![]() 'At last - a writer who is right up my alley. Shadowed by the fabled Kreshkali, queen of the underworld and mistress of the wolf-like Lupins, Rosette and the temple cat, Drayco, find themselves little more than a step ahead of those who will do anything to control the portal that links the many-worlds. She takes refuge with Nell, a shape-shifting high priestess of the ancient blood, who teaches her the arts of witchcraft, stars and sword. ![]() Unaware of her lineage, Rosette runs scared when her family is murdered. the key to their survival is literally in her blood, a spell passed down through her family line to preserve the one they're sworn to protect. Rosette is a child of two worlds: Gaela, steeped in magic, and an Earth choked with failing technology. A fast-paced story takes us into time and space, magic and quantum physics. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() While there’s an emerging understanding that our heritage was less stained by racism than shaped by it, a sense that Christianity shifted with chilling speed from a source of relatively benign civic unity into a wellspring of snarling division, and a growing scientific understanding that our post war prosperity set the stage for the planets’ climatic upheaval, we badly need to pinpoint where we went astray in the first place if we wish to fix this country. But new understandings of history have cast shadows on that picture-and over the past half century, over consumption and hyper-individualism have wrought havoc on three of America’s most distinctive features: our intertwined sense of history and patriotism, our kindness and generosity, and the promise of prosperity for all. ![]() Postwar suburban prosperity the emerging movements for human equality-the escalator seemed to be heading steadily up. Bill McKibben grew up believing- knowing––that America was the greatest country on earth that for all its obvious flaws, it was history’s most dynamic machine, pushing steadily towards a better future. ![]() ![]() While surveys are handy for learning how many people identify as Republicans or Democrats in a state or country, they aren’t well suited to all types of questions. ![]() In this case, Hochschild focused on conservatives living in one of the nation’s most polluted counties in the South. Ethnographers like Hochschild aren’t focused on gathering data on as many people as possible, as a surveyor typically is, but instead work on gathering as much data as possible about a circumscribed group of people. For many, large-scale surveys come to mind when thinking about social science research, but ethnography embraces a distinct approach, one less focused on the big picture than on the messy details of social life. ![]() Over a five-year stretch, Hochschild traveled Louisiana working on what sociologists and other social scientists call ethnography. This is a study guide for Strangers in Their Own Land intended for sociology students. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() attorney, and she was starting to get seriously POed that she couldn’t get a little peace and quiet.īam! Bam! Bam! The wall behind the king-sized bed shook with enough force to rattle her headboard, and Cameron cursed the hardwood floors that had brought her to such circumstances.Įarlier in the week, when the contractor had told her that she would need to stay off her refinished floors for twenty-four hours, she had decided to treat herself to some much-needed pampering. More important, even with the discounted rate they gave federal employees, overnights at the Peninsula weren’t typically within the monthly budget of an assistant U.S. It was after three o’clock in the morning, and while she certainly had nothing against a good round of raucous hotel sex, this particular round had gone beyond raucous and into the ridiculous about fourteen “oh-God-oh-God-oh-Gods” ago. ![]() THIRTY THOUSAND HOTEL rooms in the city of Chicago, and Cameron Lynde managed to find one next door to a couple having a sex marathon.Ĭameron pulled the pillow over her head, thinking-as she had been thinking for the past hour and a half-that it had to end sometime. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Suzanne isn't writing, she's busy making music. She has also received two RITAs and Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Awards. She has been on the USA Today and New York Times bestseller lists and has received many awards including being named Romance Writers of America’s #1 Favorite Book of the Year three times. ![]() Published since 1993, Suzanne is widely recognized as one of the leading voices in suspense romance genre. They divide their time between Boston, Massachusetts, Sarasota, Florida and New York City. They have two grown children: Melanie, who is a personal trainer and author, and Jason, who is an actor and tap dancer. Married with Ed Gaffney, a lawyer and published writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In any time, Alexandra David-Neel would have been considered an extraordinary woman, but in the Victorian era, she was truly exceptional. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. The determination and sheer physical fortitude it took for this woman, delicately reared in Paris and Brussels, is inspiration for men and women alike.ĭavid–Neel is famous for being the first Western woman to have been received by any Dalai Lama and as a passionate scholar and explorer of Asia, hers is one of the most remarkable of all travellersߴales. With the help of her young companion, Yongden, she willingly suffered the primitive travel conditions, frequent outbreaks of disease, the ever–present danger of border control and the military to reach her goal. In order to penetrate Tibet and reach Lhasa, she used her fluency of Tibetan dialects and culture, disguised herself as a beggar with yak hair extensions and inked skin and tackled some of the roughest terrain and climate in the World. ![]() An exemplary travelogue of danger and achievement by the Frenchwoman Madame Alexandra David–Neel of her 1923 expedition to Tibet, the fifth in her series of Asian travels, and her personal recounting of her journey to Lhasa, Tibet's forbidden city. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() " Long after the book has been closed, which character reverberates in the memory? Rebecca. In her 'Afterword' to the Virago paperback edition, Sally Beauman writes: In this thought-provoking and insightful piece, Chris looks at the novel Rebecca from the point of view of the inspiration for Rebecca herself.Īs we all watch the new Netflix film version of Rebecca, released last month, some may be drawn again to wonder about the unseen title character. Today we bring you a full-length article that he has written for us. Recently I introduced Chris Main to you when he shared with us his thoughts on the new Netflix film of Rebecca, (see DduM website news page 31st October 2020). A new look at the inspiration for that illusive character: Echoes of Rebecca – by Chris Main. ![]() ![]() His gradual shift from the navy to the aerial corps is believable and involving his struggle with integrating himself into the new culture is fraught with pitfalls that are paralleled nicely by Temeraire's difficulty with being a rare breed. Temeraire is delightful, and Lawrence is such a good man. Anyone who needs a very fast-paced writing style (like Carl Hiassan) might dislike it, but anyone who can tolerate Tolkein would have no trouble. Certainly the writing style is deliberate and considered, but as I said, it matches the setting and especially the naval character of Lawrence, the main character whose perspective is our own. Some reviewers have complained that the story is tedious. ![]() The tone of the writing fits the setting perfectly, and the narrator matches as though the book were written specifically for him. ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s quite a long while to have been thinking about writing a book, isn’t it? I thought, “I could have a boy abandoned in a graveyard who is taught the things that whoever lives in the graveyard knows!” In The Jungle Book, Mowgli is abandoned in the jungle and adopted by animals and taught the things that animals know. One day I thought, I could do something just like The Jungle Book! And I would sit on the steps outside watching him in the graveyard. I would take my son and his tricycle down all the stairs and across the lane where he would go tricycling around the graveyard very happily. But just across the lane we had a country graveyard. You can’t really let an 18-month-old with a tricycle ride around in a house with all these stairs because he would just go tumbling down. I had an 18-month-old son and he had a little tricycle. It was tall, thin and practically every room was on a different floor. Twenty-three and a half years ago I was living in Sussex in a very, very narrow house. ![]() ![]() They are translated to nearly 20 languages. Her books are everygreen, some still immensely popular today, a quarter of a century since their initial print. Sam has written on every imaginable topic including confidence, conflict resolution, dealing with bullies, getting people’s attention, and concentration. Consider combining words (snuba = snorkeling + scuba diving).Make quotes that rhyme - Think it and ink it, meaning, when you have an idea, write it down.Select your phrase and state it in a beat, so it’s easy to repeat.Her tactics to turn your ideas into something memorable are endless. Instead of picking a lane, she is a renaissance woman who can stay on top of what is new, develop methodologies to bring ideas into action, and teach others how to do the same. Her material is everywhere: keynotes, books, LinkedIn Learning courses, and TEDx talks. She can take your idea and turn it into a pithy statement. Sam Horn has made a career out of crafting your message, making it relevant and intriguing so that you raise people’s eyebrows. If the decision-maker's eyebrows are raised, they are intrigued and want to hear more. If the decision-maker's eyes were unmoved, they were unimpressed-another rejection. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Confused people don’t say yes,” advises Horn. If the person describes a project and the decision maker’s eyebrows are scrunched together, they are confused. Sam Horn recommends doing the eyebrow test to see if you have a viable idea. ![]() |