5/22/2023 0 Comments The push by ashley audrain summary![]() ![]() Still, Nadine will focus just on tonight. But her husband is of little help to her, her two grown children are consumed with their own concerns, and her mother-only her mother knows that today isn’t just a birthday party. ![]() Rewind to that morning, when Nadine is in her kitchen, making last-minute preparations before she welcomes more than a hundred guests to her home to celebrate her mother’s birthday. The neighbors all have cocktails, the catered food is exquisite-everything’s going according to plan.īut Nadine-devoted wife, loving mother, and doting daughter-finds herself standing over a dead body in her basement while her guests clink glasses upstairs. Nadine Walsh’s summer garden party is in full swing. In this tense, spellbinding thriller set over the course of a single day, a woman prepares for a party that goes dreadfully wrong-for fans of Ashley Audrain and Lisa Jewell. ![]()
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![]() Across its chapters, in keeping with its subject, extends a subsurface network of echoes, patterns and connections.” (p17) During the deep time voyage undertaken between those two remote points, the line about which the telling folds is the ever-moving present. It moves over its course from the dark matter formed at the universe’s birth to the nuclear features of an Anthropocene-to-come. “ Underland is a story of journeys into darkness, and descents made in search of knowledge. While you may find yourself drawn to particular chapters, Macfarlane seeks to identify patterns and make connections to enrich how people might move and think together across landscapes. ![]() Underland is a compilation of personal journeys into dark places where local guides share their knowledge about a specific place. Through concepts like ilira (the Inuit word for a sense of fear and awe, as subjective experience), Macfarlane explores the landscapes of forests and rivers, caverns and caves, and oceans and ice. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Defiant by Pamela Clare![]() ![]() ![]() As desire transforms into love, Connor will have to defy an empire to keep Sarah at his side. For if her uncle knew all that Connor had done to save her, he would surely kill him.īut the flames of passion, once kindled, are difficult to deny. When they reach civilization, however, it is she who must protect him. Torn by tragedy from her sheltered life in London, Lady Sarah is unprepared for the harshness of the frontier-or for the attraction she feels toward Connor. But the only way to free Sarah is for Connor to defeat the Shawnee warrior who kidnapped her-and claim her himself. ![]() ![]() Instead, he finds a brave and beautiful lass in desperate peril. Ordered to rescue Wentworth’s niece after the Shawnee take her captive, he expects Lady Sarah Woodville to be every bit as contemptible as her uncle. Ordered to rescue Wentworth's niece after the Shawnee take her captive, he expects Lady Sarah Woodville to be every bit as arrogant and contemptible as her uncle. Major Connor MacKinnon despises his commander, Lord William Wentworth, beyond all other men. Major Connor MacKinnon despises his commander, Lord William Wentworth, beyond all other men. Allied with the Indian tribes who lived beside them in the wilderness, the Scottish Highland warriors forged a new breed of soldier… Charged with a crime they didn’t commit, the MacKinnon brothers faced a death sentence until they agreed to serve the British Crown in the colonies and take up arms against the French. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Courting ruth emma miller![]() ![]() I was disappointed at the end of that book because I thought that Miriam chose the wrong man for the wrong reasons. ![]() ![]() Miriam’s story, Miriam’s Heart, also dealt with possible conversion issues as Miriam has to make a choice between a Mennonite and an Amish farmer. We got to see a little bit of Rebecca, too, and I’m looking forward to seeing her story soon as the Hannah’s Daughters series continues. It was also nice to see brief appearances from her sisters Ruth, Miriam, Anna, Johanna, and of course Susanna. Perhaps that is typical of Amish courting, though - I certainly wouldn’t know. Their romance is sweet and believable - although I think most of the romances in this series are far to short to make the kind of lifelong commitments the girls make. That’s the choice that Leah Yoder has to make when she meets Daniel Brown. So then what happens when one of the girls on said Amish farm thinks about converting to the Mennonite faith and moving across the world to be with a Mennonite missionary? But somehow, Emma Miller convinces me, temporarily, that I want to go live on an Amish farm. ![]() Then I remember that a) I’m an atheist, b) I’m a technology junkie, and…yeah. Sometimes I just want to abandon everything and move to an Amish farm in the middle of nowhere. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Her smoke rose up forever![]() ![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:hersmokeroseupfo0000tipt:epub:2bb6d804-44ac-4b15-ab6a-79d31052de0e Foldoutcount 0 Identifier hersmokeroseupfo0000tipt Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9c662293 Invoice 1652 Isbn 0870541609 Lccn 90032815 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-beta-20210815 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9711 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-1300116 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:13:09 Boxid IA40245203 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Surrender your sons book![]() Some of them have already been there for a long time. These kids need to find a way to escape, otherwise they'll be spending months, if not years on that island. So imagine a handful (or two handsful? It's probably "handful", but it's plural and I like making up my own rules so) of queer children and teenagers on a lonely island surrounded my water and a mobster of cruel, definitely not well-meaning and actually super evil adults pretending to "re-straighten" them while really they just enjoy oppressing and manipulation people that have less power than they do. I love it even more when it's gay and this book is admittedly rather gay. There will be blood, graphic violence, murder, abuse, slurs and more. It does not shy away from showing the ugly with all its open wounds and oozing sores. Luckily, my fears were completely unnecessary because deliver it did. That also means my hopes were mile high and my fears of it not being able to deliver had my knees shaking. ![]() It is no surprise that I have been hyping this book since I first learnt of its existence. ![]() Also know that I'm slightly buzzed so I do not guarantee that this review will make any sense. Hold my gin, cause I cannot do that while writing this. Conversion Camp Kids Gang Up on their Homophobic Guards - now that is a story I NEED in my life. ![]() ![]() ![]() But with this historic prosperity came a heavy cost: oceans began to die, wilderness vanished, the insecticide DDT poisoned ecosystems, wildlife perished, and chronic smog blighted major cities. During the 1950s, an unprecedented postwar economic boom took hold, with America becoming the world’s leading hyperindustrial and military giant. Not only was nuclear fallout a public health menace, but entire ecosystems were contaminated with radioactive materials. ![]() During the early Cold War years, the federal government routinely detonated nuclear devices in the Nevada desert and the Marshall Islands. After the Truman administration dropped atomic bombs on Japan to end World War II, a grim new epoch had arrived. ![]() With the detonation of the Trinity explosion in the New Mexico desert in 1945, the United States took control of Earth’s destiny for the first time. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The M.D by Thomas M. Disch![]() ![]() They spare two people they deem useful: Alice Nemerov, a doctor, and Jeremiah Orville, a former miner turned survivalist. One day in late summer, Anderson and his men kill a group of other survivors. ![]() A fundamentally religious man, Anderson uses the Old Testament to rule with an iron fist, successfully keeping the town intact up until this point. They are led by the conservative farmer Anderson and his sons, the brawny but stupid Neil, and the liberal yet loyal Buddy. Any marauders that attack the town are killed and chopped up into meat, which helps the townspeople reserve their cattle supply. The 200 or so survivors meek out a miserable existence by siphoning sap from the Plants to irrigate their corn crops. One of the last remaining communities on Earth is the small farming town of Tassel, which is surrounded by the ever-encroaching Plants. It's been nearly a decade since a mysterious race of aliens used giant 'Plants' and floating metallic spheres that breathe fire to wipe out most of humanity. The novel is also considered a cult classic of the New Wave Science Fiction movement of the 1960s. Published in 1965, it introduced many readers to his trademark nihilism and misanthropic characterization. The Genocides is the debut novel of the late sci-fi writer Thomas M. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Morning glory milking farm español![]() If (('gtm=off') const isAppRedirect = ('appRedirect') Ĭonst isAndroid = /Android/i.test(erAgent) Ĭonst isIphone = /iPhone|iPad|iPod/i. Violet is resolved to make a dent in her student loans and afford name-brand orange juice, and a one-sided crush on an out-of-her-league minotaur is not a part of her plan-unless her feelings aren't so one-sided after all. ![]() When a stern, deep-voiced client begins to specially request her for his sessions at the farm, maintaining her professionalism and keeping him out of her dreams is easier said than done. The clientele is Grade A certified prime beef, with the manly, meaty endowments to match. Hands-on work with minotaurs isn't something Violet ever considered as a career option, but she's determined to turn the opportunity into a reversal of fortune. Morning Glory Milking Farm offers full-time hours, full benefits, and generous pay with no experience needed. Morning Glory Farm offers full-time hours, full benefits, and generous pay with no experience needed. ![]() When a lifeline appears in the form of a very unconventional job in neighboring Cambric Creek, she has no choice but to grab at it with both hands. ![]() Violet is a typical, down-on-her-luck millennial: mid-twenties, over-educated and drowning in debt, on the verge of moving into her parents' basement. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Jack london alcoholic![]() ![]() He was not without faults, but this version oversimplifies. ![]() This caricaturing and projection of a Hemmingwayesque personality substitutes for a thoughtful examination of the evidence and subtle interpretation of this very complex man. Some journalists and encyclopedia writers continue to promulgate a version of London that does not hold up to scholarly scrutiny, namely, the womanizing alcoholic whose repeated failures resulted in his commiting suicide. Some biographers have even quoted characters from London's fiction as representing himself.Ī variety of circumstances have resulted in a mythology developing around London, much created by Irving Stone's Sailor on Horseback. Consequently, some readers too quickly presume that characters such as Martin Eden are an accurate representation of London's early adulthood. To date, we lack the hefty volume that is fully comprehensive.įurthermore, London folded many of his experiences and adventures into his fiction. ![]() As a result, some biographers used only secondary sources, such as newspaper articles and hearsay information. Part of the reason is the literary estate has until recent years limited access to the private papers and manuscripts at the Huntington Library and Utah State University. ![]() No definitive or fully reliable biography of Jack London exists to date. Jack London in a pose writing outside, c. ![]() |