Angel creek by linda howard6/28/2023 Jaclyn stifled her irritation it stemmed more from the almost impossible workload facing her during the coming week than it did from paying her speeding ticket. Didn’t she realize it was inappropriate to sound cheerful when you were collecting payments for traffic violations? Maybe it was asking too much that she sound glum, but she could at least sound bored and noncommittal, instead of all but dancing with glee at taking someone’s money. “Jaclyn Wilde,” the clerk called, interrupting Jaclyn’s increasingly stressed and frantic thoughts. It wasn’t just the brides it was the bride’s mother, the groom’s mother, the maid of honor, the bridesmaids, the parents of the flower girl and the ring bearer, the cousins who weren’t invited to be in the wedding party, what colors to choose, the date, the location, the damn font on the friggin’ invitations … A wedding, on the other hand, was fraught with every emotion known to man. It wouldn’t have been nearly as bad if the bookings had been anything other than weddings: a party was simple in comparison to a wedding, because they were relatively free of emotional turmoil. All Jaclyn Wilde could think was that her mother, Madelyn, who was her partner in Premier, the events planning firm to hire in the greater Atlanta area if you wanted your guests to be impressed, must have been sipping a couple or twelve champagne martinis when she’d accepted so many bookings so close together.
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Except for use in review, the reproduction or utilization of this work in whole or in part, by any means, is forbidden without written permission from the author/publisher. Sale of the electronic edition of this book is wholly unauthorized. Copyright © 2020 by Katharine Gilliam Regnery Franklin foer world without mind6/27/2023 Silicon Valley, he argues, may say it wants to improve the world, But its true endgame is the advancement of an ideological agenda. tech firms (but not, crucially, technology itself). Investigating the practices of these digital gatekeepers, he has crafted an anti-Silicon Valley manifesto that while occasionally slipping into alarmism makes a cogently scary case against the influence of U.S. In his new book, “World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech,” the veteran journalist lays out a more ominous view of where Big Tech would like to take us - and in many ways, already has taken us. 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Further, Reinagel uses the names of various people from pulp fiction for the names of minor characters. We see analogues of Tarzan, Captain America (and his two main Nazi villains the Red Skull and Count Zemo), Captain Satan and even the Angel Detective. It also uses the Wold Newton concept of Philip José Farmer, to create the backdrop to the story, weaving in various heroes and characters from earlier fiction. Here, we have his takes on four major pulp heroes: Doc Savage ( Doc Titan), The Shadow ( The Darkness), The Avenger ( The Guardian), and The Spider ( The Scorpion), plus their aides and assistants. This book is an obvious labor of love to create an epic pulp hero novel, teaming up pastiches of four of the major pulp heroes (and hints of several others). The first Pulp Heroes novel is More Than Mortal. Another series is Modern Marvels, which I’ll cover in another posting. The main series is called Pulp Heroes and will consist of three pulp novels plus two associated works. 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The Summer of Letting Go by Gae Polisner6/26/2023 Some long-standing family conflicts are resolved very quickly, but the story never comes off as saccharine or simplistic.īoth hopeful and careful-like Francesca herself.Īfter praying to a Fate for help, Evangeline discovers the dangerous world of magic. The prose is gentle but evocative, and Frankie Sky’s childlike exuberance and occasional misconceptions add heart and humor. This is a quiet story about miracles and relationships, and Francesca has something to learn from each person whose life touches hers-even the neighbor her father keeps visiting on the sly. And there’s nobody, really, with whom Francesca can share her deepest secret: Simon’s death was Francesca’s fault. Unfortunately-or is it fortunately after all?-the only person Francesca can talk to about reincarnation is her best friend Lisette’s very charming, very taken boyfriend, Bradley. 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