![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Natasha desperately attempts to forestall her family’s deportation and, despite herself, begins to fall for sweet, disarmingly earnest Daniel. Daniel-sure they’re meant to be-is determined to get Natasha to fall in love with him (using a scientific list). Daniel feels what in Japanese is called koi no yokan, “the feeling when you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with them.” The narrative alternates between the pair, their first-person accounts punctuated by musings that include compelling character histories. When Natasha and Daniel meet, Natasha’s understandably distracted-and doesn’t want to be distracted by Daniel. Fact: his parents, Korean immigrants, expect him to attend an Ivy League school and become an M.D. ![]() Daniel’s a poet who believes in love, something that can’t be explained. ![]() Fact: undocumented immigrants in the U.S., her family is being deported to Jamaica in a matter of hours. Natasha believes in science and facts, things she can quantify. Natasha and Daniel meet, get existential, and fall in love during 12 intense hours in New York City. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This book would be useful for working with non-Christians seeking to understand Christianity. ![]() "Michael Reeves's Delighting in the Trinity is an enjoyable introduction to the doctrine of the Trinity. "Even many Christians find the Trinity confusing, but Delighting in the Trinity is the clearest and best written explanation I've ever read." (Marvin Olasky, World Magazine, June 29, 2013) If only there were more theological treatments of the Trinity (or other Christian doctrines) written like this book, learning theology, and in a deeper sense, knowing and loving God, would be a delight." (John Cheong, Trinity Journal, Spring 2014) I wish I had this book when I began my seminary studies. Charming in its wit and winsome in its emotional appeal, it will motivate readers to love God more deeply and fully. ![]() "he book is an easy and pleasurable read with a down-to-earth articulation of the three-in-one God who loves and invites us into the deepest parts of his eternal love. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Last call prohibition![]() ![]() ![]() World War I created a surfeit of patriotism, a willingness to sacrifice, and an embrace of the expansion of federal power. Women's suffrage made it politically feasible. ![]() The introduction of the income tax made Prohibition fiscally feasible. "Figuring per capita," Okrent writes, "multiply the amount Americans drink today by three and you'll have an idea what much of the nineteenth century was like." Alcohol, seen as a major scourge of civil society, looked ripe for a once-and-for-all ban that would put mankind on a new course. At the same time as temperance was flowering, so were crusades for clean water and sanitation, which saved millions of lives. … Last Call does a lot to help situate the impulses of the era, and yes, make them seem a little less crazy. My review, in the latest Business Week, is here. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Lost roses a novel book review![]() ![]() The two met years ago one summer in Paris and became close confidantes. Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. It is 1914, and the world has been on the brink of war so often, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. “Not only a brilliant historical tale, but a love song to all the ways our friendships carry us through the worst of times.” -Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours ![]() Petersburg to Paris under the shadow of World War I. Now Lost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline’s mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. The million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Ariadne by June Rachuy Brindel![]() ![]() Her published works are Ariadne and Phaedre, novels, Nobody is Ever Missing, a short story collection, and many poems in various literary magazines. She was an Associate Professor of English at Wright Junior College in Chicago IL, and Drama teacher at the National Music Camp in Interlochen, MI. June attended the University of Chicago where she graduated Magna cum Laude and earned a Masters degree. She leaves behind two devoted children, Paul Rachuy Brindel and Jill Rachuy Brindel and husband William Klingelhoffer she also leaves six grandchildren and their spouses and partners, Noah Bonham-Brindel, Sarah Brindell and husband Nathan Sabanayagam, Louis Brindel Klingelhoffer and partner Rochelle Ladd Miller and Jacob Brindel Klingelhoffer great-grandchildren include Killian Ladd-Miller and Jesse Castillo, both of whom brought her great joy in her waning years the nieces and nephews who will miss her are too many to list, but June came to be a mother figure for them and many other young friends her dear old friend Wilbur Zelinsky and his daughters Karen and Hollis became a second family to June after the death of her husband. ![]() She joins her beloved husband Bernard Brindel (1912 to 1997) with whom she shared a deep and lasting love for 57 years. ![]() June Rachuy Brindel took her last breath. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments El akkad omar![]() Omar El Akkad worked as a writer for the Globe and Mail, the major national newspaper in Canada, for close to ten years. ![]() There are especially devastating threats that could come about around the world if people are unable to change their lives. He has learned about many issues around the world and has found that people will have to change if they are to make the world any better. These include conflicts relating to political ideologies, race and other important factors. Much of El Akkad’s work has focused on many of the conflicts that have occurred throughout the world. He has moved on from his journalistic efforts to focusing on his writing career as he has a very large amount of experience and knowledge of many situations from around the world that have made a true difference in how he writes. He moved to Canada in the late 1990s where he eventually studied at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario with a degree in computer science. He has been to many of the most difficult and complicated places around and holds firsthand experience in understanding many of the important stories that are critical to today’s society.īorn in Cairo in 1982, El Akkad grew up not too far off in Doha. But he has a great deal of experience in terms of journalistic writing. ![]() ![]() Omar El Akkad has become one of the newest names in the world of literature. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments The stationery shop of tehran book![]() ![]() ![]() The writing sweeps you up into the lives of these believable characters, the culture, complicated family relationships, and the political conflict in August of 1953. I appreciated descriptions of the beloved stationery shop, the customs, the food, the political conflict, and the colorful characters. Through vivid details and great story telling, I was transported to Tehran in the 50s. Writing: The lovely prose in The Stationery Shop captures you from the first page. ![]() Their happy life together is complicated by family tension and political unrest. They share a love of poetry and continue to meet in the Stationery Shop while their romance grows. Roya loves the fountain pens, shiny ink bottles, and the thick, lovely writing paper while Bahman loves Rumi’s poetry and is an activist. *This post contains Amazon affiliate links.Ĭomplicated families….soul mates….resilience…. Genre/Categories: Historical Romantic Fiction, Romance, Family Life, Iran ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Homeland by ra salvatore![]() ![]() To openly commit murder or wage war invites the pretense of justice, and penalties exacted in the name of drow justice are merciless. Of course, there are rules of behavior, every society must boast of these. The Spider Queen is a deity of chaos, and she and her high priestesses, the true rulers of the drow world, do not look with ill favor upon ambitious individuals wielding poisoned daggers. Ambition over rides good sense and compassion is thrown away in its face, all in the name of Lloth, the Spider Queen.Īscension to power in drow society is a simple process of assassination. It is the calling of their, of our religion, the incessant pulling of hungering heartstrings. Station: In all the world of the drow, there is no more important word. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Poirot under the sun![]() ![]() Poirot's body may be at rest, but the little gray cells go right to work. Just one problem - it seems everyone has an alibi. There are plenty of suspects, including Stuart's stepson (Russell Tovey) and her husband (David Mallinson), an intense minister who sees evil everywhere, a shady businessman, and an old girlfriend of Stuart's husband. When Stuart is found murdered, Poirot's worst fears are confirmed. Though she is at the resort with her husband and stepson, Stuart is overtly flirting with Patrick Redfern (Michael Higgs) while his quiet wife (Tamzin Malleson) looks on. ![]() Hastings and Poirot are newly arrived when Poirot feels the sensation that evil is afoot, somehow focused on a glamorous film star, Arlena Stuart (Louise Delamere). Thus begins "Evil Under the Sun," one of the longer episodes of the Hercule Poirot series starring the great David Suchet, Hugh Fraser as Hastings, Pauline Moran as Miss Lemon, and Philip Jackson as Inspector Japp. He reluctantly goes to a health resort, accompanied by Hastings. ![]() He is rushed to the hospital where he is pronounced.obese! And his heart has been affected. Affronted, Poirot, Japp, and Hastings are at the restaurant when Poirot keels over. Miss Lemon suggests that he should speak with his waistline. Hastings has invested in a new restaurant, and as Poirot gets ready to go, he complains to Miss Lemon that his suit is too tight. ![]() ![]() ![]() Brilliant, hilarious, and heartbreaking, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl introduces a vital new voice in fiction. In her brilliant, hilarious, and at times shocking debut, Mona Awad skewers the body image-obsessed culture that tells women they have no value outside their physical appearance. But no matter how much she loses, will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl? She grows up and gets thin, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband, her reflection in the mirror. ![]() ![]() With punishing drive, she counts almonds consumed, miles logged, pounds dropped. She starts dating guys online, but she’s afraid to send pictures, even when her skinny friend China does her makeup: she knows no one would want her if they could really see her. Mississauga), Lizzie has never liked the way she looks-even though her best friend Mel says she’s the pretty one. Growing up in the suburban hell of Misery Saga (a.k.a. As you watch Lizzie navigate fraught relationships-with food, men, girlfriends, her parents and even with herself-you’ll want to grab a friend and say: ‘Whoa. From the author of Bunny, a “hilarious, heartbreaking book ” ( People) about a woman whose life is hijacked by her struggle to conform ![]() |