5/23/2023 0 Comments Cruce de Caminos by Heidi Belleau![]() ![]() As Ángel tells him, in this city and this business, you have to get a little weird to survive. Sean’s no seasoned streetwalker, but he’s not above it either, not when he’s already itching for his next fix.Ī familiar-seeming stranger named Ángel may be his ticket to some quick cash, but only if Sean’s willing to help him indulge a high-class john’s weird fetish for the night. His girlfriend’s broken up with him for a sugar daddy, a gun-toting pimp has robbed him of everything but the clothes on his back, and he’s down to his last two Oxycontin. Street kid Sean O’Hara has never had it easy, but New Orleans has driven him to his knees. ![]() Will he make the right decision, or will the floodwaters bound for New Orleans sweep him away? The day is finally here! As of this morning, you can preorder Riptide Publishing's Riptide Rentboys 2012 Collection, including my and Violetta Vane's spooky bisexual paranormal, Cruce de Caminos:Īddiction and desperation drive Sean O'Hara to a critical crossroads. ![]()
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5/22/2023 0 Comments Andrew ross sorkin too big to fail![]() ![]() ![]() Sorkin is only 32 years old, he has obviously been able to build up a massive network of contacts on Wall Street and in Washington. If newspapers are the “first draft of history”, Andrew Ross Sorkin played a major role with his New York Times coverage of the financial crisis in 2008. Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Too Big To Fail has succeeded in delivering exactly what is needed to gain a better understanding of these historic events. Ever since that tumultuous period, there has been a need for a comprehensive book covering the behind-the-scenes events. Most outside observers had difficulty keeping up with the momentous events of the weekend of September 14-15, 2008 with all of the twists and turns that finally led to Lehman Brothers’ historic bankruptcy filing, Bank of America’s ( BAC) purchase of Merrill Lynch, and AIG’s bailout only a few days later. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Who Asked You? by Terry McMillan![]() BJ, a trademark McMillan heroine, already has her hands full dealing with her other adult children, two opinionated sisters, an ill husband, and her own postponed dreamsÂ-all while holding down a job as a hotel maid. Kaleidoscopic, fast-paced, and filled with McMillan's inimitable humor, Who Asked You? opens as Trinetta leaves her two young sons with her mother, Betty Jean, and promptly disappears. Now, in her eighth novel, McMillan gives exuberant voice to characters who reveal how we live nowÂ-at least as lived in a racially diverse Los Angeles neighborhood. ![]() Family ties are tested and transformed in the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back With her wise, wry, and poignant novels of families and friendshipsÂ- Waiting to Exhale, Getting to Happy, and A Day Late and a Dollar Short among themÂ- Terry McMillan has touched millions of readers. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments In the dark edith nesbit![]() My own house! It was grand, but rather lonely. ![]() It is very nice to feel that a good little woman is thinking of you - it helps you in your work - and it is pleasant to know she will say Yes when you say Will you?īut, as I say, my legacy almost put Mildred out of my head, especially as she was staying with friends in the country just then.īefore the first gloss was off my new mourning I was seated in my aunt’s own armchair in front of the fire in the dining-room of my own house. She was a dear good girl, and I meant to marry her some day. ![]() ![]() I was not engaged to Mildred, but I lodged with her mother, and I sang duets with Mildred, and gave her gloves when it would run to it, which was seldom. Even Mildred Mayhew, whom I had hitherto regarded as my life’s light, became less luminous. When my Aunt Dorcas died and left me seven hundred a year and a furnished house in Chelsea, I felt that life had nothing left to offer except immediate possession of the legacy. ![]() To be rich is a luxurious sensation - the more so when you have plumbed the depths of hard-up-ness as a Fleet Street hack, a picker-up of unconsidered pars, a reporter, an unappreciated journalist - all callings utterly inconsistent with one’s family feeling and one’s direct descent from the Dukes of Picardy. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The good women of china by xinran![]() ![]() Xinran Xue discussed her book The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices, published by Pantheon Books. After her presentation, the author answered questions from members of the audience. The narratives included in the book - stories of forced marriages, sexual abuse, separation of parents from their children, and extreme poverty - relate what it means to be a woman in modern China. After centuries of obedience to their fathers, husbands and sons followed by years of fear under Communism, the women were reluctant to talk openly about their feelings until Xinran won their trust. Xinran won their trust and, through her compassion and ability to listen, became the first woman to hear their true stories.This unforgettable book is the story of how Xinran negotiated the minefield of restrictions imposed on Chinese journalists to reach out to women across the country. Through her daily radio program, Xinran invited women across China to call in and talk about themselves. T22:01:17-05:00 Xinran Xue discussed her book The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices, published by Pantheon Books. Xinrans Good Women of China are all strong, strikingly resourceful characters who offer unforgettable insights into the past and present of Chinese. ![]() ![]() He was a renowned teacher of the University of the Chicago's core course in Western Civilization, which is still taught by his wife Katy O'Brien Weintraub. ![]() Weintraub noted that 18th- and 19th-century autobiographical writers often used a narrative of " development" in their stories, as distinct from earlier autobiographies' use of a narrative of "unfolding". Weintraub's scholarship focused on culture, autobiography, and the history of the self he was the author of Visions Of Culture (1966) and The Value Of The Individual: Self and Circumstance in Autobiography (1978). He received his post-secondary education at the University of Chicago, attaining a B.A. He and his sister Tatjana Wood emigrated to the United States in 1948. During this time, Weintraub attended the Quaker Eerde School. Weintraub was born in Germany to parents of German and Russian- Jewish ancestry in reaction to the increasing Nazi discrimination against Jews, they fled to the Netherlands in 1935, where they were forced into hiding during the Nazi occupation. ![]() He was a strong proponent of liberal education and wrote and spoke extensively on its value. ![]() Karl Joachim "Jock" Weintraub (December 31, 1924, Darmstadt, Germany – March 25, 2004, Chicago, Ill.) was a longtime professor of history at the University of Chicago, having taught there since 1954. ![]() ![]() But to her surprise, he’s all in, and it forces her to admit her own role in their cracked foundation. Dom talking about feelings? Sitting on pillows? Communing with nature? Learning love languages? Nope. Never in a million years did Rosie believe her stoic, too-manly-to-emote husband would actually agree to relationship rehab with a weed-smoking hippie. ![]() When her girlfriends encourage Rosie to demand more out of life and pursue her dream of opening a restaurant, she decides to demand more out of love, too. Dom is faithful and a great provider, but the man she fell in love with ten years ago is nowhere to be found. Now Rosie’s lucky to get a caveman grunt from the ex-soldier every time she walks in the door. Rosie and Dominic Vega are the perfect couple: high school sweethearts, best friends, madly in love. New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey returns with a unique, sexy romantic comedy about a young married couple whose rocky relationship needs a serious renovation… ![]() ![]() ![]() Between 12 and 15 Non-skating Officials keep track of the score, time and penalties. There's a whole team behind putting on a successful roller derby game.Junior roller derby is mixed gender, and there are levels of game play that start with absolutely no contact up to more impact. ![]() Roller derby also works your core and leg muscles.There's a lot of skating in short bursts so you'll get a good cardio workout and improve your balance, whilst learning about teamwork.Roller derby puts a strong emphasis on having fun - each skater will adopt their own tongue-in-cheek or pun based name.Lots of clubs offer low-cost sessions with equipment hire for beginners.There are men's, women's and junior roller derby teams. Can't skate? Don't worry, clubs will teach you. The sport prides itself on being inclusive so no matter your size, shape or ability you can play. Roller derby is a great way to get fit and make new friends. A fun and easy way to understand the rules of Roller Derby Is it for me? ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Wanderlust book rebecca solnit![]() ![]() ![]() A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at the Guardian and a regular contributor to Literary Hub. ![]() Her forthcoming memoir, Recollections of My Nonexistence, is scheduled to release in March, 2020. Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including Call Them By Their True Names (Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction), Cinderella Liberator, Men Explain Things to Me, The Mother of All Questions, and Hope in the Dark, and co-creator of the City of Women map, all published by Haymarket Books a trilogy of atlases of American cities, The Faraway Nearby, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Brothers in arms bujold![]() ![]() Fourth, Miles must decide how far to take his relationship with the beautiful Dendarii Comander Elli Quinn, his right-hand woman and bodyguard. ![]() ![]() Third, in his true identity as Lieutenant Miles Vorkosigan of the Barrayaran military, Miles must report to Captain Galeni of the Barrayaran Embassy, which has a mole who might be Galeni. Second, the money owed the Dendarii by the Barrayaran Empire for that contract hasn't been paid, leaving the mercenary company on the edge of bankruptcy. First, the Dendarii may still be being pursued by assassins sent by the Cetagandan Empire to exact revenge on Admiral Naismith for the covert action the Dendarii recently conducted against Cetaganda. Miles' first visit to earth is immediately plagued by a host of prickly problems. In the beginning of Brother in Arms (1989), the fourth novel in Lois McMaster Bujold's popular science fiction series about Miles Vorkosigan, Miles and the Dendarii Free Mercenary Fleet he heads under the fake identity of Admiral Naismith have limped into orbit around earth to repair their ships and restore health to their personnel. ![]() Suspenseful and Funny Character-Driven Space Opera ![]() |