![]() ![]() ![]() Told with humor and heart by author Kelly J. Can Kai break through his nerves and break it down on the dance floor? More than anything, he wants to prove that he can boogie with the rest of his family and earn a cool nickname from his granddad. The highlight of every Donovan occasion is dancing the electric slide–a groovy line dance with footwork that Kai can’t quite figure out. Kai’s aunt is getting married, and everyone in the Donovan family is excited about the wedding … except Kai. On Sale Date: Maavailable for pre-orders now! Today, I’m excited to reveal the cover of a forthcoming 2021 picture book The Electric Slide and Kai. ![]() This song has proven staying power and it remains the highest-selling single by a female Reggae singer of all time. The remixed version of the song “The Electric Slide” from the year 1989, made the Electric Slide an international dance craze. Over the years, different versions of the dance have surfaced. Choreographer Richard Silver created the original electric slide, a 22-step dance to go along with the song. The origins of “The Electric Slide” began with the song “Electric Boogie.” “Electric Boogie” was written in 1976 by Neville “Bunny Wailer” Livingston for singer Marcia Griffiths. Where are all my electric slide fans? Whenever the Electric Slide comes on at a wedding, club or social event I have to get up and dance! Anyone else? ![]()
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Howards inn book6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Ruth is great friends with the half-german Schlegel sisters Margaret, our generous-spirited heroine, and the younger Helen - inquisitive, dramatic and egalitarian by nature. ![]() The family has made money in the colonies and also have a property - Howards End - owned by the terminally-ill mother, Ruth Wilcox, who must decide how best to pass on the estate.Ī decision that triggers much of the novel’s ensuing conflict, scandal and tragedy… Set at the beginning of the twentieth century it follows the fortunes and inter-relations between three family groups of differing backgrounds and outlooks.Īt the top of the money tree are the Wilcoxes who represent broadly materialism and an upper-class English archetype. First published in 1910 Howards End is considered by many to be Forster’s greatest novel. ![]() La meyer books6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() I was genuinely curious about how Meyer would move from paranormal YA to an adult Spy Thriller. Look, I gave it a fair chance, I swear I did. And she shows once again why she's one of the world's bestselling authors. In this tautly plotted novel, Meyer creates a fierce and fascinating new heroine with a very specialized skill set. As she sees her choices being rapidly whittled down, she must apply her unique talents in ways she never dreamed of. Resolving to meet the threat head-on, she prepares for the toughest fight of her life but finds herself falling for a man who can only complicate her likelihood of survival. To her horror, the information she acquires only makes her situation more dangerous. But it means taking one last job for her ex-employers. When her former handler offers her a way out, she realizes it's her only chance to erase the giant target on her back. They've killed the only other person she trusted, but something she knows still poses a threat. Now she rarely stays in the same place or uses the same name for long. And when they decided she was a liability, they came for her without warning. An expert in her field, she was one of the darkest secrets of an agency so clandestine it doesn't even have a name. ![]() government, but very few people ever knew that. ![]() In this gripping page-turner, an ex-agent on the run from her former employers must take one more case to clear her name and save her life. ![]() Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Ten-year-olds Bessie and Roland sometimes burst into flames, and Madison is desperate to avoid a scandal upsetting the senator’s chances of becoming secretary of state. Madison offers her a job as a very discreet governess for the senator’s twin children from a prior marriage. ![]() When aimless, low-achieving 28-year-old Lillian Breaker receives a mysterious invitation from Madison Roberts, her former roommate at a prestigious high school, longtime correspondent, and now wife to a senator, she does not hesitate to travel to Franklin, Tenn. Wilson ( Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine) turns a bizarre premise into a beguiling novel about unexpected motherhood. ![]() Pandeymonium by piyush pandey6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() That brings me to the most important point: which company, family-run or otherwise, does not exercise control? There is, of course, an extraordinary amount of control-at least the perception of control. It’s no surprise then that even these days, we see many family-run companies enjoying the advantage of continuity in leadership and an extraordinarily high level of loyalty. Senior executives are able to see their value beyond their salary slips when they know that they are wanted and they know that their views are respected, and they know that the company they work for is sensitive to their needs and concerns, they are less inclined to jump jobs. That’s what leads to their amazing ability to retain talent. Family-run companies are more sensitive, and demonstrate more warmth and sensitivity. ![]() ![]() There’s a huge difference in the way that family-run businesses are run when compared to what we call ‘professional’ companies. ![]() Frank miller man without fear6/28/2023 ![]() Cowie argues that ‘white freedom’ has long entailed the power to dominate others, especially non-whites, without interference from the national government. His new book seeks to explain why so many Americans, especially but not exclusively in the South, have understood freedom as an entitlement limited to white people. ![]() Observers outside Tennessee may find it incongruous to identify a war fought to preserve slavery with the ideal of freedom, but Jefferson Cowie, who teaches history at Vanderbilt University, in the heart of the state, wouldn’t be surprised. He urged ‘citizens from across this state’ to remember their ancestors’ ‘heroic struggle’ for ‘individual freedom’. E arlier this year, Randy McNally, the speaker of the Tennessee Senate, issued a proclamation declaring April 2023 Confederate History Month. ![]() The humming room by ellen potter6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() This tale full of unusual characters and mysterious secrets is a story that only Ellen Potter could write. ![]() ![]() Roo doesn't believe in ghosts or fairy stories, but what are those eerie noises she keeps hearing? And who is that strange wild boy who lives on the river? People are lying to her, and Roo becomes determined to find the truth.ĭespite the best efforts of her uncle's assistants, Roo discovers the house's hidden room-a garden with a tragic secret. Once a tuberculosis sanitarium for children of the rich, the strange house is teeming with ghost stories and secrets. When her parents are murdered, it's her special hiding place under the trailer that saves her life.Īs it turns out, Roo, much to her surprise, has a wealthy if eccentric uncle, who has agreed to take her into his home on Cough Rock Island. Living in a frighteningly unstable family, she often needs to disappear at a moment's notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I think my father must have considered the story for inclusion in Ghosts & More Ghosts, because the copy I discovered was xeroxed, with the first page rolled into the platen of Dad's Underwood typewriter so that he could X out the story's original title and type above it in block letters "Elmer and the Unhappy Genii."ĭad would have experimented with a new title if he'd been intending to send the story to an editor-probably his Random House editor, Walter Retan-with the suggestion that the story be included in an anthology under a new title. "The Aggravation of Elmer" is a comic science fiction/fantasy story originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction in May of 1955, and I never even read it until the fall of 2020, when I was going through my father's tear sheets looking for stories I might have missed. ![]() Drama Queers! by Frank Anthony Polito6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Not only has Brad made Homecoming Top Five, but Richie, a new, totally cute member of drama club, definitely seems to be sending signals-and he's not the only one. Brad's already lost one best friend, Jack, who dropped out of marching band to step into the closet. Brad, on the other hand, has a thing for acting, and while his friends are trying to get laid, Brad's trying to land the lead in Okla-homo! and practicing the Jane Seymour monologue from Somewhere in Time. Sure, he'd like to get laid too, but while Brad has known he was gay forever, the rest of "Hillbilly High" is not so forthcoming. George Michael has "Faith" and Michael Jackson still has a nose. ![]() It's 1987, the era of big hair, designer jeans, and Dirty Dancing. ![]() Meet Bradley Dayton-a wickedly funny high school senior whose woefully uncool life always seems to be full of drama, even in the sorry little suburb of Hazel Park, Michigan. I, Bradley James Dayton, will be a famous actor someday!" Malloy assigned us the What I Want To Be When I Grow Up paper earlier that year in her 1st hour English, my mind had been made up. Winner of the 2009 Lambda Literary Award for "Best Gay Romance" ![]() The death club caroline peckham6/27/2023 ![]() "Tatum!" Monroe bellowed as he raced away down the dirt track, running at full speed, not even sparing a glance back at us as he chased after her. ![]() ![]() My hands were painted red with it, my shirt soaked through, the leaves at my feet stained wet with it, the crimson colour catching in the faint moonlight from above. It’s a great community who you can share your passion for books with as well as having a few laughs with!ī lood. If you need a place to chat books and escape from the world, we’d love for you to come and join our reader group. state of Sequoia and centres around a pandemic similar, but more extreme than the coronavirus. May you dive into the next book like a soldier returning to war, with battle scars on your heart and tear stains still dirtying your cheeks as you lift your chin and face another author eye to eye and demand, “More.” May your partner shrink away in alarm and debate your sanity (while you garble about the love of your life who just died and who was not them). ![]() ![]() May your tears be shed with abandon and your kindles survive being thrown across the room (so you can come back for more suffering). May you be thrown from the cliff of this book and many others with the knowledge that your pain has not gone unnoticed (and the authors are laughing). ![]() |