![]() ![]() ![]() Twenty years later, Jackie unexpectedly inherits The Sandcastle and returns to the iconic estate for a short visit to ready it for sale. until the summer abruptly ended in tragedy, and Willa silently slipped away into the night. As musicians, artists, and free spirits gathered at The Sandcastle for the season in pursuit of inspiration and communal living, Jackie and her cousin Willa fell into a fast friendship, testing their limits along the rocky beach and in the wild woods. ![]() THE DAZZLING SPIRIT OF 1970S CALIFORNIA.įor Jackie Pierce, everything changed the summer of 1979, when she spent three months of infinite freedom at her bohemian uncle’s sprawling estate on the California coast. “With lyrical writing and a page-turning plot, this sun-dappled book has it all: heart, smarts, and an irresistible musical beat.” -Karen Dukess, author of The Last Book Party “A delicious daydream of a book.” -Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of 28 Summers ![]()
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![]() On the Republican side, Robert teaches Spanish in his daily life but finds himself in unique situations In charge of blowing up the bridge, the preparations are relentless, time consuming, pain staking and ultimately horrific. This is a story of both sides of the Spanish Civil War. Imagine the horrors of the work, the time and the risk. He’s an American Volunteer in charge of dynamiting and his role is a difficult one. One of the people there, Robert Jordan is in the thick of it, the fighting, the harsh and unforgiving landscpe and conditions but also the friendships and comradeship that develops between the men there. These mountanous areas are dangerous and a prime hiding spot for fighters and all kinds of bandits. What can you say about a classic? High in the mountains and forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. ![]() ![]() Yet many prescribers are reluctant to give ADHD meds to people with additions. Likely, the stimulant use was an attempt to self-medicate. Maté argues that when people feel calmer after using stimulants, that’s almost a sure sign they have ADHD. Fetal alcohol exposure, childhood sexual abuse, trauma on top of trauma, on top of trauma… As one chapter title says, “their brains never had a chance.” If one were to sum up the adverse childhood experiences scores of the Portland residents alone, the number would be massive. It’s easy to judge people whose lives are consumed by their addictions… until you hear their stories. Ultra-low barrier housing like this supports people with complex mental and physical health problems, addictions, and social problems people end up here after being evicted from everywhere else. It draws on his encounters with patients while working as a staff physician at the Portland Hotel, an ultra-low-barrier supported housing building in Vancouver’s downtown eastside, Canada’s poorest postal code. ![]() Gabor Maté offers powerful insights into the vulnerable, human side of addiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() But he was best known for two works that became touchstones in their respective genres - campaign books ("The Selling of the President") and true crime ("Fatal Vision"). The tall, talkative McGinniss had early dreams of becoming a sports reporter and wrote books about soccer, horse racing and travel. Optimistic almost to the end, he had for months posted regular updates on Facebook and Twitter, commenting on everything from foreign policy to his health. ![]() His attorney and longtime friend Dennis Holahan said he died at a hospital in Worcester, Mass. McGinniss, who announced last year that he had been diagnosed with inoperable prostate cancer, died from complications related to his disease. McGinniss, the adventurous and news-making author and reporter who skewered the marketing of Richard Nixon in "The Selling of the President 1968" and tracked his personal journey from sympathizer to scourge of convicted killer Jeffrey MacDonald in the blockbuster "Fatal Vision," died Monday at age 71. ![]() Whether insisting on the guilt of a murder suspect after seemingly befriending him or moving next door to Sarah Palin's house for a most unauthorized biography, McGinniss was unique in his determination to get the most inside information, in how publicly he burned bridges with his subjects and how memorably he placed himself in the narrative. NEW YORK (AP) - Joe McGinniss wasn't one to let a story tell itself. ![]() ![]() ![]() Palahniuk initially sold Greener Pastures to Hachette, which had previously published his novel The Invention of Sound and his craft memoir Consider This, but pulled it after Substack made him an offer. ![]() ![]() In Plot Spoiler, Palahniuk will publish craft lectures, short fiction, and installments of Greener Pastures, a serialized novel about a shadowy website where smart children auction themselves to rich moguls in need of successors. “That type of fiction doesn’t really have a market anymore.” Though he’s not taking the helm of a legacy publication, the Fight Club author hopes to make a little more space for his favored style with his new project: a Substack newsletter, which launches today. ![]() “The glossies really aren’t buying very edgy, challenging short fiction these days,” Chuck Palahniuk says. ![]() ![]() ![]() Luke Pearson is a comic book artist and illustrator, author of Hildafolk and Everything We Miss (published by Nobrow Press). This is the second part of the Hildafolk series, a series that follows Hilda on her many adventures and travels through the magical fjords and enchanted mountains of her birthplace as she unravels the mysteries of the supernatural world that surrounds her. ![]() Will they help or hinder her? More importantly, who is this mysterious Midnight Giant? She conspires with the beings of the mystical Blue Forest to delay the inevitable. ![]() During Hilda's daily one-and-a-half hour trek to school she looks for ways to stall her mother's decision. In Hilda and the Midnight Giant, our protagonist finds her world turned upside down as she faces the prospect of leaving her snow-capped birthplace for the hum of the megalopolis, where her mother (an architect) has been offered a prestigious job. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ironside (2007) is a sequel to Tithe, and returns to Kaye as the protagonist. Her new friends are hardly normal, and are in fact couriers to a fae named Ravus, a troll that literally lives under a bridge and who makes a special drug for the exiled fae that eases the iron sickness. ![]() She runs to New York and gets caught up with teen vagrants Lolli, Dave, and Luis. Valiant (2005) introduces a new protagonist: the Tomboy runaway Valerie Russell. While she's no stranger to the Fair Folk, she stumbles into the dangerous faerie courts when she meets a completely different faerie, Roiben, a knight from the Unseelie Court. Once home, Kaye tries to reconnect with some of her old childhood friends-including some of her "imaginary" ones, a trio of faeries. ![]() Tithe (2002) begins with Kaye Fierch returning to her childhood home of New Jersey after her rocker mother's boyfriend attempts to stab her mother after a gig. The Modern Faerie Tales is an Urban Fantasy trilogy by Holly Black, including the books Tithe, Valiant and Ironside. ![]() ![]() ![]() Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier’s most challenging adversaries-panic, exhaustion, heat, noise-and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Bestselling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Birth, unions, and burials – cycles of joyful celebration and deep grieving, all are marked symbolically with herbs, flowers or branches of a tree – the integration of nature into ceremony our method of signifying catharsis. The wooden May Day pole is circled by girls wearing crowns of woven daisies, celebrating the coming of spring. ![]() A lover’s bouquet awaits on the doorstep. A wreath of lilies stands sentinel over an open grave. Rose petals strewn along the wedding aisle mark the evolution into womanhood and marriage. Plants, trees, and flowers as signifiers of transition are also deeply embedded within rites of passage rituals across global cultures. Our joys and laments are mirrored in the cycle of the seasons, in the seed birthing sprout, or in the dead leaf falling softly from winter branches. Our myths, beliefs, and shared stories are continually reflected in nature purity represented by the white lily or spiritual awakening by the bloom of the lotus. ![]() A visual journey through our interdependent evolution with nature, Plant Magick celebrates botanicals as creative muse – from ancient Greek sculptures to Renaissance paintings to visionary art inspired by psychoactive plants, cacti, and mushrooms. Celebrating the magick of the natural realm, Volume IV of The Library of Esoterica, delves into the symbolism, ceremony, and our ritual relationships with the botanical world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From the gender pay gap in Britain to forced marriage in Kashmir and from rape as a weapon of war to honour killings, Sue has examined humankind s history and takes us on a journey to analyse the state of women s lives today. She gives voice to Maimouna, the woman responsible for taking over her mother s role as the village female circumciser in the Gambia and provides a platform for the 11-year-old Manemma, who was married off in Jaipur at the age of six. The War on Women brings to life the inconceivable and dangerous life Sue led, it tells the story of Mary Merritt who was imprisoned in a baby laundry in Dublin and of Monica, who was trafficked and forced into the sex trade in Bosnia. But in observing first-hand the war on the female race she also documented their incredible determination to fight back. During her 30-year-long career she travelled the world and witnessed the worst atrocities inflicted on women. In1973, Sue Lloyd Roberts joined ITN as a news trainee and went on to be the UK's first female video-journalist to report alone from the bleak outposts of the Soviet Union, China and Iran. ![]() |