Last year my daughter practiced mindfulness in school and she seemed to really like it. There are so many distractions surrounding us fighting for every second of our attention. It is astonishing the level of stress children (and adults) can experience these days. Featuring an author’s note about the importance of mindfulness and a guided meditation for children, I Am Peace will help readers of all ages feel grounded and restored. Reynolds’s expressive watercolor illustrations bring the tenets of mindfulness to a kid-friendly level. Perfect for the classroom or for bedtime, Susan Verde’s gentle, concrete narration and Peter H. Breathe, taste, smell, touch, and be present. Wonder at the beauty of the natural world. When the world feels chaotic, find peace within through an accessible mindfulness practice from the bestselling picture-book dream team that brought us I Am Yoga. Express emotions through direct speech. Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers I Am Peace: A Book of Mindfulness by Susan Verde, illustrated by Peter H. As always, all opinions are my own and are not influenced in any way. Disclaimer: I was provided a copy of this book from the author to facilitate this review.
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When the region of Biafra broke away from Nigeria in 1967, Achebe, a devoted supporter of independence, served as ambassador for the people of the new nation. In 1975, controversy focused on his lecture An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" for its criticism of Joseph Conrad as "a bloody racist." Achebe defended the use of English, a "language of colonizers," in African literature. He gained worldwide attention in the late 1950s his later novels include No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1964), A Man of the People (1966), and Anthills of the Savannah (1987). After graduation, he worked for the Nigerian broadcasting service and quickly moved to the metropolis of Lagos. World religions and traditional African cultures fascinated him, who began stories as a university student. People best know and most widely read his first book in modern African literature.Ĭhristian parents in the Igbo town of Ogidi in southeastern Nigeria reared Achebe, who excelled at school and won a scholarship for undergraduate studies. This poet and critic served as professor at Brown University. Works, including the novel Things Fall Apart (1958), of Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe describe traditional African life in conflict with colonial rule and westernization. After internment in a civilian prison camp, he and his family returned to England in 1946. Ballard was born in 1930 in Shanghai, where his father was a businessman. All this and much more, we see as the attempt of a bruised mind to make sense of the upheaval around it. He plunges into the maelstrom of the 1960s, an instigator and subject of every aspect of cultural, social, and sexual revolution. Then, after settling happily into family life, his world is ripped apart by domestic tragedy. Jim tries and fails to find stability as a medical student at Cambridge and a trainee RAF pilot in Canada. The Kindness of Women continues the story of the boy whose life in Japanese-occupied Shaghai was described so memorably in Empire of the Sun, it sets those traumatic events within the context of a lifetime as we follow the narrator, Jim, to England and suburban Shepperton after the war. Ballard’s prize-winning Empire of the Sun, that follows Jim to post-war England. The fascinating, and largely autobiographical, sequel to J. Trapped in an increasingly dangerous situation, with a child's life and her own on the line, Darby must find a way to break the girl out of the van and escape. One of her fellow travelers is a kidnapper. There is no cell phone reception, no telephone, and no way out. Who is the child? Why has she been taken? And how can Darby save her? In the back of the van parked next to her car, a little girl is locked in an animal crate. Inside are some vending machines, a coffee maker, and four complete strangers.ĭesperate to find a signal to call home, Darby goes back out into the storm. With the roads impassable, she's forced to wait out the storm at a remote highway rest stop. On her way to Utah to see her dying mother, college student Darby Thorne gets caught in a fierce blizzard in the mountains of Colorado. Swift, sharp, and relentless."Ī brilliant, edgy thriller about four strangers, a blizzard, a kidnapped child, and a determined young woman desperate to unmask and outwit a vicious psychopath.Ī kidnapped little girl locked in a stranger's van. "What a box of tricks This full-throttle thriller, dark and driving, rivals Agatha Christie for sheer ingenuity and James Patterson for flat-out speed. She’d gone all out and made Ritzy Chicken, Todd’s favorite. Todd wasn’t home yet but she was ready to surprise him and make her grand announcement the minute he entered their apartment. provided me with this book in exchange for my honest review and I am so grateful for their, the authors and publishers generosity. I want to give a high-five to the author Robin Jones Gunn and publisher for bringing compelling Christian books that are entertaining and give hope to the reader with stories of faith. I highly recommend it to anyone that is a Christian. The author Robin Jones Gunn’s strong faith shined in this 5 star book. Todd and Christy’s faith is the kind of devotion to God I dream about having. I had to pull back and look at my faith on the issue of trust. It inspired me to think and trust God in a greater way. It’s the kind of book that had me anticipating God’s next move. This was one of the most inspiring books I have read in a very long time. They wrote scriptures on the floors before the carpet was installed. Towards the end of the book as they renovate Todd’s fathers house they do a house blessing that I thought was a fantastic idea. But with a strong faith they face adversity head on and shine. They face job loss and difficulties that test their faith and marriage. Forever With You Book 1 The Married Years by Robin Jones GunnISBN 9780982877210Christian Fiction, Romance Christy and Todd Spencer have a rough road ahead of them. She describes the climate changes taking place in our own backyards and the many steps we can take to boost a garden’s resilience. She offers advice on how to prep soil, plant food, and raise fruits, herbs, and vegetables using regenerative methods. To help us get started, and quickly, Tucker drafts victory gardening instructions for gardeners who have a little ground or a lot of it. Tucker’s latest book, Growing Good Food, is a handbook for growing a Victory Garden when the enemy is global warming. By building carbon-rich soil, even in a backyard-sized patch, we can capture greenhouse gases and mitigate climate change, all while growing nutritious food. Acadia Tucker, a carbon farmer and gardener, invites us to think of gardening as civic action. Are you reading this? Do you see them on the cover? Guy parts will touch. Two men getting kinky, talking dirty and doing the horizontal mambo. Lately even more.Since Jeremy isn't into collars and Owen isn't into men, it seems like his fantasies will remain just that forever.until one night when Owen gets curious.Warning: Contains explicit m/m nookie. Though the bisexual comic book artist has known Owen Finn for most of his life-long enough to know that he is terminally straight-he can't help but imagine what things would be like if he weren't.Owen is far from vanilla-as a dominant in the local fetish community, he sees as much action as Jeremy does. From bachelor parties with penis cakes to proposals and new revelations, the family has one heck of a holiday season. Alexander,Finn Factor, Book 1.Are you Curious?Jeremy Porter is. A Curious Wedding (The Finn Factor 5) Revisit the Finn Family as they prepare for Christmas Eve and the Curious Wedding of Owen Finn and Jeremy Porter. From New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author R.G. But Franzen was less interested in his message of authenticity. In his 2006 memoir, The Discomfort Zone, Franzen writes of Mutton with admiration, recalling “his violent allergy to piousness” and his gruff authority. They expressed their spirituality through their actions by cultivating “authentic relationships” with one another and working with the poor. Though Fellowship was affiliated with the First Congregational Church, its members rarely prayed or consulted the Bible. They flocked to Sunday evening meetings, where they blindfolded one another and performed trust exercises, palpated one another’s faces with their fingers, and practiced radical honesty in drawn-out sessions of uncomfortable truth telling.Ī member for six years, Franzen spent his adolescence immersed in the group. Emulating his style, his followers grew their hair long, dressed in their most worn-out clothes, smoked cigarettes, and played guitar. The reason was Fellowship, a rapidly growing Christian youth group, and its edgy leader, Bob Mutton-a youth pastor with a “tormented Jesus” look about him. Louis Globe-Democrat reported that parents in his town were worried: high school kids in Webster Groves were spending too much time at church. In 1972, when Jonathan Franzen was thirteen, the St. So has Cara got a fantasy cast list ready in case? “Of course! I think about it all the time. In the meantime, screenwriter Daisy Coulam, of Grantchester and Dead Waterfall fame, is currently adapting Cara’s five books for a new TV series, yet to be confirmed, so fingers crossed that DI Adam Fawley and his team appear on our screens soon. To put it into perspective, Cara Hunter (not her real name), currently dipping into her asparagus and hollandaise in Quod, has sold over a million copies of her crime novels in the UK alone, is translated and sold in 25 different countries, and her latest The Whole Truth has just been picked up by the Richard & Judy Book Club, meaning you’ll find it in every supermarket, airport (God willing) and bookshop from here to Timbucktu. “I realised just how much I relied on the outside world to function as an author” Cara Hunter looks refreshingly elegant when we meet dressed in white, her long blonde hair, beautiful outfit and manicured nails a far cry from the dark, crime-ridden world in which she spends the majority of her time.Īnd yet it’s one that’s reaping its rewards, all that hard work tapping away at her desk in North Oxford paying off as her novels continually feature on bestseller lists all over the world. Soon she finds herself untangling webs of complex conspiracies involving all manner of corruption, including racial strife, family secrets, bribery and political graft. When one of those lawyers is found stabbed to death, along with a woman of possibly questionable morals, "outside a colored brothel," Canner is drawn into the investigation. These include, among others, "Daniel Sickles, lawyer and rake, the most elegant scoundrel of the age," Lincoln's old colleague Joshua Speed and a number of others, both real and imagined. But Carter chooses to spend much of the time with his fictional heroine, Abigail Canner, 21, an Oberlin-educated black woman and aspiring attorney.Ĭanner is hired to assist the team of lawyers defending Lincoln in his impeachment trial before the U.S. |