![]() ![]() ![]() “ ‘Promises of the Heart’ raises awareness about organ donation, adoption, giving back through Locks of Love, and pet rescue. I believe a good book makes the reader laugh and cry, but when they close it, feeling uplifted by the ending.”Īll Rossiter’s books deal with real-life problems, ranging from Alzheimer’s to autism. When I’m reading a book, if I don’t care about the characters, I won’t finish it, so my goal is to create likeable, authentic characters that face real-life struggles. “I always try to write the kind of book I would enjoy reading. ![]() “I’m very happy with the way this book turned out,” Rossiter offered. When the Samuelsons adopt a three-legged dog, they “unlock emotions and possibilities that may convince them to open their home and hearts to Harper,” even though they have eschewed adoption in the past. It’s the first in what she describes as her “Savannah Skies” series, and is the saga of a couple, Ben and Macey Samuelson, who want to fill a house on Tybee Island with children, but a fifth miscarriage “casts doubt on children being in their future.” A troubled young girl, Harper Wheaton, with whom Macey has dealt in her role as a physician’s assistant, decides that she would like to join a family rather than enter another foster home. Rossiter’s latest work, entitled “Promises of the Heart” takes place far from Litchfield County in Savannah, Ga., and is due out in February. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Next Act Theatre performs "God's Spies" through May 21 at 255 S. "God's Spies" is Next Act's entry in World Premiere Wisconsin, a statewide festival of new plays and musicals. I found this one superior to last season's Cain offering, "The Last White Man," and easier for someone who is not a Shakespeare obsessive to follow.ĭavid Cecsarini directed and co-sound designed "God's Spies," capping off an incredible three decades as Next Act's producing artistic director. Hamlet’s soliloquy from William Shakespeare’s play is rightly celebrated for being a meditation on the nature of life and death, but some analyses and interpretations of the soliloquy serve to reduce the lines to a more simplistic meaning. Like some of Cain's other plays, there's a lot of comedy and argument about how theater is made here. It would not hurt to reacquaint yourself with "King Lear" before seeing it, as "Lear" plot points are discussed and the Shakespeare play is frequently quoted. ![]() This is the fifth Cain play that Next Act has produced, the third with a Shakespearean theme. The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic infuses Cain's humane comedy, as evidenced by Ruth's relentless tidying and Shakespeare's blithe, ignorant dismissal that it will only last a few days. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I can’t guess how many copies are out there by now.Īt a bit more than 200 pages including the bibliography, this little book describes the rules that govern the use of: Who could have guessed that a book about punctuation would hit the top of the charts?įirst published in April of 2004, Eats, Shoots and Leaves spent 25 weeks on the NY Times bestseller list and by October of that year had gone back to press 22 times to bring the total of copies in print to a million. Write what you’re enthusiastic about and kindred spirits will find your book. Don’t try to produce another DaVinci Code or Harry Potter. Here’s a book that is not only useful and fun to read, its phenomenal popularity carries a moral for every writer:ĭon’t worry about following the market. I’ve finally got round to reading Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ITEM # 67M3 Hardcover $16.50 NEW! My Baby Loves Christmas A perfect first Christmas book. Share the joy by giving the gift of books for the holidays! movIng taBs and Flaps on EverY sprEad! ITEM # 32M3 Paperback $1.50 Retail $3.99 BABY NEW! This Is Baby by Jimmy Fallon 40 pages A laugh-out-loud way to teach the parts of the body. ![]() Read to Your Create family memories by reading to your baby from the very beginning. by David McPhail 32 pages Classic story about unconditional love. 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The farmhouse is now called Anne Hathaway’s Cottage.Īt a personal level, these two remain the most mysterious couple in the world of sixteenth century celebrities. Anne’s stepmother Joan continued to live in the farmhouse with her family. ![]() ![]() After the wedding, it is assumed the newly married couple moved in with John Shakespeare’s family on Henley Street. ![]() Her father Richard had remarried, but alas, he died just a year before the wedding. Her mother had passed away when she was a child. She had a younger brother, Bartholomew, who would one day become a respected farmer. The Hathaway house on Hewland’s Farm, now known as Anne Hathaway’s Cottage.Īs for Anne, she was a farm girl from Shottery, a village within easy walking distance of Stratford. ![]() ![]() ![]() The morally dubious firefighter watchdogs give off strong Fahrenheit 451 vibes, and after John receives the unsettling prediction and then lashes out, there’s a palpable tension that builds throughout the rest of the episode, especially when fellow powder keg and new neighbor Kevin Garvey is thrown into the mix. John smiles wide, plays the part of the loving Dad, but there’s something sinister boiling underneath that comes through when he and his fellow firefighters assault and burn down the home of a local mystic who is cashing in on the beliefs of the townspeople, right after that man gives John an ominous reading about his future. John, just like Kevin in season one, feels like a loaded gun about to go off right from the get go, the only difference is that John still has his family happily under one roof. ![]() There are the kids, fun-loving and epileptic Evie, faithful and charitable Michael, then mother Erika, a warm and kind nurse, and finally, John. After a beautiful, bewildering, but symbolic opening of a prehistoric woman trying to survive alone with her infant, we spend the next 35 minutes not with the Garvey clan, but with the Murphy family. There’s plenty of new characters to focus on, as The Leftovers Season 2 transports us to Jarden, Texas, “Miracle,” the town where no one disappeared. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the present moment, the familiar past and the future literally no longer exist, and you become pure consciousness-a thought alone. That's because you are no longer connected to the same body-mind, to the same identification with the environment, and to the same predictable timeline. ![]() When you discover the sweet spot of the present moment and you forget about yourself as the personality you have always been, you have access to other possibilities that already exist in the quantum field. After introducing the open-focus technique, he then moves you into the practice of finding the present moment. Joe walks you through Meditation 1: Changing Two Beliefs and Perceptions. ![]() Joe Dispenza has created two meditation Audio Downloads-featuring different music-to accompany his book You Are the Placebo.On this longer 56-minute audio download, Dr. ![]() ![]() Powerful, provocative and personal, King Kong Theory is a candid account of how the author of Baise-moi came to be Virginie Despentes. Because this ideal of the seductive white woman constantly being waved under our noses – well, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t exist.’ ![]() ‘I write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the frigid, the unfucked and the unfuckables, all those excluded from the great meat market of female flesh, and for all those guys who don’t want to be protectors, for those who would like to be but don’t know how, for those who are not ambitious, competitive, or well-endowed. Cet ouvrage a bénéficié du soutien des Programmes d’aide à la publication de l’Institut Français. This book is supported by the Institut Français (Royaume-Uni) as part of the Burgess Programme. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, work eventually begun to dry up.Īt that point, Becky had a choice to make. Becky spent a lot of time working freelance. There was no doubt in her mind that she would pursue science fiction in one fashion or another. It helped that Becky watched a lot of Star Trek when she was a child.īecky has been known to reminisce about all the roleplaying she did as a child, positioning herself as a First Officer in Star Trek’s Starfleet and envisioning all the adventures she might have undertaken if the Star Trek universe was a real thing. The fact that her mother is an astrobiologist probably had something to do with the curiosity that was sparked in her for the cosmos. The author has always loved science fiction. Born and raised in California, Becky did a lot of freelance writing and editorial work before finally coming to fame as a novelist. ![]() The book was very well received, eliciting interest in the author’s future works.īecky took a while to find her stride as an author. The author first rose to fame in 2014 when ‘The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet’ was published. Becky Chambers is an American author that writes Science fiction novels. ![]() ![]() There are new evils…new dangers to threaten Roland’s little band in the devastated city of Lud and the surrounding wastelands, as well as horrific confrontations with Blaine the Mono, the piratical Gasher, and the frightening Tick-Tock Man. ![]() Roland, Susannah, and Eddie must draw Jake into Mid-World and then follow the Path of the Beam all the way to the Dark Tower. Now Roland and Jake exist in different worlds, but they are joined by the same madness: the paradox of double memories. But Roland altered ka by saving the life of Jake Chambers, a boy who-in Roland’s world-has already died. Eddie Dean has given up heroin, and Odetta’s two selves have joined, becoming the stronger and more balanced personality of Susannah Dean. Several months have passed since The Drawing of the Three, and in The Waste Lands, Roland’s two new tet-mates have become trained gunslingers. The third volume in the #1 nationally bestselling Dark Tower Series, involving the enigmatic Roland (the last gunfighter) and his ongoing quest for the Dark Tower, is “Stephen King at his best” ( School Library Journal). ![]() Now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba ![]() |