5/10/2023 0 Comments Reyna grande a dream called home![]() Back in Los Angeles after graduation, Reyna attempts to parlay her creative writing degree into a full-time job only to discover she knows nothing about the publishing business. At UC, Santa Cruz and on her own for the first time, Reyna faces new struggles and learns to forge ahead toward her dreams despite the alienation and estrangement from her family and her new community. Against all obstacles, Reyna’s love of reading and writing propelled her to rise above all challenges and ultimately be accepted to the University of California, Santa Cruz.Ī Dream Called Home tells the story of Reyna’s pursuit to become the first in her family to earn a college degree and to find her place and a home in her adoptive country. What she found instead was an indifferent mother, an abusive, alcoholic father, and a school system that didn’t honor her heritage. When she was nine years old, Reyna made her own journey across the U.S.–Mexico border in search of a home. ![]() ![]() ![]() In that book, Reyna recounted the pain and poverty she experienced growing up in Mexico without her parents, who had immigrated to the U.S. ![]() An inspiring new memoir from Reyna Grande, the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and national bestselling author of The Distance Between Us, about her quest for belonging, a writing career, and a home built of more than words and dreams.Ī Dream Called Home is the follow up to Reyna Grande’s national bestselling memoir The Distance Between Us. ![]()
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5/10/2023 0 Comments The Hostage Bride by Jane Feather![]() ![]() After all, Phoebe was not the kind of woman men fell in love with-Phoebe with her untidy hair, her rumpled clothes, and her fingers forever ink-stained from the poetry she wrote. It would be nothing short of torture to be married to Granville, knowing he didn't love her and never would. Once she'd noticed, she couldn't seem to stop noticing, and suddenly Phoebe was disastrously in love. ![]() except that one day Phoebe looked at Granville-really looked at him-and saw what she'd never seen before: he was darkly, breathtakingly attractive. Her forced engagement to him should have been quite a cold-blooded arrangement. But then her sister died, and Phoebe seemed a reasonable substitute. įor four years, Cato, the Marquis of Granville, had been just another man-the uninteresting, somewhat intimidating husband of Phoebe's older sister. The Accidental Bride could only be the story of Phoebe, the "awkward" one. The second novel in the captivating Brides Trilogy, in which three unconventional young women vow they will never marry-only to be overtaken by destiny. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Novel a woman is no man![]() Deya can’t help but wonder if her options would have been different had her parents survived the car crash that killed them when Deya was only eight. Eighteen-year-old Deya, Isra’s oldest daughter, must meet with potential husbands at her grandmother Fareeda’s insistence, though her only desire is to go to college. ![]() ![]() There Isra struggles to adapt to the expectations of her oppressive mother-in-law Fareeda and strange new husband Adam, a pressure that intensifies as she begins to have children-four daughters instead of the sons Fareeda tells Isra she must bear.īrooklyn, 2008. Over the course of a week, the naïve and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and married, and is soon living in Brooklyn. ![]() Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments When strivings cease book![]() ![]() What is the goal anyway? Do we even know anymore? It’s the voice of the world, the message of our society: ‘You have what it takes if you dig deep enough, try hard enough, you are your own hero, you can achieve anything you set your mind on, go get it girl, it’s yours for the taking.’Īnd since we like control, standards that are measurable, and lists that are checkable, we run that little hamster wheel of striving to be the ever elusive perfect version of ourselves and it is truly never-ending. ![]() I don’t know about you, but I definitely feel the exhaustion of striving. Just that phrase- ‘when strivings cease’- doesn’t that sound nice? “Cease striving and know that I am God I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth” (Psalm 46:10) “Could it be that we are so worn and desperate for ways to better ourselves because we’ve missed the power, inherent in the grace of God, that eradicates self-improvement altogether?” ![]() When Strivings Cease: Replacing the Gospel of Self-Improvement with the Gospel of Life-Transforming Grace ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Mess by keri smith![]() ![]() ![]() She's illustrated for the Washington Post, New York Times, Ford Motor Company, People, The Body Shop, and Hallmark. Read more any other you've encountered and will allow you to open yourself up to the possibility of creating something new and unexpected. Keri Smith is the author of the popular weblog Wish Jar Journal, which attracts 8,000 readers daily, Living Out Loud, and Tear Up This Book. Smith dares readers to drop some kind of coloured liquid (ink, tea, coffee) onto a page from a good height (at least five feet) draw in the dark (or with eyes closed) creatively misspell words paint a picture in a water-based medium (pen, marker, watercolour, etc) and leave it out during a rain or snowstorm and bury this book, then dig it up. Keri Smith Penguin Books Ltd In Mess, Keri Smith, creator of Wreck This Journal, asks readers to explore what it feels like to throw themselves off balance. ![]() In Mess, Keri Smith, creator of Wreck This Journal, asks readers to explore what it feels like to throw themselves off balance - on purpose. Category: (G) General (US: Trade) (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). This book also asks you to do the opposite of what you have been taught. Asks readers to explore what it feels like to throw themselves off balance - on purpose. Description for Mess: The Manual of Accidents and Mistakes Paperback. ![]() ![]() ![]() Studying Paul's Letters is organized for use in a single semester course on Paul and is perfect for graduate students, seminarians, and undergraduate students. Each teacher-scholar focuses on what a particular method brings to interpretation and applies that method to a text in Pauls letters, aiming not just at the beginning student but at the tough choices every teacher must make in balancing information with critical reflection. More than a series of how-to essays in interpretation, each chapter in this volume shows how differences in starting point and interpretive decisions shape different ways of understanding Paul. Marchal leads a group of scholars who are also experienced teachers in courses on Paul. Marchal leads a group of scholars who are also experienced teachers in courses on Paul. ![]() ![]() ![]() Studying Paul's Letters provides a survey of the most relevant current methods in Paul scholarship. Marchal leads a group of scholars who are al. More than a series of how-to essays in interpretation, each chapter in this volume shows how differences in starting point and interpretive decisions shape different ways of understanding Paul. Studying Pauls Letters provides a survey of the most relevant current methods in Paul scholarship. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Samantha towle wethering the storm![]() ![]() Nothing and no one will get me off this island and away from you. You and I are spending time together here, alone. Ignoring his desire to not talk about work, I say, “Do you need to get back to LA early to sort the problem out?” ![]() “There are a lot of things I want to do with you while we are here, Tru, and talking about work is not one of them.” “No.” He lifts my hand to his mouth and brushes his lips across my knuckles, placing a specific kiss on my ring. ![]() “Just people not doing what I pay them to do.” “Hmm? Yeah, everything’s fine,” he answers, sounding a little distracted. He looks even more stunning here, with his skin sun-kissed, causing the freckles on his nose to show more prominently. I don’t know if I’ll ever get used to how breath-stealing Jake truly is. “All okay?” I ask, turning my head to look at him. With a sigh, Jake ends his call and tosses his iPhone onto the side table. Fuckin’ idiots…Oh, you know that thing I asked you to do for me…you did? Good, thanks.” If they have a problem with that then remind them they are not irreplaceable…I know. “Just tell them to do the job I pay them to do. Jake is beside me on his own lounger, his hand in mine, fingers laced together, as he talks on the phone to Stuart. Letting my leg dangle off the edge of the lounger, I push my toes into the soft white sand. Pushing my sunglasses from my eyes to rest on top of my head, I tilt my face toward the still hot, early-evening sun. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Exquisite corpse poppy![]() ![]() ![]() Kahlo created the caricature of Rivera with her friend and fellow artist, Lucienne Bloch. In this way, a strange, comical, often grotesque creature is born. The first player adds a head-then, without knowing what that head looks like, the next artist adds a torso, and so on. Participants play by taking turns drawing sections of a body on a sheet of paper, folded to hide each individual contribution. Instead of a paintbrush, he wields a broom.Īs it turns out, this delightful bit of satire was a product of one of Kahlo’s favorite games: Exquisite Corpse. In it, a cartoonish depiction of her husband-the macho muralist Diego Rivera-shows off droopy breasts, very large nipples, and legs that teeter uncomfortably on high heels. But in 1932, the legendary Surrealist made a little-known, irrefutably funny drawing. ![]() ![]() Logical Fallacies:Review the Logical Fallacies handout. Transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording Of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part …Ĭopyright © Translation Suzanne Martin CheadleĪll rights reserved.Supported by a grant from the Swedish Arts Councilâ Translated from Swedish by Suzanne Martin Cheadle ![]() North Melbourne, Victoria published in Swedish by Leopard Förlag, 2010 She has founded the network, Feminists Against Surrogacy and Her second book, Skulden –Įurokrisen sedd från Aten was published in September 2013 (Leopard Förlag). Her firstīook Varat och varan was published in ![]() Master’s Degree in Literature from Södertörn University. ![]() The editoral collective of the anarchist magazine Brand. She is an authorĪnd a critic at the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter and a member of Kajsa Ekis Ekman was born in Stockholm in 1980. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Melville scrivener![]() ![]() He persisted, instead, in making his case for literature as a means to explore the period’s more vexing philosophical questions. But Melville was writing figuratively here, at a moment in his own career when he decided not to write the kind of fiction expected of him and not to fulfill the presumed duties of his profession. The stakes of each demanded task are not as clear and urgent as those in medicine. The story’s setting, for instance, is not clinical the central exchanges are between the head of a law office and an employee who politely but insistently refuses to carry out his understood duties. There are, of course, important differences between Melville’s approach to refusal and how we have come to discuss it in medical ethics. In 1853 Herman Melville published “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” his now most well-known piece of short fiction, which over a century and a half later we can certainly read as an illuminating dramatization of conscientious objection. ![]() |