![]() For the next nineteen years, he never stopped charming the people of Spencer with this enthusiasm, warmth, humility (for a cat), and, above all, his sixth sense about who needed him most.Īs his fame grew from town to town, then state to state, and finally, amazingly, worldwide, Dewey became more than just a friend he became a source of pride for an extraordinary Heartland farming town pulling its way slowly back from the greatest crisis in its long history. ![]() ![]() Dewey won her heart, and the hearts of the staff, by pulling himself up and hobbling on frostbitten feet to nudge each of hem in a gesture of thanks and love. He was found the next working by library director Vicki Myron, a single mother who had survived the loss of her family farm, a breast cancer scare, and an alcoholic husband. Only a few weeks old, on the coldest night of the year, he was stuffed into the returned book slot at the Spencer Public Library. How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for an abandoned kitten to transform a small library, save a classic American town, and eventually become famous around the world? You can't even begin to answer those questions until you hear the charming story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer, Iowa.ĭewey's story starts in the worst possible way. ![]()
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![]() Archer weaves an intricate and entertaining tale of revenge and hatred as he chronicles the seemingly unrelated lives of the two protagonists. The two men have a first-hand experience of both the Wars, the Wall Street Crash, bankruptcy and death. And so the tale follows Kane and Abel over the next sixty years. William Kane is born to a successful Bostonian banker Abel, born in a forest, is raised by a poverty-stricken trapper family. ![]() ![]() Kane and Abel is the tale of two men having nothing in common other than their birthday and an insatiable thirst for success. If you have to pay a bill, always make it look as if the amount is of no consequence. He is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction, short stories and non-fiction. Outside of politics, he is a novelist, playwright and short story writer. He is married to Mary Archer, a scientist specializing in solar power. His political career, having suffered several controversies, ended after a conviction for perverting the course of justice and his subsequent imprisonment. ![]() He was a Member of Parliament and deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, and became a life peer in 1992. Jeffrey Howard Archer (born April 15, 1940) is an English author and former politician. ![]() ![]() ![]() That is the biggest thing about science and one that creationists and others of their ilk (global warming deniers, anti-vaccines, etc) can never deal with. I’m sure that creationists will be able to handwave away all of the details that will be presented individually, but let’s see what happens when they are all presented simultaneously. I have little hope that creationists will read this and understand, but I do want to take this opportunity to go over the things we know, understand, and don’t know about the idea of common descent, which is what this book is really about. I got to chapter 2 and thought, dang, I wish all those creationists would read this and understand it. Still, he is entertaining to read and the story flows quite smoothly. He does tend to transition between topics quickly and without much of a segue. ![]() ![]() I started reading it and I must say that Shubin is an excellent writer. While there I picked up some books for the boy and found Your Inner Fish by Dr. This weekend, I had occasion to take a stack of books to the local buy-back bookstore. Shubin found an organism that, for all intents and purposes, is the perfect transitional organism between fish and amphibians.įurther it is an amazing example of the predictive power of science in general and evolutionary theory in particular. The fact that he isn’t is just another example of the pitiful science education (both formal and continuing) in the US. ![]() ![]() When unrest claims the rebels and danger strikes from every corner, Eragon must make choices-choices that will take him across the Empire and beyond, choices that may lead to unimagined sacrifice. Imagine having that much responsibility and power thrust into your hands at such a young age. It you have suspended your disbelief as you read and accept Paolinis world as real, then magic is the fabric that makes things possible. Still, there is more adventure at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep. The book resonates on a level that is deeply reflective of the duality of human nature. Can this once simple farm boy unite the rebel forces and defeat the king? Following the colossal battle against the Empire's warriors, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Eragon is the greatest hope to rid the land of tyranny. Unlike the first two books in the series, I felt Paolini's pacing was off. "Christopher Paolini is a true rarity." - The Washington Post In Book 3 of The Inheritance Cycle, our hero Eragon and his numerous allies continue to inch their way towards the final confrontation with Galbatorix and his dragon, Shruikan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Empire is at war and the stakes have never been higher in Book Three of the Inheritance Cycle, perfect for fans of Lord of the Rings! This New York Times bestselling series has sold over 40 million copies and is an international fantasy sensation. Don’t miss the eagerly anticipated epic new fantasy from Christopher Paolini- Murtagh, coming 11.7.23! ![]() ![]() So here’s to the joyful wedding, the sensible wedding, the unbelievably fun wedding! A Practical Wedding is your complete guide to getting married with grace. ![]() Meg walks you through everything from choosing a venue to writing vows, complete with stories and advice from women who have been in the trenches, the Team Practical brides. Why that color-coded spreadsheet is actually worth it. ![]() How to communicate decisions with your family.Affording a wedding without having to cut your guest list This item: A Practical Wedding by Meg Keene Paperback 18.00 A Practical Wedding Planner: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating the Wedding You Want with the Budget Youve Got (without Losing Your Mind in the Process), Book Cover May Vary by Meg Keene Paperback 18.DIY-ing your wedding: brilliant or crazy? Rent A Practical Wedding 2nd edition (978-0738215150) today, or search our site for other textbooks by Meg Keene.How to pinpoint what matters most to you and your partner.The real purpose of engagement (hint: it’s not just about the planning).In this refreshing guide, expert Meg Keene shares her secrets to planning a beautiful celebration that reflects your taste and your relationship. ![]() ![]() After all, what really matters on your wedding day, what you’ll remember ‘til you’re old and gray, is not so much how it looked as how it felt. Or will they?Ī Practical Wedding helps you create the wedding you want-without going broke or crazy in the process. And then there are the expectations: from calligraphy invitations to satin chair-covers, all those things that Must Be Done or everyone will be Horribly Offended. Getting engaged is exhilarating…until it sets in that a wedding costs three times what you thought, and takes five to ten times the effort it reasonably should. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s no privacy, there’s no dignity and there’s no violence – although the presence of guards with whips and weapons suggest that once there was. ![]() Food is provided in a small but seemingly limitless supply. In this bunker, they speculate that they are underground because there are no windows, but there are no other indicators of time or place. Thirty-nine women are trapped in a cage with one child. Jacqueline Harpman photographed in her home in Brussels, 1996. It was reissued by Penguin Random House UK last year (translated by Ros Schwartz) with an introduction by Sophie Mackintosh, the author of The Water Cure (2018), who writes that the book’s central question is: ‘What does a person become when stripped to the core, raised in isolation?’ Originally published as Moi qui n’ai pas connu les hommes (I Who Have Never Known Men) in 1995, the book first appeared in English in 1997 under the title The Mistress of Silence. Their victories varied: small and ambiguous, revolutionary and hollow.Įventually I got sick of being sent books about women trapped in cults and decided to choose one. Women were oppressed, abused, subject to absurd and punitive control over every aspect of their existence. Sometimes I recognized the leaders of these sects from real-life, though they were less counterparts than tracings of a familiar shape: men who took power from their daughters or wives, discontented by the universe they inherited, and decided to write the rules of their own world. There was a time when I kept getting sent books about women in cults. ![]() ![]() ![]() When an author takes two perfectly likable characters and twists them up in assumptions and miscommunications that could all be resolved with one adult conversation, it makes me want to pitch the book (or audiobook, in this case) across the room. Because that is my LEAST FAVORITE trope in romance novels. I actually audibly groaned and probably shouted an expletive or two when it was introduced. Imagine my frustration, then, when the miscommunication trope started up. They were sweet and supportive together, and what was developing between them was paced well. There’s a very slow start, but it does pick up, and at one point their relationship began to really grow on me. ![]() Where this book gets annoying is the behavior of the main characters. And I can’t deny, I’m a sucker for a novel with a premise in good reality TV. I really like Rachel and Mel in particular. The scenes involving any action at all on the mountains were great. The author has a real talent for creating imagery in regards to the rock climbing, from describing the glorious scenery, to detailing the logistics of climbing. Second, when this book was good, it was really good. ![]() I really wish she narrated more books in the lesbian romance genre. First, Nicola Victoria Vincent was incredible, as always. ![]() ![]() ![]() While some women are coerced into the business by their families, others negotiate with clients and their clinics to gain access to technologies and networks otherwise closed to them. Pande's interviews prove surrogates are more than victims of disciplinary power, and she examines the strategies they deploy to retain control over their bodies and reproductive futures. From recruitment to training to delivery, Pande's research focuses on how reproduction meets production in surrogacy and how this reflects characteristics of India's larger labor system. In the first detailed ethnography of India's surrogacy industry, Amrita Pande visits clinics and hostels and speaks with surrogates and their families, clients, doctors, brokers, and hostel matrons in order to shed light on this burgeoning business and the experiences of the laborers within it. Surrogacy is India's new form of outsourcing, as couples from all over the world hire Indian women to bear their children for a fraction of the cost of surrogacy elsewhere with little to no government oversight or regulation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her quest plunges us into the world of her Upper West Side apartment building, a world of overly invested mothers, fanatical dog-owners, curmudgeonly longtime residents, and young (and not so young) professionals. Right and start the family she hopes will give meaning to her life. As her 35th birthday looms, Suzanne embarks on a wrong-headed, but very funny, quest-to find Mr. Suzanne Davis lounges around her tiny New York City apartment in her pajamas, writing press releases for the International Association of Air-Conditioning Engineers, listening to the ticking of her biological clock, and wondering where life is taking her. Paula Marantz Cohen has given me all of that."-Margo JeffersonĪ "witty commentary on contemporary life, enriched by a funny, flawed, and likable heroine."-Kirkus "Suzanne Davis Gets a Life isn't just seriously entertaining, it's entertainingly serious…I want my romantic comedy heroines to have wit, but I want them to have character too, and be as interested in the world as in themselves. Cohen is a perceptive, comic writer."-Wall Street JournalĬohen "portrays timeless and universal challenges through a buoyantĬombination of humor, pathos, and gumption."-Booklist ![]() ![]() "Incredibly charming…Suzanne Davis Gets a Life has an emotional honesty and moments of real wisdom."-Philadelphia Inquirer ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s also made a lot of friends along the way. She also sees soul collectors (basically grim reapers).Īs we’ve gone through the series, we’ve watched Alex grow. ![]() She’s a PI who can raise spirits, and does often for the police. She lives in a fictional Nekros City, which is in a pocket of reality separate from the real world. This is the last installment of a series that follows, grave witch, Alex Craft. With the threats mounting and cut off from half her allies, Alex can’t wait on the sidelines and hope the fae’s conflicts stay contained within their borders. When an explosion at the Eternal Bloom threatens to upend the fae who make their home in our world, Alex finds herself in charge of the most far reaching investigation she’s ever tackled. So it’s safe to say that stepping up as the lead investigator for the Fae Investigation Bureau was not a career path she ever anticipated taking. Grave witch Alex Craft has forged an uneasy truce with the world of Faerie, but she’s still been trying to maintain at least some semblance of a normal life in the human world. ![]() Grave witch Alex Craft is getting pulled back into deadly fae politics in the thrilling new novel in the USA Today bestselling series. Published by Tantor Audio on November 24, 2020Īmazon, Audible, Audiobook, Barnes & Noble, Apple ![]() This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. ![]() |