![]() Even with a 16 degree 3-wood it was very easy to get the ball up and away from deep lies in the rough. The unique low centre section on the face drops the sweet spot and from good lies and bad you feel as though the clubface reaches down to pick up the ball. It may look a little odd but trust me that it works. ![]() The first thing I wanted to see when the Tight Lies arrived was to see if that distinctive sole had made it to the new design and I am pleased to say that it has. Indeed this is the first club from the Adams featuring their new logo. Twenty years later the lies in the fairway have not improved but the Tight Lies range of woods has been re-launched by the new look Adams that is now owned by TaylorMade. ![]() So they turned the club upside down and the Tight Lies range of woods was created, which as the name implies were very good at getting the ball away from tight fairway lies. ![]() Back in the early 1990s Adams looked at the fairway wood and decided they could make it more forgiving if the top section was at the bottom. ![]()
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5/9/2023 0 Comments Lullaby by L.R.W. Lee![]() Every human has their own personal Sand Maiden or Sand Man. LULLABY reads fast and introduces an intriguing new world that I'm eager to explore more of as the series continues.Īli is a Sand Maiden-think about all you know of the Sand Man and the way he lulls you to sleep. I'd even throw some Hunger Games / Red Queen into the mix because of a competition that plays an important part in Ali's journey to acceptance in her new human form. The debut doesn't disappoint, either, and I can see why it has been comped to all three of those series. ![]() Carter ( Black Mage series), and Elise Kova (Air Awakens series)? Sold. ![]() Sand maiden lore? For fans of Maas, Rachel E. Then I saw that the cover art was from Charlie Bowater, who has done artwork for the A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. I'll admit it: The first time I heard about this book, it was because the cover had just been revealed and shown in a social media thread I was following. ![]() "I believed creativity to be the expression of the person, who they were inside. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments In the Blood by Sara Hantz![]() Alex plans to drop out, surf, drive fast cars…and finally confess secret number two. With six months to live, hanging around hospitals definitely counts as wasted time. But the harder Molly pushes Alex, the harder he pushes back.Īlex has two secrets. ![]() Alex needs to get back on the path to the Ivy League, and Micromanaging Molly figures serious interference is called for. Molly can’t stand seeing her pal Alex go from straight-A student to rebel without a cause. But Lily is merely bait for the real target. Best to treat her like a younger sibling, because how could she possibly love a hulking great lummox like him? When Lily is snatched, and Rix discovers she’s being used in covert experiments, he moves heaven and earth to find her. When the girl Rix swore to protect is taken, he’ll stop at nothing to save her… even if it means revealing what he truly is.įor two years, lone wolf Rixon has protected Lily… and lied about his true feelings. And so she comes up with the idea of using her way of knowing stuff and selling psychic dating advice. Which is why, when she accidentally crashes a friend’s car, she decides to earn the money herself to pay back the debt. ![]() ![]() The thought of never seeing Dan again, the guy she’s been crushing on since forever, fills her with dread. ![]() If Megan Russell messes up one more time her parents are going to pull her out of boarding school and life as she knows it will be over. ![]() ![]() ![]() Roto-Rooter.” After Loretha’s world takes a devastating hit in Chapter 1, all her problems become much more pressing. Speaking of hot husbands and hotel rooms, the little blue pill plays a humorous role throughout the novel, which is sprinkled with comments like “And he knows how to take just the right amount of Viagra, not like Mr. Loretha has told Carl that she’s sick of parties, so the dear man surprises her with a weekend at a favorite Palm Springs resort, where less happy surprises await. Here we meet her gal pals: Sadie, the church lady who might be a lesbian Korynthia, the gorgeous 6-foot-1-inch-tall exercise instructor Lucky, married to a white architect and with a weight problem like Loretha’s and Poochie, a cruise-loving widow rolling in dough, now living in Las Vegas to care for her ailing mother. ![]() ![]() Southern California beauty supply mogul Loretha Curry is about to celebrate her 68th birthday with her doting, still-hot third husband, and she begins by watching the DVD of her 67th. In her 10th novel, McMillan ( I Almost Forgot About You, 2016, etc.) joins long-career novelists such as Philip Roth and Anne Tyler as she sails her protagonists with her into older age. A close-knit group of 60-something black women deals with loss, illness, addicted family members, and the never-ending challenges of diet and exercise. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Do-over by Amy Lane![]() For over 13 years, she managed SEI’s Disaster Recovery test exercises and coordinated with the technology teams to enhance their recovery strategies. Prior to joining the SEI Sphere team, Amy was responsible for SEI’s Disaster Recovery Program. As clients transition into day-to-day support, Amy and the broader Sphere team strive to ensure the clients’ requests are executed in a timely manner and any incidents are resolved quickly. ![]() ![]() Amy continues to improve the processes and documentation utilized by the various SEI teams to help make the implementations run smoothly. As new clients contract with SEI Sphere for cybersecurity operations, network operations and cloud services, Amy coordinates the overall implementation tasks and timeline. Amy Lane is currently SEI Sphere’s Client Implementations and Operations Manager. ![]() ![]() ![]() When the dance of deception and desire is over, will they betray the one another?įor more spellbinding Spymasters romance, look for the other titles by Joanna Bourne: The Spymaster's Lady, My Lord and Spymaster, The Black Hawk and Rogue Spy. Drawn inexorably into the intrigue and madness of revolutionary Paris, they gamble on a love neither of them will admit. When he rescues Maggie, he knows her to be the last, dangerous flower of a noble line. William Doyle, England's premier spy, has a score to settle with the de Fleurignacs. But why does he risk his life to save her? Penniless and alone, she falls into the hands of a compelling stranger with a sinister scar. Marguerite de Fleurignac, once a glittering French aristocrat, is on the run, disguised as Maggie Duncan, British governess. The only person she can trust with her life. Englands top spy has a score to settle with her family. For fans of Stephanie Laurens, Elizabeth Hoyt and Poldark, this is a must-read. A glittering French aristocrat is on the run, disguised as a British governess. ![]() Joanna Bourne returns to the French Revolution, pairing espionage and burning romance to create an unforgettable love story. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Neuromancer trilogy![]() Since then, Gibson has remained in Vancouver, and written over a dozen additional novels and a handful of short stories. ![]() He published a series of short stories before being commissioned to write a novel-a work that would turn into Neuromancer, a surprise smash hit. He received a degree in English at the University of British Columbia and began to try his hand at writing. He spent the sixties as a self-proclaimed hippie, before marrying a woman from Vancouver and moving there with her. He moved to Canada to dodge the draft for the Vietnam War. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife. Gibson’s mother died when he was eighteen, and he left school without graduating. He is the author of Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Burning Chrome, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History, Distrust That Particular Flavor, and The Peripheral. However, he didn’t put the same kind of obsessive focus into school, and so his mother sent him to boarding school in southern Arizona. Gibson was a bookish child, obsessed with science fiction. ![]() ![]() He spent the first few years of his life moving around Virginia because of his father’s job as a manager of a construction company, but when Gibson was six his father died, and his mother moved them to Wytheville, Virginia, where she and Gibson’s father were born and raised. William Gibson was born in a vacation town on the coast of South Carolina. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mesmo sendo uma manifestação pacífica, o exército atirou sobre a multidão, matando 69 pessoas e ferindo outras 186.Įsta ação ficou conhecida como o Massacre de Shaperville.Įm memória à tragédia, a ONU – Organização das Nações Unidas – instituiu 21 de março como o Dia Internacional de Luta pela Eliminação da Discriminação Racial." "No dia 21 de março de 1960, na cidade de Joanesburgo, capital da África do Sul, 20 mil negros protestavam contra a lei do passe, que os obrigava a portar cartões de identificação, especificando os locais por onde eles podiam circular.No bairro de Shaperville, os manifestantes se depararam com tropas do exército. Ao total, mais de 400 pessoas participaram nas duas Lives (uma em português e outra em espanhol).Ībaixo, um pequeno texto construído e compartilhado pela Márcia Cristina Figueiras Gonçalves sobre essa data: Elas são promovidas pelos grupos de afinidade e esse mês foi a vez do Pilar Étnico-racial realizar essa ação em memória à data internacional de 21 de março. Uma das ações que a TK Elevator realiza para promover debate, consciência e reflexão sobre as temáticas de Diversidade, Equidade e Inclusão são as Lives. ![]() 5/8/2023 0 Comments Love medicine author![]() ![]() I read this book because the author was born in Little Falls, Minnesota. The story is set in North Dakota at the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation but also Fargo and Minneapolis but mostly the reservation. Other themes include tricksters, abandonment, connection to the land, search for identity, self knowledge and survival. The love triangle of Lulu, Marie and Nector is another theme as well as homecoming. ![]() She is the figure that holds the remaining novel together. She is walking back to the reservation in a spring snowstorm. The book begins with June Morrisey in June of 1981. The story is told in a storytelling manner and each chapter is told by a different person. It was revised and expanded in 1993 but I read the 1984 edition. Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich is the author's first novel, published in 1984. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Could it be that the woman he captured is the only one who can touch the black heart he’d long thought dead? But what the Blackheart of Ben More never could have imagined is that Farah has terms of her own, igniting a tempestuous desire that consumes them both. When being held captive by Dorian proves to be the only way to keep Farah safe from those who would see her dead, Dorian makes Farah a scandalous proposition: marry him for protection in exchange for using her secret to help him exact revenge on his enemies. ![]() She possesses a powerful secret-one that threatens her very life. The lovely, still innocent widow Farah Leigh Mackenzie is no exception-and soon Dorian whisks the beautiful lass away to his sanctuary in the wild Highlands…īut Farah is no one’s puppet. Scarred and hard-hearted, Dorian is one of London’s wealthiest, most influential men who will stop at nothing to wreak vengeance on those who’ve wronged him…and will fight to the death to seize what he wants. But for the women who love them, a hint of danger only makes the heart beat faster…ĭorian Blackwell, the Blackheart of Ben More, is a ruthless villain. They’re rebels, scoundrels, and blackguards-dark, dashing men on the wrong side of the law. ![]() |