![]() ![]() Writing a book, just like building a library, is an act of sheer defiance. ![]() We are all whispering in a tin can on a string, but we are heard, so we whisper the message into the next tin can and the next string. ![]() You know that you are a part of a larger story that has shape and purpose-a tangible, familiar past and a constantly refreshed future. But if something you learn or observe or imagine can be set down and saved, and if you can see your life reflected in previous lives, and can imagine it reflected in subsequent ones, you can begin to discover order and harmony. It means that everything we experience unfolds without a pattern, and life is just a wild, random, baffling occurrence, a scattering of notes with no melody. If you gaze into that bleakness even for a moment, the sum of life becomes null and void, because if nothing lasts, nothing matters. I fear not just that I, personally, will be forgotten, but that we are all doomed to being forgotten-that the sum of life is ultimately nothing that we experience joy and disappointment and aches and delights and loss, make our little mark on the world, and then we vanish, and the mark is erased, and it is as if we never existed. ![]() “The idea of being forgotten is terrifying. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “A bonanza for ardent dog fanciers and for others, a likable heroine in a smoothly paced romantic mystery.”- Publishers Weekly Read more “Naturally flowing prose, extended suspense, and an infectiously upbeat single mother as protagonist make this a special treat.”- Library Journal For, as Melanie soon discovers, in a championship dog-eat-dog world, the instinct for survival, and winning, can prove fatal. But her affection cools when she's put on the scent of Sam’s questionable past…and hot on the trail of a poodle-hating neighbor and one elusive murderer who isn't ready to come to heel. Posing as a poodle breeder in search of the perfect stud, Melanie hounds Connecticut’s elite canine competitions, and finds an ally in fellow breeder Sam Driver. ![]() With her young son happily ensconced in day camp, the thirty-something teacher and single mother is talked into investigating her uncle’s death-unofficially, of course. ![]() But the only evidence is their missing prize pooch-a pedigreed poodle named Beau.Įnter Melanie Travis. The apparent heart attack that killed kennel owner Max Turnbull has left seven pups in mourning, and his wife Peg suspecting foul play. A mom goes undercover to locate a purloined poodle-and a killer-in this series debut with “ a solution that packs a surprising amount of surprise” ( Kirkus Reviews). ![]() ![]() In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. ![]() ![]() The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples ![]() ![]() a gateway to the solo works of all the voices in Kendi and Blain's impressive choir."- The Washington Post "From journalist Hannah P. ![]() "A vital addition to curriculum on race in America. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. They've gathered together eighty black writers from all disciplines - historians and artists, journalists and novelists-each of whom has contributed an entry about one five-year period to create a dynamic multivoiced single-volume history of black people in America"-īook Synopsis #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present-edited by Ibram X. ![]() Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain, editor of The North Star. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas-and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. ![]() ![]() About the Book "A 'choral history' of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. ![]() ![]() ![]() KyAnn Waters and Tarah Scott – Double Bang. KyAnn Waters and Tarah Scott – Born Into Fire. You will need a clear majority vote () to surrender in Wild Missing: K. Tap the surrender button located at the bottom left corner of the screen. Tap the surrender button, located at the bottom of the screen. Tap on the gear icon on the top left of your screen. 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In the rice paddy beyond the garden, a cacophony of frogs detonates. "Miss kawasemi?" orito kneels on a stale and sticky futon. The House of Kawasemi the Concubine, above Nagasaki ![]() ![]() ![]() When Jazz goes to look for Landvik, she is attacked by his henchman but manages to get away with a briefcase with the name ZAFO on it. ![]() In the meantime, she reconciles with her old friend, Dale, after she catches her in action. Jazz is successful in destroying most of the harvesters, but she is caught on camera, which results in her having to run without finishing the job. Landvik wants Jazz to damage their anothrite harvesters and offers her money in exchange for helping him. She becomes entangled in a scheme by the wealthy businessman Trond Landvik, who plots to take over the Sanchez Aluminum, who supply the city with oxygen supply as a by-product from producing aluminum. The main protagonist is Jasmine "Jazz" Bashara, a smuggler and porter. The novel is set on the fictional Artemia, a city on the moon. Written by Gillian VanSweden, Trong Tran and other people who wish to remain anonymous ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() Once she combed out this head, she’d be done, and she could go home, take a shower, change her clothes, and eat dinner in front of the TV with her father. Your Title, Your Book in Five Words or Lessįriday afternoon was a busy time at the salon-only Saturday afternoon was busier-and Ariel Bauer had had a full day. ![]() Writing a Blockbuster: Goal, Motivation, and Conflict. ![]() Writing a (character-driven) romantic comedy.Use Setting and Background to Meet Reader Expectations.Research: Looking for the Forest? Or the Trees?.Plot: It’s What Happens after the Shower.Know your character’s motivation-or else.Hook readers with specific characterizations.Don’t Go Overboard: Managing Proportion. ![]() ![]() Plots: In each book, the hero chooses the heroine immediately as their love interest and spends the intial part of the book moving the relationship forward extremely quickly. In it, Ally, the heroine, is related to Lee, and Ren, the hero, joins the circle because of previous relationships with other characters in the series. The eighth and final Rock Chick book will break this trend. ![]() ![]() Heroines: The women are known as the Rock Chicks through the first few books the women join the storyline because of their ties to Fortnum's bookstore and Indy Savage (owner), but in later book they join the Rock Chicks through previous relationships to the hot bunch. They are all friends, family, and/or employees of Lee Nightingale and work as PIs or in law enforcement. Heroes: The men are all hot of the Alpha Badass variety and are known in-book as the Hot Bunch. Books in the Series Ġ.5 Rock Chick Reawakening (Daisy and Marcus) ![]() "Set in Denver, the Rock Chick Series is eight books that take you on the wild ride of the courtships of the Rock Chicks and the Hot Bunch." - Each book in the series focuses on the romance between a hero and heroine in their late 20s to early 30s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gigi Pandian is a new author to me, and I’m so glad to have found her! Under Lock & Skeleton Key is a well-written, thoroughly engrossing mystery that I could barely put down. But as she delves further into the mystery, Tempest can’t help but wonder if the Raj family curse that’s plagued her family for generations-something she used to swear didn’t exist-has finally come for her. Fearing she was the intended victim, it’s up to Tempest to solve this seemingly impossible crime. When Tempest visits her dad’s latest renovation project, her former stage double is discovered dead inside a wall that’s supposedly been sealed for more than a century. Secret Staircase Construction specializes in bringing the magic of childhood to all by transforming clients’ homes with sliding bookcases, intricate locks, backyard treehouses, and hidden reading nooks. Though she resists, every day brings her closer to the inevitable: working for her father’s company. The intrigue of hidden rooms and secret staircases.Īfter a disastrous accident derails Tempest Raj’s career, and life, she heads back to her childhood home in California to comfort herself with her grandfather’s Indian home-cooked meals. Under Lock & Skeleton Key layers architecture with mouthwatering food in an ode to classic locked-room mysteries.Īn impossible crime. ![]() |