![]() ![]() The two of them meet via Vino & Veritas, and there are lies involved. Alec, on the other hand, is a grumpy FBI agent who’s currently working undercover. program because he got in with the wrong crowd and got distracted. Gabe is a rich, former party-boy who got kicked out of his Ph.D. The book is interesting from start to finish, and you just have to see where the two guys are in their budding relationship that you want so badly to happen for them. I read it in one sitting, partly because it’s fairly short and partly because it moved the story forward so well on every page. This was a really fun entry in the series. Can they ignore their explosive chemistry long enough to foil a smuggling ring? Or will their budding relationship sink faster than a yacht full of contraband? Contains mature themes. ![]() If only he could keep his hands off of Gabe long enough to find out what he's up to. No one with multi-colored hair, piercings, and an ass like that would want boring, serious Alec. When one of the cutest twinks Alec's ever seen takes an interest, Alec knows there's an ulterior motive. To be fair, most people irritate Alec, including the FBI director who sent him here to investigate a smuggling scheme involving yoga mats. ![]() ![]() Tall, dark, and scowling Alec hates Vermont, with its artisanal-freaking-everything and its irritating people. He's a smart guy, but ever since he got kicked out of grad school, people are only interested in his no-limit credit card and his pierced ears. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He plumbs the hearts and minds of passengers as they pray, bargain with God, plot their strategies for survival, and sacrifice themselves to save others. ![]() Drawing on interviews with hundreds of survivors, crew, and airport and rescue personnel, Laurence Gonzales, a commercial pilot himself, captures, minute by minute, the harrowing journey of pilots flying a plane with no controls and flight attendants keeping their calm in the face of certain death. No one has ever attempted the complete reconstruction of a crash of this magnitude. Miraculously, 184 of 296 passengers lived. And then people began emerging from the summer corn that lined the runways. The rescuers didn't move at first: nobody could possibly survive that crash. The plane slammed onto the runway and burst into a vast fireball. ![]() As hundreds of rescue workers waited on the ground, United Airlines Flight 232 wallowed drunkenly over the bluffs northwest of Sioux City. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "An oh-so-satisfying read that readers will be unable to put down!. "Julianne Donaldson, bestselling author of Edenbrooke and Blackmoore" "An intriguing mix of personal morality and social justice.Tenderly written."- "Publishers Weekly" ( 12:00:00 AM) Katie makes one sacrifice after another to keep the peace and help see her loved ones through the difficult days ahead, but will her efforts be enough? Can the town make amends before their hatred consumes them all? And will Katie find the love she has been searching for as well as a home to call her own? Volume 2 and the conclusion to the story of Longing for Home part of A Proper Romance series. In the midst of the growing unrest, temperatures drop quickly, too quickly, and Irish nightmares of famine and cold resurface as the little Wyoming town struggles to beat the harsh winter. Furthermore, the town is more divided than ever with both the Irish and the Reds stealing property, burning buildings, and endangering lives. Katie's heart still remains sharply divided between playful Tavish and steady Joseph, though she feels ill-prepared to make a decision. Katie Macauley gave up her lifelong dream of returning to Ireland in order to make a home for herself in Hope Springs, Wyoming, but her future has never been so uncertain. ![]() ![]() She is also torn between loving two very different men. About the Book Irish-born Kate Macauley is caught in the feud that is raging between the American farmers and the Irish immigrants in the small Wyoming town of Hope Springs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of attacking the creature as he initially intends, the man shoos it off his bed. The man finds a creature who looks like a cross between a dog and a lizard hiding in a pot. It is a small room full of unfamiliar objects. The local leads him to a woman who rents the man a room. They can't understand each other, so the man draws in his notebook the image of a bed. Many people have small creatures at their sides or on their shoulders.Ī local sees the man struggling to read his map. All around him are inscrutable symbols and people engaging in peculiar customs. ![]() A box hanging from a spherical balloon takes the man into the city. After he passes a medical examination, the man is given his immigration papers and sent on his way. The ship reaches the harbor, and the man goes through processing along with the other immigrants. A wordless book told entirely in pictures, The Arrival follows a man as he packs a trunk of possessions, says goodbye to his wife and daughter, and travels by ship to a foreign land. ![]() ![]() For five years thereafter, the three lived in the shadows of undocumented life in New York City. At age 7, she moved to Brooklyn, New York, with her parents. She wrote Beautiful Country on her iPhone, during her subway commute to and from work at a national law firm, where she was elected to partnership within two yea Qian Julie was born in Shijiazhuang, China. A graduate of Yale Law School and Swarthmore College-where she juggled classes and extracurriculars with four part-time jobs-Qian Julie is now a litigator. Qian Julie's first book is a poignant literary memoir that follows the family through those years, as they grappled with poverty, manual labor in sweatshops, lack of access to medical care, and the perpetual threat of deportation. ![]() Qian Julie was born in Shijiazhuang, China. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then things get really weird: a volcano appears in the middle of Lake Ontario, creatures are floating through the sky, Big Ben’s blowing soap bubbles and singing drinking songs, and Scotch’s brother disappears in a bubble of light. ![]() And the weird sticky black stuff creeping over her skin that can’t be removed isn’t helping her feel like she belongs. ![]() Scotch, a sixteen-year-old struggling with her home life as the perfect daughter and her provocative school persona, doesn’t feel like she fits in anywhere. This surreal YA novel blends fantasy and Caribbean folklore in a sensitive exploration of self-identity and discovery. ![]() ![]() But when Hitler ascends to power, she protects those who have been kind to her, including two Jewish families who, despite the efforts of Trudi, her father and a few others, are fated to perish in the Holocaust. A perennial outsider because of her deformity, Trudi exploits her gift for eliciting peoples' secrets-and often maliciously reveals them in suspenseful gossip. The protagonist is Trudi Montag, the Zwerg (dwarf) who becomes the town's librarian (she and most of the other characters figured in the earlier book). With a sure hand, Hegi evokes the patterns of small-town life, individualized here in dozens of ordinary people who display the German passion for order, obedience and conformity, enforced for centuries by rigid class differences and the strictures of the Catholic church. ![]() ![]() Again she has produced a powerful novel whose chilling candor and resonant moral vision serve a dramatic story. ![]() Returning to Burgdorf, the small German community she memorably depicted in Floating in My Mother's Palm, Hegi captures the events and atmosphere in the country prior, during and after WW II. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hi Loryn, thank you so much for being here. She embodies everything that I admire and aspire to as a parent and a person, and I know you’ll be inspired by her too. I’m so touched by the beautiful faith that she has in her daughter. She also shares uniquely uplifting posts on social media about her journey as a mom of a daughter with disabilities. She writes for a popular online website and she creates comics. She’s a bestselling board book author and illustrator for children, including her latest which is It Had to Be You. Today I have a very special guest joining me, her name is Loryn Brantz. Hi, this is Janet Lansbury, welcome to Unruffled. Transcript of “It Had to Be You – The Struggles and Joys of Raising a Child with Disabilities (with Loryn Brantz)” ![]() ![]() ![]() He will have to nod in order to salute people of higher status than him, otherwise they will get offended and attack. In order to restore it, our ronin must be respectful of the teachings of Buddha, obeying civic and social laws. First of all, the player must be wary of the “karma” score, Usagi will lose points and shall commit seppuku if the score gets negative. ![]() While at its core the gameplay resembles a classic arcade style sidescrolling beat’ em up, or maybe “slash em up”, Samurai Warrior‘s design does many things which modernise the experience beyond expectations. Nothing special plotwise, everything feels true to the episodic nature of the comic book, it is also possible to visit his house for a short “practice” session. It plays like a classic 2D beat ‘em up: the player manoeuvers Usagi, starting from his house and going on about his day. ![]() Released in 1988 for the Commodore 64, then ported to Zx Spectrum and Amstrad CPC, Samurai Warrior was published by Firebird and developed by Beam Software, which at the time was the trio of Doug Palmer, Paul Kidd (of Shadowrun fame) and Russel Comte, with Neil Brennan doing the music. ![]() ![]() ![]() He follows them to their car and as he tries to jump in the car door is slammed on his nose.ĭog continues to wander until he is taken in by a kind lady who lives with her husband this is the Mayle household where the couple lives with two other dogs ". Dog thinks because this couple is nice to him they want to take him home. ![]() In time he finds his way to a highway and when he is hungry, he is fed a few lumps of sugar by these two friendly people in a café. I was free to roam wherever my nose took me," thought the dog. "Im an optimist by nature, and so I started by considering the bright side. With no home and lost in the forest for the first time, the dog wanders around. His human decided to get rid of him by throwing him out in the forest. But on his first trip out he failed miserably. He was born on a farm and like all farm dogs his human intended for him to be a hunting dog. (Mayle, of course, has written other books, bestsellers that differ from canine subjects, but he really does quite a service to dogs in this book.) ![]() ![]() Blame it on the weather it was rainy and my need for time to chill.īut I enjoyed Babe, the ever-polite pig who was able to pass for a sheepherding dog uh, well, by being polite.Īfter the movie I got my copy of Peter Mayles A Dogs Life, which remains one of my favorite books on dogs. I had watched Babe, the first movie over the weekend. ![]() |