![]() ![]() How do you go about finding lesser-known or independently published books? What advice would you give to someone trying to support independent bookshops and publishers while also being on a tight budget? I'm a firm believer that reading makes us better writers. They feed into each other, definitely, though I need to be in a different head space for each. Do you consider reading part of your daily writing practice, or are the two things separate activities for you? I have probably read each poem twice by now, because I can't stop returning to her gorgeous verse. Jen recently completed the 100 Poem Challenge, where she wrote 100 poems within 48 hours to raise money for charity. And her writing isn't half bad, either (it is, in fact, full good). Jen's unique taste for fairy-tale retellings and seldom-seen works of magical realism from small presses has taken over my Amazon shopping cart more than a few times (yes, I am one of those people who buys things from Amazon, which is part of why I asked Jen for advice on supporting bookshops and independent publishing houses). ![]() Jen runs a popular channel on YouTube's warmly regarded bookish corner of the Internet, called BookTube by its many viewers. ![]() Jen Campbell is known widely for her book, Weird Things Customers Say In Bookshopsand its sequel, More Weird Things Customers Say In Bookshops, but her fan base extends far beyond the page these days. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses, with its canals like large mirrors, in which its steeples and its almost Eastern cupolas are reflected, - the city of the Hague, the capital of the Seven United Provinces, was swelling in all its arteries with a black and red stream of hurried, panting, and restless citizens, who, with their knives in their girdles, muskets on their shoulders, or sticks in their hands, were pushing on to the Buytenhof, a terrible prison, the grated windows of which are still shown, where, on the charge of attempted murder preferred against him by the surgeon Tyckelaer, Cornelius de Witt, the brother of the Grand Pensionary of Holland was confined. ![]() ![]() ![]() Urabe also comes clean to Tsubaki’s sister about their relationship. ![]() ![]() In this latest installment, Tsubaki invites Urabe to join him in a special place to watch the fireworks. 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The month is bookended by the release of the seventh Devils’ Line installment and NISEMONOGATARI Part 01, NISIOISIN’S eagerly- anticipated sequel to BAKEMONOGATARI. It’s June and now the summer is really getting started! Time for the beach, the pool, some quiet reading in the shade – and some of the best that Vertical has to offer. ![]() ![]() It must be funny, it should have some emotions tucked into it too, and above all, it should be written so I can devour it quickly thoroughly enjoying every turn of the page. The foolproof plan is this: seduce Darren and push him to convince his father to renew Jack It’s contract with the city. Someone like Darren, the mayor’s illegitimate son. ![]() Because Jack It will close unless someone can convince Andrew Taylor, the mayor of Tucson, to keep it open. It's not until the owner of Jack It-the club where Sandy performs as drag queen Helena Handbasket-comes to him with a desperate proposition that Sandy realizes he might have to put his feelings about Darren aside. Sandy despises him, and nothing will ever change his mind. It seems Darren Mayne lives for nothing more than to create chaos in Sandy’s perfectly ordered life, just for the hell of it. ![]() ![]() In fact, he pretty much believes in the exact opposite, thanks to the Homo Jock King. ![]() ![]() Weaving together evidence from art, archeology, religion, social science, history, and many other fields of inquiry into new patterns that more accurately fit the best available data, it shows that war and the “war of the sexes” are neither divinely nor biologically ordained. ![]() This international bestseller - now in 27 foreign editions, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, and most European languages - tells a fascinating new story of our past, present, and the possibilities for our future. And it provides verification that a better future is possible - and is in fact firmly rooted in the haunting drama of what actually happened in our past. ![]() It shows that war and the “war of the sexes” are neither divinely nor biologically ordained. The Chalice and the Blade tells a new story of our cultural origins. ![]() ![]() ![]() On Tuesday, the suspected mass shooter was captured in Cut and Shoot, Texas, ending the manhunt on the fourth day. The 38-year-old was convicted of driving while intoxicated back in 2012 in Montgomery County and was sentenced to serve time in jail, records show. ![]() The last time was in 2016, and his current immigration status is still unclear. Oropesa is a Mexican national and has been deported from the United States four times. We are learning more about Francisco Oropesa's background. SAN JACINTO COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) - The man accused of shooting and killing five of his neighbors, including a 3rd grader, last week in San Jacinto County after he was asked to stop shooting his gun was captured on Tuesday. The last time the 38-year-old suspect was deported was in 2016, and his current immigration status is still unclear. ![]() ![]() ![]() Call me next time you’re in L.A., Tamera said. an opposite worlds forbidden love romance Lindzee Armstrong. That familiar frustrated glint echoed in his eyes, but he nodded and pulled her into a hug. As things heat up in the press, vicious lies spread like wildfire and neither is sure what to believe. I know, but I wouldn’t be very good company. When Tamera unexpectedly ends up as Wyatt’s real estate agent, sparks fly-until they find out her best friend and his nemesis are the same guy. ![]() Goodreads members who liked Match Me if You Can. Without a relationship weighing her down, it’s only a matter of time before her acting career takes off and she can quit selling houses to pay the bills. Find books like Match Me if You Can (No Match for Love 7) from the worlds. Now she’s got a big-time Hollywood talent agent, famous quarterback best friend, and a determination to never again let a man derail her life. When Tamera discovers her boyfriend and sister’s secret affair, her heartbreak propels her to reality TV star fame. ![]() With his life in total upheaval, he’s only certain of one thing-he’s never falling in love again. Now he’s starting over in a new state while praying the scandal doesn’t get picked up by the press. After falling for the same girl, Wyatt ends up blamed for a career-ending move that gets him traded from his dream team to the b-list Los Angeles Coyotes. Match Me if You Can (No Match for Love #7) by Lindzee Armstrong – Free eBooks Downloadįootball star Wyatt James messed with the wrong quarterback, and now he’s paying the price. ![]() ![]() ![]() September Mourn is the fifth in an ongoing series featuring Mira James, an urban woman with rural Minnesota roots. If you love to belly-laugh while reading a page-turning mystery, this series is for you! September Mourn is a laugh-out-loud romantic comic caper mystery, perfect for readers who enjoy the humorous mysteries of Liliana Hart, Chelsea Field, Gina LaManna, Janet Evanovich, Denise Grover Swank, Lisa Lutz, and Stephanie Bond. The festival fun is riding high until the recently crowned Milkfed Mary, Queen of the Dairy, a Battle Lake native, is brutally murdered while her regal likeness is carved in butter.Ĭan Mira James, covering the fair for the Battle Lake Recall, manage make-out time with guitar-slinging Johnny Leeson while winning a blue ribbon for caging a killer? The Minnesota State Fair is the beloved home of 4H exhibits, Midway rides,and everything on a stick. "Once again, the very funny Lourey serves up a delicious dish of murder, mayhem, and merriment." ―Booklist (starred review) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The images in this exhibition challenge idealized forms of beauty in art by examining their portrayal and exploring a variety of attitudes about race, class, gender, popular culture and politics as seen through the aesthetics of representation. Throughout the Western history of art and image-making, the relationship between beauty and art has become increasingly complex within contemporary art and popular culture. ![]() Posing Beauty in African American Culture explores the contested ways in which African and African American beauty have been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media including photography, film, video, fashion, advertising, and other forms of popular culture such as music and the Internet. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The toddler benefited greatly from the oil derived from the cultivar, with her story told on national television via Gupta’s documentary, with much fanfare after its airing and international recognition for the Stanley brothers, who provided the plant.Īs a sidenote, Charlotte Figi’s mother had found an article penned in 1949 stating that “marijuana” successfully treated epilepsy. The cultivar Gupta introduced was named after then-four-year-old, Charlotte Figi, who suffered from Dravet Syndrome, with Figi enduring up to 300 grand mal seizures per week. ![]() The differences within the some 400 compounds in the plant were minimal, albeit for the excess of CBD. What was difficult to wrap one’s head around was the fact that this was the same plant as the cannabis we’d known that tested high in THC. High in one of the cannabinoids, cannabidiol or CBD, and low in the psychoactive compound of tetrahydrocannabinol or THC, with little to no psychoactive properties, it was the seeming answer to ending the stupid stoner stigma. Sanjay Gupta’s documentary episode “Weed” in 2013, Charlotte’s Web seemed like a miracle plant. But what viewers couldn’t know is that the high CBD variety actually began many years prior on a farm in Southern Humboldt County, in Northern California. Cultivar Charlotte’s Web was first introduced to the world from Denver, Colorado, via a television documentary. ![]() |