5/13/2023 0 Comments Love radio book![]() ![]() But being the main caretaker for his mother, who has multiple sclerosis, and his little brother means his dreams will stay just that and the only romances in his life are the ones he hears about from his listeners. Prince has always dreamed of becoming a DJ and falling in love. ![]() After all, at seventeen, he has his own segment on Detroit’s popular hip-hop show, Love Radio, where he dishes out advice to the brokenhearted. Prince Jones is the guy with all the answers-or so it seems. Hitch meets The Sun Is Also a Star in this “mega swoon-worthy, effortlessly cool” (Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author) novel about a self-professed teen love doctor with a popular radio segment who believes he can get a girl who hates all things romance to fall in love with him in only three dates. “Readers won’t be able to get enough of these dope-ass characters.” -Elizabeth Acevedo, author of Clap When You Land ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments The gentle art of swedish death![]() ![]() ![]() Her radical and joyous method for putting things in order helps families broach sensitive conversations, and makes the process uplifting rather than overwhelming. In The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, artist Margareta Magnusson, with Scandinavian humor and wisdom, instructs readers to embrace minimalism. In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called döstädning, dö meaning "death" and städning meaning "cleaning." This surprising and invigorating process of clearing out unnecessary belongings can be undertaken at any age or life stage but should be done sooner than later, before others have to do it for you. A charming, practical, and unsentimental approach to putting a home in order while reflecting on the tiny joys that make up a long life. ![]() ![]() Until it stops." > a Masterpiece of Modern HORROR > Rare PHOTO Cover, First Impression of the PBO Original Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Volume One of Clive Barkers seminal Books of Blood contains the stories: The Book of Blood, The Midnight Meat Train, The Yattering and Jack, Pig Blood Blues, Sex, Death and Starshine, In the Hills, the Cities.With the 1984 publication of Books of Blood, Clive Barker became an overnight literary sensation. ![]() He knows how to lower the body temperature to an icy chill - and make the heart pound faster and faster. He knows how to plunge his readers into unearthly depths, spiraling from dark horror to dizzying madness. Clive Barker also knows how to prepare a body for the grave. And the burial itself is the magnificent climate to his craftsman ship. The presentation of the deceased - lying in a chining casket framed by flowers - is an exquisitely composed tableau. The smooth, silent exchange of blood and embalming fluid is like a symphony to be orchestrated. Primarily a playwright during this period, he also produced short fiction that he would eventually publish as part of his six-volume collection titled Books of Blood (1984-85). ![]() ![]() (Series Part 3 of 6 Parts) > Includes (1) Son of Celluloid with Marilyn Monroe (2) Rawhide Rex (3) Confessions of a Pornographer's Shroud (4) Scape-Goats (5) Human Remains > "To a Mortician, the preparation of a corpse is an art. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Vengeance by Sloane Kennedy![]() ![]() ![]() With his entire life ahead of him, graduate student Brennan Devereaux wasn’t expecting it to change in the blink of an eye. Now if only someone had told that to the young man who would come into his life in the most unexpected way… Period.īecause Memphis has one rule that he won’t break for anyone or anything. No clingy exes, no unrequited love, no relationship drama. That and the occasional no-strings hookup with men whose only focus in that moment, and for as long as Memphis wants them, is him and only him. His work with an underground vigilante organization is the only light in his otherwise bleak existence. The ultimate betrayal by the man he gave everything to has left Memphis with no family, no career and a bone deep bitterness that refuses to release him from its icy grip. At thirty-four years old, ex-DEA agent Memphis Wheland has lived, loved and lost…everything. ![]() ![]() In a coma for five weeks, and for many months unable to hear or speak, he was classified as totally and permanently disabled. Shaara nearly died in a traffic accident in Florence, Italy, where he was teaching. In 1972, after completing "The Killer Angels," his second novel, Mr. ![]() The superbly written volume is so meticulously true to the facts that it is used as a source book in many history departments, according to professor Webb Salmon, a colleague of Mr. Shaara won a 1975 Pulitzer Prize for "The Killer Angels," a "nonfiction novel" about the Battle of Gettysburg. ![]() Shaara, 58, author of what many consider to be the best book ever written about the Civil War, died of a heart attack May 5 at his home in Tallahassee, Fla.Ī former sailor, prizefighter, paratrooper, policeman and professor of English, Mr. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments New Moon by Young Kim![]() ![]() “Are you two doing a gwisin (ghost) concept?” my mom yelled from the kitchen. But I was utterly mystified (I will need to write a separate post with updates about an avatar I am developing, Somu, who is a young maiden and shaman girl from medieval Korea based off my Fulbright research). I, on the other hand, was mesmerized with Somu’s dress (pictured as feature image), which, confirmed by my own eyes, created a sense of magic difficult to describe. My sister imitates a modern Korean lady with her hot pink clutch. My dad could not resist the urge to imitate being a Grim Reaper, bursting out in the absurdity of it all. When we dug out my parents’ old hanboks from the garage, we were suddenly reminded as a family how a piece of heritage that we always carried within us could still be new and re-discovered for the very first time. It is a confrontation of change, to which one might feel without control. And, often times, such traditional holidays tend to emphasize difference between generations, a multi-century, cataclysmic split, and reminder of lost customs. Certain cultural traditions carried with it a weight of obligation that is difficult to burden when having immigrated to another country, morphing into complex feelings that are easier left avoided. My parents had not opened nor seen their old hanboks in many years. ![]() This year had its own color, its own flair. A peaceful evening with my aunt (while my cousins and uncle were out for jesa with their paternal side of the family) Chuseok with my mom, dad, and sister ![]() ![]() ![]() Younger children just may need a little more help than the older ones. If your child can read, understand numbers, and control a mouse, he can probably get started with Scratch, particularly if he’s used creative software like drawing programs. ![]() It’s targeted at ages eight and up, although my six-year-old finds it to be a lot of fun. Scratch was created at MIT Media Lab’s Lifelong Kindergarten Group. A new book from No Starch Press, Super Scratch Programming Adventure!: Learn to Program By Making Cool Games makes it even easier to get started. It’s a programming language that teaches the concepts of programming to young kids while making it easy for them to create animations, games, and more, then share them all with friends online. If you think you might have a future programmer on your hands, it’s time to introduce your kid to Scratch. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments The personal mba book![]() ![]() ![]() And puts what he learns directly into practice. I’ll let you research more about the author and will leave all the relevant links below, but one thing that I find particularly interesting about Josh Kaufman is that his TEDx talk on The First 20 Hours is one of the top 25 most-viewed TED talks published to date, with over 24 million views on YouTube.īecause Josh, like me, is very practical. ![]() Master the Art of Business” by Josh Kaufman. I hope that it will inspire you as well to read more quality books.įor my January sprint, I chose the book called “The Personal MBA. I set myself on a challenge to read more books in 2021 and to keep myself accountable I decided I’ll be sharing my thoughts about books I am going to read every month here on the podcast with my audience. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here was why the West Coast and the East Coast settled before the middle of the country. "Why did the French stop coming west from Louisiana? Comanches. "If you go back through Comanche history, you see that they were the ones who stopped the Spanish from coming North," he explains. Gwynne tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that he became interested in telling the Comanche story because of their integral role in preventing - and then opening up - the American West to white settlers. Gwynne traces the rise and fall of the Comanche Nation against the backdrop of the fight for control of the American Midwest. Gwynne's book, Empire of the Summer Moon. The story of Cynthia Ann and her son, Chief Quanah Parker, is told in S.C. She eventually married a highly respected Comanche chief and gave birth to three children, including Quanah - who would grow up to become the last and greatest Comanche leader. Parker became a ward of the chief and later, a full member of the Comanches. She was strapped onto the back of a horse and taken north, back into the Plains where the powerful American Indian tribe lived. In 1836, a 9-year-old pioneer girl named Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped during a Comanche raid in North Texas. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Alma katsu the hunger![]() ![]() ![]() PopSugar's "31 of the Best New Books You Should Read in March" Winner of the 2019 Western Heritage Award for Best Western NovelĪ Bram Stoker Award Nominee-Superior Achievement in a Novel 2018Ī Suspense Magazine Best Book of the Yearįorbes's "The Five Best Horror Books of 2018-2019" Effortlessly combining the supernatural and the historical, The Hunger is an eerie, thrilling look at the volatility of human nature, pushed to its breaking point. ![]() Though they dream of what awaits them in the West, long-buried secrets begin to emerge, and dissent among them escalates to the point of murder and chaos, unknowingly propelling them into one of the deadliest and most disastrous Western adventures in American history.Īs members of the group begin to disappear, the survivors start to wonder if there really is something disturbing, and hungry, waiting for them in the mountains.and whether the evil that has unfolded around them may have in fact been growing within them all along. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the isolated travelers to the brink of madness. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Stephen KingĪ tense and gripping reimagining of one of America's most haunting human disasters: the Donner Party with a supernatural twist.Įvil is invisible, and it is everywhere. Description Deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down, not recommended reading after dark. ![]() |