purpose for her earthly visit: to witness five miracles. ![]() With this premise, Vanderah touches on themes like identity, femininity, loss, connection and more. Glendy Vanderah’s lauded novel- Where the Forest Meets the Stars-tells the gripping story of what happens when Joanna Teale, a young researcher looking to forget her past, meets a little girl named Ursa in the dead of night who claims to be from the stars. ![]() Where the Forest Meets the Stars: Glendy Vanderah Potential spoilers below: ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Horse heaven by jane smiley![]() The rich portrait of thoroughbred racing from every aspect is amazing. Grooms, trainers, owners, gamblers-theyre all warmly portray. He successfully maintains his beliefs in various difficult circumstances. Jane Smileys insightful and good-humored novel about horseracing is heavily populated. He has a spiritual approach to life and to training horses. I would love to know someone like Farley Jones. ![]() ![]() If you could take any character from Horse Heaven out to dinner, who would it be and why? I do object to her pronunciation of Maryland, khaki, and a few other things that I can’t remember at the moment, but that are really odd. Her Irish accents are very good and some of her other voicings are interesting too. What does Shelley Thompson bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? Every time I read this I am amazed all over again by how the author convincingly presents points of view of men, women, of various backgrounds, races, interests sexual orientation, etc. The human characters are even more varied and rich. This book has horses and a dog that have their own opinions and points of view. ![]() ![]() Many authors have characters who all sound the same and you can’t distinguish one from the other in dialogue without "He said", "She said" labels. The author’s ability to change voices completely is astonishing. If you could sum up Horse Heaven in three words, what would they be?īrilliant, observant, deep and fun (sorry, couldn’t do three) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Children will find it hard to keep from smiling as they watch Maya’s grouchiness dissolve into glee at Gramma’s giggle-inducing ideas, while adults will find Gramma’s clever tactic a useful strategy to add to their repertoire when kids are grumpy. /rebates/2fp2fMaya-Was-Grumpy2fCourtney-Pippin-Mathur2f9781936261130&.com252fp252fMaya-Was-Grumpy252fCourtney-Pippin-Mathur252f978193626113026afsrc3d126SID3d&idbooksamillion&nameBOOKSAMILLION. But when Maya growls at her grandmother, she graciously takes Maya’s mood in stride, and even has a solution: Gramma suggests a series of unusual activities that Maya will probably not want to do since she’s feeling grumpy-and then dismisses her own silly suggestions before Maya can reject them. ![]() What’s worse, she’s determined to share her grumpiness with everyone as she glumps, clumps, and thumps around the house. ![]() She doesn’t want to color or wear her favorite shorts or go outside to play. Courtney Pippin-Mathur grew up in East Texas and passed the hot summer days reading, drawing, watching She-Ra and exploring her grandmas farm. An artful mixture of fantasy and reality, humor and heart, Maya Was Grumpy celebrates the power of imagination and. Maya wakes up on the wrong side of the bed, tangled in her blanket, and in a crispy, cranky, grumpy, grouchy mood. Maya Was Grumpy by Courtney Pippin-Mathur. An artful mixture of fantasy and reality, humor and heart, Maya Was Grumpy celebrates the power of imagination and humor to improve moods. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Irving's stories were highly influenced by German folktales, with "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" being inspired by a folktale retold by J. It also helped advance the reputation of American writers with an international audience.Īpart from " Rip Van Winkle" and " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" – the pieces which made both Irving and The Sketch Book famous – the collection of tales includes "Roscoe", "The Broken Heart", "The Art of Book-making", "A Royal Poet", "The Spectre Bridegroom", "Westminster Abbey", "Little Britain", and "John Bull". The Sketch Book, along with James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, was among the first widely read works of American literature in Britain and Europe. It also marks Irving's first use of the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, which he would continue to employ throughout his literary career. The collection includes two of Irving's best-known stories, attributed to the fictional Dutch historian Diedrich Knickerbocker: " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and " Rip Van Winkle". The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., commonly referred to as The Sketch Book, is a collection of 34 essays and short stories written by the American author Washington Irving. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() During this time, she wrote and published Woman at Point Zero based upon meeting Firdaus as a part of Saadawi’s case studies of women at Qanatir Prison. Saadawi then transitioned to researching women’s neurosis for a prominent medical university, and then served as an adviser for the United Nations. ![]() Although the controversial feminist book was widely successful in Egypt and abroad, it cost Saadawi both her directorship and the journal. ![]() In 1972, while working as a public health director and editor of a prominent health journal, Saadawi published Women and Sex, which catalogued the various ways that patriarchal society dominates women and violates their personal agency. After two brief marriages, she married a prominent communist activist in 1964, whom had previously spent 13 years as a political prisoner. As a physician, she realized that many women’s physical and psychological ills were rooted in class oppression and gendered oppression. Saadawi studied in Cairo, where she graduated as a doctor in 1955. Both of Sadaawi’s parents died early, leaving her as the sole guardian for her younger siblings. At six years old, her father had her circumcised yet also provided her an education and encouraged her to think and speak forthrightly. Saadawi was born the second of nine children, to a family that was progressive, yet slave to certain traditions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jordan J Lloyd of Dynamichrome colourised many of the images in the book. 'Think of the colours of London and what do you imagine? The reds of open-top buses and terracotta bricks? The grey smog of Victorian industry, Portland stone and pigeons in Trafalgar square? Colours of London shows us that colour is everywhere in the city, and each one holds myriad links to its past,' the publisher notes.Ī shocking picture of an upturned bus in the aftermath of a World War II bombing raid, a poignant shot of the London floods of 1928, and a 1950s image of children paddling in the Thames are among the eye-opening colourised pictures in the tome. ![]() The book explores how London's 'many hues have come to shape its history and identity'. They are black-and-white images that have been specially colourised to illustrate the captivating new book Colours of London: A History, by biographer and critic Peter Ackroyd, published by Frances Lincoln. These photographs promise to 'bring a lost London back to life'. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Ninth house series![]() ![]() We can only serve the continental US, Alaska, and Hawaii. But their occult activities are more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. Their eight windowless "tombs" are the well-known haunts of the rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street's biggest players. Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale's secret societies. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world's most prestigious universities on a full ride. Bardugos excellent first fantasy novel for adults (following her highly regarded Six of Crows and Shadow and Bone YA series) introduces an antihero who is. Some might say she's thrown her life away. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Summary: A LOCUS AWARD FINLIST Bardugos latest is a must-listen, introducing a haunting. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. ![]() Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. ![]() The mesmerizing adult debut from Leigh Bardugo, a tale of power, privilege, dark magic, and murder set among the Ivy League elite ![]() |