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![]() ![]() And whoever heard of keeping a pig in the city? So it’s up to Josie to find her a forever home. But there’s no room for Hamlet in the crowded Shilling household. The minute Josie holds Hamlet, she feels an instant connection. Then, on Thanksgiving Day, her older brother, Tom, brings home a pink, squirmy bundle wrapped in an old football jersey-a piglet he rescued from a nearby farm. Josie Shilling’s family is too big, their cramped city house is too small, and she feels like no one’s ever on her side. “We fell in love with The Unlikely Story of a Pig in the City! No matter how big she gets, there’s always room for Hamlet in our hearts.” -Steve Jenkins and Derek Walter, New York Times bestselling co-authors of Esther the Wonder PigĪ little pig in a big city leads to lots of trouble! ![]() This delightful middle grade novel is a modern-day homage to Charlotte’s Web, perfect for fans of Katherine Applegate and Cammie McGovern. ![]() ![]() ![]() Places Like These is a book by Lauren Carter. In 2021, Heighton released his first album, The Devil's Share. He received the 2016 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry for The Waking Comes Late. His recent books include Reaching Mithymna: Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos, a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, and Selected Poems 1983-2020. His next work, The Ecstasy of Skeptics, was shortlisted for the 1995 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry. He debuted in 1989 with Stalin's Carnival, a poetry collection that earned him the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. ![]() Steven Heighton was an award-winning Ontario novelist, short story writer and poet. ![]() The key to Steven Heighton's success as a Canadian poet and author is staying humble and true to the art In another, a man fixated by stories of freak accidents ends up bearing the brunt of one himself. In one, a man remembers his father's instructions for how to save someone who is drowning, but then finds himself conflicted when the moment arrives to act. Instructions for the Drowning is a short story collection that explores themes of love and fear, delusion and idealism and the ironic ways we come up short despite trying our very best. Instructions for the Drowning is a book by Steven Heighton. ![]() ![]() ![]() Plus, Rice is also a keen student of her beloved Connecticut shoreline - and that includes some sordid real-life felonies that have occurred and piqued her curiosity over the years. ![]() Many of her titles over the years have dealt with darker subjects including spousal abuse, embezzlement, kidnapping, and jail time. The fact that Rice is writing crime novels, though, isn't as big a stretch as it might seem. 1, center around homicide and violent acts and are published by Thomas & Mercer, the elite mystery imprint. Not literally, of course - see above on gentle demeanor.īut her last two novels, "The Last Day" and "The Shadow Box," the latter of which will be published Feb. These traits have been very much on display over the course of dozens of bestselling novels that explore family dynamics, the intricacies of the heart, and the complex cartography of life itself.Ībout two years ago, though, Rice started killing people. ![]() Old Lyme novelist Luanne Rice is known to readers, fans, friends, bookstore folks and animals - she has four cats - as one of the kindest, warmest folks you'll meet. ![]() ![]() It seems Antony wanted to impress her to keep his pride, respect and not be shown as a loser in front of his lover, by showing he was a good fisherman and Cleopatra did not think about his feelings due to mockery she made of Antony by inviting people to the fishing boats and making a joke of it. Plutarch emphasises Antony being more attached to Cleopatra than she was. ![]() Cleopatra did like Antony’s humour as she went along with everything he did. This also suggests she wanted to be part of his life and get as much attention as she can by deliberately spending time with him all the time for him to be seduced by her charm and Cleopatra did not care what she had to do. ![]() It also seems like both enjoyed each other’s company ‘She played at dice with him, drank with him, hunted with him’ and ‘she kept him in constant tutelage’ (Plutarch, in AA100 assignment Booklet, 2011, p.18). ![]() By what Plutarch has written about how Antony behaves in front of Cleopatra suggests he admired her a lot. Plutarch’s view of the relationship between Antony and Cleopatra tells us it was a mutual affection and it is elaborated by Plutarch very cleverly on how much or less they actually cared for each other. What does it tell us about Plutarch’s view of the relationship between Antony and Cleopatra? Read the following passage carefully at least twice. ![]() The Arts Past and Present Reputations book 1 ![]() ![]() He returns identifying himself as Miles Singer and begins working as a psychiatrist in a veteran hospital to escape being noticed and continue living. Witchmark is a story introducing us to a protagonist Sir Christopher Hensley. ![]() The author loves knitting and riding bicycles. She has written short stories published by Baen’s Universe and also contributes to the web serial unit. Polk wrote her first story while in grade school and after doing odd occupations and traveling around western Canada, she settled in Alberta with Otis, her rescue dog. The author was voted for The Calculating Stars Award as the Best Science fiction in the semifinal round in the 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards. The Nebula Award Best Novel nominated her for her book, Witchmark. C.L Polk is a fantasy, romance and fiction author best known for Witchmark, the debut novel in The King Cycle series. ![]() ![]() The first half of this introductory section is so stirring and descriptive that I read it twice to ensure I didn’t miss anything. This third volume begins with a lengthy but often engrossing history of the United States Senate. But while the primary story line itself is inherently fascinating, protracted digressions and diversions are common. And like preceding volumes, “Master of the Senate” is supported by painstaking research and an ability to dive deeply and thoughtfully into a topic. Sentences are frequently complex but incorporate profound observations. ![]() ![]() And while books in this series are designed to stand on their own (for anyone interested in just one part of LBJ’s life) this volume is most compelling for readers tackling the entire series.įans of Caro’s series will quickly recognize his writing style: it is articulate but often long-winded. With 1,040 pages, this is the longest of the four volumes which have been published to date. Published in 2002, “Master of the Senate” covers Johnson’s life from 1949 through 1960 – the dozen years he spent in the U.S. He is currently working on the fifth (and presumably final) volume in his LBJ series. Caro is a former investigative reporter and the author of another Pulitzer Prize-winning biography: “ The Power Broker” reviewing the life of Robert Moses. “ Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson” is the Pulitzer Prize-winning third volume in Robert Caro’s series covering the life of Lyndon B. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is in the sanctuary of the cloister that she at last achieves healing finding peace in her sometimes troubled marriage and gaining a new understanding of her challenging life in the outside world. An award-winning poet, Kathleen Norris brings her appreciation for language and metaphor to the reading of Bible, especially the psalms, and shares the way she slowly, sometimes painfully, "let words work the earth of her heart." Gradually she learns much about simplicity, patience, forgiveness, the value of community, and the responsibility of freedom. ![]() Any reader seeking a meaningful life not necessarily a religious one will be inspired by author Kathleen Norris's experiences among monks who, while so little understood in our society, are admirable bearers of tradition, incorporating in their lives the values of stability, silence, and humility that we so desperately need, yet relentlessly avoid. Part memoir, part meditation, The Cloister Walk is the movingly written and thought-provoking record of a married, Protestant woman's time spent in a community of men in a traditional Benedictine monastery in Minnesota. ![]() ![]() ![]() From the Rheinlanddamm, the building is accessible with a private connection to the B1 and it offers parking space in the underground parking lot as well as on the ground floor - partly below the building - for 213 cars and 156 bicycles. On that side, the building gradually decreases and two large roof terraces arise. ![]() The compact six level office is rectangular in shape with a bevelled side to the north where the building borders the gardens of the adjacent residential construction. SUSTAINABLY AND ECOLOGICALLY RESPONSIBLE BUILDING On the street side, the hanging gardens of the building stand out, the design of which is based on William McDonough and Michael Braungart's Cradle to Cradle® philosophy. The sensational, future-oriented building is part of the building strip of Office Parks Rheinlanddamm to the west of Hohe Straße. Opposite the Westphalenhallen, along one of Germany's busiest motorways, a new office building designed by William McDonough + Partners and IAA Architects will be situated. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the Third Edition prologue, MacIntyre revisits the central theses of the book and concludes that although he has learned a great deal and has supplemented and refined his theses and arguments in other works, he has “as yet found no reason for abandoning the major contentions” of this book. While the individual chapters are wide-ranging, once pieced together they comprise a penetrating and focused argument about the price of modernity. ![]() ![]() In this classic work, Alasdair MacIntyre examines the historical and conceptual roots of the idea of virtue, diagnoses the reasons for its absence in personal and public life, and offers a tentative proposal for its recovery. Now, twenty-five years later, the University of Notre Dame Press is pleased to release the third edition of After Virtue, which includes a new prologue “After Virtue after a Quarter of a Century.” Newsweek called it “a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.” Since that time, the book has been translated into more than fifteen foreign languages and has sold over one hundred thousand copies. When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. ![]() |