![]() ![]() Until the next morning, when they both wake up with fuzzy memories…and rings on their fingers.Ĭonvincing Sherry to maintain the ruse for his public image isn’t the hardest part-it’s reminding himself that their time spent playing husband and wife in her small town of Magnolia Springs can’t last. So when she meets a mysterious man while working backstage at a country music concert in Vegas, she’s all about what’s happened in Vegas staying there.Ĭountry music superstar Tyler Blue just wants a weekend of anonymity…though there’s something about the spunky waitress with the streaks of purple hair that tempts him like no other. One ring plus one wild night equals one crazy love We are so excited to bring you the Release Day Launch for Rachel Harris’ ACCIDENTALLY MARRIED ON PURPOSE!! ACCIDENTALLY MARRIED ON PURPOSE is the third book in her Love and Games Series published by Entangled Bliss. ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Priceless by robert k wittman![]() Most stolen art is not recovered, and authorities speculate that much of the missing work ends up in a landfill somewhere. ![]() ![]() But as Wittman details in his memoir Priceless (written with John Shiffman), the actual work is frustrating more often than it is glamorous.Īs crimes go, art theft is especially sensitive because the stolen property is notoriously hard to sell, so the thieves eventually realize that the best option for them is to destroy it. If there ever were an intriguing niche within the FBI, however, it would seem to be the one that Wittman carved out as the bureau’s chief investigator of international art thefts. In recent years, the bureau, along with the Central Intelligence Agency, has been criticized for valuing a lumbering and self-serving bureaucracy over results. Wittman – who founded the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s art crime team – paints a portrait of his former employer, and it isn’t a pretty one. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Golden Son by Pierce Brown![]() During his final exam at the Academy Darrow faces off against Cassius's older brother, Karnus au Bellona, in a space battle and loses, resulting in hundreds of casualties and being released from the service of Nero, who decides Darrow will be auctioned to another House at the Summit, a gathering of the Great Houses on Luna. ( March 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)ĭarrow, now one of the Peerless Scarred and in the service of his enemy, Nero au Augustus, is sent to The Academy, to learn to command fleet of warships in anticipation of being made praetor of a fleet on behalf of Nero. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. ![]() ![]() ![]() This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The rest is noise by alex ross![]() Ross brushes aside the mythology of 20th-century music's "inaccessibility" as he charts its meandering histories. Of all the artforms, modern and contemporary classical music is often seen as the most rebarbative. Ross, who is the music critic of the New Yorker, has distilled a lifetime's enthusiasm and learning into a rich narrative of musical history, setting the works of Mahler, Schoenberg, John Cage and the rest into their cultural and political contexts – but also giving a vivid sense of what the music he describes actually sounds and feels like. One of the members of the Waterstone's reading groups, who helped in the judging process, said: "Every time I felt overwhelmed by the technicalities, along came a sublime metaphor or simile that would light up the prose." According to one judge: "Where Ross lifts his book above the 'expert' and impressive to the 'good read' category is in the way he wears his learning lightly, never clutches for false or contrived ways of explaining music, and never dumbs down in order to explain." ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments One Chef! by M.L. Buchman![]() ![]() Whether you're an artist, designer, writer, daydreamer, or doodler, anyone can learn from these lessons on the varied paths to self-expression. As Buchman reveals throughout this provocative book, uncertainty is the space where discovery happens and where creators can be both playful and imaginative. Swap Out (May 2011) One Chef (Jul 2014) Two Chef (Nov 2014) Thriller Short Stories. Make to Know is about making as a path to knowing-presenting creativity as a "carving away" toward a revelation, not as a fully formed epiphany gleaned from a mysterious ether. And if she doesn't hurry, the show will be over, forever. But her present isn't the problem, it's her past. When a chef dies on air and a guest judge goes down, Kate must assemble a team to solve the crime. Michelangelo is said to have seen the angel in the stone and carved away until he set him free. L., ISBN 0692262369, ISBN-13 9780692262368, Brand New, Free shippingKate Stark runs the 1 television cooking network. Including such luminaries as Yves Béhar, Chris Kraus, Zack Snyder, Paula Scher, and Frank Gehry and businesses like Apple and Tesla who have changed the world as we know it, Buchman focuses on the revelatory nature of the creative journey itself. Buchman, an international leader in art and design education and president of ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California, guides readers through stories of a diverse and talented group of artists, entrepreneurs, innovators, and designers. In this insightful and informed book, Lorne M. It involves entertaining uncertainty and improvising new paths to knowing. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Eileen moshfegh review![]() ![]() She is stuck in what some people might call a state of victimhood. They share, what can only be described as a completely dysfunctional relationship. She lives at home with her alcoholic father. Life is messy, people rarely make good choices, and people stay or get trapped in relationships that they should leave but don’t know how to.Įileen, the namesake of Moshfegh’s novel, is trapped by circumstance. I feel like you love to hate her characters because she captures the true essence of what is at the core of all human nature. ![]() Moshfegh has an amazing way of writing perfectly awful characters in such a nuanced and special way. ![]() I have also reviewed her novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation which you can check out by clicking on the title. I am a big fan of Ottessa Moshfegh’s writing. Book cover has a woman in a white coat walking in the snow with her back to the camera. Right hand holding Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel Eileen. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (2022).Under the envoy's oversight, Velasin is transported from his country to marry Caethari Aeduria, the son of the Aeduria clan and a former military man known as the Wild Knife. After Killic finds him and, in the confrontation, reveals his predilections for men to his father and the Titheani envoy, Velasin gets disowned by his father, but, surprisingly, his commitment to marry is still upheld, with the Tithenai society being particularly open to same-sex relationships. In the conservative country of Farathel, Velasin vin Aaro escapes from his secret former lover, Killic vin Lato, to his father's estate, only to then learn he is to be bethroted to a Tithenai clan named Aeduria, in a long term political move to mend the bonds between the countries that the vin Mica family destroyed. The books are set in a fantasy world, where a recent civil unrest in the country of Farathel resulted in the vin Aaro family overtaking the greedy Lord Ennan vin Mica, taking his lands, including an important trade route that had gone in disarray during his tyrannical rule. ![]() The Tithenai Chronicles is a series of adult fantasy novels written by Foz Meadows. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Ovid poem the art of love![]() ![]() In fact, it had been published about eight years before he was banished, so that can’t have been the proximate cause. The carmen he’s referring to is the 'Ars Amatoria' ('The Art of Love'), said to induce Roman matrons towards adultery, which of course was rubbish. an error, it’s a mistake, an indiscretion. A carmen is a song, a poem, and an error is. The only evidence we have is what Ovid himself tells us, and he tells us there were two reasons. The climate was terrible, there was no culture there, and Ovid was exiled and his books were banned. No one went to Tomis, it was right on the edge of the Empire. ![]() ![]() Augustus made the announcement himself and exiled Ovid to a place called Tomis – in modern-day Romania on the Black Sea – which was frankly a dump. Very shortly after the 'Metamorphoses' was first published, or perhaps even the first draft was published, we’re not quite sure, Ovid was suddenly exiled from Rome. Although he took a few jobs in the judiciary, he decided not to go into public life and instead became a poet, and a very successful poet at that. He toured Greece in a mini Grand Tour, which was another thing that wealthy Roman men would have done. He came from a quite wealthy family and as a young man moved to Rome for his education, as was the standard thing at the time. Bernadine Corrigan: Ovid was a poet born in 43BC, the year after the assassination of Julius Caesar. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments The million dollar mermaid![]() ![]() The deal moves the United States one step back from the brink of a historic default, which, if it were to happen, would upend stock and bond markets. They reached an agreement in principle Saturday to raise the debt ceiling for two years and cap spending. US markets made gains Friday on reports that President Joe Biden and US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy were nearing a deal to allow the US government to keep paying its bills. Dow futures and Nasdaq futures rose around 0.35%, with S&P 500 futures up 0.3%. US and UK markets are closed Monday for a holiday, affecting trading volumes in Europe. The index has rallied nearly 20% this year. ![]() ![]() (N225) closed at a 33-year high, boosted by optimism over the debt ceiling deal and a weaker yen, which lifted exporters. (CAC40) falling by a similar margin after both posted gains earlier in the day. (DAX) closed 0.2% lower, with France’s CAC 40 European stocks and oil prices gave up early gains Monday, but US stock futures stayed positive following weekend news of an agreement that could avert a catastrophic US debt default. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Pop 1280 by jim thompson![]() ![]() Because, as it turns out, Sheriff Nick Corey is not nearly as dumb as he seems. Because the one thing Nick does know is that he will do anything to stay sheriff. With an election coming up, Nick needs to fix his problems and fast. Are they a little too close for a brother and a sister? And then, there’s his wife and her brother Lenny who won’t stop troubling Nick’s already stressed mind. His girlfriend Rose is being terrorized by her husband. Two local pimps have been sassing him, ruining his already tattered reputation. Still, Nick has some very complex problems to deal with. He knows that nobody in tiny Potts County actually wants to follow the law and he is perfectly content lazing about, eating five meals a day, and sleeping with all the eligible women. ![]() He doesn’t solve problems, enforce rules or arrest criminals. Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. ![]() |