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A Book for Reality TV Fans

30 Wednesday Aug 2017

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Say what you will about reality TV, but there is some genre of it we all enjoy. Whether it is House Hunters, Bachelorette, Fixer Upper, Survivor, Big Brother or Naked & Afraid, it is sooooo easy to get sucked in to the lives of our favorite personalities.

Some shows are contests, some are endurance challenges, some cater to our design dreams, but they all entertain us with a life that is not our own.

If you’re a fan of reality TV, here is a book I know you’ll love:

leftover-201x300The Leftover by Brooke Williams:

Megan Malone is the ultimate homebody. When her sister talks her into going on The Leftover, a local version of the TV show Survivor, she isn’t sure she’ll make it past the first vote. Cane Trevino is nursing a broken heart by joining the show as a medic. With time away from his regular job and a dozen contestants to distract him, he hopes he can finally get over the woman he thought was “the one.”

As the contests ramp up, Megan faces her shortfalls as well as the bullies that hit the beach alongside her while harboring a crush on the show’s medic. How far will Megan get on the show? Will Cane get over his broken heart? Join a host of characters for contests filled with laughs, blind sides around every corner, and the ultimate showmance. Who will be The Leftover?

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Official Release Date: September 1, 2017!

Williams-Brooke-300x240About the author:   Brooke Williams is a stay-at-home mom/freelance writer/author. She attributes her humor to her two young children for keeping her in the lack of sleep realm on a permanent basis. Brooke is a former radio announcer and producer who also did a brief stint as a TV traffic reporter. Now, she writes novels as well as articles, blogs, and copy for clients on a freelance basis during the one-hour a day her daughters allow her the time.

She has been married to her husband, Sean, since 2002 and they have two beautiful daughters, Kaelyn and Sadie.


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Back to School – books written by teachers

23 Wednesday Aug 2017

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This morning my children returned to school in 6th, 4th and 2nd grades. Other than a lost bus driver, the morning seemed to go as smooth as possible. This is mostly due to the amazing teachers at their school that care about my children (and the other 400) in attendance.

Teachers, from preschool through the university level, have huge hearts, want the best for their students and see potential in each and every one. At the end of the day, they go home to their families and do the same thing: encourage, educate and care. My parents were both in education and I know that’s how it works. Every road trip was a lesson in geography, every chair lift ride was a lesson in physics and cooking, while it was supposed to be about measuring, usually turned into science projects.

Today I would like to share four books written by teachers. Clean your desk, sit up straight, pay attention and enjoy these reads:

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Spud by Patricia Orvis:

During the stifling Illinois summer heat wave of 1995, unthinkable tragedies shake Jackson Cooper’s world. How will he deal with the horrific loss of his best friend, the unforgiving heat, and the expectations? Will he find acceptance, win his girl, and feel like life is meaningful again? Or will he, too, succumb to a similar fate?

 


little birdsLittle Birds with Broken Wings by David Martin:

“These pages represent the accumulated wisdom of more than thirty years that David Martin has spent as a writer, teacher, editor, and inspiration. Fine Lines (a literary journal) has been his gift to the world, a champion of literacy and lyricism, a ‘lighthouse’ to countless writers of all ages, from all over the globe, but it is not his only gift. In this collection of his writing, Martin invites us to see the world through his attentive eyes, bearing witness to what endures, what matters: a mother’s love, the flicker of a firefly, the mystery of a dream, a beloved teacher, a triumphant student, the power of myth, and most of all, the written word. Inside his vision, readers are shown the richness, challenges, and rewards of the individual’s effort to write, as he says, ‘my own internal rhythms and play my own tunes.’ This book is a song, a gift, in which we can all take pleasure.” -Dr. John Price, Department of English, University of Nebraska at Omaha.


flowing2Flowing with the Go by Elena Stowell

A double award winner: 2012 Silver eLit Awards winner in the Aging/Death/Dying Category, 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist in the Inspirational Category, and 2013 Bronze Medal Living Now Book Awards winner in Grieving/Death/Dying!

For what seemed like a lifetime and probably was, Elena Stowell wandered aimlessly in a personal prison of self-doubt and lack of purpose after her fifteen-year-old daughter Carly died suddenly before her eyes. By some combination of miracle and necessity, she walked into a Seattle area Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu gym and rolled for the first time in her life. Through that experience and others that followed, Elena discovered the tenets of the martial art form and healing were the same. With a ripping raw honesty and refreshing balance of humor and introspection, Elena’s story reminds us to never stop panning for the gold within ourselves.


secretKindness-590x600Secret Kindess Agents by Ferial Pearson:

Sometimes the small things make all the difference.

Moved by the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, Ferial Pearson wondered if a simple act of kindness could change a life. She thought of the school where she taught and the students she guided every day and wondered, what would happen if we started secretly carrying out small acts of kindness in school? Could a modest act of compassion really change the course of a life? She posed the question to her students. They didn’t have the answers but they were willing to find out.

And so they became the Secret Kindness Agents. They not only changed the lives of those they met, they changed their own.

Their hope, their hearts, and their hunger for happiness will inspire you to change your small corner of the world, in your own way, for the better. Let them show you how they did it, and how you can do the same.


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Russia: It’s Complicated

09 Wednesday Aug 2017

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The relationship between the United States and Russia can only be described one way: complicated. Throughout history, and especially during the Cold War, there has been mistrust, spying, threats and fear between these two large and powerful countries.

The villages in Alaska where I grew up were only a ‘stone’s throw’ across the Arctic Ocean from Russia. Some of my friends had family members in Siberia they stayed in touch with or met in the middle of the sea for hunting trips. They spoke in Yupik when they met because the Russian relatives spoke Russian and Yupik while the American relatives spoke English and Yupik. Even through the Cold War, these relatives were able to stay in touch and look past the differences of their governments. Like I said, it is complicated.

Russia, with it’s size, ornate architecture, cultural variety and dominating political stances is an incredibly fascinating as a country. If you’re inclined to learn more about Russia’s history, this is the book for you:

russiaRussia in Private by Richard Yatzeck: 

From the very beginning of Russia’s history, discord has been prevalent thanks to the ruinous jealousy of the nobles, the Pecheneg and Tatar invasions, and lost wars (or brutally costly victories, as in 1812 or 1945). Autocratic government with serfdom, famine, and gangsterism have been the Russian lot. Two questions: “Who is to blame?” and “What is to be done?”, have plagued life in that one-sixth of the world’s land surface since its conception, roughly 988 AD.

During ten tours of Russia, between 1961 and 1997 (nearly thirty years in all), Richard Yatzeck was generously included in the political, kitchen table conversations concerning these very questions. Public discussion of such matters has never been safe. Russia in Private is an attempt to plumb the abyss between Russian and Western life, and explain how Russians understand and bear their history.

More about the author, Richard Yatzeck: “Richard Yatzeck is an American academic who has visited the Soviet Union and now Russia with his students over many decades and thus has a wealth of impressions and insights to share with the reader. His is inevitably a personal view, but nonetheless he offers an insight into how life was before the Soviet Union broke up and in which ways it is different – and yet somehow always the same – now. I found much that I recognised in his account, and recommend the book to anyone wishing to find out more of this most enigmatic of countries.” –  Review by Mandy Jenkinson for NetGalley.


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