![]() Now the intensity of a belief is extremely important.Īnd, if you believe, in very simple terms, that people mean you well, and will treat you kindly, they will. Your individual beliefs and your joint beliefs. If you want answers to life’s most important questions, if you want to improve your life conditions, Seth will show you how, not by relying on him, but by accessing and using the tremendous source of power and wisdom that lies within you. His work (first published in the late 1960s) has withstood the test of time and is still the most dynamic, comprehensive, brilliant and undistorted map of inner reality and human potential available today. ![]() Seth’s voice clearly stands out as one of the major forces which led to the current New Age philosophical movement. Seth’s clear presentation of the furthest reaches of human potential, the eternal validity of the soul, and the concept that we create our own reality according to our beliefs, has rippled out to affect the lives of people in every corner of the globe. The books written by Seth have sold over seven million copies and have been translated into over eleven languages. ![]() Seth is the internationally acclaimed spiritual teacher who spoke through the author Jane Roberts while she was in trance, and coined the phrase “ You Create Your Own Reality.” Seth’s empowering message literally launched the New Age movement. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Really entertaining and comparable to Shirley Jackson's Life Among The Savages and other family familiars. And there's always Christmas to help this along. ![]() Times Magazine, indicate the wide audience that knows her name - and that should want to buy her book. Kerr's appearances in varying magazines, from Harper's Bazaar, McCall's, Ladies' Home Journal, SEP, to Harper's and the N.Y. A playwright, the wife of the Herald Tribune's drama critic, and recently a columnist, Mrs. Each short piece, from the introduction to the index, is loaded with laugh-out-loud-remarks, situations and ideas. White- leve majesti indeed) who move to the country - these are gifted and good. Funny and refreshing, her maternal moments will find a sympathetic hysteria among others bedeviled by strident striplings and a perfect antidote toward accepted currently child raising programs: her take-offs, of Sagan, in Don Brown's Body, and her incisive words on writers (like E.B. Kerr on a pique (more than one, and with her home in Connecticut, almost in Darien) pursuing her lonely way as a parent, parodist, and a woman sore beset by modern living. Please Dont Eat the Daisies is a best-selling collection of humorous essays by American humorist and playwright Jean Kerr about suburban living and raising. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A minor character most often remembered for going mad and doling out flowers. It depicts Ophelia, a character from William Shakespeare 's play Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river.Ophelia is, for many scholars and non-scholars alike, the tragic, pitiful creature who drowns towards the end of the play Hamlet 1 She is the beautiful maiden immortalized in Sir John Everett Millais’s painting, Ophelia. Director Claire McCarthy Writers Semi Chellas Lisa Klein William Shakespeare Stars Daisy Ridley Mia Quiney Calum O'Rourke See production, box office & company info Ophelia is an 1851–52 painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais in the collection of Tate Britain, London. ![]() Ophelia 2018 PG-13 1h 46m IMDb RATING 6.5 /10 12K YOUR RATING Rate Play trailer 1:57 7 Videos 99+ Photos Drama Romance Thriller A reimagining of Hamlet, told from Ophelia's perspective. ![]() ![]() ![]() The nature of the job means when a book is published, you are often already working on something that will publish a year or so later, which can lead to a loss of perspective. ![]() It can often be hard, as an author, to appreciate how much has been accomplished. How does it feel to be celebrating 10 years as a published author and illustrator?! In this special interview for NSSM, Frann reflects on her publishing journey so far and explains why The Journey Home is a perfect fit for NSSM and our current times. Her debut picture book, The Journey Home, was published 10 years ago and the messages within remain as important today as they were a decade ago. She has written many of her own books and illustrated works for many other authors across various publishers. Frann Preston-Gannon is one of the best known and best-loved authors and illustrators working in children’s books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What’s harder, the first book or the second one? I mean, with kids, and you have two, it’s definitely the first one, but your first book-child became a New York Times Bestseller, so you’ve got a high bar here for number two, Ben.īen Rhodes: Yes, this one was harder. I appreciate your time.Ĭhris Riback: So, let’s start with the important stuff. Now, more than four years after leaving that role – but still engaged in business, politics, and international relations – Rhodes has written a book about his personal post-Obama journey that sought to answer a simple question: What happened – to the world, America, and himself as the undertow of history pulled us into the currents of nationalism and authoritarianism – and what we should do about it? It’s titled “ After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made.”Īs Rhodes writes: “To be born American in the late twentieth century was to take the fact of a particular kind of American exceptionalism as granted- a state of nature arrived at after all else had failed… Somehow, after three decades of unchecked American capitalism, military power, and technological innovation, the currents of history had turned against democracy itself.”Ĭhris Riback: Ben, thanks for joining me. ![]() For eight years, Ben Rhodes served as Deputy National Security Advisor to President Obama, engaged in issues ranging from reestablishing relations with Cuba to Benghazi to helping negotiate the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, better known as the Iran nuclear deal. ![]() ![]() 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. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Torrès to find her books canonical status peculiar. Tereska Torrès, a convent-educated French writer who quite by accident wrote Americas first lesbian pulp novel, died on Thursday at her home in Paris. Tereska Torrès, 92, Writer Of Lesbian Fiction, Dies It was also denounced by the House Select Committee on Current Pornographic Materials in 1952 as an example of how the paperback industry was promoting moral degeneracy.” But in spite of such effortsor perhaps, in part, because of themthe novel became a record-breaking bestseller and inspired a whole new genre: lesbian pulp. Womens Barracks was banned for obscenity in several states. But Womens Barracks is no ordinary war story.Īs the Blitz rains down over London, taboos are broken, affairs start and stop and hearts are won and lost. She arrived as a refugee in London and joined other exiles enlisting in Charles de Gaulles army, then stationed in Britain awaiting an invasion of their homeland by Allied forces. The novel is based on the real-life experiences of the author, Tereska Torres, who escaped from occupied France. ![]() Originally published in 1950, this account of life among female Free French soldiers in a London barracks during World War II sold four million copies in the United States alone and many more millions worldwide. ![]() ![]() Engaging a worldwide audience, she’s become a household name for many, as her work immerses the reader in her rich and inventive worlds. ![]() Offering a lot through her work, she provides a fresh perspective to the genre, really taking it in an exciting new direction for readers. Often including Native American elements and narratives in her books too, Jager is a hugely versatile author. ![]() There’s also a lot of heart in each of her stories, as audiences find themselves fully invested in the narrative and where it’s going. Keeping her readers glued to the page, she makes sure to lend her books a real air of authenticity, as they essentially come alive for the reader. She’s also known for setting a large number of her books in the Western era, paying close attention to detail in the process. ![]() Many regard the American author Paty Jager for her intelligent and exciting romance novels, often with an element of mystery. ![]() ![]() ![]() It gave the postmaster general the power to declare a publication un-mailable. This happened under the Espionage Act, which was passed soon after the US entered the war. This was before radio, before TV, before the internet, so print was the way you reached people. ![]() The US had severe press censorship for four years and forced some 75 newspapers and magazines to cease publishing. (Why during ww1 Special interest activate and make otherwise horrifying events readable. Trump was always railing against the media, “the press is the enemy of the people.” But Woodrow Wilson, who was president of the United States in this period, did one better he shut them down. Literally just read a whole-ass book about this happening during ww1. ![]() For one thing, there was something Trump would have liked to do, but wasn’t able: to shut up dissenting media. It was reflected in several ways that have been unparalleled by anything since then, including even the nasty stuff that happened under Trump. First, the US entering the war, then the Russian Revolution, set off this period of hysteria in the United States. That was before the January 6th insurrection, which I think maybe puts the Trump hysteria a little bit ahead.ĪDAM HOCHSCHILD: No, I think I would still award the prize for hysteria and violence to the 1917 to ’21 period. METTA SPENCER: I was really surprised couple of years ago when in a conversation you said that that period was worse than the Trump period. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For example, each lowercase letter i in the title “Icicle” dangles upside-down, the dots emulating water dripping from icicle tips. Even the single-word titles of each poem are themselves concrete poems, with individual letters creatively and cleverly arranged. From the table of contents (shaped, of course, like a table) to the final verso copyright page (fashioned into one big copyright symbol), Raczka plays with shape, font, and position of text so that concrete poetry permeates the book. What makes this anthology of concrete poems stand apart from others, though, is that Raczka also creates these paintings throughout the entire book. In Wet Cement, author Bob Raczka begins with a credo: “I like to think of poems as word paintings.” Indeed, the concrete poetry-also known as shape poetry-filling the pages of this brilliant collection not only paint images with what words say, but also with how those words appear on the page. ![]() |