5/11/2023 0 Comments Amelia kimberly mccreight![]() ![]() Despite Kate’s busy job, she and Amelia share a close bond, likely forged because it’s always been just the two of them. She and her fifteen-year-old daughter, Amelia, live in Brooklyn, where Amelia attends Grace Hall, a hoity-toity private school. Kate Baron is a high-powered lawyer and single mom. It is this very private world that is central to Kimberly McCreight’s suspenseful and timely novel Reconstructing Amelia. Hardly anyone calls my house phone anymore – and certainly not the friends of my kids. If you got a call, you took it in full view of your parents and siblings there were ears everywhere. When I was a teenager there was one phone and it was in the kitchen. I mean, on the surface, it seems like it would be easier, right? We have phones that connect us immediately – but the flip side of that is that, because of this technology, our kids can live lives very separate from us, too. I’m sure all the mothers out there can appreciate how difficult it is to really know what is happening in our children’s lives these days. ![]()
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Sean phillips criminal![]() ![]() Of course, the irregular publishing schedule and anthology nature of Criminal could easily prove advantageous in a streaming landscape where programs are cancelled far too soon and take upwards of two years between seasons to make.Īs the deal is not yet done, it is unclear when or if Criminal will make it to screens. ![]() Their most recent effort, Paper Girls, was cancelled after a single, eight-episode season. Es especialmente conocido por sus trabajos en obras como Sleeper, WildC.A.T. Should the deals get finalized - Deadline suggests a stumbling block revolves around credit for producers who initially optioned the comic book several years ago - Criminal will be the latest attempt by Amazon to generate a successful comic book adaptation following the stunning results of The Boys and Invincible. Sean Phillips es un dibujante y entintador de cómics británico. ![]() Unlike most of Brubaker and Phillips’s other crime sagas, Criminal enjoys an irregular publishing schedule with the pair returning to its world every now and again. Tales span decades with families drawn into lives of crime and others getting their comeuppance. Anchored by the death of Teeg Lawless, Criminal tells the stories of various characters intersecting with the murder and character as they get up to various types of lawlessness. ![]() ![]() So Kate's only choice is to fight for the future she deserves-with or without Shane. ![]() Shane is loving and supportive from thousands of miles away, but his homecoming brings a betrayal Kate never saw coming. Now with Shane deployed for seven months, Kate is on her own and struggling with being a single parent. Kate's ability to read him like a book may have once sent Shane running, but their lives are forever entwined and they are growing closer. Shane's been angry for a year, and now he feels guilty too-for sleeping with his wife's best friend and liking it. Then on the first anniversary of Rachel's death, Kate and Shane take comfort in each other in a night that they both soon regret. The fact that Shane's in the military and away for long periods helps-but when tragedy strikes, everything changes.Īfter Rachel, pregnant with her fourth child, dies in a car accident and the baby miraculously survives, Kate upends her entire life to share parenting duties. If you're Kate Evans, you keep your friend Rachel, bond with her kids, and bury your feelings for her husband. ![]() What do you do when your soul mate marries your best friend? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Amid her social confusion, she is introduced to the problems of immigrant groups and the poor Clara is forbidden to think about helping them.Īs the balls and parties of the debutante season progress, Clara finds Harry to be kind and have surprising insight into God and what God expects from His followers. Unfortunately, Clara’s best friend, Lizzie, is set on catching Franklin, too, and Clara’s heart prefers Harry, Franklin’s younger brother. Thus starts Clara’s social-education whirlwind and her formal introduction into high society.Ĭlara’s father and aunt insist on her catching a rich husband, none other than Franklin De Vries, the heir to the De Vries fortune. Those hopes are dashed when Clara’s Aunt announces that Clara will be debuting, and Miss Miller is dismissed. Miss Miller, Clara’s governess, has prepared Clara to attend Vassar College. This is the era of hoopskirts and corsets, debutantes and balls, rules and expectations, and old money being challenged by new.Ĭlara’s mother died when Clara was a girl. Clara Carter, the only child of a prominent New York City doctor, is a 17-year-old girl living in the Gilded Age of the 1890s. ![]() ![]() (2002) from Stanford University where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. ![]() Schroeter is a condensed matter theorist. He is the author of over fifty articles and four books: Introduction to Electrodynamics (4th edition, Cambridge, 2013), Introduction to Elementary Particles (2nd edition, 2008), Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (2nd edition, Cambridge, 2016), and Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Physics (Cambridge, 2012). was in elementary particle theory, his recent research is in electrodynamics and quantum mechanics. He has spent sabbaticals at SLAC, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and University of California, Berkeley. In 1997 he was awarded the Millikan Medal by the American Association of Physics Teachers. Griffiths is a Consulting Editor of The American Journal of Physics, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. ![]() In 2001-02 he was visiting Professor of Physics at the Five Colleges (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and Hampshire), and in the spring of 2007 he taught Electrodynamics at Stanford. ![]() He taught at Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, and Trinity College before joining the faculty at Reed College in 1978. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content, providing access to journal and book content from nearly 300 publishers. With warehouses on three continents, worldwide sales representation, and a robust digital publishing program, the Books Division connects Hopkins authors to scholars, experts, and educational and research institutions around the world. With critically acclaimed titles in history, science, higher education, consumer health, humanities, classics, and public health, the Books Division publishes 150 new books each year and maintains a backlist in excess of 3,000 titles. The division also manages membership services for more than 50 scholarly and professional associations and societies. The Journals Division publishes 85 journals in the arts and humanities, technology and medicine, higher education, history, political science, and library science. The Press is home to the largest journal publication program of any U.S.-based university press. ![]() One of the largest publishers in the United States, the Johns Hopkins University Press combines traditional books and journals publishing units with cutting-edge service divisions that sustain diversity and independence among nonprofit, scholarly publishers, societies, and associations. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments The oddmire changeling![]() ![]() ![]() Tinn and Cole are raised as human twins, neither knowing what secrets may be buried deep inside one of them. Too perfectly: Kull cannot tell them apart, so he leaves both babies behind. By the time he turns back, the changeling has already perfectly mimicked the human child. ![]() After laying the changeling in a human infant’s crib, the goblin Kull is briefly distracted. But when the night arrives to trade a human baby for a goblin one, something goes terribly wrong. To renew it, goblins must perform an ancient ritual involving the rarest of their kind-a newborn changeling. A captivating series opener.” - Booklist, starred review “Set in a magical world filled with incredible creatures from folklore, this fast-paced fantasy will keep readers turning the pages. I can’t wait for the next one.” -Adam Gidwitz, author of the New York Times bestseller A Tale Dark and Grimm ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Blood Omen by Sheena Jolie![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And he does all of that in a wonderfully voiced performance.Įven his battle cry – “vae victis”, woe to the vanquished, seems to tell you a lot about what type of person he is. He waxes poetic about torture and fantasizes whimsically about rape and pillage. He’s a vain noble who seems to disdain all other denizens of Nosgoth, be they peasantry, other nobles or kings. He speaks as if he was a character in a Shakespearan play, his words full of gravitas, arrogance and majesty. Now, playing Blood Omen is easily worth it in my mind just to experience the glory of Kain, the progatonist. And I did recently finish it and it was pretty awesome. So – I hastened to play Blood Omen just to listen to MORE OF KAIN. But I randomly stumbled upon a video of Blood Omen and heard Kain, the main character, speak. I’ve never played any of the Legacy of Kain games until very recently. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments The longing by sue monk kidd![]() ![]() ![]() This study guide uses the 2020 Viking hardcover edition. If true, that would make the wife of Jesus the most present absence in recorded human history. ![]() The Book of Longings, a New York Times best seller, earned critical plaudits for both its historical realism and for its daring premise that Christ and his ministry were shaped at least in part from his relationship with a woman he loved very much not as a God but as a man. ![]() Part meticulously researched historical fiction and part provocative feminist theological speculation, The Book of Longings is supremely a love story between Jesus ben Joseph, an itinerant stonemason and part-time carpenter from Nazareth, and Ana, a feisty, willful, passionate, privileged, and well-educated daughter of a well-placed scribe in Herod’s occupational government in Galilee, an aspiring writer who is profoundly frustrated by the limited opportunities for women to express themselves. That he might have taken a wife, as was customary, and might have had a family wider than the iconic figures of his parents Mary and Joseph has for two millennia been dismissed by Christian thinkers as unfounded and heretical. Little is known about the 33 years of the life of the Hebrew religious philosopher, social activist, and political agitator known today as Jesus Christ, save the last three years of his public ministry. In creating a first-person narrative of the wife of Jesus, veteran novelist Sue Monk Kidd acknowledged that The Book of Longings (2020) was controversial, even incendiary. ![]() ![]() ![]() Vivian Forest has been out of the country a grand total of one time, so when she gets the chance to tag along on her daughter Maddie’s work trip to England to style a royal family member, she can’t refuse. " From the New York Times bestselling author of The Proposal and a “rising star in the romance genre” ( Entertainment Weekly) comes a dazzling novel about a spontaneous holiday vacation that turns into an unforgettable romance. The Kindle version is a little bit cheaper than the paperback AND you can save money on the Audible version if you own the Kindle copy! I love to use the Amazon Whispersync feature to go back and forth between audio and digital reading. ![]() You can get the book from your library.Money-saving tricks for reading this month’s book pick: Get your copy of this month’s book club pick:īuy the book on Audible. ![]() |