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7/6/2023 0 Comments Whiskey Prince by Toni Aleo![]() ![]() ![]() He’s shy and not a fan of the pressure and spotlight that comes with his family name, or the title he was given at birth-the Whiskey Prince. It’s only when a letter from her mother, asking her to fulfill three things, sends her off to Ireland to live a life she never thought possible that she begins to heal.ĭeclan O’Callaghan was born and raised in Ireland and has his family’s legendary whiskey in his veins. She hasn’t had time to live, have fun, or enjoy even the little things. Having been caretaker to her for most of her teenage years, Amberlyn is inexperienced in many aspects of life. When Amberlyn Reilly loses her mother, her whole world comes crashing down. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hoping to keep them all together, Cedric invites Mary and Sara to live with him at his isolated estate where the trio find an oasis of freedom, safety, and first love. Tragedy leaves Sara-who is targeted by racist classmates and administration for her brown skin and Irish, German, Spanish, and Filipino ancestry-orphaned and penniless soon after, Mary is expected to leave for America to stay with a distant relation following her father’s death. While attending the Select Seminary for Young Ladies and Gentlemen in Victorian England, headstrong Mary, sensitive Cedric, and bookish Sara cling to one another to cope with their boarding school’s melancholy routine. ![]() Previous collaborators Stohl and de la Cruz ( Jo & Laurie) combine themes and characters from Frances Hodgson Burnett classics such as The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy in this theatrical mash-up. ![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing on a vast and diverse archive in theory, testimony, and image and on such thinkers as Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Throughout the twentieth century, argues Left-Wing Melancholia, from classical Marxism to psychoanalysis to the advent of critical theory, a culture of defeat and its emotional overlay of melancholy have characterized the leftist understanding of the political in history and in theoretical critique. ![]() For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have thought about their past since. The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Too good to be true carola![]() ![]() ![]() On a collision course she doesn't see coming, Skye throws herself into wedding planning, as Burke's scheme grows ever more twisted. But can her adolescent love stay firmly in her past-or will he find his way into her future? Inspired by the sophisticated mother of her babysitting charges, Heather vows to leave her impoverished hometown behind and make a better life for herself in New York City. ![]() ![]() In a third perspective, set thirty years earlier, a scrappy seventeen-year-old named Heather is determined to end things with Burke, a local bad boy. And interspersed letters to his therapist reveal the truth: he's happily married, and using Skye for his own, deceptive ends. Though Skye seems to have the world at her fingertips-she's smart, beautiful, and from a well-off family-she's also battled crippling OCD ever since her mother's death when she was eleven, and her romantic relationships have suffered as a result.īut now Burke-handsome, older, and more emotionally mature than any man she's met before-says he wants her. Skye Starling is overjoyed when her boyfriend, Burke Michaels, proposes after a whirlwind courtship. From Carola Lovering, the author of Tell Me Lies, comes Too Good to Be True, an emotionally nuanced psychological suspense, and an obsessive, addictive love story, for fans of Lisa Jewell and The Wife Between Us. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The three mules are also characters in the book, and the trip couldn't have been made with any other type of animal to pull the wagon. ![]() The brothers are both type A personalities, but they soon realize only one can be "trail boss"-and that is Rinker. Nick turns out to be very handy as a mechanic and woodworker, as well as a fine mule handler, and great companion to Rinker. Rinker's brother informs him that he is going along as well. Clearly the author has unresolved issues with his past, but he doesn't dwell too much on these-he lives for the moment on the trail. When Rinker decides as an adult to take a wagon and mule trip from MO to Oregon, following the Oregon Trail, his dead father "visits" him several times along the trail. The memories stood out among other not-so-nice memories of his father. Rinker Buck's father had taken his young family on a covered wagon trek in New England when Rincker was a boy. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Laura sebastian![]() ![]() That all ends here.Īsh Princess is a hauntingly tragic tale of a young princess, stripped of her family, her title, her people and even her name.Īsh Princess was truly an addictively, captivating story of how one princess channeled all her shame, humiliation and torture into a deceptively brilliant war. And power isn’t always won on the battlefield.įor ten years, the Ash Princess has seen her land pillaged and her people enslaved. ![]() But she does have a weapon: her mind is sharper than any sword. With blood on her hands and all hope of reclaiming her throne lost, she realizes that surviving is no longer enough. ![]() T hen, one night, the Kaiser forces her to do the unthinkable. She is powerless, surviving in her new world only by burying the girl she was deep inside. She’s endured the relentless abuse and ridicule of the Kaiser and his court. Theo was crowned Ash Princess–a title of shame to bear in her new life as a prisoner.įor ten years Theo has been a captive in her own palace. On that day, the Kaiser took Theodosia’s family, her land, and her name. Theodosia was six when her country was invaded and her mother, the Fire Queen, was murdered before her eyes. Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | Book Depository ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Stand by Me by Raynold Gideon![]() This summer, in the warm, welcoming darkness of the open sky of the SNFCC, we will be reliving together some of the stories we grew up with, stories that remind us what it means to be young, then or now or forever, the way only great cinema can. Its images are interwoven with those of our own lives the fictional tales of the films we grew up with merge our personal myths with those of others, the people we consider “our own,” our friends, members of the “tribe” in which we choose to belong.Īnd through the years, as “going to the movies” transformed over many generations of spectators from mere recreation to something of a “social ritual,” cinema in a way taught us how to mature, at times making us wonder whether the most defining coming-of-age story was the one we experienced ourselves, or some other that we saw on the big screen. ![]() Cinema is part of our coming-of-age tale, of each one’s personal history. ![]() ![]() Looking back on the years that shaped us and experiences we all share, the cozy, welcoming darkness of the movies is ever-present, like a big, shared embrace that fits us all inside. Our date is on for unforgettable cinematic moments under the stars! ![]() Spring at the SNFCC and a comeback of the screenings at the Great Lawn: The well-established Park Your Cinema series resumes, and renews its cooperation with the Thessaloniki International Film Festival for a second year, presenting the films selected for our adult viewers. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Conspiracy thiel![]() ![]() And if that leaves you wondering who would do such a thing, then it’s time to take a closer look at the blog and its authors.īut although Thiel might have felt like it was a personal attack on him, the truth is that this was pretty standard behavior for Denton and his team of bloggers. The fact that the article acknowledges that serves only to damn its author because it means that they knew the risks Thiel might face if exposed and they deliberately outed him anyway. At worst, it's prejudice with a handy alibi.” So, even if you don’t consider the fact that Thiel is a fiercely private person by nature, he clearly had a lot of professional reasons to keep his sexuality a secret as well. At best, it's a wrongheaded sense of caution. They instinctively prefer entrepreneurs who remind them of themselves. And as the article itself states, “the clubby ranks of VCs are mostly straight, white and male. And although this would be a traumatizing moment in the life of anyone who’s gay, for Peter, it constituted an additional, unique tragedy. Because one morning, in 2007, Peter woke up to see a blog post published by Gawker Media - a blog post that was entitled, “Peter Thiel is Totally Gay, People.” In that moment, Peter’s most personal secret had been outed not just to a family member or an acquaintance but to the entire internet. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Marie Antoinette was a child of fourteen when her mother, the Empress of Austria, arranged for her to leave her family and her country to become the wife of the fifteen-year-old Dauphin, the future King of France. As her world of unprecedented royal splendor crumbles, the charming Marie Antoinette matures into a heroine of inspiring stature, one whose nobility arises not from the circumstance of her birth but from her courageous spirit. From the lush gardens of Versailles to the lights and gaiety of Paris, the verdant countryside of France, and finally the stark and terrifying isolation of a prison cell, the young queen's life is joyful, poignant, and harrowing by turns. With this opening line of Naslund's compelling new novel, a very human Marie Antoinette invites readers to live her story as she herself experiences it. ![]() |