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Reviving ophelia book7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() The current edition is co-written by Sara Pipher, who became a writer and refugee advocate as an adult. It includes both original stories and new additions. ![]() The 2019 edition was revised to include the changes that occurred over the past three decades and to examine what is still the same. ![]() The book changed the way many psychologists, teachers, parents, and teens themselves viewed the struggles of adolescence and the sources of teenage depression, anxiety, and other mental health disorders. She wrote the collection to bring awareness to the cultural trauma and dysfunction experienced by adolescent girls and to assist girls and women around the world with their healing process. The book comprises a collection of Pipher’s essays, which are based on the interviews and focus groups with adolescent girls she conducted with her daughter, Sara Pipher. Reviving Ophelia was written in 1994 by Mary Pipher, a psychologist who works with women and teen girls, studying the ways cultural norms impact their mental health. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Hit’s all these men together, and you, and knowing this here is the way we was meant to do. With the miners’ unionization struggles culminating in the Battle of Blair Mountain at the core of Giardina’s novel, the question for the curious reader is simply this: who will survive, and at what price?Īnd the title? One character puts it this way when pressed to define Heaven: “’Heaven is this here. It’s got everything you want in a compelling novel: catastrophe, love, and loss birth and death war and a journey home. Told by four rotating first-person narrators-among them a coal-camp nurse, a union organizer, and an Italian miner’s wife-“Storming Heaven” follows the fate of West Virginians whose lives were overtaken and destroyed by coal companies. Raised in a West Virginia coal camp, Denise Giardina writes with beauty and passion about railroad and coal company exploitation in early 20th-century Appalachia. ![]()
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Where's Jane? by Rebecca Smith7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Next absorb the wonderfully detailed illustrations as you search for the characters and the elusive author in the big and bustling main artworks. First read a snappy synopsis of the story, then explore key stages through a simple, illustrated narrative as you meet the main characters. ![]() Children spot the main characters in ten major scenes from Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, and Mansfield Park. "This beautiful new book introduces young children to Austen's intriguing Georgian and Regency-era world, filled with all the makings of the best stories-sparky humour, legendary showdowns, secrets, love and triumph." - Read It Daddy!Ĭan you find Jane Austen hidden in ten scenes from her beloved novels? This beautiful new book introduces young children to Austen's intriguing Georgian and Regency-era world, filled with all the makings of the best stories-sparky humor, legendary showdowns, secrets, love and triumph. "Lively and entertaining, this is a great, fun introduction to some brilliant classics." - RTE Junior ![]()
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![]() Hall, Lecture on Esotericism and Exotericism, 1928 When you have wandered therein you might say to yourself: 'I wish I had a guide to tell me what these things mean.' And you will find your guide to be your own rational soul." -Manly P. "The book is like unto a door – a gate, in some old sanctuary, containing within it a wealth of imagery a wealth of mysteries, designs and figures. Augustus Knapp, with over 200 black& white illustrations, an extensive bibliography, and a complete index. This edition is smaller than the original folio-sized version and contains 54 full-color plates by illustrator J. Henry Nash, this unique volume can be treasured and passed on as an heirloom with the assurance that its in-depth studies of some forty ancient and modern systems of spiritual development. ![]() Hall’s exhaustive research concentrates the teachings of nearly 600 distinguished authorities on religion and philosophy, bringing to you an interpretation of the themes underlying the ancient mythology, philosophy, religion, rituals, and arcane mysteries of all ages. ![]() An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic, and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy being an Interpretation of the Secret Teachings concealed within the Rituals, Allegories, and Mysteries of All Ages ![]()
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Darkhenge by catherine fisher7/4/2023 ![]() Do you consciously think yourself into a poetry or prose mood? When something starts to germinate in your mind, how soon do you know which form it's going to take? And what would you do if, say, you're in the middle of a novel and you suddenly get a really good impetus for something that just has to be a poem?ĬATHERINE: It's hard to write both at once sometimes it works. SHEENAGH: I think you've said before that you, like me, are one of those who can't write poetry and prose at the same time because the rhythms are so different the poems just come out prosy. Her futuristic novel Incarceron was published to widespread praise in 2007, winning the Mythopoeic Society of America's Children's Fiction Award and selected by The Times as its Children's Book of the Year. ![]() In poetry, she has won the Cardiff International Poetry Prize, while with her novels she has been shortlisted for many awards including the Smarties Books Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Children's Fiction. Catherine Fisher, who lives in Newport, writes both poems and YA fantasy novels. ![]()
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The book lust7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() No matter what we do life is going to sometimes send challenging situations. Will making friends with yourself make your life perfect? No. ![]() So, in the midst of all this I began questioning whether making friends with myself had actually made any difference at all, and the subject of this month’s blog was born. ![]() I’m also self-employed and trying to authentically grow my business whilst not put too much on my plate which, as a recovering workaholic, I still have a tendency to do. My biggest struggle in April came in the shape of my gorgeous curly headed son Josh, not so much him, but his autism which means at four he’s non-verbal, has a lot of very specific needs and for whom the Easter Holidays weren’t a welcome chocolate fest but an upsetting break in his routine that triggered a spate of almost constant meltdowns. I’m writing a book about self-compassion and the role it plays in living a joyful life, but as imposter syndrome flooded through me during the first session of the Hay House writers’ workshop along with frustration and my general weepy demeanour I thought, “God, Hannah you are a total fraud – this doesn’t seem like joyful living, the book is lies!” Stress and overwhelm were regular visitors. I can’t believe we are in May – Mental Health Awareness Month – and I won’t lie, my intention to stay light-hearted in April didn’t quite go to plan. ![]()
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Medusa by jessie burton7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Jessie Burton’s fiery feminist re-telling of the Greek myth of Medusa blazes with intrigue and beauty courtesy of author’s elegant style and Olivia Lomenech Gill’s fabulously evocative colour illustrations. November 2021 Book of the Month - A November 2021 Star Book! Announcing the Children's and Young Adult Jhalak Prize Shortlist.Empathy Day steps up a gear as it returns for its seventh year – at a time of great need.20+ Brilliant Books Featuring Unforgettable Deaf or Hard of Hearing Characters for Deaf Awareness Week. ![]() Celebrate King Charles III and his Coronation with these Majestic Children's Books.New imprint, Pineapple Lane, launches with seven Ukrainian picture books.Sally Anne Garland and The Art of the Every Day.Fit for a King and May Day Madness! Topical themes to inspire aspiring young writers.The year’s outstanding debut authors for children: shortlist for the 2023 Branford Boase Award announced.Anxiety & Wellbeing - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health. ![]()
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Beautiful country wang7/3/2023 ![]() As Ba Ba retreats further inward, Qian has little to hold onto beyond his constant refrain: Whatever happens, say that you were born here, that you’ve always lived here. And where there is delight to be found, Qian relishes it: her first bite of gloriously greasy pizza, weekly “shopping days,” when Qian finds small treasures in the trash lining Brooklyn’s streets, and a magical Christmas visit to Rockefeller Center-confirmation that the New York City she saw in movies does exist after all.īut then Qian’s headstrong Ma Ma collapses, revealing an illness that she has kept secret for months for fear of the cost and scrutiny of a doctor’s visit. ![]() Shunned by her classmates and teachers for her limited English, Qian takes refuge in the library and masters the language through books, coming to think of The Berenstain Bears as her first American friends. ![]() Instead of laughing at her jokes, they fight constantly, taking out the stress of their new life on one another. In Chinatown, Qian’s parents labor in sweatshops. In China, Qian’s parents were professors in America, her family is “illegal” and it will require all the determination and small joys they can muster to survive. From the publisher, “In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. ![]()
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Books like al capone does my shirts7/3/2023 ![]() Now we’re at a complete standstill on the steep road that leads to the top of the island. “First, we’re going to the morgue,” Theresa announces with a little skip. Who wants to face a convicted felon in your pajamas? “I’m having a devil of a time setting up extra circuits in the laundry.” Smallest kid of all my cousins, shortest kid in my kindergarten class and on my block too. The only guns on the island are up high in the towers or the catwalks, because one flick of the wrist and a gun carried by a guard is a gun carried by a criminal. ![]() This is the dock guard tower, a popcorn stand on stilts where somebody’s dad sits with enough firepower to blow us all to smithereens. The convicts we have are the kind other prisons don’t want.Ī full moon cuts a white path across the bay while the wind blows, making something creak and a buoy clang in the distance. ![]()
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Remembering Babylon by David Malouf7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Though Gemmy is only slowly recovering his grasp of English, Mr. ![]() The settlers are mostly disturbed by the man, who calls himself Gemmy. They march him back to the settlement, Lachlan’s ego swelling with an image of himself as a powerful dominator, and show the other white settlers. However, after taking the man captive by pretending a long stick is actually a rifle, Lachlan and his cousins, Janet and Meg, discover that the man is in fact a European, though he speaks and acts like an indigenous person. Lachlan, the young boy, sees the man’s darkened skin and assumes he is one of the Aboriginal tribesmen who live in the Australian wilderness. In Queensland, Australia in the mid-1800s, three children of Commonwealth settlers are playing in a clearing when a strange man appears, sitting balanced upon a fence. ![]() |