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Vivian maier most famous photos6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She cataloged the textures and cast-offs of the urban environment: graffiti, fire escapes, signs, garbage, shadows, abandoned newspapers, half-demolished buildings. She captured politicians on the campaign trail (Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, LBJ) celebrities at premieres or out in the wild (Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn) laborers and commuters drunks, criminals, and down-and-outs flaneurs and well-coiffed women in furs. Attentive to plaintive or absurd interludes in American life, primarily in New York City and Chicago, Maier made a piecemeal record of the sudden encounters and furtive gestures that turn any street into a guerrilla theater. They sometimes evoke the wanderlust of Robert Frank’s photos, the wry self-deprecation of Lee Friedlander, or the grubbiness of Weegee, but they’re not derivative. The images arrived already imbued with the aura of permanence. ![]()
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Like Death by Tim Waggoner6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Sierra and Jeffrey's boyfriend Marc work to discover the reason for her brother's return to life while struggling to survive attacks by this monstrous quartet. Corliss also transforms four people in Sierra's life into inhuman monsters determined to kill her. What are you willing to do, what are you willing to become, to save someone you love? Sierra Sowell's dead brother Jeffrey is resurrected by a mysterious man known only as Corliss. ![]()
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Gifts by Kathryn Lynard Soper6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Surprise! / by Cynthia Yunke Light the way / by Alicia Culp Blue ribbon-first place / by Carol B. Crouse The dream / by Rosemarie Aiello-Gertz We are not alone / by Michelle Adams Where there's a will, there's a way / by Kelly Anderson Emma Sage / by Tara Marie Hintz - : The gift of delight. Notes from the deep end / by Jennifer Enderlin Blougouras For such a time as this / by Emily Vesper Travels with Brendan / by Tammy Westfahl For James / by Leilani Lucas Nourishment / by Deborah Minner Matthew's secret / by Katy Shapro Lifting each other / by Anita Minor The school of life / by Ann Bremer Fight the good fight / by Joanne M. Aidan's gift / by Valle Dwight What to do with a boy / by Jessica Capitani On his thirteenth birthday / by Jodi Reimer Belonging / by Rebecca Phong Oh, yeah? / by Robin Roach From generation to generation / by Debbie Ellenbogen Different / by Tammy Hodson It's better than good / by Janine Steck Huffman Mommy / by Kelly Rimmer Acceptance / by Shari Adelson-Pollard Sunshine / by Jeanette Bollinger Who's winning? / by Sandra Assimotos-McElwee - : The gift of strength. Foreword / by Martha Sears - Introduction: Gifts : two birth stories / by Kathryn Lynard Soper - : The gift of respect. ![]()
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The scholomance book 36/21/2023 ![]() ![]() īut the illusions died out over 100 years ago and now it is a unrepaired ghost of what had been there. It was the masterpiece of a crack team of artificers from Kyoto. When the Scholomance first opened, there were several really complex multilayered spells on the gym to give students the illusion of being outside in nature, complete with trees and open skies above that would go from day to night. ![]() The graduation hall is only connected to the rest of the school with a minimum of pipes and vents. Some mals manage to get through the wards anyway but then they can only get to the graduation hall. ![]() The school is attached to the real world by the graduation gate which is loaded down with magical wards and barriers. Sir Alfred Cooper Browning came up with the idea for the school. Before the school was built only 40% of the children in enclaves survived to adulthood without being eaten by Maleficaria (Mals). Built in the late 1800’s by Sir Alfred Cooper Browning of the Manchester (England) Enclave to protect the children of the Enclaves. ![]()
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Edith hamilton6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.” (Mythology) “…a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. ![]() It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. The most sought-after thing is her writing style that the young writers still want to follow to improve their writing faculties. Her writings not only inspired the writers and critics but also cast a significant shadow on some influential American figures like President John F. Writers and readers who share interests in ancient literature and classics keep her popularity going by constantly referring to her in their discussions and commentary. Hamilton’s works continue to offer interpretations of ancient life, religion, and culture that take the readers into the world that existed ages ago. Edith Hamilton’s Impact on Future Literature Best Woks: Some of her best works include The Ever Present Past, Witness to the Truth: Christ and His Interpreters, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, The Prophets of Israel, The Greek Way, Spokesmen for God, and The Echo of Greece. ![]()
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![]() The recipient of his last phone call is his first girlfriend who works and lives in a movie theatre It is when Kawamura uses specific details or tells us that the origin of the Japanese word for cat, “neko”, is actually “’a sleeping child’” (same sound, different choice of kanji characters)” that the novel surges to life. ![]() There weren’t many surprises for this cat lover but it was lovely to find out eventually that that “whole other word” is “Neko-Manma”. But the devil is in the detail and the devil is, of course, central to this story of mortality, a blend of Faust with It's a Wonderful Life. It's hard to know what part translation has played here as it is always harder to translate a demotic voice from one language to another. But seemingly I haven't gone wrong because when the unnamed protagonist's cat Cabbage begins to speak halfway through the novel, he reveals he doesn't like this food either.Ĭabbage's voice is a little clichéd he speaks "like an upper class gentleman. ![]() ![]() I wondered again where I went wrong with my cat-rearing. It's just not the same as human food – we humans are way fussier." This was news to me, under pressure as I am every day to rustle up at least three innovative meals for my cats. At the beginning of Genki Kawamura's magic tale If Cats Disappeared from the World, we're told that "In Japanese, there's a whole other word for the food pets eat. ![]()
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Board Stiff by Kendel Lynn6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() If you like one, you'll probably like them all. ![]() It's mischief and misfortune you do not want to miss.īOARD STIFF by Kendel Lynn A Henery Press Mystery. Start your next binge read with the PI-in-training dubbed "the Stephanie Plum of the South" from Agatha-Nominated author, Kendel Lynn. With victims piling up faster than shells at a clambake, Elliott realizes she's next on the killer's list. The closer she gets to the truth, the more treacherous her investigation becomes: a brutal attack on her own suspect and the murder of a witness. But the deeper she digs to clear Jane's name, the guiltier Jane looks. ![]() The Ballantyne's reputation tanks, Jane's headed to a jail cell, and Elliott's sexy ex is the new lieutenant in town.Īrmed with moxie and her Mini Coop, Elliott uncovers a trail of blackmail schemes, gambling debts, illicit affairs, and investment scams. It features Elliott Lisbon, a mostly amateur sleuth who is only 5000 hours away from getting her PI license. Her debut mystery, Board Stiff, was an Agatha Award nominee for Best First Novel. Until Jane Hatting, Ballantyne board chair, is accused of murder. Kendel Lynn is a Southern California native who now parks her flip-flops in Dallas, Texas. Usually nothing more serious than retrieving a pilfered Pomeranian. I have read most of the books by this publishing house and have absolutely loved all of them. As director of the Ballantyne Foundation on Sea Pine Island, SC, Elliott Lisbon scratches her detective itch by performing discreet inquiries for Foundation donors. After launching Henery Press, an independent publishing house for mysteries in 2012, Kendel Lynn has published her own debut novel, ‘Board Stiff’ in 2013. ![]()
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The ghost stories of edith wharton6/20/2023 ![]() James / The Signalman by Charles Dickens / The Tall Woman by Pedre Antonio de Alarcon / A Scent of Mimosa by Francis King / Death and the Gardener by Jean Cocteau / Lord Mountdrago by W. Hartley / Laura by Saki / An Injustice Revealed - Anonymous / A Little Place off the Edgware Road by Graham Greene / From 'A School Story' by M. Ireland / The Mysteries of the Joy Rio by Tennessee Williams / Pomegranate Seed by Edith Wharton / Venetian Masks by Adolfo Bioy Casares / The Wish House by Rudyard Kipling / The Playground by Ray Bradbury / Importance by Manuel Mujica Lainez / Enoch Soames by Max Beerbohm / A Visitor from Down Under by L, P. ![]() Contents include: Foreword / House Taken Over by Julio Cortazar / How Love Came to Professor Guildea by Robert S. Large soft cover (roughly) 7 3/4" by 5" (inches) square true clean & tight, flat spine, (xix) 967 pages, flat spine, Very Good condition with minor edge wear/rubbing/spine creasing. ![]() George Tooker "The Subway" (illustrator). ![]()
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Little secrets jennifer hillier summary6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() I did decide to persist despite the subject because I again had read previous novels regarding this topic as I knew I would enjoy the read eventually and holy moly, this novel blew me out of the water. ![]() I can't read novels about ceramic dolls because they terrify me and you may not be able to read Little Secrets because it hits hard on parental suffering and the lengths they go to come to terms with the disappearance and heal, or not heal, from it. Be warned there are a lot of intense topics in this story and this is not a read for everyone. This was the first thriller where I found the subject matter unsettling, so unsettling that I almost stopped reading after the first two chapters despite having read many books with a similar premise so I don't know why this specific story hit me so hard, it just did. Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier is a messed up book. ![]()
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A Christmas Carol by Lesley Sims6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It has been a decade since I last read this classic, so I decided to look at it again, taking note of what I have forgotten or imperfectly remembered and also garnering any new insights my older (and I hope wiser) self could now find within it.īut first, I decided to do a little research, and discovered the great irony underlying the book’s creation: how this tale that warns against miserliness was born because of Dickens' acute need for money, and how its publication resulted in a dispute about the distribution of profits.ĭickens was already famous in 1843, but the sales of the recent installments of Martin Chuzzlewit were less than half of what he had received for the individual numbers of his previous novels. ![]() |