![]() Autumn is spend harvesting our homegrown and raking up leaves. In the Spring and Summer, whilst out walking in the woods we often make a fire to cook a jumbo sausage. I now enjoy the small pleasures in life, gone are the pressures of Big City Life nowadays, I can see sky out of my windows. I have a beautiful black cat called Darcy and also a Gordon Setter girl-dog name Asherah. Whom, despite all I had done saw fit to watch over me and guide me to a life worth living. ![]() We are nestled in the palms of an almighty giant. When I’m feeling extra spiritual it is easy to imagine. I am surrounded on all sides by hilly forests, a small stream runs through it’s centre. Set in the foothills of the Jura mountains. I now live in a detached property with a large garden in a small hamlet of 895 residence. Never once have I felt cold, hungry or scared. ![]() ![]() ![]() He kept every single one of his promises and didn’t tire or change his attitude towards me. Years on and we are still very happily married, or at least I am. Life started off badly and after spending a big part of it on the margins of society working as a rent-boy (gay male prostitute) I eventually found my husband (civil partner) in 2000 and a new chapter in my life began. A Black Country Lad who now lives in the Black Boy Land or Schwarzbubenland as it is called in Switzerland. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In these early scenes Kiki comes across with the likable aplomb of a cartoon heroine, but she's battling monsters like nothing Supergirl ever faced: Soupspoon is riddled with cancer and haunted by scenes from a life eternally on the move. ![]() Anointing herself Soupspoon Wise's goddaughter, she installs him in her place, invites him into her bed (an offer he can easily refuse), and sets about hustling him an insurance card. Kiki Waters, released from the hospital after taking the wrong side in a mugging, finds her downstairs neighbor being evicted for nonpayment. Mosley's Easy Rawlins mysteries ( Black Betty, 1994, etc.) always seemed to be moving away from tightly plotted whodunits toward his trademark high-energy riffs, and here he makes his move to the mainstream with a hazy, tender tale of a dying bluesman taken in by a hard-bitten urban survivalist. ![]() ![]() ![]() īrigid Kemmerer is the New York Times bestselling author A Curse So Dark and Lonely, More Than We Can Tell, Letters to the Lost, and the Elementals series. Your book and signing line ticket can be picked up at the event.Įlizabeth Eulberg is the award-winning author of middle-grade novels The Great Shelby Holmes and The Great Shelby Holmes Meets Her Match, and internationally bestselling author of YA titles The Lonely Hearts Club, Prom & Prejudice, Take a Bow, Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality, Better Off Friends, We Can Work it Out, and Just Another Girl.Originally from Wisconsin, Elizabeth now lives outside of Manhattan, but continues to eat cheese and cheer on the Packers because you can take the girl out of the Midwest. At the time of your purchase, we will issue a signing line ticket that indicates your place in line. ![]() Where: Blue Willow Bookshop, 14532 Memorial Drive, Houston, TX 77079Īdmission: In order to go through the signing line and meet Elizabeth Eulberg, Brigid Kemmerer and Becky Wallace for book personalization, please purchase one of their books from Blue Willow Bookshop. What: Elizabeth Eulberg, Brigid Kemmerer and Becky Wallace will discuss and sign their newest books. ![]() ![]() Chester Arthur, the embodiment of the spoils system, was so reviled as James Garfield's successor that he had to defend himself against plotting Garfield's assassination but he reformed the civil service. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded our greatest president, sided with remnants of the Confederacy in Reconstruction. He immediately sacked the entire cabinet and delayed an inevitable Civil War by standing with Henry Clay's compromise of 1850. Millard Fillmore succeeded esteemed General Zachary Taylor. He was kicked out of his party and became the first president threatened with impeachment. John Tyler succeeded William Henry Harrison who died 30 days into his term. ![]() Only TR, Truman, Coolidge, and LBJ were re-elected. Only Theodore Roosevelt would have been elected in his own right. In one way or another they vastly changed our history. Eight men have succeeded to the presidency when the incumbent died in office. It demonstrates how the character of the man in that powerful seat affects the nation and world. Accidental Presidents looks at eight men who came to the office without being elected to it. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The strength and prestige of the American presidency has waxed and waned since George Washington. ![]() ![]() ![]() But for the first year of Twitter's existence, that mode of interaction would have been technically impossible using Twitter. ![]() Thanks to these innovations, following a live feed of tweets about an event - political debates or Lost episodes - has become a central part of the Twitter experience. Early Twitter users ported over a convention from the IRC messaging platform and began grouping a topic or event by the "hash-tag" as in "#30Rock" or "inauguration." The ability to search a live stream of tweets - which is likely to prove crucial to Twitter's ultimate business model, thanks to its advertising potential - was developed by another start-up altogether. The convention of replying to another user with the symbol was spontaneously invented by the Twitter user base. In Twitter's case, the users have been redesigning the tool itself. This is not just a case of cultural exaptation: people finding a new use for a tool designed to do something else. Now it is being used to organize and share news about the Iranian political protests, to provide customer support for large corporations, to share interesting news items, and a thousand other applications that did not occur to the founders when they dreamed up the service in 2006. ![]() “When it first emerged, Twitter was widely derided as a frivolous distraction that was mostly good for telling your friends what you had for breakfast. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shooting weddings was great as long as she didn’t let herself think too much of her own wedding six months ago. Everything else in life- before and after the sessions- those were the hard parts. Photography was hardly work- at least, the actual shoots were a pleasure. ![]() You’ve worked yourself to the bone today.” The mother of the bride held up her champagne glass toward Gwen. ![]() Gwen shot a half a dozen more pictures, directing the couple into various poses, then lowered her camera and smiled over at the waiting family members. ![]() The couple started kissing, apparently the “looking into each other’s eyes” too tempting to resist. One that might rival the wedding shoot from the week before. “Stand closer,” Gwen said, “and look into each other’s eyes.” Click.Ī gorgeous beach wedding shot, if Gwen could say so for herself. In the background, the oranges and pinks of the fading sunset were a perfect blend of everything romance. Gwen changed the lens on her Canon EOS, then lifted the camera and adjusted the settings until the bride and groom came into sharp focus. The Pier Changes Everything By Annette Lyon The characters, names, incidents, places, and dialogue are products of the authors’ imagination and are not to be construed as real.Įdited by Annette Lyon, Cassidy Wadsworth and Jennie Stevens No part of this book may be reproduced in any form whatsoever without prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief passages embodied in critical reviews and articles. ![]() ![]() Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Lem s books have been translated into forty-one languages and have sold over forty-five million copies.īook Description New Edition. Stanislaw Lem (1921 2006) is the author of many works bearing the broad label of science fiction and others ranging in genre and style from satire to philosophy. Long considered a classic, Solaris asks the question: Can we understand the universe around us without first understanding what lies within?Ī novel that makes you reevaluate the nature of intelligence itself. Could it be, as Solaris scientists speculate, that the ocean may be a massive neural center creating these memories, for a reason no one can identify? Kelvin learns that he is not alone in this and that other crews examining the planet are plagued with their own repressed and newly real memories. When psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds himself confronting a painful memory embodied in the physical likeness of a past lover. ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s a difference between knowing what chemicals cause what colors, and launching them into the sky.ĭespite the occasional overly convenient resolutions here and there, the interplay between Rishe and Prince Arnold is delightfully done we learn a bit more about the darkness that drives his future we see Rishe pull off outlandish schemes one after another and we see the potential for a future diverted while being treated to Rishe’s rollercoaster of emotion. ![]() The way she resolves the final conflict required future knowledge beyond her five year windows. Let’s take the most egregious example without spoiling anything. Her personality is outright charming, but the author plays loose with what she knows and doesn’t know depending on the plot. But let’s be honest, Rishe is as dumb as she is clever. She’s in top form in this volume, though her willful cluelessness and ability to pull solutions out of a hat do wear thin at times. ![]() ![]() In Classics in progress: Essays on ancient Greece and Rome. The “Long” Late Antiquity: A Late twentieth-century model. Straw-Lim 2004 provides a good survey of the historiographical changes since the 1960s.Ĭameron, Averil. ![]() The first issue of the Journal of Late Antiquity 2008 contains several papers that address this question. Ward-Perkins 2005 goes further in a provocative book whose title is meant to recall Gibbon's Decline and Fall (1776–1789). Cameron 2002 provides an interesting review of the historiography of this “long” Late Antiquity. ![]() ![]() The Italian historian Andrea Giardina (1999) opened the controversy by regretting an “explosion” in the study of Late Antiquity resulting from too expansive a periodization and from the prominence of cultural history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hastings walked primly to the phone in the den and answered. Wilden handed Melissa a tissue and stood up, thanking them for their cooperation throughout this ordeal. Melissa raised her head for a moment, noted Spencer confusedly, then set her head on Spencer’s shoulder and sobbed. ![]() Spencer plopped down at her sister’s side and threw her arms around Melissa’s shoulders. Melissa had made impressing their parents look so effortless that Spencer never realized that she agonized about it, too. She wondered if she and Melissa had been dealing with the exact same issues all this time. But they sat stock-still, judgmental looks on their faces. Spencer waited for her parents to rush over to console Melissa. She’d seen her sister cry plenty of times, but usually out of frustration, anger, rage, or a ploy to get her own way. ![]() ![]() And I didn’t say anything then because…because I thought I’d somehow get in trouble for concealing the truth. But I still didn’t think it was possible. “When you started asking questions this week about where Ian and I were, I started to wonder if maybe I should’ve said something years ago. I didn’t think Alison had given him an ultimatum.” Like everyone else, Melissa had learned of Ian’s motives. “I suspected they’d hooked up all those years ago, but I didn’t think it was serious. When I got back and everyone was frantic…well, I just never thought Ian would be capable of something like that.” She picked at the hem on her pale yellow Juicy hoodie. At that point, I’m not sure anyone really knew Alison was missing. ![]() |