and very American teenager in the Twilight Series, madly in love with a blood-addicted but deliberately appetite suppressing vampire Robert Pattison – becoming British royalty. And my mother’s shackles were definitely raised to cushion-chewing levels one night, brother and father gone ...
American novelist Kay Boyle and her then-husband Laurence Vail were in Austria at the start of 1934 — a year, as they wrote in the preface, “that was to be characterized by almost universal unrest, by civil war, revolution, by strikes and unemployment figures reaching monstrous proportions....
The third installment in long-running action-adventure series Assassin’s Creed has plenty of high points. Set during the American Revolution,Assassin’s Creed 3expanded the series’ gameplay by introducing naval missions and beefing up the recruitment system, which enabled players to enlist Colonial ...
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Oh sure, she tried to tell Katie Couric in an interview that she could be both: “I am a Cubs fan,” Clinton said. “But I needed an American League team…so as a young girl, I became very interested and enamored of the Yankees.” The front page of the Style section of the ...
William Casey, an American journalist, discovers that Barstow isn’t all that he seems… and joins in the adventure, not as a newspaper man but a desperado. Along with a cadre of peasant revolutionaries, Barstow and Casey aim to steal and destroy the Kassen secret! Fun fact: The first of...
Robert, a young American, travels to Brazil in order to become secretary to a wealthy man who has devoted himself to the republican struggle against the Brazilian emperor. But who can he trust? He falls in love with the sister of the emperor’s minister of police; he suspects his employer...
“American colleagues, prepare for the worst,” writes Glenda Gloria, editor of Rappler, a news site in the Philippines whose staff endured years of personal attack and legal torment from the Rodrigo Duterte administration. “If it doesn’t happen, you’ll be happy to be proven wrong. If...
Old Beaver works, such as this American Beech with a bad-hair day from stump sprouting, were evident everywhere. Other Beaver sculptures created a few years ago as indicated by the dark color of heartwood where the rodent had gnawed and cut the tree down, probably to use as building mater...
I grew up eating ricotta pie and while my Brother would demolish an entire pan in one sitting without blinking an eye, I was always more a fan of American-style cheesecake. That having been said, the texture on this was gorgeous. So well made. Aimee felt the pie was under-sweetened ...