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Shelter in Place by Simon Strange7/8/2023 ►The country experienced a near-total collapse of internet connection and phone lines nationwide Sunday, according to NetBlocks, an internet monitoring service. ►Pope Francis on Sunday urged the faithful to pray for "our Sudanese brothers and sisters." The pope appealed for an immediate end to violence “and a return to the path of dialogue.” ►European Union foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said Sunday he spoke to leaders of both sides in the conflict, urging an immediate ceasefire, protection of civilians, and guaranteed safe evacuation of EU citizens. "That was a dangerous mission to take them out by helicopter," Warner said. military and intelligence community for the evacuation of scores of diplomatic personnel and their families. Warner, speaking Sunday on ABC's "This Week," commended the U.S. The violence has paralyzed Sudan's airports, destroying civilian planes and damaging runways. works with international partners to arrange a “safe way to get them out," likely via a land corridor. He said they need to "shelter in place" while the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner said most of the thousands of Americans remaining in Sudan are aid workers or Sudanese Americans. diplomats from the Sudanese capital of Khartoum while aid workers and other Americans remained imperiled amid the raging warfare pitting rival generals. Details emerged Sunday from the dramatic evacuation of U.S.
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Read untouchable by sam mariano7/8/2023 IRREPARABLE LIVES (#2) 2016, the sequel to Irreparable Damage. This story is best suited to open-minded readers, but Ethan and Willow will always have a special place in my heart. A bond is forged through mutual trauma when she’s taken by sex traffickers (and he’s a PI working undercover as one of them to save a different girl), and due to the events of the story, their lives become intertwined. IRREPARABLE DAMAGE (#1) 2014, is a more taboo, unconventional story about two lovers who never intended to connect with each other. This one is available to Kindle Unlimited subscribers! The hero in this one is maybe my favorite I’ve ever written (and definitely the most my type, personally, lol). Since you’re here, I might as well tell you about my books, right?īEAUTIFUL MISTAKES 2014, is a contemporary new adult standalone and one of my older works.
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Foundation of love amy clipston7/8/2023 If she must go, they'd rather she be reunited with Owen in spite of his betrayal. Crystal's family fears losing her indispensable help. But their bishop thinks Duane is better suited for the sweet widow Tricia, and Duane's sons object to his interest in any woman. When a roofing job at the Glicks introduces Duane and Crystal, they're attracted in spite of their fourteen-year age difference. As the young men prepare to launch out on their own, Duane can't imagine life alone-nor with anyone but Connie. He and his grown sons have a thriving roofing business but can't get used to life without her. Crystal loves her bruderskinner and cheerfully helps her sister-in-law through a difficult pregnancy with babies number seven and eight, but she yearns for a husband and children of her own.ĭuane Bontrager is mourning the recent death of his wife, Connie, after twenty-four years of marriage. but they wanted so much more.Ĭrystal Glick is grateful to live with her brother's family since her father died and her fianc, Owen, broke their engagement. Get swept away in the first installment of Amy Clipston's Amish Legacy series.
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Remember love balogh7/8/2023 It is Gwyneth’s loyalty, patience, and love that he needs. It’s only when Gwyneth Rhys-the woman he loved and then lost after his family banished him-holds out her hand to help him that he is able make the difficult journey and try to piece together his fractured family. But now his father is dead, the Ware family is broken, and as the heir he is being called home. Description: The handsome and charismatic Earl of Stratton, Caleb Ware, has been exposed to. He enlisted in the fight against Napoleon and didn’t look back for six years. Remember Love by Mary Balogh Review & Giveaway. But at twenty-two, he discovered his whole world was an elaborate illusion, and when Devlin publicly called his family to account for it, he was exiled as a traitor. They were kind, gracious, and shared the beauty of Ravenwood, their grand country estate, by hosting lavish parties for the entire countryside. Philippa, elder daughter of the Earl of Stratton, grew up eagerly anticipating a glittering debut and a brilliant marriage. The handsome and charismatic Earl of Stratton, Caleb Ware, has been exposed to the ton for his clandestine affairs-by his own son.Īs a child, Devlin Ware thought his family stood for all that was right and good in the world. Discover the passionate and heartwarming new novel on the redemptive power of love from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh.
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Business adventures 12 classic tales7/8/2023 He invites the readers to draw their own conclusions about best practices. he tells entertaining stories with richly drawn characters, set during heightened moments within the world of commerce. His writing turns eye-glazing topics (eg, price-fixing scandals in the electronics market) into rollicking narratives. The prose is superb: reading Brooks is a supreme pleasure. On Jin an essay published in the Wall Street Journal and slightly later in his blog, Bill Gates proclaimed Business Adventures, recommended to him by Warren Buffett, as "the best business book I've ever read." In 1963 Harper & Row published The Fate of the Edsel and Other Business Adventures, which contains 3 of the 12 essays published in the 1969 collection. The essays, all of which were previously published in The New Yorker, deal with financial and corporate life in the United States. Business Adventures is a 1969 collection of 12 essays written by John Brooks.
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Orwell english language7/7/2023 We heard the term “enhanced interrogation techniques” to describe what any sane person would instantly call “torture.” Or “extraordinary rendition” - which meant kidnapping in order to torture. This time, the newspeak was coming from the neocon right. It was during the war in Iraq that Orwell’s insistence on clear language first came roaring back. That’s what “newspeak” was: a language in which it becomes hard to understand something because the words describing it are too vague and abstract to mean anything recognizable and, more worryingly, a language in which it becomes impossible to know something because the language itself has already excised the words needed to understand it. He was talking rather about how people in power can use and create new language to deceive, conceal or confuse. Like most writers, he thrilled to new permutations of idiom and invention. But Orwell was not talking about the way in which spoken English has always mutated and shifted from the ground up. How to say things as clearly and honestly as Orwell? How to “let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way about,” as he deftly put it? ” After reading these in my early teens, political writing became a vocational challenge of sorts to me. The relationship between language and politics - how each can inform or derange the other - was never better explored than in George Orwell’s novel, Nineteen-Eighty-Four, and his essay, “ Politics and the English Language.
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After returning home in a scene implying the death of his mother, he cradles his newborn daughter and sings his mother's signature lullaby for her, implying that the cycle will continue. He then cradles her in his arms and sings an altered rendition of her lullaby in reciprocation of the unconditional love that she had shown him throughout his life, vowing to always love her in return. He picked her up and rocked her back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. A young woman holds her newborn son And looks at him lovingly. This board book makes the perfect gift for parents and parents-to-be. When he first arrives, his mother tries to sing her lullaby to him, but she is too weak to finish. 11 of the best book quotes from Love You Forever. Love You Forever is a timeless classic, telling the story of an unbreakable bond between parent and child. However she gradually grows old and frail, and her grown son visits his feeble, sickly mother for the final time. After her son enters adulthood and leaves home, his elderly mother occasionally sneaks into his bedroom at night to croon her customary lullaby. In spite of her occasional aggravation caused by her son's behaviour, the mother nonetheless visits his bedroom nightly to cradle him in her arms, and sing a brief lullaby promising to always love him. The story details the cycle of life by chronicling the experiences of a young son and his mother throughout the course of the boy's life, and describing the exasperating behaviour exhibited by him throughout his youth.
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The great believers book review7/7/2023 Nico’s younger sister, Fiona, has rejected their family and attached herself to his friends, with emotional consequences that become apparent in the second storyline, set 30 years later in Paris. It’s 1985, and Makkai stingingly re-creates the atmosphere of fear, prejudice, and sanctimonious finger-pointing surrounding the mortally afflicted gay community, even in a big city like Chicago. In the first of two intertwined storylines, Yale and his live-in lover, Charlie, attend an unofficial wake for a dead friend, Nico, held simultaneously with his funeral service because his Cuban-American family has made it clear they don’t want any gay people there. Another ambitious change of pace for the versatile and accomplished Makkai ( The Hundred-Year House, 2014, etc.), whose characters wrangle with the devastating impact of the AIDS epidemic at its height and in its aftermath.
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Mark lewisohn paul mccartney7/7/2023 “I’m not happy with the biographies of the Beatles. On the already existing Beatles biographies: Karen was kind enough to transcribe some of these comments the following is a selection covering Lewisohn’s discussion of these various subjects. In the second part of the interview, Lewisohn reveals that he has accessed the notes Albert Goldman compiled while researching The Lives of John Lennon and praises Goldman’s research methods while, at the same time, acknowledging Goldman’s fatal flaw of selectively choosing evidence to support his pre-determined thesis. The interview also covered more contentious topics, including Lewisohn’s evaluation of the posthumous lionization of John Lennon, how that lionization has impacted Paul McCartney’s reputation, and his conclusion that that lionization is now done his current assessment of Philip Norman’s Shout!, a narrative-defining work on which Lewisohn served as a researcher and his own professional interactions with George Harrison and Paul McCartney. In a recent two-part interview, Mark Lewisohn offered some interesting thoughts regarding why a premier Beatles history needs to be written, and written correctly discussion of his own research methods and approaches, and his evaluation of where the Beatles stand in comparison to other titans of art and culture.
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she lays bare the battle of the sexes among the early Tudor ruling classes in a way that has never been done before - Paul Johnson * Sunday Telegraph * Our leading historical entertainer, a writer whose command of sources, eye for detail, perception of character and shrewd judgement enable her to bring the past truthfully to life. Six complex, vital characters step out from behind the familiar portraits with such startling, almost contemporary vividness that the Tudor court seems doubly barbaric by contrast * The Oldie *Īn intoxicating mixture of sex, sentiment and court intrigue * Sunday Times * lovingly thorough approach to such rich material has resulted in a book of high drama. Fraser must be commended for lengthy and arduous research and the production of another substantial history to please her many fans - Philippa Gregory * Sunday Times * This is one of the best popular histories I have read in years, full of spice and anecdotes of the Tudor Court - Hilary Pratt * Irish Independent *įulfils the promise of the title: it is solid biography. emerge from this supremely readable and ably researched biographical survey not simply as appendages to their husband, but as intriguing individuals in their own right - Anne Somerset * Literary Review * Yet for all the black humour, we are never allowed to forget that the story takes place against a backdrop of judicial murder, torture and religious persecution. Henry VIII's matrimonial history is full of high farce, and Antonia Fraser is adept at exploiting her subject's comic possibilities. |