![]() ![]() ![]() This generation has it tough, without a doubt, but they're also painfully aware of the urgent need to take matters into their own hands. They live off their credit cards, may or may not have health insurance, and come up so far short at the end of the month that the idea of saving money is a joke. The goals of their parents' generation - buy a house, support a family, send kids to college, retire in style - seem absurdly, depressingly out of reach. They're called "Generation Debt" and "Generation Broke" by the media - people in their twenties and thirties who graduate college with a mountain of student loan debt and are stuck with one of the weakest job markets in recent history. The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke is financial expert Suze Orman's answer to a generation's cry for help. ![]() The New York Times bestselling financial guide aimed squarely at "Generation Debt"-and their parents-from the country's most trusted and dynamic source on money matters. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I watched several YouTube videos to learn how to set up an automated welcome sequence, and I had a heck of a time figuring out landing pages and how to connect my Mailerlite account with my Bookfunnel account. Now I love it, even though I still don’t know half of what it can do. Like most software, I didn’t like it right away because I didn’t know how to use it. ![]() Back in 2016 we didn’t have Vellum for formatting, and I didn’t start using Canva for book covers and graphics until about 2018 when my friend Aila turned me on to it. One of the things I didn’t realize when I started publishing was all that I was going to have to learn. But you have to put some money into your books or you’ll never get to a place where you can sell them.Įducation. Then on top of that you have ads and promos, an email aggregator for your newsletter. Subscription services like Office 365, Canva, WordPress, and Bookfunnel, just to name a few, eat up a lot of my business money. ISBNs are not cheap in the US, book covers can be expensive, too. You have to decide where that money goes and prioritize that spending. When you’re an indie author, there are a lot of places your money can go. When it comes to being an author running a book business, there are a lot of different ways to shove resources at your books. To different people that can mean different things. We all hear that we need to invest in our business. ![]() ![]() They had three children, Phyllis, Helen, and Audrey. They got jobs at the Waldorf Astoria, but when the hotel closed her mother worked as a scullery maid at a tea shop until the owner fired her because she was Black. Her mother, Linda, and father, Byron, came here in their early twenties, having been married a year. Once she visited she saw her mother’s powers walking through those streets. Lorde begins her chronological narrative with a brief reflection on Grenada, where her parents were from. She is “woman forever” and her body is “a living representation of other life older longer wiser” (7). She has felt the triad of mother and father and child, and the triad of grandmother mother and daughter. Lorde says she always wished she could be man and woman, holding the strongest parts of both her mother and father within herself. ![]() ![]() This is how she came out whole this is how she became herself and Afrekete. ![]() Then there was the first woman she loved and left, and the “battalion of arms where I often retreated for shelter and sometimes found it” (5). There was the white woman who ran up to her car once, screaming for help until she saw Lorde was Black. There was Louise Briscoe, who died in her mother’s rooming house. There were many of these women, like DeLois, the woman in Harlem who was “big and Black and special” (5) and loved herself. Lorde, who writes this work in the first-person perspective and mostly in the past tense, begins by saying that while her father left his mark on her, it was the women in her life who led her home. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One for girls who like to read about overcoming terrible hardship and EVENTUALLY finding success. Shows how Matilda copes after the death of her father and sets herself up ( eventually) as a super rich sheep farmer who owns heaps of land. 'Jackie French has a passion for history, and an enviable ability to weave the fascinating minutiae of everyday life into a good story.' Magpies Magazine … ( more) Paterson and from events rooted in actual history, this is the untold story behind Australia's early years as an emerging nation. It is also the story of others who had no vote and very little but their dreams. 'You'll never catch me alive, said he.' Set against a backdrop of bushfire, flood, war and jubilation, this is the story of one girl's journey towards independence. ![]() In front of his terrified daughter, he makes a stand against them, defiant to the last. Her father has turned swaggie and he's wanted by the troopers. But drought grips the land, and the shearers are on strike. Ages 10-14 'Once a jolly swagman camped by a Billabong Under the shade of a Coolibah tree And he sang as he watched and waited till his Billy boiled You'll come a‐waltzing Matilda with me.' In 1894, twelve-year-old Matilda flees the city slums to find her unknown father and his farm. The story behind Banjo Paterson's iconic Australian song. ![]() ![]() So he’s on the team-and he’s got something to prove. Matt Gordon was suspended from sports after he admitted taking PEDs during football season, but the athletic board has decided to give him another chance. ![]() But he runs into unexpected competition on both fronts. All Alex wants this spring is to work on his fastball and hang out with his maybe-girlfriend, Christine. ![]() Perfect for baseball lovers and fans of Mike Lupica, book three in the Triple Threat series by New York Times bestselling sports writer John Feinstein explores what happens when athletes break the rules.Īlex Myers’s football and basketball seasons were mired in controversy, and his dad’s been MIA since his parents split up. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() And a dangerous secret threatens to undo all of Daphne's carefully laid "marry Prince Jefferson" plans. Nina is trying to avoid the palace-and Prince Jefferson-at all costs. American Royals Series: Your Complete Guide to the Popular Royal Series Check out my ultimate guide to the American Royals series with all the American Royals books in order plus recommended reading order. Samantha is busy living up to her "party princess" persona.and maybe adding a party prince by her side. Ahem, we're looking at you Daphne Deighton.Īs America adjusts to the idea of a queen on the throne, Beatrice grapples with everything she lost when she gained the ultimate crown. Some, like Nina Gonzalez, are pulled into it. ![]() Like first love, it can leave you breathless. Perfect for fans of Red, White, and Royal Blue and The Royal We. ![]() America has its first ever queen on the throne in this sequel to American Royals! If you can't get enough of Harry and Meghan and Will and Kate, you'll love this New York Times bestseller that imagines America's own royal family-and all the drama and heartbreak that entails. ![]() ![]() Park went from "God! Just sit the fuck down, Eleanor!" to "God, she has incredibly soft hands."Įleanor went from "That stupid Asian kid" to "He's so pretty. However, with Eleanor and Park, it was entirely unrealistic and unbelievable. Teen Me remembers the infatuation of meeting someone exciting and experiencing all those special moments for the first time. ![]() Though, that's not for lack of trying because I had many arguments with Adult Me and Teen Me in my brain. My main issue stems from the romance between Eleanor and Park. Random Reasons Why I Didn't Like This Book: In fact, I am blindsided that I didn't, saddened that I can't join the Eleanor & Park Kool Kidz Fan Club and disappointed at such a disjointed reading experience. ![]() So trust me when I say I REALLY wanted to love this book. And I get it because she is a pretty awesome person and I think she is totally lovely. What reason would I have to believe otherwise? Almost all of my friends loved this book and have sworn fealty to the Goddess of Feels and Might, Rainbow Rowell. I'm just as surprised as you are, considering I just KNEW going into Eleanor & Park that I would love it, love it, love it. ![]() Should I break out in song and dance to "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep?" One lonely star. ![]() ![]() Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs about courtship, love, and marriage. ![]() A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century.In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Emma, I will love you with every breath in my body and beyond my own death. I'm praying that I'll love this book and will hopefully be longer/more satisfying than the 2nd book! As to whether or not this book will be in the POV of Emma, Galen, or both remains a mystery. ![]() I guess I will look forward to the 3rd book out of curiosity and that part of me that is still loyal to loving this series. I'll admit that I enjoy love triangles from time to time, but I prefer knowing that I'm facing one when I'm starting a series rather having one pop up later. But please please PLEASE.no love triangle -_- (if there will be one). Actually now that I think about the title, is there a possibility of a new/unknown kingdom? If so, I can definitely see a good story coming from there. I suppose those two can garner a great story, but as of now I can't see it. I suppose the Epilogue ended with a small opening of a possible 3rd book, but I don't know what other problem Emma and Galen could possibly deal with that may be life threatening (except the exposure of Syrena or something about Jagen since technically it wasn't completely resolved/mentioned how he was dealt with). Not to hate on Anna or the series, but I can't imagine much of a good storyline to go off on with Book 2's ending. What I'm assuming my (as well as some others) reaction was when finding out that there was a 3rd book: ![]() |