People you meet on vacation5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together-lay everything on the table, make it all right. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. For most of the year they live far apart-she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown-but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. ![]() And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. She has insatiable wanderlust he prefers to stay home with a book. ![]() 312) AboutĬlick to read other books Other Books By Emily Henry “So I just keep holding on to him and tell myself that, for now, I should enjoy the moment. ![]()
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Clockwork Dolls by William Meikle5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Dark Renaissance finally ended their on-again, off-again dance, leaving me with another couple of books to home. ![]() ![]() Next up from them is RAMSKULL, a Scottish Hammer horror tribute with Satanism and bloody mayhem on a small Scottish island, so look out for that.ĭarkFuse weren’t the only publisher to disappear. They’ve already brought out the new novel SONGS OF DREAMING GODS and the reprint of THE HOLE, as well as the three Sigils and Totems novellas. I’ve since managed to place all the works at Crossroad Press who are doing a sterling job of getting old and new books into ebook, print and audiobook. It started with DarkFuse publishing my novel FUNGOID to great reviews, only for the publisher to fold just as sales were starting to take off, leaving the book, and all my other DarkFuse titles in limbo. ![]() Eric schlosser website5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Schlosser’s first book, "Fast Food Nation" (2001), helped start a revolution in how Americans think about what they eat. ![]() And his work defies easy categorization, earning praise not only from liberal publications like the Nation, but also from Fortune, the Financial Times, and the National Review. His aim is to shed light on worlds that are too often hidden. Over the years he’s followed the harvest with migrant farm workers in California, spent time with meatpacking workers in Texas and Colorado, told the stories of marijuana growers and pornographers and the victims of violent crime, gone on duty with the New York Police Department Bomb Squad, and visited prisons throughout the United States. As an investigative journalist, Eric Schlosser tries to explore subjects ignored by the mainstream media and give a voice to people at the margins of society. ![]() ![]() She also explained the story’s subtitle, “Variations on a Theme by William James,” noting that she was inspired to write the story by something James, an American psychologist and philosopher, stated in his “The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life”: “ kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the faroff edge of things should lead a life of lonely torment.how hideous a thing would be when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain.” Although James believed people would not accept such a bargain, Le Guin presents in “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” a society that does just that so that she can explore the reasons why people avoid or renounce moral responsibility. ![]() Le Guin once wrote in a preface to the story that it is a critique of American moral life. ![]() One of the major themes in “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” is morality. Although all of the citizens of Omelas are aware of the child’s situation, most of them accept that their happiness is dependent on the child’s “abominable misery.” Sometimes, however, a few people, after visiting the child and seeing the deplorable conditions under which it lives, leave Omelas forever. Le Guin’s classic short story is of a Utopian society whose survival depends on the existence of a child who is locked in a small room and mistreated. ![]() ![]() ![]() With no shortage of suspects, Liz and Nate dash to find a killer who may be working his or her way down a naughty list. Bounetheau's body is found in Stella Maris, and Liz and Nate are the police chief's on-call detectives, they're on the case. Boyer is the author of the USA Today bestselling Liz Talbot mystery series. ![]() Liz and Nate already unwrapped quite a few family secrets while searching for the Bounetheau's missing granddaughter last year-enough to make them swear to steer forever clear of the entire clan. Bounetheau, patriarch of one of Charleston's wealthiest families. Did Old Saint Nick have too much eggnog at the boat parade? No indeedy-Santa's been shot. On a morning beach run, Liz spots a wooden rowboat run aground with Santa inside. Liz's nerves are shot, and she hasn't even decked a single hall. Meanwhile Nate, Liz's husband and partner, is spending money like he prints it in the attic on a mysterious family Christmas celebration. She hasn't seen her best friend, Colleen, in weeks and fears she may never see her again in this life. ![]() It's the most wonderful time of the year, but Private Investigator Liz Talbot is struggling to feel festive. ![]() If I Stopped Hating You by Colby Wilkens5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() GuatemalaIcon Group International, I Dont Hate You MamaRay Lawrence. But if they can’t stop the nightmarish ghosts pursuing them, they may never have a chance to find out. The People Keeper: How Managers Can Attract, Motivate and Retain Better. It turns out there’s more to both their stories than they knew, and maybe they never should have been enemies to begin with. ![]() An almost kiss in castle ruins has them both second-guessing their feelings, and the hauntings of the castle that only they can see push them even closer together. Neil, trying to overcome a serious case of self-doubt, and Pen, desperate for another chance at writing, agree to play nice.īut as the retreat begins and night descends, Pen and Neil are stunned to find themselves stuck in a real-life ghost story. ![]() When mutual friend Laszlo invites them to a writing retreat at a haunted Scottish castle, they both go, desperate for inspiration, but neither know the other is set to come. In the months since, both have been suffering under the weight of writer’s block. 4 months earlier, horror authors Penelope Skinner (Cherokee) and Neil Storm (Choctaw) had a public argument that turned into a physical altercation at a panel. ![]() ![]() He later said his aim was to educate, inspire and uplift his readers. Graves launched his magazine, Black Enterprise, in 1970. ![]() Graves died Monday after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, his son, Earl “Butch” Graves Jr, said in a post on Twitter. NEW YORK (AP) - Earl Graves Sr., who championed black businesses as the founder of the first African American-owned magazine focusing on black entrepreneurs, has died. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. ![]() The heroes of olympus 25/12/2023 ![]() "Seven half-bloods shall answer the call, (Hazel Levesque, Percy Jackson, Jason Grace, Annabeth Chase, Frank Zhang, Leo Valdez, Piper McLean) The story is continued in the sequel series The Trials of Apollo. The final entry in the series, The Blood of Olympus, was published on October 7, 2014. The first book of the series, The Lost Hero, was published on October 12, 2010. Riordan introduces Roman mythology in the series alongside several new characters, primarily from the Roman Camp Jupiter. ![]() The series can be read as a standalone volume, but is meant to be read after Percy Jackson and the Olympians. In the fourth book of the series, there is also a fight against Tartarus, which, in Greek mythology, was the darkest and deepest point of the Underworld. The novels detail a conflict between Greek demigods, Roman demigods, and Gaia (Roman name Terra). The Heroes of Olympus is a pentalogy of fantasy- adventure novels written by American author Rick Riordan. ![]() Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book ![]() Fantasy, young adult fiction, mystery, adventure, Greek and Roman mythological fiction ![]() ![]() This at least stopped people arguing at cross-purposes, which caused 90% of the trouble in the past. 'instead, it was replaced by a whole constellation of specialized words. that's why it slowly dropped out of use during the third millennium except as an expletive-in some cultures, too obscene for polite use. " 'the trouble with the word god,' he began slowly, 'is that it never meant the same thing to any two people - especially if they were philosophers. My favorite part is the explanation of god that one of Clarke's characters gives: The exchange of technology and culture is a delight to experience through the eyes of Clarke's well-written characters. Ship Magellan has crossed 50 light years, stopping at planet Thalassa to pick up some water from their ocean. Mostly a water-world, these people are happily settled. A ship bound from the now-destroyed earth comes to a planet where one of Earth's seedships had landed 7 centuries ago. It's thought-provoking and full of good vibes. ![]() Dune messiah sparknotes5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Paul’s efforts have cost billions of lives. ![]() ![]() With the zealous support of the Fremen, Paul deposed the previous, corrupt Emperor Shaddam Corrino 12 years ago since then, Fremen armies have perpetrated a violent religious war, referred to as the “Jihad,” to bring the universe under Paul’s governance. In the next two novels, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune, Herbert boldly and systematically traces Pauls downward path from liberator/messiah to hated. The second novel in Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’ series represented a critical point that propelled the entire story of ‘Dune’ forward. Paul’s abilities established him as the “Mahdi,” the messianic figure of the indigenous people of Dune, the Fremen. ‘Dune Messiah’ was initially serialized in Galaxy magazine before getting published in 1969. Paul’s natural prescience was heightened further when he traveled to the desert planet Arrakis, known as Dune, where he was exposed to the spice, or melange, a psychoactive substance created exclusively by the planet’s gigantic sandworms. Known as the “Kwisatz Haderach,” Paul possesses profound mental and physical capabilities, including prescience. Paul is the result of a centuries-long selective breeding program by the pseudo-religious sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit. An unnamed Fremen priest interrogates the historian Bronso of Ix, who awaits execution for his heretical history of Paul Atreides, Emperor of the Known Universe in the year 10,208. This section is presented in transcribed question and answer format. ![]() |