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Sinister and incisive, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad has retained the fascination of readers and scholars alike. From the mists of London we are whisked to the darkness of Africa's colonial heart - and into the thrall of the tyrannical Kurtz, an ivory trader who has established himself as a terrifying demi-god. One night on the Thames, Charles Marlowe tells his fellow sailors the vivid and brutal tale of his time as a riverboat captain in the Belgian Congo. This elegant edition features an afterword by Dr Keith Carabine, specialist in American literature and former chair of the Joseph Conrad society. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. On a lifestyle photo shoot in 2010, I was working with a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named Buster in a backyard in Orange, California. In Underwater Dogs, Seth Casteel gives playful and energetic testament to the rough-and-tumble joy that our dogs bring into our lives. Each image bubbles with exuberance and life, a striking reminder that even in the most loveable and domesticated dog, there are more primal forces at work. In more than eighty portraits, award-winning pet photographer and animal rights activist Seth Casteel captures new sides of our old friends with vibrant underwater photography that makes it impossible to look away. From leaping Lab to diving Dachshund, the water is where a dog’s distinct personality shines through some lounge in the current, paddling slowly, but others arch their bodies to cut through the water with the focus and determination of a shark. The exuberant, exhilarating photographs of dogs underwater that have become a sensation.įrom the water’s surface, it’s a simple exercise: a dog’s leap, a splash, and then a wet head surfacing with a ball, triumphant.īut beneath the water is a chaotic ballet of bared teeth and bubbles, paddling paws, fur and ears billowing in the currents. Yet as she reconnects with her past and begins to feel at home in Westport, Piper starts to wonder if the cold, glamorous life she knew is what she truly wants. Piper doesn’t want any distractions, especially feelings for a man who sails off into the sunset for weeks at a time. The fun-loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but there’s an undeniable attraction simmering between them. How bad could it really be? She’s determined to show her stepfather-and the hot, grumpy local-that she’s more than a pretty face.Įxcept it’s a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into Brendan. So what if Piper can’t do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. Piper hasn’t even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won’t last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father’s dive bar. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn’t belong. The first in a spicy and unforgettable rom-com duology from #1 New York Times bestseller and tik tok favorite Tessa Bailey, in which a Hollywood “It Girl” is cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town. “I also knew I had to come forward to bring additional credibility to the stories of abuse being shared by the children.”Īshley tried to warn caseworkers as early as 1993 about abusive conditions in the home. “I knew so many kids who had lived in that home,” recalled Ashley, who spent six months with the Mosses. Marjorie Moss was accused of punching and beating children, locking them outside for hours without water or food, holding children’s heads under water, and threatening them with guns. Hillsborough County deputies arrested the Mosses in May 2000 on 40 felony child abuse and neglect charges. Born to a single teen mom, Ashley went into Florida’s foster care system at age three and was shuffled through 44 caseworkers and 14 foster homes ̶ some horribly abusive ̶ before being adopted out of a group home at the age of 12.Įven though it happened 15 years ago, she clearly remembers seeing the mug shots of two of her former foster parents, Charles and Marjorie Moss, on the evening news. The final straw for Ashley Rhodes-Courter was the “gag order” mandating that she not speak publicly about the gruesome murder of her former foster child, Jenica Randazzo.įor much of her 29 years of life, Ashley courageously spoke up when witnessing wrongs, a trait fine-tuned during the tumultuous nine years she spent in foster care herself. In “This Is Where I Leave You” matriarch Hillary (Jane Fonda), a best selling author and psychologist, upon the death of their father, tells her four adult children that, though he wasn’t religious, he wanted them to observe the practice of shiva, mourning for the deceased, for 7 days. Confronting their history and the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families can provide- driving us insane even as they remind us of our truest, and often best, selves. Confronting their history and the frayed When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. Summary: When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. Time-outs are constructive, time bound, reassuring or neutral, mutually understood and agreed upon, and meant to help find solutions in the end. Sometimes the silent treatment is confused with the healthier time-out. And so the cycle continues, often with shortening periods of honeymoon behavior and increasing amounts of abuse. The victim, however, desperately wants things to go back to normal. It is a way to manipulate and subjugate another into submission, and compliance, distress, and discomfort are the intended goals for the narcissist. In other words, it is only one tool of many that may be simultaneously employed by the narcissist to ensure control over another person. It can be explicit or subtle, in private or public, recognizable by others or not, and usually coexists with other forms of abuse. Basically, the silent treatment is a passive-aggressive behavior by which an abuser communicates some sort of negative message to the intended victim that only the perpetrator and the victim recognize through nonverbal communication. When their much loved father passes away, the four Dollanganger children find their sadness turned to terror in the face of cruelty.įorced to enter Foxworth hall, they encounter Olivia Foxworth, their vile grandmother who, instead of the love and warmth of a kindly grandparent, meets them with scorn, christening them Devil’s spawn and sequestering them away to the confines of a locked room. The Dollanganger story follows the Foxworth children, Cory, Chris, Carrie and Cathy Dollanganger through the ordeals they encounter following a great tragedy. Following the somewhat unappreciated ‘Gods of Green Mountain’ Andrews’ first standalone novel, it was The Dollanganger series that first attracted fame to Andrews even while drawing all manner of controversy from some circles for the content portrayed within it. The Dollanganger series is author V.C Andrews’ most popular series, particularly the ‘Flower in the attic’, the first book in the series. Her vivid prose, often rich in metaphor (e.g., Hope's description of the Brooklyn diner: ""The big, oval counter. Readers will recognize many of Bauer's hallmarks here-a strong female protagonist on the road to self-discovery, quirky characters, dysfunctional families, a swiftly moving story, moments of bright humor. Along the way, Addie and Hope both find love, and Hope discovers the father figure she has so desperately wanted. Stoop, who is battling leukemia, run for mayor. She and Addie shine in the small-town milieu and gladly offer to help diner owner G.T. When Addie accepts a new job that takes the pair from Brooklyn to the Welcome Stairways diner in Mulhoney, Wis., Hope never could have imagined the big changes ahead of her. But Hope would gladly give up always having to say good-bye to friends and places she loves. She doesn't mind the hard work it takes to make a diner hum she seems to have inherited a knack for waiting tables from the free-spirit mom (Addie's younger sister) who abandoned her years ago. Sixteen-year-old Hope has grown used to the nomadic life she has built with her aunt Addie, a talented diner cook. Bauer (Rules of the Road Squashed) serves up agreeable fare in this tale of a teenage waitress's search for a sense of belonging. I was always restless – wanting to travel, wanting excitement, wanting to changeįree Ellie, was what my college friends jokingly called me. I wasn't exactly an all-around good girl, but I thought that a guy like him would be the perfect stabilizing force for someone like me. So far, my six-month-old relationship with tall, handsome, and all-around good guy Don Padilla was not what the fairy tales led me to believe. Then I texted my boyfriend: Sure, no problem. Why bother with cold and wet? Four: I need sleep anyway. Two: What good would an outdoor restaurant with a view of Taal Lake be if it's raining? Three: Tagaytay is cold enough as it is. Then I got the text, becoming all too familiar already.Įllie, rain is bad. I woke up excited for my planned food trip to Tagaytay with my boyfriend Don, only mildly concerned by the rain pouring in sheets outside my window. Sorry I couldn't be more eloquent than that, but the big reveal came to me on a rainy Saturday morning. That point in a relationship when you realize that instead of happily ever after, you're apparently just a few paragraphs below once upon a time? It sucks. |