![]() ![]() ![]() Like an afternoon special on bullying gone impossibly dark, Raeder's (Unteachable) dizzyingly intense, drug-addicted queer teenage revenge fantasy takes its reader on a sexy, bloody journey of pure emotion that's by turns expressed, denied, and turned back in on itself. And Laney is going to show them just how true. When a ghost from her past resurfaces-the bully who broke her down completely-she decides it’s time to live up to her own legend. She’s not looking for new friends, but they find her: charming, handsome Armin, the only guy patient enough to work through her thorny defenses-and fiery, filterless Blythe, the bad girl and partner in crime who has thorns of her own.īut Laney knows nothing good ever lasts. ![]() College is her chance to start with a clean slate. ![]() If Laney could erase that whole year, she would. Mentally ill, messed up, so messed up even her own mother decided she wasn’t worth sticking around for. It only took one moment of weakness for Laney Keating’s world to fall apart. Pierce, bestselling author of the Night Owl trilogy), and called “one of the best forbidden romances” (Lauren Blakely, New York Times bestselling author). The next dark and sexy romantic suspense novel from the USA TODAY bestselling author of Unteachable, praised for its “lush, haunting prose, deft storytelling, and scorching sensuality” (M. ![]()
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Delving into everything from Monroe's professional successes to his bitter rivalries, from his isolated childhood to his reckless womanizing, veteran bluegrass journalist Richard D. ![]() For sixty years, Monroe was a star at the Grand Ole Opry, and when he died in 1996, he was universally hailed as "the Father of Bluegrass." But the personal life of this taciturn figure remained largely unknown. Considering the range of stars that have claimed Bill Monroe as an influence-Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and Jerry Garcia are just a few-it can be said that no single artist has had as broad an impact on American popular music as he did. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then a chance encounter with her idol Elvis Presley, changed the course of her life forever, and led her to Europe where she worked in film and traveled Italy as lead singer of an Italian pop band. ![]() Run-ins with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Tom Jones helped her grow up fast. ![]() Due to a complicated relationship with her mother, Cassandra left home at 14, and by age 17 she was performing at the famed Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas. ![]() While her sisters played with Barbie dolls, Cassandra played with model kits of Frankenstein and Dracula, and idolized Vincent Price. Feeling like a misfit led to her love of horror. Burned and scarred, the impact stayed with her and became an obstacle she was determined to overcome. Third-degree burns covered 35% of her body, and the prognosis wasn't good. On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the nearest hospital in Manhattan, Kansas, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water. "item_description" : "Due to Limited Stock, Multi-Copy Orders May be Reduced to 5 Copies Per Household.Click Here for the unsigned copyThe woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story, filled with intimate bombshells, told by the bombshell herself. "item_title" : "Yours Cruelly, Elvira Autographed Copy", ![]() ![]() ![]() Those who wish to learn the back-story find it afterward in historical treatments of the era. The human element of the struggle to formulate quantum mechanics-indeed to amend the very basis of reality-is largely omitted from the curriculum. As taught in the classroom (at least to me), each of these names is a sterile label attached to a particular equation, principle, or model. This other-world of arcane rules and illogical phenomena was first mapped out during the 1920s by a roster of noted physicists, among them Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, and Paul Dirac. ![]() The subject seemed-and still seems to a certain extent-frustratingly abstract, a compilation of methods and explanations so utterly disconnected from my own realm of experience that I accept them largely on faith. As an astronomy teacher and a science writer, I rarely need to call upon what I learned in my long-ago college quantum mechanics course. ![]() ![]() ![]() If he wants to be shrewd he can look for the ever-present bargain opportunities in individual securities. 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The investor’s primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices. ![]() The speculator’s primary interest lies in anticipating and profiting from market fluctuations. “The most realistic distinction between the investor and the speculator is found in their attitude toward stock-market movements. ![]() ![]() ![]() How To Be Loving is a nuanced perspective on the life changing power of Self Compassion, shadow work, and being more receptive to Higher Guidance. As we focus on living from our heart center, anything that’s not in alignment with that Light falls away. ![]() We do not need to focus on “fixing” ourselves. This call for gentleness is counterculture. This is the non-dual place where complete Self acceptance has room to grow. Because in your heart, it’s ALL IN-your light and your shadows-and everyone else’s. It means feeling everything with more Love. ![]() And we can effectively train ourselves to keep returning to Love via our thoughts over and over again.īeing Loving doesn’t necessarily mean feeling more. Spirituality is really the practice of thinking with Love. The intelligence of Love dissolves eons of dogma that tells us to prove our “worth” and sort who’s superior or inferior. When you turn to the heart, you uncondition your mind of all kinds of social programming. ![]() ![]() ![]() Foul prophesies that he will destroy the Land within 49 years however, if Drool isn't stopped, this doom will come to pass much sooner. He wakes to find himself in "the Land", a classic fantasy world, where he meets the evil Cavewight Drool Rockworm and Lord Foul the Despiser. Disturbed by the encounter, Covenant stumbles into the path of an oncoming police car and is rendered unconscious. On a rare trip into town, he is accosted by a beggar. ![]() After six months' treatment, he returns home to find himself divorced by his wife Joan and outcast from his community. Thomas Covenant is a young author whose world is turned upside-down when he is diagnosed with leprosy. ![]() Donaldson, the first book of the first trilogy of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series. Lord Foul's Bane is a 1977 fantasy novel by American writer Stephen R. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Henri's narrative swagger effortlessly charms the reader, but it's his growing self-awareness that gives this delightful novel its depth. ![]() This is a sharply funny and insightful novel about the countless hustles we have to keep from doing the hardest thing: being ourselves. Soon what started as a mutual hustle turns into something more surprising than either of them ever bargained for. Henri agrees, seeing a potential upside for himself. When she uncovers Henri's less-than-honest dog-walking scheme, she blackmails him into helping her change her image at school. There is only one person who seems immune to Henri's charms: his "intense" classmate and neighbor Corinne Troy. But his easy smiles mask a burning ambition to attend his dream college, Columbia University. ![]() He is a star debater and popular student at the prestigious FATE academy, the dutiful first-generation Haitian son, and the trusted dog walker for his wealthy New York City neighbors. Henri "Halti" Haltiwanger can charm just about anyone. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Jenny Han. From the award-winning author of The Field Guide to the North American Teenager comes a whip-smart and layered romantic comedy. ![]() ![]() ![]() She connects disciplines such as biology and anthropology to now discredited practices such as phrenology as examples of fields of study that evolved through the exploitation of indigenous people. One of Smith’s most important efforts is to link the history of European conquest and colonisation to the development of scientific thought, hinged on the dehumanisation of and appropriation from indigenous peoples around the world. Re-released in 2012, this book launched a wave of indigenous-led critiques of academic power and proposals for indigenized methodological interventions. Here, Smith traces the history of scientific knowledge as it developed through racist practices and the exploitation of indigenous peoples, and asserts a challenging vision for how research and education can be used to confront colonialism and oppression. She is best known for her groundbreaking 1999 book, Decolonizing Methodologies. Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Porou, Māori) is a scholar of education and critic of persistent colonialism in academic teaching and research. ![]() ![]() ![]() And what about the extensive list of men with whom Martha has endured the torments of the first date.īut then there’s Cooper Tuckington, Lucy’s best friend from college. Or take Jesse, Martha’s younger brother, an opera aficionado and neurotic extraordinaire who can’t summon the courage to make the first move on the woman he’s crazy about. Worse still, he’s scared to go into the woods after dark. Consider Adam, Lucy’s boyfriend of two years, who demonstrates on an ostensibly romantic camping trip that he can’t build a fire, split wood, or jump-start a car. This is the question that Lucy and her best friend, Martha McKenna, struggle to answer. ![]() Why, then, are their human counterparts so hopeless in courtship? A biologist studying patterns of sexual selection, Lucy Stone knows a lot about mating–particularly that in the animal kingdom, males will go to any length to attract females. ![]() |