![]() ![]() Biff knows there is something special about Josh from the moment they meet, and he adopts a life-long role of dealing with the practical matters that the naive Josh tends to overlook. Actually, Biff quickly explains that Jesus was known as Josh back in the days when they were kids in Nazareth. The story is told by Jesus’s best friend, Biff. ![]() So naturally, one of my favorite novels of the last ten years is a funny and touching book about the life of Jesus. Overall, I’d become convinced that humanity was far too stupid to use religion as anything but yet another system to justify telling someone else how to live. ![]() When it wasn’t being used as an excuse to murder people who believed different things, then it was being used to deny basic scientific concepts or prevent consenting adults from marriage based on gender. I went from a vague agnostic live-and-let-live attitude to a full blown distrust and dislike of mass worshipping of mysterious deities. The last ten years have mutated my views on religion. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We’ve taken over cathedrals, parks and squares entertained thousands of Dubliners and visitors with parades, fire gardens and illuminated, water-based installations delved into Stoker’s literary impact, dissecting everything from his life and city to his work as a critic and entertained little monsters with kid-friendly discos, workshops, face-painting, performances and more at Stokerland and beyond. Over the years, we’ve presented major outdoor spectacles and installations intimate experiences on hallowed grounds world premieres of new scores for classic films and award winning theatre productions outdoor circus at night in dark, foreboding forests comedy in nightclubs choral ensembles in darkened libraries food tours where participants dined on custom menus elaborate banquets in sacred crypts. Now entering its tenth year, the festival draws inspiration from Stoker, his life, his work, the Dublin of his time and celebrates the Gothic, the supernatural, the after-dark and the Victorian. Bram Stoker Festival celebrates the legacy of one of Ireland’s most beloved and iconic writers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Finally, in August 1974, after two years of the endless intrigue and scandal known as Watergate, Nixon became the only president to resign in disgrace. ![]() It was Nixon who launched the McCarthy era, who set South against North, and who spurred the silent majority to despise and distrust the country’s elite. He aspired to make his mark on the world stage instead, and his 1972 opening to China was the first great crack in the Cold War.īut Nixon had another legacy: an America divided and polarised. It was a fine legacy, but Nixon cared little for it. His staff of bright young men devised forward-thinking reforms addressing health care, poverty, civil rights, and protection of the environment. Within four years of that first win, Nixon would be a senator within six, the vice president and then president. Beginning in 1946, when young Navy lieutenant ‘Nick’ Nixon returned from the Pacific and set his cap at Congress, Farrell traces how this idealistic dreamer became the ruthless man we remember Nixon as today. Farrell examines the life and legacy of one of America’s most controversial political figures. In Richard Nixon, award-winning biographer John A. A deeply researched, superbly crafted biography of America's most complex president. ![]() ![]() ![]() Để đấu tranh với loại tội phạm này, Cơ quan An ninh điều tra Công an Hà Tĩnh đã tiến hành lập Chuyên án để đấu tranh và ra quyết định bắt đối tượng Nguyễn Văn Hóa (SN 1995, trú tại thôn Quảng Ích, xã Kỳ Khang, huyện Kỳ Anh, tỉnh Hà Tĩnh). ![]() Thời gian qua, tình hình ANTT trên địa bàn Hà Tĩnh diễn biến phức tạp do các đối tượng phản động trong và ngoài nước câu kết với một số đối tượng cực đoan lợi dụng sự cố môi trường biển để kích động, lôi kéo quần chúng nhân dân tham gia tụ tập, biểu tình, đập phá tài sản, gây hậu quả rất nghiêm trọng. ![]() Ngày 6/4, lãnh đạo Cơ quan An ninh điều tra Công an Hà Tĩnh cho biết, đơn vị đã ra quyết định khởi tố vụ án, khởi tố bị can, bắt tạm giam 3 tháng đối với Nguyễn Văn Hóa (SN 1995, trú tại xã Kỳ Khang, huyện Kỳ Anh, tỉnh Hà Tĩnh) về tội “Lợi dụng quyền tự do dân chủ xâm phạm lợi ích của Nhà nước, quyền và lợi ích hợp pháp của các tổ chức, công dân” theo Điều 258, Bộ luật Hình sự. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wagamese later described his family by saying "each of the adults had suffered in an institution that tried to scrape the Indian out of their insides, and they came back to the bush raw, sore and aching." His parents, Marjorie Wagamese and Stanley Raven, had been among the many native children who, under Canadian law, were removed from their families and forced to attend government-run residential schools, the primary purpose of which was to assimilate them to European-Canadian culture. ![]() The children left their bush camp when they ran out of food and firewood, and sheltered at a railway depot, where they were found by a policeman. At the age of two, he and his three siblings were abandoned by adults on a binge drinking trip in Kenora. In the essay "The Path to Healing", Wagamese described his first home as a tent hung from a spruce bough. ![]() It was adapted into a feature-length film, Indian Horse (2017), directed by Stephen Campanelli and released after Wagamese's death. He was best known for his novel Indian Horse (2012), which won the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2013, and was a competing title in the 2013 edition of Canada Reads. Richard Wagamese (Octo– March 10, 2017, Ojibwe) was an author and journalist from the Wabaseemoong Independent Nations in Northwestern Ontario. Mushkotay Beezheekee Anakwat (Buffalo Cloud)īurt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature (2013) ![]() ![]() ![]() The One That's My Hands Down Favorite.It's a Yuletide Miracle, Charlie Brown by Stephanie Perkins: When I lived in New York City I always loved the people who magically appear after Thanksgiving and sell Christmas Trees on the sidewalk until Christmas. Let's recap each of the stories, shall we. Thanks to My True Love Gave to Me I now have a few new authors I know I'm going to be exploring in 2015. ![]() Besides the amazing stories and the holiday spirit, the best thing about the anthology was all of the new authors I discovered. ![]() While I had at least heard of all the authors in the anthology before I had only read books by a few of them previously. It's a whole book of romances so obviously I expected to like it, but in the end I was totally blown away by nearly all the stories and I can totally picture myself coming back to the book year after year. I started reading this book way back in October, when it actually came out, and I have to say I'm glad I waited until December, when I felt way more in the holiday spirit, to finish it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Summary: One lonely evening, Jensen decides to hire a hooker. Summary: When he can't find any acting work, Jared takes a job as driver and bodyguard to Jensen, who is an extremely expensive prostitute with a bad habit of attracting crazy people. Summary: Set in Austin Texas in 1977, Jared and Jensen are both homeless, Jensen making money as a hustler and Jared just existing for the two years it will take for him to turn 18, the two meet up and this is their story. ![]() Jared has to quit is job as a dog sitter, but Chad already has another job coming up for him. So, you won't miss a single new addition. And when we add new stories, it will be pointed out in our weekly Sunday entries. The list under the cut is an actual rec list – but it’s definitely not complete. It’s July, 1st! And you know what that means, don’t you? :-) For this month our theme post is about ‘hooker fics’. theme: rockstar/band/musician/songwriter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He graduated and then started working in New York at the American Museum of Natural History as a writer, editor, and then manager of publications. Preston went to California to attend Pomona College, majoring in English literature. ![]() The author says it’s a miracle they got out of childhood intact. The brothers were celebrities locally and often appeared in the ‘Police Notes’ part of their local paper. They once tried to fly a rocket into Wellesley Square that went wrong and almost killed a man out mowing his lawn. He would roam around the neighborhood with Richard and David, their little brother, doing things like launching their own homemade rockets. When he was three, he lost his fingertip to a bicycle, and also had several broken bones and lost his front teeth to the fist of his brother Richard, who would go on to pen books The Hot Zone and The Cobra Event. He went to private nursery school, attended public school and then the Cambridge School of Weston. Douglas Preston is an accomplished author of fiction.ĭouglas was born in 1956 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the suburb of Wellesley. ![]() ![]() ![]() So these two teenaged siblings go off to Kansas to find their mom based on Ash's vision. Ash has a vision of a weird ass woman who appears out of nowhere and tells them that their mom has disappeared to Kansas and into all the corn, so all they have to do is go to Kansas and find her. All's well and good until Mommie Dearest starts spouting weird shit and then lo and behold, disappears. ![]() “Other than the fact she believes she’s part of an invisible cult where our five-hundred-year-old ancestor is performing corn rituals and Coronado from my eighth-grade history class is terrorizing the world in an attempt to keep his immortality. ![]() It’s so romantic.If by " Children of the Corn meets Romeo and Juliet" you mean lots and lots of actual corn and a love triangle without being the least bit frightful, then sure, this book is just like Children of the Corn meets Romeo and Juliet!!!Īshlyn and her twin brother Rhys are just normal teenagers livin' in the big city, except for the fact that Ash sometimes sees a dead girl, and their mom.well. Your bloodlines have been specifically bred for each other. A week before the ritual, the chosen daughter from the Larkin bloodline picks a boy from the Mendoza bloodline to walk the corn with on the summer solstice. “It only happens once every seventeen years. “It’s very special.” Beth led us along the lakeshore. “What’s a wreathing ceremony?” I asked as my brother lagged behind with the bags. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gamache fans will be thrilled by the way this installment unlocks some of the series’ enduring questions: Why is Three Pines off the grid? Why do we know so little about Gamache’s past? At the same time, the main plot offers a compelling mystery and a rich human drama in which no character is either entirely good or evil, and each is capable of inspiring empathy. ![]() Once again Penny displays her remarkable ability to serve equally well both series devotees and new readers (if there are any of those still to be found). ![]() So how does a copy of that map find its way to the bedside table of the murder victim? And does its presence further implicate Gamache? This time the hook is a map found in the walls of the local bistro-not just any map but a cartographic curiosity that may be the only map ever made of Three Pines. Naturally, Penny finds a way for her plot to curlicue back to Three Pines, the remote village where Gamache now lives and whose idiosyncratic denizens provide much of the series’ appeal. ![]() The inspector, of course, has a multilayered plan for ridding the school of its multiple malignancies, but before he can begin surgery, the chief offender is murdered, and Gamache himself becomes the leading suspect. The police school has become a seedbed for corruption, devoted to turning out bent cops. Chief Inspector Gamache has a new gig: he’s been appointed head of the Sûreté Academy du Québec and is tasked with cleaning house. ![]() |