![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of a conventional review, I decided to share 5 things I learned from The Alchemist…. I wouldn’t even know where to start if I would attempt to review this book… No words that I could string together would do this book the justice it deserves. The Alchemist is more than just a book… it is a lesson in life. Lush, evocative, and deeply humane, the story of Santiago is an eternal testament to the transforming power of our dreams and the importance of listening to our hearts. ![]() But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a discovery of the treasure found within. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and inspiring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Paulo Coelho’s enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As a character, Isadora is (by design) fairly arrogant and self-absorbed, but she also has a point: it's hard to understand why immortal parents would purposely give their child mortality. Isadora would rather think about how much she wants to spite her mother, redecorate every room she enters (she's an aspiring interior designer), and not fall in love with the beautiful Greek boy, Ry, who's hanging around. What the danger is and why it apparently follows Isadora to America is unclear, hinted at only in dreams. Until that point, Isadora lives in an ancient temple complex in the Egyptian desert this is because her mother is the goddess Isis, and her father is Osiris. Sixteen-year-old Isadora talks a bit like a spoiled California teen, but she doesn't actually become one until her mother sends her to San Diego to keep her safe. ![]() ![]() Anyone feeling they do not fit in, might gain insight from Quackers. ![]() Quackers is a terrific story for kindergarten and first grade, where kids might come into contact with differences for the first time. Quackers is happy with both groups and with himself. Quackers is comfortable “standing out” with the ducks and “fitting in” with the cats. You don’t have to be the same to be friends or get along. Quackers can teach kids about inclusiveness and fitting in. He becomes an all-inclusive cat, happy to have friends of all types, or in this case, cats and ducks. Quackers comes to terms with who he is-a cat-and where he likes to be-at both the barn and the duck pond, so he spends time at both. ![]() But he misses the duck pond and his duck family. There, Quackers likes the food and enjoys the water-free games. Mittens invites Quackers to the barn, where all the cats live. Mittens looks like him, but laughs when Quackers calls him a duck. Sometimes, Quackers doesn’t feel like he fits in. He likes it there, except for the food and getting wet. ![]() ![]() Quackers lives at the duck pond with all the other ducks. “Quackers loves being among his new friends the cats, but he also misses his duck friends, and so he finds a way to combine the best of both worlds. Then Quackers meets another duck who looks like him (and talks like him, too!)-but he calls himself a cat. And his quacks might sound more like…well, meows, but he lives among ducks, everyone he knows is a duck, and he’s happy. ![]() ![]() I enjoyed this biography for its objectivity and unembellished presentation of the facts of Lindbergh's life, which Berg accomplishes without being "plain-spoken." There are lyrical touches here and there-for example, the image of a pale blue Scandinavian sky tying together the beginning and end of Lindbergh's story. ![]() Scott Berg's matter-of-fact recounting of events highlights. ![]() Some of these interests his Mad Pilot Skillz gave him an in to pursue, while others seem simply out of the blue, an impression that A. ![]() I am amazed at the potency of Lindbergh's charisma in granting him access to the tip-top leadership of pretty much any subject he took an interest in, whether it be pre-war escalation of aeronautical advances, space research, the development of a safer organ transplant system and artificial heart, archaeology, conservation and environmentalism, and the list goes on. ![]() ![]() The universal ideas underlying his thought are of immediate relevance today. Ibn ‘Arabi was born in Murcia, Spain in 1165 and his writings had an immense impact throughout the Islamic world and beyond. 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Pinkney's newest books include Meet the Obamas and Sojourner Truth's Step-Stomp Stride, which has garnered three starred reviews and has been named one of the "Best Books of 2009" by School Library Journal. ![]() Woodson Award and Alvin Ailey, a Parenting Publication Gold medal winner. Andrea Davis Pinkney is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 20 books for children, including the Caldecott Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Honor Book Duke Ellington, illustrated by Brian Pinkney Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and winner of the Carter G. ![]() ![]() Mandela ends the book: "I have walked that long road to freedom. Mandela emerges as a remarkable individual as the book charts his regal upbringing, career as a young lawyer, troubled marriages, long imprisonment, relationship with his fellow inmates and jailers, release, leading negotiations against the apartheid state, transforming the ANC into a modern political party, and finally his election in 1994 as South Africa's first black, democratically elected president. First published in 1995 by the American publisher Little, Brown and ghost-written by Richard Stengel (later a chief editor at Time ) and overseen by an "editorial board" of ANC leaders, this book was written with a global, mainly U.S., readership in mind. ![]() ![]() Billed as "the autobiography" of Mandela, it is probably the most accessible book on his life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tracing their fates, Nicholson shows that these women did indeed harbor secret sadness, and many of them yearned for the comforts forever denied them-physical intimacy, the closeness of a loving relationship, and children. ![]() Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World WarĪlmost three-quarters of a million British soldiers lost their lives during the First World War, and many more were incapacitated by their wounds, leaving behind a generation of women who, raised to see marriage as "the crown and joy of woman's life," suddenly discovered that they were left without an escort to life's great feast.ĭrawing upon a wealth of moving memoirs, Singled Out tells the inspiring stories of these women: the student weeping for a lost world as the Armistice bells pealed, the socialite who dedicated her life to resurrecting the ancient past after her soldier love was killed, the Bradford mill girl whose campaign to better the lot of the "War spinsters" was to make her a public figure-and many others who, deprived of their traditional roles, reinvented themselves into something better. ![]() ![]() ![]() This acclaimed book by Jacob Burckhardt is available at in several formats for your eReader. 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