![]() ![]() This week, America is going to base it’s nuclear SLBM missile subs in Australia, and Australia agrees to host the systems. The American leadership has forgotten what a cold war was, and the threat of any day having your complete life turned upside down by nuclear war. I think that this story stands alone on it’s own merits. But the mainstream “news” is all in a fury about the Pentagon leaker ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In some of the same communities featured in her bestselling book Factory Man, the unemployed use painkillers both to numb the pain of joblessness and pay their bills, while privileged teens trade pills in cul-de-sacs, and even high school standouts fall prey to prostitution, jail, and death. From the introduction of Ox圜ontin in 1996, Macy investigates the powerful forces that led America’s doctors and patients to embrace a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. ![]() ![]() From the labs and marketing departments of big pharma to local doctor’s offices wealthy suburbs to distressed small communities in Central Appalachia from distant cities to once-idyllic farm towns the spread of opioid addiction follows a tortuous trajectory that illustrates how this crisis has persisted for so long and become so firmly entrenched.īeginning with a single dealer who lands in a small Virginia town and sets about turning high school football stars into heroin overdose statistics, Macy sets out to answer a grieving mother’s question-why her only son died-and comes away with a gripping, unputdownable story of greed and need. In this extraordinary work, Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of a national drama that has unfolded over two decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “There are aspects of the housewife role that make it almost impossible for a woman of adult intelligence to retain a sense of human identity, the firm core of self or ‘I’ without which a human being, man or woman, is not truly alive.” “It is urgent to understand how the very condition of being a housewife can create a sense of emptiness, non-existence, nothingness, in women,” she wrote. ![]() In Friedan’s view, cultural expectations that normed female roles of marriage, mothering, and homemaking, roles that she collectively termed “the feminine mystique,” ate away at a woman’s sense of self. This led her to conclusions that she later published in the surprising 1963 best-seller, The Feminine Mystique. Betty Friedan became concerned with the problem of female identity in the 1950’s. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the years, Colin and Penelope become good friends with Colin apparently oblivious to Penelope's feelings. Penelope is horrified, but Colin finds the whole thing hilarious, and Penelope falls for him immediately. ![]() A gust of wind sends Penelope's bonnet flying into Colin's face, surprising him so much he falls off his horse. Penelope is not quite 16 and is out for a walk with her mother and sisters when they stop to talk to Lady Bridgerton and Daphne. Bridgerton" begins with a flashback to when teenage Penelope first meets Colin. While the TV show will undoubtedly tweak the story, just as the previous seasons have, here's a spoiler-packed overview of how Colin and Penelope's story plays out on the page. Bridgerton," is actually the fourth in Quinn's series. The book that the season will adapt, "Romancing Mr. Season three will focus on the friends-to-lovers romance between Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington, which has been simmering throughout the first two seasons already. It's official: the third season of Netflix's " Bridgerton" will be the first to change up the order of protagonists established in Julia Quinn's book series. ![]() ![]() He says that if he ran the zoo, he would let all of the current animals free and find new, more bizarre and exotic ones. In the book, Gerald McGrew is a kid who, when visiting a zoo, finds that the exotic animals are "not good enough". If I Ran the Zoo is often credited with the first printed modern English use of the word "nerd," in the sentence "And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo/And Bring Back an It-Kutch, a Preep, and a Proo,/A Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker too!" ![]() The book is likely a tribute to a child's imagination, because it ends with a reminder that all of the extraordinary creatures exist only in McGrew's head. The book is written in anapestic tetrameter, Seuss's usual verse type, and illustrated in Seuss's trademark pen and ink style. If I Ran the Zoo is a children's book written by Dr. ![]() If I Ran the Zoo is a book written by Dr. ![]() Warning! This page contains content that can be seen as mature or inappropriate for younger audiences. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Anishinaabe belief, writes Kimmerer, sweetgrass “was the very first to grow on the earth,” a constant reminder of the creator called Skywoman. ![]() “This braid is woven from three strands,” writes Kimmerer, an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation: “indigenous ways of knowing, scientific knowledge, and the story of an Anishinabekwe scientist trying to bring them together in service to what matters most.” The author’s 2013 book of essays on Native folkways concerning plants and their roles in human life is reissued here with new illustrations and design, a handsome production that well serves her engaging text, which will be of interest to readers schooled in the work of writers such as Wendell Berry, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Joy Harjo. Wisdom about the natural world delivered by an able writer who is both Indigenous and an academic scientist. ![]() ![]() ![]() We have barely a decade to turn back the tide of climate disaster. We-Indigenous, Black and people of color, women and trans folks, migrants, and working people-did not create this disaster, but we have inherited it. One-part visionary platform, one-part practical toolkit, the Red Deal is a platform that encompasses everyone, including non-Indigenous comrades and relatives who live on Indigenous land. Now, in response to popular demand, the Red Nation expands their original statement filling in the histories and ideas that formed it and forwarding an even more powerful case for the actions it demands. When the Red Nation released their call for a Red Deal, it generated coverage in places from Teen Vogue to Jacobin to the New Republic, was endorsed by the DSA, and has galvanized organizing and action. ![]() ![]() _ Praise for Sylvia Day: 'A hundred degrees hotter than anything you've ever read before' Reveal 'Riveting, sensual. Daringly sensual and intensely romantic, this is a love story that will have you glued to the page. Sylvia Day is the 1 New York Times and 1 international bestselling author of over 20 award-winning novels sold in more than 42 countries. ![]() We made our own rules and surrendered completely to the exquisite power of possession. ![]() Entwined by our secrets, we tried to defy the odds. I needed him as surely as I needed my heart to beat. I also saw the dangerous and damaged soul inside - so much like my own. From the moment I first met Gideon Cross, I recognized something in him that I needed. One of the bestselling love stories of the century _ As Eva and Gideon face the demons of their pasts, they also must accept the consequences of their obsessive desires. Entwined with You will take you to the very limits of obsession - and introduce you to a hero you'll never forget. ![]() Description for Entwined With You (Crossfire, Book 3) Paperback. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That said….while I was reading the book, I was trying to figure out how this was a mystery. I felt like there was enough of the back story to catch me up enough to not feel lost. ![]() Well I think this is probably the first book in a long time that I didn’t feel totally lost on the personal story. LOVED this book! I hadn’t read the first book and if you have read my blog for any amount of time you know that I MUST read the books in order in a series, if only to understand better the personal stories of the characters. She thinks she’s doing the right thing, but can she save herself when she becomes entrenched too deep in this Jersey shore mystery? because Municipal Clerk Chelsey Alton is at it again! Working for a government riddled with crime, she and her sidekick Bonnie investigate to find out the answer to the pressing question: Who killed Vinny Buttiglieri? She finds herself entangled with dangerous mobsters and corrupt politicians. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Not when she doesn't know if he's out to pilfer her dreams. Without his suits and fancy cars, he's almost human.Įxcept only a fool would let down her guard. Pierce is nearly irresistible by candlelight. ![]() Stranded together for days, she's in for the battle of her life. No sooner does she arrive than a snowstorm traps her with Pierce. Pushed to the extreme, she drives to his ritzy mountain lodge to force the arrogant You Can Call Me Mr. A brazen billionaire, he seems intent on ruining Kerrigan's life.īut if Pierce Sullivan thinks she'll go down without a fight, he's sorely mistaken. Until his unexpected death put her fate in his grandson's hands. With hard work and hustle as her steadfast companions, who needs romance or adventure? Her empire in Calamity, Montana, isn't going to build itself.įor years, her mentor-and investor-helped make her dreams come true. Kerrigan Hale's personal life is about as exciting as a bucket of tar. ![]() |