![]() “Are you a writer who doesn’t write, a painter who doesn’t paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is.” -S. In his book The War of Art, Pressfield shares his struggle fighting “Resistance” - the force inside each of us that holds us back.īelow are the top 13 lessons I learned from The War of Art. ![]() A writer who can convey such power with words is undoubtedly worthy of emulation.īut Pressfield struggles with the creative process just like the rest of us. Naval Academy, and the Marine Corps’ “The Basic School” teach his book to their young cadets. Pressfield’s imagery and storytelling are so realistic that West Point, the U.S. ![]() Steven Pressfield accomplished that feat with Gates of Fire, which tells the story of King Leonidas’s Spartans battling the warrior hordes from Persia. The elusive goal in historical fiction is to create a world so real that your readers can feel and see history developing around them. ![]()
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![]() “Have a seat, Kyrie.” He said it wrong, as always, pronouncing it Kye-ree. Edwards, waved a hand at the two chairs facing his desk. Lying about her age, her rank and her broken gift, she lived.Alpha by Jasinda Wilder (1) 1 THE ENVELOPE “Miss St. For 11 years she lived as an omega even though she had Alpha blood running in her veins. Her parents were killed when she was just 8 years old by the Blood Moon Pack. ![]() Book 1 of The Aztec Mates Series Celeste is the Alpha daughter of the Sky Moon Pack. Lying about her age, her rank and her broken gift, she lived. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of course that plot summary is a vast simplication. ![]() Clay is the fourth brother, and the story pivots around him and the pact he makes with his father to build a bridge. The story is ostensibly about the five brothers of the Dunbar family, whose mother dies of Cancer and whose dad leaves them shortly afterwards. It isn’t easy but the boys manage to grow up, acquiring a variety of animals and bruises both literal and metaphoric as they try to get by without adults. As is always the case in every Zusak novel, the narration is complex, shifting and unhinging the reader by playing with notions of time, and changing the spotlight and the points of nostalgic engagement. I imagine it must have been difficult for Zusak to work under such a heavy shadow, but Bridge of Clay is no disappointment. That’s a big statement, though I can’t deny that, after the delight of The Book Thief, I, like many of Zusak’s fans, was certainly anticipating his next book. My advanced reading copy of Bridge of Clay has a black cover that says, in large letters, “The Most Anticipated Book of the Decade”. ![]() ![]() As he gazes into the future of American churches, he volunteers some already well-worn predictions: denominations will continue to erode because Christians will keep seeking community based on shared theological convictions Pentecostalism will continue to move beyond its institutional setting to pervade a number of diverse Christian communities the number of Roman Catholics will continue to rise. Although his book focuses mainly on the United States, Noll offers a brief overview of the history of Christianity in Canada and Mexico. ![]() Noll contends that four elements-space, race and ethnicity, pluralism, and the absence of confessional conservatism-combined to distinguish North American Christianity from its European origins. He provides sketches of events such as the First and Second Great Awakenings, the rise of denominationalism and the beginnings of the Pentecostal movement in the late 19th century. ![]() Like other books of this kind (e.g., Sydney Ahlstrom's A Religious History of the American People), Noll's traces the chronological development-from the colonial years up until the last year of the 20th century-of Christianity after it moved into North America. Award-winning church historian Noll ( The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind) offers a serviceable and workmanlike introduction to the history of Christianity in North America, primarily the United States. ![]() ![]() Grow Old Along with Me: The Best Is Yet to Be (1996)Įdward Asner, Ellen Burstyn, C. Neale Donald Walsch, Edward Asner, and Ellen Burstyn Nonfiction recipients 1997–2018 1990s Year of Release Pull It Off: Removing Your Fears and Putting On Confidence (2018)Ĭonscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind (2019)ĭare to See: Discovering God in the Everyday (2019)Ĭliff Falls: The Missing Pieces Edition (2020) Before 2019, this was given as two distinct awards, the Audie Award for Inspirational and Faith-Based Fiction (awarded since 2003) and the Audie Award for Inspirational and Faith-Based Nonfiction (awarded since 1997), known as the Audie Award for Inspirational or Spiritual Title before 2007.įaith-based fiction and nonfiction recipients 2010s Year of Release It awards excellence in narration, production, and content for a religious or spiritual audiobook released in a given year. ![]() The Audie Award for Faith-Based Fiction and Nonfiction is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). ![]() ![]() ![]() They first came together for a recording session at the Duderstadt Center, a university facility that houses an arts library and other resources. The band members attended University of Michigan's music school. The band's most recent album, Schvitz, was released in December 2022. ![]() The band is one of the first to sell out Madison Square Garden without a manager or backing label, and released the recorded performance as a live album in 2019. The band gained recognition in 2014 for releasing Sleepify, a silent album that exposed a loophole in Spotify's royalty distribution and funded an admission-free tour. ![]() The band has released four extended plays, six studio albums and one live album through their own record label. Vulfpeck is an American funk band founded in 2011 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, by Jack Stratton, Theo Katzman, Woody Goss and Joe Dart. Vulfpeck performing in Portland, Oregon, 2017 ![]() ![]() Riordan’s novels were previously adapted into a two-film series starring Logan Lerman as the title character alongside Brandon T. The five-book series - which was published between 20 - introduced fans to a 12-year-old Demigod named Percy Jackson, who discovers early on that he’s the son of the Greek God Poseidon. “Some of you have even suggested it would be a good series for Disney+. “Hey Percy Jackson fans, for the past decade, you’ve worked hard to champion a faithful on-screen adaptation of Percy Jackson’s world,” the author wrote, in part, alongside the 18-second clip. ![]() At the time, Riordan and his wife, Becky Riordan, appeared to confirm the news in a video uploaded to his website. ![]() Reports of a possible television adaptation - based on the fantasy novels by Rick Riordan - first started swirling in May 2020. ![]() Hold on to your lightning bolts! The Percy Jackson and the Olympians book series is officially being adapted into a television show for Disney+. ![]() ![]() ![]() Underwood, a delicate gentleman with a ferocious alter ego who knows exactly what he wants from Esther. Even better, the invitation comes by the hand of the handsome Dr. On the brink of losing her position as a maid and with no prospects to go on, the offer of a place at Rooksgrave Manor – a house of ill and unusual repute – sounds like a perfect fit for a young woman with Esther’s inclinations. Overall, the story is an awesome, wild and sizzling hot read and I loved every page of it! Blurb ![]() In addition to the steamy romance, the story is filled with suspense, drama, danger and conflicts that wonderfully add to the plot. ![]() ![]() And that theatre scene… □ Monsters indeed do it better… And I loved how each of them grew, changed and adapted in this peculiar group. The relationship between all of the characters was very sexy and scorching hot. And their vulnerability, bossiness, support and protectiveness added even more to their appeal. They all had something sexy, alpha and alluring about them. And we have a lot to choose from – a vampire, a sphinx, an invisible man, a stone golem and a Jekyll/Hyde doctor. She was a genuinely sweet person.Īnd I so loved the males, or in this case the monsters. And I really liked her kindness and acceptance of the “monsters”. I loved that she knew what she wanted and she was not ashamed to ask for it. A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor is the first book of the Tempting Monsters series by Kathryn Moon.Įsther is one curious, kind-hearted and feisty woman. ![]() ![]() But soon the horrors overtaking Europe will become inescapable and the Kurcs will be flung to the far corners of the world, each desperately trying to navigate his or her own path to safety.Īs one sibling is forced into exile, another attempts to flee the continent, while others struggle to escape certain death, either by working grueling hours on empty stomachs in the factories of the ghetto or by hiding as gentiles in plain sight. ![]() ![]() The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships threatening Jews in their hometown of Radom, Poland. It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. “Love in the face of global adversity? It couldn't be more timely.” -Glamour Inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive-and to reunite-We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds. ![]() ![]() The New York Times bestseller with more than 1 million copies sold worldwide | Soon to be a Hulu limited series starring Joey King and Logan Lerman ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here, Mallory streams Stellaxis’s wargame, SecOps on BestLife, spending more time jacked in than in the world just to eke out a hardscrabble living from tips. ![]() There are nine supercities within the continental US, and New Liberty City is the only amalgamated city split between the two megacorps, and thus at a perpetual state of civil war as the feeds broadcast the atrocities committed by each side. Two corporations have replaced the US, splitting the country’s remaining forty-five states (five have been submerged under the ocean) between them: Stellaxis Innovations and Greenleaf. ![]() My health bar is flashing ominously, but I’m down to four heal patches, and I have to be smart.” “Twenty minutes to power curfew, and my kill counter’s stalled at eight hundred eighty-seven while I’ve been standing here like an idiot. Ready Player One meets Cyperpunk 2077 in this eerily familiar future. One young woman faces down an all-powerful corporation in this “profound…resonant” (NPR), all-too-near future science fiction debut that reads like a refreshing take on Ready Player One, with a heavy dose of Black Mirror. ![]() |