Griffin and whyborne7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Last year, the first without James, had been hard enough, but it had helped a little that some neighbors had invited her over for Christmas dinner. Her house in Fallow is lonely without James, and she does not want to spend Christmas alone. Nella does not want to accept that her beloved son has insisted on straying from the Godly path, living in sin with another man, but she has decided it’s worthwhile to stay quiet in the name of a chance to spend time with him. Griffin made it quite clear that he wanted her to visit, but that she would have to accept his choice of partner along with the invitation. Frightened of what she might see while she’s there. ![]() She has spent the entire train journey both excited and frightened: excited to see her son again, as she has genuinely missed him, and his visit two months ago already feels like an age. Nella arrives in Widdershins two days before Christmas. ![]()
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Me talk pretty someday7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() uldn't know where to lead you Should I take chances when no one took chances on me So I watch from the dark wait for my life to start With no beauty in my memory. can be pirates Then you won't have to cry Or hide in the closet And j 3 1.Beautiful Ghosts(From The Motion Picture'Cats') Taylor Swift-Beautiful Ghosts1.Beautiful Ghosts(From The Motion Picture'Cats') Follow me home if you dare to I wouldn't know where. t must be why And I think you should come live with me And we can be pirates Then you won't. would've been t 2 7.Seven Taylor Swift-Folklore7.Seven Please picture me in the trees I hit my peak at seven Feet in the swing over the creek I was too scare. ![]() d've been you In my defense I have none For never leaving well enough alone But it would've been fun If you would've been the one(Ooh) I. d if you wanted me you really should've showed And if you never bleed you're never gonna grow And it's alright now But we were something don't you think so Roarin. Album ( Page Link ) Song ( Page Link ) ( Partial Lyrics ) 1 1.The1 Taylor Swift-Folklore1.The1 I'm doing good I'm on some new shit Been saying'yes' instead of'no' I thought I saw you at the bus stop. ![]() Lost Highway by Peter Guralnick7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “They know when I come in, they should come to the Muddy Waters sound. He discusses what he expects in his band when he hits the stage. In the few years, I’ve just began to make a couple dollars,” he says. “It changed a heck of a lot for me in the last few years. Also included are video segments of Guralnick discussing the chapters and an additional chapter for each book.įind Out Where Muddy Waters Lands in Our List of the 100 Greatest GuitaristsĪt the time of this 1970 interview, Waters was coming off his first decade of real recognition after a long career. That book, plus Guralnick’s 1979 roots chronicle Lost Highway, will be released as enhanced e-books in December with original audio from interviews with Waters, Merle Haggard and more. ![]() Muddy Waters wasn’t a fan of discussing his music, but he did with Peter Guralnick for the author’s landmark 1971 book Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues and Rock & Roll, which included profiles of rock and blues pioneers like Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and Jerry Lee Lewis. ![]() ![]() I’ve never read anything set in Korea before, and I must admit, my knowledge on the specifics of the divide between South Korea and North Korea was pretty sketchy prior to reading this. This was quite an arresting little novel. ![]() Elisa Shua Dusapin’s voice is distinctive and unmistakable. As she’s pulled into his vision and taken in by his drawings, she strikes upon a way to finally be seen.Īn exquisitely crafted debut, Winter in Sokcho is a novel about shared identities and divided selves, vision and blindness, intimacy and alienation. But he takes no interest in the Sokcho she knows - the gaudy neon lights, the scars of war, the fish market where her mother works. When she agrees to accompany him on trips to discover an ‘authentic’ Korea, they visit snowy mountaintops and dramatic waterfalls, and cross into North Korea. ![]() One evening, an unexpected guest arrives: a French cartoonist determined to find inspiration in this desolate landscape. A young French-Korean woman works as a receptionist in a tired guesthouse. Bodies are red and raw, the fish turn venomous, beyond the beach guns point out from the North’s watchtowers. It’s winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. ![]() ![]() Winner of the Prix Robert Walser - a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French-Korean author. ![]() The element by ken robinson7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() What all these have in common is that they need resources to survive - and the current educational system is not growing the resources in the ways that are needed. He connected the economy, the environment and education reform. It is an essential strategy for transforming education, business, and communities to meet the challenges of living and succeeding in the twenty-first century. The Element shows the vital need to enhance creativity and innovation by thinking differently about human resources and imagination. He shows that age and occupation are no barrier and that once we have found our path, we can help others do so as well. With a wry sense of humor, Ken Robinson looks at the conditions that enable us to find ourselves in the Element and those that stifle that possibility. It explores the components of this new paradigm: the diversity of intelligence, the power of imagination and creativity, and the importance of commitment to our own capabilities. The Element draws on the stories of a wide range of people: Paul McCartney, The Simpsons creator Matt Groening, Meg Ryan, Gillian Lynne, who choreographed the Broadway productions of Cats and The Phantom of the Opera, journalist Arianna Huffington, renowned physicist Richard Feynman, and many others, including business leaders and athletes. When people arrive at the Element, they feel most themselves, most inspired, and achieve at their highest levels. ![]() The Element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. ![]() Book big lies in a small town7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() In an alternating narrative, Anna, winner of a U.S. If Morgan misses this deadline, not only is her deal off, but Lisa will, due to a puzzling, thinly motivated condition of Jesse’s will, lose her childhood home. Released on an early parole engineered by Jesse’s daughter, Lisa, Morgan will receive $50,000 to restore a mural painted by one Anna Dale in 1940 in time for a gallery opening on Aug. ![]() Morgan Christopher, the last, posthumous recipient of Jesse’s largesse, can’t imagine why he chose her, a complete stranger who is doing time for an alcohol-related crash that left another driver paralyzed. In life, Jesse paid his success forward by helping underdog artists. In 2018, the recently deceased Jesse has left a very unusual will. The fates of two white painters in Edenton, North Carolina, intertwine with the legacy of a third, that of Jesse Jameson Williams, a prominent African American artist with Edenton roots. ![]() A tale of two artists, living 78 years apart in a small Southern town, and the third artist who links them. ![]() Original babar the elephant7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() What could be more charming and innocent than these serene stories, with their idealised settings either in town, or in a remote country in Africa? Well, depending on who you ask, plenty. ![]() Later on he marries fellow elephant Celeste and returns to rule his country as its new and benevolent king. ![]() His pleasures are multiple, including going up and down on his first trip in a lift so often that he has to be warned by a shop employee that this is not a toy. Today, Laurent’s second wife Phyllis Rose also provides the stories for her husband’s delicate water colour illustrations, whose characters are as always securely enclosed within black ink outlines.Įver since Babar left his jungle home for city life and donned human clothes he has remained a favourite with children. The text for the six titles he illustrated before his death were supplied by his wife Cécile, who refused to take any credit for tales originally told to her three children at bed-time. The artwork by Laurent de Brunhoff in style and subject matter follows closely in the footsteps of his father Jean, who died in 1937, aged only 37. This is the 45th picture book featuring the talking elephant once described by a former French Cultural Minister as the most famous Frenchman in the world and by an approving General de Gaulle as providing ‘a certain idea of France’. ![]() Prayers for the stolen book7/3/2023 ![]() “I immersed myself emotionally in this childlike universe from my own experience, I have a 9-year-old child that I see growing up every day, her world, her magic makes me look in the rearview mirror, those moments when you feel alone and disturbed in the face of the harshness of life. Through the fictional narrative of Ana and her friends, Huezo depicts the appalling reality that envelops the lives of girls in certain Mexican towns, ruled and controlled by drug conglomerates. The film is adapted from the eponymous novel by Jennifer Clement, which uses fictitious characters to depict the horrendous conditions of the cartel-controlled towns in Mexico, where human trafficking and sex trafficking are frequent enough to consider ordinary. ![]() ‘Prayers for the Stolen’ is partially based on a true story. ![]() If you are startled by the film and want to know more about the origin of the poignant characters, consider us your ally! Even though the cruelties the girls anticipate and fear seem improbable and unbelievable to happen in actual life, a sense of brutal honesty and reality does emanate from Huezo’s portrayal of the narrative. While the film succeeds in depicting the brutality of the town’s condition in the clutches of the drug cartels, one can’t help but doubt whether the film is based on real events and people. ![]() These broken stars lilac und tarver7/3/2023 ![]() If you are found to be excessively promoting your book in the comments, you will be banned.īeware: Amazon links could be caught in the spam filter. This is not the place to advertise your book. Any illegal content will be removed at the moderators' discretion. If you want to include a link in your suggestion we encourage you to link to the author's page or to an amazon alternative.ĭon't link to illegal content. Top level replies must be suggestions or question to clear up the request. Don't attack the requests or any suggestions made, and definitely do not attack or scold individual users (it's sad really, that we actually have to specifically say this.) ![]()
Charlie lastra7/3/2023 ![]() MH: So how did your relationship start? If you can walk us back through your origin story of how you two came together. ![]() ![]() As I was logging on, I was trying to figure that out because we've messaged a decent amount over the course of like five years or something.ĮH: I feel like I know Julia and we also have some friends in common, and so we're also constantly like, “Should we do a writer's retreat?”ĮH: And that hasn't happened yet, but constantly there's the undercurrent of “Should we just go to the desert together for days and throw our cellphones into the sand?” MH: So, is this the first time you're meeting each other, seeing each other?ĮH: I think so face-to-face, right? I think so.ĮH: I think so too. Julia is an award-winning narrator who has voiced more than 400 audiobooks, including Emily's recent best sellers, and is herself an author too. Emily is the New York Times best-selling author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation as well as several young adult novels. ![]() Margaret Hargrove: Hello, I'm Audible Editor Margaret Hargrove, and I'm so excited to be here today with Emily Henry and Julia Whelan, the author and narrator of Book Lovers. ![]() Note: Text has been edited and does not match audio exactly. ![]() |