![]() ![]() When Mac accidentally sends Maddie flying over the handlebars, badly injuring her, he moves in to nurse her back to health and help care for her young son. He's back in town to help his father with preparations to sell the family resort and has no intention of staying long. Then she's knocked off her bike on the way to her housekeeping job at McCarthy's Resort Hotel by Gansett's "favorite son," Mac McCarthy. ![]() ![]() With more than 1.5 million copies of the New York Times Bestselling McCarthys of Gansett Island Series sold since Maid for Love debuted in April 2011, this series has quickly become a fan favorite!The McCarthys of Gansett Island: Book 1Maddie Chester is determined to leave her hometown of Gansett Island, a place that has brought her only bad memories and ugly rumors. ![]()
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![]() MacLean currently resides on the east coast of Canada in a lakeside home with her husband and daughter.įor more information about Julianne and her writing life, please visit her website at Be sure to follow her on Bookbub to be notified whenever her ebooks are offered for FREE or 99 cents. She loves to travel and has lived in New Zealand, Canada, and England. MacLean has a degree in English literature from the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and a degree in business administration from Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. ![]() Her novels have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been published in over a dozen languages. Readers have described her books as “breathtaking,” “soulful” and “uplifting.” MacLean is a four-time RITA finalist and has won numerous awards, including the Booksellers’ Best Award and a Reviewers’ Choice Award from Romantic Times. ![]() Julianne MacLean is a USA Today bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including the contemporary women’s fiction Color of Heaven Series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Frank, author of The Economic Naturalist A great introduction to economics for beginners. The result is an enjoyable book that succeeds in illuminating the economic ideas and forces that shape our world. Niall Kishtainys A Little History of Economics solves their problem: its brief, charming vignettes read effortlessly, yet faithfully capture the deep insights that have so profoundly transformed how we think about our world. He introduces us to some of the key thinkers-Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and others-while examining topics ranging from the invention of money to the Great Depression, entrepreneurship, and behavioral economics. ![]() Economic historian Niall Kishtainy organizes short chapters that center on big ideas and events. A Little History of Economics Niall Kishtainy 4. This clear, accessible, and even humorous book is ideal for young readers new to economic concepts, and for readers of all ages who want to better understand economic history and ideas. ![]() A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and through the ideas of great thinkers in the field "A whistle-stop introduction to the great works and thinkers of each age, this is a clear and accessible primer."-Laura Garmeson, Financial Times What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in an economy helpful, or harmful? While the answers to such basic economic questions matter to everyone, the unfamiliar language and math of economics can seem daunting. ![]() ![]() ![]() I acquired my first IBM PC in early 1984 and began writing for PC Magazine that same year. I later used much of the knowledge and experience I gained from this project to write my book Code. This project is documented in "Adventures in Electronic Music: Beeps, Bloops, and Klangs: 1974–1982". ![]() This led to a self-taught education in digital electronics,Īnd (within a couple years) to designing and building a digital electronic music synthesizer controlled by a homebrew computer based around the Zilog Z80 microprocessor. In 1977 I began exploring how I could build electronic music instruments. I grew up in New Jersey and attended Stevens Institute of Technology.Īfter graduating in 1975 with a BS and MS in mathematics, I moved to New York City and worked 10 years for a major insurance company.Īlthough not an actuary, I did actuarial work and PL/I programming for individual health insurance product development. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine.Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software.I am the author of a dozen books, most notably two unique explorations of digital computing: ![]() ![]() ![]() “What finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. in the Mexican–American War, which took place from 1846 to 1848.Īs described in the 1990 Vintage edition: The plot is inspired by the capture of the Southwest by the U.S. The novel is historically based, drawing from the life of Jean-Baptiste Lamy(1814 – 1888). He has traveled there from Sandusky, Ohio, with his friend, Joseph Vaillant, a vicar. It tells an almost mythic tale of a life simply lived in the American southwest.įather Jean Marie Latour, the novel’s main character, arrives in New Mexico in 1851 to serve as the Apostolic Vicar. It’s a fixture on numerous listings of best American literature of the twentieth century. Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) is often considered one of Willa Cather’s best novels, if not her masterpiece. ![]() ![]() The competition Willy encounters is too tough for his modest talents the path he has chosen denies his true being at every step. "We had the wrong dream," says Biff', Willy Loman's son, and what Miller is saying in terms few can miss is that this wrong dream is one the greater part of America still cherishes. It is not a realistic portrait, it is a demonstration both of the facts and of their import. ![]() Willy Loman is everybody's father, brother, uncle or friend, his family are our cousins 'Death Of A Salesman" is a documented history of our lives. The play has tremendous impact because it makes its audience recognize itself. It was not unusual to hear of this person in the thirties, but in the theatre of the forties he has once more become the forgotten man. ![]() Attention!" The man his wife refers to is Willy Loman, the central figure of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman." Perhaps the chief virtue of the play is the attention that Miller makes us pay to the man and his problem, for the man represents the lower middle class, the $50-a-weekplus-commission citizen, whose dream is to live to a ripe old age doing a great volume of business over the telephone. ![]() ![]() An editorial in the Los Angeles Times decries a wave of bigger – and bigger-battery – EVs. Those are pricier than EVs like the little Bolt hatchback, which General Motors discontinued in favor of pickups. They’re more resource-intensive, too. The demand side – that is, consumer preferences – plays an important role, too.There are full-size EV pickups that can power homes, and some drivers do need big vehicles. For 2022, the firms involved in the mining and manufacturing for those accounted for 27% of Tesla’s total emissions, reports Quartz.But the supply side isn’t the only thing to consider as we think about EVs and making the future work. And such “Scope 3” emissions – including those of suppliers – represented the deepest part of the product line’s carbon footprint.Batteries are a big factor. But this time, in Tesla’s report, it was part of the tally. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What should we make of a recent report from carmaker Tesla reminding us that, even though its cars have no tailpipes, there are significant carbon emissions associated with getting them built and on the road?It’s worth thinking about, though there’s a lot more at play when it comes to electric vehicles and CO2 emissions.The vast network needed to supply raw materials and component parts for EVs makes for difficult accounting. ![]() ![]() Morton has hastily rescheduled lunch at the Hilton Dragonara, a grimy structure near the train station, distinguished from the other grimy structures near the train station in that it's not gutted. Linked with Diana's didn't foresee this particular setting as a showcase. The trusted astrologer who told him that his destiny was inextricably ![]() Morton's mother has suddenly taken ill, and he finds himself abruptly back here, giving interviews in the working-class town where he grew up the son of a picture framer. Of Wales's favorite London restaurant, San Lorenzo, in chic Beauchamp Place.īut Mr. ![]() Andrew Morton, the author of "Diana: Her True Story," the best seller that's been called the longest divorce petition in British history, had plans to discuss his new-found fame at the Princess The New York Times: Book Review Search ArticleĪT LUNCH WITH: Andrew Morton Wear Armor if You Want to Say The King-to-Be's Got No Clothesĭecember 30, 1992, Wednesday, Late Edition - Final ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She'd made a practice of reading to her children. The family moved to an area with schools, he attendedįor a few years until the Great Depression struck andĭuring the years when his mother taught school at home, Her son and daughters at home as best she could. There were no schools available, so Wilson's mother taught Ozark mountains in the early part of this century, andĪs much as anything it is about (Woodrow)Ī portrait of his boyhood in dirt-poor Scraper, Oklahoma. It's about a boy and his overwhelmingĭream to own a dog, it's about family life in the rural And like those other books, Red Fern isĪbout far more than a dog. The Red Fern Grows is one of the great Americanĭog stories. Of embarrassment by its authorafter he'd spent That was completely burned before publication because Rawls, is the only children's book I know Robert McCloskey spentĪ full year writing the 1,142 words in Make Stories are published as soon as they are written and ![]() There with each of the collected stories. Listen to This, one of more than 40 profiles contained Is excerpted from Jim Trelease's anthology Hey! ![]() ![]() It’s an invaluable guide to what is truly important at a wedding, what is not important, and what is actually rude. ![]() ![]() Miss Manners' Guide to a Surprisingly Dignified Wedding is an updated version of an earlier book on weddings, with her recently-married daughter Jacobina Martin added as co-author. Judith Martin has made it abundantly clear throughout her etiquette career that she finds forks uninteresting (if there are several next to your plate, start with the outside one), and believes that the point of etiquette is to “make people happy, or at least to prevent them from shoving each other.” She is also-as is particularly evident to anyone who has seen her speak-very funny. Many people seem to view Judith Martin, aka Miss Manners, as a snobbish, overly fork-preoccupied type intent on making people follow unnecessary and picky rules. ![]() |