![]() ![]() Love’s the last thing on her mind when she locks eyes with Will Darcy across the crowded club, yet the spark between them is undeniable-that is, until she overhears the uptight wealth manager call her merely “tolerable.”īennet is determined to write Darcy off, but once their besties fall head-over-heels, they’re thrown into each other’s orbit again and again. ![]() ![]() She spent the oughts bouncing between the coasts, from Brooklyn to Seattle, with stops in Arkansas and Virginia before. Now an executive assistant by day and stage kitten by night, she’s discovered a second home with the performers at Meryton, Manhattan’s top-tier burlesque venue. Certain Appeal, Vanessa King, Julia Whelan, Romance>Contemporary, Romance>Rom-Com, >Romance, Penguin Audio, 10. née, Toodles Vanessa spent two years picking up the peelings of the best in the NYC burlesque scene and has the glitter in her pumps to prove it. ![]() A sparkling contemporary retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in the tantalizing world of New York City burlesque, perfect for fans of The Kiss Quotient and The Roommate.Īfter a betrayal derailed her interior design career, Liz Bennet found a fresh start in New York. ![]()
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![]() ![]() : xvi Her father was the minister of the First Church of New Haven from 1685 until his death in 1714. Her parents were James Pierpont and Mary (Hooker) Pierpont, granddaughter of first-generation Puritan Thomas Hooker, who has been considered the founder of Connecticut. Sarah Pierpont was born on January 9, 1710, in New Haven, Connecticut. Among her noted descendants, Sarah was the grandmother of U.S. She raised her eleven children, largely by herself, as Jonathan Edwards focused on sermons and books. She was a Puritan who took her faith very seriously. Her experiences of religious ecstasy were documented in Jonathan Edward's work, Some Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion in New England. She was a model of spirituality during the Great Awakening of the early 18th century. His wife's experiences, similar to those of Saint Teresa of Ávila, profoundly affected his religious life and the formation of the New Light. As a theological student at Yale, he had longed to have a personal relationship with God. Her husband was initially drawn to her spiritual openness, direct relationship with God, and periods of spiritual ecstasy. ![]() Sarah Edwards (Janu– October 2, 1758) was an American missionary and the wife of theologian Jonathan Edwards. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She also used the pseudonyms Diana Blayne and Katy Currie, and her married name: Susan Kyle. She began selling romances in 1979 as Diana Palmer. Susan and her husband have one son, Blayne Edward, born in 1980. ![]() Since 1972, she has been married to James Kyle and have since settled down in Cornelia, Georgia, where she started to write romance novels. Susan is a former newspaper reporter, with sixteen years experience on both daily and weekly newspapers. Susan grew up reading Zane Grey and fell in love with cowboys. Her best friends are her mother and her sister, Dannis Spaeth (Cole), who now has two daughters, Amanda Belle Hofstetter and Maggie and lives in Utah. Her mother was part of the women's liberation movement many years before it became fashionable. She was the eldest daughter of Maggie Eloise Cliatt, a nurse and also journalist, and William Olin Spaeth, a college professor. Susan Eloise Spaeth was born on 11 December 1946 in Cuthbert, Georgia, USA. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.ĭiana Palmer is a pseudonym for author Susan Kyle. ![]() ![]() ![]() The fact that there is no color helps the art shine even brighter. On a purely visual level, Monsters feels great to read. Those are the parts I will not spoil, as I believe they make up the core of the narrative. Most of the book is spent on flashbacks about Bobby’s youth, his life with his parents, and his childhood trauma. This is just the beginning of the story, though. He is fooled into joining a top-secret army project called the Prometheus Initiative, that sees him turn into a horrifying creature, a supposed super-soldier. Bobby seems to have no documentation, no friends and no close relatives. Bobby is a very quiet and visibly disturbed young man who has problems communicating with others. Monsters tells the story of Bobby Bailey, who joins the US Army in hopes to follow on the steps of his deceased father. This book is one of the best contemporary graphic novels I have read. You can imagine my joy when I was told Mr Windsor-Smith had finally finished Monsters, his twenty-years-in-the-making masterpiece that started as a rejected Hulk story. ![]() One of my favorite Marvel comics of all time is Barry Windsor-Smith’s Weapon X, a comic that tells the story of Wolverine’s origin in an interesting and creative way, avoiding many of the tropes that had plagued “origin story” superhero comics since their very conception. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some vacationers may take along their favorite bottles and maybe even a set of fine stemware to enjoy their holiday, while others may focus on exploring local gastronomy and making new wine discoveries at their holiday destination. With this in mind, we have compiled a list of champagne books for you that are perfect for your trip. Lazy summer days are the ideal time for leisure activities, and reading is a wonderful way to flee into the world of imagination and lose yourself in effervescent stories. Posted on 30 July 2022 by Stefanie KöhlerĪre you in the middle of packing your bags, searching for your passports, and getting ready for the holidays? If this is the case, then hold off for a minute and leave some room in your bags: we have some bubbly suggestions for your vacation! Because this summer, it is time to escape from the hustle and bustle of city life and take a relaxing time-out to recharge your batteries. ![]() ![]() ![]() She's worried about student loan debt and what the future holds. Sam is struggling to decide between the path she's always planned on and a romantic entanglement that threatens her ambition. Enter Sam, a senior at the local women's college, whom Elisabeth hires to babysit. ![]() She neglects her work, losing untold hours to her Brooklyn moms' Facebook group, her "influencer" sister's Instagram feed, and text messages with the best friend she never sees anymore. Alone in the house with her infant son all day (and awake with him much of the night), she feels uneasy, adrift. A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICKĪn insightful, hilarious, and compulsively readable novel about a complicated friendship between two women who are at two very different stages in life, from the bestselling author of Maine and Saints for All Occasions.Įlisabeth, an accomplished journalist and new mother, is struggling to adjust to life in a small town after nearly twenty years in New York City. ![]() ![]() The huge diversity of human existence is compressed into this linear, quantitative concept and then converted into monetary coefficients. Most economists, by contrast, restrict the use of “development” to a single economic dimension, usually measured in terms of per capita GDP. The biological concept of development implies a sense of multi-faceted unfolding of living organisms, ecosystems, or human communities reaching their potential. All living systems develop life continually reaches out to create novelty. ![]() For biologists, development is a fundamental property of life. It is interesting that the word “development” is used today in two quite different senses. His answers are presented here: Is it possible to change the current development model without changing the capitalist system? Due to the large number of people from all continents signing up for the Capra webinar, he received many questions during the session that he was unable to answer.įritjof generously agreed to answer a selection of these questions after the webinar. ![]() ![]() He is exceptionally good at splitting hairs, dissecting, with surgical precision, the problems others had got wrong. With his keen mind and sharp sense of humor, he critiqued, dissected, and roasted authors, readers, the use of the English language, Gandhi, the British Empire, Socialism, Fascism, being a child, etc. He was, in addition to a novelist, a journalist and essayist, primarily concerned with the wrongs in the world and their effect on individuals. The phrase “Big Brother” itself is a literary creation of Orwell.Īll of Orwell’s work touches on politics and class structure. Even for people who haven’t actually read these works, the adjective “Orwellian” elicits thoughts of oppressive, government-controlled society, where “Big Brother” is watching. Perhaps they have also read his futuristic (when it was written) “1984.” Orwell’s name has become synonymous with dystopian political fiction. Most people, when asked if they’re familiar with the works of George Orwell, will answer that they had read “Animal Farm” in high school. ![]() ![]() The one lesser known exception is his short, bright novel, “Keep the Aspidistra Flying.” I would go as far as to call it charming and delightful. George Orwell’s novels are not exactly where you turn when you are looking for uplifting reading with happy endings. ![]() ![]() So it was with great delight that Peldi enthusiastically mentioned to me a few months back that there was an old book he had just learned about from the 1930's about working with people. (My friends can confirm I have a rather big pile) □ I added the book to the pile of other old-fashioned quirky things that I personally love, but others find a bit dusty. After a few similar reactions, I eventually stopped trying to recommend what I found to be so useful. ![]() I remember telling some friends about it in high school or college, and their reaction was basically that it sounded a bit hokey and old-fashioned. I can't remember the names of most of those books, but one did stick with me, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. I suspect the first was The Little Engine that Could, a sort of early introduction to positive thinking. When I was growing up my parents paid me to read books they thought had value for my personal growth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Supersymmetry suggests each particle has a “super partner” with the same mass, but opposite spin. To bridge these, an extension called “ supersymmetry”, suggesting particles are connected through a deep relationship, has been proposed. While the standard model explains most of what we see in particle physics experiments, there are a few gaps. The standard model describes three out of the four fundamental forces in the universe – electromagnetism, and the “strong” and “weak” forces which govern the atomic nucleus – excluding gravity. Together, these form a framework called “quantum field theory”, which is the basis for the Standard Model of Particle Physics – our best framework for describing the most basic building blocks of the universe. Physicists have already managed to unite quantum theory with Einstein’s other big theory: special relativity (explaining how speed affects mass, time and space). “Quantum physics is actually all about algebra.” ![]() It’s how space is curved and how space-time – this unified entity that contains three dimensions of space and one dimension of time – is itself also curved,” explains Vlatko Vedral, a professor of physics at Oxford University in the UK. ![]() “General relativity is all about geometry. ![]() |