6/29/2023 0 Comments Nell Gwyn by Charles Beauclerk![]() ![]() ![]() Her mother was drowned in a pond at Chelsea, probably while drunk, in July 1679. ![]() Her childhood occupations have been variously described as bawdyhouse servant, a street hawker of herring, oysters, or turnips, and cinder-girl. Nell grew up in squalid Coal Yard Alley, a poor slum off Drury Lane. Her mother 'Madam Gwynn', was born within the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, and is thought to have lived most of her life in the city, she was by most accounts an alcoholic who ran a bawdy house or brothel, where the young Nell is said to have 'served strong waters to gentlemen.' Her father was of Welsh descent, a soldier ruined by the civil war, he is said to have died in a debtors prison in Oxford, Nell probably had no memory of him. Nell was was the daughter of Thomas and Ellen Gwynn, her place of birth is disputed, with some sources stating Pipe Well Lane in Hereford, which was renamed Gwynne Street in the nineteenth century, while others state she was born in London. The remarkable life of Nell Gwynne, most famous of the many mistresses of 'the Merry Monarch', Charles II, a classic rags to riches story, began on 2 February 1650. ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Aka akasaka apex![]() ![]() This is the very “normal” love story of two geniuses and the first kiss that never ends. It’s Shirogane who wants it to be perfect versus Kaguya who pursues the imperfect situation. Apex Legends Tips To Breakthrough Platinum and Diamond. Now, overly conscious of their feelings, they must face the biggest challenge yet: Christmas. Discover videos related to how to hit platinum apex on TikTok. Participators are invited who are famous streamers or VTubers, and Crazy Raccoons pro players (include non-Apex Legends pro players). ![]() The relationship between these two, who assumed they would be a couple, remains ambiguous. Caster: kouhiraiwa (Kousuke Hiraiwa) Commentator: alelu Guests: Tonakaito (Kaito Yamashita) Shirayuki Reid (Reid Shirayuki) Virtual Gorilla Format. However, there was no clear confession of love. After a long battle in love, these two geniuses communicated their feelings and, at the Hoshin Festival, had their very first kiss. Shuchiin Academy’s student council room, the place where Student Council Vice President Kaguya Shinomiya and President Miyuki Shirogane met. The first two episodes are available now and the final two will be available Sunday, April 2nd! If you missed the theatrical screening of Kaguya-sama: Love is War – The First Kiss That Never Ends, now is your chance to watch! Crunchyroll is now streaming the movie episodically. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Flowers in the attic book cover![]() ![]() After a whirlwind romance, Olivia finds herself as the mistress of the imposing Foxworth Hall, where she soon discovers that the fairy tale life she expected has quickly become a nightmare. “ Flowers in the Attic: The Origin tells the story of the headstrong and determined Olivia Winfield Foxworth (Rooper) who is working alongside her beloved father when she finds herself unexpectedly wooed by one of the nation’s most eligible bachelors, Malcolm Foxworth. “The series stars Jemima Rooper as Olivia Winfield Foxworth, who eventually becomes the cruel grandmother who imprisons, whips and starves her daughter’s four children.” The Wrap reports that “the deal covers 138 books and all new releases.” First up, “ Flowers in the Attic: The Origin,” a prequel to Flowers in the Attic, comes to Lifetime this summer. Andrews” tales, acquiring “rights and licenses” to the entire collection. ![]() Andrews was the author of several notable books including Flowers in the Attic, with her legacy carried on over the decades by dozens of other books that she herself didn’t actually write. Known for her gothic novels dealing with family horrors, the late V.C. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Don quixote by cervantes![]() ![]() Don Quixote (pronounced “kee-hotay”) was written at the end of his life and in the midst of the second of these periods. ![]() ![]() The first was a “golden age” of military success, national pride, and intellectual freedom the second, a time of economic and military weakness and religious and intellectual repression. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra lived through two distinct periods in Spanish history. A novel in two parts set in early seventeenth century Spain the first part published in 1605, the second in 1615.Ī middle-aged gentleman imagines that he is a knight and sets out on a series of adventures with his “squire.” an illiterate peasant.Įvents in History at the Time of the Novel ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Creature Features by John Stanley![]() Thinking fast she is able to get a tissue sample from the monster. She sees a giant amoeba rising from the ocean. The mysterious death of a diver inspires Julie to investigate, but Dunning remains very skeptical. Julie thinks there might be some substance to these rumors, but Dunning does not. ![]() She further investigates the stories of a sea monster killing people along with unexplained disappearances in the area. She meets Steve Dunning (Stuart Wade), a marine biologist doing research in the area, and they fall for one another. She hears stories about a man-eating creature dwelling in the cove. Julie Blair (Anne Kimbell) is an American artist vacationing at a seaside village in Mexico. It was the first film produced by Roger Corman (although he had previously written Highway Dragnet). The film was directed by Wyott Ordung and starred Anne Kimbell and Stuart Wade. Monster from the Ocean Floor is an American 1954 science fiction film about a sea monster that terrorizes a Mexican cove. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The traitor queen danielle jensen![]() ![]() But her greatest adversary of all might be the very man she's trying to free - the husband she betrayed. Not only is the palace inescapable, there are more players in the game than Lara ever realized, enemies and allies switching sides in the fight for crowns, kingdoms, and bridges. ![]() But as Lara and her companions formulate a plan to free Aren from her father's palace, they soon discover that while it is easy to get in, it will be quite another thing to get Aren, and themselves, back out. Risking her life to the Tempest Seas, Lara returns to Ithicana with a plan not only to free its king, but for liberating the Bridge Kingdom from her father's clutches using his own weapons: the sisters whose lives she spared. And it is bait she fully intends to take. ![]() But when she learns her husband, Aren, has been captured in battle, Lara knows there is only one reason her father is keeping him alive: as bait for his traitorous daughter. A queen now in exile as a traitor, Lara has watched Ithicana be conquered by her own father, helpless to do anything to stop the destruction. Lara has only one thought when her husband is taken prisoner: I will do whatever it takes to set you free. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Lauren oliver before i fall series![]() Heartbreaking in its honesty, it's a novel that really makes you think and it stayed with me long after I finished reading it' -Rebecca Cooney, International Sales & Marketing Manager 'This beautiful story had me gripped right from the first page – full of both tragic and touching 'what-if's', it takes you right back to the intense and often cruel teen-age experiences at high school. 'Although I'm not the target reader I found myself engrossed and moved by this marvellous book' -Jamie Hodder-Williams "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 'A beautifully written and outrageously weepy tale' Daily Mirror 'This book will take your breath away' She You don't remember to tell your family that you love them or - in my case - remember to say goodbye to them at all.īut what if, like me, you could live your last day over and over again? Could you make it perfect? If your whole life flashed before your eyes, would you have no regrets? Or are there some things you'd want to change.? The thing is, you don't get to know when it happens. They say 'live every day as if it's your last' - but you never actually think it's going to be. ' Compelling and poignant, a truly memorable read' Closer 'A clever, funny, insightful and utterly addictive novel' Daily Mail ' Gossip Girl meets Groundhog Day' Grazia ![]() ![]() ** Now a major Netflix movie starring Zoey Deutch, Halston Sage, Logan Miller, Kian Lawley * A bestselling summer read as heartbreaking as The Lovely Bonesand as gripping as Jenny Downham's Before I Die. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Hg wells the island of dr moreau![]() Today, it is universally regarded as one of the worst movies of the 90s, and while there are some who consider it so-bad-it’s-good, it enjoys nowhere near the same camp cachet as fellow big-budget turkeys from its era (although it would certainly make for a perfect double feature with the most recent inductee to this disreputable canon, Cats). This is to say nothing of the collective trauma its implausible production inflicted on the rest of its cast and crew (all of which is covered in the entertaining documentary Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr Moreau). ![]() Aside from inspiring a couple of memorable pop culture parodies, that film’s legacy is purely destructive: it killed original director Richard Stanley’s career for a solid two decades, precipitated Val Kilmer’s expulsion from the A-list, and cemented Brando as a laughingstock during his twilight years. Unlike Apocalypse Now, there’s never been any grand reappraisal of the 1996 version of The Island of Dr Moreau. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then Taylor's ex comes crawling back to her, and Nick figures she'll jump at the chance to go back to her old life - unless he fights for the best thing that ever happened to him. Soon they're putting every part of their two-bedroom apartment to good use. Now that they're shacking up together, the chemistry is out of control. Sure, she's gorgeous, with mesmerizing silver eyes, but it's her vulnerability that kills him. Nick's always trying to fix people, and nobody could use a good fixing more than Taylor. ![]() Sexy in a permanent five-o'clock-shadow kind of way, Nick knows how to push Taylor's buttons, as if he could see right through to the real her. Enter Nick Ballantine, career bartender, freelance writer - and longtime pain in Taylor's ass. In the meantime, she needs a new roommate. Even after Bradley dumps her for a co-worker on move-in day, Taylor isn't worried. USA TODAY BESTSELLER In this charming Oxford Novel, hailed by Keri Ford as a sizzling-loud friends-to-lovers story, Lauren Layne poses a provocative question: What do you do when you fall in love with your sister’s ex A year ago, Jackson Burke was married to the love of his life and playing quarterback for the Texas Redhawks. ![]() ![]() Taylor Carr has it all - a sleek job in advertising, a stunning Manhattan apartment, and the perfect man to share it with: Bradley Calloway. Hard Sell The 21 Wall Street Series, Book 2 By: Lauren Layne Narrated by: Samantha Cook, Zachary Webber Series: 21 Wall Street Series, Book 2 Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins Release date: 09-04-18 Language: English 4,533 ratings Regular price: 23. New York City's hottest bachelors are stirring up trouble in this fun, flirty Oxford Novel, as a love triangle forces a feisty beauty to choose between winning back Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book will certainly be read with keen interest by, and undoubtedly influence, a wide range of participants in international finance. Jason Zweig, Investing Columnist, Mone y magazine Another must-read from Peter Bernstein This well-written and thought-provoking book provides valuable insights on how key finance theories have evolved from their ivory tower formulation to profitable application by portfolio managers. He is the only person who could have written this book thank goodness he did. No one alive understands Wall Street's intellectual history better, and that makes Bernstein our best and wisest guide to the future. ![]() Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group and author, The Little Book of Common Sense Investing Just as Dante could not have understood or survived the perils of the Inferno without Virgil to guide him, investors today need Peter Bernstein to help find their way across dark and shifting ground. This fine and eminently readable book is unlikely to be surpassed as the definitive chronicle of a truly historic era. Happily, Peter has taken up his facile pen again to describe these changes, a virtual revolution in the practice of investing that relies heavily on complex mathematics, derivatives, hedging, and hyperactive trading. ![]() A lot has happened in the financial markets since 1992, when Peter Bernstein wrote his seminal Capital Ideas. ![]() |