5/12/2023 0 Comments The Gulf by Jack Emerson Davis![]() The day after graduation, he was sharpening a pencil when the graphite dust spilled onto a sheet of paper. He entered Morehead State University on scholarship, graduating in 1974 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Showing an early interest in art, Saunders began taking art classes in high school after the family moved to Newport, Kentucky in 1965. When not in school, Saunders spent his days hunting, fishing, gathering wild foods and farming a small garden with his family. The sixth of eight children born to an Irish Appalachian father and mother of Ukrainian heritage – Saunders’ childhood was both difficult and glorious. ![]() A master of contemporary realism, Saunders maintains a holistic studio practice in Pensacola, Florida that joins his primary medium of powdered graphite with painting, writing, carving and assemblage to explore themes related to landscape, the human figure, personal narrative and regional identity.īorn in 1952 in Cold Spring, Kentucky, Saunders was raised in what he describes as “a shockingly small house with no running water” on a small isolated farm. Saunders is one of the most accomplished artists working today in the medium of powdered graphite. Employment Opportunities Come work with us!. ![]()
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5/12/2023 0 Comments Please look after mother book![]() ![]() And as the mystery of her disappearance unravels, we uncover a larger mystery, that of all mothers and children: how affection, exasperation, hope and guilt add up to love. ![]() Through their piercing voices, we begin to discover the desires, heartaches, and secrets she harboured within. Now, travelling from the Korean countryside to the Seoul of her grown-up children, So-nyo is separated from her husband when the doors close on a packed train.Īs her children and husband search the streets, they recall So-nyo’s life, and all they have left unsaid. In the past she suffered a stroke, leaving her vulnerable and often confused. PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER is the story of So-nyo, a wife and mother, who has lived a life of sacrifice and compromise. Combining a unique setting with universal themes, PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER is a beautifully rendered novel about sacrifice, guilt, and the ties of family love. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Nickel and dimed pages![]() Stu, the restaurant’s assistant manager, watches for any evidence of relaxation and is constantly on employees’ cases, assigning trivial duties and making sure everyone is working-even when the place is nearly void of customers. 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The idea is to enter the low-wage workforce for a period of time as a way of investigating poverty in the age of welfare reform. ![]() Ehrenreich begins her book by discussing her preparations for her endeavor. ![]() ![]() Set in a working-class neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, it explores the situation of first- and second-generation Americans in the early 1950s as. The Assistant is Bernard Malamud's second novel. She has a life-changing experience at the age of 14 when she takes up with an infamous gunrunner and his mercenary crew. The Informationist, by Taylor Stevens, is the first novel in the Vanessa Michael Munroe series, about a young woman raised in Cameroon as the daughter of American missionaries. ![]() Finding Gobi: A Little Dog with a Very Big Heart It contains about 2000 recipes drawn from all over Italy, and has gone through eight editions.ġ7845. 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Who is Elizabeth Peters?Įlizabeth Peters (1927-2013) is the pen name of American author and Egyptologist Barbara Mert – she received a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Chicago in 1952. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hal Leonard is very proud to present the first legitimate and legal editions of these books ever produced. The problem is that the books were illegally produced and distributed, without any regard to copyright law, or royalties paid to the composers who created these musical masterpieces. Since the 1970s, musicians have trusted these volumes to get them through every gig, night after night. The Real Books are the best-selling jazz books of all time. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Furyborn![]() "Set in an immersive world of elemental magic, legendary godsbeasts, and cutthroat assassins, Claire Legrand's Furyborn is an addictive, fascinating fantasy. Each time the wielder damages an opponent with the weapon, its enhancement bonus increases by +1 when making attacks against that opponent (to a maximum total enhancement bonus of +5). Those who enjoy fiction about strong girls and women A furyborn weapon draws power from the anger and frustration the wielder feels when battling foes that refuse to die.Lovers of dual POVs and epic world building. ![]() Fans of To Kill A Kingdom and Ash Princess.Epic fantasy and dark fantasy YA readers. ![]() To find her, Eliana joins a rebel captain and discovers that the evil at the empire's heart is more terrible than she ever imagined.Īs Rielle and Eliana fight in a cosmic war that spans millennia, their stories intersect, and the shocking connections between them ultimately determine the fate of their world-and of each other. A bounty hunter for the Undying Empire, Eliana believes herself untouchable-until her mother vanishes. One thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a fairy tale to Eliana Ferracora. If she fails, she will be executed as the Blood Queen.unless the trials kill the queen first. ![]() To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven elemental magic trials. When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light, and one of blood. The first book in the instant New York Times bestselling series, the Empirium Trilogy!įuryborn is an epic YA fantasy about two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world.or doom it. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Gods and generals by jeff shaara![]() Lee, never believing until too late that a civil war would ever truly come to pass. Here is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a hopelessly by-the-book military instructor and devout Christian who becomes the greatest commander of the Civil War Winfield Scott Hancock, a captain of quartermasters who quickly establishes himself as one of the finest leaders of the Union army Joshua Chamberlain, who gives up his promising academic career and goes on to become one of the most heroic soldiers in American history and Robert E. ![]() The New York Times bestselling prequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Killer Angels In this brilliantly written epic novel, Jeff Shaara traces the lives, passions, and careers of the great military leaders from the first gathering clouds of the Civil War. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Five little peppers books in order![]() The Peppers so charm Jasper and his father that one by one they are invited to visit their home in the city and soon the entire family is living there. She is rescued by young Jasper King and his dog, Prince, both of whom rapidly become fast friends with the Peppers. Things change for the Peppers when Phronsie is kidnapped by an organ grinder. ![]() Though tragedies often befall them, they bear it as best they are able and make the most of the good. The Peppers make do with whatever they have and the elder children try to make things special for the younger. They are poor, and Mamsie must work constantly to keep the wolf from the door but they do it with gaiety and spirit that would not be expected. "The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew" tells the story of how the Peppers live, learn, and play in their little brown house. The series began with the Peppers in impoverished straits which they were eventually rescued from by a wealthy gentleman who took an interest in the family. It covered the lives of five children with the surname Pepper. ![]() The Five Little Peppers book series was created by Margaret Sidney from 1881 to 1916. ![]() ![]() The film isn’t nearly as gory as its long-standing reputation insinuates – Hooper wanted a PG rating, a laughable reverie (he instead got an X, then after some cuts, an R) – but it pounds away at your nerves with perverse determination, abetted by the grinding and whirring of the sonic landscape, which sounds like a herd of mechanical animals in heat. “There’s just some things you gotta do.” Hooper seemed to approach the film with the same tenacious attitude: his seminal slasher film, which cost a paltry $100,000 (in cash), is a relentless 90-minute excursion into the sun-dried bowels of hell, with little reprieve from the screaming and shrieking of its victims and villains. ![]() “I just can’t take no pleasure in killing,” says an old gas station attendant and habitual cannibal in Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. ![]() |
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