5/23/2023 0 Comments Carl's Christmas by Alexandra Day![]() ![]() ![]() Since then, two other Darling Rottweilers have posed as Carl in the seven sequels: the late Arambarri, who was named for one of the Darlings’ favorite jai alai players and Zabala, who currently moonlights as an Our Best Friend therapy dog, visiting hospitals to cheer patients. The Darlings’ own dog, a Rottweiler named Toby, was the model for the book’s main character. This image proved the inspiration for Good Dog, Carl. That same year, she was visiting Zurich, Switzerland, when she came across a volume of old German picture sheets, one of which featured a poodle playing with a baby who was supposed to be taking a nap. Sandra illustrated her first book in 1983: The Teddy Bears’ Picnic, a popular children’s song by Jimmy Kennedy. Living in the country also provided plenty of time for reading, a life-long passion. Here young Sandra grew especially fond of riding and training horses, and became a dog owner for the first time. For four years, the family lived on a hundred-acre farm in Kentucky. ![]() Painting was a popular family recreation, and almost every family excursion included one or more easels and a variety of sketch pads, chalks, paints, and pencils. Darling was born in 1941 in Cincinnati, Ohio, to a large and close-knit family. She is the author of Good Dog, Carl and the rest of the beloved Carl books, including Carl Goes Shopping, Carl’s Christmas, Carl’s Birthday and Carl’s Snowy Afternoon. Alexandra Day is the pseudonym for Sandra Louise Woodward Darling. ![]()
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5/23/2023 0 Comments Empire of the vampire paperback![]() ![]() ![]() A story of legendary battles and forbidden love, of faith lost and friendships won, of the Wars of the Blood and the Forever King and the quest for humanity’s last remaining hope: Imprisoned by the very monsters he vowed to destroy, the last silversaint is forced to tell his story. But even the Silver Order could not stem the tide once daylight failed us, and now, only Gabriel remains. Gabriel de León is a silversaint: a member of a holy brotherhood dedicated to defending realm and church from the creatures of the night. Now, only a few tiny sparks of light endure in a sea of darkness. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own. ![]() It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERįrom New York Times bestselling author Jay Kristoff comes Empire of the Vampire, the first illustrated volume of an astonishing new dark fantasy saga. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Und auf diese lauert er hier bei Mikhail. ![]() Liebe ist gleichbedeutend Forderungen zu stellen. Ryan ist 26 und lebt in einer absolut toxischen Beziehung zu seiner Familie. Ich muss mich gleich entschuldigen, aber ohne minimal zu Spoilern wird das nichts. Neben sehr viel Leidenschaft und Unterwerfung hat sie auch unglaublich viel Tiefe. Now Misha has to find a way to crack through those defenses…or accept defeat and walk away from the submissive who might just be the love of his life.ĭiese Geschichte wirkt definitiv noch nach. ![]() Cynical beyond his years, he’s not letting his guard down, least of all for a thrice-divorced man twice his age. Dominance, submission, pain, pleasure-at the hands of an older, experienced man, a whole new world is opening up for Ryan.Īs the trust deepens and their bond strengthens, though, Ryan retreats because that sham called love left him jaded long ago. What begins as fencing lessons becomes something much hotter, and before they know it, Misha is giving Ryan an entirely different kind of education. Startled by the moment of humility, Misha agrees. Not so predictably, Ryan asks him to be a mentor and show him how to fence. To put the arrogant kid in check, Misha challenges him to a sparring match, which he predictably wins. In short, Misha’s pet peeves personified. The undisciplined hothead is all ego with no finesse and even less control. Mikhail “Misha” Budnikov takes one look at fellow fencer Ryan O’Connor and instantly knows his type. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Forever free eric foner![]() ![]() ![]() He refutes lingering misconceptions about Reconstruction, including the attribution of its ills to corrupt African American politicians and "carpetbaggers," and connects it to the movements for civil rights and racial justice. Author of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad Forever Free: The Story of. ![]() He shows us that the birth of the Ku Klux Klan and renewed acts of racial violence were retaliation for the progress made by blacks soon after the war. Foner makes clear how, by war's end, freed slaves in the South built on networks of church and family in order to exercise their right of suffrage as well as gain access to education, land, and employment. We see African Americans as active agents in overthrowing slavery, in helping win the Civil War, and-even more actively-in shaping Reconstruction and creating a legacy long obscured and misunderstood. From one of our most distinguished historians, a new examination of the vitally important years of Emancipation and Reconstruction during and immediately following the Civil War-a necessary reconsideration that emphasizes the era’s political and cultural meaning for today's America.ĭrawing on a wide range of long-neglected documents, Eric Foner places a new emphasis on the centrality of the black experience to an understanding of the era. Forever Free is an essential contribution to our understanding of the events that fundamentally reshaped American life after the Civil Wara persuasive reading of history that transforms our sense of the era from a time of failure and despair to a threshold of hope and achievement. ![]() ![]() ![]() His marriage collapsed in the face of their family tragedy, and he endures emotional isolation. ![]() In Ísafjörður, a boat ride away, lives a psychiatrist whose son has disappeared. In summer, it’s busy with visitors who want to climb or walk the hills and mountains that surround the area, but come winter and you are entirely cut off and alone. Although not an island, it can only be reached by boat as there’s no roads over the mountain. The house is one of a few scattered buildings in all that remains of the abandoned village of Heysteri. Having read Yrsa Sigurðardóttir’s novel I Remember You ( Ég man þig) and seen the film adaptation, I found myself thinking about the theme of isolation.Ī group of three adults head from Reykjavík to a remote outcrop of the Westfjords where they plan to do up an abandoned house and set it up as a B&B. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The next big thing jennifer weiner![]() ![]() ![]() She was raised by her grandmother and now that she has grown up, she is determined to make it as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Ruth Saunders was left without parents and with terrible scars on her face and body after an accident when she was a little girl. If you are into contemporary romance, you might like this novel by Jennifer Weiner, who knows? But if you don’t, it’s best to stay far away from The Next Best Thing. Unfortunately, the tremendous amount of cliches, boring characters and bad storyline in general just make me think I’ve wasted my time reading this book. Still I struggled and had to literally force myself to finish this book, crossing my fingers things would get better later on. Sure, a contemporary romance novel isn’t exactly my cup of tea in most cases and the problem with this book could have been me. Which ended up being closer to my next worst nightmare than anything else. I guess that didn’t work out the way I planned… Instead of getting a nice surprise and a refreshing read, I got The Next Best Thing. I had promised myself to start using my TBR jar again as soon as I finished the Bookish Bingo challenge. I was going to enjoy it for as long as it lasted.” “You don’t get perfect-but I was going to grab this happiness and hold it as tightly as I could. 2023 Netgalley And Edelweiss Reading Challenge.2017 Netgalley And Edelweiss Reading Challenge. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Butts backstory![]() ![]() in the glorious Equal Earth projection no less! Wow I have wasted my life. ![]() That was like three years ago, and finally it is here. This didn't start out as anything serious but smashing together incompatible fantasy worlds and adding enough real-world geography and original content to make it work turned out to be really fun, so it grew and grew into the Midgard Project.Ī couple years later I was unhappy with the first map as I felt it was a bit naff, so I started work on a bigger one. So I made my own, because I’m just that sad. ![]() This map to be precise and, while I enjoyed the concept, I was rather annoyed that the lands were all out of scale with each other. Once upon a time, in a galaxy far far away, I saw a map. 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Now, Library of America presents an unrivaled portrait of Hamilton in his own words, charting his meteoric rise, his controversial tenure as treasury secretary, and his scandalous final years-all culminating in his infamous duel with Aaron Burr. The amazing success of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical Hamilton has stoked an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Alexander Hamilton, the brilliant and divisive founder who profoundly shaped the American republic. An unfaithful husband whose commitment to personal honor brought his life to a tragic early end. A fierce partisan whose nationalist vision made him Thomas Jefferson's bitter rival. Go beyond Lin-Manuel Miranda 's Hamilton and get to know the real Alexander Hamilton in this Library of America collection of the Founding Father's own public and private writings.Ī brash immigrant who rose to become George Washington's right-hand man. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments A high wind in jamaica![]() ![]() The pirate captain, Chavez ( Anthony Quinn) and first mate Zac ( James Coburn) do not wish to risk a kidnapping charge and decide to sail to Tampico and leave the children in the safe keeping of Rosa ( Lila Kedrova), a brothel madam with a good heart. The Thorntons ( Nigel Davenport and Isabel Dean), parents of five children, feel it is time to send them to England for a more civilised upbringing and education.ĭuring the voyage, pirates board the ship and the children end up accidentally leaving on the pirate ship. ![]() One of the child actors is the author Martin Amis.Ī hurricane hits Jamaica in 1870. 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