![]() Featuring colorful contemporary art from Mon Voir design agency founder and Instagram trendsetter Jenna Rainey, this books fresh perspective paints watercolor in a whole new light. From strokes to shapes, this book covers the basics and helps painters gain confidence in themselves along with inspiration to develop their own style over the course of 30 days. ![]() This beautifully illustrated and inspiring guided watercolor-a-day book is perfect for beginning watercolor artists, artists who want to improve their watercolor skills, and visual creatives. ![]() About the Book A contemporary paint-every-day watercolor guide that explores foundational strokes and patterns and then builds new skills upon the foundations over the course of 30 days to create finished pieces- Book Synopsis A contemporary paint-every-day watercolor guide that explores foundational strokes and patterns and then builds new skills upon the foundations over the course of 30 days to create finished pieces. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Now an employee of an information technology corporation called Reliant, Clay goes to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with the goal of meeting with the country’s king and selling him on a futuristic teleconferencing system that makes use of holograms.Īlthough a tenuous connection with the king’s nephew got him the assignment, Clay finds that nothing in the kingdom is as it seems. A born seller and professional glad-hander (one review called the novel “a globalized ‘Death of a Salesman’”), Clay has just gone through a bitter divorce, worries about not having the funds to put the daughter he loves through college, and is about to embark on a daunting sales endeavor. ![]() ![]() ![]() Best Paranormal Romance->RITA Award Winner. ![]() ![]() Click on a plot link to find similar books! Plot & Themes Time/era of story - Near futureįorbidden/mismatched love? - Yes How mismatched? - loving criminal If one lover chases another. Full Book Name:Heart Duel (Celta’s Heartmates, 3) Author Name:Robin D. Owens is the RITA Award-winning author of Heart Duel and Heart Thief. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Maisie, immersing herself in Gibraltar life by staying in a rooming house rather than the posh tourist-oriented hotel, finds Babayoff's second camera near the crime scene and begins her own investigation. ![]() The dead man is identified as Sebastian Babayoff, a photographer and member of the local Sephardic Jewish community. As often happens, Maisie stumbles-this time literally-upon a corpse and isn't satisfied with the seemingly cursory police investigation. With nearby Spain on the brink of civil war, tensions run high, and support-both financial and in the form of ammunition-funnels steadily across the increasingly porous border. Though she initially feels strong enough, both mentally and physically, to face London again in the spring of 1937, Maisie has a change of heart midvoyage and decamps in Gibraltar, a military garrison and an international outpost for those on both ends of the political spectrum. Still reeling from personal tragedies, intrepid nurse-turned–private investigator Maisie Dobbs becomes embroiled in a murder case in Gibraltar on the eve of the Spanish Civil War.įollowing the death of her husband, Viscount James Compton, in a Canadian aviation accident and her ensuing miscarriage, Maisie traveled to India rather than return home to England, despite pleas from family and friends. ![]() ![]() Recalling Holocaust fraudsters such as Jerzy Kosinski and Binjamin Wilkomirski, as well as the demagogic constructions of writers like Daniel Goldhagen, Finkelstein contends that the main danger posed to the memory of Nazism’s victims comes not from the distortions of Holocaust deniers but from prominent, self-proclaimed guardians of Holocaust memory. Their subsequent interpretations of the tragedy are often at variance with actual historical events and are employed to deflect any criticism of Israel and its supporters. Leaders of America’s Jewish community were delighted that Israel was now deemed a major strategic asset and, Finkelstein contends, exploited the Holocaust to enhance this new-found status. ![]() ![]() It was not until the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, when Israel’s evident strength brought it into line with US foreign policy, that memory of the Holocaust began to acquire the exceptional prominence it enjoys today. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shackleton and his crew of 27 bailed from the ship just days before it was crushed by ice floes in the Waddell Sea. The ship outfitted to get them to the first landing spot (the “get-there” boat) was christened The Endurance.īut, The Endurance never landed on the continent. The successful explorers would board the second boat for home. This time, he would land with a party of six men and 70 dogs on one side of the continent, while another ship would land on the opposite side and lay in supplies on the route on the back side of the pole. ![]() ![]() In a previous expedition, Shackleton came within 97 miles of the pole before turning back due to a shortage of food. He planned to lead an expedition across the continent, right through the South Pole. Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition was green lighted in 1914 despite the outbreak of World War I. I read the book while locked down in prison (prison is my own fault, the lockdown courtesy of the coronavirus.) It is an odd but effective comfort to read about people surviving far worse than you are currently struggling with. Astronaut Mark Kelley recommended Alfred Lansing’s Endurance (1959) as a book to read to help get through the coronavirus shelter-in-place conditions (Time Magazine, May 2020.) The account of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated Antarctic expedition in 1914 is both a thrilling adventure story and a reminder that there are many things more difficult to survive than having to stay six feet apart from people we do not live with. ![]() ![]() ![]() by Stefan Bachmann First published in 2001 5 editions in 1 language 1 previewable Borrow Listen. Features an introduction and commentary by the curators, and illustrations and decorations throughout. Author of The Peculiar, Cinders and Sparrows, A Drop of Night, Cabinet of Curiosities, The Whatnot, The Cabinet of Curiosities: 36 Tales Brief & Sinister, Die Wedernoch, Akt / Nude It looks like you. ![]() Perfect for fans of Alvin Schwartz and anyone who relishes a good creepy read-alone or read-aloud story. A collection of thirty-six eerie, mysterious, intriguing, and very short short stories presented by the cabinet's esteemed curators, otherwise known as acclaimed authors Stefan Bachmann, Katherine Catmull, Claire LeGrand, and Emma Trevayne. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now there are enough plotholes in this to drive a postchaise and four through, complete with outriders. Anna Snow, now the Lady Anastasia Westcott, has inherited a huge fortune, a cousin has taken the title and entailed estates, and the expected heirs are bastards and get nothing. His first marriage produced a previously unknown daughter, Anna Snow, raised in an orphanage in Bath, while his second marriage, with a son and two daughters, was contracted bigamously. This has one of the most riveting premises I’ve come across: the Earl of Riverdale has just died, and to everyone’s shock, it’s discovered that he has been married twice. A Mary Balogh book is always worth reading, but this is the first of her recent books that I’ve tried and I’m pleased to see that the standard hasn’t slipped at all. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Closing Time” is a tale of survival, full of the requisite twists and turns, but there’s no question that the author will prevail - it’s only a matter of how. ![]() Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, more than two-thirds of the way through this book, Queenan’s eventual escape - from family, class and the City of Brotherly Love to boot - is a foregone conclusion. to make a living by ridiculing people, and it didn’t seem to matter all that much where I got my degree, as you couldn’t major in satire or invective.” Tongue-in-cheek maybe, but Queenan, the author of nine books, is best known today as a humorist and cultural critic, a contributor to publications that include the New York Times, GQ and Rolling Stone.īy the time he matriculates to St. In “Closing Time,” Joe Queenan’s new memoir, the author was none too pleased with his high school girlfriend when she told him that “she had big plans for her life, and that none of them included me.” She was on her way to study music at Catholic University (out of state, that is), while Joe would be only a few blocks from home, his “dream. ![]() A memoir of growing up in extremely difficult circumstances in the City of Brotherly Love. ![]() ![]() ![]() But suddenly everyone has heard "a sound like laughter or sobs interrupted" and the question "What kind of love blesses the marriage?" Alas, he was convinced that this bright feeling cannot happen in one’s life. Only one person did not initially participate in the debate: the strange, nervous uncommunicative master, who, for all the attempts, was impossible to involve into the talk. Moreover, the dispute in the early is going on between an old-merchant and a middle-aged lady, and then covers the rest of the audience. Written by Anastasia Melnyk, Sabina Baciu and other people who wish to remain anonymousĪt the beginning of the story, the author introduces the reader to the passengers of the train, between which a lively conversation is fastened on a very delicate topic for the time: whether the divorce is acceptable, whether education is necessary, how it is better to marry, and most importantly whether love should be present in marriage. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() |