More than him jay mclean5/29/2023 ![]() "Dimmy." He tried to get my attention again. That I never should have taken him back the first time. Maybe it was because I’d come to accept the fact that maybe-just maybe it was my fault. Maybe it was because I was immune to the fucked up ways of Logan Matthews. I was nowhere near as broken as I was then. He thought I’d turned into the girl from that summer. He was home more often now, and I knew why. ![]() ![]() "I have something to tell you." Ethan turned the TV off, and I faced him. I was back to where I was when I’d first got here trying to do everything I could to avoid him. They knew that being around them might mean being around him, or even hearing about him. I’d told Micky and Lucy, and they understood. I think that maybe I needed a clean break A way to completely erase him from my life. ![]() It had been five weeks since I’d seen him. ![]()
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The Lighthouse Effect by Steve Pemberton5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() John gave Steve a safe harbor after Steve escaped an abusive foster home and together they navigated a new path that led to personal and professional success. Steve Pemberton found a lighthouse in an ordinary man named John Sykes, his former high school counselor. We are adrift in a dark sea of disillusionment and distrust and we need "human lighthouses" to give us hope and direct us back to the goodness in each other and in our own hearts. ![]() Our polarized, divisive culture seems to be without heroes and role models. In this stirring follow-up to his memoir, Steve Pemberton gives practical encouragement for how you can be a "human lighthouse" for others and through these inspiring stories will renew your hope for humanity. ![]() Etta otto russell james5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() James, the wolf, encounters Etta on her journey as a guide.Įtta & Otto & Russell & James was a slight out-of-my-comfort zone read and I’m glad I read it. Russell, like a brother to Otto since they were children, lives on the neighbouring farm. ![]() Otto, her husband, must learn how to be on his own for the first time, and even though she left a note saying I will try to remember to come back, he’s not worried about her. ![]() She leaves with a note in her pocket of who she is and who her family is, besides food and a rifle. Etta wakes up one morning in the farmhouse she shares with Otto in Saskatchewan and decides she needs to walk to the East Coast. Told in chapters that alternate between the present and the past, we are brought into the world of a couple as they were together and apart. James – now: wolf who wanders with Etta then: not yet in existence.Įtta & Otto & Russell & James was a beautiful, melancholy read of love, independence and character. Russell – now: elderly bachelor, farmer, in love with Etta then: school boy left at home due to a bungled leg, in love with Etta. Otto – now: elderly husband, left alone to make paper mache animal sculptures then: young soldier who learned how to write by sending letters to his former schoolteacher. Hamish Hamilton, out now.Įtta – now: elderly wife, early alzheimer’s, restless then: young schoolteacher, in love with a former student, grieving her sister. Etta & Otto & Russell & James, by Emma Hooper. ![]() ![]() ![]() A new superpower had been established and during the Soviet occupation of Poland, the war went cold. ![]() Nazi Germany was conquered after the counter-invasion from the Soviets. Photograph of Zdzisław Beksiński in front of the Historical Museum in Sanok, 1991 Piotr Dmochowski, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons In 1940, the Zaslav concentration camp was erected on the outskirts of Sanok and would be in operation for the next three years.Īlthough Beksiński was not Jewish, Sanok had one of the largest percentages of Jewish people in the country, with over 30% of its people being Jewish. When Beksiński Zdzisław was ten, World War II began and the Nazis invaded Poland. ![]() Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński was born in Southern Poland in the town of Sanok in 1929. ![]() Much of his work echoed the horrors of World War II, but his dark aesthetic has become particularly popular in the internet age.īeksiński brought global attention to Polish art and he is arguably the greatest Polish artist to date. Throughout his 50-year career, Zdzisław Beksiński‘s paintings went through a variety of styles. War, doomsday, devastation, death, desolation, emaciation, spirituality, eroticism, religion, architecture Into the Abyss with Zdzisław Beksiński Date of Birth 14215506445/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() One was a masterwork, an epic adventure fraught with complex characters, intrigue, and a sense of grandeur the other was just a movie. Two works, both named Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind. The source of my complaint was that I had read Miyazaki’s manga by the same title. It’s an issue that I’ve mostly sewn up in a burlap sack for disposal into the nearby lake, but at the time my disappointment in the cinema realization of Nausicaä was tremendous. The problem was that I was still too much a purist, too much a fan. Or at least it did in my mind at the time. When I finally arrived at Nausicaä, I was very excited, having saved the best for last. Weeks earlier, I was able to get ahold of a Hong Kong set of all of Miyazaki’s works up to that point and was slowly working my way through the collection. I had heard a lot of good things about it both from friends who adored the bastardized American release fifteen years earlier, Warriors of the Wind, and from friends who regularly sought out Japanese fare. Several years back (this was maybe 2002, right before Spirited Away hit American shores) I was finally able to see Hayao Miyazaki’s film Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind. ![]() ![]() In order to find the truth, Gamache will have to decide whether he can trust his friends, his colleagues, his instincts, his own past. ![]() Soon the whole family is caught up in a web of lies and deceit. It sends them deep into the secrets Armand’s godfather has kept for decades.Ī gruesome discovery in Stephen’s Paris apartment makes it clear the secrets are more rancid, the danger far greater and more imminent, than they realized. When a strange key is found in Stephen’s possession it sends Armand, his wife Reine-Marie, and his former second-in-command at the Sûreté, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, from the top of the Tour d’Eiffel, to the bowels of the Paris Archives, from luxury hotels to odd, coded, works of art. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident, but a deliberate attempt on the elderly man’s life. On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand’s godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. ![]() ![]() The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light ![]() House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The closer Iris gets to the truth, the closer she comes to understanding that the answer is dark and dangerous – and that Grey has been keeping a terrible secret from her for years. As Iris retraces Grey’s last known footsteps and follows the increasingly bizarre trail of breadcrumbs she left behind, it becomes apparent that the only way to save her sister is to decipher the mystery of what happened to them as children. ![]() But when her eldest sister, Grey, goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Iris learns just how weird her life can get: horned men start shadowing her, a corpse falls out of her sister’s ceiling, and ugly, impossible memories start to twist their way to the forefront of her mind. Iris has spent most of her teenage years trying to avoid the weirdness that sticks to her like tar. Ever since they disappeared on a suburban street in Scotland as. Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can’t quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at the base of their throats. Sutherland is a dark, twisty modern fairytale where three sisters discover they are not exactly all that they seem and evil things really do go bump in the night, coming ApIris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. ![]() You can read this before House of Hollow PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book House of Hollow written by Krystal Sutherland which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland ![]() Poznanski erebos 25/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The problem is that Erebos is powerful: it can help you out if you do what it says, but if you don’t, you’re in trouble.Įrebos won the 2011 Youth Literature Prize in its native Germany, and it’s not hard to see why. Soon it’s all that Nick can think about, and it begins to rule his life. The rules state that nobody is to talk about Erebos, and if they follow the rules, they get rewarded. Only when he is given a CD does Nick realise what everybody’s been so secretive about: a highly addictive computer game called Erebos that spills over into everyday life. When he notices his best friend isn’t returning his calls and is instead hanging out with the nerds, he starts asking questions, but nobody has any answers for him. ![]() Nick doesn’t know why everyone at school is acting strangely, but he’s not used to being left out and he’s determined to get to the bottom of it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Īs a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. ![]() Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. ![]() Book many minds many masters5/28/2023 ![]() It is our soul and our spirit that last forever''), while admirable and comforting, are little more than restatements of traditional religious values. ![]() ![]() we must all know these things,'' and ``Our body is just a vehicle for us while we're here. The various ideas which float in this book include spiritual conversion, connection with the dead and the importance of universal religious teachings such as charity, faith, and love. Only God can punish,'' ``Charity, hope, faith, love. Brian L Weiss from disbelief to belief in regards to messages from the supernatural world and reincarnation. Moreover, the teachings of the Master Spirits (``We are not to kill. Catherine's descriptions of her past lives are not particularly compelling or insightful. The previously nonspiritual, scientific Weiss, awed by Catherine's and the masters' revelations, has written this book to share his new-found knowledge about ``immortality and the true meaning of life.'' Whether or not one believes in reincarnation and channeling, Weiss's book will disappoint. ![]() When Weiss turned to hypnosis to help Catherine remember repressed childhood traumas, what emerged were the patient's descriptions of a dozen or so of her hitherto unknown 86 past lives, as well as philosophical messages channeled from ``Master Spirits.'' Catherine's anxieties and phobias soon disappeared, says Weiss, and she was able to end therapy. In 1980, Weiss, head of the psychiatry department at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, began treating Catherine, a 27-year-old woman plagued by anxiety, depression and phobias. ![]() |