![]() ![]() The children are suffering a monumental loss and need guidance and unconditional love – but is Patrick the best person in the extended family to take on this responsibility? The single, gay, out of work actor has suffered detrimental loss in his life as well and while he takes on the challenge to entertain his brother’s kids for a few weeks, he ends up teaching them quite a few things, learning so much about himself as well. ![]() Uncle Patrick, the fun uncle who lives across the country in Palm Springs has no experience with children yet he is called upon to take care of his niece and nephew for the summer in his California home. The Guncle by Steven Rowley is a delightful heartfelt story of family and loss the perfect book to kick off the summer, especially during Pride Month. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Other drivers of change would have been the variations of beliefs from one region to another, or through time. That is not to say that the main themes weren’t fairly stable, but there wasn’t one true original version. They would develop over time, and change slightly both over time and across distances and countries. ![]() In the Viking Age, stories often came in the form of an entertainer performing them as a song or poem. That disregards the fact that these poems probably lived long before they were ever written down, or performed by poets. ![]() However, when we are trying to understand the age of any given poem, it is basically based on the words and grammar used. This was shortly before the separate poems came to be a collection. The latest poems were likely written in the 11th or 12th centuries. Some of the older poems are believed to have been written in the 9th or 10th century, or possibly even earlier. They were written by different poets, possibly hundreds of years apart as well as from different parts of Scandinavia and Iceland. The different poems making up the collection we often perceive as a whole were originally separate poems. Maybe the most important thing to understand about the Poetic Edda is that it was never one book. Gilwellian, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons ![]() ![]() ![]() I'll admit, I got frustrated with him (and, at some points, Ivy) at certain moments throughout the book. Then there's the icing on top of the Wicked cake - Ren. He's been a fun character since the beginning, but he truly stepped up as an amazing, caring friend in this one and I loved it. ![]() Another one of my favorite things about Brave was, of course, Tink. She's come a long way in these three books, and seeing where she stood at the end of it all was so satisfying. One of my favorite things about Brave is the massive growth we see in Ivy. As for Brave in and of itself, this was an intense, solid finale. And, honestly, I'm glad I did because I got SO into it. Mostly because I wanted to binge read books 2 and 3 - which I did. So it's been years since I started this series. But then I didn't read Torn until.yesterday. I read Wicked less than a month after it released, and I remember liking it a whole heck of a lot. My reading of this series has been quite.sporadic. ![]() ![]() ![]() "A speeder would have been faster," a digital voice said, emanating from the strap on the stranger's left wrist. Looking down at his worn, filthy hands, red with Glyconian grime, chapped from dryness, and leathered from sun exposure, he cursed himself, wishing he could have afforded a speeder. The only bit of a color not tainted by the red of the planet were his eyes, horizon blue, and reflecting a steely resolve. His lips, for the most part, stayed closed, tight like a crease in his face. The stubble across his face made the strong line of his chin fuzzy. It was always a free-for-all at the beginning, with colonists, merchants, and miners, trekking off in every direction and settling wherever they could find a good vein of underground water or ore.Ĭlip-clopping along, he was a lone figure on the landscape, covered head to toe in the fine red dust of the transforming planet. On these frontier planets, towns and villages were always few and far between. ![]() But he had enough left over to feed himself and buy a few canteens of water, which, in the end, was all he needed. ![]() The stranger reckoned he'd spent most of his reward money on the animal, just to get to the next town and the next job. The mounts didn't come cheap, but they were reliable. For a world so new to life, it seemed as though Glycon-Prime was dying.īut the stranger in the tattered serape knew better, riding his mount through the expanse of red-soiled wastelands toward life and work. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cicero wants to find out the truth, and that’s where Gordianus comes in. His elderly father, also called Sextus Roscius, was found dead in a Roman alley on his way to a favourite brothel and, although Roscius the Younger was off in the country at the time, taking care of his father’s farms, he has been accused of masterminding the crime. And the man who wants Gordianus’ help is Tiro’s master, a fresh young advocate just starting out on his career, named Cicero.Ĭicero has taken on a case that no one else will touch: the defence of a man named Sextus Roscius, who has been accused of the most heinous of crimes, parricide. And this is why he’s surprised when a very well-bred young slave arrives at the door of his sprawling, shabby old house one morning, offering him work. This is usually reinforced by the status of the go-betweens sent to deal with him. Gordianus has previously worked with some of Rome’s leading advocates, but he’s always been fully conscious of his status as persona non grata in polite circles. ![]() It’s 80 BC when we first encounter Gordianus, called the Finder, a man known in a certain section of society for his ability to find not only things but truth. Time to meet another pioneering Roman detective, this one operating some decades earlier than Lindsey Davis’s engaging Falco. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Malamander is the kind of book I dreamed about as a kid: a magical blend of oddball folklore and humor about two peculiar and plucky kids who puzzle out some local secrets in a town that is a character in its own right.” -Kate Milford, best-selling author of the Greenglass House series “It’s all very exciting and cliff-hangery and carried off with charm and dash.” - The Wall Street Journal As various townspeople, some good-hearted, some nefarious, reveal themselves to be monster hunters on the sly, can Herbert and Violet elude them and discover what happened to Violet’s kin? This lighthearted, fantastical mystery, featuring black-and-white spot illustrations, kicks off a trilogy of fantasies set in the seaside town.Ī quirky, creepy fantasy set in Eerie-on-Sea finds a colorful cast of characters in hot pursuit of a sea monster thought to convey a surprising gift. And the town legend of the Malamander - a part-fish, part-human monster whose egg is said to make dreams come true - is rearing its scaly head. ![]() The trouble is, Violet is being pursued at that moment by a strange hook-handed man. It seems that Violet Parma, a fearless girl around his age, lost her parents at the hotel when she was a baby, and she’s sure that the nervous Herbert is the only person who can help her find them. Inside, young Herbert Lemon, Lost and Founder for the hotel, has an unexpected visitor. It’s winter in the town of Eerie-on-Sea, where the mist is thick and the salt spray is rattling the windows of the Grand Nautilus Hotel. ![]() ![]() Posted: (3 days ago) San Francisco is more than a breathtaking backdrop for the university. Careers at USF | University of San Francisco. This position requires analytical thinking, a strong commitment to our shared goals, attention to detail and accurate record keeping. Job responsibilities and opportunities include, but are not limited to, assisting with: cell culture, processing of clinical specimens, single-cell genomics assays, and day-to-day lab management activities.Case coordination to help you decide on the best arrangements for you when you leave the hospital. Answering questions related to health insurance, Medi-Cal, Medicare, Social Security and state disability. ![]() Our social workers and case managers offer a wide range of services, including: Discharge planning for patients after they leave the hospital. ![]() ![]() Larson is much more eager to talk about maritime history, a passion that links this book with his earlier Thunderstruck, set a few years earlier aboard a different transatlantic liner, and telling the story of the chase to catch a murderer. Except that maybe hubris and overconfidence are always dangerous things.” “I’ve been asked a lot lately what message is there in the Lusitania for the modern day,” says Larson. ![]() Larson still thinks of himself as “a writer who does history” rather than a historian. He doesn’t invent scenes or speeches, and refuses to create composite characters to streamline a story. In a note to the reader, and again in our interview, he insists that “anything between quotes in my books is from a real historical document”. Larson was once a journalist, and he is a meticulous reporter. ![]() ![]() He admires Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler for “the cleanliness and austerity of their prose” and in a nod to Hemingway adds: “I’ve really tried to strip my writing of as many adjectives and adverbs as I possibly can.” To propel his narratives, Larson freely raids the toolkit of fiction, particularly hardboiled detective novels, for “suspenseful elements – withholding, foreshadowing and so forth”. ![]() ![]() ![]() Which meant facing her debilitating social anxiety and say yes to being on “Jimmy Kimmel Live”, or giving her much acclaimed speech at her alma mater Dartmouth, and so many more things she would have politely declined before… That’s when she committed to saying “yes” for an entire year to new opportunities showing up in her life. When her sister Delores tells her during a Thanksgiving holiday that she always says “no” to amazing opportunities, Rhimes realizes that despite her many successes, she also was miserable inside. Afraid of our own brilliance, afraid of our potential, afraid of our power. ![]() ![]() Who would have thought that the powerful Shonda Rhimes was an introvert? That despite her major successes and popular acclaim, she was actually avoiding public appearances? That interviews triggered panic attacks for her? That’s how the “Year of Yes” starts, with a powerful woman who, like so many of us, is afraid. As I turned the last page of “ Year of Yes”, the best-selling book written by the creator of Scandaland Grey’s Anatomy, as well as the executive producer of How to Get Away with Murder, I heard myself uttering the word “Yes”! Actually, reading this book by one of the most extraordinary women ever, whose creative empire “Shondaland” is named after her, had me saying “yes” over, over and over again! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This was the age of zealotry - a fervent nationalism that made resistance to the Roman occupation a sacred duty incumbent on all Jews. ![]() Scores of Jewish prophets, preachers, and would-be messiahs wandered through the Holy Land, bearing messages from God. Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history's most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus through the lens of the tumultuous era in which he lived: first-century Palestine, an age awash in apocalyptic fervor. ![]() Within decades after his shameful death, his followers would call him God. Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish what he called the "Kingdom of God." The revolutionary movement he launched was so threatening to the established order that he was captured, tortured, and executed as a state criminal. From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth. ![]() |