His bare foot was planted in my gut, and I couldn’t blame him when he dug his toes in for leverage before lifting off me. Though I’d done my best to tell myself that’s exactly what it was - and had kept telling myself that right up until the moment the figure in the mirror had tried to reach through the glass and touch me. What the hell had that been? It sure wasn’t a trick of the light. “What the hell was that?” moaned someone from the ether. Or maybe that was just the dust, which had probably crystallized with age. My elbow whanged one final time into the balusters and my head banged down on the floor. We landed in a tangle of limbs on the dusty and none-too-plushy carpet. “Yooouuu’ve gotta be fu-uh-uh-uh-uh-cking kid-ding me!” Well, in fairness it was one long yelp and a prolonged curse. My… er… companion yelled and cursed all the way down the first flight. It turned out the fastest means was crashing headlong into someone bigger, and letting his momentum send us both hurtling down the staircase. My only thought was getting downstairs and out the front door as fast as possible. I didn’t see him see until it was too late.Įven if I had seen him, I’m not sure it would have made a difference.
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Newly widowed and faced with a deadly brain tumour, she was given two years to live. The remarkable true story of one woman’s journey back from the brink. Flying on the Inside: A Memoir of Trauma and Recovery Rachel Gotto. Childcare is available at the church by reservation with Karin Howze ( ). Ordinarily we will meet the 4th Thursday of each month, so mark your calendars for July 25, August 22 and September 26. All moms of young children are invited to join us in this study, whether you read along or not. The book is available in paperback and eBook formats through online retailers. We’ll try to read a chapter for each meeting, but our plan is just to see how it goes. The hope is that this book will nurture our spiritual lives, help build community among the moms participating, and nourish us for our lives as mothers, partners, friends and more. In our first meeting of Second Cup the participants decided to read together The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers: Spiritual Insights from the World’s Most Beloved Neighbor by Amy Hollingsworth. This is why it is so important to take time to nurture your own relationship with God and to reclaim that deep sense of who you are. ” – Fred RogersĪs mothers of young children we often find ourselves making tough choices about how to use our time, many of those choices seem out of our control. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are. The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers by Amy Hollingsworth audiobook. “You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. Tom Brokaw of NBC Nightly News once said of the American icon Fred Rogers, Mister. “What is so different about this book is this is my first fiction work, where all of my identities are known.” “There was never any attempt to hide who I was, my face was on the book cover when you open it up, the copyright is of my name,” she adds. Among the titles published were: “Hidden Sins,” “Secrets and Lies,” “Reckless” and “Deception.” Abrams continued to write and release her novels while studying at Yale University. Her first book, “Rules of Engagement” was published in 2001. “In my mind, it was worth it to keep these identities separate.”Ībrams’s first eight novels (all romances) were under the pen name Selena Montgomery. “When I started publishing romance back in 19, I was also publishing articles about the unrelated business income tax exemption, and questions of taxation,” she says, explaining the reason for her pseudonym. If Lake wants to get his savings back, and get out of Scotland, he only has one option – wipe out the competition. A very gorgeous ex-lingerie model, who’s distracting him from his mission more than he’d like to admit. A successful one, run by an ex-lingerie model. To make matters worse, the tiny highland town already has a lingerie shop. And all Lake knows about underwear can be summed up in how fast he can unsnap a bra. The only problem is, the business is an underwear shop. So he steps in to make the shop profitable, sell it and get his money back. Years in the special forces taught Lake that if you want a job done, do it yourself. His sister has been steadily flushing his money down the drain – and now he wants it back. Englishman Lake Benson loaned his life savings to his dippy sister so that she could buy a shop. In fact that seems like a pretty pointless exercise. Now, I've only actually owned this book for a couple of days, and to be honest I've only read a few of the hundred plus essays in here, but this isn't exactly a book to be read from beginning to end. I mean this man is so brilliant I'm starting to turn into a dithering fanboy when reading his books. Coetzee said of Borges: "He, more than anyone, renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish American novelists." His work was translated and published widely in the United States and in Europe. In 1961, he came to international attention when he received the first International Publishers' Prize Prix Formentor. In 1955, he was appointed director of the National Public Library (Biblioteca Nacional) and professor of Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. He was a target of political persecution during the Peron regime, and supported the military juntas that overthrew it.ĭue to a hereditary condition, Borges became blind in his late fifties. He also worked as a librarian and public lecturer. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in Surrealist literary journals. In 1914, his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school and traveled to Spain. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo, usually referred to as Jorge Luis Borges (Spanish pronunciation: ), was an Argentine writer and poet born in Buenos Aires. N anette shook the pony's reins and clucked at him. "At once sprawling and intimate, A Secret History of Witches deftly captures the greatest magic of all: the love between mothers and daughters." -Jordanna Max Brodsky, author of The Wolf in the Whale "Historical fiction at its absolute finest….Deliciously absorbing." -Boston Globe Grounded and real, painful and hopeful at the same time." -Laure Eve, author of The Graces A beautiful generational tale, reminiscent of Practical Magic. The lineage continues, though new generations struggle not only to master their power, but also to keep it hidden.īut when World War II looms on the horizon, magic is needed more urgently than ever - not for simple potions or visions, but to change the entire course of history. And when their youngest daughter comes of age, magic flows anew. A sweeping historical saga that traces five generations of fiercely powerful mothers and daughters - witches whose magical inheritance is both a dangerous threat and an extraordinary gift.Īfter Grand-Mere Ursule gives her life to save her family, their magic seems to die with her.Įven so, the Orchires fight to keep the old ways alive, practicing half-remembered spells and arcane rites in hopes of a revival. It is animated by Studio A-1 Pictures and premiered on 2024. Solo Leveling (俺だけレベルアップな件, Ore dake Reberu Appu na Ken) is the anime adaptation of Chu-Gong's Solo Leveling. International Guild Conference Arc (Chapters 140-149).Return to Demon Castle Arc (Chapters 76-89).Hunters Guild Gate Arc (Chapters 65-75).Yoo Jin-Ho Raid Party Arc (Chapters 35-37).Dungeon & Prisoners Arc (Chapters 25-34).Follow Jinwoo's journey as he fights against all kinds of enemies, both man and monster, to discover the secrets of the dungeons and the true source of his powers. One day, after narrowly surviving an overwhelmingly powerful dungeon that nearly wipes out his entire party, a mysterious program called the System chooses him as its sole player and in turn, gives him the extremely rare ability to level up in strength, possibly beyond any known limits. In a world where hunters, human warriors who possess magical abilities, must battle deadly monsters to protect mankind from certain annihilation, a notoriously weak hunter named Sung Jinwoo finds himself in a seemingly endless struggle for survival. It follows the adventures of Sung Jinwoo, a young and infamously incompetent Korean hunter, in his quest to become the strongest hunter of them all. Solo Leveling (나 혼자만 레벨업, Na Honjaman Lebel-eob) is a Korean webtoon series written by Chu-Gong and illustrated by Jang Su-Rak and Gi Si-Ryeong. |