![]() She devotes equal scrutiny to the journeys of her patients. But there are underlying issues at play, and she knows it. She tries to convince herself that she just needs the tools to get past the breakup so she can move on. She chooses Wendell, thinking that his familial status means he’ll be inclined to agree that her ex is simply an unethical jerk and a sociopath. ![]() She delivers her story from two points of view-as a psychotherapist working with patients and as a patient going through the rigors of therapy.įoundering after her fiancé abruptly ends their engagement, Gottlieb begins her search for a therapist-specifically a male therapist who is married and has children. "Of all my credentials as a therapist, the most significant is that I am a card-carrying member of the human race,” writes Lori Gottlieb, ’89, in Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). ![]()
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![]() ![]() A single look between them can convey an entire conversation. Clementine and Erika are each other's oldest friends. If there's anything they can count on, it's each other. ![]() Sam and Clementine have a wonderful, albeit, busy life: they have two little girls, Sam has just started a new dream job and Clementine, a cellist, is busy preparing for the audition of a lifetime. What could possibly go wrong? In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty turns her unique, razor-sharp eye towards three seemingly happy families. ![]() ![]() "What a wonderful writer-smart, wise, funny."-Anne Lamott Six responsible adults. "The new novel from Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Husband's Secret, Big Little Lies, and What Alice Forgot, about how sometimes we don't appreciate how extraordinary our ordinary lives are until it's too late. ![]() ![]() Despite her new abilities and the strange things happening in her world, Snow White, or “Snow” as her friends often call her, has been carrying on as normal…until now.Īs she returns to her cottage, Snow spots her seven friends with dark, angry expressions, and glowing white eyes. This isn’t the Snow White that Disney fans know: she has been recently transformed by the creation of the Disney Mirrorverse and given magical powers that she does not yet know how to wield. Set in a fantasy land that is familiar but slightly changed, the story begins as Snow White helps a young deer in the forest. ![]() ![]() Step into the Disney Mirrorverse, a brand-new realm full of endless adventure, where mirrored reflections of beloved Disney and Pixar characters are amplified and transformed, becoming battle-ready Guardians that must unite to defeat a powerful evil that threatens their home worlds and beyond. ![]() ![]() Two-Weapon Fighting: A dread pirate wearing light or no armor is treated as having the Two-Weapon Fighting feat, even if he does not have the prerequisites for the feat.įearsome Reputation (Ex): By the time he attains 2nd level, a dread pirate has developed a reputation on the high seas. Allies within sight or hearing of a dread pirate add an insight bonus equal to half this number on their Profession (sailor) checks. Seamanship (Ex): A dread pirate adds his class level as an insight bonus on all Profession (sailor) checks. ![]() ![]() Dread pirates are proficient with light armor but not with shields. Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Dread pirates are proficient with all simple weapons, with light martial weapons, and with the rapier. ![]() ![]() ![]() But I already knew (from reading A Slow Burn) that Mary DeMuth is a really excellent writer. ![]() I don’t know how I got so lucky, but a pre-release copy of Mary DeMuth’s Thin Places arrived in the mail, together with a request that maybe I could read and review it and join in with the “social media tour.” So this is me, joining in.Thin Places is billed as a memoir, which isn’t really my kind of thing. Her powerful words invite readers to know God in a new way-a God ready to break through any ordinary day or extraordinary pain and offer a glimpse of eternity. With unusual spiritual wisdom, she looks for God in the past so that she might experience him more profoundly in the present. They are aha moments, beautiful realizations, when the Son of God bursts through the hazy fog of our monotony and shines on us afresh.”From losing her earthly father to discovering a heavenly Father who never leaves, from singing Olivia Newton-John songs to the sky to worshiping God under a French sun, from surviving abuse as a latchkey kid to experiencing the joy of mothering three children, DeMuth’s story calls readers to a deeper understanding of their own story. As DeMuth writes, “Thin places are snatches of holy ground, tucked into the corners of our world, where we might just catch a glimpse of eternity. ![]() In her moving spiritual memoir, Mary DeMuth traces the winding path of “thin places” in her life-places where she experienced longing and healing more intensely than before. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() During their reign, the country became extremely wealthy. She had great influence in Mauretania's government decisions, especially regarding trade and construction projects. Selene eventually married Juba II of Numidia and Mauretania. ![]() After Antony and Cleopatra's defeat at Actium and their suicides in Egypt in 30 BC, Selene and her brothers were brought to Rome and placed in the household of Octavian's sister, Octavia the Younger, a former wife of her father. In the Donations of Antioch and of Alexandria, she was made queen of Cyrenaica and Libya. She was an important royal woman in the early Augustan age.Ĭleopatra Selene was the only daughter of Greek Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Roman Triumvir Mark Antony. 5 BC the numeration is modern) was a Ptolemaic princess, Queen of Numidia (briefly in 25 BC) and Mauretania (25 BC – 5 BC) and Queen of Cyrenaica (34 BC – 30 BC ). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My Name Is Red won the 2002 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, 2002 Premio Grinzane Cavour and 2003 International Dublin Literary Award. He is also the recipient of numerous other literary awards. Of partial Circassian descent and born in Istanbul, Pamuk is the first Turkish Nobel laureate. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018. He is the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches writing and comparative literature. Pamuk's novels include Silent House, The White Castle, The Black Book, The New Life, My Name Is Red, Snow, The Museum of Innocence, A Strangeness in My Mind and The Red-Haired Woman. One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, he has sold over 13 million books in 63 languages, making him the country's best-selling writer. Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952 Turkish pronunciation: ) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() What Once Was Mine can be pre-ordered and is set to release on September 7. ![]() An additional excerpt is available on the book’s official page. For those interested, Polygon revealed an exclusive excerpt of the novel. With Halloween just around the corner, this wicked tale will be sure to tickle your inner villain. ![]() “Before she can reach her happy ending,” notes the synopsis, “Rapunzel learns that there may be more to her story, and her magical tresses, than she ever knew.” Well, I am officially hooked. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: As Old As Time (Twisted Tales 496 Disney) by Liz Braswell at the best. The duo has some secrets of their own, including the fact that Flynn is a rogue fugitive. ![]() However, Gina and Flynn aren’t what they appear to be. Along the way, she joins a young woman named Gina and Flynn Rider. Eighteen years later, determined to see the “floating lights” that appear on her birthday, Rapunzel leaves the tower. The book’s official website explains more about the tale. So for the kingdom’s safety, her family locks her away in a tower, placing her under the care of Mother Gothel. She has hair capable of enacting revenge on anyone who crosses her. What Once Was Mine asks, “What if Rapunzel’s mother drank a potion from the wrong flower?” In this version, Rapunzel is born with silver hair that also has the ability to drain life. ![]() ![]() Literary pieces featuring the double depict an encounter between the protagonist and another person, who is her identical other. The paper analyzes stances of doublehood, either by split or by multiplication, which occur in literary works focusing on theme of the double - as exemplified, for example, in However, as is rather clear from most works dealing with the theme, the actual fulfillment of these fantasies holds quite extreme consequences: the majority of these literary works end with the annihilation of at least one of the doubles. ![]() The discovery or formation of the double seems to hold a promise for these protagonists for realizing fantasies otherwise impossible and meet the selfobject need for twinship put forward by Heinz Kohut (1984). Some make deliberate use of this opportunity, for instance, by switching their life with that of their double, or taking actions as one personification which they would not take as their other personification. Both of these possibilities are often perceived by the protagonists as providing an opportunity for possessing a better life. ![]() ![]() Literary works focusing on this theme present a protagonist who encounters his or her double, or disintegrates into several self-parts. The paper focuses on the literary theme of the double (doppelgänger) as an artistic attempt at endowing the suffering protagonists with a chance for redemption. ![]() ![]() ![]() The trouble is, she can’t stop wondering about the missing men who all disappeared, without a trace, on the same day. Preferably one which doesn’t involve being shot at, blown up or kidnapped. Stephanie Plum has finally quit bounty hunting and is in the market for a new job. Praise for the Stephanie Plum series: ‘Stephanie Plum in ass-kicking form… utterly delightful’ ( Cosmopolitan) ‘Plum is not just a smart private eye but a heroine with a sense of humour’ ( Daily Mail) ‘Chutzpah and sheer comic inventiveness’ ( Washington Post). Eleven On Top is the hilarious and fast-paced adventure in the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich, perfect for fans of Sue Grafton and JD Robb. ![]() Leaving her career as a bounty hunter behind won’t be so easy for Stephanie Plum, as disaster follows wherever she goes. Someone wants to put Stephanie six foot under… ![]() |