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![]() ![]() This certainly doesn't mean that I'm quitting my day job, but it does give me a place to shed a little light on what it's like to be a kid from Springfield, Virginia, walking through life while living out the crazy dreams I had as young musician. ![]() The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I've recorded and can't wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the Kiss posters on my wall as a child. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ("It's a piece of cake! Just do 4 hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!") I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. ![]()
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Book the hotel nantucket5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() With Grace gleefully haunting the halls, a staff harboring all kinds of secrets, and Lizbet’s own romantic uncertainty, is the Hotel Nantucket destined for success or doom?įilled with the emotional depth and multiple points of view that characterize Hilderbrand’s novels ( The Blue Bistro, Golden Girl) as well as an added dash of Roaring Twenties history, The Hotel Nantucket offers something for everyone in this compelling summer drama. The staff (and guests) have complicated pasts, and the hotel can’t seem to overcome the bad reputation it earned in 1922 when a tragic fire killed nineteen-year-old chambermaid Grace Hadley. And while the Hotel Nantucket appears to be a blissful paradise, complete with a celebrity chef-run restaurant and an idyllic wellness center, there’s a lot of drama behind closed doors. ![]() When she’s named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes that her local expertise and charismatic staff can win the favor of their new London billionaire owner, Xavier Darling, as well as that of Shelly Carpenter, the wildly popular Instagram tastemaker who can help put them back on the map. ![]() “The queen of beach reads” ( New York Magazine) and #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers an immensely satisfying page-turner in this tale about a summer of scandal at a storied Nantucket hotel.įresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Léonora Miano, Twilight of Torment: I.Translated from the Italian by Allison Grimaldi Donahue Carla Lonzi’s Self-Portrait: Experiments in Feminist Criticism.Translated from the Spanish by Jessica Sequeira Rocío Agreda Piérola, Horses Drawn with Blue Chalk.Translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter Translated from the English and Russian by Eugene Ostashevsky Yevgenia Belorusets, “The Complaint Against Language” in Wartime Ukraine.Translated from the Russian by Jane Ann Miller Translated from the Lithuanian by Delija Valiukenas Translated from the Norwegian by Francesca M. Gunnhild Øyehaug, But Out There-Out There–.Translated from the Russian by Kotryna Garanasvili ![]() Marius Ivaškevičius, from Russian Romance.Translated from the Spanish by Paul Filev Translated from the German by Aaron Sayne Leif Randt, from The Haze over Coby County.Translated from the Spanish by James Terry Translated from the Catalan by Laia Sales Merino Antònia Vicens i Picornell, from Lovely.Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari Fernando Pessoa, from The Complete Works of Álvaro de Campos.Translated from the Spanish by Elena Barcia Translated from the Spanish by Forrest Gander Mariana Berenice Bredow Vargas, Let it Go.Translated from the Armenian by Antranik Cassem ![]()
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Nichelle nichols star trek beyond5/22/2023 ![]() Worried about reaction from Southern television stations, showrunners wanted to film a second take of the scene where the kiss happened off-screen. In this utopian-like future, we solved this issue. “The characters themselves were not freaking out because a Black woman was kissing a white man. The kiss “suggested that there was a future where these issues were not such a big deal,” Eric Deggans, a television critic for National Public Radio, told The Associated Press in 2018. In the episode, “Plato’s Stepchildren,” their characters, who always maintained a platonic relationship, were forced into the kiss by aliens who were controlling their actions. James Kirk shared what was described as the first interracial kiss to be broadcast on a U.S. ![]() King had was a lightning bolt in my life,” Nichols said.ĭuring the show’s third season, Nichols’ character and Shatner’s Capt. ![]()
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Anne Frank's Diary by Ari Folman5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After Waltz with Bashir and The Congress, Folman revitalizes the diary of. It remains faithful to the original, while the stunning illustrations interpret and add layers of visual meaning and immediacy to this classic work of Holocaust literature. And thats a belief shared by the celebrated Israeli animation filmmaker Ari Folman. For both young readers and adults it continues to capture the remarkable spirit of Anne Frank, who for a time survived the worst horror the modern world has seen-and who remained triumphantly and heartbreakingly human throughout her ordeal.Īdapted by Ari Folman, illustrated by David Polonsky, and authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation in Basel, this is the first graphic edition of The Diary and includes extensive quotation directly from the definitive edition. The only graphic adaptation of Anne Frank's diary that has been authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation and that uses text from the diary-it will introduce a new generation of young readers to this classic of Holocaust literature.Ī timeless story rediscovered by each new generation, The Diary of a Young Girl stands without peer. Aged thirteen when she went into the secret annexe, Anne Frank kept a diary in which she confided her innermost thoughts and feelings, movingly revealing how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with the daily threat of discovery and death. ![]()
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Richard avedon portraits of power5/22/2023 ![]() He didn’t always have a flattering view of it. ![]() “From the 1940s until his death in 2004, Avedon traveled the world to photograph people who either exercised great power or were involved in power struggles of one kind or another.” His portraits-which originally appeared in such magazines as Vogue, Rolling Stone, and The New Yorker-are a “titillating portfolio” of the most important politicians of the past half-century.Īvedon considered his subject not politics per se, but power in general, said Brett Zongker in the Associated Press. Nearby hang portraits of Ronald Reagan, John F. Barack Obama stares across the room at Karl Rove. This election year, they’re also doing so across the Mall, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s exhibition of political portraits by photographer Richard Avedon. Capitol, said Edward Gunts in the Baltimore Sun. Republicans and Democrats face each other down every day in the U.S. ![]()
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His Au Pair Obsession by Gia Bailey5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Her final year is not easy as she struggles to keep up with her studies, basketball games and the two jobs she should pay her way. He felt so much drawn to her.Īmy is almost completing her college studies and is planning on taking her next step in life. When she walked into the class, he knew there was no line Aaron wouldn’t cross to be near Amy. She also enjoys inventing elaborate dream worlds to play in. When not writing, Gia spends time with her family, bakes, reads and jumps in muddle puddles. Her heroines are intelligent, sweet and ambitious no matter what they go through in their journeys, they finally get happily ever after. Her heroes range from mountain men to billionaires who have one thing in common: possessive, obsessive, and go for the woman they fall for. Her novels have high heat, high emotion, and no cliffhangers or cheating. Gia Bailey is a romance author of steamy stories, which she believes, keep her warm during cold nights. Wedding Guest Dad Bod (By:Nell Alexander)Ī Delicate Negotiation (By:Layne Daniels)īecause of the Brave (By:Mellie Callahan)īeards and Love Letters (By:Heather Lauren) Devoured by the Dad Bod (By:Autumn Knight) ![]()
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The piano man by Alain Diot5/22/2023 ![]() The man was taken to a piano in the hospital chapel, and sat down and played.Ī sketch by the piano man. There he was given a piece of paper and pencil and sketched a grand piano. He was unable or unwilling to speak and ended up in hospital. The man appeared on a coastal road on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent in May 2005, smartly dressed but soaking. Finding out who we are is so difficult in these times.” He said: “For me the story is a lot about the loneliness we all experience in the modern world and our struggle for identity. The director and cast have spoken to psychologists, mental health nurses and police to try to find out more what the man may have gone through but have decided not to try to track down the piano man himself.ĭaniel Hallissey has the tricky job of playing the elusive character, and has learned to play the piano from scratch for the role. ![]() I’ve always wanted to know what happened next.” It was such a magical story, one of those that you can’t get out your mind. Director Sam Carrack said the story had lived with him since he read about it in the Guardian and Times back in his student days. ![]()
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Tj yelden hidden trilogy book 35/21/2023 ![]() ![]() And now the hunters won't give up until they find her.Making friends for the first time in her life and falling in love with one of them drives her to discover why she's unlike any being she's ever met, human or otherwise. She desperately wants to be invisible but finds her face plastered on every news channel as humans panic over the possible resurgence of her kind. She'd settle for stopping the voices in her head, intrusive visions of the future, and better odds of making it to her seventeenth birthday.That's the thing about pretending to be human in a world where magic used to exist - at any moment, her cover could be blown and she'll be burned to death like the rest of the witches.Everything changes when she loses control of her powers and flees her orphanage. Sixteen-year-old Leah Grant has given up on being normal. ![]()
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Kappus rilke5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet, shockingly, these letters were recently uncovered in Germany, and now the acclaimed translator Damion Searls has not only cast a fresh eye on Rilke's original letters but also those of the "young poet," Franz Xaver Kappus, an Austrian military cadet and an aspiring poet. Most readers and scholars have long assumed that the letters from the young poet were forever lost to posterity. "The ultimate expression of intergenerational literary wisdom." -Andrew Solomon, The New Yorker A work that has inspired generations, this new edition of Letters to a Young Poet features a fresh translation of Rilke's ten classic letters, along with the missing letters from the young poet himself.īook Synopsis For nearly a century, eager writers and young poets, as well as those simply looking for a purpose in life, have embraced the wisdom of Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, first published in 1929. ![]() |