![]() Despite his success, his estrangement from the Holloways is still a sore spot he can't quite heal, and a called-in favor becomes Glenn's worst nightmare. Over time things worked out: Glenn successfully built a strong business, created a new home, and forged a life he could be proud of. ![]() ![]() Without support from his father and brother, and too proud to accept assistance from anyone else, he had to start from scratch. As if that wasn't enough, he then poured salt in the wound by walking away from the ranch he'd grown up on to open the restaurant he'd always dreamed of. When the Dust Settles Glenn Holloway's predictable life ended the day he confessed his homosexuality to his family. When Stef gets the chance to prove his devotion, he doesn't hesitate-despite the risk to his health-and Rand takes the opportunity to show everyone that sometimes life's best surprises come after the sunset. Finally, after recognizing how unfair he's being, Stef makes a commitment, and Rand is over the moon. ![]() Rand wants him home on the ranch Stef wants an exit strategy in case Rand ever decides to throw him out. But the course of true love never does run smooth. A Timing Anthology After the Sunset Two years after riding off into the sunset with ranch owner Rand Holloway, Stefan Joss has made a tentative peace with his new life, teaching at a community college. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Part of the problem for Hannah is that she is trying to figure out how much of the blame for Lillian's death can be put on her for either not making sure she got help, or even kind of helping her in small ways.Īlong with the stress from this, it's been one of the hottest summers in her town, and there has been a murder of a young girl. Her old crowd of friends are still mostly friends, although one of them is really straying from Lillian's ways, and Hannah is less and less wanting to be around her. She comes out around people and smiles, but doesn't let them know what is going on inside. Ever since then, Hannah has not been the same. The death was caused by anorexia or at least some form of eating disorder. Her best friend Lillian, who died about 6 months ago, is now haunting her. ![]() ![]() Really, a little of all of these was in the story. A ghost story, a serial killer mystery solved by a teen, or even just a plain old teen angst story. I was unsure at first what the actual story was going to be. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "A penetrating and persuasive writer with an astonishing array of documentation to implement his attacks."- The Catholic Journalist ![]() It is a bold and entertaining exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today. ![]() Written with lucid and compelling style, this book goes beyond truncated modes of thought, inviting us to entertain iconoclastic views, and to ask why things are as they are. He affirms the relevance of taboo ideologies like Marxism, demonstrating the importance of class analysis in understanding political realities and dealing with the ongoing collision between ecology and global corporatism. He also maps out the external and internal forces that destroyed communism, and the disastrous impact of the “free-market” victory on eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Parenti shows how “rational fascism” renders service to capitalism, how corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a mass empowerment against the forces of exploitative privilege. Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology-terms often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti’s trademark. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rundell is also the author of a book for adults, Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise. Her bestselling books for children have been translated into more than 30 languages and have won multiple awards. Katherine Rundell is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where she works on Renaissance literature. Standout scholar Katherine Rundell shows readers the many sides of his life, his obsessions, his blazing words, and his tempestuous Elizabethan times - unveiling Donne as the most remarkable mind and as a lesson in living. He was a scholar of law, a maritime adventurer, an MP, a priest, the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral - and perhaps the greatest love poet in the history of the English language. ![]() Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne gives readers a window into the little-known myriad lives the poet John Donne lived. The announcement was streamed to readers around the world via the Baillie Gifford Prize social media channels. The winner was announced by Chair of Judges Caroline Sanderson at a ceremony hosted at the Science Museum and generously supported by The Blavatnik Family Foundation. 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell has been named winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022. ![]() ![]() ![]() Escaping from an attic where they had been held captive over the long, dark winter, a family of tiny people sets up house in an old rectory. It was a little longer and slower-paced than the others, but a gripping story nevertheless. ![]() It’s simply the last one Mary Norton wrote, and when it’s over, it seems a pity she did not live to write more. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. The last of the Borrowers stories, written in 1982 (about 30 years after the first book in the series), isn’t really an ending. Urn:lcp:borrowersavenged00nort_0:epub:f72559a9-cac1-469c-a6ee-8a7170f017a9 Extramarc University of Alberta Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier borrowersavenged00nort_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t24b5h95k Invoice 11 Isbn 9780152047313Ĩ2047937 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.6 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Openlibrary O元701609M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:37:52 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1110201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Boston Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st Harcourt Young Classics ed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why no high tech? The surveyor notes that all of their equipment is at least 30 years old, and indeed, everything they use is analog. But the biologist's husband apparently hiked far beyond where the border was supposed to be, begging the question.is there a border at all? Is it a mistake (lie) to think of Area X as a cordoned off section of our own world? Is it somewhere else entirely in space or time?ģ. What is the border? The psychologist spoke of a "veil" that prevented the expeditions from realizing exactly how they "crossed over" into Area X, and that the borders are slowly expanding into the normal world. Mark's Wildlife Refuge in Florida, where the author often hikes.Ģ. ![]() ![]() And from the flora/fauna, perhaps Florida? EDIT: I listened to Boing Boing's interview with the author, and he confirmed that Area X is St. Where is Area X? Judging from context clues, I'm guessing somewhere on the eastern coast of the United States. But I'd like to know what you think, if you've read Annihilation:ġ. Here's a list of some of the biggest questions I have after part one, many of which will probably be answered (at least indirectly) in the sequels. Here's a map of Area X if you haven't seen it, BTW. Just finished reading Annihilation, the first in Vandermeer's Southern Reach trilogy (with two sequels on the way later this year). ![]() ![]() In addition to being an accountant, Bob works with Darcy dealing in rare coins. Married for twenty-seven years, home-maker Darcellen Masden, and her accountant husband, Bob Anderson apparently share “a good marriage, one of the 50% or so” (266-67). The narrative reveals the fake foundations of apparently harmonious American family life. In his short story, “A Good Marriage,” King focuses on the intricacies of the female mind in order to cast a light on modern marriage. The theme of entrapment is also important, as highlighted by Barbara Welter, for instance, who describes the Gothic wife as “a hostage in the home” (Welter 15). ![]() King’s characters and settings are often familiar, and so reinforce the Gothic convention of dealing with domestic themes threatened by transgressive forces such as deprave sexuality and violence. ![]() This game is focused on unveiling and exploring his characters’ and the readers’ repressed childhood fears, or the letting out of the uncanny. Stephen King has been involved in a game of hide and seek with his “Constant Reader” for over thirty-eight years. ![]() ![]() “Misdirected and excessive lighting are the main cause of sky glow and light pollution,” says Chip Harrison, park manager for Cherry Springs State Park in Pennsylvania, one of the IDA’s certified Dark Sky Parks. The IDA is a non-profit organization fighting against light pollution to preserve the quality of the night sky. The International Dark Sky Association (IDA) recently added the Grand Canyon National Park to its certified list, a process that took nearly three years and involved the park converting most of its 5,000 light fixtures to “dark-sky compliant.” Thankfully, there’s a ready-made list of destinations around the world under dark skies that offer the best chances to spot meteors, see stars and ponder constellations. A study in 2016 in Science Advances found a majority of US and European citizens could not see the Milky Way at night because of all the artificial light. ![]() ![]() We know the earliest people in recorded history were fascinated with space, and that continues into our modern era.Īnd while we have technologies to study the heavens they probably couldn’t even dream of, those earlier observers did have one edge: No light pollution. ![]() ![]() ![]() So why does it feel like I’ve finally found the home of my heart?Īnd how can I get Knox Sunday to… pick me? My big life is waiting for me somewhere other than Little Pippin Hollow. ![]() He claims he’s not looking for anything permanent, and I’ve never been one to put down roots. A big city life in Boston he left behind when he returned to his hometown to help his family. Now I find myself making excuses to delay my big dreams… just for a little while.īut Knox has unfulfilled dreams of his own. Or to find a purpose in the tiny Vermont town whose claim to fame seemed to be apple-based products and copious amounts of charm.Īnd I most definitely hadn’t expected to fall for Knox Sunday, my grumpy, burly, fifteen-years-older, reluctant roommate, with his infuriating lectures, his hot-as-fire body, his superior attitude, his snarky humor, and his stealth cuddles. ![]() I had not expected to be welcomed into a family of gorgeous and weirdly efficient lumberjack-types myself. To maybe, possibly encounter some lumberjacks in their natural habitat before moving on to the dream career that awaited me in the city. To get away from my overprotective brothers. The job at Sunday Orchard was supposed to be temporary.Ī chance to gain some work experience. ![]() ![]() And that's pretty much what made me decide that no, I didn't need to read any more of this-the way that incest is portrayed as a normal and even healthy thing, particularly father-daughter incest. What I'd forgotten is all the other fucking of family members that goes on in this book, too. I've been calling this book "The One Where Lazarus Long Travels Back in Time to Fuck His Mom" and that's pretty much accurate. Structurally, there's not much wrong with this book.Ĭontent-wise, well. There's an authenticity to it that is really compelling. Heinlein definitely had a way with both dialogue and narrative authority-what I mean by the latter is that as you're reading, you want to believe what the narrator is saying. There are some good things about this book. And I suppose it was, but not in the way I thought it would be. Why was I reading this book anyhow?īecause it was the first Heinlein I ever read (given to 14 year old me by my father) and I thought it would be interesting to re-read it. ![]() I tried so hard to finish Heinlein's last book, To Sail Beyond the Sunset and I just couldn't. ![]() |