![]() ![]() ![]() Rick Warren will guide you through a personal 40-day spiritual journey that will transform your answer to life's most important question: What on earth am I here for? Knowing God's purpose for creating you will reduce your stress, focus your energy, simplify your decisions, give meaning to your life, and, most importantly, prepare you for eternity. This book will help you understand why you are alive and God's amazing plan for you-both here and now, and for eternity. You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. You must begin with God, your Creator, and his reasons for creating you. ![]() Self-help books often suggest that you try to discover the meaning and purpose of your life by looking within yourself, but Rick Warren says that is the wrong place to start. These purposes will extend far beyond the few years you will spend on earth. Even before the universe was created, God had you in mind, and he planned you for his purposes. ![]()
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![]() "When Wilma Rudolph Played Basketball," by Mark Weakland CapstoneĪ parent in Prosper, a Dallas suburb, said this illustrated children's book, which touches on the racism that Olympian Wilma Rudolph experienced growing up in Tennessee in the 1940s, should be removed from school libraries because "it opines prejudice based on race." 3. "Drama," by Raina Telgemeier ScholasticĪ parent asked administrators at the Spring Branch Independent School District in Houston to pull this graphic novel, which features gay and bisexual characters, because she claimed it might lead young students "to question their sexual orientation when they don't even comprehend what that means." 2. Several titles were targeted in multiple districts.ĭrawing from those records, below is a list of 50 books that Texas parents tried to ban in 2021. NBC News sent public records requests to nearly 100 school districts in the Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin regions - a small sampling of the state’s 1,250 public school systems - and found 86 formal requests to remove books from libraries last year, the vast majority coming during the final four months of the year. ![]() ![]() According to Hannah Giorgis of The Atlantic, Guillory's writing frequently includes consent as a theme. Her work features protagonists of color and addresses race throughout the storylines. Her subsequent novels include The Proposal (2018), The Wedding Party (2019), and Party of Two (2020). The book was noted in publications by Target, Elle Magazine, The Washington Post, and USA Today Bestsellers. ![]() ![]() She participated in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), an annual writing project where she completed half of a book draft for her first published novel, The Wedding Date (2018). In April 2015, Guillory began transitioning to a career as an author. She graduated in 2002, and later clerked at a Federal District Court in San Francisco for two years before joining a law firm where she focused on security and intellectual property. for two years before attending Stanford Law School. After graduation, Guillory worked in Washington D.C. She then majored in history at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, graduating in 1997. Guillory graduated from Bishop O'Dowd High School in Oakland, California in 1993. In February 2019, her book, The Proposal, was ranked on The New York Times Best Seller list for paperback trade fiction. Her works' protagonists are often African-American professionals. ![]() Jasmine Guillory is an American romance novelist. Guillory at the 2022 Texas Book Festival. ![]() ![]() ![]() Blue bloods to their very core, they would never open discuss something as vulgar as money thanks to trust funds and smart real estate, they know they will never be poor. It’s a juicy depiction of an old-money WASP-y family living in a corner of Brooklyn where rich WASP-y families have always lived. “Pineapple Street” in short is a comedy of manners (Jackson has been compared to Edith Wharton). Sasha, the wife of Cord, the oldest brother, is regarded as an outsider and mocked as a “gold digger” because she was raised middle-class in Rhode Island and is therefore NOKD (or Not-Our-Kind-Dear). Her younger sister Georgiana has a crush on her handsome boss at the not-for-profit where they work but is depressed because he doesn’t seem to notice her. Tilda’s daughter Darly, an ex-Goldman banker, gave up her lucrative career to raise a family. For instance, Tilda Stockton, the matriarch of a Brooklyn Heights family from prestigious Pineapple Street, worries if she will have the right costume for her next themed party. But they are strictly of the first-world variety. ![]() Hemingway was said to have responded, “Yes, they have more money.”īesides money, the rich, according to Jenny Jackson’s likable new novel “Pineapple Street,” also have problems. ![]() Scott Fitzgerald reportedly told Ernest Hemingway. “The rich are different from you and me,” F. ![]() ![]() ![]() The foods that contribute to weight gain are largely a result of too much sugar and too much refined carbohydrates. ![]() Exercise is 5% of it (I would have said it was 70/30, so this was interesting). High insulin levels are a direct result of poor diet, and are 95% of the cause of obesity. High insulin levels are responsible for obesity, and to a smaller degree, so can high cortisol levels (being overly stressed can lead to weight gain). The main theory of the book is that the root cause of obesity and weight gain is a complex hormonal imbalance, that stems from high blood insulin levels. Highly recommended for everyone (the title is misleading, its not just for obese people). ![]() Well backed with science and uses studies to make all his points. The best book about how to eat healthy and the reasoning behind it that I've yet read. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a free-access event - entrance will be on a first-come, first-served basis.įrom The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History comes the highly anticipated follow-up, LITTLE DREAMERS: Visionary Women Around the World by Vashti Harrison, a beautifully illustrated collectible detailing the lives of female creators around the world.įeaturing the true stories of 40 female creators, ranging from writers to inventors, artists to scientists, LITTLE DREAMERS Visionary Women Around the World inspires as it educates. ![]() ![]() PLEASE NOTE: Submitting an RSVP for this event DOES NOT guarantee entrance. Please fill out the form at the bottom of this page if you plan on attending. 28 Adams Street (Corner of Adams & Water Street the Archway) ![]() ![]() 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. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. ![]() Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() Because who-or what-are they really dancing with? ![]() Her sisters have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn’t sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. Each death was more tragic than the last-the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge-and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods.ĭisturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that the deaths were no accidents. Once they were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls’ lives have been cut short. In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.Īnnaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. ![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine Narrative passages in the complicated plot benefit from Prebble's natural speech patterns-clear, very British, and so suited to the text as to sound as if he wrote them himself. Collins's increasingly frequent bouts of paranoia sound convincingly terror-filled, without seeming "performed." And Dickens's self-important growls of pretension lead the listener to dislike him as much as Collins does. Title: Drood Author: Dan Simmons Genre: Literature, Fiction, Mystery Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (Hachette Group) Publication Date: February 2009 Hardcover: 784 pages Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel, although draws from the works and lives of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. He effortlessly shifts among the story's many characters, imbuing each not only with a voice and dialect, but also with a distinct personality. Simon Prebble's impeccable speech is the perfect match for this sinister Dickensian tale. Through an opium haze, Collins endeavors to find him, even as his hatred for his friend grows. Wilkie Collins, friend and sometime collaborator of Charles Dickens, listens with horror to Dickens's account of meeting a purported master of the black arts. ![]() ![]() The Belgian-born, polyglot daughter of Holocaust survivors, Perel is no stranger to trauma and its halo effects on those surrounding it. Perel has become something of a modern guru in matters of the heart-a writer, TED Talker, and producer of the podcast “ Where Should We Begin?”, which lets us be fly on the wall to real couples counseling sessions. “Almost everywhere people marry, monogamy is the official norm, and infidelity the clandestine one.” So writes relationship therapist Esther Perel in the opening of her new book, “The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity.” So why does happily ever after so often turn into a wandering eye-and what does it say about us? Photo courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers. ![]() Esther Perel on Cheaters and the Society that Makes Them: “The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity.” ![]() |