![]() ![]() Unfortunately, this seemingly romantic overture makes Elaine even more sex-crazed and maniacal with love. Now, faced with mounting pressure from her drug dealer, Dom (and his goon, Betty), Frances comes up with a terrible idea: She asks Elaine to move in with her for real. But somehow (it involved a steady stream of beer and weed, as things often did with Frances) Elaine ended up in Frances’s bed and never left. She was, in fact, looking to drown her sorrows in a pint or twelve and nurse a broken heart, shattered by the gorgeous, electric Adrienne. An intriguingly headstrong yet vulnerable character with an astonishing talent for making the worst possible life-decisions." -Sarah Haywood, best-selling author of The Cactusįrances was not looking for a relationship when she met Elaine in a bar. "A brilliantly quirky, surreally funny story. An exuberant dark comedy about love, grief, sex, guilt, and one woman’s harebrained scheme to tranquilize her voraciously amorous girlfriend for a few days so that she might pay off her drug dealer, make soup, and finally get some peace and quiet. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I highly recommend you add All About Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks to your standard collection as you work toward your vision of love. I feel like I have a concrete definition of what love is, the ingredients that make it up, and how to move toward a full vision of love in my life. Through her work I have felt validated, understood and hopeful about how I can better and more consistently love those around me, especially those closest to me. ![]() Her work supports people in breaking generational patterns and developing new understandings and paths toward full and complete love. Hooks recognizes that our understanding of love is directly informed by how we were loved and wanted to provide something more clear and objective. Many of us experienced harm, abuse, or neglect in the name of love, or were really cared for but felt an absence of love. The reality is most of us have learned what love is by how we were or weren’t loved by our parents or primary caregivers, our community, and our friends. Gary Dauphin, What's Love GotToDo With ItA Conversation With Writer/Painter/Cultural Critic bell hooks About Her LoveBooks. When I first was introduced to this book I wondered how much there was to actually know about love beyond knowing that we need it, that we want it, and it feels so good when we get it. ![]() ![]() ![]() This backfires when the girls find out that Ev lied to them about whom Ajax likes. The only way that Ev seems to fit in is when the "It Girl" at school realize they can get them information about one of her stepbrothers, Ajax, who is a soccer star and one of the cutest girls in school. She misses her best friend in Boston and her old life. ![]() Ev talks to Stella and Stella even talks back to Ev.Įv is having a hard time fitting in at home and at school. Because of this, Ev makes up a mother in her head, Stella. She has never known what it is like to have a mother in her life. When Evyn was just one, her mother was killed in a car accident. The story follows the main character, Evyn Linney, as she transitions from a 13-year-old girl living with her father and brother in Portland, Maine to being one of eight children with her new stepmother, Eleni Gartos, in Boston. Bounce is the third novel by author Natasha Friend. ![]() ![]() Interweaving her story as a Baptist pastor's wife, Barr sheds light on the #ChurchToo movement and abuse scandals in Southern Baptist circles and the broader evangelical world, helping listeners understand why biblical womanhood is more about human power structures than the message of Christ. Barr's historical insights provide context for contemporary teachings about women's roles in the church and help move the conversation forward. This book moves the conversation about biblical womanhood beyond Greek grammar and into the realm of church history-ancient, medieval, and modern-to show that this belief is not divinely ordained but a product of human civilization that continues to creep into the church. ApBy Emily McFarlan Miller (RNS) Beth Allison Barr never intended to write a book like The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel. It was born in a series of clearly definable historical moments. Women in History And as a historian, Barr wants to give a fuller picture to the experience of Christian women. Yet biblical womanhood isn't biblical, says Baylor University historian Beth Allison Barr. From choices about careers to roles in local churches to relationship dynamics, this belief shapes the everyday lives of evangelical women. ![]()
![]() ![]() The Stainless Steel Rat-03 (The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World) Also, the one thing I definitively remembered from the first time I read this story over 50 years ago: how to fool a lie detector! Oh the things you learn from reading sci-fi. More of the same: implausible predicaments and incredible escapes…but just on the edge of believability. The Stainless Steel Rat-02 (The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge) Many are the life lessons I've learned from this hero. The man who can think faster than almost anyone else and relishes the challenge. This is the character who is clever, without overdoing it. Jim DeGriz is the "good anti-hero", keeping life exciting for those whose lives consist of the same humdrum grind. This is the beginning of a series of steady 70's adventure stories designed to merely entertain-not enlighten, frighten or impress. It's comforting to know that Harry Harrison can be depended on for a short, sharp thriller…with no excess complications in plot or story line. The Stainless Steel Rat-01 (The Stainless Steel Rat) ![]() Science Fiction Book Club collection-"the adventures of the STAINLESS STEEL RAT"-a comfortable, quick read. ![]() ![]() ![]() No, it's extremely long and there are still a lot of books left in the series to finish. Would you listen to The Dragon Reborn again? Why? Patterns of the Wheel: Coloring Art Based on Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Timeīy Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, and Maria Simons The last six books in series were all instant number one New York Times best sellers, and The Eye of the World was named one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. Following Rand, Moiraine and their friends battle Darkhounds on the hunt, hoping they reach the Heart of the Stone in time for the next great test awaiting the Dragon Reborn. ![]() Traveling to the great fortress known as the Stone of Tear, he plans to find the sword Callandor, which can only be wielded by the Champion of Light, and discover if he truly is destined to battle The Dark One. ![]() ![]() Rand al’Thor has been proclaimed the Dragon Reborn. Winter has stopped the war - almost - yet men are dying, calling out for the Dragon. In The Dragon Reborn, the third novel in Robert Jordan’s number one New York Times best-selling epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time®, Rand al’Thor undertakes a journey to prove himself worthy of being the Champion of Light. Now an original series starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine! ![]() ![]() One False Note by Gordon Korman: The siblings are in the lead when their search takes them to Vienna and a coded piece of Mozart's sheet music. The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan: Amy and Dan Cahill begin a dangerous race when they discover the source of their family's power is hidden around the world in the form of 39 Clues. Beyond the Grave by Jude Watson: When the. The Sword Thief by Peter Lerangis: In Japan, Amy and Dan must decide whether or not to make an alliance with their unreliable uncle, Alistair Oh. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And the actual greatness that could arise is a threat to this norm.” ![]() “But then there’s also an inverse of that, which is that … people who aren’t (white) men should only be able to accomplish so much. “ always have power, regardless of what they put out into the world, regardless of their skill or talent,” she said. Commemorative Lecture, held March 1, said the white male in America has always enjoyed relatively unfettered passage – usually at the expense of others. Oluo, the featured speaker at the virtual Martin Luther King Jr. ![]() “The only thing that really made him exceptional,” said Oluo, author of ““Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America,” released in December 2020, “was his ability to wreak carnage on people and animals, and what a good liar he was.” ![]() As far as author Ijeoma Oluo is concerned, William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody is hardly the American hero he’s made out to be. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Joined by a distractingly handsome mercenary and a young scholar with extensive knowledge of the world’s known magics, Ziva and her sister set out on a quest to keep the sword safe until they can find a worthy wielder or a way to destroy it entirely. ![]() Weapon to enslave all the world under her rule, she takes her sister and flees. When Ziva learns of the warlord’s intentions to use the Sword that can cut far deeper than the length of its blade. Tricia Levenseller 3.97 11,914 ratings2,223 reviews How do you kill a god As her father's chosen heir, eighteen-year-old Rasmira has trained her whole life to become a warrior and lead her village. ![]() Warlord, and the result is a sword capable of stealing its victims secrets. Then Ziva receives a commission from a powerful She spends her days tucked away in her forge, safe from society and the anxiety it causes her, using her magical gift to craft unique weapons imbued with power. An eighteen-year-old chieftains daughter must find a way to kill her villages oppressive deity if she ever wants to return home in this Viking-inspired YA standalone fantasy from Tricia Levenseller, author of Daughter of the Pirate King. BLADE OF SECRETS is book 1 in the Bladesmith Duology.Įighteen-year-old Ziva prefers metal to people. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book, Summary of Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brene Brown is an unofficial summary and analysis of the original which includes: - Book Summary Overview - Chapter by Chapter Analysis - Background Information about the book - Background information about the author - Trivia questions, Discussion questions - And much more. We can also share with others and build up more emotional language as we learn more about emotions. ![]() Therefore, it is important to get to know ourselves and our emotions on the deepest levels. Once we learn to name emotions properly, we can also learn to use that emotion to move forward. Unrecognized emotions can lead to mental, physical, and spiritual health issues. ![]() This can leave us with unresolved and largely unhelpful emotions because we cannot recognize and learn from what is being felt. ![]() Still, most people do not have the emotional language to name all the emotions experienced in a lifetime. Having emotions separates us from other living things. Why is it that people are quick to say they're jealous of someone but will not admit to being envious? What's the difference between shame and guilt? Is feeling hopeless the same as feeling despair? Emotions are a natural occurrence for humans. ![]() |