6/27/2023 0 Comments The mountain is you brianna wiest![]() Brianna provides an alchemy of pragmatic tools and deep soul shifts to build the clarity and courage required to climb your own personal mountain - and remember who you came here to be. You're invited to burn the rules of what you've been taught about yourself, as you awaken your inner hero and consciously choose a new narrative, and ultimately, create a life you deeply desire and deserve. " The Mountain is You is a wake-up call that inspires hope in adversity. ![]() ![]() But by extracting crucial insight from our most damaging habits, building emotional intelligence by better understanding our brains and bodies, releasing past experiences at a cellular level, and learning to act as our highest potential future selves, we can step out of our own way and into our potential. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it-for good.Ĭoexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors - this is why we resist efforts to change. ![]() From the empowering and eloquent author who's taken Instagram by storm - Brianna Wiest - comes an inspiring book about self-sabotage. ![]()
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6/26/2023 0 Comments Scaramouche sabatini![]() ![]() Some of the new ones are The Book Thief, The Nightingale, A Gentleman in Moscow, and The Underground Railroad. There are a bunch of new and old classics on the list.
6/26/2023 0 Comments Eric dean wilson after cooling![]() ![]() Wilson is at heart an essayist, looking far and wide to tease out what particular forces in American culture-in capitalism, in systemic racism, in our values-combined to lead us into the Freon crisis and then out. ![]() ![]() As he traces the refrigerants life span from its invention in the 1920s-when it was hailed as a miracle of scientific progress-to efforts in the 1980s to ban the chemical (and the resulting political backlash), Wilson finds himself on a journey through the American heartland, trailing a man who buys up old tanks of Freon stockpiled in attics and basements to destroy what remains of the chemical before it can do further harm. ![]() In After Cooling, Eric Dean Wilson braids together air-conditioning history, climate science, road trips, and philosophy to tell the story of the birth, life, and afterlife of Freon, the refrigerant that ripped a hole larger than the continental United States in the ozone layer. Book Synopsis This ambitious delightful (The New York Times) work of literary nonfiction interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant (and dangerous greenhouse gas) Freon with a haunting meditation on how to live meaningfully and morally in a rapidly heating world. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Lobizona by Romina Garber![]() A world straight out of Argentine folklore, where the seventh consecutive daughter is born a bruja and the seventh consecutive son is a lobizón, a werewolf. A world connected to her dead father and his criminal past. ![]() Without a home, without answers, and finally without shackles, Manu investigates the only clue she has about her past–a mysterious “Z” emblem-which leads her to a secret world buried within our own. Her surrogate grandmother is attacked, lifelong lies are exposed, and her mother is arrested by ICE. Until Manu’s protective bubble is shattered. As an undocumented immigrant who’s on the run from her father’s Argentine crime-family, Manu is confined to a small apartment and a small life in Miami, Florida. Manuela Azul has been crammed into an existence that feels too small for her. ![]() Tackling issues of immigration, magical powers, and sexism, Lobizona is a fantastic debut! Keep reading this book review to find out all the reasons I loved Lobizona. ![]() Lobizona is a book that’s been on my radar for months now! It’s a book about a girl’s whose very existence is illegal. ![]() ![]() ![]() No, this isn’t a cute little train in beautiful Napoli. Compared to the liveliness of the area around the station, it felt lonely.įumiko stood waiting outside the ground-floor entrance.įuniculi Funicula. The only light came from the mains street, making it very dark. The cafe, however, was located on a side street nestled among buildings some ten minutes’ walk from the station, Apart from a small wreath attached to the cafe’s sign, it was the same as any other day. ![]() ![]() The place was bustling with people, and Christmas songs played from all directions. Writer: Toshikazu Kawaguchi (translated by Geoffrey Trousselot)ĭate of Publication: September 17th 2020 (first published April 27th 2018)Īround the station there stood many Christmas trees, decorated with lights that shone and sparkled. Title: Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café (original title: 在謊言拆穿之前) ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Dani brown take a hint![]() ![]() Turns out his sports charity for kids could really use the publicity. ![]() Suddenly, half the internet is shipping #DrRugbae-and Zaf is begging Dani to play along. But before she can explain that fact to him, a video of the heroic rescue goes viral. ![]() When big, brooding security guard Zafir Ansari rescues Dani from a workplace fire drill gone wrong, it’s an obvious sign: PhD student Dani and former rugby player Zaf are destined to sleep together. So Dani asks the universe for the perfect friend-with-benefits-someone who knows the score and knows their way around the bedroom. Romantic partners, whatever their gender, are a distraction at best and a drain at worst. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. USA Today bestselling author Talia Hibbert returns with another charming romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake date her friend after a video of him “rescuing” her from their office building goes viral.ĭanika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. ![]() One of Oprah Magazine's 21 Romance Novels That Are Set to Be the Best of 2020 ![]() ![]() What was not always obvious was that much of her extraordinary energy drew its power from an underlying anger – sometimes explosive on behalf of a cause, or a righting of what she saw as an injustice, sometimes a slow-burning resentment that simmered below the surface, as in her relationship with her mother. Harold Acton believed that she had inspired half the poets and novelists of the Twenties. Osbert Sitwell talked of her ‘ineffable charm and distinction of mind’ Alannah Harper thought that ‘whatever she did – however violent – Nancy always looked more distinguished than other people’. Around her shimmered a force field of energy that drew people in, often influencing them in ways they could hardly have credited before they had met her. Her personality was equally extraordinary. ![]() Although in photographs she is usually seen with unflatteringly pursed lips, her looks were something commented on by everyone who met her, with her huge blue-green eyes, emphasised by their circles of kohl, invariably remarked upon. ![]() Whatever one thought of Nancy Cunard, it was impossible to ignore her – her beauty alone would have seen to that. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Wicked deceit aly beck![]() ![]() Rose Archer, The Timber Girls, Quercus (saga series set during the Second World War) Gina Apostol, La Tercera, Soho Press (pieces together a century and a half of Philippine history through the story of the Delgados of Leyte - a clan of “madmen and collaborators” loving and feuding through generations of colonization, war and catastrophe) Merryn Allingham, The Secrets of Summerhayes, Bookouture (WWII family saga in Summerhayes House series) Last update J(July thru December) January 2023 See our guide to forthcoming historical novels for 2022 for previous releases.įor children’s and young adult titles see our guide for 2023. See our guide to forthcoming historical novels for 2024 for next year’s releases. Other than short excerpts, please link to this page rather than copying the entries – thank you! Details are compiled by Fiona Sheppard (US, CAN, UK, AUS) and are based on publisher descriptions. The Historical Novel Society lists mainstream and small press historical titles for books set in eras up to the mid 1970s. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn![]() ![]() ![]() Now Nick must confront his inner demons to stop the history of violence from repeating itself. But when Nick’s anger and jealousy overtake him, things begin to spiral out of control and Nick realizes that he’s more his father’s son than he wants to be. Caitlin is the one person he can confide in, the only person who understands him. Then he and Caitlin fall in love, and Nick thinks his problems are over. What no one knows-not even his best friend-is the terror and anger that Nick faces every time he is alone with his father. Intelligent, popular, handsome, and wealthy, sixteen-year-old Nick Andreas is pretty much perfect-on the outside, at least. Don’t miss this timely contemporary young adult novel from Alex Flinn, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beastly, about a teenage boy’s struggle to break free from the cycle of abuse. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Vampires in the lemon grove review![]() ![]() When a group of boys stumble upon a mutilated scarecrow bearing an uncanny resemblance to the missing classmate they used to torment, an ordinary tale of high school bullying becomes a sinister fantasy of guilt and atonement. ![]() ![]() A massage therapist discovers she has the power to heal by manipulating the tattoos on a war veteran’s lower torso. A community of girls held captive in a silk factory slowly transmute into human silkworms, spinning delicate threads from their own bellies, and escape by seizing the means of production for their own revolutionary ends. VAMPIRES IN THE LEMON GROVE by Karen Russell - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKFrom the author of the New York Times best seller Swamplandia!-a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize-a magical new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell’s gifts at their inimitable best.Ī dejected teenager discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left behind in a seagull’s nest. ![]() |