![]() Since the publication of her first novel in 1981, she has penned well over sixty books. She wrote two boosk as Laura Jordan and several books for Harlequin under the name Erin St. Soon thereafter, she was producing a succession of books for six different publishers, culling ideas from briefs in USA Today, television shows, and her own active imagination. ![]() Within a year Sandra sold her first novel, Love's Encore, under the name Rachel Ryan (taken from the first names of her two children). He had just left a career as a news anchor and talk-show host to form his own production company, so why shouldn't she take a creative risk, too? Though she continued in her occasional position as a showroom model in Dallas, her husband encouraged her to try fiction writing while their children were at school. On 17 August 1968, she married Robert Michael Brown, former television anchorman and award-winning documentarian of Dust to Dust, and returned to Ft. ![]() When the show experienced mass layoffs, however, Sandra found herself out of work. She graduated from Texas Christian University with a degree in English, and in her job as a contributing feature reporter at the nationally syndicated PM Magazine in Dallas. ![]() As the oldest of five daughters, she was a responsible and mature girl, and always chose to read a book rather than play with dolls. Sandra Lynn Cox was born on Main Waco, Texas and raised in Ft. ![]()
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![]() Instead, Barrett shows, we construct each instance of emotion through a unique interplay of brain, body, and culture. ![]() ![]() Leading the charge is psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, whose research overturns the long-standing belief that emotions are automatic, universal, and hardwired in different brain regions. A thought-provoking journey into emotion science."-The Wall Street Journal "A singular book, remarkable for the freshness of its ideas and the boldness and clarity with which they are presented."-Scientific American "A brilliant and original book on the science of emotion, by the deepest thinker about this topic since Darwin."-Daniel Gilbert, best-selling author of Stumbling on Happiness The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology. Preeminent psychologist Lisa Barrett lays out how the brain constructs emotions in a way that could revolutionize psychology, health care, the legal system, and our understanding of the human mind. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Since Kaye is not mortal, the ritual will be forfeit, and the fairies whom the Unseelie Court wants to be bound to them will go free. Later on, her same "imaginary" friends inform her that she is actually a changeling and that she should keep her human appearance because the Unseelie Court wishes to use her as a tithe to hell. In revenge, Kaye tricks Roiben into telling her his full name (she later learns that by knowing the true name of a faerie, fairies are forced to obey whatever they are told to do). Soon after this, her old "imaginary" friends contact her and warn her that Roiben is a murderer and he’s killed Gristle. In return, he grants her three truthfully answered questions about anything, which she does not immediately use. Her suspicions dissolve when she finds and saves the life of Roiben, a faerie knight, by pulling a magicked arrow out of his chest. However, she can't find them and begins to suspect that they were simply figments of her imagination. Once at her grandmother's house, Kaye begins to look for her old "imaginary" friends who were faeries named Lutie-Loo, Spike, and Gristle. After her mother's boyfriend, Lloyd, attempts to stab her mother unexpectedly, her mother takes her back to Kaye's grandmother's house to stay. The book begins in Philadelphia at one of Kaye's mother's concerts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Defining Decade is a smart, compassionate and constructive book about the years we cannot afford to miss. The result is a provocative listen that provides the tools necessary to make the most of your 20s, and shows us how work, relationships, personality, social networks, identity, and even the brain can change more during this decade than at any other time in adulthood - if we use the time wisely. ![]() Meg Jay, a clinical psychologist, argues that 20-somethings have been caught in a swirl of hype and misinformation, much of which has trivialized what is actually the most defining decade of adulthood.ĭrawing from almost two decades of work with hundreds of clients and students, The Defining Decade weaves the latest science of the 20-something years with the behind-closed-doors stories from 20-somethings, themselves. Our "30-is-the-new-20" culture tells us the 20-something years don't matter. Meg Jay uses real stories from real lives to provide smart, compassionate, and constructive advice about the crucial (and difficult) years we cannot afford to miss. New York Times best-selling psychologist Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Belle’s complexion isn’t dark because of her alleged Portuguese heritage that lets her pass as white-her complexion is dark because she is African American. She is the daughter of Richard Greener, the first Black graduate of Harvard and a well-known advocate for equality. She was born not Belle da Costa Greene but Belle Marion Greener. ![]() Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps create a world-class collection.īut Belle has a secret, one she must protect at all costs. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray. ![]() ![]() In a vivid narrative, Taylor draws upon cutting-edge scholarship to create a timely picture of the colonial world characterized by an interplay of freedom and slavery, opportunity and loss. ![]() ![]() Moving beyond the Atlantic seaboard to examine the entire continent, American Colonies reveals a pivotal period in the global interaction of peoples, cultures, plants, animals, and microbes. A multicultural, multinational history of. Transcending the usual Anglocentric version of our colonial past, he recovers the importance of Native American tribes, African slaves, and the rival empires of France, Spain, the Netherlands, and even Russia in the colonization of North America. The Settling of North America (the Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1) Omschrijving Specificaties Alleen bij Standaard Boekhandel Kom naar YA-. American Colonies - The Penguin History of the United States van Alan Taylor (boek, ebook, ISBN 9781101075814). The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1). In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States series, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from millennia past, through the decades of Western colonization and conquest, and across the entire continent, all the way to the Pacific coast. ![]() ![]() “I can’t believe it is only a week since they were married. “It seems to me they have been gone long enough to go around the world,” sighed Anne. “And Miss Lavendar’s wedding seemed to come as a sort of crown to it. “It has been a nice summer,” said Diana, twisting the new ring on her left hand with a smile. The sea was roaring hollowly in the distance, the fields were bare and sere, scarfed with golden rod, the brook valley below Green Gables overflowed with asters of ethereal purple, and the Lake of Shining Waters was blue-blue-blue not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all moods and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquility unbroken by fickle dreams. She and Diana Barry had been picking apples in the Green Gables orchard, but were now resting from their labors in a sunny corner, where airy fleets of thistledown drifted by on the wings of a wind that was still summer-sweet with the incense of ferns in the Haunted Wood.īut everything in the landscape around them spoke of autumn. ![]() ![]() Harvest is ended and summer is gone,” quoted Anne Shirley, gazing across the shorn fields dreamily. ![]() ![]() ![]() Later he continued to build his remarkable body of work with Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, Every Thing On It, The Missing Piece, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, and Runny Babbit. In 1964, Shel’s creativity continued to flourish as four more books were published in the same year- Don’t Bump the Glump!, A Giraffe and a Half, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?, and the beloved classic The Giving Tree. Shel Silverstein’s incomparable career as a children’s book author and illustrator began with Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. School Library Journal said, “Silverstein has an excellent sense of rhythm and rhyme and a good ear for alliteration and assonance that make these poems a pleasure to read aloud.” Shel Silverstein’s masterful collection of poems and drawings is one of Parent & Child magazine's 100 Greatest Books for Kids. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. In Where the Sidewalk Ends, you’ll meet a boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale. ![]() It was translated into over 20 languages. When the poem was first published in 1974, it became well known as a classic poem for kids in several nations. Silverstein was actually a songwriter, an author and a children’s poet. This book features twelve poems that were not in the original edition. ' Where the Sidewalk ends ' is a children poem written by Shel Silverstein in 1974. Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Where the Sidewalk Ends, the classic poetry collection that is both outrageously funny and profound. Where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein’s world begins. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gorgeous writing assembled into an interesting structure, decadent in detail but never laborious to read. I don’t think I’ve described many books like that but it’s exactly how I feel about this story. This is the story of that love, of Olga’s devotion to a restless man – told in thought, letters and in a fateful moment of great rebellion. ![]() ![]() Theirs is a love against all odds, entwined with the twisting paths of German history, leading us from the late 19th to the early 21st century, from Germany to Africa and the Arctic, from the Baltic Sea to the German south-west. When she falls in love with Herbert, a local aristocrat obsessed with the era’s dreams of power, glory and greatness, her life is irremediably changed. Smart and precocious, she fights against the prejudices of the time to find her place in a world that sees her as second-best. Olga is an orphan raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the turn of the 20th century. The life of one woman – Olga – from late 19th century Prussia to modern Germany.Ī novel of love, passion, and history, from beloved modern master Bernhard Schlink. Olga… Translated by Charlotte Collins About the Book: ![]() ![]() Which means everything about our interconnected world - from how we manufacture products, to how we grow food, to how we keep the lights on, to how we shuttle stuff about, to how we pay for it all - is about to change.Ī world ending. The list of countries that make it all work is smaller than you think. In The End of the World is Just the Beginning, author and geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where countries or regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with populations that are both shrinking and aging. Billions of people have been fed and educated as the American-led trade system spread across the globe.Īll of this was artificial. American security policy forced warring nations to lay down their arms. Complex, innovative industries were created to satisfy American consumers. The American dollar underpins internationalized energy and financial markets. Globe-spanning supply chains are only possible with the protection of the U.S. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it.Īmerica made that happen, but now America has lost interest in keeping it going. 2019 was the last great year for the world economy.įor generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. ![]() |