![]() ![]() The children view Arthur as a father figure. He has been in many orphanages and was abused previously. And Sal is a shapeshifter who can become a small Pomeranian, with the special ability of being able to give others shapeshifting abilities by biting them. Chauncey is an amorphous blog with tentacles, basically a monster. ![]() Phee is a particularly powerful forest sprite. Theodore is one of the few wveryns in existence. There are six children living in the orphanage there, one of whom is called "Lucy" (short for Lucifer), who is the Antichrist.Īll the children at Marsyas are unique. The master of the orphanage is a man named Arthur Parnassus. Linus's assignment is to assess a special orphanage on the island of Marsyas. One day, he's called in by the organization's Extremely Upper Management ("EUM") to serve on a month-long classified assignment, reporting directly to one of the four members of EUM, Mr. His job consists of visiting orphanages to check up on them and then writing up a report. ![]() Linus Baker is a lonely case worker for the Department in Charge of Magical Youth ("DICOMY"), a governmental organization which manages orphaned magical beings who are minors. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Slade cannot believe how easy the money is with his new job. She knows she is not his type so she is trying not to get any of those ideas. He is known for never being seen with the same girl twice. His mom wants to teach him responsibility and show his father he is growing up. Now she is assigned to him for a summer job project. Trina and Slade know one another from school. ![]() ![]() A lot of it.īut nothing gets between a boy and a girl like a big, fat secret.ĭisclaimer: This Entangled Teen Crush book contains a straight/gay BFF bromance, an irresistibly kissable bad boy, a good girl who wants to be kissed, some epic babysitting fails, and the occasional f-bomb. Fortunately, Trina has no idea about the bet Slade made with his best friend that he can totally get her to unwind by the end of summer. She's all structure and rules, while Slade wants to just have fun. Slade Edmunds prefers easy hook-ups, and Trina is definitely not his type. Just don't ask her about the secret job of "fixing" the bad habits of a certain high school player. Why else would she - the most organized, prepared student in school - spend the summer as a nanny and partner with the biggest slacker ever? Now she's ready to tackle nannyhood with her big binder of research and schedules. "From the great cover to the intriguing synopsis, Lisa Brown Roberts brings a whole new twist to your typical good girl vs player type-of-story." -Jackie, Jackie's Book World ![]() ![]() ![]() Solanas was immortalized by actress Lili Taylor in the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol. She died alone and in relative obscurity in 1988 in San Francisco, leaving behind a sheaf of typewritten pages that her mother burned after her death. Deemed a paranoid schizophrenic by the state, once out of jail, Solanas stalked Warhol for several more years, before eventually leaving New York. In 1968, she was arrested after an assassination attempt on the life Andy Warhol, and imprisoned for three years. Valerie Solanas was a radical feminist playwright and social propagandist best known as the author of the SCUM Manifesto, which she self-published and sold on the streets of New York. Humor such as this is a muscle, a weapon… It was the truth, and the truth is so absurd it’s painful.” -Michelle TeaĨ0 pages | AK Press Revised ed. ![]() The truth of the world as seen though Valerie’s eyes is patently absurd, a cosmic joke. “To see the SCUM Manifesto’s humor, to let it crack you up page after page, is not to read it as a joke. According to her, they should act like dominant, secure, self-confident, nasty, violent, selfish, independent, proud, thrill-seeking, free-wheeling, arrogant females (Solanas). This is an update of the essential AK Press edition, with a new foreword. In the manifesto, Solanas refers to particular women who constitute the so-called scum of society but serve as the core of her movement. Shifting fluidly between the worlds of satire and straightforward critique, this classic is a call to action-a radical feminist vision for a different world. ![]() First circulated on the streets of Greenwich Village in 1967, the SCUM Manifesto is a searing indictment of patriarchal culture in all its forms. ![]() ![]() ![]() I can assure you that if you grab the ear-buds it will make the task of raking leaves an easy accomplishment. It will leave the reader asking, “How well do I know my significant other?’’Īt around three hours in length, A Good Marriage is the perfect fall listen. A Good Marriage was dark and suspenseful. It is being released as a standalone in preparation for the motion picture release. The story originally published in the anthology Full Dark, No Stars. ![]() I was excited to obtain a copy of the audio version of A Good Marriage by Stephen King. This horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, could be the end of what Darcy though was a good marriage… Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers she doesn’t know her husband at all, but rather has been living with a stranger. ![]() Soon to be a major motion picture starring Kristen Connelly, Joan Allen, and Anthony La Paglia, Stephen King’s short story, “A Good Marriage” from Full Dark, No Stars is now available as a stand-alone audio edition! Bob Anderson, Darcy’s husband of more than twenty years, is away on one of his business trips, when his unsuspecting wife looks for batteries in the garage. ![]() ![]() ![]() Social Capitalism, Capitalism, and Social Capital.What does it mean to build social capital?.Does social capital measurement magnify existing problems?.What does it mean to measure social capital?.Is corruption a dark side of social capital? Correlation or causality?.The “wicked problems” of social capital theory.Putnam on social capital – democratic or civic perspective.Coleman on social capital – rational-choice approach.Bourdieu on social capital – theory of capital.Solving sustainability with social capital?.Approaches to conceptualise bonding/bridging social capital.What is the difference between bonding and bridging social capital?. ![]() Social capital at different levels and dimensions.Shared goals, shared purpose, shared vision.Structural, cognitive, relational social capital.Explanation of the different levels of social capital.What are the different types of social capital?.Economics Imperialism and Social Capital.Evolution of the concept of social capital.What is the difference between social capital and social cohesion?. ![]() ![]() ![]() The rugged bush pilot is the very best kind of distraction, but the emotions he stirs up in River feel anything but casual, and he’s in no position to stay put. Nobody’s ever made him want to stand still - until Griffin. Chasing adventure means always moving forward. Nothing the Alaskan wilderness has to offer has ever called to Griffin so badly. However, his gig as a wildlife guide presents a new kind of temptation in super-hot supermodel River Vale. He’s fought too hard for his sobriety to lose control now. It keeps him from falling back into old habits. But it doesn’t stand a chance against the unrelenting pull of a man who’s everything he shouldn’t want.Įx-military mountain man Griffin Barrett likes his solitude. ![]() He’s built a quiet life for himself in Alaska. Annabeth Albert kicks off the brand-new Frozen Hearts series with Arctic Sun, an opposites-attract romance between a rugged outdoorsman and a smoking-hot former male model. ![]() Everything’s bigger in Alaska, especially the HEAs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Is this a regional thing or an old person thing? Because, when I read it, I am thinking that only a really old person would say that. There was about as much heat between these two as there is between two lizards.Īnyway, there is something else going on in this series that I NEED to ask any of my east coast friends about:ĭo y'all actually use the phrase, "Oh boy" when you are excited about something? I've never heard anyone use it in my life, but Nora Roberts always has her characters say it. She decides to show him that she isn't sisterly at all by kissing him and then he comes back to her with a well thought out plan for them to start dating. She has been in love with her best friend's brother since they were kids, but he sees her as a little sister. So, like I said, Laurel, our girl is the cake maker for the wedding business that this series is about. That has nothing to do with me being drunk, either, so shut up! ![]() Plus, she makes cakes and desserts - I like cakes and desserts.īirthdays and interventions. Plus, this book wasn't quite as bad as the first two. I can have hope and not be a raging bad-series-finishing-aholic! Besides, it can still get better, right? There's still one more book after this one. I need to hit rock-bottom before I will admit that I truly have a problem. Let's face it, Addie's intervention didn't work and there is no stopping me now from finishing this crappy series. ![]() ![]() He travels in his barge from Paris to Provence, meeting many characters on the way who offer both entertainment and enlightenment. It's only when he opens a long-lost letter from a former lover that he sets out on his own journey of healing and self-discovery. Passersby will step upon his barge, explain what's troubling them and Jean-Perdu will find the perfect book to "cure" them. The protagonist, Jean-Perdu, runs a book barge on the Seine, aka The Little Paris Bookshop, which he refers to as his literary apothecary. The Little Paris Bookshop is the wonderful story of a Parisian bookseller nursing a broken heart. So if someone writes a book on World War II this year, I'll file it under World War II. Just because a book is filed under a certain period heading doesn't mean that's when it was written.This list is aimed at non-Francophones who are passionate about France and want to learn everything they can about us. Each week, I'll add books to it, until I (or you) feel we have enough. ![]() Next thing I knew I had notes on more than 100 books, from books on France history to French literature classics to books on living in France.Īt this rate, the list would be published sometime around 2056, so instead, I decided to put this up as a work in progress. Putting together a list of the best books about France is as impossible as (at least for me) as climbing Mont Blanc in sandals in winter. ![]() ![]() ![]() He sets things right and relocates her to Paris. ![]() Margailla the old housekeeper will help her in her old house, her only family.The major, Brad Fullerton is to be married to a woman in NY but he's taken a fancy to Saraina.Problems arise when Patty comes to visit him and he knows he needs to break off the engagement. She is hoping to get a job cleaning her old house.the house is being rented from the Army. The war has ended and her home has been under terror.She's back home but Sergio has sold all of her familys possessions and she knows she will get revenge. Others see the pain in her eyes.She had lived 4 years with the sisters in upstate NY and now she was on her way back home. Remembrance by Danielle SteelSaraina feels like she's been on the train for days and she has been. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy was a play on this concept in a fantasy world where spirits who haven’t crossed over sometime take over dead bodies and need to be dispatched. I really enjoyed You’ve Got Mail when it came out and the idea, that if you talked to someone you knew and didn’t like in person on paper or in emails would you feel differently. But can their blossoming romance survive the fated discovery that their pen pals are their worst nightmares-each other? As the dangers from Tanria grow closer, so do the unlikely correspondents. If only Hart knew he’s been baring his soul to the person who infuriates him most-Mercy. Much to his surprise, an anonymous letter comes back in return, and a tentative friendship is born. ![]() She’s been single-handedly keeping Birdsall & Son Undertakers afloat in defiance of sullen jerks like Hart, who seems to have a gift for showing up right when her patience is thinnest.Īfter yet another exasperating run-in with Mercy, Hart finds himself penning a letter addressed simply to “A Friend”. It’s an unforgiving job, and Hart’s got nothing but time to ponder his loneliness. Hart is a marshal, tasked with patrolling the strange and magical wilds of Tanria. ![]() Narrator: Michael Gallagher, Rachanee LumaynoĪmazon, Audible, Audiobook, Barnes & Noble, Apple The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. ![]() |