When she turned 65, Grant remembers that her financial manager called her daughter, actress Dinah Manoff, and said, “Your mother is sixty-five. “Today, with the Internet, I’d be finished.” That neurosis has stayed with her. “The fear that my age would be disclosed became the neurotic focus of my life,” she writes. Later, after returning to film and television following more than a decade on the Hollywood blacklist, she persuaded the mayor of Los Angeles to finagle a more youthful birth date on her driver’s license. She notes that a facelift in her early 30s saved her career. Throughout her career, the Academy Award-winning actress and filmmaker has often engaged in a smoke-and-mirror routine regarding her age, something she admits to on numerous occasions in “I Said Yes to Everything,” her magnificently titled, admirably candid autobiography. Just don’t ask her to say exactly how long. Lee Grant is a woman who has really lived.
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5/30/2023 0 Comments Hearts of Destiny by Kay DohertyThe fledgling hefted a book that was nearly a third his size, and Matthias recognized it as an old human-written story about a witch. Sadie’s son had a thirst for knowledge that Matthias admired, even if it did mean his quiet sanctuary was invaded on a regular basis by the child. Matthias knew who those steps belonged to, and his disposition lightened a bit. The soft thump of little feet echoed in the cavernous space, dulled slightly by the papers and leather-bound tomes that filled the shelving. As far as the horde was concerned, the vaults were Matthias’s domain. Since no one came down to the vaults, no one had challenged his claim. He was moody and antisocial at the best of times and preferred his own company to that of other dragons.Īt the back of the library, he dropped the scrolls unceremoniously on top of the desk he’d claimed as his, decades ago. Matthias often disappeared for days within the vault stacks, and no one cared. The sheer number of scrolls he was carrying guaranteed weeks of sequestered reading, and he was looking forward to it. He had no idea what was contained in the newest additions to the horde library, but Sadie had insisted he take them, look through them, and archive them appropriately. After adjusting the stack of scrolls tucked beneath his arm, Matthias opened the door to the vaults and headed down the stairs. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, Ecco, 2004.Why We Work, Simon & Schuster/TED, 2015.Education Ī select number of his works are available online. Schwartz studied under David Richmond Williams for his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania where he was a predoctoral fellow with National Science Foundation. In particular, he is a critic of the " rational economic man" model in both psychology and economics. His books criticize certain philosophical roots of Western societies and expose underlying myths common in both lay and academic psychological theories. Schwartz's research addresses morality, decision-making and the inter-relationships between behavioral science and society. He frequently publishes editorials in The New York Times, applying his research in psychology to current events. His work focuses on the intersection of psychology and economics. Schwartz is the Dorwin Cartwright Emeritus Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College and since 2016 has been visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Barry Schwartz (born August 15, 1946) is an American psychologist. 5/30/2023 0 Comments Mine tanya chris read onlineThe first bird surprised me while I was resting my eyes – a jackdaw level with my driver’s seat window. An instinct that I might, in my improvised hermitage, mend my concentration and courage both. Provisioned for endurance: flask and fingerless gloves, a monkish supply of oatcakes and apples. I did as she said, and sat for hours each week in my wind-rocked car, bundled in jumpers and blankets. The gaps are the spirit’s one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself like a once-blind man unbound…Go up into the gaps.” A book a day sometimes, all by those of strange or insistent imaginations. To drive in school hours to the highest, wildest point on my part of the Sussex Downs – Firle Beacon – and sit tight. The sort that had me hold my throat where sound should come, but would not. A time of complicated grief: the kind that can’t be shared. 5/30/2023 0 Comments Secrets of a charmed lifeAs Hitler wages an unprecedented war against London’s civilian population, hundreds of thousands of children are evacuated to foster homes in the rural countryside. What Kendra receives from Isabel is both a gift and a burden-one that will test her convictions and her heart.ġ940s, England. Young American scholar Kendra Van Zant, eager to pursue her vision of a perfect life, interviews Isabel McFarland just when the elderly woman is ready to give up secrets about the war that she has kept for decades.beginning with who she really is. The author of A Bridge Across the Ocean and The Last Year of the War journeys from the present day to World War II England, as two sisters are separated by the chaos of wartime.Ĭurrent day, Oxford, England. 5/30/2023 0 Comments Pandemic sonia shah sparknotesOn both sides of the Atlantic, experts issue alarmed predictions of millions of invading aliens, unstoppable as an advancing tsunami, and countries respond by electing anti-immigration leaders who slam closed borders that were historically porous.īut the science and history of migration in animals, plants, and humans tell a different story. News media presents this scrambling of the planet's migration patterns as unprecedented, provoking fears of the spread of disease and conflict and waves of anxiety across the Western world. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands, creeping, swimming, and flying in a mass exodus from their past habitats. The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting-predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change. 5/30/2023 0 Comments Not a penny not a penny lessA member of the House of Lords for over a quarter of a century, the author is married to Dame Mary Archer, and they have two sons, two granddaughters and two grandsons. He is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction, short stories and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries).Jeffrey is also an art collector and amateur auctioneer, and has raised more than GBP50m for different charities over the years. His work has been sold in 97 countries and in more than 37 languages. Biography: Jeffrey Archer, whose novels and short stories include the Clifton Chronicles, Kane and Abel and Cat O' Nine Tales, is one of the world's favourite storytellers and has topped the bestseller lists around the world in a career spanning four decades. It is not easy to do that, but when we are able to deal with our own habits, then we are ready to deal with other people’s habits. Yes, we are able to create, change and eliminate our habits. Everyone has good as well as bad habits, so everyone should deal with their bad habits and create the good habits. Our habits, good or bad will shape our characters. What do habits have to do with effectiveness? Well, our habits will decide whether or not we will be successful, and whether or not we will be happy.Īn English poet once said that at first we will determine our habits, and the next our habits will determine who we are. Moreover, the readers will find out what do they value the most in their lives. If practiced, the 7 habits Stephen and Sean Covey referred in their books will make the readers able to control their lives, to do more in fewer time, improve relationships with other people, improve self confidence, rehab from addiction, be happy, find the balances between the time for school, work, hang out, and many other activities. Sean Covey himself writes other several self helping books as well. Sean Covey’s father, Stephen Covey, is well-known for authoring his international bestseller book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The 8th Habit: from Effectiveness to Greatness, and many other popular self helping books. It was in the year 2001 the Indonesian version of the book first published in Indonesia. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is a book authored by Sean Covey. City Of Stairs worked, primarily, for one big reason: The world Bennett had created was just awesome. The first book, City Of Stairs, came out last year and was a dense readfull of worldbuilding and mythology, long, explain-y passages and expositionbut also had assassinations, an airship battle, and a couple of great characters (Shara, a spy, and Sigrud, her giant one-eyed bodyguard) who kept things jumping even through those sections where Bennett went deep into the bloody, weird and imaginary history of his make-believe world. This is the world of Robert Jackson Bennett's Divine Cities series. The playing field, once mountainous with privilege and lack, is now level. Kill the gods and the world is re-set, sans divinity, sans magic. And free the world from their dominion, their miracles, their slavery and oppression. And while putting them down isn't by any means easy, it is possible. Literally just roll right up on him and shoot him in the face. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title City Of Blades Author Robert Jackson Bennett 5/30/2023 0 Comments Betrayed pc cast and kristin castIn her thick Oklahoma accent, Stevie Rae twanged the two definitions as if she was giving clues for a spelling bee. The Twins narrowed their eyes at him and sucked air to begin a new assault, which, thankfully, my roommate interrupted. "If your vocabulary wasn't so abysmal you wouldn't have to carry a dictionary around with you to keep up with me." "-last nerve with your unending vocab bullshit," Erin finished for her.ĭamien sniffed, looking offended and superior and gayer than he usually looked (even though he is definitely gay). Maybe she'll be able to help Sarah out with her unfortunate ugly shoe propensity." "Clearly her fashion sense is better than Sarah's, despite the stress of being Marked and changing schools. "Thankfully, she's Sarah Freebird's roommate." Damien nodded toward the petite girl with seriously black hair who was showing the lost-looking new kid around the dining hall, his sharp, fashion-wise gaze checking out the two girls and their outfits-from shoes to earrings-in one fast glance. She and Shaunee had some kind of psychic link that made them bizarrely similar, which is why we'd nicknamed them "the Twins," even though Shaunee is a café latte-colored Jamaican American from Connecticut and Erin is a blond-haired, blue-eyed white girl from Oklahoma. "Tragic, Twin, just tragic." Erin's voice totally echoed Shaunee's. Check it out," Shaunee said as she slid into the big boothlike bench we always claim as ours for every school meal served in the dining hall (translation: high-class school cafeteria). |
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