Miryem’s ability to make silver into gold (via her moneylending and trading) attracts the attention of a fae lord–a king who is desperate to save his people and needs gold to do it. SPINNING SILVER revolves around the stories of these three women, and how their fates are intertwined. Irina is the neglected daughter of a duke’s first wife, who unexpectedly finds herself attracting the attention of the young and unmarried tsar. Miryem hires Wanda to work for her family as payment–and this simple act changes her life forever. Wanda’s father owes Miryem’s father money, but as a drunk he often finds himself short of funds. She quickly discovers she’s good at it and soon their circumstances turn around for the better. When her father finds himself unsuited to the task of collecting client payments, she reaches a crisis point when their living conditions are so dire she takes on her father’s responsibilities. Miryem is the headstrong daughter of a small-town moneylender. It was everything I hoped it would be and more. I went into SPINNING SILVER with the hope it was just as good, bought it, and carved out holiday me time so I could focus on the anticipated deliciousness–even though it’s been released for over a year (my bad). When I did finally read it, I loved it and recommend it to anyone who would listen. I loved Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series (even during the trudging years), but when she departed from the dragons and wrote UPROOTED ( EBR Review) I admit I didn’t jump on board as quickly as I ought to have.
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Just as Fane and Jacque are getting to know each other, another wolf steps out to try and claim Jacque as his mate. The problem is Fane is not the only wolf in Coldspring, Texas. Little does she know that the flame she is drawn to is actually a Canis lupis, werewolf, and she just happens to be his mate the other half of his soul. When a mysterious foreign exchange student from Romania moves in across the street, Jacque and her two best friends, Sally and Jen, don’t realize the last two weeks of their summer are going to get a lot more interesting.įrom the moment Jacque sets eyes on Fane she feels an instant connection, a pull like a moth to a flame. Jacque Pierce was just an ordinary 17-year-old girl getting ready to start her senior year in high school in Coldspring, Texas. Goodreads Synopsis of the first book Prince of Wolves: 1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of The Design of Everyday Things. The Design of Everyday Things is a powerful primer on how - and why - some products satisfy customers while others only frustrate them. The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman. The goal: guide the user effortlessly to the right action on the right control at the right time. The rules are simple: make things visible, exploit natural relationships that couple function and control, and make intelligent use of constraints. The Design of Everyday Things shows that good, usable design is possible. The problems range from ambiguous and hidden controls to arbitrary relationships between controls and functions, coupled with a lack of feedback or other assistance and unreasonable demands on memorization. The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman About the author: Chapter 1: The Psychopathology of Everyday Things Chapter 2: The Psychology of Everyday. The fault, argues this ingenious - even liberating - book, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores the needs of users and the principles of cognitive psychology. Design doesn't have to complicated, which is why this guide to human-centered design shows that usability is just as important as aesthetics.Įven the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. He is well-known for his Fox series (which he wrote as "Edward Marshall"), as well as the Miss Nelson books, the Stupids, the Cut-ups, and many more. In addition to George and Martha, the lovable hippopotami, James Marshall created dozens of other uniquely appealing characters. In 1998, George and Martha became the basis of an eponymous animated children's television show. Marshall continued as a children's author until his untimely death in 1992 of a brain tumor. His mother was watching Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and the main characters, George and Martha, ultimately became characters in one of his children's books. It is said that he discovered his vocation on a 1971 summer afternoon, lying on a hammock drawing. He returned to Texas, where he attended San Antonio College, and later transferred to Southern Connecticut State University where he received degrees in French and history. I knew I would die if I stayed there so I diligently studied the viola, and eventually won a scholarship to the New England Conservatory in Boston." He entered the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, but injured his hand, ending his music career. Marshall said: "Beaumont is deep south and swampy and I hated it. His family later moved to Beaumont, Texas. His father worked on the railroad, was a band member in the 1930s, and his mother sang in the local church choir. James Edward Marshall (Octo– October 13, 1992), who also wrote as Edward Marshall, was a children's author and illustrator. But when Quan discovers Anna’s true intentions, he’s forced to confront his own hurtful past and learn to forgive, while Anna must face her greatest challenge: truly opening herself up to love. Slowly, Anna breaks down Quan’s dangerous and careless exterior while peeling off her own tough, protective shell. Over the years, Anna has worked hard to overcome her OCD, but she’ll still need to find a way to bury her anxieties and seduce Quan so he doesn’t ruin her sister’s engagement, and with it, a crucial real estate development deal. She will never admit that she has a secret crush on him, especially because he only has eyes for her charismatic and newly engaged younger sister Camilla. And now that he’s the CEO of an up-and-coming retail business, he’s suddenly a “catch,” and the rich girls who never used to pay any attention to him are looking at him in a new way-especially Camilla, the girl who brushed him off many years ago.Īnna Sun dislikes Quan Diep almost as much as germy bathroom door handles. The problem is he’s not any of those things. To most people, Quan Diep is nothing but a surly-looking, underachieving playboy. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Helen Hoang has given fans of her work something to hold onto in moments of darkness: The Heart Principal.Hoang’s third novel is part-fiction, part-memoir. USA Today bestselling author Helen Hoang returns with a witty and sizzling new romance that shows how wrong you can be about someone…and how right they can be for you. Wright has penned a real page-turner." -Kaki Warner, bestselling author of Behind His Blue Eyes "Saddle up for a sexy, intensely emotional ride with cowboys that put the wild in wild west. 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Laura Wright's cowboys are sinfully hot." -Elisabeth Naughton, New York Times bestselling author of Stolen Chances "Deadly secrets, explosive sex, four brothers in a fight over a sprawling Texas ranch.Ms. While romantic tension between Lind and Barnum was completely fictionalized in The Greatest Showman, a few things about their relationship were accurately portrayed in the movie. As Entertainment Weekly reports, Lind gave 93 concerts in America, which earned her $350,000, and Vanity Fair suggests those earnings would equal something closer to $20 million today. According to Vanity Fair, it wasn't a strained relationship that caused the opera singer to end her tour with Barnum early but rather, the singer just grew tired of life on the road after traveling for nine months. While Lind's feelings for Barnum end up ruining the two performers' relationship in the movie, nothing of the sort happened in real life. In both the movie and real life, Barnum had a wife named Charity (Michelle Williams). The movie portrays Barnum as being infatuated by the talented singer (played by Rebecca Ferguson), which leads Lind herself to fall for her U.S. Even though Barnum's colorful life didn't exactly need added embellishments in the film, The Greatest Showman - which is in theaters now - creates a dramatized telling of the relationship. Barnum brought her to the United States for a hugely popular national tour, but Lind and Barnum's relationship in real life was much different than how the movie musical portrays it. Barnum in The Greatest Showman, but the real talent of Barnum's lifetime was the Swedish opera singer, Jenny Lind. Hugh Jackman stars as circus founder P.T. Not just “a ghost” but the ghost of a Civil War Soldier, calmly and curiously, standing over Lori’s shoulder, in her tower room, in the creepy, creaky bed-and-breakfast that she can now call home…in Gettysburg. Nathaniel Pierce has a starring role, as….well, Nathaniel is: of course, and why not a ghost. The “lawn-boy”…well, okay, he seems like a typical, bleary-eyed, sun-baked kid. The “caretakers” are undoubtedly a bit past odd, edging toward dangerous. Yes, Lori’s parents truly are startlingly naïve and absent-minded with matters of upmost importance yet oddly tenacious and relentless on the most trivial of things. While her steadier, yet clearly open-minded older by brother, leans more towards logic and rational explanations even he has that tiny glimmer of hope….the “why not?” that is sometimes lost in adulthood. Ruby’s ability to, seemingly effortlessly, capture the open desire, the willingness to believe, that most teens still carry inside of them (albeit, some much…much deeper than others). As the story centers around “nearly seventeen” year old Lorelei this reader was stunned by Ms. It is more than confident, not yet cocky accepting, unapologetic charming and totally void of any defensive vibe. The first feature to grab me was the tone of Rebel Spirits. “Did you, now?” The boy, sounding amused, came closer. “He won’t give me his name, so… I had to call him something.” I swallowed, tried to speak, then tried again when the first try failed. “Shiny? Is that what you call him? Really?” I hadn’t wanted to draw his attention or that of the blonde woman. “Shiny?” To my great dismay, it was Sieh’s voice. When Oree first learns that Shiny is the freaking God of Light. But there's also so many funny moments in this book too? For example: There's, well, torture and body horror and the carry over content warnings from the previous installment. And I'm surprised at how funny it is? Like, most of the book features the characters being put in harrowing situations, I know. I'm really liking this second installment so far. As prices for business-adaptable technologies became more reasonable, the professors’ research gained more attention. The goal was to develop a systematic approach to incorporating the new technology - exemplified by the personal computer and the rapidly growing internet - into daily business processes. Some of the largest corporations of the time funded their research. Two university professors, Michael Hammer of MIT and Thomas Davenport of Babson College, are generally credited with coining the term “business process reengineering” through their joint research process called PRISM (Partnership for Research in Information Systems Management). Business process reengineering (BPR) is a method of change management that began in the 1980s when the tech revolution was just beginning to reshape business procedures. |