But she kept stalling, her panic causing her to overload the computronics that controlled the vehicle. She'd been hiding outside.īy the time he reached the spot, the driver was trying to back out. If she'd been inside the bar, she'd have heard the announcement and known to take a detour.īut she hadn't been in the bar. Usually DarkRiver would have already taken care of it, but because another small landslide had occurred in almost the exact same spot two days ago, this one had been left until it - and the affected slope - could be assessed by experts. The landslide had occurred only forty-five minutes ago. The Jeep screeched to a halt, probably avoiding the rubble blocking the road by bare centimeters. As the driver would be discovering right about.now! The leopard might react on instinct, but the human side of Clay's mind was functioning just fine. Instead of swearing in defeat, Clay bared his teeth in a ruthless grin, knowing something the driver didn't, something that turned his pursuit from stupid to sensible.
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He had to walk a couple of blocks to his first bus he’d be soaked and miserable by then. Night had fallen some time ago, and the black sky spit cold, stinging raindrops, making Qay shiver as he descended from the loading bay onto the street. Now they need to decide whether love is truly a powerful thing or if, despite the old adage, love can’t conquer all. A former addict who struggles with anxiety and depression, Qay doesn’t know which of his secrets to reveal to Jeremy-or how to react when Jeremy wants to save him from himself.ĭespite the pasts that continue to haunt them, Jeremy and Qay find passion, friendship, and a tentative hope for the future. Qayin Hill has almost nothing but skeletons in his closet and demons in his head. As if dealing with Donny’s issues doesn’t cause enough turmoil, Jeremy meets a fascinating but enigmatic man who carries more than his fair share of problems. His ex-boyfriend, Donny-lost to drinking and drugs six years earlier-appears on his doorstep and inadvertently drags Jeremy into danger. Now in his forties, he’s an urban park ranger who does his best to rescue runaways and other street people. It features two mature men finding a forever connection…perhaps.Ĭheck out the excerpt, my review and get in on the big giveaway, below!īullied as a child in small-town Kansas, Jeremy Cox ultimately escaped to Portland, Oregon. LOVE CAN’T CONQUER kept me turning pages long into the night. Hi there! Today I’m sharing a review for a fantastic contemporary M/M romance from Kim Fielding. Later, the Franco-Prussian war evoked from her a book devisedfor a charitable purpose, and the success of this volume revealed herfuture. She was happily married to the AdvocateSpyri. As particulars of her career are not easily gathered, wemay here state that Johanna Heusser was born at Zurich, June 12, 1827.She wrote nothing in her youth. There is here presented to the reader a careful translation of "Heidi,"one of the most popular works of the great Swiss authoress, MadamJohanna Spyri. CHICAGOĬOPYRIGHT 1916 BY WHITMAN PUBLISHING CO. Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Chris Whitehead and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at The head of the Assassins’ Guild arrives: The Patrician has had a change of heart and arranged for Twoflower to be removed. The head of the Thieves’ Guild waits for Rincewind to arrive with the Luggage and Twoflower’s gold. Fearing the Patrician’s ire, Rincewind considers fleeing the city, but Twoflower’s sentient Luggage stops him, so he tracks Twoflower back to the inn instead.Īt the inn, Twoflower sells the innkeeper an insurance policy. While Rincewind is distracted by Twoflower’s “camera” (a box containing an imp who paints pictures), Twoflower is snatched by the Thieves’ Guild. Rincewind spends the rest of the day escorting Twoflower around the city. Rincewind tries to slip out of the city with his advance payment, but he is stopped by the Patrician, who sends him back to make sure Twoflower survives to return to the Agatean Empire. Outside of the Empire, Twoflower is fabulously wealthy, but he is too innocent to recognize how much danger he is in in the criminal town of Ankh-Morpork. Rincewind is not a very good wizard, but he can recognize priceless sentient pearwood when he sees Twoflower’s magical Luggage. In Part 1, “The Color of Magic,” the wizard Rincewind first meets Twoflower, an insurance adjuster from the Agatean Empire, when the little man strolls into an inn by the waterfront. The story is structured as four novelettes, loosely interlinked and progressing toward the conclusion. Page numbers are from the e-book (HarperCollins e-books Reissue edition, October 13, 2009). She thought, acted and looked like a small girl, but she sounded, increasingly and ever more astonishingly, like a woman. As she grew older, Babe's voice leaped ahead of her body, developing remarkable timbre, resonance and richness. On stage with her sisters from the time she was two, "Baby Gumm" quickly outshone her less talented siblings. While Garland spent her life trying to find happiness, it seems that - except in small moments - being happy was not something that was in her cards.īorn in 1922 and saddled with the unlovely moniker of Frances Ethel Gumm, the unwanted youngest daughter of vaudeville performers answered to "Baby" and "Babe" throughout her childhood. However, as most people at all familiar with Judy Garland's life will know, it has a darker meaning, as well. It refers, of course, to the Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler song of that name that would become a bit of a signature for the performer. The title of the controversial new Judy Garland biography by Gerald Clarke is a bit of a manic double entendre. Review | Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland by Gerald Clarke “I try never to dismiss a mother’s concerns because more often than not, she is right,” he says.ĭr. His philosophy on pediatrics is that the best way to care for a child is to really listen to the parents. I especially love newborns and love to see the joy and excitement of their parents with this new adventure.”īecause he parents twins who were born premature, his clinical interests include twins and newborns as well as mental health issues like ADHD, depression, and anxiety. With his kids ranging from four to seventeen years old, he says there is something special to appreciate about every stage of childhood. He and his wife have six children and enjoy spending time in the outdoors together exploring mountains, rivers, and national parks. Bartholomew says he feels deeply connected to the area and its people. As a lifelong resident of Utah County, Dr. The fact that the blurb of Big Lies In A Small Town sounds absolutely fascinating definitely helped that decision… Now that I’ve had the chance to finally try her work, I will definitely come back for more soon! I must have more than one title waiting on my kindle, but somehow other books always got in the way… That’s why I thought having an ARC of her newest title, and therefore a deadline, would be the perfect little push I needed to finally remedy this. I’ve heard so many great things about Diane Chamberlain‘s stories over the years and I’m still not sure why it took me this long to finally pick up one of her titles. Martin’s Press in exchange for an honest review. *** A copy of this book was kindly provided to me by Netgalley and St. “I stared at the signature a while longer, wondering how a life that had started with so much promise could now be shrouded in such mystery.”
Only a few books on the shelves would have resonated with my friend as Taylor’s did. This North Carolina prison had a library, but like a typical prison library, it was mostly populated by westerns, romance novels, and issues of National Geographic from the 80s and 90s. The narrative deeply resonated with him, and in the coming months, he devoured all Taylor’s books as fast as I could get them. One week, I brought in Mildred Taylor’s Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry (1977). Because he wanted to keep improving his literacy skills, we started reading books for fun and discussing them. He did all the exercises in the workbook provided by the literacy nonprofit and quickly scored high enough to begin the classes. I went to this minimum security prison once a week for several years in order to tutor people who scored too low on a reading test required to take the classes offered by the local community college. It’s set back from the road, and the guard house is just a corrugated roof on skinny metal legs. The building is inconspicuous, tucked in between the highway and a bank, surrounded by fast food and gas stations on a local route. You’d hardly notice the barbed wire driving by. 2023 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony. Rather episodic in nature, and definitely of its time (there are elements of religious preachiness, strict gender roles and definite social stratification present), the chapters, while generally readable and at least mildly enjoyable, are also at times rather majorly far fetched, with some rather too obvious coincidences (so much so, that there at least sometimes seems to be an almost fairy-tale like aura of disbelief encountered, which can be a bit disconcerting, as Five Little Peppers and How They Grew seems to have been primarily written as a piece of realistic fiction). The first of a series, Margaret Sidney's Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (first published in 1881) tells the story of the Pepper family (five siblings and their widowed mother), their joys, their struggles, their love for one another. Effects of Asian Carp on zooplankton dynamics in the Upper Mississippi River. Assessment of a coldwater fish index of biotic integrity in Iowa’s Driftless Area. *Grinstead S, B Kelly†, M Siepker, and MJ Weber. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. Hyperstability in electrofishing catch rates of Common Carp and Bigmouth Buffalo. Note: authors 5-11 are in alphabetical order Reservoir fish escapement in North America: A historical review and future directions. †Lewis M, W Cope†, T Miles†, C Rude†, R Bruesewitz, B Dodd, M Flammang, K Page, MJ Weber, R Weber†, and M Wolter. Assessing size-dependent population-level effects of Largemouth Bass tournament mortality. Factors influencing fish mercury concentrations in Iowa lakes. †Mills, N, MJ Weber, D Cashatt, CL Pierce and P Dixon. Effects of length and bag limits on Largemouth Bass tournament capture and mortality. |