![]() ![]() ![]() “If God is love, then how vulnerable God must be.” “ We seek security in life, but truly how insecure if really is…” You come out from behind the barriers of fear that you have erected around your heart.” “If you discover that somebody really loves you, listens to you, then you begin to change. What I could do was send her to visit another mother who’d had a child a year previously with similar disablities to the child she was going to have. There are times when you must not say nice words. I saw immediately that I couldn’t say a word to her. She was in tears and a bit hysterical–this was her first baby and she knew that the child had a disability. She was forty years old and eight months pregnant. “Recently a father asked me to go and see his wife. We all have protective systems designed to prevent people from seeing who we are.” So I create mechanisms of defense and compulsion to protect myself. “We all have a deep fear of our own weaknesses because my weakness is what makes it possible for someone else to crush me. Here’s some critical lesson’s I’ve learned Vanier: Vanier had also inspired another one of my favorite authors, Henri Nouwen. Listen to an interview with Vanier on the Podcast, OnBeing. Catholic innovator and philosopher, Jean Vanier, founder of the L’Arch and Faith and Light communities Today, a spiritual and intellectual hero of mine has passed away. ![]()
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![]() ![]() So I knew that I couldn’t miss her follow-up, and I am happy to report that it is just as good.Ī Snake Falls to Earth is captivating from beginning to end. ![]() I love, love, love Darcie Little Badger’s first novel, Elatsoe, which I must have gifted at least half a dozen times in the past year (to adults and children alike). Oli is determined to help, even if it means traveling to another world. Just when he thinks he’s finally found his place in the world, a dear friend is stricken with a mysterious illness. But he’s barely out the door when trouble finds him, leading his new life in a direction he didn’t expect. Oli is a young cottonmouth person from the land of spirits and monsters, the last of his many siblings to leave the family home and build a life for himself. ![]() And after years of looking into it, she’s got a lead. Nina just knows there’s something important there, something that can explain, maybe, why there’s a photograph that suggests that Rosita was almost 150 years old, or explain if her tales of animal people are really true. After Rosita’s death, Nina spends years working to decipher her last story, the one Rosita insisted was a vital part of their family history. Nina has always been fascinated by her great-great-grandmother Rosita’s stories, even those she can’t understand because Rosita tells them in Lipan, an all-but-lost Apache language. ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() "The gritty world is compellingly presented. fans of Divergent and The Hunger Games will love the complexity of the setting and characters.”- VOYA ![]() “Eerily reminiscent of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. plenty of reasons for readers to look forward to the next installment."- PW "Vincent (the Soul Screamers series) carves out an intriguing niche in the post-apocalyptic landscape. “A hugely fun and entertaining read."-SLJ Rachel Caine, author of the New York Times bestselling Morganville Vampires series “Haunting, unsettling and eerily beautiful.” What they’ll do together will change the face of the world.Īnd don't miss the spellbinding sequel, The Flame Never Dies. Because it's kill or be killed. To save her sister, Nina will need to put her trust in Finn, a fugitive and rogue exorcist. There are only two options. Mellie can pledge her life-and her baby’s life-to the Church. Sixteen-year-old Nina Kane should be worrying about her immortal soul-hers is a world where they’re in short supply-but only she can protect her younger sister, Mellie, and Mellie’s unborn child, a child that the Church believes shouldn’t exist. It defends the populace from the demons beyond the wall. But what if it's the church that should be feared? ![]() The Church is everywhere.It runs the city. A girl must join forces with rogue exorcists to save her sister and, ultimately, humanity, in the first in a must-read paranormal duology from New York Times bestselling author Rachel Vincent. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments United we spy by ally carter![]() ![]() ![]() After escorting her home, he informs her that five paintings have been stolen from the menacing Arturo Taccone and that her father is the prime suspect. Then after a mere three months there, her friend, 16-year-old billionaire W.W Hale V, arranges for her expulsion. Tired of her lifelong involvement in her family's business of stealing, teenage thief Katarina Bishop enrolls herself in a prestigious boarding school. The third book to the series Perfect Scoundrels was released on February 5, 2013. Its sequel, Uncommon Criminals, was released June 21, 2011. studios the studio is planning to age the characters from their teens to their twenties. Heist Society was optioned for film by Warner Bros. Following on from the trend begun with her previous novel, Don't Judge A Girl By Her Cover, Carter has been posting mini excerpts of the book on her blog and Twitter. The cover was released on October 21, 2009. This is her fourth novel for young adults, and her first young adult novel outside of her The New York Times bestselling Gallagher Girls series. Heist Society is the sixth novel by author Ally Carter, and was published on February 9, 2010. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments The gods themselves book![]() ![]() ![]() Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series his other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series, both of which he later tied into the same fictional universe as the Foundation Series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those pioneered by Robert A. Clarke, was considered one of the "Big Three" science-fiction writers during his lifetime. He has works published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System (lacking only an entry in the 100s category of Philosophy).Īsimov is widely considered a master of the science-fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Professor Asimov is generally considered one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Isaac Asimov was a Russian-born, American author, a professor of biochemistry, and a highly successful writer, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Near Dead by Stephen R. George![]() XYZ Films arrives with Directors’ Fortnight selection In Flames from Zarrar Kahn. ![]() The slate includes upcoming domestic terror thriller The Order starring Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult and Tye Sheridan. AGC is fully financing and Temple Hill Entertainment produces. Production is scheduled for Australia in October. Joel Kinnaman (from AGC’s just-wrapped The Silent Hour) will star in the story of a man and his estranged daughter who are abducted by aliens while on a camping trip. ![]() Alan R Cohen and Alan Freedland wrote the script and production has wrapped in Slovakia.ĪGC Studios arrives on the Croisette with sci-fi They Found Us from Neill Blomkamp, with whom the company collaborated on pandemic production Demonic. The slate includes Renny Harlin’s The Strangers trilogy, based on the 2008 horror franchise and starring Rachel Shenton, Madelaine Petsch, Ema Horvath, Gabriel Basso and Froy Gutierrez. Lionsgate International will be talking up Good Fortune, which Aziz Ansari will direct and star in alongside Keanu Reeves and Seth Rogen. Andrew Eaton produces for Turbine Studios with Conor McCaughan for DMC Film alongside Spanish co-producer Mogambo. ![]() ![]() Kevin Barry adapted the screenplay from his novel of the same name about Irish gangster pals Maurice and Charlie who go to Spain, revisit old haunts and old flames, and look for Maurice’s estranged daughter. Hyde Park International arrives with Night Boat To Tangier by James Marsh ( The Theory Of Everything) Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson and Ruth Negga star. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Noughts and crosses book cover![]() ![]() 100 Police Procedurals Every Crime Addict Must Read.Summer Reads - Feast Your Eyes on LoveReading's Ever-Growing List of Summer Reading Recommendations.Debut God’s Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu takes the 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize.20 Exceptional Books by Transgender and Non-Binary Writers – Novels and Non-Fiction That’ll Enthral You, Entertain You, Move You and Mend You.The Best Food & Drink Books Announced At Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards 2023.2023 CWA Dagger Shortlists Revealed - CWA Chair Maxim Jakubowski Talks to Liz Robinson About Them. ![]() 60 spectacular LGBTQIA+ books to read this Pride Month and every month.May Bookshop Chat - Books With Buzz May 2023. ![]() 2023 British Book Awards Are Celebrated At Star-Studded Ceremony - We Love The #Nibbies.Put your Feet up and Catch up on Our May Summary of Highlights and Reading Recommendations.We mourn the loss of celebrated British author Martin Amis.Industry Insights May 2023: James Kellow, Ultimo Press. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments White Trash by Nancy Isenberg![]() ![]() She defined kindness and heroism as “moral beauty,” which “triggers ‘elevation’ – a positive and uplifting feeling” that “acts as an emotional reset button, replacing feelings of cynicism with hope, love and optimism.”The study suggested this happens when one watches a news story about kindness after watching ones about bombings, cruelty, and violence. They support “the belief that the world and people in it are good.” And they provide “relief to the pain we experience when we see others suffering.”It was her fourth point that stuck with me. A week ago, a British researcher published an article titled “Stories of kindness may counteract the negative effects of looking at bad news.” As you might imagine, I was intrigued.Kathryn Buchanan of the University of Essex shared four main takeaways from her research: Stories of kindness remind us of our shared values. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is clear, well-explained, amply researched, smoothly written, dryly witty in places and infused with respect for the achievements of the past’ Colin McGinn, LA Times ’Here is a journalist’s book about half the history of philosophy, and a lively thing it is too. The Dream of Reason is an ideal way to make this acquaintance. ![]() ![]() I can’t wait’ Shusha Guppy, Independent ’Everyone should have some acquaintance with the history of Greek thought. PENGUIN BOOKS THE DREAM OF REASON ’This superb manual for mental travellers delivers inspiration as well as consolation… It is wonderfully lucid, tactfully instructive and elegantly written… It ends tantalizingly, with the arrival of Descartes and the advent of modern philosophy, which Gottlieb will tackle in a second volume. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hao and his Chinese assistant are both fired. Hao doesn’t particularly like, although he keeps silent, and when the people who own the camp complain, Mr. Andersen hires his brother to “help” in the kitchen, which Mr. There are also a few black workers, who hold a place somewhere in between. The Chinese loggers are fed separately from the white loggers, Mei is not paid, and the treatment of Chinese workers is not equal. In other ways, the differences are clear. ![]() Since Mei has a crush on Bee, she has conflicted feelings when Mei talks about getting married and prefers the scenario where the two move to the city and run a pie shop together. Mei is best friends with Bee, and the two often plan their futures together. Because Mei and her father are Chinese, there is a lot of prejudice against them, even though Mr. In 1885, Mei Hao lives with her father, who is a cook for a logging camp in California run by Mr. ![]() |