![]() ![]() ![]() This is done by meditation, which allows us to be in touch with everything that exists and is limitless. However, these results are undesirable and feel uncomfortable therefore they may not seem as safe as staying with what one knows.Ĭhanging a past-focused cycle of being requires tapping into the realm of the unknown. If you continue doing things that have always worked for you, then you will get more of what has already happened: anxiety, depression and poor health. To break this cycle, it is important to first understand how your mind limits what is possible. ![]() ![]() If you keep living in the past, you will miss out on opportunities for the future. That’s why some people get addicted to those hormones so it’s hard for them to change their ways of thinking. This makes his body produce stress hormones like adrenaline or cortisol that make him more anxious or stressed out than before. For example, if someone gets hurt by something that happens today, he might remember his past experiences and feel bad again about them. The mind has the capacity to cure diseases with positive thoughts and beliefs, but most people don’t do this because they are stuck in their past pain. The book outlines principles and practices that help ordinary people improve health, mood, finances, and relationships. Joe Dispenza’s Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon (2017) explains how people can achieve their potential by harnessing the power inside themselves. 1-Page Summary of Becoming Supernatural Overview ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In this beautiful and profoundly moving novel, three parallel narratives converge in poignant and unexpected ways, as each character bravely presses onward, trying to recover something they have lost. But as time passes, old dreams and new romantic interests begin to surface-and Kirsten finds herself at another crossroads. Ella adjusts to life in a new apartment and answers every call on her phone, hoping her daughter will reach out.Īfter the sudden death of her father, Kirsten Bonato set aside her veterinary school aspirations, finding comfort in the steady routine of working at an animal shelter. ![]() Now, just months after Cat's death, Chuck finds that he can't let go of her belongings-her favorite towel, the sketchbooks in her desk drawer-as he struggles to pack for a trip he can't imagine taking without her.Įlla Burke delivers morning newspapers and works at a bridal shop to fill her days while she anxiously awaits news-any piece of information-about her missing daughter. ![]() Set in a close-knit suburb in the grip of winter, A Quiet Life follows three people grappling with loss and finding a tender wisdom in their grief.Ĭhuck Ayers used to look forward to nothing so much as his annual trip to Hilton Head with his wife, Cat-that yearly taste of relaxation they'd become accustomed to after a lifetime of working and raising two children. From the author of A Little Hope-a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick-comes another "heartwarming, character-driven" ( Booklist) life-affirming novel about three individuals whose lives intersect in unforeseen ways. ![]() ![]() ![]() On Central World, meanwhile, Jubad and his Council of Rebels explore the imperial archives in increasing disbelief. Recently, however, rumors whisper that the Emperor is dead and the empire is no more. So it has been for tens of thousands of years. Traders take the carpets to the spaceport, where they are loaded aboard Imperial ships and conveyed to the Emperor’s palace. Since a carpet-maker can have only one heir, he is obliged to kill any surplus male children. Carpet-makers take several wives, each chosen for the beauty and color of her hair. He then sells the carpet, earning enough money for his son to live on while he completes his own carpet. So intricate is the work that a carpet-maker can complete only one carpet during his lifetime. ![]() The planet’s entire economy is organized around skilled artisans who knot carpets made from their wives’ hair. On Planet G-101/2 in the Gheera galaxy, reverence for and fear of the immortal Emperor Alexander is drilled into all citizens as children. Eschbach, now one of Germany’s leading SF lights, debuts in English with a novel that unfolds as a series of interlocking stories in which certain characters recur. ![]() ![]() ![]() After she returns home to Oakland, her daughter, Vicky, and her nine-year-old son year Angel appear at her house asking for refuge from an abusive husband. She reveals she had a daughter she gave up for adoption. His estranged sister, Elena, flies down to Los Angeles to take care of him. Rag and Bone is the seventh book in a mysteries series featuring Henry Rios, a gay criminal defense lawyer, that the New York Times called "exceptional."Īt the beginning of Rag and Bone, Rios suffers a heart attack while in court. Please give us a short introduction to what Rag and Bone is about. As our Author of the Day, Nava tells us all about his book, Rag and Bone. He is also the author of an acclaimed historical novel, The City of Palaces, set in Mexico City at the beginning of the 1910 Mexican Revolution. Michael Nava is the author of a groundbreaking series of eight novels featuring gay, Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios who The New Yorker, called “a detective unlike any previous protagonist in American noir.” The New York Times Book Review has called Nava “one of our best” writers. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Times in London and New York World magazine published the best-selling novelist Marie Corelli’s speculations that ‘the most dire punishment follows any rash intruder into a sealed tomb’. The discovery created a worldwide press sensation and stories spread about a curse on anyone who dared to break into a pharaoh’s tomb. The 5th Earl of Carnarvon, a keen amateur Egyptologist who was financing the project, joined Carter and his team to enter the burial chambers, where they found the young pharaoh’s mummified body and a wealth of religious objects, wall paintings and inscriptions as well as equipment he would need in the afterlife. Most of the tombs had been plundered from early times and Tutankhamun’s was the first to be found almost entirely undisturbed. Pharaohs had been buried there from the 16th to the 11th centuries BC. Late in 1922 the British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, who died in 1323 BC aged about 18, in the Valley of the Kings, across the Nile from Luxor in Egypt. ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrator does a good job, but I have to say that his female British voices were a little too much for me. If you love reading clean, Christian romance, give this series and this author a try. Holt has a wonderful way of writing that really paints a picture of frontier life in Montana. And, the story of Charlotte's family was especially poignant. In fact, I would have liked more depth in the story of Sheriff Clifford Brentwood's duties as sheriff. I enjoyed the side stories in this book and think that they added a lot to it. Suddenly, she has the dilemma of having not one, but two suitors! Which one should she choose? Will she be satisfied with a good man who will make a good husband and father? Or, should she hold out for true love? ![]() These tales of women and men finding each other and falling in love in the frontier of Montana are greatly entertaining.Ĭamilla Brown is getting tired of living with her brother and his growing family, but she doesn't see any prospective offers coming her way. I love Vivi Holt's romances and this one is another great addition to the Cutter's Creek series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An egomaniacal demon prince, greedy glue factory owners Brimstone and Chalkhill, and the nefarious Lord Hairstreak, leader of the Faeries of the Night, all dream of ruling the Faerie realm and are out to kill Pyrgus.Įnlisting the help of his sister, Holly Blue, and his new friend, Henry, Pyrgus must get back to the Faerie world alive before one of his many enemies gets to him instead. ![]() Fogarty clean up around his house, he expects to find a mess and a cranky old man what he doesn't expect to find is Pyrgus Malvae, crown prince of the Faerie realm, who has escaped the treacherous Faeries of the Night by traveling to the human world through a portal powered by trapped lightning. ![]() ![]() His book Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different was published in 2006, and The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History was published in 2008. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (2004) was awarded the Julia Ward Howe Prize by the Boston Authors Club in 2005. Dunning Prize in 1970, and The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992), which won the Pulitzer Prize for History and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize in 1993. ![]() He is the author and editor of many works, including The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (1969), which won the Bancroft Prize and the John H. He taught at Harvard University and the University of Michigan before joining the faculty at Brown in 1969. ![]() degree from Tufts University and his Ph.D. Author of The creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, The American Revolution, The Purpose of the Past, The radicalism of the American Revolution. Way University Professor Emeritus at Brown University. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Aidar uses primary colors for the illustrations, which for me made the pictures move. We all need a ‘mechanic’ to help us physically and emotionally. My favorite part of the story was when Sammy’s parents sought help for him for this shows the readers that is all right to ask for help when we need to with our problems. ![]() In writing ‘Sammy the Station Wagon’ Tal uses alliteration in naming the characters, for example Johnny the Jeep and Chris the Convertible. Sammy does learn what makes him kind of special. Sammy is a station wagon who needs to learn the basics of being a car and learning how to learn that being different is just a part of self. “Vroom, vroom!” ‘Sammy the Station Wagon’ written by Tal Nuriel and illustrated by Aidar Zeineshev is a story of an ordinary car that is special and will deal with personal and professional ideas and nature. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you have a suggestion for something to add to this list, please feel free to drop a comment. So, this is a list of the Best Books about Libraries and Librarians. Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, which harvests fiction from different realities. ![]() It wasn’t until later that I really appreciated what a gift it was to have such wonderfully curated books laid out for me. The first in a gripping, fantasy mystery series, The Invisible Library is the astounding debut from Genevieve Cogman.Irene must be at the top of her game or shell be off the case - permanently. I didn’t realize it at the time, but I didn’t need to read books reviews or anything like that because I could rely on the librarians’ curation to lead me to good books. I used to just wander the shelves and randomly pick out books. Books shelved as libby: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, The Invisible Life. The first library I loved was Schimelpfenig Plano Library in my hometown of Plano, Texas. Goodreads Monday is a weekly meme where you chose a random book from your. She currently works for the National Health Service in England as a clinical classifications specialist. I’m sure most book lovers have fond memories of their own local libraries. Genevieve Cogman is a freelance author who has written for several role-playing game companies. 50 Best Books About Libraries or Librariansīy Jennifer Marie Lin on Jan 19th, 2021 (Last Updated Jan 19th, 2021)Īfter reading The Midnight Library, it got me thinking about all the great books about libraries or librarians, or stories that are set largely in libraries. ![]() |