Ta nehisi coates the water dancer6/12/2023 Turner earned her freedom, both as an entertainer and lover. King later asked about her ex-husband, musician Ike Turner, she offered a one-word response: “Who?”Ms. “Europe has been very supportive of my music.”When Mr. Turner explained her exodus from America – and alluded to another important separation.“I left America because my success was in another country and my boyfriend was in another country,” she said. She also wore her smile in a way that brought life to Maya Angelou’s words in the poem “Phenomenal Woman” – “the curl of my lips.”That sensuous smirk stood out notably in a 1997 interview with TV host Larry King, which made the rounds after Ms. Tina Turner, the “Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll,” wore many things well – flashy dresses and sensationally self-made wigs, among other fashionable items.
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Blood hound by james osiris baldwin6/12/2023 Semyon was a friend to nearly all the old guys in the Yaroshenko Organizatsiya… as much as anyone in the Russian Mafiya could be counted as a friend. There was none of the usual shit-talk and banter that usually went on before a job. He was Old Crew, one of the first muzhiki to come from Ukraine via Afghanistan and make a name for himself in New York, just like Semyon. Our driver, Nicolai, was as grim as a pallbearer at the wheel. It was a solemn affair: he was one of us. The target was my boss’s oldest friend, Semyon Vochin, currently hiding out at his safe house on East 49th Street. Tonight, the sensation of surrounding pressure was intense. I was just one of many sharks swimming beneath the towering skyscrapers of Manhattan, a single quiet voice drowned by the incessant, pounding roar of the city. One of the first things every new mage learns about magic is that-despite your newly discovered powers over the universe-you are forever a struggling speck of krill in a very large, very cold, very dangerous ocean. Foreign words without a link have the translation in the same sentence.*** Chapter 1 Click any word with a link to see the meaning. Stained Glass | Book 2 *** Please note this book has a hyperlinked translation guide. Thank you for picking up Blood Hound! Join my mailing list and get your free copy of Burn Artist, the Hound of Eden Prequel: Books in the Alexi Sokolsky series Available now from Amazon and Kindle Unlimited Treasure hunters series order6/12/2023 Treasure Hunters: Peril at the Top of the World When the biggest heist in history takes place in Moscow, the Kidds rush in to save the day – but instead, they’re accused of being the thieves themselves. But when the kidnappers force them to locate an even greater treasure – priceless paintings stolen by Nazis, the Kidds must rely on their own cunning and experience to outwit the criminals, all while their mom’s life is on the line. Treasure Hunters: Secret of the Forbidden City Bick and Beck Kidd are desperately trying to secure the ancient Chinese artefact that will buy their mother’s freedom from renegade pirates. Treasure Hunters: Danger Down the Nile Four kids on a quest to find the legendary Mines of King Solomon… and their parents.Bick, Beck, Storm and Tommy are navigating their way down the Nile, from hot and dusty Cairo to deep dark jungles, past some seriously bad guys along the way. But after their parents disappear on the job, the kids are suddenly thrust into the biggest treasure hunt of their lives. Description:- Treasure Hunters The Kidd siblings have grown up diving down to shipwrecks and travelling the world, helping their famous parents recover everything from swords to gold doubloons from the bottom of the ocean. Middle School Treasure Hunters Series Collection 5 Books Set by James Patterson Includes Titles In This Set:- Treasure Hunters, Danger Down the Nile, Secret of the Forbidden City, Peril at the Top of the World, Quest for the City of Gold. Silver in the wood emily tesh6/12/2023 This fresh, evocative short novel heralds a welcome new voice in fantasy."- Publishers Weekly Just magnificent."-Jenn Lyons, author of The Ruin of Kings "A wildly evocative and enchanting story of old forests, forgotten gods, and new love. Praise for Emily Tesh's Silver in the Wood Old secrets better left buried are dug up, and Tobias is forced to reckon with his troubled past-both the green magic of the woods, and the dark things that rest in its heart. When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious new owner in Henry Silver, everything changes. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads. There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Deep and green and wonderful.”- New York Times bestselling author Naomi Novik "A true story of the woods, of the fae, and of the heart. From Astounding Award winner and Crawford Award finalist Emily Tesh Hold me closer necromancer audiobook6/11/2023 Out of those 17 books that I’ve finished reading, 9 of them were audiobooks. This post is about how I’m revising my reading life. And that number doesn’t include all of the picture books Jack and I have read together.īut this post isn’t about me mourning my former reading life. I try not to allow that number to get me down because at least I’m still making reading a priority in my life. In the past six months I’ve finished reading 17 books. Jack will be six months old on February 21st, and this is incredibly hard to admit, but it’s been difficult to find time to read. My response (mostly to myself) was always that reading is a priority in my life, it’s a way of life, so I’ll find time to read. I even dealt with colleagues commenting on how much I was reading and how I’d never have time to read once Jack arrived. I’m a smart woman, so I knew to expect changes to my sleep schedule, my work life, and my life at home. Before Jack was born in August many of my friends and family told me how different my life would be. Deepak chopra brain book6/11/2023 When it comes to how long a healthy night’s sleep is, Chopra is pragmatic. It may be age-old advice but it is more important than ever. While the book offers more deep analysis, Chopra has provided five steps to kickstart your own personal awareness campaign. "This is an important concept we need to learn because many people are going through a whole lifetime between the fight and flight reactive responses and it doesn't have to be that way." “Mindfulness is an old term and it is basically about being conscious of the choices, of the decisions we are making as opposed to simply reacting to our reptilian brain," he tells The National. A post shared by Deepak Chopra further expands on this idea in Mindful Moments, a new book dedicated to younger generations. The Lookback Window by Kyle Dillon Hertz6/11/2023 Then a groundbreaking new law-the Child Victims Act-opens a new way foreword: a one-year window during which Dylan can sue his abusers. His continued existence depends upon an all-important mantra: To survive, you live through it, but never look back. Years later-long after a police investigation that went nowhere, and after the statute of limitations for the crimes perpetrated against him have run out-the long shadow of Dylan’s trauma still looms over the fragile life in the city he’s managed to build with his fiancé, Moans, who knows little of Dylan’s past. Growing up in suburban New York, Dylan lived through the unfathomable: three years as a victim of sex trafficking at the hands of Vincent, a troubled young man who promised to marry Dylan when he turned eighteen. A fearless debut novel of resilience, transcendence, and the elusive promise of justice. Transcendent kingdom book6/11/2023 As Gifty begins the final months of her experiments, the narrative shifts in time to include stories of Gifty’s father, known as the Chin-Chin Man, as well as Nana’s tragic tumble into addiction and Gifty’s single summer spent in Ghana. Gifty’s determination to better understand her family’s suffering and the tension between two opposing belief systems (faith and science) forms the heart of this empathetically written novel. As Gifty keeps a watchful eye on her mother and continues her research, she begins to experience the pull of the strong evangelical Christian faith of her childhood, which she’d intended to leave behind in Alabama. Over a decade later, Gifty brings her mother to California after the older woman shows signs of another approaching breakdown. Their mother spiraled into depression soon after. She has a personal connection with her chosen subject: When she was 10, her adored older brother, Nana, died of a heroin overdose after a basketball injury left him hooked on opioids. at Stanford, studying addiction and reward-seeking behaviors in mice. Gifty was born in Huntsville, Alabama, after her family emigrated from Ghana. Yaa Gyasi’s second novel, Transcendent Kingdom, takes us deep into the heart of one woman’s struggle to make sense of her life and family. The sympathizer viet6/10/2023 He also authored Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America (Oxford University Press, 2002) and co-edited Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field (University of Hawaii Press, 2014). He has also received residencies, fellowships, and grants from the Luce Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Asian Cultural Cou Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the novel The Sympathizer (Grove Press, 2015). He has been a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (2011-2012), the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (2008-2009) and the Fine Arts Work Center (2004-2005). An associate professor at the University of Southern California, he teaches in the departments of English and American Studies and Ethnicity. Viet Thanh Nguyen is the author of the novel The Sympathizer (Grove Press, 2015). Crazy love book review6/10/2023 And once you encounter His love, as Francis describes it, you will never be the same. Because the answer to religious complacency isn’t working harder at a list of do’s and don’ts - it’s falling in love with God. Whether you’ve verbalized it yet or not… we all know something’s wrong.ĭoes something deep inside your heart long to break free from the status quo? Are you hungry for an authentic faith that addresses the problems of our world with tangible, even radical, solutions? God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss. The God of the universe - the Creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor - loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. Have you ever wondered if we’re missing it? It’s crazy, if you think about it. Revised and updated edition of the best-seller, now with a new preface and a bonus chapter. Biblical Criticism & Interpretation (174). Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (24).Human Resources & Personnel Management (44). |