6/25/2023 0 Comments The guncle review![]() ![]() Sara and Patrick were extremely close at college, then she married his brother, Greg, and they became less close.īut Patrick still treasures their memories and he has never forgotten their deep relationship. Maisie and Grant come into Patrick’s lonely, isolated life one summer when his once-best friend Sara dies. (They also call him GUP, which stands for Gay Uncle Pat.) Guncle=Gay Uncle, which is what his niece, 9-year-old Maisie and nephew, 6-year-old Grant, call him. ![]() (Think "Friends.") His catchphrase – people throw it at him when they see him – was “And that’s how you do it!” – particularly apt for this story.īut he has retired to the desert, to Palm Springs, California, enveloped in deep grief owing to the death of the great love of his life, his partner Joe. The protagonist, Patrick O’Hara, is an actor whose face is instantly recognizable, as he was in a sitcom, "The People Upstairs," a television hit for many years. It’s a book about love, loss, and dealing with grief, and probably one of the best books I have read recently that covers all of these. ![]() It’s not "light" though it does have a lot of humor. "The Guncle" was recommended to me as a light summer read, a funny novel to take to the beach. Steven Rowley, the bestselling author of "Lily and the Octopus" and "The Editor" now has a new novel, "The Guncle," published by G.P Putnam's Sons. ![]()
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6/24/2023 0 Comments A Letter to Amy by Ezra Jack Keats![]() ![]() ![]() OL831000W Pages 42 Ppi 300 Republisher_date 20191212212127 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 157 Scandate 20191209182056 Scanner . A Letter to Amy ebook By Ezra Jack Keats Read a Sample Format ebook ISBN 9780140564426 Author Publisher Release Subjects Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive. ![]() Visual indication that the title is an audiobook. ![]() Urn:lcp:lettertoamy0000keat_t2d1:epub:730dbbb3-bb33-4fa7-9b6e-d337e5740674 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier lettertoamy0000keat_t2d1 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6c331m0h Invoice 1652 Isbn 0670880639ĩ780060231095 Lccn 97049433 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Old_pallet IA13272 Openlibrary_edition When he goes to mail the special letter he has written to Amy to invite her, something extraordinary happens that makes the little boy feel 'all mixed up. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 05:37:22 Boxid IA1734421 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier A Letter to Amy Ezra Jack Keats Penguin, Juvenile Fiction - 32 pages 20 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Author of a farewell to arms![]() ![]() His international reputation was firmly secured by his next three books Fiesta, Men Without Women and A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's first two published works were Three Stories and Ten Poems and In Our Time but it was the satirical novel, The Torrents of Spring, that established his name more widely. Their encouragement and criticism were to play a valuable part in the formation of his style. He settled in Paris where he renewed his earlier friendships with such fellow-American expatriates as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. In 1922, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war before resigning from journalism to devote himself to fiction. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921. ![]() The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. In 1917, Hemingway joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. Their home was at Oak Park, a Chicago suburb. His father was a doctor and he was the second of six children. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Pale blue dot speech![]() On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. We succeeded in taking that picture, and, if you look at it, you see a dot. Voyager 1, which had completed its primary mission and was leaving the Solar System, was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around and take one last photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space, at the request of astronomer and author Carl Sagan.ĭuring a public lecture at Cornell University in 1994, Sagen presented the image to the audience and shared his reflections on the deeper meaning behind the idea of the Pale Blue Dot: In the photograph, Earth’s apparent size is less than a pixel the planet appears as a tiny dot against the vastness of space, among bands of sunlight scattered by the camera’s optics. Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles). ![]() Here be AWEsome! My thanks to Wikipedia and for the resources used in this post. Carl Sagan’s immortal words in 1994, contemplating the human place in the Cosmos. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Undressing Stone by Hazel Manuel![]() ![]() A beautifully paced, told with literary skill, but always compelling novel from Hazel Manuel, author of Kanyakumari and The Geranium Woman. ![]() Will her encounters with Clotilde encourage her to admit a truth she has avoided for years? And what are the consequences for Sian if she does? In a narrative that moves between caustic observation and the richly sensual, this is a novel that challenges many of our assumptions about modern life and celebrates the unconventional. Undressing Stone is a mysterious tale flirting with the gothic as it interweaves Sians conversations with her psychiatrist with her newly reclusive life in France. And Sian takes with her a secret she has told no-one - not even her psychiatrist. There she meets Clotilde - a strange and enigmatic sculptor who likes to work in the nude. Undressing Stone is a mysterious tale flirting with the gothic as it interweaves Sian's conversations with her psychiatrist with her newly reclusive life in France. From Cardiff to Saint Vay - a four-house hamlet tucked away in a forgotten corner of ancient France - Sian gives up her stable home and job in Wales to begin a new life in a borrowed cottage, because the internet told her to. ![]() Kanyakumari (2014) The Geranium Woman (2016) Undressing Stone (2018). We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to. ![]() Introverted and emotionally aloof, Sian can't remember what her ex-husband had been talking about, but not wanting to do as he said, she did exactly what he'd cautioned against instead. Hazel Manuel (1967, E) is a UK born novelist who spent most of her adult life in. Undressing Stone eBook : Manuel, Hazel: .uk: Kindle Store. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Elektra jennifer saint![]() ![]() I also wanted to include the story of Troy, a subject of endless fascination and appeal for anyone with even a fleeting interest in classics, but I wanted to see it from inside the besieged city rather than from the perspective of the Greek camps which is how it’s so often presented. In today’s world, the idea of someone who can see impending disaster but isn’t believed when she tries to warn everyone about it felt so tragically relevant. Cassandra is also a mythological figure who drew so much of my curiosity and sympathy. I had always wanted to tell her side of that story. I started with Clytemnestra – what happens to her when her daughter Iphigenia is promised in marriage to Achilles is a moment in Greek mythology that always resonated very powerfully with me from the first time I read it as a child. ![]() I always intended to have all three women as narrators but their roles definitely evolved a lot over the course of writing it. Was that part of your plan for this book from the beginning, or did it evolve? ![]() Elektra’s name is on the cover, but Clytemnestra and Cassandra also get to say their piece. One of the things I loved most about both your previous book, Ariadne, and this one is that the title character isn’t the only one whose perspective we see. ![]() ![]() ![]() Larson’s Pennyroyal Academy masterfully combines adventure, humor, and magical mischief. And with the witch forces moving nearer, she discovers that the war between princesses and witches is much more personal than she could ever have imagined. As Evie learns what it truly means to be a princess, she realizes surprising things about herself and her family, about human compassion and inhuman cruelty. ![]() There, given the name “Evie,” she must endure a harsh training regimen under the steel glare of her Fairy Drillsergeant, while also navigating an entirely new world of friends and enemies. She enlists at Pennyroyal Academy, where princesses and knights are trained to battle the two great menaces of the day: witches and dragons. ![]() Pennyroyal Academy: Seeking bold, courageous youths to become tomorrow's princesses and knights….Come one, come all!Ī girl from the forest arrives in a bustling kingdom with no name and no idea why she is there, only to find herself at the center of a world at war. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Amy cuddy amazon![]() As Harvard professor Amy Cuddy's revolutionary book reveals, we don't need to embark on a grand spiritual quest or complete an inner transformation to harness the power of presence. Too often we approach our lives' biggest hurdles with dread, execute them with anxiety, and leave them with regret.īy accessing our personal power, we can achieve "presence," the state in which we stop worrying about the impression we're making on others and instead adjust the impression we've been making on ourselves. Have you ever left a nerve-racking challenge and immediately wished for a do over? Maybe after a job interview, a performance, or a difficult conversation? The very moments that require us to be genuine and commanding can instead cause us to feel phony and powerless. ![]() MORE THAN HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD: Learn the simple techniques you'll need to approach your biggest challenges with confidence. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was supposedly okay - except he wasn’t. “Mama wouldn’t discuss our father’s state of mind, let alone his addictions. He bounced among law practices while savings dwindled, alcohol gushed, and - in a frenzy to disentangle from a fistful of failure - he purchased a left-wing newspaper (which he was unable to alchemize into success), and botched his first whack at suicide: Ironically, the liberal Manhattan firms were equally queasy about Crum. Her newest book, The Men in my Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan, ventures to understand the dynamics of her family by meticulously analyzing her transformation from rambunctious rebel to “recalibrated” raconteur.īorn to privilege in 1933, Bosworth was the daughter of the dashing Bartley Crum, a prosperous California attorney - until he represented the “Hollywood Ten.” Hundreds of artists were maliciously accused of colluding with communists, then rounded up by Joseph McCarthy’s thugs, blacklisted, imprisoned, and often ruined.Įventually, Crum’s alliance with them undermined his professional patina and compelled a move to New York to reassess his now precarious prospects. Patricia Bosworth is a well-regarded biographer who untangled the complicated lives of Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, and Diane Arbus. ![]() ![]() Sometimes, when family secrets remain unexplained, they morph into fuzzy misinterpretations, lies, or myriad multi-generational mental millstones. ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments Iron druid book 1![]() ![]() Atticus made numerous enemies over his long life and some of them have come to collect.įortunately for the Irishman, he isn’t without power. It isn’t until an ancient god comes knocking on his door that Atticus realizes the truth: the past can never stay buried. And while his handsome visage does attract the odd look, Atticus has succeeded in keeping his head down. ![]() The proprietor of an occult bookshop and master to an Irish wolfhound, the tattooed Irishman easily passes for a 21-year-old. And after centuries of turmoil, Atticus would like to think that he has finally found peace. The primary protagonist of the series, Atticus is over two thousand years old when readers meet him in Hounded, the first novel in the Iron Druid Chronicles. The books are narrated from the first person perspective of Atticus O’Sullivan. Written by Kevin Hearne, the Iron Druid Chronicles play out over a series of full-length novels and short stories. ![]() |