![]() ![]() ![]() But rehearsals are long, those eyes still smoulder and those hands are still very good. The two haven't spoken since the joint destruction of their careers, and each of them blames the other. That is, until Cal shows up with the opportunity of her dreams - a starring role in the Broadway show he's directing and a chance to perform the way she's always wanted. Kathleen Rosenberg is okay with her ordinary existence and leaving her pop star image in the past. One unforgettable night is all it takes to blow up Katee's relationship with Ryan, her career, her whole life. Quiet, serious Cal, who's always been a good friend to Katee, is suddenly Cal with the smouldering eyes and very good hands. Maybe that's why she finds herself in the arms of another CrushZone member, Cal Kirby. Katee loves to perform but hates the impossible demands of stardom. Everyone wants to know everything about her and her boyfriend, Ryan LaNeve, the hottest member of adored boy band CrushZone. Katee Rose is living the dream as America's number one pop star, caught in a whirlwind of sold-out concerts, screaming fans and constant tabloid coverage. ![]() ' A pitch-perfect second chance romance with off-the-charts tension and chemistry' Carley Fortune, New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer AfterĪ former pop star finds herself back in the spotlight - along with an old flame from her past - in this 'friends to lovers' meets 'enemies to lovers' romance from the bestselling author of Funny You Should Ask, the sensational TikTok romance! ![]()
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![]() ![]() Gail was born in Manila but was raised in Quezon City. Her debut novel, MY FATE ACCORDING TO THE BUTTERFLY (Scholastic, 2019), was named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, an Amazon Best Book of the Month Editor’s Pick, and a NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People. She is the author of the upcoming LULU SINAGTALA AND THE TAGALOG GODS series (HarperCollins, 2023) and SUGAR AND SPITE (Scholastic, 2021). Villanueva is a Filipino writer and graphic artist based in the Philippines. ![]() She and her husband currently live in Rizal where they run a web design company while constantly trying to keep up with the shenanigans of their many pets-dogs, ducks, turtles, cats, and random birds they befriend in the backyard. ![]() The blazing world novel7/8/2023 ![]() Yet when the shows succeed and Burden steps forward for her triumphant reveal, she is betrayed by the third man, Rune. A Nabokovian cat's cradle" on the cover of The New York Times Book Review, the internationally bestselling author tells the provocative story of artist Harriet Burden, who, after years of having her work ignored, ignites an explosive scandal in New York's art world when she recruits three young men to present her creations as their own. Louis Post Dispatch 's Best Books of 2014 ** The Independent Fiction Books of the Year 2014 ** One of Buzzfeed 's Best Books Written by Women in 2014 ** San Francisco Chronicle 's Best of 2014 ** A Nancy Pearl Pick ** 's Best of 2014 Fiction Winner of the 2014 LA Times Book Prize for Fiction Finalist for the 2014 Kirkus Prize Hailed by The Washington Post as "Siri Hustvedt's best novel yet, an electrifying work," The Blazing World is a masterful novel about perception, prejudice, desire, and one woman's struggle to be seen. Named one of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of the Year ** Publishers Weekly 's Best Fiction Books of 2014 ** NPR Best Books of 2014 ** Kirkus Reviews Best Literary Fiction Books of 2014 ** Washington Post Top 50 Fiction Books of 2014 ** Boston Globe 's Best Fiction of 2014 ** The Telegraph 's Best Fiction to Read 2014 ** St. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Letter of the Synod, relative to its Decisions: and the Condemnation of Arius and those who agreed with him Of the Synod which was held at Nicaea in Bithynia, and the Creed there put forth The Emperor Constantine being grieved at the Disturbance of the Churches, sends Hosius the Spaniard to Alexandria, exhorting the Bishop and Arius to Reconciliation and Unity The Dispute of Arius with Alexander, his Bishopĭivision begins in the Church from this Controversy and Alexander Bishop of Alexandria excommunicates Arius and his Adherents ![]() War arises between Constantine and Licinius on Account of the Christians ![]() While Constantine favors the Christians, Licinius, his Colleague, persecutes them The Ecclesiastical History, By Socrates Scholasticusīy what Means the Emperor Constantine became a Christian The Ecclesiastical History Of Socrates Scholasticus ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORIES.Ī SELECT LIBRARY OF THE NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. NICENE AND POST-NICENE CHURCH FATHERS : SECOND SERIES : VOLUME II. SOCRATES AND SOZOMENUS ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORIES CREATOR(S): SOCRATES SCHOLASTICUS Socrates and Sozomenus Ecclesiastical Histories ![]() Rousseau and emile7/7/2023 ![]() These two features come together in the new edited volume, Rousseau and Revolution, which probes the many ambiguities in Rousseau's political writings to explore whether or not he is properly understood as a muse for revolutionaries, whether in France or elsewhere. He can be found advancing ancient and modern devices, celebrating the solitary life while insisting on the social, condemning the arts while writing novels and operas, and insisting that freedom involves being forced against one's evident will. Among more familiar readers, he is known for the many paradoxes and ambiguities that cover most corners of his oeuvre. The popular image persists of Robespierre quoting passages from the Social Contract while simultaneously ordering executions. Among casual readers, he is known as the muse of the Jacobins in the French Revolution. ![]() Jean-Jacques Rousseau is perhaps most famous or even infamous for two features associated with his work and its influence. ![]() The casanova by tl swan7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() They are the product of the upbringing and each brings and adds different aspects to the world and the people around them. So they can’t be compared to one another. They are socially, economically and environmentally so vastly different. She’s broken hearted a to get over her sadness she flies to Europe to backpack from country to country. Hayden is sweet, kind and loves wholeheartedly, she’s down to earth and takes everything with a carefree attitude and in stride. She loves the land, the sun and the animals. Hayden is a country girl through and through. The youngest Miles’ decides to backpack across Europe with very limited funds and work whatever job he finds for his necessities. When his brothers make fun of him for it it gets him thinking. He takes things for granted and is used to having his every wish and need catered to. ![]() So Christopher doesn’t know what hardship is because his parents were rich and successful while he was growing up. His parents worked long and hard to get where the family is. ![]() Swan book.įunny, witty, serious, sexy and all about family and falling in love.Ĭhristopher Miles is the youngest of his brothers. This story was everything I except from a T.L. ![]() A moveable feast by ernest hemingway7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Written during the last years of Hemingway's life, his memoir is a lively and powerful reflection of his genius that scintillates with the romance of the city. Ernest Hemingway, quote from A Moveable Feast There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. ![]() Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald - he recalls the time when, poor, happy and writing in cafes, he discovered his vocation. Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the twenties are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. 'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast' Hemingway's captivating memoir of living in Paris during the twenties. ![]() Salt by Mark Kurlansky7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Read More >įind On: Indiebound (Hardcover), Powells (Hardcover), Amazon (Hardcover), Barnes & Noble (Hardcover), Indiebound (Paperback), Powells (Paperback), Amazon (Paperback), Barnes & Noble (Paperback), Amazon (Kindle), Barnes & Noble (Nook). This biography-perfect for middle-grade readers-tells the life story of Clarence Birdseye, the man who revolutionized the frozen food industry, and is adapted from Mark Kurlansky’s adult work Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man.Īdventurer and inventor Clarence Birdseye had a fascination with food preservation that led him to develop and patent the Birdseye freezing process and start the company that still bears his name today. ![]() Today Clarence Birdseye seems on the one hand very old fashioned but on the other curiously modern. The story of an odd man of imagination who changed the world of food. They also used it to preserve the wondrous 1,000-year-old egg, which takes about 100 days to make, and will keep for another 100 daysgive or take, evidently, 365,000 days. Each edition includes an 8-page black-and-white photo insert. Salt enters written history (as so many things do) with the Chinese, who had the first known salt works, imposed the first known salt tax, and fought the first known salt war. Frozen in Time: Clarence Birdseye's Outrageous Idea About Frozen Foodĭelacorte Books for Young Readers Simultaneously available in a hardcover and trade paperback edition. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of mankind. ![]() Terry pratchett thud board game7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Also I found an use for a black sock with a hole in it, so that’s extra good. The result might be a bit less sturdy than I’d like but it feels nice so far. to refight a thousand-year-old battle that has become a popular board game. Since the cheat chesspieces were quite light, I glued coins under them to give them some nice weight and then glued pieces of an old sock under the coins for padding. Stay or go What would you do Terry Pratchett. A queen was transformed into the central rock structure. I also combined the rooks & pawns from both sets to get myself enough troll & dwarf units, respectively. I bought two cheap chess sets and repainted one of the boards from 8×8 to 13×13, as seen above. I was now struck by the urge to try to do the same, and to help with the testing (& because it felt like a cool and fun thing to do) I decided to build myself a Thud board & the necessary pieces. ![]() I had noticed years ago that some people on boardgamegeek (iirc) had tried to construct rules for Thud. The book lays out some basic rules and features of the game, but leaves out a lot. The story didn’t grip me all that much the first time around, but now I’ve grown to appreciate it quite a bit more.Īnyhoo, the book features a fictitious boardgame called Thud. I’m a huge fan of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, and have recently been leafing through his book, Thud!, again. ![]() ![]() ![]() Knowing that upon her return Lenora will be wed to someone of her father’s choosing, Lenora is glad to get away. Can Peter put aside his plans for vengeance for the woman who has come to mean everything to him?ĭisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon, and I may earn a small commission, at no cost to you, if you purchase through my links.Īfter her third broken engagement, Lenora Hartley leaves London for the Isle of Synne for a one-month reprieve in the hopes of avoiding the scandal and rumors. Yet when he meets the beautiful and kind Miss Hartley, he can’t help but be drawn to her. Once he’s completed the task, he’ll return to America where his life can finally be his own. ![]() ![]() Next in line for a dukedom he doesn’t want to inherit, Peter Ashford is only on the isle to exact revenge on the man who is responsible for his mother’s death. Letting go of the past to find happiness seems impossible-until Lenora is thrown in the path of a gruff, mysterious blue-eyed man who makes her pulse race. ![]() The Isle of Synne, an isolated and idyllic retreat off Britain’s northern coast, is blessedly far from society’s gossip, but it also carries haunting reminders of her first fiancé. One thing’s for certain: she needs to escape London and her father’s tyrannical attempts to find her yet another suitor. Synopsis: After her third fiancé leaves her at the altar, Lenora Hartley is beginning to think she’s cursed. ![]() |