6/12/2023 0 Comments The pledge by kimberly derting![]() ![]() But Charlie has lived her life with a secret so dangerous that if anyone ever found out, she’d be killed. The smallest transgression results in immediate death. Seventeen-year-old Charlaina, “Charlie,” lives in Ludania, a country ruled by a cruel monarch and strictly stratified by a caste system divided by language. Kimberly Derting, author of The Body Finder series, writes powerfully and movingly of a girl with dangerous powers in an unusual and expertly crafted setting. As the violent clashes between the totalitarian monarchy and the rebel forces escalate, it becomes clear that Charlie is the key to something much bigger: her country’s only chance for freedom from the terrible grip of a deadly regime. There, she meets a beautiful and mysterious boy who speaks a language she’s never heard, and her secret is almost exposed. ![]() ![]() The only reprieve from oppression is within the drug-filled underground club scene. Seventeen-year-old Charlaina (Charlie for short) can understand all languages, a dangerous ability she’s been hiding her whole life. In the violent country of Ludania, the language you speak determines your class, and there are harsh punishments if you forget your place-looking a member of a higher class in the eye can result in immediate execution. ![]() A “gripping dystopian fantasy” ( Kirkus Reviews) that brims with romance and suspense, from the author of The Body Finder. ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Celan poet![]() ![]() Celan wrote in German-a tongue to which he felt inextricably and complicatedly bound, both because of his mother’s love for the language and because of its relationship to Nazi violence. That same year, he published his first book of poems, Der Sand aus den Urnen ( The Sand from the Urns). In the last years of the war, Celan moved to Bucharest, then Vienna, before settling in Paris in 1948. These experiences, especially the murder of his mother, cast a long shadow over the rest of his life, and deeply informed his poetics. In 1942, his parents were taken to a Nazi concentration camp, where they both died Celan himself survived eighteen months in a labor camp. Celan-born Paul Antschel in Czernowitz, Romania (now part of Ukraine) in 1920-lived a life scarred by personal and historical tragedy. LAST YEAR marked the centennial of the birth of Paul Celan, who wrote some of the most potent and haunting poetry of the 20th century. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Stephen guise books![]() When you aim for consistency over quantity every day, good things will happen. This can be something as simple as one push-up a day, which was Stephen Guise’s first mini habit. Mini Habits provides a different approach: aim for something that you can definitely do. They repeat the goal-setting process again and then just cycle through it: they get motivated, fail, and then try again. People tend to set large, impressive-sounding goals and then generally fall short of them. The basic premise of Mini Habits is that small steps are powerful and that habits are the best way to leverage this power.Īs entrepreneurs, it’s very important to create powerful productive habits rather than depend on fleeting motivation to get stuff done. Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results | ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Four psychos kristy cunning![]() ![]() ![]() The four lads held my attention quite nicely, playing the reverse harem role well. She is a fun character who makes the best of what she is… which is? She gives good banter and she reminded me of Jeannie from I Dream of Jeannie, when she would think a new outfit and change her clothes as though in the blink of an eye. Keyla is a character who is naïve for reasons she can’t help. I loved how original this book felt, even though sometimes I could feel a little Hunger Games sliding in with the gauntlet/trials. This is why giving authors’ reviews, becomes very important. You will find yourself snorting with laughter. The cover gives the impression of a dark read, but in fact it isn't. She writes many different types of romances, from paranormal to wild and crazy wilderness tales, including the All the Pretty Monsters series, the Wild Ones series, and the Death Chasers MC series.-This text refers to the audioCD edition. I saw this book by chance on Amazon when I was zipping about a couple days ago and noted it was only a buck and even though I didn’t like the cover design, I popped over to Goodreads and saw everybody praising the book. Kristy Cunning is the pen name of USA Today bestselling author C. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Dark Passage by M.L. Woolley![]() ![]() Her first intrest has always been helping people to live better lives and become all that they can be. She has spent many years in social services as social worker, crisis worker, counselor and case manager. She raised her two girls, worked her way through college and graduate school working for a housekeeping service. ML married early to start a new life and divorced by the time she was 23. The horse used in the second book is her own Quarter Horse show Stallion "The Great White Hope". When she was on the back of a horse she felt that anything in life was possible. She worked cleaning stalls and doing work in trade for riding lessons. Horses were a huge part of her life and she learned to ride at age 6 on the neighbor's farm. She grew up loving the escape of books, far away places and magical endings. ML was adopted and raised in Washington State. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Destroy me novella![]() ![]() ![]() Set after Shatter Me and before its forthcoming sequel, Unravel Me, Destroy Me is a novella told from the perspective of Warner, the ruthless leader of Sector 45. The irresistible first book in the gripping Shatter Me series, now featuring gorgeous jacket art to match the rest of the series, and including the Destroy Me novella One touch is all it. But when Warner’s father, The Supreme Commander of The Reestablishment, arrives to correct his son’s mistakes, it’s clear that he has much different plans for Juliette. ![]() Still as obsessed with Juliette as ever, his first priority is to find her, bring her back, and dispose of Adam and Kenji, the two traitors who helped her escape. But as she’ll learn in Destroy Me, Warner is not that easy to get rid of.īack at the base and recovering from his near-fatal wound, Warner must do everything in his power to keep his soldiers in check and suppress any mention of a rebellion in the sector. Juliette escaped from The Reestablishment by seducing Warner-and then putting a bullet in his shoulder. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Us book david nicholls![]() ![]() Very, very messy.ĭespite their differences and some serious obstacles, Connie and Douglas manage to stay together for 25 years and raise a son named Albie. But he quickly learns that life can be messy. When he meets Connie Moore, an artist who is his exact opposite in every way, he falls in love and wants nothing more than to settle down into a well-ordered domestic life with her. He is, after all, a bio-chemist and he approaches his life with the precision of a scientist. Douglas Petersen’s life is ordered, and organized and drama free. This story is funny, sad, heartwarming and frustrating all at the same time. I invite you to read my review, learn a bit about the author and visit the other stops on the book tour. Today I welcome TLC Book Tours back to The Book Binder’s Daughter with a novel by David Nicholls which was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Pen pal by jt geissinger audiobook![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() No one is going to do it for you so stop thinking its going to happen soon because it wont The more u put in, the more you get back in a million successful ways ![]() *** So what we all doing next year competing or growing? We all know the majority of us will be eating absolute shit over Christmas □ But that does not mean we will stop training nor stop practising those poses for the next big day This video shows you although we can both regardless man or woman be beautifully elligant that everyone see’s all glam on stage But it shows the hard work and dedication we spend so many hours in the gym and stidio for Prep season means missed family and friend meals out, celebrations and whatever else that involves food and drink temptation Nope we have to eat the same thing day in day out for a very long time Maybe some cheat meals if needed! But we do it because we want whats worth more to us than just a bit of fun for a fews hours and feeling like crap The dont want to do days the cant be asked want to go out partying days or just feeling a little unwell That workout u miss, the posing sessions you miss, it all adds up and does nothing but decreases confidence and make u feel disappointed with yourself for not atleast trying So get up and work for it, Grind as hard as you can for what you desire most. ![]() ![]() ![]() Those of you who love books enough to want to share them are truly changing the world. The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel: Conversation Starters The Book of Lost Names is New York Times bestselling author Kristin Harmels take on the true story of the brave citizens of France who outwitted the Nazi German forces with sheer ability and courage. Books are more than just words on a page they are bridges to building communities and to developing more compassionate, more aware citizens. So thank you for the bottom of my heart to anyone who works in a bookstore or a library-and especially to those of you who have been courageous and adventurous enough to become bookstore owners, which must be as perilous at times as it is rewarding. If books can’t find their way to the readers who need them, who will be touched by them, who will be transformed by them, they lose their power. Books can change lives, but it is the people who love them, who dedicate their lives to them, who make the real difference. ![]() I can’t say enough about how much I’ve been impacted by the magic of bookstores and libraries. ![]() “I mention in the dedication that this book is partially in honor of booksellers and librarians everywhere. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Letters to earth mark twain![]() Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database. Twain's writings in Letters From the Earth find him at perhaps his most quizzical and questioning state ever. Other short stories in the book include a bedtime story about a family of cats Twain wrote for his daughters, and an essay explaining why an anaconda is morally superior to Man. Not so much an attack as much as a cold dissection. ![]() By analyzing the idea of heaven and God that is widely accepted by those who believe in both, Twain is able to take the silliness that is present and study it with the common sense that is absent. This title story consists of letters written by the archangel Satan to archangels, Gabriel and Michael, about his observations on the curious proceedings of earthly life and the nature of man's religions. Twain penned a series of letters from the point-of-view of a dejected angel on Earth. The book consists of a series of short stories, many of which deal with God and Christianity. ![]() The essays were written during a difficult time in Twain's life he was deep in debt and had lost his wife and one of his daughters. Letters from the Earth is one of Mark Twain's posthumously published works. ![]() |