5/30/2023 0 Comments In thin air book![]() The first-person narration is casual and coarse, as befits a former mercenary, yet imagistic and sensuously attuned What follows is a dazzlingly intricate game of political double- and triple-cross, spiced with tastily kinetic battle sequences. Now down on his luck and living in a Mars district colloquially known as the Gash – like everything in the future, its streets look like those of Blade Runner – he gets a job as a bodyguard for a visitor from Earth, part of a delegation conducting an “audit” on the troublesome colony. ![]() ![]() Veil used to be an “overrider”, employed by the amusingly named gigacorporation COLIN to lie holed up in cryogenic stasis aboard commercial spaceships in case of mutiny or other profit-endangering emergency, at which point he would emerge from his hatch and kill all the troublemakers. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments Book on the sackler family![]() ![]() “I realized I didn’t love films as much as I loved business,” he says, noting that his ambition is to “build really, truly, big businesses” and that “it’s so clear that unless you’re coming to the table with billions and billions of dollars to spend on movies, it’s so difficult to create a major studio.” Soon, though, he turned his attention to media investing. (Sackler isn’t the only family member involved in the film business his cousin Madeleine is a noted director whose documentary about prison life, HBO’s It’s a Hard Truth Ain’t It, received an Emmy nomination in 2020.) ( THR described the movie upon its 2012 release as “crackling” it scooped up prizes at Sundance and Berlin.) Two years later, he backed Jenny Slate’s acclaimed comedy Obvious Child, which landed a pair of Independent Spirit Award nominations, and in 2015 he bought into Gothic-horror The Witch, which helped launch the pre- Queen’s Gambit career of Anya Taylor-Joy. “It helped put us on the map,” he says of the project, which provided an early screen role for Letitia Wright. ![]() ![]() Rooks Nest’s first film, which Sackler fully produced, was Sally El Hosaini’s debut My Brother the Devil, about two London siblings who become low-level drug dealers. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments A merry little cute meet![]() Forced to keep her work as Bianca under wraps, Bee quickly learns this is a task a lot easier said than done. But when Bee’s favorite producer casts her to star in a Christmas movie he’s making for the squeaky-clean Hope Channel, Bee’s career is about to take a more family-friendly direction. With a huge following and two supportive moms, Bee couldn’t ask for more. ![]() Bee Hobbes (aka Bianca Von Honey) has a successful career as a plus-size adult film star. You can read this before A Merry Little Meet Cute PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Ĭowritten by #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Murphy and USA Today bestselling author Sierra Simone–a steamy plus-size holiday rom-com about an adult film star who is semi-accidentally cast as a lead in a family-friendly Christmas movie, and the former bad-boy pop star she falls in love with. Here is a quick description and cover image of book A Merry Little Meet Cute written by Julie Murphy which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy ![]() ![]() Praise for The Seth Books by Jane Roberts Make no divisions between the physical and the spiritual in your lifetimes, for the spiritual speaks with a physical voice, and the corporeal body is the creation of the spirit.” - Jane Roberts, Speaking for Seth “We are Gods couched in creaturehood,” Seth says, “We are given the ability to form our experience as our thoughts and feelings become actualized.” His message is clear: we are not at the mercy of the subconscious, or helpless before forces we cannot understand. He stresses the individual’s capacity for conscious action and provides excellent exercises that show us how to apply his empowering insights to any life situation. ![]() ![]() In this perennial bestseller, Seth challenges our assumptions about the nature of reality, and shows us how we create our personal reality through our conscious beliefs about ourselves, others, and the world. The “Seth Books” by Jane Roberts are world-renowned for comprising one of the most profound bodies of work ever written on the true nature of reality. ![]() From the Bestselling Author of Seth Speaks ![]() ![]() He arrives on the Sicilian shoreline and soon engages in battle with Turnus and his army. Juno, the goddess, tries to thwart him partially due to his dalliance with Queen Dido - the queen of Juno’s patron city Carthage. Exiled from Troy when the Hellenes pillaged and destroyed the city, Aeneas launches a voyage with his fleet to find a home. In Virgil’s “Aeneid” - a national epic poem sometimes considered propaganda, other times considered subversive - Virgil details the journey and war of the hero Aeneas. ab urbe condita or “from the founding of the city.” The legendary origins of the city are recounted by authors like Livy and Virgil. Roman authors often dated important events using this date as a vantage point using the acronym A.U.C. On April 21, 753 B.C.E., Rome was founded, or so the myth goes. On the anniversary of Rome, here’s a brief look back at the founding of Rome, its transition from monarchy to republic, the fall of the republic, the fall of the empire and the inventions of Rome. Once the capital of a sprawling empire, Rome’s cultural history has influenced the world in several different ways. ![]() German author and poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe once said about Rome, “Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.” The city has a complex and rich history behind it. ![]() Friday is the anniversary of the founding of Rome. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Home by Toni Morrison![]() But after nearly half a century, denouncing brutality becomes a fairly circular enterprise. It has been 42 years since the publication of The Bluest Eye (1970), her groundbreaking first novel about self-hatred and incestuous rape in the black community. ![]() The nobility and necessity of the enterprise does not quite offset the sense of weariness that comes from that "another instalment", and Updike had a point: exposure of infamies and hardship is a fairly limited artistic ambition.Īt Morrison's best, in novels such as Beloved (1987) and Song of Solomon (1977), she did much more than expose: she sang, excoriated, harrowed, educated, mythologised and uplifted. ![]() R eviewing Toni Morrison's last novel, A Mercy (2008), in the New Yorker, John Updike referred to it as "another instalment of her noble and necessary fictional project of exposing the infamies of slavery and the hardships of being African-American". ![]() ![]() ![]() As she did not have any morphine with her, she decided to place the King’s letter on the young Kikuyu’s chest and tell him that a letter from a king “will do away with all pain.” It worked, and from that day onward the King’s “miracle-working” letter became part of her medicine stock. When inspecting her land one day, she found a young man from the Kikuyu tribe whose leg had been crushed under a felled tree. ![]() “Barua a Soldani” means “letter from a King.” It is a story about a letter Karen Blixen received from Danish King Christian X as thanks for a lion-skin she had sent him. But there was so much more to one of Kenya’s most famous authors than ‘Out of Africa’.Īs part of our women’s month celebration, we looked into the life and work of this fascinating woman, and found so much more than a wealthy baroness who had a love affair with (and in) Africa. This is probably the first thing most people think about when they hear the name Karen Blixen. “I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.” WORDS by KATARINA MANCAMA | IMAGES SUPPLIED by CHRISTIE FYNN MORGAN ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The kiss of a stranger sarah eden![]() Eden read her first Jane Austen novel in elementary school and has been an Austen addict ever since. But their hopes are dashed when forces conspire to split asunder what fate has granted, and as a battle of wits escalates into a life-threatening confrontation, will it be possible for Crispin and Catherine to Live happily ever after? Their unfolding relationship reveals encouraging surprises for both of them, and privately, each of them wonders if theirs may become a true marriage of the heart. Trapped between an unwanted marriage and a hasty annulment, which would leave his reputation tainted and Catherine’s utterly ruined, Crispin begins guiding his wife’s transformation from a socially petrified country girl to a lady of society. ![]() ![]() ![]() The dismayed young lord has no choice but to marry Miss Catherine Thorndale, who lacks both money and refinement and assumes all men are as vicious as her guardian uncle. But he couldn’t be more mistaken - the maid is not only a lady of birth, she’s the niece of a very large, exceptionally angry gentleman, who claims Crispin has compromised his niece beyond redemption. When Crispin, Lord Cavratt, thoroughly and scandalously kisses a serving woman in the garden of a country inn, he assumes the encounter will be of no consequence. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Goodreads iron widow![]() ![]() ![]() The royalties will get to me with months of delay no matter where you buy it and which format. Since I get asked this a lot: No, there's no way to buy my books directly from me. Authors cannot be expected to pump out bestsellers on theoretical money. In the meantime, I had no choice but to write and sell another series, Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor, my Yugioh-inspired Chinese myth & history adventure book, and make YouTube videos to make ends meet. Because it's publishing standard to only pay authors twice per year, and for sales periods months ago, I didn't see another cent until late April 2022, almost 8 months after Iron Widow released. I got exactly 14k USD in 2020, the year I got my book deal, and 4k in 2021, the year it came out and sold at least 65k copies. Sorry this is going to be so late publishing didn't pay me enough to prioritize writing it. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Hex hall![]() ![]() In the beginning it was quite the one-sided love for Sophie since he was dating Elodie Parris at the time. Fans of Rachel Hawkins’ Hex Hall series will shriek with joy over this dark spin-off adventure full of humor, magic, and snark! Fifteen-year-old Izzy Brannick was trained to fight monsters. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. School Spirits (A Hex Hall Novel, 4) Paperback – May 20, 2014. Is School Spirits part of the Hex Hall series? How many books are in the Hex Hall series? 5 What is the plot of the Hex Hall series?. ![]() 3 Is School Spirits part of the Hex Hall series?.2 What is the order of Hex Hall series?.1 How many books are in the Hex Hall series?. ![]() |