![]() ![]() As they grow closer, they are drawn deep into the mystery behind her father’s disappearance, and they discover the centuries old truth behind their intense bond. ![]() When fate brings Clea and this man together, she is stunned by the immediate and powerful connection she feels with him. But after Clea’s father disappears while on a humanitarian mission, Clea’s photos begin to feature eerie, shadowy images of a strange and beautiful man-a man she has never seen before. ![]() The daughter of a renowned surgeon and a prominent Washington DC politician, she has grown to be a talented photojournalist who takes refuge in a career that allows her to travel to the most exotic parts of the world. My edition: Paperback, published in 2010 by Simon & Schuster, 327 pages.ĭescription: Clea Raymond has felt the glare of the spotlight her entire life. ![]()
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![]() ![]() SM 101: A Realistic Introduction, (1st ed, 1992), 2nd ed - Greenery Press, 2000. ![]() Personal AD-ventures: How to Meet People Through Personal Ads."Emergency Training For SM Practitioners".Works Īs of 2018, Wiseman has written 12 books and dozens of articles in magazines from Playboy to Redbook. Jay Wiseman is an inductee of the Society of Janus Hall of Fame. Although the college is now defunct, he is still listed through documentation as having taught "Advanced Legal Concepts" and "Legal Analysis". Later on, he became an adjunct professor at the same college. ![]() ![]() Hardy continues to run the company, while Wiseman continues to serve on the Press's board of directors.Īfter receiving royalties from the distribution of SM 101: A Realistic Introduction, he took the resultant funds and put himself through the New College of California School of Law. Greenery Press was founded in 1991 by author Janet Hardy, and in 1995 it merged with Jay Wiseman Books under the Greenery name. It is also one of the Society of Janus' "Suggested Readings" regarding BDSM. His most famous work is the book SM 101: A Realistic Introduction, which has somewhere in the area of 100,000 copies in print. Jay Joseph Wiseman (born 1949) is an American BDSM author, educator, and expert legal witness. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For this book is not merely an advance on “A Farewell to Arms.” It touches a deeper level than any sounded in the author’s other books. Also, in both books the mounting interplay of death and sex is a major theme, the body’s intense aliveness as it senses its own destruction.īut there, I think, the resemblance ends. Though the heroine, Maria, reminds one rather less of Catherine Barkley, the two women have much in common. Like Henry, he is anti-heroically heroic, anti-romantically romantic, very male, passionate, an artist of action, Mercutio modernized. The hero, Robert Jordan, a young American Loyalist sympathizer, recalls to mind Frederic Henry. It’s not inaccurate to say that Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is “A Farewell to Arms” with the background, instead, the Spanish Civil War. ![]() ![]() In addition, Mitchell’s illuminating introduction opens the epic still further to our understanding and appreciation. Omitting these hundreds of interpolated lines restores a dramatically sharper, leaner text. West, whose edition of the original Greek identifies many passages that were added after the Iliad was first written down, to the detriment of the music and the story. ![]() Mitchell’s Iliad is also the first translation based on the work of the preeminent Homeric scholar Martin L. Now, thanks to the power of Stephen Mitchell’s language, the Iliad’s ancient story comes to moving, vivid new life, and we are carried along by a poetry that lifts even the most devastating human events into the realm of the beautiful. But until now, even the best English translations haven’t been able to re-create the energy and simplicity, the speed, grace, and pulsing rhythm of the original. Homer’s story is thrilling, and his Greek is perhaps the most beautiful poetry ever sung or written. ![]() ![]() Tolstoy called the Iliad a miracle Goethe said that it always thrust him into a state of astonishment. Learn more about this book at Simon and Schuster. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Career ĭramacon is Chmakova's first full-length comic, telling the story of Christie Leroux, an aspiring teenage comics writer, and her experiences at her first anime convention. Īccording to her website, she is married and has a toddler. She then began to publish her manga on the Internet. After she emigrated to Canada at the age of 16, she graduated from the Sheridan College Classical Animation program in 2002. Previously, she created The Adventures of CG for CosmoGIRL! magazine and the webcomic Chasing Rainbows for Girlamatic.Ĭhmakova was born in Russia where she was first exposed to comics after she found ElfQuest at a Moscow book stand. She has been nominated for an Eisner Award twice. Her other original work includes Nightschool and Awkward for Yen Press. She is best known for Dramacon, an original English-language (OEL) manga spanning three volumes and published in North America by Tokyopop. October 7, 1979) is a Russian-Canadian comic book artist. Joe Shuster Comics for Kids Award, Dwayne McDuffie Award for Kids' Comics ![]() ![]() When I mention Louis C.K.'s maxim that you're not really doing the work as a parent if you haven't given your child the finger behind her head, he laughs somewhat uncomfortably. His phone manner is clear-spoken and polite, and he repeatedly emphasizes that his book is not meant as an expression of anything you should ever say directly to a child. In conversation, Mansbach, author of the novels "Angry Black White Boy" and "The End of the Jews," sounds neither angry nor especially profane. Who knew the torments of early parenthood could be so fruitful? What began as an offhand Facebook update - "Look out for my forthcoming children’s book, 'Go the Fuck to Sleep'"- has landed in its first week of publication at the top of the New York Times bestseller list, with a stunning print run of more than 300,000 copies and an option for a movie. Unlike you or me, however, he's turned "Go the F**k to Sleep" into one of the most buzzed about books of the year. Or maybe just telling her to go the fuck to sleep.Īdam Mansbach knows the feeling. In those long, dark helpless nights of torture, you feel like weeping, like pleading to your offspring for mercy. Her tactics? Loud noise, incessant, impossible to fulfill demands, and, most cruelly of all, relentlessly subjecting you to constant sleep deprivation. ![]() ![]() The one when you realize your precious bundle of joy is in fact a CIA operative on a mission to break your will. If you've ever had a young child, it's likely you've had that moment. ![]() ![]() ![]() But here’s the real surprise: Once you have mental telepathy, it’s hard to call anyone a stranger anymore.” ![]() “Who among us hasn’t sat on a train and played at reading the minds of strangers? In this way, Tracks is a voyeuristic fantasy fulfilled. These intertwined stories are melodious and brim with soulful compassion." Sincere and empathetic, Goodman delivers. Goodman’s novel in stories, Tracks, allows the reader to journey with his characters in their moving and transforming destinies. In Tracks, Goodman skillfully weaves stories of chance encounters, lost opportunities and new beginnings into a tight, colorful, breathtaking tapestry which he says is a train ride, but seems an awful lot like life.” Goodman is a keen, compassionate and refreshingly un-ironic observer of the human condition. Goodman’s novel in stories, Tracks, I knew I was in for an enjoyable ride. ![]() Goodman takes the craft to the level of art. Short stories are often an under-appreciated art form. "Goodman's Tracks is a most cunningly crafted tale-a perfect read for trains, planes and automobiles. ![]() Literary journals, magazines, newspapers, and book bloggers are one thing, but what do other authors and readers have to say about Tracks? ![]() ![]() ![]() A vision that would spell the end of the Toronto witches. ![]() Every day Voya begs for their guidance, but her calls go unanswered.Īs Voya struggles to convince everyone-herself included-that she can be a good Matriarch, she has a vision of a terrifying, deadly future. Even her own ancestors seem to have lost faith in her. Consequently, Luc wants nothing to do with her. What’s more, Voya can’t let go of her feelings for Luc, sponsor son of the genius billionaire Justin Tremblay-the man that Luc believes Voya killed. Voya Thomas may have passed her Calling to become a full-fledged witch, but the cost was higher than she’d ever imagined.Īnd her family doesn’t believe that she has what it takes to lead them. ![]() In the spellbinding sequel to “breath of fresh air for the genre” ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review) Blood Like Magic, Voya fights to save her witch community from a terrible future, perfect for fans of Legendborn and Cemetery Boys. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So I had to isolate the controls for each note to its own area. Twelve Tone introduced the ability to notate more than one note on the same staff. The formulas for manipulating the images of notes and accidentals has developed over time, becoming more versatile and streamlined with each implementation. To make it easier to choose sharps or flats, I decided that touching along the right or left side would be a natural progression to automatically set a sharp or flat note. The instinctive gesture of touching the staff seemed so natural, and then to slide right for sharp and left for flat was simply the next step. I created this to facilitate picking notes for the fingering chart apps, and have utilized it in most every app since. I developed an intuitive interface for music notation. ![]() ![]() We plunge into the hidden yearnings and disappointments of her uncle, an art historian stuck in a dead marriage, who travels to Naples to extract Sasha from the city’s demimonde and experiences an epiphany of his own while staring at a sculpture of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Museo Nazionale. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then as a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. ![]() We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist’s couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Kenya. ![]() Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. ![]() |