![]() It may seem impolite when I say it, but it's a plain fact that most women only marry men who want to earn money and that women - at the same time - have the nerve to say that no man wants to stay at home anyway. Who should be held responsible for this situation: employer or woman?" (to be found in the last but one chapter, the one about Women's Lib) Quote: "The 'woman with a family' - the woman who supports a healthy man and his children all her life - is practically unknown in the professional world. Vilar is able to explain why discrimination against women in the professional world is women's own fault: the pay cheque of a man who is prepared to support his wife for years is more valuable and necessary than the pay cheque of a woman who won't support a man and who insists on a money-earning husband. But she makes clear that she *does* want women to be emancipated - as long as they are willing to accept responsibilities the way men do. ![]() Esther Vilar is one of the few women who dare to criticize their own sex and the way feminism is going. This is one of the most enlightening books I've ever read. ![]()
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David Rosenfelt's "Dogtripping" is moving and funny account of a cross-country move from California to Maine, and the beginnings of a dog rescue foundation When mystery writer David Rosenfelt and his family moved from Southern California to Maine, he. ![]() ![]() ![]() So begins a tale of adventure love treachery and deceit. Among these slaves is an indomitable young mouse called Martin who together with his friends Felldoh and Brome escapes from the fortress aided by Rose of Noonvale and Grumm the mole. īadrang the Tyrant stoat the evil Lord of the Eastern Coast has forced captive slaves to build his fortress Marshank. ![]() His cunning and cowardly plan is to steal the Redwall children - and Mattimeo Matthias's son is to be the biggest prize of all. Gathering his evil band around him Slagar plots to strike at the heart of the Abbey. Slagar the Fox is bent on revenge - and determined to bring death and destruction to Redwall Abbey. Cluny is certain that Redwall will fall easily to his fearsome army but he hasn't bargained for the courage and strength of the combined forces of the Redwall mice and their loyal woodland friends. Redwall Abbey tranquil home to a community of peace-loving mice is threatened by Cluny the Scourge - the evil-one-eyed rat warlord - and his battle-hardened horde of predators. A Tale Of Redwall 6 Books Young Adult Collection Paperback Set By Brian Jacques ( brian jacques redwall) ![]() ![]() ![]() This had to be one of the most fun fairy tale adaptations I have read in a long time. Can she and Jack defeat evil not once but twice? Who knew that a first kiss could lead to so much trouble. Busses, cell phones, pool parties and witches! Wait, what? Just when she thought she had defeated the curse she senses the dark presence of her former nemesis. ![]() And what a time and place! Adventures await her around every corner. After a thoroughly wretched day trying to get the problem worked out she springs Jack from prison and heads to Florida with him, determined to make a life for herself in a new time and place. ![]() She is none too thrilled to find out that it took three hundred years for someone to break the curse and that that someone is no royal prince – nor does he have any intentions of marriage. Talia should have known better than to touch that spindle but a day away from the birthday that would set her free of that dratted curse she goes and does it anyway. ![]() Right up until they take a wrong turn into a magical forest, he kisses a sleeping girl who is hotter than a supermodel and the two wind up on the wrong end of a pair of swords. So taking a day off from stuffy old museums and playing hooky to go to the beach with best pal Travis seems like a good idea. If his parents planned it, it was bound to not be fun. Jack hadn’t been surprised by how “completely lame” his bus tour of Europe was. He just hadn’t planned on her being 300 years old. Like most guys, Jack hoped to kiss a hot European chick while on a tour of the continent. ![]() ![]() ![]() To my mind, it’s one of the great openings of the mystery genre: so compact, almost spare, yet full of intrigue, wit and promise. ![]() It’s Fletch, of course.Īnd those readers who haven’t read the book? I can’t believe, after reading that opening, that they’re not running straight to the nearest bookstore to look for a copy. What do you want me to do?”Įven readers who never picked it up themselves can guess the novel that begins with those punchy, pithy lines. ![]() “Is it criminal? I mean, what you want me to do?” If you decide to reject the proposition, you take the thousand dollars, go away, and never tell anyone we talked. I will give you a thousand dollars for just listening to it. “Irwin Fletcher, I have a proposition to make to you. Two someones, actually: Mcdonald and a new kind of sleuth.īut why not let those words speak for themselves? It was a fitting choice for a fond farewell, as the passage had been, years before, an introduction-a bold fanfare that announced to the mystery world that someone important had just arrived on the scene. ![]() Mcdonald wrote 26 published books over the course of a decades-long career, yet when he died last September at the age of 71, tribute after tribute turned not only to the same novel but the same excerpt to illustrate his considerable gifts as a storyteller. It’s not Gregory Mcdonald’s epitaph, but it may as well be. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Guns of August can also be read as a cautionary study in the perils of brinksmanship, and Tuchman’s searching observations about the irrational escalation of conflict among states made a deep impression on President John F. Interwoven with her vivid re-creation of the German march through Belgium into France and the fierce fighting on the Eastern Front are astute characterizations of the conflict’s key military and political leaders, among them French General Joseph Joffre, German Kaiser Wilhelm II, and British First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. ![]() Tuchman dramatizes the diplomatic debacles that precipitated the war and the intransigence of the German and French armies as they dogmatically adhered to their battle plans, with disastrous consequences. Nowhere are her talents more brilliantly on display than in her Pulitzer Prize–winning bestseller The Guns of August (1962), a riveting account of the outbreak of World War I and the weeks of fighting leading up to the First Battle of the Marne in September 1914. A shrewd portraitist, she laid bare the all-too-human failures of leaders caught in the pull of historical currents and often tragically blinded by biases of culture and temperament. ![]() Tuchman distilled the complex interplay of personalities and events into gripping narratives that combine lucid scholarship with elegant literary art. One of the best-known historians of her time, Barbara W. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We meet to discuss his behavior and review media relations standards. He used to be the easiest of all the players for me to wrangle as the Public Relations Coordinator, but after a nasty breakup with his high school sweetheart, he’s a mess. There’s hardly a day he’s not headline material during football season, and never a day he isn’t a bullseye target for every girl on campus. Blind Side is a fake dating sports romance that early readers are calling Kandi’s spiciest book yet! Add in that the heroine is a virgin and takes “lessons” from our star athlete Hero on how to please herself, and this is one hot summer release you won’t want to miss! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Annual workshop at MBL: “Writing About Science for the Public”. ![]()
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