![]() ![]() ![]() After a heated kiss, he’s gently pushed away and told that he (the sexy man) is there every Thursday night and to find him again when he’s sober. Oh, the man’s interested, but Ren is too drunk and the guy won’t take advantage. Well, Ren’s not exactly experienced in picking up guys in bars so when he approaches one in particular it doesn’t quite go the way he’d like. They go to a gay bar and commence to get drunk. His heart broken, his best friend Daniel insists he just needs a good rebound fling. Ren has just been dumped by his boyfriend of five years. This series does NOT contain shifters, it’s the OTHER kind of bears. Absolutely NO cheating and NO love triangle. This is a funny, steamy MM story guaranteed to make you laugh and swoon. **** Caulky is book 1 in the Four Bears Construction Series and can be read as a stand-alone. And maybe the way I’m starting to feel about the guy I’ve been anonymously chatting with online should concern me.īut CaulkyAF doesn’t want to meet, and Cole doesn’t want anything serious, so what’s the worst that could happen? ![]() Okay, maybe meeting up with my hot contractor weekly is a little more than occasional. The last thing I want is another relationship or another broken heart.Īll I need are my bees and the occasional hookup to scratch the itch. Lucky for him, the smoking hot contractor he hired has just the tool for the job. Ren is in desperate need of a rebound fling. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He participated in Mission Albany, the airborne landing portion of Operation Neptune, the largest amphibious invasion in history, which was the assault portion of Operation Overlord. ![]() He was assigned to E (“Easy”) company, 2 nd Battalion, 506 th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101 st Airborne Division. He received his jump certification in 1942. He volunteered to be a paratrooper after reading a Life magazine article about them being the best. He tried enlisting in the Marine Corps and the Army Air Corps, but was drafted into the Army in 1942. Donald was one of several members of Easy Company who were portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers.ĭonald was in his first semester at the University of Oregon when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Donald Malarkey. ![]() ![]() Diary, I wish Rachel would like my daddy and me as much as I like her. Rachel is so pretty, and she has the coolest job-she owns the flower shop in town! She promised to show me how to make a bouquet! My best friend, Kristy, says Daddy should take Rachel out on dates, and then they hafta kiss, and then they can get married. See, I love my daddy a lot, but ever since my real mommy died I think he's been very lonely. The mommy project Dear Diary, Today I met my new mommy! Well, I wish Rachel would be my new mommy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His work was published in 1202 when most people still relied on Roman numerals. Leonardo Pisano, a mathematician who was also known as Fibonacci, explored the power of Arabic numerals and their applications in Liber Abaci or Book of the Abacus. The concept of zero was a major innovation, because it allowed people to calculate using only 10 symbols: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4_and so on. It was brought to the Arab world by 700 A.D., and they spread it around the world after that time period. The Hindu numbering system originated in 500 A.D. It wasn’t until Renaissance thinkers turned their attention to developing mathematics that they needed numbers for gambling and other things like it. ![]() Neither did those in the Talmud, although they used odds for permissible laws. However, ancient Greek scientists didn’t study probability. Their gods played dice to decide who would rule the heavens, seas and underworld. Gambling was part of the Greeks’ creation myth. 1-Page Summary of Against the Gods The Ancients ![]() ![]() Ross’s lyrical, rhythmic writing is something to be savored. ![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J.
![]() ![]() Set these colorful and varied characters against a brilliant background of political intrigue and vengeance at the highest levels and a manhunt that covers three continents, and the result is a smart and electrically exciting global thriller. ![]() Acquisition A fragment of a painting by Titian Years later, a stranger is living in Port Navas, Cornwall, England. The story features a vivid and fascinating supporting cast, including the magus-like Ari Shamron, a beautiful French Jewish model who is seeking retribution for her family’s death in the Holocaust, and a marvelously comic down-at-the-heels London art dealer. As the Leah and Dani are preparing to return to Israel, their car explodes, killing Dani and severely injuring Leah. The architect of this plot, a Palestinian zealot named Tariq, is a lethal part of Gabriel’s past, so as the two begin an intercontinental game of hide-and-seek, with life and death as the prizes, the motives are as personal as they are political. ![]() Now Ari Shamron, the head of Israeli intelligence, needs Gabriel’s particular kind of experience to thwart a Palestinian plot to destroy the peace negotiations in the Middle East. ![]() Gabriel Allon had a simple but brutal job: he tracked down and eliminated Israel’s terrorist enemies.īut when his wife and son fell victim to the danger that accompanied him everywhere, Gabriel quit and devoted himself to the work of art restoration, an occupation that had previously been a cover for his secret assignments. ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrative of the novel is by no means less dramatic than the author’s life and is presented in an engaging two-fold format. Balta Drobulė ( The White Cloth), first published in 1958, was written during Škėma‘s exodus in Western Europe and the United States, where the author lived for more than a decade until his abrupt death in a car crash in 1961. Modernist novels, on the other hand, tend to reject these conventions, dwell on existential questions, and shift between first-person self-analysis and surreal elements. He is one of the most prominent writers of Lithuanian modernism and is often a breath of fresh air for high school students, coming after novels and novels of Lithuanian realism, which typically have rural settings, describe harsh realities, and portray characters who are continuously dependent on their environments. Antanas Škėma is an author Lithuanian readers either love or hate. ![]() ![]() Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist over 20 years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism and freedom. It is also known for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. ![]() ![]() The book is noted for "changing the course of children's literature" in the United States for the "deeply felt portrayal of boyhood". It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, the narrator of two other Twain novels ( Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective) and a friend of Tom Sawyer. ![]() Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at WikisourceĪdventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885.Ĭommonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. ![]() ![]() Surely Welles knew that is precisely why the broadcast had the effect it did, especially in such an anxious pre-war climate. The 1898 novel also startled its first readers with its verisimilitude, playing on a late Victorian sense of apocalyptic doom as the turn-of-the century approached. After the occurrence, reports Phil Klass, the actor remarked, “I’m extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding and adventure stories, should have had such an immediate and profound effect upon radio listeners.” The most notorious use of Wells’ book was by Orson Welles, whom the author called “ my little namesake,” and whose 1938 War of the Worlds Halloween radio play caused public alarm (though not actually a national panic). ![]() ![]() Wells’ War of the Worlds has terrified and fascinated readers and writers for decades since its 1898 publication and has inspired numerous adaptations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Megan is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Northern Colorado Writers, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, Columbine Poets of Colorado, and Lighthouse Writers Workshop. She studied theater and dramatic literature for many years, earning degrees from Occidental College and the Ohio State University. Megan is also a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, and her poetry chapbook, Lessons on Sleeping Alone, was published by Liquid Light Press.Īn award-winning teacher with decades of classroom experience, Megan taught multiple subjects across the arts and humanities to students K-16, and she is nationally recognized for presenting workshops and speaking to audiences across the country. Her debut middle grade novel, ALONE, won the Colorado Book Award, is an NCTE Notable Novel in Verse, a Goodreads Choice Award Finalist, and was included on over a dozen Best Of and state reading lists. ![]() Freeman attended an elementary school where poets visited her classroom every week to teach poetry, and she has been a writer ever since. ![]() |