![]() ![]() Unfortunately, his ship is about four hours away, and at this point, he has more questions than answers, like will there be any survivors by the time they get there? What if the Carpathia hits an iceberg? As more and more people struggle to stay afloat, Captain Rostron races to save lives.Ī Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice also tells the story of Kate Connolly, a third passenger on the Titanic. He barely has any information, but Rostron jumps into action to help the Titanic’s passengers. Shortly after midnight, Captain Rostron woke up to distress signals from the Titanic. ![]() A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice tells the tale of Captain Arthur Rostron, the captain of the Carpathia, the ship who answered the call. One ship answered the Titanic’s desperate call for help. When the ship started sinking, the Titanic’s captain sent distress signals to other vessels, hoping that one would respond and save the innocent lives on board. ![]()
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![]() ![]() There are a few subcategories for the first two. We’ve separated this into three main categories: holiday fiction, holiday romance, and books set during the holidays but not about the holidays. But as the holiday fiction requests keep coming, I thought an easy-to-use, easy-to-reference reader-generated book list would be so helpful-and we’ve added even more titles to this year’s new list!Ī few notes. These past years I received numerous requests for holiday fiction recommendations for adults, ranging from “please no cheesy Hallmark stories” to “books set during this holiday but not specifically about it” to “give me all the holiday romance.” We put it up as a #WSIRNReaderRecs post and the responses flooded in. Readers, there’s nothing like a good long book list for the holidays, am I right? ![]() ![]() ![]() Click Here to order Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America’s Fright Night and check out my affiliate banner at the bottom to see her other books. ![]() Halloween Nation infests the book stores on April 15th, 2011 but you can get her other books now while you wait. If you enjoy Halloween you’ll love this book and all of her other books. She interviews leading experts in the Haunt Industry such as mask makers, haunted house designers, home haunters, tattoo artists, web designers, zombie walkers, and all the other scary people who make up this evolving holiday. Lesley has shared plenty of her wisdom about Halloween on Nickelodeon, The History Channel, Time Magazine, National Geographic, and even The World Book Encyclopedia! Her new book Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America’s Fright Night hits home for many of us haunters because she dives deep into the new age of Halloween and why it matters to us now. Not only is she the leading author on Halloween history and culture. ![]() If you are not sure who Lesley Pratt Bannatyne is-shame on you. ![]() I believe that Halloween is still driven by we who celebrate it.”-Lesley Bannatyne “I still think that Halloween is exciting NOT because there is a group of people sitting in a corporate board room trying to decide what we’ll buy, but because there are people sitting in garages, basements, and kitchens trying to come up with something really different and amazing. ![]() ![]() ![]() She wrote stories for magazines to help her family financially, and would later write plays and novels. ![]() ![]() Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was born in Manchester, England, but emigrated to the United States after her father’s death. As smart and imaginative as Anne Shirley of Anne of Green Gables, Sara has been winning over readers for over a hundred years, and A Little Princess is considered one of the best children’s stories of all time. Author Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett – most famous for her novel The Secret Garden (1911) – originally wrote A Little Princess as a short story, and later a play, finally turning it into a novel on her publisher’s recommendation in 1905. Little does she now that someone out there is looking for her, and they might be much closer than they think. Despite being used to luxury, Sara quickly adjusts to her new life and never stops being kind and polite to everyone. Miss Minchin, the heartless and greedy headmistress, immediately moves Sara to the attic and forces her to become her servant. ![]() Sara Crewe is devastated when the news of her beloved father’s death in India reaches her at her boarding school in London. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Chapter 3: Meditation is a practice of constantly returning to the present moment because that’s where we can awaken.However, if we can begin to get comfortable with not knowing, with groundlessness, our suffering can start to ease. ![]() Chapter 2: Our inherent human desire is for things to be fixed and predictable, but when we encounter changes that we don’t have control over – a relationship ending, a job loss, a pandemic – we experience great suffering.Instead of letting our fear or worry cause us to contract and turn to old habit patterns of self-soothing, let negative emotions serve as an invitation to gain greater self-awareness. If we want to go deeper into our experience of life, fear is going to become a well-known companion on the journey and when we can become fully present, we can experience groundlessness. ![]()
![]() Homo sapiens gangs up to 70 percent of its sense receptors solely for vision, to anticipate danger and recognize reward, but also-more so-for beauty.” - The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky (2003) It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to brain. Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light.” - Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild (2005) In mere seconds, the sea leaches the silver and deepens to vermilion. The water around the island turns from a silky sheen of aquamarine to burnished silver the color of the cuff bracelet of Navajo silver around my wrist, silver made lustrous by the warmth of flesh. “When the sun sets, the desert drains its dusk colors into the sea. The quotes below reveal what makes Meloy’s writing about nature, landscapes, history, and wilderness so stirring-her palpable love of place. In Monday’s feature, Jane Hammons wrote movingly of the work of naturalist and nonfiction writer Ellen Meloy. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a timely update of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the heady magic of first love in her vibrant re-imagining of this beloved classic. But with four wild sisters pulling her in different directions, cute boy Warren vying for her attention, and college applications hovering on the horizon, Zuri fights to find her place in Bushwick’s changing landscape, or lose it all. ![]() Yet as Zuri and Darius are forced to find common ground, their initial dislike shifts into an unexpected understanding. 'I recently purchased two guns and plan on purchasing more,' said 62-year-old Bruce Tomlin of Albuquerque, N.M. She especially can’t stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. Others said being black in America can feel like being at war. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. ![]() But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Energy Healing offers an exploration of a range of energy healing techniques from Reiki to EFT, and will help you find a practice that suits your needs and interests. Auras explores the many-layered energy field that is the human aura and will teach you to sense and work with your own aura and others. Ultimate Energy is a collection of three books-Chakras, Auras, and Energy Healing-that will give readers the tools to tap into their own unique energy using a variety of modalities and practices.Ĭhakras explains the associations and strengths of each of the seven chakras along with how to harness their power in your own life. Our bodies are surrounded by and filled with powerful streams of energy that can be used to improve our mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing. ![]() ![]() ![]() And so they're off to Mars, where the multi-legged city of Oubliette wanders the landscape, terraforming as it goes. The thief has little choice, it's either accept or stay and be shot through the head over and over. Soon enough, though, along comes spacer Mieli in her alluring sentient spaceship to rescue le Flambeur-providing that he's willing to work for her. The Archons' notion of rehabilitation is to compel the prisoners, incarcerated in infinitely repeating transparent cells, to play murderous mind games with infinite copies of themselves. ![]() Notorious thief Jean le Flambeur serves an indeterminate sentence in the surreal Dilemma Prison governed by artificial intelligences, or Archons, at the behest of Earth's ruling "upload collective" called the Sobornost. A sort of paranoid-conspiracy, hard sci-fi whodunit: the Scotland resident, Finnish author's jaw-dropping debut. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Ginger Johnson’s debut is as vibrant as the colors her characters wield in this novel about creativity, collaboration, and creation. “The joys of the senses and the glories of creation shine in this radiant debut.” -Julie Berry, Printz Honor author of The Passion of Dolssa “Johnson takes a familiar coming-of-age arc and wraps it in a gorgeously built world that asks readers to plumb the nature of creation.”-Kirkus “ A deep dive into a world-within-a-world, a heart-within-a-heart.” -Kathi Appelt, Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Don’t believe me? Look at all the shiny blurbs! In his black and white world, could Ishmael become a Color Keeper, too? This will hit the mark for fans of The Giver. ![]() ![]() He wonders if his absent brother might hold some answers, so he goes on a journey, eventually locating Luc in the Hall of Hue, working to become a Color Keeper. The Splintered Light by Ginger Johnson Sep 4 Giving thought to how the world, the universe, we live in was created with so many varied elements of sound, light, taste, smell, invention, and shape is not a bad exercise in gratitude and appreciation for the vibrancy and diversity of our world. The Splintered Light by Ginger Johnson is here! The Splintered Light follows Ishmael (who lives in a black and white world) who is prompted to leave his farm when he sees a spectrum of color. ![]() |