Believarexic5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The innovative format-which tells Jennifer's story through blank verse and prose, with changes in tense and voice, and uses forms, workbooks, and journal entries-mirrors the protagonist's progress toward a healthy body and mind. Johnson tells an inspiring story that is based on her own experience of being hospitalized for an eating disorder as a teenager. In her young adult contemporary novel Believarexic (2015), J.J. ![]() Using her trademark dark humor and powerful emotion, J. She has to believe-after many years of being a believarexic. She has to learn to trust herself and her own instincts, but that's easier than it sounds. But when she finally confesses her secret to her parents and is hospitalized at the Samuel Tuke Center, her journey is only beginning.Īs Jennifer progresses through her treatment, she learns to recognize her relationships with food, friends, and family-and how each relationship is healthy or unhealthy. Jennifer can't go on like this-binging, purging, starving, all while trying to appear like she's got it all together. Believarexic : Johnson, J.J.: Amazon. ![]()
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The forestwife by theresa tomlinson5/10/2023 ![]() I mean, really! she is being raised by the forestwife for Christ's sake! she's probably going to be the next blasted forestwife! and if someone is going to be healing sick and injured forest folk, you'd want them to be a little bit more sympathetic, wouldn't you? and wearing pants and being able to fight does not make a strong female lead. she's a whining, moaning, bitching brat! oh my god, I just wanted to slap the crap right out of her every time she opened her big mouth. >:Cįirst off, my main beef here is our main character Magda, the daughter of little john. it just doesn't work if your character is so unlikable that it makes me take three or four days to read a 144 page book. it barely gets any points for doing a "second generation" of merry men/women. ![]() not sorry enough to not write it.) but having a feminist edge to the story can't make up for a crappy main character. in this Robin Hood trilogy, the gals know how to get shit done.īut I am sorry (well. ![]() now as I said in book one's review, I love the idea of all the women making their own way in the world and not just sitting off in a corner somewhere waiting to be rescued. ![]() ![]() :) sadly, this was a HUGE step down from the first book. this story "Child of May" is the sequel to "The Forestwife", a retelling of my most favorite story of all time, Robin Hood. ![]() Hhhh laurent binet5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ^ Sulser, Eleonore (13 February 2010).^ a b c "Le prix Goncourt du premier roman attribué à Laurent Binet pour HHhH".The English translation by Sam Taylor was published in the US by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on 24 April 2012 and in the UK by Harvill Secker on. HHhH has been translated into more than twenty languages. ![]() The Millions published the "missing pages" in 2012. The editor also requested the cut of about twenty pages criticizing Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes, another novel about the SS in World War II that was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 2006. ![]() The title was suggested by Binet's publisher, Grasset, instead of the "too sci-fi" working title Opération Anthropoïde. The title is an initialism for Himmlers Hirn heißt Heydrich (" Himmler's brain is called Heydrich"), a quip about Heydrich in SS circles. ![]() It is interlaced with the author's account of the process of researching and writing the book, his commentary about other literary and media treatments of the subject, and reflections about the extent to which the behavior of real people may of necessity be fictionalised in a historical novel. The novel follows the history of the operation and the lives of its protagonists-Reinhard Heydrich and his assassins Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš. The novel was awarded the 2010 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman. The book recounts Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague during World War II. HHhH is the debut novel of French author Laurent Binet, published in 2010 by Grasset & Fasquelle. ![]() Forbidden Rites by Richard Kieckhefer5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() With more detail on particular experiments than the famous thirteenth-century Picatrix and more variety than the Thesaurus Necromantiae ascribed to Roger Bacon, the manual is one of the most interesting and important manuscripts of medieval magic that has yet come to light. It is exceptional, however, in the scope and variety of its contents-prayers and conjurations, rituals of sympathetic magic, procedures involving astral magic, a catalogue of spirits, lengthy ceremonies for consecrating a book of magic, and other materials. Like many medieval texts for the use of magicians, this handbook is a miscellany rather than a systematic treatise. The result is the most vivid and readable introduction to medieval magic now available. Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full commentary, including detailed analysis of the text and its contents, discussion of the historical context, translation of representative sections of the text, and comparison with other necromantic texts of the late Middle Ages. ![]() Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the seriousness it deserves. ![]() Someone to hold by mary balogh5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() And it is only the bond between them that will allow them to weather the rough storm that lies ahead. ![]() But as Camille poses for Joel, their mutual contempt soon turns to desire. An art teacher at the orphanage that was once his home, Joel Cunningham has been hired to paint the portrait of the haughty new teacher. But even as she settles in, she must sit for a portrait commissioned by her grandmother and endure an artist who riles her every nerve. Written by Mary Balogh Narrated by Rosalyn Landor 3.5 / 5 ( 152 ratings ) About this audiobook A very practical marriage makes Alexander Westcott question his heart in the latest Regency romance from the New York Times best-selling author of Someone to Hold. ![]() Looking to eschew the trappings of her old life, she leaves London to teach at the Bath orphanage where her newly discovered half-sister lived. With her parents’ marriage declared bigamous, Camille Westcott is now illegitimate and without a title. Humphrey Wescott, Earl of Riverdale, has died, leaving behind a fortune and a scandalous secret that will forever alter the lives of his family-sending one daughter on a journey of self-discovery. A reversal of fortune befalls a young woman in this charming Westcott novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Someone to Wed. ![]() Bart ehrman jesus interrupted5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, the copies are copies of copies, and they're filled with errors or intentional changes made over decades or centuries by scribes. All we have are copies, made years later - usually, many centuries later. In one of the first classes he took at Moody, he learned that none of the original texts of the New Testament exist. ![]() It was an intellectual problem at first, but it soon became larger and harder to quarantine. Eager to study Holy Scripture full-time, he entered the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago - motto: "Moody Bible Institute, where Bible is our middle name" - where every professor and student had to sign a statement attesting that the Bible is the inerrant word of God, a divinely inspired document from its first page (Genesis 1:1) to its last (Revelation 22:21).īut almost immediately, Ehrman ran into a problem. Raised as a not particularly devout Episcopalian in 1950s Kansas, the best-selling Bible scholar had a "born-again" experience as a high school sophomore and asked Jesus into his heart. Bart Ehrman's career is testament to the fact that no one can slice and dice a belief system more surgically than someone who grew up inside it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Otherwise, you can purchase the Spanish or English edition from our affiliate store: La oruga muy hambrienta or The Very Hungry Caterpillar. If you’re a registered organization you can purchase this exclusive bilingual edition from the First Book Marketplace. The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a school and home library staple. “As a tiny green caterpillar eats his way through the book, he is transformed into a beautiful butterfly.” From the scientific wonder of caterpillar-to-butterfly, the critter’s voracious hunger for many familiar foods, the tissue-paper illustrations, and the creative design of the pages it’s no wonder that this ravenous caterpillar has been touching hearts for decades-including mine! I’m thrilled that this book is available in such a useful format, I just had to let you know. By Bianca Schulze, The Children’s Book ReviewĮxciting news: Eric Carle’s classic story, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, is available as a BILINGUAL First Book Marketplace Special Edition exclusively through the First Book Marketplace-an online store selling high-quality children’s books and educational materials at deeply discounted prices to registered organizations serving children from low-income families. ![]() Yasmin angoe her name is knight5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() In the same note, the author stresses that she believes she has handled these topics with sensitivity. So, for the reader who might not see the author's note before choosing the book, I'll list the triggers stated in the note below. While I appreciate that the author has put them at the front of the book, people don't always read a preview before diving in, especially for something like First Reads or other times where they just might choose a book simply by genre or hype. The only issue I have with the book is I think the book description should have listed the multiple triggers of this book. The scenes from her childhood make us better understand how she came to be the way she is and why triggering events at the start of the book cause her to ponder her motivations and ultimately change. The dual timelines take place in the protagonist's childhood (told in the first person present) and her adult present (told in the third person past). For me, she did so because she presented Nena/Echo as a complex killer from the very first scenes. Fortunately, this debut author is able to keep the pace thrumming despite switching back and forth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Oftentimes, that slows down the pace of a book (not good in thrillers) or creates confusion. This is a very violent thriller featuring non-stop action, even though it is a dual-timeline story going back and forth between the protagonist’s past and her evolving present. Intense, Violent Thriller, But Mind the Triggers ![]() The book of hours kevin young5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Van Jordan wrote: “As if walking through a gallery of grief, reverie, and transcendence, Kevin Young’s Book of Hours exemplifies what poetry can do in the world when language works at its full power. His newest book of poetry is Brown(Knopf, April 2018).īook of Hours was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Awardand won the 2015 Lenore Marshall Prize for Poetry from the Academy of American Poets-a prize that recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year. ![]() ![]() Young is also poetry editor at The New Yorker.Īlso an editor, essayist, and curator, Young’s ten books of poetry include: Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015 (Knopf, 2016), longlisted for the National Book Award Book of Hours (Knopf, 2014) Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels(Knopf, 2011), winner of an American Book Award Dear Darkness (Knopf, 2008) For the Confederate Dead (Knopf, 2007) Black Maria (Knopf, 2005) To Repel Ghosts (“Remix,” Knopf, 2005) Jelly Roll: a blues(Knopf, 2003), a finalist for the National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize and Most Way Home(William Morrow, 1995), winner of the National Poetry Series and the Zacharis First Book Award. Kevin Young is the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and is widely regarded as one of the leading poets of his generation. ![]() Without merit colleen hoover review5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() When her escape plan fails, Merit is forced to deal with the staggering consequences of telling the truth and losing the one boy she loves. Hoovers novel, Hopeless, was self-published in December 2012. Merit retreats deeper into herself, watching her family from the sidelines when she learns a secret that no trophy in the world can fix.įed up with the lies, Merit decides to shatter the happy family illusion that she’s never been a part of before leaving them behind for good. His wit and unapologetic idealism disarm and spark renewed life into her-until she discovers that he’s completely unavailable. I’m not sure if that’s because this book was. It wasn’t what I have come to expect from Colleen Hoover. ![]() When Without Merit started off, I was a little surprised at the writing. ![]() ![]() Interesting because I didn’t have strong feelings about it one way or the other. While browsing the local antiques shop for her next trophy, she finds Sagan. Without Merit fell in the realms of HuhWell, that was interesting. Merit Voss collects trophies she hasn’t earned and secrets her family forces her to keep. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother’s former nurse, the little half-brother isn’t allowed to do or eat anything fun, and the eldest siblings are irritatingly perfect. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness. Not every mistake deserves a consequence. ![]() |