![]() ![]() Me, Worry? Controlling Anxiety - Is It Stage Fright If There's No Stage? - Changing Your Perceptions to Reduce Anxiety - Managing Physical Symptoms of Anxiety - Tapping Into Tricks That Target Stage Fright - Rehearsing Your Presentation - Avoiding Popular "Cures" That Don't Fight Fright - Using Your Nervousness As an Asset - Part II. ![]() Organizing Your Message - Picking Material That Makes Your Point - Picking a Pattern of Organization - Outlining to Stay on Track - Using Index Cards and Scripts - Timing for Maximum Impact - Organizing Your Presentation with PowerPoint - Chapter 5. Pumping Up Your Research - Two People Who Can Get You Started - Gathering Primary Sources - Checking Out Secondary Sources - Ensnaring a Web of Resources - Chapter 4. ![]() The Four Ws: Who, What, Where, and Why - Determining What Your Presentation Needs to Do - Analyzing Your Audience - Relating to Your Audience - Controlling Your Topic - Chapter 3. Presentations: One Key to Doing Business - Finding Out What You Need to Know - Developing Your Presentation - Delivering a Presentation - Looking at PowerPoint Pointers - Sizing Up Special Presentation Situations - Chapter 2. ![]() What You're Not to Read - Foolish Assumptions - Part I. ![]()
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![]() The first three stories take place prior to the events of the first novel, Divergent, and the fourth story, “The Traitor,” runs parallel to the events of Divergent, offering up a fresh perspective and new information on the relationship between Tris and Tobias that listeners already know and love.Įmma Galvin narrates the three original books in the Divergent trilogy, and she shines as the voice of Tris, the heroine of the series. ![]() Four: A Divergent Collection gives listeners insight into the backstory of Tobias (a.k.a. To find her true self, she’ll be forced to make difficult decisions, defying the systems she’s known all her life and surprising even herself in the process.Īnd for fans of the Divergent series who are looking to hear more, Roth has written a companion volume of four stories. Beatrice "Tris" Prior starts the series as a 16-year-old girl in search of her identity. The Divergent trilogy follows one such person. ![]() Anyone who doesn’t fit into a faction is a threat to society. In a post-apocalyptic version of Chicago, citizens are defined by their factions, affiliations that separate people into personality-based classes: Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). ![]() ![]() One choice will define you.” Veronica Roth’s thrilling young adult dystopian series Divergent is all about the choices that define us, the paths we choose to take, and the consequences of what we leave behind. Enter a rigidly structured dystopian world and follow the saga of a girl who dares to make a choice for herself. ![]() ![]() Here, the plot unravels in just one building and it is to Towles's credit that this never feels claustrophobic. ![]() The usual rigmarole."Ī Gentleman in Moscow arrives six years after Towles's popular debut, Rules of Civility, set in Twenties New York, and has a similarly well-polished sense of time and place. He is, however, unrepentant, describing his business as "Dining, discussing. Sentenced by the Bolshevik Tribunal, Rostov has been found guilty of being a Count, and having "succumbed irrevocably to the corruptions of his class". But in Amor Towles's lively new novel, this charming gentleman, a sort of early 20th-century adventurer, finds himself under indefinite house arrest at Moscow's sprawling Metropol Hotel in 1922. ![]() ![]() Count Alexander Rostov is a recipient of the Order of St Andrew, a member of the Jockey Club and a Master of the Hunt. ![]() ![]() ![]() Verne combined science and invention with fast-paced adventure. "Twenty Thousand Leagues owed much to the exploits of the huge experimental French submarine Le Plongeur and to the work of Vernes friend Jacques-François Conseil, who developed a steam-driven submarine and whose surname Verne gave to Professor Arronaxs servant in the story" (Carpenter & Prichard, 557). Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Although the reason for the scarcity is unknown, it is speculated that most of the Osgood copies were destroyed in the Great Boston Fire. ![]() ![]() In very good condition with some rubbing and wear to the extremities and a small stain to the page edges. With “The End” printed on page 303, illustrated with 109 plates, including two maps, with jellyfish on the front board, and the incorrect use of the word “Sea” in the title on front board. Osgood and Company, 1873.įirst American edition of Verne’s masterpiece. ![]() ![]() Here is an American epic of the bonds of money, morality, and social position. Even in this territory of privilege, no riches can put things right once they've been torn asunder. ![]() This powerful, poignant saga takes the listener inside the gilded gates of an American dynasty to tell of three generations' worth of longing and missed opportunities. The result is the behind-the-headlines story of the Astor empire's unraveling, filled with never-before-reported scenes. New York journalist Meryl Gordon has interviewed not only the elite of Brooke Astor's social circle but also the large staff who cosseted and cared for Mrs. Nearly forgotten: a realm of lavish wealth and secrets of the sort that have engaged Americans from the era of Edith Wharton to the more recent days of Truman Capote and Vanity Fair. Rarely has there been a story with such an appealing heroine, conjuring up a world soReviewWith a journalists eye and a New Yorkers raised eyebrow, Meryl Gordon weaves a web of fine detail into an enthralling, enraging story.Astor's only child, was indicted on charges of looting her estate. ![]() ![]() And shortly after her death in 2007, Anthony Marshall, Mrs. ![]() The fate of Brooke Astor, the endearing philanthropist with the storied name, has generated worldwide headlines since her grandson Philip sued his father in 2006, alleging mistreatment of Brooke. ![]() ![]() Alice still feels awed by the sea, by its vast proximity. ![]() To the left there is a slipway where small fishing boats form a colorful spine down to a concrete jetty and where the great, dreadful froth of the North Sea hits the rocky shoreline. It’s enough, just about.īeyond her window, between Victorian streetlights, a string of sun-faded bunting swings back and forth in the boisterous April wind. ![]() Silly money for a piece of art made from old maps, perhaps, but not silly money for a single mother of three. She makes art from old maps which she sells on the Internet for silly money. She hadn’t imagined that they’d ever outgrow this place.Īlice sits in her tiny room at the top of her tiny house. She hadn’t imagined that one day she’d have a gangling child of almost six foot. And Romaine, the baby, was just four months old. ![]() They were all so little when she moved them here from London six years ago. The ceilings slope and bulge and her fourteen-year-old son needs to bow his head to get through the front door. It is a tiny house, a coast guard’s cottage, built more than three hundred years ago for people much smaller than her. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was written with an overflowing emotion, that swept me away. The story is about the lives of Ambrose, Bailey, and Fern and their sentiments about LIFE and LOSS. It is remarkably one of the best book I read this year, it is very realistic, beautifully written, stunning characters, all in all its just perfect. Such a very beautiful story that it touches my heart and soul so deeply. This is a story of friendship that overcomes heartache, heroism that defies the common definitions, and a modern tale of Beauty and the Beast, where we discover that there is a little beauty and a little beast in all of us. It is the tale of one girl’s love for a broken boy, and a wounded warrior’s love for an unremarkable girl. Collective loss, individual loss, loss of beauty, loss of life, loss of identity. Making Faces is the story of a small town where five young men go off to war, and only one comes back. But maybe because he was so beautiful he was never someone Fern thought she could have…until he wasn’t beautiful anymore. She’d been reading them since she was thirteen. The kind of beautiful that graced the covers of romance novels, and Fern Taylor would know. ![]() He was tall and muscular, with hair that touched his shoulders and eyes that burned right through you. ![]() ![]() ![]() But after playing the role of Xander’s boyfriend, I find myself wanting the job full-time, because neither of us are playing anymore. ![]() This thing between us started out as a job, a friend helping out a friend. That’d be complicated enough, I suppose, but Xander? Well, he fell in love with me too, and while it’s caused some major upset in the dynamics around here, I have to believe that a love this real can only lead to somewhere amazing. But that’s exactly what happened over these past couple of months: I fell in love. I mean, no one could’ve seen that coming - least of all me. I didn’t mean to fall in love with Alexander Thorne, my brother’s ex and the number one prime-time news anchor in the country. As the older brother of my lifelong best friend, this new love has caused relationships to break down and communication to become stilted, and the one question that remains is: Am I willing to give up the love and friendship of one for the chance of love and forever with another? But with each passing day, the connection between us grows stronger, and the idea of a world without him is something I can’t imagine.īut Sean’s love doesn’t come without complications. I never could’ve imagined a world where he was my everything. If I had to describe Sean Bailey, it would be as the sexy, caring, wonderful man I’ve gone and fallen in love with. USA Today best-selling author Ella Frank concludes the story of Sean Bailey and Alexander "Xander" Thorne in Headlines. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And dePaola's somber tones burst forth into satisfyingly brilliant sunsets. The retelling is pleasantly cadenced, even though it tells us more about the artist's need for serf-expression within any society than about Plains Indians. Isely-which doesn't really give much clue to its Native American source. In a full-page note, dePaola traces this story to Texas Wildflowers, Stories and Legends, a collection of newspaper articles by Ruth D. Patiently, he gazes at the sunset each evening till at last he is rewarded: brushes with sunset colors spring up for his use, returning next day-and each spring thereafter-as flowers. ![]() When it's his turn to go out into the hills "to think about being a man," a vision tells him to become a painter, using colors "as pure as.the evening sky." But though he works hard, Little Gopher is dissatisfied with his dull, dark paintings. Little Gopher can't keep up with the other Indian boys he prefers making and decorating small figures. ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Ivinson played a key role in the city’s development through his banking career and philanthropy work. ![]() 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. ![]() |