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Bruce born to run5/30/2023 ![]() The writing process for the third record was grueling, but Springsteen had a particularly difficult time finding precisely the right lyrics for the pivotal first single. ![]() In spite of the pressures building around him, it was here that Springsteen would craft his breakthrough album, Born to Run. ![]() On the heels of the disappointing commercial performance of his first two albums, Greetings from Ashbury Park (1973) and The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (1973), many in the music industry had written him off as a local phenomenon-a performer who had built a small following on the east coast, but who would never break through to the mainstream. In early 1974, a 26 year-old Bruce Springsteen was barely getting by, living in a small house in West Long Branch, New Jersey working on his third album under the watchful eye of record executives. The birth of an essential American anthem: an early version of "Born to Run" "Born to Run" working manuscript, Īutograph manuscript lyrics, 2 pages (216 x 280 mm) on a single sheet of ruled notepaper, comprising 26 lines written in blue ink and then black felt tip, being an early working draft of "Born to Run," with superscript and marginal notations. ![]()
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Tie me down bellamy creek5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() I opened my mouth to say goodnight-I swear I did. ![]() When Beckett reached the landing, he headed for his bedroom. Grab yours now or read in Kindle Unlimited! Like any cowboy, he’s good with a rope and knows exactly how to tie me up. Nothing has ever felt so right, but his past has taught him not to believe in happily ever after, and every perfect night I spend in his arms brings us closer to goodbye. And once we give into each other, we can’t stop. That’s not the only big thing he’s got–which I discover the night I finally sneak across the hall to his bedroom and shed my inhibitions right alongside my pajamas. I only returned to my hometown of Bellamy Creek to sell my late mother’s house, and he just invited me and my son to stay with him because he’s got a big heart. A lot.īut I’m a single mom trying to move on with my life, and he’s running that ranch single-handedly while taking care of his elderly father. He makes a girl sweat just looking at him. And who wouldn’t appreciate those strong hands, that massive chest, and the way he fills out a pair of Levis? Yes, I’ve had a secret crush on him since we were seventeen. Sure, he’s a hot cowboy who left Wall Street behind to take over his family’s ranch. ![]() That’s all Beckett Weaver and I have ever been. Tie Me Down, an all-new swoon-worthy friends to lovers, small town romance from USA Today bestselling author Melanie Harlow, is now live! ![]()
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Read wait for it by mariana zapata5/30/2023 ![]() Being a grown-up wasn’t supposed to be so hard. How she’s made it through the last two years of her life without killing anyone is nothing short of a miracle. ![]() If anyone ever said being an adult was easy, they hadn’t been one long enough.ĭiana Casillas can admit it: she doesn’t know what the hell she’s doing half the time. I should probably subscribe authors’ newsletters. So this un-information felt like a betrayal-if not from me, then the world. And as a huge fan of Mariana Zapata, I screamed and screamed about wtf why didn’t I know she has a new book? It always feels like I exist in two modes: reading a Zapata book and eagerly awaiting for the next one. One morning (just this Thursday) while I was preparing for work, I checked into Goodreads and stumbled upon a review of Wait for It. Wait for It was a book that caught me off-guard, quite literally. Sometimes, it even feels like I’ve lived through her characters’ lives like I was her characters’ friend or family. I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels as if a huge chunk of their lives has been sucked in by her books after finishing them. ![]() There’s something about Mariana Zapata books that always, always hooks me in. ![]()
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Lust for life vincent van gogh book5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 27) and a 1947 photograph of Vincent Willem van Gogh (Vincent's nephew) at the Tate Gallery in London (p. There were a number of photographs that I'd never seen before: an 1868 print of a birds-eye view of Auvers-sur-Oise, for example (p. Van Gogh's Finale, like Bailey's other books, doesn't disappoint. One of these is his ability to unearth new insights into an artist dead for more than 130 years, thanks largely to his tireless research. Over the years I've developed certain expectations when reading a Martin Bailey book. In a recent interview Martin Bailey was asked a question that's been put to him many times before: after all these years are there still new things to discover about Vincent van Gogh? Martin Bailey's hugely successful Van Gogh books answer that question with a resounding yes. Van Gogh's Finale: Auvers and the Artist's Rise to Fame by Martin Bailey (Frances Lincoln, 2021): Van Gogh's Finale is Martin Bailey's much anticipated concluding volume in his trilogy (preceded by Studio of the South: Van Gogh in Provence and Starry Night: Van Gogh at the Asylum). ![]()
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Bite me by christopher moore5/30/2023 ![]() The ending is a nice wrap-up for the trilogy, with both expected and surprise elements. Many new characters - both vampiric and not - are introduced, but, by far, the craziest is Chet the vampire cat and his minions. ![]() Abby Normal takes over a major role in the narration in this book, and many returning characters appear - the Emperor and his men, the detectives, and the Animals. "The amusing and action-packed conclusion to the vampiric love story of Jody and Tommy is another fun ride. ![]() Joining his farcical gems Bloodsucking Fiends and You Suck, Moore’s latest in continuing story of young, urban, nosferatu style love, is no Twilight-but rather a tsunami of the irresistible outrageousness that has earned him the appellation, “Stephen King with a whoopee cushion and a double-espresso imagination” from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and inspired Denver’s Rocky Mountain News to declare him, “the 21st century’s best satirist.” ![]() The undead rise again in Bite Me, the third book in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore’s wonderfully twisted vampire saga. “Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word.” ![]()
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Collected fictions of jorge luis borges5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() It is here that we find the astonishing accounts of 'Funes the Memorious', the man who can forget nothing 'Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote', who recreates Miguel de Cervantes's epic word-for-word a society run on the basis of an all-encompassing game of chance in 'The Lottery in Babylon' the mysterious world of 'Tloen, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' which seems to be supplanting our own and the 'Library of Babel', which contains every possible book in the whole universe. ![]() Jorge Luis Borges's Fictions introduced an entirely new voice into world literature. The most popular anthology of Jorge Luis Borges's short stories, Fictions is a wildly original and influential collection of fantastic tales, translated from the Spanish with an afterword by Andrew Hurley in Penguin Modern Classics. ![]()
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Jefferson Blythe, Esquire by Josh Lanyon5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() “So what? You’re not all that much older yourself, you know.” ![]() My dad was twenty-five when he married my mom.” ![]() “What does that have to do with anything? Lots of people get married at twenty-two. Have your bags packed, because this light-hearted M/M romance will awaken your inner wanderlust and take you on an adventure featuring an international chase, mistaken identity, tons of humor, heartbreak and a couple steamy rolls in the sheets. And as if I still missed the point, “You’re both only twenty-two.” Very young,” George said, after a moment. The last thing I wanted to think about was Amy. I think I spooked myself by opening the subject up. If it had been a matter of of course! we’d still be getting married. I don’t know why I tried to make it sound so absolute. George said, “You and Amy were getting married?” I drew back and said, “Anyway, it’s bad enough that Amy and I aren’t getting married now.” Maybe too good a listener, because it suddenly occurred to me that every time I had tried to turn the subject to George, we had somehow ended up talking about me again. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Russell plays Kate Wyler, a career American diplomat suddenly and surprisingly named ambassador to Britain. (The serial twists and breathless explanations both contribute to and help to obscure the plot-greasing implausibilities necessary for a show that puts earthshaking events in a comic framework.) Geopolitical crises and amorous complications are thick on the ground, intertwining and constantly morphing in ways that can be hard to follow. ![]() So you would be right about complicated, at least. Debora Cahn most recently served as an executive producer and writer on “Homeland.” Keri Russell most famously played a hyper-efficient assassin on “The Americans.” Their collaboration in the new Netflix series “The Diplomat” - Cahn created it, Russell stars - would lead you to expect something dark, violent and complicated.īut a look further back in Cahn’s history shows that she started her career with a long run as a writer and producer on “The West Wing.” And that’s the spirit she’s brought to “The Diplomat,” a political thriller laced with romance and written, with some success, in an Aaron Sorkinesque high-comic, high-velocity style. ![]()
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James goss doctor who5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Goss’ area of interest within his specialty includes Sports Medicine, Spine Surgery, Total Joint Replacements, Joint Reconstructions, and fractures.ĭr.Goss is a Fellow of The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery, a member of The Southern Orthopedic Society, The Eastern Orthopedic Association, and South Georgia Medical Society (Lowndes County).ĭr.Goss is married to Carmina Goss and has 7 children named Nicole, Erica, Lisa, Jaime, Victoria, Rachael, and Adam. Goss also completed a Fellowship in Pediatric Orthopedics in 1985 at Cornell Hospital for Special Surgery in N. His residency in orthopedic surgery was completed in 1984 at New York Medical College in Valhalla, N. Public Health Service Hospital in Staten Island, N. He completed his internship in 1980 at the U.S. He received his Doctorate of Osteopathic Medicine in 1979 from the University of Des Moines College of Osteopathic Medicine. He attended University of Iowa and Florida International University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physical Therapy in 1972. ![]() James Goss was born in Fort Madison, Iowa. ![]()
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Chain of gold5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() When her father ends up accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned in the Shadowhunter capital of Alicante, Cordelia and her mother and brother, Alastair, move to London, where they are greeted by the Institute's head, Will Herondale, his wife, Tessa Gray, and their two children, James and Lucie. ![]() The fifth in her overarching The Shadowhunter Chronicles, it is a sequel to The Infernal Devices, taking place 25 years after the events of that series, during The Edwardian Era.Ĭordelia Carstairs, a young Shadowhunter from Devon, has spent her entire life moving from one Institute to another to accommodate her father's illness. The Last Hours is a Young Adult Literature, Gaslamp Fantasy trilogy by Cassandra Clare. ![]() |