Thoughts: These Feathered Flames is one of my most highly anticipated sapphic romances of the year, and it delivered on its hype. People break our hearts, but they create more room in them first, and that room makes it possible for us to become more ourselves. The key is to not be afraid of the breaking. You will move through life and fall in love with many different people, and at some point, you will get your heart broken. It is the lesbian high school rom-com we were all waiting for. I adored this novel and its themes, and I highly recommend it. She Drives Me Crazy is a novel about growth-growing away from toxic relationships, growing past grief, growing into someone new, growing with your family and friends. If I could use one word to describe this book, it would be growth. She works hard to prove that cheerleading is a competitive sport that people should take just as seriously as any other sport. I like how this book also destroys stereotypical tropes-Irene, the most popular girl at school, comes out as a lesbian. The main character, Scottie, has such an incredible development arc. I loved this book so much, especially how it was more than just a romance. Fake dating, angst, and grand love gestures certainly helped, though. She Drives Me Crazy is among several novels I recently read where I realized maybe I enjoy this trope from time to time. Thoughts: Honestly, before April, I had no idea I was such a simp for enemies to lovers, and yet, here we are.
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Written with great style, and vividly detailed, this is an intimate, comprehensive portrait of an amazing life, comic, tragic, daring, and outrageous. Exhaustively researched, it makes use of thousands of rare documents from around the world and nearly two hundred in-depth interviews with Mitchum's family, friends, and associates (many going on record for the first time ever) ranging over his seventy-nine years of hard living. Robert Mitchum: "Baby, I Don't Care" is the first complete biography of Mitchum, and a book as big, colorful, and controversial as the star himself. Mitchum's powerful presence and simmering violence combined with hard-boiled humor and existential detachment to create a new style in movie acting: the screen's first hipster antihero-before Brando, James Dean, Elvis, or Eastwood-the inventor of big-screen cool. Allison Cape Fear The Longest Day Farewell, My Lovely and The Winds of War. One of the movies' greatest actors and most colorful characters, a real-life tough guy with the prison record to prove it, Robert Mitchum was a movie icon for an almost unprecedented half-century, the cool, sleepy-eyed star of such classics as The Night of the Hunter Heaven Knows, Mr. There may be more to it than mere greed, however, and, unappealing though the prospect is, Geoffrey has no choice but to accept the Kings commission to investigate whether this is part of a treasonous plot - especially as it is his only hope of saving his sister from the consequences of her own involvement. When he arrives at Court he finds two argumentative groups of Saxon moneyers, one accusing the other of devaluing the Kings currency. Simon Beaufort 1 - Murder in the Holy City (Dec-1998) 2 - A Head for Poisoning (Jul-1999) 3 - The Coiners Quarrel (Sep-2004) 4 - The Bishops Brood (Sep. Book Synopsis A Sir Geoffrey Mappestone mystery Westminster, 1102.Once again about to depart for the Holy Land, Sir Geoffrey is furious to be summoned back by the King, trusting neither his methods of persuasion nor his motives. But is there more to it than greed? Geoffrey has no choice but to accept the Kings commission to investigate whether this is part of a treasonous plot. When he arrives at Court he finds two argumentative groups of Saxon moneyers, one accusing the other of devaluing the Kings currency. About the Book About to depart for the Holy Land, Sir Geoffrey is suddenly summoned back by the King. Readers shouldn’t expect a typical rom-com, but many will still swoon for this sensitive love story. Hoang strikes a more somber tone in this outing, giving Anna daunting challenges to overcome, including some serious hang-ups around sex. Quan quickly proves that he only looks like a bad boy he’s patient, kind, and supportive as both a friend and sexual partner and, sweetly, brings food for Anna’s unwelcoming family when her dad lands in the hospital. But then Anna meets sexy, tattooed, motorcycle-riding Quan Diep. The Heart Principle Helen Hoang Published by Atlantic Books, London (2021) ISBN 10: 183895080X ISBN 13: 9781838950804 New paperback Quantity: > 20 Seller: Blackwells (Oxford, OX, United Kingdom) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description paperback. Given what he perceives as Anna’s lack of interest in sex, he doesn’t expect that the experiment will go both ways. Violinist Anna Sun is already in a major professional rut when, instead of the marriage proposal she expects, her parent-approved long-term boyfriend proposes that they experiment with an open relationship. A classical musician struggling with professional burnout, family judgment, and a faithless long-term boyfriend gets her groove back in the beautifully melancholy and meditative latest from Hoang ( The Bride Test). The data suggest that around 3500 B.C.-roughly the same time that many linguists place the origin of PIE and that archaeologists date horse domestication-Yamnaya genes replaced about 75 percent of the existing human gene pool in Europe. In 2015 a series of studies sequenced the DNA of human bones and other remains from many parts of Europe and Asia. Gimbutas traced the language back to the Yamnaya people, herders from the southern grasslands of modern-day Ukraine who domesticated the horse. Archaeologist Marija Gimbutas first proposed the Ukrainian origin, known as the kurgan hypothesis, in the 1950s. Some words, including “water” ( wód), “father” ( pH 2-ter) and “mother” ( meH 2-ter), are still used today. No written record of PIE exists, but linguists believe they have largely reconstructed it. Recent genetic findings confirm this hypothesis but also raise questions about how the prehistoric language evolved and spread. That is the most widely accepted explanation for the origin of this ancient tongue, termed Proto-Indo-European (PIE). They brought with them a language that is the root of many of those spoken today-including English, Spanish, Hindi, Russian and Persian. Five thousand years ago nomadic horseback riders from the Ukrainian steppe charged through Europe and parts of Asia. Neither is the other’s sidekick, they are equals who back each other up as the situation requires. Spenser’s relationship with Hawk is more interesting. The irrestible middle-aged tough guy with the brilliant beautiful lover (more than girlfriend, not quite wife), written by a middle-aged wanna-be tough guy is self-indulgent and sometimes tedious. Parker wrote old fashioned macho detective stories in the style that made film noir so much fun. Then there is all the usual action, gun play, instinctive reaction to extreme danger, etc, formulaic, but entertaining for people who like this kind of stuff. Spenser novels are always very “talky” and here the talk is mostly about the role of gangs in the ghetto. Hawk and his new girlfriend (!) take Spenser to the ghetto to seek justice for the murder of a teenaged girl and her baby. Lately I’ve started listening to the entire series in order. I read them in print as they came out, up to this one and a little beyond, and listened to a few of the later ones. Reviews of the magazine have been published in the TES and The Guardian newspaper. Boyle, Dubravka Ugrešić, Courttia Newland, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Peter Ho Davies, Jean McNeil and David Foster Wallace. These include Ali Smith, Toby Litt, Rose Tremain, Joyce Carol Oates, T. Originally limited to MA students' short stories and novel extracts, MIR has also included work by notable published authors, from Issue 3 onwards. "Mechanics" then meant "skilled artisans", and the purpose of the institute was to instruct them in the principles behind their craft. The first Mechanics' Institute in London was founded in 1823 by George Birkbeck. The publication owes its name to the institution that publishes the title, Birkbeck, University of London. The Mechanics' Institute Review (also known by the abbreviation MIR) is an annual literary anthology published by Birkbeck, University of London, as part of its MA Creative Writing course. The Hooghly's global history, he concludes, may offer lessons for India as it emerges as a world superpower. Traveling up and down the river, Robert Ivermee explores themes of enduring concern, among them the dynamics of modern capitalism and the power of large corporations migration and human trafficking the role of new technologies in revolutionizing social relations and the human impact on the natural world. /rebates/2f97817873832582fHooghly-Global-History-River-Ivermee-17873832532fplp&. Focusing in turn on the role of and competition between those who struggled to control the river-the Portuguese, the Mughals, the Dutch, the French and finally the British, who built their imperial capital, Calcutta, on its banks-the author considers how the Hooghly was integrated into global networks of encounter and exchange, and the dramatic consequences that ensued. I think the name Hooghly dates to the arrival of the Portuguese, so 16th century. Hooghly seeks to restore the waterway to the heart of global history. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Hooghly: The Global History of a River by Robert Ivermee (Hardcover, 2020) at the best online. Yet for centuries it was a river of truly global significance, attracting merchants, missionaries, mercenaries, statesmen, laborers and others from Europe, Asia and beyond. The Hooghly, a distributary of the Ganges flowing south to the Bay of Bengal, is now little known outside of India. and Canada, beginning a great westward movement and causing conflict between Native Americans and Americans of European descent. Throughout the century, immigration from Europe swelled the population of both the U.S. Novels set in the latter part of the century deal with this problem, among others. With the South's defeat in 1865 slavery ended, but white-black tensions and systematic discrimination against black citizens did not. In the United States, tensions between the industrial North and the slave-owning South increased throughout the first part of the century until the South seceded in 1861, beginning the Civil War. Canada's independence from Great Britain was not formally completed until the twentieth century. Canadian rebellions against British rule in 18 were unsuccessful. Early in the century, Britain and France fought the War of 1812 on a North American battleground using the newly independent United States and colonial Canada as proxies. The nineteenth century saw the continued development of two new nations in North America: the United States and Canada. Young Adult Novels: 19th-Century North America For news on the latest additions to this website, see the blog. Using the latest computer techniques to map the world's changing coastlines, Hancock finds astonishing correspondences with the ancient flood myths. As the glaciers melted between 17,000 and 7,000 years ago, sea levels rose and more than 15 million square miles of habitable land were submerged underwater, resulting in a radical change to the Earth's shape and the conditions in which people could live. Guided by cutting-edge science and the latest archaeological scholarship, Hancock begins his mission to discover the truth about these myths and examines the mystery at the end of the last Ice Age. In Underworld, Hancock continues his remarkable quest underwater, where, according to almost a thousand ancient myths from every part of the globe, the ruins of a lost civilization, obliterated in a universal flood, are to be found. Now he returns with an explosive new work of archaeological detection. While Graham Hancock is no stranger to stirring up heated controversy among scientific experts, his books and television documentaries have intrigued millions of people around the world and influenced many to rethink their views about the origins of human civilization. From Graham Hancock, bestselling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization that's been hidden for thousands of years beneath the world's oceans. |