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![]() I could relate to a few of them like 'The reluctant daughter' but there's also 'The daughter of madness' 'The daughter of narcissism' 'The dependent daughter' 'The busy daughter' etc. She gets nine different daughters talking about their mothers and the result is this book. Since her friend Roisin writes a column in the Irish Times, she asks her to advertise a club or meeting for daughters to get together and share stories about their mothers to support each other in caring for their mothers or improving their relationships, or if there isn't any, accepting their mothers for who they are. ![]() It's about a daughter's relationship with her mother after realising that her mother's health is failing and she might not have long to live, so Natasha has this idea to be a better daughter. The good, the bad and the guilty of mother-daughter relationships. The Daughterhood by Natasha Fennell and Roisin Ingle I suppose this belongs in the same category - I have just finished this one ![]() ![]() I was put off by the casual racism in the use of the word "Dago" to describe the prime suspect, and even understanding that as part of the historical context didn't keep Inspector Grant's insistence on using it from bothering me a lot. And while I've enjoyed the others I've read, especially _Miss Pym Disposes_, I have to say that this one was difficult. I've been on a Josephine Tey kick lately (she's one of the Golden Age writers I came to late). I hope that Tey meant for us to pick up on things that Grant doesn't, but I'm not so sure in this particular interest.īut anyhow, she's great, and all of her books are worth reading on their own merits. And, to be frank, Tey doesn't do a good job of hiding a major clue which - annoyingly - Grant doesn't seem to pick up! The clue doesn't reveal the killer, but it certainly points an arrow in a general direction. I will say the ending is rather abrupt, in contradistinction to the sometimes languid, well-paced rest of the novel. Her concept of the investigator who often makes mistakes and has to recalibrate is also fantastic, and the novel inadvertently has become a piece of historical writing: it's thoroughly enjoyable to keep reminding oneself that Grant can't just use a mobile phone, or look up a suspect's address in "the system". ![]() Tey was a fantastic writer, and her mystery novels are peppered with beautiful set-pieces, elegant descriptions and minor characters sketched with scythe-like precision. ![]() ![]() The novel functions very well as both a fictionalized version of the birth of the Hong Kong colony and as a tale of adventure and intrigue. "It has been at least 25 years since I first read this, and I am pleased to say that it holds up extremely well. This critically acclaimed historical novel is another fine example of Times bestselling author James Clavell’s works have become beloved modernĬlassics. ![]() And it is in this exciting time and exotic place that a giant of anĮnglishman, Dirk Struan, sets out to turn the desolate island of Hong Kong intoĪn impregnable fortress of British power-and to make himself supreme ruler: Tai-Pan! Traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese ![]() ![]() It is the early nineteenth century, when European ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But a lesbian Christian? Has that become an oxymoron-a dichotomy without resolution? Are we allowed to even talk about it? Why not? Everybody loves a furry protagonist. Will a psychotherapist-werewolf appeal to readers? Sure. It seemed like a good plot when I wrote it, but while editing the manuscript I started second-guessing myself. ![]() The main is a psychotherapist-werewolf (werecoyote, to be exact) who meets the one true love she hasn’t seen in twenty years-an evangelical preacher’s daughter who, now married to an abusive narcissist, shows up for therapy with her young child. There are two single-character dichotomies. I bring up the religious dichotomy because of my upcoming novel, Coyote Blues. Like the shape shifter who loathes her animal self, the ice queen who fears intimacy but finds herself falling in love, or…oh, I don’t know…how about a lesbian Christian? The dichotomy can also be a single character made up of contradictory parts: a protagonist, say, whose conflicting feelings and behavior cause a Jekyll and Hyde type of inner turmoil. ![]() In fiction as in life, the dichotomy is the author’s go-to literary tool for creating conflict and tension-characters divided by opposing values, beliefs, cultures. Other times they find ways to co-exist and harmonize as they do in nature-the yin yang of all things. Dichotomies are all around us: poverty and wealth, love and hate, good and evil, body and soul, material and immaterial. ![]() ![]() Four years after that meeting, Nick Brokhausen and Jeff Miller leave the service within a few weeks of each other and begin an odyssey that takes them to dozens of countries on five continents.Along with a small coterie of fellow former Special Operations and intelligence community veterans like Penguini, Max, Reek, The Spider Woman and a score of others-some heroes and some villains-they undertake a variety of missions for the government, other governments, large multinational corporations mostly in the aerospace or resource development industries, and occasionally just for suffering individuals who cannot find help anywhere else. ![]() A lot of confusion, a lot of humor, a lot of broken dreams and broken promises, an occasional triumph.1978-a chance meeting on a remote military airbase between two Green Berets involved in the same operation leads to a partnership that will last over forty years. ![]() ![]() Even the snow-white orchids on the receptionist’s desk did nothing to add any warmth to the space. It all felt ultramodern, pristine, and slightly soulless. The walls were pure white, but the enormous wall of cobalt glass windows behind the receptionist turned the daylight pale blue, as if we were under water. I stepped out before the elevator closed. At least twenty-five feet separated the glossy dark blue floor and the white ceiling. The doors opened, revealing a wide space punctuated by a receptionist’s desk made of polished stainless steel tubes. The message from Montgomery said seventeenth floor, so I entered the elevator when the doors whooshed open, pushed the button with 17 on it, and waited as the car shot upward with a whisper. I walked through the door to the gleaming elevator, passing through a metal detector. I tried to scrounge up some awe but got only anxiety instead. It was meant to impress and fill you with awe at House Montgomery’s magnificence. Twenty-five stories tall, it gleamed with hundreds of tinted cobalt windows. The asymmetrical glass tower of Montgomery International Investigations rose above the neighboring office buildings like a shark fin of blue glass. I needed to brush my hair, make myself presentable, and hightail it across town to the glass towers. I was almost to the door when he called, “Nevada? John Rutger’s wife wired the money. ![]() Hopefully we just forgot to file some form or something.” ![]() I’ll call you as soon as I find out what this is about. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Prior experience thinking descriptively about language. “A genuinely introductory linguistics text, well suited for undergraduates who have little Hawai‘i, the University of Minnesota and Louisiana State University. ![]() GEORGE YULE has taught linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, the University of This is the most fundamental and easy-touse introduction to the study of language. While encouraging lively and proactive learning. Guide provides students with further resources, including answers and tutorials for all tasks, To increase student engagement and to foster problem-solving and criticalthinking skills, the book includes twenty new tasks. Substantial changes to the chapters on phonetics, grammar and syntax, and eighty new This sixth edition has been revised and updated throughout, with Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Yule presents information inīite-sized sections, clearly explaining the major concepts in linguistics through all the keyĮlements of language. This best-selling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study ![]() ![]() "Horace's authority as an experienced officer, as well as his obvious integrity and courage, provides the book with a gravitas." - The Washington Post He dissects some of the nation's most highly publicized police shootings and communities to explain how these systems and tactics have hurt the people they serve, revealing the mistakes that have stoked racist policing, sky-high incarceration rates, and an epidemic of violence. ![]() ![]() Through gut-wrenching reportage, on-the-ground research, and personal accounts from interviews with police and government officials around the country, Horace presents an insider's examination of archaic police tactics. Yet it was not until seven years into his service- when Horace found himself face down on the ground with a gun pointed at his head by a white fellow officer-that he fully understood the racism seething within America's police departments. ![]() ![]() During his 28-year career, Matthew Horace rose through the ranks from a police officer working the beat to a federal agent working criminal cases in some of the toughest communities in America to a highly decorated federal law enforcement executive managing high-profile investigations nationwide. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ru Xu’s graphic novel takes place in fictional Nautilene, a port city involved in a war with a neighboring country. One small newsboy was even arrested and taken to court for “exerting extraordinary lung power” while hawking the headlines along Broad Street. ![]() He includes stories and newspaper quotes about the newsies of Richmond. Harry Ward, a professor from The University of Richmond, provides a look at the children who worked and played in Richmond, Virginia around the turn of the century. They worked and lived in many cities and town across America. ![]() Newsies did not only live in New York City. Some were dirty, some ragged some scowled, some whimpered but they were all on the streets for a noble cause: to make money for their families-and themselves.” I don’t think Jack Kelly or Katherine Plumber could have summed up the job description of a newsie any better! children of the streets of richmond, 1865-1920 by harry m. He describes the newsies of the late 1800s and early 1900s as “a band of little merchants selling their wares. David Nasaw provides historical facts and details about the life of the newsboys and sometimes girls. While this one is not solely about newsies, there is an entire chapter called Newsies. Children of the city: at work and at play by David Nasaw ![]() |