![]() ![]() ![]() There are so many people who have helped me along the way and the list of those to thank is endless. We are a family business and without the support and encouragement of my family, this achievement would not have been possible.įor me, a small business is like going on a long journey into the great unknown. You’re excited, apprehensive and your energy is buzzing at the very prospect of starting this journey, you can’t wait to jump into the car and get going. So how did we get to make it to 30 years? Statistically, very few small businesses survive beyond five years. Today I celebrate a milestone as it was 30 years ago armed with a second-hand Apple Ilcx Mac and a passion for design that I started JAZ. It was no easy feat, especially in the midst of a “recession we had to have.” ![]()
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![]() ![]() You make my body burn as it never has before. You bring me peace and joy when you sing. It is a great privilege to be counted one myself. I am fascinated by the written word and I love storytellers. I read everything I mean everything! All kinds of books, even encyclopedias. The ability to create pictures and emotions with words is such a miracle to me. ![]() I've been a writer all of my life - it is who I am. ![]() She also has earned 7 more PEARL awards since Dark Prince. Since then she has been published by various publishing houses including Leisure Books, Pocket Books, and currently is writing for Berkley/Jove. Her debut novel Dark Prince received 3 of the 9 Paranormal Excellence Awards in Romantic Literature (PEARL) in 1999. All of her series have hit the #1 spot on the New York Times bestselling list as well. Christine Feehan is a #1 New York Times bestselling author multiple times over with her portfolio including over 90 published novels, including five series Dark Series, GhostWalker Series, Leopard Series, Drake Sisters Series, the Sisters of the Heart Series, Shadow Riders and Torpedo Ink. ![]() ![]() ![]() Robert Staples was a sociologist focusing on African-American life and a contemporary of Audre Lorde. ![]() Thus, in these pages, Audre Lorde is a deeply honest and curious person, simultaneously exploring problems relevant to her life and passionately corralling others to join her. She also tends to address her audience with a mixture of affection and sternness, particularly when delivering speeches or writing letters to a highly specific person or group of people. Lorde presents herself as a deeply vulnerable and constantly questioning individual with a desire to act in a morally correct way. Therefore Lorde frequently references her own professional and personal life, including her dealings with other intellectuals, her struggles and triumphs raising children, and her feelings of anger and hope in the face of injustice. Though Lorde writes about broadly relevant issues such as racism, sexism, and homophobia, she does so through the lens of her own experience. Audre Lorde is both the author and the main character in these texts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cylin’s portion of the audio book version of the novel was recorded right here at Double R Studios and available now from Full Cast Audio The recording was directed by Laurel van der Linde and engineered by Andrew Meisner. Urn:lcp:yearwedisappeare0000busb:epub:4d91c9c8-7a85-47be-b189-5be4d8817a3a Foldoutcount 0 Identifier yearwedisappeare0000busb Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t31350w0h Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781599901411ġ599904543 Lccn 2008017215 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Old_pallet IA18251 Page_number_confidence 92.13 Pages 358 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200825074018 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 640 Scandate 20200817074252 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781408802014 Tts_version 4. The Year We Disappeared by Cylin and John Busby is a riveting memoir co-written by a daughter and her father. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 03:02:06 Associated-names Busby, John, 1942- Boxid IA1912701 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() Grant found himself in conflict with IPC and resigned to become a freelance writer, writing the occasional issue of Future Shock and Blackhawk. Grant featured as a character in the magazine in the form of ALN-1, Tharg's Scottish Robot assistant. One of Grant's first jobs was to oversee the merger of 2000 AD and Tornado, an unsuccessful boys adventure comic magazine. On a trip to London, Grant was introduced to Kelvin Gosnell, then editor of 2000 AD, who offered Grant an editorial position on the comic. ![]() Wagner asked Grant to write a strip for Starlord, a 2000 AD spin off, which eventually got Grant noticed within IPC. Wagner asked Grant if he could help him write the Tarzan comic he was working on so began the Wagner/Grant writing partnership. Thomson editor, who was helping put together a new science fiction comic magazine for IPC, 2000 AD, and was unable to complete his other work. He then met John Wagner, another former D.C. Īfter going back to college and having a series of jobs, Grant found himself back in Dundee and living on Social Security. ![]() ![]() Thomson before moving to London from Dundee in 1970 to work for IPC on various romance magazines. ![]() Grant first entered the comics industry in 1967 when he became an editor for D.C. He was the co-creator of the characters Anarky, Victor Zsasz, and the Ventriloquist.Ĭareer Early career and 2000 AD Alan Grant (9 February 1949 – 20 July 2022) was a British comic book writer known for writing Judge Dredd in 2000 AD as well as various Batman titles from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of those is climate southern California was just a bit too idyllic looking at times in that movie. ![]() I love the Danny DeVito film adaptation, which was about as faithful as an Americanized version could be, but there are certain cultural signifiers that just don't translate. ![]() Love the use of movement and depth, and the way they really made the interiors of Crunchem Hall feel like a cross between a prison and a Victorian-era workhouse. I figured it was a deliberate choice given the Wormwoods' working class background, but apparently the West End productions always just went with the kids' natural accents since the kids were actually British. Alisha Weir is Irish, but her English accent as Matilda sounds a bit posher than I expected. Saw this during its Broadway run with Eliza Holland Madore in the title role for my performance, and she played the role with a light Cockney accent. Lashana Lynch is outside the box casting as Miss Honey, but she's a great actress and I look forward to seeing what she does with the part. ![]() They spent a fortune on creature makeup just to make Emma Thompson look like Pam Ferris circa 1996. Kind of bummed that they didn't bring Bertie Carvel back to play Trunchbull. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is brilliant from end to end, funny and terribly powerful. Show more Genres Young AdultDystopiaScience FictionFantasy FictionAdventureTeen. ![]() It rightly deserves the awards it has won, and because it is fiction, it makes the reality of war accessible to readers who are, thank God, almost completely sheltered from it. Propelled by Todd's gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is. I read this book to my daughter when she was eleven, and she loved, so girls get it too. So many important subjects are broached in this book, and all in the right ways. It is not glorified or glamourous, it is real. IT is violent, yes, but the violence is healthy: it hurts and hurts and hurts some more. Sadly, not all boys make it as far as Todd on this journey, and too many end up more like Davey Prentice. ![]() This book may well also be the best book written for teenaged boys, because Todd's struggle to be a man, and to come to terms with the mystery of what a girl is, as a different but equal being, goes to the heart of what boys struggle through on their way to becoming respectable and honourable men. As a high school English teacher, I am in contact with teens all day long, and so I have a priviledged access to teens in their everyday lives. This is, hands down, the best book for younger readers that I have read. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pete, the cat who couldn’t care less, celebrates Christmas with his inimitable lassitude. Just the thing for anyone with a Grinch-y tree of their own in the yard. Happily for the tree, the children won’t give up so easily, and though the tree never wished to become a Christmas tree, it’s perfectly content being a “trick or tree.” Martinez’s digital illustrations play up the humorous dichotomy between the happy, aspiring Christmas trees (and their shoppers) and the grumpy tree, and the diverse humans are satisfyingly expressive. ![]() When some parents threaten to cut the “horrible” tree down, the tree thinks, “Not now that my limbs are full of happy children,” showing how far it has come. But in winter, the tree stands alone and feels bereft and lonely for the first time ever, and it can’t look away from the decorated tree inside the house next to its lot. The neighborhood kids dare one another to climb the scary, grumpy-looking tree, and soon, they are using its branches for their imaginative play, the tree serving as a pirate ship, a fort, a spaceship, and a dragon. ![]() As time passes, the farm is swallowed by the suburbs. Its determination makes it so: It grows gnarled and twisted and needle-less. A grouchy sapling on a Christmas tree farm finds that there are better things than lights and decorations for its branches.Ī Grinch among the other trees on the farm is determined never to become a sappy Christmas tree-and never to leave its spot. ![]() ![]() ![]() While there, she met Richard Holland, then a Fleet Street journalist, later a sub-editor of The Times, and a classical biographer. She worked there from 1954 to 1956 and then as a junior researcher for the BBC at Broadcasting House from 1956 to 1958. Sheila continued her education by taking advantage of the B of E’s enormous library during her lunch breaks and after work. On leaving school at 16, the convent-educated author worked for the Bank of England as a clerk. Sheila attended the Ursuline Convent for Girls. As a child, she was moved from relative to relative to escape the bombings of World War II. Shiela Coates was born on December 22, 1937, in Essex, England, in the East End of London. Babe Ruth once held the record for most home runs, but he also struck out more than other batters. ![]() Like a power hitter in baseball, Lamb would swing for the crowds but sometimes came up short. ![]() ![]() I have given so many 5 stars to many Charlotte Lamb books. More than anything, what made her writing stand out from most other series romance writers was her insightfulness and wonderful characterization. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Women ask me questions, and then they tell me their stories. You’re it.”īut they’re careful, thoughtful people, and they took it slow. When they first met-I mean, when they first met in person, which doesn’t include the weeks of online flirting-their eyes met and both of them experienced an instantaneous, “Yes. They’re careful, thoughtful, introverted sweethearts. Henry is pretty much always the initiator, and though he’d certainly enjoy being the object of his wife’s sexual pursuit, he’s an easygoing guy who feels lucky to have a life partner who shares both his sense of humor and his need to have the bathroom kept organized at all times. Their ideal Friday night involves Settlers of Catan, anything by Joss Whedon, or Cards Against Humanity-or possibly all three.Īnd they have a nice sex life, he and Camilla. Henry is almost as geeky as Camilla, his wife. He stands up when a lady enters the room. You’d like Henry if you met him-he’s polite, with a sweet smile and a soft voice, handsome, a little old-fashioned. That is, until Emily Nagoski’s Come As You Are, which used groundbreaking science and research to prove that the most important factor in creating and sustaining a sex life filled with confidence and joy is not what the parts are or how they’re organized but how you feel about them. ![]() |