![]() ![]() Using their letters and diaries, Victoria and Albert charts the constant ebb and flow of power between the couple, and presents a picture of a very modern marriage. ![]() But together they became the most successful royal couple there had ever been, and this book reveals the private and the public face of Victoria and Albert’s marriage. Despite the fact that they were first cousins they could not have been more different people – she was impulsive, emotional, capricious, while he was cautious, self-controlled, and logical. What happened after the Queen married her handsome prince? Did they live happily ever after, or did their marriage, like so many royal marriages past and present fizzle into a loveless bond of duty? Victoria and Albert were the royal couple that broke the mould – it may have been an arranged match, yet their union was a passionate, tempestuous relationship between two extremely strong-willed individuals. ![]() The second tie-in to ITV drama Victoria unveils the complex, passionate relationship of Victoria and Albert. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Felix's ethnicity seems to have no cultural richness, surfacing primarily when he’s being marginalized for his race, poverty, and gender. But this friendship falters when Ezra starts dating Austin, and Felix thinks he likes Declan-Ezra’s ex and Felix’s rival for the art scholarship. His uber-rich, down-to-earth best friend, Ezra Patel, helps him navigate contentious relationships at their private art school’s summer intensive and shares copious pot and booze with Felix. A talented visual artist, Felix dreams of an art scholarship to Brown. Felix’s self-image shatters when his pre-transition photos and name appear in the school gallery-followed by relentless transphobic texts. ![]() ![]() Felix’s dad deadnames him despite supporting his top surgery and hormone therapy, and he hates his mom for leaving when he was 10. No longer a girl, he thinks “boy” doesn’t always fit either. Seventeen-year-old black trans boy narrator Felix Love wants romance but lacks self-understanding. Jealousies and deceit resolve into affirmation and artistic self-love. ![]() ![]() She is the recipient of a 2002 California Arts Council Spoken Word Literary Arts Fellowship. released her third solo book of poetry, with more than tongue. City Lights Publishing released another book of major’s poetry, where river meets ocean, and Creative Arts Books, Inc. Curbstone Press released her second novel (which includes poetry), Brown Glass Windows to critical acclaim. Her first novel, An Open Weave, was awarded the First Novelist Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. San Francisco’s third former Poet Laureate, major is a part-time senior adjunct professor at California College of the Arts, and poet-in-residence of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. ![]() St., San Francisco, CAĭevorah major is the author of an upcoming science fiction novel called Ice Journeys. How much: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit the Center for Sex & Culture ![]() Who: devorah major, Celeste Chan, Shawna Kenney, Christopher Brown, Thomas Centolella and Margaret Rhee! Featuring mind-opening speculative fiction, robot poetry, almost-human spoken word, and tons more! October's Writers With Drinks has a theme of STRANGE ROMANCE. ![]() ![]() ![]() When it comes to emotions at work, there's rarely a happy medium. "A visual exploration of how to embrace emotion at work and become more authentic and fulfilled while staying professional. As our jobs become more collaborative, complex, and stressful, effectively embracing emotion is more important than ever". The modern workplace can be an emotional minefield (Do I shake my boss's hand or give her a hug? Did I forget to mute my phone on the conference call?) filled with unwritten rules. Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy take a charming and deeply researched look at how emotions affect our professional lives and how we can navigate emotions at work. Either extreme hurts employee health and productivity. Other offices are buttoned-up emotional deserts, where crying is only allowed in the bathroom and you suspect your coworkers might be robots. In some offices, your boss might send snaps of her weekend getaway in Vegas, or your coworker might send twenty texts about how Susan ate his clearly labeled lunch.again. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ginsburg transferred to Columbia Law School, where she graduated joint first in her class. Ginsburg, becoming a mother before starting law school at Harvard, where she was one of the few women in her class. She earned her bachelor's degree at Cornell University and married Martin D. Her older sister died when she was a baby, and her mother died shortly before Ginsburg graduated from high school. ![]() Ginsburg was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She was dubbed " the Notorious R.B.G.", and she later embraced the moniker. Later in her term, Ginsburg received attention for passionate dissents that reflected liberal views of the law. ![]() ![]() During her tenure, Ginsburg authored the majority opinions in cases such as United States v. Ginsburg was the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court, after Sandra Day O'Connor. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton to replace retiring justice Byron White, and at the time was viewed as a moderate consensus-builder. Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg ( / ˈ b eɪ d ər ˈ ɡ ɪ n z b ɜːr ɡ/ BAY-dər GHINZ-burg Ma– September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. ![]() ![]() ![]() The more we identify with character, connect with setting, and surrender to the flow of the narrative, the more substantive is the story and the truer it feels. The better a writer understands the essential reality of the material, the more potent the experience is for the reader. ![]() ![]() Even when we’ve never heard that particular story before, the lexical and symbolic soup, sometimes called culture, we swim in makes certain elements part and parcel of what we recognize as truth.įiction depends on this mantle of story sediment. We recognize the truth of stories because they remind. The walls are permeable, the delineations indistinct, and viscera moves from one to another to another, and so, osmotically, verisimilitude emerges with reference and resonance. Like Matryoshki dolls, they nest inside each other. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her novels have been nominated for the National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award, National Indie Excellence Award, Golden Quill Award, Writers Touch Award, and have been named Readers Favorite Five Star books. International bestselling author Cate Beauman is known for her full-length, action-packed romantic suspense series, The Bodyguards of L.A. Man’s routine checkup exposes troubling secrets the town will do anything to They’re just starting to make headway when a Shane and Reagan encounter more than a few mishaps as they struggle to gain the Hell, but when he gets a look at his new roommate, the gorgeous Doctor Rosner, ![]() Guarding a pill safe in the middle of nowhere is boring as Three-month stint deep in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, and he’s not too Shane Harper, Ethan Cooke Security’s newest team member, has been assigned a Head Physician for The Appalachia Project, an outreach program working with With her life a mess and her future uncertain, Reagan accepts a position as ![]() Kind and confident, she’s taking her professionīy storm-until a young girl’s accidental death leaves her shaken to her core. ![]() Reagan Rosner loves her fast-paced life of practicing medicine in New YorkĬity’s busiest trauma center. ![]() ![]() Ultimately, France’s Special Brigades would tenaciously pursue those the Nazis considered undesirable, a long and inclusive list. ![]() Moorehead observes that French collaboration with the Nazis was widespread, particularly among the police, who were incentivized with improved pay and various other privileges. The first half of the book is devoted to setting the scene in France, in which women involved themselves in the early stages of the resistance as the Nazi grip tightened around the country and its brutality increased. Through the power of friendship, the courageous women sacrificed everything to battle against the march of evil taking place across the world. Moorehead, a biographer and human rights journalist, relays the women’s tale-a journey filled with fear, bravery, and survival. ![]() A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France (2011) by Caroline Moorehead tells the story of 230 women of the French Resistance who were sent to the death camps by the Nazis who occupied their country in January 1943. ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for The Gold Eaters "Utterly irresistible. ![]() Based closely on real historical events, The Gold Eaters draws on Ronald Wright's imaginative skill as a novelist and his deep knowledge of South America to bring alive an epic struggle that laid the foundations of the modern world. Only then can he be reunited with the love of his life and begin the search for his shattered family, journeying through a land and a time vividly depicted here. To survive, he must not only learn political gamesmanship but also discover who he truly is, and in what country and culture he belongs. Forced to become Francisco Pizarro's translator, he finds himself caught up in one of history's great clashes of civilzations, the Spanish invasion of the Incan Empire of the 1530s. Kidnapped at sea by conquistadors seeking the golden land of Peru, a young Inca boy named Waman is the everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances. ![]() The Gold Eaters is truly the gold standard to which all fiction - historical and otherwise - should aspire." - Buzzfeed A sweeping, epic historical novel of exploration and invasion, of conquest and resistance, and of an enduring love that must overcome the destruction of one empire by another. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Devlin is also kind-hearted and loyal - and even without stating it, his heart(beat) belongs to only one, his ward Midnight. Devlin is grumpy with an arrogance of a Duke who deserves it because he's the best rune master there is, though of course his friends pay him no mind *lol*. The first part, " The Mad Duke", is from Devlin White - Duke of Winterbourne, a rune master who makes friends with nightwalkers and at the same time, controls the dangerous nightwalkers from attacking human. The story is being told in two perspectives. Megan Derr makes me want to live in this world, it's that amazing. I fall immediately in love with the world building - where there are rune master, vampires, wolf-elf, draugr, knights, dragons. Megan Derr is able to make me forget that I don't like all-out fantasy. Oh, my, what an ENCHANTING story this is. ![]() ![]() But since I have no more Megan Derr's stories, I decided to go a head. I love the two Dance series, but they don't feel like all-out fantasy because the idea of the MCs as detective. I admit that I sort of post-poned reading this story because it feels like an all-out fantasy, which is not a genre I like. ![]() |