![]() Before long, he’s tackling her fears into the dirt. The trouble is, grumpy Zaf is secretly a hopeless romantic-and he’s determined to corrupt Dani’s stone-cold realism. Lying to help children? Who on earth would refuse?ĭani’s plan is simple: fake a relationship in public, seduce Zaf behind the scenes. Turns out his sports charity for kids could really use the publicity. Suddenly, half the internet is shipping #DrRugbae-and Zaf is begging Dani to play along. But before she can explain that fact to him, a video of the heroic rescue goes viral. When big, brooding security guard Zafir Ansari rescues Dani from a workplace fire drill gone wrong, it’s an obvious sign: PhD student Dani and former rugby player Zaf are destined to sleep together. So Dani asks the universe for the perfect friend-with-benefits-someone who knows the score and knows their way around the bedroom. Romantic partners, whatever their gender, are a distraction at best and a drain at worst. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. ![]() USA Today bestselling author Talia Hibbert returns with another charming romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake date her friend after a video of him “rescuing” her from their office building goes viral.ĭanika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. ![]() Named one of the Best Romances of 2020 by Apple, Kirkus, PW, Washington Post, NPR, BookPage, OprahMag, EW, Insider, Buzzfeed, Bustle, and Amazon! ![]()
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![]() ![]() Linney is also an established film actress. From 2010 to 2013, she starred in the Showtime series The Big C, which won her a fourth Emmy in 2013, and from 2017 to 2022 she starred in the Netflix crime series Ozark. On television, she won her first Emmy Award for the television film Wild Iris (2001), and had subsequent wins for the sitcom Frasier (2003–2004) and the miniseries John Adams (2008). Linney made her Broadway debut in 1990 before receiving Tony Award nominations for the 2002 revival of The Crucible, the original Broadway productions of Sight Unseen (2004), Time Stands Still (2010), My Name Is Lucy Barton (2020), and the 2017 revival of The Little Foxes. ![]() She is the recipient of several awards, including two Golden Globe Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards, and has been nominated for three Academy Awards and five Tony Awards. ![]() Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress. Romulus Zachariah Linney (great-great-grandfather) ![]() ![]() ![]() |a The year is 1883, and in New York City, it's a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. ![]() |a DLC |b eng |e rda |c DLC |d YDXCP |d BDX |d BTCTA |d OCLCO |d OCLCF |d CDX |d OI6 |d IUK |d OCLCO |d HFU ![]() For Sophie, an obstetrician and the orphaned daughter of free people of color, helping a desperate young mother forces her to grapple with the oath she took as a doctor-and thrusts her and Anna into the orbit of Anthony Comstock, a dangerous man who considers himself the enemy of everything indecent and of anyone who dares to defy him. Faced with their helplessness, Anna must make an unexpected choice between holding on to the pain of her past and letting love into her life. Anna's work has placed her in the path of four children who have lost everything, just as she herself once had. ![]() With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bridge nearly complete and New York in the grips of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock, Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie-both graduates of the Woman's Medical School-treat the city's most vulnerable, even if doing so may put everything they've strived for in jeopardy. The year is 1883, and in New York City, it's a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. ![]() ![]() ![]() But it’s been a while since I read her comics, and even a while since I added this collection to my to-read list, so it was a nice forgotten gem amongst my oversized, mostly forgotten about to-read list when I finally referenced it again. The art style was rough, yet quirky, like Sarah herself. Having grown up during the days of tumblr, I was all too familiar with “Sarah’s Scribbles.” Of all the popular webcomics, hers was always the one I had the most personal connection with. ![]() And Sarah Andersen’s collection, Adulthood is a Myth, sounded like the perfect first choice. They’re short, they’re light, and they require more attention to take them all in, due to their more visual nature. ![]() Since I’m still trying to work my way back into the groove of reading, I felt that the safest option was probably more comics. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first man's name is Sneezer, an old man. While waiting for help, Arthur notices two strange-looking men materializing out of thin air. Two of his schoolmates, Ed and Leaf, stop to help him use his inhaler and then run to get help. He collapses because of a severe asthma attack. On Earth, a boy named Arthur Penhaligon is at a new school. It is in this house that Arthur must unravel the secrets of the key - and discover his true fate." Plot A stranger named Mister Monday, his avenging messengers with blood-stained wings, and an army of dog-faced Fetchers will stop at nothing to get the key back - even if it means destroying Arthur and everything around him.ĭesperate, Arthur ventures into a mysterious house - a house that only he can see. Along with the key comes a plague brought by bizarre creatures from another realm. But then he is saved by a key shaped like the minute hand of a clock.Īrthur is safe - but his world is not. He is, in fact, supposed to die an early death. " Arthur Penhaligon is not supposed to be a hero. ![]() ![]() ![]() The wedding and crucifixion scenes are connected in Tóibín’s telling, since Mary had gone to the wedding primarily to try to get her son’s attention and warn him about the danger his “signs” was bringing upon himself. John, and not the other Gospels, and thus is directly limited to the wedding feast at Cana and the terrible, climactic scene where Mary stands by the cross of her crucified son. The Testament of Mary draws on the Gospel according to St. I needn’t summarize it here, since America has already printed a fine review by Diane Scharper, which you can read first. It is a meditation in the voice of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, in her old age, as she looks back on her life. I spent a little time this week reading The Testament of Mary by the Irish novelist, Colm Tóibín. ![]() ![]() ![]() I wouldn't be me.Īnd that, basically, is at the crux of The Personal Librarian, a new novel by Heather Terrell (writing as Marie Benedict) and Victoria Christopher Murray. At several points in childhood and as an adult, I've loved the notion of being rich, but being white? I cannot imagine it. "Deep down, all Black people want to be white." I heard that in a social psychology class, repeated as if it were a truism. From Nella Larsen's 1929 classic, Passing, to the original Imitation of Life (the 1934 movie starred the incomparable Fredi Washington as Peola, the little girl who wanted to be white) to Britt Bennett's 2020 novel The Vanishing Half, the notion of a Black person posing as white to escape her Blackness just felt. I have a confession: I am not a fan of the passing trope. ![]() ![]() ![]() The northern tract was called Akkad, after the name of its capital city (see ACCAD). The principal difficulty lies in the fact that what might be regarded as the non-dialectical form singar (which would alone furnish a satisfactory basis of comparison) is not found, and would, if existent, only apply to the southern portion of Babylonia. Though sometimes identified with the Babylonian Sumer, the connection of Shinar with that name is doubtful. In 11:2 Shinar is described as the land of the plain where migrants from the East settled, and founded Babel, the city, and its great tower. In Genesis 10:10 it is the district wherein lay Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, cities which were the "beginning" of Nimrod's kingdom. The name given, in the earliest Hebrew records, to Babylonia, later called Babel, or the land of Babel (babhel, 'erets babhel). The First Nation to Use Writing in Western Asia The Sumerians Probably in Shinar before the Semitesġ2. The Testimony of the Sculptures, etc., to the RaceĨ. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you haven’t read Neil Gaiman and don’t know which book to start, I recommend you begin with Fragile Things as it gives you a taste of the author’s storytelling abilities. His writing is lyrical and whimsy as he tells us dazzling tales with remarkable characters taken from our imagination. I still remember his retelling of Sleeping Beauty in The Sleeper and the Spindle from Rags & Bones where the character twist and the ending are both sinister and brilliant. He can take a children’s fairy tale and rewrite it with a dark and shocking twist that’s neither provoking but terrifying beautiful. What I love about his writing is that it stretches our imagination, taking us to strange new places. From a retelling of Sherlock Holmes and The Study in Scarlet to The Chronicles of Narnia, these are tales scattered in different publications and are compiled into one book.Īs you know I’m a fan of Neil Gaiman. Genre: short stories, poems, fantasy, supernatural, sci-fi, etcĪ collection of short stories and poems (31 of them actually) and these are not your children’s stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() “No Hard Feelings is both a charming, sparkling read and a clear-eyed roadmap to harnessing the things that make us most human into tools that will make you more productive, effective, and happier at work. Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy do a phenomenal job of helping us see the way." - Chris Voss, author of Never Split the Difference and CEO of The Black Swan Group ![]() “The avenue for success and happiness at work, even life, lies with emotions. It’s full of lively illustrations and practical examples to show how you can harness emotions to become more creative, collaborative, and productive.” - Adam Grant, author of Originals, Give and Take, and Option B with Sheryl Sandberg “If you’ve ever thought it’s best to check your emotions at the office door, this book will change your mind. This book will help you build the emotional discipline you need to succeed.” - Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor You can't build productive relationships at work if you're showing up like a robot. You can't communicate clearly unless you're aware of your own emotions, and the emotions you're sparking in others. “ No Hard Feelings dispels the myth that there's no place for emotions at work. ![]() |