![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He knows this was never meant to be anything more than a pleasant diversion, but now that it's over can he walk away without looking back? Then after a few blissful weeks, Kai disappears and David is hurt. Kai is close-lipped, and David knows he's hiding something, but Kai brings a joie de vivre into David’s life that’s long been missing. Then on his first night in town David meets Kai, and the younger man turns his world upside down. His only concern is taking care of business so he can return home and patch things up with his ex. Thailand is a hedonist’s paradise but David isn’t interested in the sinful pleasures Bangkok has to offer. The temperature in Thailand is a humid ninety degrees but things are about to get a lot hotter for Philadelphia lawyer David Elliot. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Losure painstakingly sets the stage by outlining historical events of the time. However, the main reason was because the narrative was so compelling. The day I sat down to read it, I planned to read just one chapter but instead I finished the whole book in one sitting, easy to do since the book is just under 200 pages and is on the small side. This is an example of totally engaging non-fiction. Even the famous author of the Sherlock Holmes books, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was taken in by their simple ruse. The Fairy Ring describes the true story of how two English girls in the early 1900s successfully fooled the world at the time into thinking they had photographed fairies. If you have ever thought that truth is stranger than fiction, then this story proves it. Rating: 1-5 (5 is excellent or a Starred review) 4 ![]() The Fairy Ring or Elsie and Frances Fool the World by Mary Losure ![]() ![]() ![]() Recycling gender Preconceptions and postconceptions - Parenting with a half-changed mind - "Gender detectives" - Gender education - The self- socializing child - Epilogue : And s-t-r-e-t-c-h! or a monkey? - Sex and premature speculation - What does it all mean, anyway? - Brain scams - The "seductive allure" of neuroscience - Unraveling hardwiring - Part 3. Neurosexism : The "fetal fork" - In "the darkness of the womb" (and the first few hours in the light) - The brain of a boy in the body of a girl. "Half-changed world," half-changed minds : We think, therefore you are - Why you should cover your head with a paper bag if you have a secret you don't want your wife to find out - "Backwards and in high heels" - I don't belong here - The glass workplace - XX-clusion and XXX-clusion - Gender equality begins (or ends) at home - Gender equality 2.0? - Part 2. ![]() Delusions of gender : how our minds, society, and neurosexism create difference / Cordelia Fine. ![]() ![]() Lawrence) does not fully explore an essential question raised by the Franklin-Watson conflict: whether methodology and intuition play competing or complementary roles in scientific discovery. Maddox sees her subject as a wronged woman, but this view seems rather extreme. ![]() Her career was cut short when she died of ovarian cancer at age 37. Deeply unhappy at Kings, Rosalind left in 1953 for another lab, where she did important research on viruses, including polio. These were shown without her knowledge to James Watson, who recognized that they indicated the shape of a double helix and rushed to publish the discovery with colleagues Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, he won the Nobel Prize in 1962. After beginning her research career in postwar Paris she moved to Kings College, London, where her famous photographs of DNA were made. Franklin was born into a well-to-do Anglo-Jewish family and was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. In this sympathetic biography, Maddox argues that sexism, egotism and anti-Semitism conspired to marginalize a brilliant and uncompromising young scientist who, though disliked by some colleagues, was a warm and admired friend to many. ![]() ![]() Her photographs of DNA were called "among the most beautiful X-ray photographs of any substance ever taken," but physical chemist Rosalind Franklin never received due credit for the crucial role these played in the discovery of DNA's structure. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Buttera) with wear and shallow nicks and tears along top and bottom edges, mainly spine ends and corner tips, small chip from bottom edge of front panel, and mild age-darkening, mainly to spine panel. A fine copy in good or better pictorial dust jacket (illustrated by F. Private owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 542. "One of the most highly regarded modern authors of Gothic tales." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. This first book, highly enigmatic and more metaphoric than Gothic, won great. ![]() Dinesen's first book, a collection of seven stories. Her first book, Seven Gothic Tales, was published in the US in 1934 under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen. v-x 1-420, title leaf and divisional leaves printed in red and black, title page printed in brown and black, original three-quarter red cloth and cream boards, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge stained red, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like Parker, James Stark is coming back for revenge on a group of former partners who assumed he was dead unlike Parker, Stark has spent the last decade in Hell, where he’s been battling monsters and assassinating demons, and it’s made him even more dangerous than he was before – and that’s saying something. A glorious mix of urban fantasy, horror, and noir, Sandman Slim is a revenge tale that feels pretty indebted to Donald Westlake’s The Hunter (which became the great Point Blank), down to the choice of Stark as surname for its protagonist. Serving as the perfection transition from a month of horror to a month of noir, Richard Kadrey’s Sandman Slim is one of those wonderful genre blends that manages to find something more than the sum of its parts in its blending. ![]() ![]() Shanghai is already at a boiling point: The Nationalists are marching in, whispers of civil war brew louder every day, and gangster rule faces complete annihilation. Then a new monstrous danger emerges in the city, and though secrets keep them apart, Juliette must secure Roma’s cooperation if they are to end this threat once and for all. Roma knows it’s his fault for letting the ruthless Juliette back into his life, and he’s determined to set things right-even if that means killing the girl he hates and loves with equal measure. Roma is still reeling from Marshall’s death, and his cousin Benedikt will barely speak to him. If Juliette were actually guilty of the crime Roma believes she committed, his rejection might sting less. The only way to save the boy she loves from the wrath of the Scarlets is to have him want her dead for murdering his best friend in cold blood. ![]() One wrong move, and her cousin will step in to usurp her place as the Scarlet Gang’s heir. ![]() Synopsis: The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution.Īfter sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on a mission. Published: November 16th, 2021 (Margaret K. ![]() ![]() ![]() Zane convinces Tally to take the cure, agreeing to share it with her. There is a letter inside the package from Tally, written when she was an ugly, telling her that the pills included inside the package are a cure for lesions put on her brain during the "pretty" surgery. With the help of Zane, a friend and leader of the clique, the Crims, Tally is able to clear her mind enough to find the package. This ugly tells Tally that he has a package for her, but he leaves it hidden, forcing her to work to find it. While attending a party, she is approached by an ugly whom she vaguely recalls from her time in the Smoke. In this novel, Tally is now a pretty living in New Pretty Town. ![]() ![]() Pretties by Scott Westerfeld is the second book in the Uglies series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Initially he wished to become a lawyer, but has said that a required Bible course at the university and a mission trip made him change his mind, deciding instead to become a missionary. While a student at Abilene Christian, Lucado worked to pay his way through college by selling books door-to-door with the Southwestern Advantage entrepreneurial program. Lucado attended Abilene Christian University where he received an undergraduate degree in Mass Communication. His father, of Italian ancestry, was an oil field worker, while his mother served as a nurse. Lucado was born in San Angelo, Texas, the youngest of four children to Jack and Thelma Lucado. ( November 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. ![]() ![]() ![]() If he had always been a Christian, it would have been one thing. ![]() ![]() Reading about the sad fate of Merton's parents, and especially the artistic upbringing of Merton makes me love the monk and take pride in the fact that I walked in the territory of the offspring of similar birds. Knowing Merton's personal background now has made him in my eyes the exact opposite of a harsh or dogmatic read. But I wanted to say all that in the previous paragraph so you understand it has been a strong resistance. I don't know if I can convince anyone that I have good reason for my resistance against Catholicism. It took until 2018 for me to read some Merton for myself. I thought about the nature as being connected to this guy Merton who everyone was talking about. We happened to be in Kentucky and took a visit to Gethsemane as well as Sister Loretto House. Many of the students were reading and referring to Merton, but I wrote it off as their religiosity. May Sarton and Gail Sher, Rilke and Rumi, and tons of self selected works of our choosing. When we spoke about Thomas Merton, I asked a rare question for me, "Was this required reading?" To my happiness, the answer was no. I took a class in college in Contemplative Writing. ![]() As a Secular Humanist, I Gleaned a lot from This ![]() |