![]() ![]() ![]() Their chemistry is undeniable on set, however, and feelings can develop faster than film. She's not sure she can work so intimately with the chosen photographer, her long-time competitor in the Chicago photography scene, Reid Montgomery. Though she's never modeled herself, Cassie's pretty sure she can handle the sheer underwear and caution tape bralettes. ![]() But company politics and Dana's complicated pregnancy interfere, and Cassie finds herself-a proud plus size Black woman-not behind the camera but in front of it. Cassie's best friend, Dana, is about to launch her own dangerously dreamy lingerie line and wants Cassie to shoot and direct the career-changing national campaign. Photographer Cassie Harris loves her job-her company Buxom Boudoir makes people look beautiful and feel empowered with her modern twist on classic pinup photography. The Accidental Pinup by Danielle Jackson (ebook) Rival photographers are forced to collaborate on a body-positive lingerie campaign, but they might have to readjust their focus when sparks fly. ![]() Description Rival photographers are forced to collaborate on a body-positive lingerie campaign, but they might have to readjust their focus when sparks fly. ![]()
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![]() It is because human beings are unconsciously drawn to people and things that remind us of ourselves.Ī psychological theory called the name-letter effect maintains that people like the letters in their own names (particularly their initials) better than other letters of the alphabet. ![]() ![]() Social science, it turns out, has an answer. There are name-tally Web sites like SameNameAsMe, and Facebook coalitions including nearly 200 people named Ritz (their insignia is a cracker box logo) and a group aiming to break a world record by gathering together more than 1,224 Mohammed Hassans.īut while many people are familiar with Googlegängers, a fundamental question has gone unanswered: Why do so many feel a connection be it kinship or competition with utter strangers just because they share a name? Keri Smith, an illustrator, has posted drawings of six of her Googlegängers on her blog. ![]() In “Finding Angela Shelton,” a book published this month, a writer named Angela Shelton describes her meetings with 40 other Angela Sheltons. ![]() ![]() Entangled in an investigation linked to the power of wartime propaganda and American political intrigue being played out in Britain, Maisie will face losing her dearest friend-and the possibility that she might be falling in love again. ![]() ![]() MacFarlane asks Maisie to work with Scott to uncover the truth about Saxon’s death.Īs the Germans unleash the full terror of their blitzkrieg upon the British Isles, raining death and destruction from the skies, Maisie must balance the demands of solving this dangerous case with her need to protect Anna, the young evacuee she has grown to love and wants to adopt. He is accompanied by an agent from the US Department of Justice-Mark Scott, the American who helped Maisie get out of Hitler’s Munich in 1938. Serving as a linchpin between Scotland Yard and the Secret Service, Robert MacFarlane pays a visit to Maisie Dobbs, seeking her help. When Catherine Saxon, an American correspondent reporting on the war in Europe, is found murdered in her London digs, news of her death is concealed by British authorities. ![]() ![]() Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, “one of the great fictional heroines” ( Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and survival. ![]() ![]() ![]() She travels to Corte Madera, California, with her assistant David Kane and is at first pleased that the police are cooperative. This isn’t the type of case Max normally takes on, but the heartbreak and simple honesty in Tommy's letter pulls her in. Tommy thinks that if someone can figure out what happened to his step-sister, everything will go back to normal, so he writes to investigative reporter Maxine Revere. With too many suspects and not enough evidence, the investigation has grown cold. After a year, the police still have no answers: Ivy could have jumped, could have been pushed, or it could have been an accident. ![]() He's distraught and doesn't understand why his blended family is falling apart. except her mentally-challenged eighteen-year-old step-brother, Tommy. Teen-aged Internet bully Ivy Lake fell off a cliff and few people cared. Poisonous is another winning novel in the electrifying Max Revere series from New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan. ![]() ![]() An American who has lived in Vancouver, Canada since the 1960s, Gibson is a one-man brand for speculative fiction, a sort of Steve Jobs of prose narrative, the man who-as a note in a recent MoMA exhibition put it-is “credited with having coined the term ‘cyberspace,’ and having envisioned both the Internet and virtual reality before either existed.” Gibson’s recent collection of essays, Distrust That Particular Flavor, shows him writing on the future for Wired, Time, Rolling Stone, Forbes, and the Whole Earth Catalog, and addressing audiences at the annual BookExpo America in New York and the Director’s Guild in Los Angeles. ![]() William Gibson is the writer we’re often told has the answer to these questions about fictional foresight. ![]() ![]() How far into the future can futuristic fiction see? What does it sense in the present that can then be projected into its vision of the world to come? What happens to climate change, stock market shudders, global inequality, and undocumented labor when you fast forward in time? Who does Donald Trump become when you give him half a century more? William Gibson, 2008 (Gonzo Bonzo / Flickr) Pulsating with racial and national anxieties, cyberpunk icon William Gibson’s future America is not so different from the one we know. ![]() ![]() ![]() While the population is being evacuated to Los Angeles, Day works with the Patriot organization to hijack the Colonies' airships. The following day, Day tells June about his terminal illness, just before the city is attacked by the Colonies' airships. ![]() The next day, Day collapses due to his illness and is rushed to the hospital. Day denies the request and the Republic's cause is further eroded when traitor soldiers Thomas Bryant and Commander Jameson, both in death row for the attempted coup, and the murder of June's brother (Metias Iparis), escape. ![]() In reality, Anden wants Day to hand over Eden as part of the Republic's search for a cure for their virus, wreaking havoc upon the Colonies, causing the latter to give an ultimatum for the cure, lest they and Africa will invade the Republic. Following several months of no communication, Day is contacted by June Iparis about a "feast" held by Anden Stavropoulos, the young Elector of the Republic. Plot Īfter the events of Prodigy, Daniel "Day" Altan Wing now lives as a free citizen in San Francisco with his younger brother, Eden Bataar. Print (hardback & paperback), audiobook, e-bookĬhampion is a dystopian young adult novel and the third book in the Legend series written by American novelist Marie Lu. ![]() ![]() ![]() With more than 4,300 performances, it is the seventh longest-running Broadway show, and the production has grossed over $280 million. Rent has been successful on Broadway, where it had critical acclaim and word-of-mouth popularity. ![]() ![]() On January 26, 1996, Rent opened in New York City off-broadway before moving to Broadway's Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996. The musical was first seen at the New York Theatre Workshop in 1994. Rent brought controversial topics to a traditionally conservative medium, and it helped to increase the popularity of musical theater among the younger generation. In addition, its cast was very ethnically diverse. Rent, which won a Tony Award for Best Musical and a Pulitzer Prize, among other awards, was one of the first Broadway musicals to feature bisexual and transgender characters. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side in the thriving days of the Bohemian East Village, under the shadow of AIDS. Rent is a romance musical, with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson inspired by Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème. This article is about the 1996 Broadway rock opera. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ottoline has a diploma in disguising from a school named Who R U. She is also interested in solving mysteries and keeping collections (like her Odd Shoe Collection and her Postcard Collection). She likes writing in her notebook and splashing in puddles. It is hinted that Ottoline's parents were coming back from their trips to see her. Ottoline's parents go on trips to other countries, leaving Mr Munroe to care for her. She lives in Pepperpot Building in Apartment 243 with a creature named Mr Munroe. Ottoline Brown is the main protagonist of the Ottoline series. It was also shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal and nominated for the Carnegie Medal. It won the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Gold Award and the Red House Children's Book Award for Younger Readers. Ottoline and the Yellow Cat is a children's book by Chris Riddell, published in 2007. ![]() ![]() A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. ![]() From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. ![]() Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. ![]() After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. ![]() ![]() Thankfully, its services were never needed and soon after, it began to take on a whole new life. The original aim of this 60-man army garrison was to help protect Pembroke dock from a possible French invasion. It was built in the 1850s at a cost of £35,000 (almost £5m in today’s money) and took over 1,000 men about two years to create. “It’s like Robinson Crusoe but without the palm trees, and with the Welsh climate” – Hugh DennisĪs Mike explains, Thorne Island is a Grade 2 star-listed Victorian fort located off the coast of Pembrokeshire. As he moors up at Thorne island, Hugh meets Mike for the first time, and readily accepts a guided tour of his off-grid retreat. ![]() ![]() Hugh’s journey, like most journeys to Thorne Island, started with a boat trip and multiple jokes about not being able to get Deliveroo or a pint of milk very easily. In September 2022, Channel Four aired an exclusive look at Thorne Island as a part of a new More 4 show Huge Homes with Hugh Dennis, featuring Thorne Island’s owner, Appsbroker Founder and CEO, Mike Conner. ![]() |