![]() ![]() Political reporter Ron Brownstein elaborated on “wow,” saying: “Well, that’s pretty rough. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews summarily announced: “We all want to be protective of Caroline Kennedy.” When one of his guests, Michael Smerconish, merely asked what her qualifications were, an appalled Matthews said: “Wow.” The New York Times began a profile of Caroline by quoting an average citizen who “turns almost maternally protective” upon hearing Caroline’s name, mentioning the assassination of her father - nearly half a century ago. Indeed, you can’t turn on the TV without seeing some liberal playing victim to score the game-winning point.Ĭaroline Kennedy tried to Bigfoot her way into New York’s Senate seat while being bathed in the Kennedy light of eternal victimhood. I guess that would be hard to do when the corrupt Democratic governor of Illinois is running around comparing himself to Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr. ![]() I notice that liberals have not challenged the overall thesis of my rocketing bestseller, Guilty: Liberal ‘Victims’ and Their Assault on America, which is that liberals always play the victim in order to advance, win advantages and oppress others. ![]()
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![]() Therese was born in France in 1873, the pampered daughter of a mother who had wanted to be a saint and a father who had wanted to be monk. Over the years, some modern Catholics have turned away from her because they associate her with over- sentimentalized piety and yet the message she has for us is still as compelling and simple as it was almost a century ago. The only book of hers, published after her death, was an brief edited version of her journal called "Story of a Soul." (Collections of her letters and restored versions of her journals have been published recently.) But within 28 years of her death, the public demand was so great that she was canonized. She never went on missions, never founded a religious order, never performed great works. Yet Therese died when she was 24, after having lived as cloistered Carmelite for less than ten years. ![]() Generations of Catholics have admired this young saint, called her the "Little Flower", and found in her short life more inspiration for their own lives than in volumes by theologians. ![]() ![]() Set during a smallpox epidemic in San Francisco in 1876 and based on a true story, a burlesque dancer sets out to bring her friend's murderer to justice. ![]() Narrated by Khristine Hvam headphones Audiobook 12 hr 43 min Unabridged familyhome Eligible info 24.98 14.95 Audiobook Play.In her hands the centuries dissolve, and then they crystallize back again into powerful words on the page.’ Colum McCann Emma Donoghue follows her bestseller Room with Frog Music. Frog Music: A Novel Emma Donoghue Apr 2014 She steps borders and boundaries with great ease and style. ‘Time and again, Emma Donoghue writes books that are unlike anything I have ever seen before.’ Ann Patchett ‘Emma Donoghue is one of the great literary ventriloquists of our time. ![]() ![]() ![]() VERDICT A must-have for libraries serving teens and tweens.–Lisa Buffi, Sterling M.S., VA Catalina and her family are Mexican American. The race of most characters is not mentioned. True joy comes in watching Ellie gain confidence in herself and standing up to the bullies, even when they’re family. ![]() Ellie’s own family, except for her dad, also buy into that ideal, calling her “Splash,” making fun of her, and cataloguing everything she eats. Ellie’s story is heartbreaking and raw at times, and Fipps paints a realistic picture of bullying in a world that equates thinness with beauty. ![]() Once readers start, it will be difficult for them to put this book down. Wood, Ellie learns how to feel comfortable in her own skin. Ellie’s dad is also an ally he stands up to Ellie’s mom and decides to take Ellie to a therapist. When her best friend Viv moves away, a new friend, Catalina, fits right into her place. Luckily, her friends help keep her head up most of the time. Whether it comes from classmates, siblings, or even her mother, Ellie is constantly bombarded with comments about her size. Ellie is a middle school girl who is bullied every day for her weight. Gr 5 Up–A charming novel in verse about a girl struggling with self-worth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most recently there has been Ian McEwan's Atonement. Salman Rushdie's Shame and Fury, Peter Carey's Bliss, Anita Brookner's Providence and AS Byatt's Possession. He loses everything as a punishment for the affair and disgrace is his feeling that this is what he deserves.Ĭoetzee is not alone among practising novelists in announcing his works with one-word abstractions. ![]() ![]() He tries to accept "disgrace as my state of being". He is driven to a strange "ceremony" of self-abasement before the family of the girl he has forced himself on "he gets to his knees and touches his forehead to the floor". The would-be "servant of Eros" is a mere predator. Refusing to display the token penitence demanded by his university, Lurie comes to experience a deeper feeling of disgrace. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Instructed to pay close, sustained attention to their inner world, survivors can experience flashbacks, dissociation, and even retraumatization. But the reality is not so simple.ĭrawing on a decade of research and clinical experience, psychotherapist and educator David Treleaven shows that mindfulness meditation-practiced without an awareness of trauma-can exacerbate symptoms of traumatic stress. This means that anywhere mindfulness is being practiced, someone in the room is likely to be struggling with trauma.Īt first glance, this appears to be a good thing: trauma creates stress, and mindfulness is a proven tool for reducing it. At the same time, trauma remains a fact of life: the majority of us will experience a traumatic event in our lifetime, and up to 20% of us will develop posttraumatic stress. From elementary schools to psychotherapy offices, mindfulness meditation is an increasingly mainstream practice. ![]() ![]() The dissolution effectively represented the culmination of what was known as perestroika, a period of unprecedented reform in Russia. The Soviet era was brought to a close.īut it didn’t all happen in a flash. This, in effect, dismantled the Communist Party itself. ![]() Just days later, on August 24, Gorbachev dissolved the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev had them arrested, including his own vice president. Soon enough the soldiers sided with the protesters, and the GKChP backed down. ![]() In response, thousands of Muscovites poured onto the streets to protest, setting up barricades to halt the army tanks commanded by the GKChP. ![]() A group known as the General Committee on the State Emergency (GKChP) staged a coup while the president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, was on vacation in Crimea. On Augsomething extraordinary occurred in Moscow. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We are all decision designers, for ourselves and for others. This book is essential for businesspeople, policy makers, and anyone tasked with helping others make decisions. He draws on his original studies and meta-analyses of decision-building findings to reveal how the structure of choices affects outcomes. Johnson is the lead researcher behind some of the most well-known and cited research on decision-making. These levers are unappreciated, and we're often unaware of just how much they influence our reasoning. ![]() The designers of decisions need to consider all the elements involved in presenting a choice: how many options to offer, how to present them, how to account for our natural cognitive shortcuts, and much more. Johnson offers a comprehensive, systematic guide to creating effective choice architectures, the environments in which decisions are made.Ĭhoice architecture is a multifaceted set of tools for anticipating how people make specific decisions. Going well beyond the familiar concepts of nudges and defaults, Eric J. The Elements of Choice goes one step further and explains how we can design better end-to-end decision-making processes. Plenty of books dwell on the faults in our decision-making or offer advice on how to make better choices. A guide to the inner workings of how decisions are made-and an essential tool kit for helping others make decisions better ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So when the Kitsen send word from the planet Evershore, saying they have some humans and wish to return them, they have to decie if the strange message can be trusted. Skyward is a series of 7 books written by Brandon Sanderson. With her mentor captured, she turns to her new friends to help: can Alanik, FM, Jorgen and Rig coax an ancient technology into life in time to save both their planets from disaster?Īnd in Evershore, the government of Detritus is still in disarray following Superiority treachery, and no word has come from Spensa, on her mission deep in the Nowhere, leaving Alanik, Jorgen, FM and Rig to pick up the pieces. Worse, when she returns to her home planet of ReDawn, she find her own people falling into exactly the same trap. In ReDawn, Alanik has recovered from the shock of answering a distress call and finding a planet of humans making a stand against the Superiority, only to be dismayed to discover they’re considering a peace overture from their enemy. Her Skyward Flight companion Spensa figured out how to draw this Delver away, but it won’t be so easy next time. In Sunreach, after a planet-destroying Delver suddenly appears in the sky of Detritus and vanishes just as suddenly, FM knows that the last free human society got lucky. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the story of the perfect worlds Sam and Sadie build, the imperfect world they live in, and of everything that comes after success: Money. 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