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Mauricio es un hombre que ha luchado por llegar al estatus en el que se encuentra. Sin embargo, no es arrogante; él es muy humilde. Hasta que lo cruces. Ha dejado atrás una vida de asesinatos y crímenes para convertirse en una persona de la que su madre habría estado orgullosa. Chico tiene otros planes. Empeñado en ser el número uno, Chico lleva a Mauricio al viaje de su vida, obligándolo a hacer cosas que juró que nunca volvería a hacer. El amor de una mujer es la única razón por la que acepta. El amor será por siempre Nuestra Magia...
A new building appears in downtown Los Angeles. It is ninety stories tall with a dragon-headed man sitting in a chair on the roof. Nobody seems to notice its sudden appearance, except the Circle of Augustus. Jat the Deceiver wants to drag L.A. into the Underworld. How will the building figure in his plan? "The book had me on my toes the entire time, every encounter the team had with the demons sent chills down my spine." -- Fiverr ReviewerFans of Ilona Andrews and Jim Butcher will love this 3rd book of the Red Souls of the Underworld Series. A ninety-story building rises on the downtown L.A. skyline, replacing a bank building that stood there the day before, and no one in the city seems to notice anything has changed. It is the power base of Jat the Deceiver. He will use it to complete his plan for control of LA. Gem gives the order to the Circle of Augustus. 'Destroy the Dragon Head Building'. The Wall of Unknowing still has L.A. under a suffocating blanket of lightning and static. The Circle is beset by uncontrolled emotions and must fight their way through all the psychic disturbance to reach the ominous building before Jat uses it to mount a brutal attack on the city. The question is, how will the Circle destroy a structure as huge and impregnable as the Dragon Head Building before Jat does his worst? "I especially love the other worldly elements infused at the end-physical and light bodies, the choices souls can make, and the healing elements involved, and love." -- Cherie Kephart, award winning author of A Few Minor Adjustments
"Only those of us who have walked on sharp stones can tell others what it is like. Shelly Knox, the author of this book, has been thrown down on such stones. She has known such a path all her fifty-four years.In this life, no one gets a prize for those who suffered the most. There is no thick skin to cover the innocence of a child. The inward retreat of a constantly abused child knows almost no relief.As I read this book, my caring heart feels her earliest wounds. I started teaching Latin to Shelly in fifth grade when she was nine years old. Her ebony skin shone. A child with nowhere to turn. There was no unconditional love, no safety for her from any family, but she did have a few friends, not many, from the neighborhood. That could help her out somewhat in her time of trouble.Such an intolerable life does produce an extreme need for relief, even an exit strategy. As a child, Shelly began to look for ways to take her life.Her years of courage continue now into a now-loving grandmother whose work as a caretaker for seniors is a miracle daily. The shackles of PTSD still rattle, but close memories of grace and survival see her through.>JAMES VILLAREAL, June 12, 2021
This is a novel based on an incident in the life of Charles Willson Peale, Early American painter, Revolutionary War veteran, inventor, museum founder, farmer. Although he opposed slavery publicly, Peale accepted an enslaved family into his household as payment for a debt. He freed the husband and wife after a few years, but held their son, Moses Williams, until he was 26, and taught him to be a profile cutter, working in his Philadelphia natural history museum. In imagining the Peale family's life on an 18th-century farm, the book explores ethics and inclusion: the contradictions at the heart of this country.
This debut collection of poems is a revelation. Written by the poet with no thought to their commercial publication and discovered by happenstance by the publisher, these poems explore the highs and lows of everyday living with metaphors -- " rosebuds stillborn in the falling snow" -- that astonish the reader with their force and simplicity. Often disarming in their brevity, the poems in this collection -- written to be read out loud -- are a joy to the ear, crafted with carefully calibrated rhythms, innovative rhymes and a word choice that never fails to surprise. " Your tongue/ stiletto sharp/ finds its mark. You always know just where to cut." As the first poem in this collection warns, these poems barge right into your consciousness, uninvited guests.
In Madeleine Kunin's second poetry collection, Walk With Me, the well-versed poet and three-term Vermont governor invites the audience to step into her world, to slow down and find new serenity in older age and unexpected love. Kunin explores the nuances of everyday moments that cultivate a bittersweet appreciation for simple joys. Walk With Me is a beautifully crafted illustration of not only what it means to be a woman on the eve of ninety years of life, but a feminist, a politician, an immigrant, a mother, a lover, a companion, and a living thing in the midst of an ever-turbulent world. The relationship with the self is a lifelong evolution, a journey that Kunin refuses to tire. Instead, her poems illuminate the confidence and insecurities inherent to all humans, even in older age. The images woven throughout this collection are tender and warm, giving the reader an outlet to appreciate what it means to be alive through each stanza, over and over again.
In What It Means To Be Happy, his ninth book of poetry, award-winning poet and psychologist, Gary Margolis, invites us to consider how it is we come to a meaningful happiness, with all the shades of experience in our joyful and grieving lives. If not happiness exactly, then some kind of meaningful awareness to the nature, the emotional reality of living in vivid, day-to-day life. With its hopes and memories. With its pleasure and pain. In our whole and divided country. In this world of sickness and war. In the otherworldliness of our arts and sciences. In poems that are both clear and mysterious, he seeks to let language and image trace their own paths. Come to conclusions that are open and seemingly inevitable. With always the sense and feeling that each poem is speaking to a known and unknown reader. To a happiness whose meaning now is yet to be found. A next page to be written.
Judah Tuck has ten siblings, and he's on a mission to give the old woman who lives in a shoe some advice on how to manage a large family! Although a typical day in the Tuck family may contain some chaos, Judah and his siblings find a way to pull things together before Daddy comes home. Join Mom, Judah, and his brothers and sisters as they work through the day. . .and learn what family is truly all about.
In the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life, we meet Maji, a sixteen-year-old African-American teenager from the Bronx who, inspired by MOBY DICK, and overwhelmed by issues of racism, mental health, and complex family dynamics, sets sail on the Hudson in search of a miracle and experiences a coming-of-age journey that blends own-voice insight, social commentary, elements of magical realism.
Fire Index measures the interior life of a survivor against the world she creates through her own fractured marriage, motherhood, and religion. Told in fragments, using hybrid and persona, Breitland confronts the trauma of her brother's death, her father's abuse, and the complicated relationships to her sister, mother, and womanhood. She reckons with her complicit, and often dishonest life, and how walking out from the burning construct demands her full attention, forgiveness, responsibility.
Lovely and unique ice skater illustrations with a simple story make this a beautiful little book for your coffee table, for gifting and reading. 6x9" 27 pages
The variety of poems and subject matter in The Views from Mount Hunger is as broad as the view from the top of poet Marjorie Ryerson's favorite Vermont mountain. The summit of that mountain allows hikers to witness breathtaking views in all directions. Similarly, these poems look in a broad array of directions, with subject matter that covers topics ranging from the natural world to climate change, from reflections on the past to healing, hope, and humor about the present. Ryerson's lyrical and articulate words ebb and flow musically, speaking for and reflecting the lives of many of us.
Rae Kelliher is a veteran environmental activist and pioneer in the death-with-dignity movement. Her husband Reggie calls her "party in a box" and "a weaver of people and movements." Facing a diagnosis of terminal illness, Rae engages in a shocking suicide-murder, taking the life of an oil company CEO for his complicity in delaying responses to climate catastrophe. Seven years later, Rae's friends and family gather at her Vermont farm to try to understand her violent exit and the rapid social transformations triggered by her desperate act.
Bernie's Mitten Maker is a raw and honest account of the joy, stress, and shock of sudden internet fame. Told with captivating storytelling, this memoir explores the many roads that led to the Bernie Sanders mitten meme sensation that followed the 2021 presidential inauguration. Jen Ellis's debut publication reads like an intimate conversation with an old friend. Vermont teacher, mother, and crafter, Ellis weaves the stories of her life together with humor and thoughtful insight. She shares her struggles with childhood trauma, infertility, and homophobia and shows us how crafting can build community and generosity can bring joy. At the root of the Bernie Sanders mitten meme story, there was a gift. It was a simple gesture that brought joy. The strange and wonderful way these mittens became an iconic symbol of one of the most historic elections in American history is a story worth remembering and repeating. Even in one of our darkest hours, when our world was gripped by the sorrow and loss of the Covid-19 pandemic, we experienced a global moment of laughter. We were able to reach across the partisan divide and share memes with people who didn't agree with on us any other topic. This moment showed us that we can laugh together; we can heal together; we can move on. My gift sparked millions of memes and countless moments of joy, and it is my hope that this joy will continue to spread when this book is shared worldwide. This is my story: Bernie's Mitten Maker.
Explore and travel with Twin Friends, Kelsey & Skyler Yates, as they visit the most popular sights in the "City of Lights," Paris, France. The Twin Friends will keep children interested in some exciting fun and historical facts, puzzles, mazes, and lots of other fun activities from connecting the dots and drawing the Mona Lisa's face. Kelsey and Skyler want you to see what they see as the travel the world. Twins in (Pairs) Paris is a collaboration of Kelsey and Skyler, and their NaNa, Melba B. Johnson.
You want to know why dying is like orgasm? Blayney Colmore, thirty years an Episcopal priest and life escort, explains: Does death make hash of all our efforts? Is there a dimension beyond what we know? Can normal people access it? As we burn down our culture's best achievements can we do something more useful than mourn? Come along on this holy roller coaster. You may recognize the highs and lows: baptism, marriage, burial, hitting for the cycle, from tomb to portal, an assassinated seminary classmate, close friend with Watergate criminals, an African odyssey, divorce, remarriage--all in the shadow of inevitable, impending death.
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