![]() Having no dots, so they would run up and give her a star. Stickers it’s just that the stickers didn’t stick. It wasn’t that people didn’t try to give her One day he met a Wemmick who was unlike any he’dĮver met. So many gray dots that some people would come up and give him one without Something silly, and the Wemmicks would give him more dots. Sometimes when he fell, it would scar his wood, High like the others, but he always fell. Still others knew big words or could sing … pretty Some could lift big sticks high above their heads If the wood was rough or the paint chipped, the Wemmicks gave dots. The pretty ones, those with smooth wood and fine paint, always got stars. Up and down the streets all over theĬity, people could be seen sticking stars or dots on one another. But all were made by the same carverĪnd all day, every day, the Wemmicks did the same ![]() Some had big noses, others had largeĮyes. His workshop sat on a hill overlooking their Each … wasĬarved by a woodworker named Eli. It’s called “You Are Special” and it’s by Max Lucado. ![]() Is one of my personal favorites, and I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately. ![]() Today, I’d like to share a story with you. The text is abridged from the original book so it would fit in an 8-minute assembly slot. It’s one of those storiesthat keeps opening up with each reading. Have you ever read “You Are Special” by Max Lucado? I came across it at camp and it has become one of my favorites to return to. This is the transcript from an assembly I did in the senior school last month. ![]()
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Bellefleur writes as if she's captured fairy lights in a mason jar, twinkly and lovely within something solid yet fragile." – Entertainment Weeklyįollowing Written in the Stars and Hang the Moon, Lambda Literary Award winner and national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur pens another steamy queer rom-com about former best friends who might be each other's second chance at love… "Bellefleur has a droll, distinct voice, and her one-liners zing off the page, striking both the heart and funny bone. There's a sparkling quality here, one that mirrors the starry title. ![]() ![]() ![]() The price reflects this no one is receiving royalties or payment from the sales. This collection, sometimes erotic, sometimes irreverent, and always poignant, is a gift from all our hearts to celebrate Patric and give strength (and a little levity) to others. In this compilation, gay short stories, poems, and anecdotes combined with excerpts from Patric's blog and a few entertaining, educational group posts reveal, and celebrate, the man who has touched so many hearts and minds. Now, those that have been touched by Patric and his words have joined together to give something back, to him and to us all through something he values highly – words. Through his emails, stories and blog, author Patric Michael has touched numerous hearts, minds and lives from the start of his career and further as he now takes us along on his journey to battle cancer.Īlong the way, Patric shows us a side of life that not many truly see- how we are all a part of something larger than just ourselves, and how we are each touched by others for the betterment of all. In this electronic age of E-mails, electronic publishing, and social networks, quite a lot. How much impact can someone have on your life if you’ve never met them face to face? ![]() A Special Project by Dreamspinner Press & ManLoveRomance Press. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ashley possesses responsibility and is strong hearted therefore, she is a hero. She stayed in school, and was managing to deal with all of the struggles life threw at her. She was responsible and strong-hearted because she could have given up on her life because she felt like she had no reason to try. She managed to start her own successful life. At the age of twelve, she was adopted by Phil and Gay Courter. She lived in at least fourteen different households by the age of nine. Ashley Rhodes-Courter was a foster child by three years old. Within the next nine years, Ashley experienced beatings, verbal abuse, starvation, loneliness, punishment, and lived with a pedophile as a father. Ashley was taken from her biological mother and was placed in a foster center. Ashley was born in North Dakota she ended up living in Florida. Mine took hold, rooted, and bloomed.but I can't forget where my roots started." (Rhodes Ashley). ![]() "Adoptions are like delicate gardening with transplants and graphs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here we are engaged in a series of insightful and entertaining conversations on the most relevant aesthetic and philosophical issues of art, conducted by an especially acute observer of the art scene… ( tovább) Moreover, he leads the way to a new type of criticism that can help us understand art in a posthistorical age where, for example, an artist can produce a work in the style of Rembrandt to create a visual pun, and where traditional theories cannot explain the difference between Andy Warhol's Brillo Box and the product found in the grocery store. After the End of Art presents Danto's first full-scale reformulation of his original insight, showing how, with the eclipse of abstract expressionism, art has deviated irrevocably from the narrative course that Vasari helped define for it in the Renaissance. Ever since this declaration, he has been at the forefront of a radical critique of the nature of art in our time. Over a decade ago, Arthur Danto announced that art ended in the sixties. ![]() ![]() In the latter half of this volume, you will notice certain of the. (And these last three are all members of the same family!) But Dragons is also a brilliantly unified work: Each character is struggling, in his or her own way, to create order out of chaos. A Dance with Dragons is a longer book than A Feast for Crows, and covers a longer time period. There’s a pirate lord sailing through mystical waters, a warrior princess rebelling against kings, and an imprisoned traitor-prince brutalized by his captors. Daenerys Targaryen, the Dragon Queen, must contend with far more human concerns, ruling a rowdy city-state whose government rivals The Wire‘s Baltimore in complexity. Jon Snow, hero of the icy north, is building an army to battle an ancient evil. The imp Tyrion Lannister finds himself on a genuine quest, traveling by land and sea. And if Crows was only half a novel, A Dance With Dragons is its opposite: By turns thrilling, funny, scary, emotionally devastating, oddly inspirational, and just plain grand, it feels like a compilation of several different great fantasy novels as it pulls together the disparate characters’ story lines. Power is an element in the story that becomes the foundation for most wars, and the story captures how power, politics, and survival combine to create conflict. ![]() ![]() Throughout the novel, the characters try to survive the brutal world. But now the second half of that tale has arrived. The primary themes in ‘A Dance with Dragons’ are power, politics, and survival. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You can read more about Lauren’s life and work at follow her on Twitter or visit the official Sisters 8 website at Me: Where did you get the concept for The Sisters 8 series? ![]() Before becoming a published author, she was an independent bookseller, a PW reviewer, a freelance editor, a sort-of librarian and a window washer. Lauren Baratz-Logsted is the author of over 30 books for adults (The Thin Pink Line Vertigo), teens (Crazy Beautiful The Twin’s Daughter Little Women and Me) and children (the nine-book series The Sisters 8 which she created with her writer husband Greg Logsted and their daughter Jackie). Does your book qualify as middle-grade?.Turning Kids Into Bookworms: A Book List For Parents.Successful Author or Illustrator Visits.Schedule a Skype Visit with a Mixed-Up Files Author.Author Websites With Discussion/Activity Guides. ![]() ![]() To make his plan work, he needs to hire a boat to take him out to the location of that battle. Steve has been preparing for years, waiting for a chance to find the Orbital’s remains. His works are available from Crown Publishing and Del Rey Books. ![]() Meanwhile, Steve Stanton, a sleeper agent of the Chinese government, was activated by his handler. Murray Longworth, head of the Department of Special Threats, assigned Margaret Montoya to that task force in hopes that her extensive knowledge of this contagion could help stop another potential outbreak. ![]() Two corpses from the Los Angeles tested positive for the infection caused by the Orbital five years earlier. One of the ships in that task force, the nuclear sub, Los Angeles, fired upon and sank other ships before it was itself destroyed. Operation Wolf’s Head was a secret naval task force charged with recovering any wreckage from “the Orbital,” the hostile piece of alien tech responsible for a hideous outbreak that threatened to wipe out humanity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The raccoon I pulled out did throw them for a loop, however. I closed my eyes, waved my hands over the hat, and chanted “Magic, magic in my hat, I’ll pull out a rabbit and…(pull out anything other than the rabbit) Aahh! What’s that?!” I repeated the process until I got to the rabbit at last, pulling it out and saying “Well, look at that!” This was a great success, with lots of giggles and kids shouting out what I had pulled out instead of a rabbit. I started by pulling out my black top hat which had been prepped ahead of time with small finger puppets. At any rate, I insisted that it was my MAGIC wand and went on with the story time. I was disappointed that the kids immediately knew that it was a bubble wand. For this storytime, I took my cue from Storytime Katie and pulled a bubble wand out of my bag. ![]() I sing “What do I have in my bag today, my bag today, my bag today? What do I have in my bag today? Let’s take a look and see!” (Tune: Mulberry Bush). It might be a stuffed letter, stuffed animal, a picture, or some other tangible object. ![]() The books I found were My Mommy is Magic by Carl Norac, Anton Can Do Magic by Ole Konnecke, and What’s the Magic Word? by Kate DiPucchio.Įvery storytime, I have something in my “magic bag” that has something to do with our storytime theme. ![]() ![]() Set in the mean streets of Chicago, Talon of God is the action-packed adventure centered around the Lauryn Jefferson, a beautiful young doctor who is dragged into a seemingly impossible battle against the invisible forces of Satan’s army and their human agents that are bent on enslaving humanity in a mission to establish the kingdom of hell on Earth.īut Lauryn is a skeptic, and it’s only as she sees a diabolical drug sweep her city and begins to train in the ways of a spirit warrior by the legendary man of God, Talon Hunter, that she discovers her true nature and inner strength. Imagine two heroes emerging from that darkness to do battle with the forces of evil. ![]() Imagine an unholy cabal of the world’s richest and most powerful men directing this sinister plan in order to cement their unbridled control of the planet. ![]() Imagine that everyone you have ever known or loved was forced against their will into a state of demonic possession and spiritual slavery. ![]() The acclaimed actor makes his fiction debut with this enthralling urban fantasy in which a holy warrior must convince a doctor with no faith to help stop a powerful demon and his minions from succeeding in creating hell on earth-a thrilling adventure of science and faith, good and evil, damnation and salvation. ![]() |