![]() It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime. At times our mother put her arms around us both, and then guided our hands so we could clang down hard on the keys. I can still after all these years sit in the museum of those afternoons and recall the light spilling across the carpet. I used to think of the notes still trilling through the bones, as if they could skip from one to the other, over the breakage. When she finished playing she would lightly rub the back of her wrist. ![]() We never knew the origin of the break: it was something left in silence. Our mother played with a natural touch, even though she suffered from a hand which she had broken many times. ![]() She kept a small radio on top of the Steinway in the living room of our house in Dublin and on Sunday afternoons, after scanning whatever stations we could find, Radio Éireann or BBC, she raised the lacquered wing of the piano, spread her dress out at the wooden stool, and tried to copy the piece through from memory: jazz riffs and Irish ballads and, if we found the right station, old Hoagy Carmichael tunes. One of the many things my brother, Corrigan, and I loved about our mother was that she was a fine musician. ![]()
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In Rats, the critically acclaimed bestseller, Robert Sullivan spends a year investigating a rat-infested alley just a few blocks away from Wall Street. ![]() Annotation: The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback with an all-new afterword by the author.Love them or loathe them, rats are here to stay-they are city dwellers as much as (or more than) we are, surviving on the effluvia of our society. ![]() Subtitle: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The protagonist is the eldest child and "man of the family" - a young stenographer named Shirley. A similar fixer-upper theme is found in April Gold, another charming Christian classic, also written by GLH. A destitute family makes a home in an old stone barn, which unconventional and desperate act wins the interest of their debonaire millionaire landlord. The Enchanted Barn is like a fairy tale, where love, hard work, courage, and faith outfox the forces of despair. Īudible also has a version performed beautifully by narrator Ann Hancock, who also narrated Re-Creations, another book about fixing up a home. Download the audiofile, or click the play arrows, at Librivox. She has narrated several complete books by Grace Livingston Hill. Published more than a century ago, this old Christian romance is FREE in a good audio version narrated by Gail Mattern. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He hacked into her computer and wrote the recommendation himself. He asked her to write him a letter of recommendation for Stanford but she refused. By making it appear as though he wasn't Pelant, he evaded arrest.ĭuring high school, Pelant had a guidance counselor by the name of Carole Morrissey. He did this in order to escape arrest for a crime he committed during his teens that 'Christopher Pelant' could be tied to. He later used his distinctive hacking skills to erase his true identity, making it appear as though he was not an American but actually an Egyptian citizen, Bassam Alfayat, who had lived in Egypt until the age of six. According to Sweets in The Past in the Present, his parents divorced when he was young and he was close to his father, though they rarely saw each other afterward. Christopher Pelant was an American citizen who, according to Booth in The Corpse on the Canopy, was officially born in Denmark in 1986 and raised in the town of Pitt Meadows, Virginia. ![]() ![]() ![]() Neots in Huntingdonshire: another at Taversham in Cambridgeshire:' two, I may add, in Essex, Colne-Engaine and Gaines, held by Sir John Engaine in 1271 by the service of keeping the King's greyhounds and one in Herefordshire, Aston Engen, now Aston Ingham. 'There are many places in England,' says Morant, 'named Gaynes, Engaines, D'Engains: one, for instance, near St. ![]() The Dutchess believes the name was originally Engaine, "from Engen or Ingen, near Boulogne: a baronial name, that has travelled down to our own times under an English disguise as Ingham. Īnother very reputable source has a very different understanding of the name. ![]() īy 1173, the parish was known as Heingeham and probably meant "homestead of the family or followers of a man called Hega," from the Old English personal name + "inga" + "ham. The parish dates back to the Domesday Book of 1086 when it was known as Hincham. The name Hughen comes from when the family lived at Hingham, a market-town and parish, in the incorporation and hundred of Forehoe in Norfolk. The ancient roots of the Hughen family are in the Anglo-Saxon culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() That said, this book caused me to roll my eyes so many times, I think I may have damaged something. I'm by no means a harsh critic of romance novels and frankly the two audible performers have great voices that are quite pleasurable. And I certainly wasn't prepared for what came after.Īll good things must come to an end, right?Įxcept our ending was one I didn't see coming. Nothing could have prepared me for that day. I didn't expect that Jay and Dex would fall in love with her.Īnd when she found out, we were both going to lose her. I didn't expect the mess I'd gotten myself into. ![]() I didn't expect that our chemistry online would be just as hot. I began dating her as "Jay" - all the while letting her interview the real me over email. I loved the way she looked at the fake me and didn't want it to end. ![]() So, after the elevator finally started moving again, I cancelled the interview and let her believe I was someone I wasn't - a bike messenger named Jay. She had no clue I was really Dex Truitt, the wealthy, successful businessman she'd dubbed "Mister Moneybags" - her afternoon appointment.īianca told me how much she hated Dex's type - snobby, over-educated, silver-spooned men who didn't appreciate the simple things in life. The beautiful raven-haired reporter assumed I was a delivery guy because of the way I was dressed. She was on her way to interview me when we got stuck. ![]() ![]() Winners will be set financially for life while the losers get nothing. Only eight recruits will secure spots to go down to the planet Eden to mine nyxia, a substance that’s become the most valuable material in the universe. ![]() ![]() Emmett Atwater has been selected, along with nine other recruits, by Babel Communications to compete in a competition in space. It warmed my heart and made me tear up a little. He hopes that his former students see themselves, vibrant and on the page, in characters like Emmett. So he set out to write a novel for the front-row sleepers and back-row dreamers of his classrooms. The hardest lesson he learned was that inspiration isn’t equally accessible for everyone. Scott Reintgen has spent his career as a teacher of English and creative writing in diverse urban communities in North Carolina. The first reason I picked this book up was actually because of the author’s note on the dust jacket: ![]() Recommended Readers: Fans of space adventures and high stakes Notable Notables: POC characters, Social class struggles ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Read ExcerptĬHAPTER 1 COWBOYS AND PATRIOTS How the West Was Won Mediocre investigates the real costs of this phenomenon in order to imagine a new white male identity, one free from racism and sexism.Īs provocative as it is essential, this book will upend everything you thought you knew about American identity and offers a bold new vision of American greatness. Through the last 150 years of American history - from the post-reconstruction South and the mythic stories of cowboys in the West, to the present-day controversy over NFL protests and the backlash against the rise of women in politics - Ijeoma Oluo exposes the devastating consequences of white male supremacy on women, people of color, and white men themselves. What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments? From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an “illuminating” ( New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a rave review in The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani had high praise for Saunders' writing style: "He's a savage satirist with a sentimental streak who delineates, in these pages, the dark underbelly of the American dream: the losses, delusions and terrors suffered by the lonely, the disenfranchised, the downtrodden and the plain unlucky." Comparing him to Nathanael West, she concluded, "Mr. "Downtrodden Mary's Failed Campaign of Terror" The collection was listed as a Notable Book of 1996 by The New York Times, as well as a finalist for the 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award. Many of the stories initially appeared in different forms in various magazines, including Kenyon Review, Harper's, The New Yorker and Quarterly West. Published in 1996, it was Saunders's first book. 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