![]() ![]() ![]() Not really, when you read the story of Madhav Jha who has a ‘half girlfriend’ named ‘Riya Somani’. She is not totally yours, you don’t have too much freedom, you can’t dare too much, you can’t get too much physical or mental with her, she may suddenly be happy with what you do and suddenly get upset when you think you have done that thing to please her, ultimately she chooses what you do and you are not aware when the choices change and rules get amended…so with ‘half girlfriend’ you live dangerously unpredictable…yet you have an authority to tell that she is your girlfriend…though in reality she is your half girlfriend!! So you are a boyfriend following some ‘rule book’ of what to do and what not to do when you are accompanying your ‘half girlfriend’. ![]() She has allowed something’s which you can do with her and hasn’t allowed you to do many things. ![]() Yes, ‘Half Girlfriend’ is someone who is your girl friend but has not given you the total freedom of using her as per your convenience. Facebook and Whatsapp times have made things easy and convenient to have and proclaim the number of girl or boy buddies you have. We live in an era wherein you are judged on how many boyfriends or girlfriends we have depending on whether you are a girl or a boy! The quantum signifies your stand in the modern era. ![]()
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![]() At the same time it works as a stand alone, and late-comers should not be put off if they haven’t read the series, though they will no doubt want to correct their mistake within the first few pages. The combination of characters, couples and skills is a great fun read and Gerri Hill fans will be overjoyed. Both used to being top dog, both used to doing things their own way, it is only the calming influence of Andrea Sullivan that gets them through the hunt for ex-special-ops sniper Angel. Sure enough Hunter and Ross are so alike they hate each other on sight. What could possibly go wrong? Well apart from the fact that once again it is poor Sam who is abducted and Tori is fit to be tied, putting Tori Hunter and Cameron Ross in the same state seems like an incendiary idea. Gerri Hill has taken the Hunter series (Hunters Way, In the Name of the Father, Partners) and added in Sullivan and Ross from Devils Rock and Hell’s Highway. A great action adventure and a good solid read. ![]() A crossover between the Hunter and Devil’s Rock series that will delight. ![]() ![]() Presented alongside the text, his illustrations further refine and elucidate this carefully collated anthology. Throughout his career, he developed a unique style, combining haunting humour with dream-like romance. ![]() One of the most celebrated painters of the British Golden Age of Illustration (which encompassed the years from 1850 until the start of the First World War), Rackham’s artistry is quite simply, unparalleled. The work is accompanied throughout by a series of dazzling colour and black and white illustrations – by a master of the craft Arthur Rackham (1867-1939). Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, and the pirate Captain Hook. Over a century after its initial publication it remains loved and appreciated, by adults and children alike. ![]() It first appeared in the form of a play, in 1904, and was later transformed into a novel – written in 1911. AU 70.33 + AU 50.40 Peter Grimm Amor Mio Heart Crown Wool Felt Western. Peter Pan and Wendy, or Peter Pan The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up is J. ![]() ![]() Origins of Fairy Tales from Around the Worldĭescription Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens – Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire, and Elisabeth is implicated in the crime. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery-magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. ![]() Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Katherine Arden, New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingaleįrom the New York Times bestselling author of An Enchantment of Ravens comes an enthralling adventure (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about an apprentice at a magical library who must battle a powerful sorcerer to save her kingdom.Īll sorcerers are evil. If you loved the Hogwarts Library…you’ll be right at home at Summershall. Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series A bewitching gem…I absolutely loved every moment of this story. ![]() ![]() ![]() From the doodle-scratch art and jumbled panel borders to crossed-out words with simulated grammar and spelling lapses to the generous helpings of potty humor, the book feels like a frantic message of delirious imagination from one child to another. If this all sounds like it springs from the mind of an unhinged first grader, that is, in fact, the central conceit. ![]() The solution? Graft the dog’s head onto the man’s body to create the “world’s greatest cop.” Dog Man upends a plot to replace the police chief with an evil robot, saves the city when a gangster cat erases words from all the books, turning everyone hopelessly stupid, and stands up to a revolutionary army of hot dogs. A policeman and his police dog fail to defuse a bomb, and the ensuing explosion kills the officer’s head and the dog’s body. ![]() ![]() ![]() These books showcase the most recent scholarship on how Central Asia was gradually taken over by the Russian and Chinese empires, and how the republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan were created, as well as Xinjiang Province in the People’s Republic of China. His trials began early, when the Soviet government's drive to collectivise farming and herding reached the vast steppes of Russia's central Asian empire, and specifically east Kazakhstan. Many people are fascinated by the ancient Silk Road, but don’t know much about how we got from there to the “Stans” that emerged out of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Mukhamet Shayakhmetov was a member of a traditional Kazakh nomadic tribe. I have written on Stalin’s attempt to destroy Islam, on education and creating a historical narrative for Uzbekistan, and on cotton and manual labor under Khrushchev. My formal research specialty is Soviet Central Asia. ![]() Russians, Turks, Iranians, Mongols and more have been intertwined with each other throughout their histories. Born into a family of nomadic Kazakh herdsmen in 1922. by Mukhamet Shayakhmetov, Anthony Gardner, et al. Buy a cheap copy of The Silent Steppe: The Story of a Kazakh. We usually think of these as separate regions of the world, but in fact they are all connected across the vast Eurasian continent. The Silent Steppe: The Story of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin. ![]() I teach courses on Russian history, Central Asia, and the modern Middle East. I am a historian of Russia and Eurasia at Hamilton College. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So when Liz’s financial aid falls through, she has no choice but to run for prom queen in hopes of winning the scholarship attached to winning the crown. You Should See Me in a Crown is about a girl named Liz Lighty who wants to escape her small (and small-minded) Midwestern hometown and go to her dream college. ![]() Now give us the elevator pitch for You Should See Me in a Crown! I say often that I’m an eternal Midwesterner moonlighting as a New Yorker because I will never be able to shake the small-ish town girl in me, which I hope is more charming than it is frustrating for all of the Very Serious New Yorkers I’m slowing down on the sidewalk. Hi! I’m Leah Johnson, the author of two young adult novels, You Should See Me in a Crown and the forthcoming Rise to the Sun. The Nerd Daily had the pleasure of sitting down with Leah Johnson, debut author of the recently published sapphic rom-com You Should See Me in a Crown in which two girls running for prom queen fall head over heels for each other! We got to ask Leah all about her debut novel, epic promposals, and upcoming projects! Hi, Leah! Thank you for joining us! Why don’t you tell our readers a bit about yourself? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her throat was thick with lust, closing it off, making communication impossible. But neither could she form a coherent word. She couldn’t stop it, couldn’t call it back. “Well?” he insisted, grinding again, his mouth close to her ear, sending shivers down her neck. The blood in her veins became sludgy as everything slowed down, the atmosphere becoming charged with something way more potent than just anger. She wanted him to fuck her in this sleazy alley very, very badly. It felt outrageous and edgy and thrilling. She knew what this was, what he was doing.Īnd it didn’t feel nice. Where her heart beat wildly before out of outrage and uncertainty, now, it was beating for an entirely different reason as warmth flooded her pelvis and beaded her nipples into tight points. Her eyes widened at the hard press of his erection against the softness of her belly, like an iron bar. And then he stepped in real close and ground himself against her. ![]() But part of her thrilled to hear the guttural profanity. Part of her rebelled at his choice of words. Josie gasped, shocked out of her state of confusion by his blatant vulgarity. “You want some…Neanderthal…to fuck you in some sleazy alley?” ![]() ![]() ![]() … The opulent home, located at 35-37 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, now houses the British Embassy in Paris,” according to marketing materials for the sale. “ Le Printemps was part of the decorative scheme of the Salon des Saisons of the Hôtel Pereire, the home of the Parisian banker, parliamentarian, and railroad industrialist Émile Pereire, who commissioned Bouguereau to decorate two rooms of his house in 1857. The painting helped establish the artist in France after he returned from Italy. The piece features three “classicized figures participating in activities associated with springtime” and was commissioned for a 19th-century Parisian home, according to Christie’s. ![]() “It was a magical place.”Īmong the lots is Bouguereau’s Le Printemps, which is expected to fetch between US$250,000 and US$350,000 under the hammer. The interior of the Berkeley home “blended the earnest tenets of the Arts and Crafts movement, the magical productions of Tiffany Studios, and the aesthetic costume of Fortuny with Roman maidens of Leighton and Alma-Tadema,” Jonathan Rendell, Christie’s deputy chairman of the Americas, said in a statement. ![]() The Gettys bought the property in 1994, subsequently filling it with art and furnishings from the turn of the 20th century. Dubbed the Temple of Wings, the Greco-Roman style house was built in 1924 for a local artist. The auction will include pieces from the couple’s Berkeley, Calif., home. ![]() ![]() ![]() Julian’s true identity and origins remain obscured. These simple words still offer hope and encourage positivity today, especially in the atmosphere in which we are all currently living. ‘all shall be well, all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well,’ Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love Having survived 600 years, her book, Revelations of Divine Love, is the earliest surviving of its kind – a book written in English, by a woman. Julian’s life was remarkable in its simplicity, devotion and spirituality, and because of her writing. One such devotee was Saint Julian of Norwich, an anchorite and mystic who lived in a cell at the parish church of St Julian at Conisford in Norwich. Moreover, the cloistered life was not the only path for a woman who wanted to devote her life to God. It was an alternative to marriage, and childbearing, for women and girls from diverse backgrounds. The medieval religious life provided a refuge for widows and elderly women in search of calm and peace at the end of their lives. Statue of Julian of Norwich, Norwich Cathedral by sculptor David Holgate. ![]() |