5/10/2023 0 Comments Unfollow megan phelpsHaving also started comedy in Chicago, I've always looked up to Tina Fey. While this one has nothing to do with comedy, it should be required reading for every U.S. Dark Money by Jane Mayer (2016)Ī fascinating, well-researched account of how private money from far-right billionaires - namely, the Koch brothers - has corrupted our democracy. The world has shifted so much in the 23 years since this playfully brash exposé was first published, and while its larger-than-life author is now tragically dead, his writing endures. Bourdain is as fearless as he is amusing, surgically eviscerating fine dining with outrageous and oftentimes unappetizing anecdotes about his years in its trenches. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (2000)įor me, this is an all-time favorite memoir.
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5/10/2023 0 Comments Blue truck springtimeBlue is therefore surprised (but readers may not be) when he pulls into his garage to be greeted by all his friends with a shiny blue valentine just for him. But as Blue heads home, his deliveries complete, his headlight eyes are sad and his front bumper droops ever so slightly. With each delivery there is an exchange of Beeps from Blue and the appropriate animal sounds from his friends, Blue’s Beeps always set in blue and the animal’s vocalization in a color that matches the card it receives. His bed overflowing with cards, Blue sets out to deliver a yellow card with purple polka dots and a shiny purple heart to Hen, one with a shiny fuchsia heart to Pig, a big, shiny, red heart-shaped card to Horse, and so on. Little Blue Truck feels, well, blue when he delivers valentine after valentine but receives nary a one. Or so she dreams - she wakes up in a cold sweat as a 12-year-old and can’t help but wonder if she just dreamed 8 years of her future life in a single night. Princess Mia Luna Tearmoon of the Tearmoon Empire, aka the Princess of the Guillotine, died young as a popular revolution swept through her country and, as the last royal remaining, she met a violent and unhappy end at age 20. 5/10/2023 0 Comments The cruel prince series book 4Faerie is a strange place where immortal, multihued, multiformed denizens can’t lie but can twist everything Jude-who can lie-is an outlier, and her first-person, present-tense narration reveals more than she would choose. Black’s writing is both contemporary and classic her world is, at this point, intensely well-realized, so that some plot twists seem almost inevitable. Much of the story revolves around plotting (the Queen of the Undersea wants the throne Jude’s Faerie father wants power Jude’s twin, Taryn, wants her Faerie betrothed by her side), but the underlying tension-sexual and political-between Jude and Cardan also takes some unexpected twists. Jude’s self-loathing and anger at the traumatic events of her childhood (her Faerie “dad” killed her parents, and Faerie is not a particularly easy place even for the best-adjusted human) drive her ambition, which is tempered by her desire to make the world she loves and hates a little fairer. A heady blend of courtly double-crossing, Faerie lore, and toxic attraction swirls together in the sequel to The Cruel Prince (2018).įive months after engineering a coup, human teen Jude is starting to feel the strain of secretly controlling King Cardan and running his Faerie kingdom. 5/9/2023 0 Comments Carolyn wyethThe Wyeth who started it all was her husband, N. Most of the rest of her family also is near at hand. Her son Andrew, much of whose fame is based on painting the Chadds Ford area, lives upstream a mile or two and, except in the summer, when he paints in Maine, visits his mother every day. Andy wouldn't let me put curtains on the win dows because he wanted to see the outside.” “I was a city girl, but here” we're surrounded by our trees. “The country is so beau iful,” she said, looking out from a beatned living room upon cerise azaleas in the forested yard. To her the good life is living anonymously and peacefully, as she has for the last 60 years, in her secluded, attractive but un pretentious brick house on a wooded hillside in this rural hamlet overlooking the his toric Brandywine River. The spry little woman has never cared to be the center of attention. At the age of 86 a news con ference, her first, was not her idea of a good time. 5/9/2023 0 Comments Sartre on beingHe is a coward,” we should say “He is a coward because he runs away” instead of saying “TheyĬare for their children because they are devoted parents,” we should say “They are devoted In a certain way that we establish an identity. In his view it is not true that we act in a certain way because of our identity. Jean-Paul Sartre, however, is unsatisfied with this kind of explanation, because he thinks it is back-to-front. So we can understand why human beings act by looking to some aspect of their personal Something about who the person is and what they are like: “She treats the patient because she isĪ doctor” “He runs away because he is a coward” “They care for their childrenīecause they are devoted parents.” These explanations refer in some way to the identity of the But a satisfying answer will often tell us We do not distinguish between these words very carefully. Questions will point to a great range of causes, reasons, motives, or motivations. Why does someone do one thing rather than another? What explains the action? Our answers to these SUBSCRIBE NOW Articles Identity and Freedom in Being and Nothingness Stephen Wang continues our debate on these essential aspects of being human by considering what Jean-Paul Sartre had to say about them. 5/9/2023 0 Comments Fable adrienne young book 2You don’t simply read Fable, you are ensnared by it. “The salty sea and the promise of something hidden in its depths, had me reading this book at a furious pace. Together, they will have to survive more than the treacherous storms that haunt the Narrows if they’re going to stay alive.įable takes you on a spectacular journey filled with romance, intrigue and adventure. To do so Fable enlists the help of a young trader named West to get her off the island and across the Narrows to her father.īut her father’s rivalries and the dangers of his trading enterprise have only multiplied since she last saw him and Fable soon finds that West isn’t who he seems. The only thing that keeps her going is the goal of getting off the island, finding her father and demanding her rightful place beside him and his crew. To survive she must keep to herself, learn to trust no one and rely on the unique skills her mother taught her. The next day her father abandoned her on a legendary island filled with thieves and little food. It’s been four years since the night she watched her mother drown during an unforgiving storm. Where a young girl must find her place and her family while trying to survive in a world built for men.Īs the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home seventeen-year-old Fable has ever known. Welcome to a world made dangerous by the sea and by those who wish to profit from it. But when Liza arrives on the first day of the bake-off, she realizes there's a catch: all of the contestants are young Asian American men her mother has handpicked for Liza to date. With college just around the corner, Liza agrees to help out at the bakery's annual junior competition to prove to her mom that she's more than her rebellious tendencies once and for all. Yang is the owner of Houston's popular Yin & Yang Bakery. The one thing mother and daughter do agree on is their love of baking. Yang's traditional values, especially when it comes to dating. Compared to her older sister Jeannie, Liza is stubborn, rebellious, and worst of all, determined to push back against all of Mrs. Smart, kind, and pretty, she dreams big and never shies away from a challenge. To her friends, high school senior Liza Yang is nearly perfect. For fans of Jenny Han, Jane Austen, and The Great British Baking Show, A Taste for Love, is a delicious rom com about first love, familial expectations, and making the perfect bao. Others require an aggressive treatment plan. Some require no treatment, only watchful waiting. There are many different types of tumors that affect the brain, spine, head, and neck. We are a multidisciplinary team of neurosurgeons, head and neck surgeons, medical oncologists, neuro-oncologists, speech-language pathologists, ENT specialists, and radiation oncologists offering the latest treatment for head and neck cancer, neurological cancers, and metastatic cancers. Barrow-ASU Center for Preclinical Imagingīarrow Oncology is a full-service, complete cancer care team that allows patients with benign and malignant tumors of the head and neck, brain, and spine to have all of their oncological services provided and coordinated in the same center.Department of Translational Neuroscience.Department of ENT and Skull Base Surgery.For Providers & Researchers Show submenu. Parkinson’s Disease & Movement Disorders.Center for Transitional Neuro-Rehabilitation. He’s motivated by a personal, philosophical interest in the case of Roger’s murder (see Detection theme), and answers to his own personal code of right and wrong. Over the course of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie draws an important distinction between the law-symbolized by Inspector Raglan, who is duty-bound to investigate Roger Ackroyd’s murder and prosecute the killer in court-and ethics, symbolized by Hercule Poirot.įrom the beginning, Christie shows that Poirot marches to the beat of his own drum. |