![]() Because she hates to leave her house, a crumbling ruin she’s never bothered to renovate, she has hired a personal assistant in India to run her life via the Internet. ![]() She certainly hates everything about Seattle, especially the other mothers at Bee’s crunchy-granola private school. Bernadette may be brilliant and funny, but she is also mean-spirited and self-absorbed, with a definite case of entitlement that the author too frequently seems to share. Now she lives in Seattle with her equally genius husband, Elgie, who is working on a big project in artificial intelligence at Microsoft, and their genius eighth-grade daughter, Bee, whose devotion to her mother is one of the novel’s least credible plot points. ![]() ![]() From Semple ( This One Is Mine, 2008), a cleverly constructed Internet-age domestic comedy about a wife/mother/genius architect who goes a little nuts from living in that cesspool of perfection and bad weather called Seattle.īernadette left Los Angeles years earlier after a professional disaster: After she won a MacArthur grant for building a house using only materials that originated within 20 miles of the site, vengeful neighbors had the house destroyed. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() No one knew him better than did Norma Stevens, who for thirty years was his business partner and closest confidant. But the Richard Avedon the world saw was perhaps his greatest creation: he relentlessly curated his reputation and controlled his image, managing to remain, for all his exposure, among the most private of celebrities. ![]() He possessed a mystique so unique it was itself a kind of genius-everyone fell under his spell. He also went on the road to find and photograph remarkable uncelebrated faces, with an eye toward constructing a grand composite picture of America.Īvedon dazzled even his most dazzling subjects. Over six richly productive decades, he created landmark advertising campaigns, iconic fashion photographs (as the star photographer for Harper’s Bazaar and then Vogue), groundbreaking books, and unforgettable portraits of everyone who was anyone. Richard Avedon was arguably the world’s most famous photographer-as artistically influential as he was commercially successful. An intimate biography of Richard Avedon, the legendary fashion and portrait photographer who “helped define America’s image of style, beauty and culture” ( The New York Times), by his longtime collaborator and business partner Norma Stevens and award-winning author Steven M. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dust jacket with illustrated design on front panel, publisher's blurb on back panel for two other books (non-Cadfael) by Pargeter, summary of the book on the front flap with the publisher's price of GBP 3.50 on the lower corner, author bio with black-and-white head shot on the back flap. _DESCRIPTION: Bound in full rust-coloured textured paper over boards, black lettering debossed on the spine, page 97 with a double line of text octavo size (7 15/16" by 5"), pagination: 5-192. Pargeter not only wrote multiple works of historical fiction (the Cadfael series, the "Brothers of Gwynedd" trilogy and more) but also authored history and Czech translations (n.b., info and above quote from Wiki). Written by the linguist and scholar Edith Mary Pargeter (1913-1995) under the pseudonym of Ellis Peters. The series would eventually encompass twenty novels, and was adapted to the stage, radio and television, the latter bringing the series into prominence starring Sir Derek Jacobi. ![]() The first book in the "Brother Cadfael" series, the title character being a Benedictine monk living in Wales in the early 12th century, who "combines the curious mind of a scientist/pharmacist with a knight-errant". ![]() ![]() Aristotle's key ideas have provoked and stimulated philosophers over many centuries, precisely because they are not cut and dried doctrines, but can be applied and interpreted and developed in various ways, still relevant to problems that confront us.Īckrill shows us how enjoyable and rewarding it is to engage in philosophical arguments with Aristotle. ![]() For having to learn a doctrine is a boring task, and specially depressing when you know that it is false but interesting arguments give pleasure and profit whether or not they really establish the alleged conclusions. To Ackrill, what really characterizes Aristotle as a philosopher is not the number and weight of his conclusions / ‘doctrines’, but the power and subtlety of his arguments and ideas and analyses. Ackrill’s aim in this book is not just to impart information, but to arouse interest in the philosophical problems Aristotle tackles, and in his arguments and ideas. ![]() This book is a highly selective and impressionistic view of/guide-book to Aristotle's philosophy. ![]() ![]() ![]() But now, with high-profile players like team captain Scott Hunter ( Game Changer) openly out and proud and about to marry his fiancé, and other athletes being open about their sexuality, Eric is re-examining his choices. He’s always known he’s attracted to men as well as women but had chosen to ignore that side of himself he’d been happily married and had no reason to think about it. He’s in good shape and still playing well, but the career of a professional athlete is tough on the body and Eric wants to quit while he’s ahead and walk away while he can still walk! The trouble is that he doesn’t have much of an idea as to where he wants to go from here, and in addition to that, he’s struggling with being newly single following his divorce a year earlier from his wife of sixteen years, and with his sexual identity. New York Admirals Goalkeeper Eric Bennett is approaching his forty-first birthday and has reached the decision that this season will be his last. It’s a gorgeous May/December romance between a silver-fox goalie close to retirement, and a bartender sixteen years his junior it’s tender, funny, emotional and hot as hell – and don’t be surprised if it makes an appearance on my Best of 2020 list. ![]() Rachel Reid’s Game Changers series of hockey romances continues with Common Goal, the fourth book in the set and easily one of the best. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is an exciting read by an author with terrific writings skills. Women were allowed to practice in the Medical School of Salerno, Italy, and Adelia has been taught to help solve crimes by studying the bodies of the victims - thus the books title Mistress of the Art of Death. The local Jews have been accused of the murders, and Henry, needing the taxes he receives from Jewish merchants, wants them protected.Ĭhosen for the task are three from Southern Italy sent undercover as pilgrims - Adelia, a medically trained doctor, Simon, a brilliant Jewish investigator, and Mansur, a Muslim eunuch serving as Adelias protector. ![]() Englands King Henry II, needing experts to investigate the vicious deaths of four children in Cambridge, appeals to his cousin, the King of Sicily, to help solve the crimes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From New York to Namibia to a conference of sex researchers in Montreal, she takes us on a journey to understand women who refuse monogamy, posing questions about why we became sexually exclusive in the first place. In Untrue, New York Times -bestselling author Wednesday Martin reveals that we are just at the beginning of understanding women’s sexuality properly. Men are biologically programmed to want sex with lots of different women, whereas women are designed to stay true to one person, right? A jaw-dropping re-evaluation of everything we thought we knew about men, women, and sex. ![]() ![]() Scratched: Practical Move, Continuar, Lord Miles, Skinner, Forte. Here is the complete, official order of finish for the 149 th Kentucky Derby: Saturday’s official Kentucky Derby attendance was 150,335, an increase from last year’s 147,294. ![]() ![]() Price32.00 Just Arrived Lords of Wrath by Angel Lawson Paperback. All-sources wagering on the Kentucky Derby race was a record of $188.7 million, beating the previous mark of $179.0 million set in 2022.ĭerby Week all-sources betting totaled $412 million, topping the previous record of $391.8 million set last year. Just Arrived Lords of Mercy by Angel Lawson Paperback. Second-place Two Phil’s paid $10.44 and $6.52.Ī record $288.7 million was bet during Saturday’s 14-race Kentucky Derby card, according to Churchill Downs, beating the previous record of $273.8 million set last year. Two Phil’s, argued mostly for the placement of his apostrophe, was runner-up. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake. Mage, a 15-1 shot at race time, pulled the upset. Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US, 2018 - 202 pages. ![]() A horse few were talking about walked away with the roses, and another lightly discussed contender finished second. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cecil Gershwin Palmer-the host, main character, and narrator-is voiced by Cecil Baldwin, while secondary characters are sometimes voiced by guest stars or recurring guests-such as Dylan Marron, who voices Carlos the Scientist. Published by Night Vale Presents since March 15, 2015, the podcast was previously published by Commonplace Books. ![]() The series was created in 2012 by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor. Welcome to Night Vale is a fiction podcast presented as a radio show for the fictional town of Night Vale, reporting on the strange events that occur within it. ![]() ![]() the only book you'll need to read on the subject. reads like a suspense novel." - Kirkus Reviews Bartlett Giamatti, locking horns with Pete Rose during his gambling days of summer and much more. Witness zealous Judge Landis banish eight players, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, after the infamous "Black Sox" scandal the flamboyant A's owner Charlie Finley wheel and deal his star players, Vida Blue and Rollie Fingers, like a deck of cards the hysterical bidding war of coveted free agent Catfish Hunter the chain-smoking romantic, A. In this fascinating, colorful chronicle-based on hundreds of interviews and years of research and digging-John Helyar brings to vivid life the extraordinary people and dramatic events that shaped America's favorite pastime, from the dead-ball days at the turn of the century through the great strike of 1994. But what you see on the field is only half the game. John Helyar, reporter for The Wall Street Journal and co-author of the number one bestseller Barbarians at the Gate, says in Lords of the Realm, 'Before it was a business, it was a game'. ![]() "The ultimate chronicle of the games behind the game."- The New York Times Book Reviewīaseball has always inspired rhapsodic elegies on the glory of man and golden memories of wonderful times. ![]() |