![]() She's also the author of two novels for teens. ![]() She also reports for People magazine, and her work has appeared in magazines including Glamour, Runner's World, Woman's Day, American Baby, and Men's Health. About the Author: Kristin Harmel is the author of four women's fiction novels. It will take an unexpected friendship with a fiery Italian waitress, a whirlwind Vespa tour of the Eternal City with a handsome stranger, and a surprise encounter with an old acquaintance to show Cat that life doesn't always work out the way you expect, but sometimes you have to have fall in order to fly. Now, she must see if she has the courage to live outside the lines for the first time-and to face a past she never understood. But her reunion with the slick and gorgeous Francesco is short-lived, and she finds herself suddenly alone in Rome. To shake herself free from her old life, she decides to accept an invitation to spend a month with an old flame in Italy. ![]() But after her little sister gets married, Cat wonders if she has condemned herself to a life of boredom by playing by the rules. ![]() Thirty-four-year-old Manhattan accountant Cat Connelly has always lived life on the safe side. In this romantic whirlwind of a novel, follow Cat as she flies to Italy to rediscover who she is, and takes the chance of a lifetime. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Milk Fed is a tender and riotously funny meditation on love, certitude, and the question of what we are all being fed, from one of our major writers on the psyche-both sacred and profane ![]() Pairing superlative emotional insight with unabashed vivid fantasy, Broder tells a tale of appetites: physical hunger, sexual desire, spiritual longing, and the ways that we as humans can compartmentalize these so often interdependent instincts. Rachel is suddenly and powerfully entranced by Miriam-by her sundaes and her body, her faith and her family-and as the two grow closer, Rachel embarks on a journey marked by mirrors, mysticism, mothers, milk, and honey. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting-until her therapist encourages her to take a ninety-day communication detox from her mother, who raised her in the tradition of calorie counting.Įarly in the detox, Rachel meets Miriam, a zaftig young Orthodox Jewish woman who works at her favorite frozen yogurt shop and is intent upon feeding her. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. Synopsis: Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. ![]() ![]() ![]() Another home run for Korman for which all of us, adults and children alike, can cheer. Written in chapters that explore the viewpoint of each character, The Unteachables is a heartwarming story about not giving up on yourself or others. Kermit figures out that what he really has is a group that just needs help, patience and the recognition that, really, they may be the most teachable of any class. Through many hilarious and touching escapades, Mr. There is the slow worker, Parker Elias, social dweeb Mateo Hendrickson, anger-management challenged Aldo Braff, ex-athlete “Barnstorm” Armstrong, potential bully Elaine Okafor, sleep-deprived Rahim Barclay, and new student Kiana Roubini. Kermit knows it’s going to be rough, but he figures he’ll just keep his head down and coast until May. Kermit the class called SCS-8, or the Self-Contained Special 8th-grade class. Thaddeus, wants him out before he can draw a full pension, so he assigns Mr. In The Unteachables, Korman gives us a sort of pre-teen version of To Sir, with Love-a class full of misfit kids that the education system has given up on and the teacher that fights through his own disillusionment to become the mentor the students need.Īfter 30 years as a teacher, Zachary Kermit is burned out and ready for retirement. ![]() ![]() As usual, award-winning author Gordon Korman’s latest book is a satisfying glimpse into the world of middle schoolers. ![]() ![]() Why would he write now? Curious, I ripped it open and scanned right to theīottom of the letter for the name. But it had been close to eight years since we’d exchanged letters. And the handwriting did look prettyįamiliar. ![]() It was from a PO box in California, not England, but I didn’t knowĪny other Quinn other than Griffin. ![]() The entire class used her last name-hence I was Luca Ryan. We weren’t allowed to use our real last names for safety reasons, so Teacher, Mrs. Ryan, started a pen pal writing program with a small town inĮngland. That was a name I hadn’t heard in a long time. But I stopped at an envelope addressed to me-well, not me, but Luca Mindlessly fingered through the pile, not expecting to see anything worth ![]() Once a month, Mrs. Cascio sent meĮverything that arrived, even though I’d told her it wasn’t necessary. I’d had Dad’s mail forwarded to my house, so mostly I highly recommend this romance and good luck on the Rafflecopter giveaway! This is one of my favorite standalone romance reads of the year and Griffin definitely made my BBF list!īelow you will find an excerpt from the title, my book review, a book summary the author’s bios and social media links and the link to the Rafflecopter giveaway for a $100 Amazon Gift Card giveaway! I am BURSTING to share this Feature Post and Book Review for Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward’s DIRTY LETTERS. ![]() ![]() We would start with The Phantom Menace and end with The Rise of Skywalker, with the different series in between: And one of the most attractive ways to watch them is in their chronological order, that is, according to the temporal events that took place in the saga. How to watch the entire Star Wars saga in chronological orderĪre you planning on marathoning Star Wars movies and series? All of them are now available on Disney+. Therefore, here is the definitive guide on how to watch Star Wars, both in chronological order and by release date. After three trilogies already complete and two spin-offs, many are those who wonder in what order to see the numerous Star Wars installments to follow the plot and not get lost among so many intergalactic stories. ![]() The film saga closed its last trilogy in December 2019 with the theatrical release of Episode IX: Rise of Skywalker, the film that ended the Skywalker saga. ![]() ![]() Star Wars continues to expand its vast universe with the release of new products, now focused on different Disney+ series, including the successful The Mandalorian or the recent Obi-Wan Kenobi and Andor. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kaikeyi must decide if resistance is worth the destruction it will wreak - and what legacy she intends to leave behind.Ī must for readers of historical and mythological retellings such as Madeline Miller's Circe and Jennifer Saint's Ariadne, this powerful debut weaves a tale of an extraordinary woman determined to leave her mark in a world where gods and men dictate the shape of things to come. But when evils from her childhood stories threaten her world, the path she has forged clashes with the destiny the gods have chosen for her family. With this power, Kaikeyi transforms herself from an overlooked princess into a warrior, diplomat and favoured queen, determined to carve a better world for herself and the women around her. She turns to her mother's library and discovers a magic that is hers alone. Although she was raised on stories of the might and benevolence of the gods, her prayers for help go unanswered. ![]() The only daughter of a king, Kaikeyi watches as her mother is banished and her own worth is reduced to what marriage alliance she can secure. An instant New York Times bestseller and Tiktok sensation, Vaishnavi Patel's stunning debut Kaikeyi reimagines the life of the infamous queen from Indian epic the Ramayana. ![]() ![]() This can be achieved through the use of many paid-for tools that lift vocals from full mixes (RipX is excellent) but there are free options available, too, like VocalRemover. AI World’s bot makes use of the same software, but the process is vastly simplified.īefore you process a vocal, you’ll need to make sure that you have a clean a capella vocal recording. Currently, the quickest and easiest way to process a vocal is to pay a visit to AI World, a popular Discord server for those experimenting with AI vocals, and use their automated bot. ![]() If you’d like to use So-VITS-SVC on your machine, YouTuber p3tro has made a great tutorial for that. The software can be downloaded and run locally, but that process is a little convoluted (some coding is required) and it requires a powerful GPU. ![]() There are a number of ways to access So-VITS-SVC. ![]() ![]() in a new construction project.Ĭ2C also makes the transition from recycling to upcycling. ![]() After removal from a building, used construction materials are deployed for the production of new materials (recycling) or reused as construction materials (reuse), e.g. Waste is the raw material for, for example, new materials: 'waste is food'. In the C2C scenario there is (therefore) no place for unused waste. The breakthrough for their idea came in 2002 following the publication of their book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (also translated into Dutch).Ĭ2C assumes that – analogous to the food chain – a material, product, design or building follows a completely closed cycle (cradle to cradle). The creators of the Cradle to Cradle concept were architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart. ![]() Upcycling means recycling a used product into a new product with better properties than its predecessor. The Cradle to Cradle (C2C) philosophy promotes the use of construction materials and products that are recyclable or preferably can be upcycled. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the narrative is less about her than about her employers. The story becomes a revelation of the life ‘behind the scenes’ of the White House where she lived and worked for four years, until Lincoln’s assassination left her out of a job. Keckly tells us how she worked her way up to financial independence by being a skilled seamstress, eventually serving as Mrs Lincoln’s private tailor (or modiste as she pointedly calls herself, drawing attention to the artistry and skill that this label suggests). Although it begins as a slave narrative, revealing in a matter-of-fact way the horrors Keckly had to endure until her thirties when she bought her own freedom – including familial separation, cruel owners, brutal beatings, rape and ensuing pregnancy – the narrative shifts focus and form halfway through and becomes the story of a successful businesswoman with unparalleled insight into the lives of the highest-ranking political couple in the land: President and Mrs Lincoln. ![]() ![]() (Whilst her published name is ‘Keckley’, ‘Keckly’ is the spelling she used in the rest of her life). But Keckly’s autobiography stands out for several reasons. We have seen some of these accounts already in Ten-Minute Book Club so far. ![]() By 1868, when Behind the Scenes was published, readers were familiar with the genre of the slave narrative, which gave vital and moving eyewitness accounts of the atrocities of slavery and helped to fuel the abolition movement. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote-and perhaps not even to live-the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive.įrom this synopsis one might think that the sisters share a close bond, but by the time this book opens they have been fractured, turned against each other, separated by distance and time, and are full of bitterness towards each other. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box.īut when the Eastwood sisters–James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna–join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women’s movement into the witch’s movement. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. In 1893, there’s no such thing as witches. Here’s the plot description from the publisher: There are two romances, but they are not central to the book, which keeps its focus on the sisters as they struggle for autonomy and power for women in a ferociously patriarchal world. This historical fantasy about three sisters in 1893 does not permit them to take an easy route on their journey towards a decent life. ![]() I adored this book so much, but it’s not a light or easy read. ![]() |