![]() ![]() ![]() 'I can't think of another entertainer who has improbably morphed so many times and all through real genius and determination' Conan O'Brien Read More Read Less Featuring humorous tangents, never-before-seen photos, wild characters, and Bob's trademark unflinching drive and humour, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama is a classic showbiz tale told by a determined idiot. Show and Breaking Bad spin off Better Call Saul opens up about the highs and lows of showbiz, his cult status as a comedy writer, and what it's like to reinvent himself at age fifty as an action-film ass-kicker. ![]() In this hilarious, heartfelt memoir, the star of Mr. 'This book is a love letter to all his comedy heroes, full of warmth, heart and wit' Georgia Pritchett honest, irreverent and fascinating' Matt Lucas *THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* Hilarious, heartfelt, Bob Odenkirk charts his career trajectory from sketch show duo, to Saturday Night Live writer, to Breaking Bad and action-movie star at the age of 50 in COMEDY, COMEDY, COMEDY, DRAMA ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Cross stitch book diana gabaldon![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Frank conducts research into his family history and Claire goes plant-gathering near standing stones on the hill of Craigh na Dun. In 1946, after working apart during the Second World War, former British Army nurse Claire Randall and her husband Frank Randall, a history professor, go on a second honeymoon to Inverness, Scotland. The first book won a Romance Writers of America's RITA Award in 1992. The television adaptation of the series premiered on Starz in the US on August 9, 2014.Ī mix of several genres, the series has elements of historical fiction, romance, adventure and traditional fantasy. It is the first novel in the Outlander series, with ten books planned. Initially set around the time of the Second World War, it focuses on nurse Claire Beauchamp, who travels through time to 18th-century Scotland, where she finds adventure and romance with the dashing Jamie Fraser. Outlander (published in the United Kingdom as Cross Stitch) is a historical fantasy novel by Diana Gabaldon first published in 1991. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Heirs of the founders by brands![]() It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. They look down upon the simplicity of a Yankee’s manners, because he has no habit of overbearing like theirs and cannot treat negroes like dogs. ![]() They fancy themselves more generous and noble-hearted than the plain freemen who labor for subsistence. ![]() But when probed to the quick upon it, they show at the bottom of their souls pride and vainglory in their condition of masterdom. In the abstract, they admit that slavery is an evil, they disclaim all participation in the introduction of it, and cast it all upon the shoulders of our old Grandam Britain. The discussion of this Missouri question has betrayed the secret of their souls. “It is, in truth, all perverted sentiment-mistaking labor for slavery, and dominion for freedom. “I told Calhoun I could not see things in the same light.” And as he later reflected on the day’s discussion, he realized how thoroughly he disagreed with nearly everything Calhoun and the other Southerners said by way of defense of slavery. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Father figure kichiku neko![]() ![]() ![]() Every death carries a dangerous message, another in a trail of breadcrumbs that can only end in blood. Foxlike and sullen, Seong-Jae’s disdainful beauty conceals a smoldering and ferocious temper, and as he and Malcolm clash the sparks between them build until neither can tell the difference between loathing and desire.īut as bodies pile up at their feet a string of strange, seemingly unrelated murders takes a bizarre turn, leading them deeper and deeper into Baltimore’s criminal underworld. Seong-Jae is all that and more, impossible to work with and headstrong enough to get them both killed…if they don’t kill each other first. He’s used to working alone-and the last thing he needs is a new partner ten years his junior. When Malcolm and Seong-Jae can no longer see eye to eye.will the closing act of their story turn into a tragedy?īaltimore homicide detective Malcolm Khalaji has his own way of doing things: quiet, methodical, logical, effective, not always particularly legal. What should be a simple case is complicated by secrets and lies as more and more of Seong-Jae's past surfaces, every deflection and careful half-truth builds the walls between partners-turned-lovers higher still. A stage play turns into high drama when the leading man's mutilated body takes center stage-and the remorseful note pinned to his chest is Malcolm and Seong-Jae's only clue to finding the killer. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's called The British Are Coming.Ītkinson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian, says there are lessons from the Revolution that hold true even today, 244 years after the shot heard 'round the world. Rick Atkinson, who wrote the best-selling Liberation Trilogy about the American effort in Europe during the Second World War, has now written the first book in a new trilogy to tell the story of the war that made America. With that, the Revolutionary War had begun. The red coats fired at members of the local militia, killing eight and wounding 10. No one knows for sure who fired the shot, but when British soldiers heard it, they panicked. On April 19, 1775, the "shot heard 'round the world" was fired on the Lexington, Mass. ![]() Gerry Marrocco, a historical interpreter and guide, gives a tour known as the Liberty Ride at the Battle Green in Lexington, Mass. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Book jesus and john wayne![]() ![]() Evangelical books, films, music, clothing, and merchandise shape the beliefs of millions. Many of today's evangelicals might not be theologically astute, but they know their VeggieTales, they've read John Eldredge's Wild at Heart, and they learned about purity before they learned about sex-and they have a silver ring to prove it. ![]() Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism-or in the words of one modern chaplain, with "a spiritual badass."Īs acclaimed scholar Kristin Du Mez explains, the key to understanding this transformation is to recognize the centrality of popular culture in contemporary American evangelicalism. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Keep at it volcker![]() ![]() This is where Powell worked to get Congress to raise the debt ceiling in 2011. Powell then pivoted (see what I did there? □) and went back to DC to work for a think tank. Then he moved back into the private sector, working on mergers and acquisitions, and then for a fund that he founded himself. After that, Powell spent some time at the US Treasury where he oversaw investigations of Salomon Brothers investment bank. After a few years as a judge clerk and then an attorney, he moved into mergers and acquisition work at Dillion Read, a New York investment bank. In contrast, Jerome Powell, the current Fed Chairman, is a lawyer and politician by study and trade, having studied politics at Princeton and then law at Georgetown. Then, twenty-seven years into his professional career, he was appointed Chairman of the Federal Reserve. He then worked alternating stints at the US Treasury and Chase Manhattan Bank before returning as the President of the New York Fed. His first job was as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Why do we keep hearing his name 40 years after his so-called moment at the Fed?įor starters, Paul Volcker was an economist by study and trade, having studied at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs, then Harvard’s Graduate School of Public Administration, and finally at the London School of Economics. First of all, who is this Paul Volcker character we keep hearing about? Like a Federal Reserve superhero or something. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Coming of Age by Venona Keyes![]() Sota, Aero’s oldest friend and ex-assistant decides that Aero needs a new assistant and comes up with the idea of creating a contest to find one. While growing up, Daniel wrote to and corresponded with Aero. Venona has a cute story about a May – December relationship between Aero the author and artist of the popular manga (comic) Ecos, and the young Daniel who has been infatuated with Ecos ever since he was a young child. ![]() It will take all of Daniel’s charm and the prayers offered at the shrine to make Aero take a chance on the romance they both want. Daniel is a perfect assistant, but it doesn’t help Aero see past the twenty-year age difference between them. The first time he lays eyes on Daniel, Aero realizes he’ll have a hard time hiding his attraction. But a winner emerges: a young man from America, Daniel Beck. Placing impossible rules on the contest, Aero is sure no one can win. ![]() After Aero collapses from exhaustion four years later, he is forced to run a contest for an assistant. Akiyoshi ‘Aero’ Kurokuma, author of the wildly popular manga, Ecos, lost his assistant when his best friend retired. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Going Rogue by Sarah Palin![]() ![]() Why else did God create guns? Would He have made animals out of meat if He had wanted us to be vegetarians? It is a God-given right for any Alaskan to get drunk and take out anything that moves. I hate liberals who don't understand how things work in the 49th State. My proudest moment in office was seeing off an attempt by the police chief to introduce gun and alcohol controls. ![]() Well I don't have space in this 400-page book to go into this in any detail, but if I did I would say that anyone who messes with God or my family has to deal with this pitbull in lipstick! Various stories have been told about how I dismissed a librarian for stocking anti-American literature on evolution and how I tried to get my brother-in-law fired from his job as a state trooper. "Dang it," I thought, "this election campaign is getting mighty dirty." But Todd told me God had a purpose for me and after praying for his guidance, I was duly elected mayor of Wasilla by nine votes to six. After coming runner-up, and last, in the Miss Alaska pageant, I married Todd Palin, a guy with his own snow mobile who blessed me with five children: Track, "we'd have called him hockey if he'd been born in the winter" Bristol, "Todd said he hoped she'd have a rack like mine" Willow, "we misspelled pillow" Piper, "after our light aircraft" and Trig, "short for the trigger on our AK47". ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Hood lawhead![]() He writes as if this could have been a personal history. He is thorough in his research and, as I indicated above, the subsequent setting of his book and the way the dialog and action move forward is directed by this thoroughness. The reason I bring this up is this sets the tone for the book and is indicative of Mr. Stephen Lawhead provides a compelling argument in the supplement to the book “Robin Hood in Wales” to move the Robin Hood we know and love from Sherwood Forest (and indeed from being English) to being a Welshman in Wales. I thoroughly enjoyed this even if my teenage boys found it a bit slow. ![]() It’s told primarily from the protagonist’s (aka Bran Bendigedig, the Hood) perspective and uses the etiquette, pacing and milieu of the day for dialog, action and relationships. The enemy are the Normans (and the Frank). ![]() It is a richly written tapestry of late 11th Century Britain. Hood provides a whole new look into the Robin Hood legend. ![]() |