![]() ![]() ![]() Like Claudia Rankine’s collection Citizen, Hayes’s book forms a sustained meditation on what it is to be black and living in America. On the wheel & her head in a chamber of black Who is “good” and who is “bad” when:ĭragging herself through the traffic with her nails Someone is praying, someone is prey.” “It’s not the bad people who are brave/ I fear,” writes Hayes, “it’s the good people who are afraid”, but he also troubles this distinction. America’s problems go deeper: “Something happens everywhere in this country/ Every day. He becomes “Mister Trumpet” the speaker of one sonnet asks, “Are you not the colour of this country’s current threat/ Advisory?”īut in refusing to name Trump, even as he ghosts the collection, Hayes refuses to minimise the gravity of the political crises we face by pinning them to any one figure. Hayes began writing this, his seventh collection, in response to Donald Trump’s presidential election, and several of the poems here indirectly address the politician. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I will not take what I want.Ĭruel Beauty is the spin off book of the Triad Series also by Dana following that series MCs daughter, Izabela. My number one priority is to keep her safe, and I’ll protect her with my life.īut I will not fall for her. Despite being assigned as her security detail, ensuring we’ll be alone together every day and night. ![]() This one mistake could cost me everything, but I refuse to let it happen again. She’s temptation wrapped up in a tight, forbidden package just for me. I’ve done unspeakable things to gain their respect, and nothing could make me jeopardize that trust.Įxcept for one night, when I nearly throw it all away. I’ve worked for her family for the past two decades, grinding and fighting my way to the top. Nothing will stop me from getting what I want. But as long days turn into long nights, lines begin to blur, and boundaries get pushed to their limits. When a new threat arises, he tries to act uninterested-to treat me like his job. He’s twice my age and off limits.īut when my bodyguard retires, I see an opportunity and snatch it, putting Niko’s name up for consideration. ![]() Yet, I can’t have the one thing I want most-my dads’ right-hand man. Growing up as the eldest child of Scarlet Dulca and The Triad, there were rules I learned to live my life by. ![]() ![]() For Kihrin is not destined to save the world. ![]() Then again, maybe he isn't the hero after all. The storybooks have lied about a lot of other things, too: dragons, demons, gods, prophecies, and how the hero always wins. Practically a prisoner, Kihrin discovers that being a long-lost prince is nothing like what the storybooks promised. ![]() When he is claimed against his will as the missing son of a treasonous prince, Kihrin finds himself at the mercy of his new family's ruthless power plays and political ambitions. Kihrin grew up in the slums of Quur, a thief and a minstrel's son raised on tales of long-lost princes and magnificent quests. When destiny calls, there's no fighting back. Jenn Lyons begins the Chorus of Dragons series with The Ruin of Kings, an epic fantasy audiobook about a man who discovers his fate is tied to the future of an empire. I loved it."-Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians ![]() "Everything epic fantasy should be: rich, cruel, gorgeous, brilliant, enthralling and deeply, deeply satisfying. ![]() ![]() drastr the seer, that which sees (also called purusa) 3 things in Patanjali's Yoga Sutra for self-betterment. ![]() ![]() In Sāṅkhya philosophy, one of the two principles that constitutes reality. Source of consciousness, perceiver, spirit. purusa or drastr "That which sees and that which sees correctly" It is the power with in us that enables us to perceive with accuracy. We can always work on avidya (false perception or clouded thinking) by learning to stay present. The way we see things today may not have to be the way we saw them yesterday. May cause us to withdraw satvada the concept that everything we see, experience, and feel is not illusory, but is true and real (even our dreams and advidya or our cloudy thinking) parinmavada continual change. doubts about ourselves and where we are in life. we want to keep safe from pain and suffering. fear of getting what we don't want, or not getting what we do want. An fear or aversion to pain or suffering. Desires and ATTACHMENT to excessive fondness of fleeting pleasures. ![]() Need to prove that I am right and you are wrong. branches of avidya raga, dvesa, abhinisvesa, asmita asmita 1st branch of avidya - ego/ or I-ness. YOGA decreases the effect of Avidya to true understanding can take place. Spiritual forgetting, ignorance, veiling, The 4 branches together or separately cloud our perceptions and create dissatisfaction. ![]() ![]() We feel their worries and their dreams as sharply as if we were there. Through Sophie, shuttled from one task to another on the plantation, months away from her own home and time, we see the work done by slaves in the house, the yard, the field, and the sugarhouse. Being whisked away to 1860 and being mistaken by her own ancestors for a slave is not the sort of adventure Sophie anticipated. When a strange creature appears in the house’s overgrown maze and offers her a wish, she impulsively asks for an adventure of her own. She protests their attempts to make her a proper Southern lady, wishing they’d just leave her alone to wander the ramshackle estate-an old sugar plantation-and read the adventure books she loves. ![]() ![]() Thirteen-year-old Sophie wants an escape from her parents’ divorce, her father’s impending remarriage, and her mother’s new job, but not if it means being stuck spending the summer of 1960 with her aunt and overbearing grandmother in the old family home in the bayou of southern Louisiana. ![]() Review by Ellen Brockmole Jessica Brockmole ![]() ![]() ![]() The only problem? The creepy crayon will not leave. ![]() And Jasper must find a way to get rid of it before it takes over his life. It’s everywhere, and it wants to do everything. And best of all, he doesn’t have to do ANY work! But then the crayon starts acting weird. Creepy Crayon Part of Creepy Tales By Aaron Reynolds Illustrated by Peter Brown Hardcover LIST PRICE 18.99 PRICE MAY VARY BY RETAILER Get a FREE ebook by joining our mailing list today Plus, receive recommendations and exclusive offers on all of your favorite books and authors from Simon & Schuster. And it wants to help.Īt first, Jasper is excited. But one day, he finds a crayon lying in the gutter. Jasper Rabbit has a problem: he is NOT doing well in school. ![]() When Jasper watches TV instead of studying, he misspells every word on his spelling test, but the crayon seems to know the answers, and when he uses the crayon to write, he can spell them all. Please note that PROOF OF VACCINATION IS REQUIRED for entry, and MASKS COVERING THE NOSE AND MOUTH MUST BE WORN while in the store.įrom the team behind the New York Times bestselling Creepy Carrots! and Creepy Pair of Underwear! comes the third in this hilariously spooky series about a young rabbit and his peculiar encounters-featuring a sinister crayon! Jasper is flunking everything except art and is desperate for help when he finds the crayon. ![]() This event will be held IN PERSON at Print: A Bookstore. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The secrets and bonds among these women and their community come to a head at the beginning of a war and at the birth of an accursed child, who sets the townspeople alight with fear and a spreading superstition that threatens their newly won, tenuous freedom. Spanning eras and generations, it tells of the lives of three unforgettable women: Miss May Belle, a wise healing woman her precocious and observant daughter, Rue, who is reluctant to follow in her mother’s footsteps as a midwife and their master’s daughter, Varina. I was transported." (Amy Bloom, New York Times best-selling author of White Houses and Away )Ĭonjure Women is a sweeping story that brings the world of the South before and after the Civil War vividly to life. ![]() It took me into the hearts of women I could otherwise never know. Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times.Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing - and for the conjuring of curses - are at the heart of this dazzling first novel ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() BlackBerrys strike up their competing orchestras every few seconds while top staffers spy on executive meetings through peepholes and security makes its rounds, routinely checking on automatic weapons closeted throughout the West Wing. She accomplishes just that in Sammy’s House, which takes readers on a hilarious and suspenseful six-month romp through the nation’s capital. The title character in Kristin Gore’s new novel, Sammy’s House, is a super-competent aide, but also a magnet for Kodak-worthy embarrassing moments that include riding a pissed-off camel and attempting to buddy-up to her boss during an in-flight movie on Air Force Two.Īs the daughter of former Vice President Al Gore, Kristin Gore is well-placed to portray the intrigue, suspicion and high-stress atmosphere that pervade national politics at its top echelon. Spooked by a rogue fireworks display, Sammy dives off a boat into the Potomac right in front of her boss, the Vice President of the United States of America. During a reader’s first 10 minutes of acquaintance with Samantha (Sammy) Joyce, she discloses much of her loveable character. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this deeply personal, utterly raw, and ultimately inspiring memoir, Jodie comes clean about the double life she led-the crippling identity crisis, the hidden anguish of juggling a regular childhood with her Hollywood life, and the vicious cycle of abuse and recovery that led to a relapse even as she wrote this book. The harrowing battle she swore she had won was really just beginning. Even then, she kept a painful secret-one that could not be solved in thirty minutes with a hug, a stern talking-to, or a bowl of ice cream around the family table. Her ups and downs seemed not so different from our own, but more than a decade after the popular television show ended, the star publicly revealed her shocking recovery from methamphetamine addiction. Jodie Sweetin melted our hearts and made us laugh for eight years as cherub-faced, goody-two-shoes middle child Stephanie Tanner. ![]() ![]() In this “explosive” ( Us Weekly) and “brutally honest” (E! Online) memoir, Jodie Sweetin, once Danny Tanner’s bubbly daughter on America’s favorite family sitcom, takes readers behind the scenes of Full House and into her terrifying-and uplifting-real-life story of addiction and recovery. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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