Not the carefree summer Clara had imagined. But maybe Rose isn't so bad. Maybe the boy named Hamlet yes, Hamlet crushing on her is pretty cute. What if taking this summer seriously means that Clara has to leave her old self behind? The personal and poignant debut poetry collection from the award-winning singer, songwriter, and producer revolves around the emotions, struggles, and experiences of finding your voice and confidence as a woman.
Just like my songs, they are personal and honest. Just like my songs, they have hooks and rhymes. In this book of original poetry, Ballerini addresses themes of family, relationships, body image, self-love, sexuality, and the lessons of youth. Her poems speak to the often harsh, and sometimes beautiful, onset of womanhood.
Jazz stories have been entwined with cinema since the inception of jazz film genre in the s, giving us origin tales and biopics, spectacles and low-budget quickies, comedies, musicals, and dramas, and stories of improvisers and composers at work. In Play the Way You Feel, author and jazz critic Kevin Whitehead offers a comprehensive guide to these films and other media from the perspective of the music itself. Spanning 93 years of film history, the book looks closely at movies, cartoons, and a few TV shows that tell jazz stories, from early talkies to modern times, with an eye to narrative conventions and common story points.
Examining the ways historical films have painted a clear picture of the past or overtly distorted history, Play the Way You Feel serves up capsule discussions of sundry topics including Duke Ellington's social life at the Cotton Club, avant-garde musical practices in s vaudeville, and Martin Scorsese's improvisatory method on the set of New York, New York.
Throughout the book, Whitehead brings the same analytical bent and concise, witty language listeners know from his jazz segments on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
In all, Play the Way You Feel is a feast for film-genre fanatics and movie-watching jazz enthusiasts. Everyone feels angry sometimes, but there are always ways to feel better!
Join a bunny rabbit and her family as she learns to manage angry feelings. With a focus on identifying the causes of an emotional reaction, and coming up with ways to start feeling calm and happy again, this book explains simple strategies to help kids understand and take care of their emotions.
The second edition contains numerous new features : expanded content on anxiety ; chapters on setting personal goals and maintaining progress ; happiness rating scales ; gratitude journals ; innovative exercises focused on mindfulness, acceptance, and forgiveness; new worksheets ; and much more.
I feel sad when someone won't let me play, or when I really want to tell about something and nobody listens. When someone else is sad, I feel sad, too Sad is a cloudy, tired feeling. Nothing seems fun when I feel sad. Readers will recognize similiar experiences in their own lives as this little guinea pig describes feeling sad when someone is cross or when something bad happens. Eventually our heroine realizes that feeling sad doesn't last forever.
In this intense, yet inspiring book, Author Jessica Davis expresses how intimacy with God should be paralleled to intimacy with your God-given mate. Building from Biblical foundation, Davis speaks of her experiences, along with the languages of premier poets and inserts from premier authors. As quiet as it's kept, there IS a need for intimacy in both spiritual and natural covenants that cannot be ignored.
Her prayer and purpose is to share information and inspiration that will revive, restore, and rekindle covenant relationships resulting in enjoying the full benefits of love and pleasure!
Frischmann had previously been rhythm guitarist with Suede. The group announced they were to disband in Christian singles will no longer tolerate a message that is simply a pep rally for singleness.
Both marriage and singleness demand serious scriptural insight. This book has developed such a treatment. If you are single and Christian, you face certain problems that come with the territory such as frustration in identity, sexuality, and professionally. You may feel a wilted identity amid a landscape of happy successful couples. If so, you will be pleased with this work—crammed full with pragmatic ideas, deep-felt experience and nuggets of spiritual insights.
God has a plan for your singleness. You are not single just to bide time until the day you get married. Validating Singles presents strategies for living as a single. The Varaki family run the local grocery store, but tragedy hits the family hard. The sudden death of the matriarch of the clan is followed by the favourite son's death in Korea.
The teenage daughter falls in with a bad crowd and there's also the other son, Walter, who has been dipping into the till to fund his escape from Doris, his sharp-tongued wife.
What is the coronavirus, and why is everyone talking about it? This fascinating picture book biography tells the childhood story of Buffalo Bird Woman—a Hidatsa Indian born around Through her true story, readers learn what it was like to be part of this Native American community, which lived along the Missouri River in the Dakotas, a society that depended on agriculture for food and survival rather than hunting.
Nelson has captured the spirit of Buffalo Bird Girl and her lost way of life. Kirkus starred review? SLJ starred review. This beloved book by E. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect.
Some Pig. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur's life when he was born the runt of his litter.
White's Newbery Honor Book is a tender novel of friendship, love, life, and death that will continue to be enjoyed by generations to come.
It contains illustrations by Garth Williams, the acclaimed illustrator of E. Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
A leading authority on abusive relationships offers women detailed guidelines on how to improve and survive an abusive relationship, discussing various types of abusive men, analyzing societal myths surrounding abuse, and answers questions about the warning signs of abuse, how to identify abusive behavior, how to know if one is in danger, and more. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" San Francisco Chronicle.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. Roonie B.
Moonie, a baby bee, goes exploring in the woods and gets lost, but remembering his mother's advice, escapes the dangers of hungry predators and unsafe strangers. But when he's accused of being all talk and no action, Duncan bets his buddy he can get a woman to fall in love with him in no time flat. Duncan's sure he'll win, even if his buddy picks the woman-and even if the woman is Claire "Medusa" Scott. Back in high school, Claire was no heartbreaker. Brainy and serious, she had a major crush on Duncan-but he didn't even know she was alive!
Now, at thirty, Claire is making up for lost time with a prestigious job and a new look to match. When Duncan comes out of nowhere to sweep her off her feet, Claire is sure it's a dream come true To Duncan's surprise, Claire is sweet, sexy, and not at all what he expected. The truth is, his love-em-and-leave-em days are over, and he doesn't even care! But if Claire discovers their romance began as a bet, can their love survive-or will he lose her forever?
Are you seeking to improve your mental well-being, reduce stress, and improve your physical health? This book will teach you how to: Focus on what you really want out of life, not just on what you think is possible Determine the difference between practical and emotional problems Analyze your thoughts and behaviors to determine whether they are rational for you Recognize and correct the twenty-six common mental mistakes Recognize and correct common beliefs that create a great deal of grief Combat depression, anxiety, and anger Develop rational replacement thoughts that are not just happy thoughts, but that are accurate Practice those new thoughts and behaviors until they become automatic Based on the philosophy and techniques of Rational Living Therapy that author Aldo Pucci has been developing since , these skills will give you the confidence to make yourself feel good anytime in any situation.
Clara Shin lives for pranks and disruption. When she takes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on his food truck, the KoBra, alongside her uptight classmate Rose Carver. Not the carefree summer Clara had imagined. But maybe Rose isn't so bad.
Maybe the boy named Hamlet yes, Hamlet crushing on her is pretty cute. What if taking this summer seriously means that Clara has to leave her old self behind?
Building from Biblical foundation, Davis speaks of her experiences, along with the languages of premier poets and inserts from premier authors.
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