![]() ![]() ![]() NPR commentator Alan Cheuse's latest novel is Song of Slaves in the Desert. For all of its frozen setting the novel seems like the perfect story to keep you turning pages through the end of winter, whether tethered to your bed by the flu or on some southern island where you might be hiding out to escape the cold. But scene by scene, chapter by chapter, this book rushes along. ![]() I have to confess that the supernatural elements in the book gave me a little trouble. He struggles against the seemingly supernatural wolves that guard the island’s graveyard against all intruders and the persistent band of Alaskan cheats, drunks and seamen intent on stealing whatever booty they believe to be buried in this out-of-the-way location. With the help of the beautiful mainland-educated mayor Nika Tincook, the good doctor struggles against the old woman - can it be Anastasia herself? - who paces about the upper part of the small island holding a yellow lantern in the midst of the worst of Bering Sea storms. Robert Masello is the author of three novels & ten nonfiction books, including A Friend in the Business. ![]()
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5/22/2023 0 Comments Dracula bram stoker keanu reeves![]() ![]() They later throw him in the lower levels of the crypt, where the brides attack him again. Harker climbs down the castle wall and finds Dracula's coffin but is attacked and knocked out by one of Dracula's gypsy servants before he can stake Dracula. After preventing his brides from devouring Harker, he forces the young solicitor to write a letter saying he will be staying in Transylvania for a month. ![]() Dracula reacts very strongly to a photograph of Harker's fiancée Mina and her best friend, Lucy. Jonathan finds the Count abrupt and impatient to get things done. "Bistritz, Hungary May 1897": natives in Transylvania seem afraid when they learn solicitor Jonathan Harker is going to Castle Dracula. ![]() It was the second collaboration for Curtis and Palance after the 1968 TV film The Strange Case of Dr. It was written by Richard Matheson and directed by Dark Shadows creator Dan Curtis, with Jack Palance in the title role. Dracula, also known as Bram Stoker's Dracula and Dan Curtis' Dracula, is a 1974 British made-for-television gothic horror film and adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is an adventure novel of the first water, with wholly unexpected perils, hair-breadth escapes, brilliant solutions to insoluble problems, and even a love story. But unbeknownst to him, British police are desperately seeking to arrest him for the theft of a huge sum by someone who resembles him, and they will track him around the world, if necessary, to apprehend him. With his excitable French manservant in tow, Fogg undertakes the exercise immediately, with no preparations, trusting that his traveling funds will make up for delays along the way. immediately after a newspaper calculates the feat as just barely possible. A man of the most repetitious and punctual habit - with no apparent sense of adventure whatsoever - he gambles his considerable fortune that he can complete a journey around the world in just 80 days. Mysterious Phileas Fogg is a cool customer. Download cover art Download CD case insert Around the World in Eighty Days (version 2) ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Lost with me j kenner![]() ![]() There were bits and pieces here and there that didn’t have to do with how much Damien wanted Nikki, or how hot Nikki was for Damien, but they kind of got lost in the process for me. ![]() Nikki and Damien’s penchant for referring to one another as Mr.Stark and Ms.Fairchild The few crumbs that we were given about his past is the only thing that intrigue me enough to continue with this series. I have to admit that Damien peaked my interest. Thankfully she wasn’t an excessively naive virgin, but she still gave me an eye roll or 12 through the book. Nikki is a former Texas beauty queen, currently working for a company that is looking for Damien Stark’s investment. I suppose you can say it was a case of ‘been there, read that’. I never really connected with the story, or the characters. To be honest, I’m having a hard time remembering anything about it and I just finished reading it. Well what can I tell you about my thoughts on this book… The deep parts are well hidden and what you do see is hard and a little bit cold.” Damien Stark is just one of those dark, quiet types. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the UK, this ignorance is due in no small part to legislation such as Section 28 which, from 1988 to 2000 in Scotland and 2003 in England and Wales, prohibited schools from teaching anything which would suggest the validity of queer relationships, and which (even after its abolition) created a culture of fear in schools when it comes to discussing sexuality and LGBT+ history. The global COVID-19 pandemic has reopened some of the wounds from this period of history, especially around issues of government neglect for the health of people who are less valued by society much has also been written about the ignorance of the younger generation when it comes to the struggles of the 1980s and 1990s. As well as the loss of much of an older generation, the safe sex practices and many of the legal protections which are now commonplace developed directly out of the AIDS activist movement, while the stigma associated with HIV still shapes how some sections of society think about the gay community. The HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s had a defining impact on the development of LGBT+ communities and identities, an impact still felt today. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alinor's suspicious neighbors are watching each other for any sign that someone might be disloyal to the new parliament, and Alinor's ambition and determination mark her as a woman who doesn't follow the rules. She shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marshy landscape of the Tidelands, not knowing she is leading a spy and an enemy into her life.Įngland is in the grip of a bloody civil war that reaches into the most remote parts of the kingdom. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run. Until she can, she is neither maiden nor wife nor widow, living in a perilous limbo. On Midsummer's Eve, Alinor waits in the church graveyard, hoping to encounter the ghost of her missing husband and thus confirm his death. This New York Times bestseller from one of the great storytellers of our time ( San Francisco Book Review) turns from the glamour of the royal courts to tell the story of an ordinary woman, Alinor, living in a dangerous time for a woman to be different. ![]() ![]() This Description may be from another edition of this product. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Paradise lost book 4![]() 1 To admirers of Satan, the final dialogue of Adam and Michael merely continues the poetic deterioration that began as early as Book III. One recent opinion, typical of even a fairly sym-pathetic reader of Milton’s poetry, is that the two final books have no ‘dramatic significance’ or ‘energy’ and constitute ‘a languid movement’ toward the conclusion. S ince the eighteenth century, critics have given the conclusion of Paradise Lost very little appreciative attention they have either ignored the last two books, or written patronizingly about them, or criticized them adversely. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. moreĪ place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. You can find pictures of her adorable dog Adelaide on her Instagram at. If you are obsessed with these things, then you'll like her books. ![]() She is obsessed with Greek Mythology, murder mysteries, and the afterlife. She has a Master's degree in Library Science and Information Studies and a Bachelors in English Writing. Clair is a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and the author of the HADES X PERSEPHONE SAGA, the HADES SAGA, KING OF BATTLE & BLOOD, and WHEN STARS COME OUT. You can find pictures of her adorable dog Adelaide on her Instagram at International and USA Today Best Selling author Scarlett St. International and USA Today Best Selling author Scarlett St. ![]() ![]() When a 10% loss was exceeded the portfolio was sold and invested in long term US government bonds.Ĭash would be moved back into the stock market once the 10% fall in the stock market was recovered (the 10% stop-loss was recovered). The strategy used a simple 10% stop loss rule. ![]() The paper looked at the application of a simple stop-loss strategy applied to an arbitrary portfolio strategy (for example buying the index) in the US over the 54 year period from January 1950 to December 2004. The first research paper When Do Stop-Loss Rules Stop Losses? and was published in May 2008 by Kathryn M. ![]() Research study 1 - When Do Stop-Loss Rules Stop Losses? I hated stop-losses! Mainly because some limited testing I did found that a stop-loss strategy lead to lower returns even though it did reduce large losses.īut you know here at Quant Investing we look at investment research all the time and I found three interesting papers that tested stop-loss strategies with results that changed my view completely.īut before we get to HOW and WHAT stop loss you can use to increase your returns first the research studies. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Tao te ching by stephen mitchell![]() Historians debate whether Lao Tzu is a combination of multiple historical figures, a mythical figure, or an actual person. According to Chinese tradition, Lao Tzu lived in the 6th century BC. Lao Tzu was one of the great philosophers of ancient China, and is a central figure in Taoism. ![]() ![]() This rendering by eminent scholar Stephen Mitchell presents the Tao Te Ching as poetry, written with all the skill which Mitchell brought to his renowned translations of Rilke. Yet the clarity of the original has only rarely been captured. The Tao Te Ching is the most widely translated book in world literature, after the Bible. These lessons apply to all aspects of life, from government to love, from childrearing to ecology. It explains the Tao, or the basic principle of the universe, and teaches the reader how to work for good with the effortless skill that comes from being in accord with the Tao. In eighty-one brief chapters, the Tao Te Ching gives advice that imparts balance and perspective, along with a serene and generous spirit. ![]() Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, or “Book of the Way,” is the classic manual on the art of living. ![]() |