5/22/2023 0 Comments The Magic Leaf by Mary FelicianiWith thanks to the author for a free copy in exchange for an honest review. It's a good message for kids and it's well done in this children's book. It's only with a friend by his side, does the task become easier. In this round Carlo has a very important job, he knows he has to do it but it's a difficult thing to do. I really enjoy how all of Mary Feliciani's books follow the same set of characters through loosely connecting stories. Once Carlo has a magic leaf and a friendly face, suddenly the trek seems a bit lighter and everything a bit brighter. He pulled out a leaf and gave it to Carlo. His load was heavy and it seemed to take forever to get to the men.One day, Carlo's best friend (Marco) comes along. He has a very important job to do but he dreads it every day. He had to take food and drink to his father and the other men who worked there.Carlo lives in a small, rustic town at the base of a mountain. Every day, Carlo had to walk up the mountain.
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5/22/2023 0 Comments Sweet as Honey by Lucy LennoxWe have new and used copies available, in 1 editions - starting at 12.02. Secrets that rouse every one of my protective instincts just as surely as his kisses rouse… other parts of me.Īnd before I know it, I’m thinking being entangled might not be so bad… if it’s Truman I’m tangled up with. Buy Sweet as Honey: An Aster Valley Novel by Lucy Lennox online at Alibris. Secrets someone in this charming small town doesn’t want brought to light. It turns out that Truman-adorkably shy, relentlessly sunshiny, hot as all heck, reluctantly-still-a-virgin Truman-has secrets. And the second I got involved, all my plans for a quick departure scattered like pollen on the breeze. More specifically, I saw Truman Sweet, Aster Valley’s resident botanist, spice merchant, and bee-costume enthusiast, being harassed. Zero drama.īut then I saw the bumblebee being harassed on the side of the highway. When I rode my bike into Aster Valley, it was supposed to be temporary. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Liz and mollie no hard feelingsWe'll share the latest research and helpful tips, and reveal the surprising reason why you'll actually be more healthier and focused if you're less passionate about your job.ĭrawing on what we've learned from behavioural economics, psychology and our own experiences at countless organizations, we'll show you how to bring your best self (and your whole self) to work every day. In this book we'll help you figure out which emotions to toss, which to keep to yourself, and which to express in order to be both happier and more effective. Ignoring or suppressing what you feel hurts your health and productivity but so does letting your emotions run wild. Friendly but not an oversharer.Īs organizational consultants and regular people, we know what it's like to experience uncomfortable emotions at work - everything from mild jealousy and insecurity to panic and rage. We're expected to be authentic but not too authentic. The modern workplace can be an emotional minefield, filled with confusing power structures and unwritten rules. Should you accept your colleague's request to follow you on Instagram? How do you enjoy a holiday without obsessing over your inbox? How do you stop the office grouch ruining your day? From the duo behind the bestselling book No Hard Feelings and the wildly popular LizandMollie Instagram, an insightful and approachable illustrated guide to handling our most difficult emotions. 'A must-read' Susan Cain, author of Quiet 'Full of lively illustrations and practical examples to show how you can harness emotions to become more creative, collaborative and productive' Adam Grant, author of Originals Penguin presents the audiobook edition of No Hard Feelings written and read by Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy. The daughter of parents with unfulfilled dreams themselves, Malaka navigated her childhood chasing her parents' ideals, learning to code-switch between her family's Filipino and Egyptian customs, adapting to white culture to fit in, crushing on skater boys, and trying to understand the tension between holding onto cultural values and trying to be an all-American kid. I Was Their American Dream is at once a coming-of-age story and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR.Gharib’s wisdom about the power and limits of racial identity is evident in the way she draws.”-NPR “A portrait of growing up in America, and a portrait of family, that pulls off the feat of being both intimately specific and deeply universal at the same time. Here, working with Human Nature director Michel Gondry, Kaufman wonders whether one person can be true to another, whatever obstacles pile up. He threw himself (and a fake twin brother) into Adaptation, a film about, among other things, the impossibility of one medium’s being true to another. In Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, he spun trash-game-show king Chuck Barris’ tales of CIA sleuthing and assassination into a deconstruction of the spy-movie and biopic genres. Human Nature had him musing on the internal battle of animal and civilized instincts. In Being John Malkovich, Kaufman transposed Lewis Carroll’s rabbit hole into a chute that ends in the mind of a movie star. That’s the question, the double theory, posed in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the latest and loveliest alternative universe created by Charlie Kaufman, America’s most–we should probably say only–intellectually provocative screenwriter. I wrote short stories for The Bronxville Womens' Magazine, in Bronxville, NY and also for Writer Digest School Newsletters. The first short story of our lives was published first time out too, in Victimology: an International Journal. I wrote my first horror story and was published first time out in The Princeton Womens' Magazine of Princeton, NJ. Over twenty years of writing for the large local newspaper, The Staten Island Advance, which published all my slice of life humor, pathos and commentary-serving a community of 4-500,000 people. Twenty-five years as a staff writer, penning commentary, news, analysis and interviews for the prestigious, award-winning bi-weekly newspaper, The Staten Island Register. AND THE WHIPPOORWILL SANG, written as a catharsis for my grief and salvation for my sanity, as we learned to weep. A tragic accident happened, changing our lives forever. We crossed country twice, lived in a real haunted house and were living a wonderful life, if not wealthy monetarily, rich in love. Butch was the regimental "Sound of Music' dad, whistling for his kids, while I was the nurturer. We raised six kids and had wonderfully comical lives. Due to extenuating circumstances in my life, like a whacky mom and messy divorce, I eloped at the age of seventeen, with my high school sweetheart, replacing all my dreams with different ones. 5/21/2023 0 Comments The ship of the dead bookGot ta state, the Greek gods are MUCH BETTER at gratifying heroes, nevertheless what Magnus ended up doing was extremely amazing and additionally I APPRECIATE it. Just like I completed with Percy and Carter and Sadie and Appeal. SO PRETTY.Ĭurrently, ontothe book I take pleasure in these personalities. I obtained my replicate of the book provided the various other day, on launch day, and additionally I can not conquer it. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Tomie deluxe editionCreated in 1987 while Ito was working as a dental technician, the first Tomie story earned its author an honorable mention in a contest judged by horror legend Kazuo Umezu. Tomie Complete Deluxe Edition, released last week in a stunning hardcover from VIZ Media, corrects one of the most glaring absences in English-language Ito libraries by bundling the manga-ka’s saga about the irresistible titular girl into one massive collection. Modern American fans of Japanese horror auteur Junji Ito likely know him best from Uzumaki and Gyo, as well as various short chillers ( “The Enigma of Amigara Fault”) that became popular online as illegal, creepypasta-like “scanlations.” While Dark Horse, ever a pioneer in horror and manga, translated some of Ito’s short stories over a decade ago, his work didn’t crack the wider American comic-reading consciousness until recent years, and Dark Horse’s volumes had fallen out of print by the time Ito began to receive credit in the English-speaking world. As American readers, our perceptions of foreign artists-and even foreign art forms-are shaped by what is imported and when. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Listen by kris bryantAnd Jillian somehow drifted away from her true passion for music and how to play in such manner that her music would touch people and lift them up, because then she wanted to conquer the music, to take it to perfection. Unfortunately, her parents pushed her to much towards perfection involving music, the way she looked and anything beyond her persona. In fact, this is Jillian Crest’s story, a mastermind of the piano, a young genius of 11 years old, who played the piano like no other child her age, who also happened to be an amazing composer of classical piano music. “Listen” by Kris Bryant is not the typical rock star and fan romance, and as Kris Bryant herself said, this is a story about anxiety and about the dreams of youngsters becoming musical prodigies, but somehow life wasn’t kind to them and they had to choose another path in life. 5/21/2023 0 Comments A Perfect Game by Reno MacLeodConnor, Ramírez, and others like them were destined to fight each other until only one was left. Ramírez taught Connor the overriding rule of the Immortals: There can be only one. In 1541, he met an Immortal named Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez, who became Connor's mentor and taught him the ways of immortals, and of "The Game." The two fell in love, and married in 1539. Connor wandered around the land until he met Heather MacDonald, the daughter of a blacksmith. Connor's kinsman, and clan chieftain, Angus MacLeod, instead demanded that he only be banished. When Connor did not die, the townspeople (including his family) believed his recovery was the work of witchcraft, and threatened to burn him at the stake. During a battle between the Clan MacLeod and the Clan Fraser in 1536, he faced an evil Immortal referred to as The Kurgan, and was dealt what should have been a fatal blow. HighlanderĬonnor MacLeod was born in 1518 in Glenfinnan, Scotland near the shores of Loch Shiel. Highlander II and Highlander III pose different (and contradictory) accounts of Connor's life post-1985, but both hold to the original film's assertion that Connor is the "only one" remaining after the events of The Gathering. In the first three Highlander films, Connor MacLeod is the protagonist, and is officially the final Immortal. |