6/7/2023 0 Comments Him by Sarina Bowen![]() This feels like the right career move, but there’s something else. I’ve taken the coaching job in Toronto, and I’ve declined my spot in Detroit. It was death by baseball, but I swear she didn’t suffer.Īnyway, I have to catch you up on a few developments. ![]() As proof I’ll confess that I’m the one who broke Mom’s Christmas tree angel when I was seven. And in case you think my account was hacked, it wasn’t. You’re all going to discuss me on Sunday, anyway. I feel like a heel doing this over Facebook, but I can’t reach everyone by tomorrow. ![]() He holds out his phone to me, and I take it with a shaking hand. It’s taken me four years to get over my parents’ reaction to my coming out. I find Jamie perched on the edge of the condom couch, his face in his hands. That gets me on my feet and running through the apartment. ![]() And then I hear a groan from the living room. If anyone has said something ugly to Jamie on that Facebook page, I’ll probably punch something. People can be assholes about smaller stuff than their brother having a gay relationship. He is quite possibly the most laidback person I’ve ever met. I wait on the bed by myself saying an unlikely prayer for Jamie. ![]()
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6/7/2023 0 Comments Dolphin Girl by Shel Delisle![]() Desiree’s flipping through some magazine. Lexie rests the back of her hand against her mouth, and I can’t figure out if she’s holding back a laugh or a shriek of utter horror. Lexie and Desiree - my partners in crime - wait for me, sitting along the wall in metal chairs with shredded black leather seats. It’s his tats, solid from shoulder to fingertips. If this wasn’t just another steamy day in South Florida, you’d swear he was wearing a long-sleeved shirt. It’ll take your mind off the hurt.įrom my awkward belly-down position on this imitation dentist chair, I catch glimpses of Tattoo Man’s arms and hands. ![]() ![]() He harrumphs at himself while the needle pricks the skin on my lower back. That’s what I was thinking - what I was about to say aloud to Lexie - when Tattoo Man asks, How come a dolphin?Įveryone comes in here with a reason for why they get inked, and everyone has a reason for what they pick. ![]() ![]() ![]() With a skillful introduction to the genre and notes on each story by Sims, The Phantom Coach is a spectacular collection of ghostly Victorian thrills. Page) continued, Montgomerys husband Ewan MacDonald continued to suffer clinical depression. While the legal battle with Montgomerys publishing company (L.C. Jacobs ("The Monkey’s Paw") will turn you white as a sheet. Emily Climbs is the second in a series of novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Edwards’s chilling story gives the collection its title, while Ambrose Bierce ("The Moonlit Road"), Elizabeth Gaskell ("The Old Nurse’s Story"), and W. She published 20 novels and 500 short stories during her lifetime and was the first woman to be named a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. ![]() ![]() She found instant literary fame upon the publication of her first book, Anne of Green Gables. ![]() (Lucy Maud) Physical Description 317 p., 1 leaf of plates : 1 col. The Phantom Coach includes tales by a surprising and often legendary cast, including Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as lost gems by forgotten masters such as Mary E. Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) was a Canadian novelist and the famed author of the Anne Shirley series. Emily climbs Statement of Responsibility L.M. Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections Dracula’s Guest (vampires) and The Dead Witness (detectives) have been widely praised, has gathered twelve of the best stories about humanity’s oldest supernatural obsession. Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() According to Gates, "to prevent the worst effects of climate change, we have to get to net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases. ![]() By investing in research, inventing new technologies, and by deploying them quickly at large scale, Gates believes climate change can be addressed in meaningful ways. As a technologist, he has seen first-hand how innovation can change the world. Climate change, according to Gates, will have the biggest impact on the people who have done the least to cause it. Gates says, "we can work on a local, national, and global level to build the technologies, businesses, and industries to avoid the worst impacts of climate change." His interest in climate change is a natural outgrowth of the efforts by his foundation to reduce poverty and disease. Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions.īill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis. ![]() ![]() There is just as much action, danger, perilous questing and testing of trust and loyalty. So, without any spoilers, I can say that Book 5 is just as riveting as the first four. Of course, the good thing about coming to a series late is that there is no waiting! The next book is right there in the bookstore or on the bedside table, which really gives the reader an incentive to push through and get to the next exciting episode of the story. I have not been this engrossed in a fantasy series since Harry Potter and his friends captured my imagination and dominated the literary landscape. Now I am up to Book 5 and my enthusiasm for finding out what happens next is undimmed. I have not been reading this series for very long – I only picked up Book 1 in June this year – but I was immediately drawn into the characters’ unresolved issues and their magical world. ![]() Known as 8.5 it has fans in a frenzy of anticipation. There are currently eight books in the series, with a ninth book due for release before Christmas. ![]() The first book in the Keeper of the Lost Cities series was first released in 2012. Drawing on her background in cinematic arts, she writes fast-paced adventure stories that have featured on The New York Times bestseller list and proven popular in many countries around the world. Author Shannon Messenger has won numerous awards for The Keeper of the Lost Cities series and the Skyfall series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sheva was born into a family that struggled to make ends meet, in the town of Radoszyce. The remaining thirty five chapters (211 pages) describe the years in the orphanage during the war, introducing the reader to the children who were under Sheva’s care and telling their stories. The first two chapters (pages 1-9) tell briefly of Sheva’s life before World War II and the beginnings of her career as a teacher, as well as introducing the orphanage and ‘setting the scene’ for the rest of the book. Though written in the first person, the book is mostly devoted to describing the children who came under Sheva’s care. 220 pages in length, the book tells of Sheva Glas-Wiener’s years in the Lodz Ghetto as a teacher in an orphanage. ‘Children of the Ghetto’ was originally published in Yiddish in 1974, and was translated by the author and Shirley Young in 1983. ![]() Note: those cities/towns/camps underlined are those which are most central to the narrative Location of Book: Makor Jewish Community Library, Melbourne Jewish Community Library, MelbourneĬities/town/camps: Poland: Lodz, Marysin, Radoszyce Like a Family: An Investigation into Gender in Melbourne's Jewish Organisations Gender, Resilience and Adaptation in Melbourne’s Holocaust Survivor CommunityĮsotericism and exotericism in old Yiddish texts Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation ![]() ![]() ![]() Working closely with the House of Dior, Demarchelier showcases the extraordinary gowns made in the Dior ateliers from 1947 to today. 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He has been described as 'the most important publisher in Britain the most innovative, adventurous, and newsworthy'. ![]() Tom Maschler was born in Berlin in 1933 and died in 2018. ![]() By this 13th printing 75,000 copies were in print by 1993 this had risen to 745,000! A book in Very good condition, priced at 75 cents slight discolouration along spine with rubbing to spine foot and tail dust soiling to white areas of the cover panels. With an Introduction by William Carlos Williams. Now in a clear, removable, archival protective sleeve. Publisher's printed card wraps, stapled, with black interior. This address was Tom Maschler's home where he accommodated Ginsberg for two months whilst the latter was doing readings in England. First Edition, thirteenth printing, of Number Four in The Pocket Poets Series, SIGNED, INSCRIBED and DOODLED by the author on the title page, to Tom Maschler and from Maschler's library: 'For Tom Maschler 1965 hungover from the party Allen Ginbsberg 9 Chalcot Crescent London June 2, 1965'. ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments Kindred by Rebecca Wragg Sykes![]() ![]() ![]() Planning, co-operation, altruism, craftsmanship, aesthetic sense, imagination, perhaps even a desire for transcendence beyond mortality. Much of what defines us was also in Neanderthals, and their DNA is still inside us. Above all, they were successful survivors for more than 300,000 years, during times of massive climatic upheaval. She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins.Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting-edge of Palaeolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside cliches of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. ![]() Kindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals. 'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.' Yuval Noah Harari 'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art Rebecca Wragg Sykes € 15.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 3-5 working days. ![]() |