I also enjoy cooking and looking for creative ways to reduce food waste (did you know carrot tops make a great pesto?). My current favorite baked goods are Mexican Wedding Cookies and Almond Butter Cups (it’s like a Reeses but better!). Speaking of pastries, I love to bake and am always looking for fun new recipes. I tend to be on the prowl for good coffee and pastries. I love a good DIY project and am currently building garden beds. At home, I maintain my indoor / outdoor garden and am starting to venture into the world of composting and growing my own food. Aside from work and career aspirations, I love spending time outside hiking and biking, camping, looking for hot springs, all while identifying plants and spring flowers along the way. I am a proud NPS Academy alum having done Native Plant work at Rocky Mountain NP summer of 2022. I was part of an ACE Crew in 2021 doing ecological restoration and trail work. I love being in close proximity to nature, so much so that it inspired a career shift from HR and marketing to conservation / ecological restoration. Born and raised in Southern California and currently living in the small mountain town of Big Bear, CA.
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There is a key to a part of my soul I never knew existed, and he holds that key inside himself. and hold on tight for the ride of your life.Įxcerpt Brennan Walker had my heart in his hands from the moment I first walked into his Oval Office. Fall in love with Special Agent Reese Theriot and President Brennan Walker. How much are we willing to risk? And how badly will this go up in flames? ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ Secret Service is a standalone MM romance, full to the brim with passion, suspense, and forbidden pleasures. If we cross this line, Brennan could lose everything. There’s something here, something between us, like the oxygen we’re breathing is igniting before each inhale. I've never been with a man, but now? I'm dreaming about his bleu clair eyes and wondering what it would feel like if his lips touched mine. I’m on the verge of sliding into discoveries and truths that maybe I’m not ready for. He’s a storm at midnight, a dark moon rising, trouble on the horizon. 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I could guess who was behind the rebels, but it was a satisfying guess, the kind that I was very pleased to have predicted correctly. For the most part, I think there is a good balance between the information given and the information withheld. I was never bored, and I actually almost missed an appointment with a professor when I got caught up in the story toward the end. There's a good amount of tension through the entire thing with the consuls, the rebels, and Tessa and Corrick's own secrets. The basic elements are probably something you've seen in various fantasy books, but they come together really well. They're on two sides of a conflict as rebels grow bolder and rumors of the cure losing its efficacy rise. Corrick is the King's Justice, younger brother to King Harriston, and responsible for punishing smugglers that steal Moonflower. Tessa is an apothecary who steals Moonflower, the only cure for a fever that has long since plagued the kingdom of Kandala, and distributes it to those who can't afford it. Featuring a range of zippy characters from Acrobat Peas to Zoologist Peas, this delightful picture book highlights a variety of interests, hobbies, and careers - each one themed to a letter of the alphabet - and gives a wonderful sense of the colorful world we live in. |a Get ready to roll through the alphabet with a jaunty cast of busy little peas. |a 1 volume (unpaged) : |b color illustrations |c 29 cm |a New York, New York : |b Beach Lane Books, |c 2010. I am so impressed by how brave and hard-working people were then. Despite being exhausted by the Depression ordinary people rose to the occasion all over the world and defeated the bad guys. And the Nazis and the Japanese military dictatorship–they were psychopaths and sociopaths. It wasn’t a given that the Allies would win. It’s the last war we fought that wasn’t a war of choice, and it was a real battle between good and evil. What interested you about this period and this legendary organization? Louise’s War is set in 1942 and involves the Office of Strategic Services. But then a colleague whose help Louise has enlisted is murdered, and she realizes she is on her own, unable to trust anyone. When she discovers a document concerning the husband of her college friend Rachel Bloch-a young French Jewish woman she is desperately worried about-Louise realizes she may be able to help Rachel escape from Vichy France. In her new novel, Louise’s War, a young widow named Louise Pearlie has come to Washington DC to work for the legendary Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA. Sarah Shaber is an award winning novelist described as having a “historian’s eye for the telling detail” and the ability to “capture the essence of Washington in 1942 with its paranoia, its secrecy, and its potential to let women reinvent themselves at a volatile time.” ) BibGuru offers more than 8,000 citation styles including popular styles such as AMA, ASA, APSA, CSE, IEEE, Harvard, Turabian, and Vancouver, as well as journal and university specific styles. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Copy citation Other citation styles (Harvard, Turabian, Vancouver. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley, but their hopes are dashed as Lennie - struggling against extreme cruelty, and more. Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Tackling universal themes of friendship and shared vision, and giving a voice to America's lonely and dispossessed, Of Mice and Men remains Steinbeck's most popular work, achieving success as a novel, Broadway play and three acclaimed films. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley, but their hopes are dashed as Lennie - struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and feelings of jealousy - becomes a victim of his own strength. Until a new beach side development sets him free.īrass isn't an evil guy, he just doesn't see any value in human life. Immortal, he's been pinned to the ocean floor for centuries. In between, you know, gruesome killings.īrass is a shapeshifting trickster from Native American folklore. He doesn’t go out-of-control “Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time” with the fish-out-of-water scenario, but does get some solid laughs out of Brass’s attempts to adapt to modern American life. There’s some fun humor in Conley’s writing. Sympathetic cops and other authority figures chase after Brass, who leaves a trail of pretty obvious clues. This subplot falls away by the ending, but there’s a pretty good final showdown just the same. And women, too-he picks up a teenage hitchhiker, and herein lie the most interesting parts of the story. Once removed, of course, Brass escapes and hits the road, murdering anyone who attempts to disuade him from getting to Las Vegas and doing some serious gambling. First thing that’s gotta go is that weird, wooden pole. Unfortunately the site of his burial is also where a small California town is looking to do a beach revamping. This being, the one-named Brass, has been pinioned to the ocean floor, guarded over by crows, for hundreds of years. It won’t change the way you think about the genre, but if you like shape-shifting monsters, Native American legends, and the thought of a pack of police trying to chase down a centuries-old creature, then here you go. Conley, is one hell of a fast-moving book. Modern magic is accomplished with the aid of computers by writing special programs for them. Seeing a flyer about a school for magicians, Koyomi takes the enrollment exam and becomes a student of Misa Anehara, a powerful master magician. The protagonist, Koyomi Morishita, is a short, clumsy, female high school freshman who is mercilessly teased except by her good friend Yumiko. A 12-episode anime adaptation began airing in Japan on the networks BS11, AT-X, and Bandai Channel between July and September 2009. An anime adaptation was announced in October 2008. A manga adaptation started serialization in the shōnen magazine Jump Square on August 4, 2008. A new edition of the first light novel was released on April 25, 2008. As of March 25, 2009, six volumes have been published by Shueisha under their Super Dash Bunko imprint. "Comprehensible Modern-Day Magic") is a Japanese light novel series by, and the debut work of, Hiroshi Sakurazaka, with illustrations by Miki Miyashita. Modern Magic Made Simple ( Japanese: よくわかる現代魔法, Hepburn: Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahō, lit. In answer to the question of how a consumer can be expected to react to an unexpected change in their financial circumstances he cites, “the answer depends on how the change affects the consumer unit’s evaluation of its longer-term income prospects, as summarized in its estimated permanent income” (Friedman, 1963, P. In a later 1963 paper titled “Windfalls, the ‘Horizon,’ and Related Concepts in the Permanent-Income Hypothesis”, Friedman offered further clarification of his views on anticipated consumer expenditure. Specifically referring to the Keynesian Consumption Function, Friedman states “The effect is almost certain to be a much smaller estimate of the marginal propensity to consume out of current income than would be obtained from a function that makes consumption dependent on current income alone” (Friedmann, 1957, P. This finding had the very practical implication of reducing the extent to which a given economy is reliant upon government expenditure as a means of managing and, or stimulating economic activity. |