![]() ![]() He’s never in a good mood and doesn’t really speak to anyone. She gets a place to stay, a job, and everything is going good. She’s pregnant, alone, and finally away from her abusive husband that she worked so hard to escape. ![]() All I wanted for these two is to find the love and happiness they both deserved.Ĭarrie Ford is new in town. It’s one of those books that you won’t want to put down. From the very start, both of these main characters stories broke my heart. ![]() ![]() River Wild was a quick read for me, but it wasn’t an easy one. To receive an email when Samantha releases a new book, sign up for her newsletter. With over a million books sold, her titles have appeared in countless bestseller lists, and are currently translated into ten languages. She has also written paranormal romances, The Bringer and The Alexandra Jones Series. She is the author of contemporary romances, The Storm Series, The Revved Series, The Wardrobe Series, The Gods Series, and standalones, Trouble, When I Was Yours, The Ending I Want, Unsuitable, Under Her, River Wild, Dead Pretty, The Two Week Stand and Sacking the Quarterback which was written with James Patterson. Samantha Towle is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author.Ī native of Hull, she lives in East Yorkshire with her husband, their son and daughter, and three large furbabies. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He is a programmer.”Īpril is pleased to have been working with Richard Stallman for almost seventeen years, and we wish him a happy birthday. He is not an artist, or a professional writer. But recognized or not, a time gets marked by the people who speak its ideals, whether in the whisper of a poem, or the blast of a political movement. Sometimes these philosophers are recognized as such often it takes generations before the connection is made real. Stallman Lawrence Lessig wrote “Every generation has its philosopher-a writer or an artist who captures the imagination of a time. In the introduction to the book Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Today, Richard Stallman is still a tireless activist for Free Software, whose philosophy he defines in three words: « Liberty, Equality, Fraternity » 1 At the origin of the Free Software movement, about thirty years ago, he is the founder of the GNU Project and of the Free Software Foundation. ![]() Richard Stallman turns 60 this Saturday, March16th, 2013. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of them died soon after arriving there, but not before he was baptized a Christian. They love their neighbors as themselves, and their discourse is ever sweet and gentle, and accompanied with a smile and though it is true that they are naked, yet their manners are decorous and praiseworthy."Īll this, of course, was taken as a sign of weakness, if not heathenism, and Columbus being a righteous European was convinced the people should be "made to work, sow and do all that is necessary and to adopt our ways." Over the next four centuries (1492–1890) several million Europeans and their descendants undertook to enforce their ways upon the people of the New World.Ĭolumbus kidnapped ten of his friendly Taino hosts and carried them off to Spain, where they could be introduced to the white man's ways. "So tractable, so peaceable, are these people," Columbus wrote to the King and Queen of Spain, "that I swear to your Majesties there is not in the world a better nation. ![]() As was the custom of the people when receiving strangers, the Tainos on the island of San Salvador generously presented Columbus and his men with gifts and treated them with honor. Those Europeans, the white men, spoke in different dialects, and some pronounced the word Indien, or Indianer, or Indian. It began with Christopher Columbus, who gave the people the name Indios. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book gets you hooked from the very beginning. I'm running on 4 hours of sleep and I don't feel tired AT ALL, because The Blind Side of Love kept me excited all day. I stayed up yesterday until 6am, literally, because I just couldn't get enough. I miss the main characters I completely fell in love with, I miss the extremely entertaining plot, I miss the hilarious dialogues, I miss the feeling of envy I always get when reading of true love. well you've just read an incredibly romantic story about happiness, and it's hard to realise it's just fiction. Where the reality of your boring existence strikes you even harder than before, because. I'm in that bittersweet moment right after finishing a story that you absolutely adored. I don't think it gets much better than this in terms of lesbian romance. ![]() **re-read this 7 years later and LOVED it even more** ![]() |