![]() Few may know this son of two former Marines is true philanthropist, and he’s made helping military veterans and their families his personal mission.ĭuring a recent interview on CNN’s ‘The Lead with Jake Tapper,’ Bon Jovi announced that his JBJ Soul Foundation has donated half a million dollars to help build 77 new homes for homeless veterans in Washington, D.C. Yet the level of Bon Jovi’s fame is unequaled by the size of his heart. This translates to 130 million records sold worldwide, with more than 2,700 performances in over 50 countries for more than 30 million adoring fans. The band that bears his name has released 14 studio albums, five compilations and three live albums. With his signature black leather jacket, still-tousled hair and mega-watt smile, Jon Bon Jovi is every inch the rock superstar you’d expect him to be. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Brace yourself, because Theodosia Houzzara-wounded, driven, and deadly-is going to carve out a place for herself in your heart. " A darkly enchanting page-turner you won't be able to put down." -Bustle Theo must learn to embrace her own power if she has any hope of standing against the girl she once called her heart's sister. The Kaiserin's strange power is growing stronger, and with Prinz Søren as her hostage, there is more at stake than ever. Imbued with a magic no one understands, the Kaiserin is determined to burn down anyone and everything in her way. Now free, with a misfit army of rebels to back her, Theo must liberate her enslaved people and face a terrifying new enemy: the new Kaiserin. And if she learned nothing else from her mother, she learned that a Queen never cowers. And if she learned anything from her mother, its that a Queen never cowers. As the rightful heir to the Astrean crown, it runs in her veins. But though she wore a crown of ashes, there is fire in Theo's blood. Renamed the Ash Princess, she endured relentless abuse and ridicule from the Kaiser and his court. Princess Theodosia was a prisoner in her own country for a decade. ![]() ![]() The thrilling conclusion to the New York Times bestselling series "made for fans of Victoria Aveyard and Sabaa Tahir" ( Bustle), Ember Queen is an epic fantasy about a throne cruelly stolen and a girl who must fight to take it back for her people. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of these speeches have been translated into Japanese and Korean, and they are now finally available in English. Mo Yan’s passion for his work comes across clearly in his lectures and speeches, reinforcing the strong emotions his works evoke in his readers. They provide rare insights into the complex thought processes of one of the most influential writers in the world. Mo Yan’s fiction has captivated a global audience for years, and his lectures and speeches are just as riveting. Nobel laureate Mo Yan, whose name literally means “don’t speak,” is renowned for his fiction, which the Nobel Prize Foundation notes "merges folk tales, history and the contemporary" "with hallucinatory realism." His works include The Garlic Ballads Red Sorghum Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out The Republic of Wine and Big Breasts and Wide Hips (all translated into English by Professor Howard Goldblatt). ![]() ![]() This tree has all the nourishment it needs. It lies at the lower part of our property, where the water sinks deep into the soil. ![]() In contrast, many protected and untested trees have long since fallen. It has lost many thick limbs, but others have grown, and harsh circumstances have made it stronger. I’ve taken pictures of my preschool daughters in that tree, and now of their children, my grandsons. Several times in the thirty years we’ve lived here, I thought it would fall. In our side yard a tree has survived ice storms, heavy snows, and howling winds. In my book If God Is Good, I talk about how the suffering and trials we face-the hard things-are steep hills that increase our spiritual lung capacity resistance builds our endurance. I’ve been in an email loop with Alex and Brett, and it’s wonderful to see God’s grace in their lives. Recently they posted a great follow-up, talking about their lives over a decade after the publication of Do Hard Things: (Here’s a powerful article we shared a few years ago from Ana, Brett’s wife, no stranger to suffering.) I love these two young men, and the wonderful wives God has given them. I keep in touch with Brett and Alex, and I followed up with a blog in 2015 talking about how both of them were continuing to do hard things. I said then, and I still believe, that it is a vitally needed book in our churches and our culture. ![]() Incredibly, it was thirteen years ago that I first shared about Alex and Brett Harris’s excellent book Do Hard Things. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Intentions to the Universe, God, Source, or however you want to define it.Īgain, and we were able to get outside in nature to enjoy it and the sunshine.Īnxiety inside me, but I’m learning how to embrace it and not push it awayīecause when you push the anxiety away, it locks inside your body. I then released the ashes outside, allowing the breeze to carry out my Piece of paper, I wrote down what my heart desires for 2022 and burned that as I also performed a simple burning ritual last night, which was writing down everything I After everything was done, it felt so muchĬleaner, fresher, and better in every room. ![]() Window so the energy had a way to escape our wonderful home. Stagnant energy was in the house would leave the house. We wanted to make sure whatever negative and/or Yeah, we weren’t fucking around here folks. Washed the bedsheets and saged and Palo Santo every room in our house. In the afternoon, I cleaned the whole house, Kevin ![]() ![]() ![]() Whipsawed by daily crises and frustrations, Reilly must deal with several daunting challenges simultaneously. ![]() Brendan Reilly takes readers to the front lines of medicine today. “Remarkable with heart-pounding pace and drama” ( Publishers Weekly) “a gripping, moving memoir” (Abraham Verghese) “a terrific read” ( The Boston Globe) “an astonishingly moving and incredibly personal account of a modern doctor” ( The Lancet). Reilly deserves a resounding bravo for telling it like it is.” Malcolm Gladwell agrees: “Brendan Reilly has written a beautiful book about a forgotten subject-what it means for a physician to truly care for a patient.”Įvery review of One Doctor noted its beautiful writing and compelling story, the riveting tension and suspense. Told by a unique voice in American medicine, this epic story recounts life-changing experiences in the career of a distinguished physician, and is described by The New York Times as “a true service. ![]() ![]() ![]() I worked my butt off to give him money so he can pay rent or sometimes buy him presents like we always did for every month we were together. ![]() ![]() I was in that phase where my relationship with him was more important to me than anything else, so I ignored them, and continued to enjoy my relationship. I was in a relationship with this guy, Cesar, my family did not like him and every day my mother or my brother would tell me that he was cheating on me and that he didn’t care about me and that the only reason he was with me was because I gave him money and a roof to live under, personally I didn’t believe them and didn’t really listen to them. There has been a time when I was confronted with the truth and that was not too long ago, I would say 4 months or so ago. That’s why I have to finish college so that I can be their out.” Her words had hurt Reymundo because what Cindy had said was the truth, and like every other person, it sometimes hurts to hear the truth. Reymundo met Cindy and she was the only one that told him the truth, she said to him, “Listen being poor should give you a stronger will to succeed, not an excuse to have pity for yourself, to fail. In “My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King,” Reymundo has gone through a harsh life since he was 5 years old. My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That is, until Olly moves in next door and is determined to get to know her. ![]() The air she breathes is filtered, her school lessons are delivered through Skype, and her only friends are her mother and her nurse. Madeline has severe combined immunodeficiency disorder: in other words, her allergies are so severe that she hasn’t left the house in seventeen years. The book is told from the point of view of Madeline, an 18-year-old girl who doesn’t remember what it’s like to feel the sun on her skin or the wind in her hair. This month, I discovered Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon, and it was stunning.Įverything, Everything is a contemporary young adult novel about love, family and what it means to be alive. Last month I read Adam Silvera’s History Is All You Left Meand I loved it. Lately, I seem to have hit the contemporary young adult jackpot. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This man had had a great influence, both intellectually and sentimentally in Blixen. ![]() Later, she replaced her husband in the management of the farm and then got divorced.ĭuring this recovery period she decides to retake her passion for painting and writingīut the worst happen in 1931 when Finch died in a bad accident. Soon after her come back, she met Denys Finch Hatton, an English military pilot who became her lover. Nevertheless, she didn’t stay much time and in 1916 she got back to Africa, where with the help of her family, she created a farm called “Karen Coffee Company”. During this recovery period she decides to retake her passion for painting and writing. Nevertheless, soon after she had to get back to her home town to get a treatment for syphilis. According to La Vanguardia, “ her integration in the continent was immediate and the identification with the native people was almost instant”. ![]() During 1914, the young writer born in 1885, coming from a wealthy family, got married with her cousin, the baron Bror Blixen in Mombasa and settled in Nairobi, where together with her husband, she acquired a property called Mbagathi. In this post we want to pay a tribute to this prodigious novelist who was nominated twice to the Nobel Prize Award. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gradually Matilda sees the truth: that Father Leufredus will never return, that he never spoke of God’s love, and that she was lonely in her former home. which include tending the fire, cooking, restraining patients, and helping set bones rather than reading, writing, and praying. ![]() When the priest leaves her with Red Peg, the bonesetter in Blood and Bone Alley, Matilda disapproves of her new home, her new “mentor” and the requirements of her new job. Having been raised motherless in a fine manor under the tutelage of Father Leufredus, Matilda has learned to read and write Greek and Latin and to pray seven times a day. In a carefully researched novel set in the medieval period, the author of The Midwife’s Apprentice (1996 Newbery winner) depicts another vivid heroine, left alone to make her place in the world. ![]() |