![]() In his glowing foreword, Mike Wallace (of 60 Minutes fame) writes that Gordon Hinckley is an "optimistic leader of the Mormon Church who fully deserves the almost universal admiration that he gets." Clearly, Hinkley has struck a resounding chord with the American populace, including dyed-in-the-wool New York cynics such as Wallace. Hinckley makes a compelling case for every one of these virtues, quoting extensively from the Bible but mostly using convincing personal anecdotes (after all, he is an elder with 90 years worth of stories and wisdom). ![]() These virtues include Love, Honesty, Morality, Civility, Learning, Forgiveness, Thrift and Industry, Gratitude, Optimism, and Faith. ![]() ![]() Chapter by chapter Hinckley presents 10 old-fashioned virtues that will return America to the glory envisioned by its founding fathers. Even as he enumerates all of America's social ills (including $482 billion a year spent on gambling, rampant child neglect and abuse, school massacres, a pervasive deterioration of values) Hinckley believes there is a remedy. ![]() "Virtue is too often neglected, if not scorned or ridiculed as old-fashioned, confining, unenlightened," laments author Gordon Hinckley, a 90-year-old ordained leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Mining the “Wild West” genre, Leon Uris’ “Exodus” sold more than seven million copies in the United States, and was the underground “bible” for Soviet Jews. ![]() An entire generation of American Jews - and Americans generally - were riveted by the 1958 best-selling novel, “Exodus,” and by the blockbuster movie two years later. ![]() ![]() However, reading the novel is rather like watching another person clear the levels of a video game en route to a showdown with the final boss: It’s hard to feel much emotional investment in the outcome. Though the story starts slowly-Kira and Jaewon’s journey has more awkward flirting than fight scenes-it offers readers plenty of action by the end. So Kira and Jaewon race to rescue Taejo and claim the third and final treasure before the final battle. Making the trade isn’t an option: Kira needs the treasures to defeat the Yamato invaders and their demon lord, and she needs Taejo to survive to become king. ![]() ![]() In the conclusion to the Prophecy trilogy, Kira must decide if she can fully embrace her destiny as the Dragon Musado.Ī malevolent dragon has abducted Kira’s royal cousin, Taejo, and given her just 10 days to exchange the two magical treasures in her possession for Taejo’s life ( Warrior, 2013). ![]() ![]() ![]() Women glimpsed what life was like in the West, some families allowed daughters to work and others didn’t. During the 1920’s, the Qing Dynasty had just fallen, China was a republic officially, but big chunks of the country were still ruled by warlords, there was civil war simmering between the Nationalists and the Communists. I felt a responsibility and it was to be true to the era rather than to the character inspired by my grandmother. ![]() Her story was a metonym for all the generations of women whose destinies were determined by fathers, husbands, and in-laws not just Chinese women, but women of any culture whose lives are not their own. Then I realized that the point of the novel was not my grandmother’s specific story. Unless I could do that, the straight story wouldn’t have been sufficiently interesting to sustain a book-length manuscript. ![]() ![]() My grandmother’s story had been so prominent in my mind for so long it was difficult to let go of the facts in order to fictionalize. Do you feel a sense of responsibility in basing your story around your grandmother? Was it difficult for you to give yourself creative freedom?Ĭreative freedom was a challenge at first. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The last time he gave Will his heart, Will handed it back to him trampled and battered. But then Will starts “coincidentally” popping up in every area of Ollie’s life, from music class to the lunch table, and Ollie finds his resolve weakening. Ollie has no intention of pining after a guy who clearly isn’t ready for a relationship, especially since this new, bro-y jock version of Will seems to go from hot to cold every other week. This Will is a class clown, closeted―and, to be honest, a bit of a jerk. Which he minds a little less when he realizes it’s the same school Will goes to…except Ollie finds that the sweet, comfortably queer guy he knew from summer isn’t the same one attending Collinswood High. Now Ollie is one prince short of his fairytale ending, and to complicate the fairytale further, a family emergency sees Ollie uprooted and enrolled at a new school across the country. Will Tavares is the dream summer fling―he’s fun, affectionate, kind―but just when Ollie thinks he’s found his Happily Ever After, summer vacation ends and Will stops texting Ollie back. ![]() THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA meets CLUELESS in this boy-meets-boy spin on Grease ![]() Publication Details: by Hachette Australia on March 10th, 2020 ![]() ![]() OL8783567W Pages 194 Ppi 300 Republisher_date 20200127154504 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 287 Scandate 20200127033834 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781421505718 Tts_version 3. ![]() ![]() Kippei is enjoying his time with Yuzuyu, but not everyone is happy about it. Urn:lcp:aishiteruzebaby0004maki:lcpdf:40f59dd6-7367-4656-b173-ede24e9de273 1 Paperback Digital Actual prices may vary +24 Kippei has a lot to figure out, like what to make for Yuzuyu's lunch and how to drop her off at kindergarten while still getting to high school on time. ![]() ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 10:03:17 Boxid IA1766901 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Kippei has a lot to figure out, like what to make for Yuzuyus lunch and how to drop her off at kindergarten while still getting to high school on time. ![]() ![]() Now a noted historian, who served as consultant for a new French film on Martin Guerre, has searched archives and lawbooks to add new dimensions to a tale already abundant in mysteries: we are led to ponder how a common man could become an impostor in the sixteenth century, why Bertrande de Rols, an honorable peasant woman, would accept such a man as her husband, and why lawyers, poets, and men of letters like Montaigne became so fascinated with the episode. Told and retold over the centuries, the story of Martin Guerre became a legend, still remembered in the Pyrenean village where the impostor was executed more than 400 years ago. The astonishing case captured the imagination of the continent. ![]() ![]() ![]() The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse when, on a summer's day in 1560, a man swaggered into the court on a wooden leg, denounced Arnaud, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. ![]() ![]() ![]() After weeks of meticulous investigation, they had a name. Galbraith and Hendershot soon realised they were dealing with a serial rapist: a man who took calculated steps to erase all physical evidence, who photographed each of his victims, threatening to release the images online if the women went to the police. ![]() Galbraith contacted the detective on that case, Edna Hendershot, and they joined forces. It bore an eerie resemblance to a rape that had taken place months earlier in a nearby town. More than two years later, some 1,600 kilometres away, detective Stacy Galbraith was assigned to a case of sexual assault. The police convicted her of making a false report. Confronted with the seeming inconsistencies, Marie broke down and said her story was a fabrication - a bid for attention. Within days, police - and even those closest to Marie - became suspicious of her story: details of the crime just didn't seem plausible. On 11 August 2008, 18-year-old Marie reported that a masked man had broken into her home and raped her. It was an easy case to close until two detectives cracked it back open. She said she was raped police said she lied. Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists uncover the true story of Marie. With an epilogue read by Ken Armstrong and an authors' note read by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong, read by Hillary Huber. ![]() ![]() Random House presents the audiobook edition of A False Report by T. ![]() ![]() īurroughs was born into a wealthy family in St. Louis, Missouri. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, made many appearances in films, and created and exhibited thousands of visual artworks, including his celebrated "Shotgun Art". Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays, and five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences he was initially briefly known by the pen name William Lee. ![]() ![]() ![]() William Seward Burroughs II ( / ˈ b ʌr oʊ z/ February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist, widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most readers can decipher at this level of what is literally being divulged on the page. The narrative is the surface: character, dialogue, setting. One of my favorite professors described it this way: all novels have two levels, a narrative and a story. In much the same way the majority of an iceberg lies beneath the water where we can’t see, most of a story- he argued- operates underneath what a text says unambiguously. A revolt against the ornate artistic flourishes of the 19th century, Hemingway’s minimalist style pioneered a fiction “in which nothing crucial-or at least very little-was stated explicitly.” His philosophy- known as the “iceberg theory”- rested on the belief that a story’s deeper meaning should be intimated- not expressed directly. In the lavish prose that is her signature, Francine Du Plessix Gray defines seduction as a kind of “challenge to create a tension between the promise of gratification and the refined delay of that gratification -to intimate how much information I shall offer and how much I shall withhold.” No writer was a better master of seduction than Ernest Hemingway, whose economical writing style revolutionized English prose. ![]() |