![]() ![]() ![]() I did notice before I contacted Google it had " Independence, KS" next to my listing.Īfter my emails/calls it says "Independence, NC"
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![]() The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern workplace, beautifully evoking what other people wake up to do each day-and night-to make the frenzied contemporary world function. ![]() And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our occupations mean to us. ![]() We spend most of our waking lives at work-in occupations often chosen by our unthinking younger selves. ![]() ![]() What he did not know was that his mother did not die, thereby negating his pleas of murder in self-defence. Taking a gun, Drew shot his mother’s boyfriend, killing him. ![]() Drew had reached his limit and decided to end the terror, knowing that he had no one left. During one particular beating, Drew’s mother was left in a pile, presumably dead. Fists would fly, fuelled by alcohol, and bodies would be strewn around the house, begging for mercy. His mother had decided to live with a well-respected sheriff’s deputy in town, but that man turned sour and highly abusive when he returned home. ![]() Recommended to those who love this sort of small-town legal style.ĭrew Gamble could not handle the constant feeling of fear that pervaded his house. Intriguing and entertaining throughout, Grisham shows that he still has a penchant for wonderful legal thrillers when he puts his mind to it. ![]() Grisham presents a fairly cut and dry case, but one that is full of twists, as a teenage boy is put on trial for murder, with capital punishment awaiting him. ![]() For those who read and enjoyed Grisham’s A Time to Kill, this will be a wonderful legal thriller that returns to that small Mississippi community that still talks about the lawyer who was able to orchestrate the biggest surprise ever. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is How it Always is was a New York Times bestseller and was named a Best Book of the Year by People magazine, the Chicago Public Library, and Amazon. The book won the 2018 Washington State Book Award and has been translated into over 20 languages. Frankel published her third novel, This is How it Always is, in 2017 to popular and critical acclaim. ![]() Goodbye for Now was the winner of the 2013 Endeavor Award, an annual award for outstanding science fiction writing by a Pacific Northwest writer, and was also a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Frankel’s second novel, Goodbye for Now, was published in 2012. Prior to 2011, writer Laurie Frankel worked as a college professor teaching writing, literature, and gender studies however, she transitioned to writing full-time after the publication of her first novel, The Atlas of Love, which was a finalist for the Pacific Northwest Book Award. Part I: Once Upon a Time, Claude Was Born. ![]() ![]() Despite her overall positive outlook, the reader knows that deep down, Mina is sad and lonely. Her writing addresses a myriad of questions, muses on serious subjects-heaven, God, poetry, friends-and others which are seemingly inconsequential: a bird’s nest, dust, etc. In contrast to her grief, she finds joy in everyday life. Her father has died, but despite the sadness which never leaves her, she sees hope and happiness. “One big, sad and horrible thing” has changed her life. Her story is written as a journal in pockets of though-memories and stories which build on one another, each revealing different views of a very complex young girl. She is homeschooled the confines and conventions of a traditional school do not work for Mina. Mina’s story moves forward chronologically but not directly. ![]() This heightened awareness affects not only how she writes but also how she relates-or does not-relate to her peers. 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It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn’t kept her from leading a quietly happy life. ![]() Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. In the tradition of Out of My Mind, Wonder, and Mockingbird, this is an intensely moving middle grade novel about being an outsider, coping with loss, and discovering the true meaning of family. ![]() ![]() ![]() The video gave a major boost to Stirling's popularity and she began making music videos for her YouTube channel regularly. ![]() It was filmed the week of while Graham was on a nearby business trip. A few months later, Stirling replied to him and they scheduled to shoot a music video for her new song, "Spontaneous Me". Shortly after her performance on the fifth season of America's Got Talent in 2010, cinematographer Devin Graham note who later became her boyfriend contacted her via Facebook in hopes of making a YouTube video together. She has also arranged film and videogame themes and incorporated dubstep in some pieces, e.g. Her music is mostly Instrumental Hip Hop combined with classical-style violin. Lindsey Stirling (born September 21, 1986) is an American violinist, musician, dancer, performance artist, and composer, usually described as a "dancing electronic violinist". ![]() ![]() Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! 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![]() ![]() That’s what’s good in this book, the good use of the English language. It has an impact on the reader you want to read on, because you want to know what happens to the main character. Particularly the last sentence had me impressed. ![]() Passage 1 (page 12): I was impressed with the last paragraph of this page. He lets himself being tempted to use drugs, he isn’t good at saying no, e.g. If he keeps doing this other people will reject him. He often forgets appointments he makes, such as a date with Vicky. ![]() Megan takes care of the main character, but he doesn’t do a thing back. He is sometimes very arrogant, he doesn’t mind other people like Megan. He is good at not taking things (and life) too seriously this is useful in situation where something bad happens. He is capable to recover from a bad situation, at the end of the book it is seen that he is going back to his old life, which is a better one than the one he used to have. He is very polite to everyone this is of course a good thing. Gradually he begins to pick up his old life. But at the end of the story, he meets his brother, they talk about their mother. He wants to pick up his old life, but he can’t do it at that point. Then the main character is fired and he goes further into the downward spiral. He tries to look normal to the outside world, but he isn’t. He has a friend called Tad, who is a party animal. He is addicted to cocaine and he very often goes to nightclubs. ![]() His mother died a year ago due to cancer. The main character is 24 years old and lives in New York. ![]() ![]() His mother, Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt, is a Southerner and celebrated beauty, but also considerably more, which the book makes clear as never before. His father is the first Theodore Roosevelt, "Greatheart," a figure of unbounded energy, enormously attractive and selfless, a god in the eyes of his small, frail namesake. It is the story of a remarkable little boy, seriously handicapped by recurrent and nearly fatal attacks of asthma, and his struggle to manhood: an amazing metamorphosis seen in the context of the very uncommon household (and rarefied social world) in which he was raised. Mornings on Horseback is about the world of the young Theodore Roosevelt. ![]() Now with a new introduction by the author, Mornings on Horseback is reprinted as a Simon & Schuster Classic Edition. Hailed as a masterpiece by Newsday, it also won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography. ![]() Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Biography, Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. ![]() |