![]() ![]() What it is, however, is an intimate glimpse into a relationship that honestly describes examples of how people who live within the community may choose to engage. Don't expect to find an overbearing Dom and a helpless Sub looking for a master, because LOAD THE DICE is NOT your average BDSM story. How refreshing to read a book with both honesty and depth! The quality of writing is excellent with few errors, and a smooth ebb and flow between sizzling sexual scenes and the out-of-bedroom character dialogue.įinally, my favorite feature is the realistic portrayal of the BDSM aspects within this story. They express a wide range of feelings, are insecure at times, make mistakes and stumble along the road towards love. The first being that the characters are authentically written, with tangible emotions that I was able to connect with instantly. Quite possibly the best BDSM themed romance I have ever read there were several things that I loved about LOAD THE DICE. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I like my children's books like Calvin Klein likes his models: emaciated and short. My favorite detail? The running dual "narrative" with the household bugs, who protest the waste of food going on, as Duck rejects one soup after another. I don't know that I loved it quite as much as the first two, but it was still very engaging, and will undoubtedly appeal to children who are picky eaters, as well as to the adults in their lives. Finally, in desperation, Cat decides he will trick his recalcitrant friend, making something that looks like pumpkin soup, but is made from yellow zucchini, tomatoes, carrots, and corn.Īs with the first two picture-books given over to the doings of this lovable feline, anatine and sciurine trio (haha, that's three animals adjectives at once!), Delicious! is a delightful visual feast for the reader, beautifully illustrated by Helen Cooper with rich colors and expressive details. Predictably, Duck proves difficult, refusing to eat the fish, mushroom and beets soups that the friends produce. When the trio discover that there are no ripe pumpkins in their patch, their plan to make their favorite treat (pumpkin soup, of course!) comes to nothing, and they must look to Cat's dusty recipe book for other ideas. ![]() Cat, Duck, and Squirrel - the three friends and room-mates whose story began in Pumpkin Soup, and continued in A Pipkin of Pepper - return in this, their third adventure. ![]() ![]() ![]() He examines important events in international affairs during Nicolae Ceau_escu’s rule (1965-1989)―particularly Romania’s role in the Sino-Soviet conflict, the Middle East, European communism, and European security. Tismaneanu discusses significant moments in the final six decades of world communism, including the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Comintern, Stalin and the Bolshevization of the Eastern European communist parties, and de-Stalinization. Situating the rise and fall of Romanian communism within the world revolutionary movement, Stalinism for All Seasons shows that the history of communism in one country can illuminate the development of communism in the twentieth century. Tismaneanu analyzes both the main events in Romanian communism and the role of significant personalities in the party’s history. Vladimir Tismaneanu uses documents that he discovered while working in the RCP archives in Bucharest in the mid-1990s and interviews with many of the party members from the Ceau_escu and Gheorghiu-Dej eras to tell the absorbing story of how RCP members came to power as exponents of Moscow and succeeded in turning themselves into champions of autonomy. ![]() It traces the origins of the once-tiny, clandestine revolutionary organization in the 1920s through the years of national power from 1944 to 1989 to the post-1989 metamorphoses of its members. Stalinism for All Seasons is the first comprehensive history of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “The defamatory implication is that plaintiff had no relationship whatsoever with her sister Meghan, they were virtual strangers and that plaintiff has created a lucrative career selling false stories to tabloids and television program s when she knows nothing about defendant’s childhood,” the 15-page complaint, filed on Thursday in a federal court in Tampa, Florida, alleges. Samantha Markle calls those statements “false and malicious,” also disputing the Duchess’s claim that she “only changed her surname to Markle in her early 50s when Meghan started dating Prince Harry.” ![]() When Oprah’s primetime special aired on CBS nearly a year ago on March 7, 2021, Meghan Markle described herself as an “only child” and claimed that she only saw her half-sister Samantha Markle “at least 18, 19 years ago and before that, 10 years before that,” according to the lawsuit. Meghan Markle’s half-sister sued her sibling for defamation, claiming that the Duchess of Sussex pushed a “false ‘rags-to-royalty'” story in her bombshell Oprah Winfrey interview, a bestselling book, and other high-profile platforms around the world. Meghan, Duchess of Sussex attends the 2021 Salute To Freedom Gala at Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum on Nov. ![]() ![]() ![]() With poignant, humorous tales of powerful love, awkward sex, and courage in the face of adversity, Baker reveals how he helped his mother and family through the Great Depression by delivering papers and hustling subscriptions to the Saturday Evening Post-a job which introduced him to bullies, mentors, and heroes who endured this national disaster with hard work and good cheer.Ĭalled “a treasure” by Anne Tyler and “a blessing” by Time magazine, this autobiography is a modern-day classic-“a wondrous book as funny and touching as Mark Twain’s” ( Los Angeles Times Book Review). Ranging from the backwoods of Virginia to a New Jersey commuter town to the city of Baltimore, this remarkable memoir recounts Russell Baker’s experience of growing up in pre–World War II America, before he went on to a celebrated career in journalism. ![]() One of the New York Times’ “50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years” The Pulitzer Prize–winning memoir about coming of age in America between the world wars: “So warm, so likable and so disarmingly funny” ( The New York Times). ![]() ![]() This was confirmed by Jorge Herralde, who explained that Bolaño "abandoned his parsimonious beatnik existence" because the birth of his son in 1990 made him "decide that he was responsible for his family's future and that it would be easier to earn a living by writing fiction." However, he continued to think of himself primarily as a poet, and a collection of his verse, spanning 20 years, was published in 2000 under the title The Romantic Dogs. In an interview Bolaño stated that he made this decision because he felt responsible for the future financial well-being of his family, which he knew he could never secure from the earnings of a poet. He continued with his poetry, before shifting to fiction in his early forties. Bolaño moved to Europe in 1977, and finally made his way to Spain, where he married and settled on the Mediterranean coast near Barcelona, working as a dishwasher, a campground custodian, bellhop and garbage collector - working during the day and writing at night. ![]() For most of his early adulthood, Bolaño was a vagabond, living at one time or another in Chile, Mexico, El Salvador, France and Spain. ![]() ![]() Previously Eubanks was a Fellow at New America researching digital privacy, economic inequality, and data-based discrimination.Įubanks has written and co-edited multiple award-winning books, the most well-known being Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. She is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. Virginia Eubanks is an American political scientist, professor, and author studying technology and social justice. Popular technology: Citizenship and inequality in the information economy (2004) ![]() Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (M.S., PhD) University of California, Santa Cruz (B.A.) ![]() Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor ![]() ![]() ![]() We rushed into the hallway, breathless with joy and excitement from the movie, and as I fished in my pocket for a quarter, one of my giggling, chattering preteen friends conspiratorially whispered, “Should we sneak into another movie?” ![]() We got a large popcorn, with instructions to call my mom from the pay phone (Do you even know what that is?) in the lobby as soon as the credits rolled. I was nine years old and had decided it was my favorite movie of all time. In 1989 my pals and I got dropped off at the Evanston I Movie Theater (there was no Evanston II, weird), with enough money to get matinee tickets to see The Little Mermaid. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is instead a compelling story of dedication and debauchery, of intrigue and integrity, of recklessness and redemption. SCAR TISSUE far transcends the typical rock biography, because Anthony Kiedis is anything but a typical rock star. Crisscrossing the country, the Chili Peppers were musical innovators and influenced a whole generation of musicians.īut there's a price to pay for both success and excess and in SCAR TISSUE, Kiedis writes candidly of the overdose death of his soul mate and band mate, Hillel Slovak, and his own ongoing struggle with an addiction to drugs. He formed the band with three schoolfriends - and found his life's purpose. When the short-term effects of surgery such as oozing wounds and incision. and plunged headfirst into the demimonde of the L.A. Surgical Scar Tissue: a Less-Talked-About Side Effect. After a brief child-acting career, Kiedis dropped out of U.C.L.A. Raised in the Midwest, he moved to LA aged eleven to live with his father Blackie, purveyor of pills, pot, and cocaine to the Hollywood elite. ![]() In SCAR TISSUE Anthony Kiedis, charismatic and highly articulate frontman of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, recounts his remarkable life story, and the history of the band itself. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hero or not―now joined by a disgraced ex-knight, a reluctant fairy godmother, an enigmatic gravewitch and her fowl familiar―Marra might finally have the courage to save her sister, and topple a throne. Seeking help for her rescue mission, Marra is offered the tools she needs, but only if she can complete three seemingly impossible tasks:īut, as is the way in tales of princes and witches, doing the impossible is only the beginning. But her sister wasn't so fortunate―and after years of silence, Marra is done watching her suffer at the hands of a powerful and abusive prince. This isn't the kind of fairytale where the princess marries a prince.Īs the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter, she escaped the traditional fate of princesses, to be married away for the sake of an uncaring throne. Kingfisher comes an original and subversive fantasy adventure. ![]() From Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning author T. ![]() |