5/10/2023 0 Comments A farewell to arms first edition![]() ![]() ![]() Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history. ![]() #WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. ![]()
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5/10/2023 0 Comments Imperial Woman by Pearl S. Buck![]() ![]() ![]() According to custom, she moved to the Forbidden City at the age of seventeen to become one of hundreds of concubines. Tzu Hsi was born into one of the lowly ranks of the Imperial dynasty. Buck recreates the life of one of the most intriguing rulers during a time of intense turbulence. Imperial Woman is the fictionalized biography of the last Empress in China, Ci-xi, who began as a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor and on his death became the de facto head of the Qing Dynasty until her death in 1908. ![]() ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Anything for You by Sarah Mayberry![]() ![]() Over two years she helped plot more than 240 hours of television, as well as writing freelance scripts. She took up a post as storyliner on Australia’s longest running soap, Neighbours. ![]() Her time there lead to the opportunity to launch a new decorator magazine for one of Australia’s major retailers, an invaluable and grueling experience that she found very rewarding.īut the opportunity to write fiction for a living soon lured Sarah away. She found her way into trade journalism, working off the principle that it was better to write anything for a living than nothing at all. This still left the burning question of how to pay the rent. When inspiration didn’t strike, she began to wonder if, perhaps, she needed to live some life first before writing about it. In line with this ambition, on graduation from high school she completed a bachelor of arts degree majoring in professional writing, then sat down to write a book. From the time that she first “stole” paper from kindergarten and stapled it together to make “books,” Sarah has always wanted to be a writer. ![]() Sarah Mayberry was born in Melbourne, Australia, and is the middle of three children. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments The luciano testament![]() ![]() They remained friends and close associates throughout most of their lives. After Luciano failed to pound Lansky to a pulp, the two became friends and joined forces in the protection scheme. One of the kids, Meyer Lansky, refused to ante up. If they refused to pay, Luciano beat them up rather than protect them. Luciano launched his first racket in 1907, charging Jewish and Italian kids in his Lower East Side neighborhood anything from one or two pennies to as much as a dime for his protection to and from school. Hammer's co-author, a Holly-wood producer. At the age of 10, he was charged with his first crime ( shoplifting). Once the idea of tapes had been dispelled, it was explained that Luciano's ''last testament'' was really based on notes taken by Mr. His criminal career began not long after. Luciano's family immigrated to the United States in 1906. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He warned his little girl that JT simply can't be trusted. But while Alicia is blinded by love, her dad certainly isn't. She doesn't know that JT has been sneaking around town with other women-or that he only married her to get close to her father's money and fame. Unfortunately, Alicia doesn't understand just how much like Curtis her new husband truly is. God has heeded her prayers, blessing her with Pastor JT Valentine, a handsome, dynamic man of the cloth with his own large congregation, just like her father. One month after her wedding to her second husband, she can't believe her good fortune. Her first marriage didn't work out, but that isn't going to stop Alicia Black, the privileged daughter of the charismatic Reverend Curtis Black, from getting what she wants. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Kissing Magic by Day Leitao![]() ![]() Kissing Magic is a YA enemies-to-lovers romantic fantasy and can be read on its own. Her mind tells her one thing, and yet her heart feels another. He’s hiding secrets, he might be lying to her, but he’s also making sure she’s safe. ![]() She’ll also have to return to that castle and face dangerous magic. If Karina wants to find answers, she'll have to trust him-despite knowing well that he’s no hero. ![]() Sian offers to keep her safe and deal with the castle and its dark magic once and for all. And now Karina’s being hunted by strange, creepy creatures and has no idea why. Sian’s been enchanted in a mysterious, ancient castle where dark magic has been awakened. She’s smart enough not to fall in love-or at least to tell herself not to.īut risking a broken heart is the smallest of her problems. But when Karina is called to break his spell with a kiss, she accepts it. Greedy, cunning, and selfish, Sian is not someone to be trusted. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Amazing crime novels and an amazing insight into Germany in the run up to WW2. The first three- The March Violets Trilogy-are superb. ![]() They’re escapist, tongue-in-cheek jaunts into 1920s England, complete with all the comforting tropes of the time and genre.Īlan Parks ((nominated for Best Paperback Original – Bobby March Will Live Forever): I would always recommend Phillip Kerr and his Bernie Gunther series. Sayers’ Lord Peter Winsey mysteries were a delightful introduction to the genre. Recommended by my British mother, Dorothy L. I’m currently at work on my follow-up to Clark and Division, and had fun weaving in Himes and his debut novel, which was written while he lived in the Los Angeles home of a Japanese American female writer who had been sent to a World War II detention center.Įlizabeth Penney (nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award – Chapter and Curse): Long before I became an author, I was a voracious reader of mysteries. Of course, his Rage in Harlem and his Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones series, but also his first standalone, If He Hollers Let Him Go, which isn’t quite a mystery per se. Naomi Hirahara (nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award – Clark and Division): I’ll have to select my go-to-Chester Himes. _ Molly Odintz: If you could pick one classic crime author to recommend to new mystery readers, who would it be? ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments The faithless cl clark![]() ![]() ![]() And, even more importantly, if Luca's uncle doesn't ratify the treaty, the Qazali could end up right back where they started. But she soon realizes that leading a country and leading a revolution are two very different tasks. Touraine has found a home in the newly free country of Qazal. When he calls for a 'Trial of Competence' and Luca's allies start disappearing from her side, she will need to find a way to prove her might. Luca needs to oust her uncle from the Balladairan throne once and for all and take her rightful place as Queen. ![]() But undoing the tangled web that binds the two nations will not be easy, and Touraine and Luca will face their greatest challenge yet. The rebels have won, and the empire is withdrawing from Qazal. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Vengeance road book![]() ![]() ![]() Prior to Liluye’s appearance, much of Vengeance Road is colored with anti-native sentiment, which I absolutely grant is on par for White settler in this timeframe, so while that made me uncomfortable as a 21st century reader, I was able to recognize the authenticity. The first big problem is the way Bowman approached the introduction and characterization of Liluye, an Apache whom Kate rescues from a burning building and then engages as a “scout” while searching for a mythical gold mine. That is, until the book derailed quite suddenly in the second half and became…well, “a fucking mess” is about the most accurate descriptor. There were some moments of soul-baring and sentimentality that felt off with the rest of the text, but by and large I believed in Vengeance Road and Kate’s story. And for much of the story, the concept works well. Kate is an angry girl with a cause, and Bowman doesn’t pretend otherwise. It is, of course, a story with a lot of grit and blood and shooting and revenge-these are things that come with the territory. ![]() In her novel, Vengeance Road, Erin Bowman takes readers on a journey through rough, dangerous 1870s Arizona, in a story told with the voice of Kate Thompson, an 18-year-old who has just come home to find her father brutally murdered. ![]() ![]() He wants to let them know they are not alone in their challenges, and that, if he could get sober, they can, too. He shares his story with the hope of helping others who are also struggling with substance abuse. Matthew Perry’s Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing takes readers through his life from childhood to the present day, letting them into his darkest moments of loneliness, health scares, and the big terrible thing he has faced and overcome: addiction. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry Read below for a brief overview of Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing. In Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, Perry shares his story of battling loneliness, health scares, and the big terrible thing: addiction. You’ve seen Matthew Perry play Chandler on the iconic show Friends, which actually hits a lot closer to reality than you might have imagined. ![]() ![]() What is Matthew Perry’s Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing about? What are the main takeaways from the actor’s memoir? ![]() |