![]() ![]() ![]() This is another interesting story about love, trust, and relationships by an author with a sensitivity to the intricacies of making a real connection between people. But having read it, I feel that I know the area well - not so much because of the descriptions but through the well-chosen details and the author’s eye (and ear) for character. To say I’m unfamiliar with Kentucky would be a complete understatement, so I was grateful for the glossary at the front of the book. That said, there was adequate compensation in the way that Stephany Tullis introduces us to a range of characters - many of whom I’m sure I’ll meet in my future reading - and sets out her fictional landscape, with considerable skill. With the restrictions of a shorter length, the complications of the romance are inevitably limited, and I felt that the story was perhaps a little light on plot. ![]() Missing Pieces is a romantic novella, in which editor of the local paper, Rachel Blakely, falls for Jairo Aquina, the mysterious (and possibly undesirable) stranger in town. It’s the first in what’s described as a multi-branded author series (which I take to be a series written by ore than one author) and introduces us to the residents of the fictional town of Chandlerville, in Kentucky. I thoroughly enjoyed Stephany Tullis’s Missing Pieces. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Come Fly the World opens an intimate porthole into the life they chose aboard Pan American.” - Air Mail “Female roles were transformed over the Pan Am decades, but stewardesses remained in a strange no-woman’s land-smiling, servile symbols of male fantasy but also working women traveling the globe in challenging jobs when most of their peers were at home with families. “Thoughtful, well-researched and utterly engaging, Come Fly the World is smart escapist journalism and a tribute to hundreds of women who were much more than just a crew of pretty faces….Journalist Julia Cooke paints a riveting, complex portrait of the adventurous lives of Pan Am stewardesses during aviation's golden age.” - Shelf Awareness ![]() “An entertaining, insightful look into a gritty and glamorous era in air travel.”- STARRED Kirkus Reviews “This engrossing account, which reads like a novel, offers a combination of riveting personal stories and little-known history, and will draw in readers from the first page. 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Gone was the woman at the center of my world, the soft-spoken mother who would kiss my forehead and hold me on her lap, who would sing me to sleep every night. I watched it transform her into someone else, someone I didn’t recognize. Every day, I would see my mother sit upon that throne, and I believed that it held her there, its obsidian fingers digging into her skin. I remember the bonedeep certainty that touching it would burn. It was a terrifying thing to behold: tall and shadowy black, sharp-edged, carved to look like dark flames. I SPENT MUCH OF MY FIRST six years afraid of my mother’s throne the way most children are afraid of monsters lurking under their beds. ![]() ![]() ![]() †Originally published in Dark Horse's Avatar: The Last Airbender / Plants vs. ![]() †Originally published in Dark Horse's Avatar: The Last Airbender / Itty Bitty Hellboy / Juice Squeezers FCBD 2014 issue †Originally published in Dark Horse's Star Wars / Captain Midnight / Avatar: The Last Airbender FCBD 2013 issue It is part of Dark Horse Comics' continuation of the Avatar: The Last Airbender television series. The Avatar: The Last Airbender – Team Avatar Tales is a graphic novel anthology published by Dark Horse Comics collecting the 2013, 2014, and 2015 Free Comic Book Day stories and several original short stories created for this collection. This anthology from the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender features all your favorite characters, brought to life by a cast of all-star creatorsJourney along with Team Avatar as they rescue a pumpkin farmer waylaid by monsters, go undercover in the Fire Nation, help an old rival with a hair-raising problem, and reflect on what it means to save the world. Avatar: The Last Airbender – Team Avatar Tales cover ![]() ![]() ![]() Peopled by a cast of unforgettable characters, this is a novel that dares to ask whether love between two women can last. Jane Rules classic lesbian coming-out/conversion novel Desert of the Heart invites us to consider the contiguity of lesbian, gay, and queer literature. An English professor who had always led a conventional life, Evelyn suddenly finds all her beliefs about love, morality, and identity called into question. Evelyn is instantly drawn to the fiercely independent Ann, and their friendship soon evolves into a romantic relationship. Fifteen years younger, Ann Childs works as a change apron in a casino. A voluntary exile in a brave new world, she meets a woman who will change her life. ![]() When Desert of the Heart opens, Evelyn Hall is on a plane that will take her from her old life in Oakland, California, to Reno, where she plans to divorce her husband of sixteen years. Jane Rule's first novel-now a classic of gay and lesbian literature-established her as a foremost writer of the vagaries and yearnings of the female heart Against the backdrop of Reno, Nevada, in the late 1950s, award-winning author Jane Rule chronicles a love affair between two women. ![]() ![]() Is there a product or accessory that does something similar for you?ħ. ![]() "The thing about lipstick, the reason it’s so powerful, is that it is distracting." Nancy’s beloved red lipstick also gives her confidence. Did it give you a different view at the ways in which war alters lives, both great and small?Ħ. Discuss the shift back and forth in time between Nancy’s life before and during the war. What are your thoughts regarding the shift of perspective from first person to third person? Did it result in a more multi-dimensional portrait of Nancy?ĥ. Nancy is accused of using "profanity as a weapon" to gain her male colleagues’ respect. ![]() "Men don’t know what to do with a woman who can clip her own cigar." What are the implications of Stephanie’s statement? And does it still hold true today?ģ. We later learn that Nancy agreed was told that her work for Hearst would be published without not carry a byline … unless she took a male pen name, which she refused to do. Nancy’s argument with her Hearst editor takes place in 1936, but is probably not all that different from challenges that face women in the workforce today. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then again, Jeffrey Dahmer had been attractive, so good looks weren’t exactly the best scale of measurement for an individual’s mental health.Ĭalm down, take a deep breath, and get it together, Sal. ![]() Demented and out-of-his-freaking mind, but handsome nonetheless. For being in his late forties, he was still a looker. I sat back against the chair in his office and took in the silvering hair on his head, his smooth, unlined face and the Houston Pipers polo shirt he had on. “I need you, Sal,” Coach Gardner, the man who was asking the impossible of me, insisted. I understood all the individual words in the sentence, but putting them together in that moment was the equivalent of telling a blind person you wanted them to see something real quick. But my brain couldn’t wrap itself around the sentence that had come out of his mouth. The man sitting across the desk from me repeated himself. ![]() ![]() ![]() it feels like more and more of my communities are growing comfortable experimenting with, testing, and learning emergent strategies. Rather than laying out big strategic plans for work, the invitation of emergent strategy is to come together in community, build authentic relationships, and see what emerges from the conversations, connections, visions and needs. last year in a workshop at the allied media conference, we generated ideas with a working definition of emergent strategy as: intentional, fractal (the same at the largest scale as it is at the smallest scale, toxic, healthy, joyful, stressed, etc), strong because it is decentralized, adaptive, interdependent, and creating more possibilities. To reiterate from earlier posts, emergent strategy is strategy (a plan towards a goal) based in the science of emergence – the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions. i am writing this to share the thinking, learning i am doing in my facilitation practice. i have been identifying tools and principles for practicing emergent strategy in groups for some time. ![]() i used emergent process to move us through the time together, and got great feedback. ![]() ![]() Just spent several days facilitating the BOLD gathering with a team of brilliant people. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the fifth of six children, Ada von Hasenberg has no authority her only value to her High House is as a pawn in a political marriage. ![]() In the far distant future, the universe is officially ruled by the Royal Consortium, but the High Councillors, the heads of the three High Houses, wield the true power. Jessie Mihalik is an author to watch."-Ilona Andrews, #1 New York Times bestselling authorĪ space princess on the run and a notorious outlaw soldier become unlikely allies in this imaginative, sexy space opera adventure-the first in an exciting science fiction trilogy. " Polaris Rising is space opera at its best, intense and addictive, a story of honor, courage, betrayal, and love. Her best hope is to free Marcus and draw him into her plans"-Publisher's description. When her rejected suitor suddenly shows up with a warship to escort her home, Ada wonders why but knows she must escape immediately. Ada is intrigued by him but learned from an early age never to trust anyone, not even family, and certainly not a rogue soldier convicted of mass murder. She puts up quite a fight and is summarily thrown into a cell with Marcus Loch, the other most wanted individual in the universe. After two years moving between space ports to avoid her father's minions, Ada is captured by mercenaries intent on collecting a vast bounty. ![]() About the Book "Royal Consortium princess Ada von Hasenberg fled home to avoid an arranged marriage to the scion of a rival house. ![]() |