6/28/2023 0 Comments Ambereye by gill mcknight![]() ![]() ![]() Even though this is book 2, effectively the third book in the series, I was able to read it as a standalone without any issues. This was a very entertaining and humorous paranormal romance. As feelings and truths are revealed, Hope is adamant that she’s not looking for love but Jolie definitely likes the idea. Jolie’s family assumes Hope is her chosen mate which starts a series of misunderstandings. Unfortunately, during Thanksgiving, she ends up going on a work trip with her boss to Little Dip, home of the Garoul clan. Hope is a hardworking, compassionate cancer survivor who doesn’t need a grumpy boss. is Jolie Garoul, a moody workaholic and a contrary lycanthrope. ![]() Previous Lesbian Book Quotes of the Month.40 Best Lesbian Romance Books for Valentine’s.Lex’s Top 13 Best Lesfic Halloween Books 2020.Lex’s Top 13 Best Lesfic Halloween Books 2021.Lex’s Top 13 Best Sapphic Halloween Books 2022.Top 10 Recommended Lesbian Erotica Books.Best Lesbian Paranormal Audiobooks 2020.Top 10 Best Lesbian Romance Audiobooks 2020. ![]()
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6/28/2023 0 Comments Ashlee vance books![]() He describes an entrepreneur who is driven by big goals and personal interests, not trends or get-rich-quick schemes. In Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance, technology journalist Ashlee Vance describes the life and career of entrepreneur, innovator, and billionaire Elon Musk, the CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla. In Musk’s biography, author Ashlee Vance discusses the personal life, business ventures, and management styles of the billionaire.Ĭontinue reading to learn more about Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance. What is Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance about? What aspects of Musk’s life does Vance cover?Įlon Musk went from a bullied schoolboy in South Africa, to an entrepreneur during the dot com bubble, to the richest man on Earth. Like this article? Sign up for a free trial here. ![]() ![]() Shortform has the world's best summaries and analyses of books you should be reading. This article is an excerpt from the Shortform book guide to "Elon Musk" by Ashlee Vance. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Death Sentences by Michael Zimecki![]() ![]() The body count continued to mount in inverse proportion to the city’s declining adherence to the state-mandated quarantine. Public schools and churches were permitted to stay open. Wartime steel and munitions production made officials reluctant to shut down and isolate. Chief among them, perhaps, was Pittsburgh’s horrendous air quality, the result of coke production and the burning of bituminous coal, which left the city’s residents predisposed to respiratory ailments. During the worst days here, someone new caught the flu almost every minute and someone died in every ten.Īccording to historian James Higgins, several factors contributed to the deadliness of the city’s outbreak. The mortality rate was higher than in any other city in the country. Pittsburgh fared horribly during the Great Influenza Epidemic. ![]() Maybe we can do a better job than we did in 1918. Or, as the Quebecois maîtres brasseurs say, La Fin du Monde. Bars and liquor stores are closed, a veritable tragedy for a place that has more drinking establishments per capita than anywhere else in the nation. Well, I’m in Pittsburgh, and it’s happening now. Mark Twain once said that he wanted to be in Pittsburgh when the world ends because nothing happens there until ten years later. Sixth Avenue, Pittsburgh, 1908-1909 New York Public Library ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Dragon's eye anne mccaffrey![]() ![]() ![]() A dragon can communicate mentally with other dragons, but also with its rider. ![]() The dragons are also telepathic, and each develops a close rapport with its rider. These winged creatures are able to fly, and to breathe fire when they chew firestone, thus being able to burn the Thread as it falls. And they breed creatures from an indigenous lifeform, which they call dragons, because of their similarity to the mythical creatures of Earth. The colonists build accommodation in cave systems, and in buildings made of stone, to protect themselves and their livestock from the Thread. A “Pass” of the Red Star lasts for 50 years, with Thread falling periodically during this time. It devours any organic matter – plants, animals and humans, and even the carbon-based plastics that the early settlers use. But when it does, a “mycorrhizoid” spore lifeform crosses space from the Red Star to Pern, and rains down from the sky as threadlike filaments. Its erratic orbit only brings it close to Pern every 250 years. However, they don’t realise until a few years later the hazard caused by a rogue planet, the Red Star, in their solar system. Anne McCaffrey’s “Dragonriders of Pern” series is a science fiction series (but with something of the flavour of a fantasy series) describing the lives of humans and dragons on the planet Pern. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Daughter of Paris by A.G. Mogan![]() ‘This was a lovely WWII historical fiction novel that focused on the relationships between the female characters, which I appreciated. ‘I really enjoyed this story of loyalty, love, bravery and true friendship…a very thought-provoking read’ Chrissie ‘It's been a while since I cried at a book!’ Shanon ‘Has it all: mystery, suspense, history, strong female characters, and kept me engaged throughout…excellent’ Rachel ‘I’m an avid reader of WWII novels and this was up there with the best…Strong women, enduring friendship and love’ Bev As the German tanks roll in and Paris becomes an occupied city, the promise they made as children will have consequences they could never have imagined… Daughter of Paris: The Diary of Marie Duplessis, France’s Most Celebrated Courtesan. Tenemos un nuevo método de donación disponible: Paypal. ![]() Years later, in 1939, life as they know it will never be the same. The Question Mark Publishing The Fallen 1, 2019. The average reader, reading at a speed of 300 WPM. ![]() ![]() For Colette is the daughter of the house, and her life is all jazz clubs, silk dresses and chilled champagne, while Fleur is the orphan niece of the housekeeper and doesn’t feel like she belongs anywhere. Daughter of Paris: The Diary of Marie Duplessis, Frances Most Celebrated Courtesan. But as they grow up, the promises of childhood are put to the ultimate test. Childhood companions Fleur and Colette make a vow, under the trailing ivy of their secret garden, that they will be secret sisters forever. ![]() ![]() ![]() Woodson's language is beautiful throughout Red at the Bone, but it positively soars in the sections written from Iris' mother's point of view. There isn't a character in this book you don't come to care about, even when you question their choice. In less than 200 sparsely filled pages, this book manages to encompass issues of class, education, ambition, racial prejudice, sexual desire and orientation, identity, mother-daughter relationships, parenthood and loss - yet never feels like a checklist of Important Issues. The narrative nimbly jumps around in time and shifts points of view among five characters who span three generations as it builds toward its moving climax. ![]() It reads like poetry and drama, a cry from the heart that often cuts close to the bone. Woodson continues her sensitive exploration of what it means to be a black girl in America. Jacqueline Woodson begins her powerful new novel audaciously, with the word 'But.' Well, there are no buts about this writer's talent. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Heart of a champion ellen schwartz![]() ![]() ![]() Kenny's persistence, hard work and big dreams shape the teen he is to become in this story of happiness found despite all odds. ![]() One by one, the boys in the camp pitch in, and the work gives purpose to their long days. ![]() Coming across a "vacant" field covered with scrap wood, broken shakes and torn tar paper, Kenny gets permission to clear it and convert it into a baseball field. When Mickey is arrested for a small act of violence, Kenny manages to keep his family's spirits up, despite the deplorable conditions in camp. A poignant coming-of-age novel for middle-grade readers about a young boy obsessed with baseball whose life changes drastically when war comes to his Vancouver Japanese community. When Japan attacks Pearl Harbor in 1941, everything for Kenny and his family spirals out of control: schools are closed, businesses are confiscated, fathers are arrested and sent to work camps in the BC interior and mothers and children are relocated to internment camps. In addition to writing books, she has published dozens of magazine articles and adult short stories. But world events soon overtake life in this quiet community. Ellen Schwartz was born in Washington, DC, and now lives with her family in Burnaby, British Columbia. Despite Kenny's suspected heart condition, he is determined to practice secretly with Mickey so he, too, can one day try out for the Asahi. Ten-year-old Kenny (Kenji in Japanese) worships his older brother, Mickey (Mitsuo), a baseball hero whose outstanding performance on the Asahi baseball team has given him fame and popularity. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Natasha's Dance by Orlando Figes![]() ![]() What did it mean to be Russian - an illiterate serf or an imperial courtier? And where was the true Russia - in Europe or in Asia? Figes skillfully interweaves the great works - by Dostoevsky and Chekhov, Stravinsky and Chagall - with folk embroidery, peasant songs, religious icons, and all the customs of daily life, from eating, drinking, and bathing habits to beliefs about death and the spirit world. Petersburg - a "window on the West" - and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime, Figes examines how writers, artists, and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia itself - its, character, spiritual essence, history, and destiny. ![]() "Orlando Figes's A People's Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did "more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than any other book I know." Now, in Natasha's Dance, this internationally renowned historian does the same for Russian culture, summoning the myriad elements that formed a nation and held it together." Beginning in the eighteenth century with the building of St. ![]() ![]() ![]() His talent, in truth, stems from a rich family tradition, that of a family of Venetian merchants. This work, nevertheless, also became a tool of importance and value for those that wanted to venture East into the lands of the Mongol Empire the descriptions and minute accounts of Marco’s discoveries became invaluable for merchants, crusaders, and travelers alike. Europeans at the time also met his discoveries with a certain skepticism, at least in the impressions of his literary work. Marco Polo: The Man Behind the Story Illustration from The Travels of Marco Polo, where Marco himself and a unicorn can be seen, author unknown, via viajesazulmarinoĪlthough much is assumed about the adventurous life of our hero, Marco Polo is, in reality, a distant and uncertain character, so much so that his contemporaries would have perceived his various discoveries with the same sense of wonder and mystery as we do now. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Read burn for me ilona andrews![]() ![]() While I think Kate Daniels (from the other series I binge-read this year) is the better character with the overall more compelling arc, I found Curran often a bit unbearable. This is a big strength of Ilona Andrews’ books: the love story at the core is always one I root for to no end and this one is my favourite so far. I sped through it in record time and I am just so very invested in their relationship. But she is still wonderfully strong and principled and Rogan starts developing a proper personality. ![]() ![]() Again, she butts heads with Rogan, and again she is in over her head. Set soon after the events of the first book, the mystery around the conspiracy deepens, when Nevada is hired to find the killers of Cornelius Harrison’s wife. And the male love interest did not make me want to claw my eyes out. I like that she has a loving and stable family, I found her strength wonderful, especially because she isn’t prickly, she is just no non-sense. I adore female PIs in urban fantasy and Nevada is just a wonderful character overall. Nevada Baylor is the head of a family led PI firm and gets drawn into house politics in general and Mad Rogan’s world in specific. ![]() As these powers are genetic, Houses with specific powers have emerged and changed human society in lots of different ways, subtly and overt. I adore the world they have created here: some time in the last two hundred years a serum was discovered that led to people developing magic powers. I needed something fast paced and fun and have been relying on the Andrews to deliver just this. ![]() |