![]() ![]() Hope stood there made up like they were actually going to Jameson’s, but without a nice dress. He was at the door with his hand lifted to ring the bell when the door opened. He did it staring at his old front porch thinking he needed to invest in some furniture to put on his for Greta. THAT NIGHT, HIX parked at the curb of the house he’d once called home and walked up the front walk. She shouted, “Yup!” into the salon as she walked through, and I noticed my client staring at her curiously. She turned, nabbed an industrial-sized bottle of conditioner and turned back, strutting right by me and throwing open the door. ![]() love that.” She leaned back and cackled before she said, “Yup. And second, when you said to Hix that what you two have is gonna work, he said, ‘yup.’” She leaned right into my space. “First, you got something to fight for and you’re finally freaking fighting for it, and since it’s worth it that makes me all kinds of happy. When I was done, she was grinning like a fool. I didn’t have a lot of time so I laid it all out for her as best I could. I just watched you go from looking like you wanted to commit murder to looking like a cat who got her cream. We hung up and Lou declared, “Your client’s here.” ![]() You have time to hit the Harlequin for lunch?” ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() This portal ends in a 'speaking ring' in Roland's world. ![]() Jake is able to pass into Roland's world using the key to open a door in an abandoned haunted house on Dutch Hill in his place and time. This current re-read marks the fourth time I have embarked on. Jake abruptly leaves school and finds a key in a littered vacant lot where a single red rose has bloomed. ![]() OL81625W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 97.43 Pages 598 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 650 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0451174755 Hardcover printings of Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands are very expensive (even used) and while certainly not cheap, this is the least expensive option. The Dark Tower series is, for me, a wonderful journey that is subtly different on each occasion. OL24957649M Openlibrary_subject long_now_manual_for_civilization Openlibrary_work Urn:lcp:wastelandsdarkto00king:epub:1cf02bd8-cb2d-473c-b924-8b0d6bede8c1 Extramarc The Indiana University Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier wastelandsdarkto00king Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6rz0956s Isbn 0451173317ĩ780451173317 Lccn 91032460 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:13:32 Boxid IA118207 Boxid_2 CH117201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York u.a. ![]() ![]() ![]() A beguiling landmark of Australian literature, it stands with Shirley Jacksons We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Daphne du Mauriers Rebecca, and Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides as a masterpiece of intrigue- Book Synopsis *Now a six-part TV series starring Natalie Dormer, from Amazon Prime* A 50th-anniversary edition of the landmark novel about three gone girls that inspired the acclaimed 1975 film, featuring a foreword by Maile Meloy, author of Do Not Become Alarmed It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. Mysterious and subtly erotic, Picnic at Hanging Rock inspired the iconic 1975 film of the same name by Peter Weir. Farther, higher, until at last they disappeared. After lunch, a group of three girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of the secluded volcanic outcropping. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. About the Book A 50th-anniversary edition of the haunting novel about the disappearance of three boarding school girls that inspired the acclaimed film. ![]() ![]() ![]() And every night they are safe and warm in their little house, with the happy sound of Pa's fiddle sending Laura and her sisters off to sleep.Īnd so begins Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved story of a pioneer girl and her family. But it is also exciting as Laura and her family celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, do the spring planting, bring in the harvest, and make their first trip into town. Pioneer life is sometimes hard for the family, since they must grow or catch all their own food as they get ready for the cold winter. Laura lives in the little house with her pa, her ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their trusty dog, Jack. Told from four-year-old Laura's point of view, this story begins in 1871 in a little log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. ![]() ![]() The book that started it all! Little House in the Big Woods is the first book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's treasured Little House series, which is based on her life growing up as an American pioneer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The deadpan tone of that narrator's voice implicitly urges readers to "just roll with it" and so we do. And lastly, the largest but ugliest wing, extending behind the house like a gnarled, broken arm, is where my 100 ex-boyfriends live. The east wing is where the children and their attending au pairs live. The west wing is where the Husband and I live. The house in which we live has three wings. Take the opening story, called "Los Angeles." Here's how our narrator introduces herself and her world: In one of those short stories, "Office Hours," a film professor declares to his class: "It is in the most surreal situations that a person feels the most present, the closest to reality." That pronouncement could serve as an epigram for this entire collection, an apt way to characterize its distinctive aura. And, so, I felt reluctant, but compelled to pick up her new book, a collection of short stories called Bliss Montage. ![]() Ma's writing, in short, stays with you whether you want it to or not. The novel was already disturbing in and of itself because of its sardonic tone and its mundane imagery that smoothly morphed into the macabre. By early spring of 2020, Ling Ma was being hailed as an oracle of the pandemic.īut the prophetic quality of Severance only enhanced its power. Ling Ma's 2018 debut novel, Severance, imagined a world ravaged by the sudden onset of something called "Shen Fever" - a fictitious infection that originated in Southern China. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Authors included George Clinton and Robert Yates, two New York state political figures, who wrote under the names Brutus and Cato. The anti-Federalists started to publish an anonymous series of newspaper essays condemning the proposed Constitution as taking away the power of the states. The concerns sounded an argument we still hear today: too much power would be held in the hands of the federal government. There was considerable opposition to many key points, which were voiced by three delegates who refused to sign the final document. The ink on the Constitution was barely dry when it was sent to the 13 states for approval, and that approval was far from a done deal. Better known now as The Federalist papers, the essays caused a sensation when they started appearing in October 1787 as a response to a rival set of essays written by a group called the anti-Federalists. He came to America in 1772 to attend school. Hamilton was born on January 11, in either 1755 or 1757, on the island on Nevis in the British West Indies. In a tribute to an essential, and controversial figure, Constitution Daily looks back at the papers that made Hamilton our “founding blogger.” ![]() Today marks the birthday of Alexander Hamilton. ![]() ![]() So he’s going to need something to stave off the boredom while selling books he doesn’t read to people who wouldn’t know a carabineer from a crochet hook. That means no sports, no danger and, above all else, no risks. Nick has six months to get over an injury before Everest and a big, fat contract beckon. He’ll just be fun to look at while she searches for the one. Sam needs something to keep her from begging for her old job back until she’s good and sure her boss understands how wrong he was, and taking a low-risk, low-stress job helping Nick at the bookstore might be just the thing.Īfter all, it’s not like Nick is the right guy to help her with her hormones. Not only has she rage-quit her beloved, high-powered job, but she is suddenly afflicted by hormones, free time, and an unavoidable, unignorable, undeniably gorgeous irritant in the form of Nick Hawke, her extreme sports star neighbour, who has come home to take over the reins of his grandmother’s second-hand bookshop. From bestselling author Amy Andrews comes a new single-title romance about putting pleasure before business, and the risks we all need to take when we find someone worth risking everything for. ![]() ![]() 2020 Lazkani's birthday cake was made up of two-tiers and covered in cascading gold embellishments, finished with an ethereal, black masquerade mask. 2022 Theme is New Orleans-style masquerade ball. ![]() 2022 That masquerade extends to this week’s newsletter. Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Oct. 2022 To match the masquerade's lingerie dress code, the Rhode founder chose a classic black lace set paired with gothic accessories. Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023 Kelly Scheib, chief people officer at Crunchbase, a prospecting software platform, should have been on a plane to California this week for the company’s holiday masquerade ball. 2023 How dare a mere appendage masquerade as an independent entity? - Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023 Another theory is that April Fool's Day has roots in ancient Roman festivals, such as Hilaria, which were held at the end of March and involved masquerades and the giving of gifts. ![]() Nancy Einhart, Travel + Leisure, 27 Apr. Noun This bag holds two bottles of wine and masquerades as an ordinary crossbody bag. ![]() ![]() Because of its reputation to strengthen the heart and lift the spirits, it was an important ingredient in Medieval cordials, also known as “elixirs of youth”. ![]() It was so well known as a healing herb that even such royalty as King Charles V and the Prince of Glamorgan drank the tea every day. To this day, it is used for the treatment of depression, anxiety, and insomnia.Īnother famous physician, Paracelsus, claimed that the herb could revitalize every part of the body and even had a preparation named primum ens melissae. Early herbalists, such as Avicenna, coined the term “it makes the heart merry” which it continues to do throughout history. Melissa even comes from the Greek word for “honey bee”, and was rubbed on beehives to encourage bees to stay together and attract more. In addition, its powerful volatile oil is a key element in aromatherapy, including many perfumes and cosmetics.Ī member of the mint family, Lemon Balm is a fragrant herb adored by bees that have a recorded use dating back thousands of years. Not only does Melissa offer medicinal benefits, but also makes a delicious tea, is an excellent flavoring for food and salads. ![]() It has been mentioned and used since the earliest recorded history of herbal healing, from depression to colds. ![]() Just the mere thought of its uplifting aroma and cleansing taste brings happiness and ease to the mind and spirit. Balm is sovereign for the brain, strengthening the memory and powerfully chasing away melancholy – John Evelyn, 1679. ![]() ![]() ![]() Would it be Mark and Jane's child? So they would see in their lifetime the promise of the saving of Logres. Dimble reveals Ransom as the 79th Pendragon and concludes "tomorrow we shall know, or tonight, who is to be the 80th". This subject is met with renewed expectation in Chapter 17 "Venus at St. Ransom's reply bears confidence as he concludes "The child may yet be born". Chapter 13 "They Have Pulled Down Deep Heaven on Their Heads" finds Ransom and Merlin on the subject of Jane, to which Merlin says "it was the purpose of God that she and her lord should between them have begotten a child by whom the enemies should have been put out of Logres for a thousand years". ![]() It's very Lewis!"Ĭlarice, your mention of Adam and Eve in this context recalled to my mind that there was a prophesy concerning Eve's offspring, and similarly there is a prophesy for Mark and Jane, that their child would be instrumental in the saving of Logres. Clarice wrote: "Adam and Eve, the garden, a "new earth".it's all very symbolic. ![]() |