![]() ![]() But as a hurricane approaches the island, turmoil builds, forcing each woman to re-evaluate everything she’s known about the others-and herself. The week begins idyllically, filled with languorous days and late nights of drinking and laughter. And, finally, there’s Pauline, who spares no expense to throw her husband an unforgettable birthday celebration, hoping it will gloss over the cracks that have already formed in their new marriage. Savannah is carrying the secret of her husband’s infidelity. Allie needs to escape from the shattering news about an illness that runs in her family. Tina is drowning under the demands of mothering four young children. ![]() ![]() Paradise isn’t quite what it seems as four college friends meet for an island vacation in this captivating new novel from the acclaimed author of These Girls.įollowing a once-in-a-lifetime invitation, a group of old college friends leap at the chance to bring their husbands for a week’s vacation at a private villa in Jamaica to celebrate a former classmates' thirty-fifth birthday.Īll four women are desperate for a break and this seems like a perfect opportunity. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Want to read this one first in the series? Go ahead! Each of the GODS OF LOVE novellas is stand-alone with a common theme featuring the winged gods of desire known as the erotes. Has he finally found the one with whom even a god of desire could find fulfilment? Forever, after all, is such a long time to be alone. A woman who understands the whole human experience, from every perspective. A woman who answers his own call and offers everything he desires. She is published with Evernight Publishing, and previously as Jennifer Lynne with Red Sage. When he decides to accept one last call he finds a woman who is unique. Jen Katemi is a USA Today bestselling author of steamy contemporary and paranormal romance. But he has been living among mortals too long and his energy has waned. Jen Katemi is a USA Today bestselling author of steamy contemporary and paranormal romance. Himeros is one of the immortal gods of love, and as such it is his duty to answer the call of desire whenever a human needs him. Born into a male body, she spent her childhood and teens living as a boy, and has only returned in an effort to put the past behind her so she can begin to live life without the continuing fear of loneliness and rejection. ![]() Gina is forced to confront her fears when she attends a high school reunion. ![]() A god of desire on the edge of burnout meets a woman with a unique and secret past…In the arms of transsexual woman Gina, has Himeros finally discovered the one with whom even an immortal could find fulfillment? ![]() ![]() Beginning with the sentence “Ruby Bell was a constant reminder of what could befall a woman whose shoe heels were too high”, this book demands that the reader confront the burdensome expectations of gender roles. ![]() Written in a Southern Gothic style akin to that of Randall Keenan (I’m thinking here of A Visitation of Spirits), this book walks the edge between reality and surrealism, perception and magical realism. When the death of one of her dearest friends lands her back in her small hometown of Liberty Township, she finds herself reliving her past trauma, and being confronted with her demons, both literally and metaphorically. Surviving unspeakable trauma, navigating the many people in love with her, and going to New York to locate her elusive mother, this book follows Ruby through her (seemingly damned) life. Raised in a small Southern town where the women of her family have made history for their beauty and tragedies, this story follows the audacious hopes of Ruby, who has had the odds stacked against her since before birth. ![]() Ruby Bell, the beautiful and bizarre protagonist in Cynthia Bond’s new work Ruby (Hogarth), has been to hell and back. ![]() ![]() The innocent anticipation of the shooting stalks, the quivering stillness of the watching trees.” –Cynthia Bond, Ruby ![]() ![]() I’m making a new life in New Orleans as Charlie Stone. Faced with living under a cloud of suspicion and constant questioning by the FBI, I ran. Bernie Madoff was an amateur compared to Alistair Agoston. Not the ‘let’s go for a jog and slap a 26.2 sticker on your bumper’ kind of runner I’m the kind of runner who takes off when her father is staring down the barrel of a guilty verdict that carries a 175-year sentence for perpetrating the largest fraud in the history of the world. more My name is Charlotte Agoston, and I’m a runner. ![]() My name is Charlotte Agoston, and I’m a runner. ![]() ![]() “Honestly I did not get much attention and success, it built gradually.” ![]() Many considered the book and the author immediate sensations, but Hinton takes a more modest approach. Though she wrote The Outsiders as a high school student, it didn’t sell until she was a freshman at the University of Tulsa. ![]() I recently re-read it and was very proud of my young self. I loved all the horse books, but the book I read over and over again was Duff, The Story of a Bear (Longmans, 1950). “My first memories of reading? I loved it!! I was one of those little girl horse nuts and distinctly remember checking Peanuts the Pony (D.C. I also made a D in creative writing the year (junior in high school) I wrote The Outsiders.” I had some great English teachers who encouraged me through grade school, middle school, high school. I had access to the local library, but my family thought my writing was some weird phase I would outgrow. “I began writing in grade school, eager to make my own stories happen the way I wanted to. But she had been writing for years prior. Hinton was just a 16-year-old student at Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when she wrote The Outsiders. Since first being published in 1967 by Viking Press, The Outsiders has sold more than 14 million copies making it the bestselling young adult novel. She wrote about the passion and the pain involved in finding one’s place, making one’s mark, and staying true to one’s self. ![]() Hinton wrote about the life she saw and lived as a teenager. Fifty years ago, The Outsiders was first introduced to readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And the heart of the story is Luc and Oliver’s debate about their own wedding, which stems from their differing styles of expressing love. But there is real drama as both Luc and Oliver grapple with their complicated relationships with their respective fathers, one of whom unexpectedly dies. Much of the book’s humor comes across as forced, from Luc’s disastrous cooking to a running gag about a photocopier. A work colleague’s wedding comes third, and feels the least integral to the plot. It also inspires Luc to first accidentally, then properly, propose to Oliver. Next, Luc gets invited to his ex’s wedding, which fuels his anxiety but provides an opportunity for closure. The first nuptials belong to Luc’s BFF, Bridget, and strained comedy ensues when she fears her fiancé, Tom, is cheating on her. Set two years after rom-com sensation Boyfriend Material, Hall’s unnecessary sequel sends reformed wild child Luc O’Donnell and his straitlaced boyfriend, Oliver Blackwood, to four weddings and a funeral. ![]() ![]() ![]() (1) Some of the researchers believe that nightmares are categorically an individual experience and hence is better left for the participants to describe. Hartmann (1984) defined a nightmare as a long, frightening dream that awakens the sleeper, and awakening from a frightening dream has been used as an operational definition of nightmares by others. ![]() Some dreams will actually leave you grinning when you wake up, wishing to go back to sleep to complete it.Ī nightmare, on the other hand, has an aversive nature – no one really feels gratified, pleased or pacified after experiencing a nightmare. Unlike nightmares, dreams are not only imageries that have a horrific or fear-evoking element in it.ĭreams can be soothing, based on wish-fulfillment, fun, romantic, and sometimes bizarre, disturbing or frightening. Read Interpreting Your Dreams: What Messages Dreams Give You About Your Life How is a nightmare different from dreams?ĭreams are images and sensations created by our subconscious mind with the help of the information we perceive in our waking life.
![]() ![]() She’s a bottom feeder, she says, because she writes about things that nobody else wants to: Cannibalism. ![]() ![]() The Kudoa septemlineata on her flounder the Camallanus worm to her plecostomus. If Mary Roach is the “bottom feeder of non-fiction,” then I am the parasite that feeds on the bottom feeder. Victoria Fugit, CATALYST co‑founder: 1942-2022.Utah Bioregional Reader #4: Where Does Our Garbage Go?.Utah Bioregional Reader: What is our Land Use History?.Stress Less, Accomplish More: Emily Fletcher’s meditation technique built for stressed-out, high-performing overachievers.What we have in common: Laying the groundwork for exploring our differences.Plant more vegetables now! Master the wild ride of erratic weather for a perpetual yield in the garden.Spring ahead this fall: Now’s the time to transplant perennials and direct-sow flower and herb seeds.Your brain on gardening: Nature’s way of boosting those feel-good chemicals. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() “ keeps returning to his past, reassessing it, distilling its meaning, offering it to his audiences in dazzling new shapes.”- New York Times The Magic Lantern is as personal and penetrating as a Bergman film, wry, shadowy, austere.”- New Republic “Joan Tate’s translation of this book has delicacy and true pitch. Many gripping revelations.”- New York Times Book Review “ has found a way to show the soul’s landscape . Ambitious in scope yet sensitively wrought, The Magic Lantern is a window to the mind of one of our era’s great geniuses. Throughout, Bergman recounts his life in a series of deeply personal flashbacks that document some of the most important moments in twentieth-century filmmaking as well as the private obsessions of the man behind them. ![]() More grand mosaic than linear account, Bergman’s vignettes trace his life from a rural Swedish childhood through his work in theater to Hollywood’s golden age, and a tumultuous romantic history that includes five wives and more than a few mistresses. At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that dizzy sense of magic of my childhood.” Bergman, who has conveyed this heady sense of wonder and vision to moviegoers for decades, traces his lifelong love affair with film in his breathtakingly visual autobiography, The Magic Lantern. “When a film is not a document, it is a dream. ![]() ![]() And I’m left to make the hardest decision of my life. Just as we come to terms with our new reality, she finds out she’s pregnant with his baby. Instead of pushing her away, I pull her closer. When my best friend dies in a motorcycle accident, the two of us are left to grieve our loss together. ![]() I should move out so I can get over her for good however, the selfish part of me can’t let go. Considering neither of them knows how I feel, the way I act toward them isn’t fair. She’s constantly on me for making messes, bringing chicks home every weekend, and being a smartass when their PDA gets on my nerves. She’s not mine and never will be, but that doesn’t stop me from wanting to push her against a wall and claim her mouth. To her singing in the shower every morning, dancing in the kitchen while she makes coffee, and doing yoga in our living room, I can’t stop thinking about her in all the wrong ways. It was easy when she lived hours away, and I didn’t have to see her every day, but then she moved in with us. She made her screen debut in Brian De Palmas supernatural. I’d never be able to compete with that, so I pushed her away instead. Daryl Christine Hannah (born December 3, 1960) is an American actress and environmental activist. I was smitten.īut it didn’t matter because she chose him, and he was my best friend and roommate. ![]() |