5/12/2023 0 Comments Double Play by Jill ShalvisThis is an entertaining baseball romance starring a wonderful couple who keep hitting into a Double Play every time they swing the bat. While Sam is great with his dad and Wade with her nephew, they fight and fuss with one another, as the catcher who gives signals to the pitcher and infielders fails to read correctly what signs Sam is sending him even when they play truth or dare. With their fights about his responsibilities to the club owners, fans, and sponsors she fears the rabbit will prove dead as he continually insists he never slept with Tia who accuses him of making her pregnant.Īs they fall in love, she does not trust him as she assumes he wants to make her the latest notch on his bat. However a conservative sponsor expects clean family values so public relations specialist Samantha McNead is hired to pull the rabbit out of the hat with cleaning up the recent media image bashing of Wade. Clearly he is a California mellow except when it comes to the women and baseball. The Santa Barbara Heat baseball expansion team feels great about signing the best defensive catcher in the Major League's Wade O'Riley.
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5/11/2023 0 Comments My Forbidden Face by LatifaEarlier this year, Latifa and her parents escaped Afghanistan with the help of a French-based Afghan resistance group. Her voice captures a lost innocence, but also echoes her determination to live in freedom and hope. With painful honesty and clarity Latifa describes the way she watched her world falling apart, in the name of a fanatical interpretation of a faith that she could not comprehend. My Forbidden Face provides a poignant and highly personal account of life under the Taliban regime. The simplest and most basic freedoms - walking down the street, looking out a window - were no longer hers. From that moment, Latifa, just 16 years old became a prisoner in her own home. Then in September 1996, Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. Her father was in the import/export business and her mother was a doctor. She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends. Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. The book under review My Forbidden Face has been written by a young Afghan woman from Kabul under the pen name of Latifa, on the account of security. Print My Forbidden Face : Growing up under the Taliban A young woman's story 5/11/2023 0 Comments Shannon hale friendsIt's a wonderfully observed portrait of finding one's place in your world. Her digitally colored ink cartooning pulls substantial emotion out of everyday moments (such as Hale retreating to a playground shrub to cry, only to find another girl already there, doing the same) and the imagination-fueled games Hale was forever devising, presaging her writing career. The carefully honed narration and dialogue give Pham plenty of room to work. Shannon is in eighth grade, and life is more complicated than ever. Hale makes her own flaws evident, and that fairness extends to the bullies in her life, who lash out brutally at times, but whose insecurities and sadness are just as clear. Following up their mega-bestselling Real Friends and Best Friends graphic memoirs, Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham are back with Friends Forever, a story about learning to love yourself exactly as you are. My mom says that's all anyone really needs"), negotiates forever-changing friendship politics, and tries to stay on the good side of her turbulent oldest sister. Over five chapters, readers follow a bookish and shy Hale from her earliest days in school through fifth grade, as she zealously guards her first friendship ("One good friend. Hale's childhood struggles with friends and family come to achingly poignant life in this candid graphic memoir. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Beautifully broken by portia mooreNow, here, there is another mind game going on, with series of even more shocking revelations, each making your previous belief an invalid one. In that book again, the writer played with us for a long while, making us believe in our assumptions, which were all far from the truth. Also, I read Black Lies by Alessandra Torre. The writer played with the reader like a puppet in that series. I once read “Love Me with Lies” by Tarryn Fisher and each book in the series made me believe something else. The book made me say, “OMG”, “No wayyyy!!!”, “What, come again?!!” “Whoops, what? Say that again!!” and it shocked me so many times. It answers all my questions, it blows my mind away and it brings the best HEA for me. This is the 4th book in the series and it is by far my favorite one. Oliver's passionate demonstrations of delight are powerful reminders of the bond between every individual, all living things, and the natural world. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver Mary Oliver A Thousand Mornings Mary Oliver Upstream: Selected Essays Mary Oliver Burning Down the White. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press from New and Selected Poems. She illuminates how a near miss with an alligator can be the catalyst for seeing the world as if for the second time/the way it really is. Do you cherish your humble and silky life? She makes us see the extraordinary in our everyday lives, how something as common as light can be an invitation/to happiness, /and that happiness, /when it's done right, /is a kind of holiness, /palpable and redemptive. Do you love this world? she interrupts a poem about peonies to ask the reader. Mary Oliver's perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from critics and readers alike. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet's first eight books. Since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems, Volume One. 5/11/2023 0 Comments 人渣反派自救系统 by 墨香铜臭Or, Bingqiu historical royalty au, in which Shen Yuan is chosen to become the imperial tutor of Luo Binghe, son of Emperor Tianlang Jun. In a fair trial, Shen Yuan would say that Luo Binghe was to blame, that Luo Binghe was the one who had tugged him out of his seat and ushered him into the library, claiming to need help on some scholarly project.īut a trial in the Forbidden City, against a prince, will be anything but fair. For his tutee also happens to be a son of the Emperor, one of a set of twins. They could get caught at any time, with Shen Yuan executed for his audacity. ((Collaboration with the lovely and talented and beta’d by the wonderful smile667 (smile6679 twitter) for beyond scandalous, having sex in the royal archives. An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works 5/11/2023 0 Comments The emile of jean jacques rousseauMcEachern suggests that parts of the 12mo edition may have gone through the press first but that the 8vo edition was distributed first. The first edition was printed in 8vo (1A) and 12mo (1B) formats from the same type in the same year. The printing history of the first edition of Émile is notoriously complex. During the French Revolution, Émile served as the inspiration for what became a new national system of education. Because of a controversial section of the book (“Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar”) Émile was banned in Paris and Geneva and was publicly burned in 1762, the year of its first publication. Émile provides Rousseau’s most widely read statement on the essential goodness of human nature, tracing the natural development of a child brought up in the country in accordance with nature and free from the corrupting influence of society. Contents generally clean.įirst edition (12mo) of Rousseau’s classic treatise on education, illustrated with 5 full-page engravings. 1 backed, small tears in blank margin of engraved frontispieces to first three volumes (not affecting image). Rubbing and edge wear to spines and boards, joints of vols. Bound uniformly in contemporary full mottled calf, marbled endpapers, red edges. Émile ou de l’Éducation….Ĥ volumes in 12mo, Vol. He confronts the postmodernist challenge in boots and all fashion with never a backward step. If ever a love-it-or-hate-it book has been written, it is likely to be this one. For postmodernity is not an 'ideology' or a position we chose to subscribe to or not postmodernity is precisely our condition: it is our fate." To think that I paid good money for this book.Īnother book on which I spent good money, this time wisely, was Richard J. In 1995, for example, Keith Jenkins explicitly attempted to displace the duo with a postmodernist challenge, the execrably written On "What is History?": from Carr and Elton to Rorty and White, whose claim to fame is that resoundingly unecumenical passage: "Today we live in a condition of postmodernity We do not have a choice about this. Although no longer on the cutting edge, they simply won't lie down or be put out to pasture, despite the clamouring of numerous competitors. Over thirty years later, these aging and grey-haired tomes soldier on unrepentantly. Great equals and opposites, each helped to "make" the other. Elton's The Practice of History have a Siamese-twins quality. MLA style: "In Defence of History." The Free Library. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Black Ice Matter by Gina ColeCole’s first book, the critically acclaimed collection of short stories Black Ice Matter, was violent, immersive and smart. These are some of the unpredictable stories in this collection that follow themes of ice and glaciers in the heat of the South Pacific and take us into unusual lives and explorations. And Cole brings something of Atwood’s world-building to mind her new science-fiction novel is a meditation on place and traverses deep space. Ginas collection Black Ice Matter won Best First Book Fiction at the 2017 Ockham. an is caught between traditional Fijian ways and the brutality of the military dictatorship a glaciology researcher falls into a crevasse and confronts the unexpected two women lose children in freak shooting accidents a young child in a Barbie Doll sweatshop dreams of a different life secondary school girls struggle with secrets about an addicted janitor and two women take a deathly trip through a glacier melt stream. Gina Cole (Fijian, Pkeha) has a PhD in creative writing from Massey. Sometimes it involves juxtapositions of time sometimes heat appears where only ice is expected. Extremes of heat and cold - across countries, through time and in feelings - thread through these stories: a researcher plummets into a crevasse and finds. Sometimes this is spatial or geographical sometimes it is metaphorical. This collection of short stories explores connections between extremes of heat and cold. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Daughter of the forest bookFrustrated in her attempts to destroy the family, Oonagh binds the brothers with a spell that only Sorcha can lift. Oonagh captivates Lord Colum with her sensual wiles but she cannot enchant the wary Sorcha. But now there is also an invader inside the keep: the Lady Oonagh, a sorceress as fair as day, but with a heart as black as night. For there are invaders outside the forest raiders from across the seas, Britons and Vikings bent on destruction. The keep at Sevenwaters is a remote, strange, quiet place, guarded by silent men who slip through the woodlands clothed in grey, and keep their weapons sharp. Set in the Celtic twilight of ancient Ireland, when myth was law and magic a force of nature, this is the tale of Sorcha, seventh child of a seventh son, the forbidding Lord Colum, and of her six beloved brothers. A magnificent saga set in the Celtic twilight of 10th century Ireland, when myth was law and magic was a power of nature, brilliantly brought to life: the legendary story of an evil stepmother opposed by a seventh child.Ī wicked woman, an evil curse, and a love that must triumph over impossible odds |