6/27/2023 0 Comments Yoke by E.M. RaglandHere’s Holli Yeoh to talk more about that. Part of the magic of this book is that it takes a deep dive into the construction of the circular yoke sweater, including a discussion about how shaping makes this design so versatile. Take a tour of her Ravelry shop for some real eye candy! Altheda by Jenn Steingass, from The Art of Circular Yokes Jenn is a true master of the circular yoke sweater. There are so many amazing choices in this beautiful book, but I managed to pick a favorite: Altheda by Jenn Steingass. The latest is Kerry Bogert, who put together a stunning collection of circular yoke sweaters from the hottest designers out there, The Art of Circular Yokes. Today’s knitting designers continue to find ways to revive this classic sweater construction. Circular yoke sweaters are all the rage their timeless style never goes out of fashion.
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Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. A bold, seductive laird meets his passionate match in a scintillating Highland romance from New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands Sword fighting, swearing, and riding astride come naturally to Saidh Buchanan. But Saidh is the target of a hidden enemy, and Greer faces the battle of his life to safeguard the woman he wants above all others. When reckless desire overtakes them, he's more than willing to make an honest woman of her. Little wonder that Greer is intrigued by his comely guest. She has an angel's looks, a warrior's temper, and seeks out his kisses with wanton eagerness. Though she's far from a proper lady, the brawny Highlander makes Saidh feel every inch a woman. until she glimpses the new Laird MacDonnell bathing naked in the loch. Raised alongside seven boisterous brothers, Saidh has little interest in saddling herself with a husband. Simpering and holding her tongue- definitely not. The Highlander Takes a Bride Audible Audiobook Unabridged Lynsay Sands (Author), Penelope Nederhorst (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) & 0 more 4. A bold, seductive laird meets his passionate match in a scintillating Highland romance from New. A bold, seductive laird meets his passionate match in a scintillating Highland romance from New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands Sword fighting, swearing, and riding astride come naturally to Saidh Buchanan. The Highlander Takes a Bride: Highland Brides by Lynsay Sands. 6/27/2023 0 Comments Ship of magic reviewShip of Magic kicks off with the quickening of the Vivacia, a liveship commissioned three generations earlier by the Vestrits of Bingtown. Once quickened, the figureheads of liveships begin to talk, exhibit emotions, develop their own culture, and also possess powers that generally make them superior seafarers compared to non-liveships. The economics of The Cursed Shores are heavily influenced by the presence of “liveships,” which are crafted from “wizardwood.” After being commissioned by a family and absorbing the spiritual energy of several deceased family members, each of these special vessels “quickens” into life and forms a unique bond with the family whose sweat and blood literally generated its consciousness. Ship of Magic’s central world-building element is as good as any I’ve encountered in the fantasy genre. Hobb’s crisp description and imagery bring The Cursed Shores to life, inviting the reader on a journey that would be captivating if not for a series of critical missteps. The novel takes place on “The Cursed Shores,” a colorful coastal landscape where swashbuckling and supernatural forces collide. Robin Hobb’s Ship of Magicis an ambitious work of fantasy that doesn’t deliver on the promise of its good ideas. 6/26/2023 0 Comments Tetsuko kuroyanagi totto chanKuroyanagi has twice brought America's National Theater of the Deaf to Japan, acting with them in sign language. The Totto Foundation-financed with her book royalties-provides professional training to deaf actors, with whom Kuroyanagi often appears. Devoted to welfare and conservation, Kuroyanagi is Asia's first UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador (see Totto-chan's Children and serves on the board of the Worldwide Fund for Nature. This and the other shows on which she regularly appears all enjoy top viewer ratings. Japan's first such program, it was recently awarded television's highest prize. She spent 1972 in New York studying acting, and was critically acclaimed in Japan for her leading role in works by Albee and Shaffer and in Melchior Lengyel's "Ninotchka." Her daily television talk show, "Tetsuko's Room," is still going strong after more than twenty years. She studied to become an opera singer but then became an actress instead, winning a prestigious award for her work in radio and television. TETSUKO KUROYANAGI, daughter of the celebrated violinist, was voted Japan's most popular television personality fourteen times. Gerald was spending his days painting from the model at the RA, where his visiting tutors included Stanley Spencer, Carel Weight and John Minton, but he also took a keen interest in the children’s books Elizabeth would bring home. Elizabeth joined him in London to work as a primary school teacher, and the two married later that year. His talents were recognised in the form of a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy Schools in 1955. Gerald liked the idea and began a Saturday morning drawing class, before enrolling full-time at Lowestoft College of Art, where he met Elizabeth Pretty, a fellow student. As Henley took a keen interest in art, he took Gerald to see an exhibition of cartoons in London, where a woman, overhearing the boy’s enthusiastic interest, recommended he consider art school. Gerald had failed his 11-plus and had gained no qualifications at secondary modern school. Henley remained in Hong Kong, returning to Suffolk as Gerald was leaving school. On their release, the children were sent to live in Lowestoft with Henley’s mother. They were there for four years, living on bowls of congee that were often full of maggots. Gerald, Dawn and Rachel were taken to the Stanley internment camp for civilians while Henley was interned at a military camp. The childhood idyll was brutally curtailed when the Japanese swept into Hong Kong, and by 1942 the family was broken up. As well as collaborations with Elizabeth, Gerald Rose illustrated books for other authors such as Ted Hughes, in Nessie the Mannerless Monster 6/26/2023 0 Comments I think knot sinclair kellyI’m used to taking care of things on my own. If there’s one thing I need from the overprotective men in my life, it’s their trust. Add in the threat that’s looming closer every day, and things are about to get messy. For a woman used to handling things on her own, it’s all a little too much, too fast. Could this time be different?Įxcept now he’s got a pack to consider and I have a very persistent Beta who refuses to give me any sort of space. Now here we are, older and wiser, or so I’d like to think. Looking back on it, there were so many obstacles in our way, but I would’ve been willing to risk his honor and integrity to have what I so desperately wanted-consequences be damned-if he hadn’t taken the choice out of my hands. Ten years ago he walked away without so much as a goodbye and broke my fragile, barely legal heart. Now I’m living in a small town, with the one man who has the power to break down my carefully constructed identity. When work explodes-quite literally-in my face, I’m forced into hiding until the smoke clears. But after so many years of living one lie after another, do I even really know who I am without them? 6/26/2023 0 Comments The devil rides out authorRex's friends have suspicions about the ex-SS Gruppenführer with whom he is said to have been consorting they find themselves pursuing Rex to the Bolivian Andes and confronting Satanist forces once again.ĭennis Yates Wheatley (8 January 1897 – 10 November 1977) was an English author. Rex van Ryn steals more than a million dollars from his family bank and vanishes in Buenos Aires. Gateway to Hell sees the return of characters from The Devil Rides Out. On one of these trips home, an occult writer named John Verney realizes that the group are Satanists and are preparing Catherine to become an avatar of Astaroth on her 18th birthday. She is allowed to come home once a year on her birthday. To the Devil a Daughter tells the story of a group of practicing Satanists who disguise themselves as "The Children of the Lord." Catherine-a nun-is one of this group. The group's leader comes after them, and there is a desperate struggle to defeat the Angel of Death and escape the cult leader, Mocata. Rex falls for a woman named Tanith and takes her away from the cult. The Devil Rides Out: In 1930s London, Duc de Richleau and Rex van Ryn rescue their friend Simon Aron from a devil-worshipping cult. An omnibus of three stylish occult tales, by the author known as the Prince of the Thriller Writers Julia Lockwood has never been anything more than a pretty pawn for her father or a business acquisition for her former fiance. However, a well-meaning neighbor hasn't given up on seeing him settled, so she goes behind his back to bring yet another woman to town for him. He's already been jilted by three mail-order brides and figures a wife just isn't in his future. It put me in mind of Janette Oke's sweet prairie romances but with a bit more edge, which I found compelling.I loved it."Įverett Cline will never humiliate himself by seeking a mail-order bride. Julie Lessman, author of Love at any Cost "Melissa Jagears has penned a tender tale of a mail-order bride who takes both the groom-and herself-by surprise when love comes softly.quietly. Maggie Brendan, CBA bestselling author of The Heart of the West and The Blue Willow Brides series. "A Bride for Keeps treats readers to an engaging, prairie livering a heartwarming, satisfying read." Rosslyn Elliot, author of Fairer Than Morning and Sweeter Than Birdsong "Melissa Jagears is a stand-out talent! Her fresh new voice is strong, stylish, and makes A Bride for Keeps a page-turner for anyone who fancies a stirring love story." 6/25/2023 0 Comments Half a war joe abercrombieSo we're to believe that 15th century-like folks can just pick up a weapon built by an advanced, but extinct, culture, and simply master their use immediately? Sure, maybe they should have also just jumped into a starfighter and laid waste to the High King from the sky? Also, there is a discussion of a slow sickness that effects those that went on the elf-city expedition and didn't get "magic beans". There is a short description of lighting in tubes, which I assumed to be fluorescent lights, at the armory in the elf city. Finally, the whole elf-magic weaponry discussions turned out to be wholly unsatisfying. And I wasn't thrilled that Yarvi turned out to be a traitor and a bully. Too many new characters at the expense of those we've grown to care about. I really grew to like Thorn and Brand in Books 1 and 2, but really missed them in Book 3. Contains spoilers - I very much enjoyed the first two books in this trilogy, but was very disappointed by the third. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Good Reasons for Bad Feelings will fascinate anyone who wonders how our minds can be so powerful, yet so fragile, and how love and goodness came to exist in organisms shaped to maximize Darwinian fitness. Taken together, these insights and many more help to explain the pervasiveness of human suffering, and show us new paths for relieving it. Low mood prevents us from wasting effort in pursuit of unreachable goals, but it often escalates into pathological depression. Anxiety protects us from harm in the face of danger, but false alarms are inevitable. Drawing on revealing stories from his own clinical practice and insights from evolutionary biology, Nesse shows how negative emotions are useful in certain situations, yet can become excessive. Instead of asking why certain people suffer from mental illness, Nesse asks why natural selection has left us all with fragile minds. Now he returns with a book that transforms our understanding of mental disorders by exploring a fundamentally new question. Randolph Nesse helped to establish the field of evolutionary medicine. With his classic book Why We Get Sick, Dr. With his classic book Why We Get Sick, Randolph Nesse established the field of evolutionary medicine. A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine uses his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to provide a much-needed new framework for making sense of mental illness. |