![]() ![]() ![]() At 16, she attended an educational weekend event at a local synagogue that was hosting Lubavitch Jews. Lax grew up in Texas in a liberal, secular Reform Jewish family her mother was a talented artist but inconsistent and at times neglectful, Lax said. “It was kind of like putting on a costume.” “I fell into Hasidism as a girl who had never been kissed,” Lax told J. With “Uncovered,” Lax has joined that chorus of voices. “I didn’t know I was going home with an armful of outrageous feminist voices, just that they spoke to me,” she said. ![]() Lax came out as a lesbian and left the Lubavitch movement 14 years ago she and her wife married last year.Ī turning point for her came years ago, when she first decided to explore secular literature, and she happened to pick up an anthology by noted feminist and lesbian poet Adrienne Rich. Not only was the book featured in the Advocate and on NPR, but it also is being adapted into an opera by composer Lori Laitman. Her topic will be her 2015 book “Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home” - the first memoir, she says, written by a lesbian about leaving Hasidic life. It’s almost like devalued literature is OK for devalued people,” said Lax, who is scheduled to speak at Book Passage in San Francisco on Wednesday, July 13. ![]() “In the Lubavitch community, secular reading for women isn’t nearly as frowned upon as it is for men. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Ivinson played a key role in the city’s development through his banking career and philanthropy work. ![]() Ivinson played a key role in the…Įdward and Jane Ivinson arrived in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1868 and are considered some of the city’s earliest entrepreneurs. C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2019 LCV Cities Tour” in Toledo, Ohio, from October 5-9, 2019, to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Charter cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on Book TV on C-SPAN2.Įdward and Jane Ivinson arrived in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1868 and are considered some of the city’s earliest entrepreneurs. Kim Viner, docent and author of Rediscovering the Ivinsons, shared the story and recounted the early growth of the city. In 1892, they built a mansion which is used today as the Laramie Plains Museum to tell the story of the city’s growth and their contributions. ![]() T10:00:11-04:00 Edward and Jane Ivinson arrived in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1868 and are considered some of the city’s earliest entrepreneurs. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1988, it sold to Walker, and was published as "Lord Wraybourne's Betrothed". The same year, she completed a regency romance, but it was promptly rejected by a number of publishers, and she settled more earnestly to learning the craft. Moved to Ottawa, in 1985 she became a founding member of the Ottawa Romance Writers’ Association, that her “nurturing community” for the next twelve years. When her professional qualifications proved not to be usable in the Canadian labour market, she raised their two sons and started to write her first romances. In 1976, her scientist husband was invited to do post-doctoral research at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. ![]() She quickly attained a position as a youth employment officer until 1976, working first in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, and then in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire. After graduation, they married on June 24, 1971. From 1966 to 1970, she obtained a degree in English history from Keele University in Staffordshire, where she met her future husband, Ken Beverley. At sixteen, she wrote her first romance, with a medieval setting, completed in installments in an exercise book. At the age of eleven she went to an all-girls boarding school, Layton Hill Convent, Blackpool. Mary Josephine Dunn was born 22 September 1947 in Lancashire, England, UK. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To meditate is to look deeply into the heart of things. ![]() The practice of understanding is the practice of meditation. NOTE: Deep looking helps you to understanding the nature of suffering in order to help him the person change. This is not only the desire to ease the pain of another person, but the ability to do so. The second element of true love is compassion, karuna. The fruit of this looking deeply is called understanding. To understand a person, we must have time we must practice looking deeply into this person. If you cannot understand, you cannot love. If you do not understand this person, you cannot love properly. It is the ability to bring joy and happiness to the person you love, because even if your intention is to love this person, your love might make him or her suffer. The first is maitri, which can be translated as lovingkindness or benevolence. ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, when Zenny proposed him to help her taste everything life has to offer before she became a nun, Sean couldn’t fight long his self-doubts and he succumbed to her wishes and his needs…just only for a month. Zenny is his best friend baby-sister, the one which Sean had been babysitting many years ago. Until he meets the woman who makes him visualize doing the most sinful of acts with her but what he doesn’t know is that she is devoted to God. At his mid-thirties he thinks he has done any sinful act a man could do. And she does a great job using a sinner’s life this time. To reveal through her storylines the cold hard facts of reality. Also that, she loves to interlace fiction with non-fiction. What I found is that Sierra Simone is indescribable talented and has an extraordinary way of creativity always delivering the best stories to date. Sinner is the first book I have read by Sierra Simone and I finally understood why readers are so fond of her work. ![]() From now on, it will be hard for me to choose my next-to-be-read book, not to mention the difficulties I will be having writing down my thoughts. Well, it has started to show up lately but after finishing Sinner it became crystal clear. Have you ever felt that your reading preferences have outgrown after reading a book? I think I am. «I received a complimentary copy of this book and have volunteered to leave a review.» ![]() ![]() To have the woman she loves back should mean a return to normal life, but Miri can feel Leah slipping from her grasp. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back wrong. Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It’s a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life there is in the deep, deep sea. Our Wives Under The Sea is the debut novel from the critically acclaimed author of S alt Slow. ![]() Named as a book to look out for by Guardian, i-D, Autostraddle, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, Stylist and DAZED. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Sara Shandler and Joelle Hobeika, Alloy Entertainment. A moving and suspenseful portrayal of a fleeting relationship. ![]() With a keen eye for detail and a deep understanding of every character she introduces, Yoon ( Everything, Everything) weaves an intricate web of threads connecting strangers as she delves into the personal histories of her protagonists, as well as the emotions and conflicts of others who cross their paths. Drawn together, separated, and converging again, both teens recognize with startling clarity that they are falling in love. After your high school students read this novel. With an incredible cast and fantastic cinematography, this is a disappointing film. the screenplay just seems to have strayed so far from the book that it is incredibly boring to watch. The novel is an incredible love story that focuses on destiny. It’s the first of many significant moments that occur as Natasha desperately seeks aid to stay in America and Daniel prepares for a college interview with a Yale alum. The Sun Is Also a Star is a whimsical love story interlaced with a plethora of issues ripe for group discussion. The Sun is Also a Star is a book to movie adaptation that could have been so much more. The teens’ eventful day begins at a New York City record store, where they see someone shoplifting. Is it fate or chance that brings people together? This is the question posed in this impressively multilayered tale of a one-day romance featuring practical Natasha, whose family is facing deportation to Jamaica, and Daniel, a first-generation Korean American with a poet’s sensibility. ![]() ![]() ![]() My new book, Today I'm a Monster, explores the story of a young boy who wakes up in a bad mood that just keeps getting worse and worse. ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Īre you looking for an exciting, cute, and funnew book to read to your children? Are you having trouble finding a book that everyone will enjoy and empathize with? Purchase a paperback copy with COLORING & ACTIVITY PAGES and get the Kindle version FREE! (Kindle MatchBook) Add Today I'm a Monster to your cart now to enjoy or to give as a gift.
![]() ![]() ![]() The English version of “Capital and Ideology,” translated by Arthur Goldhammer, the distinguished book translator and longtime CES affiliate, is due out March 10. He will return April 6 for a Weatherhead Initiative on Global History talk and give the annual Tanner Lectures on Human Values on April 15. Piketty will visit Harvard on Friday to give the Stanley Hoffmann Lecture on France and the World at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES). Now, he’s back with “ Capital and Ideology” (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020), a global look at the history of the problem, how institutions and ideologies reinforce it, and how it can be remedied. French economist Thomas Piketty’s 2013 landmark analysis of Western economic inequality, “Capital in the 21st Century,” became a must-read in both popular and academic circles. ![]() As the gulf between the haves and the have nots continues to widen, the roiling debate over economic inequality has become a political prime mover in the U.S. ![]() ![]() In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, discovering her own capacity for bloodshed. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him-and face the consequences. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe. They will live forever.Īnd Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. ![]() They're beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. ![]() Discover Holly Black's blood thirsty bestselling The Folk of the Air series in this gorgeous hardcover gift set including: The Cruel Prince, The Wicked King, and The Queen of Nothing. ![]() |