![]() ![]() ![]() Things get a little more interesting when the prince starts to show interest in her. If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she'll serve the kingdom for three years and then be granted her freedom.Ĭelaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilirating. Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king's council. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She contributed an article, “I’m Listening,” in the Chicken Soup for the Soul: I’m Speaking Now (2021). Here for You was also listed in the “7 Great Reads That Help to Keep the Faith” by Sisters From AARP. Her holiday indie release, Christmas Dinner, and traditionally published, Here for You were featured in Woman’s World, a national magazine. Here for You and Stand by Me are also part of the Family is Forever series. Pat’s first inspirational women’s fiction, Lean On Me, with Sourcebooks, was the February/March Together We Read Digital Book Club pick for the national library system. ![]() She is a five-time recipient of the RSJ Emma Rodgers Award for Best Inspirational Romance: Still Guilty, Crowning Glory, The Confession, Christmas Dinner, and Queen’s Surrender (To A Higher Calling). She is a self-proclaimed genealogy sleuth who is passionate about researching her ancestors, then casting them in starring roles in her novels. Pat Simmons is a multi-published Christian romance author of forty-plus titles. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why am I here? What’s the meaning of life? You apply this questioning to the mess of the world around you – why is America bombing Iraq, and why are we suffering civil wars? – and you realize the enormous contradiction between your lived reality and the ideal world of knowledge. If you read novels and intellectual works since your childhood, your head is filled with the big questions. To be frank, I would have killed myself without writing. ![]() It deals with the traumas of repression, war and migration, weaving perspectives and genres with intelligence and a brutal wit. His play The Digital Hats Game was recently performed in Tampere, Finland.īecause his work is so groundbreaking, it is hard to categorise. ![]() He is the author of the acclaimed story collections The Madman of Freedom Square and The Iraqi Christ (the latter won The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize), and the editor and a contributor to the science fiction collection Iraq +100. Hassan Blasim is an Iraqi-born writer and filmmaker, now a Finnish citizen. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I was just thinking about Nat…it’s not like she’s being really mean to me or anything, but I get the feeling…I dunno…that she doesn’t like me?” While Olive does her best to welcome Nat to the school, show her the ropes, and introduce her to all of her friends, Nat seems strangely detached. Now, in Clash, Olive finds herself struggling and worrying as a new, seemingly cool and sophisticated sixth-grader named Natasha just…doesn’t seem to like Olive. ![]() In Click, we met Olive as she was trying to figure out her niche and wondering where or how exactly she fit in at school in Camp, Olive found herself opening up to the possibilities of more friends and new interests (and at odds with her more reticent friend Willow!) and Act sees student council and school politics at the forefront when Olive goes up against friends Trent and Sawyer during a school election. From previous novels, readers know and love Olive as the kid who is friendly and friends with everyone. The fourth entry in the popular and bestselling middle grade graphic novel series by Kayla Miller, Clash follows protagonist Olive as she and her school friends welcome a new kid into their fold. ![]() I just don’t think that it’s healthy to worry so much about making other people like you”. “So, what? If someone doesn’t like you instantly, that’s it?” “That’s not what I’m saying, Lucy. ![]() ![]() He has lived in Israel, Germany and France. He writes columns for Harper’s Bazaar, l’Officiel and Playboy. In 2008-2009 he worked as a radio host of a Mayak Radio Station. Glukhovsky also worked on the comic books The Gospel According to Artyom and The Outpost.Īs a journalist, Dmitry Glukhovsky has worked for EuroNews TV in France, Deutsche Welle, and RT. Glukhovsky initiated and co-curated the Universe of Metro 2033 book series, bringing in authors from all over the world to contribute to his post-apocalyptic vision of Earth. He has also written a sequel entitled Metro 2034, as well the last part of this trilogy called Metro 2035. ![]() ![]() His novel Metro 2033 serves as the basis for the game Metro 2033. He is also the author of a series of satirical "Stories of Motherland" criticising today's Russia. Glukhovsky is famous in Russia for his bestselling novels Metro 2033 and It's Getting Darker. The novel later became an interactive experiment, drawing in thousands of readers. Glukhovsky started in 2002 by publishing his first novel, Metro 2033, on his own website and granted free access to all the readers. Glukhovsky (Russian: Дмитрий Глуховский) is an author and journalist originally from Moscow. ![]() Metro Wiki has a list of quotes for this character. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The cars never worked, families only had one car, there were no mobile phones, no internet and, as Richard told his son, there was no avocado! Work colleagues could sit next to you and blow cigarette smoke in your face – all day! Corporal punishment was rife in schools, the death penalty still existed crime rates were high getting a divorce was like pulling hen’s teeth and you could still find people without televisions.Īnd let’s not mention the food! Anyone who survived the 1970s will remember the food – not because it was so good but because it was so awful! And they were humble, as any boomer foolish enough to get into an argument about housing affordability with a millennial, will tell them. ![]() In The Land Before Avocado, Richard takes almost indecent pride in reminding the now swanky noughties-and-beyond baby boomers of their humble origins. It was a land, and time, of boundless contradictions and peculiarities – magnificent fodder for writers. From a global, nay, any perspective, if you were living in Australia in the 1970s, you might as well have been living on Mars. Richard Glover really knows how to pick his topics. ![]() ![]() But when benefit is put before what is right, they are not satisfied without snatching it all. Those with a thousand out of ten thousand, or a hundred out of a thousand, had quite a bit. When the head of a state of ten thousand chariots is murdered, the assassin is invariably a noble with a fief of a thousand chariots, When the head of a fief of a thousand chariots is murdered, the assassin is invariably head of a subfief of a hundred chariots. If your Majesty says, 'How can I benefit my state?' Your officials will say, 'How can I benefit my family,' and officers and common people will say, 'How can I benefit myself.' Once superiors and inferiors are competing for benefit, the state will be in danger. The king said, "Sir, you did not consider a thousand li too far to come, You must have some ideas about how to benefit my state." Mencius replied, "Why must Your Majesty use the word 'benefit'' All I am concerned with are the benevolent and the right. Mencius had an audience with King Hui of Liang. ![]() ![]() Below are excerpts of the completely correct view by Mencius: ![]() Machiavelli's observation of human nature and government are not correct and often contradicts the wisdom of the dharma and sages. ![]() ![]() He doesn’t want a love match and Gwendolyn refuses to find him any other match. But he now sees their lack of decorum needs a mother’s influence. Since his wife’s death, he’s relied on nannies and grandparents to care for Oscar, Samuel and Priscilla. Walter feels the time has come to find a suitable wife for his out of control children. Despite her protests, Gwendolyn is quickly moved to perform the duties as the matchmaker’s assistant. Gwendolyn’s father has made his own fortune and she has no need toward but takes a position as the paid companion of a Newport matchmaker. ![]() The premise is the daughter of a wealthy family, discarded by elite society because her father married for love and married a seamstress, viewed to be beneath him. A wonderful mix of hilarity and depth, just what fans of Turano’s would hope for. I’ve been looking forward to A Match in the Making ever since I heard it was on the way. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Approximately 43% of all products were developed by South American companies and institutions. Eleven different technical grade active ingredients or formulation types have been identified, with technical concentrates (fungus-colonized substrates) (26.3%), wettable powders (20.5%) and oil dispersions (15.2%) being most common. A total of 28 products are claimed to control acarines (mites and ticks) in at least 4 families, although only three products (all based on Hirsutella thompsonii) were exclusively developed as acaricides. Insects in the orders Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Thysanoptera, and Orthoptera comprise most of the targets, distributed among at least 48 families. We were unable to determine the status of the remaining 10%. Approximately 75% of all listed products are currently registered, undergoing registration or commercially available (in some cases without registration), whereas 15% are no longer available. brongniartii (4.1%) are the most common among the 171 products presented in this paper. Products based on Beauveria bassiana (33.9%), Metarhizium anisopliae (33.9%), Isaria fumosorosea (5.8%), and B. At least 12 species or subspecies (varieties) of fungi have been employed as active ingredients of mycoinsecticides and mycoacaricides for inundative and inoculative applications, although some are no longer in use. Here we present an updated, comprehensive list of these products. ![]() Abstract: A substantial number of mycoinsecticides and mycoacaricides have been developed worldwide since the 1960s. ![]() ![]() ![]() (For the uninitiated: Provincetown is a town at the tip of Cape Cod with a storied LGBT history and present. I booked a room in a Provincetown B&B, the most affordable one I could find but more than I wanted to spend, after my Bear Week plans fell through. The curtains are ruffled, and the bedspread is patterned with seashells. The two of them are also framed on the wall next to the hobbit-like closet, and another framed print hangs between the windows. ![]() There’s a stuffed Frog sitting next to a stuffed Toad on the bookshelf, their shoulders touching. I recommend sitting on the floor to read them but then, a lot of my job is sitting on a floor reading children’s books, so you might choose the armchair next to the window. It’s lined with Mouse Soup, Frog and Toad All Year, a story I didn’t know about an elephant. Next to the bed is a low wooden bookshelf. Where mothers put sick children to bed with cold compresses and bulb thermometers. The ceiling slants over the bed, the kind of bed you’d find in a picture book. Since Frog and Toad Together is very concerned with domesticity (tending to a garden, baking, keeping one’s life in some kind of order), let me tell you about this room. The Frog and Toad room in Howard’s End, the Provincetown bed and breakfast Howard would later own, is at least 26 years away. ![]() |