She continued her education at Loyola University-Chicago where she received her Master’s of Science degree in Industrial Relations while working for a manufacturing company creating diversity programs for their employees. Simone went to the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and received her Bachelor’s of Science there in Psychology in 1992. Simone was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago, where she still lives today. Simone is especially proud of the fact that the Illinois Association of Teachers of English named her Author of the Year. Simone also won the coveted RITA award from the Romance Writers of America for her book Perfect Chemistry. Simone’s books have won many awards including being YALSA Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, being named to the YALSA Popular Paperbacks and Teens Top Ten lists, and added to the Illinois “Read for a Lifetime” Reading List. Simone Elkeles is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of novels for teens.
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Small bets book5/20/2023 It didn’t surprise me at all, then, to find out that Dorie had been placing “ little bets,” a term coined by Peter Sims, in order to see what topics would grow her audience, generate the seed of a book, and position her as a thought leader. I got more and more excited to see someone from the ranks of top business schools use methods I was so familiar with. I watched her topics slowly get more focused, the messages get cleaner. Dorie was writing for sites like Harvard Business Review, not the typical online business or digital marketing blogs. Of course, that’s not really something of note in the digital marketing space: anytime someone has something to promote or starts a new venture, you’ll see their name start popping up everywhere.īut Dorie was different. podcast, Dorie Clark, start working a systematic content strategy. A little over a year ago, I noticed my next guest for the Profit. John onwuchekwa prayer5/20/2023 Our church prayers get reduced to a tool for transitioning from one activity to the next. Unfortunately, our prayers in the church too often feel like prayer before a meal: obligatory and respectable, but no one really gets much out of it. And it’s this emphasis that brings so much conviction to its reader.Īre we really a praying church? Does our church really value prayer? Or is it just something we do in between the more important things? But more than all of this, what holds the reader’s attention most is his contagious belief that God is most glorified in the robust prayer-life of His local church. is a gifted teacher, who does such a great job both of explaining what prayer is and isn’t and its overall importance in the life of the early New Testament church. Many leave you feeling guilty, that you’re a horrible Christian because your prayer life is so poor. Too many books on prayer come across as dry and mechanical, theoretical and technical. Simply said, the book is extremely encouraging. It’s so good that it now sits at the top of my list for great books on prayer. I’ve read many books this past year, but this by far has been one of the most enjoyable and edifying books I’ve read in a long time. The essex serpent book5/20/2023 Keira Knightley was originally set to play the lead of Cora, but left the project for "family reasons," per Variety. Luke Garrett Hayley Squires will play Cora's confidant and nanny Martha Clémence Poésy will play Will's wife, Stella and Jamael Westman will be Dr. The main cast is rounded out by Frank Dillane, who will portray Cora's friend, the ambitious young surgeon Dr. “There’s a newfound curiosity in both characters.” "It will sound strange to hear this, but inside the experience I found there were some similarities, in that both Loki and Will are destabilized-their faith is shaken, their certainties are uprooted and questioned," Hiddleston says. "When she’s released again into the world as an unshackled person, Cora is a little out of step with herself, and that was a strange experience to play." "It was like I was playing an ingenue again, even though I’m decidedly middle-aged," Danes told Vanity Fair. Hiddleston's most recent television role was as Loki on the Disney+ TV show Loki, and Danes last starred on television in the award-winning Homeland from 2011 to 2020, a performance that earned her two Emmy wins. Danes signed on as Cora in February 2021, and Hiddleston joined the cast as William a month later. Cupid and psyche cs lewis5/20/2023 Orual, therefore, uses the threat of suicide to force Psyche to sneak in a lamp and look upon her partner’s face to prove he is not deceiving her. Orual, who has been like a mother to Psyche, cannot believe that it is actually Cupid to whom Psyche has joined herself. The one rule that Cupid gave Psyche was that she not look upon his face. Psyche, the younger sister, was so beautiful that Cupid himself desired her for his bride. Orual was the older sister and so ugly that she spends most of the book with her face veiled. Their childhood was filled with great love, but eventually, tragedy strikes. The first part of the book shows the sisters Orual and Psyche growing up together, along with their mentor the Fox. In doing so, he depicts a life centered on one such abuse of love that is far more extreme than that of the teenager and her parents. Lewis retells the myth of Cupid and Psyche. Rare indeed is the person who has not treated love so poorly. The only lever she has to persuade her parents is their love for her. Reeling at the blow to her social life, the words bubble up, “you don’t really love me!” She says this only because she knows that her parents do love her and that it will hurt them to hear these painful words. Picture the scene, cliché as it is: A young teenager’s parents have just refused her permission to go with friends to a concert this Friday. “Love is not a thing to be so used” -The Fox The great learning confucius meaning5/19/2023 COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.
The detective dog by julia donaldson5/19/2023 * Sunday Express * A satisfying, action-filled story perfectly told, and Sara Ogilvy's illustrations are full of character. * Metro * A brilliant celebration of books, libraries and a very clever dog. Review:Ī superbly illustrated tale of clever canines and library magic in Donaldson's ever-exuberant voice. She is inspired by many things including old second-hand bookshops, old wives tales and trying to spell sounds. In addition to working on her picture books, Sara lectures in Illustration and Graphic Design at Northumbria University and continues to create work that is exhibited worldwide. The first picture book that she illustrated, Dogs Don't Do Ballet, was also shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. Sara Ogilvie is an award-winning illustrator and printmaker who won the 2011 Booktrust Best New Illustrator Award. Julia and her husband Malcolm divide their time between Sussex and Edinburgh. Julia also writes fiction as well as poems, plays and songs and her brilliant live children's shows are always in demand. Her books include What the Ladybird Heard, Tyrannosaurus Drip and the modern classic The Gruffalo, which has sold over 13.5 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over sixty languages. Julia Donaldson is the outrageously talented, prize-winning author of the world's best-loved picture books, and was the 2011-2013 UK Children's Laureate. The remarkable rocket5/19/2023 The club’s golden era appeared to be the 2000s, under president Patxi Izco. Coming from the Navarrese capital of Pamplona, population 200,000, they have never had the history or the financial strength of the other three (Real Madrid, Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao). Osasuna (the word means ‘health’ or ‘vigour’ in Basque) are one of just four La Liga clubs still 100% owned by their members. Whatever happens, living all of this, we will feel proud.” I hope it is a tight game and we can compete. Madrid have a lot more experience than us. Now, for just the second time in history, Osasuna are playing a final. “All projects have their moment, their peak,” says Vazquez. Saturday’s opponents Madrid see themselves as the greatest club in the world and are the reigning Spanish and European champions, with a €687m budget this season. Osasuna is the biggest club in the northern Spanish province of Navarre, but their only senior trophies are four Segunda Division titles and their budget for 2022-23 was €50million (£44.2m $55.2m). It is a positive for us, to push us on still further.” But we cannot stop now, some teams have reached a final and the following year it has not gone well. Maybe this Copa final is like a photo of the growth of the club. “Each season we have the feeling we are a bit better, we are growing with the new stadium, too. “The club has been doing things well now for some years,” Arrasate says. Salvation of a Saint by Keigo Higashino5/19/2023 For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. Salvation of a saint Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item.
The garden of evening mists review5/19/2023 ‘Sparrows rise from the grass into the trees, like fallen leaves returning to their branches. He asks Yun Lin to become his apprentice instead. The subject matter is sometimes hard to read, Japanese slave camps, Kamikaze pilots, the horror or the second word war and its aftermath, and the book is often sad, but more than that, it is uplifting, leaving you with a sense of the indomitable spirit of human beings and the things we do for those we love. She then visits the former gardener of the Emperor of Japan, to ask him to design a garden in honour of her sister. Yun Lin becomes a judge and prosecutes Japanese war criminals, in the hope of finding out where she and her sister have been incarcerated, but to no avail. She made her sister three promises: to escape if she had a chance, to build her the garden they envisioned together and to free her sister’s spirit from wherever she was buried. The story is about Yun Lin, the only survivor of a Japanese camp in Malaya. The Garden of Evening Mists is very well crafted, elegant, and full of symbolism. It took Tan, listed for the Man Booker Prize for his debut in 2007, five years to finish this book, but what a masterpiece! Not only the poetic prose, but also the plot kept me entranced, up to the last surprise where everything comes together, literally like the pieces of a puzzle. |