![]() ![]() One of the many issues facing the president-elect is what to do with the Puntland Maritime Police Force (PMPF)-a marine militia described by its supporters as Somalia’s most effective counter-piracy force and by its opponents as the Farole administration’s Praetorian Guard. The maritime security community should also take note, as Ali Gaas, a U.S-trained economist, will preside over the original heartland of Somali piracy. UN and EU envoys praised the autonomous state’s January 8 election, decided by the votes of 66 parliamentarians appointed by clan elders, as a model for Somalia-wide democratization. ![]() After losing Puntland’s presidential election by a single parliamentary vote, incumbent president Abdirahman Mohamed Farole extended his congratulations to his opponent Abdiweli Mohamed Ali Gaas, a former prime minister of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG). ![]()
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![]() ![]() Squib Moreau may be swamp-wild, but his intentions are (generally) good: he really wants to be a supportive son to his hard-working momma Elodie. ![]() until his peaceful world’s turned upside down by a well-intentioned but wild Cajun tearaway and the crooked (and heavily armed) law officer who wants him dead. ![]() This is Eoin Colfer’s first adult fantasy novel, having dipped into the Artemis Fowl books as a young teenager I’m not coming to his work totally fresh, but I can’t say I’ve been an avid Colfer reader before now.Įoin Colfer’s first adult fantasy novel is a hilarious, high-octane adventure about a vodka-drinking, Flashdance-loving dragon who’s been hiding out from the world – and potential torch-carrying mobs – in a Louisiana bayou. I only have so many months I can go without getting my fix of winged lizards so I was excited to read Eoin Colfer’s Highfire at the end of last year. ![]() Hello Humans! It feels like a long while since I reviewed a book with dragons in – I think it would have been when I reviewed The Name of All Things back in November. ![]() ![]() Charles the V, the Holy Roman Emperor, decides that Clement VII needs to be put in his place and Charles sends his soldiers to Rome to teach the Holy Father and his people a lesson. It is bad enough when Caterina's uncle lives in the palace but when he becomes the new pope, Clement VII, things get a lot worse. It is not easy being a Medici because many of the people in Florence hate the family and want to get rid of them. Both of Caterina's parents died when she was just an infant and now she is under the care of the Cardinal. The one person who does come to visit her is her aunt Clarissa, Caterina's dead father's sister. Her life is a lonely one for very few people come to visit her in the Medici Palace. ![]() ![]() Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000 ISBN: 978-0152055882Ĭaterina de' Medici, or Duchessina as her family and friends call her, lives with her "uncle," Cardinal Giulio. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You needed letters of recommendation to get in. The Barbizon, a residential hotel on New York’s Upper East Side, catered to middle- and upper-class women. But you can’t help coming away with a heightened understanding of the societal hurdles faced - and the methods and stratagems for advancement employed - by ambitious, venturesome ladies of the decades from the Roaring Twenties through the “Me Decade” of the Seventies. Reading it may not give you great insight into what makes women tick, and all that that implies. So today, in recognition of the recent International Women’s Day, I commend to you The Barbizon: The Hotel that Set Women Free, a new book by historian Paulina Bren of Vassar College. There’s the truth that should be universally acknowledged. There’s just no understanding of women, if you’re a male of the species. And that goes for a married man as well, be he possessed of big bucks or living paycheck-to-paycheck. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man, in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of an understanding of women. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Addressing him in the second person, she recounts her friend's three troubled marriages and his career as a college professor. The unnamed narrator, a writer living in Manhattan, recalls the life and recent suicide of her best friend and mentor, also unnamed. ![]() The novel contains autobiographical elements, and is written in the stream of consciousness style, which Nunez has said allowed for "essay writing" and "meditation" within the book. Nunez also drew inspiration from Elizabeth Hardwick's novel Sleepless Nights. A friend of Nunez's died by suicide as she was writing The Friend. Nunez was inspired to write the novel in part due to acquaintances and friends convinced their lives would end by suicide. The book concerns an unnamed novelist who adopts a Great Dane that belonged to a deceased friend and mentor. The Friend is a novel by the American writer Sigrid Nunez published by Riverhead Books in 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tit 1:16 They profess that they know God but in works they deny him, being abominable, (disgusting detestable) and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. Tit 1:15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure but even their mind (thoughts feelings will intellect) and conscience (judgment of right and wrong) is defiled. Expository or systematic teaching is explaining scripture verse by verse and exegesis is to explore the meaning of the text which then leads to discovering its significance or relevance.Ĭol 2:18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,Ĭol 2:19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I want to find a child’s “home run” book, the pivotal reading experience that turns them into lifelong readers. I particularly enjoy doing readers’ advisory for children, especially when they are reluctant readers. I love talking about books, learning about someone’s likes and dislikes, and the challenge of finding books they haven’t read yet that would be a good fit. ![]() I’m drawn to stories that feature strong female protagonists who use their own ingenuity and resourcefulness to succeed. Lewis, Madeleine L’Engle, Lloyd Alexander, Diana Wynne Jones) there were great stories that took me to the most amazing places and gave me fascinating things to consider. From my earliest favorite chapter books (C.S. I’ve always loved stories about fantastical and far-away places, particularly those based in mythology and folklore. ![]() ![]() ![]() They influence each other so much it makes sense that their taste in clothes and hairstyles is almost the same and that they spend all their free time texting each other. Because the girls are only two months apart in age, their mothers are sisters who are close to each other, and they only live about twenty minutes apart, Missy and Claire have always shared everything. The novel’s protagonist, Missy, is a sixteen-year-old high school student in New Jersey who has grown up alongside her cousin and best friend, Claire. Published in 2010, the novel follows two cousins and best friends whose school project uncovers a long-kept family secret that threatens to overturn everything they thought they knew about themselves and each other. Cooney, who is most famous for her middle grade and young adult thrillers. ![]() Three Black Swans is a suspense-filled coming of age novel written for a middle-grade audience by Caroline B. ![]() ![]() ![]() I am in such an incredible mood because I was in a terrible book slump for weeks because of A Bloody Kingdom (HIGHLY RECOMMEND!). I have honestly, been going through a rockstar love phase lately, and I love every minute of it! I am three gosh damn years too late on reading this book. Bad things happened here, terrible things.” “Everything I’d heard about Vegas was true. Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Click to Boy: Lick (Stage Dive Series Book 1)ĥ ‘Can I be your wife, David Ferris?’ Stars!!! One thing is certain, being married to one of the hottest rock stars on the planet is sure to be a wild ride. ![]() Now if she could just remember how it all happened. But she sure never meant to wake up on the bathroom floor with a hangover to rival the black plague, a very attractive half-naked tattooed man in her room, and a diamond on her finger large enough to scare King Kong. Blurb: Waking up in Vegas was never meant to be like this.Įvelyn Thomas’s plans for celebrating her twenty-first birthday in Las Vegas were big. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Argonauts takes its name from a passage by Roland Barthes in which he: ![]() They also share a distinct tone and sensibility: a combination of formidable intelligence, wisdom, and emotional vulnerability. Bluets and The Argonauts are similarly inventive, mixing genres including memoir, philosophy, and criticism. Trust me.” Nelson’s newest book, The Argonauts, is a worthy successor to her earlier breakthrough (she has also published several other works including a more traditional book of criticism from 2011, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning). ![]() While many readers, even serious ones, may not have heard of Nelson, Bluets is the kind of book certain people (myself included) press into fellow readers’ hands and say “just read this. Maggie Nelson has had what one might call a cult following ever since the 2009 publication of her genre-bending essayistic prose-poem Bluets. ![]() |