Wohlleben’s book will change your view of the wooded world. Trees are, for instance, “social beings”, communicating with each other through their roots, thanks to the fungal “ wood wide web” that permeates the forest soil, even sharing nutrients in hard times. Wohlleben’s aim is to let us see the trees and forests around us not just as “lumber factories” but as wondrous organisms, as complex as any animal. He starts with wise words for those entering a forest: “Slow down, breathe deep and look around.” Not only is the air cleaner under trees, as their leaves filter out harmful pollutants, but pine forests release defensive compounds that kill germs: “Trees disinfect their surroundings.” Trees also release oxygen, so a walk in the woods is “like taking a shower in oxygen”. Wohlleben draws on decades of experience as a forester in Germany’s Eifel mountains for this eye-opening book. One of the world’s most venerable trees is a spruce in Sweden that is 9,500 years old. A ccording to Peter Wohlleben, we fail to understand trees because “they live on a different time scale” from us.
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5/29/2023 0 Comments Tuesdays with morrie authorWhat do you think of that city now having spent so much time working there?Īlbom: I’ve lived in Detroit for 26 years. He did a great job.ĬP: You met Pastor Henry Covington (played by Laurence Fishburne in the film version) in Detroit. I think Bradley is an excellent actor and extraordinarily talented. How did he do portraying you?Īlbom: I have sympathy for anyone who plays me. All the essential points of the book made it into the movie.ĬP: Bradley Whitford plays you in the TV special. Still, this is the truest adaptation to date. What do you think of the transformation from page to screen?Īlbom: I've had this experience now four times. It's a remarkable story coming to all-new audiences when it airs as an ABC TV movie this Sunday during Thanksgiving weekend.ĬP: "Have a Little Faith" is a TV adaptation of your 2009 book of the same name. In between the two lies the tale of a man's faith resurrected and recovered. The former was a New Jersey Jew possessing plentiful spiritual wisdom, while the latter was an ex-convict turned Detroit clergyman. In an interview with The Christian Post, Albom reflects upon his relationships with Rabbi Albert L. It took two extraordinary men of the cloth to transform his faith from lost to found. The bestselling author of Tuesdays With Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven said that when he penned 2009's Have a Little Faith, his own capacity for belief was bottoming out. Mitch Albom found his spirituality's second wind writing his most recent book. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Jon bon jovi 90sGone were the glamour bands that were too one dimensional musically to evolve. “Nirvana had kicked us in the teeth,” Jon Bon Jovi once famously was quoted saying. A New Landscapeīy 1992, the landscape of music had changed. As the band felt the product suffer from a tour as arduous as that, their issues as a group consistently got worse, and Bon Jovi dissipated at their commercial peak. Yet, with all the pomp and circumstance that came with the pageantry of a tour that big, fresh off of a string of hits that include Wanted (Dead or Alive), Livin’ on a Prayer, Never Say Goodbye, You Give Love a Bad Name, Bad Medicine and I’ll Be There For You, and a video deemed so problematic in its own time period that it got Living In Sin banned from MTV, the band had their struggles, to their point where Jon Bon Jovi had to be bailed out on high notes by Richie Sambora, whose similar vocals complimented his to a tee, on stage. Their Opening Acts in Europe included the Runaway’s Lita Ford and Scorpions in Munich, in the States, it was major musicians such as Billy Squier and Bad Company. Following a massive 1990 touring success on the offset of The New Jersey Syndicate in 1988, Bon Jovi was a bona fide sensation, becoming one of the first North American bands to play Russia, selling out the Moscow Music Peace Festival. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. But he is also quite candid about the difficult times he and his loved ones have gone through, admitting to harboring doubt and having struggled to learn to trust God in the face of hopeless situations (like his brother's death from cancer). While making music is one of his greatest loves (he's a self-proclaimed"non-recovering workaholic"), Gaither is also a dedicated family man he paints a loving portrait of his family as genuine, devoted and dedicated servants of God. Gaither acknowledges his accomplishments while remaining realistic about fame and its fickleness."I believe that I'm being honest with myself when I say that I have never gotten caught up in my own success, enamored with it, or fooled into thinking that I am somebody special because of it," he declares. Gaither and his wife, Gloria, have written, published, performed and recorded hundreds of songs together, and here, he relates how their innate gift for turning any idea into a song made them prolific writers, and how their music won them the respect of the record industry and audiences everywhere. In this enthusiastic narrative, Gaither (ASCAP Christian Songwriter of the Century) tells the story of his life, from his beginnings as a boy obsessed with gospel music to his current success in the Christian music industry. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Chess novel stefan zweigBut I think the appreciation for this story should be regarding its construction and structure, maybe a little less for the story qua story. A reader might, after finishing it, be a little disappointed or underwhelmed. It does not take long to read this little story and there is no need to really savor the prose. Zweig is not known for his erudite and highbrow language. The book is a spare 84 pages and rather simply written. Zweig was not a prolific writer, but he did produce a number of works from 1900 onward. He and his wife were found dead, holding hands, from a drug overdose. From there he traveled to New York City and then finally to a mountain in Rio de Janeiro. In 1934, he left Germany (presumably to avoid the political situation) for London. Zweig (1881 – 1942) was born in Vienna and received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1904. Chess Story (or The Royal Game) a translation of the German Schachnovelle is a novella published in 1941 by Stefan Zweig. 5/28/2023 0 Comments A touch of ruinsAllowing content to dictate form, he has adopted a pulpy and accessible realist style in order to tackle some of his country’s most notorious recent tragedies on a broad, panoramic canvas. Others may argue that Jia has merely rendered explicit the convulsive undercurrents present in his work all along, exploring the extreme consequences of local corruption and neglect, rampant greed, poor labor conditions and countless other social ills fueled by China’s economic miracle. For them, the real sin will be that Jia has abandoned the docu-fiction experimentation of 2008’s “24 City” in favor of a relatively robust narrative, replete with the sort of balls-to-the-wall brutality more typically encountered in the work of Quentin Tarantino or Takashi Miike. Many of the purist auteurists who have made the writer-director such a celebrated figure on the international stage may well reject his seventh feature on aesthetic grounds alone. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Rooming Together by Quinn WardAnd let me tell you, it was totally worth it!! Each book initially follows a different couple, but there is a common storyline that continues from one book to another, and as we move through the series, couples we’ve met already get additional books dedicated to their story arc. This is one of the most addictive series out there, so much so that when I first discovered it, I spent a whole week of my vacation cooped up in my room, devouring one book after another, instead of enjoying the gorgeous sights of a holiday destination that I now only remember from the four walls of my hotel room. If you’re into sexy, über-alpha heroes, who also happen to be badass vampires, there is nothing in the world quite like the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. And there exists a secret band of brothers like no other-six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Ward In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there’s a deadly war raging between vampires and their slayers. READING GUIDE: Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. 5/28/2023 0 Comments The Lost Colony by Eoin ColferI especially like the relationship between Artemis and Holly. Not knowing what trouble she has started, Artemis must break into her chatau, travel to Taiwan and match wits with her psychotic security in the Taipei 101 Tower to get the demon back before travelling to Hybras to fix the time spell with Captain Holly in tow. The time spell which keeps Hybras stuck in oblivion is beginning to unravel and Artemis is busy investigating how to fix it when a 12-year-old French female rival (and love interest) kidnaps an insecure, classically educated demon, just as he manifests on Earth, right under Artemis' nose. Slightly longer this time around, the book has Artemis tracking demon activity on the time-displaced island of Hybras. And he is constantly changing the type of story rather than just another labored part of a single massive arc. Colfer's magical world just seems more accessible and imaginative. Averaging one a year, Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl series is no rush-job, I am increasingly enjoying and looking forward to every entry more than the Harry Potter series. For reasons unclear to her, she was sent to the very private girls' finishing school of La Chenille in far-away Boston to be prepared for her future. May have light crese on spine and or along spine, tanning of pages.WRAPPED IN A PLASTIC BAG TO PROTECT CONDITION OF BOOK.**We have other titles by in this genre in stock and give discounts on additional purchases sent in the same package, please contact us for more information.**.Summary - Stunningly beautiful and aristocratic Patricia Kelburn was transported worlds away from the lush Southern plantation where she had been raised. First Time in paperback in Very Good Plus condition. The fourth in the saga of the Phenwick women. A Popular Library paperback Gothic Romance. |