![]() When Pauline’s mother sends her away because of the serial killer, Maggie and Liam are drawn to each other with heartbreaking results. Rich and beautiful Pauline lost her faith in the future when her father died, but her manic pixie dream girl qualities render her irresistible to the far sturdier Liam and Maggie. ![]() ![]() Maggie is less concerned about the killer, however, than with getting to know her neighbors Pauline and Liam. The day they move in, though, they hear about the first of several mysterious deaths of teen girls soon attributed to a serial killer. ![]() After Maggie’s mother loses her job, the family is forced to move from Chicago to a decrepit house they’ve inherited in Wisconsin. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In elliptical, propulsive prose, Search History plumbs the depths of personal and collective consciousness, questioning what we consume, how we grieve, and the stories we tell ourselves. ![]() ![]() 978-1-56689-617-7 Search History oscillates between a wild cyberdog chase and lunch-date monologues as Eugene Lim deconstructs grieving and storytelling with uncanny juxtapositions and subversive satire.įrank Exit is dead-or is he? While eavesdropping on two women discussing a dog-sitting gig over lunch, a bereft friend comes to a shocking realization: Frank has been reincarnated as a dog! This epiphany launches a series of adventures-interlaced with digressions about AI-generated fiction, virtual reality, Asian American identity in the arts, and lost parents-as an unlikely cast of accomplices and enemies pursues the mysterious canine. ![]() ![]() ![]() He ambles up and down picture-perfect country roads, gazes out from windswept coastal cliffs, drops in on old stone villages and generally pursues a path apparent only to him, recounting local anecdotes as he goes. And it’s exactly what made the book so compulsively entertaining for the rest of us.īryson’s new book, “The Road to Little Dribbling,” follows much the same formula - and to similar effect. But he dressed his adoration in a garb of gentle mockery. Bryson clearly loved Britain - professing in the book’s final pages his affection for everything from drizzly Sundays to Marmite, that impossibly salty spread the Brits gobble up by the jar-full. The reception said much about the British character, which in its post-empire incarnation forbids taking oneself too seriously. The British responded to their ungracious American guest by turning him into a national celebrity, buying his book by the million and bestowing upon him every honor this side of a knighthood. ![]() The weather, the public transit systems, the architecture, the food and especially the people - everything about Britain came in for good-natured grumbling, and all of it ended up in his book “Notes From a Small Island.” Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close MenuĪ little more than 20 years ago, Bill Bryson wandered the green and pleasant lands of his adopted home, Britain, and found amusingly cantankerous things to say at nearly every turn. ![]() ![]() ![]() They had been invited to speak at an academic meeting in London, and they became close friends.Īttachment is the basis of friendship, but it is also what makes it so difficult to define. The modern science of friendship began when psychiatrist John Bowlby met ethologist Robert Hinde in 1954. Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 1 Insights on Lydia Denworth's Friendship Contents He believed that early relationships were of fundamental importance, but when he reviewed the existing research, he could find little that framed the issue the way he saw it. ![]() #4 The psychologist John Bowlby was the first to recognize the importance of social connection, and he saw it as a basis for morality. He also believed that friendship was necessary for all people, rich and poor, young and old, male and female. He believed that philia came in different flavors: for profit, for pleasure, and for virtue. #3 Aristotle believed that friendship was one of life’s unalloyed pleasures. It is not as obvious in other types of social interaction. It is a form of socialization that involves emotion, conversation, and the inner workings of the mind. #2 Attachment is the basis of friendship, but it is also what makes it so difficult to define. ![]() They had been invited to speak at an academic meeting in London, and they became close friends. #1 The modern science of friendship began when psychiatrist John Bowlby met ethologist Robert Hinde in 1954. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. ![]() ![]() ![]() " will no doubt stand as the definitive work on Brahms, one of the monumental biographies in the entire musical library."- London Weekly Standard ![]() Making unprecedented use of the remaining archival material, Swafford offers richly expanded perspectives on Brahms's youth, on his difficult romantic life-particularly his longstanding relationship with Clara Schumann-and on his professional rivalry with Lizst and Wagner. In this book, Jan Swafford sets out to reveal the little-known Brahms, the boy who grew up in mercantile Hamburg and played piano in beer halls among prostitutes and drunken sailors, the fiercely self-protective man who thwarted future biographers by burning papers, scores and notebooks late in his life. Proclaimed the new messiah of Romanticism by Robert Schumann when he was only twenty, Johannes Brahms dedicated himself to a long and extraordinarily productive career. Judicious, compassionate, and full of insight into Brahms's human complexity as well as his music, Johannes Brahms is an indispensable biography. ![]() "This brilliant and magisterial book is a very good bet to.become the definitive study of Johannes Brahms."- The Plain Dealer ![]() ![]() ![]() The redwood forest that hugs the campus, the sweeping view of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, abundant wildlife, and buildings that are designed to complement the landscape have earned the campus the reputation as one of the most beautiful in the world. While UC Santa Cruz shares the entrepreneurial outlook of this international hub of innovation, its physical environment could not be more different. The campus’s creative and irreverent spirit could very well have been the model for Silicon Valley, which sits a short drive from the campus. Whose passion for truth demanded students and faculty work across disciplines and pursue original research to confront some of the most controversial and exciting ideas of our time. They were open and revolutionary in their thinking-more than mere radicals, they dared to imagine a living and learning environment that would foster a community whose passion came from a deep sense of social justice. The founding faculty, administrators, and students embraced and embodied this change. The campus was founded in 1965 as the movement away from the conservative ’50s was in full swing and America was experiencing a transformation. ![]() The UC Santa Cruz story is one built on courage-the courage to be different, to question the accepted, and dare to make the world a better place. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A paleontologist who has spent so many years looking at dried-up fossils, she's almost become one herself. But first she needs to believe in herself, in her abilities, and in her friends at the club. Shirley has a secret dream: a wellness spa that nurtures body and soul. Though her yoga-slender body belie her years, decades of dating losers and the strain of being broke make her feel her age. ![]() Now she's got a tricky problem to bring to the club's table: how can they catch her perfect son-in-law cheating on her only daughter Laura? Shirley, the healer. A determinedly cheerful widow and connoisseur of control-top pantyhose, she's struggling with creative block and an empty, lonely house. ![]() Now as the Hot Flash Club, where the topics of motherhood, sex, and men are discussed with double servings of chocolate cake, they vow to help each other. But in a moment of delicious serendipity, they meet and realize they share more than raging hormones and lost dreams. Four women with skills, smarts, and secrets-all feeling over the hill and out of the race. From the bestselling author of Between Husbands and Friends and An Act of Love comes a wise, wonderful, and delightfully witty "coming of age" novel about four intrepid women who discover themselves as they were truly meant to be: passionate, alive, and ready to face the best years of their lives. ![]() ![]() They didn’t even realize where they were living. Certainly you would never guess what follows: On the basis of that sentence alone, you probably wouldn’t keep reading. On the basis of that sentence alone-its stale familiarity, its clunky syntax (“the reason was because”), its pandering parents-just-don’t-understand gloss on adolescent alienation-you’d expect the most formulaic of young adult fiction. The reason Weetzie Bat hated high school was because no one understood. ![]() ![]() Has there ever been a novel with a more misleading opening sentence than Weetzie Bat? Francesca Lia Block’s 1989 debut begins: ![]() ![]() ![]() Translated into twenty-three languages, it has sold over a quarter of a million copies worldwide. In the decades since its release, its reach has extended far beyond North America. For many readers, Ghost World is the comic that you give your friends to show them the medium’s possibilities. ![]() It holds a central place in the history of the North American graphic novel, appearing on countless critics’ and readers’ “best of” lists as well as in numerous college courses. ![]() As a 1998 Washington Post review of Daniel Clowes’s Ghost World bluntly acknowledged, “This isn't the golden age of comics.” Yet the review promised that all was not lost: “there are signs of life out there for fans of the medium.” As one such sign it offered Clowes’s masterful graphic novel.Ī sensitive portrait of outsider adolescence in 1990s America, Ghost World was serialized in Clowes’s award-wining comic book Eightball and released as a collection in December of 1997, twenty years ago this month. Our current good times might make it hard to remember that, a mere twenty years ago, the world was an altogether different place: a comic-book wasteland. Once seen as a vehicle for subliterary kids’ stories and crude comedy, comics now ranks as the artistic equal of the novel and film. ![]() The battle for “comics legitimacy” is over. Features Ghost World at Twenty: Daniel Clowes’s Dialogue ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is not an academic text that will bore you, but neither is it a feel-good anecdote. Alisa isn’t a discernment blogger out to throw punches, but she also doesn’t mince words where truth is on the line. ![]() But Isaiah 53, and other passages like it, show that Christ’s atoning sacrifice is so biblical it jumps right off the page. Another Gospel is an engaging book that is at once thoroughly theological and deeply personal, at once rigorous and merciful. ![]() This was exciting to me because progressive Christians love to say that the idea of Jesus dying for my sins or bearing my punishment is totally unbiblical. In fact, there is even payment language in that chapter, where it says that his righteousness will essentially be put into our account. In that prophecy, Isaiah reveals that “it was the will of the Lord to crush him,” so that he could bear our sins and transgressions. When I first began to study Isaiah 53 and to see it as an amazing prophecy about the messiah who would come as a suffering servant, it totally came alive for me. In his bestselling book The Universal Christ, progressive theologian Richard Rohr claims that the doctrine of original sin was invented by Augustine and that the Bible actually teaches the “inherent goodness of human nature.” So what are the implications of this view on the way progressive Christians think about salvation in general and the atonement in particular? Shane Rosenthal discusses these questions and more as he continues his conversation with Alisa Childers, author of Another Gospel: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity. ![]() |