![]() ![]() When she is not writing or designing, she loves to spend her time on twitter and asserts that she is one of the greatest procrastinators in the literary world. She also co-owns with Dan Burgess the famous LGBTQA photographer. She designs e-book designs for independent authors and a range of publishing houses at. Besides her writing, Leigh is an award-winning graphic designer and came in second at the 2016 Benjamin Franklin Awards. In 2016, Misfits her polyamorous novel made the shortlist at the LAMBDA Awards. ![]() She would go on to win the Best Bisexual debut for her first novel Slide at the 2014 Rainbow Book Awards. She genuinely does not remember how she got into writing, asserting that it just happened and she ran with it. She currently works with Fox Love Press, Riptide Publishing, Loose Id, and Dreamspinner Press. Garrett Leigh, who also goes by the pseudonym Grace Leigh is an award-winning British novelist and graphic designer best known for a series of popular contemporary romance novels. ![]()
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![]() And so it was that one fall day, after dropping off my daughter at her high school a block from that endearingly city-soaked rectangle of green called the Panhandle, I decided to finally learn Golden Gate Park. Like an iron-jointed butterfly, I began flitting around town – at first aimlessly, then systematically. After I had my knees replaced, San Francisco became endless and enticing. A whim-less city is a diminished city, a city whose mysteries are kept under lock and key, a city that repeats itself like a scratched record. You learn to work around chronic pain, but you lose certain things you are not even aware of. ![]() For most of the last two decades, my knees were so shot that I could not walk without pain. I began those wanderings more than 40 years ago, but only in the past two years have they assumed the obsessive form that has led my friends to hide when I come calling, chirpily announcing another thrill-packed excursion to the Outer Mission.īlame it on titanium. Its spirit is ambulatory - the product of the countless explorations I have made across San Francisco on foot. ![]() ![]() ![]() Of both those films, however, ''The Buddha of Suburbia'' suffers in comparison. Despite strong similarities to the form and content ![]() That same loose assembly is the natural audience for this eagerly awaited first novel. ![]() One of the freshest voices in British film belongs to Hanif Kureishi, author of the screenplays for ''My Beautiful Laundrette'' and ''Sammy and Rosie Get Laid.'' ''Laundrette,'' especially, attractedĪudiences from three intersecting cinematic circles - the gay, the arty and the third world. Section 7, Column 2 Book Review Deskīy CLARK BLAISE Clark Blaise will be director of the international writing program at the University of Iowa beginning this summer. May 6, 1990, Sunday, Late Edition - Final The New York Times: Book Review Search Article ![]() ![]() ![]() One of his Soviet handlers, Yuri Modin, wrote that he was “breathtaking” in publicly denying a 1955 parliamentary leak that he was a KGB spy. He was arguably the most gifted liar in intelligence history, a man who, despite what sounds like almost constant drunkenness, never really cracked, even as the evidence against him became overwhelming. Philby emerges from “A Spy Among Friends” as a supremely perverse antihero, remarkable for his sheer guts and tenacity in concealing for more than 30 years his treason against his country and class. ![]() In an age when every puzzle is thought to have its solution, Philby’s inner motivation remains unfathomable. But Ben Macintyre manages to retell it in a way that makes Philby’s destructive genius fresh and horridly fascinating - and to me, at least, ultimately inexplicable. David Ignatius is a Washington Post columnist and the author of “ The Director,” the most recent of his nine spy novels.īy now, the story of British double agent Harold “Kim” Philby may be the most familiar spy yarn ever, fodder for whole libraries of histories, personal memoirs and novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Raccoon's secret for making a child feel safe and secure. ![]() With illustrations by Barbara Gibson that capture the warmth and beauty of the original artwork, toddlers now share in the benefits from Mrs. A Kissing Hand for Chester Raccoon conveys the heart of the story in rhyming verse, perfect for read-aloud and easy for even the little ones to remember and recite. It's Mommy saying, 'I love you,' wherever you may go." The Kissing Hand has become a children's classic that has touched the lives of millions of children and their parents. Now younger children can get in on Mama Raccoons secret. "With a Kissing Hand," said Chester's mom, "We'll never be apart." "Just press your hand upon your cheek and feel that loving glow. Kissing Hand to children facing first days of kindergarten, first grade, and other separations. Chester could feel his mother's kiss leap straight into his heart. Now younger children can get in on Mama Raccoon's secret and find comfort in A Kissing Hand for Chester Raccoon, a board-book adaptation of the original picture book. School is starting in the forest, but Chester Raccoon does not want to go. During the last 20 years, parents and teachers have passed along the secret of the Kissing Hand to children facing first days of kindergarten, first grade, and other separations. In Audrey Penns bestselling book THE KISSING HAND Chester Raccoon would rather stay at home with his mother than go to school. Shop Barnes & Noble The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn online at. ![]() ![]() The epic work Growth of the Soil (1917) earned him the Nobel Prize. His later works-in particular his "Nordland novels"-were influenced by the Norwegian new realism, portraying everyday life in rural Norway and often employing local dialect, irony, and humour. Hamsun is considered the "leader of the Neo-Romantic revolt at the turn of the century", with works such as Hunger (1890), Mysteries (1892), Pan (1894), and Victoria (1898). He argued that the main object of modern literature should be the intricacies of the human mind, that writers should describe the "whisper of blood, and the pleading of bone marrow". The young Hamsun objected to realism and naturalism. ![]() He published more than 20 novels, a collection of poetry, some short stories and plays, a travelogue, and some essays. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to the subject, perspective and environment. He was praised by King Haakon VII of Norway as Norway's soul. ![]() Knut Hamsun was a Norwegian author, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. This Book contains collection of 9 Best titles of Knut Hamsun. ![]() ![]() ![]() This response captures much of what, for good and ill, informs 12 Rules for Life, his long and often peculiar foray into the self-help genre. Metaphysically I am an American pragmatist who has been strongly influenced by the psychoanalytic and clinical thinking of Freud and Jung.” Philosophically I am an individualist, not a collectivist of the right or the left. In an emailed rebuttal to a journalist who termed him a figure of the “far right”, he described his own politics as those of a “classic British liberal … temperamentally I am high on openness which tilts me to the left, although I am also conscientious which tilts me to the right. ![]() ![]() His work on the psychology of political correctness has raised eyebrows, given his recent proposal to purge “corrupt” academic departments of courses and teachers he deems infected by this pathology. His academic work includes many papers in which he seeks to understand political and religious belief in terms of the so-called “big five” personality traits – openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. ![]() ![]() ![]() Prosociality was measured as prosocial impact and prosocial motivation. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mediating role of prosociality, which is defined in terms of helping and benefitting others, between teacher collaboration and their turnover intentions. Implications for research on burnout, job satisfaction, positive organizational scholarship and job design are discussed. ![]() The results suggest that perceptions of benefiting others may protect service employees against the decreased job satisfaction and increased burnout typically associated with perceptions of harming others. In Study 2, a survey of 79 school teachers, perceived prosocial impact moderated the association between perceived antisocial impact and burnout, and this moderated relationship was mediated by moral justification the results held after controlling for common antecedents of burnout. In Study 1, a survey of 377 transportation service employees and 99 secretaries, perceived prosocial impact moderated the negative association between perceived antisocial impact and job satisfaction, such that the association decreased as perceived prosocial impact increased. We conducted two studies to test the hypothesis that perceptions of benefiting others attenuate the detrimental effects of perceptions of harming others on the well-being of service employees. Service employees often perceive their actions as harming and benefiting others, and these perceptions have significant consequences for their own well-being. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The reactions, thoughts and feelings were also accurate and realistic, so I also appreciated that. Loved the family element that was strong on this novella. Declan may be a bachelor, but he grew up practically alone and feels quite lonely for a single man, so he needs to convince her to give him a chance, since he would also take this seriously.Īpart from the insta love thing, it was a nice Christmas story. Holly isn't up for one night stands or casual relationships. They start flirting, but Holly doesn't want to risk anything, because having this job is important to her, since her children are her priority. But one night, when her car won't start and he comes on her rescue, he wonders how was it possible that he hadn't noticed her before. Declan had never noticed Holly before, perhaps because he used to be in a relationship. I really enjoyed it, even though I'm not a big fan of insta love stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() I completed this paper before September 11, 2001, but after that infamous day, I reread The Origins of Totalitarianism, and Arendts uncanny prescience and relevance struck me. At times it reads more like a series of independent essays. Isaac The Washington Post Remarkable for us, no doubt, is Arendt's conviction that only philosophy could have saved those millions of lives - Judith Butler Guardian Her greatest work is this 1951 classic. The Origins of Totalitarianism is a difficult, complex, disjointed book. Arendt's inquiry into the elements of totalitarian domination teaches us we must never let go of the fear of totalitarian government Los Angeles Review of Books A vivid account of the system of concentration and death camps that Arendt believed defined totalitarian rule - Jeffrey C. What are your political acts, and what politics do they serve? - Zoe Williams Guardian Her masterpiece. A kind of nonfiction bookend to Nineteen Eighty-Four The New York Times How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times, even if they are different and perhaps less dark, and Origins raises a set of fundamental questions about how tyranny can arise and the dangerous forms of inhumanity to which it can lead Washington Post Perhaps Arendt's most profound legacy is in establishing that one has to consider oneself political as part of the human condition. ![]() |