![]() ![]() ![]() In a 2018 article in The Cut, Wurtzel wrote that she discovered in 2016 that her biological father was photographer Bob Adelman, who had worked with her mother in the 1960s. Her parents, Lynne Winters and Donald Wurtzel, divorced when she was young, and Wurtzel was primarily raised by her mother, who worked in publishing and as a media consultant. Wurtzel grew up in a Jewish family on the Upper West Side of New York City and attended the Ramaz School. In later life, Wurtzel worked briefly as an attorney before her death from breast cancer. Wurtzel's work drove a boom in confessional writing and the personal memoir genre during the 1990s, and she was viewed as a voice of Generation X. Her work often focused on chronicling her personal struggles with depression, addiction, career, and relationships. Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel (J– January 7, 2020) was an American writer, journalist, and lawyer known for the confessional memoir Prozac Nation, which she published at the age of 27. ![]()
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![]() ![]() government project to research biological agents that could control human behavior, the hinky spiritual retreat Sparkling Waters, the dark web site DeepUnder, and the disappearances of at least four schoolchildren, two of whom have also turned up dead. Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U.S. But the hints of other crimes Tempe’s identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M.E.’s splenetic outbursts. ![]() Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. Nettled by several errors in Heavner’s analysis, and even more by her willingness to share the gory details at a press conference, Tempe launches her own investigation, which is not so much off the books as against the books. Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc.), she has no intention of calling in Tempe as a consultant and promptly identifies the faceless body herself as that of a young Asian man. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.Ī week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. ![]() ![]() ![]() When the Earth was young, the majority of the mantle would have been viscous melted rock, but this has cooled and solidified over millions of years to form the mantle we know today. The mantle makes up 84 percent of the Earth’s volume, and consists of both solid and molten rock known as magma. There are seven major plates: the Pacific, North American, Eurasian, African, Antarctic, Indo-Australian, and South American and 10 minor plates: Somali, Nazca, Phillipine Sea, Arabian, Caribbean, Cocos, Caroline, Scotia, Burma, and the New Hebrides plates. Tectonic plates exist in both oceanic and continental areas, and traverse country and continental borders. These plates, which are large chunks of the crust, are free-floating in/on the liquid lower level known as the mantle. The Earth’s crust is also broken up into various pieces, known as tectonic plates, which fit together in a puzzle-like manner to form what is collectively called the crust. ![]() ![]() ![]() And then, his mother can only sit by her son's hospital bed, where she refuses to speak to anyone, and his life hangs in the balance. Before long, that same young boy falls from his bedside window in the middle of the night. Everyone at the party hears her exquisite veneer crack-loud and clear. Everything is fabulous until the picture-perfect hostess explodes in fury because her son disobeys her. ![]() About the Book "A propulsive page-turner about four families whose lives are changed when the unthinkable happens-and what is lost when we give in to our own worst impulses On Harlow Street, the well-to-do neighborhood couples and their children gather for a catered barbecue as the summer winds down drinks continue late into the night. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cathleen Medwick’s biography of Teresa notes that she was “an extremely businesslike mystic.” Single-minded, even brash, she was a good negotiator and had learned something of finance and law. Yet this picture of a demure sister who knows little was largely false, because when she wrote it Teresa was a powerful figure who did not suffer fools gladly. Throughout her journey through the interior castle or mansion, saint Teresa states her ignorance before learned men and describes herself as a ‘bird with a broken wing’, hopeless at writing and offering nothing new. I have mislaid the reference for the source of the below so please contact me if your copyright is breached and I will remove it. So let’s take the visions of St Teresa of Avila to begin with, not because she is Christian but because her knowledge came from her mystical experiences, not from books or instruction. I am trying to suggest that the seven stages of personal development, (or seven sages!) are common across cultures and mystical practices. Let’s start at a different place to the beginning. ![]() ![]() ![]() With loved ones in jeopardy, Pegasus will do everything in their power to find the little boy and recover the missing undercover cop before it's too late.īecause in the end, it's all about family and taking care of those in need. ![]() Of course, Mason jumps in to help.Īs the pair grow closer, life gets more complicated when Gage's son goes missing. : We Own Tonight (9781942834311) by Michaels, Corinne and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Lives collide when they roll out on the mission and Mason finds out that Gage needs aid taking care of his family. When Pegasus is asked to help the local police find a missing undercover officer, the unit leaps in with all hands on deck. ![]() Mason also has a big house and more money than he'd ever need while Gage is drowning in debt. Although I love a good rock star romance, this focused more on the story of two regular people. What makes it stand out was how real Heather and Eli were. But the two of them are like oil and water. We Own Tonight was a wonderful story of finding love when you don't expect it. Gage has wanted smart mouthed and sexy, Mason Taylor since he first laid eyes on him. Not to mention that Gage is a closed book and Mason doesn't know anything about the man. ![]() Only Gage is bossy and overbearing as all hell. Mason can admit that he's had the hots for rough and gruff Gage Hillcrest for well over a year now. After circling around each other for so long, are they ready to take it to the next level? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There has not been a major biography of Douglass in a quarter century. Douglass was not only an astonishing man of words, but a thinker steeped in Biblical story and theology. Blight tells the story of Douglass’s two marriages and his complex extended family. In the biography, Professor Blight has drawn on new information held in a private collection that few other historians have consulted, as well as recently discovered issues of Douglass’s newspapers. Titled Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, Blight’s book was lauded for being “a breathtaking history that demonstrates the scope of Frederick Douglass’ influence through deep research on his writings, his intellectual evolution and his relationships.” (Watch Blight’s interview about his book) Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of American History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition was awarded a 2019 Pulitzer Prize in the history category for his new biography on Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author, and public speaker. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Guralnick is a sensitive biographer who has landed upon a perfect topic in Phillips, the brilliant Memphis producer who, in the 1950s, recorded the earliest work of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Howlin Wolf. Author Peter Guralnick, who interviewed Phillips many times and knew him as well as anyone but his kin, recounts Phillips’ life in meticulous detail from his scuffling days at tiny radio. With extensive interviews and firsthand personal observations extending over a 25-year period with Phillips, along with wide-ranging interviews with nearly all the legendary Sun Records artists, Guralnick gives us an ardent, unrestrained portrait of an American original as compelling in his own right as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, or Thomas Edison. Brian Morton, Glasgow Herald, New York Times Bestseller One of The Washington Posts Notable Nonfiction Books of 2015 'Mr. He brought forth a singular mix of black and white voices passionately proclaiming the vitality of the American vernacular tradition while at the same time declaring, once and for all, a new, integrated musical day. Sam Phillips The author of the critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biography Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius. ![]() The music that he shaped in his tiny Memphis studio with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Ike Turner, Howlin’ Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash, introduced a sound that had never been heard before. The author of the critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biography Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who singlehandedly steered the revolutionary path of Sun Records. ![]() ![]() ![]() In an interesting twist, the books alternate between the hero and heroine as first person narrator which gives a perspective that was new and fun. Not shocked but surprised, I am unaccustomed to certain words being bandied about, nor do I necessarily like it when they are. The Beautiful series love scenes were not much more explicit than a fairly typical romance other than greater frequency and the use of rougher language than I am used to. ![]() I would have thought that the main difference was in courtship by coitus and the point at which emotions become involved, but there are plenty of romances where sex precedes love, so it really just comes down to the level of detail. ![]() The Beautiful series is reasonably inept romance and reasonably ept erotica, although I don’t really know where the rumple in the sheet lies between the two. ![]() ![]() ![]() “One novel you must not miss! A tremendous work from every point of view-thrilling, exciting, lusty, vivid, stupendous" (Chicago Tribune). Based on exhaustive research and told in Michener’s immersive prose, Hawaii is the story of disparate peoples struggling to keep their identity, live in harmony, and, ultimately, join together. Previously a bestselling hardcover and a perennial favourite in mass market paperback, HAWAII i is. Then, in the early nineteenth century, American missionaries arrive, bringing with them a new creed and a new way of life. ![]() As the volcanic Hawaiian Islands sprout from the ocean floor, the land remains untouched for centuries-until, little more than a thousand years ago, Polynesian seafarers make the perilous journey across the Pacific, flourishing in this tropical paradise according to their ancient traditions. Michener brings Hawaii’s epic history vividly to life in a classic saga that has captivated readers since its initial publication in 1959. Michener was one of the world’s most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prizewinning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans,and the memoir The World Is My Home. ![]() Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, name on the dedication page. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Early printing of this “mammoth epic of the islands” (The Baltimore Sun). ![]() |