![]() Her very life may be the ante she risks to get to the bottom of everything that's been plaguing her since birth-and if she can't bluff her way to winning, Dahlia Poplar may prove to be the dead card that's no longer in play. Somehow, she needs to brew the right potion to break her curse while solving the paranormal message encoded in the club's playing cards, all while keeping her loved ones safe. ![]() When the tournament ends prematurely, there's a body charred to ashes, and Dahlia takes it upon herself to figure out if the wicked witch is behind the disaster. ![]() Unfortunately, her efforts stir up unwanted attention from the one who cursed Dahlia to begin with, the evil witch whose shadow has loomed over all of the dreadful events in Luna Lane. ![]() With visiting professor Cable Woodward due to depart to spend more of his sabbatical on the road, Dahlia can't admit that he may be the reason she's so determined to finally leave behind the cozy comforts of home. Potions and Playing Cards by Amy McNulty, 2021, Snowy Wings Publishing edition, in English Potions and Playing Cards (2021 edition) Open Library It looks like youre offline. Fixated on researching ways to break her curse once and for all, jinxed witch and do-gooder Dahlia Poplar doesn't know how well she'll do in the upcoming Euchre Tournament, the Luna Lane Spooky Games Club's first sponsored event. ![]()
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![]() As Alma's research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of orchids and who draws her in the exact opposite direction - into the realm of the spiritual, the divine, and the magical. Born in 1800, Henry's brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father's money and his mind), ultimately becomes a botanist of considerable gifts herself. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker-a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. ![]() ![]() He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Jared Diamond is a professor of geography at the University of California at Los Angeles, and is a member of WWF’s board of directors. “And among all the things that might incline me towards pessimism, that is the biggest thing that in the end inclines me towards optimism.” However, unlike the Maya, we have the “unique opportunity” and capacity to “learn from remote places and to learn from places remote in time,” Diamond says. ![]() ![]() In a new video, Jared Diamond talks about climate change, drawing parallels between modern Americans and the Classic southern lowland Maya - who failed to take the actions that might have avoided the collapse of their civilization. ![]() ![]() Below is the video and a blog post on it by WWF’s Nick Sundt. Jared Diamond, author of the bestseller “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed,” has a fascinating video discussion of climate change. ![]() ![]() ![]() The universe had righted itself, and rational thought had returned, right around the time she’d explained what it was she wanted.Īnd there, in the silence that followed her announcement, Cross had understood the truth. ![]() ![]() Now, however, he was quite awake, had closed the (correctly accounted) ledger, and was fully (if not appropriately) clothed. For long moments, his shirt had appeared to lose a rather critical opening, which was a distraction indeed. Or perhaps the reverse.Īnd he most definitely would have realized that the woman was utterly insane sixty seconds earlier if he hadn’t been rather desperately attempting to clothe himself. He might have realized it three minutes earlier if she hadn’t announced, all certainty, that he’d miscalculated column F, ensuring that his understanding of her madness was preempted by shock at her pluck and admiration for her mathematical skill. He would have realized it five minutes earlier if he hadn’t been half-asleep, shocked as hell to find a young, blond, bespectacled female seated at his desk, reading his ledger. The Scientific Journal of Lady Philippa Marbury In the name of proper enquiry, I have made adjustments to my research. Jasper fought for breath, then for words.Īvenues for investigation have become severely limited, as has time. Even as his legacy crumbled around him, and he faced his life’s disappointment. Jasper spun to face his father, Earl Harlow, tall and strong and unbending even now. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Weeds is a standalone romance and is part of the Lovelight series. It features a grumpy farmer, a no-nonsense social media influencer, a small town of busybodies, and four very cute kittens. In The Weeds is a sweet and steamy second-chance romance about finding your happiness. It has absolutely nothing to do with the hot farmer she spent two incredible nights with. ![]() The third book in the Lovelight Farms series is about Caleb and Layla, who we met in the previous books as side characters. The small town vibe, the relatable characters, all the funny moments, cute moments and everything in between. She returns to the last place she was happy, Lovelight Farms and the tiny town of Inglewild. I absolutely ADORE BK Borison’s writing style - it sucks me right in and I don’t want to put it down. When she disappears again, Beckett resolves to finally forget her and move on.įeeling disconnected from her work and increasingly unhappy, she’s trying to find her way back to something real. He had no idea that the sweet and sexy woman he met at a bar is actually a global phenomenon: social media influencer Evelyn St. So when she suddenly appears on his farm as part of a social media contest, he is … confused. But Evie wove some sort of magic over him during their tumble in the sheets. He’s not unfamiliar with hot and heavy flings. One incredible weekend in Maine, and he’s officially a man distracted. James isn’t the kind of woman you forget.īeckett Porter certainly hasn’t. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Houston, he worked for a few years until, ordered to stand trial for embezzlement, he fled to New Orleans and thence Honduras. When its accounts balanced not, people blamed and fired him. He failed to establish a small humorous weekly and afterward worked in poorly-run bank. His wife and firstborn died, but daughter Margaret survived him. In 1884, he went to Austin, where he worked in a real estate office and a church choir and spent four years as a draftsman in the general land office. He left school at fifteen years of age and worked for five years in drugstore of his uncle and then for two years at a Texas sheep ranch. Mother of three-year-old Porter died from tuberculosis. His era produced their voices and his language. His biography shows where he found inspiration for his characters. Such volumes as Cabbages and Kings (1904) and The Four Million (1906) collect short stories, noted for their often surprising endings, of American writer William Sydney Porter, who used the pen name O. ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrative unfolds in a plotless series of vignettes that Lahiri marks by where (and occasionally when) they occur: “In the Pool,” In the Hotel,” “At the Cash Register,” “In Bed,” “In August.” These section headings, along with the title, deliberately underscore the idea of place. Dalloway and shares contemporary DNA with other elliptical books about women in midlife, like Rachel Cusk’s Second Place, and Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend and more recent What Are You Going Through. ![]() (The tipoff she’s in Italy are the many mentions of piazzas.) The book, which Lahiri wrote and published in Italian before translating it into English herself, is an obvious heir to Mrs. Whereabouts i s a slim, spare chronicle of a year in the life of an unnamed middle-aged woman in an unnamed Italian city. Press play to hear a narrated version of this story, presented by AudioHopper. Existential questions of midlife hover over Whereabouts, the new novel by Jhumpa Lahiri : What happens when life’s big yawning choices have all been settled? What defines an existence in which someone has renounced marriage and children and even deeply meaningful work, especially if that someone is a woman? ![]() ![]() ![]() Even freedom is only a relative, not an absolute concept, since it tends constantly to become broader and to affect wider circles in more manifold ways. The anarchist historian Rudolph Rocker, who presents a systematic conception of the development of anarchist thought towards anarchosyndicalism, along lines that bear comparison to Guérin’s work, puts the matter well when he writes that anarchism is not “a fixed, self-enclosed social system but rather a definite trend in the historic development of mankind, which, in contrast with the intellectual guardianship of all clerical and governmental institutions, strives for the free unhindered unfolding of all the individual and social forces in life. ![]() And even if we proceed to extract from the history of libertarian thought a living, evolving tradition, as Daniel Guérin does in Anarchism, it remains difficult to formulate its doctrines as a specific and determinate theory of society and social change. A French writer, sympathetic to anarchism, wrote in the 1890s that “anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything”-including, he noted those whose acts are such that “a mortal enemy of anarchism could not have done better.” There have been many styles of thought and action that have been referred to as “anarchist.” It would be hopeless to try to encompass all of these conflicting tendencies in some general theory or ideology. ![]() ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. 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