5/31/2023 0 Comments The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware![]() Tensions are high, stakes are raised with each turn of the page. Like most of Ware’s novels, The Woman in Cabin 10 is excellently paced (well, mostly, we will get to that). ![]() I have read many of her books leading up to this one, and so I was more than ready to break into one of her most popular reads.ĭon’t get me wrong, I was able to stick with it for some time. This book has been on my TBR list for some time now as I consider myself a pretty dedicated fan of Ruth Ware. The problem? All passengers remain accounted for-and so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Lo’s desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrong… But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. At first, Lo’s stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. ![]() ![]() The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. Amazon Summary: Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. ![]()
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5/31/2023 0 Comments Books about elvis and priscilla![]() Taking note of that, Christopher knew that he had to make this dream a reality. "Through my years of photographing celebrities no matter what, on just about every shoot, Elvis' name would come up." Christopher is well-known for his photographs of celebrities and his unique talent of creating themed shoots. This tribute book was the brain-child of Christopher Ameruoso. "Shades of Elvis" will also feature many behind-the-scenes photos with many of the celebrities featured in the book. The new book features photos of over 75 celebrities, including famous musicians, actors, sports figures and television personalities - all wearing Elvis' famous gold shades. ![]() A new photography book by Priscilla Presley and Christopher Ameruoso titled "Shades of Elvis" is now available and can be purchased by visiting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Schmidt, Leibnitz and Baumgarten (Halle, 1875) and article Aesthetics. See Meier, Baumgarten's Leben (1763) Abbt, Baumgarten's Leben and Charakter (1765) H. After his death, his pupils published a Philosophic Generalis (1770) and a Jus Naturae (1765), which he had left in manuscript. 1763) Initia philosophiae practicae primae (1760). The principal works of Baumgarten are the following: Disputationes de nonnullis ad poema pertinentibus (1735) Aesthetica Metaphysica (173 9 7th ed. Andre, and that Kant had a great admiration for him. It is important to notice that Baumgarten's first work preceded those of Burke, Diderot, and P. ![]() The very name ( Aesthetics ), which Baumgarten was the first to use, indicates the imperfect and partial nature of his analysis, pointing as it does to an element so variable as feeling or sensation as the ultimate ground of judgment in questions pertaining to beauty. Baumgarten did good service in severing aesthetics from the other philosophic disciplines, and in marking out a definite object for its researches. He was a disciple of Leibnitz and Wolff, and was particularly distinguished as having been the first to establish the Theory of the Beautiful as an independent science. He studied at Halle, and became professor of philosophy at Halle and at Frankfort on the Oder, where he died in 1762. ![]() ALEXANDER GOTTLIEB BAUMGARTEN (1714-1762), German philosopher, born at Berlin. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments To the end of june by cris beam![]() “A triumph of narrative reporting and storytelling.” - The New York Times Humanizing and challenging a broken system, To the End of June offers a tribute to resiliency and hope for real change. The result is To the End of June, an unforgettable portrait that takes us deep inside the lives of foster children in their search for a stable, loving family.īeam shows us the intricacies of growing up in the system-the back-and-forth with agencies, the rootless shuffling between homes, the emotionally charged tug between foster and birth parents, the terrifying push out of foster care and into adulthood. Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster care looking into these questions and tracing firsthand stories. ![]() ![]() A New York Times Notable Book that “casts a searing eye on the labyrinth that is the American foster care system” (NPR’s On Point). ![]() |