Fortune seekers arriving in California after the discovery of gold in 1849 couldn't bring the necessities of home with them. From the Great Plains to the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean, the company's operations embraced almost all social, cultural, and economic activities west of the Mississippi, following one of the greatest migrations in American history. The trail of Wells Fargo runs through nearly every imaginable landscape and icon of frontier folklore: the California Gold Rush, the Pony Express, the transcontinental railroad, the Civil and Indian Wars. "Sweeping in scope, as revealing of an era as it is of a company, Stagecoach is the epic story of Wells Fargo and the American West, by award-winning writer Philip L. xxi, 250 pages, pages of plates, illustrations, map 25 cm.
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Clarissa pinkola booksSometimes to make the point I have to move to other animal metaphors. There is nothing wrong with ducks, I assure them, or with swans. Assume also for a moment that she has been brought up by or is currently surrounded by ducks. If warranted, I might ask my client to assume for a moment that she is a swan who does not realzie it. "I must admit, I sometimes find it useful in my practice to delineate the various typologies of personality as cats and hens and ducks and swans and so forth. Rather than understand that the beauty of her soul shines through when she is being herself, the woman changes the subject and effectively snatches nourishment away from the soul-self, which thrives on being acknowledged." If you say how lovely she is, or how beautiful her art is, or compliment anything else her soul took part in, inspired, or suffused, something in her mind says she is undeserving and you, the complimentor, are an idiot for thinking such a thing to begin with. Although it could be a matter of modesty, or could be attributed to shyness- although too many serious wounds are carelessly written off as "nothing but shyness"- more often a compliment is stuttered around about because it sets up an automatic and unpleasant dialogue in the woman's mind. “There is probably no better or more reliable measure of whether a woman has spent time in ugly duckling status at some point or all throughout her life than her inability to digest a sincere compliment. 5/13/2023 0 Comments 50 shades of grey authorQ: What was it about "Twilight" that made you want to write fan fiction? 2 book of all time on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list. 1 book of the decade in the U.S., it is also the No. Not only did "Grey" sell more than 15 million copies, making it the No. It later returned to the top spot two more times. 1 and remained there for 20 consecutive weeks, with follow-ups "Fifty Shades Darker" and "Fifty Shades Freed" rounding out the top 3. In a matter of months, it topped the list at No. The novel first popped up on USA TODAY's radar in February 2012, when it debuted on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list at No. "It was just ridiculous, you know, the speed at which everything happened and the escalation of everything. "My goal was to sell 5,000 books and to maybe see the book one day be on bookshelves," says James. Looking back over the decade since its publication, the novel, which started out as fan fiction, morphed into a juggernaut, impacting both publishing and pop culture at large. It would be a bit of an understatement to say E L James' "Fifty Shades of Grey" had an effect on the publishing world. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Green eggs and ham on a trainHey kids, listen up if you want to be sick 'Cause your dinner looks like something from a Cronenberg flick Think twice before you cuss and shout "damn damn damn" Let me tell you a story about green eggs and ham There was a little yellow man called Sam-I-Am That's me! I don't like you, Sam-I-Am Well, that's fine, that's cool, I understand But do you like green eggs and ham? I don't like green eggs and ham No, I don't like 'em, Sam-I-Am Would you like them here or there? I wouldn't like them anywhere 'Cause I do not like them, Sam-I-Am No, I don't like green eggs and ham Would you like them in a house? Would you like them with a mouse? Maybe you can't hear, you got something in your ear? No I'm gonna make this perfectly clear I would not like them in a house, I would not like them with a mouse I would not like them here or there, I wouldn't like them anywhere 'Cause I do not like them, Sam-I-Am No, not for me, green eggs and ham Would you like them if I served them to you in a box Candlelight, wine and a bottle of scotch? Yeah, some soft lighting, soft music, maybe some Fred Penner on the blaster. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Mud season by ellen stimsonShe dreams of patrons streaming in for fresh-made sandwiches and an old-timey candy counter, but she learns they're boycotting the store. 2,036, one of the oldest continually operating country stores in the country, she learns the hard way that "improvements" are not always welcomed warmly by folks who like things just fine the way they'd always been. When she decides she wants to own and operate the old-fashioned village store in idyllic Dorset, pop. In self-deprecating and hilarious fashion, Mud Season chronicles Stimson's transition from city living to rickety Vermont farmhouse. For lovers of detective work, this is a sure way to keep you glued into not only the characters lives, but the investigation as well. Its format includes paper clippings, evidence pieces, interviews, and other memorabilia. My favorite part of reading this novel was the way it was actually told. The psychological consequences are clearly not overlooked as April did a great job going into the minds of these teenagers, having it all feel real, while keeping an overall sinister vibe. There’s also bonds that form between the characters which I found realistic to dire situations such as this. Mostly, though, we get to see what Kayla’s friends and co-workers are going through guilt, blame, and terror all make an appearance. We even get glimpses of the kidnapper’s point-of-view, which is especially disturbing. Told in multiple perspectives, we get to walk into the lives of the people directly affected by Kayla’s disappearance, all the while trying to figure out what exactly happened to her. I was enticed by this synopsis as soon as I read it, and I found myself absorbed in the story from the start. Kayla was only going out to deliver a pizza… but she never came back.Īs some of you may know, mysteries, thrillers, horrors of all kinds are my favorite genre. The Night She Disappeared, with only 240 pages, is a short but intense mystery. 5/13/2023 0 Comments The outsiders susan e hintonPhoto by Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images Dillon also appeared in The Outsiders as Dallas "Dally" Winston. The story would come to define her life-even though these days she would rather discuss just about anything else. More than half a century ago, Susie Hinton (soon to be known by her gender-neutral pen name) was a student at Will Rogers, where she received a D in creative writing because class assignments were nowhere near as important to her as working out the plot and characters of The Outsiders. “It’s been a long time, so I was kind of looking around … and a woman came up and asked me, ‘Is this your first time inside the school?’ I said, ‘No, not really.’” “It was funny when I first came into the building,” she said near the end of a phone conversation last Halloween, a week and a half after her appearance with Macchio. Prior to the event, Hinton was quietly going about her business, wandering the school’s halls absent-mindedly. Hinton, the writer whose teenage words would forever be emblematic of young adult literature and whose most famous creation, The Outsiders, helped launch Macchio’s career some 40 years earlier. Hosted by Magic City Books, the live conversation in the Art Deco auditorium at Will Rogers High School featured another pop culture icon: S.E. Ralph Macchio (most recently of “ Cobra Kai” fame) was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to promote his memoir, Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me. In late October 2022, a big-time streaming star returned to the city where it all began for him. Thomas University from 2014–15 and a postdoctoral researcher at Uppsala University from 2015–17. She was a visiting assistant professor of history at St. Her dissertation was titled "Imagining Pre-Modern Empire: Byzantine Imperial Agents Outside the Metropole". in medieval Byzantine, global, and comparative history at Rutgers University in 2014. Weller obtained a Bachelor of Arts in religious studies at the University of Chicago in 2007, a Master of Studies in classical Armenian studies at the University of Oxford in 2013, and a Ph.D. Her parents are classical musicians of Russian Jewish heritage: her mother is a professor of violin at Juilliard and her father played for the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera she has described herself as an "assimilated American Jew" and noted that, in the 1930s, Jews who moved to the United States from Europe "were basically playing classical music and inventing the Anglophone discipline of science fiction at the same time". She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with her wife, the author Vivian Shaw. Weller was born and grew up in New York City. Her first novels A Memory Called Empire (2019) and A Desolation Called Peace (2021), which form the Teixcalaan series, each won the Hugo Award for Best Novel. AnnaLinden Weller, better known under her pen name Arkady Martine (born Ap), is an American historian, city planner, and author of science fiction literature. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Worm by wildbow amazonThese chapters were arranged into 31 arcs, each of which covered a specific series of events over six to 12 chapters and concluded with an interlude from the point of view of a side character. It followed a strict publication schedule, with new chapters released every Tuesday and Saturday, and bonus chapters on Thursdays as rewards for donations. The story was written at a rate comparable to a traditional book being published every month. It began online publishing in June 2011 and continued until November 2013, totaling approximately 1,682,400 words. Worm was first published as an online serial with two to three chapters released every week. A sequel, titled Ward, was published from November 2017 to May 2020. It is one of the most popular web serials on the internet, with a readership in the hundreds of thousands. Using a combination of ingenuity, idealism, and brutality, she struggles to do the right thing in a dark world filled with moral ambiguity. McCrae's first novel, Worm features a bullied teenage girl, Taylor Hebert, who develops the superpower to control worms, insects, arachnids and other simple lifeforms. "Wildbow" McCrae and the first installment of the Parahumans series, known for subverting and playing with common tropes and themes of superhero fiction. Worm is a self-published web serial by John C. He lives in Sydney with his wife and three daughters. He is the pseudonymous author of 10 best-selling non-fiction titles, involving prominent figures in the military, the arts, sport and science. Because Vincent has no recollection of what happened, and nobody believes him.īefore writing full-time, Michael Robotham was an investigative journalist in Britain, Australia and the US. Even the most flawless existence is only a loose thread away from unravelling. It takes six days for him to come out of his coma, and when he does, his nightmare is only just beginning. Alisha Barbas dreams of being a detective were shattered when a murder suspect broke her back across a brick wall. Michael Robotham THE SUSPECT Joseph O'Loughlin appears to have the perfect life - a beautiful wife, a loving daughter and a successful career as a clinical psychologist. A bullet in the leg, another through the hand, he is discovered clinging to a buoy in the River Thames, losing blood and consciousness fast. All it takes is a murdered girl, a troubled young patient and the biggest lie of his life. Synopsis: THE SUSPECT Joseph O'Loughlin appears to have the perfect life - a beautiful wife, a loving daughter and a successful career as a clinical psychologist. |