It is a book that will live in your heart long after you turn the last page. A Strange and Stubborn Endurance is an exploration of gender, identity, and self-worth. Survival is one thing, but love-as both will learn-is quite another.īyzantine politics, lush sexual energy, and a queer love story that is by turns sweet and sultry. With an unknown faction willing to kill to end their new alliance, Vel and Cae have no choice but to trust each other. 'A Strange and Stubborn Endurance is a book of nuance, passion, and insight, and effectively showcases Foz Meadows talents. A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (The Tithenai Chronicles, 1) Hardcover Jby Foz Meadows (Author) 350 ratings Book 1 of 2: The Tithenai Chronicles See all formats and editions Kindle 14.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 25.49 48 Used from 6.46 26 New from 17. But while his family is ready to disown him, the Tithenai envoy has a different solution: for Vel to marry his former intended’s brother instead.Ĭaethari Aeduria always knew he might end up in a political marriage, but his sudden betrothal to a man from Ralia, where such relationships are forbidden, comes as a shock. When an ugly confrontation reveals his preference for men, Vel fears he’s ruined the diplomatic union before it can even begin. Velasin vin Aaro never planned to marry at all, let alone a girl from neighboring Tithena. “Stolen me? As soon to say a caged bird can be stolen by the sky.”
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The Great Influenza by John M. Barry6/7/2023 Although the origin site for the pandemic has been widely debated, Barry follows the research findings of epidemiologist Edwin O. The extensiveness of this declaration can be supported through the following statements: "the greatest medical holocaust in history" and "the pandemic ranks with the plague of Justinian and the Black Death as one of the three most destructive human epidemics". The 1918 influenza pandemic has been declared, according to Barry's text, as the 'deadliest plague in history'. Army training camp Camp Funston, Kansas, USA, and around the world through troop movements during World War I. The book describes how the flu started in Haskell County, Kansas, USA, and spread to the U.S. Barry focuses on what was occurring in the United States at the time and attempts to place it against the background of American history and within the context of the history of medicine. Barry that examines the Spanish flu, a 1918-1920 flu pandemic and one of the worst pandemics in history. The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (originally subtitled The Epic Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History) is a 2004 nonfiction book by John M. Leah remini new book6/7/2023 And there’s all the rejection actors need to tolerate. As an outsider you don’t realise that for every success in television is a lifetime of honing one’s skills and the persistence needed in getting work. The author gives the reader an insight into the contrasting difficult life that makes up the background of a successful artist now leading a glamourous life. The book precedes the series Scientology And The Aftermath, and you get much detail on Leah’s background. It is well known that it is an evil cult designed to separate members from their cash and if they leave, from their family. I got interested in reading this book after watching the excellent series Scientology And The Aftermath, where Leah interviews many victims of Scientology, the pseudo-religion that promises to rid the world of all evil. Some of his statements are ambiguous and can be wrenched from context and made to look like he supported the non-reality of the outside physical world, but, really, he denied the existence of matter in the philosophical sense of a substrate made up of abstracted accidents and qualities. I might, if I were to expand philosophy to include quasi-mystical writers of the same era, include Swedenborg, Hutchinson, Boehme and Sterry.īerkeley has often been misrepresented as being a philosopher that denied the existence of matter in the sense of real external objects. Out of 17th-early 18th century philosophers, Berkeley intrigues me as much as Leibniz does. Out of Spinoza, Locke, Descartes, Hume and Berkeley, I certainly found Berkeley the most interesting but, then, I am into Idealism, so it is to some degree understandable and indicates my bias really. Own Your ADHD by Faigy Liebermann6/7/2023 I know that many large companies such as Apple put out their new products when they are not completed, and get feedback from the public how to improve them. I felt that the book was around 80% completed. I am the only certified ADHD coach that has written a book about ADHD so far in the UK. The ADHD knowledge and undestanding in the UK is dire. I knew that this book just had to get published. The worst thing besides fear of failure, is fear of not actualising your potential. It is feeling the fear, but doing the job anyway. The secret to publishing your book, or getting any new project off the ground is being OK to fail. "What if the content really is not relevant?"Īnd on and on. "What if no one likes it and people think I am a daft idiot?" So many "doom and gloom" messages were rolling around my head, For 6 weeks prior to publishing the book I was a nervous wreck. The hardest part was that I knew that there were mistakes, and there was more information that needed to be included in the book, however at that moment in time, I just had to publish it. It was time to get it out there to the public. Three professional proofreaders had gone through the book. The book was first published in March 2019. I had hyperfocused on this book for a year. Publishing this book has been one of the most exciting and challenging tasks in my life. I am delighted to announce the second revised edition is out now on Amazon and Kindle. Persuasion with dakota johnson6/6/2023 Austen adaptations are churned out with regularity, and I love that Carrie Cracknell and the screenwriters have tried to find a new take on an old story. Why the targeted campaign to make one adaptation among many bomb in the ratings? Does the existence of this version take away from the original text, or the other, faithful and bland, adaptations? No. The backlash on social media - and the one star trolls on the IMDb, who claim to be Austen fans but can't even spell her name correctly or identify which era she was writing in - have me flabbergasted, to be honest. I watched the new Netflix take on Persuasion on the day of release and found the whole film charming, funny and original. How the grinch stole christmas story6/6/2023 Imagine the Whos' dismay when they discover the evil-doings of Grinch in his anti-Santa guise. Crumpit to dump it and waits to hear the sobs of the Whos when they wake up and discover the trappings of Christmas have disappeared. Looking quite out of place and very disturbing in his makeshift Santa get-up, the Grinch slithers down chimneys with empty bags and stealing the Whos' presents, their food, even the logs from their humble Who-fires. His "wonderful, awful" idea is to don a Santa outfit, strap heavy antlers on his poor, quivering dog Max, construct a makeshift sleigh, head down to Whoville, and strip the chafingly cheerful Whos of their Yuletide glee once and for all. The Grinch decides this frivolous merriment must stop. The noisy holiday preparations and infernal singing of the happy little citizens below annoy him to no end. For 53 years, the Grinch has lived in a cave on the side of a mountain, looming above the Whos in Whoville. Seuss's small-hearted Grinch ranks right up there with Scrooge when it comes to the crankiest, scowling holiday grumps of all time. "The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! / Now, please don't ask why. When Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding community are thrust into chaos. Scorched Grace (Gillian Flynn Books, 2023): Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to the test in this “unique and confident” debut crime novel. Western phonetic pronunciation of the surname Douaihy الدويهي is Dew-why-hee. Her writing has been featured in PBS NewsHour, The Wisconsin Review, Colorado Review, The South Carolina Review, Diode Editions, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, The Tahoma Literary Review, The Madison Review, The Florida Review, Portland Review, The Petigru Review, Petrichor, and The Adirondack Review. She is a Co-Editor of the Cambridge University Press Elements in Crime Narratives Series. Margot Douaihy, Ph.D, is an American writer whose works include Scorched Grace (Gillian Flynn Books, 2023), Scranton Lace ( Clemson University Press), Girls Like You (Clemson University Press), a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Bandit / Queen: The Runaway Story of Belle Starr, and the chapbook i would ruby if i could (Factory Hollow Press). Could it be? Could it actually be another third child like himself? Luke must find out and soon meets daring, adventurous Jen Talbot. Then he sees a fifth face in the window of one of the houses. He knows that each house can have no more than four people living in them: a father, a mother, two children. He takes to looking out a small window in his attic at all the houses and their people. When the government takes away the forest that surrounds his house, cuts down all the trees, and builds dozons of new houses, Luke must remain in his attic bedroom for what seems like is going to be the rest of his life! So he hides on his family's farm in constant fear that someday, someone will find him. By law he should never have been born, by law he should be dead. Luke has two older brothers, Matthew and Mark, which makes him a third child, which also makes him illegal. Losing it by cora carmack6/6/2023 Still, that's a realistic thought for Bliss to have. Sometimes it feels like life would be much easier if you could just get that over with, like it's an ordeal to be got through, which really doesn't seem like the ideal motivation for having sex. This impulse is one that I completely understand. Losing It is humorous, romantic, and largely realistic.Īt the beginning of Losing It, Bliss has decided she's sick of feeling a freak for being a virgin and that she just wants to get rid of her virginity. Only the relationship with her professor isn't something an average college student might experience, but even that does happen. She has fights with friends and doesn't go through anything incredibly melodramatic. Bliss goes to class and thinks about her future. Though the focus remains on romance, Losing It does actually deal with normal, everyday college stresses. Of all of the New Adult-labeled books I've read, Losing It is the one that comes closest to being what I ideally want. |