![]() ![]() ![]() While workaholic Casey rubs elbows with celebrities daily as the host of Gossip TV and comes home nightly to an empty apartment, stay-at-home mom Rachel juggles an "oops" baby, two fiery teenagers, and a husband who barely seems the man she fell in love with two decades before. Best friends since childhood, Casey and Rachel couldn't lead more different lives. With "a delicious, page-turning premise, and sweet and surprising insights" ( New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster), Your Perfect Life perfectly illustrates that old adage: Sometimes, you have to walk a mile in someone else's shoes to see what's in her heart. ![]() Two childhood best friends wake up the morning after their twentieth high school reunion to discover that they've switched bodies in this hilarious and heartwarming debut by two childhood best friends. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Glitter's childhood was unkind, but her sparkling personality allowed her to persevere. His mentor had both friends and enemies, and in due time, Mithron would have to deal with them all. Early in his training, he connects with Thessylia, a short-eared owl, who becomes his closest companion. His first lesson was the understanding that necromancy deals with both life and death, and he can use that power to destroy undead rather than creating them. Socially awkward, life in a wizard's tower suited him best: generally left to his own devices in a library that could keep him busy for a lifetime. Until a traveling wizard discovered his latent talent, when he chose to follow the path he was destined for. He had no talent for working at the forge, and, in spite of his father's wishes, instead trained with the local herbalist who saved him. As the scrawny son of a village blacksmith, there was little that he could do except remain vigilant. Mithron always hated and feared the undead, ever since a pair of walking cadavers nearly ate him alive when he was a child. ![]() ![]() ![]() Davis starts from the premise that nature lies at the center of human existence, and takes listeners on a compelling and, at times, wrenching journey from the Florida Keys to the Texas Rio Grande, along marshy shorelines and majestic estuarine bays, profoundly beautiful and life-giving, though fated to exploitation by esurient oil men and real-estate developers. Significant beyond tragic oil spills and hurricanes, the Gulf has historically been one of the world's most bounteous marine environments, supporting human life for millennia. Davis finally places this exceptional region into the American mythos in a sweeping history that extends from the Pleistocene age to the twenty-first century. ![]() And so, in this rich and original work that explores the Gulf through our human connection with the sea, environmental historian Jack E. When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented itself as America's sea-bound by geography, culture, and tradition to the national experience-and yet, there has never been a comprehensive history of the Gulf until now. Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction-the tragic collision between civilization and nature in the Gulf of Mexico becomes a uniquely American story in this environmental epic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes you sat beside me, your legs pulled up to your chin and your silk shawl over one shoulder in the silence of the night that had barely begun. I brushed your hair back to look into your eyes. In the final instant we glimpsed absolute solitude, each lost in a blazing chasm, but soon we returned from the far side of that fire to find ourselves embraced amid a riot of pillows beneath white mosquito netting. You pressed against me, you explored me, you scaled me, you fastened me with your invincible legs, you said a thousand times, come, your lips on mine. ![]() ![]() You opened to me, my hands on your twisting waist, your hands impatient. We were too close to see one another, each absorbed in our urgent rite, enveloped in our shared warmth and scent. You untied your sash, kicked off your sandals, tossed your full skirt into the corner-it was cotton, if I remember-and loosened the clasp that held your hair in a ponytail. Int'l Women's Conference - México, 2013.Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Ceremony, 2017. ![]() ![]() ![]() The father has tried to teach the boy to use the gun on himself if necessary, to avoid falling into the hands of cannibals. ![]() The pair have a revolver, but only two rounds. He assures his son that they are "good guys" who are "carrying the fire". Realizing they cannot survive the winter in northern latitudes, the father takes the boy south along interstate highways towards the sea, carrying their meager possessions in their knapsacks and a supermarket cart. The boy's mother, pregnant with him at the time of the disaster, committed suicide some time before. ![]() The book was adapted into a film of the same name in 2009, directed by John Hillcoat.Ī father and his young son journey on foot across the post-apocalyptic ash-covered United States some years after an extinction event. The novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006. The book details the grueling journey of a father and his young son over a period of several months across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed industrial civilization and almost all life. The Road is a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. ![]() ![]() Now however I am certain I will not be picking up another book by this author. Another example is the final chapter, which is as irrelevant as it is dull.When I saw that a book about each election from 1960 to 1972 had been written by the same author I was excited, and was looking forward to reading every book. ![]() No personalities, just duties- and even these are described in a way which is difficult to understand. These become impossible to recall- and yet paragraph after paragraph are filled with these names and their minor duties. For example entire lists of names are hurled at the reader, with a brief explanation of each person's role. ![]() This however was an utterly tedious read.Although it covers an exciting election, and it does give you a somewhat new perspective on Nixon/JFK and the challenges they faced before and after their nomination, it is done in a painfully unreadable way. ![]() I love political books- I rate Richard Ben Cramer's "What it Takes." as my favourite ever book in fact. ![]() ![]() ![]() And then, suddenly, Grinkov died of a heart attack in 1995 at age 28. Their success culminated in Olympic gold medals in 19. But as time passed and their joint career led to international championships, they fell in love and married. ![]() Throughout their training and into the start of their competitive careers, each thought of the other only as an athletic partner, partly because the four-year difference in their ages meant they had few friends in common. Two such youngsters were Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, paired as skaters by their teachers when they were 11 and 14, respectively. Children as young as five or six were identified, sent to special schools and given rigorous training in the sports in which they were expected to excel. In the former Soviet Union, the sports establishment, charged with producing winners for the greater glory of the empire, had almost unlimited power over the athletically gifted. ![]() ![]() Peter went on to write WAR CRIMES (1979, winner Miles Franklin Award NSW Premier’s Literary Award, BLISS (1981, winner Miles Franklin Award, National Book Council Award, NSW Premier’s Literary Award), ILLYWHACKER (1985, shortlisted Booker Prize for Fiction, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, The Age Book of the Year and winner Ditmar Award for Best Australian Science Fiction Novel), OSCAR AND LUCINDA (1988, winner Booker Prize of Fiction, Miles Franklin Award) THE BIG BAZOOHLEY (1995) and THE TAX INSPECTOR (1991). His first publication was the short story collection, THE FAT MAN IN HISTORY, published in 1974. Peter was born in Bacchus Marsh in Victoria 1943. ![]() ![]() ![]() Quite literally, nearly every deceased hero in the DCU was brought back as a Black Lantern while our heroes struggled to save the day. With newly branded Corps representing each level of the emotional spectrum (ROY G BIV), Johns and Reis took the concept of death and resurrection within comics – a feat accomplished by Hal Jordan himself – and blew it out of the water. Blackest+Night Writer: Geoff Johns | Artist: Ivan Reis | Price: $19.99 Collects: Blackest Night #0-8 Blackest Night, while a universe-wide event series, was deeply rooted in the expanding mythos of Green Lantern that DC architect Geoff Johns had been building for years. Either way, these books stand as a testament to the appeal of Green Lantern. ![]() If you didn't care for it, this is an opportunity to discover things that will be more satisfying than the film. If you loved the film, these are the comics to seek out to dive into the Green Lantern mythos a little more fully. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for $69 per month.įor cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. For a full comparison of Standard and Premium Digital, click here.Ĭhange the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. 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