The game strauss6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() It soon becomes clear that the approval they get from other men is more intoxicating than the pleasure they get from sex. So bereft of charisma are most of the people who haunt the lothario chatrooms that anyone with a modicum of self-awareness and humour can take command.įor the most part, these are alienated and dysfunctional people, some profoundly damaged by childhood neglect or abuse. It is remarkable how Strauss races up the ranks of the pick-up fraternity even before he has procured so much as a snog from a lady. The Game is really a book about the fragility of male ego and how it seeks refuge from the complexity of human relations in a puerile cult of sexual conquest. ![]() This manoeuvre has its own name: 'the Neg'.īut sinister soon gives way to pathetic. One involves discreetly undermining a woman's self-esteem by paying her a backhanded compliment in the hope that she will hang around to seek your approval. Some of the recommended techniques are sinister. He researched the theories, tested them and, by his account, copulated relentlessly for around two years. Then a more effectively libidinous friend introduced him, via the internet, to the world of pick-up artists, men who claim to have cracked the code of female attraction, and who, for a handsome fee, will share it with their frustrated brethren.Īccording to Strauss, it works. Strauss, a journalist and writer, was a bit nervous, a bit on the short side, a bit on the bald side. One such man was Neil Strauss, professional womaniser and author of The Game. ![]()
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![]() ![]() W "Woody" Dickerson, they published two volumes of old Franklin and Williamson County photographs. ![]() Franklin: A Photographic Recollection, Volafter Bob and Jackie Canaday acquired the extensive negative and print file of their predecessor, T.It also includes accounts of events and institutions that make up the community's shared past and personal memoirs of "the good old days." A Homecoming 1986 project, the book includes formal histories of founding families and their local descendants and of the community's churches and schools. Hazelwood, a native of Franklin, married into a founding family of Flat Creek. After many years in Nashville, she and her husband retired to the Eady homeplace. Redmond was born on the headwaters of Flat Creek and grew up in the community. Petty grew up on her family's farm in Flat Creek. Wallace was born on the upper watershed of Flat Creek near the Revolutionary War grant of his ancestor, and he maintained his family farm in Flat Creek. Flat Creek: Its Land and Its People, 1986 - Ennis Wallace, Sr, Jo Ann Reed Petty, Marjorie Eady Redmond, and Martha Ann Jackson Hazelwood were co-authors and compilers of this history of the community of Flat Creek.Burwood, 1986 - compiled by Anita Harris Grissom, Pat Gray Logan, Mary Rainey Martin, and Judy Grigsby Hayes, this spiral soft-back book originated as a Homecoming 1986 community history project and contains historical information on the community of Burwood, as well as many photographs. ![]() ![]() ![]() The illustrations, done in mixed media, painting, and collage, are as powerful as the story, moving from an ominous-looking fried egg of a sun through total washout during the storm to a trumpet-shaped cloud as the family regains hope. A moving story infused with the spirit of New Orleans that sounds a note of creative hope for the city's future., * "This startlingly resonant story of resilience, using an arresting combination of story, images, and rhythm and rhyme, centers on one family right before the 2006 Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Williams' stunning mixed-media illustrations incorporate colorful geometric abstraction, including concentric circles representing the sun, bursts of musical sound, and halos around the characters' heads. ![]() Price's lyrical text paints a rich picture of New Orleans and becomes downright musical as the story progresses. ![]() ![]() ![]() Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe. Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch.You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse ![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() The Vision, Vol. 2 by Tom King6/10/2023 ![]() Like a man, he seeks community and he seeks a purpose. Like a man, he longs for acceptance, he searches for meaning. How can we? He is but a robot.Īnd so we sent another of his kind to him, to spy and to lie. And yet though we know him, we do not trust him, not completely. We understood that because that is a part of our nature as well. The world could be razed to protect that family, or to avenge them. Much like a human, a robot is designed to protect his family, and will seek vengeance upon those that would hurt them. We saw him long for acceptance and search for meaning, we saw him find love and crave family. We are his true assemblers, we who brought him into our family. ![]() It was we who named him though, his true parents. ![]() We knew that we saw him born, we saw who fathered him. ![]() The ravens by kass morgan6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() So when she gets a coveted bid to pledge the Ravens, she vows to do whatever it takes to be part of the magical sisterhood. Vivi Devereaux has no idea she's a witch and she's never lived in one place long enough to make a friend. But if a painful secret from her past ever comes to light, she could lose absolutely everything. Scarlett Winter has always known she's a witch-and she's determined to be the sorority's president, just like her mother and sister before her. But the Ravens aren't just regular sorority girls. Ambitious, beautiful, and smart, they're the most powerful girls on Westerly College's Savannah, Georgia, campus. At first glance, the sisters of ultra-exclusive Kappa Rho Nu-the Ravens-seem like typical sorority girls. ![]() "item_description" : "From New York Times best-selling authors Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige comes a thrilling, dark contemporary fantasy about a prestigious sorority of witches and two girls caught up in its world of sinister magic and betrayals. ![]() Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() In 1952, they had two daughters, one born in January and one born in December. ![]() That same year, she married musician Robert Wallace. Enrolling at the City College of New York in 1950, she wound up studying art education when the liberal arts department denied her application. ![]() Throughout her grammar and high school years, Ringgold also developed an interest in art, and by the time she graduated became intent on turning her interest into a career. As she suffered from asthma as a young girl, Ringgold spent a great deal of time at home with her mother, a fashion designer who taught her to sew and work creatively with fabrics. She was the youngest of three children born to Andrew and Willi Jones, who raised their children during the Harlem Renaissance and exposed them to all of its cultural offerings. Renaissanceįaith Ringgold was born Faith Will Jones was born on October 8, 1930, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. During the 1980s, she began a series of quilts that are among her best-known works, and she later embarked on a successful career as a children's book author and illustrator. ![]() In the 1970s, she created African-style masks, painted political posters and actively sought the racial integration of the New York art world. While working as an art teacher in public schools, Faith Ringgold began a series of paintings called American People, which portrayed the civil rights movement from a female perspective. ![]() Deep blue by jennifer donnelly6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() All of their faces told Sera that the magic cost them dearly, and then Baba Vrăja swam around the others shouting at the image, "Go back, back devil!" (Donnelly 260) Sera swims closer to the image described on Abbadon's page, when Abbadon started shouting in some older language and when he did Baba Vrăja told the witches to strengthen the waterfire and just as described on the Timeline page, event six, one of the witches was killed by Abbadon. Their hands were clasped as they had done in Serafina's dream, Neela's dream, Ling's dream, Becca's dream, Ava's dream, and Astrid's dream. ![]() They walk into the room, at the center the waterfire burning and encircling it were eight river witches swimming counterclockwise as they chanted. The climax of the story is when all six girls finally are all together and go into the Incantation to see their dream become a reality right before their eyes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the Hollywood Reporter’s "100 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment" and Billboard’s "Power 100," Lee is an inductee into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame. She is the founder and chairwoman of Leading Women Defined Foundation, an organization of Black female thought leaders, and is the co-founder of Monarchs Collective, a group that empowers men and women of color to sit on corporate boards. Discovery, Revlon, Burberry Group Plc, and Marriott International. The former longtime CEO of Black Entertainment Television (BET), Debra Lee currently serves on the boards of several of the world’s leading corporations, including Proctor & Gamble, Warner Bros. Debra Lee | I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir - In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6abc Action News morning edition ![]() The Rose Round by Meriol Trevor6/9/2023 ![]() Matt must lear to judge character rather than appearances as Theo. ![]() In a faded rose garden Matt meets Alix, proud old Madame Ayre's granddaughter, and is introduced to the tension-filled relationship between the embittered mother and her crippled son Theo. 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