![]() ![]() ![]() These Merrells were grippy, supportive, and crazy durable,” one tester said. “I run on gravelly and muddy bridle paths, dirt roads and pavement, and general trail slop both up hills and down. It results in a burlier ride, but offers a seriously appealing amount of cush per dollar. This material feels lighter and softer, and relies on its thickness rather than a rock plate to add protection underfoot. The Flight uses none of the dense EVA foam found on the original Moab, and instead recruits Merrell’s new FloatPro midsole. The Flight is a recent evolution of the best-selling hiker that’s been pared-down and lightened-up to give trail runners a taste of the Moab action.Ī taller drop and stout build preserve some of that “fast hiker” feel, but also make the Flight more accessible to runners coming from high-offset road trainers like Brooks’s Ghost or Asics’s Kayano. Over the years, Merrell’s Moab-short for “Mother Of All Boots”-has become the most popular and most sold hiking boot in the world. Upper runs hot, but we don’t mind it in cooler temps. ![]()
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![]() ![]() What if Zola’s wrong about everything-even the year? As she struggles to figure out who wrote the note, she discovers a printed book in her Insta-Closet called The Jessie Keyser How One Girl Escaped from Clifton Village. Then one day Zola finds a handwritten note in her If you want to see things as they really are, come find me. Insta-Closets deliver new clothes every morning, Insta-Ovens deliver gourmet meals on demand, and virtual reality goggles let her have any adventure she wants, with friends from all over the world. ![]() She thinks everyone does, now that it’s 2193, and humanity has solved all its problems. Twelve-year-old Zola thinks she has the perfect life. ![]() ![]() Return to the world of the bestselling Running Out of Time with this middle grade thriller from Margaret Peterson Haddix, where Zola discovers she’s r Return to the world of the bestselling Running Out of Time with this middle grade thriller from Margaret Peterson Haddix, where Zola discovers she’s related to Jessie Keyser and her seemingly perfect utopian world is covering up a dark reality. Return to the world of the bestselling Running Out of Time with this middle grade thriller from Margaret Peterson Haddix. ![]() ![]() ![]() The impact is great enough to shift the moon's orbit closer to Earth. The plot, basically, is this: an asteroid hits the moon. But I have a particular fondness for end-of-the-world stories, and Life As We Knew It (and its sequels) have gotten a fair amount of buzz, so I went ahead and plowed through it in short order, as it's a pretty light read. There aren't many things that will induce me to read a YA novel nowadays. ![]() In her journal, Miranda records the events of each desperate day, while she and her family struggle to hold on to their most priceless resource-hope. ![]() How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun? As summer turns to Arctic winter, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove. Miranda's disbelief turns to fear in a split second when an asteroid knocks the moon closer to the earth. Inverarity One-line summary: OMG! Like, the world is totally ending and it like, totally sucks! ![]() ![]() Renowned for having illustrated over 200 books for children and adults, Barry. ![]() Description: Details An Eighth Day View: Portraits by a master illustrator and engraver, Barry Moser. The heavily detailed engravings result in portraits of very expressive faces, and giving readers, according to Ann Patchett, "the chance to visit the people we were sure of and learn something more." (Dec. One Hundred Portraits: Artists, Architects, Writers, Composers, and Friends. Printed on heavy matte paper, with spare titles including name, dates of birth and death, and occupation, One Hundred Portraits is a pleasure to study. In those cases Moser utilized death masks, ancient photographs, and even busts. In the brief afterword, he discusses the sources for his portraits, including subjects of whom no accurate depictions exist, like Chaucer. ![]() ![]() Represented are poets (Keats, Wordsworth, Plath), authors (Mann, Twain, Carroll, Chekhov), composers (Handel, Wagner, Sibelius), activists (Douglass, Truth, King), and artists (Carle, Homer, van Rijn), as well as Moser's immediate family. You fill it with what you know of that person, or of that person's work." Renowned for having illustrated over 200 books for children and adults, Moser, a member of the National Academy of Design, created a number of new engravings for this collection of portraits. ![]() "The portrait is, in my way of thinking, akin to a crystal goblet. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Having suffered a broken neck from the experiences in this book, Kip decided to keep her space from the waters of the Triangle and stay safe. ![]() She couldn't bring herself to talk about it. Kip kept these things to herself for over forty years and not even her close friends and family were privy to what happened back in the early 1970's. If you are fascinated by the paranormal, the unexplained or anything that just shouldn't be, this book is a must read for you. There were many things that happened to her and her husband that could never be explained and there are some things that still bother her to talk about. You will find yourself tossed to and fro by the waves that try to overtake her little vessel, the SOLITUDE. This book is written from the third person point of view and takes the reader into the vivid world of Kip's life as a young woman who took on the adventure of sailing the Intracoastal off Florida, USA. After more than four decades, Kip decided to open and share what happened to her in the book you are about to read. These strange occurrences have never been explained and were buried deep within Kip's heart and her journal. Her book is based on true and factual experiences while caught in the Triangle. Many lives have been affected profoundly by the Bermuda Triangle and one such person is Kip Boland who survived near death experiences while sailing between Fort Lauderdale Florida USA and Bimini. ![]() ![]() Wink describes this system as an evil hierarchical social construct with the powerful occupying the top rung. ![]() ![]() This book engages Walter Wink's conception of the Domination System and directs its focus to the black church and black Christians. It has historically imposed its biblical hermeneutic, scriptural exegesis, and cultural morality upon the Black church, and thereby reduced the Black church to a mere echo chamber of the white church, promoting the needs and values of the white community to the negation of its own. White evangelical theology controls most Black churches by defining for them the nature of God, the identity of Jesus, the content of the gospel message, and the function of the church. This book, however, is directed toward Black Christians to demonstrate to them the chilling reality that the Black church in America has largely adopted the aforementioned theological constructs to inform their ministries and, by doing so, embrace a racist ideology that has historically energized white domination of Black people. ![]() His aim was to educate them on how their predecessors wove into the fabric of their Christian expression theologies that justified the supremacy of whiteness and inferiority of blackness and how those ideologies remain in place today. ![]() Jones’s book White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy on American Christianity, he primarily confronts white Christians about the brutal history upon which white Christianity was founded and emerged in America. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dev, the protagonist, is a private investigator (PI). ![]() ![]() (Please imagine me rubbing my hands together in a gleeful fashion). More on that below in my section about the actual story. Things are pretty loose and carefree on that point. Because the one thing the book insists is that she is certifiable but that she might also be a criminal mastermind. I think she was supposed to be a stark raving genius? I'm not sure. My biggest problem was the character development for one of the main characters, Kiki, who is the antagonist. I made allowances for I-started-with-the-third-book situation. Yes I just used fluffery and I just totally made it up.Ĭharacter development: this part of the book was inconsistent. His style is witty, concise and not given to dramatic fluffery. All in all, I enjoyed the author's writing style, if not his writing. My main problem was it lost momentum and hit it's rate of diminishing returns rather quickly as we shall see below. Although this is the third book in the series, I felt that the author took his time and properly set the story up. Readability: the book was easy to read in the regard that ample description was given for the scenery and characters. Since I have not read the first two books of the series, I'm cutting it some slack -but not much. I do not consider this a well-written crime book by any stretch of the imagination. I see that this was rated fairly high by other readers which puzzles me. ![]() ![]() Make a list of the reasons people could have to support your idea and the benefits of changing their mind.Ĭonsider the opposition. Visualize your ideal outcome to stay focused when persuading others. The persuasion process involves several basic steps that you can then personalize to your situation:Įstablish your goal. Related: Persuasion Skills: Definition and Examples How to persuade people Some of the main benefits of persuasion include:Ĭreating career advancement opportunities You can use persuasion in meetings, contract negotiations and even casual conversations. In the workplace, you use persuasion to promote your ideas with coworkers, gain promotions and convince clients to purchase your products and services. It provides others with reasons to agree with you and advocate for your suggestions. Persuasion is an important tool for implementing your ideas, building a supportive network and achieving goals. ![]() In this article, we explain why persuasion is important, outline how to persuade people and share strategies for using this skill at work. Learning about how to be more persuasive in the workplace promotes confidence, innovation and growth. The ability to convince people to agree with you and influence their behaviors is a useful tool for achieving personal and professional goals. ![]() ![]() When making a suggestion, using persuasion can be helpful for get external support for your plan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Claude isn't dangerous or brilliant-he's an average kid coping with abandonment, violence, riots, failed love, and societal pressures as he steers his way past the signposts of youth: childhood friendships, basketball tryouts, first love, first heartbreak, picking a college, moving away from home.Ĭlaude just wants a place where he can fit. Bump's meditation on belonging and not belonging, where or with whom, how love is a way home no matter where you are, is handled so beautifully that you don't know he's hypnotized you until he's done." -Tommy Orange, The New York Times Book Review In this alternately witty and heartbreaking debut novel, Gabriel Bump gives us an unforgettable protagonist, Claude McKay Love. "A comically dark coming-of-age story about growing up on the South Side of Chicago, but it's also social commentary at its finest, woven seamlessly into the work. ![]() ![]() ![]() Aurelia so wanted, from the absolute bottom of her heart, for that thing about "wishing upon a star" to be true so that she could put a "once and for all" end to this maddening lunacy. This was another gift from Ronald, the man who Aurelia's mother had taken as her betrothed, making him the young princess' stepfather. ![]() Aurelia sculpted her face into a scowl, and, with her lips pressed shut, growled a muffled, displeased groan. The cube was adorned with a thin, yet plush, layer of purple velvet two metallic gold bands of ribbon had been pulled up and over to wrap across each of the sides, with the long ends tied at the top in an elegant bow. And what did Aurelia see upon entering but a small square box having been perched upon the center of her bed. ![]() The door began to open, soon thereafter revealing the innards of a bedroom, and the Gilded Kingdom's princess began taking weary and forlorn steps into her quarters within the palace, the strap of her amber-hued duffel bag draped over her shoulder. ![]() |
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