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The breaks of the game book6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() This is a story about a place in our society where power, money, and talent collide and sometimes corrupt, a place where both national obsessions and naked greed are exposed. ![]() Yet he is writing here about far more than just basketball. The tactile authenticity of Halberstam’s knowledge of the basketball world is unrivaled. The New York Times bestseller, now with a new introduction! The Breaks of the Game focuses on one grim season (1979-80) in the life of the Bill Walton-led Portland Trail Blazers, a team that only three years before had been NBA champions. His work has stood the test of time and has become the standard by which all journalists measure themselves. ![]() A Pulitzer Prize-winner for his ground-breaking reporting on the Vietnam War, Halberstam wrote more than 20 books, almost all of them bestsellers. More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains one of this country’s most respected journalists and revered authorities on American life and history in the years since WWII. ![]()
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Hunger by Caleb Wampler6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() You will hear miracle stories from the fields of harvest and be encouraged in your faith from Caleb and his global ministry network. This podcast is an outflow of life and ministry in the nations, and of a passionate pursuit of God in the secret place. Caleb has seen hundreds of thousands of people come to the Lord through Salvation in Jesus in countries hostile to the Gospel, has witnessed impossible miracles, and experienced the outpouring of God’s wonder through intimacy with Jesus. Purchase your copy of Preparing for Battle: Developing the Lifestyle of a Victorious Prayer Warrior on .Įpisode 31: 839 Tumors Healed in One Night!Īwaken the Wonder podcast hosted by Evangelist Caleb Wampler of Kingdom Encounters International, will stir your Christian faith, and help you to encounter the wonder of God. Listen to Caleb’s podcast Awaken the Wonder on Charisma Podcast Network. Sign up for emails at: Connect with Caleb Wampler at. We promise your occupying force faith will increase as you listen in! ![]() 33-year-old Evangelist Caleb Wampler walks in incredible faith everywhere he goes. ![]() “Mystery illness” healed in many during a Bangladesh crusade in early 2020. International crusade meetings during a global pandemic. ![]()
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Vi keeland rebel heir6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() My summer became a lot more interesting-and complicated.Īll good things must come to an end, right?Įxcept our ending was one I didn’t see coming. ![]() I wasn't supposed to fall for the rebel heir, especially when he made it clear he didn’t want to cross the line with me.Īs the temperature turned cooler, the nights became hotter. I never expected that the two of us, seemingly opposites from the outside, would grow so close. That was sort of how it all started with Rush.Īnd then little by little, some of the walls of this hardass man started to come down. ![]() Until one night when he demanded I get in his car so he could drive me home because he didn’t want me walking in the dark. I should add-especially when the guy is your sexy, tattooed God of a boss.Įspecially when he not only owns your place of employment but inherited half of the town. A guy you can’t have when you’ll be leaving at the end of the season. How to screw up a great summer in the Hamptons:įall for the one guy with a dark leather jacket, scruff on his face, and intense eyes that doesn’t fit in with the rest of the tony looking crowd. How to kick off a great summer in the Hamptons: From New York Times Bestselling authors Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward, comes the first book in a new, sexy duet. ![]()
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Being and nothingness book6/9/2023 ![]() Far from being an internal, passive container for our thoughts and experiences, human consciousness is constantly projecting itself to the outside world and imbuing it with meaning. In a new, more accessible translation, this foundational text argues that we alone create our values and our existence is characterized by freedom and the inescapability of choice. A brilliant and radical account of the human condition, Being and Nothingness explores what gives our lives significance. In 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre published his masterpiece, Being and Nothingness, and laid the foundation of his legacy as one of the greatest twentieth century philosophers. ![]() “This is a philosophy to be reckoned with, both for its own intrinsic power and as a profound symptom of our time” ( The New York Times). ![]() ![]() Revisit one of the most important pillars in modern philosophy with this new English translation-the first in more than 60 years-of Jean-Paul Sartre’s seminal treatise on existentialism. ![]()
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Vicki myron6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() As his fame grew, people drove hundreds of miles to meet Dewey, and people all over the world fell in love with him. But her biggest challenge as the new head librarian in Spencer was to raise the spirits of a small, out-of-the-way town mired deep in the farm crisis of the 1980s.ĭewey, as the townspeople named the kitten, quickly grew into a strutting, adorable library cat whose antics kept patrons in stitches, and whose sixth sense about those in need created hundreds of deep and loving friendships. Vicki was a single mother who had survived the loss of her family farm and an alcoholic, abusive husband. On the coldest morning of the year, Vicki Myron found a tiny, bedraggled kitten almost frozen to death in the night drop box of the library where she worked, and her life - and the town of Spencer, Iowa - would never be the same. The story of how one adorable and lovably roguish library cat touched the lives of everyone he came into contact with. ![]()
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![]() When we lean into the complexity of a book, young people can begin to develop skills for learning about all kinds of complicated realities. ![]() If we use our lessons to only focus on the characters or the craft, we miss an important opportunity to help them understand the world around them. ![]() In our quest to provide diverse and inclusive books to our students, we must also be intentional about how we address complex social inequality issues. When a boy (who he had imagined was nothing like him) turns out to be heading to the very same destination as Milo, he starts to reimagine all the assumptions he made about the people in the subway. He assumes things about them based on the way they are dressed, drawing on cultural stereotypes and expectations. He imagines what their lives are like and draws pictures of them in his sketchbook. On a long subway ride with his sister, Milo studies the people around him. Milo Imagines the World offers many opportunities for rich conversations with students about stereotypes, identity, and family. Check out the other guides for Wonder, Genesis Begins Again, The 57 Bus, Jacob’s New Dress, and Dreamers. ![]() ![]() This is the sixth post in the “Complex Books, In Context” series. Today, we’re digging into one of my favorite picture books, Milo Imagines the World, written by Matt de la Peña and illustrated by Christian Robinson. ![]()
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Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Still, see how he sighs when that man, the one whose daughter is quiet and, sadly, a little slow, pulls into the space next to his? See how he watches the girl get out of the car? She's a skinny little thing, always hunching over a bit, like she's taller than she thinks she is. He's a strange one, that's for sure, living alone, always with that car, not really ever talking to anyone, but every place has one weirdo, and at least car guy cleans up after himself. Car guy has been here since you moved in, but you never see him except for sunny weekends, when he works on his car. That man in the far building, the car guy, is outside, a pile of parts scattered on the black ooze of the parking lot around him. ![]() One dog lies sleeping in the sun, twitching its tail when a child comes over and pats the top of its head before running away, giggling. The stairs are chipped but solid, the washing machines always work, and management picks up the trash once a week.Ī few mothers sit outside their buildings, resting in fraying lawn chairs and talking over each other while their children run around, playing. Shady Pines is nice enough, if it's all you can afford. There's also a drugstore and tiny restaurants, every one opening and closing within months. Across from a strip mall with nail places and a cash-loan store that advertises on TV all the time. Shady Pines Apartments, four shabby buildings tucked off the road near the highway. ![]()
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Arthur ransome6/9/2023 ![]() Ransome kept Swallow until he sold it a number of years later, while Mavis remained in the Altounyan family and is now on permanent display in the Ruskin Museum. Ransome and Ernest Altounyan bought two small dinghies called Swallow and Mavis. Three of the Altounyan children's names are adopted directly for the Walker family. The book was inspired by a summer spent by Ransome teaching the children of his friends, the Altounyans, to sail. He did continue to write part-time for the press, however. ![]() It is the first book in the Swallows and Amazons series, followed by Swallowdale.Īt the time, Ransome had been working as a journalist with the Manchester Guardian, but decided to become a full-time author rather than go abroad as a foreign correspondent. We also meet Nancy and Peggy Blackett (Amazons) their uncle Jim (James Turner), commonly referred to as Captain Flint and their widowed mother, Molly Blackett. Set in the summer of 1929 in the Lake District, the book introduces the main characters of John, Susan, Titty and Roger Walker (Swallows) as well as their mother, Mary and their baby sister, Bridget (nicknamed Vicky). ![]() Swallows and Amazons is a children's adventure novel by English author Arthur Ransome and first published on 21 July 1930 by Jonathan Cape. ![]()
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Erich love story6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Jennifer calls to the Barrett’s to tell that they don’t come, but that Ollie loves them anyway. Jennifer wants to go, but Oliver refuses. Jennifer works, she teaches music and Oliver continues his law school.įor the sixtieth birthday of Oliver Barrett III, Oliver’s father, Oliver and Jennifer are invite. ![]() In the beginning of their marriage, they live in a cheap apartment with very little money. Oliver doesn’t care about what his father said and he applies for a scholarship. ![]() When the dad of Oliver heard of it, he refuses to give any financial support to Oliver if he marries Jennifer. It’s much more! One day when Jenny has the chance to go studying in Paris, Ollie asks her to marry him. Together Jenny & Ollie form a great couple their relationship isn’t only sexual. Ollie thinks immediately that Jenny is seeing someone else. Someday when Ollie visits Jenny, he heard her talking on the phone to Phil and she says to this Phil that she loves him. When they’re drinking a coffee Oliver invites Jennifer to watch an ice-hockey game and she goes.Īt the end of the game, Ollie says to Jenny that he loves her and he kisses her. The have an argument and later they have a coffee together. He met Jennifer at the disk, because he needs to borrow a book. Oliver Barrett is studying at the library of Radcliff. The book is called ‘Love Story’ because the whole story is about love between a girl and a boy. ![]()
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Le Petit Nicolas by René Goscinny6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() It soars across the globe from London, to Peru, to Philadelphia, to Tahiti, to Amsterdam. The Signature of All Things is a big novel, about a big century. But as her careful studies of moss take her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, the man she comes to love draws her in the opposite direction. It is not long before Alma, an independent girl with a thirst for knowledge, comes into her own within the world of plants and science. Alma's mother, a strict woman from an esteemed Dutch family, has a knowledge of botany equal to any man's. ![]() Her father, Henry Whittaker, is a bold and charismatic botanical explorer whose vast fortune belies his lowly beginnings as a vagrant in Sir Joseph Banks's Kew Gardens and as a deck hand on Captain Cook's HMS Resolution. ![]() At the beginning of a new century, Alma Whittaker is born into a perfect Philadelphia winter. ![]() |