When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön6/29/2023 ![]() When things are shaky and nothing is working, you realize that it’s a very vulnerable and tender place. We should lean toward the discomfort of life and see it clearly rather than protect ourselves from it. The truth is that they’re intimate with fear. Usually, we think that brave people have no fear. Next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. ![]() We need to become familiar with fear, look right in the eye, not as a way to solve problems, but to undo old ways for seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and thinking. This is when you get a deeper understanding of reality and find that the present moment is a pretty vulnerable place, and completely tender at the same time. Impermanence becomes clear in the present moment so do compassion, wonder, courage, and also fear! If you’re fully in the present, you’ll experience groundlessness. We cannot be in the present and run our storylines at the same time. If we commit to staying right where we are, our experiences become very vivid. ![]() Sometimes, however, everything falls apart and we run out of options for escape.įear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. ![]() We react against our chances of loneliness, death and not having anything to hold on to. We remove ourselves from the present moment. We usually freak out when there’s a tiny hint of fear. If you’re in transition, suffering from loss or fundamentally restless, this book summary is for you! Become intimate with Fear If your life seems chaotic and stressful. ![]()
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Fevers feuds and diamonds by paul farmer6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Causing severe loss of life and economic disruption, the Ebola crisis was a major tragedy of modern medicine. The brutal virus spread rapidly through a clinical desert where basic health-care facilities were few and far between. ![]() Invaluable." -Steven Johnson, The New York Times Book Review In 2014, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea suffered the worst epidemic of Ebola in history. ![]() It is hard to imagine a more timely or important book." -Bill and Melinda Gates " history is as powerfully conveyed as it is tragic. "Paul Farmer brings his considerable intellect, empathy, and expertise to bear in this powerful and deeply researched account of the Ebola outbreak that struck West Africa in 2014. ![]() A splash of red horace pippin6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Schneider Family Book Award, for children ages 0 to 10. Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Master List 2014-15 Parents' Choice Gold Award for Nonfiction, Spring 2013 ![]() NY Public Library “100 Titles for Reading and Sharing” NCTE Orbis Pictus Award, given each year for "excellence in the writing of nonfiction for children" ![]() ![]() Keystone to Reading Book Award nominee, 2014-2015 IBBY Outstanding Books for Children w/Disabilities, 2015 "Meet Horace Pippin," National Gallery of Art, Washington, DCīooklist Books for Youth Editors’ Choice, 2013 Pippin Exhibition at the Brandywine River Museum Interview with Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet Who was Horace Pippin? Watch this short video to find out.Īuthor Jen Bryant reads aloud from her book, A Splash of Red. Would he ever draw again? Bryant & Sweet share the story of a self-taught artist who overcame poverty, racism, disability and war to become an American master. I, Horace filled his notebooks with drawings from the trenches-until he was wounded. Horace Pippin loved to draw pictures for his sisters, his classmates, his co-workers. Knopf Books for Young Readers/ Random House, January 2013 Jen Bryant A Splash of Red The Life and Art of Horace PippinĪ Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin ![]() Love me tomorrow maria luis6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() “Thirty-five years of doing what people want of me,” she says now, her voice husky, her gaze locked on my face. I don’t know where she’s going with this but I’m in. Her bare toes dig into the plush rug, and yeah, mine are doing the same. Legs spread, long, thick hair draping in front of her bra-covered breasts. Gracefully, she takes a seat on the glass table. The cushions sinking beneath the sudden onslaught of my weight, even while my focus is singularly centered on the woman in front of me. I dwarf her slender frame, easily, but it’s like she’s looped a collar around my neck, then cinched the bastard tight, because I follow her lead without objection. ![]() ![]() “I’m taking what I want,” she says, pushing me backward. “Rose,” I rasp, somehow managing to find my voice, ragged though it is, “what’re you doing?” She’s the sexiest damn thing I’ve ever seen. Savannah’s shirt falls to the floor in a whisper of cotton hitting slate. See you on the other side and Happy Reading! <3 ♡ OWEN ♡ To celebrate only being days away from Love Me Tomorrow going live, I thought it would be awesome to share a brand new excerpt with all of you! Get ready because this one? It’s steamy AF. ![]() Thuvia maid of mars6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() The delay getting Thuvia, Maid of Mars to market may reflect how crazy the author’s life was getting - and that he realized that Tarzan was going to be his big franchise. Burroughs was deep in the middle of the busiest period of his life, and he spent most of 1915 trying to sell his new properties to Hollywood, all without success. Previous Installments: A Princess of Mars (1912), The Gods of Mars (1913), The Warlord of Mars (1913-14) The Backstoryīurroughs wrote the fourth Barsoom novel in April–June of 1914 under the stunningly uninspired working title of “A Carthoris Story.” But it wouldn’t appear in magazine form until two years later, where it ran in All-Story in three installments in April 1916. Today’s Installment: Thuvia, Maid of Mars (1916) The series spans 1912 to 1964 with nine novels, one volume of linked novellas, and two unrelated novellas. A dry and slowly dying world, Barsoom contains four different human civilizations, one non-human one, a scattering of science among swashbuckling, and a plethora of religions, mystery cities, and strange beasts. Our Saga: The adventures of earthman John Carter, his progeny, and sundry other native and visitors, on the planet Mars, known to its inhabitants as Barsoom. Less than a year after “ending” the Martian novels, he launched into the second phase of the series, with a new hero, new heroine, and new point-of-view style. But readers wanted more, and Burroughs was fired with productive energy. John Carter’s story appeared finished with The Warlord of Mars. ![]() The sign of four sir arthur conan doyle6/29/2023 ![]() Inquiries at the time produced no result. ![]() Whilst the hotel confirmed that he was staying there they informed Miss Morstan that he had gone out and not returned. ![]() He had obtained twelve months leave from his Indian regiment and sent word to her to meet him at his hotel. Her father, Captain Arthur Morstan, disappeared some years previously under suspicious circumstances. However, Holmes explains that the drug stimulates and clarifies his mind and that, without work to challenge his mental faculties, he becomes bored with day-to-day life.Ī young lady named Mary Morstan comes to consult Holmes upon a case which she assures him is very unusual. Watson's reluctance to oppose Holmes is finally overcome and he confronts his friend about the potential ill effects of this prolonged usage. ![]() At the outset of the novel Doctor Watson states that he has been watching Holmes takes cocaine three times a day for many months. ![]() The Blue Chair by Richard Wolkomir6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Married Joyce Mary Rogers, June 19, 1964. Member American Society Journalists and Authors, National Writers Union. (A collection of easy-to-read stories concerning the world.)īoard of directors Onion River Arts Council, Montpelier, 1975. Junkyard Bandicoots and Other Tales of the World's Endangered Species She knows every detail of the view from her window and every item in her room-the blue pump, which has infused her blood with chemicals so toxic the nurses changing the bags must wear goggles and rubberized gowns the bedside tray, where they put the food she does not eat the pinned-up wall chart showing each day's blood-test results, as the.Richard Wolkomir has been listed as a notable writer by Marquis Who's Who. Public relations consultant, Montpelier, 1969-1977 New York City, 1964-1966 ĭirector publications, Vermont Education Association, Montpelier, 1966-1968 Son of Benjamin Wolkomir and Dorothy (Edelhertz) Clair.Įditor, writer, McGraw-Hill Public Company. ![]() Wolkomir, Richard was born on Januin Catskill, New York, United States. Cooper North just retired as a prosecutor, but she's still in the game, and she offers the child haven. They murdered his mother, and now the killers hunt him. Board directors Onion River Arts Council, Montpelier, 1975. Star Nose is the second novel in the Cooper North mystery series. Recipient Distinguished Science Writing award American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1984 Electronic Data Interchange writing award National Easter Seal Society, 1993, annual media award National Community Action Network, 1995. ![]() Dukes of Ruin by Angel Lawson6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Not because he's meaner or harsher, but because he's neither. If being the object of Sy's resentment is bad, then being the object of his desire just might be my undoing. It's easier with him, knowing that he could never want me. ![]() The Lurker, with his malevolent stare and bitter tongue, hates me the most. ![]() By the time Remy's done marking me, I'm not sure there'll be anything left to call my own. ![]() There's the Maniac, with his razor-sharp smile and frantic eyes, thrashing around me in a hurricane of hard touches and whispered words. But the three thugs who arrive in the night, masked and vicious, decide to take me for their own. I’ve spent the last year at the mercy of the Kings, caged and tormented. If anything, it just made me more determined to strike back. I grew up under the brutal force of our father's fist, but it didn't break me. I'm half as pretty as my sister, and twice as stubborn. If he'd had a son, things would have been perfect. My sister's marriage to the leader of the Counts would keep him in control of his house. He's a Count-a King of Forsyth-and all he ever wanted was a daughter to marry off and a son to secure his legacy. They say a parent should never pick favorites, but my d*ck of a father, Lionel Lucia, is no Ward Cleaver. The crowns of Forsyth Royalty aren’t built with jewels. ![]() ![]() ![]() HOW CAN I HELP COVRPICE CAPTURE MY SALES? 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Slabbed Sales Data COVRPRICE’S TAKE ON COMIC VALUESĪ comic is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. ![]() Spqr mary beard review6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() However, as Mary Beard boldly asserts in her new history of the era, SPQR, “The qualities and characters of individual emperors did not matter very much to most inhabitants of the empire, or to the essential structure of Roman history.” Beard’s sweeping historical survey rejects the “great man” approach that divides the story of ancient Rome into “emperor-sized” chunks, focusing instead on the Senatus Populus que Romanus, the Senate and People of Rome, with a distinct tilt toward the latter.īeard, who teaches classics at Cambridge, is a perennial champion of Rome’s underrepresented and oppressed, both in her scholarly writings and in her frequent contributions to critical journals and online media. ![]() These Caesars, to paraphrase Shakespeare, bestride recent depictions of Roman life like colossi. ![]() For the 1,900 years between Tacitus’s Annals and Robert Graves’s I, Claudius, accounts of Roman history have most often focused on its emperors and conquerors, and above all on Julius Caesar, founder of a line of autocrats who took his name and the title princeps civitatis, “first citizen” of Rome. ![]() |