6/28/2023 0 Comments Duped! by Andreas Schroeder![]() Schroeder has been shortlisted for a Governor-General's Award (Nonfiction: Shaking It Rough) in 1977, the Sealbooks First Novel Award (1984), an Arthur Ellis Award for Best Nonfiction (1997), The Stephen Leacock Award for Humor (1997) and the Malahat Review Novella competition (1998). Schroeder teaches Creative Non-Fiction in the University of British Columbia's Creative Writing program, where he holds the Rogers Communications Chair in Creative Nonfiction. When that program was finally achieved, in 1986, he became its founding Chair, and served as the Union's PLR representative on the Public Lending Right Commission until 2008. He served a term as Chair of the Writers' Union of Canada (1976/77), at which time he took over the Union's crusade for Public Lending Right. ![]() For many years he appeared on the CBC radio show Basic Black as its "resident crookologist", presenting a segment on some of the world's most outrageous and humorous crimes and criminals. Schroeder is the author of some 23 books, including fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, translations and criticism. Hoheneggelsen, West Germany 26 November 1946) is a German-born Canadian poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer who lives in the small town of Roberts Creek, British Columbia. ![]()
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6/28/2023 0 Comments The Promise by Danielle Steel![]() Kim, look at all the great books and series you don't have to wait for! I hope you enjoy reading as much if not more than your friends. ![]() Leslie, I know many people talk about reading with the flashlight under the cover, I for one don't recall ever doing that. It's really about a man who has a dream and finally achieves it, and hisįamily helps him even though it does require some sacrifice! Started just awhile ago with firends who read then got me hooked ![]() I'm usually reading at least two books, sometimes more. I've been reading ever since I can remember - hiding under the covers with a flashlight after the lights were out for the night. ButĮventually nothing - and no one - can keep them apartĪs they keep their vow never to say good-bye. Each pursuesĪ new life - Nancy in California, Michael in New York. Separate Michael and Nancy - perhaps forever. Wedding, a terrifying accident and a cruel deception ![]() Nancy McAllister are determined to get married despite his Young architect Michael Hillyard and artist Pure Joy: The Dogs We Love, November 2013įeaturing: Michael Hillyard Nancy McAllister ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Winter Queen by Amber Argyle![]() Daughter of Winter (Elice and Adar, star-crossed lovers desperate to escape the Winter Queen)ħ. Of Fire and Ash (prequel novella for Nelay's story)Ħ. An origin story, the Fairy Queens Saga tells the stories of the Winter Queen (Ilyenna), her rival (Nelay), and Ilyenna's daughter (Elice).ģ. It's a deep dive into the Norse mythology surrounding Hans Christian Andersen's THE SNOW QUEEN. The FAIRY QUEENS SAGA is far more than a simple fairytale retelling. Read now to find out why readers around the world are getting lost in the Forbidden Forest! ![]() Now, Nelay has to be more careful than ever - because if the fae realize she can see them - nothing will stop them from claiming her for their dark purpose.įans of Sarah Maas and Leigh Bardugo will be will love the dark magic, forbidden romance, and nonstop adventure in Amber Argyle's Fairy Queens Saga. ![]() Only Nelay's sight will allow her to save her family. As the drought worsens, it becomes harder and harder for Nelay not to use her forbidden sight to provide for her hungry family. ![]() ![]() ![]() There she uncovers something more sinister than she could have imagined: a shadowy organization known as The Light, led by the enigmatic Father Gabriel. When her best friend disappears, Stella digs for answers-despite warnings from her police detective boyfriend-following a twisted trail that leads her through the city’s most dangerous and forsaken precincts. Stella Montgomery investigates the news from the mean streets of Detroit, where she’s noticed a disturbing trend: young women are vanishing. ![]() Sara Adams awakes blind, unable to remember the most basic details of her life, but her darkness seems a blessing when she discovers the terrors of The Light. If You Like Aleatha Romig Books, You’ll Love…Īleatha Romig Synopsis: Into the Light is the first book of the Light series by Aleatha Romig. Vengeful Kingpin (By: Isabella Starling,Bella J.)Ĭity Of Thieves (By: Cora Kenborn,Catherine Wiltcher)Ī Vow of Love and Vengeance, Part 2 (By: L.P. ![]() The Bratva's Heir (By: Sophie Lark,Jane Henry)īad Medicine (By: K.D. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Judd winick red hood![]() ![]() They act as an agent or broker and sell comic strips to newspapers). They sold out in about 2 weeks and there are no plans to republish it.īefore graduation he accepted a development deal with a major syndicate (syndicates are the major league baseball of comic strips. Watching the Spin-Cycle: the Nuts & Bolts collection had a small run of a thousand books a couple of months before graduation. Nuts & Bolts ran in The Michigan Daily 5 days a week from my freshman year (freshperson, or first-year student, as they liked to say at U of M), until graduation in the spring of 1992.Ī collection of those college years Nuts & Bolts was published in Ann Arbor. In August of 1988, Judd began attending the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor bringing Nuts & Bolts with him, but turning it into a four-panel strip and creating a cast of characters to tell his tales. This ran weekly through Anton Publications, a newspaper publisher that produced town papers in the Tri state area. Born February 12th, 1970 and raised on Long Island in New York, Judd began cartooning professionally at 16 with a single-paneled strip called Nuts & Bolts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jason's shadow is bigger than he is, and if the leaders of Yuuhi's people find out, Jason won't be human much longer. Yuuhi sees little more than a socially inept emo kid dressed in conflicting shades of black, but Kali only touches Jason's hand, and she feels the sting of something dark and deadly. ![]() She and Yuuhi, who was also designated by his own people to be her partner, must find solid proof that Jason is, in fact, a supernatural phenomenon. She can swing a sword with expert precision, but studying popular human teen magazines hasn't taught her how to masquerade as seventeen years old. Ever since the murder of her parents when she was too young to remember, she's been sheltered - and trained. ![]() Kali has always been obedient, but when she takes her first step onto a protected "humans only" high school in suburban Pittsburgh, she knows she was the wrong choice for this mission. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bregman’s book, both challenging and bracing, demonstrates that new utopian ideas, like the elimination of poverty and the creation of the fifteen-hour workweek, can become a reality in our lifetime. From a Canadian city that once completely eradicated poverty, to Richard Nixon’s near implementation of a basic income for millions of Americans, Bregman takes us on a journey through history, and beyond the traditional left-right divides, as he champions ideas whose time have come.Įvery progressive milestone of civilization - from the end of slavery to the beginning of democracy - was once considered a utopian fantasy. Utopia for Realists is one of those rare books that takes you by surprise and challenges what you think can happen. ![]() It’s just one of the many utopian ideas that Bregman proves is possible today. A quarter of a million views later, the subject of that video is being seriously considered by leading economists and government leaders the world over. Rutger Bregman’s TED Talk about universal basic income seemed impossibly radical when he delivered it in 2014. Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian, reminds us it needn’t be this way - and in some places it isn’t. “A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell.” - New York TimesĪfter working all day at jobs we often dislike, we buy things we don’t need. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe’s leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Timefulness book![]() ![]() Learn to automate your busywork and focus on what really matters Miscellaneous Management and Automation - P209.Order Fulfillment / Customer Service - P207.Content Development and Information Management - P196.Money and Finances (Personal and Business) - P194.Personal Development/Self-Management - P181.To-Do Lists (Individuals and Teams) - P180.CHAPTER 5 Design a Life Without Busywork - P137 Buy the book. ![]()
6/26/2023 0 Comments Confessions by kanae![]() What begins as a relatively pleasant farewell speech descends into a bitter diatribe in which she accuses two of her students of murdering her daughter. The book opens with a grief-stricken schoolteacher, Yuko Moriguchi, addressing the pupils in her class on the last day of her teaching career - she’s decided to retire following the untimely death of her beloved four-year-old daughter, who was found drowned in the school’s swimming pool. ![]() This revenge tale, set in a middle school in a small town, explores issues relating to morality, justice and child crime. It’s a cracking story about adolescence gone wrong, with lots of unexpected plot twists and horrifying outcomes, but it’s probably one of the darkest books I’ve read in quite awhile.Īnd having read it back-to-back with another dark story of vengeance - Harriet Lane’s Her - I think that’s my quota of malicious tales done for the year. ![]() ![]() Kanae Minato’s debut novel, Confessions, is no exception. The Japanese do a nice line in dark fiction, whether crime or otherwise - think Keigo Higashino, Shuichi Yoshida, Fuminori Nakamura, Natsuo Kirino and Yoko Ogawa, to name just a handful. Translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder. Fiction – Kindle edition Mulholland Books 240 pages 2014. ![]() ![]() Despite this, Butler spent most of her life in poverty and was forced to work several jobs in order to survive, waking up to write in the middle of the night. Many of Butler’s novels-including The Parable of the Sower, its sequel The Parable of the Talents, and the neo-slave narrative Kindred-are considered to be among the most important works of 20th century American literature. In 1995, Butler won a MacArthur Fellowship. In 1984, Butler’s short story “Speech Sounds” won the Hugo Short Story Award, and the following year her collection of short stories, Bloodchild, won the Nebula and Hugo Awards as well as other prizes. She later enrolled in writing classes at Cal State LA, UCLA extension school, and the Clarion Science Fiction Writers Workshop. She attended Pasadena City College at night, graduating with an associate of arts degree in History. Butler showed an early interest in science fiction and began writing in childhood. Her family were devout Baptists, and were very poor. Her mother was a maid and her father was a shoeshine man who died when Butler was seven. ![]() |