Meeting them in this book, readers will be inspired to let go of old fears, explore new paths, and lead the lives they envision. The women featured in Dakini Power-contemporary teachers of Tibetan Buddhism, both Asians and Westerners, who teach in the West-have been universally recognized as accomplished practitioners and brilliant teachers whose life stories demonstrate their immense determination and bravery. What drives a young London librarian to board a ship to India, meditate in a remote cave by herself for twelve years, and then build a flourishing nunnery in the Himalayas? How does a surfer girl from Malibu become the head of the main international organization for Buddhist women? Why does the daughter of a music executive in Santa Monica dream so vividly of peacocks one night that she chases these images to Nepal, where she finds the love of her life in an unconventional young Tibetan master? Michaela Haas discusses her new book, Dakini Power.
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Sensitive dependence on initial conditions is the most succinct way to put it: the infidelity of Philip's daughters-in-law, with some extremely bad luck (or good luck, if you're Jacques de Molay) led to the end of the line for the Direct Capetians, a succession crisis and subsequently the Hundred Years' War.Īn enjoyable read overall, but it's a little short for my taste, more like beach-read than a historical epic, though that's not to put down its exceptional literary qualities. The plot revolves around the destruction of the Knights Templar, and the Tour de Nesle affair, both events involving lots of brutal torture and horrifying executions, with hugely significant historical effects. Reading this novel it can be hard to remember that Philip IV, called the Fair, was a real person, that a human could be the way he was, do the things he did they way he did, and ultimately die almost arbitrarily, not in battle, nor poisoned by rivals, or even old and respected, but from an aneurysm. My copy of The Iron King is actually introduced by Martin himself, who credits Druon as a major inspiration for his fantasy series: 'the Starks and Lannisters have nothing on the Capets and Plantagenets.' Somehow the true story is the more horrifying because the characters were real - we can go to their tombs, and see what's left of them. Martin's Game of Thrones became a global phenomenon. Maurice Druon's series The Accursed Kings, of which The Iron King is the first novel, is woefully obscure in the Anglosphere - though less so since George R. Andrew Pyper, author of The Only Child and The Demonologist In Case I Go is the gorgeous and shattering triumph of a writer at the very height of her powers. Angie Abdou has written a grown-up work of fantasy, transporting as it is grounded and real. Review Quotes The past reaches up from the soil of In Case I Go to grab hold of its characters and readers alike, refusing to let go. Angie Abdou s previous novels include Between and The Bone Cage. A new kind of ghost story, In Case I Go is about the many ways were haunted by the misdeeds of our ancestors. Both Eli and Amy, the enigmatic Ktunaxa girl next door, have a foot in multiple worlds, and they relive and account for their past lives of seduction and betrayal. Book Synopsis Eli and his parents have returned to their ancestral home in a small mountain town to escape their hectic city lives, where young Eli finds himself answering for the mistakes of the houses first owner, his great-great grandfather Elijah Mountain. About the Book Elis family returns to live in their ancestral home, where he invokes the spirit, and the mistakes, of his great-great-grandfather. OL20682064W Page_number_confidence 96.07 Pages 358 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200821102259 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1140 Scandate 20200815072651 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781447210313 Sent_to_scribe Tts_version 4. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 06:06:18 Boxid IA1911307 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish poet and playwright who became one of the most popular in London during the 1880s and 1890s. Concentrating heavily on the idea of being forgiven for sins of the past, many believe that Wilde was speaking in fact from personal experience and his fear of repercussions for his own controversial private life. The play was first performed in 1895, and in April of the same year Wilde was arrested for "gross indecency"-leading to his name being publicly removed from the play. As with many of Wilde's plays, “An Ideal Husband” deals with such themes as aristocratic hypocrisy, the position of women, and public and private honour. Panicking, Chiltern turns to his friend the scandalous Lord Goring, who is familiar with Mrs. Cheveley, who appears to have in her possession evidence of Chiltern's past transgressions. The narrative revolves around a Government minister named Sir Robert Chiltern whose successful career and happy marriage life are put under threat with the arrival into London society of Mrs. “An Ideal Husband” is a play in four acts by Oscar Wilde. Thank you to Books Forward for this gifted copy. 'In You Cant Blame the Flower, author Ruthie Stevens portrays danger, drunken delights, and love romantic, friendly and just plain sexy all arrayed in a rich tapestry of Covid complexities, corporate scheming, and a bright young womans craving for true affection. A cast of characters that will make you think twice about your own co-workers and some extra steam in the Romance department.Īnd look at that cover! It’s so beautiful! Tensions escalate when the guests investigate a theft and learn that one or more among them are harboring secrets that put not only their careers at risk but also their lives.Ĭontemporary Fiction blending current real-world issues with a fun fiction storyline. While the guests at Whimser navigate awkward encounters, romantic interests and workplace obstacles, Lilyanna grapples with her haunting memories of William, her insecurities with intimacy and her attraction to the captivating company vice president. The comedy of errors of the employees coexisting intertwines with a darker backstory of how Lilyanna came to inherit Whimser from the late William, her former college professor and boss. She didn’t know her return would be with a select group of her corporate colleagues to quarantine at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Introverted young attorney Lilyanna Rivers knew one day she would return to Whimser-the mysterious mansion in the middle-of-nowhere, Texas, where flowers don’t grow. In a landscape where small rural communities or even remote self-sustaining farmsteads were the norm, however, the domestic tasks that were mainly the domain of women were clearly far from unimportant. Photo by Wolfmann, Wikimedia CommonsĪs we are largely dependent on piecing together their lives mostly through burials, the accompanying grave goods, and the occasional runestone that mentions women (or was commissioned by one), we know a fair amount about Viking Age women’s clothing, jewellery, and personal items but much less about their effective ‘power’ or the status they held. The man is wearing a tunic girded with a leather belt, and holds a sword. Female graves from this period often contained spindle whorls. A spindle whorl hangs from her dress, too, here probably added to indicate the role Viking Age women played in textile production. The woman is wearing a white shift or underdress, a red overdress (hangerock or smokkr) and two characteristically Viking oval brooches – also known as tortoise brooches – linked by a chain to fasten her overdress. Reconstructions of Viking Age clothing as found on display at the Archaeological Museum in Stavanger, Norway. Beemer recently published “Notorious Kansas Bank Heists,” which he will discuss, along with the gunslingers and gangsters responsible for them, in his presentation. Researcher and author Rod Beemer, of Minneapolis, Kan., will be the keynote speaker. 31, at a meeting of the Franklin County Historical Society at the Neosho County Community College’s Ottawa campus, 900 E. Tales of this and other infamous bank robberies will be recounted during a presentation at 2 p.m. The robbers then locked all 15 people inside a vault used for safety deposit boxes before escaping in a Buick touring car they had left parked at the curb. “They forced 10 bank officials and employees and five customers to lie flat on the floor while they ransacked the safes and the cages and the vaults.” “There were no shots fired,” Barker said. 2, just after the bank opened, four men entered the bank, waving guns and ordering everyone inside to hold up their hands, according to Deborah Barker, executive director of the Franklin County Historical Society. For decades, the 1923 robbery of the First National Bank in Ottawa remained the biggest story in town.Ībout 9:05 a.m. In a terrifying confrontation that will push Sean and Michelle to their limits, the duo may be permanently parted. Their persistence puts them on a collision course with the highest levels of the government and the darkest corners of power. The fifth book in the heart-stopping King and Maxwell series, The Sixth Man by David Baldacci will keep pulses racing as Sean King and Michelle Maxwell face their next great challenge. It is now up to them to ask the questions no one seems to want answered: Is Roy a killer? Who murdered Bergin? The more they dig into Roy's past, the more they encounter obstacles, half-truths, dead-ends, false friends, and escalating threats from every direction. His books are published in over 45 languages and in more than 80. But their investigation is derailed when Sean and Michelle find Bergin murdered. David Baldacci is a global 1 bestselling author, and one of the worlds favorite storytellers. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's attorney, Sean's old friend and mentor Ted Bergin, to help work the case. Watch King & Maxwell, TNTs new series based on David Baldaccis blockbuster novels, on Mondays at 10 p.m. In the #1 New York Times bestselling thriller that inspired the TV series King & Maxwell, two private investigators dig into a killer's past-but when their search threatens powerful enemies, it could cost them their lives.Įdgar Roy-an alleged serial killer-is awaiting trial. The Sixth Man audiobook, by David Baldacci. |