![]() Darling was born in 1941 in Cincinnati, Ohio, to a large and close-knit family. She is the author of Good Dog, Carl and the rest of the beloved Carl books, including Carl Goes Shopping, Carl’s Christmas, Carl’s Birthday and Carl’s Snowy Afternoon. Sandra Alexandra Day is the pseudonym for Sandra Louise Woodward Darling. Living in the country also provided plenty of time for reading, a life-long passion. ![]() Here young Sandra grew especially fond of riding and training horses, and became a dog owner for the first time. ![]() For four years, the family lived on a hundred-acre farm in Kentucky. Painting was a popular family recreation, and almost every family excursion included one or more easels and a variety of sketch pads, chalks, paints, and pencils. Alexandra Day is the pseudonym for Sandra Louise Woodward Darling. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() For nearly ten years, Rhodes was at the centre of the Obama Administration – first as a speechwriter, then a policymaker, and finally a multi-purpose aide and close collaborator. Chosen for his original perspective and gift with language, his role was to help shape the nation’s hopes and sense of itself. The World As It Is tells the full story of what it means to work alongside a radical leader of how idealism can confront reality and survive of how the White House really functions and of what it is to have a partnership, and ultimately a friendship, with a historic president.Ī young writer and Washington outsider, Ben Rhodes was plucked from obscurity aged 29. This is a book about two people making the most important decisions in the world. ‘A classic coming-of-age story, about the journey from idealism to realism, told with candor and immediacy’ ![]() ![]() ![]() Estés, “The most endangered species on earth is the human soul. Estés' commentary, Q&A sessions with her, and special prayers of blessing onto your hearts, bodies, minds, and souls.Īccording to Dr. Throughout 11 hours of teaching stories, you'll hear 12 stories and myths told here for the first time along with Dr. ![]() This six-session learning event invites us to tap the generative power of the goodness of the core self-that is, all creativity and understanding that lies out of sight in darkness-often called the unconscious. The program Mother Night presents a new series of audio teachings from the Jungian psychoanalyst and author of Women Who Run With the Wolves. 'the one who knows' and who can reveal solid ways of living and unleashing creative life in both worlds.” Clarissa Pinkola Estés, published in 34 languages and one of the most far-reaching artist-psychoanalysts of our time, teaches that in archetypal imagination, “Mother Night is the quintessential medial woman, the woman who can walk in two worlds. ![]() ![]() ![]() Within the BDSM world, there is some controversy over safety and acceptable risk, and Wiseman comes down very strongly on the low-risk end of things. Wiseman has an EMT background, and is a strong exponent of safety in one's BDSM practice. ![]() There is some introductory material which would be of use for the second sort of reader, but it's presented more as background material before delving into the details than it is an overview for outsiders. SM101 is much more for people who are interested in, or curious about, participating in BDSM activities, than it is for someone trying to understand from the outside. The author intended for people to read straight through it, though he reports that many people use it as a reference work, turning to the section they're most interested in reading about. It really is a "realistic introduction" for people who are interested in getting started into the world of BDSM (the current PC acronym for S&M). ![]() ![]() ![]() The dialogue and plot twists will feel familiar to anyone who has read the original book or seen the movie. And though it’s always dangerous to return to past guilty pleasures, I was not (totally) disappointed.įirst, it should go without saying that 658 pages of excruciatingly detailed vampire thirst makes for a dull and likely unsettling read if you’re not already a Twi-hard, or at least a casual fan. ![]() The teen fan inside me was eager to revisit Meyer’s brooding vampire world to see how it all turned out. This month, over a decade later, Meyer published Midnight Sun in full-and set off a debate about how it stacks up against the original. Where Twilight, like Bella, was straightforward and rather naive, Midnight Sun was dynamic and messy. ![]() And soon I discovered the early draft of Midnight Sun, the novel told from Edward’s perspective, which leaked online in 2008. ![]() ![]() ![]() The new sure-to-be bestseller by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. “Outrageously and endlessly fascinating is my awestruck reaction to Freedom at Midnight. The narrative is as lively, as informative and as richly detailed as a maharaja’s palace.” “Freedom at Midnight is a panoramic spectacular of a book that reads more like sensational fiction than like history, even though it is all true…. James Cameron, The New York Sunday Times It is a work of scholarship, of investigation, research and of significance.” Having been there most of the time in question and having assisted at most of the encounters, I can vouch for the accuracy of its general mood. “There is no single passage in this profoundly researched book that one could actually fault. The book was an international bestseller and achieved enormous acclaim in the United States, Italy, Spain, and France. ![]() A fifth of humanity claimed their independence from the greatest empire history has ever seen-but the price of freedom was high, as a nation erupted into riots and bloodshed, partition and war.įreedom at Midnight is the true story of the events surrounding Indian independence, beginning with the appointment of Lord Mountbatten of Burma as the last Viceroy of British India, and ending with the assassination and funeral of Mahatma Gandhi. ![]() Seventy years ago, at midnight on August 14, 1947, the Union Jack began its final journey down the flagstaff of Viceroy’s House, New Delhi. ![]() ![]() It had been given, even the most wildly squandered sum, as an offering to destiny that he might not remember the things most worth remembering, the things that he would now always remember'į. %%%'But it hadn't been given for nothing. This book includes Babylon Revisited, The Cut-Glass Bowl and The Lost Decade. In these three tales of a fragile recovery, a cut-glass bowl and a life lost, Fitzgerald portrays, in exquisite prose and with deep human sympathy, the idealism of youth and the ravages of success. Scott Fitzgerald's stories defined the 1920s 'Jazz Age' generation, with their glittering dreams and tarnished hopes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her bridesmaid, Victoria, is hell-bent on losing her virginity en route before finding a husband of her own. There’s Rose, as beautiful as she is naïve, who plans to marry a cavalry officer she has met a mere handful of times. The inexperienced chaperone Viva Holloway has been entrusted to watch over three unsettling charges. ![]() They are part of the “Fishing Fleet”-the name given to the legions of English women who sail to India each year in search of husbands, heedless of the life that awaits them. From award winner Julia Gregson, author of Jasmine Nights, this sweeping international bestseller brilliantly captures the lives of three young women on their way to a new life in India during the 1920s.Īs the Kaisar-I-Hind weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate in a distant land. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perry (author) 'Drawing on West African and Igbo history and mythology, Jamar J Perry has created a gripping and many layered fantasy adventure' Paperback In Stock £6.99 £6. ![]() It's great to see a 12-year-old Black boy feeling his feelings instead of biting them down. Cameron Battle and the Hidden Kingdoms By Jamar J. Cameron as a character is unlikable at times with his negative outlook and outbursts, but he's a realistically flawed character with difficult emotions to work through on top of not having the tools to deal with them. The plot gets a little confusing as far as the sequence of some events, but not so confusing that it'll deter readers' enjoyment. The magical action scenes are epic, though at times violent, but the violence is never gratuitous and any injuries are healed through magic. The novel is a celebration of African culture, from the food the characters eat to the clothes they wear. It's a dynamic plot device that tells the history of Chidani and connects Cameron to his family's legacy. Central to the plot of Cameron Battle and the Hidden Kingdoms is The Book of Chidani. ![]() This inventive fantasy adventure about friendship and legacy inspired by West African mythology. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And credit where credit's due: Gabbie "I AM The Victim" Hanna has taken this apparently required facet of being an Instapoet (because come on, we all know she is) to all new heights. The amount of knickers I have seen gotten into twists about people not "understanding" this sort of poetry (read as: not enjoying) and thus being dreadful people has been.I mean, mostly annoying (anyone recall Lang Leav's passive aggressive "I make more money than you so therefore your opinion on my poetry is void teehee" Tumblr post?), but also mildly amusing. I hate both of them, but that's not the point.īut, you know, as awful as McGonagall's poetry is, I have to give him credit that I can't give to the Instapoetry set: he did not give two shites what anyone else thought of his writing. Before anyone starts on me: yes! I do think Instapoetry is legitimate poetry! Much the way William Topaz McGonagall's writings were also legitimate poetry. ![]() |