Move heaven and earth christina dodd6/12/2023 ![]() Ha! It took ten years, two children and three completed manuscripts before she was published. It was a good time to start a new career, because how much trouble could one little infant be? When Christina’s first daughter was born, she told her husband she was going to write a book. A man wants a Craftsman router, undisputed control of the TV remote, and a red Corvette which will make his bald spot disappear. A woman wants world peace, a clean house, and a deep and meaningful relationship based on mutual understanding and love. Ultimately she discovered she liked to read romance best because the relationship between a man and a woman is always humorous. Readers become writers, and Christina has always been a reader. ![]() When you’ve already died, there should be nothing left to fear…. Forget what you know…yet the past remembers. ![]()
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Ghost in the Rain by Marie Treanor6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() I really liked Julie, for her go-getter attitude and her refusal to be played a fool. ![]() It’s a delicate balance, and works extremely well here, primarily because the chemistry between the hero and heroine was already off the charts by the time the truth is exposed. She doesn’t accept it blindly, but at the same time, there’s not a ton of time wasted over her agonizing about it all. ![]() This novella benefits from having a heroine with just the right amount of skepticism about what she’s being told. They’re helped when characters act and react in what I consider intelligent ways. Ghost stories always require a measure of suspending disbelief in order to work. It’s not until she starts to suspect that he’s crazy because he thinks he’s a ghost that problems arise. The lack of information on who he really is doesn’t bother her that much, since he’s funny and gorgeous, thoroughly charming her very quickly. She assumes it’s the owner, but speaking with the housekeeper later proves that wrong. She goes to work on it, and in the library meets a man who spends most of his day reading. The owner is eager to sell as he’s convinced the house he’s inherited is haunted. Her new boss, a man she resents for taking the job she wanted, punishes her for a minor indiscretion by assigning her to catalog a new collection that’s become available to them. Julie Macbeth works with rare books for the National Library in Edinburgh. ![]() Aimee and jaguar book6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() The film was nominated for a 1999 Golden Globe Award and was Germany's submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. ![]() Max Färberböck's debut film, based on Fischer's book, is the true story of this extraordinary relationship. A half-century later, Lilly Wust told her incredible story to writer Erica Fischer, and the book, AIMÉE & JAGUAR, first published in 1994 immediately became a bestseller and has since been translated into eleven languages. For the other woman, Felice Schragenheim (Maria Schrader), a Jewess and member of the underground, their love fuels her with the hope that she will survive. For her, this affair will be the most decisive experience of her life. One of them, Lilly Wust (NOWHERE IN AFRICA’s Juliane Köhler), married and the mother of four sons, enjoys the privileges of her stature as an exemplar of Nazi motherhood. ![]() In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women. ![]() The darkest temptation de danielle lori6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() One winter night and their lives intertwine. With a proclivity for order and the number three, he's never been tempted to veer off course. Christian Allister has always followed the life plan he'd envisioned in his youth, beneath the harsh lights of a frigid, damp cell. In the New York underworld, others know him as a hustler, a killer, his nature as cold as the heart of ice in his chest. no one anyway, until he comes along.Most see a paragon of morality a special agent upholding the law. Little do most know it's just a sparkly disguise, there to hide one panic attack at a time.Nobody can crack Gianna's facade. She laughs too loudly, eats without decorum, and mixes up most sayings in the book. She fears the dark.He rules it.Her dresses are too tight, her heels too tall. ![]() Academically adrift book6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() In contrast, the more time students spent studying alone, the greater their gains on the CLA. Other student activities, such as working on or off campus, participating in campus clubs/organizations or volunteering, were not related to learning. Students who spent more time studying with peers and those who spent more time in fraternities and sororities showed diminishing growth on the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA is a measure of general collegiate skills, including critical thinking, analytical reasoning, and writing). We find that activities associated with social engagement do not facilitate learning, and in some instances hinder it. of Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses explores how students’ use of time is related to learning during their first two years of college. She applied the “ Test” to Academically Adrift and reported the following: Roksa is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Virginia. Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses is co-authored by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa. ![]() Track Conditions by Michael Klein6/11/2023 ![]() Jen Michalski, author of The Tide King and The Summer She Was Under Water Haunting and understated, Christopher Locke chronicles the secrets that bedevil every extended family. Locke knows how to make the ordinary feel fantastical and the fantastical ordinary. Every scene is taut, like a highwire, the only steady presence Lockes lyrical, quiet prose. This slim volume of essays packs a dense punch, propelled, like a carnival ride, through Lockes Pentecostal upbringing to his years as a drug-experimenting teen punk, to his teaching career, family, and intermittent struggles with substance abuse. Like Denis Johnsons propulsive Jesus Son, Without Saints is a brief, muscular ride into the heart of American desolation, and the love one finds waiting for them instead. Book Synopsis WITHOUT SAINTS is a breathtaking journey to rediscover hope between the ruins: Poet Christopher Locke was baptized by Pentecostals, absolved by punk rock, and nearly consumed by narcotics. ![]() A american going home series6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() I navigated to my library and found the option to review this book there. 107 m, as I like it better than IE 11 or Firefox, and I logged into. Once the OS booted, I saw that I had 14 new emails, many of which could be about work. ![]() As I did so, I thought about my other computer, my favorite actually, that is a Dell desktop with a Phenom II motherboard running Linux Mint 16 Cinnamon with a modified desktop, a custom dock and 4 standard workspaces. When the screen came up, I logged in with my regular user account, rather than the admin account I created for emergencies. ![]() I turned on the computer, listening to the whir of the fans and the clicking of hard drive starting up. I sat down at my desk, and turned on my HP Pavillion desktop computer, running 32 bit Windows 7 Pro on an Intel Core i5 650 at 3.33 GHz. Intriguing "prepper" story, terrible writing.Īfter reading this story, I decided to write a review. ![]() The crossing places book review6/11/2023 ![]() Then another child goes missing, and Ruth finds herself in very real danger. She reads the letters and finds the archaeological knowledge of the writer intriguing. The facts are that the remains are two thousand years old, but Ruth finds herself drawn into the Downey case. ![]() When he finds remains out on the Saltmarsh, he calls in Ruth to tell him the facts. All he does know is that he's been getting bizarre letters referring to Lucy Downey, a young girl who's been missing for over ten years. It's land that was sacred to its Iron Age inhabitants a land that's not quite earth, not quite sea.īlackpool native Detective Chief Inspector Harry Nelson has a Northerner's eye for land and hasn't a clue what anyone would see in this desolate place. ![]() ![]() First Line: They wait for the tide and set out at first light.Īrchaeologist Ruth Galloway loves her life out on the Saltmarsh in England. ![]() Wait till helen comes home6/10/2023 ![]() " it was like reading deep dark and dangerous but with a horrble plot.any one whos read that books knows how awesome it is but this is the exact oppisite. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.Thats exactly what Molly, Michael, and their stepsister Heather did." And the worst part there was a grave yard in your backyard. "Imagine if your mom told you that you were moving, to live in a broken down church. "Genuinely scary, complete with dark secrets from the past, unsettled graves, and a very real ghost." - The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books It seems as if things can't get any worse. ![]() Molly feels certain Heather is in some kind of danger, but every time she tries to help, Heather twists things around to get her into trouble. If that's not bad enough, Heather starts talking to a ghost named Helen and warning Molly and Michael that Helen is coming for them. ![]() ![]() Now their parents have moved them all to the country to live in a house that used to be a church, with a cemetery in the backyard. Ever since their parents got married, she's made Molly and Michael's life miserable. Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their younger stepsister, Heather. ![]() The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb6/10/2023 ![]() His mother is always after him to make money, contribute to the family, and he does as much as he can. I have waited a few days to write this review because otherwise it would have been a long rant of everything that is so good about this audiobook!!! ***READ THIS ONE AND THEN "SYMPHONY OF SECRETS" COMING IN APRIL*** With the odds stacked against him and the pressure mounting, will Ray ever see his beloved violin again? But now his family and the descendants of the man who once enslaved Ray's great-grandfather are each claiming that the violin belongs to them. Then with the international Tchaikovsky Competition-the Olympics of classical music-fast approaching, his prized family heirloom is stolen. And when he makes the startling discovery that his great-grandfather's fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, his star begins to rise. ![]() Not his mother, who thinks he should get a real job, not the fact that he can't afford a high-caliber violin, not the racism inherent in the classical music world. Ray McMillian loves playing the violin more than anything, and nothing will stop him from pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician. ![]() ![]() A mystery about a Black classical musician whose family heirloom violin is stolen on the eve of the most prestigious classical music competition in the world. ![]() |