![]() What it would do to a harper and a drunk is far too easy to imagine.ĭonovan's mind had been shattered by Those of Name, the rulers of the Confederacy, and no fewer than seven quarreling personalities now inhabit his skull. Bridget ban was following hints of an artifact that would "protect the League from the Confederacy for aye." Mearana is eager to follow that trail, but Donovan is reluctant, because whatever is at the end of it made a Hound disappear. With the reluctant assent and financial aid of the Kennel, they set forth. ![]() She enlists the scarred man, Donovan, to aid her in her search. But her daughter, the harper Mearana, has not. ![]() The Hound Bridget ban has vanished and her employer, the Kennel (the mysterious superspy agency of the League) has given up the search. It is a longish river as such things go, with a multitude of bayous and rapids and waterfalls, and it runs through many a strange and hostile country. There is a river on Dangchao Waypoint, a small world out beyond Die Bold. ![]() Heinlein Award-winning SF writer Michael Flynn returns to space opera with Up Jim River. ![]()
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![]() ![]() His writing has been featured on bestseller lists, adapted for the cinema, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, selected as winner or finalist of twenty awards, and translated into thirty-five languages.īorn in Lahore, he has spent about half his life there and much of the rest in London, New York, and California. Mohsin Hamid is the author of four novels, Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, and Exit West, and a book of essays, Discontent and Its Civilizations. ![]() Born in Lahore, he has spent about half his life there and much of the rest in London, New York, and California. ![]() 'The cross-disciplinary curatorial website 3 Quarks Daily represents a pocket of humanity in an increasingly amoral, algorithmic internet. His writing has been featured on bestseller lists, adapted for the cinema, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, selected as winner or finalist of twenty awards, and translated into thirty-five languages. Mohsin Hamid, author of Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, in the New York Times. Mohsin Hamid, author of Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, in the New York Times. ![]() ![]() ![]() They are poor but scrappy, anxious but happy. In the beginning, the Chestnut family lives in a shipping container in southernmost Louisiana. El Akkad is not primarily concerned with the political narrative of this future, though it is collected here in the form of oral histories, Senate-hearing transcripts, and newspaper articles, which provide the historical context for his real focus: the personal narratives of a family deranged and destroyed by the war. Not so in the destitute world of American War. It’s easy to see such a climate catastrophe as a possibility––or for the more eco-anxious among us, an inevitability––but even in an increasingly factional America, we still hope we’ll come together for peace. The federal government has relocated to Columbus, Ohio, and in a Hail Mary pass has outlawed fossil fuels. The rest of the world-including the Middle East, which has now united to become the prosperous Bouazizi Empire-moved to solar energy long ago. ![]() ![]() The climate crisis has accelerated, and the coastline as we know it has disappeared, leaving behind frayed scraps of land where whole cities once stood. ![]() ![]() The second American Civil War begins in 2074 when an unstable Southern girl blows herself up and kills the president, but its seeds were sown long before that. “Some people are born sentenced to terrible inheritance, diseases that lay dormant in their blood from birth,” reflects the reluctant narrator of Omar El Akkad’s new novel, American War. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rice attended the University of Denver, where she majored in political science, was all of 20 when she got her master’s degree from the University of Notre Dame, went on to get her doctorate from and then taught at Stanford University. She apparently never rebelled, stayed out too late or suffered teenage angst (one boyfriend had “a heart of gold,” another was, well, “another nice guy”). In high school, she practiced skating two hours before class every morning, then again after piano practice. Her goal always was to be “twice as good” as other kids, and her childhood became a whirl of piano concerts, school competitions and figure skating lessons. She took ballet, gymnastics and baton twirling, plus private French lessons, She scored 136 on an IQ test at age 6, she reveals, “good but not Mensa level.” It was a rare setback (and one reason, she notes, that she doesn’t trust standardized tests). She was “enchanted” by Mozart when her friends adored Elvis. Gifted and ambitious, she started piano lessons at age 3 and soon was practicing for hours a day. Rice describes her upbringing as “quite normal,” but it clearly wasn’t. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since the imprint debuted in November 2020, FOX News Books has published four titles, each of which reached national bestseller status. In the five weeks since its debut, “The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak” has moved nearly 200,000 copies (excluding bulk sales), while “The Women of the Bible Speak” has sold roughly half a million copies since its debut last year following a 107% spike in sales surrounding Mother’s Day. NEW YORK – – FOX News Books, the publishing unit of FOX News Media, continues to deliver strong sales, with the biblical franchise from Shannon Bream dominating the New York Times bestseller list with back-to-back titles. ![]() “The Women of the Bible Speak” Continues to Outperform, Seeing 107% Spike in Sales Surrounding Mother’s Day ![]() “The Mothers and Daughter of the Bible Speak” Moves Nearly 200,000 Copies in Debut Month, Among Fastest Selling Titles of the Year ![]() ![]() ![]() Second, I must thank my comrades of the press - whose reporting at every level of America politics purifies, protects and refreshes our system from year to year.īut what did White think about U.S. This is from the first pages of The Making of the President, 1960:įirst, to the politicians of America - men whom I have found over the long years the pleasantest, shrewdest and generally the most honorable of companions … politicians and politics were just super. In other words, White publicly took the stance that U.S. ![]() ![]() Kennedy as a “forlorn and lonesome young man … lithe as an athlete … handsome and tired, with just a fleck of gray now in his glossy brown hair” who “baffled” the “old-line politicians of Tammany.” Then after Kennedy was assassinated, White helped Jackie Kennedy create the “Camelot” myth of his presidency. The 1960 version, which won a Pulitzer Prize and sold four million copies, describes John F. White invented the genre of modern presidential campaign books with The Making of the President, 1960(and then 1964, 19). Politico recently ran a fantastic historical profile of journalist Theodore H. ![]() ![]() Of course when Aleksander realizes he has been a bit of a fool, everything changes and he realizes he has a lot of ground to make up for and sets out to woo her, Arkadion style.Very fun read. When she finds out she is his mate, she thinks he will accept her but Aleksander makes it clear he doesn't want a human mate. Rebecca thought after the searing kiss he greeted her with that he liked her a little bit. more h warmth and comfort from everyone but bear shifter Sheriff Aleksander Arkadion. When she ends up in a little out of the way town of Arkadia, she finds she is accepted wit. ![]() She lost her job, her home and now she is traveling only to have the musicality of her car breaking down and her GPS on the fritz. Review 2: Rebecca Morgan is lost L.O.S.T. All of the characters introduced in this first book are well thought out and definitely have their own personalities! ![]() ![]() This author does not disappoint! You have shifters - lions and bears, oh my - and other were-species, romance, thriller, drama, suspense and humor! What is not to like. ![]() Review 1: I bought this book because I enjoy trying new authors.needless to say this was a "WINNER"! As soon as I half way through this book, the first in the series, I immediately bought Book 2 - "Fated to be Family". ![]() ![]() ![]() On July 8, 2010, the next three chapters (4–6) were released in audio format. On June 10, 2010, the prologue and the first three chapters of the book were released, along with an introduction by Sanderson, as a preview on the Tor website. The original, non-canon version, entitled The Way of Kings Prime, is available on the official website of the author. Its publication was delayed when Sanderson instead decided to focus on his Mistborn trilogy. Sanderson started working on pieces of The Way of Kings in the late 1990s and finished the first draft in 2003. The unabridged audiobook is read by narrator team Michael Kramer and Kate Reading. ![]() In 2011, it won the David Gemmell Legend Award for best novel. A leatherbound edition was released in 2021. It was followed by Words of Radiance in 2014, Oathbringer in 2017 and Rhythm of War in 2020. The Way of Kings consists of one prelude, one prologue, 75 chapters, an epilogue and 9 interludes. The novel was published on August 31, 2010, by Tor Books. The Way of Kings is an epic fantasy novel written by American author Brandon Sanderson and the first book in The Stormlight Archive series. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review. I felt the normal speaking rate was at 1.25x speed but I do like to listen faster then most (I listened to this one 1.65x speed). Narrator (4⭐) has pretty good differentiations and was fun/easy to listen to. It may have been a little predictable, but let's be honest, most of this genre is and we all still love them. ![]() Definitely recommend this to those looking for a clean romance with heart, comedy and something a bit deeper. There's love triangles, drama, real emotion, learning how to deal with life and leaning on friends and family to get through it all. She's willing to kiss a lot of frogs to find the guy. She's a bit of a wild child (20yr old) with a bit of an adrenaline junky problem. She goes on a kissing spree to try to find the boy with the electric kiss. Darcy Pistolis never met a dare she could turn down, and her antics are usually the talk of the town. The story revolves around a girl named Darcy who's struggling to deal with the death of her sister and finds herself blown away by a mystery boy's kiss while the electricity was out at a party. This was a really sweet and a bit sad at times read. Sexual Content- PG-PG13- really very clean, no bedroom romping, there's a lot of kissing and attraction but nothing heavy Language- not a lot that I remember and no f-bombs Parents- PG13 clean enough for Middle Grade on up ![]() ![]() Randy Paterson The Assertiveness Workbook ( ) Let’s hear it straight from her on Intimate Interactions.ĭr. The host of that podcast, medical doctor Alexandra Stockwell, is back to explain that how we ask can impact how good it feels for our partners to provide for us. Of course you can always turn into The Intimate Marriage Podcast, specifically the episode called How Marriages Fail. Paterson’s The Assertiveness Workbook might be what you need. In those cases, something like Marcia Baczynski’s Good Girl Recovery Project or Betty Martin’s Wheel of Consent or Dr. ![]() Other times you can’t imagine how you would approach a person about something. Sometimes using strategies like saying “you know what would make this even better?” can help. Sometimes you’ve had sex a certain way so many times it doesn’t occur that you can ask for it any differently but you can always change your mind, and it’s never too late to introduce experimentation. ![]() |