![]() ![]() Resources run ever tighter and the strain tests their friendship as they try to convert social capital into something more lasting than precarious gigs as au pairs, nightclub hostesses, paid audience members, and aspiring foot fetish models. By night, they weave between Brooklyn, the Upper East Side, and the Hamptons among a rotating cast of celebrities, artists, Internet entrepreneurs, stuffy intellectuals, and bad-mannered grifters. ![]() They have little money, but that’s hardly going to stop them.īy day, the girls sell clothes on a market stall, pinching pennies for their Bed-Stuy sublet and bodega lunches. ![]() She arrives in New York with her newly blond best friend looking for adventure. Isa Epley, all of twenty-one years old, is already wise enough to understand that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. a wild careening joyride through a hot sultry summer in New York” (Rachel Syme, The New Yorker). With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, this stunning debut about a young ingénue in the big city is “as refreshing as gin fizz.
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![]() Kellie, known as Coco, wants to finally confront the boy who callously broke her heart. And as she discovers the secret behind Mark’s decision to leave, she welcomes two visitors also seeking their own answers.īest friends Kellie Crenshaw and Katie Gilroy have returned to Cedar Cove for their ten-year high school reunion, looking to face down old hurts and find a sense of closure. ![]() Just when she is starting to open herself up again to love, she feels once more that she is losing the man she cares about. When Mark tells her that he’s moving out of town, Jo Marie is baffled. Jo Marie and Mark are good friends-and are becoming something more-yet he still won’t reveal anything about his past. Since opening the Rose Harbor Inn, Jo Marie Rose has grown close to her handyman, Mark Taylor. ![]() Set in Cedar Cove’s charming Rose Harbor Inn, Debbie Macomber’s captivating new novel follows innkeeper Jo Marie and two new guests as they seek healing and comfort, revealing that every cloud has a silver lining, even when it seems difficult to find. ![]() ![]() ![]() Quiet and polite, he was characterized as an above-average student with an aptitude for art. ![]() Pat later told Eric’s official biographer, Ray Coleman, that his father was a gifted musician, playing piano in several dance bands in the Surrey area. His grandmother played piano and his uncle and mother both enjoyed listening to the sounds of the big bands. September 1958).Įric was raised in a musical household. Eric’s half-brother, Brian, was killed in a road accident in 1974 at the age of 26. 1933).Įric’s mother, Pat, eventually married and moved to Canada and Germany as her husband, Frank MacDonald, continued his military career. ![]() Eric’s last name comes from Rose’s first husband and Pat’s father, Reginald Cecil Clapton (d. His grandparents never legally adopted him, but remained his legal guardians until 1963. Thus, he grew up believing his mother was his sister. ![]() Pat’s parents, Rose and Jack Clapp, stepped in as surrogate parents and raised Eric as their own. It was extraordinarily difficult for an unmarried 16-year-old to raise a child on her own in the mid-1940s. Before Eric was born, Fryer returned to his wife in Canada. 1985), a 24-year-old Canadian soldier stationed in England during World War II. He was the son of 16-year-old Patricia Molly Clapton (b. Was born on 30 March 1945 in his grandparents’ home at 1 The Green, Ripley, Surrey, England. ![]() ![]() But things aren't simple for Kess, especially now that she has Samara's son, Rafe, to deal with. Hyena Moon- Miami is still in the hands of the wereleopard clan. The stakes grow ever higher as rivals and Kess, the true clan leader, descend on Miami to vie for power. When her initiation into the Keepers leads her to Miami and pits her against the wereleopard Sekhmet, Laila is cast into a sea of clan intrigue and bitter rivalries. Jackal Moon- Laila has been pledged to serve the jackal god, Anubis, since she was a child. But her brother is closing in, threatening Cormac's life and Kess' freedom. She meets Cormac, a young man with a secret of his own. Leopard Moon- Kess, a wereleopard, is forced to flee her home in Miami once her brother's obsession with her turns violent. ![]() ![]() The Moon Omnibus collects the first three volumes of the Moon Series in one volume. ![]() ![]() ![]() "I absolutely love this book, from page one to the end. Moira Young is one of the most promising and startling new voices in teen fiction. ![]() Teamed up with a handsome daredevil named Jack and a gang of girl revolutionaries called the Free Hawks, Saba stages a showdown that will change the course of her own civilization.īlood Red Road has a searing pace, a poetically minimal style, violent action, and an epic love story. She has the power to take down a corrupt society from the inside. So perhaps the most surprising thing of all is what Saba learns about herself: she is a fierce fighter, an unbeatable survivor, and a cunning opponent. Suddenly thrown into the lawless, ugly reality of the world outside of desolate Silverlake, Saba is lost without Lugh to guide her. Lugh is captured, and Saba embarks on a quest to get him back. But when a monster sandstorm arrives, along with four cloaked horsemen, Saba’s world is shattered. That’s fine by her, as long as her beloved twin brother Lugh is around. ![]() The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. A girl goes on an epic journey through a bleak landscape in the first book of this post-Apocalyptic trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jenna Laird and Kara Daly both hit homers in the series, and Jenna also had a hit in each games, so let’s do that again, shall we? Both Weber & Krings went the distance in complete game efforts, and Schumacher got the W in the other win, with a trio of Weber/Krings/Schumacher combining. Mizzou swept A&M at home last year, but scores of 11-6, 7-2, and 7-5 (in extras). ![]() Missouri holds a 31 -22 game lead, but is only 4-16 on the road (ew). HISTORY: Per ’s history page, the Tigers and Aggies have faced 53 times since 1999. WEATHER FORECAST: No precipitation in the forecast! Friday: 80 at game time, sunny | Saturday: 64 at game time, cloudy & windy | Sunday: 80 at game time, sunny STATS: Friday- Statbroadcast | Saturday- Statbroadcast | Sunday- Statbroadcast ![]() TV/STREAMING: SEC+ ( Friday | Saturday) SEC Network ( Sunday) WHERE: Davis Diamond | College Station, Texas WHEN: Friday, April 28 4pm | Saturday, April 29 5pm | Sunday, April 30 5pm Welcome! Part softball preview, part links. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wiggins (Flashback), Captain Cold (Leonard Snart) (Villain), Top (Villain), Jason Hicks, Mirror Master (Evan Mcculloch) (Villain), James Forrest, Trickster (James Jesse) (Flashback, Villain), Agnes, Jake, Pied Piper (Hartley Rathaway) (Flashback, Villain), Weather Warlock, Impulse Iris West, Trickster (Axel Walker) (Villain), Weather Wizard (Mark Mardon) (Villain), Kristen Kramer, Dove (Dawn Granger), Top (FIRST Appearance), Heatstroke, Nora Allen (Flashback, Corpse), The Renegades Commander Cold (FIRST Appearance), Weather Warlock (FIRST Appearance), MAX Mercury (MAX Crandall), The Renegades Commander Cold, Mirror Master (Sam Scudder) (Flashback, Villain), Mr. Hicks, Trixster (FIRST Appearance), Bronze Tiger (Ben Turner) (Flashback), Enchantress (June Moone) (Flashback), Suicide Squad Rick Flag (Flashback), Blockbuster (Roland Desmond) (Flashback), Irey, Flash (Wally West), Girder (Tony Woodward) (Villain), Iris Allen, Top (Roscoe Dillon) (Flashback, Villain), Mirror Master (Sam Scudder) (Villain), Deadshot (Floyd Lawton) (Flashback), Kid Flash (Bart Allen), Top, Eobard Thawne (Villain), Captain Darryl Frye, Reverse-Flash Professor Zoom, Jesse Quick (Jesse Chmabers), Judge, w. Amanda Waller (Flashback), Heat Wave (Mick Rory) (Villain), Albert (Flashback), Betty Harkness (Flashback, Death), Digger Harkness, Jodi, David Singh, Captain Boomerang (Digger Harkness) (Villain), Mrs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These give rise to a fiery text that is full of twists and turns and strangely relatable to events in the contemporary global scenario. Manai showcases the accuracy of a keen-though-objective-observer which is enmeshed with the passion of a poet, both of which are hard to douse. ![]() ![]() Though no names are named, the fictitious resemblances to places, people, and events are a recurrent thought in the mind of an active reader. In this novel, Yamen Manai weaves a tale of awe and thrill against the backdrop of the socio-political upheavals and transition in a region that has been synonymous with instability and unpredictability in its public policies. – Yamen Manai, The Ardent Swarmĭarkly humorous, distinctly witty, and terribly sarcastic, The Ardent Swarm is a fictional novel translated from French by Lara Vergnaud. To the point that, to avoid insulting the conservatives, the first king, Abdul Ban Ania, progressive on certain matters, declared: “There is enough gas underground that we may begin to sit on chairs” (Manal 6). “According to elders – and in the kingdom of Qafar, the words of the elders were truth itself – the reason this little desert dump had staggering quantities of underground butane was the combination of its people’s natural aptitude for farting and the Spartan customs that compelled them to sit ass down on sand. ![]() ![]() ![]() Any thing I say will only do a disservice to this novel and its author Jack Carr. A second-generation agent, he has been assigned a mission that will bring his adopted homeland to its knees.įirst of all, I have to preface this review with this statement. ![]() Meanwhile, in a classified facility five stories underground, a young PhD student has gained access to a level of bioweapons known only to a select number of officials. Faced with internal dissent and extrajudicial targeted killings by the United States and Israel, the Supreme Leader puts a plan in motion to defeat the most powerful nation on earth. Halfway across the globe a regional superpower struggles with sanctions imposed by the Great Satan and her European allies, a country whose ancient religion spawned a group of ruthless assassins. ![]() He’s a young, popular, self-made visionary…but he’s also a man with a secret. And the enemy is ready to strike again.Ī new president offers hope to a country weary of conflict. ![]() The enemy has been patient, learning, and adapting. Two decades since the United States was attacked on home soil and embarked on 20 years of war. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Skank.īutter’s nonjudgmental yet revealing account of the murder’s aftermath, much like Five-Carat Soul as a whole, slides seamlessly between the absurd and the tragic. Centuries later, the long sought-after toy leads the collector to his own surprising discovery at a grimy Brooklyn nightclub while listening to the cathartic rap of the infamous Dr. Lee, the toy, along with the advanced machinery it contained, fell into the hands of a slave escaping north, inadvertently averting a potential Confederate victory. While the set originally belonged to the ailing son of General Robert E. Banksoff happens upon the invaluable Under Graham Railroad Box Car Set, the value of which we learn is “tied to history, naturally, and complicated by time, war, and the unreasonableness and the emotions of a child’s joy and sorrow” (8). ![]() The book begins with a chance discovery by a proud, Jewish antique toy collector named Leo Banskoff. zoo, McBride’s stories breathe surprising and refreshing complexities into the simple narratives we are told and tell ourselves about who we are and who others may be. ![]() Set in contexts as far and as wide as a Civil War battlefield to a Washington D.C. In his most recent book, a stunning collection of short stories titled Five-Carat Soul, McBride illustrates how our common desire for freedom and equality outweighs what are often imagined or prejudice-rooted differences. ![]() |