Lisa kleypas cassandra5/8/2023 ![]() This is the 6th book in The Ravenels series and, while many of the books in this series failed to live up to my expectations, CHASING CASSANDRA certainly did. But the chase for her heart has only just begun. The chase for Cassandra’s hand may be over. As always, he gets what he wants – or does he? There’s one lesson Tom Severin has yet to learn from his new bride: ![]() When a newfound enemy nearly destroys Cassandra’s reputation, Severin seizes the opportunity he’s been waiting for. But she has no interest in living in the fast-paced world of a ruthless man who always plays to win. Severin is the most compelling and attractive man Cassandra has ever met, even if his heart is frozen. But the beautiful and quick-witted Cassandra is equally determined to marry for love – the one thing he can’t give. ![]() It should be simple to find the perfect wife – and from his first glimpse of Lady Cassandra Ravenel, he’s determined to have her. Railway magnate Tom Severin is wealthy and powerful enough to satisfy any desire as soon as it arises. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Use our affiliate link to get yours and help the show: CS Instant Coffee makers of environmentally sustainable and great tasting instant coffee for the trail.Go to and be sure to use coupon code 'Hiker Podcast' for 10% off trekking poles. CNOC Outdoors making our adventures the best possible, simple, enjoyable, fulfilling and sustainable.Her debut memoir, Alone in Wonderland, is a testament to the decision to name who you want to be and make it so. But in the years since, she has come into her own as a backpacker, rock climber, and trail runner. Her Rugged Outdoors Woman persona started as a joke, a nod to the outdoor adventurer that she wished to be. ![]() This week Andy is excited to talk with hiker and author of ALONE IN WONDERLAND, Christine Reed !Ĭhristine discovered long distance backpacking while surfing the internet at work. She decided that day to attempt to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail. One adventure led to another and a few years later she set out on the Wonderland Trail in Mt Rainier National Park. ![]() They all saw a cat point of view5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Highly recommended for reading aloud in groups because it offers a perfect opportunity to for children to realize that the world is different for every person and thing. As children age the different vision capabilities of animals and people can be discussed (such as color blindness), as well as the way our size and vantage point skew images. WE ALL SAW A CAT offers a wonderful way to discuss the world around a young reader, and how we all see things differently depending on our perspective, our imagination, our history and more. A cat walks through the pages and is seen by creatures big and small - he simply looks like a cat (as we are used to perceiving them) to a child, but to a very small fish he is all big, yellow eyes magnified and distorted by the water, to a dog he’s long and lean as he sneaks quietly by, to a mouse he appears red, and full of fangs - a vision of danger and fear, and to a bird he is only a striped back and red collar as seen from above. Young readers will learn that seeing is subjective in this imaginative, beautifully illustrated picture book from Brendan Wenzel. ![]() Sweet & bitter magic5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() "An especially slow-burn romance, as Tamsin's curse prevents her from feeling, but the buildup allows for deeper character development and a very satisfying conclusion. ![]() Of course, love bargains are a tricky thing, and these two have a long, perilous journey ahead of them-that is, if they don't kill each other first. To save him, Wren proposes a bargain: if Tamsin will help her catch the dark witch responsible for creating the plague, then Wren will give Tamsin her love for her father. When a magical plague ravages the queendom, Wren's father falls victim. ![]() Sources are required to train with the Coven as soon as they discover their abilities, but Wren-the only caretaker to her ailing father-has spent her life hiding her secret. Wren is a source-a rare kind of person who is made of magic, despite being unable to use it herself. The only way she can get those feelings back-even for just a little while-is to steal love from others. But after committing the worst magical sin, she's exiled by the ruling Coven and cursed with the inability to love. ![]() Tamsin is the most powerful witch of her generation. In this charming debut fantasy perfect for fans of Sorcery of Thorns and Girls of Paper and Fire, a witch cursed to never love meets a girl hiding her own dangerous magic, and the two strike a dangerous bargain to save their queendom. ![]() Coal Hollow by Melanie Light5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() The diversity of those interviewed is commendable, however they are too loosely affiliated with the photographs to give anything more than a general voice behind the composite group represented. ![]() In addition to the photographs, the book includes oral histories conducted by Melanie Light that provide insight into the continuing saga of poverty and humanity in Appalachia. In Coal Hollow, the Lights convey the day-to-day reality and negative impact of the coal mining industry. This year was a sad year for the families of the mining industry and the media attention of the Sago mine accident makes the faces in these images seem more familiar. This song stayed with me through all of Ken Light’s piercing black-and-white photographs of coal communities today trying to hold on and barely surviving. These coal hollows are places rich in folklore and folk songs. ![]() Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't goĪs I read the oral history of Neale Clark, a local news-paper reporter of Oak Hill, West Virginia, recounting the mining days of the early 1900s I remembered this song chorus. You load sixteen tons, and what do you get? ![]() ![]() No, not every evangelical or fundamentalist engages in these extremes, but anyone with any familiarity with these subcultures will know her observations have a ring of truth to them, and it is high time someone from the inside steps up to these bullies. ![]() The examples Evans gives from her own fundamentalist subculture of her youth and from highly influential public leaders like John Piper, Wayne Grudem, and Mark Driscoll are anywhere from comical to disturbing. Of course, most Christians–conservative or not–are aware of this in principle, but Evans’s experience, which certainly mirrors the experience of many other American Christian women, is that when it comes to talking about women, passages from the Old and New Testaments are whipped out willy-nilly as proof for what God wants a Christian woman to look like. Evans seems concerned to point out that being a “biblical woman” involves much more than obedience to certain verses in the Bible (featured most prominently for Evans is the common abuse of Proverbs 31:10-31). The main point of the book is to critique the phrase “biblical womenhood,” and the expectations of women surrounding this phrase, by engaging in a witty and entertaining way what the Bible says about woman. ![]() ![]() Rachel Held Evans’s recent book A Year of Biblical Womanhood has inspired some strong reactions in certain American Christian subcultures. ![]() And I am going to keep beating it, because I think its a huge point that gets overlooked. For those of you have have read my blogs over the past year or so, I am about to beat on a familiar drum. ![]() Belly up funjungle5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In Los Angeles, where they tended to psychoanalyze things a bit too much, one keeper had accused Brutus of giving the female he was paired with “a devastating case of low self esteem”. “For a hippopotamus, he had a lot of enemies” - having hospitalised various keepers at the four zoos who successively palmed him off, Brutus (as he was originally called) had also been a damp squib where mating was concerned, veering between aloofness… See, if ever there was a character who was being set up as the victim of a future, er, hippocide, it’s Henry, the real life inspiration for the mascot of billionaire J.J. However, the brilliance of Gibbs’ endeavour here is how much he adheres to the fundamental form of the murder mystery despite this core difference. “Can you call it homicide if the victim is a hippo?” asks the back cover of this first entry in Stuart Gibbs’ FunJungle series and, from a purely Latin perspective, no you can’t. ![]() ![]() ![]() Against philosophical rationalists, Hume held that passion rather than reason governs human behaviour and argued against the existence of innate ideas, positing that all human knowledge is ultimately founded solely in experience Hume thus held that genuine knowledge must either be directly traceable to objects perceived in experience, or result from abstract reasoning about relations between ideas which are derived from experience, calling the rest "nothing but sophistry and illusion", a dichotomy later given the name Hume's fork. Beginning with his A Treatise of Human Nature (1739), Hume strove to create a total naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. ![]() Hume's empiricist approach to philosophy places him with John Locke, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Hobbes as a British Empiricist. 17 A Treatise of Human Nature (David Hume)ġ7 A Treatise of Human Nature (David Hume)ĭavid Hume 35 (/ˈhjuːm/ born David Home NS (26 April 1711 OS) – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. ![]() |