6/20/2023 0 Comments Gold Fever by Lyn Denison![]() ![]() One Degree of Separation by Karin KallmakerĪ romantic comedy set in Iowa, it follows the sparks that fly between the local Reference Librarian and the irritiating out-of-towner who comes to visit.Īsha West is a librarian and a genealogist. Land of A Thousand Dances by Evelyn ApplegateĪ shy librarian meets a mysterious stranger who takes over her life, in a good way. ![]() Kate Bannister returns to her hometown to rebuild her life and work as the city librarian there - when she discovers that her childhood best friend and first love is coming back to visit. Set in Australia, this is a sweet and fairly straightfoward love story. A fantastic love story between a librarian and a physician, this is 400 pages of love and friendship and good writing. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The novel begins with a portrait of Micah's life and daily routine. The novel is set in the city of Baltimore. Scenes from the characters’ pasts are narrated whenever relevant to the present action. Following the time frame of the week, the events of the plot are told in linear chronological order. The novel is told from the point of view of a third-person semi-omniscient narrator who does not figure as character in the action of the novel. The chapter structure follows this timeline, where chapter one falls on a Monday, and the last chapter falls on the following Monday. Each chapter describes a day during a single week in his life. The action of the novel describes a week in the life of a 43-year-old-man, Micah Mortimer, who runs his own tech support company and also manages a tenement building. Tyler's novel is divided into eight chapters. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Tyler, Anne. ![]() 6/20/2023 0 Comments Ithaca catherine webb![]() ![]() It's nice," said Carthage resident Haylee Addington. "It's a big thing where the community comes together and you can see people you haven't seen in a while. Visitors say one of the best parts of the festival is the amount of people it brings to one place. "You get to hear bagpipers and see step dancers." "It's nice to just see things that you don't always see," Carthage resident Kaitlyn Hallenbeck. The party even moved outside Sunday for the annual parade. "I like the different types of food they have, like the traditional corned beef and then their Irish pizza, which is really good," said 11-year-old Emmett Jakubowski, who was also this year's co-grand marshal for the parade. There's one thing everyone can enjoy: the food, which ranges from classic festival treats to traditional Irish dishes. It's just remarkable," said Watertown resident John Hoefler. "The music, just the camaraderie of all the folks, the staggering volunteer effort that goes on every year. With drinks, vendors, entertainers, and a room just for the kids, this event is for all ages. "We come every year," said Watertown resident Catherine Webb. The North Country Goes Green Irish Festival is a weekend filled with activity. The sights and sounds of Ireland are right in Watertown. ![]() 6/20/2023 0 Comments Tracking You by Kelly Moran![]() ![]() "The steady pulse, adherence to tonality, and overlapping patterns. Moran, a multi-instrumentalist who plays in bands like Weasel Walter's Cellular Chaos and experimental rock ensemble Voice Coils, approaches the altered instrument like Aphex Twin, breaking down the technique's additions into strange, frenetically melodic patterns.Ī little surprisingly, given the fragile beauty of "Limonium," Moran cites the subgenre of black metal as an underappreciated innovation in modern composition. "Prepared piano" has been a compositional technique employed by many, from John Cage on down to modern musicians like Hauschka and Nils Frahm, which allows them to explore new timbres using marbles, clothesline pins, forks - anything that can be jammed between the instrument's internal strings. In a video for "Limonium," Brooklyn-based composer Kelly Moran interrupts the stretched piano wire with corkscrews, forking the paths of sound. ![]() 6/20/2023 0 Comments Stepbrother dearest series![]() ![]() ![]() Kostantina: Omg I know !!! Totally just downloaded Prick – step brother romance sounds so good!!!! New thing I guess, it went from vampires to distopians to stepbrothers. Summer: New list would be great I have read a few of these and loved them Maryse’s Book Blog: LOL Krisi! I’m on it! Okay… so maybe a new list is in order. Maryse’s Book Blog: Whoa! What’s up with the influx of sexy “Stepbrother” books all of the sudden? □ And all from different authors… ![]() I decided to put it together when so many of ’em were in the “movers and shakers” of Amazon’s list at one time. Nonetheless, we still get a kick out of reading the forbidden stuff (within reason, of course □ ) so here’s a list. That would TOTALLY give their parents, the heebs, I think. Still totally taboo and forbidden, ’cause OMG she’s canoodling with her step-brother. Especially if they’ve never been raised together, are pretty much adults, and their parents end up marrying each other. But to some, kinda not, in some circumstances. Just a touch taboo, ’cause you know… sure it’s considered totally forbidden. Sexy Stepbrother romance books are cropping up everywhere!! I’ve had my own personal book-step-brother crush… remember my “ Rush Crush“? Ohhhhh it was INTENSE. ![]() MARYSE’S SURPRISE FROM HER FAVORITE BOOK BOYFRIEND’S.ALL MY REVIEWS (ALPHABETICAL BY AUTHOR). ![]() ![]() Spring on the is photographer Sirisha’s favorite season, and hosting the Thousand Shores theater troupe at the Inn makes it even better – brown girls, queer girls, stories turned and retold. Her grief for Pop lingers even as Dad begins seeing Amir, so she decides to revive his beloved Winter Ball in his memory, finding that Francisco’s help can make it happen. A tree crashing through her bedroom brings Grayson and construction crew to the inn – how will his secret artistic passions affect her carefully ordered life this fall?Īvani has spent the winter avoiding Francisco after a date mix-up, not so easy when his family supplies produce and goat cheese to the inn daily. Nidhi has planned her senior year and beyond in great detail as she will head to pastry school in Paris after graduation, with boyfriend Matt. But three years ago, the girls’ beloved stepdad died, before he could see their dream named as “the most romantic inn in America” for its unique seaside weddings. ![]() For the past decade, the four teen Singh sisters have lived in the Songbird Inn on Orcas Island, where their widowed father met and married Pop as they renovated the old property together. ![]() 6/20/2023 0 Comments Zita the spacegirl series in order![]() ![]() Zita, Jack, Lily, and Maddy have to get ready to battle once more. Is she jealous of Zita, or is there something more to it? Meanwhile, the giants are growing stronger and getting ready to invade above-ground: the gate between worlds is growing weaker, and they’re ready to use it to their advantage. Lily, Jack’s neighbor, who helped him fight the giants and rescue Maddy, his sister, is on edge, though. It’s a team-up he teased in 2017’s Mighty Jack and the Goblin King, and I have been waiting patiently for two years to find out what was going to happen.Īfter Zita and her friends arrive from their space-hopping adventures, Jack and his family have been housing and feeding the group. The latest Ben Hatke graphic novel brings together two of his best series: Zita the Spacegirl and Mighty Jack. Mighty Jack and Zita the Spacegirl, by Ben Hatke, (Sept. ![]() ![]() This may partially explain why manuscripts of the poem were seldom if ever illustrated, in contrast to the many miniatures contained in manuscripts of Ferdowsi’s Šāh-nāma, or Neẓāmi’s Ḵamsa. A great deal of uncertainty surrounds the authorship of the verses that have been attributed to Omar Khayyam. In subsequent years, modern Iranian artists and publishers have also taken up the illustration of the Rubaiyat. ![]() The stimulus to illustrate Khayyam’s Rubaiyat came initially from outside Persia, in response to translations in the West, particularly the famous version by Edward FitzGerald, first published in London in 1859. The book is also one of the most frequently and widely illustrated of all literary works, a remarkable feat for a work that is relatively short in length and abstract in content. The Rubaiyat (Robāʾiyāt, quatrains) of Omar Khayyam (ʿOmar Ḵayyām) contain some of the best-known verses in the world. Vi. Illustrations Of English Translations Of The Rubaiyat ![]() 6/20/2023 0 Comments Rent musical jonathan larson![]() ![]() The cast of 20 students included Aubrey Campbell ’26, Cole Wright-Schaner ’23, Anthony Thompson ’23, Grace Friedman ’23, Joey Tarlavsky ’25, Maximus Ganem ’25, Isa Cardoso ’25, Leslie De La Rosa ’25, Eva Pearlman ’25, Sofia Block ’23, Alissa Mangiaracina ’24, Abigail DeLena ’25, Trevor Wilkes ’25, Ryan Swanson ’24, Kirk Petrie ’25, Hao Shen ’25, Anna Mak ’24, Hunter Wisneski ’25, Ben White ’26, and Alyssa Samuels ’25. ![]() ![]() Larson’s groundbreaking Tony and Pulitzer Prize Award-winner reinvented musicals when it debuted in 1996. An inspiring story about friends and artists struggling in New York City’s East Village, Rent tackles addiction, poverty, AIDS, and most of all, love. The Hamilton Theatre Department presented the musical Rent for eight sold-out performances from April 14-22 in the Romano Theatre in the Kennedy Center for Theatre and Studio Arts. The mainstage production, written by Jonathan Larson, was directed by Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer. ![]() 6/20/2023 0 Comments Brecht antigone![]() ![]() ![]() One man, dressed in the clothes of an ancient civilisation with curly hair and beard, has just finished reading a manuscript the other man keenly watching him. Two men are alone in a sparsely decorated room both sitting opposite each other. In order to commemorate this event, and its importance in the light of the dangerous resurgence of far right ideologies across mainland Europe and globally, the Classics students of the National University of Ireland Galway created a series of visual and literary works comparing Brecht’s Antigone (1948) with Sophocles’ original (441 BC). The 27th of January 2020 marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. ![]() For instance, in Kalavryta of a Thousand Antigones Charlotte Delbo chronicles the attempts of the women of the Greek town of Kalavryta to bury 1300 local men, executed by German soldiers in 1943. In transmitting from one political struggle to another, Antigone refuses to leave the Western imagination. Her refusal to obey the stricture of the state, that the body of her brother must be left un-buried after he his deemed a traitor, has provided a focal point for her numerous retellings across a spectrum of different cultures. Antigone has been adopted as a figurehead for protest since she was first conceived by the Classical Greek Playwright Sophocles. ![]() |