"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. In addition to authoring books, he writes and manages two blogs, updating one for his new "American for Sale novel," and another long-running blog about prison recidivism/reentry,, whenever he can find worthy additions to pen, or is able to twist the arm of another guest commentator. As a chemical engineering retiree from the hectic business world of sales and marketing, he now relaxes in the laid-back resort city of Key West, FL, where he serves as Treasurer of the Key West Writers Guild. But they culminate decades of professional work immersed in the nonfiction world of the written word as: a McGraw-Hill editor and writer, the founding editor of the monthly "Journal of Teflon," the nonfiction book author of "Pondering Life's Imponderables," a freelance writer for an ad agency, and the editor of five Amazon books by other authors. Their immediate joy soon turns to confusion as they are forced to deal with an unbelieving world. "American for Sale," (), "The Renewables," (2014), and "Spy Mates," (2013) his recently released novels, are works that Chuck authored as pure fiction. Dodging death while preserving Kenyan native life, the couple returns months later to their Alabama home where they uncover the science behind their newfound. Clay and Jennie Evans, an aged couple celebrating their 54th wedding anniversary on a trip to Florida, stumble into a mythical reality and are reborn as teenagers overnight.
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It was hard, but we finally got to be partners. Then after the kids were grown, I put my foot down. She was a columnist for New York magazine and a founder of Ms. I used to ride behind my husband, and never took the road on my own. Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and spokeswoman for the feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 70s. "See that purple Harley out there-that big gorgeous one? That's mine. “Before she leaves, my new friend tells me to look out of the big picture window at the parking lot. At regular intervals, she adds excerpts from other sources to complement Caine's rather self-centered narration. In addition to that, there is an editor, who is revealed as Amberley Vail, an Inquisitor who shares Caine's sense for sarcasm (as well as.other things), and who peppers the text with her footnotes. The books are narrated by Caine as first-person narrator, and deliciously sarcastic. Caine and his extremely malodorous aide Jurgen are basically Blackadder and Baldrick transposed into the far future (although Jurgen is actually very efficient in his work, if not the brightest bulb in the chandelier). (I don't know what a ploin is or what shape it is, but ploins and squinches are the funniest-sounding vegetables I've ever encountered in fiction) But the main reason to read these books is not the terribly original plot, but that they're really entertaining. The plot they follow is basically the same every time: Caine and his regiment, the 597th Valhallan, are sent to some Emperorforsaken planet to fight against the scum of the universe, and it generally develops into action-loaded military campaigns, and some politics, and things tend to go extremely ploin-shaped. It contains 3 novels, For The Emperor, Caves of Ice and The Traitor's Hand and the short stories The Beguiling, Fight or Flight and Echoes of the Tomb. This is a Warhammer 40K tie-in novel, presenting the life and works of Comissar Ciaphas Cain, the most heroic man in the human Empire. For Women Only attempts to provide readers with insight into the inner lives of men and the challenges they face. That became the basis for her book For Women Only: What You Need to Know About the Inner Lives of Men. While interviewing men to help her write The Lights on Tenth Street, which has a male protagonist, Feldhahn made a series of observations about men that compelled her to return to the non-fiction world, leading her to further research what men are thinking that women tend not to know. Her background as an analyst served as a launching point for opportunities to write about eye-opening topics,leading first to a book about a balanced Christian response to the Y2K issue, and later, two spiritual fiction thrillers ( The Veritas Conflict and The Lights of Tenth Street). She later attended Harvard's Kennedy School for a Master in Public Policy with a Concentration in Business, and then worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as one of the principal financial analysts on Japan during the time of the Japanese financial crisis.įeldhahn began her career as an author after moving to Atlanta to start a family. Feldhahn received her bachelor's degree in government and economics from The College of William and Mary in Virginia (Class of 1989) she then went on to serve on the staff of the U.S. Largely due to the support of international nongovernment organizations and the United Nations, the Fourth World has become a global presence. Notwithstanding their weakness in terms of conventional political resources, and their often minuscule numbers, indigenous peoples have in the last decades of the twentieth century been able to resist encroachments on their space by mobilizing international opinion. The Fourth World claims that it is in the interest of humanity as a whole that indigenous peoples are able to perpetuate these life ways, and it thus claims a particular set of rights within the broader field of difference politics. In Fourth World discourse, indigeneity implies a radical difference from the world's other life ways, and a rejection of material progress in favor of spirituality and closeness to nature. Indigenous identity is grounded in the claim to be descended from the original inhabitants of a country, vis-à-vis ethnic groups that came later, as conquerors and colonists. The Fourth World is both an imagined community and a political coalition of indigenous peoples, transcending the borders of nation states. Beckett, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2001 They’re forced to spend the summer together at Camelot in the run up to their nuptials, and within 24 hours, Gwen has discovered Arthur kissing a boy and Arthur has gone digging for Gwen's childhood diary and found confessions about her crush on the kingdom's only lady knight, Bridget Leclair. The only thing they can agree on is that they despise each other. His descendant, Arthur, a future Lord and general gadabout, has been betrothed to Gwendoline, the quick-witted, short-tempered princess of England, since birth. It’s been hundreds of years since King Arthur’s reign. Heartstopper meets A Knight’s Tale in this queer medieval rom com YA debut about love, friendship, and being brave enough to change the course of history. Lex Croucher is one of my favorite romcom authors, and they should be yours, too." - Casey McQuiston, #1 New York Times bestselling author of I Kissed Shara Wheeler Gwen & Art gave me the same cheeky, swoony, giddy, irresistible high of the first time I saw A Knight’s Tale. But here’s a stranger idea: what if you were already living inside a whale but didn’t realise it, so vast were its cavernous insides? For an idea this odd and haunting, you would have to look to the works of John Donne and, more specifically, to what is by far his most bizarre poem, ‘Metempsychosis’, which tells the story of the migration of a single soul from entity to entity, from the apple picked by Eve in Eden through a head-spinning range of animal and human creatures. W hat would it be like to be swallowed by a whale? Disappearing into the huge maw of a sea giant has made for thrilling and terrifying narratives, from the biblical story of Jonah to Melville’s Moby-Dick and Walt Disney’s Pinocchio. Could one of these have been this enigmatic man, reported to have last appeared in Seville, Spain, in 1952 when he would have been 113 years of age? Genevive Dubois looks at the esoteric milieu of Paris at the turn of the century, a time that witnessed a great revival of the alchemical tradition, and investigates some of its salient personalities. intelligence agency, later to become the CIA) claimed to have looked for him following the end of World War II. The true identity of the man who allegedly succeeded in creating the philosopher's stone has never been discovered, despite ardent searches by many-even the OSS (the wartime U.S. * Includes a wealth of rarely seen documents, photos, and lettersįulcanelli, operative alchemist and author of The Mystery of the Cathedrals and The Dwellings of the Philosophers-two of the most important esoteric works of the twentieth century-remains himself a mystery. * Provides new understanding of the relationships between the most important figures of the esoteric milieu of Paris in the first half of the 20th century Sheds new light on the identity of the alchemist Fulcanelli Pierce ( Wild Magic, 1992, etc.) employs the trappings of magic, yet never invokes it as a convenient plot device imposed from without. Mage Niklaren Goldeye brings all four to a disciplined temple community where their special gifts can flower. Briar, a streetwise thief, harbors a special affinity for plants, and Trisana, the Merchant girl, seems to have a direct line to the forces of nature itself. Daja, the Trader girl, wants to be a metalworker, but making things is forbidden to traders. Sandry (Lady Sandrilene fa Toren) feels "Good f'r naught but to be waited on and to marry." She longs to be useful and competent. The four come from varying backgrounds, but all have been misfits rankling against the restrictions that class and culture impose. In a fantasy set in mythical lands surrounding the Pebbled Sea, four young people come to terms with the pain that life has dealt them, the prejudices they've inherited, and the unrecognized magical powers they were born with. yet, as the story draws on, our sympathy for them grows alongside a grudging sort of admiration.Īs for the Little Heaven of the title, it's a secluded religious cult, rotting away beneath the cursed shadow of Black Rock. They're all unlikable scoundrels, bounty hunters and assassins who we could easily dismiss as having earned their fate. Cutter establishes so much atmosphere and so much dread in those first few pages, it's genuinely chilling.įrom there, we go on to meet the tale's three protagonists, each of them suffering under fifteen years of having their fondest wish granted. The story wastes no time getting to the dark stuff, opening with the creation of a monstrous abomination, and following through to its abduction of a young girl. As much as I enjoyed the horrifying darkness of The Troop and The Deep, Nick Cutter takes his craft to a whole other level here, establishing a cast of characters who are wholly worthy of the story's grotesque terror. Little Heaven is destined to be a horror classic, right up there with the vintage epics of King, Simmons, and McCammon. |