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[unable to retrieve full-text content] The Little Free Library invites public to "take a book, leave a book"    News3LV

Fans of author Sarah J. Maas' books will likely have already seen that her newest novel, the second in the Crescent City series,  House of Sky and Breath , ends on a bit of a cliffhanger… one that has completely changed what readers thought was in store for either of her ongoing series. Yes, the Maas multiverse has arrived! But this may lead to some confusion. If you're new to Mass' work, where should you start? What if you've read  Throne of Glass  and  A Court of Thorns and Roses ? Or you've only read  Crescent City ? Luckily for you, we're here with this handy guide of each of Maas' series and where exactly you should begin! Discover Bloomsbury-YA's Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas. Throne Of Glass Published in 2012,  Throne of Glass  marked Sarah J. Maas's literary debut. It was an immediate success that was nominated for the Goodreads Best Young Adult Fantasy & Scienc...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Quotes on Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court Nomination    U.S. News & World Report

That hot-button issue comes up yet again in your relationship. All of a sudden, your partner is angry, and the conversation is completely off the rails. A tiny trigger such as the dishes or talking about plans for the weekend can turn into a blow-up fight or a prolonged period of mutual ghosting. You both are left wondering, "How did we get here?" You may have heard that being able to stay calm in conflict is important. In fact, when we're chronically stressed by interactions with our partner that get our blood boiling, we're more likely to end up with stress-related diseases and even early mortality. Being able to stay calm in conflict is highly related to happier marriages with lower rates of divorce. Mindful Partnering In my unpublished dissertation, I sought to investigate if interpersonal mindfulness in the couple relationship (what I call "Mindful Partnering") may be associated with lesser physiological stress to couple conflict. Mindful part...

The ancient Greek Temple of Poseidon. Was cancel culture a thing in the Golden Age of Athens? (Image: GETTY) "With The Gates Of Athens, the great joy is that once one man, Themistocles, had arranged for his two major competitors to be 'cancelled' and banished, the Persians invaded and he had to bring them back."  Related articles It turns out Iggulden, 50, is no stranger to such practices himself – having almost had his most successful project, The Dangerous Book For Boys, cancelled, ironically by its own publisher. After writing the non-fiction guide for "boys aged eight to 80" with his younger brother Hal, covering everything from building a treehouse to cooking over an open fire, the publisher told him they wanted to remove seven chapters, effectively de-dangering it.  "One of the chapters was hunting and shooting a rabbit, they felt they would be too controversial," he explains. "They said, 'If you take these out,...

New York Times best seller "The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue" written by V. E. Schwab is a story about a young girl who makes a deal with a god to live forever, but it comes with a catch–no one will ever remember her. Kylie Balk-Yaatenen / Advance-Titan 'The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue' by V. E. Schwab. The story starts in France in 1714 and follows Addie LaRue, a young girl who is reaching the age where her family wants to marry her off. However, she does not want to give up her freedom. She makes little offerings to the old spirits of the Earth. In return they keep her from being married off. An old woman who also practices this type of magic told her to never make offerings in the night because otherwise something dark might answer. Her parents plan to marry her off and the night before her wedding, in a desperate moment she goes out to make an offer and calls out for someone to answer her. Something does answer her and agrees to give her everlasting life ...

Picture a romance novel. Are there heaving bosoms and swaggering poses? Is the word "trashy" one of the first to pop into your mind? If so, your stereotypes are decades out of date. Recent years have seen a marked shift away from shirtless ab shots and "clinch covers" that feature a passionate embrace toward bright, flirty graphics. Modern romance covers are opting for graphic illustration in a bid to outrun the sexist stigma that has dogged the genre since its inception and repackage the books for new audiences. This evolution reflects changes within the genre and broader attitudes toward it as well. Romance cover art first took off with the increased availability of cheap mass market paperbacks after World War II. The popularity of pulp fiction influenced dramatic covers that often carried, at best, tenuous connections to the plot within a book. Through the 1970s, a "chocolate box pretty" style predominated, favoring distant, longi...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] 200 Best Life Quotes to Live By    The Trend Spotter

"In love there are two things: bodies and words," says Gemini and famous American author Joyce Carol Oates. Indeed, when astrologers look for love, we cast an eye at the heavenly bodies that inform attraction and attachment. Consequently, the interaction and angles of the planets within a birth chart influence who, what and why we love. Synastry is the art of comparing the birth charts of two people to determine compatibility and predict challenges. The placement of the moon which serves as our emotional touchstone, Mars, the planet of sex and aggression and Venus, the planet of love and attachment within the birth chart, help divine whether a relationship is rock steady or destined for certain ruin. Beyond the birth chart, a look at your Chinese zodiac sign can aid in understanding relationship dynamics. All signs, like all people, are capable of harmony and discord, attraction and apathy. Further, in my estimation, love i...

Couples traditionally vow to stay together for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health. Rarely do they mention for 24 hours a day, for seven days a week, for every single meal, for so much streaming, for two blasted, interminable years. So imagine what the pandemic has been like for a throuple, three individuals in a loving, committed relationship. Also one that's moved seven times since early 2020, including driving nearly 1,300 miles from Denver to Chattanooga in one car with three cats. Cody Coppola, 31, and Maggie Odell, 28, have been together for six years, and married for four. Janie Frank, 26, is Cody's girlfriend of more than than five years. She is also Maggie's. They all work in construction and design. Throuple is a new word, younger than the century and sounding oddly like a board game, but it reflects an old tradition. Polyamory was practiced in ancient Greece and Mesopotamia, among European nobility and in communes. It is salte...

After laying low for a while following surgery, Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard has been out and about a bit more as of late. He's granted a number of interviews, traveled to Cleveland for the celebration of the Top 75 players in NBA history, of which he is included, at All-Star weekend and dropped a verse on a recently-released Mic Capes track.  [embedded content] He also joined his friend Draymond Green on his relatively new podcast, aptly titled "The Draymond Green Show," for over an hour of discussion about basketball, his career and life in general. It's a great interview that is worth watching/listening to from start to finish, but some of the high points... Lillard thoughts on the trades the Trail Blazers have made recently and his thoughts on the team's direction... "I think what we've done is put ourselves in a position we have not been in. When we signed (Evan Turner), we signed Moe (Harkless), we signed (Al-Farouq Aminu), ...