![]() ![]() ![]() If you’re asking yourself how a man who is allergic to cats can find peace, home and eventually his way in life – because of cats, then you better just read the book because I’m NOT going to spoil it for you!Īnd thankfully, Melody has quite a few of these charming stories, so when you’re done with this one, you can go track down her others too! Garrison has felt lost for so long and just when he thinks he has finally begun to find a place to fit, doubt sets in and he flees faster that a turkey at Thanksgiving. Who could possibly place a horde of cats with happy homes before Christmas – without a little adventure.īut there is no race other than the one our main character builds up for himself. Though that’s not to say the book holds no adventure. When you start reading this story, visions of Brewster’s Millions or The Bachelor (the movie from a few years ago… NOT the crazy TV show) immediately fill your mind – but this heartwarming and heart-healing story bears absolutely no resemblance to those wild and crazy adventures… ![]() Melody Carlson has a talent! No wonder she has so many successful books on the market today! ![]() I did not expect to fall madly in love with a quick, cute, little Christmas story but fall madly in love with The Christmas Cat - I did! Well this book was NOTHING like I expected. ![]()
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![]() He learned of the opportunities offered by the Saharan trade routes that terminated there, and became fascinated with Africa in general he was most intrigued by the Christian legend of Prester John and the expansion of Portuguese trade. ![]() He encouraged his father to conquer Ceuta (1415), the Muslim port on the North African coast across the Straits of Gibraltar from the Iberian Peninsula. Īfter procuring the new caravel ship, Henry was responsible for the early development of Portuguese exploration and maritime trade with other continents through the systematic exploration of Western Africa, the islands of the Atlantic Ocean, and the search for new routes. Henry was the fourth child of King Dom John I of Portugal, who founded the House of Aviz. Through his administrative direction, he is regarded as the main initiator of what would be known as the Age of Discovery. ![]() ![]() Dom Henrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu (4 March 1394 – 13 November 1460), better known as Prince Henry the Navigator ( Portuguese: Infante Dom Henrique, o Navegador), was a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion. ![]() ![]() Leonnig reports that the agent concerned did not face disciplinary action as neither he nor the agency were official guardians of Vanessa Trump at that point. Vanessa Trump filed for an uncontested divorce in March 2018. In her new book, she writes that Secret Service agents reported that Vanessa Trump, the wife of the president’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr, “started dating one of the agents who had been assigned to her family”. With Philip Rucker, Leonnig also co-authored A Very Stable Genius: Donald J Trump’s Testing of America, a well-received 2020 White House exposé. She was also part of the Post team which won a Pulitzer for its work on Edward Snowden’s leaks about National Security Agency surveillance techniques and reported extensively on Russian election interference and links between Trump and Moscow. Leonnig won a Pulitzer prize in 2015, for her reporting on security failures at the Secret Service. Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service, by the Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig, is published next week. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The approach reveals that “rot” and “decay” are the most dominant motifs used, followed by “filth”, “corruption”, and “bribery”. This study, adopting the corpus-assisted approach in a mix of numerical data and qualitative description of Armah’s The Beautyful Ones are not yet Born, used frequencies of the occurrence of pejorative terms in the text to determine the dominant subject matters in the novel. This paper argues that the corpus assisted approach can contribute methodologies to support objective investigation of the subject matters of the text. This view appears skewed in many respects. ![]() The majority of studies on the novel have overwhelmingly concluded that corruption is the preoccupation of the text. Armah’s The Beautyful Ones are not yet Born is a novel known for its extensive portrayal of the ills and anomalies in the Ghanaian society right after independence. ![]() ![]() The two books aren’t directly connected, but the newer Secret Wars does feature some of the same characters and concepts. While Marvel revisited the events of Secret Wars several times through limited series like Spider-Man and the Secret Wars and various What If…? comics, that crossover didn’t get a true follow-up until 2015’s Secret Wars. ![]() ![]() Jonathan Hickman’s Reimagined Secret Wars even if it did give us The Beyonder’s incredibly ‘80s makeover. Marvel also published a sequel in 1985, but Secret Wars II is widely regarded as one of the worst Marvel crossovers ever published… Secret Wars proved to be one of Marvel’s best-selling superhero comics in decades, even if the reviews didn’t quite live up to those sales numbers. ![]() For example, Secret Wars is where Spider-Man first donned his black costume, not realizing at the time that it was actually an alien symbiote. Ultimately, these characters are returned to Earth, but not without some lasting repercussions. ![]() ![]() ![]() What left me wanting more: The flaps and pop-up are a bit delicate and would be easy for rough children to tear, as the flaps are pasted onto the page and the pop-up is cardstock thickness. ![]() The artwork is lovely, showing Angelina, her classmates, teacher, and family at the end. The interactive flaps, foiled pages, and pop-up add some extra fun for young readers. What I loved: This is a simple and sweet story about Angelina getting ready for her exciting ballet performance with a story centered around her ballet bag. The book includes flaps to lift, a foil mirror page, and a pop-up for an interactive reading experience. As they go through the rehearsal and on to the show, Angelina picks out the special things from her bag that she packed. She makes sure to pack her bag before heading to the performance. Angelina is getting ready for her role as the lead in the ballet Mouserella. ANGELINA'S BALLET BAG is a delightfully interactive board book. ![]() ![]() ![]() You ought to try to break out of it sometime." Or, as he said at the 2010 Country Radio Seminar in Nashville: "People say breaking into the business is hard. They often worked from their Williamson County home, Fox Hollow - a name Hall also adopted for his kindly 1974 album "Songs of Fox Hollow: For Children of All Ages."Īs Hall wrote, recorded and occasionally performed the music synonymous with his home state, what he once called "retirement" wouldn't stick. In the 21st century, Hall focused on shepherding bluegrass music with his late wife, Iris "Miss Dixie" Lawrence Hall. His singing and songwriting career reached commercial heights in the 1970s, as Hall eventually topped country airplay charts a dozen times and penned more than two dozen songs that reached the top 10. So, being a big Sinclair Lewis fan, when I wrote 'Harper Valley,' I incorporated elements of 'Elmer Gantry' into the song."Ī decade later, a film inspired by the song - starring Barbara Eden - was released. As a young man, I read Lewis' novels 'Babbitt' and 'Elmer Gantry,' which is about hypocrisy. 'Babbitt' is, of course, about the social structure of the small town. "I wrote the song 30 years later," he told country music website The Boot in 2016. Well, her daughter came home one afternoonĪnd she said, "mom, I got a note here from the Harper Valley PTA" The song begins: "I wanna tell you all a story 'bout ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel series is called Read Em And Weep. You could say, it’s my own vision of how Misty could have been. ![]() And right this very week I’m writing the fictional account of how Misty was created. So here we are in 2016, and 2000 AD have done a fantastic job of reprinting two popular Misty stories: Moonchild (written by me, art by John Armstrong), and Four Faces of Eve (by Malcolm Shaw and Brian Delaney).Ĭoincidentally, I’m in the middle of writing the first text novel in a series with Kevin O’Neill that could be described as a darkly humorous alternative history of UK comics publishing in the 1970s. In terms of reader comments, the Misty post is probably one of my most popular blog posts. And The Herald has a great in-depth Q&A with me on the subject ( Graphic Content: Pat Mills tells the behind-the-scenes story of 1970s girl horror comic Misty).īut of course, that interest in Misty (and girls’ comics in general) has always been there. I first wrote the below post in October 2012 as a digression on a series of posts I wrote on J udge Dredd, back when the idea that Misty would actually get a decent reprint seemed like an impossible dream. I’ve just done an interview with Samira Ahmed for BBC Radio 4’s art and culture show Front Row for broadcast tonight at 7.15pm (6 Sept 2016). ![]() ![]() So delighted with the imminent reprint of Misty by 2000 AD, and the huge interest it’s generated. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book also chronicles Cus’s courageous fight against the mobsters who controlled boxing, revealing more than we’ve ever known about this singular cultural figure. ![]() In Iron Ambition, Tyson elaborates on the life lessons that D’Amato passed down to him, and reflects on how the trainer’s words of wisdom continue to resonate with him outside the ring. In Tyson’s bestselling memoir Undisputed Truth, he recounted the role D’Amato played in his formative years, adopting him at age sixteen after his mother died and shaping him both physically and mentally after Tyson had spent years living in fear and poverty. How did Cus DAmato, this legendary boxing manager and trainer who was in exile in upstate New York, watch me spar for less than ten minutes when I was thirteen years old and predict that I. D'Amato died a year before Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion in history. ![]() When Cus D’Amato first saw thirteen-year-old Mike Tyson spar in the ring, he proclaimed, “That’s the heavyweight champion of the world.” D’Amato, who had previously managed the careers of world champions Floyd Patterson and José Torres, would go on to train the young Tyson and raise him as a son. " spells out D'Amato's techniques for building a champion from scratch." – Wall Street Journal From the former heavyweight champion and New York Times–bestselling author comes a powerful look at the life and leadership lessons of Cus D’Amato, the legendary boxing trainer and Mike Tyson’s surrogate father. ![]() ![]() You won't regret it! An absolute must-read!. ![]() I don't get a chance to read very often, but I make time for her books because they are so vivid and evocative that I get lost in the scenes in a way that doesn't happen for me very often. Tied together by missing jewels, there is danger, romance and mystery-and also a wonderful paranormal element that, no surprise, really speaks to me. ![]() Suzanne Belperron, one of the great innovators of jewelry design, and a personal icon of mine, is depicted with painstaking accuracy (thanks to extensive research) in the forties- and our contemporary heroine, Violine Duplessi, carries the story into the eighties. ![]() Following two story lines, one set in 1986, and the other in occupied France in 1942, there is a expert interweaving of historical fact and the kind of fiction that is so well constructed and executed, that it feels like real life. Following two story lines, one set in 1986, and the other in occupied France in 1942, there is a expert interweaving of historical fact and the kind of fiction that is The Jeweler of Stolen Dreams is a book that resonated for me- and also haunted me. The Jeweler of Stolen Dreams is a book that resonated for me- and also haunted me. Book 7, Lover Avenged is due to be released this spring, and there is also a new companion book to the series, The Black Dagger Brotherhood: An Insider's Guide. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars Lover Enshrined is book 6 in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, and is preceded by Dark Lover, Lover Eternal, Lover Awakened, Lover Revealed, and Lover Unbound. ![]() |