![]() ![]() ![]() This is a young woman’s story of strength and courage in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. What Amanda Wants-Short story available on Stories of the Heart.These four very different women, brought together by the age-old craft of knitting, make unexpected discoveries-about themselves and each other. Three women join : Jacqueline Donovan, Carol Girard, and Alix Townsend. The Shop on Blossom Street-Lydia teaches knitting to beginners, and the first class is How to Make a Baby Blanket.Discoveries that lead to friendship and acceptance, to laughter and fulfillment of their dreams. The shop represents her dream of a new beginning a life free from cancer and the serendipity that comes from taking chances.Įach book in this series introduces different women, brought together by the age-old craft of knitting, who make unexpected discoveries-about themselves and each other. ![]() Written by American author Debbie Macomber (known for her Cedar Cove series), The Blossom Street Series begins with Lydia Hoffman, a woman who has opened A Good Yarn Shop on Blossom Street. ![]() Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon.īy the writer of Cedar Cove. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() It's a call to action to people who have feigned ignorance to our centuries of brutality in this country. “It's a call to action to gatekeepers in the political landscape. “It's a call to action, not just for Black people, but to white power brokers and the media landscape,” she says. ![]() Her debut book has been described by journalist and MSNBC anchor Joy-Ann Reid as a call to action, and Cross agrees. And it's okay, right now in this moment, for us to bypass the desire to be thanked, and grab the power that we are owed and that we have earned.” As a resident fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, an on-air political analyst, and now author, Cross is also beloved by many viewers of MSNBC's AM Joy (where she frequently appears) who are passionately rooting for her to assume the role as host. “We have shaped and swayed this democracy, and have never been thanked, properly. “Black people have a unique patriotism and role in the American body politics that is unlike no other community in this country,” Cross says. Cross says she hopes Black people take their power back. When asked what she wants readers to take away from her new book, Say It Louder!: Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy, Tiffany D. ![]() ![]() ![]() The UK government is committed to securing and advancing the UK’s status as a global science superpower and leader in new fields of research and cutting-edge technologies. However, the world is changing fast with competitive advantage in RDI increasingly contested. We need to build on and retain these strengths. This research translates into practical outcomes such as the COVID-19 vaccine, partly developed as a result of the UK’s strength in scientific and medical research. The QS World University Rankings shows that UK universities are globally recognised, with 4 providers in the top 10 and 18 providers in the top 100, and the UK also has internationally renowned research institutes. The UK is home to many world-class research, development and innovation ( RDI) organisations and has a strong reputation for the quality of its research. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book was based on stories written for the children’s section of the Bucks Free Press. He used the fee of £14 to buy his first typewriter.ġ965 – He left school aged seventeen and worked as a journalist for the local newspaper, the Bucks Free Press (where he saw his first dead body on his first day as a roving reporter).ġ968 – Terry married his sweetheart Lyn Purves and in 1970 they moved to a cottage in Rowberrow, Somerset.ġ970 – He started work as a reporter at the Western Daily Mail.ġ971 – His first novel, The Carpet People, was published by Colin Smythe, who later became his agent. 1948 – Terry Pratchett was born on April 28th in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, the only child of David and Eileen Pratchett.ġ962 – Aged thirteen, Terry’s first story, Business Rivals, was published in the school magazine and commercially the following year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And the more Mara finds out about Liam, the harder it is to loathe him…and the easier it is to love him. ![]() The problem is, living with someone means getting to know them. Liam was already entrenched in his aunt’s house like some glowering grumpy giant when Mara moved in, with his big muscles and kissable mouth just sitting there on the couch tempting respectable scientists to the dark side…but Helena was her mentor and Mara’s not about to move out and give up her inheritance without a fight. Okay, sure, technically she’s the interloper. And other rules Liam, her detestable big-oil lawyer of a roommate, knows nothing about. Though their fields of study might take them to different corners of the world, they can all agree on this universal truth: when it comes to love and science, opposites attract and rivals make you burn….Īs an environmental engineer, Mara knows all about the delicate nature of ecosystems. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesiswith explosive results. Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first, scientists always. From the New York Times best-selling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new steamy, STEMinist novella….Ī scientist should never cohabitate with her annoyingly hot nemesis – it leads to combustion. ![]() ![]() ![]() A week later, on Christmas Day, my sister, Georgia, decided that the two of us would leave America to live with our father’s parents in France. My parents had died in a car accident just ten days after I got my driver’s license. It was a life I had taken for granted, thinking it would last forever. I lived in the past, desperately clinging to every scrap of memory from my former life. I could have been anywhere, really, and it wouldn’t have mattered-I was blind to my surroundings. But moving from Brooklyn to Paris after my parents’ death was anything but a dream come true. MOST SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLDS I KNOW WOULD DREAM of living in a foreign city. ![]() I had given him “new life.” But was he expecting me to save his soul? Jeanne had said that meeting me had transformed Vincent. And all of a sudden, Vincent’s name for me popped into my mind: mon ange. ![]() As if he was looking to her to save him, and not vice versa. Now, when I looked at the ethereal beauty of the two connected figures-the handsome angel, with his hard, darkened features focused on the woman cradled in his outstretched arms, who was all softness and light-I couldn’t miss the symbolism. ![]() THE FIRST TIME I HAD SEEN THE STATUE IN THE fountain, I had no idea what Vincent was. ![]() ![]() While this is number two in the series (I haven’t read number one yet but I will be going back) I didn’t need to read book number one to understand book number two. While, yes, Mariah’s novel about Lexi, a youth center worker, and Dyson, a gorgeous firefighter with a wounded heart, is the epitome of sugary-sweetness, Hallmark movie level heart-tugs and a mix of spicy goodness, the story itself is complete and strong. Once given the chance I dove into it and finished the story in a little more than a day (mostly because, apparently, I need sleep.) Through my adventures of following Mariah I saw she posted about The Dating Dilemma being available for ARC readers through NetGalley and I immediately went to NetGalley and requested the chance to read it. ![]() ![]() What more could a reader/ wannabe author want from a fellow author’s page? She makes fun of herself, she makes fun of people who look down on romance novels and she tells the realities of writing and publishing books. Given how the real world has sucked the last couple years I was definitely in the mood for something sweet and, after having stumbled across Mariah Ankenman’s Instagram a while back, I found her to be an author worth following, not only because of her works but because she wants to have fun while writing and while talking about her works/ writing them. ![]() Let me begin by saying this: sometimes you just need a fun, light, cute story when the real world sucks. Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Amara) The Dating Dilemma (Mile High Firefighters #2) ![]() ![]() I called the ship Nostromo (from Conrad: no particular metaphoric idea, I just thought it sounded good). cards, I added Ellen (my mother's middle name). I tried that, but I thought the money was on making the ultimate survivor a woman - I named her Ripley (after Believe It Or Not) later when she had to have a first name for I.D. During the interview he said the following about names:ĭavid had suggested making the captain (Dallas) a woman. The November 2004 issue of Film International (PDF download) has an interview with Walter Hill, one of the producers for Alien. Only one primary source I could find credits anyone with the name of Nostromo. All sources that mention previous names list "the Snark" as the original name given by Dan O'Bannon, and some sources mention "the Leviathan" as an intermediate name used for at least part of pre-production. So we can recast the question to, "How did the Nostromo get its name?" So many secondary sources on the Internet claim that Ridley Scott himself named the Nostromo. Also, the name "Nostromo" pretty much has to be Conrad reference, while "Narcissus" could just be a Greek mythology reference. ![]() By all accounts, the ship names subsequent to the names in the first movie are named that way to continue the "tradition" of the names of the Nostromo and the Narcissus, and the Nostromo was named first during pre-production for Alien. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Moreover, comparisons between like options (the decoy, and the more expensive option) are easier to make than comparisons between unlike options. The underlying reason here is that people are bad at assessing value in a vacuum, but good at comparisons. Even though no one buys option B, it will make them more apt to pick C than if option B hadn't even been shown in the first place! The idea here is that people will see option B (the decoy) as clearly the worse version of C. In the example he uses in the book, the subscriptions to The Economist are: The Decoy Effect is a pricing technique where the seller will include a 'decoy' at a high price which is clearly the poorer option of the item they want to sell. So far, it's been a great read-similar to Thinking Fast and Slow, but adopting a much more conversational style. I’ve now started Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, another behavioral economics book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() īertazzon N, Raiola A, Castiglioni C, Gardiman M, Angelini E, Borgo M, Ferrari S (2011) Transient silencing of the grapevine gene VvPGIP1 by agroinfiltration with a construct for RNA interference. īertazzon N, Borgo M, Vanin S, Angelini E (2010) Genetic variability and pathological properties of Grapevine Leafroll-associated Virus 2 isolates. īahder BW, Zalom FG, Sudarshana MR (2016) An evaluation of the flora adjacent to wine grape vineyards for the presence of alternative host plants of grapevine red blotch-associated virus. Īngelini E, Bianchi GL, Filippin L, Morassutti C, Borgo M (2007) A new TaqMan method for the identification of phytoplasmas associated with grapevine yellows by real-time PCR assay. Īl Rwahnih M, Rowhani A, Golino DA, Islas CM, Preece JE, Sudarshana MR (2015) Detection and genetic diversity of Grapevine red blotch-associated virus isolates in table grape accessions in the National Clonal Germplasm Repository in California. Al Rwahnih M, Dave A, Anderson M, Rowhani A, Uyemoto JK, Sudarshana MR (2013) Association of a DNA virus with grapevines affected by red blotch disease in California. ![]() |