![]() ![]() ![]() After attending Case Western Reserve University College of Law in 2006 and graduating from the program, she turned in her briefcase and picked up a pen a few years later, knowing that it was time to follow her passion.Īfter working at a small law firm in Columbus and moving to Virginia to teach English, she returned to her adopted hometown from college – not too far from her childhood home in Canton – in 2015 with her three-month-old son and husband to be near to his side of the family and start her career as an author. The romance novelist from Cleveland released this dreamy rom com in July.Īngie Hockman flipped the switch on her life seven years ago and never looked back. ![]() Business Hall of Fame and Community Leader of the Year Awards. ![]()
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![]() They continue to provide feedback, furnish fodder for stories and make frantic phone calls home during the holidays for recipes. ![]() Grown now, the Kelly kids are scattered here and there across the U.S. The mother of five children, Carla has always allowed her kids to earn their keep by appearing in her Regencies, most notably Marian's Christmas Wish, which is peopled by all kinds of relatives. Her entire Indian Wars collection was published in 2003 as Here's to the Ladies: Stories of the Frontier Army. ![]() She was the second woman to earn two Spurs from WWA (which, as everyone knows, is all you need to ride a horse). Two of her stories, A Season for Heroes and Kathleen Flaherty's Long Winter, earned her Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America. ![]() (Or as she would be the first to admit, as serious as it gets.)Ĭarla wrote a series of what she now refers to as the "Fort Laramie stories," which are tales of the men, women and children of the Indian Wars era in Western history. ![]() Although she had sold some of her work before, it was not until Carla began work in the National Park Service as a ranger/historian at Fort Laramie National Historic Site did she get serious about her writing career. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.Īlthough Carla Kelly is well known among her readers as a writer of Regency romance, her main interest (and first writing success) is Western American fiction-more specifically, writing about America's Indian Wars. ![]() ![]() Indistractable reveals the key to getting the best out of technology, without letting it get the best of us. He describes why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices: Abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more.Įyal lays bare the secret of finally doing what you say you will do with a four-step, research-backed model. In Indistractable, Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving us to distraction. Five years after publishing Hooked, Eyal reveals distraction's Achilles' heel in his groundbreaking new book. ![]() International best-selling author, former Stanford lecturer, and behavioral design expert, Nir Eyal, wrote Silicon Valley's handbook for making technology habit-forming. ![]() What would be possible if you followed through on your best intentions? What could you accomplish if you could stay focused and overcome distractions? What if you had the power to become "indistractable"? Another day goes by, and once again, your most important personal and professional goals are put on hold. ![]() At home, screens get in the way of quality time with your family. Later, as you're about to get back to work, a colleague taps you on the shoulder to chat. You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. ![]() ![]() ![]() The only stumbling point for me in the novel was the manner in which Caspon gained control over his half-blood assassin. ![]() The ruthless and ambitious Caspon is easy to hate, and General Talros is nicely reminiscent of Victor Hugo's Inspector Javert in his relentless hunt for the assassin. The characters who populate her world are equally compelling. Though Nightingale becomes a cold-hearted killer, we sympathize with her plight every step of the way. This is a wonderfully engaging novel from start to finish a story of innocence destroyed and rage honed into murderous intent. Nightingale is the alias of a young half blood girl, daughter of an 'anthelai' (elf-like) father and a human mother, who survives a brutal attack on her home only to be captured by a man bent on transforming her into a deadly assassin. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I hope I was horrified by the 1950s mindset that had no women in any position of authority, or, indeed, anything other than a girlfriend/wife/mother. I recalled three of the big set-piece scenes, which shows how much it impacted on me, but I can't now remember my emotions on reading it. There's no real resolution and little character development – it's all about the journey, not the destination.Ĭhildhood's End This was a re-read from my teenage years. There's the same detailed travelling, the same investigation of a strange land, even the same sea-journey, and the same rather "Is that it?" feeling at the end. Overall, I was irresistibly reminded of Verne's A Journey to the Centre of the Earth I read a while back. ![]() However, the two-dimensional characters, the lack of character/internal conflict and the crappy dialogue were all less than enthralling. On the one hand I can appreciate the world-building – or, rather, the Rama-building – though I couldn't understand any of the science stuff, and I liked the clean, spare prose. ![]() Rendezvous with Rama I have rather mixed feelings about this. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Human's no longer discover truth they invent it). Our truths are no longing waiting to be discovered with an ontological rationality derived from a set of principals based on the hypothesized order of the universe, but a process awaiting to be invented through a disentangling of the subjective from the objective world. ![]() The process becomes the focus not the event itself. ![]() There is no doubt that modern philosophy starts with Descartes. One should never rely on other authors' summaries of a original philosophical works especially when they are from non-philosophical books, because they seem to always highlight the wrong points in order to make their points while ignoring the real worth of the thinker. This compilation of his most important philosophical works gives a nice redundancy to his body of work and most of Descartes' ideas get repeated in such a way that the listener will have no problem understanding most of his major points. Great writer, and shows why philosophy is funĭescartes is a good writer, surprisingly good. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thunderhead and Greyson must work together to keep the world safe from Goddard without interfering in Scythedom. Meanwhile, Scythe Goddard is stronger than ever. He is the only one who can communicate with the Thunderhead so he becomes a guide to everyone. It has been three years since Rowan and Citra were last seen, three years since the Thunderhead marked all of humankind as unsavoury except Greyson Tolliver. In this pulse-pounding conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman’s Arc of a Scythe trilogy, constitutions are tested and old friends are brought back from the dead.Ĭheckout my review of book 2, Thunderhead : ![]() ![]() It’s been three years since Rowan and Citra disappeared since Scythe Goddard came into power since the Thunderhead closed itself off to everyone but Grayson Tolliver. Neal Shusterman, The Toll (Arc of a Scythe, #3) Our life path can be determined by a single phone call we make, or neglect to make. A glance to the left instead of right could define who we meet and who passes us by. We never know what choices will lead to defining moments in our lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Just as the bombing damaged the church building and its people-racism-like the bombing, has hurt many Black Americans and the American church throughout history. Jemar Tisby’s description of the horrific event serves as a good imagery for racism. The Color of Compromise opens with the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963 Alabama, when 4 members of the Ku Klux Klan planted bombs inside a Black church, killing 4 young girls and injuring 22 members of the church. The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism outlines a history of systemic racism within the American political system and the American Church-a history of complicity in racism that Jemar Tisby argues remains to this day. But in his attempt to expose the American Church’s supposed complicity in systemic racism today, Jemar Tisby reveals his own complicity in foolish, ignorant controversies that breed quarrels within the Church. Jemar Tisby’s first book does a masterful job describing how White Christians in America compromised on slavery and segregation against Black Americans. ![]() ![]() In my view that is a big plus for his readers. As a writer of magazine articles, he has been free to develop stories and themes at much greater length and depth than would have been possible as a reporter for a daily newspaper. ![]() Hessler has also been accredited as a foreign correspondent in China for the New Yorker magazine. He has remained in close touch with his former students, whose own experiences in working after graduation in the ?New China? form an important part of the book. He has lived in China for many years beginning as an English teacher at a Chinese college. ![]() He writes from a unique and insightful perspective. ![]() Oracle Bones is another excellent book from Peter Hessler. ![]() ![]() The book is in full accord with the new trend in landscaping in which the environment, climate, and restricted water supplies are taken into account-not only for gardens but also for parks, roadside plantings, and other large-scale landscaping.īecause propagation and cultural methods for many native plants have never been recorded, the author spent years gathering information through correspondence. It has arisen partly because of the recent drought, which natives survived more readily than exotics, and partly because of growing awareness that many natives have become rare or endangered, and may be preserved and perpetuated by cultivation for their ornamental qualities. Annuals, perennials (including ferns), bulbs, shrubs and trees are included-with about 350 species treated in detail, and many others included in charts and listings for quick reference.Ī few California native plants have been in cultivation for a hundred years or so, but widespread consciousness of natives is relatively recent. It takes the gardener through the beginning steps of identifying native plants, evaluating them in relation to conventional garden materials, and learning detailed techniques of propagation and culture. ![]() This is the first comprehensive book to aid the gardener in making a start with native plants. ![]() |