![]() Mark Dursin: You once said that a novel can’t be about just one idea instead, a writer needs to explore several different “strands” and then somehow weave those strands together. The following the second half of my blog interview with Mrs. Wittlinger returned to these characters with the publication of Love and Lies: Marisol's Story, a brand-new story told from Marisol's perspective. Hard Love, published in 1999, is narrated by an alienated (and alienating) teenager named John who falls for his lesbian friend, Marisol. ![]() She is probably best known, however, for her novel Hard Love, which won the Printz Honor Award for excellence in Young Adult literature in 2000. Ellen Wittlinger is an author of Young Adult (YA) novels, including Razzle, Zigzag, The Long Night of Leo and Bree, Blind Faith, and Parrotfish. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In 19, Clinton pushed for the creation of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Foster Care Independence Act. That same year, she authored her first book-It Takes a Village. Fourth World Conference on Women where she pressed for gender equality. ![]() As First Lady of the United States, she supported health care reform, women’s and children’s issues, arts, culture, and heritage promotion. She chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Commission and the Rural Health Advisory Committee. She then moved to Arkansas where she taught law, ran legal clinics for disenfranchised people, and co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families-one of the state’s first child advocacy groups.Īs First Lady of Arkansas, Clinton continued practicing law and advocated for improving educational standards and health care. In 1974, she served on the committee that advised the House Committee on the Judiciary during the Watergate scandal. Senator from New York, First Lady of the United States, and First Lady of Arkansas, and has also practiced and taught law, along with being an activist for women’s rights.įollowing graduation from Wellesley College and Yale Law School, Clinton worked for the Children’s Defense Fund, gathering stories about the lack of schooling for children with disabilities. ![]() Hillary Rodham Clinton is an American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, and public speaker. ![]() ![]() ![]() Written and directed by Victor Salva, Peaceful Warrior stars Nick Nolte ( Hotel Rwanda, U Turn), Scott Mechlowicz ( Eurotrip, Mean Creek), Amy Smart ( Just Friends, The Butterfly Effect), and Ashton Holmes ( A History of Violence).ĭespite his success, college student and world-champion athlete Dan Millman (played by Scott Mechlowicz) is haunted by a feeling that something is missing from his life. ![]() ![]() Shared among friends and families, this two million-copy word-of-mouth bestseller has inspired men and women of all ages in twenty languages worldwide.Īfter 18 years in print, Millman's story came to the big screen as Peaceful Warrior, a major motion picture from Universal and Lionsgate. Dan Millman's Way of the Peaceful Warrior has become one of the most beloved spiritual sagas of our time. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() That’s crazy talk, Michael!” Clearly, the topic frightens her. But every attempt he makes to tell her the truth is met with extreme hostility. Only one problem: She must become his queen first. With a global uprising about to explode, Michael must give her the protection of his army. (She is, after all, his biggest weakness.) (Mystery!) Especially because a civil war is brewing, and being king makes his librarian a mark for his enemies. To where? He doesn’t know, but if he wants his life back, he’ll have to find out. In reality, Michael is an ancient deadly vampire, an ex-assassin, and is currently the de facto king of his kind ever since their ruling party disappeared. ![]() ![]() For starters, he works in a library, is in love with Miriam, his hot nerdy human boss who has no clue what he is, and he looks like a college student. ![]() Michael Vanderhorst is not your usual vampire. But why not read them all because…fun!)įALLING IN LOVE WITH A LIBRARIAN JUST CAN’T GET MORE AWKWARD. New York Times Bestseller Mimi Jean Pamfiloff comes an uncomfortably hilarious Mystery with a heaping help of sexual frustration, THE LIBRARIAN’S VAMPIRE ASSISTANT, Book Three. (Yep! It’s a STAND-ALONE. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1963, at age 21, Hawking was diagnosed with an early-onset slow-progressing form of motor neurone disease that gradually, over decades, paralysed him. ![]() In October 1962, he began his graduate work at Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge where, in March 1966, he obtained his PhD degree in applied mathematics and theoretical physics, specializing in general relativity and cosmology. In October 1959, at the age of 17, he began his university education at University College, Oxford, where he received a first-class BA degree in physics. Hawking was born in Oxford into a family of physicians. Between 19, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, widely viewed as one of the most prestigious academic posts in the world. Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who, at the time of his death, was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. ![]() ![]() ![]() These are the movies any cineaste worth their salted popcorn must see – ideally on a VHS tape with tracking issues, but streaming is fine, too. ![]() In retrospect, if it wasn’t the absolutely greatest movie decade, the ‘80s may have been the most unique, and these 50 films represent the best of the era. It was also the era that loosened the jar, so to speak, on the indie explosion of the ’90s and when international cinema began to reach more eyes than ever before. Yes, it represented the birth of the mega blockbuster, but it was also a time when the most popular movies were also among the best and most groundbreaking. ![]() Looking back now, it’s easier to see how influential and important the period was to filmmaking. Coming out of the ’70s, which introduced a new level of realism and gritty authenticity to mainstream Hollywood, filmmaking in the ‘80s got bigger, louder and, some might say, superficial.īut time has been kind to the era. Really too bad, that the links doesn't lead to the book can't find it anywhere Answer. ![]() One of the words most commonly associated with the popular culture of the 1980s is ‘plastic’ – and for a long time, that phrase extended to the movies. Publications ( 2) Stacks ( 0) Followers ( 92) Show Articles inside. ![]() ![]() Her visits to Portge proved a turning point, when Gale discovered that the people of her hometown were a source of literary material. Gale then spent six years as a journalist in Milwaukee and New York. She graduated in 1899 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Masters in Literature. ∼Zona Gale was born August 26, 1874, in Portage. She was also a member of the National Women's Party and and lobbied for Wisconsin Equal Rights laws she was very active in this in 1921. She was best known for Mrs LuLu Bett which won a Pulitzer Prize for best Drama in 1920. She first became noticed for her short story series Friendship Village in 1908. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1921. ![]() ![]() ![]() She wrote about customs local ordinary people she drew her inspiration fromher home town of Portage Wi. Zona Gale Breese was a Novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Bible of the PUA crowd seems to be Neil Strauss’s The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists – indeed, the book comes bound in leather with gold-leafed pages and a red silk ribbon. ![]() Many have accused the subculture of misogyny and objectification others see it as no different from any other kind of flirting or attraction. Typically in PUA literature a model or protocol is prescribed as a one-size-fits-all method of generating attraction from the opposite sex, falsely assuming that complex human interaction has constant and unchanging “laws” that can be studied and thus exploited to the PUA’s advantage. The PUA community likes to make various unproven claims, and there is notable influence from neuro-linguistic programming, self-help, pop evolutionary psychology, misapplication of game theory, and woo ideas (most notably those of Ross Jeffries). It doesn’t take very much to realise that this kind of “artistry” is not nearly deserving of its title or its following. Members of the community often call themselves pickup artists (PUA). The seduction community, also known as the pick-up artist or PUA community, is a movement of men whose goal is seduction and sexual success with – or access to – women. ![]() ![]() ![]() Includes a never before seen story set in the world of the Inheritance Trilogy. Shahar and the godling Sieh must face off against the terrible magic threatening to consume their world in the incredible conclusion to the Inheritance Trilogy. Can they stand together against the chaos that threatens? Shahar and Sieh: mortal and god, lovers and enemies. Yet her duty as Arameri heir is to uphold the family's interests, even if that means using and destroying everyone she cares for.Īs long-suppressed rage and terrible new magics consume the world, the Maelstrom - which even gods fear - is summoned forth. She yearns to trust Sieh, the godling she loves. After her mothers death, a young woman is summoned to the floating city of Sky to claim a royal inheritance she never knew existed in this epic fantasy. I am a senior citizen and have re-read Tolkien’s trilogy many times, but found the Eragon books even deeper and more interesting. ![]() ![]() I expect I will want to re-read them many times, so plan to purchase the rest of the books. Shahar, last scion of the family, must choose her loyalties. I could not put it down, and then got the remaining 3 books in the Inheritance cycle from the local library. Yet they are all that stands between peace and world-spanning, unending war. Now the gods are free, and the Arameri's ruthless grip is slipping. For two thousand years the Arameri family has ruled the world by enslaving the very gods that created mortalkind. ![]() Shahar and the godling Sieh must face off against the terrible magic threatening to consume their world in the incredible conclusion to the Inheritance Trilogy, from Hugo award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N. ![]() |