Not suitable for anyone under 18 years of age. Theyve also been enemies and rivals since highschool. *Iced Out is the first in a five book standalone college sports romance series featuring two misunderstood rival teammates, pages of snarky banter, and more secret spicy times than any book should be filled with. Oakley and Quinton are college seniors and teammates on Leighton Us hockey team. I never imagined that drive would lead me to do the unthinkable: falling into bed with my not-so-straight rival.īut athletes are a superstitious bunch, and when our hook-ups lead to victories, we tell ourselves we can’t stop.īesides, it’s all for the sake of the team, right? Clawing under my skin is his favorite pastime, only feeding the animosity between us as the years pass. The only thing we can agree on is hockey is our true love, and we’ll do whatever it takes to come out on top. My path to success never included an enemy as a teammate, especially one as infuriating as Quinton de Haas. We’re as completely opposite as two people can be the golden boy and the black sheep.Ĭonstantly at odds or at each other’s throats. My path to success never included an enemy as a teammate, especially one as infuriating as Quinton de Haas.Ĭlawing under my skin is his favorite pastime, only feeding the animosity between us as the years pass.
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Mort's murder of Jake led to Jake's appearance in The Gunslinger. Instead of revealing a new companion, the third door (labeled "The Pusher") instead reveals a new adversary for Roland: Jack Mort, a sociopath who takes sadistic pleasure in injuring and killing random strangers - and the man responsible for the head trauma that created Odetta Holmes's alternate personality, the loss of Odetta/Detta's legs, and the death of Jake Chambers. Following a prophecy that such doors would provide companions for his quest to the Dark Tower, Roland brings Dean and Odetta - both reluctant - into Mid-World. Through another door, Roland encounters Odetta Holmes, a sophisticated and wealthy black woman who suffers from multiple personality disorder her alternate identity, Detta Walker, is a crude and cruel but street-wise woman. Through one door, Roland encounters Eddie Dean, a junkie transporting cocaine on an airplane for crime boss Enrico Balazar. On a beach, Roland encounters three magical doors to our world, hanging in mid-air. The Waste Lands The Drawing of the Three is the second book in the Dark Tower series. Elizabeth benefited from her privileged life as a child. Her father Edward Moulton Barrett had accumulated great wealth from his Jamaican sugar plantations. Elizabeth Barrett Browning – First PoetryĪs the eldest of 12 children, Elizabeth Barrett was born in 1806 in England. Empathetic due to her own lifelong physical sufferings but evocative of profound intellectual thought, Browning’s poems are considered among the greatest contributions to English poetry for the nineteenth century. Among her most famous works are her Sonnets, of which I especially like one above. Actually she was one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era. I shall but love thee better after death.Įlizabeth Barrett Browning‘s poetry was widely popular in both England and the United States during her lifetime and ever since. Smiles, tears, of all my life and, if God choose, In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight I love thee to the depth and breadth and height His characters are vividly realised in a few strokes, with an almost Dickensian oddness. John Irving has an eye for the detail that brings a scene to life, and manages to keep his story slightly off-kilter without every completely descending into quirkiness. I was happily back to my enjoyment of The World According to Garp (1978) and The Hotel New Hampshire (1981), both of which I read when they were newly published. I loved the first hundred pages or so, which introduce us to the characters who inhabit the small New Hampshire town of Gravesend, and tell the story of Owen and Johnny’s childhood friendship, their shared quest to find the identity of Johnny’s father, their adolescent adventures. His story is told by his best friend Johnny Wheelwright, who doesn’t have a lot to distinguish him from any other child of an old New England family, except that his mother never revealed the identity of his father and she herself was killed in a bizarre Little League accident when he was eleven. From an early age Owen has a profound belief that he is an instrument of God, and he has a vision of his own death, including the exact date and some of the circumstances. It tells the life story of Owen Meany, a young man who is tiny in stature and huge in voice like the hero of Gunther Grass’s The Tin Drum (which I haven’t read, though I’ve seen the movie). And he grapples with the challenge of maintaining privacy in a world where these explorations are possible. What is the least Asian thing you can say? Do people bathe more in Vermont or New Jersey? What do black women think about Simon & Garfunkel? (Hint: they don’t think about Simon & Garfunkel.) Rudder also traces human migration over time, showing how groups of people move from certain small towns to the same big cities across the globe. He shows how people express themselves, both privately and publicly. He charts the rise and fall of America’s most reviled word through Google Search and examines the new dynamics of collaborative rage on Twitter. In this daring and original book, Rudder explains how Facebook "likes" can predict, with surprising accuracy, a person’s sexual orientation and even intelligence how attractive women receive exponentially more interview requests and why you must have haters to be hot. Data scientists have become the new demographers. As we live more of our lives online, researchers can finally observe us directly, in vast numbers, and without filters. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder uses it to show us who we truly are.įor centuries, we’ve relied on polling or small-scale lab experiments to study human behavior. Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we don’t need. An audacious, irreverent investigation of human behavior-and a first look at a revolution in the making in education from New York University in 1961, which named her a Distinguished Alumna in 1996, the same year the American Library Association honored her with the Margaret A. She receives thousands of letters a year from readers of all ages who share their feelings and concerns with her. More than 80 million copies of her books have been sold, and her work has been translated into thirty-one languages. She has also written three novels for adults, Summer Sisters Smart Women and Wifey, all of them New York Times bestsellers. Adults as well as children will recognize such Blume titles as: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Blubber Just as Long as We're Together and the five book series about the irrepressible Fudge. She has spent her adult years in many places doing the same thing, only now she writes her stories down on paper. Judy Blume spent her childhood in Elizabeth, New Jersey, making up stories inside her head. A perfectly acceptable study or work or reading or research copy! Well bound copy with extensive overall wear and use. Bodelsen goes on to write: 'Kipling is making the same point here as he did in The Jungle Books: that the basic conditions of human life are those of Nature, and that the civilization we have created is only a thin screen between us and immutable forces only disregarded at our peril.' inventory #33665 Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front,Otherwise Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers With Some Tears. his almost infallible sense of the right word,' the voyage of the We're Here is one of both physical and moral adventure it serves to give memorable, dramatic definition to the author's rigorous concept of the laws governing human existence. Bodelsen terms 'Kipling's brilliant impressionism. The boy in question is Harvey Cheyne, pampered son of an American millionaire his initiation commences when he is saved from drowning by a New England fishing schooner and forced to prove his worth in the only way the captain and crew will accept: through the slow and arduous mastery of skills upon which common survival depends. FROM THE PUBLISHER - One of Rudyard Kipling's most enduringly popular works, Captains Courageous is both a stirring tale of the sea and a fable of a boy's initiation into the world of men. Previous Owner's Name Penned in Front,Otherwise Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers With Some Tears. Yet as the next hunt dawns over New York City, two participants seek out her help: Castor, a childhood friend of Lore believed long dead, and a gravely wounded Athena, among the last of the original gods. For years she’s pushed away any thought of revenge against the man–now a god–responsible for their deaths. Long ago, Lore Perseous fled that brutal world in the wake of her family’s sadistic murder by a rival line, turning her back on the hunt’s promises of eternal glory. As punishment for a past rebellion, nine Greek gods are forced to walk the earth as mortals, hunted by the descendants of ancient bloodlines, all eager to kill a god and seize their divine power and immortality. From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Darkest Minds comes a sweepingly ambitious, high-octane tale of power, destiny, love and redemption.Įvery seven years, the Agon begins. Combine familiar characters with a magical weapon called the Frying Pan of Doom, and I really don’t know how you could go wrong. One, “Utensile Strength,” actually features major characters from the series, which is delightful simply in itself. Two of the stories are related to the Enchanted Forest Chronicles. “Cruel Sisters” and “Stronger than Time” both reimagine old fairy tales, bringing darkness but also more human characters. “Rikiki and the Wizard” has a fable-like quality to it, about Rikiki the blue chipmunk god, who’s obsessed with nuts (as a chipmunk naturally would be!) “The Lorelei” combines a perfectly ordinary, modern student bus trip with the dangerous power of a siren. Some are funny some are eerie some are haunting. They all deal with magic, but they vary widely in subject, setting and tone. I could vividly remember all but two stories, matching my memories to the titles–and I’m usually not good at remembering things like titles, especially when I haven’t read the book in probably a couple of years. When it arrived in my mailbox, I went down the Table Contents. It’s a collection of short stories, and I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve read the library’s copy. I just recently bought another of her books– Book of Enchantments. You may know that I’m a big fan of Patricia C. Consciously or not, he set the stage for Taiwan's evolution of a Chinese model of democratic modernization. Playing a key role in the cold war with China, Chiang suppressed opposition with his "white terror," controlled inflation and corruption, carried out land reform, and raised personal income, health, and educational levels on the island. In 1949, when he was defeated by Mao Zedong-his archrival for leadership of China-he fled to Taiwan, where he ruled for another twenty-five years. A modernist as well as a neo-Confucianist, Chiang was a man of war who led the most ancient and populous country in the world through a quarter century of bloody revolutions, civil conflict, and wars of resistance against Japanese aggression. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure, dominates this story. One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. |