5/30/2023 0 Comments Margaret olemaun pokiak fenton![]() ![]() ![]() It is also a sequel to the picture book When I Was Eight. As her family watches with pride, Margaret knows she has found her place once more.īased on the true story of Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, and complemented by evocative illustrations, Not My Girl makes the original, award-winning memoir, A Stranger at Home, accessible to younger children. With time, she earns her father’s trust enough to be given a dogsled of her own. Gradually, Margaret relearns the words and ways of her people. Her only comfort is in the books she learned to read at school. She can’t even stomach her mother’s food. Now ten years old, she has forgotten her language and the skills to hunt and fish. Margaret’s years at school have changed her. This strange, skinny child, with her hair cropped short, can’t be her daughter. Now she has returned and can barely contain her excitement as she rushes towards her waiting family-but her mother stands still as a stone. Two years ago, Margaret left her Arctic home for the outsiders’ school. ![]() Margaret can’t wait to see her family, but her homecoming is not what she expected. ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments Paramahansa yogananda books![]() ![]() The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda, Recorded, Compiled & Edited by His Disciple, Swami Kriyananda ![]() P aramhansa Yogananda: A Biography, With Personal Reflections and Reminiscences, by Swami KriyanandaĬonversations With Yogananda: Stories, Sayings, and Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda, by Swami Kriyananda Thank You, Master, by Margaret Bowen Deitz My Reminiscences of Paramhansa Yogananda, by Srimati Meera Ghosh The New Path: My Life With Paramhansa Yogananda, by Swami KriyanandaĮxperiences With My Guru, Paramhansa Yogananda, by Hare Krishna Ghosh (These books can also be purchased from Crystal Clarity Publishers.) Follow these links to explore more books by and about Yogananda, including insights from some of his closest disciples and members of his family. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Absalom absalom goodreads![]() The tale begins in the 1930s, namely in the American South, just as racial segregation had been legalized and Prohibition-era was at its peak. It was published in the year of 1932, spanning about 500 pages, in total. Light in August is a marvelous novel that we cannot wait to read once more. Rightfully among the best-selling Faulkner books and the most popular Faulkner books, Light in August is among our favorite works by the writer. With that said, let us now divert our attention to our picks for the best William Faulkner books. He attended the University of Mississippi, with Stone being by his side. ![]() When only seventeen, he met Phil Stone, who influenced his writing early on. ![]() With time, the family moved once more, this time to Oxford, Mississippi, and it is here that the writer lived most of his life, even though it was a continuous residency. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Nagoski sisters burnout![]() ![]() “This is all very familiar to me,” she told me over email. Others have argued that scaling back at work is too risky for women and people of color.ĭerek Thompson: Three myths of the Great ResignationĪmelia Nagoski, a co-author, with her sister Emily Nagoski, of the book Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle, thinks the new term is useful-although she isn’t surprised by the discourse around it. “Back in the day it was called a regular work shift,” reads the top comment, with more than 24,000 likes, on one TikTok. Is this really anything new? Many people have criticized the term, saying that it’s just another phrase for having a job. The polling company Gallup found that at least half of Americans-maybe more-fit the definition of quiet quitting. TikToks dissecting the concept have amassed millions of views, prompting many national media outlets to publish explainers on the topic. ![]() To cite the Oxford English Dictionary of our very online times, Google searches for quiet quitting were basically nonexistent until this past August.īut now it’s everywhere. The second thing you need to know is that the term is brand-new, so everyone is still figuring out the rest. ![]() Instead, the quitter keeps their job and chooses to do only the bare minimum rather than go above and beyond. ![]() The first thing you need to know about quiet quitting is that it’s not actually quitting. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Going postal novel![]() In 2008, Harper Children's published Terry's standalone non-Discworld YA novel, Nation. The first of these, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal.Ī non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback - Harper Torch, 2006 - and trade paperback - Harper Paperbacks, 2006). There are over 40 books in the Discworld series, of which four are written for children. ![]() Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Dinotopia book order![]() ![]() First, the un-numbered books: Dinotopia (A Land Apart from Time) - James Gurney Dinotopia the World Beneath - James Gurney Dinotopia: Lost - Alan Dean Foster Hand of Dinotopia - Alan Dean Foster And the numbered series: Windchaser by Scott Ciencin – Raymond, 13, and Hugh, a young street thief, are shipwrecked on Dinotopia Island, where humans and dinosaurs live in idyllic harmony. Please let us know if you have any questions. We will do our best to send as many books as possible that are in good or better condition but a few of these are a bit rare and we may only have "acceptable" in stock. Also, please note that a few of these books may be former library books. ![]() ![]() Please note that book size and cover art may vary. This auction is for one complete set of 17 Dinotopia books, mostly by James Gurney and Alan Dean Foster, titles listed below. Item: 331693145403 Complete Set Series - Lot of 17 Dinotopia Books - James Gurney, Alan Dean Foster. ![]() ![]() The narrator of the story tells of his dream, in which he imagined he was a Pharisee who has just helped to crucify Christ. The Post gives no more identification of the author than the letter “P.” One is a short story entitled “A Dream” from 1831. There’s also mystery of unsigned pieces that might be the work of Poe. ![]() By the time of it appeared, Poe was long gone from the Academy. Poe had dedicated his book to the cadets of West Point because many of them had loaned him money to have the book printed. ![]() Corps of Cadets, as the volume is dedicated to that body. The author is, we believe, a member of the U.S. Poe, a part of which was published in a former edition. ![]() We extract the following poetry from a small 18mo volume of poems, by Edgar A. The Post also printed one of Poe early poems, “To Helen.” (“Helen, thy beauty is to me/ Like those Nicean barks of yore…”) When it appeared on May 21, 1831, Poe was so little known that the editors felt obliged to give him an introduction: ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The Deep by Alma Katsu![]() ![]() And she is convinced that he did not – could not – have survived the sinking of the Titanic. Plagued by the demons of her doomed first and near fatal journey across the Atlantic, Annie comes across an unconscious soldier she recognises while doing her rounds. And a survivor of that fateful night, Annie, is working as a nurse on the sixth voyage of the Titanic’s sister ship, the Britannic, now refitted as a hospital ship. And then, as the world knows, disaster strikes. Now suspended in an eerie, unsettling twilight zone during the four days of the liner’s illustrious maiden voyage, a number of the passengers – including millionaires Madeleine Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim, the maid Annie Hebbley and Mark Fletcher – are convinced that something sinister is going on. ![]() This is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the passengers of the ship from the moment they set sail: mysterious disappearances, sudden deaths. Someone, or some thing, is haunting the Titanic. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Mircea eliade maitreyi devi![]() ![]() I read that she even took the trouble of travelling to the US to meet Eliade to discuss the feelings she had when finding out about the revelations in French. She was then married and a woman of prominence. He had published some of it in French, and Maitreyi only found out about this at the mature age of 57. Maitreyi and Mircea's knowing was not long and apparently did not proceed to sexual intimacy, yet Mircea took the liberty to write about the sexual fantasies Maitreyi's presence caused in him. Eliade came to study with Maitreyi's father in Kolkata in 1930, and because of the tremendous trust the father had on her genius daughter, 16 at the time, he let her study together with the 23-year old university man from Europe. Maitreyi was Tagore's discipline in Kolkata, who got involved with the Western scholar, and also herself a promising intellectual, poet and social activist. Today I am curious about something I read about a long ago but forgot, Romanian anthropologist Mircea Eliade's (1907-1986) book Bengali Nights (1994) that was published in English only after her beloved Maitreyi Devi's (1914-1990) death. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Sons and lovers![]() In response, Morel turns to her sons, namely, William, the eldest, thinking of him as a model that she can enrich to play out her own destroyed ambitions. ![]() They begin to quarrel and grow apart Walter opts to go straight to the bar after each workday. Not long after, she marries him and begins to question her decision as she feels the limiting impact of his small salary, about which he omitted the truth, on her own life’s possibilities. At a dance on Christmas, she meets Walter Morel and begins a romance that is driven mainly by physical passion. The novel begins by introducing Morel, who begins as the unmarried Gertrude Coppard. ![]() She ages and has several sons who, in their relationships with her, both repeat and create their own problematic patterns. When Morel commits to a relationship, she learns about the many pitfalls and limitations of claiming and becoming accountable to a life path. Morel reacts by becoming a highly perceptive wallflower, pretending to enjoy a trivial social existence in order to observe guests at parties. Gertrude Morel, a young woman full of life and ambition, struggles to self-actualize in the early twentieth-century society of Britain, which squelches discourse between women. His novel Sons and Lovers (1913) was derided upon publication, but today is often considered his best work. ![]() ![]() Lawrence is considered one of the greatest English writers of modernity. ![]() |
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