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![]() ![]() With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety, along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind. ![]() When fire destroys their compound, Lauren’s family is killed and she is forced out into a world that is fraught with danger. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. ![]() ![]() ![]() The others were bald enough to show the canvas cording. It looked as if someone had worked on the upholstery with a knife. ![]() The back bumper was askew, the trunk-lid was ajar, and upholstery was bleeding out through several long tears in the seat covers, both front and back. The right rear deck was bashed in, and an ugly nest of rust had grown in the paint-scraped valley. The left side of her windshield was a snarled spiderweb of cracks. She was a bad joke, and what Arnie saw in her that day I’ll never know. ![]() I went back, thinking that it was maybe one of Arnie’s subtle little jokes. His eyes were bulging from behind his steel-rimmed glasses, he had plastered one hand over his face so that his palm was partially cupping his mouth, and his neck could have been on ball-bearings the way he was craning back over his shoulder. “Oh my God!” my friend Arnie Cunningham cried out suddenly. ![]() ![]() ![]() She launched the now vast merchandise programme by patenting the very first Peter Rabbit doll in 1903. With revenue from the sales of her books, Beatrix Potter bought a farm - Hill Top - in the English Lake District, where she later became a farmer and prize-winning sheep breeder. ![]() Her humorous, lively tales and beautiful illustrations have become a natural part of childhood. Tiggy-winkle, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddle-duck, Mr. From her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, published by Frederick Warne in 1902, she went on to create a series of stories based around animal characters including Mrs. The story also features Beatrix's own sheepdog, Kep, who thankfully manages to save Jemima from a nasty fate!īeatrix Potter is regarded as one of the world's best-loved children's authors of all time. Jemima was a real duck belonging to Beatrix Potter, who lived at her farm, Hill Top. Little does the silly duck realise that the charming gentleman who has lent her his woodshed is busily planning a delicious meal of. At last she flies off and finds the perfect place. All she wants to do is lay her eggs in peace, and be allowed to hatch them herself. The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck is an original classic by Beatrix Potter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Antony Armstrong-Jones passed away peacefully in his home in 2017 at the age of 86. Written with the full co-operation of Proncess Margaret. Princess Margaret passed away at the age of 71 in 2002 after years of poor health and disability. ![]() Whilst giving the full, insider story of the Princess's many love affairs, he also looks at her tireless work for charity, breaking many taboos along the way - Princess Margaret, not Diana, was the first Royal to champion HIV and AIDS awareness. Princess Margaret, Christopher Warwick (Coronet) GBP1.50 from the Sians Attic online shop. Even the queen regarded her sister, and she’s on record as. In his biography, Princess Margaret: A Life of Contrasts, Christopher Warwick redresses the balance. She could be and was a lot of fun, said Christopher Warwick, author of Princess Margaret: A Life of Contrasts, in an interview. One of the most controversial royal figures of the twentieth century, Princess Margaret was admired as well as vilified for most of her adult life.ĭescribed by the designer and hotelier, Anouska Hempel, as 'Witty, wicked and wonderful', this charismatic princess not only brought colour and sex appeal into the Royal Family, but did much to help bring the monarchy and its attitudes into the modern world.Īdored younger daughter of King George VI and only sister of Queen Elizabeth II, Margaret was a pre-war princess whose world was hugely circumscribed by the strictures and protocol of another age, leading to conflict and misunderstanding in both her private and public life. ![]() ![]() Lying to help children? Who on earth would refuse?ĭani’s plan is simple: fake a relationship in public, seduce Zaf behind the scenes. Turns out his sports charity for kids could really use the publicity. ![]() Suddenly, half the internet is shipping #DrRugbae-and Zaf is begging Dani to play along. But before she can explain that fact to him, a video of the heroic rescue goes viral. When big, brooding security guard Zafir Ansari rescues Dani from a workplace fire drill gone wrong, it’s an obvious sign: PhD student Dani and former rugby player Zaf are destined to sleep together. ![]() So Dani asks the universe for the perfect friend-with-benefits-someone who knows the score and knows their way around the bedroom. ![]() Romantic partners, whatever their gender, are a distraction at best and a drain at worst. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. USA Today bestselling author Talia Hibbert returns with another charming romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake date her friend after a video of him “rescuing” her from their office building goes viral.ĭanika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. ![]() Named one of the Best Romances of 2020 by Apple, Kirkus, PW, Washington Post, NPR, BookPage, OprahMag, EW, Insider, Buzzfeed, Bustle, and Amazon! ![]() ![]() Professor Thad Polk, of the University of Michigan, invites you to join him for Shocking Psychological Studies and the Lessons They Teach, a six-lecture course exploring a range of shocking psychological experiments from the past that have nonetheless contributed significant insight into the human condition. The collected data has the potential of providing vital insight into the human experience, but can the scientific community explore the psychosocial experience of humanity without making victims of us all? Virtually every aspect of human behavior is tracked millions of times a day through the technology that we all, often without giving it a thought, use every day. Overview: We live in a time of amazing new technologies - and an unparalleled level of surveillance. ![]() ![]() Shocking Psychological Studies and the Lessons They Teach by Thad A. ![]() ![]() Winter had unrealistic expectations of what life should be. ![]() She was only familiar with the manifest part of life, her father always made provisions for them, she never had to worry or plan for anything. Winter's parents hadn't prepared her for the latent part of life. Therefore, when her mother and father were no longer around to provide those things for her her only survival was to either steal from others, use others, or exploit her own body to get what she was accustomed to having. Her mother, taught her to place values in the wrong things, such as, physical appearances, clothes, jewelry, and expensive cars, nothing of real substance. He taught her how to play the game of his life, or his lifestyle, but he didn't and couldn't teach her that life isn't a game, but it is a gift from God, and you only get one. These are young girls form different ethnic backgrounds who haven't received scripts to prepare them for a macro-level society. There are many Winter Santiagas" in our society today. ![]() For the most part, her script read "play your hand close to your chest, and never trust anyone." Winter's producers were mainly her parents, and her directors were her so-called friends. However, the reality is, stories as such are prevalent and do exist in the real world. The Coldest Winter Ever is a book based on fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through experience, I learned to be there for the residents of the nursing home, to talk to them about their life stories even when the stories got mixed up, to hold the hands of people who were dying, and take care of them until the end. To truly care for someone with Alzheimer’s disease, one must first understand them as a human being, and give them the freedom to be who they are without fear of judgment. This is what compelled me to enter the healthcare field, and to jump onto the ground floor of a nursing home, where I met hundreds of amazing people who suffered from Alzheimer’s and related dementias - many of them who, due to the progression of the disease, slowly lost the ability to speak for themselves, and thus required care, empathy and understanding on a level beyond anything I had ever experienced before. ![]() ![]() Growing up, I also developed a passion for helping people, offering whatever assistance I could to relieve their suffering. ![]() ![]() However, the investigation "failed to yield sufficient evidence" to pursue either case, according to an evaluation document issued by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.Ĭlayton’s attorney, Andrew B. At the same time, some companies that had partnered with him started distancing themselves: Rudy's Barbershops cut ties and Vans pulled his line of shoes from their website.Ī second unidentified woman also came forward to allege Clayton sexually assaulted her at a home he rented for a party. In an interview with BuzzFeed News, she said she told police the alleged assault occurred after they used a drug similar to Ecstasy together.Ĭlayton - who has built a brand around positivity and has authored seven books since 2008, including An Awesome Book of Thanks! and Make Magic! Do Good! - adamantly denied the allegations at the time and vowed to cooperate fully with the police investigation. ![]() She then publicly accused him of assault in an Instagram post. ![]() Los Angeles police opened an investigation into Clayton after Dawn Batson filed a police report in October accusing him of raping her in 2011. Dallas Clayton, a popular children's author, illustrator, and motivational speaker, won't face charges related to rape allegations made against him after prosecutors said they failed to turn up sufficient evidence to file a case. ![]() |