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Counting kisses a kiss & read book5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Karen, her husband Gary Richards, and their daughter, Lena, divide their time between New York City and Saugerties, New York. Her book, Counting Kisses, was named one of the 100 Greatest Books for Kids by Scholastic Parent & Child and was a Children’s Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection. 0 Ratings 1 Want to read 1 Currently reading 0 Have read Borrow Listen. An edition of Counting kisses: A Kiss & Read Book (2001) Counting kisses. ![]() ![]() McElderry Books edition, in English - 1st ed. ![]() This is an EXCELLENT kissing and counting book that could be read right before bed time that will allow a parent and child to share, 'seven little kisses on a pretty belly button. This Kiss and Read book is a great way to teach children about math and counting. Karen Katz has written and illustrated more than fifty picture books and novelty books including the bestselling Where Is Baby’s Belly Button? After graduating from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, she attended the Yale Graduate School of Art and Architecture where she became interested in folk art, Indian miniatures, Shaker art, and Mexican art. Counting kisses by Karen Katz, 2001, Margaret K. About the Book From ten little kisses on babys toes to five quick kisses on babys nose, this kiss-and-read book is ideal for parents to read to their little. No one love kisses more than a small child. ![]()
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The President's Table by Barry H. Landau5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() We're talking about a puff of tobacco or a mild BlackBerry addiction. We're not talking about major scandals here. we have more trouble developing respect for the officeholder and we start to find fault, too easily, about issues that don't really matter. Thanks to these reported facts, we think we know everything about the guy.īut does our increasingly informal relationship with the man in the White House - not just President Obama, but any sitting president - diminish our respect for the man and reverence for the office? Should we leave the uncovering of private and behind-closed-doors habits to the historians? It's Barack Obama, the president of the United States. He told elementary students this about his dog, Bo: "Sometimes I have to scoop up his poop." He loves shrimp linguini, berry-flavored tea and Moby-Dick. And his wife says he is sometimes "too snore-y and stinky" to share the marital bed. Does all this familiarity breed contempt for the office?ĭo you know who recently stopped smoking Marlboros? Here are some hints: He received 12 stitches in his busted lip. Americans have seen President Obama's busted lip up close, and they even know he snores. ![]()
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Imagica barker5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ^ "Imagicaa to welcome back guests from 22nd October". ![]()
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The satanic verses amazon5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() “The individual responsible for the attack yesterday, Hadi Matar, has now been formally charged with attempted murder in the second degree and assault in the second degree,” Chautauqua County district attorney Jason Schmidt said Saturday, according to Reuters. Matar, a 24-year-old living in New Jersey, was charged with attempted murder in the second degree and assault in the second degree on Saturday. “Salman will likely lose one eye the nerves in his arm were severed and his liver was stabbed and damaged.” “The news is not good,” his agent, Andrew Wylie, told the New York Times. ![]() He is currently on a ventilator and unable to speak, according to recent reports. Rushdie was transported to a hospital via helicopter and underwent surgery. On Friday, Rushdie, 75, was preparing to give a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York when a man, identified by law enforcement as Hadi Matar, rushed on stage and stabbed the author repeatedly in the neck and abdomen. ![]()
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Liz cheney profiles in courage5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() For this he endured a barrage of anti-homosexual invective. Artery, a Wheatland-born gay man, spent years in the closet before advocating publicly for gay rights in Wyoming. Honoring private individuals, McDaniel details the struggles of Jeran Artery and Larry “Sissy” Goodwin. In an extensive biographical sketch, we learn of the forces that shaped O'Mahoney into the man who forfeited a position on the Supreme Court. Senate from from 1934 to 1952 and again from 1955 to 1961. O'Mahoney, who represented Wyoming in the U.S. ![]() One of the most compelling profiles is of Joseph C. Providing substantial historical background, McDaniel traces the difficult paths of various brave and picked-on people. Even for the reader who already knows some of these stories, the narrative is gripping. We learn about politicians, private individuals and groups. The author, a self-described “progressive Christian” and “citizen historian” (non-professional) has included eleven stories in this book of gutsy people and groups in Wyoming who have stood by their unpopular convictions. ![]()
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Primer by jennifer muro5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() But her life quickly gets more complicated when she also finds a suitcase full of specially enhanced body paints, changing her from artist to the world's newest superhero. ![]() Things start looking up for Ashley when she finds new, loving parents, a best friend, and an outlet for her creative skills. With a father in prison, Ashley has bounced from foster home to foster home and represents a real challenge to the social workers who try to help her-not because she's inherently bad, but because trouble always seems to find her. Thirteen-year-old Ashley Rayburn is an upbeat girl with a decidedly downbeat past. Artistry and super-heroics collide ain this new superhero story ![]()
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![]() I am not now speaking of simple charity, a love due to all mankind, but of that spiritual friendship which binds souls together, leading them to share devotions and spiritual interests, so as to have but one mind between them. ![]() ![]() Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure forever there. If your intercourse is based on science it is praiseworthy, still more if it arises from a participation in goodness, prudence, justice and the like but if the bond of your mutual liking be charity, devotion and Christian perfection, God knows how very precious a friendship it is! Precious because it comes from God, because it tends to God, because God is the link that binds you, because it will last forever in Him. This is a Discerning Hearts recording read by Correy WebbĭO you, my child, love every one with the pure love of charity, but have no friendship save with those whose intercourse is good and true, and the purer the bond which unites you so much higher will your friendship be. ![]() ![]() Part 3 – Chapter 19 of the Introduction to the Devout Life by St. ![]()
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Rubáiyát5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() It is for this reason we review (and recommend) the Critical Edition, edited by Christopher Decker. ![]() Modern editions are often a pieced together from these by modern editors, not always to best advantage. ![]() (For a somewhat more faithful rendering see our review of the Avery/Heath-Stubbs version.)Īnother important note is that FitzGerald worked on these translations over several decades, publishing four quite different editions. There is little need to criticize or comment on FitzGerald's accomplishment itself, as the poems are among the best known in the English language.Ī few points are to be noted, however, first and foremost that FitzGerald's version is not eminently true to Khayyam's original. Great poetry it is indeed, simple quatrains where East seems to meet West in a conjoining of Eastern mysticism and poetry and nineteenth century Western language and expression. Comparative Texts of all of FitzGerald's translations (very useful !)Ī : not necessarily true to the original, but an English classicĮdward FitzGerald's famous translation of the Rubáiyát is a complex beast.Critical Texts of all four editions of FitzGerald's English translations.Note that this review refers specifically to the Critical Edition, edited by Christopher Decker.General information | our review | links | about the author | about the translator Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. ![]() Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám - Omar Khayyam (Edward FitzGerald) ![]()
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The nichomachean ethics5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This natural function must be something which is specific to human beings, which is essential to being human. To discover the nature of human happiness it is necessary to determine what the function of a human being is, for a person's happiness will consist in fulfilling the natural function toward which his being is directed. This good toward which all human actions implicity or explicitly aim is happinessin Greek, "eudaimonia," which can also be translated as blessedness or living well, and which is not a static state of being but a type of activity. The necessary characteristics of the ultimate good are that it is complete, final, self-sufficient and continuous. Aristotle begins the work by positing that there exists some ultimate good toward which, in the final analysis, all human actions ultimately aim. Nicomachean Ethics is a philosophical inquiry into the nature of the good life for a human being. ![]()
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Casting Deep Shade by C.D. Wright5/12/2023 ![]() Wright taught at Brown University for over thirty years. Wright has received numerous honors for her poetry, including the National Book Critics Circle Award. She did not want the stump to linger as a reminder.īorn in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, C. Herrick wanted the tree cut to the grass. Herrick said her grandson was going to be so mad when he came to town to find his favorite climber gone. George and Nannette Herrick allowed me to watch their best-loved beech be brought to the ground. Honoring Wright's lifelong fascination with books as objects, this final work is a three-panel hardcover that encloses the body of text, illustrated with striking color photographs of beech trees by artist Denny Moers. ![]() Written in Wright's singular prosimetric style, this "memoir with beech trees" demonstrates the power of words to conserve, preserve, and bear witness. ![]() ![]() Before Wright's unexpected death in 2016, she was deeply engaged in years of ambling research to better know this tree-she visited hundreds of beech trees, interviewed arborists, and delved into the etymology, folk lore, and American history of the species. Wright has been writing some of the greatest poetry-cum-prose you can find in American literature." -Dave EggersĬasting Deep Shade is a passionate, poetic exploration of humanity's shared history with the beech tree. /rebates/2fCasting-Deep-Shade-An-Amble-C-D-Wright2fbook2f41506028&. Wright belongs to a school of exactly one." -The New York Times ![]() |