Tricky Wisdom by Camryn Eyde5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The station gets overrun by city bimbos and stuck-up producers right in the middle of shearing season. Life is easy and full of hard, dusty work, but when her brother Joseph decides to become a contestant in a reality TV dating show, Romancing the Farmer, everything goes to hell. The question is, can she make it out the other side without irreparable psychological damage? And when everything seems to fall apart, will Olivia still be there at the end?Īimee Turner is a country girl, living and working on her family's sheep station in rural Australia. New chances, new friends, and a new understanding of how precious life can be helps Darcy through the maze of med school. ![]() Surely no relationship can withstand the ambitious tunnel-visioned life of a medical student? Tested by exhaustion and Olivia’s troubled past, Darcy does what she can to hold on to the woman she loves, but misunderstandings and frayed emotions expose and amplify rifts between them. Olivia, her temperamental girlfriend with too many rules is an asset amidst the chaos someone she can rely on and someone she can support in return, but can their relationship withstand the intensifying pressure? Moving into the final years of Harvard Medical School, Darcy Wright matures with every fatigue-riddled experience she endures, however, the rigorous schedule of clinical rotations clashes with her attempts to navigate her sanity and her happiness. ![]()
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Peter and the snowy day5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() "The book is notable not only for its lovely artwork and tone, but also for its importance as a trailblazer. "Ezra Jack Keats's classic The Snowy Day, winner of the 1963 Caldecott Medal, pays homage to the wonder and pure pleasure a child experiences when the world is blanketed in snow."- Publisher's Weekly "Keats's sparse collage illustrations capture the wonder and beauty a snowy day can bring to a small child."- Barnes & Noble The adventures of a little boy in the city on a very snowy day. ![]() Universal in its appeal, the story has become a favorite of millions, as it reveals a child's wonder at a new world, and the hope of capturing and keeping that wonder forever. No book has captured the magic and sense of possibility of the first snowfall better than The Snowy Day. ![]() Nicholas nickleby book5/23/2023 ![]() Chesterton-for its realism, comedy, prose style, unique characterisations, and social criticism. ![]() Dickens's creative genius has been praised by fellow writers-from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell and G. His 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities, set in London and Paris, is his best-known work of historical fiction. Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted, and, like many of his novels, evoke images of early Victorian London. His 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre. ![]() Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms.ĭickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age. ![]() His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.ĭickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. ![]() His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870) was a writer and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. ![]() ![]() ![]() In their extensively updated Managing the Unmanageable, Second Edition, Mickey W. Some organizations conclude that software development can’t be managed well. Today, many software projects continue to run catastrophically over schedule and budget, and still don’t deliver what customers want. A mentor who I not only trusted, but one who trusted me to take the wisdom, understand its limits, and apply it correctly.” “Reading this book’s nuggets felt like the sort of guidance that I would get from a trusted mentor. ![]() Their rules of thumb and coaching advice form a great blueprint for new and experienced software engineering managers alike.” “Lichty and Mantle have assembled a guide that will help you hire, motivate, and mentor a software development team that functions at the highest level. ![]() ![]() The Essential Guide to Effectively Managing Developers So You Can Deliver Better Software- Now Extensively Updated ![]() ![]() ![]() It is the candid, often hilarious, and sometimes heartbreaking tale of a Midwest farm girl’s long, strange trip to become the world’s sexiest, sassiest Halloween icon. Always original and sometimes outrageous, her story is loaded with twists, travails, revelry, and downright shocking experiences. Cassandra doesn’t shy away from revealing exactly who she is and how she overcame seemingly insurmountable odds. Yours Cruelly, Elvira is an unforgettably wild memoir. ![]() She got the job as “Elvira,” never imagining it would lead to fame and a forty-year career. In 1981, as a struggling actress considered past her prime, Cassandra auditioned for a local LA station as hostess for their late-night horror movies. She eventually made her way to Los Angeles, where she joined the famed comedy improv group, The Groundlings. Then a chance encounter with the “King” himself, Elvis Presley, inspired her to travel to Europe where she worked in film and toured Italy as lead singer of a band. By age seventeen, she was performing as a showgirl in Las Vegas. ![]() Cassandra left home at fourteen and supported herself as a go-go dancer. She miraculously survived, but burned and scarred, the impact would stay with her and become an obstacle she was determined to overcome. At only eighteen months old, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water, resulting in third-degree burns over 35 percent of her body. ![]() 40k eisenhorn books5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The series is predominantly written in the first person, resulting in an unreliable narrator: at certain points in his career, Eisenhorn sets down accounts of his life. Inspired by these and the content of the game, Abnett wrote the initial trilogy, with Xenos, the first novel, released at the same time as the game. No other characters from the game appear, but the types of characters in the game - Arbiters, Rogue Traders, Deathwatch Space Marines, savants, Adeptus Mechanicus magi and so on, are featured as key characters in the series. It originally debuted in 2001 alongside the release of Games Workshop's 54 millimetre model specialty tabletop miniatures wargame, Inquisitor.Įisenhorn was a named character in the game with his own model, as was his antagonist and ally, the Daemonhost Cherubael. Eisenhorn is a series of novels and short stories by Dan Abnett, following the adventures of Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn. ![]() Wonderstruck selznick5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As undaunted and determined as Ben, Rose sets off again, entering a world thrumming with coincidences and complications.ĭespite the distinct periods and palettes - Ben’s story unfolds in color, Rose’s in black and white - the story, the editing and the children’s deafness underscore that these two are deeply connected. There, she seeks out her absent mother, but instead finds a cipher (Julianne Moore), a screen star who clutches fictional babes to her breast but has no time for life’s real lost children. To that end, following in the footsteps of countless other dreamers, she, too, flees to New York. Fearless and resourceful, Ben splits for New York to find his father.īen’s story-twin, whose life and adventures curiously mirror his own, is Rose (Millicent Simmonds, a discovery), a 12-year-old deaf girl in 1927 who yearns to escape her lonely, cosseted life in Hoboken, N.J. First, though, there’s David Bowie on the turntable (“ground control to Major Tom”) and a lightning strike that leaves Ben deaf. He’s in mourning for his mother (Michelle Williams in flashback) and has a question mark - an absent father - that needs solving. A cleverly bifurcated tale of two children, it starts in 1977 with Ben (Oakes Fegley), a boy of about 10 in rural Minnesota. Stars glitter and worlds collide in Todd Haynes’s “Wonderstruck,” a lovely ode to imagination and to the stories that make us who we are. ![]() Frederick douglass and harriet jacobs5/22/2023 ![]() Perhaps the most famous of all slave chronicles, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass immediately struck a chord with readers when it was first released in 1855. Before returning to his family and freedom, he suffered smallpox, the overseer’s lash, and an attempted lynching. Northup was born and raised a freeman in New York State-until he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South. The basis for the film of the same name, Twelve Years a Slave is Solomon Northup’s heartrending chronicle of injustice and brutality. Much has been written about this shameful era of American history, but few books speak with as much power as the narratives written by those who experienced slavery firsthand. ![]() ![]() Until slavery was abolished in 1865, millions of men, women, and children toiled under a system that stripped them of their freedom and their humanity. Four of the most important and enduring American slave narratives together in one volume. ![]() 1849 novel charlotte bronte5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() This juvenilia piece explores themes of waning sibling connections, death and heartbreak – issues which tormented Branwell and Charlotte throughout his prolonged final illness. Mere weeks before Charlotte began volume 1 of Shirley, Branwell was determined to return to a heroine created in his childhood, also named “Caroline (1836)”. In despair, as a form of catharsis, she turned to her writing and this essay will focus on how protagonist Caroline Helstone became an elegy for both Branwell and Anne Brontë. ![]() Charlotte was the last sibling standing, having lost all her co-authors in the space of nine months. However, by the summer of 1849, their familial collaboration was at an end. ![]() Throughout adulthood, each Brontë continuously returned to these stories, oftentimes due to nostalgia and occasionally for creative reinvention. In their adolescent years, the Brontës famously forged fictional kingdoms together, known collectively as “The Glass Town Saga”. ![]() This essay explores Charlotte Brontë’s 1849 novel Shirley as a literary endeavour to recreate the sibling dynamic of the Brontës’ childhoods, and the psychological effect of being the ‘surviving’ sibling of a formally collaborative unit. ![]() Usagi yojimbo covers5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() However, on the trip there the boys witnessed a confrontation where a gang of arrogant Dogora students attacked a lone traveler named Katsuichi. ![]() Eventually the trio went their separate ways when the boys were sent to be trained as samurai in the Dogora school of Bujitsu (en: arts of war). His two childhood playmates were Kenichi, with whom Usagi would have a less-than-friendly rivalry his whole life, and Mariko, one of the reasons for the boys' rivalry. Usagi was born the only son of a village headman. Usagi is a highly skilled swordsman and one of the best in the land. Originally intended to be a human, Sakai was inspired to anthropomorphize the character after doodling a rabbit with its ears bound in a style reminiscent of a samurai topknot. Miyamoto Usagi is the main protagonist of Usagi Yojimbo, whom Sakai has said was inspired by the life of legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. He also placed 31st in The 50 Greatest Comic Book Characters in Empire. In May 2011, Miyamoto Usagi placed 92nd on IGN's Top 100 Comic Book Heroes of All Time. The character has frequently crossed over with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. ![]() Usagi is an anthropomorphic rabbit ( Usagi is Japanese for "rabbit") and a ronin now walking the musha shugyo (warrior's pilgrimage). Miyamoto Usagi ( Japanese: 宮本 兎) is a fictional character, who appears in the American comic book Usagi Yojimbo, a Dark Horse Comics book created by Stan Sakai. Art by Stan Sakai.Īlbedo Anthropomorphics Vol 1 #2: The Goblin of Adachigahara (1984) Cover art of Usagi Yojimbo Volume 3, Issue 93. ![]() |