![]() That is, until she's told about a local death that's a suspected murder. Cold and remote, Alaska seems tailor-made for her to hideout.īeth's new home in Alaska is sparsely populated with people who all seem to be running or hiding from something, and though she accidentally booked a room at a halfway house, she feels safer than she's felt since Levi took her. After being held in a van for three days by her kidnapper, Levi Brooks, Beth managed to escape, and until he is captured, she's got to get away. ![]() Known to the world as thriller author Elizabeth Fairchild, she had become the subject of a fanatic's obsession. Beth Rivers is on the run - she's doing the only thing she could think of to keep herself safe. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Further on in the book another character, a doctor, appears to see the world Marilyn has created. Marilyn, a catatonic patient, is living her life in a fantasy world she's found within a crack in the sheetrock on her bedroom wall. This technique blurs the distinction between reality and fantasy in a way that leaves the reader with an excellent picture of a mental patient's world. Yet the events still seem to be filtered through the perspective of the main narrator. The story begins in first person as told by one of the patients in the asylum then it switches to third person to tell about other patients as well as doctors. ![]() The book is a novel structured like a memoir. Ken Weene's novel shows the worst of people who have been labeled insane while revealing their basic humanity. ![]() The behavior of the characters is shocking, but the shock makes sense in the strange logic of their world, a logic that stems from fear, resentment, and a need to find some control over lives that have wandered far from the path of normalcy. Its setting isn't a strange country or a fictional land, but a building that could be a short distance from any of our homes. Memoirs from the Asylum takes its readers to a unique world as it helps them understand the thoughts and feelings of the people who reside there. ![]() ![]() Nagoski believes that to put an end to these misguided cultural standards and the damage they cause, women must better understand the science behind their sexuality. Research examining attitudes toward female sexuality demonstrates that, as recently as the 19th century, doctors were advocating for clitoridectomies to "cure" masturbation and nymphomania.) (Shortform note: These false ideas about what’s normal with regards to women’s sexual experience stem from a long history of contempt toward female sexuality, even in the medical field. This tendency forces women to view themselves through a scope that wasn’t made for them, ultimately inflicting harm to their sexual health and well-being. ![]() 1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of Come As You AreĪccording to sex researcher Emily Nagoski, our culture’s tendency to consider men’s sexual experience the standard perpetuates a lot of misinformation about what’s sexually normal and healthy for women. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() King Ferdinand Declares “that every Spanish ship returning from the New World should bring back ten turkeys, “half males, and the other half females.”” A Short History of the Turkey by Andrew G. Gardener, Colonial Williamsburgġ511 Moving through history, we see that the turkey gains popularity across the world. There were two religious festivals a year in the turkey’s honor.” From the article A Short History of the Turkey by Andrew G. The turkey was so important to the Aztecs as a source of food that the Indians regarded the bird as a god. “Centuries before Christopher Columbus reached the New World, the Aztecs had domesticated a wild game bird that we call the turkey, but they called huexolotl. Some of the first noted references to the turkey being held in cultural traditions begins as far back as the Aztecs. With “Turkey Day” only a couple weeks away I thought it would be fun to move through history and visit a few places where the turkey has been noted by royalty, presidents and American tradition.įirst stop on our history tour, The Aztecs It’s no wonder that this amazing creature has made history time and again. ![]() Turkeys are proud deliberate birds, gentle and beautiful. Our Tom presents himself in a stoic, almost regal display. We hold our turkeys in very high regard here at Iron Oak Farm. ![]() ![]() They move into the room at the top of the house, which the narrator supposes is a former nursery since it has barred windows and peeling yellow wallpaper. She particularly misses the intellectual act of writing and conversation, and this account is written in a diary that she hides from her husband. ![]() ![]() As part of her cure, the narrator is forbidden from pursuing any activity other than domestic work, so as not to tax her mind. She also suspects that there is something strange and mysterious about the house, which has been empty for some time, but John dismisses her concerns as a silly fantasy. The narrator complains that her husband will not listen to her worries about her condition, and treats her like a child. John is an extremely practical man, a physician, and their move into the country is partially motivated by his desire to expose his suffering wife to its clean air and calm life so that she can recover from what he sees as a slight hysterical tendency. The narrator begins by describing the large, ornate home that she and her husband, John, have rented for the summer. ![]() The Yellow Wallpaper is written as a series of diary entries from the perspective of a woman who is suffering from post-partum depression. ![]() ![]() The same racist structures and individuals remained intact after redlining's end, and close relationships between regulators and the industry created incentives to ignore improprieties. Race for Profit uncovers how exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing discrimination was banned. The disaster that ensued revealed that racist exclusion had not been eradicated, but rather transmuted into a new phenomenon of predatory inclusion. Reasoning that the turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers into homeowners, they passed the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and set about establishing policies to induce mortgage lenders and the real estate industry to treat Black homebuyers equally. ![]() By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. ![]() ![]() ![]() In these environments, detailed forecasts, milestones, and planning are not always helpful. “Too many startup business plans look more like they are planning to launch a rocket ship than drive a car.” The future is complex, uncertain, and forever changing. The lean startup, however, is not a prescriptive set of actions. Following his experience at Silicon Valley, and his frustration with how business schools teach entrepreneurship, Ries developed his own approach: the lean startup model. The lean startupĪ “theory of entrepreneurship should address all the functions of an early-stage venture”, from “vision and concept… “structure and organizational design”, Ries writes. If a self-help book tells you otherwise, you best not believe it. Perseverance does not guarantee survival in a Darwinian market-ecology. ![]() ![]() Henry Ford, Ries reminds, competed with almost five hundred fledgling automakers in the early 1900s. The reality is that most products and companies fail. But in The Lean Startup, Eric Ries tells us that this is the “mythmaking industry hard at work.” It feeds on selection bias, hindsight bias, and our desire to believe in stories of rags-to-riches. Most of us are familiar with the “hero’s journey” in entrepreneurship-the notion that an unwavering resolve and a fantastic idea will somehow drag a startup into stardom. ![]() ![]() ![]() OL2752583W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 96.13 Pages 390 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0446603651 ![]() The novel is set in Letts’s home state of Oklahoma and follows the story of teenager Novalee Nation and her ne’er-do-well boyfriend, Willy Jack Pickens. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 11:35:40.524694 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA1587107 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York External-identifier Where the Heart Is was published in 1995 and is the first novel by award winning American novelist Billie Letts. ![]() ![]() ![]() “One of the antic Moore’s funniest capers yet. –Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Son of a Witch “Dizzyingly inventive and hypnotically engaging, A Dirty Job is. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird. Just as Charlie - exhausted from the birth - turns to go home, he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear at Rachel’s hospital bedside, a man who claims that no one should be able to see him. ![]() That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. My name is Christopher Moore and Im the author of 14 novels, including Lamb, Fool, A Dirty Job, and the upcoming The Serpent of Venice. ![]() And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child. He’s married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a secondhand store with the help of a couple of loyal, if marginally insane, employees. He’s what’s known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant - you know, the one who’s always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male.īut Charlie’s been lucky. ![]() A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. ![]() ![]() ![]() A specter never fully formed yet drenched in blood. If she fails, she dooms her kingdom to a slow demise at the hands of the Rot. Make the Primal of Death fall in love, become his weakness, and then…end him. ![]() However, Sera’s real destiny is the most closely guarded secret in all of Lasania-she’s not the well protected Maiden but an assassin with one mission-one target. Armentrout returns with book one of the all-new, compelling Flesh and Fire series-set in the beloved Blood and Ash world.īorn shrouded in the veil of the Primals, a Maiden as the Fates promised, Seraphena Mierel’s future has never been hers. Chosenbefore birth to uphold the desperate deal her ancestor struck to save his people, Sera must leave behind her life and offer herself to the Primal of Death as his Consort. #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. ![]() |