![]() ![]() And as always, I love you, and I believe in you. It's time to step into your greatness and live the life you were meant to live. ![]() You have the power to change your life and the lives of those around you. Whatever it is that's been on your heart, do it. So, my challenge to you is this: stop wasting your ideas, dreams, and potential. They learned from it and kept pushing forward. But they didn't let that failure define them. Every successful person has failed at some point. But let me tell you something - failure is not the opposite of success. But what's holding you back? Fear of failure? Fear of rejection? Fear of not being good enough? I get it. You have a unique set of skills, talents, and experiences that the world needs and it's time to share them with the world. ![]() You were put on this earth for a reason: not to sit back and watch life pass you by. But the truth is, there will never be a perfect time. You know, far too often we get caught up in the idea of perfection, and we wait for the "perfect time" to take action on our dreams. Hey Rehabbers: Hey there in today's episode, we're talking about something that's been weighing heavy on my heart - wasting your ideas, dreams, and potential. ![]()
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![]() Jeremy and Lizzy set off to find the keys, but when one of their efforts goes very wrong, Jeremy starts to lose hope that he'll ever be able to open the box. The problem is, the keys are missing, and the box is made so that only the keys will open it without destroying what's inside. According to the writing on the box, it holds the meaning of life! Jeremy is supposed to open it on his thirteenth birthday. Jeremy's summer takes an unexpected turn when a mysterious wooden box arrives in the mail. On the other hand, his best friend, Lizzy, isn't afraid of anything, even if that might get her into trouble now and then. But does he have what it takes to be a teenager? He collects mutant candy, he won't venture more than four blocks from his apartment if he can help it, and he definitely doesn't like surprises. ![]() In one month Jeremy Fink will turn thirteen. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kunta is surrounded by love and traditions. His village subsists on farming, and sometimes they lack enough food, as the climate is harsh. Kunta, a Mandinka living by the River Gambia, has a difficult but free childhood in his village, Jufureh. Roots tells the story of Kunta Kinte-a young man taken from the Gambia when he was seventeen and sold as a slave-and seven generations of his descendants in the United States. Haley spent the last chapter of the book describing his research in archives and libraries to support his family's oral tradition with written records. The book was originally described as "fiction," yet sold in the non-fiction section of bookstores. ![]() It stimulated interest in African American genealogy and an appreciation for African-American history. The last seven chapters of the novel were later adapted in the form of a second miniseries, Roots: The Next Generations (1979). The novel spent forty-six weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List, including twenty-two weeks at number one. ![]() The release of the novel, combined with its hugely popular television adaptation, Roots (1977), led to a cultural sensation in the United States. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent, sold into slavery in Africa, and transported to North America it follows his life and the lives of his descendants in the United States down to Haley. Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a 1976 novel written by Alex Haley. ![]() ![]() ![]() At nine years of age, she travelled into the Fairy land, defeated the Fairy Queen with a frying pan and rescued the Baron’s son from the clutches of the fairies. specified he wanted us to review a book we love, and he needn’t fear. ![]() This book review will be part book review and part me gushing about how much I love Tiffany Aching. For this review I have chosen I Shall Wear Midnight, not only because it was published in 2010 and therefore qualifies for this contest, but also because it’s my favourite of the series. But none of them move me as much as the Tiffany Aching series. From the Night Watch series to the Witches series, I love them all (although the Rincewand books do take a very far back seat). I own almost all of his books and they have a place of honour in my bookcase. ![]() I will readily come out and say that Terry Pratchett is one of my favourite authors. Then I remembered I have recently binged-read all the Tiffany Aching books by Terry Pratchett and as much as I may think of the Discworld as a real place, it’s actually fantasy. I have read my share of Asimov and Heinlein in my day, but they can hardly be called contemporary. posted a contest a few days ago, challenging participants to write a book review of a fantasy or sci-fi novel, published no earlier than 2010. And now for something slightly different. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Ophiuchi Hotline was John Varley's first novel, and it received nominations for both the Hugo and Nebula awards he later won both for his book Persistence of Vision. Then, after 400 years, humanity's unknown helpers send a bill for their services.and suddenly everything is threatened once again.
![]() In the years after World War II, Immerwahr notes, the United States moved away from colonialism. ![]() doctors conducted grisly experiments they would never have conducted on the mainland and charts the emergence of independence fighters who would shoot up the U.S. We travel to the Guano Islands, where prospectors collected one of the nineteenth century's most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on U.S. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. ![]() In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. But what about the actual territories-the islands, atolls, and archipelagos-this country has governed and inhabited? ![]() And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago TribuneĪ Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff PickĪ pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire ![]() ![]() ![]() The whole gang's here for mirth and mayhem. ![]() Her mother wants her to find Uncle Fred who's missing after arguing with his garbage company homicidal rapist Benito Ramirez is back, quoting scripture and stalking Stephanie vice cop Joe Morelli has a box of condoms with Stephanie's name on it and Stephanie's afraid Ranger has his finger on her trigger. Stephanie Plum’s Uncle Fred has disappeared without a trace. But hey, nobody's perfect! Anyway, Stephanie has other things on her mind. ![]() So, a scumball blows himself to smithereens on her first day of policing a crack house and the sheik she was chauffeuring stole the limo. Out of bail skippers and rent money, Stephanie throws caution to the wind and follows in the entrepreneurial bootsteps of Super Bounty Hunter, Ranger, engaging in morally correct and marginally legal enterprises. Find out why Stephanie Plums racy, in-your-face New Jersey adventures are attracting a growing number of fans. Mass Market Paperback in Good (G) condition. In High Five by Janet Evanovich, Stephanie Plum is up to her usual adventures as a bounty hunter for her cousin Vinny. Please see our guide to book conditions for more details. ![]() ![]() Creditworthy only if you're ready for a torturous, but beautiful, ride.Īlthough it's a good emotional and rough story, well written, after 50% of the book, I'm afraid I didn't like the most mercurial important character in the book. ![]() ![]() one that will wring out so many different emotions from you like hope, happiness, grief, pain and anguish and back again, and then finally gives you a HEA ending, then this book is for you. Worth a credit? If you're in the mood for a totally different kind of love story. ![]() It's not the usual 'feel good' romance but a bitter-sweet one as it continually takes you backwards 6 years slowly feeding you bits of the history of young forbidden love and the devastating consequences that followed then forward to the heartache of a present day relationship where one lover can only offer sex as his shattered heart has no more to give and the other lover hangs on because she want it all. and I wouldn't change a thing because this was a well-written, tough, raw, touching and very emotional love story that morphs into one of grief and suffering that loss brings, followed by hope, forgiveness and finally redemption. I've just gone through about 9 hours of tension, heartbreak and drama followed by about 15 minutes of joy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Too bad most of us can't spare the time to have this luxary very often. I think that books have more power and flow better that way. There is something to be said for reading a a book in one sitting. This sweet and tangy debut introduces a memorable cast of characters who come to learn that grace can abide within and beyond the realities of pain and loss. In the middle of it all, a ruby-throated hummingbird decides to winter at the Tanners’ and becomes a source of delight and inspiration as March Anne prepares for Grenna’s passing and journeys toward self-acceptance. When Grenna suffers a heart attack, March Anne must face an uncertain future and confront her past. And so, in secret meetings deep in the woods, March Anne and her two best friends form the Pseudonymphs, whose names change with the seasons. ![]() And although Grenna has tried to teach March Anne about her ancestors, March Anne has always been uncomfortable with the family name she’s been given and doesn’t like. Thanks to Grenna, her grandmother and surrogate mother, March Anne has learned everything she needs to know about seeds, vine pruning, and harvesting melons and pumpkins. Twelve-year-old March Anne Tanner’s life is tied to the simple rhythms and cycles of the watermelon farm in Jubilee, Georgia, that she has grown up on. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, the very evening after she hears a radio report of a monster who has killed two people and escaped from the facility where he was being held, her screen door opens and a 6-foot-7-inch creature, with the bulging forehead and flat nose of a frog and the body of an attractively hunky man, shoulders his way in and stares straight into her face. Dorothy has one great friend, Estelle, who draws out “other people’s subversive instincts,” offering sherry and laughter to break up the long afternoons, but it’s not enough. After the death of their young son, followed by a miscarriage, her despair, his affair, and, finally, the running-over of their Jack Russell terrier, this marriage is more of a house-sharing arrangement than any comfort to anyone. He will be late, he says, not even troubling to come up with an excuse for why. We meet the very dear character Dorothy Caliban at home, sending her husband, Fred, off to work. Caliban was originally published in 1982 to raves that compared it to works by Edgar Allan Poe, David Lynch, Richard Yates, and Angela Carter, not to mention E.T., King Kong, and “Beauty and the Beast”-which only shows how sui generis it really is. Thanks to the support of writers like Daniel Handler and Rivka Galchen, who introduces this novella, the marvelous Ingalls ( Three Masquerades, 2017, etc.) has been rescued from obscurity with reissues of her books. A lonely housewife gets a new lease on life in the strong, green arms of a sea monster. ![]() |