Author: Tema F. Kudakwashe Publisher: Dorrance Publishing ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 382
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About the Book Follow the life of the author through growing up in Guyana, making the move to Canada, and taking all of life’s opportunities to the United States. About the Author A part of me that I am conscious of that has been with me all my adult life is to do with women's rights in this sometimes-unjust world that can be rough on them. Whenever the opportunity presents itself, I would do or say something on their behalf. I love to stay physically fit by jogging a few miles a few times a week. Humorously, I would say to others who question my interest in jogging, that whenever I look back and notice the doctor getting close, I take off running. I thoroughly enjoy helping youths understand the fundamentals of math and would time and time again do so when the opportunity is there. My wife is, and has always been, the girl I met in high school. I have spent each third of my life in each of the three countries. My reasons for doing so include taking advantage of opportunities to give my family - my wife and children - a more enjoyable life. A decade ago, I published a book of essays: Ground Beef for the Mind, that's available on Amazon. Other than that, because of a love for writing, I have been attempting to write books for most of my adult life, but never completing most of them except for my first attempt which I did not get a publisher to take. One of the people that stimulated in me an interest in writing was Agatha Christie who will forever be intriguing to me. Interestingly, my first choice of a major when I first applied to continue my studies at U of Toronto was Nursing. The practical’s clashed with my full-time evening job and so I changed to Computer Science, which led my life into the world of Information Technology.
Author: Tara Luebbe Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company ISBN: 0807534455 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 35
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Kiely is a celebrity and a diva, but can she nail her most important performance? Kiely knows she is famous! The paparazzi (her parents) follow her every move, documenting with cameras. It's exhausting being famous, but someone has to do it. She even gets to perform a big song at her grandfather's birthday. When she messes it up, she's worried she's lost her audience forever, but it turns out that no one is as loyal as her fans.
Author: Suzanne Park Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. ISBN: 1728209439 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 209
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An NPR Best Book of the Year A PopSugar Best Book of June! "An absolute joy to read. I completely demolished it one sitting."—NPR.org Nominated to the 2022 YALSA Quick Picks for Young Adult Reluctant Readers list A 2021 Junior Library Guild Young Adults Selection Korean American social media influencer Sunny is shipped off to a digital detox camp in this hilarious, charming romantic comedy. Perfect for fans of laugh-out-loud coming-of-age stories. Sunny Song's Big Summer Goals: 1) Make Rafael Kim my boyfriend (finally!) 2) Hit 100K followers (almost there...) 3) Have the best last summer of high school ever Not on Sunny's list: accidentally filming a PG-13 cooking video that goes viral (#browniegate). Extremely not on her list: being shipped off to a digital detox farm camp in Iowa (IOWA??) for a whole month. She's traded in her WiFi connection for a butter churn, and if she wants any shot at growing her social media platform this summer, she'll need to find a way back online. But between some unexpected friendships and an alarmingly cute farm boy, Sunny might be surprised by the connections she makes when she's forced to disconnect. Praise for Sunny Song Will Never Be Famous: "Sunny Song is one of the most hilarious, heart-warming, relatable teen characters I've had the pleasure of encountering. A must-have."—Sandhya Menon, New York Times bestselling author of When Dimple Met Rishi "A true delight!"—Helen Hoang, USA Today bestselling author of The Kiss Quotient "Sunny will easily endear herself to many readers."—Booklist "Park smartly and honestly weaves Sunny's nuanced experience as a Korean American into a story that is ultimately about human identity in our advanced age of social networking."—Kirkus Reviews "Suzanne Park smartly explores identity, specifically when it is intertwined with social media...an insightful, pertinent and humorous novel."—Shelf Awareness Also by Suzanne Park: The Perfect Escape
Author: Khadijah Queen Publisher: YesYes Books ISBN: 9781936919468 Category : African American women authors Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Part 1980s and 1990s nostalgia, part exuberant storytelling, I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On turns a sharply humorous magnifying glass onto gendered interactions in daily life, framed primarily by random celebrity encounters in Los Angeles. Far from a narrative of fame-chasing or conceit, however, I'm So Fine breathlessly addresses what it means for a woman to fight for dignity and survival in an often hostile environment, to come into her own power as she decides what she wants for herself '& mostly gets its every fineness'."--
Author: Cal Newport Publisher: Grand Central Publishing ISBN: 1455509108 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 163
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In an unorthodox approach, Georgetown University professor Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice, and sets out on a quest to discover the reality of how people end up loving their careers. Not only are pre-existing passions rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work, but a focus on passion over skill can be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping. Spending time with organic farmers, venture capitalists, screenwriters, freelance computer programmers, and others who admitted to deriving great satisfaction from their work, Newport uncovers the strategies they used and the pitfalls they avoided in developing their compelling careers. Cal reveals that matching your job to a pre-existing passion does not matter. Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it. With a title taken from the comedian Steve Martin, who once said his advice for aspiring entertainers was to "be so good they can't ignore you," Cal Newport's clearly written manifesto is mandatory reading for anyone fretting about what to do with their life, or frustrated by their current job situation and eager to find a fresh new way to take control of their livelihood. He provides an evidence-based blueprint for creating work you love, and will change the way you think about careers, happiness, and the crafting of a remarkable life.
Author: Frederic Chopin Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486319520 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 447
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Nearly 300 letters reveal Chopin as both man and artist and illuminate his fascinating world — Europe of the 1830s and 1840s. "Delightful gossip . . . merry rather than malicious . . . engagingly witty." — Books. Preface. Index.
Author: Randy Pausch Publisher: ISBN: 9780340977002 Category : Cancer Languages : en Pages : 206
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A lot of professors give talks titled 'The Last Lecture'. Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy? When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave, 'Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams', wasnt about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living. In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humour, inspiration, and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.
Author: Percival Everett Publisher: Graywolf Press ISBN: 1555970192 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 275
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I Am Not Sidney Poitier is an irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in America I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales. I was Not Sidney Poitier. Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man in an absurd country. The sudden death of his mother orphans him at age eleven, leaving him with an unfortunate name, an uncanny resemblance to the famous actor, and, perhaps more fortunate, a staggering number of shares in the Turner Broadcasting Corporation. Percival Everett's hilarious new novel follows Not Sidney's tumultuous life, as the social hierarchy scrambles to balance his skin color with his fabulous wealth. Maturing under the less-than watchful eye of his adopted foster father, Ted Turner, Not gets arrested in rural Georgia for driving while black, sparks a dinnertable explosion at the home of his manipulative girlfriend, and sleuths a murder case in Smut Eye, Alabama, all while navigating the recurrent communication problem: "What's your name?" a kid would ask. "Not Sidney," I would say. "Okay, then what is it?"
Author: George Orwell Publisher: Renard Press Ltd ISBN: 1913724263 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 15
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George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
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