6/7/2023 0 Comments Alone ej noyesUnable to keep her thoughts about the alluring other woman under control, Rebecca resigns herself to years of censoring her thoughts and feelings until Sabine’s time in the Army is done. Then Captain Sabine Fleischer’s arrival sets off an attraction that cracks Rebecca’s carefully cultivated armor and brings about fresh complications.Īs Sabine’s direct commanding officer, Rebecca knows she cannot act on her attraction, but that knowledge does nothing to squash her desires. Even if that life means she’s spent years hiding her sexuality and ignoring her desires under the Army’s "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy. With a successful career as an Army surgeon and a fresh promotion to lieutenant colonel, she loves her life leading a surgical team.
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You cannot come in, then go home and buy the book on Amazon. She has since become a rallying voice for independent bookstores. In 2011, she founded Parnassus Books, an idyll in a strip mall, with her business partner, Karen Hayes. What do you do when the bookstores in your hometown all shut down? If you’re Patchett, you open one yourself. Patchett climbs every mountain, but she will also mutter an occasional, and deliciously un-nun-like, “fuck!” To watch her in action is to hear the Mother Abbess from The Sound of Music singing, “Climb Ev’ry Mountain”. She exudes that sleeves-rolled, get-on-with it capability, paired with the clarity and occasional ferocity of true righteousness. Even if she hadn’t published an essay, “The Mercies”, about her schooling with the Sisters of Mercy, you might guess that Patchett had been raised by nuns. Today, the good that Patchett will do involves picking up a journalist from Nashville’s airport and devoting her whole day to zipping around town in her little silver Prius, showing said journalist her world. And since he’d ever so thoughtfully given her an advance reading copy, she knew he was planning on informing the entire world that, among other things, she was a bitchy, money-hungry man-eater. Ted Marshall, ex–town clerk, ex-boss, and also, embarrassingly enough, her ex-lover, was self-publishing his own tell-all. In any case, she was fairly used to bad days by the time she walked to Lucky Harbor’s only bar and grill, but today had taken the cake. She didn’t quite know what that said about her other than that she was stubborn as hell. There’d been a lot of secrets in Aubrey Wellington’s colorful life, and nearly all of them had been uncovered and gleefully discussed ad nauseam.Īnd yet here she was, still in this small Pacific West Coast town she’d grown up in. There was one universal truth in Lucky Harbor, Washington-you could hide a pot of gold in broad daylight and no one would steal it, but you couldn’t hide a secret. 6/6/2023 0 Comments Platos the apologyHow well you have been persuaded by the words of my accusers I do not know but well, while listening to them, I had completely lost any sense of who I was, so persuasively did they speak!Īnd yet, I can assure you, fellow Athenians, they did not utter a single word of truth and of all those untruths they’ve uttered I marveled at one in particular: the one where they’ve warned you to be careful of me lest I deceived you with my “skillful oratory.” I wondered at their lack of shame for making that comment because they would be found to be lying the very moment I opened my mouth when it would become obvious to all of you that I am not at all a very good orator! Unless, of course, what they meant by the words “skillful oratory” is that I speak the truth. “Virtue is sufficient for happiness, and for virtue nothing is requisite but the strength of Socrates.”- Antisthenes (The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers) The Apology of Socrates 'Her presence gives us much joy, ' wrote the wife of 'Abdu'l-Bahá. No professional historian would have been taken into their confidence in the same way. Balyuzi can fail to appreciate the qualities of warmth, spirit and faith that enabled her first to elicit and then to faithfully chronicle the stories told to her by Bahíyyih Khánum and by 'Abdu'l-Bahá's wife and daughters. No reader of The Chosen Highway or of the description of its author in the Preface by H. 'In the first days of mourning for the beloved Master's passing' she listened to the Greatest Holy Leaf telling the story of her childhood and youth during the terrible imprisonment and exiles of Bahá'u'lláh, and began what she describes in her immortal book as 'an attempt to indicate some phases of a great historic moment in the life of Spiritual Civilization, which have not been elsewhere recorded'. the field did not progress nearly as much as should be expected, with most of the progress being pre-20th century, with several unfortunate steps back from the 1920s to 1970s (shown as well). The book also provides some splendid examples of good graphical design, shockingly most of them fairly old - i.e. The standard rules of avoiding lie factors in graphics, maximising the data / ink ratio, the integration of graphics and text are all spot on and show how statistics, when done right, is far from boring, tending far more towards the fascinating instead. It consigns most of the graphical designs of the consulting industry into the dustbin of bad practice and presents some slightly unconventional alternatives, which actually do look more compelling on second thought. 6/6/2023 0 Comments Letters to a young poetAn investigation of the legitimacy of a comparison of a Dichter and a Denker is followed by a thorough record of the state of research on ‘Rilke and Nietzsche’ so far, whilst an alternative methodological approach, a ‘reader-response-poetics’ (rather than -theory) drawing on both Nietzsche and Rilke themselves, is offered. In the first part, potential arguments against this objective are addressed. It is this study’s aim to trace Nietzsche’s presence, rendered tangible by those themes, in Rilke’s work and enquire whether, where and how he transformed it poetically. This unprecedented find not only proves for the first time Rilke’s familiarity with that book, but also makes visible which particular Nietzschean themes were of special interest to the poet. The recent discovery, however, of two copies of Nietzsche’s Also sprach Zarathustra amongst Rilke’s possessions has changed the status quo, as both contain reading traces identified as Rilke’s in one case, and (most probably) Lou Andreas-Salomé’s in the other. This is due to the poet’s peculiar silence regarding the inescapably influential philosopher, as well as to a frequently acknowledged lack of evidence regarding that influence, the existence of which remains heatedly debated and, at best, speculatively assumed within scholarship. Rilke’s relationship to Nietzsche is still nowhere near fully explored. Exploring the intricacies of marriage, the construction of family, the changing world of the late 1800s, and the strength of two remarkable women, Johanna Moran turns this unusual family's story into an unforgettable page-turning drama. Narrated primarily by the two wives, and based on a real-life legal case, The Wives of Henry Oades is the riveting story of what happens when Henry, Margaret, and Nancy face persecution for bigamy. There he marries Nancy Foreland, a young widow with a new baby, and it seems they've both found happiness in the midst of their mourning - until Henry's first wife and children show up, alive and having finally escaped captivity. Grief-stricken, he books passage to California. For months, Henry scours the surrounding wilderness, until all hope is lost and his wife and children are presumed dead. Their new home is rougher and more rustic than they expected - and a single night of tragedy shatters the family when the native Maori stage an uprising, kidnapping Margaret and her children. When Henry Oades accepts an accountancy post in New Zealand, his wife. But while Henry is an adventurer, Margaret is not. Read The Wives of Henry Oades A Novel by Johanna Moran available from Rakuten Kobo. When Henry Oades accepts an accountancy post in New Zealand, his wife, Margaret, and their children follow him to exotic Wellington. This one has too many flaws-most of them based on the script itself-and GERALDINE McEWAN is only passable as Jane Marple. Sleeping Murder: Miss Marples Last Case is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October. Hardly the way to start watching Agatha Christie if you're a first time viewer of her works. Hardly a faithful version of the story (the earlier TV adaptation with Joan Hickson was much better), it expands for the two hour length and tedium sets in long before the inconclusive ending. The story of a young woman having flashbacks to an earlier incident in her life is a perfectly acceptable dramatic device, but the flashbacks add little to the already cluttered nature of the story. It's a clumsy (awkwardly so) script that roams all over the place instead of telling a coherent story with a beginning, middle and end. Except for the high standard of acting one usually associates with the British, the handsome landscapes photographed in muted color, and the usual "things aren't what they seem at all" kind of flavor that Christie works over in all of her stories, this SLEEPING MURDER is enough to tranquilize a viewer with its many puzzlements. The mystery arc is well done, if a little predictable, and brings a lot of promise to the rest of the series.Ĭordelia Kingsbridge delivers an engaging story with a diverse set of characters. It has layered and complex characters, realistic portrayal of relationships, and quite a lot of action to balance out the characters’ personal conflicts. Kill Game is a fast-paced and tense novel, as well as a wonderful start to what shapes up to be an amazing series. This killer likes to play games, and the deck is not stacked in Levi and Dominic’s favor. But that may not be enough to protect them. Forced to trust each other, the two men race to discover the killer’s identity, revealing hidden truths along the way and sparking a bond neither man expected. Worst of all, they’ve taken a dangerously personal interest in Levi and Dominic. The Seven of Spades is ruthless and always two moves ahead. But when he stumbles across one of the Seven of Spades’s horrifying crime scenes, he can’t let go, despite Levi’s warnings to stay away. That means no tangling with cops-especially prickly, uptight detectives. Or how he keeps getting thrown into the path of annoyingly charming bounty hunter Dominic Russo.ĭominic likes his life free of complications. The last thing he’s prepared for is a serial killer stalking the streets of Las Vegas. He’s reeling from the fallout of a fatal shooting, and his relationship with his boyfriend is crumbling. Homicide detective Levi Abrams is barely holding his life together. |