5/22/2023 0 Comments Candide gutenbergYou may think you have a unique point to make. I should make one thing abundantly clear: comments regarding who is hosting are out of order on this website. Today, Kevin faces off against Maryhelen Shuman-Groh and Cyrus Zhou. Kevin Belle returns as champion having survived a difficult week for Jeopardy! players in general, with last week’s winners taking home just $50,797 in total. Mayim Bialik moves to the hosting lectern as we begin the final 13 weeks of Season 39 today. Kevin Belle, a trail planner from Silver Spring, Maryland (1-day total: $11,599) Maryhelen Shuman-Groh, a retired university administrator from Clearwater, Florida (correct response beneath the contestants) Today’s Jeopardy! contestants: Cyrus Zhou, a graduate student from St. Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category 18th Century Literature) for Monday, (Season 39, Game 166): The first name of this title character is from Hebrew for “devoted to God” his last name suggests he can be easily duped Please note that the game airs as early as noon Eastern in some U.S. Warning: This page contains spoilers for the May 1, 2023, game of Jeopardy! - please do not scroll down if you wish to avoid being spoiled.
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5/22/2023 0 Comments Forgive Me Father by Garrett LeighContent warning for violence and sexual trauma. Forgive Me Father is a continuation of the best-selling Rebel Kings MC series. Forgive Me Father: Rebel Kings MC: Embry & Mateo Garrett Leigh (357) Kindle Edition 5.99 4 Love Thy Brother: Rebel Kings MC: Rubi & River Garrett Leigh (185) Kindle Edition 5.99 5 Reluctant Renegade: Rebel Kings MC: Decoy & Folk Garrett Leigh Kindle Edition 5. It was Mateo’s, and the man I’d trusted with my fragile heart was a stranger more broken than his scars could ever show. But when the devil came for us, it wasn’t mine. Darker, even, than Mateo’s battered soul and the secrets I didn’t know about yet. But as I drowned in Mateo’s affection, in a love I’d done nothing to deserve, the words came tumbling out. Not the judge, the jury, or the legal aid barrister who’d written me off before she’d ever met me. Explain it like I’m the simplest idiot you’ve ever met.” I can’t. “I gave my darkest secrets to a man who doesn’t exist.” Embry ".you don’t understand.” Mateo lowered himself to sit, still vibrating with the need to fix me, the way he always did. Expect : a sizzling hurt/comfort MM romance with a damaged chaplain and a dark-souled enforcer with a tender-hearted secret. "A powerful, gritty, sexy as hell biker romance that kept me reading all night long." ~ V.L. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Campusland by Scott JohnstonWhat the video didn’t show were the hundreds of white students having their first frank conversations about race with minority classmates. Johnston was shot by Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which the Daily Caller then reposted under a headline, “Meet the Privileged Yale Student Who Shrieked at Her Professor,” with photos of her and her parents’ suburban Connecticut home. That mission has just been reaffirmed in a University of Chicago letter to incoming freshmen that rejects “trigger warnings” about discomfiting course material, “safe spaces” for the hypersensitive and cancellations of invitations to controversial speakers.īut it isn’t the protests per se that damaged open inquiry and expression, but the frenzied way they have been portrayed by the right. More than a brand, however, a college has a mission: to teach young people the arts and disciplines of open inquiry and expression. “I don’t think anything has damaged Yale’s brand quite like that” video, he said. Johnston and other alumni to cease funding what they see as coddled children and weak-kneed administrators. Soon after, he watched an online video of a black Yale student hurling imprecations at a professor who headed her residential college for failing “to create a place of comfort and home.” Program at his alma mater when student protesters disrupted it. Johnston, a 1982 Yale graduate, was attending a conference organized by the William F. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Middlegame seanan mcguireBut he has a plan: to raise the twins to the highest power, to ascend with them and claim their authority as his own. Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Roger and Dodger aren't exactly human, though they don't realise it. All she understands, she does so through the power of math. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FANTASY NOVEL, 2020! A Pick on the 2020 RUSA Reading List! New York Times bestselling and Alex, Nebula, and Hugo-Award-winning author Seanan McGuire introduces readers to a world of amoral alchemy, shadowy organizations, and impossible cities in the standalone fantasy, Middlegame. 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Talking to old friends becomes like talking to dearly-loved former in-laws after a divorce. I read it at the recommend of a dear friend, a missionary, who (I am all but certain) wants to use it as a springboard to talk about Jesus.įaith becomes such an awkward topic, when one leaves a religion. I should note here that this is not the sort of book that I would choose to read these days. having her agree immediately and completely with whatever 'lesson' the various nicety nice perfect people come and tell her, and become even more two-dimensional and Mary Sueish than ever) but if you're not reading this with an eye toward applying the didactic life lessons. I guess you could argue that there's some tension regarding Kale's "growth," (e.g. (And they did, if you look at the awards this has won.) Instead, give all the uber-nice NPCs in "Dragons of Autumn Twilight" their own book.) It's the Dragonlance that the Bible Belt can put its seal of approval on. (That would be, take away Raistlin Majere and make Tanis not a half-elf. This is a- pretty bad book, and not worth reading at all unless you're a Christian.īasically, it's Dragonlance + Evangelical worldview - ANY in-group tension. 15 New Lesbian Romance Books To Read in 2023.Ready to get reading? Check out these must-read titles then be sure to also visit these great lists for more queer romance novels: Whether you love contemporary romance, historical romance, or even fantasy romance, these lesbian romance books have it all. On this list you’ll find the best lesbian romance books, the most popular lesbian romance novels, and several picks in the growing category of young adult lesbian romance books. To help you find your next great read, I’ve got the best and most popular lesbian romance books in the genre and I cannot wait for you to read them. Lesbian romance books are finally really breaking out in popularity and gaining a huge following and I for one am all for it. Looking for the best lesbian romance books worth reading? I’ve got the book list for you! 5/21/2023 0 Comments If I Wake by Nikki MoyesThe ending to the book is outstanding in its unexpected turn of events. By going through sorrow and joy with Lucy, the reader understands how hurtful and damaging bullying can be, and gains strength to stand up to bullies or stop being one themselves. This book should be required reading for students, parents, and anyone who works with youth. If I Wake delivers a powerful message that will touch the hearts of so many who are being bullied or have been bullied in the past. And each time, Lucy is there to save Will’s life and give up her own. The author brilliantly and consistently carries Lucy’s dream family through history starting in the prehistoric past.Įach time Lucy goes to see Will in her dreams, they don’t recognize her, but she recognizes them. The characters in this book are so real, they could be students walking the halls in any school today. Throughout the book, the reader doesn’t know if Lucy will be alive at the end. Will teaches her about family, faith, bravery, kindness, and love during their adventures in historic events in the distant past. Will comes into her life after a traumatic event and she gets to see him each year on her birthday – but only in her dreams. The only joy in life is her imaginary friend Will. Most of the time she’s alone, with no friends, and no other family except for a mom who’s always at work. She tries to become as invisible as possible and make it through each day. Especially by four mean girls and their friends. Lucy is a girl who gets bullied at school. The trilogy has been met with critical acclaim, and its success is credited to the creation of the Star Wars Expanded Universe. The Thrawn Trilogy sold a combined total of 15 million copies, with Heir to the Empire reaching #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list. In addition to Thrawn, the trilogy introduced several notable characters, including Mara Jade and Talon Karrde. Set approximately five years after the events depicted in Return of the Jedi, the trilogy details the offensive campaigns of military genius Grand Admiral Thrawn as he attempts to bring down the recently founded New Republic in a bid to restore the Galactic Empire to power. The first book marked the end of the notable drought of new Star Wars material during a four-year period from the tenth anniversary of the original 1977 film's release to the release of Heir to the Empire in 1991. The Thrawn trilogy, also known as the Heir to the Empire trilogy, is a trilogy of novels set in the Star Wars universe, written by Timothy Zahn between 19. She's overcome by the spirit of La Lune, a witch, a legendary sixteenth-century courtesan, and an unsung artist in her own right, who exposes Sandrine to a darkness that could be a gift or a curse. Then more ominous influences threaten her husband is tracking her down and something insidious is taking hold, changing Sandrine, altering her. Among the bohemians and demi-monde, Sandrine uncovers her erotic nature as a lover and painter. There she meets Julien Duplessi, a mesmerizing architect, who introduces her to the City of Lights its art world, forbidden occult underground, nightclubs and to her own untapped desires.įrom a mysterious fire at the Palais Garnier opera house, to a terrifying accident at the Eiffel tower and classes with Gustav Moreau at the École des Beaux-Arts, Sandrine's experiences awaken her passions. Her grandmother insists it's too dangerous to visit but Sandrine defies her an unexplainable force is drawing her home. The house, famous for its lavish art collection and elegant salons, is closed and under renovation. New York socialite Sandrine Salome flees an abusive husband for her grandmother's Paris mansion, but what she finds there is even more menacing. |