![]() ![]() If Anna and Marco are really falling in love, who are they to argue with science?Ĭritique: With a very special appeal to fans of clean, wholesome, contemporary romantic comedy, "The Chemistry of Love" by Sariah Wilson is brilliantly narrated by the vocal storytelling skills of Em Eldridge. It's unpredictable, exciting, and occasionally combustible. ![]() With every fake date, Anna's feelings are starting to become dizzyingly real.īlame it on chemistry. There's more to Marco than meets the eye. If the experiment in attraction works, a jealous Craig will swoop in and give Anna her happily ever after -if it weren't for one hitch in the plan. ![]() That can be Anna, if she's game to play.Īll Anna and Marco have to do is pretend they're falling in love and let the rumors begin. The makeup mogul knows Craig for the ridiculously competitive rival he is. Synopsis: How can Anna Ellis, a geeky, brilliant, and hopelessly smitten cosmetic chemist possibly win over Craig Kimball, the man of her dreams-who also happens to be her boss? The answer is Craig's empathetic (and handsome) CEO half brother, Marco.
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![]() ![]() Do the Gold children really know when they’ll die, or do they simply believe they know? How do expectation, fate, and chance interact to influence the course of our lives? But I also know that hearing my supposed date of death would bring on a different set of challenges. ![]() I’ve often thought that if I knew I would live a decently long life, much of that anxiety would disappear. We can only put one foot in front of the other, making plans for the future-building a family, a career, a home-without knowing how long we’ll be there to see it. In many ways, there’s no greater mystery than death: when it will come, what it feels like, and what happens afterward. I’ve always struggled to cope with uncertainty, and the tension between knowledge and mystery drives my writing. How and why did you decide to use it as the premise for your novel? What kinds of reactions do you get when you tell people about it? ![]() The possibility of knowing exactly when we’re going to die is both fascinating and frightening to most people. ![]() ![]() ![]() But, as rulers are apt to discover, she also finds herself horribly confined. Theodora – with all that restless energy and boundless freedom of spirit – finds herself the most powerful woman in the world. Now comes the sequel, the what-happens-next after the happily-ever-after. The novel ends with Justinian and Theodora being acclaimed new rulers of the empire. Swashbuckling, adventurous, brave and sexy, Theodora acted, improvised, endured and bonked her way to the Byzantine court, where she and the future emperor fell deeply in love and married. But in this novelist's hands, she was not depraved so much as born into a particular role, a role that she had the guts and character to transcend. Her jewel-encrusted mosaic portrait stares out to this day from the wall of the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, a monument to her power and piety.ĭuffy's Theodora was indeed a child actor and a prostitute. ![]() ![]() It is an especially scandalous piece of propaganda, horribly imaginative in the forms of depravity it devised for the empress who was officially known as an endower of churches and saint of the Orthodox church. In the leeringly voyeuristic series of vignettes known as The Secret History, Procopius cast the wife of the sixth-century emperor Justinian as everything from child prostitute to demon in human form. I n her last novel, Theodora, Stella Duffy took a scurrilous account of the Byzantine empress by the Roman historian Procopius and turned it on its head. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And like other Berlin children during the last days, llse was terrified by the enemy (British and American) bombings and petrified by the invading Russians - she and her mother spent days cramped in a basement crawlspace where her grandmother had hidden them away from certain rape and possible death. ![]() As she was thus protected, many of Ilse's experiences were those of any German child, and she was in fact tapped for leadership in the Hitler Youth - an awkward situation for one who had promised her father never to accept such a position. Later she learned that the divorce had been engineered by her mother's parents to save their daughter and granddaughter from being linked with her father's Jewish mother at the time she knew only that her father wanted Germany to lose the war and that her grandparents, like many others, thought Hitler was a maniac. Born in 1929, Ilse Koehn was puzzled by her loving parents' divorce in the Thirties, and until their reunion after the war she was shunted from one grandmother to another and to various camps for young evacuees and Hitler youth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and Ransom Center collections may contain material with sensitive or confidential To request access to electronic files, please email Reference. Some materials restricted due to condition and conservation status. Researchers must create an online Research Account and agree to the Materials Use Policy before using archival materials. ![]() Predominately English, but also includes material in Japanese and printed material in various languages Screenplays, short stories, and song lyrics. Notebooks, photographs, clippings, and family papers which document Ishiguro'sĭiverse writing career and range of creative output which includes novels, Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro consist of drafts (typescripts, printouts, electronicįiles) of published and unpublished works, personal and professional correspondence, Kazuo Ishiguro: An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom CenterĨ0 document boxes (33.60 linear feet), 2 oversize boxes (osb), 1 oversizeįolder (osf), 4 serials boxes, and 1,284 electronic files (5.5 GB) ![]() ![]() “I’m not,” he told me, tapping his short fingernails against the glass. “I’m sure-“ I started before getting cut off. Cooper was my favorite person at the shop. That wasn’t very nice to assume at all, and it bothered me… even if it was true that Mr. ![]() ![]() The smile fell right off my mouth, and I couldn’t help but frown at him. I must have made a face because he added, casually, “I’m not exactly anybody’s favorite, Luna.” His gaze hadn’t left mine from the moment he had spotted me, and it didn’t go anywhere as he shrugged and said, “Doubt it.” I’d overheard a couple of the guys talking about Rip’s half-hearted invitation when I had taken a bathroom break, but I hadn’t heard more than that. “Is anyone else coming?” I asked him when he didn’t say anything after setting his glass back down on the table. ![]() ![]() ![]() N.c» (published in Chronicles of Pern - originally published in 1993 as «The P.
![]() ![]() “What really saved me, and what really turned all of this into big love, was when I went to individual comic book shops and did signings,” she says to NPR’s Maria Hinojosa. ![]() Fortunately, love and strength will always conquer hate and fear, and Rivera rose above the attacks-thanks in part to the comics community itself. With great success can come great backlash, and for a time Rivera thought she wouldn’t be able to keep creating comics. And as America exploded onto the scene, Rivera found herself targeted in a campaign of mass online harassment of those involved with the comic book industry's efforts to include more creators and characters of diverse backgrounds. By 2017, Rivera was writing America, Marvel’s first comic series with a queer Latina superhero-but underrepresentation of marginalized groups was still the industry norm. Called the “dopest LGBTQA YA book ever” by Latina magazine, the novel captured not only critical acclaim and international attention, but also the imagination of Marvel Comics. Rivera’s first novel, Juliet Takes a Breath, is an unconventional coming-of-age-and coming out-story, based on her personal experience. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her newest title, The March Against Fear (National Geographic: 2017), is her third work to examine the civil rights movement in the American South. Her works often focus on under-told stories from the past, and she frequently explores issues of social justice. Almost 100 years later, Stubby's great deeds and brave heart make him an animal hero to fall in love with and treasure all over again.Īnn Bausum writes about history for readers of all ages from her home in southern Wisconsin. Stubby's brave deeds earned him a place in history and in the Smithsonian Institution where his stuffed body can still be seen. Charmed, the CO awarded Stubby mascot status and sent him along with Conroy's unit to the Western Front. By the time Stubby encountered Conroy's commanding officer, the dog had perfected his right-paw salute. When Conroy's unit shipped out for France, he smuggled his new friend aboard. ![]() ![]() The Connecticut volunteer never imagined that his stray dog would become a war hero. Private Robert Conroy casually adopted the orphan pup while attending basic training on the campus of Yale University in 1917. Stubby! That German shepherd star of the silver screen may have been born behind enemy lines during World War I, but Stubby, the stump-tailed terrier, worked behind enemy lines, and gained military honors along the way. ![]() ![]() This is not a spoiler, it blows the whole thing away. ![]() I am angry, I actually believed what he said in the book, and most of it is not true. He took a case to the US Attorney Preet Bharara, about a Russian Denis Katsov, who he accused of taking money from the gangsters who killed Magnitsky, but under cross examination Bill couldn't prove any of it, and you are right, Magnitsky was never a lawyer, he did Bill's taxes, and he was arrested for creating tax evasion schemes supposedly for Bill. He took a case to the US Attorney Preet Bharara, about a Russian Denis K …more OMG I just found the youtube of Bill's' deposition, I don't know what to say. Britney Harrison OMG I just found the youtube of Bill's' deposition, I don't know what to say. ![]() |