![]() This tragic twist of fate, along with the help of an intrepid and charismatic journalist, puts vengeance within May's reach. Out of the smoldering ruins, May embarks on a harrowing road to reclaim what is hers. Then, on an early April morning, San Francisco comes tumbling down. Trapped by betrayal, madness, and murder, May stands to lose everything, including her freedom, at the hands of those she trusts most. And a maid keeps hinting that May is in danger. Her aunt wanders about in a laudanum fog. ![]() Her glamorous cousin often disappears in the night. Initially overwhelmed by the opulence of her new life, May soon senses that dark mysteries lurk in the shadows of the Sullivan mansion. ![]() There she's welcomed into the wealthy Sullivan family and their social circle. After her mother's death, penniless May Kimble lives a lonely life until an aunt she didn't know existed summons her to San Francisco. A mesmerising novel of dark family secrets and a young woman's rise and revenge set against the backdrop of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This book uniquely combines ancient Stoic insights with techniques discovered by contemporary psychological research, such as anchoring and framing. The Stoic Challenge, then, is the ultimate guide to improving your quality of life through tactics developed by ancient Stoics, from Marcus Aurelius and Seneca to Epictetus. Irvine teaches us to turn any challenge on its head. Plumbing the wisdom of one of the most popular and successful schools of thought from ancient Rome, philosopher William B. Stoicism offers us an alternative approach. We often think that these responses are hardwired, but fortunately this is not the case. ![]() Some people bounce back in response to setbacks others break. A practical, refreshingly optimistic guide that uses centuries-old wisdom to help us better cope with the stresses of modern living. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() again, Alexa Riley does not disappoint me with her short smutty books! I know this released a few weeks ago but I was reading other stuff and I couldn't find time to read this but. I thought Drake was hot and I really liked him.īut reading about a heroine who acted like a hormone-driven 5 year old on acid was just not my jam. But the insta-love here was "insta" even for an AR book. After all, it's par for the Alexa Riley Course. Within seconds of meeting Drake, Zoey - a virgin who has never before been a bit interested in the male persuasion prior to this moment, of course - suddenly jumps his bones like a randy barnyard animal that broke in Old McDonald's farm bottle of Viagra.Īnd I can totally handle insta-love. I'm not sure if Riley was going for a genius angle? An Asperger's style Rainman chick? Or what? She's filterless and crazy-quirky and I am totally on board. At first I was like, oh I dig this chick. ![]() I usually LOVE Alexa Riley - and I still do, homies - but holy fucking moly, this book. I italicized the "I" up there ^^^ because I know I am TOTALLY in the minority on this one, so take this review with the proverbial grain of sea salt. My personal policy on DNF'ing and rating something is that if I get to 50% and STILL want to to chuck it across the room?Īnd you bet your fucking ass that since I managed to trudge through 51% of this bad boy, I'm gonna call it the way I see it. ![]() ![]() ![]() With this first line, Tolstoy puts family first among them. The core themes of these characters’ struggles tie back to family, sexual attraction, and Russian identity. This is not to book to pick up if you’re looking for some light entertainment to boost your mood. Spoiler alert, they’re all unhappy and cause each other pain, to varying degrees, in different ways. Through these two core arcs, additional family dramas unfold throughout the story as well. ![]() Meanwhile, another young couple navigates a complicated courtship, marries, and starts a family. (And let’s be honest, this novel has a lot going for it, but it’s pretty sprawling, and there are a lot of characters, so even if you just finished it yesterday you still might not remember the beginning clearly and that’s totally fair.)Īnna Karenina is the story of a woman’s tragic self-destruction as she pursues an affair with a younger man, Vronsky, in pursuit of something better than the cold and distant relationship she has with her husband. ![]() By signing up you agree to our terms of useįor those who haven’t read this 800-plus page whopper, let’s start with a quick recap. Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. ![]() ![]() Throughout, you’ll encounter dozens of QR codes, accessed through the camera app on your smartphone, that link to short technique-driven videos hosted by Molly to help illuminate some of the trickier skills.Īs Molly says, “ Cooking is really fun, I swear. More than a collection of recipes, Cook This Book teaches you the invaluable superpower of improvisation though visually compelling lessons on such topics as the importance of salt and how to balance flavor, giving you all the tools necessary to make food taste great every time. Molly breaks the essentials of cooking down to clear and uncomplicated recipes that deliver big flavor with little effort and a side of education, including dishes like Pastrami Roast Chicken with Schmaltzy Onions and Dill, Chorizo and Chickpea Carbonara, and of course, her signature Cae Sal. Cook This Book is a new kind of foundational cookbook from Molly Baz, who’s here to teach you absolutely everything she knows and equip you with the tools to become a better, more efficient cook. ![]() If you seek out, celebrate, and obsess over good food but lack the skills and confidence necessary to make it at home, you’ve just won a ticket to a life filled with supreme deliciousness. ![]() Our copies have signed boopkplates from author Molly Baz!Ī thoroughly modern guide to becoming a smarter, faster, more creative cook from Molly Baz, featuring fun, flavorful recipes anyone can make. ![]() ![]() As for the Jews, there is little mention of them except when she points out with condescending common sense that really it was their fault for coming to Germany from Eastern Europe in the first place. Mosley was a great guy, sadly misunderstood his "security staff" were only protecting peaceful meetings from violent Marxists Hitler was a charming man with impeccable manners, generous to his friends, who loved music. But her manipulative, disingenuous account of Mosley's career soon changed my mind. ![]() ![]() So her two youngest children lived through their earliest years without her. and become Putzi Hanfstaengl, Magda Goebbels, and Hitler" (Diana was married to Oswald Mosley in Hitler's front room in 1936).Įven after she married Mosley and signed up whole-heartedly to his political views I still felt sympathy for her when, still breast-feeding a three-month old baby, she was arrested and imprisoned in Holloway for three years without ever being charged with anything. But as Hugh Thomas said in his review it's quite disconcerting when "the characters in a witty narrative suddenly stop being Lord Berners and Harold Acton. She was both beautiful and intelligent, and it started out with the trademark Mitford sarcastic wit about upper-class life in pre-war Britain. ![]() I've read both Nancy and Jessica's more or less fictionalised accounts of their childhood, so when I found this book, I thought it might be interesting to see what their infamously pro-Nazi sister had to say. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jones simply lists anything she has managed to dig up about this case. The best way I can compare my reading experience of this book is with watching a particularly bad Lifetime movie. Having never read anything by Jones, I had high hopes (especially after I heard her being interviewed on NPR for her newest book "Red Zone"). I bought this book because I was interested in the Shanda Sharer murder. Once more Jones manages to write a bad book about a very intruiging real-life murder case. This book was an amazing look into the psyche of the greatly disturbed teenage girl. And each of them feels pain every single day. The four murderers will serve their sentences. And I fully believe that all the girls got what they deserved. I found myself feeling great compassion for the girls who committed the murder as well as Shanda who was the victim. They have every right to be angry at the girls who killed their daughter, but absolutely no right to blame it on the fact that some of the girls are lesbians. What also angers me is how Shanda's parents put a lot of the blame on "the girl who persuaded her to enter a lesbian relationship". But when I hear people telling Melinda to "Rot in Hell" I am completely shocked. ![]() It was horrible, absolutely horrible what they did to Shanda. ![]() It was definitely clear how she became this way. I liked how Jones explained the torment Loveless and Tackett went through in their homes, especially Loveless. This book delves into the minds of the seriously disturbed teenage girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() You will hear never-before-revealed information about the personalities and arguments which have been kept from view behind the iron curtain of public health. His insights into the successes and failures of government science will be eye-opening to the general public. Ruscetti offers a true insider’s portrait of nearly four decades at the center of public health. In 1991, Ruscetti received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Institutes of Health.ĭr. ![]() Ruscetti was deeply involved in performing some of the most critical HIV-AIDS research in the 1980s, pioneered discoveries in understanding the workings of the human immune system in the 1990s, isolating a new family of mouse leukemia viruses linked to chronic diseases in 2009, and offers his insights into the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Ruscetti would eventually go on to work for thirty-eight years at the National Cancer Institute.ĭr. Ruscetti’s team isolated the first pathogenic human retrovirus, HTLV-1. Ruscetti is credited as one of the founding fathers of human retrovirology. ![]() ![]() Mikovits and Kent Heckenlively with legendary scientist, Dr. From the authors of the New York Times bestselling Plague of Corruption comes the prescription on how to end the plague infecting our medical community.Įnding Plague continues the New York Times bestselling team of Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book will be published in 2023, in Walter's 90th year and the 45th anniversary of the publishing of his groundbreaking book The Prophetic Imagination, also by Fortress Press. Carey Newman, Executive Editor of Fortress Press with whom I have contracted to publish the biography. On August 29 while visiting in person with Walter, I hit the "Send" key and submitted the manuscript to Dr. ![]() So with his permission on February 24, 2022, I began the project. Why? Because after two decades of ministry I was in an existential spiritual crisis and needed help to find my way back Home. My assignment? To write Walter's biography. This path of developing a center for the study and practice of "prophetic imagining" emerges from six months of walking with and listening one on one to theologian Walter Brueggemann, the most prolific Old Testament theologian of the past five decades. ![]() ![]() Readers will learn about her family background, how she found her writing voice, and the indelible impression her early friendships and relationships left on her. With an unforgettable cast of characters, The Carrie Diaries is the story of how a regular girl learns to think for herself, and evolves into a sharp, insightful writer. ![]() Then Sebastian Kydd comes into the picture, and a friend's betrayal makes her question everything. Up until now, Carrie and her friends have been inseparable. ![]() She's ready for real life to start, but first she must navigate her senior year of high school. ![]() The Carrie Diaries is the coming-of-age story of one of the most iconic characters of our generation.īefore Sex and the City, Carrie Bradshaw was a small town girl who knew she wanted more. Meet Carrie Bradshaw before ‘Sex and the City!’ ![]() |