The calling rachelle dekker5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The girl knows only one thing: she must reach a woman in Corpus Christi, Texas, hundreds of miles away, before the government agents who are searching for her catch up to them. ![]() Now, against her better judgment, Zoe, who has been trying to outrun her own painful memories of the past, finds herself attempting to help a girl who doesn't seem to have any past at all. But when a wide-eyed, bedraggled teenager with no memory walks into the diner where Zoe works, everything changes. Can they abandon it all-secrets, past, and future-for the freedom they've been offered?īook Synopsis Zoe Johnson spent most of her life living in the shadows, never drawing attention to herself, never investing in people or places. About the Book A young woman trying to escape her past collides with a girl trying to escape her future, both carrying secrets they're terrified to share. ![]()
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Beth macy author5/22/2023 ![]() (Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America Factory Man Truevine) ![]() ![]() A former journalist for The Roanoke Times, she has appeared on CBS News, C-Span, PBS, NPR, and Fresh Air and in TIME Magazine, The New York Times, and other national news outlets. Based in Roanoke, Virginia, for three decades, her reporting has won more than a dozen national awards, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard and the 2013 J. Macy is also the author of the widely acclaimed and bestselling books TRUEVINE and FACTORY MAN. Macy will discuss her journey in gathering interviews with victims, family members, dealers and medical professionals from southwest Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley. DOPESICK describes how the epidemic has impacted the lives of first responders and a diverse group of Americans living in the suburbs, small farming communities and cities. The book chronicles the opioid crisis, including the role of doctors, drug companies, and the government in the crisis. ![]() ![]() Journalist and author Beth Macy will discuss her New York Times-bestselling book, DOPESICK: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America. ![]() Books on huguette clark5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() She was the youngest daughter of United States Senator and industrialist William A. Clark Anna Eugenia La Chapelle Huguette Marcelle Clark (/ˈuːɡɛt/ J– May 24, 2011) was an heiress and philanthropist, who became well known again late in life as a recluse, living in a hospital for more than 20 years while her mansions remained empty. Clark (center) Born Huguette Marcelle Clark JParis, France Died (aged 104) New York City, New York, United States Resting place Woodlawn Cemetery The Bronx, New York, United States Residence New York City, New York, United States NationalityĚmerican Education Spence School Occupation Painter Known for Heiress to Clark copper fortune recluse Spouse(s) William MacDonald Gower (1928–1930) Parents William A. 1917 (age approximately 11) with her sister Andrée (left) and her father William A. Clark) Huguette Clark Huguette-Clark.png Huguette Clark (right) c. Huguette Clark From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Huguette M. "Huguette Clark, copper heiress and recluse, dies at 104" ![]() Dancing wu li5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() The Wu Li Master does not teach, but the student learns. Zukav explains the concept further: The Wu Li Master dances with his student. ![]() Like a Wu Li Master who would teach us wonder for the falling petal before speaking of gravity, Zukav writes in beautifully clear language-with no mathematical equations-opening our minds to the exciting new theories that are beginning to embrace the ultimate nature of our universe…Quantum mechanics, relativity, and beyond to the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen effect and Bell’s theorem.Īt an Esalen Institute meeting in 1976, tai chi master Al Huang said that the Chinese word for physics is Wu Li, “patterns of organic energy.” Journalist Gary Zukav and the others present developed the idea of physics as the dance of the Wu Li Masters–the teachers of physical essence. ![]() Gary Zukav has written “the Bible” for those who are curious about the mind-expanding discoveries of advanced physics, but who have no scientific background. ![]() Umberto name of the rose5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() In 2000, when awarding him Spain’s prestigious Prince of Asturias Prize for communications, the jury praised Eco’s works “of universal distribution and profound effect that are already classics in contemporary thought.”Įco was born Jan. His second novel, 1988’s Foucault’s Pendulum, a byzantine tale of plotting publishers and secret sects also styled as a thriller, was successful, too - though it was so complicated that an annotated guide accompanied it to help the reader follow the plot. The book sold millions of copies, a feat for a narrative filled with partially translated Latin quotes and puzzling musings on the nature of symbols.Įco talked about his inspiration with characteristic irony: “I began writing … prodded by a seminal idea: I felt like poisoning a monk.” The Name of the Rose transformed him from academic to international celebrity, especially after the medieval thriller set in a monastery was made into a film starring Sean Connery in 1986. ![]() Marcus rashford book you are a champion5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Perfect for readers who need to hear that they already are champions – they just might not know it yet. Written with journalist Carl Anka, this empowering guide is packed full of stories from Marcus’s own life, brilliant advice, and top tips from performance psychologist Katie Warriner. Copies of this book You Are a Champion: How to Be the Best You Can Be You Are a Champion : How to Be the Best You Can Be The Marcus Rashford You Are a. ![]() Portraying key messages that being yourself is more than good. In You Are a Champion, the nation’s favorite footballer gives you the tools you need to reach your full potential, showing you how to be the very BEST version of yourself you can be. The book helps to inspire the future generation, not only in football, but just being themselves. ![]() No matter who you are and no matter where you come from, every single person in the world has the potential to be a champion. Marcus Rashford’s inspirational children’s debut You Are a Champion (Macmillan Children’s Books), co-written with Carl Anka, has won Book of the Year at this year’s British Book. Now, Marcus Rashford MBE wants to show YOU how to achieve your dreams, in this positive and inspiring guide for life. Marcus Rashford is famous worldwide for his skills both on and off the pitch – but before he was a Manchester United and England footballer, and long before he started his inspiring campaign to end child food poverty, he was just an average kid from Wythenshawe, South Manchester. ![]() House rules chloe neill5/22/2023 ![]() Now it's like a good part of the book goes like this:"Hi Sarah", I said.Sarah was my neighbor. I didn't see it so much before because there was less material to recap, but now it's becoming more and more annoying. There were plenty of interesting things happening in this book and we didn't to focus on this ludicrous and forced relationship drama.Also, there's an increasing problem of recapping the more we advance in the series. The jealousy about Jonah was also completely over the top, since he knows already Merit worked with him when he was dead and it didn't bother him before. As political as Ethan is, it seems completely unrealistic to me that he didn't immediately start thinking about the advantages of a connection to the RG. It seems this author is convinced that she needs to keep things uncertain between the main couple as long as possible, to maintain interest perhaps? But the constant bumbs in this relationships are beginning to be more and more far-fetched and make the characters look like a pair of drama queens.Last book it was "I can't be with you because Mallory is affecting my mood", which was really weak since Ethan has learned the hard way the lesson that he's stronger with Merit at his side. ![]() ![]() I really liked it, but I was a bit disappointed with the Ethan/Merit drama. ![]() I think this is my favorite since the third book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike Zen, its counterpart which flourished in remote monasteries, the Pure Land tradition was the form of Buddhism practiced by common people. The Pure Land tradition dates back to the sixth century c.e., when Buddhism was first introduced in Japan. River of Fire, River of Water is an introduction to the practice of Pure Land Buddhism for readers with or without prior experience with it. ![]() Unique among the various practices of Buddhism, this new form of spiritual practice is certain to enrich the growing practice of Buddhism in the United States, which is already quite familiar with Zen and Tibetan traditions. Taitetsu Unno-the foremost authority in the United States on Shin or Pure Land Buddhism-introduces us to the most popular form of Buddhism in Japan. "item_description" : "With great spiritual insight and unparalleled scholarship, Dr. "item_title" : "River of Fire, River of Water", ![]() Stormy Weather by Carl Hiaasen5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() It is Max's fateful decision to abort their Disney World honeymoon and race to Dade County to see the terrible devastation. Caught in the middle are Max and Bonnie Lamb, newlyweds torn in wildly different directions by the storm. Among the predators are Edie Marsh, an entrepreneurial young woman whose scheme to sleep with a Palm Beach Kennedy has fizzled, freeing her to concoct a colossal insurance rip-off Lester Maddox Parsons, a murderous ex-con whose violent encounter with a game warden has left him with the fitting nickname of "Snapper" and Avila, a crooked building inspector-turned-roofer, who dabbles somewhat unsuccessfully in the occult. When a ferocious hurricane rips through Southern Florida, the con artists and carpetbaggers waste no time swarming over the disaster area. ![]() The Secret History by Procopius5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Title page of Sir Thomas Ryves’s defense of Justinian (Folger STC 21477). The Latin edition was certainly known in England shortly after its publication, as Sir Thomas Ryves wrote a defense of Justinian that was published in London a mere three years later. 1 The scholar, Nicoló Alamanni, then translated the work into Latin (heavily edited, as some of the accounts were too scandalous for even 17th century audiences) and published it Lyon in 1623. It was, it turned out, Procopius’s literal secret work. This third work remained a mystery until the early 1620s, when a scholar working in the library of the Vatican came across a Greek manuscript, copied sometime in the 14th century. A work so scandalous that Procopius did not dare officially publish it in his lifetime. However, for centuries there were a few scattered references to another work by Procopius. ![]() He was long known to have written both The Wars of Justinian, a chronicle, and The Buildings of Justinian, a (probably commissioned) panegyric to the Emperor’s construction projects. Procopius of Cesarea was a legal advisor (and chronicler) associated with the Roman Emperor Justinian’s court in the middle of the 6th century. The history behind the Secret History is a tale in and of itself. Title page of the first English translation of Procopius’s Secret History ![]() |