![]() ![]() Rather than waste such beauty, he decides to enjoy the spirited Lan'xiu's submission-and ignites a passion and desire deeper than anything he's felt with other wives. ![]() When he discovers the beautiful young woman is actually a man, his first reaction is to draw his sword. At first, he regards Lan'xiu with suspicion, but he finds himself strangely drawn to her. General Hui Wei has everything a man could want: power, wealth, success on the battlefield, and a harem of concubines. He can swing a sword with the best of them. Lan'xiu has dressed as a woman all his life, but he is no damsel in distress. She is under no illusions: when the general discovers she is actually a he, death is his only future-though he doesn't plan to make it easy. When Princess Lan'xiu's brother delivers her under duress into General Hui Wei's harem as a political offering, her only question is how soon her secret will be discovered. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Albert teaches a lesson on kindness, Chloe realizes that she and her friends have been wrong in making fun of new student Maya's shabby clothes and refusing to play with her. |a 1 sound disc : |b digital |c 4 3/4 in. ![]() |a Each kindness |h / |c book by Jacqueline Woodson illustrated by E.B. Sutter County Main Branch Children's Area North Sacramento-Hagginwood Children's Area Each little thing we do goes out, like a ripple, into the world. This is what kindness does, Ms.Albert said. Maxwell Branch Library Children's Collection 7,182 ratings, 4.43 average rating, 1,598 reviews. Grimes Branch Library Children's Collection Arbuckle Branch Library Children's Collection ![]() ![]() ![]() The artist's reinterpretations of ancient myths as well as his religious paintings are thoughtfully explored in this sumptuously illustrated volume, which will please scholars and delight lovers of fine art books everywhere. As The Financial Times praised the previous edition of the book, "Zöllner is a fabulous, accessible scholar his book has luscious reproductions and exquisite detail." Presented in chronological order, the facts of Botticelli's life and career are insightfully discussed against the background of the artistic upheaval that marked the Renaissance period. Botticelli is one of the most admired artists of the Renaissance period and his seductive Venus and graceful Primavera are among the worlds most recognizable. Now available in an attractive and accessibly priced hardcover edition, this catalogue raisonné of Botticelli's paintings offers meticulous scholarship by the distinguished Renaissance art historian Frank Zöllner and more than two hundred full-color illustrations. ![]() ![]() Botticelli is one of the most beloved figures of the Renaissance period and his seductive Venus and graceful Primavera are among the world's most recognizable works of art. This opulent celebration of the life and art of the Renaissance genius presents Sandro Botticelli's complete paintings and offers a comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date study of his work. ![]() ![]() ![]() For the first time, a hook-up alone is not enough. He has no problem whatsoever with my job, but he’s determined to keep me at a distance. Besides, guys find me sexy and want to either be with me or be me, but no one has ever cared enough to see the real me. ![]() I love working for Ballsy Boys, but when you make the kind of videos I do relationships are pretty damn impossible. “I’m everyone’s friend, but no one’s everything.” ~ Rebel And just because he has me tossing out every single one of my rules doesn’t mean I’m in trouble, right? When you meet a man like Rebel you’d be insane not to make a move. ![]() The last thing I expected when I agreed to do an embarrassing breakup song and dance was to end up on the doorstep of the very recognizable-and stupidly sexy-Rebel. I’ve put my break-up skills to work doing others’ dirty work for them. But that’s okay because I have a strategy: no friends, no boyfriends, limit repeat hook-ups, no sleep overs, and above all leave them before they leave me. If there’s one thing life has taught me it’s that everyone eventually leaves. “I don’t do relationships, I break them.” ~ Troy ![]() ![]() ![]() The book was not helped by its joy-sapping introductory essay which placed Barthelme in the context of his time and instantly turned him into homework. On their own, the stories might well have been wonders of surprise and invention but I couldn’t feel surprised for 480 pages. I remember buying Barthelme’s Sixty Stories and thinking it was a bit much. Leave a comment ‘Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby’ by Donald Barthelme Listen to it here Posted on MaMaby Jonathan Gibbs Posted in Joe Dunthorne Tagged Anne Carson. ![]() Anthologised in The Penguin Book of The Prose Poem, 2018. (This may also be the only story that successfully uses its title as a final line.) It’s not published online but I recommend listening to her read it (from 3.15 onwards.) When I hear the bookshop audience’s silence I wonder if I’m alone in finding the story, and her deadpan delivery, very funny.įirst published in Float, Jonathan Cape, 2016. Whatever it is, it’s four hundred and five words of perfection, with Carson managing to handbrake turn from desolate to comic to profound and back again, sometimes within the same sentence. ![]() I discovered this in The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, which suggests it’s a prose poem, though when Anne Carson talks about it she calls it an essay – and yet it could just as easily be a short story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So, why can’t he get Laurie out of his head? Luckily, Laurie is only in London for the summer. He’s everything that Magnus has spent a lifetime avoiding. He’s messy and creative and nosy and mysterious. Laurie Gentry is nearly the same age as Magnus, but that’s where the similarity ends. Why date someone his own age to discuss back pain, retirement-planning, and corns, when he can date men who don’t care to discuss anything at all? However, when one of these sunny young men shows an inclination for dramatic scenes, Magnus meets his new neighbour. He fills his nights with a parade of handsome young men who want to make him happy. A successful trial lawyer, he spends his days lecturing jurors, exasperating judges, and striding arrogantly around courtrooms. He’s divided his life into happy compartments. Men, sofas, books-everything gets jettisoned, eventually. At fifty-two, he doesn’t believe in keeping anything. Magnus Carlsen is determined to grow old disgracefully. Sometimes love comes when you least expect or want it. ![]() ![]() Time rules our lives, but how much do we really understand it In Time Warped, we meet the. In Time Warped, Claudia Hammond offers insight into how to manage our time more efficiently, how to speed time up and slow it down at will, how to plan for the future with more accuracy, and she teaches how to use the warping of time to our own benefit. Buy Time Warped by Claudia Hammond for 36.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. Why does life seem to speed up as we get older? Why does the clock in your head move at a different speed from the one on the wall? Why is it almost impossible to go a whole day without checking your watch? Is it possible to retrain our brains and improve our relationship with it? Synopsis: Drawing on the latest research from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and biology, writer and broadcaster Claudia Hammond explores the mysteries of our perception of time in her book Time Warped. ![]() Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception by Claudia Hammond ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “The Gift of Therapy PDF Summary”įirst published in 2001 – sometime around the author’s 70 th birthday – The Gift of Therapy, as stated by its blurb, is “the culmination of master psychiatrist Dr. He has written as many fiction as non-fiction books, the most famous of which, When Nietzsche Wept, was adapted into a movie in 2007.įind out more at. ![]() ![]() Yalom is an American existential psychotherapist, emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, and a bestselling author of both non-fiction and fiction books.īorn to Russian parents in Washington D.C., Yalom developed a personal model of existential psychotherapy in the 1970s and his 1980 book Existential Psychotherapy is considered the classical introduction to the form. ![]() ![]() Blain, who edited “Four Hundred Souls,” have been thinking about the 400th year anniversary of Black America for some time. They embarked not as people but as property.” “Some 40% of Angolans who boarded that ghastly vessel did not make it across the middle passage. They had been captured and stolen, forced onto a ship, shackled, writhing in filth as they suffered and starved,” she writes. ![]() “The Adams and Eves of Black America did not arrive here in search of freedom or better life. ![]() Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones writes a chapter on the arrival of the White Lion, a harrowing tale which she calls “classically American.” "Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019" collects the work of 90 writers - historians, poets, journalists, novelists and activists - to tell the stories of Black Americans, from the arrival of the White Lion, which brought enslaved people to the colonies in 1619, to the Black Lives Matter movement. Click here for that audio.Ī new book takes a communal look at a history that has long been buried. ![]() "Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019." (Courtesy) This article is more than 2 years old.Įditor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on Jan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In part three (chapter 3) he outlines five pragmatic questions a reader can ask to evaluate any conversation they have about climate change. In part two (chapter 2) he discusses the challenges that will make achieving this goal very difficult. In part one (chapter 1), Gates explains why the world must completely eliminate greenhouse gas emissions ("getting to zero"), rather than simply reducing them. Bill Gates, from page 14 of his book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (2021). Techno-fixes are not sufficient, but they are necessary. But we cannot keep the earth livable without it. When it comes to climate change, I know innovation isn’t the only thing we need. In it, Gates presents what he learned in over a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address global warming and recommends technological strategies to tackle it. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need is a 2021 book by Bill Gates. ![]() |