Her first contemporary Christian romance, My Stubborn Heart, has just been released by Bethany House. She published three historical romances for the general market, put her career on hold for several years to care for her kids, and eventually returned to writing sheerly for the love of it. It was during her years abroad that Becky's passion for reading turned into a passion for writing. She's been a fan of all things romantic ever since.īecky and her husband lived overseas in the Caribbean and Australia before settling in Dallas, Texas. These plays almost always featured a heroine, a prince, and a love story with a happy ending. Her inspirational contemporary romance, My Stubborn Heart, has just been released by Bethany House.ĭuring her childhood in California, Becky frequently produced homemade plays starring her sisters, friends, and cousins. BECKY WADE makes her home in Dallas, Texas with her husband, three children, and one adoring (and adored) cavalier spaniel.
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The tale of Senjo and Ochu, and the question of how it is possible to be in two places at once, and to be two people at once, is particularly apropos at Halloween, given the custom of putting on masks and costumes, and assuming (however temporarily) other identities, and the belief about borders between worlds (temporal and spiritual) opening at this time. Muth crafts a lovely, contemplative Halloween book in Zen Ghosts, one that continues the education in Zen principles that was begun in the earlier Stillwater books, but also celebrates the spirit of the season. Using a well-known Zen koan - a type of paradoxical question meant to provoke a searching introspection that can prove illuminating, in and of itself - that he heard from a number of sources, Jon J. Here, in another guise, he unfolds a deliciously creepy, but also thought-provoking ghost story, concerning a young woman named Senjo, and the incredible dual life she leads, in two places at once. Stillwater - the wise and gentle Panda whose zen teachings were first to be seen in Zen Shorts and Zen Ties - returns in this third picture-book adventure, inviting Addy, Michael and Karl to a storytelling session at his house, after they finish their Halloween trick-or-treating. "You don't get the fire back in the box once you've unleashed it," he writes, and while the mixed metaphor might make some break out in hives, it's a sentiment that's hard to deny. Whether or not Howey believes in the details of his story, the anxiety, claustrophobia and lethargy he conjures are heartfelt and convincing. In Shift there are characters who outrun their deaths by being cryogenically frozen, thawing out every 50 years to pop pills, watch videos, do some mind-numbing work and go back to sleep. The pixelated screen that dominates Wool was inspired by Howey's own experience of watching TV news. What succeeds is the dread-inspiring imagery at the trilogy's core (part three, Dust, is out in October). The plot itself offers some genuine surprises, but it's overcomplicated. Settings and characters are bland, particularly the women: we get a standard-issue femme fatale (with an "alluring and elfin quality") and two supportive and long-suffering wife figures. Sci-fi often gets a bad rep for privileging plot above all else, but here the charge sticks. We meet a 23rd-century courier whose graffiti-spattered "silo" is simmering with civil war a Georgia congressman in the near future an abandoned schoolboy whose story ends where Juliette's begins and Troy, who wakes up in 2110 without remembering who he is. Wool's hero was Juliette, a freedom-fighting mechanic born a hundred storeys underground, and the strands of Shift's split narrative take place earlier, explaining how her world came to be. When not in New York, he and Caroline reside in Colleyville, Texas.Įric Holmlund is a Professor of Environmental Studies in the Environment and Society Department at Paul Smith’s College. For the past few years, Jim has worked with the Economic Development Committee of the Westport Chamber. Jim holds an Engineering Degree with Honors from Princeton and earned his PhD from Yale in Organizational Behavior and Operations Research. He remains a partner at Timmaron, LLC and Innovation Through Technology, LLC, which advise private equity firms. He taught in the graduate schools at Yale and USC and has done research at RAND, the Wharton School and a DARPA think-tank, before founding and running three technology startups. Jim retired in 2005 after a career in research, consulting, decision support software, and venture capital. A former competitive windsurfer, Jim still races J24s and other sailboats. He hosts the Hidden Quarry CATS Trail at his camp. He is an Eagle Scout and attended the National Scout Jamboree in 2017. Having grown up in a small farming town in Northern Missouri and later on the West Coast of Florida, Jim has hiked and camped in nearly every National Park and hiked and rafted the Grand Canyon. Jim Carlisle and his wife Caroline spend about five months a year at Camp Graystone in Westport, where they enjoy sailing, golf, hiking, swimming, cooking, entertaining and hanging out with their two daughters, Jenn and Steph. To let their demons loose on me.īut maybe these Kings of Chaos have let my pretty face fool them.īecause I'm just as vicious as they are. Even though they've agreed to help me, I know they want to punish me, too. They’ll give me a chance to exact my vengeance, and in exchange, all they want is. Lucky for me, the last name on my list is someone they’ve got their own grudge against, so instead of killing me, they offer me a deal. But it turns out revenge is a messy business, and when I end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, I royally piss off four brutal, twisted, gorgeous men. Six people who turned me into the monster I am now. Six people who wronged me, who hurt me, who took everything from me. Some people wear their heart on their sleeve. I was a good girl once, but now I dance with devils. He described himself as a "High Church" Episcopalian and received communion more than once a week. He was a history buff and enjoyed hunting, fishing, sailing, poker, chess, pool, and pipe collecting. After graduating he was employed by the United States Navy as a nuclear engineer. After returning from Vietnam he attended The Citadel where he received an undergraduate degree in physics. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with bronze oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star with "V" and bronze oak leaf cluster, and two Vietnamese Gallantry Crosses with palm. He served two tours in Vietnam (from 1968 to 1970) with the United States Army as a helicopter gunner. Jordan was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He also wrote under the names Reagan O'Neal and Jackson O'Reilly. Robert Jordan was the pen name of James Oliver Rigney, Jr., under which he was best known as the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy series. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Interesting Times: A Novel of Discworld (Mass Market): Soul Music: A Novel of Discworld (Mass Market):įeet of Clay: A Novel of Discworld (Mass Market): Men at Arms: A Novel of Discworld (Mass Market): Lords and Ladies: A Novel of Discworld (Mass Market): Small Gods: A Novel of Discworld (Mass Market): Witches Abroad: A Novel of Discworld (Mass Market): Moving Pictures: A Novel of Discworld (Mass Market): Guards! 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Without giving away any spoilers, I thought the story was entertaining enough and as mentioned, extremely well narrated. Each in her own way, refuses to follow the herd and this has consequences for all of them. The story centres around three women – Tara, a tv executive who makes a silly mistake one night and it threatens to ruin her life Cam, a well known blogger who has a hugely successful career, but her mother and sisters despair of her life choices and Stella, a young woman mourning the death of her sister, who is driven to desperate lengths to get what she wants out of life. It’s a mixed bag of a book for me – definitely held my attention throughout, but when looked at in retrospect a lot of the things that happened were verging on ludicrous. I listened to the audiobook of The Cows, expertly narrated by the author herself, Dawn O’Porter, plus Karen Cass and Laura Kirman. It is the story of Lady Jane Grey–“the Nine Days’ Queen”-a fifteen-year-old girl who unwittingly finds herself at the center of the religious and civil unrest that nearly toppled the fabled House of Tudor during the sixteenth century. Historical expertise marries page-turning fiction in Alison Weir’s enthralling debut novel, breathing new life into one of the most significant and tumultuous periods of the English monarchy. I am to die when I have hardly begun to live. historical fiction game.”- The Independent Weir shows skill at plotting and maintaining tension, and she is clearly going to be a major player in the. Eventually, Skull Skates and Christian created ads with images of him and the Hammerhead deck with the slogans, “The Real Hosoi” and “Beware Of Imitations.” In 2016, the Smithsonian’s National History Museum of American History accepted an original Hammerhead as a historically important skateboard object. It was sought by nearly every skateboarder and consequently bootlegged and sold around the world by several different companies. Originally released in 1984, the HosoiHammerhead quickly became one of the most iconic skateboard shapes of all time and a benchmark of individuality. First revolutionizing skateboard design with his "Fish" shape, then later with the unique Hammerhead shape. In the world of skateboarding, Christian Hosoi has always been a pioneer of style and functionality combined. |
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