![]() …If any of you read and loved the Gentry Boys as much as I did, the new release, Hold, is fantastic. I just finished it and my heart is a big mushy puddle on the floor. I just wanted more.įabi: If you’ve read the series you seriously can’t miss out on Hold. My only complaint is that I wish the story had been longer. I wanted to wrap them all up in a huge hug and paint the world pretty for them. Each book is 1 brother’s story.įabi: I just finished Draw (Gentry Boys #1) by Cora Brent. Were called “Trashy Gentry boys” or “no-good Gentry’s” by the townspeople so they moved away after graduation & all live together. They grew up in shacks, no water or electricity. The Gentry boys are triplets, smokin hot, but kinda a**holes. Lauren: The Gentry Boys are standalones I think. So many great reviews, these just sound like they are SO for me.Īnd they were for these fellow readers, too! ![]() Every time I run across this book (in a sale, or as a recommendation and read that blurb? I freak out as to why I haven’t read it yet. Oh yesssss this one sounds sooooooooo good.
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![]() ![]() After a rough start, Maddie learns to trust her own ingenuity and invents clever ways to survive in a place that has been deserted and forgotten.Īs months pass, she escapes natural disasters, looters, and wild animals. Her only companions are a Rottweiler named George and all the books she can read. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own. She's alone-left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. ![]() When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize–nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town. ![]() ![]() In this way ‘the unknown’ is a source of enrichment and deeper understanding. Tonke Dragt's oeuvre is teeming with mirrors, stairs, doors, mountain passes and gates leading to unknown grounds where charms, skills and dreams help both the hero of the story and the reader to discover new dimensions and aspects of ‘the self’. Panta rhei - all things are floating all the time. As an author she is the very expert in both revealing and concealing the many sides of the human being, fascinated as she is by different worlds, times and spaces where nothing is fixed and everything moves, floats and changes all the time. This paradox is as much part of Tonke Dragt as the two sides of a door are inseparable. The opposite - words that disguise what occupies the mind - is equally true. ![]() ‘In words one can express one's feelings,’ the shield-bearer Tiuri concludes at the end of Secrets of the Wild Wood (Geheimen van het wilde woud, 1963). ![]() Words Are Just as Powerful as Imagination ![]() ![]() ![]() Her interest in non-Western philosophies was reflected in works such as "Solitude" and The Telling but even more interesting are her imagined societies, often mixing traits extracted from her profound knowledge of anthropology acquired from growing up with her father, the famous anthropologist, Alfred Kroeber. She was known for her treatment of gender ( The Left Hand of Darkness, The Matter of Seggri), political systems ( The Telling, The Dispossessed) and difference/otherness in any other form. ![]() Her recent publications include the novel Lavinia, an essay collection, Cheek by Jowl, and The Wild Girls. Le Guin published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nourish your body to lose weight without crash diets or grueling workouts ![]() Discover the root cause of your weight gain Understand the effects of what, why, when, where and how we eat Packed with quick and easy interventions, this book will help you: Rangan Chatterjee-BBC personality and author of the bestselling Feel Better in 5-has created a conscious, compassionate, sustainable approach to weight loss that goes far beyond fad diets to find the individual strategies that will work for you. And weight-loss programs designed to fit "everyone" are often too broad and restrictive to fit into the complicated lives of real people.ĭrawing on twenty years of experience, Dr. Everyone wants fast results, but when it comes to losing weight with crash diets, what goes down nearly always comes back up. ![]() ![]() ![]() With temptation lurking in close quarters, keeping even a shred of distance is a challenge neither’s willing to meet. The rugged bush pilot is the very best kind of distraction, but the emotions he stirs up in River feel anything but casual, and he’s in no position to stay put. Nobody’s ever made him want to stand still-until Griffin. Chasing adventure means always moving forward. ![]() Nothing the Alaskan wilderness has to offer has ever called to Griffin so badly. However, his gig as a wildlife guide presents a new kind of temptation in superhot supermodel River Vale. ![]() He’s fought too hard for his sobriety to lose control now. It keeps him from falling back into old habits. “Whether making my heart melt or my head burst into flames, Annabeth Albert draws the reader in and keeps them captivated.” - Gay Book ReviewsĮx-military mountain man Griffin Barrett likes his solitude. But it doesn’t stand a chance against the unrelenting pull of a man who’s everything he shouldn’t want. He’s built a quiet life for himself in Alaska. ![]() ![]() ![]() And, not only did my novel include footnotes, it included a bibliography and an extensive appendix with real primary source documents.įootnotes and other nonfiction elements of writing are rare in fiction, but certainly not unheard of. Rather than acquiesce, I decided to self-publish. When submitting my third novel, Ceding Contempt, one publisher expressed an interest in my manuscript but stated that fiction cannot have footnotes. Since that time, I have written three more novels and received similar feedback from editors and publishers. Also, the first chapter began with background, contextual information that I was asked to remove. But, the editor required that I change the footnotes to endnotes. When I submitted my first novel for publication, I submitted it with footnotes. When I moved toward fiction, I had a very hard time eliminating nonfiction elements such as footnotes from my writing. They provide valuable context and references for verification and further research. Footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographies are standard for scholarly essays. For instance, my essay The Tobacco Controversy of 1857 published by the Hindsight Graduate History Journal, has one hundred twenty-nine footnotes in just twenty-two pages. My essays were academic, complete with citations and bibliographies. My public writing career began in earnest during my graduate program at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where I studied history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Empathy therefore biases us in favour of individuals we know while numbing us to the plight of thousands. As the latest research in psychology and neuroscience shows, we feel empathy most for those we find attractive and who seem similar to us and not at all for those who are different, distant or anonymous. But while it inspires care and protection in personal relationships, it has the opposite effect in the wider world. We think of empathy – the ability to feel the suffering of others for ourselves – as the ultimate source of all good behaviour. Book excerpt: In a divided world, empathy is not the solution, it is the problem. This book was released on with total page 304 pages. Book Synopsis Against Empathy by : Paul Bloomĭownload or read book Against Empathy written by Paul Bloom and published by Random House. ![]() ![]() This was my first warning sign for this book. characters (specifically the female ones) coverage of social issues (especially race, sexism also including LGBT+) Here’s a list of the general categories of what Bugged me with a capital B: Many of you know that the second I take out my teeny book-review notebook, I’m about to be one angry reader. Did I almost donate a book I’ll end up giving 5-stars? From the get-go I loved Wallach’s writing style (and by style I mean word choice, NOT CONTENT, bleh) and I thought there was some promise to the premise. ![]() I almost unhauled this book and then figured I might as well give it a shot. When I read the first dozen-or-so pages of this book, I was thrilled. If you don’t like that one, I also considered this: Tommy, my man, Ayn Rand called! She wants to congratulate you on using fiction as a vehicle for your beliefs even more than she did with f*cking Atlas Shrugged ! Hey, Tommy Wallach, Urban Dictionary called! They want to know if they can use the entirety of this book as the example of their definition of “mansplaining”! Two months to become something bigger than what we’d been, something that would last even after the end. ![]() That gave us two months to leave our labels behind. They said it would be here in two months. ![]() The athlete, the outcast, the slacker, the overachiever.īut then we all looked up and everything changed. ![]() Synopsis: Before the asteroid we let ourselves be defined by labels: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He quit the Catholic Church some time in the 1850s, and thereafter was never active in any religious group. In 1855, he resigned his clerkship, entered politics, and participated in communal home building schemes. In 1855, he married Katherine McCaffrey, with whom he had three children. Donnelly was admitted to the bar in 1852. Hart, excelling primarily in literature.ĭonnelly decided to become a lawyer, and became a clerk for Benjamin Brewster, who later became Attorney-General of the United States. There he studied under the presidency of John S. Ignatius, her youngest son, was admitted to the prestigious Central High School, the second oldest public high school in the United States. He later contracted typhus from a patient and died at age 31, leaving his wife with five children.Ĭatherine provided for her children by operating a pawn shop. On June 29, 1826, Philip had married Catherine Gavin, a second generation American of Irish ancestry.Īfter starting as a peddler, Philip studied medicine at the Philadelphia College of Medicine. Donnelly was the son of Philip Carrol Donnelly, an Irish Catholic immigrant who had settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ![]() |