![]() ![]() With a unique vision for building up individuals and communities and restoring trust, The Lighthouse Effect opens your eyes to those who are quietly heroic. ![]() The humble gestures of kindness that change the course of our lives can shift the course for America too. Through stories of people like John and several others, you will identify how the hardships you have overcome equip you to be a "human lighthouse," inspiring those around you. ![]() John gave Steve a safe harbor after Steve escaped an abusive foster home and together they navigated a new path that led to personal and professional success. ![]() Steve Pemberton found a lighthouse in an ordinary man named John Sykes, his former high school counselor. We are adrift in a dark sea of disillusionment and distrust and we need "human lighthouses" to give us hope and direct us back to the goodness in each other and in our own hearts. Our polarized, divisive culture seems to be without heroes and role models. In this stirring follow-up to his memoir, Steve Pemberton gives practical encouragement for how you can be a "human lighthouse" for others and through these inspiring stories will renew your hope for humanity. Devotional & Christian Living Devotional. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Only his lips hinted that perhaps there were more smiles than frowns in him. He was tall, dark, and handsome with strong Mexican features that made his face seem stern. ![]() "Hello." Rafael said, "Hello, Anita." He was the Rat King, the wererats equivalent of pack leader. They glanced at me as I stepped out, and I nodded. The bathroom was just off the living room, so when I opened the door, they were all there, clustered on or around the couch. I preferred danger to embarrassment any day. ![]() I looked at myself in the mirror and realized that it wasn't facing a room full of lycanthropes that bothered me, it was facing a room full of people who knew that Richard and I had been making out. No one else had ever been able to do that. He'd fooled me for a while, made me think he was human. Richard was one of the best at hiding it that I'd ever met. Strong emotions make it harder to hide their power. The gun was very visible against the red shirt, but hey, why try to hide it? Besides, I could feel the roil of power just outside the door. 11 I'd finally gotten dressed, red polo shirt, black jeans, black Nikes, the Firestar 9mm in its inner-pants holster. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Biography: Jessica Herthel is a private consultant for LGBTQ-inclusive school districts and the current president of her local PFLAG chapter.Imprint: Dial Books for Young Readers,US.Shelagh McNicholas has illustrated many books for children, including I Am Jazz, The Perfect Pony, and Little Ballet Star. In 2014, she was named a Human Rights Campaign Youth Ambassador and received LogoTV's Youth Trailblazer Award. She was named to Time's "Most Influential Teens" list two years in a row, was one of Huffington Post's "14 Most Fearless Teens," and was the youngest person ever featured on Out's "Out 100," as well as on Advocate's "40 Under 40" list. She has a docu-series about her life called I Am Jazz on TLC, which started airing in July 2015. Jazz Jennings is a trans woman, YouTube celebrity, spokesmodel, activist, and author of the memoir Being Jazz. Jessica is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. Previously, Jessica was the Education Director of the Stonewall National Museum and Archives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida the primary editor of an LGBTQ handbook for school administrators and a curriculum advisor for Broward County Public Schools. ![]() Jessica Herthel is a private consultant for LGBTQ-inclusive school districts and the current president of her local PFLAG chapter. ![]() ![]() ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. 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We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() Until the Primal of Death’s unexpected words and deeds chase away the darkness gathering inside her. A specter never fully formed yet drenched in blood. If she fails, she dooms her kingdom to a slow demise at the hands of the Rot. ![]() Make the Primal of Death fall in love, become his weakness, and then…end him. However, Sera’s real destiny is the most closely guarded secret in all of Lasania-she’s not the well protected Maiden but an assassin with one mission-one target. Chosen before birth to uphold the desperate deal her ancestor struck to save his people, Sera must leave behind her life and offer herself to the Primal of Death as his Consort. ![]() Published by Brilliance Audio on October 19, 2021īorn shrouded in the veil of the Primals, a Maiden as the Fates promised, Seraphena Mierel’s future has never been hers. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Ī Shadow in the Ember by Jennifer L. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The reader realizes that Owly released these two fireflies from a jar earlier in the story so they are repaying a favour to Owly.Īnd another thing….While I mostly like this cute character Owly, I’m a little miffed when in “The Way Home” that he can have worms as friends, because I think any owl with any self-worth would munch on that worm quick as can be. However, there is a very nice storytelling moment when during their quest Owly and Wormy meet a pair of fireflies to light their nighttime path. ![]() This makes the stories seem disingenuous and I have to question the validity of the purpose. Andy Runton even includes this teacher resource page on his blog: … …as if Andy Runton sat down one day and said “I have the perfect thing for those elementary teachers…” The pictures are sweet and the text is minimal which is certainly an achievement but the stories themselves seem to have a moral impetus driving them….like you just know there’s a lesson at the end. The pictures are sweet and the text is minimal but the stories themselves seem to have a moral impetus driving them….like you just know there’s a lesson at the end. I can’t say this with any certainty but Owly has the feeling of being written for school-aged children. 1: The Way Home & The Bittersweet Summer by Andy Runton ![]() ![]() ![]() This is smart and funny and hugely entertaining. Also, if you love music, this is a perfect novel for you. If you remember what it was like to be an awkward teenager suddenly finding out that not everything is as it seems, this is a perfect novel for you. Mary Jane has about one of these moments a day as she becomes more and more embedded in this bohemian household. ![]() ![]() How we comprehend and deal with these new ideas plays an incredibly important role in who we become. We all have that moment (or hopefully many moments) when we are exposed to new ideas, and learn something (or many things) that completely contradicts everything we thought we knew.or what our parents had taught us. But as importantly, she starts to learn about who she really is. Throughout her summer, Mary Jane learns a lot about the world as it really is and people as they really are. ![]() Mary Jane is star-struck at first, but soon gets over it: Celebrities are just like us, after all. But this couple has a secret: They're harboring a hugely famous actress and her hugely famous rock star husband, while the rock star is being treated for addiction. Mary Jane, 14, living with her extremely traditional parents in a nice bedroom community in Baltimore, gets a job nannying for the five-year-old daughter of a couple nearby. Yes, there's definitely an "Almost Famous" feel to Mary Jane, Jessica Anya Blau's terrific 70s-set coming of age novel, right down to the sing-alongs with rock stars. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, things are alluded to (well, more than alluded, more like stated as fact) which will happen, as if the narrator is looking back on these events, but then that doesn’t happen, and I found that frustrating and confusing. There were some unexpected twists and turns which surprised me though, and some aspects went against my expectation, so it was refreshing to see something different for the ‘romance’ element of the book. If it had been more condensed it would have pulled me in more to keep me reading as there was too much dilly dallying to keep my interest. I think the book would have been better if it were shorter as, really, only a few things happen. At times though, things were too vague and ambiguous, leaving me confused in places and reading passages again to make sure I’d understood what was happening. Her use of language and descriptions always captivate me and capture my imagination. Well, wouldn’t be any point in retelling it the same would it? Fairy tale retellings seem to be quite popular at the moment.Īs usual, McKillip’s poetic prose is enchanting. I didn’t know anything about this origin before I begun reading, but afterwards did some research and the book retells the story but with some major differences to the original story. Winter Rose is a retelling of the Scottish Tam Lin legend/ballad by my favourite author, Patricia A. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "With biting wit, Roberson explores the dynamics of heterosexual dating in the age of #MeToo" With sections like Real Interviews With Men About Whether Or Not It Was A Date Good Flirts That Work Bad Flirts That Do Not Work and Definitive Proof That Tom Hanks Is The Villain Of You’ve Got Mail, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a one stop shop for dating advice when you love men but don't like them. And really, was that date even a date in the first place? She collects her crushes like ill cared-for pets, skewers her own suspect decisions, and assures readers that any date you can mess up, she can top tenfold. From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a comedy philosophy book aimed at interrogating what it means to date men within the trappings of modern society.īlythe Roberson’s sharp observational humor is met by her open-hearted willingness to revel in the ugliest warts and shimmering highs of choosing to live our lives amongst other humans. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Peter Watson has produced a fluent and engaging narrative of the intellectual tradition of the twentieth century, and the men and women who created it. Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind is encyclopedic, covering the major writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers who produced the ideas by which we live. |