![]() ![]() Memories of his first dance with Maureen, his wedding day, his joy in fatherhood, come rushing back to himallowing him to also reconcile the losses and the regrets. ![]() Along the way he meets one fascinating character after another, each of whom unlocks his long-dormant spirit and sense of promise. Still in his yachting shoes and light coat, Harold embarks on his urgent quest across the countryside. Harold Fry is determined to walk six hundred miles from Kingsbridge to the hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed because, he believes, as long as he walks, Queenie Hennessey will live. ![]() And thus begins the unlikely pilgrimage at the heart of Rachel Joyces remarkable debut. But then, as happens in the very best works of fiction, Harold has a chance encounter, one that convinces him that he absolutely must deliver his message to Queenie in person. Harold pens a quick reply and, leaving Maureen to her chores, heads to the corner mailbox. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is writing to say goodbye. Then one morning the mail arrives, and within the stack of quotidian minutiae is a letter addressed to Harold in a shaky scrawl from a woman he hasnt seen or heard from in twenty years. ![]() Little differentiates one day from the next. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() This ideology serves as one of capitalism’s primary protections by convincing people to participate in the system, she says. “And the idea that anything would ask for more of our systems - let alone the people within these systems - becomes a threat to the status quo and to our systems of power.” “It's a system that protects mediocrity, that sets as the goal,” she says. White male mediocrity protects the belief that white men are perceived as stronger and more successful than women and people of color regardless of skill or achievements, she says. ![]() Oluo defines white male mediocrity as “this idea that white men deserve political power and wealth and safety and security just because they're white men.” Author Ijeoma Oluo (Courtesy) The book takes readers through history to show how white supremacy and more specifically white male mediocrity have become this country’s core ideology. Oluo writes about this in her new book, " Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America." Writer Ijeoma Oluo says this quote is more than a pithy line about mediocre individuals given unlimited power - and instead, a system everyone plays a part in. (Getty Images) This article is more than 2 years old.Ī few years ago, a tweet by writer Sarah Hagi spawned a slew of memes, t-shirts and tote bags that read: “Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man." A black and white portrait of a young white man. ![]() ![]() Kleypas isn't a literary stylist, but she delivers a page-turning, formula-breaking romance that takes on social issues and escalates passion to new heights. : Blue-Eyed Devil: A Novel (The Travis Family) (9780312351656) by Kleypas, Lisa and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Their passion proves as fervent as ever, but demons from Haven's recent past—as well as strife with her family and troubles at work and in bed—stand in the way. Nick turns out to be a bad guy, and a beaten and bruised Haven returns to Houston, where Hardy's still at odds with her family. Haven's engaged to Nick Tanner—a man her dad thinks is unfit for her—and though she and Hardy have a charged interaction, she elopes with Nick, and her father cuts her off. and more than a few enemies along the way. Hardy Cates is self-made millionaire from the wrong side of the tracks, a hot-blooded, blue-eyed devil who risked everything to follow his dreams. ![]() ![]() Who worked his way up from poverty and then outmaneuvered the Travis clan in a business deal. An enthralling tale of love and burning desire from beloved New York Times best-selling author Lisa Kleypas. ![]() A Wellesley grad and daughter of a Houston energy baron, Haven Travis is an unlikely romantic heroine until her brief but ardent encounter with a man who turns out to be Hardy Cates, the East Texas roughneck from Sugar Daddy ![]() Scenes of domestic abuse and the journey to recovery make Kleypas's modern romance anything but fluff. ![]() ![]() ![]() There may be a president and he may be in Minneapolis now, but people aren't sure. Transportation is slow and dangerous, so food is grown locally at great expense of time and energy, and the outside world is largely unknown. After the catastrophes converged-the end of oil, climate change, global pandemics, and resource wars-they are doing whatever they can to get by. For the townspeople of Union Grove, New York, the future is not what they thought it would be. With World Made by Hand, an astonishing work of speculative fiction, Kunstler makes an imaginative leap into the future, a few decades hence, and shows us what life may be like following the long emergency. Offering a shocking vision for the coming trauma of our post-oil future, The Long Emergency was a tremendous success and a best seller, selling over 100,000 copies. ![]() ![]() He observed that the terminal decline of oil production, combined with the perils of climate change, had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. ![]() In his previous book, celebrated social commentator James Howard Kunstler explored how the age of globalization and mankind's explosive progress over the last two hundred years was based on the availability of cheap fossil fuels. ![]() ![]() I wanted to love it as I did Sycamore Row but it was very disappointing. What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment? I'm returning this book with after listening to only 27% of it. One of the characters sounds like Barney Fife! I've tried to get past it but listening has become a chore. He talks to fast for my liking and his southern accent was not believable. What didn’t you like about Alexander Adams’s performance? I'm moving on to The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood. What do you think your next listen will be? I guess I didn't read the book description well enough because it turns out that this is narrated by Alexander Adams and, after the rich southern accents of Sycamore Row, this narration just isn't up to par. I bought this book because I so enjoyed Michael Beck's narration on Sycamore Row and the cover lists him as the narrator. What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Previously published by Entangled as Once Bitten. She is not the only one who has been changed against her will, and whoever is changing the others, wants her for what she can awaken – an ancient power that may endanger the entire world. Sonja soon discovers there is a larger and more sinister plan at work. But with such a tempting teacher, she fears her sanity may be the least of her worries. Worse, if she doesn’t learn to control her wolf by the full moon, she could lose what’s left of her sanity. Now, several packs are fighting for her to join them. ![]() Ty informs her that she’s been bitten into a line of werewolves that trace their lineage back to an ancient pack of Icelandic Vikings. Instead of her attacker, she finds Tyler Viðarrson, an alluring man who claims he’s been sent to teach her how to survive the transition into her new life. With her senses tipping over into the freaky, she is left with no choice but to go after him. Channelers ChoiceHeather McCorkle, ClayhangerArnold Bennett. Her attacker has disappeared, leaving her a mysterious note to meet him in Montana. THE NEW SCIENCE OF FOOD: FACING UP TO OUR BIOTECHNOLOGY CHOICES VIDEONATIONAL ISSUES. When Sonja Michaelson’s hot date turns into something out of a horror movie, she wakes up with a chunk taken out of her neck, and her body going through strange changes. When the chaos of Loki covers the earth again, the Seeker will awaken to save us all. ![]() ![]() ![]() Part of Aza still yearns for the clouds, no matter how much she loves the people on the ground.When Jason‚Äôs paranoia over Aza‚Äôs safety causes him to make a terrible mistake, Aza finds herself a fugitive in Magonia, tasked with opposing her radical, bloodthirsty, recently escaped mother, Zal Quel, and her singing partner, Dai. She‚Äôs living a normal life, or as normal as it can be if you‚Äôve spent the past year dying, waking up on a sky ship, and discovering that your song can change the world.As in, not normal. ![]() The stunning sequel to Maria Dahvana Headley‚Äôs critically acclaimed Magonia tells the story of one girl who must make an impossible choice between two families, two homes‚Äîand two versions of herself.Aza Ray is back on earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Two subsequent novels, The Pastures of Heaven and To A God Unknown, met the same fate.Īfter moving to the Monterey Peninsula in 1930, Steinbeck and his new wife, Carol Henning, made their home in Pacific Grove. Though his first novel, Cup of Gold, was published in 1929, it attracted little literary attention. He was unsuccessful and returned, disappointed, to California the following year. Steinbeck left Stanford permanently in 1925 to pursue a career in writing in New York City. During this time he attended only sporadically while working at a variety jobs including on with the Big Sur highway project, and one at Spreckels Sugar Company near Salinas. Stanford did not claim his undivided attention. In 1919, he graduated from Salinas High School as president of his class and entered Stanford University majoring in English. Young Steinbeck came to know the Salinas Valley well, working as a hired hand on nearby ranches in Monterey County. His mother, Olive Hamilton, was a former schoolteacher who developed in him a love of literature. His father, John Steinbeck, served as Monterey County Treasurer for many years. John Ernst Steinbeck, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner, was born in Salinas, California February 27, 1902. ![]() Awards-Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, 1940.Education-Studied marine biology at Stanford University,. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We've all given or received cakes, and some of those cakes have been ugly. Part of that is the author's good-natured sense of humor, which ends up being wholesomely sarcastic, and part of that is the subject matter, which conveys a kind of innocent obliviousness. But CAKE WRECKS actually holds up pretty well. Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || PinterestĪ lot of these "found and submitted" collections of humor books can be really mean-spirited and the jokes in them doesn't always age well from their origins of being meme dumping sites/blogs. all i can say about this book is: page 6. even the simple ones: "i lave you" on a heart-shaped cake. but on a cake there is something tragic and bold about misspellings. i've seen misspellings before (i do read greg's reviews before i vote for them!) hee. it's mostly the misspelling/misunderstanding section. i worked at ben and jerry's during college and i made some cakes in my day, so i am familiar with the kind of hi-larious things people request be written on their cakes, particularly when the store is within spitting distance of three college dorms full of stoned kids. ![]() now that i know this exists on this computer thing i am going to check it out because this book made me cry with laughter. i'm very backwards-i don't just naturally know about any of those blogs or websites that you people take for granted. and certainly not as much as this book has made me laugh. If it weren't for that table on the ground floor of my store, i don't think i would ever laugh. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whether he is prepared or not, Yanko must undertake a quest, one that could save millions of lives… or fail utterly, leaving him dead, his family forgotten, and his people the victims of starvation and endless war. ![]() On the heels of the tragedy, a courier brings a message from the Great Chief’s son. Rebels take over the salt mine his family manages and slay the only relative who ever supported Yanko. Long before he’s ready for his first battle, insurrection comes to his distant corner of the empire. He has resigned himself to training for that destiny, whether it matches his passions or not. With an affinity for earth magic and communicating with animals, he’s not the most natural candidate to become a warrior mage, but it’s the only sure route back into the Great Chief’s good graces. Yanko White Fox doesn’t remember his mother, but as the only gifted child in the family, he is expected to erase the mark she left on them all. With an affinity for earth magic and communicating with animals, he's not the most natural candidate to become a warrior mage, but it's the only sure route back into the Great Chief's good graces. That choice doomed the family she left behind to a life of disgrace. ![]() His mother was one of the most powerful wizards in the Nurian Empire until she abandoned her people to become a notorious pirate. ![]() |