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A very merry bromance5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() When they’re thrown back together by Gretchen’s immensely privileged family, Colton finally has a chance to show her how much more they could have. After meeting at a mutual friend’s wedding, the pair spent one unforgettable night together-which, to Colton’s mind, was not enough. Country music superstar Colton Wheeler would be excited, if only his career weren’t at a standstill-and if he weren’t nursing heartache over immigration lawyer Gretchen Winthrop. ![]() It’s time for the famous men of Nashville’s Bromance Book Club, who last appeared in Adams’s Isn’t it Bromantic?, to read a Christmas romance in this fun holiday romp. ![]()
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Alec nevala lee5/28/2023 ![]() So in August I was intrigued to discover, through my regular perusal of Deborah Kalb’s Book Q&As, that Alec Nevala-Lee had written a new book, Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller. Four hours later, Bucky was still talking, and when I tried to break in, he waved me aside and said, “I’m still on my introduction.”” Drucker writes: “Bucky Fuller and Marshall McLuhan had been friends of mine long before they became celebrities.” And later, when Drucker was on the faculty of Bennington College in Vermont in the 1940s: “When I introduced Bucky at his first speech at Bennington, I told the audience that he would talk for forty-five minutes and then answer questions. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve long been fascinated by the life and work of Buckminster Fuller, who died in 1983 at 87, and whose Wikipedia entry describes him as an “American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist.” I was especially drawn to his story because of the chapter “The Prophets: Buckminster Fuller and Marshall McLuhan,” in Peter Drucker’s 1978 memoir Adventures of a Bystander. ![]()
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Passenger by andrew smith5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The driver, a 17-year-old female, continued to drive "out of fear and panic," the documents said. He reported hearing at least four shots and said one of the bullets came through the back window and struck the front windshield, narrowly missing the driver's head. The passenger yelled "gun," and the occupants ducked inside the vehicle as shots rang out and glass shattered around them. He then saw a flash come from the gun, he told police. The dealer showed up with a backup man who stood off to the side as the transaction took place, but when the dealer handed over the weed, the teens drove off without paying, according to the court documents.Īs the dealer grabbed for the passenger door handle, one of the rear passengers looked back and saw the backup man, later identified as Smith, pull a gun from his waistband, the documents said. to wait for a man they'd arranged through Facebook to meet up with to purchase a quarter ounce of marijuana. "We have other aspects we want to look at," he said.Ī quarter: Charging documents said four teens, ages 16 to 18, pulled into the gas station parking lot at 1947 W. Jeff Snell said the investigation is ongoing. West Manchester Township Police Department Detective Sgt. ![]()
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Casey by lori foster5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Her gaze skipped over to Noel Poet, the reason she hadn’t brought Rookie along. Her family, more than most, loved babies. He’d be so surprised by her announcement, and no doubt her uncles would cheer right along with everyone else. Everyone in Buckhorn, Kentucky, cared for her dad. ![]() Morgan Hudson was an amazing icon in the community she wasn’t the only one who adored him. Everyone joined in for Father’s Day since they had some of the best dads ever.įilled with love and pride and warm affection, she smiled at her own father. Their group had grown, she thought with a smile, seeing the spouses of her brother and cousins, who were now a part of it all. They’d spent the morning together, taken a walk, played fetch in the yard, and then she’d left him in the fenced-in backyard, but with the doggy door open so he could come and go in the house as he pleased. ![]() For once, Amber Hudson hadn’t brought along her own fur-baby, Rookie. ![]() Many of her cousins had brought their dogs to play with her father’s and uncle’s animals. They sat at multiple picnic tables and in lawn chairs scattered about. BRIGHT SUNSHINE DANCED through the leaves of towering elms and oaks, adding dappled shade to the gathering of family. ![]()
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Sierra simone sinner read online5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() “Hold on, I’ll ask,” Trent says and I hear the electronic piano tones of a Liszt piece as I’m put on hold. I look across the room to where my mom sleeps fitfully, surrounded by a cluster of poles and wires and bags and screens. Something big’s come up and it’s an emergency.” Valdman says he wants you in his office as soon as possible. Bell.” Trent the Secretary sounds a little nervous. So I assume it won’t be a problem when I leave a message with his secretary that I won’t be in to the office that day, but then I get a call back from Trent the Secretary right away. ![]() I’ve still been nailing big deals and even bigger clients left and right, even if I’m doing most of my work now from various infusion rooms. As long as I bring in lots of money, he doesn’t care what I do or how often I’m in the office, which has been immensely helpful over the last eight months since Mom was diagnosed and I became Son in a Leading Cancer Role. Harry Valdman is a selfish, greedy asshole who cheats on his wife, ignores his children, and routinely swindles people out of their hard-earned money-but he’s a fairly decent boss. ![]()
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Happiness Becomes You by Tina Turner5/28/2023 ![]() She shows how we, too, can improve our lives, empowering us with spiritual tools and sage advice to enrich our unique paths.īuddhism has been a central part of Tina Turner’s life for decades and, in music, film, and live performances, she has shined as an example of generating hope from nothing, breaking through all limitations, and succeeding in life. And now, with Happiness Becomes You: A Guide to Changing Your Life for Good, Tina shows how anyone can overcome life’s obstacles-even transform the “impossible” to possible-and fulfill our dreams. Tina Turner-living legend, icon to millions, and author of the “brave and wry” ( Vulture) memoir My Love Story-returns with a deeply personal book of wisdom that explores her longstanding faith in Buddhism and provides a guide to these timeless principles so you can find happiness in your own life. ![]()
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Shadow of the almighty elliot5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Christianity TodayShadow of the Almighty is one of the great missionary stories of modern times.It is the life and testament of Jim Elliot, as told by Elliot s widow, author and evangelist Elisabeth Elliot Gren.Shadow of the Almighty is the true account ofElliots martyrdom, along withfour fellowmissionaries, at the hands of Ecuador s Huaorani Indians.About this important and enlightening book, Eugenia Pricewrites, It proves that Jesus Christ will bring bright creativity out of any shadow which might fall across any life and any love. About the Book Elizabeth Elliots account is more thant inspirational reading it belongs to the very heartbeat of evangelic witness.Christianity Today Book Synopsis More than inspirational reading: it belongs to the very heartbeat of evangelic witness. ![]()
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Novel blindsight5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Send them to the edge of the solar system, praying you can trust such freaks and monsters with the fate of a world. Send a man with half his mind gone since childhood. Send a pacifist warrior and a vampire recalled from the grave by the voodoo of paleogenetics. Send a linguist with multiple-personality disorder and a biologist so spliced with machinery that he can’t feel his own flesh. Who should we send to meet the alien, when the alien doesn't want to meet? Something talks out there: but not to us. ![]() The heavens have been silent, until a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet. Two months have passed since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. Blindsight is the Hugo Award-nominated novel by Peter Watts, “a hard science fiction writer through and through and one of the very best alive” ( The Globe and Mail). ![]()
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Ovids metamorphoses5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Shakespeare has been so definitely been contended to have drawn rich sustenance from Ovid. Literary and artistic communication nowhere can afford to discourse upon anything more substantial and significant than change. Like it is greatly insisted upon here, it needs properly to be acknowledged that the fact of change so crucial to our understanding of life in this world is the core subject matter of all communicative efforts. ![]() Ovid for having supplied factual material to nurture the writers’ and artists’ imagination and feeding their quest for knowledge is the best suited candidate to be deservingly admired for the wide range of subjects he has so majestically dealt with providing his readers the exposure necessary for genius anywhere to grow and thrive upon. Yes, like this essay stresses, literature on love and a whole lot of important other human experiences that form the raw material for literature that abides seem to have greatly depended on the revival of classical learning through translation of Graeco-Roman writing in general. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With blurbs by Regina King, Sequoia Nagamatsu, John D'Agata, Porochista Khakpour, and Paul Lisicky, among others, Dream Pop Origami is a choose-your-own-adventure memoir told in a series of intersecting circles, vignettes, and confessions. All books will be signed.ĭream Pop Origami, in the author's words:ĭream Pop Origami is my memoir about growing up as a mixed-race teenager in Traverse City, falling in love in Chicago, (dis)connecting with family in California, and traveling through Japan, West Africa, Europe, the West Coast, and South America to redefine home, family, and self. To claim your discount, order in advance and use the promo code BLISS20 at checkout, or pick up coupons at the event next Sunday. ![]() This event's books are available at 20% off at Brilliant Books. Jackson will be signing books at Brilliant Books tonight (8/19) at 6pm, and may do a meet-and-greet. *EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO TRAVEL COMPLICATIONS. Thirlby Room, Traverse City District Library (Woodmere) Join author (and Traverse City native) Jackson Bliss for a reading & discussion of his memoir Dream Pop Origami. ![]() |