![]() ![]() She reduces the differences in response to one thing: mindset. Dweck explains that when she began her work, she was interested in figuring out why some people lose motivation and give up after a setback while others not only bounce back but even seem to embrace challenges. The first two chapters introduce mindset theory and the ways that mental state shapes worldview. This manual refers to the 2007 edition published by Ballantine Books.ĭweck’s book is broken into eight chapters with numerous subheadings to break up denser information for the lay reader. In 2007, following feedback regarding misconceptions and the misapplication of her mindset theory, Dweck released a new edition that includes updated material to address and mitigate these perceptions. She teaches people to leverage a growth mindset to achieve more and get more satisfaction from their endeavors. Dweck wrote the book to help individuals unlock their inner potential and motivation by teaching them about mindset theory and its implications for human growth and development. Marketed as a self-help and mentorship book, Mindset became a million-copy bestseller during its first year in print. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Davis Pinkney was named one of the “The 25 Most Influential People in Our Children’s Lives” by Children’s Health Magazine, and is among The Network Journal’s “25 Most Influential Black Women in Business.” She was included in Good Housekeeping and Women’s Day magazines’ “50 Over 50 Extraordinary Women,” and was named among L’Oreal’s “10 Women Who Light Up the Arts Scene.” Her books have been awarded multiple Coretta Scott King Book Awards, Jane Addams Children’s Literature Honor citations, the Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor medal, as well as several Parenting Publication Gold Medals, and American Library Association Notable Book citations. ![]() Andrea Davis Pinkney is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of numerous books for children and young adults, including picture books, novels, works of historical fiction and nonfiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() It has action, adventure, tension and mystery, with a little bit of romance on the side. Zeraphina must be willing to sacrifice everything if she’s to uncover the truth – but what if the truth is beyond her worst nightmares?īlood Song is the story of a feisty heroine with loyal animals, an infuriating but intriguing boy, a mysterious land and frightful creatures. So when the king’s advisor, Rodden, seems to know more about her condition than she does, Zeraphina is determined to find out more. Craving blood is not considered normal behaviour for anyone, let alone a princess. When her sister becomes betrothed to a prince in a northern nation, Zeraphina’s only consolations are that her loyal animal companions are by her side – and that her burning hunger to travel north is finally being sated.Īlready her black hair and pale eyes mark her out as different, but now Zeraphina must be even more careful to keep her secret safe. ![]() ![]() I read and read the book as I write my autobiography. Writing and reading are two things that occupied me, while Bob Ong poison lingers on me. While, his book talks about his schooling, mine covers my kindergarten experiences up to college life. Right after reading "ABNKKBSNPLAKo", I found myself rough drafting my educational autobiography, that is tackling the chronological events in my academic years as well as few and selected life accounts. For that, he became my favorite author, since then. Bob Ong awakened my sleeping writing skill. ![]() It is not of course the book that taught me how to read. He is not the only author I knew, but his style of writing fits mine. It is not of course the first book I have read, but it is the first book that inspired me a lot to read more books and most of all, to write my own article. ![]() It is not the book that taught me how to read. I never knew Bob Ong until I read his "ABNKKBSNPLAKo". ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ken Follett will donate his proceeds from this book to the charity La Fondation du Patrimoine. Follett then tells the story of the cathedral, from its construction to the role it has played across time and history, and he reveals the influence that the Notre-Dame had upon cathedrals around the world and on the writing of one of Follett's most famous and beloved novels, The Pillars of the Earth. In this short, spellbinding book, international bestselling author Ken Follett describes the emotions that gripped him when he learned about the fire that threatened to destroy one of the greatest cathedrals in the world - the Notre-Dame de Paris. The feeling was bewildering, as if the earth was shaking' ![]() Something priceless was dying in front of our eyes. En este breve pero fascinante libro, Ken Follett describe las emociones que sintió cuando conoció la tragedia que amenazaba con destruir Notre-Dame de París y recorre, desde los días de su construcción, los momentos históricos determinantes de un edificio que a través de los siglos ha ejercido una fascinación universal. The sight dazed and disturbed us profoundly. `The wonderful cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, one of the greatest achievements of European civilization, was on fire. ![]() ![]() ![]() Okay so the book picks up right where the last one left off. ![]() Wow lets just see if I can remember to name it all. And that is saying a lot because the first one was awesome! So much happens in this book. Twice Tempted, the 2nd book in the Night Prince Series, was better then the first. "It hurts too much to be close to you, but continually pushed away." His expression changed to disbelief. "Yes, you're almost six hundred years old, but in today's world, when you say things like 'eternal bond' before giving your girlfriend a ring-sized box, there's usually only one kind of ring in it!"-Leila and Vlad Do you know how insignificant that is to someone my age?" A fresh wave of hurt made my tone scalding. You and I have been together mere months. ![]() "Really, what was I supposed to think?" His snort cut me to the bone. "The dress, the fancy dinner, all your flattering words, then the jewelry box." I ticked the items off on my fingers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Victoria Danann a real vampire author locked away somewhere where writing captivating vampire romance?". I have one unanswered question, "Is the real Ms. He was my guilty pleasure choice for Elora. ![]() ![]() Baka.hmmmm.*sigh*, what can I say, he would be the most dangerous choice of all the guys but again when it came to Elora he was the sweetest and the swooniest. His flirting and Double Entendre's with Elora had me blushing. Then there is Rammel, funny, vulgar, but very sweet and gentle when it came to Elora. He was a gentleman, a badass one, actually they all are, their little group was nick named Bad Company afterall. ![]() Storm, her original savior and protector. Also, these men had me swooning and just feeling hot and bothered.Įlora's men were very protective of her even though she could kick their asses into next week, I really like that she could take care of herself. Even I found myself in awe of Elora, I thought she was exciting, spunky, and just adorable. All the men in her life really cared for her and thought the world of her. What made this triangle fun was Elora herself. I'm always confused when all the men are falling over themselves over a girl without any obvious reasons to me. I'm generally not a fan of Love Triangles. It had a fun Love Triangle, Diamond, Trapezoid or whatever it's called when four people are involved. To say this book was as a surprise would be an understatement. ![]() ![]() Someone is following her, and she won’t stop until Rachel finds out what happened to her sister twenty-five years ago. ![]() Under pressure to make Season 3 a success, Rachel throws herself into her investigation-but the mysterious letters keep coming. A local golden boy, a swimmer destined for Olympic greatness, has been accused of raping the beloved granddaughter of the police chief. The new season of Rachel's podcast has brought her to a small town being torn apart by a devastating rape trial. Which makes it all the more unsettling when she finds a note on her car windshield, addressed to her, begging for help. But she’s used to being recognized for her voice, not her face. ![]() Ever since her true-crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall has become a household name-and the last hope for people seeking justice. ![]() ![]() ![]() The overall effect is one of a truly enjoyable children's book that, like its later adaptation, will live on as a classic for readers of all ages. Hughes's story, like the Cold War setting in the animated adaptation, serves as a message of peace in the face of war. Naturally, the Iron Man fights it, but I won't go in to details in order to avoid spoiling his methods and the ending. The second half of the book did not make it into the film, as a "space-bat-angel-dragon" appears out of a star that moved to just within the moon's orbit and lands on Australia, demanding humanity feed it living things or it will take it upon itself to devour cities. ![]() Unlike the animated film, the story is set in Hughes's native England, and, though set around the time in which it was written, it contains a certain timeless quality that will appeal to all readers. Hughes's story, originally published in 1968, features the titular Iron Man who terrorizes a town by eating their metal products, and the boy Hogarth, who finds a way to talk to him. Ted Hughes's The Iron Man served as the inspiration for the 1999 Warner Bros. ![]() ![]() But for Eilis Lacey, the biddable daughter at the center of Colm Toibin’s new novel, “Brooklyn,” her leave-taking from Enniscorthy, in Ireland’s County Wexford, and her resettlement in New York in the fall of 1951 are imposed on her by her energetic, well-meaning older sister, Rose. Describing her protagonist’s new start in a new town, Eliot wrote of the relief that “minds that have been unhinged from their old faith and love” may feel on finding themselves in a “new land, where the beings around them know nothing of their history, and share none of their ideas - where their mother earth shows another lap.” In such a setting, she wrote, “The past becomes dreamy because its symbols have all vanished, and the present too is dreamy because it is linked with no memories.”įor Silas Marner, this “exile” was self-sought. ![]() During a long-ago solo trip to Rome - a self-assigned distraction after a difficult breakup - I remember opening George Eliot’s “Silas Marner” while sitting at the window of a high room in a cold albergo (once a nuns’ cloister) as strains of conversation floated up from the courtyard. ![]() ![]() Every now and then, with a thrill of connection, you come across a passage in a book that feels as if it had been written with exact foreknowledge of your state of mind: a soothing, specific prescription for unquiet thoughts. ![]() |