![]() But what starts out as a simple effort to cut costs becomes an over-the-top obsession when Kat joins an eclectic but lovable group of savers called the Penny Pinchers Club. Are their fights about money more serious than she understood? Is he, as her friends suggest, preparing for a divorce? Just in case, Kat decides it’s time to start saving.Drastic times call for drastic measures: Kat starts by canceling cable and kicking her $240-a-month Starbucks habit. But when she discovers that her husband, Griff, has been hiding a secret bank account, her joyful consumerism suddenly loses its appeal. ![]() Living in New Jersey-the state that boasts the most malls per capita-Kat’s favorite recreational activity is a no-brainer: shopping. ![]() Bestselling author Sarah Strohmeyer offers up a timely (and recession-proof) treat about the things money can-and can’t-buy. ![]()
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![]() ![]() My father is the one forcing me to work here. I let loose a sugary smile, scanning his face and torso for no other reason other than to taunt him. “You won’t be working here.” His arm brushed my shoulder, but I didn’t think it was by accident. “I don’t like you,” Rexroth whispered under his breath, his voice harsh. ![]() The fading noise of Vicious barking at people to move along, and my father finally letting go of my arm to move toward Jaime and Dean-probably trying to gain both allies and sympathy-died down. Trent’s gaze cut to mine and stopped when his grays met my blues. ![]() But a scandal is what we’re going to give them.Īnd oh, what a beautiful chaos it will be. The writing isn’t just on the wall, it’s inked on my soul.Ī scandal is the last thing my family needs. Trent Rexroth is going to break my heart. I’m just a kid to him and his enemy’s daughter.Īnd I am…feeling. ![]() He’s a single dad and my father’s business partner. When he does, my stomach flips and my world tilts on its axis. When he does, his words aren’t meant for me. Hard, cold and calculated, he rarely speaks. Scandalous by LJ Shen Publishing Date: September 29th, 2017 Genre: Contemporary Romance Scandalous, the highly anticipated next standalone in the Sinners of Saint Series by LJ Shen is available NOW! ![]() ![]() ![]() Industry representatives will provide wheat market updates and seed company representatives will share information about their varieties. CSU faculty and experts will share the latest information and research relating to various aspects of wheat such as breeding, variety trials, entomology, pathology, seed programs, soil fertility, and forage use. We have a great set of public and private wheat varieties to show off in our field trials and characteristics of these varieties will be shared at each field day. ![]() of Agricultural Biology, the Agricultural Experiment Station, CSU Extension, Colorado Wheat, and the USDA-ARS. They are made possible by our farmer-cooperators, seed company and industry partners, and our colleagues from the CSU Dept. Colorado State University Crops Testing is excited to announce the details for the 2023 Wheat Field Days. ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s the next figure we might want to pay attention to. I start with Russia because it seems to me that Russia has reached a certain mature place where ideology is used to defend radical inequality-what I call the “politics of eternity.” Ilyin’s philosophy recalls an international revival of the political theorist and Nazi-associated German jurist Carl Schmitt’s thinking as well. I believe that we need to think through ideas from the 20th century again, rather than imagine that they have all somehow vanished. In the book, I wanted to come across very clearly with the claim that ideas do matter in shaping a nation. I focus on Ilyin because, as a specific philosopher, he was important to specific people at a critical time. Timothy Snyder: It’s striking how many times Putin quotes Ilyin in his writing, and in important circumstances. Putin’s ideology draws on Ilyin’s thinking. Ivan Ilyin, a Mussolini supporter exiled to Germany during World War II, morally justified totalitarianism. ![]() An obscure Russian philosopher is essential to understanding Vladimir Putin. ![]() ![]() ![]() Quotation was pinned on my bulletin board to make me feel better about being so (always on time, standing behind the yellow line, etc.). In my ordinary life I’m fairly rule-bound Ha! Growing up as a good girl of the Midwest, I’m pretty But I will no longer be adding to it.Įxcerpts from eight of my books can be found on the site. The blog will remain live for any who want to sift back through. Let the nuggets of thought get tucked into time. ![]() Let the reviews and stars of bygone years be bygone. ![]() I'm moving on with a simple web site, which I invite you to enter here.Īll thanks to each of you who took the time to stop by, to comment, to share.Īll thanks to the friends I made through the books we loved.Īll thanks to my husband, who has sat with me and built this new site, scrubbed it down to the essentials. It's all become a bit much-overgrown, weedy, unkempt.Īnd so, after cleaning out my father's home and then my own, after thinking hard about who I want to be in the days I still have, after writing and publishing a Woven Tale Press essay called "Clean" about all the things I am learning to leave behind, I am also leaving this blog behind. Celebrations of books I've loved, of friends I've made, of kindnesses that have been extended my way. ![]() All of these thousands of posts, over the course of these dozen years. ![]() ![]() ![]() If this review has inspired any young readers in your family or your classroom to write a book review, please send them our way! Many thanks to Isabel for this fabulous book review! Overall, I rate The Murderer’s Ape 4 out of 5. I could not put it down! Sally Jones is such a fun loving character who fits the book perfectly. Who is innocent? Who can be trusted? All these questions swirl around your head while reading The Murderer’s Ape. You travel all around the world and get to experience the culture, as well as gasp at the twisting and turning plot. The Murderer’s Ape is such an amazing story. Join Sally Jones on a touching journey to show without doubt that her closest friend is innocent in The Murderer’s Ape. ![]() That changes when Sally Jones starts getting suspicious letters from an anonymous sender that sound like they’re from Morro she eventually decides to travel to the address of the letters and prove Morro is alive. ![]() However, after a few weeks of hunger, tiredness and boredom, she finally finds the people to trust.Īna Molina and Signor Fidardo help her deal with her depression and make a promise to get Koskela out of prison. But when they get tricked into transporting dangerous cargo and the Chief gets falsely convicted of the murder of Alphonse Morro, disaster strikes. Sally Jones the intelligent gorilla and her owner, Henry Koskela (a.k.a. ![]() The Murderer’s Ape by Jakob Wegelius, translated from Swedish by Peter Graves ![]() ![]() ![]() Almost as if the author’s heart wasn’t really in it. Character development was great with full personalities and back-stories. ![]() Through each of those 14 books, I came away feeling like each and every character was a complete person and I knew them. Hockey” series, I have a pretty high opinion of the author. Having purchased myself (not used credits or free copies) of the “Fake boyfriend”, “Famous” and “C.U. But something tells me Iris might be worth the insubordination. It’s against Mike Bravo’s rules to fraternize with other team members, and I always follow orders. ![]() And the truth is, I’ve always wanted him. I’m no longer closeted or scared to live my truth. He’s as irresistibly snarky as he always was, only there’s a big difference this time. Mike Bravo saved my life, and they want me to join them, but there’s one small problem. But when a top-secret mission fails, I find myself suddenly discharged with nowhere to go. Military life is all I’ve known since I was born. I’m not called Iris “I require intense supervision” for nothing. Now my boss wants to recruit him, and I can’t wait to rub it in his face that he was rescued by me. Because one of those men happen to be the golden boy from my basic training days.īrock “Saint” Harlow was a walking Captain America in the flesh. But when we’re called in to extract a military team from a hostile situation, the thrill is so much better. And because I work for Mike Bravo, a private black-ops firm, it’s my job to go into dangerous situations. ![]() ![]() ![]() By the time it was noticed that the ships Mind had taken exactly that path through its screen of annihilation, it was too late to stop it from falling away through hyperspace towards the small, cold planet fourth out from the single yellow sun of the nearby systems.the planet the Mind had made for through its shield of explosions was not one they could simply attack, destroy or even land on it was Schar's World, near the region of barren space between two galactic strands called the Sullen Gulf, and it was one of the forbidden planets of the Dead". It was not, however, a route the Mind of a small, archaic warship could plan for, create and follow. Its protagonist Bora Horza Gobuchul is an enemy of the Culture." (from Wikipedia) "Escape seemed impossible: 'there was one bewilderingly complicated and unlikely way out of the concentric shells of erupting energies now opening like the petals of some immense flower between the star systems. The novel revolves around the Idiran-Culture War, and Banks plays on that theme by presenting various microcosms of that conflict. It is the first in a series of novels about an interstellar post-scarcity society called the Culture. "Consider Phlebas is a space opera novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Light sunning, and light rubbing to edges of dustjacket. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt title to spine. Consider Phlebas is the first book of the Culture series (ten volumes in total, I believe), one of the most beloved sci-fi book series ever, written by the late great Iain M. ![]() ![]() Morrison said, "I pitched a huge crossover event called Hypercrisis, which didn't happen for various reasons. The series deals with alien villain Darkseid's plot to overthrow reality, and the subsequent death and corruption of various DC characters and their universe.įinal Crisis came out of several ideas Grant Morrison had when they returned to DC Comics in 2003. ![]() Promotion about the limited series describes its story as "the day evil won". The storyline directly follows DC Universe #0 after the conclusion of the 51-issue Countdown to Final Crisis weekly limited series. Jones artists Carlos Pacheco, Marco Rudy and Doug Mahnke later provided art for the series. Originally DC announced the project as being illustrated solely by J. ![]() " Final Crisis" is a crossover storyline that appeared in comic books published by DC Comics in 2008, primarily the seven-issue miniseries of the same name written by Grant Morrison. ![]() ![]() “Simply: you must read it.”-Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine Review The Promise is an epic drama that unfurls against the unrelenting march of national history, sure to please current fans and attract many new ones. Reunited by four funerals over three decades, the dwindling family reflects the atmosphere of its country-one of resentment, renewal, and, ultimately, hope. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life’s unfulfilled potential Astrid, whose beauty is her power and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by a nebulous feeling of guilt. ![]() Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. ![]() Publisher : Europa Editions (April 6, 2021)Ī modern family saga written in gorgeous prose by three-time Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. ![]() |