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And then there is another affair, while she is married to "her enduring love." I don't know. and anyone affiliated with her third husband, Richard Holbrooke. She has an affair with another unnamed man, then name drops the hell out of the entire State Dept. ![]() Then she leaves no stone unturned when it comes to her tempestuous marriage to Peter Jennings. She was married young to someone she does not name. But it was the uneven sharing of her relationships that turned me off. I truly did enjoy reading about her time as a student at the Sorbonne and the many wonderful French meals she shared with her various lovers/husbands. I kept thinking this was called Kati: Why Does Anyone Like Me? or Kati: Why Do Men Keep Falling at My Feet? Surrounding her adult life story with the various happy and interesting times spent in Paris was the only thing that kept me reading this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cass narrates in the present tense, and Jacob, who can hear her thoughts, interrupts when he doesn’t agree with her. Lara informs Cass they are ghost hunters whose purpose is to help ghosts pass beyond the Veil (what Lara calls the “in-between”) to the “place beyond.” When a sinister specter known as the Raven in Red sets her malevolent sights on Cass, the American must use her new knowledge to save her own life. In Edinburgh, Cass meets Lara Chowdhury, a British-Indian girl who shares Cass’ ability. Her best friend, Jacob, is one of the “corporeally challenged.” Cass’ parents, paranormal-nonfiction authors known as the Inspecters (pun intended), have big news: The family is off to Scotland to film the first episode of their self-titled docuseries about haunted places. ![]() ![]() She can enter the Veil, the curtain between the worlds of the living and the dead. Since a near-death experience a year ago, Cassidy Blake can see ghosts. The 900-year-old city of Edinburgh takes center stage in this middle-grade ghost story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She could use an assist from Bastien, an irresistibly charming incubus and her best immortal friend, but he’s giving Georgina some highly distracting come-hither vibes. Doug, Georgina’s co-worker at a local bookstore, has been exhibiting bizarre behavior, and Georgina suspects something far more demonic than double espressos. Admittedly, the shapeshifting and immortality perks of a succubus are terrific, but it’s completely unfair that a she-demon whose purpose is seduction can’t get down with the one mortal who accepts her for who she is… It’s not just her personal life that’s in chaos. If she so much as kisses Seth Mortensen, the shy, sexy writer she’s been dating, she’ll drain his life force. ![]() ![]() Love hurts, and no one knows it better than Georgina Kincaid. A succubus must balance a burgeoning romance as she fights to save a co-worker’s soul in this urban fantasy from a #1 New York Times–bestselling author. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nemesis takes on the most difficult task of any Diabolic, to pretend to be Sidonia after she has been called to the Emperor as a hostage after Sidonia’s father takes a stand against the backward thinking religion of the time. ![]() Nemesis is a Diabolic bonded to Sidonia, a rich and privileged but also lovely human. The Diabolics look like humans but they are super-humanly strong, inhumanly fast and do not have the same emotions as a human meaning they will do anything they can to save the life of their bonded human and I mean anything up to and including killing their bonded humans parents. They are genetically created and then grown to bond with one individual who they will then guard with their life. In this universe, Diabolics are created to be the ultimate bodyguard for the most elite and their offspring. I feel it’s always nice to know if you can finish a series after book one and not really finish on any kind of cliff-hanger, just in case you’re not enjoying and you needn’t force yourself to read anything further. Having finished this book, I feel that I could happily finish at this point but, given there are two more books, I would like to see what happens next. ‘Diabolic’ is book one in a three book series, but you could read it as a standalone book as that is what it was originally written as. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Have a look at the opening scene of The Accidental Tourist for the way Tyler shows a marriage in trouble. How can you not know your own cousin? What kind of family is this? It’s a simple snapshot from ordinary life that displays something deeper, something Tyler does brilliantly. She won’t even go up to Nicholas to see if it’s him, which James finds perplexing. Serena thinks she’s spotted her cousin, but isn’t sure. But then that might be because the scenes are mostly in homes, often around a meal table.įrench Braid begins with the next generation when Serena and her boyfriend James are waiting for a train to take them from Philadelphia to Baltimore. Again we’re in Baltimore which in Tyler’s world always comes across as a sensible, solid kind of city, oozing with good old-fashioned American values. ![]() This time we’ve got the Garretts: Mercy and Robin, parents to Alice, Lily and David. A new Anne Tyler novel means a new family. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, the now wiser and gentler beaver is getting down to the business of making things right, much to the delighted surprise of his forest friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() After reflecting on his behaviour, he decides to make some changes. But then one day the beaver finds himself on the wrong side of a falling tree, which as it turns out, is just the thing to knock some sense into him. The busy but careless beaver spends his days following random impulses, rarely thinking things through and leaving in his wake a devastated forest filled with stumps, half-nibbled trees and injured, homeless animals. This charming story from the creator of Big Bear Hug and Making the Moose Out of Life gently teaches youngsters how to take care with others, as well as the world around us.Ī clueless beaver discovers the impact his actions have on others. After reflecting on his behavior, he decides to make some changes. ![]() ![]() ![]() We want to tell their stories-because the best way to become a Pirate is to study other Pirates. Many of these techniques involve shifting the way we think to control the conversations we have with ourselves. Their strategies, frameworks, and mental models for successfully designing & dominating new categories of consequence.Įvery legendary entrepreneur, executive, investor, and creator of any kind is a Category Designer. by Ethan Kross (Crown Publishers January 26, 2021) Chatter reviews the different tools that exist for helping people resolve the tension between getting caught in negative thought spirals and thinking clearly and constructively. The radically different POVs these Category Designers evangelized in the world-and the obstacles they had to overcome to move people’s thinking FROM where it was TO somewhere new. Ethan Kross Menu Chatter Quiz The Book About Press Speaking Fresh and riveting. Untold stories of Category Designers who shaped the world we live in today (that you probably have never heard of before-but whose products, services, and platforms you have used thousands of times!). Ethan Kross - Author of Chatter and Acclaimed Psychologist In Chatter, acclaimed psychologist Ethan Kross explores the silent conversations we have with ourselves and how they shape our lives. ![]() In these Pirate Profiles, you will discover: Pirate Profiles is a series by Category Pirates spotlighting legendary Category Designers across a wide range of industries and disciplines. Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It by Ethan Kross Goodreads Jump to ratings and reviews Want to read Kindle 11.99 Rate this book Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It Ethan Kross 3. Ethan Kross on Christopher Lochhead's Follow Your Different podcast. ![]() ![]() ![]() The landscape of the Southwest that was originally his family geography becomes a source of dread, as he tries to make sense of working in an organization that seems to either harden or sink those within it. The Line Becomes a River is caught halfway between memoir and tone poem, as Cantú offers snapshots of his life in and around the Border Patrol. ![]() And like all Cantú's dialogue, it weaves in and out of paragraphs without quotation marks, so nothing interrupts the sense of someone relating a long and terrible dream.Īnd terrible it is. Whatever it is, I'll never understand it unless I'm close to it." It's surreal dialogue, the sort of thing that feels like a promise and only later turns out to be an omen. "Maybe it's the desert, maybe it's the closeness of life and death, maybe it's the tension between the two cultures we carry inside us. How?Įarly in The Line Becomes a River, Francisco Cantú tells his mother his reasons for joining the Border Patrol. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Line Becomes a River Author Francisco Cantu ![]() |