![]() She wants to be just as proud of her man as he is of her. As a young doctor from the hood, Mercedes set minimum standards for the men she is willing to date, as she wants a man to build with, not a selfish, needy, leeching, money hungry dependent. With an open heart and an open mind, she continues her journey to find love. Finding that special someone proves to be more difficult than she could have ever imagined. She is unsure about marriage and children, although she wants someone with which to share her world. ![]() She believes, with all of her heart, that there is a special man in this world who is her life-mate, her soulmate. Moore has loved and lost, yet she has not given up on loving again. She enjoys shopping and spa treatments adores fashion and couture and thoroughly appreciates travel and luxury accommodations. She works hard for her money and treats herself as often as she can, schedule permitting. She has grown accustomed to the finer things in life. Her best friends for life are her first cousins, Dana and Tina-Marie, each successful in her own right. Her grandmother helped her parents raise her. Moore is a young African-American doctor who focused on her goals, followed her dreams, and made it out of the ghetto of North Philly, against all odds. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is a woman over 30: sophisticated, sassy, sexy, and successful. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() She’s starting to think she never will perhaps it’s too much to hope that she will find a man who is interesting to talk to and who can make her laugh. Poppy Bridgerton – cousin to Billie and niece of Viscount and Lady Bridgerton – has had two London seasons and has not, so far, found a man she wants to marry. He’s also – unbeknownst to his family – a spy. Handsome, good-humoured, and well-liked by all, he’s a convivial chap with a sharp mind, a quick wit, and a reputation as the family jokester. Andrew is the third brother and, when we met him in the first book, he was on leave from the Navy while he recovered from a broken arm. In the first book, Because of Miss Bridgerton, Sybilla (Billie) Bridgerton married George Rokseby in the second, the story focused on the next Rokesby brother, Edward, an officer serving in North America. The Other Miss Bridgerton is the third instalment in Julia Quinn’s series of novels featuring members of the previous generation of Bridgertons and their neighbours and long-standing family friends the Rokesbys. ![]() ![]() Arguing that walking as history means walking for pleasure and for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit homes in on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from the peripatetic philosophers of ancient Greece to the poets of the Romantic Age, from the perambulations of the Surrealists to the ascents of mountaineers. ![]() What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this most basic act. ![]() ![]() An organic union of poetry and science, this book encourages readers to ponder the minutiae and magnificent life of the natural world. Perspectives in illustrations shift from one poem to another, providing a unique depiction of the life below the water, on shore level, and in the surrounding reeds and trees. Beginning with subtle pastel shades of spring, tones gradually deepen through the lush colors of midsummer and conclude with subdued earthy browns and violet sunsets of early winter. The dark lines naturally contrast against watercolor hues that reflect the changing seasons. Prange's woodcuts are a natural accompaniment to these poetic compositions. Each one is accompanied by a paragraph that provides scientific information about a specific creature, plant, or aspect of pond life. Sidman employs several poetic forms, such as haiku and rhymed and unrhymed verse, and varied line structure, and her arrangement of the 11 poems is natural and exact. Green darner - In the depths of the summer pond - Food chain - A small green riddle - Duckweed - Aquatic fashion - Caddis fly - Song of the water. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book begins with the poem, "Listen for Me," in which spring peepers wake from their winter hibernation and sing out, "Listen for me on a spring night,/on a wet night,/on a rainy night./.Listen for me tonight, tonight,/and I'll sing you to sleep." The melodic verse continues through summer with a cumulative poem that highlights the food chain of a pond, cattails in all seasons, and late fall when a painted turtle settles into the mud. ![]() Seasons set the stage for this celebration of the diverse life of ponds. ![]() ![]() Nielsen's own account of her experience at the Pole, the sea change as she becomes "of the Ice," and her realization that she would rather be on Antarctica than anywhere else on earth. A daring rescue by the Air National Guard ensued, who landed, dropped off a replacement physician, and minutes later took off with Dr. Consulting via E-mail with doctors in the United States, she performed a biopsy on herself, and in July began chemotherapy treatments to ensure her survival until conditions permitted her rescue in October. ![]() Nielsen, solely responsible for the mental and physical fitness of a team of researchers, construction workers, and support staff, discovered a lump in her breast. ![]() The "Polies," as the inhabitants are known, live in almost total darkness for six months of the year, in winter temperatures as low as 100 degrees below zero - with no way in or out before the spring.ĭuring the long winter of 1999, Dr. ![]() ![]() Jerri Nielsen was a forty-six-year-old doctor working in Ohio when she made the decision to take a year's sabbatical at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on Antarctica, the most remote and perilous place on Earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "This is really the first step to a successful and happy career. Here, she shares her advice for building a career from what you love. ![]() "I've always looked for things I can put my personality and creativity into," she says. Yet what has defined her career has been seeking out her passions, something she has solidified now with Glassette, which was born from her love of redesigning and refurbishing her London home. ![]() "I've been that girl handing out toothpaste at the the tube stations or promoting gin – dressed up as a bottle of gin." "I've always just worked super hard, especially at things I really love," she says, confirming that her work ethic even extends to some of the wackier elements of her CV. Jackson is a beloved TV and radio presenter – a veteran of MTV and BBC – a podcaster, the host of a now famous supper club which spawned a best selling book Round To Oursand now, she is the founder of Glassette, an accessible interiors marketplace. It is just one of the strings to her bow. "I have always attributed my success to just getting on with people and getting on with the job in hand," says Laura Jackson, Zooming from a hotel room in Northern England one evening, before she is about to stay up all night learning lines for a TV show she is filming the next day. ![]() ![]() ![]() The very nature of photography implies an equivocal relation to the photographer as auteur and the bigger and more varied the work done by a talented photographer, the more it seems to acquire a kind of corporate rather than individual authorship. It makes sense that a painting is signed but a photograph is not (or it seems in bad taste if it is). photographs have their power as images (or copies) of the world, not of an individual artist’s consciousness. ![]() The deepest penetration seems to occur in the following passages: First, then, we have to remove the point of Sontag’s book from the wound it has made in its subject matter. ![]() Susan Sontag’s On Photography might have been called Off Photography, for “offing,” in the ’60s sense of committing murder, is what the book really intends to do. Susan Sontag, On Photography (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977), 207 pages. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve been writing superhero comics for Marvel and DC for years, and part of the job is coming up with these big ambitious charismatic plots for the villains to pull off (throwing your enemies into the sun, digging a hole to the Earth’s core, becoming immortal, that sort of thing). So, what made you want to create a guide to taking over the world? What makes you qualified to be taking on this very important public service? Be sure to click through to the end for dinosaurs. ![]() ![]() We chatted with him about his new book, How to Take Over the World: Practical Schemes and Scientific Solutions for the Aspiring Supervillain. Ryan lives in Toronto, where he writes for video games, television, and his long-running webcomic Dinosaur Comics. His recent work includes the nonfiction How To Invent Everything, the semi-fictional graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, and the so-far-fictional Unbeatable Squirrel Girl series for Marvel. Ryan North ( ryannorth) is a New York Times-bestselling and Eisner-winning writer who once messed up walking his dog so badly it made the news. ![]() ![]() ![]() This UST continues to build at work when Cain finds himself drawn to watch Charlie perform while he usually stays away from the main floor during work hours, confining himself to office work. There is some pretty intense chemistry between Cain and Charlie from the very beginning, and Cain makes an early mark on Charlie’s life, stepping in to be all protective and help her out where he can. She is beautiful, brave, and knows how to work a pole, so Cain gives her the chance she’s been looking for. As a friend of sassy bartender, Ginger, she comes to Cain looking for a way to make fast money. Trapped in an almost hopeless situation, she is living life with an identity that is not her own, and is desperately searching for a way to start a new life. I fell in love him straight away.Īnd then along comes Charlie. He treats his girls with respect, has a strict ‘no sleeping with employees’ rule, and he’s an absolute sweetheart. ![]() We find out early on in this book that he comes from a nasty background, and his reason for running the club is to provide a safe place for women to do what they do, and to help them get their lives on track and out of the industry. He is a bit of a badass, but is gorgeous, kind-hearted, and also happens to run a strip club. We first met Cain in the previous books of this series. I believe you don’t have years, or months, or weeks to impact a person’s life. I believe second chances exist only in dreams, never in reality I believe redemption is something you can strive for but never fully achieve. I believe some people are inherently evil. ![]() ![]() ![]() Please read these Terms of Service (“Terms”) carefully. The Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard 3- Book Paperback Boxed Set The Heroes of Olympus 5-Book Paperback Boxed Set The Kane Chronicles 3-Book Paperback Boxed Set The Percy Jackson and the Olympians 5-Book Paperback Boxed Set ![]() Also included is a bonus poster of the key locations and characters in the series.įrom The Hidden Oracle to the long awaited The Tower of Nero, this collection will thrill loyal readers and be a go-to gift for new fans of the best-selling series.Ĭomplete your Rick Riordan boxed set collection with: Now readers from 8 to 80 can enjoy it from start to finish and then keep the handsome box on their shelf for posterity. Rick Riordan's beloved Greek and Roman demigod characters from Percy Jackson and the Olympians and the Heroes of Olympus return in a five-book adventure quest with a fresh twist: they're helping Apollo regain his immortal status.Īpollo's fast-paced, monster-filled quest brings the Percy Jackson chronicles to an end. "A clash of mythic intrigues and centuries of pop culture to thrill die-hard and new fans alike."-Kirkus Reviews All five books in the best-selling Trials of Apollo series are now available in a paperback boxed set complete with a bonus poster. ![]() |