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Admiral mcraven make your bed5/26/2023 ![]() But one way or another, many of them forgot or willfully ignored this direction altogether. It wasn’t clear whether that was because they hadn’t been required to make their beds at home or because they thought the task wasn’t important enough. However, many of McRaven’s compatriots disagreed. And that’s why it’s vitally important to start your day with simple but necessary tasks like making your bed. It also says a lot about your ability to represent your country and its Navy. ![]() But that doesn’t fly in the Navy! As McRaven quickly learned, the ability to obey basic tasks and form good persona hygiene habits says a lot about your character as a person. ![]() And because your parents aren’t there to correct you, you can get away with it until you grow up and get some common sense. ![]() You can leave your bed unmade for days and leave your dorm littered with potato chip packets and candy wrappers. However, these environments are separated by a number of key differences, including the fact that at college, you can get away with wearing your underwear inside out instead of washing it. ![]() It also quickly shows your true colors as people begin to discover who was taught to be responsible and organized and who arrived at college without so much as the basic skill of doing your own laundry. ![]()
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Shifting gears riley hart5/26/2023 ![]() All from 11.08 New Books from 11. It had been a fucking week and a half since he’d seen Landon, and that was his second good reason for wanting to strangle him. Riley Hart presents the second installment of her Crossroads series. ![]() He would trace each of them with his tongue, suck the mushroom head into his mouth until he drove Landon as crazy as he’d been the past week and a half. Jesus Christ he had a pretty cock-thick and long and full of veins that he wanted to taste. The first reason being the fact that he couldn’t get the man out of his goddamned head. It wasn’t as though he’d snap in the heat of the moment and kill without proper cause. To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt: ![]() What reading level is Shifting Gears (Crossroads Series book 2) book? ![]()
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Embattled SEAL by J.M. Madden5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() When her ex hires Lost and Found Investigative Service to track her down, she’s left reeling both physically and emotionally. Lora O’Neil left a life of abuse to make a new start for herself and her daughter. ![]() His Marine training makes the protecting part easy, but nothing he does seems to make Lora want to take a chance on him or his love. Lora and her little girl are in incredible danger, and he vows to protect them at all costs, whether the angry and hurt woman wants him to or not. Now Chad Lowell is wracked with guilt after the woman he’s assigned to investigate is attacked by her abusive ex-husband right under his nose. Weeks of no incriminating evidence should have clued him in sooner about who was the real victim. In Book 3 of this heart-warming military romance series, Chad will discover that protecting Lora is a much easier task than proving he’s the one man she can finally trust with her heart. ![]() Falling in love with the broken woman and her sweet daughter in the middle of rescuing them is definitely not the best timing. That certainly applies to Chad's need to stop Lost and Found's deranged client from using the information he gathered to stalk and abuse his ex. ![]() His Marine training taught him that failure is never an option regardless of circumstances. ![]()
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Cradle unsouled5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Opinions expressed by interviewees do not express the views of the Green Team or The Legendarium. This isn't an official tangent episode, but Brin certainly has the Green Team tangent spirit. Renowned science fiction author/futurist David Brin joins Kyptan and little red book to talk about the Uplift Saga, writing, Star Wars, leaded gasoline, and the sadomasochistic relationship between authors and readers. Monstress by Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda, Yukari Shiina You can always find us on the Legendarium's Discord or on Twitter: Mentioned in the Episode: Let us know if you agree with our recommendations or if you have more to suggest. Sacred artists follow a thousand Paths to power, using their souls to control the forces of the natural world.Lindon is Unsouled, forbidden to learn the. The Cradle series follows Lindon's journey as he forges a Path for himself. However, he is faced with a looming fate that he must defy his family's rules to avoid. Whether you're new to graphic novels or it's your preferred reading medium, there's something for everyone. Cradle On the Iteration known as Cradle, Wei Shi Lindon is born a weak Unsouled, forbidden to seek power as sacred artists do. Join us as BefuddledPanda, Starkast, Soulution, and Ashaman discuss all things graphic novels. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Her house is broken into, someone else she knows is murdered, and suddenly, dying a virgin in the Fenton County jail isn’t her biggest worry after all. Somebody thinks Rose has something they want and they’ll do anything to get it. Joe’s new to town, but it doesn’t take a vision for Rose to realize he’s got plenty secrets of his own. She’s well on her way with the help of her next door neighbor Joe, who has no trouble teaching Rose the rules of drinking, but won’t help with number fifteen– do more with a man. ![]() Rose realizes she’s wasted twenty-four years of living and makes a list on the back of a Wal-Mart receipt: twenty-eight things she wants to accomplish before her vision comes true. ![]() She's had plenty of visions, usually boring ones like someone's toilet's overflowed, but she's never seen one of. For Rose Gardner, working at the DMV on a Friday afternoon is bad even before she sees a vision of herself dead. When her overbearing momma winds up murdered on her sofa instead, two things are certain: There isn’t enough hydrogen peroxide in the state of Arkansas to get that stain out, and Rose is the prime suspect. The first book in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling Rose Gardner Mystery series. She’s had plenty of visions, usually boring ones like someone’s toilet’s overflowed, but she’s never seen one of herself before. Description Book 1: Rose Gardner Mysteriesįor Rose Gardner, working at the DMV on a Friday afternoon is bad, even before she sees a vision of herself dead. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() "The Lottery and Other Stories Study Guide". Next Section The Lottery and Other Stories Summary Buy Study Guide How To Cite in MLA Format D. Some of the stories range describe mundane scenes in suburban or country life and dissatisfaction in city life, while others display human evil and unexpected brutality. The epilogue is an excerpt from James Harris, the Daemon Lover, an old English ballad, which explains Jackson's original title for the collection. He might appear as himself, as a figment of a character's imagination, or as someone who is merely mentioned. James Harris is a recurring figure throughout many of the stories. Jackson herself was surprised by the response elicited by "The Lottery." Nonetheless, the story launched her distinguished career as a writer. ![]() Many readers wrote to Jackson and to the magazine to express outrage regarding the harrowing story of a ritual of human sacrifice. The most famous story in this collection is "The Lottery," which first appeared in the June 26, 1948, issue of The New Yorker. Each section break is marked by a quotation from Joseph Glanvil's Sadducismus Triumphatus (1681), a work that concerns witchcraft. The collection was first published in 1949 and is divided into four sections. She is best known for her dystopian short story, 'The Lottery' (1948), which suggests there is a. She has influenced such writers as Stephen King, Nigel Kneale, and Richard Matheson. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. ![]() This collection was first named The Lottery-Adventures of the Daemon Lover by Jackson. Shirley Jackson was an influential American author. The Lottery and Other Stories is a collection of twenty-five of Shirley Jackson's short stories, plus an epilogue. ![]()
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Ride steady by kristen ashley5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() A good girl like Carissa is the least likely fit with the Chaos Motorcycle Club. While catching her is irresistible, knowing what to do with her is a different story. Today, he's the hard-bodied biker known only as Joker, and from the way Carissa's acting, it's clear she's falling fast. In high school, Carson Steele was a bad boy loner who put Carissa on a pedestal where she stayed far beyond his reach. Now a struggling, single mom and stranded by a flat tire, Carissa's pondering her mistakes when a vaguely familiar knight rides to her rescue on a ton of horsepower. ![]() Money, marriage, motherhood: everything came easy-until she woke up to the ugly truth about her Prince Charming. Once upon a time, Carissa Teodoro believed in happy endings. Meet the intense and sexy bad boy bikers of the Chaos Motorcycle Club in Carissa and Joker's story from Kristen Ashley's New York Times bestselling series. Published by Forever, Hachette Audio on June 30, 2015 ![]() This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the Publisher, Purchased. ![]()
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Black Sunrise by Christina Engela5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The first stop on her journey turned out to be a little backwater planet called Deanna…Īs a third-rate colony in the Terran Empire, Deanna had more than its fair share of dull moments… Dull – but also definitely weird… Deanna orbited a star called Ramalama – and if you think that’s funny, Deannas' two moons were called Ding and Dong, respectively. ![]() – that’s Colonial Intelligence Agency – and one of their best agents… that is, until they threw her out for coming to work in a dress.Īfter that disappointing and sudden end to what had been a promising career, Mei rewarded herself with a long relaxing vacation in the outback to celebrate her gender reassignment and her new start in life. ![]() Cindy-Mei Winter had until recently been ‘Agent’ Winter, C.I.A. ![]()
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Open agassi book5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() While Agassi’s father gets the money the owner of the club dissuades Brown from taking the bet and they eventually agree to play two sets, then decide how much to bet on the third. Brown is looking to play a game for money and a $10,000 wager is set on the outcome of the match between Brown and a young Andre Agassi, aged nine. He won the first seven of them.Īt the local tennis club one day, Agassi’s father spots the famous American football player, Jim Brown. ![]() Andre Kirk Agassi was their fourth child, born 29th April 1970.Īt eight years old Agassi started playing tournaments against children under ten. His mother, Betty married his father in 1959 in Chicago. In boxing terms he taught Agassi to be a great counter-puncher on the court i.e. His father was a tough man, a former boxer who represented Iran in the Olympics twice. ![]() ![]() What was a tennis court to most people was a prison to Andre Agassi. The tennis court was built by his father in the backyard of their house, which sat in the middle of the desert next to Las Vegas. His father used to make him return 2,500 balls a day on the tennis court, that’s nearly a million a year, all being fired at him from a souped-up ball machine he called ‘the dragon’. Even at the age of seven years old, Andre Agassi hated tennis. ![]()
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The titan rockefeller5/25/2023 ![]() Rockefeller, it may well be that his endowment of research will be recognized as a milestone in the progress of the When history passes its final verdict on John D. WELLS The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind His cold persistence and ruthlessness may arouse something like horror, but for all that he was a forward-moving Rockefeller had to occur in America, and it is all to the good of the world that he was tight-lipped, consistent and amazingly freeįrom vulgar vanity, sensuality and quarrelsomeness. ![]() BERTRAND RUSSELL Freedom Versus Organization, 1814 to 1914 Happiness through individual competition, substituting monopoly and the corporate state, or at least movements toward them. One in economics, the other in politics, refuted the liberal dream of universal ![]() Two men have been supreme in creating the modern world: Rockefeller and Bismarck. Who pulled me back, at the last moment, from the brink, CHAPTER 12 - Insurrection in the Oil FieldsĬHAPTER 26 - The World’s Richest Fugitive ![]() |