![]() ![]() Bestselling author and former NFL player Trent Shelton has been through some hard times as well, and he shares his own story of finding himself and a better path forward, providing straight-up truths and uplifting advice to help you through the issues you face at school, at home, or within yourself.Who do you have in your life who's not afraid to tell you the honest-to-God truth? Who do you have who's a real source of wisdom when life gets real?With his trademark combination of raw honesty and practical next steps, motivational speaker Trent Shelton shares the missteps he made growing up and the hard-won lessons he learned in short, easy-to read chapters and thought-provoking questions. Navigating life can be tough sometimes, especially as a teen. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() His own family.įor even the City of Light casts long shadows. Louise Pennys much loved hero confronts a dark plot lurking beneath the elegant facades of Paris - lose yourself in the breathtaking new crime thriller by the 1 bestselling author. ![]() In order to find the truth, Gamache will have to decide whether he can trust his friends, his colleagues, his instincts, his own past. Soon the whole family is caught up in a web of lies and deceit. It sends them deep into the secrets Armand’s godfather has kept for decades.Ī gruesome discovery in Stephen’s Paris apartment makes it clear the secrets are more rancid, the danger far greater and more imminent, than they realized. When a strange key is found in Stephen’s possession it sends Armand, his wife Reine-Marie, and his former second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, from the top of the Tour d’Eiffel, to the bowels of the Paris Archives, from luxury hotels to odd, coded, works of art. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident, but a deliberate attempt on the elderly man’s life. On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand’s godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. The sixteenth in Louise Penny’s #1 New York Times bestselling Chief Inspector Gamache novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These people who came before us, those great men of faith, many of whom suffered persecution and martyrdom to preserve the Church and Christ's mission, bridge the gap between the Bible and the present day fill the void we sometimes wonder about when we get to the end of reading Acts or the Epistles and think, “what happened next?” or “what happened to the Ephesian church after Paul left?” - well now you can read for yourself and see how God continued to grow His Church! Over the course of this reading plan you will read extracts and commentary on 23 different early Church texts from a selection of some of the most influential Church Fathers:ĭidache, Diognetus, Polycarp, Ignatius, Justin Martyr, Cyprian, Athanasius, Cyril of Jerusalem, Ambrose of Milan, and Leo the Great. Take a journey through the first 400 years of Church History in only 40 days! ![]() ![]() ![]() Harry Weinberger’s papers are housed at Manuscripts and Archives at the Yale Library, and the papers of playwright Sholem Asch are housed at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. “Indecent” draws from materials in the Yale University Library. It was written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel, the Yale Rep’s playwright in residence, and created with Rebecca Taichman, a 2000 graduate of the Yale School of Drama, who directs. The controversial 1923 production of “The God of Vengeance” is the subject of “Indecent,” a new play with music that premiered last week at the Yale Repertory Theater. Weinberger, a civil libertarian and prominent attorney who had defended Emma Goldman and other radical activists, represented himself and the cast in an obscenity trial that resulted in their convictions. ![]() The producer, Harry Weinberger, and the 12-member cast pleaded not guilty to the crime of “unlawfully advertising, giving, presenting, and participating in an obscene, indecent, immoral, and impure drama or play.” On March 6, 1923, the cast and producer of the Broadway debut of Sholem Asch’s “The God of Vengeance” were arrested on obscenity charges. ![]() ![]() ![]() Belle’s parents, Richard and Genevieve, had a promising start in life. ![]() In several flashbacks, the reader learns more about Belle’s history. She also learns at a party at the Vanderbilt mansion that women in this world are bold and use flirtation as social currency, an approach that runs counter to the modesty and invisibility Genevieve, Belle’s mother, has always advised. Belle quickly learns that being white will not allow her to overcome prejudices against women working in the male-dominated field of art and rare book collecting. and the elite New Yorkers she encounters do not know is that Belle is a Black woman passing as white. ![]() Belle da Costa Greene, born Belle Marion Greener, is a Princeton-educated librarian who lands a high-profile job with steel magnate J.P. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I appreciate that although this is also a coming-of-age story, it’s different than the (unfortunate) norm in that it’s about a girl coming of age! OMG WHAT A CONCEPT! I’m not bitter, I swear. I won’t go into detail about because I would hate to ruin the story for you. The Ghost Tree does use some tried-and-true tropes of the sub-genre. I received an ARC of this book from Net Galley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. And that if nobody else stands for the missing, she will. But as she draws closer to answers, she realizes that the foundation of her seemingly normal town might be rotten at the center. So when Lauren has a vision of a monster dragging the remains of the girls through the woods, she knows she can’t just do nothing. Even her best friend, Miranda, has become more interested in boys than in spending time at the old ghost tree, the way they used to when they were kids. ![]() After all, the year before her father’s body was found with his heart missing, and since then everyone has moved on. When the bodies of two girls are found torn apart in the town of Smiths Hollow, Lauren is surprised, but she also expects that the police won’t find the killer. When people go missing in the sleepy town of Smith’s Hollow, the only clue to their fate comes when a teenager starts having terrifying visions, in The Ghost Tree, a chilling horror novel from national bestselling author Christina Henry. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was in that closet where she began creating worlds of wonder. ![]() As a young child she used to hide in her closet to escape the adult chaos that surrounded her. But can she do it without becoming a casualty of the killer’s sick fantasy?Įlla grew up in a small Northern California town, much like the one in the Natalie Miller Mysteries. With her trusty canine sidekick Honey and best friend Karen Cain, Natalie will use her psychic abilities to help unravel the secrets of one of Hollywood’s biggest stars. With a little twist of fate she finds herself knee deep in murder, danger and maybe, just maybe a little bit of romance. One night while working the closing shift at Super Thrifty, Natalie crosses paths with the Hollywood super couple. ![]() Fast forward three years and Natalie finds herself working as a minimum wage cashier, driving a twenty year old car, living in a cracker box apartment and divorced. In stark contrast, small town psychic, Natalie Miller once had it all- a good job, new car, beautiful home, and a handsome husband. But everyone, no matter how rich and famous has secrets, and some of them are deadly. With money, fame and super-hot actor boyfriend Simon Bellamy, her life was seemingly perfect. Hollywood starlet Hannah Gold was living a charmed life. With cynical wit and a foul mouth that would make a sailor blush, Natalie Miller will soon become your new best friend. She's not your typical small town psychic. ![]() ![]() Is this a travel book? Yes, but not a typical one. In my quest for the world’s happiest places, I eat rotten Icelandic shark, smoke Moroccan hashish and intervene to save (almost) an insect in distress. I travel to Switzerland, where I discover the hidden virtues of boredom to the tiny-and extremely wealthy-Persian Gulf nation of Qatar, where the relationship between money and happiness is laid bare to India, where Westerners seek their bliss at the feet of gurus to Thailand, where not thinking is a way of life to a small town outside London where happiness experts attempt to “change the psychological climate.” I am no dispassionate observer. As I make my way from Iceland (one of the world’s happiest countries) to Bhutan (where the king has made Gross National Happiness a national priority) to Moldova (not a happy place), I call upon the collective wisdom of “the self-help industrial complex” to help navigate the path to contentment. Using the ancient philosophers and the much more recent “science of happiness” as my guide, I travel the world in search of the happiest places and what we can learn from them. But for The Geography of Bliss, I decided to tell the other side of the story by visiting some of the world’s most contented places. It is all of those things, and more.įor years, as a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, I covered a multitude of catastrophes, natural and man-made. ![]() I like to think of it as a philosophical humorous travel memoir. ![]() The Geography of Bliss is a tough book to nail down. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eighty of the early houses remained, updated for modern living but proudly displaying ornamented brown-shingle facades, artist-studio windows and other period features. More than 50 years after Lawrence Park ceased to exist as an art colony, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, in recognition of its historic and architectural significance. Bates designed the Park's single-family "cottages" in a pleasing variety of turn-of-the-century styles. ![]() Edmund Clarence Stedman was called the Poet of Wall Street. Alice Wellington Rollins was a regular contributor to the day's literary magazines. Anna Winegar's Impressionist garden scenes illustrated horticultural books by Louise Beebe Wilder. Will Low designed murals for government buildings and private mansions. William Smedley painted distinguished society portraits. In the years between 18, Lawrence Park was the home of two dozen nationally prominent painters, writers and architects. Lawrence Park is the story of Bronxville's turn-of-the-century art colony: the artists and their art, the houses they lived in and how the village of Bronxville grew up around them. ![]() ![]() ** I received an ARC from NetGalley and the publisher (thank you!) in exchange for an honest review. I have no idea if this is the final book in the series or if there's more to come - because things did kind of follow a natural conclusion and close the book on all the scandals - but if so. I would definitely recommend this for fans of Pretty Little Liars and, even if that's not your thing at all, but you still like tightly packed twisty stories with strong characters, you'll dig this, too. " At this point, I could literally become a porn star, and I still wouldn't be the real scandal in this family." ![]() The predictable pacing of a typical kind of mystery doesn't really apply here. Not too devastating and yet packing the right kind of punch for you to feel the rollercoaster without being too numb from all the wow moments.īarnes keeps you guessing all the way through, and even leaves reveals almost to the very last chapter, and I think that adds to the fun. The hijinks are a little less light hearted and yet the way things resolved, and didn't, felt. But definitely not how far things will go or the surprises that are in store. ![]() And also as long you read book one, and I don't know why you'd skip it, you'll be prepared for the kind of unreal and unbelievable things. ![]() ![]() That said, things do veer towards the unreal and unbelievable but honestly it was still a really fun time. If I thought the first book in this series was wild, I didn't know anything. ![]() |