5/13/2023 0 Comments Going rogue an american life![]() She also opens up for the first time about the 2008 presidential race, providing a rare, mom's-eye view of high-stakes national politics - from patriots dedicated to "Country First" to slick politicos bent on winning at any cost. In this eagerly anticipated memoir, Palin paints an intimate portrait of growing up in the wilds of Alaska meeting her lifelong love her decision to enter politics the importance of faith and family and the unique joys and trials of life as a high-profile working mother. But as the presidential campaign unfolded, Palin became a lightning rod for both praise and criticism. She was a Main Street American woman: a working mom, wife of a blue-collar union man, and the mother of five children. While revitalizing public school funding and ensuring the state met its responsibilities to seniors and Alaska Native populations, Palin also brought Big Oil to heel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet even now, few Americans know who this remarkable woman really is.Īs chief executive of America's largest state, Sarah Palin had built a record as a reformer who pushed through changes other politicians only talked about: energy independence, ethics reform, and the biggest private-sector energy infrastructure project in U.S. One year ago, Sarah Palin burst onto the national political stage like a comet. ![]()
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5/12/2023 0 Comments Shardlake heartstone![]() ![]() Asked to investigate claims of "monstrous wrongs" committed against a young ward of the court, which have already involved one mysterious death, Shardlake and his assistant Barak journey to Portsmouth.Once arrived, Shardlake and Barak find themselves in a city preparing to become a war zone and Shardlake takes the opportunity to also investigate the mysterious past of Ellen Fettiplace, a young woman incarcerated in the Bedlam. The King has debased the currency to pay for the war, and England is in the grip of soaring inflation and economic crisis.Meanwhile Matthew Shardlake is given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr. As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the largest militia army it has ever seen. ![]() Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. Sansom's fifith spellbinding mystery inthe Shardlake series.Summer, 1545. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Ernest thayer![]() ![]() The pictures depict small town baseball in time gone by and are a lovely edition to this poem.Įven though I had already read a type of mythology for my classics bingo this year, Casey at the Bat is more my taste. I read a version of the poem illustrated by Gerald Fitzgerald that details the determination on Casey's face as he tries his hard to win the game on one swing. I am hardly a fan of mythology, yet, to me, there is nothing more mythical than baseball lore passed down through the years. ![]() Yet, the beauty of baseball is that the Mudville nine will have another chance to win the next day. According to lore, Casey strikes out on three pitches, leaving both his team and fans dejected. In this classic piece, the Mudville nine trail entering the bottom of the ninth inning, and mighty Casey heads to the plate with a chance to tie the game. Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer first written in 1888 is the best known baseball poem ever penned. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site. ![]() We use the "Restricted To Adults" (RTA) website label to better enable parental filtering. Protect your children from adult content and block access to this site by using parental controls. PARENTS, PLEASE BE ADVISED: If you are a parent, it is your responsibility to keep any age-restricted content from being displayed to your children or wards. Furthermore, you represent and warrant that you will not allow any minor access to this site or services. This website should only be accessed if you are at least 18 years old or of legal age to view such material in your local jurisdiction, whichever is greater. You are about to enter a website that contains explicit material (pornography). ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m grateful to my mum for being such a great support to my family and looking after my daughters two days a week. ![]() ![]() I’m sure all parents out there will understand that one.ģ. It might seem like a small thing but there is something so special about getting a hug from one of my daughters. I’m grateful to my daughter Elena for giving me the best good morning hug. Thank you Oliver and Tara you’ve been great.Ģ. I’m grateful to our mortgage brokers for making buying our new house such a hassle free and relatively worry free process. So without further ado here are my 3 reasons to give gratitude today.ġ. I guess good news stories don’t sell the papers or advertising space on TV. ![]() It’s important to remember that there is a whole lot more good out there than there is evil. Having a positive mind and thinking positive thoughts can be tough with the seemingly constant barrage of bad news that we are subjected to on an almost daily basis. Did any of you begin your own gratitude blog yesterday? If so please share them with me. Its been a good day in the McLeod household for reasons that I’ll share with you later on. Today is going to be an easy day to be thankful and give gratitude. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Minor detail adania![]() The academic not only includes relevant criticism within this piece but also integrates theoretical formulations and observations by various scholars and thinkers that are pertinent to her own readings, such that through her 'book-review-as-academic-paper' one gets access to entire bodies and fields of knowledge, from postcolonial theory to resistance literature. ![]() ![]() Mukherjee's response and writing on the novel and its many themes is essential to understanding the greater depth to be found in decades of Israeli occupation over Palestinian land and life. A finalist for the National Book Award, “Minor Detail” is one of the most relevant works of contemporary Palestinian literature that connects 1949 and the Nakba with present day Palestine-as its protagonist digs into the past to uncover horrific truths. Chaandreyi Mukherjee presents an academic paper that is also a book review for Palestinian author Adania Shibli's 2020 novel, “Minor Detail” (New Directions). ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments His hideous heart book![]() The great thing about anthologies is you get to taste the writing style for a number of authors, and in this case it has me wanting to read more from most of these authors. ![]() Goodreads Buy Indie Amazon B&N Book Depository Audiobook This post uses affiliate links and I may receive a small commission for purchases made through my links at no additional cost to you. Jackson (“The Cask of Amontillado”), Stephanie Kuehn (“The Tell-Tale Heart”), Emily Lloyd-Jones (“The Purloined Letter”), Hillary Monahan (“The Masque of the Red Death”), Marieke Nijkamp (“Hop-Frog”), Caleb Roehrig (“The Pit and the Pendulum”), and Fran Wilde (“The Fall of the House of Usher”). Whether the stories are familiar to readers or discovered for the first time, readers will revel in Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tales, and how they’ve been brought to life in 13 unique and unforgettable ways.Ĭontributors include Kendare Blake (reimagining “Metzengerstein”), Rin Chupeco (“The Murders in the Rue Morge”), Lamar Giles (“The Oval Portrait”), Tessa Gratton (“Annabel Lee”), Tiffany D. ![]() ![]() Thirteen of YA’s most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe’s most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation.Įdgar Allan Poe may be a hundred and fifty years beyond this world, but the themes of his beloved works have much in common with modern young adult fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is one of the most compelling histories of two such siblings in the canon of writing on mental illness. It is a true and unusually frank story of identical twins with very different identities and wildly different experiences of the world around them. ![]() Told in the alternating voices of the sisters, Divided Minds is a heartbreaking account of the far reaches of madness as well as the depths of ambivalence and love between twins. ![]() Carolyn continued to believe in the humanity of her sister, not merely in her illness, and Pamela responded. Exceeding everyone's expectations, Carolyn graduated from Harvard Medical School and forged a successful career in psychiatry.ĭespite Pamela's estrangement from the rest of her family, the sisters remained very close, "bonded with the twin glue," calling each other several times a week and visiting as frequently as possible. Pamela's illness allowed Carolyn to enter the spotlight that had for so long been focused on her sister. But as the twins approached adolescence, Pamela began to suffer the initial symptoms of schizophrenia, hearing disembodied voices that haunted her for years and culminated during her freshman year of college at Brown University where she had her first major breakdown and hospitalization. Growing up in the fifties, Carolyn Spiro was always in the shadow of her more intellectually dominant and socially outgoing twin, Pamela. Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia has 324 pages. ![]() A riveting true story of sisters who were identical, until the voices began ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Night shift by stephen king![]() ![]() Night Shift is rife with stories of blue-collar people facing both real-world and supernatural hostilities. At least five of the stories in Night Shift have been adapted, and the Dollar Baby program helped launch the career of Frank Darabont, who has since directed several award-winning King adaptations, including The Shawshank Redemption (1994). ![]() ![]() In response, King initiated his Dollar Baby program, in which he grants permission to students to adapt one of his selected short stories for one dollar. In 1977, King received many letters from film students interested in adapting stories from Night Shift. To bolster the collection for publication, King composed four new stories: “Jerusalem’s Lot,” “Quitters, Inc.,” “The Last Rung on the Ladder,” and “The Woman in the Room.” Several of the stories have been adapted into feature-length films and television series, with the Children of the Corn film series proving the most enduring. Nine of the stories were published in Cavalier from 1970 to 1975, while others were published in Cosmopolitan, Gallery, Ubris, Penthouse, and Maine Magazine. The stories that comprise Night Shift account for much of King’s early apprenticeship toward writing. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments The Hidden by Heather Graham![]() It is a really good change of pace kind of thriller. You will learn all about what happened after the Civil War, PTSD of the time, greed, ranches, gold miners and ghosts. This is an old-fashioned mystery that will keep you engaged and astonish you between the author’s insights and historical references. It seems that Nathan Kendall and his wife only had one son but that son had many children and they in turn had many grandchildren.Įveryone is new to each other but why do they all happen to end up in Colorado? Who is murdering these descendants? You are right. ![]() ![]() The book is about the first owner and the man who bought the ranch from him back in 1870. The owner does not know that she is a descendant of the owner of the ranch in Colorado just as he is a descendant. It is about a lovely curator of a small privately owned Wild West kind of museum. It is a good read, fast and furious and interesting as all get out. ![]() If you like to think that ghosts have an afterlife or that they can be part of the day-to-day life of the people who are still alive, this is the book for you. ![]() Okay readers, you are in for a fun time with The Hidden – Krewe of Hunters by Heather Graham. ![]() |