![]() ![]() He kneels on the floor and pats the mat next to him. Double entendre not intended.įlat on your back right here. It’s often used for aerobic classes, and the floor mats are still in place. I follow him into a room that’s empty except for us. In order to get results you have to work hard, Steven informs me. He showed me how to use practically every machine and weight in the building. I did find my sessions with him useful and informative. Normally, muscle gods are not my type, but in this case I would have made an exception if Steven threw a pass my way. ![]() The trainer introduced himself as Steven and in typical gym fashion, he was built like Superman. I signed up with a personal trainer on the day I enrolled. With my self-esteem in the toilet after my last relationship ended, I knew I had to make some life changes. I just wanted to feel better about myself. Hell, it’s not like I’m out of shape, or that I can’t run up a flight of stairs. Joining the gym wasn’t a bad idea for many reasons, one being for far too long I’ve neglected to take care of myself. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. All names, characters, and places are fictitious. No part of this book may be used or reproduced electronically or in print without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews. WARNING: The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Published by Evernight Publishing at Smashwords ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Have you ever thought about what is original and unexpected in this group of beings that the day before did not know each other, and who, for a few days between the infinite sky and the huge sea, will live in the most intimate life, together will challenge the wrath of the ocean, the terrifying onslaught of waves, the wickedness of the storms and the sneaky quiet of the sleepy water? We had the pleasant sensation of being separated from the world, reduced to ourselves as on an unknown island, forced therefore to get closer to each other. Relationships are formed, entertainment were organized. Provence is a fast, comfortable transatlantic, controlled by the most affable men. A strange trip! It started so well though, under happiest auspices. ![]() ![]() Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation.įoner has dedicated his career to demolishing these assumptions about how the Civil War happened and how the victors shaped what came after. Their view of Reconstruction tended to be even more wrongheaded, rendering a decade of biracial democracy as an era dominated by vengeful Yankees who headed south to stir up racial antagonisms, echoing the pro–Ku Klux Klan narrative of D.W. They claimed that the “war between the states” could have been avoided if sage voices of compromise had only been able to silence the hotheaded abolitionists and their secessionist counterparts. ![]() Yet until the 1960s, most influential scholars conceived of the era as a sad departure from America’s grand march of progress toward political liberty and economic plenty. Nothing has been more important to the development of American society and politics than the Civil War and Reconstruction. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitutionįor nearly half a century, Eric Foner has been challenging and overturning the benighted assertions made about the most studied and contentious period in US history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Christmas (alas, also out of print) is another favorite. From his writing, I could see why even his wordless books are so charming. ![]() He not only got the note, he responded in a most gracious manner, alluding that he appreciated the positive feedback since his own children weren't quite sure that his occupation as an author of childrens' books was entirely respectable. previous 1 2 3 next sort by previous 1 2 3 next Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. I sent it off to the publisher without any idea that he might actually receive it. Books by Peter Spier Peter Spier Average rating 4.13 14,389 ratings 1,227 reviews shelved 25,067 times Showing 30 distinct works. Spier to describe the scene and tell him how much I appreciated the gift of his work. ![]() Providing the occasion for that kind of joy in a home is a great gift. I loved just sitting in the kitchen listening to the two of them. I heard them chatting back and forth telling stories about each panel and them breaking out in laughter. Many years ago I was sitting in our kitchen while my wife was out in the living room "reading" this wordless book with our young son on her lap. I have a particularly fond memory associated with this book. Rain was one of the first ones that came to mind. ![]() I was thinking about getting them some of the books that were favorites around here when our boy was growing up. My son is now a grown man but my nephew and his wife just had their first child. Spier's beautiful books, is out of print. Along with another reviewer, I'm sadden to see that Rain, and many other of Mr. ![]() ![]() Visit him on Instagram for Operation Photobomb “Illustrations in this upbeat offering are lush and playful.The narrative is a lighthearted take on the trickster tale. Now he lives with his family in the jungles of Los Angeles where he may, or may not, photobomb unsuspecting tourists. In her previous life, she owned a toy and bookstore in Atlanta, which was a catalyst for writing her. Buy I Am Famous by Tara Luebbe, Becky Cattie, Joanne Lew-Vriethoff (Illustrator) (ISBN: 9780807534533) online at Alibris. His parents still prize the toucan he drew when he was five.He earned his degree in fine arts from the University of Arizona. Tara Luebbe is a self-described Picture Book Nerd. Matthew Rivera began drawing animals when he was old enough to hold a crayon. Kiely, a fabulous little girl, knows how to work her fame in this adorable picture book. ![]() ![]() įacebook: BeckyTara Books Twitter: and Instagram: and the illustrator: I Am Famous, by Tara Luebbe and Becky Cattie/Illustrated by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff, (March 2018, Albert Whitman), 16.99, ISBN: 9780807534403. Kiely knows she is famous The paparazzi (her parents) follow her every move, documenting with cameras. ![]() Together they’ve written several picture books, including I Am Famous and I Used to be Famous, illustrated by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff, and Shark Nate-O, illustrated by Daniel Duncan. Tara lives in Fort Mill, South Carolina, with her husband and three boys. ![]() Tara and Becky are sisters and collaborators. ![]() ![]() Dot does not sleep well, and when her friends come around to visit they all scream en masse 'He's going to eat us all up!' but, once again, there is no response from Dot's parents. Wolfie settles in quickly, happily eating carrots and sleeping very well. ![]() Mama and Papa Bunny are immediately charmed by their new baby, but big sister Dot remains alarmed, shouting out 'He's going to eat us all up!' but receiving no response from her smitten parents! ![]() Fortunately for you, this book will cover all of those requirements! Wolfie the bunny arrives in the Bunny family's lives in a rather suspicious way, when he is left on their doorstep in a basket. Or it may just be that you like a good story that's fun to read. ![]() It may be that you have a wolf- or rabbit-obsessed toddler. It may be that you are on the lookout for a useful picture book that deals with sibling rivalry in a helpful way. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He eventually finds a bus stop for those who desire an excursion to some other place (the destination later turns out to be the foothills of Heaven). The narrator inexplicably finds himself in a grim and joyless city, the "grey town", where it rains continuously, even indoors, which is either Hell or Purgatory depending on whether or not one stays there. George MacDonald, whom Lewis utilizes as a character in the story, Dante, Prudentius and Jeremy Taylor are alluded to in the text of chapter 9. Augustine, Dante Aligheri, John Milton, John Bunyan, Emanuel Swedenborg and Lewis Carroll, as well as an American science fiction author whose name Lewis had forgotten but whom he mentions in his preface ( Hall, Charles F, The Man Who Lived Backwards ). Lewis's diverse sources for this work include the works of St. The Great Divorce was first printed as a serial in an Anglican newspaper called The Guardian in 19 and soon thereafter in book form. The title refers to William Blake's poem The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. The working title was Who Goes Home? but the final name was changed at the publisher's insistence. Lewis, published in 1945, based on a theological dream vision of his in which he reflects on the Christian conceptions of Heaven and Hell. The Great Divorce is a novel by the British author C. ![]() ![]() ![]() Both authors, while acknowledging the centrality of debt to human relations, challenge the assumptions, mythologies, and platitudes that make it seem so obvious that one must always pay their debts. ![]() The Bonds of Debt by Richard Dienst, and Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber, both ask what it ought to mean to live with debt today, and, in Graeber’s case, what it has meant historically. In 2011, as the scramble from above for a status-quo-preserving scheme to deleverage the global economy entered its third year, two books approaching debt from a less lofty angle were released. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It has one good twist and a couple of hit-and-miss ones. The story seems straightforward but it's anything but. It doesn't seem as profound as Use of Weapons or as thrilling as Consider Phlebas, but it's better than Player of Games, for sure. This is among the "weak" Culture books in my opinion, though it's still pretty impressive by any other standards. And in accepting this mission, Byr will be swept into a vast conspiracy that could lead the universe into an age of peace. There is only one way to break the silence of millennia: steal the soul of the long-dead starship captain who first encountered the star, and convince her to be reborn. But in seeking the secret of the lost sun, Byr risks losing himself. The Department of Special Circumstances-the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section-has sent him off to investigate a 2,500-year-old mystery: the sudden disappearance of a star fifty times older than the universe itself. Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. Now he takes us on the ultimate trip: to the edge of possibility and to the heart of a cosmic puzzle. Banks is a true original, an author whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination and inimitable revelatory power. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is one glimmer of hope in the gloom-filled prophecy: The cloven guide alone the way does know. While Leo flies ahead on Festus to warn the Roman camp, Lester and Meg must go through the Labyrinth to find the third emperor-and an Oracle who speaks in word puzzles-somewhere in the American Southwest. The words she uttered while seated on the Throne of Memory revealed that an evil triumvirate of Roman emperors plans to attack Camp Jupiter. With the help of some demigod friends, Lester managed to survive his first two trials, one at Camp Half-Blood, and one in Indianapolis, where Meg received the Dark Prophecy. But he has to achieve this impossible task without having any godly powers and while being duty-bound to a confounding young daughter of Demeter named Meg. Thanks a lot, Dad. In order to regain his place on Mount Olympus, Lester must restore five Oracles that have gone dark. The formerly glorious god Apollo, cast down to earth in punishment by Zeus, is now an awkward mortal teenager named Lester Papadopoulos. ![]() |