![]() ![]() With Alexa's world turned upside-down, she must question what she really wants in life-and in love. Will the unexpected intimacy of playing house wreak havoc on their lives? Alexa can scarcely afford the time, so sharing responsibilities with her sexy arch-nemesis is the only way it works, though the arrangement may be the death of her. When crisis obliges them to jointly care for their best friends' kids, a few weeks in each other's company disrupts their carefully constructed plans. But money can't buy the thing he was deprived of as a child, and desires most. Now nothing will stand in the way of her success.īruce Koczynski has success in spades, living a life of leisure after selling his software company for millions. She grew up watching her mother pay a heavy price for love, at the loss of her freedom, her creativity and her identity- a price Alexa swore she would never pay. She vitally needs a prestigious new project, but her boss and mentor-with-benefits stands in the way. Gifted architect Alexa Jenner has a strategic plan for architectural stardom and the ultimate goal of an independent practice. ![]()
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![]() It is sometimes claimed, indeed, that the existence of a certain sort of regularity in nature constitutes sufficient evidence for the existence of a god. And in that case it would be possible to deduce from it, and other empirical hypotheses, certain experiential propositions which were not deducible from those other hypotheses alone. For if the existence of such a god were probable, then the proposition that he existed would be an empirical hypothesis. ![]() ![]() ![]() “What is not so generally recognized is that there can be no way of proving that the existence of a god, such as the God of Christianity, is even probable. ![]() ![]() ![]() It had me from the description, already making me wonder what happened to Del and what caused him to be a felon. To begin with, I absolutely loved the fresh idea that Vaught came up with as a story plot. ![]() Del is guilty in the eyes of the law - but readers will have to decide for themselves if he’s truly lost his innocence. But what has Del done? In flashbacks to Del’s fourteenth year, we slowly learn the truth. ![]() As a result, he can’t get into college the only job he can find is digging graves and when he finally meets a girl he might fall in love with, there’s a whole sea of complications that threaten to bring the world crashing down around him again. At 17, he’s trying to put his life together after an incident in his past that made him a social outcast - and a felon. By susan vaught - published septembloomsbury usaĭel is a good kid who’s facing horrible circumstances. ![]() ![]() ![]() And inExodus, Revisitedshe delves into what happened next-taking the reader ona journeythat starts with herbeginninglife anew as a single mother, a religious refugee, and an independent womanin search of a place and a community where she can belong. She was determined tofinda better life for herself, away from the oppression and isolation of her Satmar upbringing in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In 2009, at the age of twenty-three, Deborah Feldman packed up her young son and their few possessions and walked away from her insular Hasidic roots. ![]() The definitive follow-up to Unorthodox (the basis for the award-winning Netflix series) – now updated with more than 50 percent new material – the unforgettable story of what happened in the years after Deborah Feldman left a religious sectin Williamsburgin order to forgeher own path in the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sarah and Darius' story continues in Harvest of Gold. Sarah soon learns that she has something of worth to offer beyond her ability with languages and sums her very being proves to be a blessing to others, particularly the aristocrat Darius, whom she is given to in marriage. ![]() Ironically, it isn't failure-but success-that causes Sarah to lose her only source of external validation. In her early childhood years, Sarah experienced the death of her mother and her father's subsequent emotional distance, and she came to two conclusions: God does not care about me, and my accomplishments are the measure of my worth.Ĭatapulted into the center of the Persian court, Sarah is working too many hours, rubbing elbows with royalty, and solving intrigues for the Queen. In Harvest of Rubies Tessa tells the story. There is only one problem: she's a woman in a man's court. Harvest of Rubies (English, Paperback, Afshar Tessa) Language: English Binding: Paperback Publisher: Moody Publishers Genre: Fiction ISBN: 9780802405586. e Harvest of Rubies is the second book by Tessa Afshar her first book was Pearl in the Sand the story of Rahab. ![]() The prophet Nehemiah's cousin can speak numerous languages, keep complex accounts, write on rolls of parchment and tablets of clay, and solve great mysteries. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Coen brothers are known to be exacting and scrupulously efficient on the set, but they hadn’t wanted overcast skies and had scheduled their shoots according to the weather forecast. Jones with costars Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem. “We’d have the dust devils come in, or it would rain like a monsoon for 10 minutes and then be gone.” “We’d have 50-miles-per-hour wind come up out of f-ing nowhere,” adds Brolin, whose Llewelyn Moss becomes Chigurh’s target when he stumbles upon a suitcase of drug money and opts to keep it. ![]() “That thunder is real,” says Bardem, who plays hired killer Anton Chigurh, an unstoppable reaper living by his own darkly rational principles. While shooting in the summer of 2006 near the small towns of Marfa, Texas, and Las Vegas, New Mexico, the set was haunted by violent storms that rumble in the film’s background like some cosmic tumult. In Joel and Ethan Coen’s minutely faithful film adaptation, in theaters in November, the barren landscape glowers with an almost mythological grandeur, less a backdrop than a physical presence to be reckoned with by the film’s macho acting trio of Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin. ![]() The border-land terrain of Cormac McCarthy’s novel No Country for Old Men is an emptiness of raw plains cratered with ancient calderas, where the manmade lines that mark legal boundaries are but lightly scratched in the earth and the contest between good and evil does not have a sure outcome. ![]() ![]() Yes, you still can buy a Moon Pie in Ol' Dixie, but the rumpled rustics who inspired Al Capp to create a comic-strip politico called Sen. Now, 44 years later, you still can "experience the old-fashioned traditional corn flavor of Golden Bantam," as one seed company puts it, but the old-fashioned traditional corn flavor of Southern politics is as dead as Earl Long himself. That was 1960, when the first article in Liebling's series about Earl Long, then governor of Louisiana, appeared in the New Yorker. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows." By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. "Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. ![]() You are dazzled by the wit and acuity of Liebling's prose, you want to keep on reading for as long as he keeps on writing, and you are struck by how deeply the character of American politics has changed in the four-plus decades since "The Earl of Louisiana" was first published. ![]() ![]() Liebling's "The Earl of Louisiana," and three things happen. An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though it rarely works the other way round – people who know me from my books and audios tend to be unaware of my IBM career. In later years, my work colleagues became more aware of my “second career” because other IBMers would tell them. I’ve been professionally published since 1996 (a mere 21 years) – so a private joke was to call my first Torchwood novel Another Life. ![]() Nevertheless, I have been writing that sort of stuff even longer than I’ve been at IBM – certainly since primary school, and then in fanzines at school and university. It’s not the sort of thing I’d typically discuss at work. It’s been a terrific three decades, during which I feel I’ve been able to make a difference by working in many interesting roles with wonderful people all round the world.įor a lot of my time at IBM, my colleagues didn’t know I had a parallel career as a writer of Doctor Who, Torchwood, and Blake’s 7 tie-in fiction. That’s not something I anticipated when I joined. ![]() On 4 th January 2018, I will have worked at IBM for 30 years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His 16th novel begins with war imminent in the Middle East and a compulsory draft about to be introduced. Palahniuk's depiction of modern men may be short on nuance but, like many satirists, his humour expresses a genuine anger, and that gives his books a crackling energy that is some compensation for their lack of subtlety. But if you want to know how he views himself – if you want to read the sort of novel that he might write, with himself as the hero – then Chuck Palahniuk is your man.įrom his first book, Fight Club (1996), Palahniuk has spoken up for the beleaguered American male: the guy who feels that his masculinity is compromised in our feminised, risk-averse world, and that his well-being is ignored by politicians in thrall to political correctness, and so has been humiliatingly forced to adopt the victim mentality he despises in women and minorities. ![]() If you want to know what an ordinary white American man is like, you can read, say, John Updike's novels about Harry Angstrom. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We meet her trying to make sense of the sorry aftermath. ![]() The crash of his ivory tower inundated the little family and forced Constance to fly the country, changing her own and her children’s names. The diary takes us through these dazzling events, her experience of motherhood (and Oscar’s attitude thereto) and right through the downfall and disgrace of the celebrated playwright. Both of them are now exiled from Britain and suffering the devastating consequences of his criminal conviction and two-year imprisonment.Ĭonfined to her room, she re-reads and comments upon the diary she kept throughout the whirlwind years of early marriage when she became the ‘High Priestess of House Beautiful’, riding high on the crest of social approbation. Well, this is a Constance only months from death, writing a long, never-sent letter to her disgraced husband. So, what was it like to be Mrs Oscar Wilde? This re-polished gem gives us a moving and insightful picture of just what it might have been like to be Mrs Oscar Wilde. Now Piercy has revised, judiciously fleshed out with newly-discovered material, and generally spruced up the original for a new edition. Rohase Piercy’s epistolatory novel The Coward Does It With A Kiss: The Fictional Reminiscences of Constance Wilde, first published in 1990, may have been one of the first works to pay attention to the mind and heart of Constance Wilde. ![]() |