6/30/2023 0 Comments Same Old Truths by Delora Dennis![]() ![]() Once you've mastered the basics, the real fun comes from finding new ways to play with it. "I've discovered writing fiction is like playing with a new toy. ![]() Hello Select your address Kindle Store Hello, Sign in. Looking back now it's clear all of this was preparation for the type of writing she knew she had to try, but resisted like crazy. Same Old Truths (The Reluctant Avenger Series) eBook : Dennis, Delora: Amazon.ca: Books. ![]() Detours along the way included stints as a human resources manager, assistant funeral director,legislative analyst,speech writer, state fair exhibit manager, and independent video producer.ĭelora returned to the path in 1993 and since then has been writing in one form or another - video scripts, website content, how-to books, product reviews, informative articles, blog posts, press releases, etc. Same Old Truths (The Reluctant Avenger Series) eBook : Dennis, Delora: : Books. Of course, the trajectory of said launch didn't exactly follow a straight path. Just like the family in the HBO series, Six Feet Under, her family lived in the funeral home established by her grandfather in 1936.ĭelora launched her writing career in 1965, at the tender age of nine, with the production of her play (with a long-since forgotten title) by her elementary school's Home and School Association. Believe it or not, Delora Dennis was born in a funeral home in Belen, New Mexico. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments The dark forest cixin liu![]() ![]() Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer and sociologist, is baffled by his new status. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four men enormous resources to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. ![]() The aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth's defense plans are totally exposed to the enemy. In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion - in just four centuries' time. This near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking listeners to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from Cixin Liu, China's most beloved science fiction author. "Wildly imaginative." (President Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogy) ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Celia stahr frida in america![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With so much of her biography already common knowledge, I wondered what there was to learn from a new book, Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist by Celia Stahr, out last year. Many visitors, young and old, also know of her turbulent marriage with muralist Diego Rivera, her sartorial choices, and her beautiful blue home in Mexico City. During school tours, children as young as kindergarteners knew and shared the story of how Kahlo began painting while stuck in bed, recovering from a horrific bus accident that left her with lifelong health problems. FWMoA displayed photographs of Frida in a couple different exhibitions over the past few years (most recently in Seen & Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham). ![]() Parts of her biography are also incredibly well-known. Today, she’s a pop culture phenomenon, adorning memorabilia from t-shirts to jewelry to oven mitts I’m the owner of a Frida votive candle, tote bag, and Christmas ornament (they were gifts!). Photo courtesy of Alyssa Dumire.įrida Kahlo has one of the most recognizable faces in art history, captured in her own time by photographers (beginning with her father) and in her iconic self portraits. Alyssa Dumire’s Frida Kahlo collection, including the new book by Celia Stahr. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Nazis declared war on smoking, supported abortion, euthanasia, and gun control. They purged the church from public policy, promoted a new form of pagan spirituality, and inserted the authority of the state into every nook and cranny of daily life. They confiscated inherited wealth and spent vast sums on public education. They believed in free health care and guaranteed jobs. ![]() Replacing conveniently manufactured myths with surprising and enlightening research, Jonah Goldberg reminds us that the original fascists were really on the left, and that liberals from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to Hillary Clinton have advocated policies and principles remarkably similar to those of Hitler's National Socialism and Mussolini's Fascism.Contrary to what most people think, the Nazis were ardent socialists (hence the term “National socialism”). But who are the real fascists in our midst?Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective on the theories and practices that define fascist politics. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. “Fascists,” “Brownshirts,” “jackbooted stormtroopers”?such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. ![]() |