That’s when the Christmas miracle begins. It isn’t long until I discover Andrew has a very real reason to hate Christmas and I start to see him in a different light. As if I’d pass up an opportunity to make a Grinch’s heart grow three times its size. Bonus, we make a deal, and he agrees to attend three holiday events with me so I can make him fall in love with Christmas. So, when he calls for my help in planning his firm’s holiday party, I can’t pass up the opportunity to grow my small business. Single and Ready to Jingle by Piper Rayne on NovemGenres: Adult, Holiday, Christmas, Humor, Romance, Women's Fiction, Chick-Lit Pages: 260 Format: ARC Find the Author: Website, Twitter, Goodreads Find the Book: Goodreads Rating: The girl who loves Christmas falls for the Grinchit’s a Christmas miracle. That last one is big for a girl like me who thinks that the entire month of December should be a national holiday. Santa likes lists and so do I, so here’s all the reasons why Andrew and I aren’t right for each other: He’s my brother’s best friend He’s the biggest grump I’ve ever met. Or his perfect hair with that single streak of grey at the front. Or the way his chest and arms fill out his suit. Our start was rocky at best which is why it’s so frustrating that I can’t stop thinking about his sexy British accent. In truth, it probably didn’t help that I showed up dressed like an elf but that’s a story for another time. What started as a dumpster fire of a blind date turns into a deal. The girl who loves Christmas falls for the Grinch-it’s a Christmas miracle. Download Single and Ready to Jingle Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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In “Pure,” Klein uses a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir to reveal the devastating effects evangelical Christianity’s views on female sexuality has had on a generation of young women. This is the sex education Linda Kay Klein grew up with. This message traumatized many girls and trapped them in a cycle of shame. A Stories We Tell alumna with a powerful story to tell: Meet Linda Kay Klein. Purity rings, purity pledges, and purity balls came with a dangerous message: girls are potential sexual “stumbling blocks” for boys and men, and any expression of a girl’s sexuality could reflect the corruption of her character. Linda Kay Klein, a graduate of The Stories We Tell and the author of Pure. In the 1990s, a “purity industry” emerged out of the white evangelical Christian culture. Shop amongst our popular books, including 1, Pure and more from linda kay klein. This event is free and open to the public, but proof of purchase of “Pure” from Left Bank Books will be required to enter the signing line. This item: Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free by Linda Kay Klein Paperback 10.59 You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity by Jamie Lee Finch Paperback 18.87 On Her Knees: Memoir of a Prayerful Jezebel by Brenda Marie Davies Hardcover 2. Left Bank Books welcomes author and Break Free Together founder Linda Kay Klein, who will sign and discuss her new book, “Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free”! I refuse to participate in such excuse-making. Rachael Denhollander, who more than anyone else was responsible for Larry Nassar being brought to justice for abusing gymnasts, has studied the problem of sexual abuse in evangelical churches, and found it to be “rampant,” and “widespread.” Churches too often cover it up, explaining it inexcusably as “for the good of the ministry.” My kids’ former youth pastor is in federal prison for sexual misconduct. I’d be the last to deny evangelicals have problems. The case she makes is, unfortunately, badly confused, poorly supported, and frequently misinformed. It’s a rambling critique of white evangelicals, who have “Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation,” according to the book’s subtitle - as if we should get all the credit for that. Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez, the current Amazon #1 best-seller in Protestantism, is another case in point. They keep getting their critiques wrong anyway. Christians give our critics way too much material to work with. Schneier describes the explosion of personal data and the ways that such data are harvested by governments and corporations. It’s essential for liberty, autonomy, and human dignity.” “Privacy is not a luxury that we can only afford in times of safety,” he writes. In his new book Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Capture Your Data and Control Your World (Norton, 2015), author and security technologist Bruce Schneier aims to forestall that outcome, and to help recover the possibility of personal privacy before it is lost or forgotten. Our purchases, communications, Internet searches, and even our movements all generate collectible traces that can be recorded, packaged, and sold or exploited.īefore we have had a chance to collectively think about what this phenomenal growth in data production and collection means, and to decide what to do about it, it threatens to become an irreversible feature of our lives. Within a remarkably short period of time– less than two decades– all of us have become immersed in a sea of electronic data collection. Montalbano’s investigation focuses more on academic research than witness questioning, but ends with perpetrators very much alive and dangerous. The skeletons of two young lovers, long-forgotten, are discovered near the terra-cotta dog, a symbol of sleep from the Koran. In a neighboring cave lies a 60-year-old murder mystery that becomes a surprising obsession and gives the book its title. Ultimately, Tano’s enemies kill him, but the escapade leads Montalbano on a twisty hunt from a supermarket picked cleaned of merchandise to a cave where this booty is found, along with a cache of illegal arms. Their staged arrest of Tano flirts with hilarious disaster. Montalbano’s force resembles the Keystone Kops. His superior investigative gifts are at odds with his slacker style, the latter a huge frustration to ambitious protégé Mimi and demanding mistress Livia and the windy police Commissioner, who tries to thrust an unwanted promotion on elusive Montalbano. Montalbano is dubious, but doesn’t look this gift horse in the mouth. Facing a health crisis, Tano wants Montalbano to stage a fake raid that will land him safely in custody (and in hospital), for a rejuvenating stay without a loss of face. 454), rumpled Sicilian police inspector Salvo Montalbano receives an unusual offer from crime kingpin Gaetano “The Greek” Bennici (known as Tano), facilitated by Montalbano’s childhood friend Gege Gulotta, now a petty criminal and quite the weasel. In the second installment of the popular Italian series ( The Shape of Water, p. Emma Noble’s work has previously been featured in pieces marking the Diamond Jubilee and Remembrance Sunday. THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT is spelled in the form of two lines on both sides. The coin features a photograph of Peter Rabbit, who is hopping, or walking, to his right. The coin has an alloy of cupronickel with a weight of 7.8 grams, a diameter of 27.3mm, and a thickness of 1.78mm. Jody Clark, 33, was the youngest person to design the monarch’s profile on this currency. Beatrix Potter, one of the characters whose name appears in the Tale of Peter Rabbit 50p, has been commemorated in this year’s edition. This is Peter Rabbit’s second appearance in the series, and he appears in this one. The first of a series of Beatrix Potter coins was released to commemorate her 150th birthday in 2016. In 2017, the Tale of Peter Rabbit 50p was worth approximately £1.45 for those who were minted for circulation and £2.07 for those who were not. Today, first editions of The Tale of Peter Rabbit can sell for tens of thousands of dollars. McGregor’s vegetable garden has charmed generations of children, and the book has become one of the most beloved and recognizable children’s books of all time. The story of a disobedient bunny who gets into mischief in Mr. In 1902, Beatrix Potter self-published The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and the book has been in print ever since. Hopkirk travelled widely over many years in the regions where his six books are set – Russia, Central Asia, the Caucasus, China, India, Pakistan, Iran, and eastern Turkey. Before entering Fleet Street, he served as a subaltern in the King's African Rifles in 1949 – in the same battalion as Lance-Corporal Idi Amin, later to emerge as a Ugandan tyrant. In the 1950s, he edited the West African news magazine Drum, sister paper to the South African Drum. At the Dragon he played rugby, and shot at Bisley.īefore turning full-time author, he was an ITN reporter and newscaster for two years, the New York City correspondent of Lord Beaverbrook's The Sunday Express, and then worked for nearly twenty years on The Times five as its chief reporter, and latterly as a Middle East and Far East specialist. From an early age he was interested in spy novels carrying around Buchan's Greenmantle and Kipling's Kim stories about India. It must have resonated with his writings in the history of the lawless frontiers of the British Empire. The family hailed originally from the borders of Scotland in Roxburghshire where there was a rich history of barbaric raids and reivers hanging justice. Hopkirk was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford. He grew up at Danbury, Essex, notable for the historic palace of the Bishop of Rochester. Peter Hopkirk was born in Nottingham, the son of Frank Stewart Hopkirk, a prison chaplain, and Mary Perkins. It’s up to a young Zulu girl powerful enough to destroy her entire township, a queer teen plagued with the ability to control minds, a pop diva with serious daddy issues, and a politician with even more serious mommy issues to band together to ensure there’s a future left to worry about. And an ancient demigoddess hellbent on regaining her former status by preying on the blood and sweat (but mostly blood) of every human she encounters. That is, if they can survive the present challenges: A new hallucinogenic drug sweeping the country. Yes-the days to come are looking very good for South Africans. And in the bustling coastal town of Port Elizabeth, the economy is booming thanks to the genetic engineering industry which has found a welcome home there. The government is harnessing renewable energy to provide infrastructure for the poor. Personal robots are making life easier for the working class. Synopsis: Copied from the publisher: In South Africa, the future looks promising. This is the time of witch-mania, and Alinor, a woman without a husband, skilled with herbs, suddenly enriched, arouses envy in her rivals and fear among the villagers, who are ready to take lethal action into their own hands. Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor's ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbours. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run, and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she is leading disaster into the heart of her life. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the south coast.Īlinor, a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Midsummer's Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. A dangerous time for a woman to be different. THE BRAND NEW SERIES FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHORĮngland 1648. Tidelands is a gripping and intelligent portrait of a woman fighting to survive in a hostile world' THE TIMES 'Gregory is an experienced storyteller and doesn't let you down. It is something esle and something more.” From this part of the book author wants us to understand that “Arts should not be explained, it must be experienced.” Therefore it is meaningless to state that observation is only done by seeing. “Architecture is not produced simply by adding plans and sections to elevations. In the end, they are both related to our souls. Architecture appeals to eye music, on the other hand, appeals to ear. To begin with, the concept “beauty” is a common thing for both architecture and music. In the book, there are many things to talk about and discuss. FAIA (9 January 1898 – 19 June 1990) was a Danish architect and urban planner who was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and a prolific writer of books and poetry. |