![]() ![]() In this ground-breaking book, world renowned creativity expert Ken Robinson identifies a crisis in education and business- whether it's a child bored in class, a disillusioned or misused employee or someone who feels frustrated but can't quite explain why, too many people don't realize what they are capable of achieving. 'The Element offers life-altering insights about the discovery of your true best self' Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People In this ground-breaking book, world renowned creativity expert Ken Robinson identifies a crisis in education and business- whether it's a child bored in. It is here that people feel most themselves, inspired and able to achieve at their highest levels. The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Today my name is colorful.Yesterday my name was dead souls. Teens who have taken part in writing programs run by a national nonprofit organization called WritersCorps are represented in this collection of poems which convey the words in the diverse voices of teenagers everywhere. Read 110 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Thousands of children and teenagers have since benefited from finding creative expression through writing. WritersCorps was started in 1994 to help at-risk youth in three American urban centers: San Francisco, Washington, DC, and New York City (the Bronx). Included are a foreward by acclaimed poet Nikki Giovanni, an essay from Kevin Powell, another poet associated with WritersCorps, and writing tips from WritersCorps instructors. To read the words of these young people is to hear the diverse voices of teenagers everywhere. 'Paint Me Like I Am' is a collection of poems by teens who have taken part in writing programs run by a national nonprofit organization called WritersCorps. Secretly I know my name is anything I want it to be. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Against the backdrop of the raging war with the 'lessers', and with a new clan of vampires vying for the Blind King's throne, Tohr struggles between the buried past, and a very hot, passion-filled future. ![]() When he's told he must learn to love another to free his former mate, Tohr knows they are all doomed.Except then a female with a shadowed history begins to get through to him. Summary: In the darkest corners of the night in Caldwell, New York, a conflict like no. When he begins to see his beloved in his dreams - trapped in a cold, isolating netherworld - Tohr turns to a self-serving fallen angel in hopes of saving the one he has lost. Sent back to the Republic as advance agents, the newly anointed Dark Lords of the Sith Darth Revan and Darth Malak broke free of the Emperors mental control and established their own empire with the Star Forge, an ancient space station of great power that had been built by the Rakata species. Book Review: Lover Reborn (Black Dagger Brotherhood 10) by JR Ward. he once was - Tohrment is physically emaciated and heartbroken beyond despair. ![]() The city is home to a band of brothers born to defend their race: the warrior vampires of the Black Dagger Brotherhood.Now back in the Brotherhood - and unrecognisable as the vampire leader. In the darkest corners of the night in Caldwell, New York, a conflict like no other rages. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ellen's father is so cold that it's hard to fathom how her gentle mother has stood him for so many years, and Ellen seems a little smart and a little old to still be reeling from the discovery that Dad isn't perfect. Male characters are sometimes less successful. With this relationship Quindlen shines, capturing perfectly the casual intimacy that mothers and daughters share, as well as the friction between women of two very different generations. But she and Ellen begin to influence each other, and it becomes clear that Katherine is attempting to take care of unfinished business in her characteristically graceful way, even as her body rapidly deteriorates. ![]() Cerebral, high-achieving Ellen has always been more her father's daughter he is the English department chairman, while Mom is a Martha Stewart-perfect homemaker, the type of woman who canes her own chairs. ![]() After a short prologue about the time she spent in jail, accused of having killed her mother, Katherine, Ellen Gulden quickly skips back to her story's beginning, when the 24-year-old's father guilts her into putting her high-powered New York writing career on hold and moving back to Langhorne, the small college town where she grew up, to care for her mother, who has cancer. If literature were judged solely by its ability to elicit strong emotions, columnist-cum-novelist Quindlen (Object Lessons, 1991) would win another Pulitzer for this wrenching, albeit flawed fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Alone with nothing but the mammoth waves of the Southern Ocean, the unceasing wind, a compass, a sextant and a pet cat, they voyage down the Caribbean, through the Panama Canal, past the Galapagos Islands, beyond Easter Isla. David Hays and Daniel Hays sailed 17,000 miles through the world's most feared and fabled waters in a little boat they built together. My Old Man and the Sea (Reprint) A Father and Son Sail Around Cape Horn by David Hays, Daniel Hays Paperback, 227 Pages, Published 1996 by Harpperen Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-06-097696-5, ISBN: 0-06-097696-9 "Some fathers and sons go fishing together. Daniel Hays offers a scholarly, yet readable and student-friendly survey of the Old Testament prophetic literature that presents the message of each prophet in its historical and its bib. In The Message of the Prophets, author J. especially when it comes to the Prophets. ![]() Daniel Hays, Tremper Longman Iii Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2010 by Zondervan ISBN-13: 978-2-9, ISBN: 2-5 "Christians sometimes approach the Old Testament with a mixture of awe and bewilderment, knowing that it contains pearls of wisdom, but unsure how to dive for them. The Message of the Prophets A Survey of the Prophetic and Apocalyptic Books of the Old Testament by J. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He Tian's first unofficial appearance is in early chapters was the faceless guy who touches Jian Yi's hair. ![]() The subsequent chapters to date is a chronological flashback to their middle school days. The first 14 chapters take place after Jian Yi's return.His most prominent feature is his natural red hair and he has trouble interacting with others. His father is in prison and his mother struggles with making a living, so he is always short of money. He loves to flirt and play around with Mo Guan Shan.Ī trouble maker, an outcast who comes from a lower class background. He is a top student and good at basketball. He is especially loyal to friendship and as Jian Yi’s best friend, he would defend Jian Yi first when he needs him. His mother is often absent and he hides how he truly feels in order to keep going.Ī good-looking senior gamer. He has complicated feelings towards his best friend and struggles with his emotions. The pale eyebrows and soft looking ash hair are his trademark. 19 days tells the hilarious story about the daily school life of a group of hot-blooded teenagers, their touching friendship and personal growth. Featuring characters Jian Yi (见一) and Zhan Zheng Xi (展正希), who are childhood friends, the handsome He Tian (賀天) and the reluctant Mo Guan Shan (莫关山).Ī ‘natural airhead’ boy, cute and charming. ![]() ![]() ![]() “That’s what I’m hoping - that this will be solutions-driven positive, uplifting and exciting - but ‘real’ and tackling some of the issues of Ireland today in our homes and outdoor spaces, in our cities and towns.”ĭermot Bannon during filming in Catalonia.įlming for the equivalent series, Dermot's Incredible Homes, last year took the architect and TV crew to Spain, as they explored Catalonia and Barcelona (a city that has it “nailed” in terms of urban design, according to Dermot).ĭermot Bannon in Catalonia last year while filming Dermot's Incredible Homes for RTE. I feel my role instead is to ask what we can do. "It’s very easy to say we have a housing crisis and say what’s wrong. I’d love to make this a little bit solutions-driven. ![]() “There’s so much on television and in the media giving out about what’s wrong. ![]() Wayne Stanley (executive director, Simon Communities of Ireland), Dermot Bannon MRIAI (campaign ambassador, Open Door) and Kathryn Meghen (RIAI CEO), the campaign runs from May 8-14. ![]() ![]() The only way for both to fully escape their demons will take the ultimate act of courage: letting go and learning to trust each other. or more terrified that the secrets she keeps could put countless people in grave peril. But with Alex guarding her so fiercely yet looking at her so tenderly, she’s never felt safer. But when Elisa Hall shows up, on the run and way too cautious, she unleashes his every protective instinct.Įlisa’s past never stays in her rearview mirror for long, and she refuses to put anyone else in danger. Being a single dad to his young daughter and working at Hope’s Crossing Kennels to help rehab a former guard dog, he struggles every day to control his PTSD. Retired Navy SEAL Alex Rojas is putting his life back together, one piece at a time. ![]() Ayres K-9 Rescue series and Cindy Gerard’s One Eyed Jacks, will love this action packed romantic suspense series. ![]() ULTIMATE COURAGE is the second book in a high adrenaline contemporary suspense series from Piper J. ![]() ![]() Hot military heroes, the women who love them, and the devoted dogs that always have their backs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Rachel Hauck enchants us again! Tenley and Birdie are bound together by the understanding that creativity is a guiding force and that their stories must be told. Tenley and Birdie are from two very different worlds, but fate has bound them together in a way time cannot erase. When she discovers her mother has taken extreme measures to manipulate her future, she must choose between submission and security or forging a brand new way all on her own. She wants to tell stories, write novels, make an impact on the world. But Birdie has dreams she doesn’t know how to realize. Under the strict control of her mother, her every move is decided ahead of time, even whom she’ll marry. Born during the Gilded Age, Birdie Shehorn is the daughter of the old money Knickerbockers. But when her estranged mother calls asking Tenley to help her through chemotherapy, she packs up for Florida where she meets handsome furniture designer Jonas Sullivan and discovers the story her heart’s been missing.Ī century earlier, another woman wrote at the same desk with hopes and fears of her own. With pressure mounting from her publisher, Tenley is weighted with writer’s block. Can she repeat her earlier success or is she a fraud who has run out of inspiration? Now that her second book is due, she’s locked in fear. Tenley Roth’s first book was a runaway bestseller. This happily ever after romance tells the captivating story of two women bound together across time by a shared dream and a mysterious writing desk. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia or J.R.R. “This series starter is reminiscent of epic fantasy series such as C.S. They will need to come together-and work apart-in ways that will test every ounce of resolve. But what? Though a student of magic, he struggles to cast even the simplest spell. Still, he and his friends swallow their fear and set out to battle an ancient evil whose powers none of them can imagine. The whispers begin quietly yet soon turn into a shout: The Nethergrim has returned! Edmund’s brother is one of the missing, and Edmund knows he must do something to save his life. ![]() Then something worse: children disappear. First animals disappear, their only remains a pile of bones licked clean. Yet now something dark has crept over the village. To this day, songs are sung and festivals held in the heroes' honor. The Next Great Fantasy Epic is here! For fans of Ranger's Apprentice and the Chronicles of Narnia.Įveryone in Moorvale believes the legend: The brave knight Tristan and the famed wizard Vithric, in an epic battle decades ago, had defeated the evil Nethergrim and his minions. Science Fiction & Fantasy - Available Now.Armchair Explorers for Children and Teens. ![]() |