![]() ![]() Starting off with a shoe mix-up, we are introduced to two characters: Sam, a working mom trying to motivate her husband after his father died and Nisha, the ice queen everyone loves to hate. Don’t get me wrong, I did like it, it just felt a little slow, and considering that it was 400 pages the slowness made it hard to get through. My Review: Someone Else’s Shoes was my first Jojo Moyes book and I had high hopes, but it really didn’t do much for me. When she tries on Nisha’s six-inch high Christian Louboutin red crocodile shoes, the resulting jolt of confidence makes her realize something must change-and that thing is herself. But Sam hardly has time to worry about a lost gym bag–she’s struggling to keep herself and her family afloat. That’s because Sam Kemp – at the bleakest point of her life – has accidentally taken Nisha’s gym bag. But in the meantime, she must scramble to cope–she doesn’t even have the shoes she was, until a moment ago, standing in. Nisha is determined to hang onto her glamorous life. Nisha Cantor lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy until her husband announces a divorce and cuts her off. ![]()
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It sold well it won an award it was translated into German, French, Italian and Dutch the BBC bought the film rights, though sadly the project bit the dust after a few years in that infamous place known as 'development hell'. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A short piece from the Poetry Society of America on a writer's first experience reading this poem (including opinions on some of the readings discussed in this guide). Sarah Arvio's Reading of "Wild nights - Wild nights!" The official website for the Emily Dickinson museum, with further information on her life and works. As a bird can not fly without wings so man can not live without the ray of hope in his life. She uses the metaphor of bird to portray hope. The manuscript for "Wild nights - Wild nights!" in Dickinson's own handwriting. HOPE IS A THING WITH FEATHERS Summary: In her poem Hope is the Thing with Feathers Dickenson mentions hope as a positive approach towards life. The Poetry Foundation's biography of Dickinson, with links to more of her poems. This 1891 article from the Atlantic is Dickinson's publisher's account of his correspondence with her and the posthumous printing of her poems. More “Wild nights - Wild nights!” ResourcesĪn article by Dickinson's publisher, Thomas Higginson. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now Betty Edwards provides a series of simple but effective exercises to follow while practicing your drawing. By following the exercises, the artist will discover a radically different way of seeing and thinking a shift to the right side of the brain, utilising its more intuitive and artistic aspects of thinking. New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the most successful drawing instruction book ever published. Betty Edwards' exercises reactivate the right side of the brain, encouraging a new way to see and bring about a dramatic improvement in the ability to draw. ![]() The right side of the brain controls our creativity, but education in emphasising the left side of the brain's conceptual, analytical manner often causes it to stagnate. Now she has produced a workbook containing exercises that will reinforce the five basic skills of drawing, The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook. For all those who long to have the ability to draw, to produce an accurate representation of the world around them, Betty Edwards opened that up to them with her classic drawing guide, New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. ![]() ![]() Five authorized sequels were written in the 1970s by the celebrated mystery writing team of Boileau-Narcejac. The character has also appeared in a number of books by other writers as well as numerous film, television, stage play, and comic book adaptations. The number becomes 25 if the 1923 novel The Secret Tomb is counted: Lupin does not appear in it, but the main character Dorothée solves one of Arsène Lupin's four fabulous secrets. Lupin was featured in 17 novels and 39 novellas by Leblanc, with the novellas or short stories collected into book form for a total of 24 books. The first story, "The Arrest of Arsène Lupin", was published on 15 July 1905. ![]() The character was first introduced in a series of short stories serialized in the magazine Je sais tout. Theophraste Lupin (father, deceased), Henriette D'Andresy (mother, deceased)Īrsène Lupin ( French pronunciation: ) is a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created in 1905 by French writer Maurice Leblanc. ![]() Cover of "Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Cambrioleur" (1907) ![]() ![]() Even when he treads familiar ground-Red Cloud’s War, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Nez Perce flight and fight, the epic pursuit of Geronimo, Wounded Knee, etc.-he relates all in surprisingly fresh and insightful fashion. In short, the author achieves what he set out to do-bringing historical balance to the story of the Indian wars.Ĭozzens covers lots of ground, much of it bloody, thus he skips lightly over certain events, but in doing so he doesn’t gloss over anything. ![]() “Although massacres occurred and treaties were broken,” he adds, “the federal government never contemplated genocide.” In his exceptional book Cozzens in no way ignores injustices done to Indians, but he insists we not ignore the white perspective, either. ![]() That elegantly written book served its purpose but made no attempt at historical balance, Peter Cozzens contends. ![]() By the 1970s, though, many people viewed the whites as conquerors, even villains, and the Indians as victims-thanks in no small part to Dee Brown’s influential Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. In subsequent decades most of America came to view the brave Indian fighters and equally courageous settlers as heroic. ![]() The tragedy at Wounded Knee in 1890 marked the end of these wars, if not the end of American Indians’ traditional way of life. This sweeping narrative gives one plenty of reason to weep, considering the misjudgments, confusion, delusions and loss of life that occurred on the 19th-century frontier. The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West, by Peter Cozzens, Alfred A. ![]() ![]() ![]() With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. A fascinating description of an era of cultural transition, this nineteenth-century masterpiece was to become the most influential interpretation of the Italian Renaissance, and anticipated ideas such as Nietzsche's concept of the 'Ubermensch' in its portrayal of an age of genius. In this landmark work he depicts the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice and Rome as providing the seeds of a new form of society, and traces the rise of the creative individual, from Dante to Michelangelo. For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And when it becomes clear the Hathaways have unknowingly been harboring an enemy, Kev and Win move heaven and earth protect the family they love. After a twist of fate sheds light on Kev's true identity, he seizes the chance to claim the woman he loves, now and forever. ![]() Kev Merripen has longed for the beautiful, well-bred Winnifred Hathaway ever since her family rescued him from the brink of death when he was just a boy. Knowing it's best for Win if he stays away, he steels himself to endure the torture of watching her be courted by another man. Seduce Me at Sunrise, the second book in the Hathaways series by beloved author Lisa Kleypas. The mystery of Kev's origins has haunted him for most of his life. Determined to get well again, she spends a year at a clinic in France, and returns fully recovered and glowing with health. ![]() but underneath the surface, their shared passion will burn until the end of time.Ī long-ago battle with scarlet fever has left Win in fragile health, but her force of will is as strong as ever. No one can envision a match between the brooding, powerful Kev Merripen and luminous beauty Winnifred Hathaway. A story of fate, passion, secrets, and the enduring power of love-the second book in acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas's timeless Victorian romance series, featuring the eccentric and lovable Hathaways, revised and updated for audio ![]() ![]() The next day, Jordy now resembles a plant creature with a roundish head with no visible neck and round shoulders. Upon hearing the words "cold water" in his mind, Jordy gives in to the temptation and takes a bath to relieve the itching caused by the growing plants however, the water only serves to accelerate the plants' growth on his body. He can't go to his usual doctor, who is out of town on a fishing trip. Not only are the plants growing on anything he touches that is wet, but there are also plants growing on his fingers, his left eye, his penis, and his tongue, where he starts to get itchy. It is mentioned that Jordy doesn't have much good luck.Īfter a rainstorm, Jordy sees that the organism has grown roundish grass around where the meteorite struck. On Independence Day, a backwoods hick farmer in New Hampshire named Jordy Verrill thinks his newfound discovery of a meteorite will provide enough riches to pay off the remaining $200 of his bank loan, but instead finds himself overcome by a rapidly spreading plant-like organism that arrives in the meteorite when he ends up coming in contact with it. ![]() ![]() It was first published in Cavalier magazine in May 1976. " Weeds" (also known as " The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill") is a darkly humorous short story by Stephen King. ![]() ![]() He dissects some of the nation's most highly publicized police shootings and communities to explain how these systems and tactics have hurt the people they serve, revealing the mistakes that have stoked racist policing, sky-high incarceration rates, and an epidemic of violence. Through gut-wrenching reportage, on-the-ground research, and personal accounts from interviews with police and government officials around the country, Horace presents an insider's examination of archaic police tactics. ![]() Yet it was not until seven years into his service - when Horace found himself face down on the ground with a gun pointed at his head by a white fellow officer - that he fully understood the racism seething within America's police departments. During his 28-year career, Matthew Horace rose through the ranks from a police officer working the beat to a federal agent working criminal cases in some of the toughest communities in America to a highly decorated federal law enforcement executive managing high-profile investigations nationwide. ![]() |