Soul of a Lion by Barbara Bennett6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Along the way, people are drawn to the spirited, beautiful cat and are moved to help Michael, who cuts a striking figure with Tabor riding high on his backpack or walking on a leash. When winter comes, they travel from Oregon to the beaches of California to the high plains of Montana, surviving blizzards, bears, angry steers, and rainstorms. He names her Tabor, nurses her back to health, and she bes something of a celebrity in Southeast Portland. ![]() One raining night, he stumbles upon a hurt, starving, scruffy cat cowering beneath a caf table and takes her in. ![]() Alcoholic and depressed, Michael King lives on the streets of Portland, Oregon, and sleeps in a UPS loading bay. Book Synopsis For fans of A Street Cat Named Bob and Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, this lovely, luminous story will warm your heart and make you laugh and want to share your life with a rescue cat (Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats). ![]()
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The killer angels shaara6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() My Master’s Degree in History was conferred at a ceremony held in National Harbor, Maryland, and it seemed fitting that my next stop post-commencement should be in the realm of the multiple Civil War battlefields at Fredericksburg, Virginia. I still did not turn to it immediately, but I did take it along with me on a recent trip. Finally, he mailed me a copy, which thus enforced a sense of guilt and obligation upon me. The Killer Angels was actually pressed upon me by a friend who had often nagged me to read it. Why? Because quality historical fiction tends to deeply ingrain its impressions in the synapses: to this day I have to vigorously resist identifying as authentically biographical the characters of Burr and Lincoln that Gore Vidal so brilliantly conceived in those marvelous eponymous historical novels. Later, as I determined to become a historian, I deliberately eschewed this genre. I was actually reared on historical fiction – Michener, Clavell, Vidal – and I read voraciously in this arena, which had a profound effect upon my intellectual development with regard to both history and literature. ![]() Now I can officially proclaim that I have read it too! But what took me so long? ![]() ![]() I may possibly have been the last Civil War enthusiast yet to read The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara, a historical novel I have heard repeatedly referenced by historians, battlefield guides, reenactors and Civil War buffs of virtually every stripe. ![]() A Sirius Education by Kirk Zurosky6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Sirius wants a life of sunshine, rainbows, and glitter for his daughters, so there's no way he's going to let unspeakable evil muck that up! To prepare for a battle over the Relics, Hedley sends Sirius to Florence, Italy to be enlightened by the incomparable, rainbow-haired bookworm, Knowledge. Escaping to the House of Indigo, Hedley informs Sirius about the mystical Seven Sacred Relics, and warns him that the forces of evil will gain limitless power if they get their hands on them. After leaving the mountains, Hedley Edrick, the Master of Masters, leads Sirius to the Queen, but their reunion is quickly interrupted by some murderous merfolk. It's here that Sirius and his vampire Maltese, Garlic, battle for their immortal lives against menacing wolves and crazed snow demons. Hades can be a real bitch, but self-doubt is even worse. ![]() Sirius Sinister has always been a bit of a know-it-all, but in order to save the world, he's going to need a serious education! The Lady of the Underworld has cast Sirius Sinister out of her fiery realm and into the icy Himalayas to teach him a lesson in humility. ![]() The Steep & Thorny Way by Cat Winters6/11/2023 ![]() 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. ![]() Life's Work by Willie Parker6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Parker is a 2007-2008 Leadership Training Initiative Fellow. He is also a recipient of Planned Parenthood’s 2015 Margaret Sanger Award. Parker was also recently honored by the United Nations Office of Human Rights as one of 12 Women’s Human Rights Defenders on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women. David Gunn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Abortion Care Network.ĭr. Felicia Stewart Advocacy Award from the American Public Health Association, and the 2016 Dr. George Tiller Provider Award, the 2015 Helen Rodriguez-Trias Social Justice Award and the 2016 Dr. Parker is a recipient of the 2013 Physicians for Reproductive Health Dr. His most recent work has focused on violence against women, sexual assault, and reproductive rights and justice through advocacy and provision of contraceptive and abortion services. Parker, MD, MPH, MSc, is a reproductive justice advocate who travels as an abortion provider in Alabama and Georgia. ![]() Nada by Carmen Laforet6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() As experience overtakes innocence, Andrea gradually learns the disquieting truth about the people she shares her life with: her overbearing and superstitious aunt Angustias her nihilistic yet artistically gifted uncle Román and his violent brother Juan and Juan’s disturbingly beautiful wife, Gloria, who secretly supports the clan with her gambling. Residing amid genteel poverty in a mysterious house on Calle de Aribau, young Andrea falls in with a wealthy band of schoolmates who provide a rich counterpoint to the squalor of her home life. Loosely based on the author’s own life, it is the story of an orphaned young woman who leaves her small town to attend university in war-ravaged Barcelona. ![]() Carmen Laforet’s Nada ranks among the most important literary works of post-Civil War Spain. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Lydia doesn’t want to be difficult-and she does not mean to keep secrets-but there are things she’s not telling. His new owners begin to guess about his unknown past. He pees in the house, escapes into the woods, and barks at things unseen. Lydia is not a dog person-and this one is trouble! He is mistrustful and slinky. ![]() Lydia’s struggle for a sense of belonging in her new family is highlighted when the women adopt a big yellow dog just days after the girl’s arrival. It’s a life-altering New Year for thirteen-year-old Lydia when she uproots to a Connecticut farm to live with her aunt following her mother’s death.Īunt Brat and her jovial wife, Eileen, and their ancient live-in landlord, Elloroy, are welcoming-and a little quirky. An uplifting middle grade novel about recovery featuring strong female characters, an adorable dog, and the girl who comes to love him. This novel sings about loss and love and finding joy in new friendships and a loving family, along with the world’s best bad dog. A unique masterpiece about loss, love, and the world’s best bad dog, from award winner Leslie Connor, author of the National Book Award finalist The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle, now available in paperback. ![]() The book of kells official guide6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() MacLaine’s fantasies associate The Book of Kells with John the Scott (800-877) who MacLaine insists visited her spiritually during her Camino walk, and informed her that he grew up in the place where The Book of Kells was written, an obvious reference to a town in County Meath, Ireland (many scholars contend that The Book of Kells was actually produced on the island of Iona, in Scotland, and later transferred to Kells). If this blasted pandemic will abate, I plan to return to Ireland next year to view this iconic document first-hand. ![]() This book is exhibited at Trinity College, in Dublin. ![]() In fact, I’ve been kicking myself since 2013, for failing to get a first-hand look at The Book of Kells when I last visited Ireland. My interest in The Book of Kells was revived by its mention in Shirley MacLaine’s work The Camino, which is an account of her Camino walk. ![]() Cho nam joo her name is6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() She was also given the most common Korean name for girls. She was the middle child and was the second daughter. Her family came from a modest background. The eponymous Kim Jiyoung was born on Apin the South Korean capital of Seoul. What was the book that she was spotted carrying and reading that it was met with such intense backlash? It was Cho Nam-Joo’s novel, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982. Some of these radical fans took videos and pictures of their actions and posted it on social media. Many of her and her group’s male fans started burning her pictures, their album, and group merchandizes. ![]() What she did not expect was the backlash that followed this incident. During one of her group fan meetings, Korean Pop (KPop) idol Irene of Red Velvet fame was spotted carrying a book. ![]() Master of Iron by Tricia Levenseller6/10/2023 ![]() I felt like that made her anxiety really present. She pulls you into her headspace, laying out her fears and worries in a frank thought train. ![]() I loved BLADE OF SECRETS, and specifically the way Ziva’s anxiety is described. The forge has always been Ziva’s safe space, a place to avoid society and the anxiety it causes her, but now it is her prison, and she’s not sure just how much of herself she’ll have to sacrifice to save Kellyn and take center stage in the very war she’s been trying to stop. ![]() When the events that follow lead to Ziva and Kellyn’s capture by an ambitious prince, Ziva is forced into the very situation she’s been dreading: magicking dangerous weapons meant for world domination. ![]() Ziva is forced into a breakneck race to a nearby city with the handsome mercenary, Kellyn, and the young scholar, Petrik, to find a powerful magical healer who can save her sister’s life. In MASTER OF IRON, the conclusion to Tricia Levenseller’s exciting Bladesmith YA fantasy duology, a magically gifted blacksmith with social anxiety must race against the clock to save her beloved sister and stop a devastating war.Įighteen-year-old Ziva may have defeated a deadly warlord, but the price was almost too much. Published Amazon | Bookshop | Goodreads About Master of Iron ![]() |