6/10/2023 0 Comments Michael morpurgo books war horse![]() ![]() ![]() Some would argue that children shouldn’t be reading books that make them cry and feel sad. It’s a release for them to cry in the same way it’s a great release for us to read a book and feel both grief and joy. They identify with the great sadness of the First World War. If you go to the theatre you can see 1,000 people coming out of the performance and a large proportion of them have been crying their eyes out for the last two hours. It’s been made into this extraordinary play with the horses being played by giant puppets. If you read about feelings of loss and pain in a book you can relate to it. Maybe this is the way we can feel we are not alone. And we can empathise with other people’s loss and pain. But I think we also know we can feel loss and we can feel pain. ![]() I think the books that really make a difference are the ones that touch the deepest part of you. What do you think it is about sad books that makes us want to read them again and again? Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Jody hedlund come back to me![]() ![]() Can she ever find her father and make it back to the present to heal her sister? And when the time comes to leave, will she want to?īestselling author Jody Hedlund is your guide down the twisting waters of time to a volatile era of superstition, revolts, and chivalry in this suspenseful story. The longer Marian stays in the past, the more she cares about William. ![]() William Durham, a valiant knight comes to Marian's rescue and offers her protection. Journey back to an era of superstition, peasant revolts, and chivalry in Come Back to Me a tale that transcends time and will have readers on the edge of their seat and eager for the next installment. Until Marian tests his theories and finds herself in the Middle Ages during a dangerous peasant uprising. He's left behind tantalizing clues that suggest he's crossed back in time. But when her father falls into a coma after drinking a vial of holy water believed to contain traces of residue from the Tree of Life, Marian must question all of her assumptions. ![]() That's exactly what research scientist Marian Creighton has always believed about her father's quest, even if it does stem from a desire to save her sister Ellen from the genetic disease that stole their mother from them. As a private investigator, Sybil Huxham has seen her fair share of. The ultimate cure that could heal any disease? Crazy. Sacrificing and dying to oneself is costly. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Mudville Madness by Jonathan Weeks![]() ![]() ![]() Latino Stars in Major League Baseballis a definitive collection of the best and brightest Latino stars both past and present. Author Jonathan Weeks covers these struggles and more in the profiles, showing the players strength, resiliency, and ultimately, their rise to the top of professional baseball. For many of these players, the road to The Show wasnt easydiscrimination, poverty, language barriers, and government restrictions are major obstacles that Latino players have faced in the past and continue to face today. It includes more than 140 in-depth profiles of retired and active ballplayers representing countries across Latin America and the Caribbean. ![]() Latino Stars in Major League Baseball: From Bobby Abreu to Carlos Zambrano celebrates the ever-increasing diversity of baseball in America. They have won major awards, guided their teams to the postseason, played in All-Star games, and an elite few have been enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Current and former stars such as Albert Pujols, Rod Carew, and Miguel Cabrera all found incredible success in MLB. Some of the best players in Major League Baseball were born outside the United States, with Latino players representing one of the fastest growing ethnicities in the league. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stop unwittingly reinforcing negative behaviors and start reinforcing positive ones.Set healthy limits with love without backing down.Remove themselves from non-productive, aggressive conversations and really be heard. ![]() Get unstuck by becoming more confident and clear about who they are and what they need.Improve their problem-solving skills and lessen their worry and guilt.She then gives readers a step-by-step system to: Kreger first answers the questions family members most want to ask about: the symptoms and treatment of BPD, including why BPD is so misdiagnosed how symptoms can differ by age and gender and how addiction and other disorders complicate BPD. ![]() ![]() Now, with The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder, she takes readers to the next level, giving them straightforward tools to get off the emotional roller coaster and repair relationships with loved ones with BPD. Mason) Randi Kreger outlined the fundamental differences in the way that people with BPD relate to the world. In her pioneering first book Stop Walking on Eggshells (co-authored with Paul T. New Tools and Techniques to Stop Walking on Eggshells ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Beautiful country memoir![]() ![]() ![]() Shunned by her classmates and teachers for her limited English, Qian takes refuge in the library and masters the language through books, coming to think of The Berenstain Bears as her first American friends. Instead of laughing at her jokes, they fight constantly, taking out the stress of their new life on one another. ![]() In Chinatown, Qian’s parents labor in sweatshops. ![]() In China, Qian’s parents were professors in America, her family is “illegal” and it will require all the determination and small joys they can muster to survive. In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. The moving story of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world-an incandescent debut from an astonishing new talent.ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021.A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER AND NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021 ![]() ![]()
6/9/2023 0 Comments Bolano 2666![]() ![]() ![]() Each narrator has his or her own opinion of the two, although the consensus is that they are drifters and literary elitists whose behavior often leaves a bitter taste in the mouths of those they meet. ![]() It consists of interviews with a variety of characters from locations around North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, all of whom have come into contact with the founding leaders of the Visceral Realists, Ulises Lima and Arturo Belano. The section is a polyphonic narrative which features more than forty narrators and spans twenty years, from 1976 to 1996. The book's second section, "The Savage Detectives," comprises nearly two-thirds of the novel's total length. He drops out of university and travels around Mexico City, becoming increasingly involved with the adherents of Visceral Realism, although he remains uncertain about Visceral Realism. It centers on his admittance to a roving gang of poets who refer to themselves as the Visceral Realists. The first section, "Mexicans Lost in Mexico", set in late 1975, is told by 17-year-old aspiring poet, Juan García Madero. The novel is narrated in first person by several narrators and divided into three parts. The novel tells the story of the search for a 1920s Mexican poet, Cesárea Tinajero, by two 1970s poets, the Chilean Arturo Belano (alter ego of Bolaño) and the Mexican Ulises Lima. Natasha Wimmer's English translation was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2007. The Savage Detectives ( Spanish: Los Detectives Salvajes) is a novel by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño published in 1998. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Russell blake black series![]() ![]() Unusually for many authors, Russell Blake does not use a publisher, as he prefers to self publish and sell his novels as eBooks. Russell is a supportive member of the “Read a Book, Make a Difference” (RAMBAD) society of writers which is dedicated to supporting and helping other writers.Ī frequent guest publisher, Russell has written for the Huffington Post and often writes guest blogs on many different websites. Whilst most of his works are in the fiction genre, Russell has also written a number of non-fiction books, which have also sold extremely well. Well respected in the literary world, Russell Blake has a worldwide following and has found international acclaim with many of his works. With 25 books to his name in only approximately two years, he is a featured author in the prestigious UK newspaper The Times as well as a published Page One Wall Street Journal author. The Serpent's Eye (By:Clive Cussler,Robin Burcell)īest selling author Russell Blake resides in Mexico with his dogs. Wrath of Poseidon (By:Clive Cussler,Robin Burcell) The Oracle (By:Clive Cussler,Robin Burcell) The Gray Ghost (By:Clive Cussler,Robin Burcell) The Romanov Ransom (By:Clive Cussler,Robin Burcell) ![]() The Mayan Secrets (By:Clive Cussler,Thomas Perry) The Tombs (By:Clive Cussler,Thomas Perry) The Kingdom (By:Clive Cussler,Grant Blackwood) Lost Empire (By:Clive Cussler,Grant Blackwood) Spartan Gold (By:Clive Cussler,Grant Blackwood) ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Parisian lives deirdre bair![]() ![]() The catch? De Beauvoir and Beckett despised each other-and lived essentially on the same street. She wrote Samuel Beckett: A Biography, which went on to win the National Book Award and propel Deirdre to her next subject: Simone de Beauvoir. Battling an elusive Beckett and a string of jealous, misogynistic male writers, Bair persevered. The next seven years comprised of intimate conversations, intercontinental research, and peculiar cat-and-mouse games. He agreed that she could be his biographer despite her never having written-or even read-a biography before. who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. ![]() In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted Ph.D. National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Wells network effect![]() ![]() ![]() Preservation is an unusually liberal society in this universe, where single-minded, coldhearted corporate profit-making is the norm, and Mensah and her family and friends treat Murderbot, who they call “SecUnit,”as a person rather than as a possession. ![]() Mensah and the other Preservation Station characters who Murderbot was protecting in the first book, All Systems Red, and the fourth, Exit Strategy. In Network Effect, the first full-length novel in this series, Wells is able to explore a more complex plot and to more fully develop Murderbot’s character and its relationships with others. ![]() Martha Wells’ Murderbot has been gathering enthusiastic fans (which would be certain to have Murderbot hiding behind its opaque armored faceplate), along with multiple Nebula, Hugo and other awards and nominations, as each of the first four novellas in the MURDERBOT DIARIES series has been published over the last three years. Review first posted on Fantasy Literature: ![]() |