![]() Social ambition combats self-actualization in this biting tale of one woman’s search for certainty in a city full of mirages. But between a meddling, narcissistic mother, a self-absorbed therapist and friends trying to send her to dating re-education camps, it seems that fake cheese is the only genuine thing left in the city. All Courtney wants is to be left alone so she can search beneath the surface for a meaningful life. And she certainly doesn’t want to be molded into date bait for the top rung of L.A. She doesn’t want to be a poster child for the Opt-Out Generation. So they hatch plots to get her to give up her career, break her addiction to fake cheese, marry into high-orbit wealth and rule the stratosphere alongside them.īut Courtney resists. ![]() Worse, they expect Courtney to do the same. When her friend Marcie formulates an impossibly detailed rating system for acceptable men-the Los Angeles Eco-Chain of Dating-Courtney goes on a self-destructive binge that doesn’t stop until she gets thrown out of group therapy for insulting a former child actress.Ĭourtney is mortified as she watches her best friends give up stellar careers in law and the arts to marry entertainment royalty and civilian overachievers. ![]() “A hilarious, scathing tale of LA life.” - Kirkus ReviewsĬourtney Hamilton is a Velveeta-loving attorney driven to distraction by a city that seethes with soul-sucking status seekers.
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![]() ![]() It is about their ups and downs, their struggles at being closeted, and what baseball means to them. The MCs get together almost as soon as they meet, and the whole book is really about exploring their relationship and navigating the sports world together, as a couple, over the course of YEARS. What can I say, I just loooove the sexual tension to build and build.īecause of that, I also tend to read books that focus more on the beginnings of a romance. ![]() I prefer the two MCs to not even hook up or get romantic AT ALL until about 50% of the way through. ![]() But the whole "athlete worship" thing? Yeah, doesn't do much for me, so I wasn't expecting to adore this one.Īlso, this book is a little more unconventional for me because I like my romance to wait. First of all, I'm not really a huge fan of sports romances, though I have to say, closeted men coming out for love is one of my favorite themes. I've read some Kate McMurray in the past, but I haven't been wowed by her until now. ![]() She really hit this one out of the park! (<- see what I did there?!) Kate McMurray really shines with this story combining baseball and New York, two topics that she knows inside and out, with a HOT, compelling romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Roberts said the key thing to remember about Winston Churchill is that he never gave in. In addition to having saved the British Empire from Nazism, Churchill has much to teach us about the challenges leaders face today-and the fundamental values of courage, tenacity, leadership, and moral conviction. Roberts notes that Churchill’s long military career made him indispensable and the ideal wartime prime minister. Roberts talks about Churchill’s personality as an intensely passionate man who was known to burst into tears in the middle of Parliament. The Allied victory in WWII was in large part because of Churchill’s brilliant strategy as well as his conviction to never give in and to defend the British Empire at all costs. Roberts analyzes the life and policies of Winston Churchill and how he worked to save the British Empire and the world, with the help of the Allies, from the evils of Nazism. The royal family permitted Roberts to read the detailed notes taken by King George VI in his diary after his weekly meetings with Churchill during World War II. Roberts was given exclusive access to extensive new material: transcripts of war cabinet meetings, diaries, letters, and unpublished memoirs from Churchill's contemporaries. ![]() How did Winston Churchill defend the British Empire throughout his life? Andrew Roberts, the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, brings keen insights into the life of Winston Churchill with the book Churchill: Walking with Destiny. ![]() ![]() ![]() While Plato’s depiction of Socrates is refracted through the author’s sophisticated preoccupations and philosophical doctrines, Xenophon’s Socrates is lively and behaves, discourses, admonishes, and counsels in ways in which even the non-specialist reader will find impressive, memorable, and greatly useful. ![]() ![]() The writings of two of his followers, Plato and Xenophon, have reached posterity and preserved for us a portrait of the great philosopher. Socrates himself did not write anything down. SOCRATES was not the first philosopher in the Western tradition but he was certainly the first known to have lived a life fully devoted to thinking. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. ![]() This 2012 edition published by Barnes & Noble, Inc.Īll rights reserved. Introduction and Suggested Reading © 2005 by Barnes & Noble, Inc. CONVERSATIONS WITH SOCRATES XENOPHON TRANSLATED BY EDWARD BYSSHE INTRODUCTION BY ODYSSEUS MAKRIDIS ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Martin’s Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice and Fire series. White’s The Sword in the Stone, Christopher Paolini’s Eragon series, and George R. Here is the fantasy adventure that launched the Ranger's Apprentice series, an epic story of heroes and villains that has become an international phenomenon. ![]() The exiled Morgarath, Lord of the Mountains of Rain and Night, is gathering his forces for an attack on the kingdom. And as Will is about to learn, there is a large battle brewing. Highly trained in the skills of battle and surveillance, they fight the battles before the battles reach the people. What he doesn't yet realize is that the Rangers are the protectors of the kingdom. And now 15-year-old Will, always small for his age, has been chosen as a Ranger's apprentice. The villagers believe the Rangers practice magic that makes them invisible to ordinary people. alone! They have always scared him in the past-the Rangers, with their dark cloaksand shadowy ways. The international bestselling series with over 5 million copies sold in the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() the first woman to address a joint session of Congress, where-backed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. spiritual and financial advisor to Commodore Vanderbilt. Victoria Woodhull, billed as a clairvoyant and magnetic healer-a devotee and priestess of those "other powers" that were gaining acceptance across America-in her father's traveling medicine show. This is history at its most vivid, set amid the battle for woman suffrage, the Spiritualist movement that swept across the nation (10 million strong by midcentury) in the age of Radical Reconstruction following the Civil War, and the bitter fight that pitted black men against white women in the struggle to win the right to vote. Happy at Last, a stunning combination of history and biography that interweaves the stories of some of the most important social, political, and religious figures of America's Victorian era with the courageous and notorious life of Victoria Woodhull, to tell the story of her astonishing rise and fall and rise again. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Saunders’s satiric vision of America is dark and demented it’s also ferocious and very funny.” -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “It’s no exaggeration to say that short story master George Saunders helped change the trajectory of American fiction.” - The Wall Street Journal Praise for George Saunders and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline With a new introduction by Joshua Ferris and a new author’s note by Saunders himself, this edition is essential reading for those seeking to discover or revisit a virtuosic, disturbingly prescient voice. In six stories and a novella, Saunders hatches an unforgettable cast of characters, each struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world. Since its publication in 1996, George Saunders’s debut collection has grown in esteem from a cherished cult classic to a masterpiece of the form, inspiring an entire generation of writers along the way. ![]() ![]() ![]() Older readers will find Ghost Girl an attractive introduction to the deep and profound mysteries and spiritual precepts of the Irish Celtic tradition."ĭr. "Young readers will find Ghost Girl a relevant and positive guide for their own lives. Will she accept the challenges presented by her new role in the family, or return to her life as a loser? Lured at midnight into the forbidden attic by a spirit dog and touched with a magic potion, she seeks answers to who she is, where she belongs, and why her mother died. ![]() In that quest, Bonnie must overcome grudges, bullies, and an evil shopkeeper. ![]() There, ancestral ghosts befriend her and guide her on a mystical voyage to the Celtic Otherworld. But almost everything she's told them about herself is a lie. She is sent to live with relatives, who will homeschool her in a haunted house. From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted comes a love story wrapped in a mystery: an up-all-night page-turner with a dark secret at its core Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she'd do anything for them. Her mother died, her father remarried, and her new school was a disaster. In this contemporary novel infused with magical realism, ghosts, and Celtic mythology, the biracial Bonnie is lonely, angry, and confused. ![]() What if an alienated 12-year-old girl could reinvent her family and then lead it into the future? ![]() ![]() ![]() Julian became well known throughout England as a spiritual authority.įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit . julian of norwich revelations of divine love, One of the first woman authors, Julian of Norwich produced in Revelations of Divine Love a remarkable work of. ![]() This is believed to be the first book written by a woman in the English language. These visions would twenty years later be the source of her major work, called Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love (circa 1393). Her spirituality is strongly Trinitarian and basically Neoplatonic. (They ended by the time she overcame her illness on May 13, 1373). Julian of Norwich was the most important English mystic of the 14th century. Even her name is uncertain, the name “Julian” coming from the Church of St Julian in Norwich, where she occupied a cell adjoining the church as an anchoress.Īt the age of thirty, suffering from a severe illness and believing she was on her deathbed, Julian had a series of intense visions. Little is known of her life aside from her writings. 1416) is considered to be one of the greatest English mystics. Librivox recording of Revelations of Divine Love, by Julian of Norwich, translated by Grace Warrack. ![]() ![]() ![]() For the next six weeks, two teams of crazy daredevils on a South Pacific Ocean voyage will try to outperform one another in front of the cameras. A Hollywood television producer wants Jonas to join his new survival series: Daredevils. Now a middle-aged father of two, he is overwhelmed by mountains of bills and the daily strife of raising a family. It could sense its prey miles away, inhaling its scent as it registered the beat of its fluttering heart, and if you ever came close enough to see the was already too late.Įighteen years have passed since Jonas Taylor last crossed paths with carcharodon Megalodon. Hundreds of 7-inch serrated teeth filled jaws that could swallow an elephant whole. It was the apex predator of all time, the most fearsome creature that ever lived - a 70-foot, 70,000 pound Great White shark. New York Times bestselling author Steve Alten's Meg: Primal Waters continues his thrilling action adventure series-the basis for the feature film The Meg, starring Jason Statham as Jonas Taylor. ![]() |