![]() ![]() Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence-into tumultuous relationships with his family, into passing flings with lovers, friends, and strangers. Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir about a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. ![]() The ‘I’ it seems doesn’t exist until we are able to say, ‘I am no longer yours.’” We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. “We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. “People don’t just happen,” writes Saeed Jones. ![]() ![]() One of the best books of the year as selected by The New York Times The Washington Post NPR Time The New Yorker O, The Oprah Magazine Harper’s Bazaar Elle BuzzFeed Goodreads and many more. From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives-winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award-is a “moving, bracingly honest memoir” ( The New York Times Book Review) written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Return to the seductive story of magic inspired by the myth of King Midas, and get caught up in the world of Orea. It’s an adult epic fantasy story blending romance, intrigue, and beautiful imagery. ![]() This is the captivating second book of The Plated Prisoner series. The question is, can I out maneuver them? ![]() In the game of kings and armies, I’m the gilded pawn. I may be out of my cage, but I’m not free, not even close. When he turns those black eyes on me, I feel captive for an entirely different reason. But his eyes-his eyes are the most compelling of all. Rip has power sizzling beneath this skin and glinting spikes down his spine. The ones who nearly destroyed Orea, wiping out Seventh Kingdom in the process. Known for his brutality on the battlefield, his viciousness is unsurpassed. They’re marching to battle, and I’m the bargaining chip that will either douse the fire or spark a war.Īt the heart of my fear, my worry, there’s him-Commander Rip. Now I’m here, a prisoner of Fourth Kingdom’s army, and I’m not sure if I’m going to make it out of this in one piece. ![]() “You want to make your life easier? Then be the caged bird that you are and sing.”įor ten years, I’ve lived in a gilded cage inside King Midas’s golden castle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And all the while, during her quest, she is constantly surprised and fortified by joy. Oliver's search grows and is informed by experience, meditation, perception, and discernment. In poem after poem, her investigations go from the humble green bean that nourishes her and makes her wonder if something/-I can't name it-watches as I walk the/rows, accepting the gift of their lives/to assist mine to the vast, untouchable bliss of things you can't reach./But you can reach out to them, and all day long./The wind, the bird flying away./The idea of God. Mary Oliver is always searching for the soul of things. Now recognized as an unparalleled poet of the natural world, Mary Oliver writes with unmatched dexterity and a profound appreciation for the divergence and convergence of all living things. ![]() ![]() Understand, I am always trying to figure out what the soul is, and where hidden, and what shape- New and Selected Poems, Volume Two, an anthology of forty-two new poems-an entire volume in itself-and sixty-nine poems hand-picked by Mary Oliver from six of her last eight books, is a major addition to a career in poetry that has spanned nearly five decades. ![]() ![]() The wizard, armed with a pair of powerful gauntlets, attempts to summon the Ogdru Jahad from their prisons to the earth. The Nazis have set up an array of strange machines around a stone circle, in the center of which stands the fabled Russian psychic Grigori Rasputin. ![]() However, the actual rite is taking place at Tarmagant Island, a small island off the coast of Scotland. According to the group psychic, one Lady Cynthia Eden-Jones, a terrible event is to take place in a local ruined church a doomsday project orchestrated by the Nazis, which could herald the end of the world. The army group (accompanied by a Nazi-fighting superhero named The Torch of Liberty) is under the guidance of three paranormal officials, one of whom is a young Trevor Bruttenholm. ![]() Army official named George Whitman, who has been ordered to lead a team of commandos to the (fictional) village of East Bromwich in the English Midlands. The comic opens in 1944, with a report from a U.S. ![]() The comic served as the basis for the 2004 film Hellboy, directed by Guillermo del Toro. ![]() It was conceived and illustrated by Mike Mignola and scripted by John Byrne. Hellboy: Seed of Destruction is the first Hellboy comic book mini-series, published by Dark Horse Comics. Cover of Hellboy: Seed of Destruction TPB. ![]() ![]() in Health Behaviour with a concentration in human sexuality. in Counseling Psychology, completing clinical internships at the Kinsey Institute Sexual Health Clinic and the IU GLBT Student Support Services Office. She went to Indiana University and undertook an M.S. She loved her work in brain science but she knew that her work in sex education and violence prevention made her feel good about herself so that’s what she decided to stick to. ![]() Nagoski’s original plan was to use her degree in Psychology (with minors in cognitive science and philosophy) to become a clinical neuropsychologist, working with people with traumatic brain injury and stroke. Not long after she added sexual violence prevention and response to that work. She was trained to teach her fellow undergraduates about stress, nutrition, physical activity and sex. ![]() She began her career as a sex educator in 1995 when she became a peer health educator at the University of Delaware. ![]() is a sex educator, researcher and author. ‘I am done living in a world where women are trained from birth to treat their bodies as the enemy.’Įmily Nagoski, Ph.D. ![]() ![]() ![]() Right' because he she has not recognized that he already one of her acquaintances? Find out as Graduation approaches and her time at Silver Springs Christian University draws to a close. She is looking for someone really special - but is she in danger of missing out on finding 'Mr. Pretty, selfish Elisabet has every boy asking her out, but rarely grants second dates. Each tale features a different heroine, and. ![]() A Prayer for Understanding is the fourth and final instalment in the Silver Springs Christian University Series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There is speculation on whether Austen intended “persuasion” to be a theme in the novel, though others believe she did not even intend to title the novel as such, and it could have been named by Henry or by Henry and Cassandra together. Persuasion was Austen’s final completed novel, which she finished writing in August, 1816, just two years before it would be published with Northanger Abbey. The two novels fit together well in offsetting tones, though both also take place in part in Bath, England, so many of their characters visit the same places throughout their tales. ![]() Northanger Abbey was paired in publication with Persuasion by Cassandra and Henry, though some scholars believe the choice for the pairing of the two had been Austen’s initial intention. ![]() Susan was renamed Catherine after Austen and her brother Henry bought back the manuscript in 1816, for which she wrote a preface explaining the previous issues with publication. The company bought and advertised for the novel’s publication, but let it remained unpublished for years. ![]() publishing house in 1803 under the name Susan, and was one of the first of her novels to be sold. Northanger Abbey was initially submitted to the Richard Crosby & Co. In 1818, Austen’s Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published together, posthumously, in a four-volume set. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jesus often drew large crowds, yet in many key moments during his life and ministry he chose to be alone. We see many examples of this in the Bible, such as the forty days Jesus spent in the desert at the beginning of his ministry (Matthew 4:1-11) and his time in the garden of Gethsamane on the eve of his crucifixion (Matthew 26:36-46). Jesus regularly withdrew from the presence of others to spend precious time alone with the Father. There are also outward ways in which we can live out solitude. As Richard Foster says, ‘if we possess inward solitude we do not fear being alone, for we know that we are not alone.’ This inward solitude is a state of the mind and heart, so we can practice this discipline anywhere. ![]() This is because solitude is actually about us seeking relationship and intimacy with Jesus. Although we may respond in different ways to time alone, solitude is a discipline in which each of us can find fulfilment and freedom. ![]() ![]() Found it hard to relate and sympathise with the main character. The narrator brings out the chauvinist undertones in the main character. ![]() Unfortunately, the titles and composition of the music played within this audiobook are unknown. The authoress is unusually frank, for the time, in her scrutiny of the relationship between the teacher and the domineering headmistress of the adjoining girls' school, Zoraide Reuter.Ĭrimsworth manages to avoid the older woman's manipulation and begins a relationship with a poor pupil/teacher only to have these advances briefly frustrated by the headmistress' jealousy and dislike of the younger woman."The Professor is as good as I can write it contains more pith, more substance, and more reality, in my judgement!"Charlotte Bronte.Ībout Assembled Stories: Over the years the national press have reviewed Assembled Stories titles as "excellent", "remarkable", "entrancing", "superb", "magic for sure", "masterly", "wonderful", "a class act" and "a splendid example of audio at its best". ![]() ![]() William Crimsworth escapes the brutal employment of his brother in a Yorkshire mill town, changes profession and takes a position as tutor in a boys' school in Brussels. ![]() ![]() This is the first signed limited edition of the novel. His book The Secret School was listed by Texas Monthly as one of the 10 Books Every Texan Should Read, and Majestic has been listed by The New York Times as the best horror novel about New Mexico. ![]() Lettered and Numbered editions are signed by the author and artist, and the Artist edition is signed by the artist. Whitley Strieber is the author of The Wolfen, The Hunger, and Communion, among others. The text pages are set in Meno and Dala Floda. ![]() The editions measure 6” x 9” and feature thirteen full color illustrations by François Vaillancourt, as well as a new exclusive introduction by Whitley Strieber. The signed limited edition of The Wolfen by Whitley Strieber is presented in three states: Lettered, Numbered and Artist. In 1981, The Wolfen was adapted into a horror movie starring Albert Finney, directed by Michael Wadleigh. James Guide to Horror, Ghost and Gothic Writers deemed it, “an amazingly effective debut novel that turns the werewolf story completely on its head. Crossroad Press, 1979 - Fiction- 275 pages. ![]() ![]() Upon its release in 1978, the Washington Post called The Wolfen “a howling success.” Likewise, St. Strieber’s novel breathed new life into the werewolf genre, building upon the traditional myth and lore of the lycanthrope to create a genetically superior crossbreed of human and wolf that has existed in the shadows for centuries. Fast-paced, compelling, and gruesomely violent, The Wolfen is the first novel by bestselling horror novelist, Whitley Strieber.įollowing the savage killing of two New York City policemen, George Wilson and Becky Neff are two detectives bound together by their strange and passionate hunt for the Wolfen. ![]() |