![]() ![]() Urn:oclc:758858885 Republisher_date 20180104131830 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1940 Scandate 20180103200831 Scanner Scanningcenter capitolhill Tts_version v1. ![]() Search for a digital library with this title Title found at these libraries: Sorry, no libraries found. Jen Bryant: Kaleidoscope Eyes is in such a specific time and place, the summer of 1968, and for me it was a very scary time. Kaleidoscope Eyes ebook By Jen Bryant Format ebook ISBN 9780375840487 Author Publisher Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive. Jen Bryant weaves an emotional and suspenseful novel in poems, all set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War during a pivotal year in U.S. Bryant describes what galvanized these two stories and what she hopes they reveal for her readers. OL2961416W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 93.57 Pages 282 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1299240860 For her books Kaleidoscope Eyes and The Fortune of Carmen Navarro, she returned to her own personal history. Urn:lcp:kaleidoscopeeyes00brya:epub:6261cff1-0859-4b17-80b9-2b695f56ecfe Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier kaleidoscopeeyes00brya Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t41s0vn1g Invoice 11 Isbn 9780375840487Ġ375840486 Lccn 2008027345 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:48:33 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1910608 Boxid_2 BWB220141006 City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st ed. ![]()
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![]() While healing from the suicide attempt, I realized that I’d been torturing myself with all of the painful memories from my past. Then, my ex-husband sued me for custody of our sons, won and immediately moved out of state with them. I woke up from a coma a week later seriously brain injured. ![]() Because I wasn’t found in time, the drugs went all the way through my system. I’ve had more than my share of pain.Īfter taking care of my brother as he wasted away and died of AIDs, the end of my 18-year marriage to my high school sweetheart in an ugly divorce, and years of things not working out, and being flat-out disappointed with life, I tried to kill myself by swallowing pills. However, the painful memories of the bad don’t have to consume your life and haunt you forever. Enduring the loss of a child, surviving a bout with cancer, going through a messy divorce, or being the victim of violent crime are all too common. You can’t have the good without the bad. I’m not trying to be a downer, but I’m here to tell you to expect pain as part of life. If we’re lucky, we only experience a few deep wounds and even fewer “my life changed in a second” moments. ![]() None of us get out of this life unscathed. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have never read a book more thoroughly researched. That is Caro’s true subject, which he chooses to explore through the life of a true genius when it comes to the wielding of political power, Lyndon Johnson. The level of detail Caro gives us in this book and throughout the series is truly amazing. It is a history of Texas, of the Hill Country, of the Senate and some of its most important figures, of America, and it is, above all, a treatise on political power in America. Caro’s work covers much more than the story of one man. Though I have written summaries of the four books in the series Caro has published thus far, I really must urge anyone with an interest in American politics to read the original work. Having said that, no summary could really do justice to Caro’s book, and I do still believe that the summary gives you a fairly good overview of the early part of Johnson’s life and career–from his birth to his first and unsuccessful run for Senate in 1941. ![]() Part 1 of Robert Caro’s masterwork, The Years of Lyndon Johnson. This is one of my earliest summaries, and I’m afraid that it gives some important subjects short shrift. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kevin Nguyen - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - INCLUDES A BEAUTIFUL SKETCH BY CRAIG THOMPSON - Pictures available upon request - THIS IS A HEAVY BOOK & EXTRA POSTAGE MIGHT BE REQUIRED. Thompson, who is best known for Blankets, one of the most critically lauded comics of the past decade, has crafted another affecting story of passion, humor, and imagination. Not all of these conflicts are resolved - in fact, there's more ambiguity than there is clarity - but it's Dodola and Zam, the book's two orphaned lovers, that imbue Habibi with empathy and humanity. Thematically, there's no shortage of ambition here, as Thompson tackles familial and romantic love, one's relationship to their environment, the shared roots of Christianity and Islam, and the effects of industrial modernization. Each page reveals a meticulous symmetry, both in art and narrative, that unravels a sweeping tale that takes readers from the dessert to an industrial wasteland to the inner walls of a harem. ![]() Craig Thompson's inkwork is bold yet intricate. Into Habibi, Thompson has merrily thrown stories from the Bible and the Quran, elements of the Arabian Nights and the poems of Rumi and Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, the great Iraqi writer. ![]() It looks like a lost tome, recovered from a different time and place - a fitting package for a comic book that feels like an exotic, bizarre fairy tale. A fine US first edition, first printing hardback - No dustjacket (as issued) - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - Habibi is impressive to hold. ![]() ![]() ![]() Advocates of positive freedom viewed distributive justice as an important concept in creating the conditions required for positive freedom. Both Friedman and Hayek formulated conceptions of freedom that primarily revolve around the concepts of economic freedom and negative freedom. While defended a limited state role in securing freedom and the private spheres of individuals, Hayek did not condemn the human rights abuses or coercive practices carried out during General Pinochet brutal dictatorship. The key component of their respective concepts of freedom was labelled negative freedom (or ‘freedom from’) by Sir Isaiah Berlin in his Four Essays on Liberty. This chapter focuses on the concept of freedom as formulated by Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman, which was largely derived from the neoclassical economic approach. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, the concept that prevailed in the mainstream was largely defined according to the principles of the ‘free’ market economy. The concept of freedom is one of the central issues in philosophy and politics. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was moved by the novel as he could relate to the character of Apu. Ray then read it thoroughly and illustrated the cover for the Signet Press edition. ![]() When Ray said no, Bandyopadhyay told him, “It is blasphemy that you have not read it.” Bandopadhyay had asked Ray whether he had read the novel. Ray’s son, filmmaker Sandip Ray, recalled the encounter. The publishers had commissioned Ray to illustrate an abridged, children’s version of the novel Pather Panchali, called Aam, Antir, Bhepu (Mango, Seed and Horn). The novelist had taken up a part-time job as an editor at Signet Press, a publishing house, in the late 1940s. Keymer in Kolkata that Satyajit Ray ran into Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay. It was while working at advertising firm D.J. ![]() ![]() ![]() In DREAMFALL and NEVERWAKE a radical experiment to cure chronic insomnia goes wrong, and its seven teenage test subjects are plunged into a shared coma populated by one another’s nightmares those who die in the dream will also die in real life.Īmy's action/adventure/magic duology, AFTER THE END and UNTIL THE BEGINNING, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, 4 1/2 stars from RT Book Reviews, and enthusiastic reviews from Kirkus, USA Today, ALA Booklist and School Library Journal.Īfter being raised in Birmingham, Alabama, in a rather restrictive environment, AMY PLUM escaped to Chicago to an even more restrictive environment at a university that expelled people for dancing. The trilogy is accompanied by three novellas entitled DIE FOR HER, DIE ONCE MORE, TO DIE FOR and a compendium entitled INSIDE THE WORLD OF DIE FOR ME. The books have been translated into thirteen foreign languages. Amy Plum is the international bestselling author of the DIE FOR ME series (Indie Next List pick, Romance Times top pick, and recipient of a starred review from School Library Journal). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But much the same holds true for more mixed traditional diets. ![]() These diets run the gamut from ones very high in fat (the Inuit in Greenland subsist largely on seal blubber) to ones high in carbohydrate (Central American Indians subsist largely on maize and beans) to ones very high in protein (Masai tribesmen in Africa subsist chiefly on cattle blood, meat, and milk), to cite three rather extreme examples. Fact 2: Populations eating a remarkably wide range of traditional diets generally don’t suffer from these chronic diseases.Fact 1: Populations that eat a so-called Western diet-generally defined as a diet consisting of lots of processed foods and meat, lots of added fat and sugar, lots of refined grains, lots of everything except vegetables, fruits, and whole grains-invariably suffer from high rates of the so-called Western diseases: obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.And, even more important for our purposes, these facts are sturdy enough that we can build a sensible diet upon them. All the contending parties in the nutrition wars agree on them. There are basically two important things you need to know about the links between diet and health, two facts that are not in dispute.Eat local, healthy food that your great-grandmother would have recognized.īuy from your local farmer's market. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() OL221754W Page_number_confidence 95.19 Pages 414 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.14 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210617130509 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 331 Scandate 20210616092932 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780374531164 Tts_version 4. 2008 by Thant Myint-U (Author) 160 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 8.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 5.28 10 Used from 2.50 5 New from 26.12 Paperback 9.99 21 Used from 2.05 15 New from 7. ![]() Urn:lcp:riveroflostfoots0000than:epub:b0035854-b495-4469-89ed-71c76bc5efc4 Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4281 Identifier riveroflostfoots0000than Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8jf6h11v Invoice 2089 Isbn 9780374531164Ġ374531161 Lccn 2007042854 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9910 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-1200040 Openlibrary_edition Thant Myint-U The River of Lost Footsteps Paperback 3 Jan. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 11:01:16 Boxid IA40137507 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() Contents 1 Summary 2 Plot 3 Characters 4 Where else did I read about that 4.1 Characters 4.2 Places 4. ![]() |a Identity (Psychology) |v Juvenile fiction. Dreamland is the fourth book written by Sarah Dessen. |a Interpersonal relations |v Juvenile fiction. |a Dating violence |0 |v Juvenile fiction. |a After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous. ![]() |