![]() ![]() Terrifying violence to enforce an official story. Watergate and the origins and scale of the war in Vietnam-uses ![]() ![]() Government-the same one that recently lied to the American people about Its first third, when the fast-acting "superflu" known as Captain Tripsĭestroys an America that was already destroying itself. I enjoyed The Stand from start to finish, but never as much as in Even defaced by King's ill-considered 1990 expansion of the novel, which moved its setting from 1980 to 1990, Phipps writes, The Stand is unmistakably "a product of the '70s," suffused with that decade's sense of disintegration and impending doom. A few days later, Keith Phipps, writing for the AV Club, made the same observation about Stephen King's The Stand. Engh's Arslan, I noted how much of its time-the mid-70s-the novel seemed, most particularly in its conviction that America, still reeling from the cultural clashes of the 60s, the Vietnam War, and Watergate, was on the verge of collapse. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A 2019 study report on the issue said that “burnout is not the sole domain of only one particular library type it is pervasive in every type of library from special libraries to public libraries.”Īt heart, burnout is exhaustion. ![]() suffer exhaustion related to burnout and the helping professions are particularly prone to suffer from it. How Librarians Can Avoid Burnout by Celeste HeadleeĪt this point in history, burnout is an epidemic. Here, Headlee discusses how librarians can apply these lessons to avoiding burnout. So why are we so miserable? In Do Nothing, award-winning journalist Celeste Headlee illuminates a new path ahead, seeking to institute a global shift in our thinking so we can stop sabotaging our well-being, put work aside, and start living instead of doing. We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Vice and her associates maneuver Dmitri into a hasty Vegas wedding, he refuses to protect himself with a prenup, trusting her with all that he has. Even as the irresistible Russian toys with her body and mind, he tempts her heart. She sets her sights on gorgeous and rich Dmitri Sevastyan. Vice, needs the score of a lifetime to keep her loved ones safe. Despite a history tainted with violation and betrayal, he will stop at nothing to possess her.ĭescended from a long line of con artists, twenty-four-year-old Victoria, a.k.a. In Las Vegas, Sin City, Dmitri Sevastyan finds her, Victoria Valentine-sexy, vulnerable, and in need of a protector. ![]() #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole brings readers the third book of the erotic Game Maker Series, a searing tale of a man racked with dark desires and the beautiful young woman who could sate him at last. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Olive needs her best friend, Anh, to think she's dating someone so Anh will feel more comfortable getting involved with Olive's barely-an-ex, Jeremy, she impulsively kisses Adam, who happens to be standing there when Anh walks by. As a faculty member, Adam's reputation precedes him, since he's made many students cry or drop their programs entirely with his bluntness. Now, nearly three years later, Olive is fully committed to her research in pancreatic cancer at Stanford University's biology department. It's a memory that only one of them has held onto. Olive wore expired contact lenses, reducing her eyes to temporary tears, while Adam just needed to dispose of a solution. Olive Smith and professor Adam Carlsen first met in the bathroom of Adam's lab. An earnest grad student and a faculty member with a bit of a jerkish reputation concoct a fake dating scheme in this nerdy, STEM-filled contemporary romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Years later, when a second expedition to the Beothuk's winter camp mounted by the Peytons leads to the kidnapping of an Indian woman and the murder of her husband, Buchan returns to investigate. ![]() When Buchan's peace expedition into "Indian country" goes awry, the rift between father and son deepens and begins to divide those closest to them. ![]() Cassie, the fiercely self-reliant and secretive woman who keeps the family house, walks a precarious line of her own between the unspoken but obvious hopes of the younger Peyton, her loyalty to John Senior, and a steadfast refusal to compromise her independence. His closest ally, John Peyton Jr., maintains an uneasy balance between duty to his father-a domineering patriarch with a reputation as a ruthless persecutor of the Beothuk-and his troubled conscience. When Buchan approaches the area's most influential white settlers, the Peytons, for advice and assistance, he enters a shadowy world of allegiances and old grudges that he can only dimly apprehend. In 1810, David Buchan, a naval officer, arrives in the Bay of Exploits with orders to establish contact with the Beothuk, or "Red Indians," the aboriginal inhabitants of Newfoundland, who are facing extinction. "An impressive first novel" of a crisis between natives and colonists in Newfoundland, based on historical events ( Seattle Post-Intelligencer). ![]() ![]() But for who indeed has enjoyed the other adventures of Miss Marple, it stays a delight to see that old lady at work. The gimmick of a reoccurring character from a previous book, never really compensates this flaw. Nevertheless the denouement seems a bit in a clutter and misses the opportunity to amaze the reader. Nemesis may be slow-paced and a bit tedious at times, but the old charm is still there and a good deal of magic in plotting too. But the nosy sleuth receives a far more prosperous retirement than her colleague Hercule Poirot, who dies during his final appearance in Curtain. Nemesis was published in 1971 and finalizes the list of more than twenty Miss Marple books. Miss Marple takes on the challenge, but faces death more closely than she ever expected. Rafiel wants Miss Marple to solve a crime, but he doesn't give any clues as to when it happened, where, or to whom. ![]() Rafiel's solicitors, asking her to call at their offices. Would you enjoy De rode cirkel or similar books Take the test now The Crimson Circle is a 1922 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. Now that he has died, Miss Marple receives an unexpected letter from Mr. ![]() It has been years since Miss Marple heard anything from the very rich Jason Rafiel, who had pooled his wits with hers in that murder business some years back (see A Caribbean Mystery). ![]() ![]() 'I would love to see an attempt at resolution. Things are far more uncertain for The Crown alum's Ted Lasso character - venture capitalist Jack Danvers - who broke up with publicity firm owner Keeley Jones (Juno Temple) after she refused to formally apologize for her masturbation 'porno' video leaking online. ![]() Jodi and Jacobson were already wearing engagement rings when they made their official red carpet debut as a couple at the LA premiere of A League of Their Own on August 4.īalfour and the four-time Emmy nominee - who met on the private dating app Raya - went Instagram official on Octowhich was their one-year anniversary of dating. 'How flooded I feel with gratitude for how easy it's been for me to share this with my community (I'm deeply aware that so many people fought to make it that way, and of how many people still don’t get to have this experience) and that even though it took me a long time to get here, it feels like coming home to myself in a way that's burst life right open.' ![]() Baring her belly: The South African 36-year-old (R) flaunted her taut tummy in a beige T-shirt and baggy black shorts while the Pennsylvania-born 39-year-old (L) sported a 'Flowers of Maine' T-shirt and a black Orassini baseball cap ![]() ![]() Plain Jane's Prince Charming, November 2006Ĭan mistletoe create magic that college never could?Ĭurled up with a romantic novel by a warm fire is how Caitlin Butler plans to spend Christmas Eve until an ill, stray kitten tugs on her heartstrings, bringing her face-to-face with the college boy she couldn't have-Noah Sullivan. Watching the selfless veterinarian care for the sick kitten melts her heart, flooding her with long-forgotten emotions. Rescued By The Magic Of Christmas, November 2008 Memo: The Billionaire's Proposal (Harlequin Romance), September 2009ĭream Date With The Millionaire, June 2009 ![]() Picture Perfect Love: A June Wedding Story, June 2015Ī Copper Mountain Christmas, December 2013Ī Little Bit of Holiday Magic, November 2012įirefighter Under the Mistletoe, November 2011Ĭhristmas Magic On the Mountain, November 2010 ![]() Quinn Valley Ranch Two Book Set, January 2020 The Indigo Bay Sweet Romance Collection, June 2021 The Billionaires of Silicon Forest Prequels, November 2021 The Billionaires of Silicon Forest, November 2021 The Last Cottage on Pinewood Lane, December 2022Ī Keepsake Christmas: A Sweet Christmas Anthology, November 2021 ![]() ![]() The reign of Ramesses II, situated in the 13th century BCE, was marked by his conquests in warfare, his magnificent architectural feats, and his extensive realm stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Nile delta. ![]() ![]() The historical origins of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias” lie within the annals of ancient Egyptian civilization and the ubiquitous presence of one of its paramount rulers, Ramesses II, who was referred to as Ozymandias in Greek culture. A witness to this eternal truth, the speaker of the poem testifies to the transience of earthly authority and the utter futility of human ambition as he comes upon the broken pieces of a once-great statue of the ancient Egyptian ruler Ramesses II. Shelley expertly portrays the idea that even the greatest of civilizations will eventually fall to ruin by the use of florid and ornate language, leaving behind only relics of their past glory to be remembered by future generations. This poem is a profound reflection on the transience of human strength and the certainty of death and forgetfulness. ![]() Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the greatest British poets of the nineteenth century, wrote the epic poem “Ozymandias.” It was first published under the pen name “Gilrastes” in 1818 in The Examiner of London. ![]() ![]() As Annalee Newitz shows in the marvelous Four Lost Cities, an ancient city’s fate was determined by complex interactions of politics, the environment and human choices-all of which offer insight into the challenges of climate change and disease that we face today.Īlong with Angkor in Cambodia and Pompeii in Italy, Newitz’s four cities include Çatalhöyük in Turkey, the Neolithic site of one of the world’s first cities, and Cahokia, a Native American city that was located in the St. Keep that trajectory in mind if you ever visit a magnificent urban archaeological site such as Angkor Wat or Pompeii. Fifteen years later, hurricanes still threaten New Orleans, but the city certainly endures. As the city rebuilt, it changed, through both loss and revitalization. ![]() ![]() When Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, thousands of people were forced to relocate. ![]() |