![]() ![]() You absolutely should read Entity before reading this.Īs I was finishing up Entity by Toshi Drake, the first book in the new StarStation series, book two slipped across my radar. Sanctity features asexual awakenings, discovery of one’s true self, sweet courtships, and grumpy/sunshine first loves, along with heart-pounding moments of courageous heroes and villainous pirates. Through harrowing corridor chases and death-defying leaps into the unknown, will Trest learn to accept all that he is so he can reunite with the person who always understood who he was? Forced to recover after a harrowing event on board his spaceship, Trest meets Asyran commander, Zoagashta, a person who opens his mind to possibilities and acceptance.Īs Trest discovers that affection and love don’t have requirements, he begins to relax and sink into the emotions Zoagashta evokes.īut all is not peaceful when the Siwu arrive and attempt to kidnap Trest for his ability to bond with ship’s hearts. ![]() Can a man with secrets learn to accept himself and find love on a StarStation overrun with pirates?Ĭommander Jax Trest is a man with mysteries, even ones he doesn’t realize. ![]()
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Whoopi Goldberg Addresses Writers Strike On 'The View': "We're Still Writing Things On Cards"ĭetails for this installment are unknown at this time.įederle already has already proven to Disney that he is capable of successfully relaunching one of their prized IPs after helping reboot the GLAAD-award winning series High School Musical:The Musical: The Series, which he created and exec produces. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I wish I had done the same during my Master’s too, especially with people who have very similar expertise to mine. Both of which have been equally important for me throughout. Some on an emotional level, some on an “admiration” level. The biggest things I cherish from my undergrad days are the connections I made with other students. Sorry, to burst the bubble, but most people (including myself) don’t remember much about the subjects they took in those four years, and most professors are not good teachers. 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Mary Beard Blood & Beauty is a fascinating read full of vivid detail and human pathos. ![]() Part of me was happily lost in the time travel, part of me repeatedly struck by how vividly ancient Rome met modern Rome, and how the city of history came to life. A wonderful novel - taking you deep into the world of Renaissance passion and the Renaissance papacy. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Eliza's frustration spills out in a viral essay, she finds herself inspiring a feminist movement she never meant to start, caught between those who believe she's a gender equality champion and others who think she's simply crying misogyny. Suddenly her vast qualifications mean squat because inexperienced Len-who is tall, handsome, and male- just seems more like a leader. That is, until ex-jock Len DiMartile decides on a whim to run against her. Eliza Quan is the perfect candidate for editor in chief of her school paper. "A smart romance with heart and guts and all the intoxicating feelings in between." -Maureen Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of 13 Little Blue Envelopes Emergency Contact meets Moxie in this cheeky and searing novel that unpacks just how complicated new love can get.when you fall for your enemy. ![]() ![]() Oh, and I’m also working on a big secret project we hope to announce in the coming months! It’s a preposterously ambitious full color project covering the evolution and biology of vision principles of visual perception demonstrations of how visual elements behave in the mind’s eye best practices for clarity, explanation, and effective rhetoric and some personal reflections on our family’s experiences with blindness. The book has taken me years so far, but I sincerely believe it’ll be worth it. The second draft of my (neurotically-tight) layouts ran 571 pages, and I’m determined, as I plow through my third-and hopefully final-draft, to make it substantially shorter and less rambling. I’m still working feverishly on my massive book about visual communication. Yeah, yeah, nobody reads site blogs anymore, but I have a lot to talk about-more than can fit in a tweet-and this seemed as good a place as any to put it all into words… Nursing room sign, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is someone else entirely-someone not to be trusted. But after several weeks, she discovers that Rudi, her mysterious visitor, is not the lonely outsider he appears to be. ![]() He claims to be a trapper come from away, and as Grace gets to know him, she becomes enamoured by his gentle smile and thoughtful ways. Then, one day, a handsome stranger ventures into the store. As the harsh realities of war come closer to home, Grace buries herself in her work at the store. But three years later, the fighting rages on and rumours swirl about “wolf packs” of German U-Boats lurking in the deep waters along the shores of East Jeddore, a stone’s throw from Grace’s window. The war, everyone says, will be over before it starts. Grace stays behind, tending to the homefront and the general store that helps keep her small Nova Scotian community running. In the fall of 1939, Grace Baker’s three brothers, sharp and proud in their uniforms, board Canadian ships headed for a faraway war. From the bestselling author of Tides of Honour and Promises to Keep comes a poignant novel about a young couple caught on opposite sides of the Second World War. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stone, and Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths (2009) by the Classics scholar Robin Waterfield. Primary-source accounts of the trial and execution of Socrates are the Apology of Socrates by Plato and the Apology of Socrates to the Jury by Xenophon of Athens, who had also been his student modern interpretations include The Trial of Socrates (1988) by the journalist I. At trial, the majority of the dikasts (male-citizen jurors chosen by lot) voted to convict him of the two charges then, consistent with common legal practice voted to determine his punishment and agreed to a sentence of death to be executed by Socrates's drinking a poisonous beverage of hemlock. ![]() The death sentence of Socrates was the legal consequence of asking politico-philosophic questions of his students, which resulted in the two accusations of moral corruption and impiety. The Trial of Socrates (399 BC) was held to determine the philosopher's guilt of two charges: asebeia ( impiety) against the pantheon of Athens, and corruption of the youth of the city-state the accusers cited two impious acts by Socrates: "failing to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledges" and "introducing new deities". Failing to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledgesĢ80 jurors found the defendant guilty while 220 found him innocent.399 B.C.E legal proceedings by the pantheon of Athens against SocratesĪnytus, Meletus, Lycon, et al. ![]() ![]() ![]() This means that Hercule Poirot can build a timeline with all the relevant events revealed during the investigation. Timeline: As the player draws conclusions and progresses through the story, he can use Poirot's Timeline. 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The player embodies the famous Hercule Poirot in a 3rd person perspective adventure game packed with mysteries. The ABC Murders is an adventure and investigation game adapted from the classic Agatha Christie novel. ![]() ![]() The ABC Murders is an adventure and investigation game adapted from the classic Agatha Christie novel. ![]() |