![]() ![]() Brottman also considers representations of hyenas in today's popular fiction, including The Lion King and The Life of Pi,where they are often depicted as villains, cowardly henchmen, or clowns, while ignoring their more noble qualities. She discovers that many cultures use parts of the hyena-from excrement and blood to genitalia and hair-to make charms that both avert evil and promote fertility. Investigating representations of the hyena throughout history, Brottman divulges that the hyena, though shrouded in taboo, has been the source of talismanic objects since the ancient Greek and Roman empires. ![]() Here to restore the Hyena's reputation is Mikita Brottman, who offers an alternate view of these mistreated and misunderstood creatures and proves that they are complex, intelligent, and highly sociable animals. They have been scorned for centuries as little more than scavenging carrion-eaters, vandals, and thieves. Hyenas are almost universally regarded as nasty, scheming charlatans that skulk in the back alleyways of the animal kingdom. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “It was packed with people carrying these boxes. “I was on the train in Washington in the middle of the day and, where it would normally be empty, this train was packed with the first wave of 50,000 people who lost their jobs at Citibank,” Gardner recalls. That feeling of hopelessness is something he is intimately familiar with. He saw it first hand when running his brokerage firm in the US when the financial crisis struck. With the book written in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007-2008, Gardner’s insights will prove useful in this particular tumultuous period, in which the ongoing pandemic has already caused mass unemployment across various sectors. Gardner will be detailing his experiences further on Sunday, May 10, during a session streamed on the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair's YouTube page at 10pm. Where The Pursuit of Happyness traced the discovery of those valuable life lessons, Start Where You Are finds him synthesising these ideas in a book that offers a road map for those feeling lost in their careers and personal lives. Written with Miles Davis memoirist Quincy Troupe, Gardner is unflinching in detailing his faults as he tries to find a way out of dire straits.Īs it turns out, the impetus he needed came after the following insights: find acceptance in the past, focus on the challenges ahead and move forward. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chaker Khazaal launches Candle of Hope initiative to spread hope ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In early 2015, Jennifer was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a group of rare genetic disorders that involve a breakdown and death of cells in the retina, eventually resulting in loss of vision, among other complications. she spends her time reading, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, hanging out with her husband and her Jack Russell Loki. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. ![]() To email me, please use the below 1 New York Times and # 1 International Bestselling author Jennifer lives in Charles Town, West Virginia. If you're interested in reviewing a book of mine before release date, please contact the appropriate publisher. Hey Guys! Please note: I don't send out ARCs for review. ![]() ![]() ![]() She also help found The Elephant Sanctuary, a refuge in Tennessee developed for African and Asian elephants. ![]() Her stage appearances included "Chapter Two," "The Odd Couple," "They're Playing Our Song!," "Love Letters" and "The Vagina Monologues." She ran a boot camp for actors in Idaho, where she also helped found a film and music festival, Spud Fest. Her other TV appearances included "Maverick," "77 Sunset Strip," "Hawaiian Eye," "Bonanza," "The Love Boat" and "Fantasy Island." But her most famous part far outlasted the three years spent on "Gilligan's Island." Wells recreated the role in spin-off movies (such as "Rescue From Gilligan's Island" and "The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island") and the animated series "Gilligan's Planet," and even made cameo appearances in character on "Baywatch" and "Alf." The Associated Press contributed to this gallery.Ī Miss America contestant from Reno, Nevada, Dawn Wells (October 18, 1938-December 30, 2020) pivoted from medical studies to an acting career, and earned immortality after a fashion while wearing a gingham dress (or belly button-covering shorts) as the wholesome Mary Ann Summers, one of seven shipwrecked castaways on the 1960s sitcom "Gilligan's Island." A look back at the esteemed personalities who left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.īy senior producer David Morgan. ![]() ![]() Fiona had put down her drink and looked at him, expecting a line, waiting for it, but Jamie had taken his time. Jamie had pulled up the stool next to her-handsome, muscled, glorious in a jaded way, a guy who looked like he’d been a college athlete before something had made him go as quiet and wary as a wild animal. A year ago she’d had a bad night-lonely, wallowing in self-pity and grief for Deb-and had found herself at a local bar, drinking alone. Fiona watched with the surreal feeling she still got sometimes when she looked at Jamie, even now. He sighed, but he stepped toward the table. “I’m better today,” she said, and she patted the table next to her. She’d done her best not to talk about it for twenty years, but talking about it out loud now was like bloodletting, painful and somehow necessary at the same time. Idlewild had always loomed silently in the back of her mind, a dark part of her mental landscape. ![]() That trip to Old Barrons Road had shaken something loose. ![]() It had been sort of a strange episode, but she didn’t regret it. ![]() “You couldn’t handle it last night,” he said. “About the restoration, the new school.” She watched his face. ![]() ![]() Later, he was the art director of an advertising agency for many years. ![]() Soon he found a job as a graphic designer in the promotion department of The New York Times. So, in 1952, with a fine portfolio in hand and forty dollars in his pocket, he arrived in New York. But his dream was always to return to America, the land of his happiest childhood memories. Since the Caterpillar was published in 1969, Eric Carle has illustrated more than sixty books, many best sellers, most of which he also wrote.īorn in Syracuse, New York, in 1929, Eric Carle moved with his parents to Germany when he was six years old he was educated there, and graduated from the prestigious art school, the Akademie der bildenden Kunste, in Stuttgart. His best-known work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has eaten its way into the hearts of literally millions of children all over the world and has been translated into more than 25 languages and sold over twelve million copies. Eric Carle is acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was highly recommend by a friend who read the actual tangible book so I pre-ordered it on audible. I was really looking forward to this book. Before I sink any deeper into this dangerous attraction, I need to solve this murder and get back on the road.īut will fate take her from me before I realize the road has been leading to her all along? ![]() In other words, the insatiable hunger and protectiveness she is waking up in me is a threat to my peace of mind. She's also brave and beautiful and reminds me of the home I left behind three years ago. ![]() Sure, she's stubborn, distracting and can't stay out of harm's way. is becoming less and less of a hardship to have her around. I'm just here to do a job, not babysit an amateur sleuth. Not to mention a fulfilling teaching career of wrangling second graders.Ī brash bounty hunter and an energetic elementary schoolteacher: the murder-solving team no one asked for, but thanks to these pesky attempts on my life, we're stuck together, come hell or high tide. Now a rude, crude bounty hunter has arrived on the back of his motorcycle to catch the killer and refuses to believe I can be helpful, despite countless hours of true crime podcast listening. It was supposed to be a relaxing vacation in sweet, sunny Cape Cod-just me and my beloved brother-but discovering a corpse in our rental house really throws a wrench into our tanning schedule. A spicy murder mystery from Tessa Bailey, New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer. ![]() ![]() Despite his odd expressions, his strange distraction, and that annoying way he had of creeping up on a person, they knew him as well as they knew anyone. Dude.īut whatever they called him, they called him fondly. ![]() ![]() As he got older, they called him Pretty Boy. When he was little, they called him Spaceman. The people of Bone Gap called Finn a lot of things, but none of them was his name. I’m thinking I will probably read Karen Memory, since I have it on my Kindle and the beginning is catchy. The marked-up paper copy of my manuscript looks like it will be easy and quick to go through as well, so Yay! I will probably shoot it back to my editor on Monday, after which I’ll be free to choose something else to read. ![]() As it happens, I had a few days after I basically finished this current round of revision for The White Road of the Moon, and while I was waiting for a marked-up manuscript of the same to make it to my house – it was delayed, and I needed to go over it before finishing the current revision - I had a chance to read something off my Urgent TBR pile. Bone Gap is one of the many 2015 releases I was hoping to read before nominations for this year’s Hugo close. ![]() ![]() What exactly is going on? When Lucy discovers that Gran did not die peacefully in her sleep, but was murdered, she has to bring the killer to justice without tipping off the law that there's no body in the grave. And a lot of people going in and out who never use the door-including Gran, who is just as loving as ever, and prone to knitting sweaters at warp speed, late at night. And a will, leaving the knitting shop to Lucy. Except it turns out that Gran is the undying. With Gran's undying love to count on and Cardinal Woolsey's, Gran's knitting shop, to keep her busy, Lucy can catch her breath and figure out what she's going to do. At a crossroads between a cringe-worthy past (Todd the Toad) and an uncertain future (she's not exactly homeless, but it's close), Lucy Swift travels to Oxford to visit her grandmother. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you’d like to see some of my travel snapshots, have a look at the Travel Diary page (updated every month). I’m back in New Zealand now, but I’m always plotting new trips. I also spent three years living and working in Japan, during which time I took the chance to travel around Asia. I was born in Fiji and raised in New Zealand. I hope to continue living the dream until I keel over of old age on my keyboard. In September 2002, when I got the call that Silhouette Desire wanted to buy my first book, Desert Warrior, it was a dream come true. There's no other job I would rather be doing. I love creating unique characters, love giving them happy endings and I even love the voices in my head. ![]() I've been writing as long as I can remember and all of my stories always held a thread of romance (even when I was writing about a prince who could shoot lasers out of his eyes). ![]() |