![]() ![]() ![]() As they chat, Al playfully challenges Lou to show him the best of Milwaukee and she’s game-but only if they never discuss work, which Al readily agrees to. The day that Al’s mean-spirited review of Luella’s runs, the two cross paths in a pub: Lou drowning her sorrows, and Al celebrating his latest publication. The review practically writes itself: underdone fish, scorched sauce, distracted service-he unleashes his worst. When an anonymous tip sends him to Luella’s, little does he know he’s arrived on the worst day of the chef’s life. Witty yet gruff British transplant Al is keeping himself employed and entertained by writing scathing reviews of local restaurants in the Milwaukee newspaper under a pseudonym. She cheerfully balances her demanding business and even more demanding fiancé…until the morning she discovers him in the buff-with an intern. In downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Lou works tirelessly to build her beloved yet struggling French restaurant, Luella’s, into a success. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Smith and Hattery explore the outcome of building prisons in rural, economically depressed communities, staffing them with white people who live in and around these communities, filling them with Black and brown bodies from urban areas and then designing the structure of solitary confinement units such that the most private, intimate daily bodily functions take place in very public ways. Hattery and Earl Smith present "Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement"īased on hundreds of hours of observation in solitary confinement units and interviews with both those who are incarcerated and those who work in solitary confinement, Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement, uncovers the ways in which specific structures of solitary confinement, including the close and intimate contact between the incarcerated and the correctional officer, serve as a petri dish that fuels the production and reproduction of white racial resentment. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Ben aaronovitch moon over soho![]() And as I hunted them, my investigation got tangled up in another story: a brilliant trumpet player, Richard 'Lord' Grant - my father - who managed to destroy his own career, twice. What they leave behind is sickness, failure and broken lives. I didn't trust the lovely Simone, Cyrus' ex-lover, professional jazz kitten and as inviting as a Rubens' portrait, but I needed her help: there were monsters stalking Soho, creatures feeding off that special gift that separates the great musician from someone who can raise a decent tune. No one was going to let me exhume corpses to see if they were playing my tune, so it was back to old-fashioned legwork, starting in Soho, the heart of the scene. ![]() ![]() Cyrus Wilkinson, part-time jazz saxophonist and full-time accountant, had apparently dropped dead of a heart attack just after finishing a gig in a Soho jazz club. ![]() Something violently supernatural had happened to the victim, strong enough to leave its imprint like a wax cylinder recording. ![]() And it's why, when Dr Walid called me to the morgue to listen to a corpse, I recognised the tune it was playing. Peter Grant is not just a lowly Detective Constable, he's also apprenticed to the last wizard in Britain: policing will never be the same again! I was my dad's vinyl-wallah: I changed his records while he lounged around drinking tea, and that's how I know my Argo from my Tempo. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Snow Twink by Sue Brown![]() ![]() ![]() Review: Baby Boy by Athena Steller 3 of 5 stars.Review: The Claws of Winter by Nazri Noor 4 of 5 s.Review: Pretty Baby by Athena Steller 4 of 5 stars.Review: Lost Boy by Athena Steller 3 of 5 stars.Review: Avery's Adventure by Athena Steller 4 of 5.Review: Camping Cuties by Athena Steller 3 of 5 stars.Review: Pretty Princess by Athena Steller 3 of 5 s.Review: Bossy Baby by Athena Steller 4 of 5 stars. ![]() ![]() Contains mature MM content with a BDSM-like DDLB relationship. I did find it strange that the sheriff was corrupt and yet it was so easy to get him arrested and help people without any mention of an outside organisation or office that could take control. The amount of abuse and depravity was very saddening but there were a few gaps. This is a nice story as the start of a new series that gives a good high-level background as to how Lyle got to the theme park kitchens and how he was rescued. Gruff is built like a bear and has the heart of a Daddy but is the youngest and smallest of seven gay brothers who live together in the Kingdom Moutiain forest so the chances of him finding a boy or next to nothing, until one night he finds a boy close to death in the forest. He finds himself stumbling through the snowy night in a panic and falls unconscious as he runs out of energy to run. In the Kingdom Mountain theme park a young kitchen worker called Lyle dreams of being a boy to a Daddy who loves him but the evil CEO has other plans for him. ![]() ![]() This anthology takes the word “diversity” to the limit, not limiting either the creatives or the characters. My initial impression was that this was a Black History Month tie-in for Marvel. It also has white creatives writing Black characters, like Moon Girl. Likewise, the comic has many of Marvel’s best known Black and brown writers/artists, like Ayala, Greene, Martinez, and Walker. Hosted by Angélique Roché, the Marvel’s Voices podcast focuses on spotlighting creatives of color in the Marvel universe. Inspired by the popular ‘Marvel’s Voices’ podcast, Marvel’s Voices #1 is an anthology of stories featuring a wide variety of writers, artists, and characters. Martinez, Anthony Piper, Damion Scott, Brian Stelfreeze, and Luciano Vecchio / Marvel Comics Marvel’s Voices ![]() ![]() Walker / Artists: Kyle Baker, Ryan Benjamin, Natacha Bustos, Bernard Chang, Sanford Greene, Ray-Anthony Height, Marcelo Maiolo, Alitha E. Writers: Vita Ayala, Kyle Baker, Chuck Brown, Roxane Gay, Method Man, Rob Markman, Evan Narcisse, Anthony Piper, Brian Stelfreeze, Geoff Thorne, and David F. ![]() ![]() To be truly engaged with this novel, you need to care what happens to Eva. My primary problem was that Eva is really rather stupid, and I found it hard to maintain my sympathy for her. ![]() In the end, I think it was an accumulation of small things that made this novel uninteresting to me. We learn of her passions and desires, and also the troubles she stumbles into. She determines to find Eva – or at least, find out what happened to her.īeginning in the pre-war years, alternate chapters tell Eva’s story from her point of view. ![]() Arabella proposes to use some of these to explore women’s lives during World War II.Īs Maddie begins to interview Precious to discover the stories behind specific outfits, she begins to hear about Precious’ friend Eva, never seen or heard of since the war. ![]() A former model, she has an extensive collection of clothes. Arabella’s relative, Precious, is nearly 100 years old. Her university friend Arabella has invited her to write an article for Vogue, designed to accompany an exhibition. Hailing from the American south, she went to university in England, and has since made her home in New York. In the present (2019), Maddie is an American freelance journalist. ![]() I didn’t find it engrossing, instead rather average, but I can picture other readers finding it a stronger novel. “The Last Night In London” uses the familiar structure of two entwined story lines, one in the past and one in the present. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Radio Monitoring by T.J. Arey![]() ![]() People who don’t care how their radios work, as long as they can listen to the latest track by Lady Gaga, are best avoiding this book (even though it does have somewhat short chapters, so you feel intelligent reading it!). I highly recommend this book to any reader who has an interest in radios, or for anybody who has an interest in the way the world works around them. It also provides purpose for visiting Radio Shack for something other than iPod accessories. The book discusses history, technique, legal issues, as well as pointing the reader to a massive list of resources you might not have ever realized existed. ![]() DX Monitor, the official publication of IRCA, is published 35 times a year, weekly from October to March, twice in September and April, and monthly from May to August. ![]() “Skip” Arey not only opened my eyes to all the amazing radio waves that are constantly passing through my body, but broke it all down in a way that any person with little or no radio experience could actually start monitoring radio frequencies with hardly any up-front cost (and very little long-term cost, depending on what you want to listen to). International Radio Club of America - Founded in 1964, IRCA is a club devoted to the hobby of hearing distant stations on the AM broadcast band (510-1720 kHz). ![]() The secondary reason: It sounded interesting. Show More book on radio monitoring, and why did I read it (virtual) cover to (virtual) cover? ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Rhino ranch a novel![]() Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Rhino ranch : a novel : McMurtry, Larry : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Rhino ranch : a novel by McMurtry, Larry Publication date 2009 Topics Older men - Fiction, Thalia (Tex. Rhino Ranch is a bittersweet and fitting end to this iconic series, a tribute to all of the emotion, hilarity, whimsy, and poignancy that readers have followed across decades. As he watches his world change around him, he reminisces on love affairs past and the missed opportunities he now regrets. ![]() %u2022 Irony, romance, and cycle of life: Duane comes back from a near-fatal heart attack to discover that his new neighbor has recently opened a rhino preserve on her property. Rhino Ranch, the final episode in Duane%u2019s saga, represents the end of an era and is the most unusual and compelling novel in the series. %u2022 The Thalia Finale: Readers have followed the life of Duane through The Last Picture Show, Texasville, Duane%u2019s Depressed, and When the Light Goes. His Thalia, Texas, series is among his most famous and Duane is an icon as much as his creator. ![]() ![]() %u2022 Highly acclaimed, iconic author: Larry McMurtry is renowned for his elegiac prose, sharp wit, and engaging plotlines. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Bloody sunday ben coes![]() An exchange, if it goes through, that will create two new nuclear powers, both with dangerous plans.ĭewey Andreas, still reeling from recent revelations about his own past, is ready to retire from the CIA. In exchange for effective missiles from Iran, they will trade nuclear triggers and fissionable material. doesn't know is that North Korea has made a deal with Iran. But their missiles are improving, reaching a point where the U.S. While they have built, and continue to successfully test nuclear bombs, North Korea has yet to develop a ballistic missile with the range necessary to attack America. ![]() North Korea, increasingly isolated from most of the rest of the world, is led by an absolute dictator and a madman with a major goal-he's determined to launch a nuclear attack on the United States. ![]() The latest in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Dewey Andreas series. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Betsy tacy treasury![]() ![]() Transitioning from only picture books to chapter books can be hard, especially for kids who love visuals. My daughter was thrilled to hear about a girl her age, and she was even more excited when I told her that there were pencil-like sketches inside for her to visualize what we were reading. She lives in a small mill town at the end of Hill Street, but she’s soon to have a new neighbor, as a new family moves into the house across the street. The Betsy-Tacy Treasury by Maud Hart Lovelace, which is the first four books in this 10 book series, was praised by Entertainment Weekly as “a rosy remembrance of a region already known for its niceness.” My daughter and I read these together over many weeks, reading little more than a chapter every couple of evenings.īetsy-Tacy is the first book in the series, and young readers are introduced to five-year-old Betsy who lives in Deep Valley, Minnesota. ![]() Mystery/Detective Fiction/Crime Fiction/ThrillerĪuthor: Serena Agusto-Cox at Savvy Verse & Wit. ![]() |