![]() ![]() His wit and unapologetic idealism disarm and spark renewed life into her-until she discovers that he’s completely unavailable. While browsing the local antiques shop for her next trophy, she finds Sagan. Merit Voss collects trophies she hasn’t earned and secrets her family forces her to keep. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother’s former nurse, the little half-brother isn’t allowed to do or eat anything fun, and the eldest siblings are irritatingly perfect. ![]() They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness. Not every mistake deserves a consequence. ![]() From Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us, comes a moving and haunting novel of family, love, and the power of the truth. ![]()
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![]() Tom Brady went from a kid with an uncertain football future to one of the most celebrated quarterbacks in NFL history. Expectations were low, but it didn't take Tom long to show that he was not just good enough to be in the NFL, he was good enough to be one of the NFL's best. After college Tom was taken by the Patriots in the 2000 NFL Draft-in the sixth round (199th overall). Playing college football for the University of Michigan Wolverines, Tom sat on the bench until his junior year. But most people didn't expect Tom to be a big success in the NFL. ![]() In winning three Super Bowls from 2001-04, among numerous other shining accomplishments, New England secured its place as the NFL's Franchise of the Decade." With three Super Bowl rings and a rich contract, Tom is on top of the world. As quarterback of the New England Patriots, Tom Brady is the most important player on the NFL's best team. ![]() ![]() The network has already picked up a second season of the show.ĪMC reported a first-quarter revenue gain of 1 percent to $717 million, “largely driven by increased distribution and other revenues, partly offset by lower advertising revenues.” U.S. ![]() ![]() AMC’s fourth-quarter results had already included $449 million in restructuring and related charges, mostly related to domestic operations and non-cash programming write-offs.ĪMC original series in the first quarter included Mayfair Witches, based on Anne Rice’s trio of novels about a doctor (Alexandra Daddario) who discovers she is the heir to a family of witches. The company said its latest quarterly earnings also included further “restructuring and other related charges” worth $5.93 million following layoffs, believed to have affected around 20 percent of staff, and other cost cuts. advertising revenue fell 20 percent in the first three months of 2023 after a fourth-quarter drop of 12 percent. ![]() Tobias Menzies Joins Brad Pitt in Formula One Apple Movie ![]() ![]() ![]() What this does is allow people to maintain power by virtue of accidents of birth (race, gender, class, etc – likely an intersection of identities) rather than through their own merit which actively harms our progress as a society. ![]() ![]() To maintain that power, they have sold a lie to poor whites that they could become one of them, and in the meantime, at least they were better than non-whites. Plot (yes, I’m calling this plot): Western society has been built around the accumulation of power by a tiny fraction of white men. Reading this book puts me in the mind of what I’ve seen on TV of going to one of those televised evangelical church sessions where you pay someone to slap you in the face to cure you of cancer, only instead of a conman trying to steal people’s money, it’s an intelligent woman giving me the words to express frustrations I’ve never been able to properly explain and it is so cathartic it almost feels like an out of body experience. ![]() ![]() ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. ![]() We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I can only register here the translation books I can keep in my small white bookshelf. This fact combines some interesting things: that the simple french book is proven so inspiring, that we can observe its wisdom mapped out in so many cultures, and that we can appreciate the cultural richness of the inhabitants of the last planet: the earth. explores the visionary artistry and timeless wisdom of this classic tale. This book is one of the most translated books on earth. and cherished books, Antoine de Saint-Exuprys The Little Prince (1943). He discovers that the most important things cannot be seen only by the eyes. The little prince describes his journey and the characters he met along the wayfrom the lonely king who lays claim to all the stars in the sky to the geographer who knows. Through a series of conversations with the aviator, the little prince recounts his experiences and his observations about the world around him, including the importance of friendship, love, and trust. The little prince tells the pilot all about his tiny planetand the events that caused him to take off on an interplanetary voyage that eventually brought him to Earth. Le Petit Prince / The Little Prince is a classic book written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, about the adventures of a little prince travelling from planet to planet, encountering a wide range of fascinating characters, landing on the earth, and meeting the narrator, who is an aviator who had just crash-landed in the Sahara desert. ![]() ![]() ![]() Publisher’s grey boards, good, dust-jacket in a protective cellophane sleeve. ![]() When Grass received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1999 the Nobel Committee stated that the publication of The Tin Drum “was as if German literature had been granted a new beginning after decades of linguistic and moral destruction”ġ962. Nonetheless, in the West Germany of the late ’50s and early ’60s the book could be controversial, and its “immorality” prompted the city of Bremen to revoke a prize it had bestowed upon him. The Tin Drum established Grass as one of the leading authors of Germany, and also set a high bar of comparison for all of his subsequent works, which were often compared unfavorably to this early work by critics. ![]() It portrays the area’s mixed ethnicities and complex historical background in lyrical prose that is highly evocative. Dog Years (1965) is considered a sequel of sorts to The Tin Drum, as it features some of the same characters. The books are collectively called the Danzig Trilogy and focus on the rise of Nazism and how World War II affected Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland), which was separated from Germany after World War I and became the Free City of Danzig (German: Freie Stadt Danzig). ![]() ![]() The corrupted Keepers were defeated and those who remained were banished into the Dark Aether, afterwards the Keepers ascended to become the wards of all reality. ![]() ![]() After this, the corrupted Keepers waged civil war on their brethren. During the Shadowman's corruption, his best friend, who would come to be known as Doctor Monty, attempted to save him but became corrupted himself in the process. These experiments culminated in the creation of the Aether Pyramid, which allowed its user to control reality itself. The Keepers are associated with the Ancients, who carry on them the same sigil of the Black Sun.Ī small contingent of the Keepers started experimenting with the Dark Aether, among whom would be known as the Shadowman. The Keepers, sometimes known as the 'Order of the Keepers', are responsible for preventing the Apothicons from wrecking havoc upon all dimensions through time and space. A Keeper known only as "The First One" would use the Summoning Key at some point to seed the various dimensions with life. ![]() The Keepers created the Summoning Key, the most powerful device in the Multiverse, which they used to create Agartha, a physical manifestation of the Aether. The Keepers are ancient unearthly creatures, said to come into existence in the beginning with the Aether. ![]() ![]() ![]() I immediately felt more at ease as the birds began moving up my arm so they could perch on my shoulder at the exact same time that all five of the dogs and three of the four cats rushed into the room. The brightly colored parrot had suffered significant neurological damage at the hands of her previous owner and while it was a miracle she could even fly, if she didn’t have Blueberry around to use as a guide, her ability to hit her target was fifty-fifty at best… even a target as big as myself. While Blueberry was as nimble-footed as they came, Skittles wasn’t so lucky. The colorful macaw was small for her age, so that made the task of steadying her and keeping Blueberry upright at the same time a little easier. ![]() Blueberry’s claws dug into my arm as I reached my hand out to catch Skittles before she fell. Just as she settled effortlessly on my arm and got her wings tucked against her body, Skittles slammed into her. I put out my arm to give the gray parrot a place to land. Claws scraped along the cheap laminate floor and I could practically see feathers flying in the other room as Skittles and Blueberry likely simultaneously took to the air to try and get to me first. I was greeted with a cacophony of barks, meows, and a few high-pitched shrieks. “What did you do?” I called the moment I walked through the front door. ![]() ![]() If distraction is doing things we don’t really want to do, its opposite would be traction, the things we DO want to do. Why do we do Things Against our own Best Judgement? So being “Indistractible” will be the key skill we all need in the next century. ![]() In an age of increased automation, the only jobs machines can’t do are the ones that require creative problem solving and the kind of human creativity that only comes from focusing deeply on the task at hand. Researchers tell us that attention and focus are the raw materials of human creativity and flourishing. ![]() Easy for them to say - Socrates and Aristotle never had to resist binge-watching “Silicon Valley”. To the ancient Greeks, mere mortals were prone to distraction due to our weakness of will. ![]() Over 2,000 years ago, Socrates and Aristotle debated the nature of “akrasia,” (pronounced uh-crazy-uh), our tendency to act against our better judgement. Have you ever sat down at your desk to do some important work, but found yourself unable to escape email or Slack long enough to focus on the important task you said you wanted to do? Who is to blame for this distraction crisis? Is tech doing it to us? In this engaging talk from #mtpcon San Francisco, Nir Eyal tackles distraction.ĭistraction might appear more available than ever, but it’s actually nothing new. Not just when we’re walking down the street, but at work, and with our families and friends as well. Is the world more distracting than it used to be? It certainly seems that way. ![]() |