Not Okay Cupid by Heidi R. Kling5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() PAINT MY BODY RED, takes place in pressure-cooker Silicon Valley and on a ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Its sequel, WHERE THE SEA TAKES ME, is also available now. WHERE I FOUND YOU is paperback of award-winning hardcover debut SEA, set in the aftermath of the Indonesian tsunami and inspired by a true story. ![]() She lives in a tiny coastal town with her husband, daughter, rescue pup Sailor and guinea pig Ruth Llama Guinesberg. ![]() Back in the Bay Area, Heidi volunteers with San Mateo and San Francisco County Libraries as a Teen Mental Health advocate through literature and writing, visiting author at BAYA and YANovCon. Santa Cruz as a writing major and received an MFA in Writing for Children from the New School. Heidi Kling was born in Los Angles and grew up there and in Northern California. ![]()
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Ascherson black sea5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() “A beautifully written meditation on nationality, colonialism, nomadism and the settled life, which goes back to the beginning of the human world and traces the fortunes of the Aegean and Mediterranean traders who squeezed up through the Bosporus to do business with the steppe societies of the huge Black Sea hinterland.” - Karl Miller, San Francisco Review of Books ![]() ![]() “To say it at once: this is a superb book, beautifully written, evocative, learned, and deeply subtle.” - Timothy Garton Ash, The Times Literary Supplement “History and time and place flow together superb, encompassing story of the Black Sea region.” - Mary Lee Settle, Los Angeles Times Ascherson's portrait of a place whose chief characteristic is the durability of its many ethnic identities comes at the right moment.” - Richard Bernstein, The New York Times ![]() With ethnic conflicts much in the headlines, Mr. rich both in historical data and in interpretation. “A searching examination of the lands that ring the Black Sea and that were the scenes of some of the most ancient multicultural experiences of human history. ![]() Beatles biography mark lewisohn5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() But you'll have to wait for volume two for all of that. (One may hazard the guess that the second volume will be called Turn On and the third Drop Out, but nobody is willing to confirm this.) The book clocks in at 932 pages and concludes on New Year's Eve 1962, the last night of the Beatles' rough-and-tumble, pharmaceutically driven Hamburg apprenticeship. The first volume of his long-anticipated three-part biography The Beatles: All These Years is just out in the U.S. ![]() Nobody else who has ever waded into this territory-telling the story of the greatest saga in the history of popular culture-has done so with as much swagger, style, power, or sheer confidence, the kind that comes from being way out ahead of the pack. The metaphor is unavoidable: Mark Lewisohn is the Beatles of Beatles biographers. ![]() ![]() It was better than the total focus on College-prep before the 10s, and at least did not force everybody to study useless knowledges when most people didn't have to go to colleges. The system was indeed unequal, but was not completely. I think it did not recognize the benifits of differentiated curriculum. ![]() Bad Side: It was written in 1995, kind of out-of-date. That's why the title is "the failed promise". It has the real national and regional Data! The book's conclusion about this past century is that differentiation in curriculum is undemocratic, and has been the source of American Secondary education's problem. Reading this book has achieved this goal for me, and I would suggest you to read the book if you want to know history told inpartially. I bought the book because I was working on a Education Reform plan, and needed to know more about secondary schools' historic developments. ![]() The best thing is, the book did not just discuss the major national events, and the ever-varying goals of education, but also used actual data from reasearches done in different times on different cities to evaluate the what really happened in students course taking patterns and course offering after and amid the chaos of all the national debates. This was such a brief (200 pages) and informative book on the main trends of American secondary education in this past centure. ![]() I am amazed that this book is so low on the bestselling list (300,000). ![]() Redeeming love book5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() The real problem with Angel is that her dream is to save enough money to buy a small cottage and live on her own, away from men. Life there was better for Angel than it had been before, but even then, the madam was increasingly controlling, kept her money under lock and key, and kept a “bodyguard” to make sure none of the girls ran away.Īnd yet, throughout Rivers’ book, we’re to think of Angel as bitter and angry. ![]() Once there, she was abused on the street and lived in squalor until a madam picked her up, along with some other girls, and started a brothel. When Angel was sixteen she successfully ran away, and boarded a boat to California. After Angel grew a few years older, she was trafficked to a wealthy clientele, still owned by the same abuser. When Angel’s mother died when she was eight, a kindly drunk arranged what he thought was an adoption for her into a wealthy family, but was actually a life of child sex slavery of the worst, most abusive kind you can imagine. After that the man cast her mother aside, and they lived in a hovel by the docks where her mother found a way to sustain them by working as a prostitute. She had a troubled life before then, too-her mother was a married man’s mistress, with her own little cottage, until Angel was three. She was eight when a wealthy businessman bought her as his sex slave. ![]() ![]() The book treats Angel as the one with the problem. ![]() Women of the world jen wilkin5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() In recent years, however, the resources written specifically for women tend to target our emotions before our intellect. Certainly men and women may interpret and apply Scripture in some ways that are gender-specific, but reading comprehension should happen in much the same way for both genders. Jen Wilkin: Ideally it isn’t that different. How is reading the Bible as a woman different than as a man? ![]() In today’s fast-paced world, investing time in a business career, maintaining the home environment, raising responsible children, developing social roots, and many more time-demanding activities all have a tendency to encroach on a woman’s consistent attention to establishing her own deep spiritual roots.īible Gateway interviewed Bible study leader Jen Wilkin ( about her book, Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds (Crossway, 2019). ![]() Ascend trylle trilogy 35/12/2023 ![]() And as her worlds collide, Wendy must sacrifice everything she loves to save them. But while her loyalties and duties are to her people, deeper passions are leading her elsewhere. With all-out war just days away, Wendy needs to act quickly if she is to save her friends and family. Finn - quiet, strong and determined to do what's right, and Loki - dark and seductive, a sworn enemy who once saved her life. As the big day approaches, Wendy can't stop thinking about two different men - and neither of them are her husband-to-be. And she certainly hadn't dreamt she'd be getting married at eighteen to a man she didn't love - all for the sake of duty. ![]() She'd wished for her life to be different but everything is so much more complicated than she'd expected. ![]() Product Description The third and final dramatic instalment in Amanda Hocking's page-turning trilogy Book Description Wendy Everly can barely remember what it was like to feel like a normal girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() A lot of it had the feel of kids making things up while playing: the secret passageways, the girls loving each other the instant they met (I quite liked that, though), Simon’s cave and his goose business, Mr. I loved where things went after Simon the goose boy helped Sylvia and Bonnie escape Miss Brisket, and I had to laugh at how quickly Miss Pattern (heh heh) whipped up clothing for the girls. Instead, I bumped up the speed and carried on. The behavior of the wolves was bananas (before they dropped out of the plot completely), the villains were extra villainous, and there was a point when I considered joining the grumpsters who disliked the book and wrote cranky reviews. ![]() ![]() This was a quick one on audio, read by the author’s daughter, Lizza Aiken, including a nice introduction about what the author and family were going through when she wrote the book. ![]() Know My Name by Chanel Miller5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “Many victims of sexual violence are subjected to the same terrible treatment by courts and universities that Ms. ![]() They will be convinced that Judge Persky and Stanford University behaved very badly,” said Michele Dauber, a Stanford law professor who launched the recall campaign. “When people read her book, they will be impressed with her. Judge Aaron Persky, who imposed the sentence, was recalled by voters in 2018, the first judge to be recalled in California since 1932. Many people were enraged when Turner was sentenced to six months in jail in 2016 after his conviction for felony sexual assault, more than a year before the #MeToo movement took off. I became closed off, angry, self-deprecating, tired, irritable, empty,” Miller wrote. “My independence, natural joy, gentleness, and steady lifestyle I had been enjoying became distorted beyond recognition. In it, she detailed how the assault and the aftermath affected her life. The emotional victim impact statement Miller read at his sentencing went viral, serving as a rallying cry for victims of sexual abuse. Miller’s author page on Penguin Random House’s website describes her as a San Francisco resident and a writer and artist with a degree in literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara.Ī jury found Turner guilty of assaulting Miller while she was incapacitated by alcohol in January 2015. ![]() The mission of art alex grey5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Vision and mission - To see or not to see - Deeply seeing - The mystic eye - Illuminating visions - Art of goodwill - Art as spiritual practiceĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 08:06:27 Boxid IA40282224 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-247) and index The text is accompanied by over fifty black and white reproductions of the author's own drawings and paintings A thought-provoking examination of how culture makes the soul visible, The Mission of Art challenges us to aim high with our creativity and bring beauty and fresh vision to our depleted and cynical world. He explores the role of an artist's intention and conscience, and how we of the postmodern age can draw on the creative process as a spiritual path. He reflects on the development of his own work, including provocative performances and the profoundly affecting psychedelic experiences which lead to his unique visionary art. Alex Grey traces the evolution of human consciousness through art history, seeking the threads of art's abiding mission. The Mission of Art is an inspirational text for artists and anyone who has glimpsed the spiritual power of art. ![]() |