![]() ![]() “I’ve never seen anything like this before,” he said. Ron DeSantis said Lee County has asked for support from FEMA after experiencing a water main break at their county water utility, which means that the county does not have water at this point.īobby Pratt said he has lived in Fort Myers his entire life. Crews will need water to recede and special equipment to learn more.Īlso Friday, Gov. ![]() This is a long-term fix, and it’s life-changing,” said Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno.įlorida Division of Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie said Friday an unknown number of bodies was found in a house in Lee County. You’re talking about … homes thrown into the bay. Hurricane Ian starts lashing South Carolina after leaving at least 19 dead and millions without power across Florida A resident in an Orlando, Fla., neighborhood is rescued from floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, Thursday, Sept. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Not because it’s bad or anything, but since it’s just so slight. I realise, it’s almost the very definition of a audio book that could have been better off remaining at the library. That is not a choice I’m necessarily proud of, now. And lots of the King novels that I took out of this library I then wished to buy, because I believed I’d read them over and over, to soak them. Stephen King – Cycle of the Werewolf Audiobook. Once I was a teen – when each bit of my income (pocket money) was essentially expendable, and when I had the opportunity to do nothing with my weekends and evenings besides indulge in the stuff I loved – I managed to read every audio book I needed from the library, listen to each album my friends copied for mepersonally, and rent those dreadful films from the video shop that were, frankly, a waste of everyone’s time. There was a time when I was far more obsessed with material things than I am now. ![]() ![]() ![]() My tutor didn’t like the name I chose for my hero, so I changed it for my final submission, but my fellow students approved of my choice, so I changed it back and Sebastian Foxley was born. A guest post by author Toni Mount!Ī few years ago I was asked to become the volunteer leader of our creative writing group at my local library I wanted to take this new responsibility seriously and make a success of the task so I signed up for another Open University course, this time I would study for a diploma in English Literature and Creative Writing.Īs part of the course, we had to write the first chapters of a novel and needless to say my interest in medieval London led me naturally to set my story there. Inspired by true stories the series is notable for its accurate historical atmosphere here Toni shares the basis for some of the main characters in her books. ![]() The Colour of Betrayal is the latest whodunit in the popular ‘Sebastian Foxley’ series of medieval murder mysteries by author and historian Toni Mount. ![]() ![]() ![]() Copyright might cover the precise words of his instructions as it would a recipe in a cookbook, but it prevents no one from reproducing the work itself (or baking the cake). But LeWitt never sought to stop or limit others from doing the same thing - nor could he have. You might see yourself like the artist Sol LeWitt, who issued detailed instructions to assistants who actually produced the finished works. ![]() You have a stronger claim at least to co-authorship of the output image. Now you have done some real work and contributed much more meaningfully to the final product. You had to go back and forth with the system, progressively refining your prompts, cleverly leading the image generator down the path to a much more original vision. Suppose, however, that the AI’s first effort was abysmal. Related : I tried AI systems that can paint and write. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All of this isn’t really important, except to say that Tessa, the heroine, is rescued from a dangerous situation by Shadowhunters, and she begins living with them in their training Institute. Shadowhunters are part human/part angel, but they are literally just humans with extra speed, and the ability to use the wand-type things to carve “marks” on their skin that gives them extra strength, vision, healing, etc. Trying to describe any book in a trilogy is a difficult task, but this feels especially hard! So essentially this series takes place in 1800’s London, and is about a group of people called Shadowhunters who are basically assassin cops for demons and other “downworld” species (vampires, werewolves, faeries, etc.). For people who haven’t read this series, what is it about, and should I read it.? ![]() ![]() ![]() The stories here are myriad, inviting comparisons to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Toni Morrison and Salman Rushdie."- Houston Chronicle They are our mothers, sisters and partners. "The characters who inhabit Difficult Women. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. From a girls' fight club to a wealthy subdivision in Florida where neighbors conform, compete, and spy on each other, Gay delivers a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America reminiscent of Merritt Tierce, Jamie Quatro, and Miranda July. ![]() A black engineer moves to Upper Michigan for a job and faces the malign curiosity of her colleagues and the difficulty of leaving her past behind. A stripper putting herself through college fends off the advances of an overzealous customer. A woman married to a twin pretends not to realize when her husband and his brother impersonate each other. A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children, and must negotiate the elder sister's marriage. The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. Gay returns with Difficult Women, a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection. Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He jumps into the boat and sets off with his new master, Trefry, "a man of great wit and fine learning," for the three-day journey to his new home at the Parham-hill plantation. His look of hatred directed at the captain causes the slave trader to blush: "farewell sir, it is worth my sufferings to gain so true knowledge both of you and of your gods to whom you swear" (37). Despite the captain's promise to free him, Oroonoko is also seized and sold to the overseer of the plantation, whom the narrator happens to be visiting. When the ship arrives in Surinam, the captain orders the slaves to be put into groups or lots for the merchants and gentlemen who had purchased them, taking care to separate families and acquaintances in case "rage and courage should put them upon contriving some great action, to the ruin of the colony" (37). ![]() ![]() Group car rides are pretty much the only time I get to feign innocence when I lean a little further into the star player of my fantasies, more commonly known as my brother’s best friend. We stopped seven times already thanks to Brady’s baby bladder.Īt least they seem to have sobered up in the last fifteen minutes, finally allowing us to turn the music up loud enough to where we can actually hear it. ![]() We learned years ago that long drives with pouty, hungover man-boys are not fun, but here we are again, willing yet slightly annoyed participants in the ‘how many times does one man have to stop to piss’ experiment. ![]() My girl Cameron and I knew better than to party hard the night before a drive, so we headed home early to finish packing for our final trip to the beach before college life begins.Ī trip that should have taken no more than three and a half hours, yet we’ve already been in this damn SUV for five. So out they stayed, saying drunken goodbyes to our classmates at the very last summer party to be had in our hometown. The drive to Oceanside is usually a peaceful one, but my brother, Mason, and his two best friends, Chase and Brady, came to an unspoken agreement last night that “one more,” meant one more twelve-pack. Now I’m a shell of who I was, on a path too blurry to follow, and I see no way out. ![]() It didn’t matter how wild I allowed my imagination to run, it always led me to the same place in the end. ![]() For years, I’ve dreamt of what college life could bring and while some things changed, there was always one constant. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Pollan’s friendly, conversational tone and first-person recollections bring levity and enthusiasm his sharp wit and self-awareness give much-needed life to what would otherwise have been more esoteric and dryly scientific sections. gardening and the human-plant relationship.climate change and its impact on our relationship with plants. ![]() human history, biology, and environmentalism.The Botany of Desire is perfect for STEM-focused young readers who want to learn more about: And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also helped them to thrive. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. He links four fundamental human desires-sweetness, beauty, energy, and control-with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, coffee, and the potato. ![]() In this entertaining young readers edition of the environmental studies classic, Michael Pollan demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a reciprocal relationship. By the bestselling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, this is Michael Pollan's ingenious companion book about the surprising and close relationship between people and plants. ![]() ![]() 'People who like football like Brazil people who love it love Argentina. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. 'Simultaneously epic and intimate, this is a magisterial work: not just a history of Argentinian football, but a history of Argentina' Tom Holland ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES: The Footballing History of Argentina. Jonathan Wilson, having lived there on and off during the last decade, is ideally placed to chart the sport's development in a country that, perhaps more than any other, lives and breathes football, its theories and its myths. ![]() But the rich, volatile history of Argentinian football is made up of both the sublime and the ruthlessly pragmatic. ![]() Argentina has produced some of the greatest footballers of all time. The definitive history of Argentinian football from the award-winning author of Inverting the PyramidĪlfredo Di Stefano, Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta, Juan Roman Riquelme, Lionel Messi. ![]() |