![]() ![]() In this powerfully moving tale of love lost, rediscovered, and renewed, Nicholas Sparks once again brings readers his unique insight into the only emotion that ultimately really matters. ![]() With the memories of Noah and Allie’s inspiring life together as his guide, he vows to find a way to make his wife fall in love with him…all over again. But if Wilson is sure of anything, it is this: His love for Jane has only grown over the years, and he will do everything he can to save their marriage. Now his daughter is about to marry, and his wife is thinking about leaving him. He has spent too little time at home and too much at the office, leaving the responsibility of raising their children to Jane. Despite the shining example of his in-laws, Noah and Allie Calhoun, and their fifty-year love affair, Wilson himself is a man unable to express his true feelings. His wife, Jane, has fallen out of love with him, and it is entirely his fault. After thirty years, Wilson Lewis is forced to face a painful truth: the romance has gone out of his marriage. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The opening and closing words are truly profound. Only a fraction of the massive crowd could hear him, but he delivered what is arguably the greatest piece of writing ever conceived, created to keep a vast country together with equal treatment for all its citizens and save the democratic form of government. ![]() He had his copy of his speech hidden in his stovepipe hat. Lincoln knew it was time to make a profound statement about what Gettysburg meant. The Pennsylvania 69th was directly in the firing line for Pickett's Charge, the epicenter of the battle, and they stood firm while units around them fled. The Irish brigades of New York and Pennsylvania had played heroic roles in stopping the Rebels’ advance. Lincoln and the Irish, the untold story revealed for the first time. ![]() ![]() Photo by author.įrom Here to Eternity, which debuted at #9 on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list, explores a range of death and mourning rituals around the world. With beautiful cover art, From Here to Eternity is nearly as fun to display as it is to read. Now it’s increasingly clear that no stretch of the imagination is needed to show that the good death movement and feminist movement are intertwined. When I first covered Doughty in an interview and book review in 2014, I called her a death geek to highlight her relevance to our site. The same humor and charisma that makes Doughty’s “Ask a Mortician” YouTube series so successful lends itself well to writing and book promotion, delighting her audience and readers. It was a signing for her second published work, From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death hosted by distinguished D.C. On October 12, I had the pleasure of finally meeting my favorite mortician, Caitlin Doughty. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first part provides a detailed analysis of the nature and function of dreams, while the second part offers practical guidance for interpreting dreams. The Interpretation of Dreams is divided into two main parts. He also develops his famous theory of the "Oedipus complex," which suggests that all individuals experience a desire for their opposite-sex parent and a corresponding fear of their same-sex parent. ![]() This includes the idea of the unconscious mind, the mechanisms of repression and displacement, and the significance of childhood experiences in shaping adult behavior. This guide uses AA Brill’s translation of the work, available online through TaleBooks.įreud introduces several concepts crucial to psychoanalysis and psychodynamic theory in this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reports that a dangerous state existed in the Ukraine resulted in the Ems Ukaz banning all elements of Ukrainian culture. Following fears of separatist inclinations Valuev wrote, ‘No separate Little Russian language has existed, does exist, and can exist, ’. Many Ukrainian’s rose to significant positions and Russians began to resent them labelling them ‘Little Russian infestation’. Ukraine’s universities had been established before those in Russia. The Ukraine was culturally, linguistically and socially different to Russia. Irrespective of offers of European mediation Catherine 2nd pursued her territorial ambitions and annexed the Crimea. ![]() The Council of Pereiaslav resulted in the Ukraine becoming an integral part of Russia and the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca left the Crimea independent but gave Russia control of the key ports. Today there is a focus on Russian actions in the Crimea and the Ukraine but is this unique. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This may or may not explain many of Kat's quirks today.īy the age of twelve, Kat had started her first novel and begun plans for her life as a Real Live Author (she was rather more confident at twelve than she is even now). When she and her best friend weren't riding magic horses or talking to trees, they were writing adaptations of plays for their stuffed animals (what would The Wizard of Oz have been like if the Cowardly Lion were replaced by a Loquacious Lamb?). Kat Zhang spent most of her childhood tramping through a world weaved from her favorite stories and games. I don't get on Goodreads often to check messages! Thank you :) * Said plans didn *Please do not message me through Goodreads! Instead, email me at katzhang3 AT gmail DOT com. ![]() ![]() By the age of twelve, Kat had started her first novel and begun plans for her life as a Real Live Author (she was rather more confident at twelve than she is even now). This may or may not explain many of Kat's quirks today. I don't get on Goodreads often to check messages! Thank you :) * Kat Zhang spent most of her childhood tramping through a world weaved from her favorite stories and games. *Please do not message me through Goodreads! Instead, email me at katzhang3 AT gmail DOT com. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was surprised and delighted by how good it was and I can recommend it very warmly.Ī painless introduction to Newton’s life and work ![]() ![]() Michael White doesn’t shy away from Newton’s arrogant, quarrelsome and vindictive personality - but thankfully avoids the sort of vacuous “psychoanalysis” which Frank Manuel indulged in.Īnyone seeking a brief but accurate and readable account of Newton’s extraordinary achievements and lasting influence, plus a good feel for the man himself should enjoy this very much. I thought the sections on how Newton viewed his alchemical studies and his religious research and analysis as an important part of his thinking about the physical world were especially interesting, but it’s all very well done. The “conversations” which follow were also very good, reading like genuine conversation and giving an insight into both the man and his work. The book is commendably brief and begins with a summary of Newton’s life and achievements, which I thought was excellent. It is the third I’ve tried in this series (after Galileo and Einstein) and it is definitely the best so far. ![]() I thought this was a really good potted biography of Isaac Newton. ![]() ![]() ![]() I love Wheeler and that combined metaphor of pediatrician and mechanic…a nice parallel for kids in learning about maintaining a car. ![]() With any luck, it’ll relate to the Johnnies and Chrises out there too! It is, however, a lot of fun with an easy metaphor for kids to relate to their own issues. ![]() This was a cute story involving a young station wagon who can’t seem to get it right, just as so many children in the real world can’t seem to get it right, whether it’s ADHD, ADD, etc. NOTE: Sammy the Station Wagon was sent to me by the author for an honest review. Explore it on Goodreads or AmazonĪ standalone picture book for young children that encourages them to rejoice in their own strengths. Picture book in a PDF edition that was published by Amazon Digital Services on Decemand has 18 pages. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the author in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() ![]() If the pun-alicious title of Sign, Gone hasn’t clued you in yet, Tran has turned out to be anything but poorly read. Then he grew up in a small Pennsylvania town in the Susquehanna Valley where inevitably the kids in school classified him as the one Asian kid, and he classified most of them as “poorly read. He left Saigon, one little baby shoe flung away and missing in the rush of it, when he was just a toddler. “In Vietnamese,” he writes in his debut memoir Sigh, Gone, “the word for country and the word for water are the same” because with the nation’s two-thousand-mile coastline and thousands of islands, “waters were so prominent to its primordial people that water defined where you came from. ![]() The shop’s website expresses a “commitment to environmental, social-justice, humanitarian, and civic issues” because “we are not islands.” Tran knows about islands. ![]() Phuc Tran, Carlisle High School graduate of the Class of 1991, moved to Portland (the one in Maine) with his wife and two little girls to open Tsunami Tattoo in 2003. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I am a lover of dark reads but this author has baffled and confused me with this book. I have enjoyed reading these books but with this one I am totally bemused by what I’ve just read. ** Antichrist is not a retelling of Hunchback of Notre Dame, there are slight nods here and there toward the original tale.ĪNTICHRIST by Amo Jones is AVAILABLE NOW!!!Īntichrist by Amor James is part of the VII Knights Collection of books. Please check triggers if you think you may need to. It started with a bond that destroyed everyone around them… So when he rips away the walls she built around herself with his bare teeth, the secrets that she has so fiercely hidden away all of these years suddenly bleed onto the four unmarked graves laid out in front of his steel-cap boots… Niko fights for what’s his, and he’s only ever claimed one person in his life-Meraki. ![]() When the president of the New York chapter of the Seven Knights MC dies, he passes the gavel down to Niko… but unknown to anyone else, that’s not the only thing he left him. Niko knew her inside and out, and if he saw even a smidge of her soul, he would see that she was no longer the girl he left behind… She burned with her demons instead of running from them, but when Niko Davis rode back into town with a bag full of secrets, she knew she would need to start hiding them instead. The one that everyone thought she did, and the one she worked hard to hide. ![]() |