![]() ![]() But the news that bright Jessie will be skipping a grade to join Evan’s fourth-grade class creates tension. Jessie and Evan are usually good friends as well as sister and brother. Unfortunately, the length makes it less likely to appeal to the intended audience. Told from the point of view of two warring siblings, this could have been an engaging first chapter book. It’s like looking through a magical lens of time-release photography. Kids and adults will pore over the tiny details, from building graffiti to people planting gardens and kids walking dogs. The ingenious staging of miniature collage constructions creates a 3-D effect that humanizes the urban changes that transform the community into a place that’s “home.” The author’s note expresses her tenet and belief that “communities are finding ways that their streets can once again become part of people’s sense of home and belonging.” Brilliant in concept and execution, this fascinating enactment conveys the importance of community in a young person’s life. She views each scene from the same perspective personal objects on the sill connote the passage of time as a young girl grows into adulthood, e.g., a teddy bear, a cup with “I am Four,” a pencil case marked “age 8,” a make-up mirror, a university prospectus, and a wedding invitation. As she did in Window (1991), Baker offers an intriguing wordless observation of how a neighborhood changes over time through the vantage point of a double-paned window frame. ![]()
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I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve read by this author and Manwhore was no exception. What happens when the man they call Saint, makes you want to sin?Ī new Katy Evan’s book with the title “Manwhore”. Bit by bit, I start to wonder if I'm the one discovering him.or if he's uncovering me. And that’s where I come in.Īssigned to investigate Saint and reveal his elusive personality, I’m determined to make him the story that will change my career.īut I never imagined he would change my life. Since he hit the scene, his secrets have been his and his alone to keep. His entire life he’s been surrounded by the press as they dig for tidbits to see if his fairytale life is for real or all mirrors and social media lies. The hottest entrepreneur Chicago has ever known, he’s a man’s man with too much money to spend and too many women vying for his attention. ![]() There’s nothing holy about the man except the hell his parties raise. Don’t be fooled by that last name though. ![]() This is the story I've been waiting for all my life, and its name is Malcolm Kyle Preston Logan Saint. Is it possible to expose Chicago’s hottest player-without getting played? ![]() ![]() If you add items to your basket and select your country from the "estimate delivery" dropdown box at the bottom of the basket page, you will be able to see immediately how much it would cost to ship those items to you. ![]() ![]() Our postage and packaging prices to international destinations vary depending on the total weight of your order. We deliver to most countries worldwide using a range of tracked and insured services. Please check with your country's government for further details of these charges. We send all orders DDU (delivery duty unpaid) and you may have to pay import charges to receive your parcel, however you will not have to pay UK VAT on your order. Please note that all orders sent outside the UK are considered exports. Guaranteed delivery date as shown when you select this service at checkout. Tracked 48: £4.99 per order (or FREE for orders over £50)ĭelivery within 3 - 5 working days. Delivery with Royal Mail. Delivery with Royal Mail or Parcelforce.ĭelivery within 1 - 3 working days. Delivery with Royal Mail. Delivery within 7 working days for in-stock items. ![]() ![]() ![]() Given that veiling has been commonly practiced by many religions, why has the veil become so strongly associated with Islam? Why is it that Muslim women who veil are automatically assumed to be oppressed, ignorant, pious, or militant? How is it that a piece of clothing is so politically and emotionally charged? Amer answers these question clearly over the course of this highly readable book.” In this well-written, succinct, and much-needed overview of the role of veiling in the Muslim world, Sahar Amer interweaves the perspectives of Muslim women themselves, with emphasis on the many meanings attached to veiling. A vivid resource for general readers as well as students in course on Islam and women’s studies.” Sahar Amer explains that Muslims didn’t invent the veil, not all Muslims veil the same way, and ideas about Muslim veiling have served and continue to serve political and polemical purposes. “Veiling is a difficult but timely and important topic. ![]() ![]() Federal laws were weighted in favor of wealthier speculators. Tenants could easily be reduced to landless squatters. "There was no clear path to land and riches among the lower ranks," Isenberg writes of antebellum Americans. The myth of upward mobility did not concern early Americans, and the vastness of the continent provided a ready alternative for the poor. We only took greater strides than European nations to keep those structures out of sight. We may have ditched Debrett's, and the shape of our class structure may have been different, but we did not really eliminate class structures, nor their political and cultural significance. ![]() I noted how she reaches back to the colonial era and the founding to demonstrate that, despite our national myths to the contrary, Americans did not really break from British ideas about class. Yesterday, I began my review of Nancy Isenberg's important new book White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Whatever her altitude, you can find her on Twitter and on Instagram as jackycollissharvey. Her red hair has also found her an alternative career as a life model and a film extra playing everything from a society lady in Atonement to a Parisian whore in Bel-Ami. ![]() She studied English at Cambridge University and art history at the Courtauld Institute. Her writing has been praised as 'quirky and deeply perceptive', and as 'witty.wide-ranging and throughly enjoyable.' She lives in London with two very spoiled rescue cats, while her partner lives in New York - so a good deal of her writing is done at 30,000 feet. Jacky Colliss Harvey is a writer and editor. It was followed by a guided journal, 'My Life As A Redhead,' and in 2019 by 'The Animal's Companion' - an exploration of the 26,000 year love story between people and their pets. Jacky Colliss Harvey is a writer and editor, and the author of Red: A History of the Redhead and My Life As A Redhead: A Journal. Her first book, 'Red: A History of the Redhead,' was a New York Times bestseller, and finally convinced her to write full-time. At the same time, her red hair also found her an alternative career as a life model and a film extra, playing everything from a society lady in 'Atonement' to a Parisian whore in 'Bel-Ami'. A book that breaks new ground, dispels myths, and reinforces the special natu. She studied English at Cambridge University and art history at the Courtauld Institute, and putting those two together, went on to a career in the museum world as a writer, editor and publisher. Red is a brilliantly told, captivating history of red hair throughout the ages. Jacky Colliss Harvey was born in the wilds of Suffolk, and grew up surrounded by farms and animals. ![]() ![]() ![]() On January 27, 1945, an unimaginable horror revealed itself to them. It was soldiers of the Red Army who liberated the SS death camp in Auschwitz almost 78 years ago. was published on Jin the city of Rösrath. The authors of the anthology “Heaven over Philomena/Auschwitz looks at us” (Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2022) faced this question, which was published on the occasion of the Philomena-Franz-Forum e.V. This is where our responsibility comes from. ![]() We know what genocide is and know Celan's verse “Death is a master from Germany”. We all have the Holocaust tattooed on our memorial skin. And so we can accept this horror without despairing of being German. And so she ignited a light for all of us in the dark tunnel of Auschwitz. If we love, we become rich.”Ī triad determined their self-image: Sintiza, God, Germany. At home and abroad, in schools and universities, she spread the message of her life: “If we hate, we lose. Philomena Franz, the “Woman of Europe” in 2001, awarded the Federal Cross of Merit and the Order of Merit of North Rhine-Westphalia and honorary citizen of the district town of Bergisch Gladbach, read from her impressive book “Between Love and Hatred” for many decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lake Forrester III entered my life like a wrecking ball. Finding out he’s my fated mate wasn’t part of the assignment. Each book can be read on its own, but is so much better if read in order. ![]() **** Smolder is book 2 in the Drake Security series and has a reluctant fated mate, dragon shifters, book swooning, ancient mysteries, and magic. Will the love stories that live inside my soul be enough to woo him? Is it too much to hope that fate has chosen him for me? I’ve spent thousands of years hoarding books and storing their words close to my heart. Is he my fated mate or am I just so desperate for one that I’m falling for him too fast? Either way, I’ll move heaven and hell to protect him, even if the forces that are after him are unlike anything I’ve dealt with before. Unfortunately, we specialize in brute strength and burning sh*t to the ground, and the problem Dempsey has is way out of our league. He hired Drake Security for protection, and he needs it even more than he realized. ![]() Dempsey, however, is not as keen on that idea as my inner beast is. My dragon wants to wrap himself around him the moment he bumps into me outside of his antique shop. I am all of these things, but never more so than when I set my eyes on Dempsey for the first time.īeautiful. Everyone knows dragons are covetous, jealous… possessive. When my hot headed brother found his fated mate, a deep, aching desire opened up inside of me for my own. I was hired to protect him, but will our smoldering attraction ignite into love? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Just before the sun rises, it resembles a typical suburban home with proper front lawns and manicured flowerbeds. Let’s begin by describing this prophetic year from another point of view - Henry Matthews’ house. Their dire predictions were fulfilled in their minds, as real scientific data materialized. Nevertheless, the criticism against weird prophecies based on beliefs didn’t stop those End of World doomsayers this time. How should we describe this particular time-period: Apocalyptic? Cataclysmic? Revelatory? To some people, these interpretations might be the consequence of misinterpreted Mayan accounts or New Age Pseudo-science. ![]() It was sometime within the first few decades of the twenty-first century. While the chances of such an event are no greater now than at any other time in history, there is a very high chance that one will happen eventually. The Awakening"Īsteroid mitigation strategies are “planetary defense” methods by which near-Earth objects could be diverted, preventing potentially catastrophic impact events. ![]() By pure chance, his head along with all his thoughts were protected and preserved, allowing him to stay alive for 50,000 years.Ĭhapter 1 - Excerpts from "50,000 A.D. You might say that Henry Matthews is the luckiest man in the universe. What happens when a person from the 21st century wakes up 50,000 years in the future? ![]() |