![]() They're prepared to do whatever it takes to get their man back-even if it means adding a few more shocking sins to their list. But the other ladies aren't about to give him up so easily. And when it leads him to three women from the same family, bickering and backstabbing follow.Ĭontent with having his pick of the flock, Nate is surprised to discover he's fallen head-over-heels in love, and decides to become a one-woman man. In addition to carrying on the preaching tradition begun by his great-grandfather, Nate is also just plain carrying on wherever the spirit-and the flesh-lead him. At only twenty-eight years old, he's the senior pastor of The Gospel Truth Church. Nathaniel "Nate" Thicke is a preaching prodigy. ![]() In this installment of Lutishia Lovely's wickedly sexy Hallelujah Love series, an energetic young pastor works overtime to keep the ladies in his congregation deliciously satisfied. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Filled with illustrations, quotes, stories, and examples, Show Your Work! offers ten transformative rules for being open, generous, brave, productive. It’s about getting findable, about using the network instead of wasting time “networking.” It’s not self-promotion, it’s self-discovery-let others into your process, then let them steal from you. Show Your Work! is about why generosity trumps genius. Now, in an even more forward-thinking and necessary book, he shows how to take that critical next step on a creative journey-getting known. In his New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock their creativity by “stealing” from the community of other movers and shakers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then again, the feud between their families may be the least of their problems. Too bad their parents are at each other’s throats every chance they get, making a relationship between them nearly impossible…unless they manage to keep it a secret. They meet one fateful night at a comic convention prom, and the two can’t help falling for each other. His parents own the biggest comic-store chain in the country, and Ridley can’t stop disappointing them-that is, when they’re even paying attention. She’s an elite cellist, and when she’s not working in her stepmom’s indie comic shop, she’s prepping for the biggest audition of her life. ![]() From the author of Hot Dog Girl comes a fresh and funny queer YA contemporary novel about two teens who fall in love in an indie comic book shop. ![]() ![]() ![]() While she is trying to cope with the ideas of moving for a fifth time, Mclean's new friends find the various social media profiles she has created for her different personas. Mclean and her new friends help Opal construct a model of the town and develops an attraction to her neighbor Dave Wade.Īfter living in Lakeview for a few months, Mclean discovers that Gus has another job offer in Hawaii. In Lakeview, despite her best efforts, Mclean finds herself revealing her true personality, opening up to new people and new experiences. Gus is there to turn around a struggling Italian restaurant, Luna Blu, managed by the headstrong Opal, who has worked there since she was a teenager.Īs a way of preventing herself from forming attachments, Mclean takes on a different name and persona with each move. Seventeen-year-old Mclean Sweet and her father, restaurant consultant Gus Sweet, have just moved to Lakeview, their fourth move in two years. It received mainly positive critical reception. The book was released on May 10, 2011, by Viking. The book chronicles the life of a teenage girl, Mclean, and her journey of self-discovery. What Happened to Goodbye is a young adult novel by Sarah Dessen. ![]() ![]() In the quiet character of Eilis Lacey, Colm Tóibín has created one of fiction's most memorable heroines and in Brooklyn, a luminous novel of devastating power. As she falls in love, news comes from home that forces her back to Enniscorthy, not to the constrictions of her old life, but to new possibilities which conflict deeply with the life she has left behind in Brooklyn. ![]() Slowly, however, the pain of parting is buried beneath the rhythms of her new life - until she begins to realize that she has found a sort of happiness. Leaving her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. ![]() Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. It is Enniscorthy in the southeast of Ireland in the early 1950s. ![]() ![]() ![]() And Johnny himself can make precise maps of any space you name, whether he's been there or not. His brother could scale perfectly flat walls. For example, Johnny's father could see colors no one else could see. What may or may not be useful to Johnny as he flees is that he comes from an African-American family that has been gifted with super powers that are a bit, well, odd. Winner of the William Faulkner - William Wisdom PrizeĪt seventy-two, Johnny Ribkins shouldn’t have such problems: He’s got one week to come up with the money he stole from his mobster boss or it’s curtains.Winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award.“ The Talented Ribkins is a charming and delightful debut novel with a profound heart, and Ladee Hubbard’s voice is a welcome original.” -Mary Gaitskill ![]() “For sheer reading pleasure Ladee Hubbard’s original and wildly inventive novel is in a class by itself.” -Toni Morrison ![]() ![]() The crusty Earl is impressed by the appearance and intelligence of his young American grandson, and charmed by his innocent nature. He offers Mrs Errol a house and income but refuses to meet or have anything to do with her. The Earl wants Cedric to live with him and learn to be an English aristocrat. Cedric is now Lord Fauntleroy and heir to the Earldom and a vast estate. ![]() They receive a visit from Havisham, an English lawyer with a message from Cedric’s grandfather, Lord Dorincourt. ![]() In mid-1880s Brooklyn, New York, Cedric Errol lives with his Mother (never named, known only as Mrs Errol or “dearest”) in genteel poverty after his Father Captain Errol dies. ![]() ![]() Naím’s experience in public service includes his tenure as Venezuela’s Minister of Trade and Industry in the early 1990s, director of Venezuela’s Central Bank, and executive director of the World Bank. He is also the host and producer of Efecto Naím, an Emmy-winning weekly television program on international affairs that airs throughout the Americas on DirectTV (NTN24). The British magazine Prospect named him one of the world’s leading thinkers in 2013, and for several years the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute of Switzerland ranked him among the top 100 global thought leaders. In 2011, Naím was awarded the Ortega y Gasset prize, the most prestigious award in Spanish journalism. In 2018, he published his first novel “ Two Spies in Caracas”. His earlier book, “ Illicit” continues to be widely cited for its pioneering analysis of the globalization of transnational criminal networks. His 2013 book, “ The End of Power”, a New York Times bestseller, was selected by the Washington Post and the Financial Times as one of the best books of the year upon release. He is author of many scholarly articles and more than ten books on international economics and politics. ![]() ![]() During his tenure, Foreign Policy won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence three times. Naím was the editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine for fourteen years. ![]() Moisés Naím is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a best-selling author and an internationally syndicated columnist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He notices all the guards standing all around, and right after looking at his barely-stable footing, he takes note of a log floating along in the stream. As he waits for them to commence killing him, he looks around, and everything seems to be slowed down…like he is controlling time and using that advantage to have a decent look at his surroundings. When the soldiers move the man to the loose plank on the bridge, and while they are binding him up to prevent escape, their footsteps, the creaking of the old bridge, and all the surrounding birds that are chirping and twittering away seen louder and more menacing than usual. ![]() Almost immediately it seems obvious that the condemned man is already feeling very anxious and is more alert and imaginative than normal. ![]() ![]() LSE alumnus Thomas Piketty ( is Professor at EHESS and the Paris School of Economics. Jens Lerche ( is Reader in Agrarian and Labour studies in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS. ![]() Gurminder Bhambra ( is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. This discussion is linked to a just-published special issue of The British Journal of Sociology, featuring a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary set of responses to Piketty. Piketty, in conversation with interlocutors, will present the book’s framework and his historically-informed approach for understanding and combating inequalities today. The conversation will probe his views on race and slavery, the nature of capitalism, the impact of political divides, and the contours of long-term social change. ![]() This event will debate Thomas Piketty’s urgent new book, Capital and Ideology, and will feature an interdisciplinary panel of experts. ![]() |