![]() ![]() Finding time to be on their own is tough. It was just an ordinary Sunday afternoon…Ĭlementine and Sam’s relationship has it’s ups and downs but they are a young couple with two small kids. She shows how guilt can expose the fault lines in the most seemingly strong relationships, how what we don’t say can be more powerful than what we do, and how too often we don’t appreciate how extraordinary our ordinary lives are until it’s too late. Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty takes on some of the most fundamental relationships in our lives: marriage, sex, parenthood, and friendship. It’s a quiet Sunday afternoon in the suburbs. They could so easily have said no.īut she and her husband Sam said yes, and now it’s two months later, it won’t stop raining and they can never change what they did and didn’t do that beautiful winter’s day. ![]() ![]() It was just an ordinary backyard barbecue on a Sunday afternoon. What if they hadn’t gone? That’s the question Clementine Hart can’t stop asking herself. ![]()
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![]() However Solomon, who is trapped in a childless and loveless dynastic marriage with Pharaoh's daughter, allows himself to fall in love with the beautiful and intelligent African. She is hugely impressed by Israel's prosperity, by the wisdom and integrity with which Solomon rules, by the Hebrew religion, which she decides to adopt as her own, and by the justice for all that she determines to copy. Recognizing her own inexperience, yet desperately wanting to address Sheba's appalling social injustice, she is persuaded by her cousin Tamrin, wealthy merchant and narrator of the novel, to visit Solomon, King of Israel, to find out about how he governs his kingdom. ![]() ![]() 'An enthralling journey into an ancient world.' - Edoardo Albert, author of Edwin: High King of BritainĪ vividly-realized and beautifully crafted novel focused around the fabled meeting between Sheba and SolomonĪgainst all odds Makeda, daughter of an obscure African chieftain, is chosen as Queen of all Sheba. ![]() ![]() ![]() And, more often than not, the defining moment qualifies as traumatic. In much of his fiction, we’re brought to small-town Tennessee by narrators who were teens in the ’80s or ’90s. Now, for the first time, Frankie lets herself dive deep into memories of being 16, when she and her only friend, Zeke, made a cryptic piece of art that sparked all kinds of mayhem.Īs idiosyncratic as that premise sounds, it’s a standard Wilsonian setup (or, one might say, obsession): An adult receives news that propels them back to a defining moment of their misfit youth. ![]() The call sends Frankie reeling-“ Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, fuck, no in my head, a kind of spiraling madness … Because, I guess, I’d let myself think that no one would ever find out.” Not that she’s ever left that summer behind she’s been replaying snippets of it in her head for the past 21 years. For Kevin Wilson fans, the opening of his fourth novel, Now Is Not the Time to Panic, will feel familiar: A woman named Frankie Budge receives a call from a reporter asking about her role in a moral panic that spread from a tiny Tennessee town to the rest of America in the summer of 1996. ![]() ![]() He is the author of numerous books on Chinese literature and on comparative literature, and he has edited others. After teaching for a decade at Yale, he moved to Harvard in 1982. The moment spontaneity becomes a value, it becomes out of reach. Bio: Stephen Owen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard. The story he tells brings together art theory, social history, money and art, body and mind, the serious and the very silly. We will look at eleventh century account by the famous Su Shi, when he unrolls a painting in his collection to air it. ![]() The Institute for Chinese Studies presents the Re-Imagining China's Past and Present Lecture Series:Stephen OwenJames Bryant Conant University ProfessorHarvard University"Bamboo in the Breast and in the Belly: Thinking Through Literature"Flyer: Stephen Owen FlyerAbstract: Literature can be a means to think through basic issues, grounded in human circumstance, that other forms of discursive prose could not do. ![]() Add to Calendar 16:00:00 17:30:00 Institute for Chinese Studies - Stephen Owen - "Bamboo in the Breast and in the Belly: Thinking Through Literature" ![]() ![]() ![]() The Two Rivers, as a quiet and orderly backwater, has been allowed to go its own way. Andor has focused its power in keeping open the Caemlyn Road all the way to Baerlon and making sure banditry is not a problem in the western districts. ![]() Raw materials, resources and precious metals are quarried in the mountains, in and around mining villages like Comfrey, and then shipped down to Baerlon for further transit on to Caemlyn. It is likely that Caemlyn would have let all of western Andor go its own way generations ago if it wasn’t for the mineral wealth in the Mountains of Mist. The reason for this is that Andor’s population is spread quite thin west of Whitebridge on the Arinelle. The nearest large town, Baerlon, is a clear 100 miles from the northern border of the Two Rivers. The Two Rivers has not seen an Andoran tax collector in generations and has no noble lord who rules over the area. It is located in the far south-western corner of Andor and is located almost 1,200 miles from the capital at Caemlyn. The Two Rivers is a self-governing, semi-autonomous district of the Kingdom of Andor. A map of the journey from Emond’s Field to Shadar Logoth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There, her loneliness and shame melt away in the embrace of the family she never knew existed. Respecting her late mother's wish, Shannon travels, however reluctantly, to County Clare. Her world is turned upside down when she learns the identity of her real father: Thomas Concannon. Shannon Bodine is a talented graphic artist whose life revolves around her job at a prestigious New York advertising agency. Yet sometimes fate has a plan of its own. A restless wanderer with a dark past, he plans to spend the cold winter alone. This year, though, she's expecting an unusual guest - mystery writer Grayson Thane - from America. ![]() She enjoys the peace and quiet, even when icy winds howl at her window. Brianna Concannon's bed-and-breakfast becomes a cold and empty place. When the harsh storms of winter descend upon western Ireland, the locals stay indoors - and visitors stay away. When gallery owner Rogan Sweeney comes to Maggie's isolated studio, her heart is enflamed by their fierce attraction - and her scarred past is slowly healed by a gentle and forgiving love. One man has seen the soul in her art, and vows to help this complex woman build a lucrative career. Maggie Concannon is a glassmaker whose exquisite works are more than mere objects of beauty: they are reflections of her own true nature. ![]() ![]() She is a musician and songwriter, and has played in many bands, rocking some instruments she doesn’t even know the real names for, but mostly guitar, bass and keyboards.Įlizabeth writes novels for young adults and adults short stories and memoir which is way more interesting than it should be. ![]() ![]() She earned a bachelor’s degree in Spanish from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and worked for many years as a paralegal and translator. After weathering the grunge revolution and devolution in Olympia, Washington, Portland, Oregon and Seattle, she recently moved to a small cluster of houses amidst the vineyards of California’s Central Coast. ELIZABETH RODERICK grew up as a barefoot ruffian on a fruit orchard near Yakima, in the eastern part of Washington State. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is probably the best lecture on management and entrepreneurship that you could ever probably get. He talks about all things Japanese, and all things American- and attempts to distinctly mark the difference between them. It gives an insight into how the Japanese way of doing business, along with a burning passion to conquer the marketplace and the vision of producing the highest quality products in the world grew Sony into the most respected multinational corporation in Japan and worldwide, and allowed it to become the first real Japanese company which cut across regional and international barriers and vanquished foreign competition.Īkio Morita's style of writing is conversation style. This book is the story of Sony's legend, told in the words of its most famous co-founder himself. This is where Apple drew inspiration from Sony's Walkman, an inspiration which culminated in the first iPOD. Apple still does, in fact.īoth companies were leaders in "personal technology". ![]() And I joined Steve Jobs and many more from the Akio Morita fan club.ĭid you know that he was such a sensation that Steve Jobs wanted to build Apple to be like Sony? Here are the similarities- Both Apple and Sony had a reputation of creating perfectly crafted consumer products which conquer the marketplace. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why is that? One explanation is that when you look at the war from the perspective of its end rather than its beginning, it is Stalin who emerges as the main beneficiary. McMeekin claims that there is more reason to call the second world war Stalin’s war than Hitler’s. The revisionist take starts with the title. It puts forward new ideas and revives some old ones to challenge current mainstream interpretations of the conflict. The book is well researched and very well written. The list of source publications and literature is even longer, while the notes, often limited to citations, occupy more than 90 pages. It is more than 800 pages long, including a 20-page list of archival collections and files consulted. ![]() The volume is impressive even by the standard of histories of the second world war. ![]() In the spring of 1941, the Soviets considered attacking the Germans first, writes Sean McMeekin in his latest book, Stalin’s War. The day on which they did so is by far the most surprising part of the document:, one month and one week before Hitler attacked the USSR. “I t is necessary to deprive the German command of all initiative, forestall the adversary, and to attack the German army when it is still in the deployment stage and has no time to organise the distribution of forces at the front,” wrote the Soviet commanders to Joseph Stalin. ![]() ![]() But it's getting harder and harder to keep her cover stories straight and to know whom to trust. ![]() All this, while sending coded dispatches to the circling Pinkerton agents to keep them from closing in.Īlma's enjoying her dangerous game of shifting identities and double crosses as she fights for a promotion and an invitation back into Delphine's bed. In disguise as the scrappy dockworker Jack Camp, this should be easy-once she muscles her way into the local organization, wins the trust of the magnetic local boss and his boys, discovers the turncoat, and keeps them all from uncovering her secrets. When product goes missing at their Washington Territory outpost, Alma is tasked with tracking the thief and recovering the drugs. Trained in espionage by the Pinkerton Detective Agency-but dismissed for bad behavior and a penchant for going undercover as a man-Alma now works for Delphine Beaumond, the seductive mastermind of a West Coast smuggling ring. It is 1887, and Alma Rosales is on the hunt for stolen opium. Painstakingly researched and pulsing with adrenaline, Carrasco's debut will leave you thirsty for more." -Lyndsay Faye, author of The Gods of GothamĪ vivid, sexy barn burner of a historical crime audiobook, The Best Bad Things introduces listeners to the fiery Alma Rosales-detective, smuggler, spy "A brazen, brawny, sexy standout of a historical thrill ride, The Best Bad Things is full of unforgettable characters and insatiable appetites. ![]() ![]() Science Fiction & Fantasy - Available Now. ![]() Armchair Explorers for Children and Teens. ![]() |