![]() ![]() ![]() Tent sleeping and bathing in a creek is not in Avery's wheelhouse, but desperate times and all that. ![]() Camping under the stars is his idea of paradise. He’s ready for his annual trek from Milwaukee to Los Angeles, a treasured long haul where he can get away from the pressures of owning restaurants. Jake Matthews is not exactly ruthless, nor is he a saint. No amount of green juice will cleanse all her regrets. How is a high-heeled diva supposed to live the life she wants when she can’t even get her sister’s dog back to California? Leaving her cheating boyfriend might be the right thing to do, but it leaves her without an apartment, a job, or a car that runs. From USA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of Undeniably You, comes a heartwarming, enemies to lovers romance about an unforgettable journeyĪvery Montgomery is desperate and out of options. ![]()
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![]() ![]() To help contextualise the broader impact of these and other ideas within bell hooks’ 40+ books and other writings, I’ve included a selection of additional resources, sorted by type:īut first, a sample of memorials to honour the range and depth of appreciation for bell hooks’ contributions to social justice movements: Practising love, a verb, is a pathway to justice.Of these, my reflection focuses on her contributions to three concepts that have been influential in social justice movements: Many of the ideas articulated by bell hooks have resonated widely. ![]() To situate those ideas, bell hooks drew on academic scholarship and popular culture as well as her relevant personal perspectives: especially as a Black woman living in America as an educator and activist and as the first in her family to gain a university education.
![]() Teagan, Artie, Carl and I stood watching an old building being bulldozed. I don't feel any different, I feel exactly the same as I felt when I was ten. I've just turned eleven, and the question I get most often is 'how does it feel to be eleven?' Which, if you've ever had a birthday, I'm sure you understand that it is the most annoying question ever. I think she's just saying it to piss me off now. Teagan still thinks I have a crush on him, and I keep telling her I don't. ![]() He's real nice, and the three of us have become closer and closer over the past few months. Teagan and I have started hanging out with Artie Pickett a lot ever since Nila died. I plan on spending the whole summer with Teagan and Artie, spending as much time away from my family as I can. ![]() Its almost the summer holidays, which means in three months I'll officially be in middle school, a 6th grader. ![]() ![]() Having carefully researched thousands of the most exceptional Near-Death Experiences recorded, it is evident that if we shift our focus and train our minds-eye on the nuance – the fine details that do not stand out from those “main events,” we find there is a treasure-trove of qualities that reveal more of the contours, depth and messaging within a Near-Death Experience. ![]() So, is there more to learn about this phenomenon? That is the unique focus of Crossover Experience. And heaven, if it is real, would not likely change over time. You must go back.” Most who have had an NDE describe this otherworldly realm as heaven. ![]() While it might appear to be a bold statement, it is reasonable to conclude that all of the major components that occur during a Near-Death Experience have already been revealed from the initial out-of-body experience – to the NDEr being told “It is not your time. By week I’m talking to DJ Kadagian about his book ‘The Crossover Experience: Life After Death is Real’. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since I decided to quit trying to visualize and start imagining, things have become a lot easier for me, and have felt more solid. This is a much stronger bubble than the one I visualized. I can know what color it is without having to see it. ![]() However, if you tell me to imagine a protective bubble, I can feel it and know it’s there. So, when you tell me to visualize a protective bubble (to use a recently mentioned example), I can do it, but it’s not super solid. ![]() ![]() When I do think in images they kind of just happen without me consciously creating them. It’s easier for me to translate ideas into words than images. Personally, I think in some words and some images, but mostly in a big abstract cloud of ideas and feelings which I have to translate into images or words in order to communicate. Some people have a hard time visualizing, or straight up can’t do it. I feel like the word “visualize” is commonly used in spells and exercises instead of “imagine,” because it feels more authentic and like you’re not just playing make-believe, but I’ve got this theory that it really isn’t any better, and could actually be holding a lot of people back.Īs we know, some people think more in words, and some people think more in images. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My name is Harriet Manners, and I am still a geek. Fit for a King and May Day Madness! Topical themes to inspire aspiring young writers.The year’s outstanding debut authors for children: shortlist for the 2023 Branford Boase Award announced.Celebrate Grandparents Day with 50 great kids books about grandparents.Anxiety & Wellbeing - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health.Jacqueline Wilson - our Guest Editor of the Month.Branford Boase 2023 – what the judges had to say about the shortlist.Read Hour returns for its third year in the UK with Moomin Characters.In its 20th year, the shortlist for CLiPPA (CLPE Children’s Poetry Award) reflects the wealth of talent in children’s poetry.13 Children's Books Featuring Poverty and Homelessness.30 enticing chapter books for children who are newly independent readers.60 kids books about grief to explain death to children and help them grieve.LGBTQI+ Children's Books celebrating Pride in London and Pride Month this June. ![]() Sophie Cameron - our Author of the Month.Get children out walking with these books and suggestions for National Walking Month and Walk to School Week. ![]() ![]() “A child!” she heard the blue-fingered woman exclaim in her wake. For a moment, she lost sight of Jupiter through the haze, but then she spotted the top of his bright copper head, bobbing up and down in the crowd, and sprinted to catch up with him. “Ugh, foul.” Morrigan coughed and waved the smoke away. Morrigan hurried after him and walked into a sickly-sweet-smelling cloud of sapphire-blue smoke, puffed right at her face by a woman holding a thin gold cigarillo in her blue-stained fingertips. Catch up.”Īnd he was gone again, running headlong through the mess of pedestrians and rickshaws and horse-drawn carriages and motorized coaches. ![]() Jupiter North turned back but didn’t stop moving. ![]() “Wait!” she called out to him, pushing her way through a knot of women wearing satin gowns and lush velvet cloaks. She tried her best to smooth it down while hurrying to catch up with her patron, who was already yards ahead, pelting along the noisy, swarming high street of the Bohemian District. The wind had whipped her hair into a state of extreme disarray. Morrigan Crow leapt from the Brolly Rail, teeth chattering, hands frozen around the end of her oilskin umbrella. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm not quite sure what the titular "stacks" actually were), but that may have just been my fault. I will say that there were a few things that weren't exactly clear to me (e.g. The world that Pulley develops is also impressively mystical (I would definitely class this book as magical realism). I found the plot legitimately compelling-it took me a bit to get into the book, but after that I did legitimately want to know what would happen. As the two journey into uncharted territory in Peru, accompanied by a native priest as their (evidently very unwilling) guide, the regions that they encounter quickly grow increasingly mystical. Loosely under the auspices of the EIC, he and an old colleague head to Peru in an attempt to smuggle out some chichona trees, which are a source of the valuable antimalarial quinine. ![]() Reading through the blurb again now, I guess that it offers a solid summary of the premise: Merrick Tremayne, who worked for the East India Company in China but suffered a lasting injury, is convinced to join another expedition. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1597, following the breakdown in negotiations, the Japanese invaded again with a force of 140,000 men. This phase of the war ended in a truce, with the Japanese forces withdrawing into enclaves around the southern port of Busan while the Ming armies largely withdrew to China. In 1593, the Chinese invaded capturing Pyongyang from the Japanese and driving them southwards. ![]() However, the Korean strength was in their navy and the vital Korean naval victory of Hansando disrupted the flow of supplies to the invasion forces, forcing them to hold their positions around Pyongyang. The Japanese division under Kato Kiyomasa even started to advance into Manchuria. These two Japanese divisions rapidly overran their Korean counterparts, taking the principal cities of Seoul and then Pyongyang and driving the remnants of the Korean Army into China. In 1592 a huge invasion force of 150,000 men landed at the ports of Busan and Tadaejin under the commanders Konishi Yukinaga and Kato Kiyomasa. Hideyoshi planned to invade and conquer China, ruled at the time by the Ming dynasty, and when the Korean court refused to allow his troops to cross their country, Korea became the first step in this ambitious plan of conquest. The invasions of Korea launched by the dictator Toyotomi Hideyoshi (98) are unique in Japanese history for being the only time that the samurai assaulted a foreign country. ![]() ![]() ![]() I discovered last summer with certainty, that colours appear different to me to what they do to others. "I am at present engaged in a very curious investigation. A curious investigationīy the time he arrived in Manchester, Dalton had begun to realise that he saw the world differently from most other people, as he wrote in a letter to Elihu Robinson: He was keen to pursue further atmospheric and weather research at an academic institution, but as a Quaker was barred from most British universities at the time, so his mentor Gough pulled a few strings and got him a place as a tutor at Manchester College. In 1793, Dalton published his first scientific paper: 'Meteorological Observations and Essays'. Both these men inspired in Dalton an avid interest in meteorology that lasted for the rest of his life. At the age of just 12 he joined his older brother in running a local Quaker school, where he remained as a teacher for over a decade.ĭalton had two influential mentors during this time: Elihu Robinson, a rich intellectual with an interest in mathematics and science and John Gough, a blind classics scholar and natural and experimental philosopher. While he received little formal education, his sharp mind and natural sense of curiosity compensated for a lack of early schooling. ![]() John Dalton was born in 1766, to a modest Quaker family from the Lake District in Cumbria. ![]() |