5/24/2023 0 Comments Lady of the lake lippman![]() ![]() Cleo scolds the ambitious Maddie: You're interested in my death, not my life. Instead, her mysterious death receives only cursory mention in the daily newspapers, and no one cares when Maddie starts poking around in a young Black woman's life-except for Cleo's ghost, who is determined to keep her secrets and her dignity. ![]() If Cleo were white, every reporter in Baltimore would be clamoring to tell her story. Working at the newspaper offers Maddie the opportunity to make her name, and she has found just the story to do it: Cleo Sherwood, a missing woman whose body was discovered in the fountain of a city park lake. ![]() Drawing on her own secrets, she helps Baltimore police find a murdered girl-assistance that leads to a job at the city's afternoon newspaper, the Sta r. Maddie wants to matter, to leave her mark on a swiftly changing world. This year, she's bolted from her marriage of almost twenty years, determined to make good on her youthful ambitions to live a passionate, meaningful life. ![]() Last year, she was a happy, even pampered housewife. In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know-everyone, that is, except Madeline "Maddie" Schwartz. The revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a middle-aged housewife turned aspiring reporter who pursues the murder of a forgotten young woman. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Emotional intelligence 2.0 book![]() ![]() ![]() But knowing what EQ is and knowing how to use it to improve your life are two very different things.Įmotional Intelligence 2.0 delivers a step-by-step program for increasing your EQ via four, core EQ skills that enable you to achieve your fullest potential:Įmotional Intelligence 2. The 66 strategies from the Emotional Intelligence 2.0 book are great for creating action plans. In today's fast-paced world of competitive workplaces and turbulent economic conditions, each of us is searching for effective tools that can help us to manage, adapt, and strike out ahead of the pack.īy now, emotional intelligence (EQ) needs little introduction-it's no secret that EQ is critical to your success. "This book can drastically change the way you think about success.read it twice." Emotional Intelligence 2.0 (2009), a self-help book by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves, provides a toolkit and guide for readers to increase their emotional intelligence (EQ), which the writers say can be a benefit in business and personal relationships. "Gives abundant, practical findings and insights with emphasis on how to develop EQ." Emotional Intelligence 2.0 has 280 pages. "A fast read with compelling anecdotes and good context in which to understand and improve." ![]() "Emotional Intelligence 2.0 succinctly explains how to deal with emotions creatively and employ our intelligence in a beneficial way." FOREWORD BY PATRICK LENCIONI, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE FIVE DYSFUNCTIONS OF A TEAM.Įmotional Intelligence 2.0 is a book with a single purpose-increasing your EQ. ![]() ![]() ![]() if he doesn’t use every skill in his arsenal to track down the real killer. When a murder takes place right under Archer’s nose, police suspicions rise against the ex-convict, and Archer realizes that the crime could send him right back to prison. Merry Farmer: Genre: MM Romance: File Name: one-good-deed-deserves-a-lover-by-merry-farmer.epub : Original Title: One Good Deed Deserves a Lover (After the War Book 5) Creator: Merry Farmer : Language: en : Identifier: MOBI-ASIN:B093CS5V6P : Publisher: Oliver Heber Books : Date: 1646073000 : File Size: 307525. The indebted man has a furious grudge against Hank and refuses to pay Hank’s clever mistress has her own designs on Archer and both Hank and Archer’s stern parole officer, Miss Crabtree, are keeping a sharp eye on him. Soon Archer discovers that recovering the debt won’t be so easy. Within a single night, his search for gainful employment – and a stiff drink – leads him to a local bar, where he is hired for what seems like a simple job: to collect a debt owed to a powerful local businessman, Hank Pittleman. The small town quickly proves more complicated and dangerous than Archer’s years serving in the war or his time in jail. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on parole with a short list of do’s and a much longer list of don’ts: do report regularly to his parole officer, don’t go to bars, certainly don’t drink alcohol, do get a job–and don’t ever associate with loose women. ![]() ![]() Publishers Weekly Nate, Sludge, and all their friends have been delighting beginning readers for years. Booklist Loose, humorous chalk and watercolor spots help turn this beginning reader into a page-turner. School Library Journal, Starred Review A consistently entertaining series. The Huffington Post Review Quotes Praise for the Nate the Great Series Kids will like Nate the Great. Kirkus Reviews They dont come any cooler than Nate the Great. School Library Journal, Starred A consistently entertaining series. ![]() Visit Nate the Great and Sludge! Praise for the Nate the Great Series Kids will like Nate the Great. Nate the Great must get all the facts, ask the right questions, and narrow the list of suspects so he can solve the mystery. Book Synopsis Join the worlds greatest detective, Nate the Great, as he solves the mystery of the lost picture! Perfect for beginning readers and the Common Core, this long-running chapter book series will encourage children to problem-solve with Nate, using logical thinking to solve mysteries! CAN NATE SOLVE THE CASE FOR HIS FRIEND ANNIE? Nate the Great has a new case! His friend Annie has lost a picture. ![]() About the Book Neighborhood detective Nate investigates the disappearance of his friend Annies favorite painting. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The House of Winter by Isobel Bird![]() ![]() The political backdrop to this family story is the growing conflict between forces of Left and Right, culminating in a military coup that leads to a stifling dictatorship. ![]() The novel follows three generations of Trueba women-Clara, Blanca, and Alba-as they struggle to establish their independence from Esteban Trueba, the domineering family patriarch. While there are some similarities between the two works, The House of the Spirits is distinguished by its author's unique perspective as a woman and a Chilean. In fact, The House of the Spirits has frequently been compared with García Márquez's masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude because of Allende's mixture of magical and realistic elements and her multi-generational plot. When the translation of La casa de los espíritus appeared in 1985, however, Allende received the kind of international attention that had previously been reserved for writers such as Colombian Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez. ![]() ![]() Until the publication of Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits, few female writers had emerged from the "Boom" of Latin American literature that began in the 1960s. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The last mughal review![]() ![]() The last Mughal by William Dalrymple is another historical piece of writing covering this dark incident of Indian history and is great in every aspect. Even after the mutiny of 1857, British never had to suppress such a mutiny and rebellion as it never happened anywhere else in any of the colonies of the British. ![]() But what they also did not know was the bloody way which they had to cross to achieve India with them as complete sovereign and that they had to face the biggest mutiny India or the world had ever seen. Also, British east India Company had never faced such a rebellion that too by the sepoys who were trained by them, by then. In the May of the year 1857 when British introduced the New cartridges with the cow and pig fat, they did not know that this would not only establish their rule in India as a complete authority but also would end the rule of a dynasty which had hitherto ruled India for 330 years with all its magnificence which had astonished the people and the dynasties all over the globe. ![]() The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857 ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Dc mythology![]() Harley is a relatively late addition to the DC mythology created by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm for a 1993 episode of Batman: The Animated Series (By contrast, the Joker debuted in more than half a century earlier, in 1940’s Batman No. ![]() ![]() 'The Suicide Squad' Producer Charles Roven Recalls Pairing David Ayer with Christopher Nolan's Editorįor longtime followers of both the Joker and Harley Quinn, the notion that Harley is the Joker’s “true love” rings somewhat false, not least of all because the very idea of the sociopathic Joker having a true love seems unlikely at best, if not downright impossible, especially given the relationship the two characters have shared in their animated and comic book incarnations to date. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Saul Leiter by Saul Leiter![]() In the late 1950s the art director Henry Wolf published Leiter’s color fashion work in Esquire and later in Harper's Bazaar.Įdward Steichen included Leiter’s black and white photographs in the exhibition Always the Young Stranger at the Museum of Modern Art in 1953. Leiter worked as a fashion photographer for the next 20 years and was published in Show, Elle, British Vogue, Queen, and Nova. He began associating with other contemporary photographers such as Robert Frank and Diane Arbus and helped form what Jane Livingston has termed the New York School of photographers during the 1940s and 1950s. In 1948, he started taking color photographs. Eugene Smith encouraged Leiter to pursue photography and he was soon taking black and white pictures with a 35 mm Leica, which he acquired for a few Eugene Smith prints. He had developed an early interest in painting and was fortunate to meet the Abstract Expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart. ![]() ![]() At age 23, he left theology school and moved to New York City to become an artist. ![]() His mother gave him his first camera at age 12. His father was a well-known Talmud scholar and Saul studied to become a rabbi. Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ![]() Saul Leiter was an American photographer and painter whose early work in the 1940s and 1950s was an important contribution to what came to be recognized as the New York school of photography. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments The bad guy book celia aaron![]() And when you throw in revenge and a secret society? I’m putty in your hands. I’m a sucker for a good enemies to lovers book. Thinking she killed him and being proud of it. I mean, the story begins with our heroine shooting the hero in the chest. She wants me dead, and I want to know what she tastes like.”ĭid I read the blurb to this book and know immediately this would be my first Celia Aaron book?ĭid I want to read it bad enough that I decided to dive right into it without having read the rest of the series?īecause spank my and call me Rosy, this was a delicious little story that I simply inhaled. This woman-fuck, the brass balls she has. ![]() ![]() ![]() That prim little suit you’re wearing would look even better on my bedroom floor.” “You sure?” He slides his hand to my throat and rests it there like a collar. ![]() ![]() ![]() No road trip is complete without a series of funny and silly moments. “An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.” – G.“Happiness only real when shared.” – Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild.“Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt. ![]() Find your way.” – Natalia Jaster, Kiss the Fae (2020) “There’s only one place I want to go and it’s to all the places I’ve never been.” – Nikki Rowe.“So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry” – Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels (1958).“What we find in a soul mate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.” – Robert Brault.“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller. ![]() ![]()
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