![]() ![]() I'm happy to share these tales that highlight our human comedy as well as our human potential for strength, kindness, wisdom, and love. All contain wit, wisdom, and embedded lessons for living.īeginning with a story of "Two Monks", and ending with "Radical Acceptance", Millman as narrator opens with this reminder: "Our stories, the ones we tell and the ones we live, set humanity apart from other animals. Some are from the Zen or Sufi or Jewish traditions. ![]() ![]() For three decades Dan Millman - author of Way of the Peaceful Warrior - has included stories and anecdotes in his numerous books. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Central allegorical tenets of the image are in turn based on a poem by Isaac Teale, "The Sable Venus: An Ode" (included in Edwards' book) which, according to Dan Chiasson, who reviewed Lewis's collection in The New Yorker, "celebrates the pleasures of raping slave women, since black and white-Sable Venus and Botticelli's Venus-are, after all, the same 'at night'. ![]() The image has an African woman who like many images of Venus Anadyomene stands on an opened half-shell, but this black Venus is surrounded by white cherubs and moves across the Middle Passage, urged on by Triton. The title of the book comes from an image by British painter Thomas Stothard (1755–1834), an engraving of which served as the frontispiece of the 1801 edition of History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies by British politician Bryan Edwards, a staunch supporter of the slave trade who published a number of books describing the economy and history of the West Indies. Engraving by William Grainger of Thomas Stothard, Voyage of the Sable Venus from Angola to the West Indies, 1801. ![]() ![]() SEPTEMBER ENDS has been labeled an “Indie Sensation” due the critical reception and international recognition the novel has received. This novel is written with an anonymous English poet. October 2013 saw the launch of a novel collaboration, SEPTEMBER ENDS, contemporary fiction laced with romance, erotic and supernatural elements, bound by poetry. ![]() I live in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia with my husband, my books, too many clothes, too many shoes and way too many stacks of notepads and journals. I also adore the works of John Grisham, and own a huge selection of his books. Moon Rose Publishing included my novella, Magic in Memphis, available as a short story on Amazon, in their anthology, A Celtic Collection.Įdgar Allan Poe and Anne Rice have always fascinated me, although like any Southern girl, I will always idolize Margaret Mitchell for writing Gone With The Wind. Since then, I have published articles on music, fashion, art, travel and history.Ĭurrently, I have a music/entertainment blog My debut novella, Fables of the Reconstruction, was published in 2012. ![]() My first published stories were for a local underground rock publication in Nashville. ![]() However, since you ask, I have lived in Tennessee and Georgia my entire life, except for one “lost summer” spent in Los Angeles. The art form I create when writing is much more interesting than anything you will ever know or learn about me. ![]() ![]() ![]() 1 bestseller about a woman living life rather too well and being whisked away from it all, from the No. Keyes's comic gift is always evident" INDEPENDENT "Comic, convincing and true" GUARDIAN "Mercilessly funny" THE TIMES "Funny, tender and completely absorbing!" GRAHAM NORTONĪ SPECIAL 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION NARRATED BY THE AUTHOR Discover the deliciously dark and fantastically funny No. "Gloriously funny" SUNDAY TIMES "Irresistible, profound. But not as hard as losing the man who she realises, all too late, might just be the love of her life. She's only agreed to her incarceration because she's heard that rehab is wall-to-wall jacuzzis, gymnasiums and rock stars going cold turkey - plus it's about time she had a holiday. ![]() But her sensible older sister showing up and sending her off to actual rehab wasn't quite part of her plan. She's been living it up in New York City, spending her nights talking her way into glamorous parties before heading home in the early hours to her hot boyfriend Luke. ![]() 1 bestselling author of Grown Ups 'How did it end up like this? Twenty-seven, unemployed, mistaken for a drug addict, in a treatment centre in the back arse of nowhere with an empty Valium bottle in my knickers. A SPECIAL 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION NARRATED BY THE AUTHOR Discover the deliciously dark and fantastically funny No. ![]() ![]() You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. ![]() ![]() NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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Michael West is the critically acclaimed author of The Wide Game, Cinema of Shadows, and Skull Full of Kisses. Ritesh: Wow! This sound like a really interesting book, but what got me really into is was this book trailer: Now, to stop the carnage,Larry and his new-found friends must work together to unravel a mystery as old as time, and face an enemy as dark as the ocean depths.” And when one of these victims turns out to be the only son of Roger Hays, the most powerful man in the country, things go from bad to worse. Vacationing artist Larry Neuhaus has just witnessed a gruesome shark attack, a young couple torn apart right before his eyes … at least, he thinks it was a shark. But all that is about to change. After the ruins of a vast, ancient civilization are discovered on the ocean floor, Coast Guard officers find a series of derelict ships drifting in the current–high-priced yachts and leaking fishing boats, all ransacked, splattered in blood, their crews missing and presumed dead. “Man no longer worships the old gods forgotten and forsaken, they have become nothing more than myth and legend. ![]() Poseidon’s Children Book One of the Legacy of the Gods Series ![]() ![]() ![]() Steinbeck's tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America's most widely read and beloved novels. Summary Read one-minute Sparklet summaries, the detailed section-by-sectionSummary & Analysis, the Full Book Summary, or the Full Book Analysis of Of Mice and Men. Of Mice and Men also represents an experiment in form, as Steinbeck described his work, "a kind of playable novel, written in novel form but so scened and set that it can be played as it stands." A rarity in American letters, it achieved remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films. Of Mice and Men is a novella by John Steinbeck that was first published in 1937. But after they come to work on a ranch in the fertile Salinas Valley of California, their hopes, like "the best laid schemes o' mice an' men," begin to go awry. Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own-a couple of acres and a few pigs, chickens, and rabbits back in Hill Country where land is cheap. ![]() ![]() An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a world marred by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm not sure I'd recommend the book to teens if they weren't interested in the how far gay rights have evolved. HEY, DOLLFACE would be a good novel discussion in a history of the LGBT movement or as part of a discussion of then and now. I wonder if censors made write Deborah Hautzig change the ending or tone down the lesbian angle. What could have been a brave foray into the story of two girls exploring their sexuality confused me as a teen, and felt like a cop out in 2015. Like Val, when it happened to me, I never thought to tell an adult, but unlike her, I was too ashamed to tell anyone. As a contrast, an adult male hitting on a teenage girl was considered "normal". I remember having similar questions, not about a friend, but about my sexuality. Like narrator Val, I was a sophomore when HEY, DOLLFACE was released. HEY, DOLLFACE should be viewed as a period piece, because the attitudes about homosexuality are so antiquated, otherwise teens today won't be able to relate to the story. Val questions whether the friendship might be something more, in a time when homosexuality was thought to be abnormal. ![]() In 1978, sophomores Val and Chloe are new to their private school. Grade: C+ (as historical fiction or a period piece) ![]() ![]() Burg’s use of these two wonderful worlds in Matt’s healing process was magical and filled my heart with all sorts of happy! :D Matt turned to music and baseball for solace. How does a heart or soul survive that kind of trauma? How does a child heal and attempt to move on? People deal with grief in so many ways-from silence to lashing out. The force and power of his struggle broke my heart into pieces right from the get-go. All the characters touched my heart, but Matt had me in emotional knots at page one. There is a lot going on in these pages, but every development and struggle is presented with such honesty, heart and grace. Now adopted and living in the United States, Matt must start to face all the pain, memories, prejudice, questions about his parents, and uncertainty with his adopted family before he can begin to heal, forgive and find his way in the world. Matt Pin was just ten years old when he was airlifted out of a worn torn Vietnam and away from his home, family, and all he ever knew. Burg seems to use each word with care and gets right to the emotion and power. ![]() ![]() With a down the middle of the plate, straight forward style, this story and words hit home and my heart hard! With the verse format, Ms. Burg addresses such a big, traumatic and powerful issue in such a pure way. Haha…My biggest literary fear is now a craving! Wow! :)Īll the Broken Pieces by Ann E. It feels good to be back in the big, “scary” world of verse novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are two alternate endings, neither of which is exactly the same as in the book. The plot about the dead daughter and estranged wife only exists in the movie, just like the father in an institution and the first "serious" book he wrote. In the movie, Mike's life story is explored in more detail, and it also affects his hallucinations in the room. ![]() We don't find out much about his life either before or after entering the room. ![]() The story in the book is pretty short and relies mainly on atmosphere there isn't a lot of plot there, and the part where Mike stays in the room is quite short. Plot/character differences: The basic idea of "horror writer who believes in nothing enters haunted hotel room" is the same in both, but the details are very different. The movie was directed by Mikael Håfström and starred John Cusack and Samuel L. The screenplay was written by Matt Greenberg, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. Before that, it appeared in an audio book called Blood and Smoke (1999). King decided to expand it into a short story, which was then published in the collection Everything's Eventual (2003) along with 13 other stories. The book: Stephen King's 1408 first appeared in his non-fiction book On Writing as an example of how a book develops from first to second draft. ![]() |