5/12/2023 0 Comments Secret garden by johanna basford![]() The book's success is frequently cited as starting the adult coloring book trend. ![]() However they eventually relented and the first run quickly sold out. Initially the publisher was reluctant to release such an unorthodox book. Basford was inspired by several of her clients joking with her that they would enjoy colouring in her work, which was frequently done in black and white. While the publisher originally wanted a colouring book for children, Basford proposed one for adults. īasford had been approached by Laurence King Publishing in 2011 after the publisher had seen Basford's work online. The book has 40 foreign versions and has sold over 8 million copies, becoming one of the best-selling books on Amazon. Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Book is a 2013 colouring book for adults by Johanna Basford. ![]() Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Book ![]()
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![]() A triumphant memoir of forgiveness and family, both chosen and not, We Have Always Been Here is a rallying cry for anyone who has ever felt out of place and a testament to the power of fearlessly inhabiting one's truest self. So begins an exploration of faith, art, love, and queer sexuality, a journey that takes them to the far reaches of the globe to uncover a truth that was within them all along. The men in Samra's life wanted to police them, the women in their life had only shown them the example of pious obedience, and their body was a problem to be solved. Backed into a corner, their need for a safe space-in which to grow and nurture their creative, feminist spirit-became dire. When their family came to Canada as refugees, Samra encountered a whole new host of bullies, racism, the threat of poverty, and an arranged marriage. From their parents, they internalized the lesson that revealing their identity could put them in grave danger. ![]() ![]() As an Ahmadi Muslim growing up in Pakistan, they faced regular threats from Islamic extremists who believed the small, dynamic sect to be blasphemous. Samra Habib has spent most of their life searching for the safety to be themself. How do you find yourself when the world tells you that you don't exist? ![]() ONE OF BOOK RIOT'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL QUEER BOOKS OF ALL TIME SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION ![]() ![]() ![]() Generally, government does a poor job with what it touches. The Friedmans argue from a pragmatic standpoint more than from a philosophical standpoint. The basic premise is that people should be free to make their own choices whenever possible, and that government's role is to protect us from each other, and not to protect us from ourselves. I really enjoyed this book, and it confirmed some of my fears that I am really a libertarian at heart. Either it's not going to work resulting in too much human suffering and/or there's no political will." To which, I find myself asking the more disturbing question: why not? if both left and right agree that more economic freedoms are good, then why isn't it a possibility in this age to give the people those freedoms? Friedman, but we simply couldn't do that in 2011. ![]() In the end, sometimes I found myself thinking, "yes, Mr. simply never accomplishes what it sets out to do. Rather, it requires the reader to ferociously wrack their brain for a counter argument or alternative solution to their assertions that governmental controls over economic freedoms (by regulation, price and wage controls, nationalization of industries, printing money, adding programs, bowing to special interests, etc). Written in 1979, one of the libertarian economist(s) Friedmans' most accessible works, the clear-written and thought-provoking work does not require the reader to agree with Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Saddened because I think the book deserves better and surprised for similar reasons. I'm rather surprised that The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing should be marketed to a young adult audience. The first of two parts, this deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today. Anderson's extraordinary novel takes place at a time when American Patriots rioted and battled to win liberty while African slaves were entreated to risk their lives for a freedom they would never claim. Set against the disquiet of Revolutionary Boston, M. ![]() Only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of their experiments - and his own chilling role in them. As the boy's regal mother, Cassiopeia, entertains the house scholars with her beauty and wit, young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians' fanatical studies. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother - a princess in exile from a faraway land - are the only persons in their household assigned names. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. This deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Uggie![]() ![]() Von Muller announced Uggie’s death in Facebook post, saying, “Our beloved boy has passed away. Join the members of the Squirrel Club Betty, Happy, Norrie. ![]() “If they don’t get their exercise, they get old too fast, just like people,” the trainer said in an interview three years ago. Duggee is a big friendly dog who runs The Squirrel Club - a place where kids take part in all kinds of activities & have adventures. Uggie the dog, the canine star of Oscar-winning film The Artist, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 13. Von Muller made it a point to keep Uggie in shape and feeling young with exercise, including using a dog treadmill. If you guys can adopt a dog, even if they don’t make it on the big screen, they’ll be big stars at your house.” ![]() “The main message that Uggie would like to send to everybody out there is to please adopt,” Von Muller said at the paw-print ceremony. Lassie was pretty famous, and this is probably just a case of jealousy. Uggie was a rescue dog, a cause that his owner championed. Uggie played the female role of Queenie in Water for Elephants, people. He retired in 2012 in a ceremony at the famous Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, where he became the first dog to leave his paw prints in concrete alongside the prints of human stars. Uggie’s other credits included the movies “Water for Elephants” and “Mr. ![]() Uggie shared scenes in the film with his brother Dash and another Jack Russell named Dude. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Amadeus wolfgang![]() ![]() ![]() Little Pyotr was so fascinated by the latter melody, even coming from a 'lifeless' mechanical instrument, that his mother showed him how to play it on the piano. This adoration of Mozart had its origins in Tchaikovsky's childhood, for when he was not yet five he was moved to tears when he heard the orchestrion that his father had brought from Saint Petersburg play excerpts from Don Giovanni, especially Zerlina's aria "Vedrai, carino".
5/12/2023 0 Comments Renee watson ways to grow love![]() The book opens with lots of summer fun and sibling antics between Ryan and her brother Ray. Her heart is so big and she’s such a well-written character that any elementary school kid would enjoy. Can Ryan juggle all the changes in her life? The Good Things get especially stressful when she and her friends head over to church camp and Amanda mentions that Red, who made fun of Ryan in book one will be there. In addition to Ryan’s changing relationship with her mom, she’s also dealing with some friend drama. Her mom can’t even come to the library with her to pick up books for the summer reading challenge and her grandma just rushes her and won’t let her pick as many books as she wants. No more market for Ryan because her mom has to be on bed rest. It seems to Ryan that her unborn baby sister only stops her mom from doing all the fun stuff they used to do together. ![]() I loved the first book in the series and this book picks up soon after! It’s summer and Ryan’s mom is now heavily pregnant. ![]() Ways to Grow Love is the second book in the Ryan Hart series. ![]() ![]() ![]() But can he trust a woman who once broke his heart and is it fair to wed her when she might become the next victim?Īuthor of eight books on California history and eighteen romance novels, Pamela Gibson is a former City Manager who lives in the Nevada desert. When a series of attacks put James’s life in danger, an immediate marriage becomes critical. Instead, James asks Jocelyn to help him find a suitable wife, a task she agrees to perform, hoping to redeem herself in his eyes. ![]() Lady Jocelyn, who still beguiles him, would be perfect if only he could forget old slights. James Margrave, Earl of Seaton, must have an heir to keep his estate from falling into the hands of his cousin, which means he has to marry. If only she hadn’t cruelly rejected his attentions when she found herself wooed by a scandalous rake with a better title. Her obvious choice is her neighbor James, a man who once fancied her. Lady Jocelyn Stafford desperately needs a husband to repair her tarnished reputation. Scandal’s Redemption The Scandal Series Book 5 by Pamela Gibson ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments The book walden![]() He can only regretfully conclude that modern man, obsessed with material gain, has "not leisure for a true integrity. While living at the pond, he had the opportunity to view society from the outside and see that, in contrast to his happy situation, most men "lead lives of quiet desperation." While continually perfecting his life by living simply and close to nature, he could see other men wasting their lives by frantically scurrying here and there, foolishly chasing after wealth and social status which could never fulfill their deepest needs. He hopes to explain the spiritually rich life he enjoyed and, at the same time, through presenting the example of his own life, teach his readers something about the shortcomings and possibilities of theirs. ![]() Walden begins with the narrator informing his audience that this book was written in answer to questions posed about his two-year stay at Walden Pond. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments William gibson agency![]() "Eunice," the disarmingly human AI in the glasses, soon manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and an unnervingly canny grasp of combat strategy. Then she signs the wordy NDA of a dodgy San Francisco start-up, becoming the beta tester for their latest product: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. Verity Jane, gifted app-whisperer, has been out of work since her exit from a brief but problematic relationship with a Silicon Valley billionaire. ![]() Cory Doctorow raved that "The Peripheral " is "spectacular, a piece of trenchant, far-future speculation that features all the eyeball kicks of Neuromancer." Now Gibson is back with "Agency"-a science fiction thriller heavily influenced by our most current events. William Gibson has trained his gifted eye on the future for decades, ever since coining the term "cyberspace" and then popularizing it in his classic speculative novel "Neuromancer" in the early 1980s. In William Gibson's first novel since 2014's New York Times bestselling "The Peripheral," a gifted "app-whisperer," hired to beta test a mysterious new product, finds her life endangered by her relationship with her surprisingly street-smart and combat-savvy "digital assistant." "One of the most visionary, original, and quietly influential writers currently working" (The Boston Globe) returns with a brand-new novel. Goodreads Choice Award for Science Fiction (2020) Nominee ![]() ![]() Locus Award for Best SF Novel (2021) Nominee ![]() |