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How to be a bawse6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() People will go out of their way to help and support you because you make them feel good. Be Nice to People: Treat niceness like an item on your daily to-do list.FOMO is just a test of your priorities, a test that a bawse is ready to pass. Let Go of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out): Temptation will try to steer you away from your goals.World domination requires real effort, dedication, and determination. Just consider Lilly a personal trainer for your life-with fifty rules to get you in the game, including Make no mistake, there are no shortcuts to success, personal or professional. ![]() How to Be a Bawse is the definitive guide to conquering life. Now Lilly wants to share the lessons she learned while taking the world by storm, and the tools she used to do it. But Lilly didn’t get to the top by being lucky-she had to work for it. It’s no wonder she’s garnered more than a billion views. Funny, smart, and insightful, the actress and comedian covers topics ranging from relationships to career choices to everyday annoyances. She’s Superwoman-which is also the name of her wildly popular YouTube channel. From the People’s Choice Award winner for Favorite YouTube Star and host of NBC’s A Little Late with Lilly Singh comes the definitive guide to being a bawse: a person who exudes confidence, hustles relentlessly, and smiles genuinely because he or she has fought through it all and made it out the other side. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He has lectured and published extensively on the psychodynamics of racism and has contributed chapters to the Urban League’s annual State of Black America. ![]() His most recent book is My American Life: From Rage to Entitlement. His Cracking the Corporate Code: From Survival to Mastery, co-authored with Judith L.Turnock. Both are considered classics in African American literature. Cobbs’ writings, best known are Black Rage and The Jesus Bag, co-authored with William Grier. ![]() Pacific Management Systems, the company he founded, consults with organizations on leadership and executive development, diversity as a business imperative, effective communications and the psychology of networking.Īmong Dr. His clients range from global corporations to inner city businesses and include government and community agencies. is an internationally recognized psychiatrist and management consultant. ![]()
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If There Ever Was by Robert Blackson6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() "I am only a musician because there were robust music programs in the public schools that I attended as a child. "The journey is to make all of these instruments playable as traditional instruments again, so that they can be returned to the schools and so that people can work with them," Lang said. Four hundred musicians - including musicians from the community, the Philadelphia public schools, the Philadelphia Orchestra, The Boyer College of Music & Dance, and the Curtis Institute of Music - will participate. That's what's happening in Philadelphia this week, with the world premiere performance Sunday of David Lang's "Symphony for a Broken Orchestra" at the 23rd Street Armory in Philadelphia. Post all the instruments online for adoption, raise money, fix the instruments and put them back in the hands of school children. Here's one option: collect all the instruments and then ask a Pulitzer and Grammy award-winning composer to write a symphony for them. What can a school district do with all its hopelessly broken musical instruments?.Laurie Niles Repairing 1,500 School Instruments with a 'Symphony for a Broken Orchestra' ![]()
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The house hades6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Underworld Renovation: Chambers may contain urns with 5. Underworld Renovation: Each Infernal Trove contains even more. Underworld Renovation: Each Infernal Trove contains more. Underworld Renovation: Chambers may contain an Infernal Trove. Underworld Renovation: Fountains provide +20% more than usual.Īdded Chamber: Restore some amid the searing heat.Īdded Chamber: Restore some amid the lush environs. Underworld Renovation: Fountains provide +10% more than usual.
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Winterkill skrypuch6/29/2023 ![]() Known as the Holodomor, Ukraine's "Great Famine" in the 1930s was deliberately caused by Stalin and the Soviets in order to oppress and erase the Ukrainian people and culture. Nyl and his neighbors try to steal back grain from the authorities, but the Soviets seem intent on slowly destroying the village.Ĭan Nyl help save his community from starvation, or will he have to leave his home forever? but a murderous plan leading all the way to Stalin. On top of bad harvests and a harsh winter, conditions continue to get worse until it becomes clear the lack of food is not just chance. ![]() But now, it won't be their family's anymore, because the Soviets are forcibly collectivizing and taking over the land. It's 1930, and Nyl and his younger brother have lived their whole lives on their family farm in Kharkiv, Ukraine. ![]() From the acclaimed author of Making Bombs for Hitler, a gripping and accessible story of kids fighting to survive the Great Famine in Soviet Ukraine. ![]()
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Zita the spacegirl series6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() She's maybe a little too impulsive for her own good, but her heart's in the right place. She fights for the little guys and always helps her friends. Zita's a wonderfully brave and steadfast little girl. The moments when Zita realizes what she's done, that she's responsible for her friend being taken, are extremely poignant. He's equally skilled in presenting tense and emotional moments. With simple moments and little details in the pictures, Ben Hatke brings the laughs. What hooked me on the book is the humor, especially portrayed in characters' expressions. The clear, bright artwork shows a great range of tones and emotions. This is a book bursting with imagination! This book totally charmed me! I picked it up to flip through it when I saw it on our new books cart and I ended up checking it out and taking it home to read the whole thing. Zita the Spacegirl: Trailer from Ben Hatke on Vimeo. Seriously, I can't do the plot justice with my words, so check out this awesome book trailer instead. ![]()
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Count of monte cristo the6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Edmond recreates himself into the titular count after escaping from prison, and begins to revenge himself on the people who sent (and kept) him in prison. He meets a priest (a fellow convict) who educates him, and bequeaths him with the location of a great treasure. ![]() ![]() Edmond Dantes is a poor sailor on the cusp of achieving everything (captaincy, financial security, marriage) when he's arrested on the testimony of his jealous rivals, and sent to rot in a prison for 14 years. So, The Count of Monte Cristo is a historical novel written by Alexandre Dumas, a story of vengeance set against the Restoration Periods (there were two of them) in France (the history's actually rather interesting in its own way, but that's neither here or there). But I did treat the story a trifle more critically. Of course, Alexandre Dumas was a good writer, while Sidney Sheldon was an American hack, so perhaps that's why I actually persisted with The Count, and didn't toss it away. But this time, partway through Edmond Dantes' imprisonment, I was uncomfortably reminded of a Sidney Sheldon novel that I'd tossed halfway across the room which had also had the protagonist unjustly imprisoned before they'd escaped and then set off on a roaring rampage of revenge after completely changing who they were. I'd read The Count of Monte Cristo before, though I suspect it may have been an abridged version. ![]()
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The steal like an artist journal6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() There is no "original" work in the world. Kleon could use the word "borrow" instead something like "The Art of Borrowing" but oh hell no, why would he when he could easily put more excitement in the book by repeating that knowing "how" to "steal" is an "art"?. It's probably for the sake of attracting more readers, but the word "steal" in the title is misleading. Because if you want to steal like an artist, you need a place to keep your loot. Includes an elastic band for place-marking and a special pocket in the back-a “swipe file” to store bits and pieces of inspiration. Pro and con charts- What Excites You?/What Drains You? Illustrated creative exercises- Make a Mixtape (for someone who doesn’t know you) and Fill in the Speech Balloons. There are lists to fill in- Ten Things I Want to Learn, Ten Things I Probably Think About More Than the Average Person. The Steal Like an Artist Journal includes page after page of ideas, prompts, quotes, and exercises are like a daily course in creativity. ![]() and Keep Going, an interactive journal and all-in-one logbook to get your creative juices flowing, and keep a record of your ideas and discoveries. 3. Repeat the first two steps until the pages are full.įrom the New York Times bestselling author of Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work!. ![]()
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Malcolm lowry books6/28/2023 ![]() The book picked up the Governor General’s award and is considered one of the best English-language novels of the 20 th century. I found Under the Volcano, a semi auto-biographical novel about an alcoholic ex British consul living in small town Mexico, a tough slog. The guy had a brilliant way with words, much like Hemingway I’m just not really a fan of either. Jacqueline Bisset starred in the 1984 movie of the same name, and Albert Finney won an Oscar nomination for best actor in a leading role. The manuscript was rejected 13 times, nearly lost in a fire, and eventually published in 1947. Malcolm Lowry with galley proof of Under the Volcano. It was here where he spent the most productive time of his short life, which included more than a dozen novels and works of poetry. He had a variety of addresses on Vancouver’s West Side and in the West End, but most of his time was spent near Deep Cove in North Vancouver. Under the Volcano:īorn in England, Lowry lived in Vancouver for more than 15 years. ![]() ![]() Margerie Lowry in front of their shack at Dollaton. He wrote Under the Volcano, his most famous book, from a shack in Cates Park. Malcolm Lowry may be North Vancouver’s most talented, paranoid alcoholic. ![]()
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Sequel to a minute to midnight6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() At six years old, Atlee’s twin sister, Mercy, was taken from the family home while Atlee was left for dead. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Ī Minute to Midnight is the gripping follow up to Long Road to Mercy featuring Special Agent Atlee Pine from one of the world’s most favourite thriller writers, David Baldacci. ![]() 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. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. 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. ![]() |