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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lottie adjusts to a new school and life with a foster family, when she finds a postcard from Kitty addressed to her and stuck in a library book, raising her hopes that her friend is still somewhere to be found. The passage of three years confirms her father’s hypothesis that there is no returning to her own time. She’s befriended by a helpful librarian and a boy her own age named Jake. Lottie sees a shimmering portal and leaps through just as shots are fired, landing in a small Wisconsin town in 2013. The girls are kidnapped and taken to a cellar where Germans are trying to coerce Lottie’s father into revealing his research. Lottie’s scientist father researches time travel, work that’s governed by the Official Secrets Act and coveted by the Nazis. In 1940, food rationing and fear of bombs are the backdrop for best friends Lottie and Kitty, who care more about anagrams and playing make-believe than the war. The friendship of two 10-year-old English girls is tested when one travels through a portal to the future. ![]() ![]() Vlad’s annual holiday ski trip is mandatory.īut the glittering winter landscape and the posh Idaho resort only create the illusion of safety. And if hand-to-hand combat with her mom wasn’t bad enough, Rose’s tutor Dimitri has his eye on someone else, her friend Mason’s got a huge crush on her, and Rose keeps getting stuck in Lissa’s head while she’s making out with her boyfriend, Christian! The Strigoi are closing in, and the Academy’s not taking any risks… This year, St. A massive Strigoi attack has put the school on high alert, and now the Academy’s crawling with Guardians-including Rose’s hard-hitting mother, Janine Hathaway. Vladimir’s, but Rose is feeling anything but festive. Rose loves Dimitri, Dimitri might love Tasha, and Mason would die to be with Rose… ![]() Meet a sarcastic seductress with a silver stake… ![]() ![]() ![]() Miriam and Ralph's chance meeting in a local wood marks the beginning of a quirky and mutually supportive friendship. ![]() But where can he go?Įach of them is hungry to make sense of the chaos in their lives. Yet everyone else seems to have known all about their unhappy marriage – from her tweets. ![]() Meanwhile, timid psychotherapist Ralph has made the mistake of opening a closet door, only to discover that his wife Sadie doesn't love him. Maybe it's time to stop living in the shadow of her abusive dead mother? But today she has had enough, and is finally ready to rejoin the outside world. Wise, elegant and full of tender humour, Whispers Through a Megaphone explores how we live in our often deafening world – when all we need to connect with ourselves and others is a bit of silence.ģ5-year-old Miriam hasn't left her house in three years, and cannot raise her voice above a whisper. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Ronen never expected that the Philistine girl he rescued years ago would now be part of the very family he's tasked to deceive. Under the guise of gathering Hebrews to worship together for the festivals, Levite musician Ronen has been sent by his uncle to find where the Ark has been hidden and steal it back. Meanwhile, a faction of discontent Hebrews finds Kiryat-Yearim to be an unfit resting place and believes that the sacred vessel should be in the hands of the priests who mean to restore the Holy of Holies in a new location. Though they both were lovingly enfolded into a Levite family that guards the Ark, Eliora can't stop feeling like she doesn't belong. As they fight for the soul of Israel, will they find healing for their own?Įight years ago, after the Philistines surrendered the stolen Ark of the Covenant back to the Israelites, Eliora and her brother left their Philistine homeland to follow it to the community of Kiryat-Yearim. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul. Estes has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Estes unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, and stories, many from her own family, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. But she is an endangered species.įor though the gifts of wildish nature belong to us at birth, society's attempt to "civilize" us into rigid roles has muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. The work shows the reader how glorious it is to be daring, to be caring, and to be women. An oracle from one who knows.Alice Walker I am grateful to Women Who Run with the Wolves and to Dr. ![]() It is a gift of profound insight, wisdom, and love. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. Alice Walker In the classic Women Who Run With The Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes tells us about the wild woman, the wise and ageless presence in the female. Praise Women Who Run with the Wolves isn’t just another book. Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Clarissa Pinkola Ests unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, many from her own. Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrative includes retrospective memories: images of the ‘coloured’ world of Jamaica, the continuous sounds of the forest, the town, the heat and strangeness of that world that now appears a dream. Anna is an almost somnolent character, gliding through this incomprehensible world only aware of resentment and her growing longing for her homeland. Coming to England from the West Indies, she encounters the monotonous, grey, grinding cold of England its paltry hyprocisy and hatred of youth and sexual exuberance. The novel is entirely narrated by 19 year old Anna Morgan, without any third person narration and with a deliberately mono-syllabic vocabulary. However the piece that caught my attention was nothing to do with women’s representation, or indeed infanticide (though the novel culminates in an abortion which I’m sure for some people is on a par). This provoked much vitriol over Rhys’s alleged infanticide, and her belated status as a feminist icon. I’d only read Wide Sargasso Sea before, but one of my mature students had raved about Rhys’ earlier works and I’ve always been intrigued by Rhys in the wake of her biography in the late 1990s. ![]() I read Jean Rhys’ Voyage in the Dark’(1934) the other night in a bout of insomnia. ![]() ![]() It reads like poetry and drama, a cry from the heart that often cuts close to the bone. Red at the Bone should win Woodson plenty of new fans. Perfect for the legions of young women who have graduated from Woodson's middle grade and adolescent fiction, this compact novel focuses on the decisions we make in life, often under duress, or before we can fully understand their consequences. What we have here is an exquisitely wrought tale of two urban black families - one headed by a prosperous, devoted couple, the other by a struggling single mother - whose lives become permanently intertwined when their only children conceive a child in their teens. ![]() With this new novel for adults, Woodson continues her sensitive exploration of what it means to be a black girl in America. Red at the Bone follows Woodson's National Book Award-winning memoir, Brown Girl Dreaming, and her critically acclaimed novel Another Brooklyn, which in turn followed more than two dozen popular young adult novels, several of which received Newbery awards. Jacqueline Woodson begins her powerful new novel audaciously, with the word "But." Well, there are no buts about this writer's talent. ![]() ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Red at the Bone Author Jacqueline Woodson ![]() ![]() ![]() The early sixties saw her founding an organisation called the Poets Press and she was also involved in setting up the New York Poets Theatre, as well as a newspaper called The Floating Bear. ![]() Like many others though she often found herself subject to police attention due to the nature of the work that she was involved in. ![]() By the mid-60s the “Hippy” culture was taking off in both the United States and the United Kingdom and her work linked the two movements successfully. It was prevalent on the west coast as well and she visited various parts of California before deciding to move there permanently. There was a growing “Beat” scene in 1950s Manhattan and di Prima was an active part of it. This came out under the title This Kind of Bird Flies Backward. Encouraged by correspondence between herself and other writers such as Kenneth Patchen and Ezra Pound and yet it took until 1958 to get her first collection of poems published. She had ambitions to become a poet and was impatient to get started. She went to school at Hunter College High School and then on to Swarthmore College but did not complete her studies there. She was born on the 6 th August 1934 in the Brooklyn district of New York City, descended from Italian immigrants. She has also written plays and taught poetry. She is popular around the world with her work having been translated into over twenty different languages. Diane di Prima is an American writer and artist whose literary output numbers over forty books of poetry, prose and memoirs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Start with Why asks (and answers) the questions: Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over? Over a decade ago, Simon Sinek started a movement that inspired millions to demand purpose at work, to ask what was the why of their organization. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, and these ideas remain as relevant and timely as ever. The inspirational best seller that ignited a movement and asked us to find our why.ĭiscover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that served as the basis for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time - with more than 56 million views and counting. ![]() |