Download or read book Sincerity is a Goddess written by Adam Alexander Haviaras and published by Adam Alexander Haviaras. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2023 NYC Big Book Award's 'Distinguished Favourite' in Historical Fiction 5 Stars - Winner of the 2022 Historical Fiction Company's 'Highly Recommended Award of Excellence'! Finalist in the 2023 Chanticleer International Book Awards’ Chaucer Award for Early Historical Fiction! The Etrurian Players are coming! Brace yourselves! Mortals perform a never-ending show for the Gods, and Felix Modestus, leader of the renowned Etrurian Players, feels their immortal eyes rest upon him at last. When a mysterious goddess tells Felix that he must put on a play unlike any seen before across the Roman Empire, he quickly rallies his company to the task and heads to Rome for the Games of Apollo. However, there is a catch: the goddess demands that Felix recruit his two estranged best friends to the production. Rufio Pagano and Clara Probita once shared Felix’s dream of theatrical greatness, but due to embarrassment and inaction, they left Felix to achieve that dream on his own. When each of them receives a mysterious letter from their old friend pleading for their help, a world of long-buried feelings brings discomfort to their stolid lives. Will The Etrurian Players be able to give the Gods and the people of Rome a magnificent show in order to save themselves from ruin? Will Rufio and Clara pluck up the courage to face their own fears? If they don’t, Felix stands to lose his company, his friends, and the life he loves so very much! Only with a little help from the Gods can they hope to achieve the greatness that lies within each of them. Sincerity is a Goddess is the first book in The Etrurian Players series. It is a heartwarming story of friendship and love that takes you on a bawdy and hilarious journey through the world of ancient Rome. If you like dramatic and romantic stories about second chances, misunderstandings, and a bit with a dog, then you will love Sincerity is a Goddess! Read this book today for a theatrical adventure that will have you cringing, laughing, crying, and realizing that there is indeed hope for everyone. Well, almost everyone...
Download or read book My Life as a Goddess written by Guy Branum and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Smart, fast, clever, and funny (As f*ck!)” (Tiffany Haddish), this collection of side-splitting and illuminating essays by the popular stand-up comedian, alum of Chelsea Lately and The Mindy Project, and host of truTV’s Talk Show the Game Show is perfect for fans of the New York Times bestsellers Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby. From a young age, Guy Branum always felt as if he were on the outside looking in. From a stiflingly boring farm town, he couldn’t relate to his neighbors. While other boys played outside, he stayed indoors reading Greek mythology. And being gay and overweight, he got used to diminishing himself. But little by little, he started learning from all the sad, strange, lonely outcasts in history who had come before him, and he started to feel hope. In this “singular, genuinely ballsy, and essential” (Billy Eichner) collection of personal essays, Guy talks about finding a sense of belonging at Berkeley—and stirring up controversy in a newspaper column that led to a run‑in with the Secret Service. He recounts the pitfalls of being typecast as the “Sassy Gay Friend,” and how, after taking a wrong turn in life (i.e. law school), he found stand‑up comedy and artistic freedom. He analyzes society’s calculated deprivation of personhood from fat people, and how, though it’s taken him a while to accept who he is, he has learned that with a little patience and a lot of humor, self-acceptance is possible. “Keenly observant and intelligent, Branum’s book not only offers uproarious insights into walking paths less traveled, but also into what self-acceptance means in a world still woefully intolerant of difference” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). My Life as a Goddess is an unforgettable and deeply moving book by one of today’s most endearing and galvanizing voices in comedy.
Download or read book The Hidden Power of Aikido written by Susan Perry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Explains Aikido solutions for peacefully resolving difficulties that arise with intimidating and unpredictable people, those who are stubborn or don’t listen, insincere people who want something from you, and chaotic situations • Presents Aikido’s step-by-step protocol for developing the receptiveness of the beginner’s mind and deescalating potentially violent or dangerous situations • Shares stories of how Aikido helped the author transform interpersonal difficulties into peaceful interactions In addition to the physical practice, the modern martial art of Aikido also offers profound principles for transforming interpersonal conflict into peaceful interaction. Illuminating the inner philosophical and practical aspects of Aikido, forty-seven-year Aikido practitioner and 6th-degree blackbelt Susan Perry, Ph.D., uses personal stories of joy, achievement, and hardship to demonstrate real-life applications of the transformational principles of Aikido. She introduces what Aikido is and where it comes from, providing a brief biography of its founder, Morihei Ueshiba. She explains in detail how Aikido helped her resolve difficulties at work, as a student, and as a teacher/sensei. Through each story shared, the author offers a glimpse of the beginner’s mind in action, the key to changing even the violent energy of an attack into peaceful interaction. Presenting Aikido’s step-by-step protocol for developing the receptiveness of the beginner’s mind, a state essential to personal transformation, Perry explains how distraction and timing can be used to deescalate potentially violent or dangerous situations. She discusses the founder’s philosophy of conflict, showing how Aikido can help peacefully resolve difficulties that arise with pushy, intimidating, and unpredictable people, those who are stubborn or don’t listen, insincere people who want something from you, and chaotic situations. She explains how a deepening practice of the martial art leads to an aiki state of inner peace, fusion, and boundless joy. Revealing how Aikido can help you face your fears and develop your heart and soul, this book shows how this martial art helps you embrace change, cultivate a strong center, and ultimately live a joyful life of engagement with the world.
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Download or read book Heart of Fire written by Adam Alexander Haviaras and published by Adam Alexander Haviaras. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5 Stars and Winner of the Historical Fiction Company's 2024 'Highly Recommended' Award of Excellence! A Mercenary... A Spartan Princess... And Olympic Glory... When Stefanos, an Argive mercenary, returns home from the wars raging across the Greek world, his life’s path is changed by his dying father’s last wish – that he win in the Olympic Games. As Stefanos sets out on a road to redemption to atone for the life of violence he has led, his life is turned upside down by Kyniska, a Spartan princess destined to make Olympic history. In a world of prejudice and hate, can the two lovers from enemy city-states gain the Gods’ favour and claim Olympic immortality? Or are they destined for humiliation and defeat? Remember... There can be no victory without sacrifice. Heart of Fire is a book for all those who struggle to make their dreams come true. If you like books by Madeline Miller, Steven Pressfield, David Gemmell, or Mary Renault, you will love this gripping novel of the ancient Olympic Games. Buy this book today and start off on a gritty, mysterious, and emotional journey into the heart of Ancient Greece. To read more about Ancient Greece and the Olympic Games, be sure to check out our ten-part blog series The World of Heart of Fire at www.eaglesanddragonspublishing.com!
Download or read book Sincerity s Shadow written by Deborah FORBES and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a work of surprising range and authority, Deborah Forbes refocuses critical discussion of both Romantic and modern poetry. Sincerity's Shadow is a versatile conceptual toolkit for reading poetry. Ever since Wordsworth redefined poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings," poets in English have sought to represent a "sincere" self-consciousness through their work. Forbes's generative insight is that this project can only succeed by staging its own failures. Self-representation never achieves final sincerity, but rather produces an array of "sincerity effects" that give form to poetry's exploration of self. In essays comparing poets as seemingly different in context and temperament as Wordsworth and Adrienne Rich, Lord Byron and Anne Sexton, John Keats and Elizabeth Bishop, Forbes reveals unexpected convergences of poetic strategy. A lively and convincing dialectic is sustained through detailed readings of individual poems. By preserving the possible claims of sincerity longer than postmodern criticism has tended to, while understanding sincerity in the strictest sense possible, Forbes establishes a new vantage on the purposes of poetry. Table of Contents: Introduction 1. The Personal Universal Sincerity as Integrity in the Poetry of Wordsworth and Rich 2. Before and After Sincerity as Form in the Poetry of Wordsworth, Lowell, Rich, and Plath 3. Sincerity and the Staged Confession The Monologues of Browning, Eliot, Berryman, and Plath 4. The Drama of Breakdown and the Breakdown of Drama The Charismatic Poetry of Byron and Sexton 5. Agnostic Sincerity The Poet as Observer in the Work of Keats, Bishop, and Merrill Conclusion Notes Index From the Conclusion "In spite of modern experiments in communal authorship, writing poetry remains one of the most individual of acts, and yet, because it provides the ground upon which the paradoxes of self-consciousness can move most freely, one of the acts most skeptical about the authority of any individual claim to self-understanding. . . . In undertaking its experiments, poetry may separate itself from certain contexts (economic, political, historical), but is itself as local and concrete as these contexts, an experience as well as a meditation on our experiences. In its particularity, its flexibility, its sensual and sonic complexity, its consideration of the extra-rational experiences of pleasure and desire, and above all in the ways in which it speaks with both more and less authority, more and less presence than an actual human voice, poetry offers us the experience of the unknown at the core of proposed self-knowledge. This is lyric poetry's enduring -- though not sole -- claim on us."
Download or read book Mastering Magick written by Mat Auryn and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2022-10-08 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create Personalized and Soul-Stirring Magick with Bestselling Author Mat Auryn Boost your psychic ability and incorporate the greater mysteries of magick into your practice. A companion to the international bestseller Psychic Witch, this groundbreaking book features more than sixty spells and is the first of its kind to focus on casting magick to bridge the divide between the seen and unseen worlds. Mat teaches you how to enchant yourself as a powerful psychic witch by connecting with the witch's tools, the elements, the moon, the seasons, and the planets. You'll learn the mechanics of spell work and how to make your magick as effective as possible. In addition to Mat's own tried-and-true castings, Mastering Magick features more than a dozen spells from well-known witches and practitioners, including Christopher Penczak, Judika Illes, Juliet Diaz, Storm Faerywolf, Laura Tempest Zakroff, Devin Hunter, Madame Pamita, and others.
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Download or read book Unlimited incarnation of defying the heavens and cultivating gods written by Hu Liqun and published by Sellene Chardou. This book was released on with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moon is high in the sky, and there are no clouds in Wan Li. The bright moonlight illuminates the earth and puts a beautiful veil on the whole Zi Long Mountain
Download or read book The Essential Henry David Thoreau Illustrated Collection of the Thoreau s Greatest Works written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-26 with total page 2102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Henry David Thoreau showcases a collection of Thoreau's greatest works, providing readers with a comprehensive insight into the philosophical musings and observations of this influential American writer. Thoreau's literary style is characterized by its simplicity and introspective nature, wherein he delves into topics such as nature, self-reliance, and the human experience. His transcendentalist beliefs are evident throughout his works, as he encourages readers to seek truth and meaning beyond the superficial aspects of life. The inclusion of illustrations enhances the reader's experience, visually complementing Thoreau's profound words. This collection serves as a timeless exploration of the human spirit and its connection to the natural world. Henry David Thoreau, a prominent figure in the transcendentalist movement, was known for his advocacy of individualism and environmental conservation. His experiences living in solitude at Walden Pond influenced his writings, as he reflected on the simplicity and beauty of natural living. Thoreau's philosophical insights continue to resonate with readers today, offering valuable perspectives on life and society. The Essential Henry David Thoreau is recommended for those interested in transcendentalist philosophy, nature writing, and introspective literature.
Download or read book HENRY DAVID THOREAU Ultimate Collection 6 Books 26 Essays 60 Poems Including Translations Biographies Letters Illustrated written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 2096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "HENRY DAVID THOREAU - Ultimate Collection" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Books Walden (Life in the Woods) A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers The Maine Woods Cape Cod A Yankee in Canada Canoeing in the Wilderness Major Essays Civil Disobedience Slavery in Massachusetts Life Without Principle Excursions Natural History of Massachusetts A Walk to Wachusett The Landlord A Winter Walk The Succession of Forest Trees Walking Autumnal Tints Wild Apples Night and Moonlight Various Papers Aulus Persius Flaccus The Service Sir Walter Raleigh Prayers Paradise (to be) Regained Herald of Freedom Thomas Carlyle and His Works Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum A Plea for Captain John Brown The Last Days of John Brown After the Death of John Brown Reform and the Reformers The Highland Light Dark Ages Poetry Poems of Nature Other Poems Epitaph on the World I Am a Parcel of Vain Striving Tied I Am the Autumnal Sun I Knew a Man by Sight Indeed, indeed, I cannot tell Low Anchored Cloud Mist Pray to What Earth They Who Prepare my Evening Meal Below Within the Circuit of This Plodding Life Omnipresence Inspiration (Quatrain) Mission Delay Translations The Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus Translations from Pindar Letters Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau Biographies Henry D. Thoreau by F. B. Sanborn Thoreau by Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
Download or read book HENRY DAVID THOREAU The Man Himself written by Henry David Thoreau and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 1486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "HENRY DAVID THOREAU: The Man Himself (Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters)". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: Biography: Thoreau by Ralph Waldo Emerson Books: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Walden (Life in the Woods) The Maine Woods Cape Cod A Yankee in Canada Canoeing in the Wilderness Essays Natural History of Massachusetts A Walk to Wachusett A Winter Walk Walking Night and Moonlight The Highland Light Collected Letters Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
Download or read book The Writings of Henry Thoreau written by Henry Thoreau and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book Familiar letters written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book NIV Leadership Bible written by Zondervan, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 1504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the NIV Leadership Bible, you’ll learn from both ancient and contemporary experts in leadership theory. This Bible is designed around 52 “Home Pages” that offer topical studies divided into three categories: personal development, relationships, and skills. It’s true! You can spend just 15 minutes a day to increase your leadership effectiveness. Plus, it’s organized so that you can easily look up related verses when you’re looking for guidance on a specific topic. Each week, you'll cover a specific leadership topic. One week, you’ll study a personal quality such as Courage, Humility, or Vision. Another week will hold lessons about practical skills like Conflict Management or Systems Thinking. You’ll also find relevant topics relating to interpersonal relationships such as Healthy Alliances, Power and Influence, and Servant Leadership. This edition includes helpful tools to help you grow as you lead others: Complete NIV text • Book Introductions underscore key leadership concepts • Home Pages and Daily Studies offer 52 weeks of studies on important leadership topics • Study Windows reinforce your understanding of Biblical leadership • Character Profiles show how personal attributes of biblical characters affected their relationships • Topical Index helps you find verses on particular subjects • Character Profile Index • Bibliography Order your NIV Leadership Bible today, and reinvigorate your leadership skills day by day. This Bible offers supplemental information on the following topics: Character, Commitment, Courage, Dependence, Humility, Integrity, Obedience, Priorities, Purpose, Self-discipline, Values, Vision, Wisdom, Encouragement, Exhortation, Alliances, Interpersonal Relationships, Power, Leadership, Accountability, Change, Innovation, Communication, Conflict Management, Decision Making, Double-loop Learning, Empowerment, Justice, Organization, Long-range Planning, Human Resources, Problem Solving, Excellence, Rewards, Situational Leadership, Stress Management, Structure, Organization, Systems Thinking, Team Building, Time Management"
Download or read book I Corinthians written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Texts of the Bible I Corinthians written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
