![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Will Wyatt and Kai be able to see past their differences and rely on what they have in common to alter their futures?Īll The Cuts and Scars We Hide is a story about healing, redemption and love. Description: Ex United States Marine, Wyatt Miller was living a low-key life keeping those around him at arm’s length, fearing that the shadow that had been haunting him for four years would swallow everything and everyone he touched even if it meant living a solitary life. What would Kai do when the only man who could free him was the same person that reminded him of a ghost in his past? What would Wyatt do when the only man that could save him was the same person who could drive him over the edge? What he didn’t expect was to meet a mysterious stranger that would change the course of his quest for a new beginning. Until one night when a beautiful stranger came to his rescue during one of the darkest points in his life.Ĭaught between the guilt and his love for his family, Kai Lobo left Hawaii in search of a fresh start and a new place to call home. Ex United States Marine, Wyatt Miller was living a low-key life keeping those around him at arm’s length, fearing that the shadow that had been haunting him for four years would swallow everything and everyone he touched even if it meant living a solitary life. ![]()
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7/7/2023 0 Comments Again but better a novel![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To those wishing to do things again, but better, Throw in some fate and a touch of magic-the possibilities are endless. Shane comes to find that, with the right amount of courage and determination one can conquer anything. ![]() She is soon faced with the complicated realities of living outside her bubble, and when self-doubt sneaks in, her new life starts to fall apart. She’s going to right all her college mistakes: make friends, pursue boys, and find adventure!Įasier said than done. Shane signs up for a semester abroad in London. Time’s a ticking, and she needs a change-there’s nothing like moving to a new country to really mix things up. Her life has been dorm, dining hall, class, repeat. Pre-med, stellar grades, and happy parents…sounds ideal-but Shane’s made zero friends, goes home every weekend, and romance…what’s that? □ Highly recommend watching her videos □ Synopsis being lost and just hoping to god you stumble to your destination.” (pg 364) AboutĬlick to visit Christine Riccio’s websiteĬlick to visit PolandBananasBooks Youtube ChannelĬlick to visit PolandBananas20 Youtube Channel ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, Bede is widely recognised as the greatest Anglo-Saxon scholar of his day, and by many as the greatest English historian of all time. The dramatic story of what unfolded was recorded by Beada, or Bede, a monk of the great Northumbrian monastery of Jarrow. Andrew in Rome, to convert these pagan ‘angels with dirty faces’ to Roman Christianity.Īlthough the inhabitants of lowland Britain at that time were in fact made up of many rival kingdoms, including Saxons, Jutes and Angles, Pope Gregory considered them as one English nation, only ever referring to them as ‘Angli’. Whether this story is true or not, what is known is that in 596 AD Pope Gregory dispatched a Roman mission of 40 monks headed by Augustine, the prior to the Benedictine monastery of St. It is possible that the inventor of the concept of the English was actually Pope Gregory the Great, when around 580 noticing fair haired slaves for sale in an Italian marketplace he was told that they were Angles: ‘Not Angles, but angels’ was said to be his reply. ![]() ![]() We are also giving service of printing the hard-to-find books which are not listed in our store. Our dedicated team is trying to bring these rare books back to the shelves. This is an important book for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure. ![]() We hope that you understand these issues in these old treasure. We give our best to give you the best book but in some cases we have to adjust few pages which are blur or missing or black spots. As these are old books, we processed each page manually on computer and make them readable. If this title is a multivolume set, this is a single volume, Black & white printing on high quality natural shade paper with sewing binding for longer life, professionally processed without changing its contents. ![]() An Olympic athlete, actress, movie stuntwoman, and captain of the Swiss Ladies Hockey Team, Maillart also found time to travel widely in Asia. Original edition was published in and this unique edition is Reprinted in 2017 with the help of original edition. Ella Maillart was born in Switzerland in 1904. We have multiple options in color of leather Red, Green, Blue, Black and with Black labels. An Original Leather is being used for binding this book with Golden Leaf Printing and designing on Spine, front and Back of the book with edge gilding. ![]() 364 A Unique Leather Bound book for elite readers/collectors of old rare books. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Letter to my daughter maya![]() ![]() A youth caught in the "tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate, and Black lack of power." For a very similar but contemporary and urban narrative of this multivariate crossfire turn to Ta-Nehisi Coates' The Beautiful Struggle. Written when Angelou was eighty, and full of love and forgiveness, it is easy to imagine the intended audience of Letter to My Daughter is actually Angelou’s own young self-so perfectly sketched in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still. I have all along known that I wanted to tell you directly of some lessons I have learned and under what conditions I have learned them. This letter has taken an extraordinary time getting itself together. ![]() Maya Angelou (Ap– May 28, 2014), a poet, activist, and writer, penned Letter to My Daughter in 2008 as a series of letters to the collective daughters she's nurtured and inspired throughout her life. ![]() ![]() I imagine for Maya Angelou it would be a task of unloading things pressed upon her heart. “How can I tell you Everything in my Heart?" asked illustrator Maira Kalman, heaving out her curious, observational mind into pictures and words. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Primeval olga tokarczuk![]() ![]() ![]() Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, the next of her books that was translated (she has published 18), was an existential noir written fast to keep her in funds while she was embroiled in the research for her latest release, a sprawling historical-theological picaresque that was first published in Polish in 2014 and now comes heroically rendered into English by Jennifer Croft.Ī panorama of early Enlightenment Europe that doubles as an open-minded study in the mysteries of charisma ![]() Readers of Flights might have been surprised when Tokarczuk’s Nobel lecture distanced herself from the autofictional vogue in favour of the empathetic virtues of omniscient narration, but she clearly isn’t a writer to be pinned down. But it was the digressively discursive Flights, a mix of memoir and invention themed around travel and the body, published in her native Poland in 2007 but only translated into English 10 years later, amid fashionable Anglo-American impatience with novelistic norms, which has done most to make her name on both sides of the Atlantic, where her 2018 Nobel win was generally greeted with enthusiasm instead of the “who?” that tends to be reserved for feted European grandees. O lga Tokarczuk became more widely known to English-speaking readers with the 2010 translation of Primeval and Other Times, a multigenerational fable of 20th-century life in a Polish village overseen by four angels. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Human compatible![]() ![]() ![]() No matter how defensive some AI practitioners get, we need to all agree there are risks inherent in the development of systems that will outperform us.The key elements of the book are as follows: ‘Human Compatible’ is necessarily a whistle-stop tour of very diverse but interdependent thinking across computer science, philosophy and the social sciences and I am recommending that all AI practitioners, technology policymakers, and social scientists read it. You see, Russell has written a book about AI for social scientists, that is also a book about social science for AI engineers, while at the same time providing the conceptual framework to bring us all ‘provably beneficial AI’. ![]() To be fair I didn’t read continuously for three days, this is because the book rewards thoughtful pauses to walk or drink coffee, because it nurtures reflection about what really matters. I’ve just spent the last three days reading Stuart Russell’s new book on AI safety, ‘ Human Compatible’. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Dead Wake by Erik Larson![]() ![]() I expect for most of us, the details of the sinking of the Lusitania are clouded by the fog of time. We all have preconceptions, notions that hardly seem worth examining. How did the sinking of the Lusitania affect American entry into The Great War? ![]() Why was the ship sunk? Had it been possible for the ship to have avoided its fate? What were the global circumstances at the time and how did those effect the disaster? Who and what was on the ship? Why? What was the big deal about the Lusitania? Other ships had been sunk by U-boats during this conflict. Erik Larson casts his perceptive eyes on the event, looking for explanations. On May 7, 1914, only a few years after that most famous of ocean-liners had had an unfortunate encounter with an iceberg on its maiden voyage, RMS Lusitania, popularly referred to as “Lucy,” having already crossed the Atlantic dozens of times, this time carrying 1,962 souls, was sunk by a German U-boat off the Irish coast. In maritime vernacular, the trail of fading disturbance, whether from ship or torpedo, was called a “dead wake.” The track lingered on the surface like a long pale scar. ![]() ![]() ![]() To be a person at all is to be in search of myself, to be caught up in the continuous process of asking about myself, wondering about myself. My choices and my acts are technically free (this mattered enormously to him), yet I can never fully grasp my motivation. So I never know what is bearing down on me at any given moment. ![]() Augustine is fascinated by the fact that we are not transparent to ourselves: I don’t know what I know there are things I’ve learned that are somewhere in my mind, but I can’t ‘access’ them. In this extract we learn about 'Augustine's Confessions' the story of his journey to adult Christian faith.Īugustine’s Confessions, the story of his journey to adult Christian faith, is rightly considered the first literary work in Western culture to look systematically at how memory works. Saint Augustine of Hippo is just one of twenty Christians that Rowan Williams reflects upon in his new book Luminaries. ![]() On 28th August we celebrate the feast of St Augustine of Hippo. Saint Augustine of Hippo was a Roman African, early Christian theologian and philosopher from Numidia. ![]() ![]() ![]() I imagine that Marx and Burke would much rather have a beer with each other than with any of their lilliputian, soi-disant followers. How decayed is contemporary political discourse? So decayed that libertarians and small market conservatives consider Burke to be their forebear, and Marx to be the forebear of Democrats. ![]() A believer in practicality rather than abstract theorizing, Burke articulates a defense of property, religion, and traditional values that continues to resonate with twenty-first century readers. His lucid and passionate manifesto, written in the form of letters, employs examples from the aftermath of the French Revolution to demonstrate the superiority of gradual political change over outright anti-authoritarian revolt. Endlessly reprinted and studied by countless scholars and other readers, this is a classic of political science and a cornerstone of modern conservative thought.īurke ranked among the era's most eloquent defenders of democracy however, he also realized the dangers of unchecked liberty and that mob rule is in no way better than the reign of a king or dictator. ![]() It provoked an enormous reaction, both supportive and critical, with a flood of pamphlets and books (including Thomas Paine's enduring denunciation, The Rights of Man). Published in 1790, two years before the start of the Terror, Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France offered a remarkably prescient view of the chaos that lay ahead. ![]() |