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Snowed In With Him by Martha Sweeney7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() She's been creative since she was little, always drawing, coloring or making crafts, so her venture into being an author was a natural transition.Īmazon & Apple Bestseller: Breathe In (Just Breathe #1)Īmazon Bestseller: Knight Takes Pawn (Red Knight #1) in Psychology, Martha utilizes her knowledge of human and animal behavior successfully in the business world and in her writing to present realistic characters and situations. She strives to push herself as a storyteller with each new tale and hopes to push her readers outside of their comfort zone whether it be genre or the stories themselves. ![]() ![]() Find access to all of my books on my website: Martha Sweeney is an Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple Books BESTSELLING author who writes in a variety of genres: romance (contemporary, romcom, suspense, paranormal and historical), suspense, fantasy, thriller, coloring books, and soon, science fiction. ![]()
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Venus in the blind spot by junji ito7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Whatever the provenance, the killer is targeting gatherings of people. In it, groups of corpses are being found sewn together with fishing line, initially thought to be the work of a single serial killer until incidents begin cropping up in vastly different parts of Japan. The first story, “Billions Alone,” seems like a timely tale for our current, socially distant lives. Publisher VIZ Media has committed to bringing more and more of his work to North America, the most recent installment being the short story collection Venus in the Blind Spot. He is long beloved of many manga fans, recently rising in popularity with a much wider audience, his horror comics touching upon universal fears and fancies. Junji Ito is, perhaps, a creator who needs no introduction. ![]() Translation & Adaptation: Jocelyne Allen and Yuji Oniki (“The Enigma of Amigara Fault” and “The Sad Tale of the Principal Post”)Įditor: Masumi Washington Publisher: VIZ Media ![]()
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My Only One by Gregory M. Thompson7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() The values are shown as change in sea level in millimeters compared to the 1993-2008 average. Seasonal (3-month) sea level estimates from Church and White (2011) (light blue line) and University of Hawaii Fast Delivery sea level data (dark blue). ![]()
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![]() This is a spoiler-free review, but does contain some spoilers for the previous novel, The Mad Wolf’s Daughter. ![]() *I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review* Even if that takes redefining what it means to be a warrior. Now with a hefty price on her head, Drest must find a way to escape treacherous knights, all the while proving to her father, the “Mad Wolf of the North,” and her irrepressible band of brothers that she is destined for more than a life of running and hiding. Synopsis: In this Scottish medieval adventure, after attempting a daring rescue of her war-band family, Drest learns that Lord Faintree’s traitorous uncle has claimed the castle for his own and convinced the knights that the lord has been slain. ![]() ![]() Links: Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depository The Hunt for the Mad Wolf’s Daughter by Diane Magras ![]()
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Jocko willink audio book7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() And while there are books out there that provide solid leadership principles, books like Extreme Ownership and The Dichotomy of Leadership, there is no leadership field manual that provides a direct, situational, pragmatic how-to guide that anyone can instantly put to use. ![]() These are all questions about leadership-the most complex of all human endeavors. In the civilian sector, books offer information on everything from fixing a leaky faucet to developing an effective workout program to cooking a good steak.īut what if you are promoted into a new position leading your former peers? What if you don’t get selected for the leadership position you wanted? How do you overcome imposter syndrome, when you aren’t sure you should be leading? As a leader, how do you judiciously dole out punishment? What about reward? How do you build trust with your both your superiors and your subordinates? How do you deliver truthful criticism up and down the chain of command in a tactful and positive way? In the military, a field manual provides instructions in simple, clear, step-by-step language to help soldiers complete their mission. ![]() The ultimate guide on leadership from the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Extreme Ownership. Listen to an excerpt of Jocko Willink's LEADERSHIP STRATEGY AND TACTICS, read by the author. ![]()
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Outlawed anna north7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() In the end, though, the novel is breathtaking in its recalibration of gender roles. But the land was still claimed by Whiteness. ![]() This time the dry earth was hard fought by women, yes, and women trying to rewrite history on their terms. Race, class, and gender are all on Ada’s mind, but the power structures where those things intersect occasionally get lost. North’s rendering of race is less sure-footed. North renders a dazzling landscape, punctuated by a musicality that lulls you like a folk song. Fans of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale are in for a stellar ride where gender roles, sexuality, agency, and self discovery come together, making North’s story as experimental and novel as it is classic. The results in North’s tale are varied and breathe new life into the Western format. There’s always a test involved when a stunt of this kind is pulled: will it hold up on its face as a compelling story?. ![]() On its premise it’s an exciting idea: a classic American tale with the script flipped starring a woman as the leading man. ![]()
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The borrowers book7/6/2023 ![]() Films and TV series continue to bring new generations of children to Mary Norton's books. C S Lewis, the author of the Narnia books, wrote to her in 1956: "May a stranger write his thanks and congratulations for 'The Borrowers' and 'The Borrowers Afield'? They have given me great and (I anticipate) lasting pleasure.". The story was based on fantasies from her childhood when her short-sightedness made her aware of the teeming life in the countryside around her. The Borrowers was published in 1952 and won her the Carnegie Medal, the most important prize in children's fiction. When war broke out in 1939, Mary's husband joined the Navy and she brought her children back to England via the United States - she lived there for a while waiting for a passage home. There her two sons and two daughters were born, and she began to write. She gave up the theatre when she got married and went to live with her husband in Portugal. ![]() She remembered her most thrilling moment as the time she first went on stage as an understudy at the Old Vic. When the Clocks are discovered by the big. She was a member of the Old Vic Theatre Company for two years and always thought of herself more an actress than a writer. Borrowers are tiny people who live under the floorboards and survive by borrowing from the big people in the house. ![]() ![]() She was educated at convent schools and, after a brief and unsuccessful time as a secretary, she became an actress. She was brought up in the Manor House in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, which later became the setting fof her most famous book, The Borrowers. Mary Norton (1903 - 1992), was born in London, the only girl in a family of five children. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The tone and topics are, unlike his lyrics but like his drumming, relentlessly upbeat. The book’s prose is banal, buffoonish the song’s lyrics are personal, empathic. Surprisingly, he does not analyze or even mention his lyrics. it is as difficult to reconcile Everyman Dave with Destiny Dave as it is to reconcile The Storyteller’s prose with the lyrics that Grohl has composed over the past three decades. It’s easier for him to think of himself as rock’s Forrest Gump, haplessly in the right place at the right time (another cliché repeated throughout the book) than an agent of his own triumphs. Everyman Dave doesn’t put artifice-or labor-into his prose. This Everyman Dave favors superfluous adjectives (on the first page alone: 'cruel trick', 'false illusion', 'quick look in the mirror') and defaults to cliché. wholesome-is the precise yet unacknowledged tension of Grohl’s The Storyteller. The tension between his two groups-ironic vs. ![]()
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In the remains of the day7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel begins in 1956, with Stevens receiving a letter from a former colleague, the housekeeper Miss Kenton, describing her married life, which Stevens believes hints at an unhappy marriage. As the work progresses, two central themes are revealed: Lord Darlington was a Nazi sympathizer and Stevens is in love with Miss Kenton, the housekeeper at Darlington Hall, Lord Darlington's estate. The novel tells, in first-person narration, the story of Stevens, an English butler who has dedicated his life to the loyal service of Lord Darlington (who is recently deceased, and whom Stevens describes in increasing detail in flashbacks). In 2022, it was included on the " Big Jubilee Read" list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors, selected to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. A film adaptation of the novel, made in 1993 and starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, was nominated for eight Academy Awards. The work received the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989. In 1956, he takes a road trip to visit a former colleague, and reminisces about events at Darlington Hall in the 1920s and 1930s. The protagonist, Stevens, is a butler with a long record of service at Darlington Hall, a stately home near Oxford, England. The Remains of the Day is a 1989 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British author Kazuo Ishiguro. ![]()
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Burmese orwell novel7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() describes the life in Burma during British imperialism, in a fictional district. His prospects seem to improve when he meets the orphaned niece of a timber merchant, Elizabeth Lackersteen, who appears to reciprocate his feelings of love – but the arrival on the scene of another suitor, the boorish police officer Verrall, and the scheming of a disgruntled local magistrate threaten to shatter Flory’s dreams and put him on a path to tragedy.īased on the author’s own experiences in Burma as a young officer in the Indian Imperial Police, Burmese Days – here presented in the version published in Britain in 1944, which follows the text of the first American edition – is George Orwell’s debut novel, invaluable both as a faithful description of life in Burma during the twilight of the British Raj and as an exposé of the failings of colonial rule. Burmese Days is well known as one of George Orwells major novels, along. ![]() ![]() In the provincial Burmese town of Kyauktada, the world-weary John Flory – a thirty-something English teak dealer – leads a life of quiet disillusionment, hardly mixing with the natives or the expat community, and deriving some comfort only from his conversations with an Indian friend, Doctor Veraswami, and the attentions of his local mistress. ![]() |