6/29/2023 0 Comments Goddess anthony summer“The true things rarely get into circulation,” she says. Strong evidence suggests this was delayed in a cover-up to allow Bobby Kennedy time to get out of town and have all traces of their association removed from Monroe’s Brentwood home.Ī brief opening montage includes Monroe’s voice from an audio interview, questioning how one goes about telling a life story. The major revelations of Summers’ book are the inconsistencies concerning the time of her shocking death from a barbiturate overdose at age 36, and the manner in which it was reported. Kennedy, for whom her far-left associations made her a political hot potato. She was allegedly pimped out by Rat Pack actor Peter Lawford and passed between his brothers-in-law Robert and John F. That makes the tragedy of her outcome resonate all the more. She sought the protection - and in cases like her third husband, Arthur Miller - the intellectual validation of important men. Alongside her stratospheric fame as a worldwide sex symbol, she grew into a vulnerable woman a private figure perhaps removed from the confident sensuality she transmitted, of someone entirely comfortable in her body.
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Runaway groomsman read onlineThe only problem is… there are other people they are involved with who not only prevent Mason and Piper from being together, but interrupt any chance they have at making a relationship work. The two are like oil and water, a science experiment ready to explode any second but they can’t help but be drawn to each other. Even though she grates on his every nerve, he can’t help but want a piece of her. After a horrific break up with his now ex, Brooke, he finds himself being engulfed by the temperamental red head that just so happens to be the maid of honor to one of his best friends, Lexi. Psychotic Una-bomber with the constant mensies is the way Mason describes his flying companion, Piper Shores. But to her misfortune, she finds herself not only having to spend time with him at their best friends’ wedding but she also can’t seem to shake the infuriating man in her everyday life. From the minute the alpha male interrupts her morning after hangover on the airplane, she can’t stand to be near the egotistical maniac with a booming voice and annoying sex appeal. Unfortunate inconvenience, that is the way Piper describes her encounter with Mason Dashel. 6/29/2023 0 Comments An ocean of minutes thea lim"In the vein of The Time Traveler's Wife and Station Eleven, a sweeping literary love story about two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart. An Ocean of Minutes is a gorgeous and heartbreaking story about the endurance and complexity of human relationships and the cost of holding onto the past-and the price of letting it go". Alone in a changed and divided America, with no status and no money, Polly must navigate a new life and find a way to locate Frank, to discover if he is alive, and if their love has endured. But when Polly is re-routed an extra five years into the future, Frank is nowhere to be found. Polly promises to meet Frank again in Galveston, Texas, where she will arrive in twelve years. If she signs up for a one-way-trip into the future to work as a bonded laborer,the company will pay for the life-saving treatment Frank needs. She agrees to a radical plan-time travel has been invented in the future to thwart the virus. When Frank catches the virus, his girlfriend Polly will do whatever it takes to save him, even if it means risking everything. America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. 6/29/2023 0 Comments Despite the Devil by Shawna JamesWait a minute, are these her boxes he's checking or mine? Andrew also has an accent! He's handsome, 6 feet tall, muscular, clean shaven, and has dark green eyes. After all, if she wants to attract the attention of the new sports teacher, Andrew Simmons, she has to look her best.Īndrew checks all of Stephanie's boxes. Stephanie eagerly signs up and starts attending. One day, her best friend Maya is all aglow about recently becoming a member of a coffee shop that allows for free friend passes to a gym. She, like most women, is searching for the perfect man. She's described as 5 feet 7 inches and about 130 pounds and she has beautiful auburn hair that cascades midway down her back. Stephanie is a highschool English teacher (I never met an English teacher that I didn't like) and she oversees the Drama department as well. That's all the protagonist Stephanie is looking for in Despite the Devil by Shawna James. What woman doesn't long for love? To love and be loved. 6/29/2023 0 Comments A fine balance novelThere is Dina, the struggling landlady whose husband was run over and killed whilst cycling to buy ice cream for a family gathering Ishvar and Omprakash, tailors whose families had been brutalised by the destructive legacy of the caste system and Maneck, a refrigeration and air conditioning student whose best friend is tortured and killed by the government.Ĭentral to the plotline is The Emergency of 1975-1977, in which the Prime Minister was given the power to rule by decree, creating an effective dictatorship in response to threats of ‘internal disturbance’. Rohinton Mistry’s 1995 novel A Fine Balance is set in 1970s India and follows four characters who come to interact with each other over a period of around 15 years. Once the genie is out of the lamp through comprehensive and multifaceted monitoring of your Web habits, your purchases, searches, and social media activities go on sale and resale to the highest bidders, with everyone profiting except you-unless you consider invasive personalized ads a benefit. This customer information is considered highly valuable and lucrative, and Facebook has partnered with brokers like Turn (700 million user profiles) to get its hands on it (as I chronicled in my feature “ You Are What You Click”). Pasquale writes that some third-party data-broker microtargeting lists include “probably bipolar,” “ daughter killed in car crash,” “rape victim,” and “gullible elderly.” There are no restrictions on marketers assembling and distributing such lists, nor any oversight, leading to what Pasquale terms “runaway data.” With such lists circulating among marketers, credit bureaus, hiring firms, and health care companies, these categories-which cross the line into racial or gender classification as well-easily slip from marketing tools into reputation indicators. Some of these categories are dicey enough that you wouldn’t want to be a part of them. Participating artists include: Jenine Wilhelms (Blue Hill, NE), Deb Kubik (Auburn,NE), Amy Springer (Red Cloud, NE), Carol Thompson (Eagle, NE), Toni Turnquist (Omaha, NE), Mark Moseman (David City, NE), David McCleery (Lincoln, NE), Margaret Krug (New York, NY), Richard Schilling (Loveland, CO), Travis Hencey (Chadron, NE), Gwen Lewis (Lebanon, KS), Margaret Berry (Lincoln, NE), Jane Marie (Hastings, NE), Jeremy Daniels (Hastings, NE), Betty Kort (Hastings, NE), Kim (Reid Kuhn) Darling (Omaha, NE), Sally Jurgensmeier (Heartwell, NE), Nancy Childs (Lincoln, NE), and Cody Carson-Brown (Hastings, NE). To celebrate the publication centenary of Willa Cather’s novel The Song of the Lark, the Willa Cather Foundation has invited artists from across Nebraska or with Nebraska ties to participate in an exhibition entitled The Growth of an Artist: Commemorating 100 Years of The Song of the Lark. Artists participating will create works in various mediums inspired by many themes present in the novel’s text and their work will be on display during the 60th annual Willa Cather Spring Conference, which will center on Cather’s use of the arts in The Song of the Lark. The Song of the Lark Set in the 1890s in Moonstone, a fictional town located in Colorado, The Song of the Lark is the self-portrait of an artist in the. 6/29/2023 0 Comments The Blue Chair by Richard WolkomirIt became a novel, "Wil Deft," complete with a fantasy world Pembroke Welsh corgi. It was about a place where certain people do speak with animals, not with tongues, animals being unequipped for that, but mind to mind. I wondered, though: how would it be to actually speak with animals, back and forth, hearing their thoughts and concerns? A story came to me. It's not hard-eye glints and brow furrowings tell you just what's going on in that doggy head. It started when a Pembroke Welsh corgi came to live with us, and I realized I could read his mind. I'd always made I write stories, often speculative fiction, sometimes mysteries. Another novel, "Sinnabar," followed, with some of the same characters reappearing, including that talkative corgi. I write stories, often speculative fiction, sometimes mysteries. 6/28/2023 0 Comments Flinging It by G. BensonA night of too much booze leads to the one thing neither of them expected: an affair in the workplace. She only has one friend and realizes how lonely she is when she starts spending time with Frazer. She may not be a fan of his standoffish wife, Cora, who is also a social worker at the hospital, but it’s only when she works with her on revising the program proposal that it finally gets approved.Ĭora is deeply unhappy and has been for a long time, keeping to herself so no one knows how bad her marriage really is. Thanks to his lack of interest, she can’t get a program to support at-risk parents off the ground, despite extensive planning and adjustments to the proposal and budget. It plays with typical lesfic conventions, or occasionally ignores them entirely, resulting in a fresh take on a popular genre.įrazer is the head midwife at a hospital in Perth, Australia, whose biggest headache is her stubborn boss, Alec. Flinging It by G Benson is one of the best books I’ve read this year, and possibly the best lesbian romance I’ve read in 2016. The mamas are wise, though, and soon little llama learns that sharing isn't so bad. (Get it? She's the GNU girl!? Good one.) He really doesn't mind sharing some of his toys, but his favorite stuffed llama? No way, buddy, and let the trouble begin. Llama Llama is wary of the new girl, Nelly Gnu. It's sweet, it's honest, and even though the littles are llamas they are exactly like human littles. This book is exactly what you'd expect from Dewdney's Llama Llama line. Maybe I'll just print up my own certificate and mail it to her with a crown and a sash. I would declare her Meter Princess if I could. She's always faithful to it and I love her for that. I don't have to stop at various points and think, "Wait.how do I have to say this so the meter is right?" That's because Anna Dewdney gets meter. She doesn't try to leave a syllable out or cram an extra one into a line to make it fit. Okay, here's the thing I really love about Anna Dewdney. |