![]() ![]() This is a full-length novel, can be read as a standalone, and is the fourth book in the 'Knitting in the City' series. Each book is a standalone, full length (110k words), contemporary romantic comedy novel, and follows the misadventures and exploits of seven friends in Chicago, all members of the same knitting group. Beauty and the Mustache is book #4 in the Knitting in the City series, and book #0.5 in the Winston Brothers series. Pretty soon the girl who wanted nothing more than the escape of the big city finds she’s lost her heart in small town Tennessee. Drew’s irksome philosophizing in particular makes Ashley want to run for the skyscrapers, especially since he can’t seem to keep his exasperating opinions- or his soulful poetry, steadfast support, and delightful hands- to himself. ![]() However, when a family tragedy forces her to return home, Ashley can’t escape the notice of Drew Runous- local Game Warden, bear wrestler, philosopher, and everyone’s favorite guy. Now she escapes life daily via her one-click addiction. ![]() She escaped her Tennessee small town, loathsome father, and six brothers eight years ago. If he hates her so much, why does he keep looking at her like that?From the New York Times Bestselling Author Penny ReidThere are three things you need to know about Ashley Winston: 1) She has six brothers and they all have beards, 2) She is a reader, and 3) She knows how to knit.Former beauty queen, Ashley Winston’s preferred coping strategy is escapism. ![]()
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![]() ![]() After a disastrous marriage threw her life completely off course, she vowed never to let love steal her dreams again. Like Roman, Grace is wrestling with ghosts and secrets of her own. ![]() But Grace doesn’t know how her boss secretly wrestles with those demons: by tagging buildings as the Bird, a notorious but unidentified graffiti artist―an alter ego that could destroy his career and land him in prison. ![]() The demons of Roman’s past seem to echo through the halls of his empty mansion and out across his breathtaking Topanga Canyon view. Only Grace Moore, his reluctant, newly hired personal assistant, knows how little he truly has. The New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Love returns to her romance roots with this unexpected and redemptive love story, a probing tale that reminds us that mercy can shape even the most broken among us into an imperfect yet stunning masterpiece.Ī successful LA artist, Roman Velasco appears to have everything he could possibly want―money, women, fame. “This character-driven romance will enthrall many fans.” Library Journal A NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY bestseller ![]() ![]() You were never to act undignified in their presence, but neither were you to act flamboyant. But most white people were also on the lookout for a too-bold display by us of their kind of accomplishments, their privilege and plenty, what they considered their racial traits. ![]() Most white people were on the lookout, we were told, for what they called these basic racial traits. Too many Negroes, it was said, showed off the wrong things: their loud voices, their brash and garish ways their gift for popular music and dance, for sports rather than the humanities and sciences. Mistakes – bad manners, poor taste, an excess of high spirits – could put you, your parents, and your people at risk Children there were taught that most other Negroes ought to be emulating us when too many of them (out of envy or ignorance) went on behaving in ways that encouraged racial prejudice. Children in Negroland were warned that few Negroes enjoyed privilege or plenty and that most whites would be glad to see them returned to indigence, deference, and subservience. Negroland is my name for a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty. In my Negroland childhood, this was a perilous business. ![]() ![]() But isn’t all memoir a form of showing off? ![]() ![]() ![]() Her response, her use of accessible language in her book and her straight forward writing style. Questions from the audience ranged from if she wanted her book to evolve to screen, to how she would counteract the notions that Nigerians/Africans do not read (unless it's religious or motivational books) and how she hoped to bridge that gap. She also spoke about her online presence and its impact on her writing, her own publishing company Accompany Press and the difference between her thinking as a writer and a publisher. Here Tolulope Popoola spoke about her life as an accountant prior to writing full time, the inspiration behind Nothing Comes Close (it started off as a series of short stories with her and a few other bloggers before she eventually took Lola and Wole, the two main characters, out of the series and created a story around them). There were many high points (yes, the cupcakes were one) but also the Q&A session with Abidemi Sanusi. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Criticism of pure reason![]() ![]() For this reason, too, negative propositions, which are framed for the purpose of correcting false cognitions where error is absolutely impossible, are undoubtedly true, but inane and senseless that is, they are in reality purposeless and, for this reason, often very ridiculous. ![]() They are, on the contrary, regarded as jealous enemies of our insatiable desire for knowledge and it almost requires an apology to induce us to tolerate, much less to prize and to respect them.Īll propositions, indeed, may be logically expressed in a negative form but, in relation to the content of our cognition, the peculiar province of negative judgements is solely to prevent error. ![]() Negative judgements-those which are so not merely as regards their logical form, but in respect of their content-are not commonly held in especial respect. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Chasing impossible katie mcgarry![]() ![]() Isaiah is probably the closest person to her (that we know about), yet she’s slowly let more people into her life recently. She and Isaiah have been friends from way back. Together, Abby and Logan will have to make a decision: let their current circumstances weigh them down forever…or fight for the future they both thought was impossible.Ībby has been a character since Crash Into You. But he never expected to find in her the one person who might help him face the demons he’s tried so hard to run from. ![]() Logan has his own reasons for wanting to keep Abby at arms’ length. But when a deal goes south and Abby’s suddenly in danger, she finds herself reluctantly forced to lean on daredevil Logan-a boy whose restless spirit matches her own. It’s common knowledge in her Kentucky town that she deals drugs, but not even her closest friends know why. Goodreads description- Tough and independent, 17-year-old Abby lets very few people into her inner circle. Source: Personal Kindle Library (as a gift for pre-ordering Nowhere But Here) Chasing Impossible (Pushing the Limits, # 5) ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Cain's Jawbone by E. Powys Mathers![]() ![]() The second edition is a boxed set of page-cards. The first edition is part of a hardback book. The puzzle consists of a 100-page prose narrative with its pages arranged in the wrong order. ![]() The phrase Cain's Jawbone refers to the Biblical stories of Cain and Abel and Samson. ![]() Cain's Jawbone has been described as "one of the hardest and most beguiling word puzzles ever published." Title Both editions, when published, were accompanied by a competition which offered a cash prize to the first reader to solve the puzzle. Crowdfunding publisher Unbound published a new stand-alone edition of the puzzle in 2019 in collaboration with the charity The Laurence Sterne Trust. The puzzle was first published in 1934 as part of The Torquemada Puzzle Book. Cain's Jawbone is a murder mystery puzzle written by Edward Powys Mathers under the pseudonym " Torquemada". ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Dandelion by Don Freeman![]() ![]() ![]() Soon after, he began to write and illustrate his own books, a career he settled into comfortably and happily. ![]() He was introduced to the world of children’s literature when William Saroyan asked him to illustrate several books. This new career turned out to be a near-perfect fit for Don, though, as he had always loved the theater. One evening, he was so engrossed in sketching people on the subway, he simply forgot it was sitting on the seat beside him. This shift was helped along, in no small part, by a rather heartbreaking incident: he lost his trumpet. Gradually, he eased into making a living sketching impressions of Broadway shows for The New York Times and The Herald Tribune. He managed to support himself throughout his schooling by playing his trumpet evenings, in nightclubs and at weddings. After graduating from high school, he ventured to New York City to study art under the tutelage of Joan Sloan and Harry Wickey at the Art Students' League. He practiced obsessively and eventually joined a California dance band. ![]() At an early age, he received a trumpet as a gift from his father. Don Freeman was born in San Diego, California, in 1908. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Behold the man moorcock pdf![]() ![]() ![]() Phoenix in Obsidian ( The Silver Warriors) The Time Dweller (contains: "The Time Dweller", "Escape from Evening", "The Deep Fix", "The Golden Barge", "Wolf", "Consuming Passion", "The Ruins", "The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius", and "The Mountain")īest S.F. The Secret of the Runestaff ( The Runestaff) Sorcerer's Amulet ( The Mad God's Amulet)īest S.F. The Wrecks of Time ( The Rituals of Infinity) reissue of New Worlds issues 146 and 147) reissue of New Worlds issues 144 and 145) Somewhere in the Night (as as by Bill Barclay) The Deep Fix (containing: "The Deep Fix", "Peace on Earth", "The Lovebeast", "The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius", "The Real Life Mr. ![]() Warriors of Mars ( The City of the Beast)īlades of Mars ( The Lord of the Spiders) The Sundered Worlds ( The Blood Red Game) Stormbringer (novel - abridged from "Dead God's Homecoming", "Black Sword's Brothers", "Sad Giant's Shield", and "Doomed Lord's Passing") The Stealer of Souls (contains: "The Dreaming City", "While the Gods Laugh", "The Stealer of Souls", "Kings in Darkness", and "The Flame Bringers") Caribbean Crisis (Sexton Blake Library as by Desmond Reid) ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments The fear street saga the betrayal![]() ![]() Content Warning: Profanity, alcohol consumption, sexually explicit and generally extremely filthy language, discussion of gore, misogyny, murder, suicide, emotional manipulation and gaslighting. Next time: Season 8 Episode 2: THE FEAR STREET SAGA: THE SECRET! Chiller and Chillest tier patrons will receive this episode before it goes public! Vaccinate and mask up, y'all. ![]() Intro theme - "Let It In" by Josh Woodward. Cyna is drinking a Fier Inferno (fireball whiskey + maraschino cherry juice + orange juice), and Ollie came in with a Power Through Evil (Angry Orchard Peach Mango Hard Cider + lemon juice). ![]() Chill: Drinks were weirdly hard to find this month, but we did our best. What more could a nostalgic reader ask for? HEADS UP: SPOILERS INSIDE for all three Fear Street movies. This book has it all, folks: murder, evil wizards, exclusively heterosexual teenage romance, guys who pretend to be different, younger guys, and so. Backlist: SURPRISE BABY, IT BOB! That's right, hot on the heels of those movies that came out three months ago, we're diving headfirst into the deep end of Bobert Stine's bibliography with book one of the iconic FEAR STREET SAGA: THE BETRAYAL (published August 1st 1993). Betrayal From the beloved and bestselling author of the Goosebumps series comes the haunting and terrifying Fear Street Saga-now available in one. ![]() |