![]() ![]() There are plenty of reasons to homeschool, but this "teacher" (sorry, but subbing and working in some ritzy private school doesn't count you as a master of the profession) doesn't give any of them. ![]() ![]() "Handbook" implies "how-to"-and yes, there are how-to's in this book but its just not worth wading through the propaganda to get to it. It should be clear, concise, and mostly unemotional. Very few readers, let alone teenagers, will wade through the first 120 densely-written and obviously unedited pages which essentially comprise a rant against public schools and traditional educational systems.A handbook should have, IMHO, a clearly organized series of chapters with step-by-step helps for families who want to make an educational change. The author claims she is writing for teenagers, but in fact, one of the problems with this 400+ page book is that its form and content are not targeted clearly enough. There are probably some good ideas and potentially some practical advice for teens and parents who are dissatisfied with their school experience and are looking for another answer-but these are buried in chapters and pages of unsubstantiated accusations, dismissive assessments of traditional schooling, and dozens of anecdotes from kids who love their new-found freedom. ![]() It cries out for an editor with a stack of red pens and/or a delete key. The Teenage Liberation Handbook is not for teenagers, nor is it a handbook. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Except now she’s walking around in a towel, sleeping right across the hall, and Fox is fantasizing about waking up next to her for the rest of his life and… and… man overboard! He’s fallen for her, hook, line, and sinker. Living with his best friend should have been easy. ![]() As the line between friendship and flirtation begins to blur, Hannah can´t deny she loves everything about Fox, but she refuses to be another notch on his bedpost. Armed with a few tips from Westport’s resident Casanova, Hannah sets out to catch her coworker’s eye… yet the more time she spends with Fox, the more she wants him instead. In fact, she´s nursing a hopeless crush on a colleague and Fox is just the person to help with her lackluster love life. ![]() She knows he’s a notorious ladies’ man, but they’re definitely just friends. Now, Hannah´s in town for work, crashing in Fox’s spare bedroom. But he likes her too much to risk a fling, so platonic pals it is. She’s immune to his charm and looks, but she seems to enjoy his… personality? And wants to be friends? Bizarre. Everyone knows he’s a guaranteed good time-in bed and out-and that’s exactly how he prefers it. King crab fisherman Fox Thornton has a reputation as a sexy, carefree flirt. In the follow-up to It Happened One Summer, Tessa Bailey delivers another deliciously fun rom-com about a former player who accidentally falls for his best friend while trying to help her land a different man… Hook, Line, and Sinker Tessa Bailey Buy This Book I’ve been the happy reader of a number of good books recently, but until Tessa Bailey’s Hook, Line, and Sinker, none of those good books have been ones I’ve read for review. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gage & Lizzie are that couple that are absolutely perfect, but at first glance make you wonder how in the world they got together. Phenomenal couple to give an amazing ending to this series & great setup for the next. It features laugh-out-loud characters, a bad boy who will sweep you off your feet, and a romance guaranteed to melt your listening device and make you smile. Tempt Me with Forever is the fourth book in the NOLA Heart series, but can be listened to as a standalone. But for the sake of playboys everywhere, he’ll take one for the team, and prove to Miss Lizzie Danvers that bad boys are the only men who will tempt you with forever. Gage should say no - nothing good ever comes from entertaining crazy women. Relationships aren’t on his radar - until the hot-as-hell woman on his tattoo table glances up at him, a butterfly half-inked on her butt, and propositions him. By night, he works for New Orleans’ Special Operations Division, fulfilling a family legacy to protect his city. All she needs is 30 days and one sexy commitment-phobe to do it.īy day, Gage Harvey helps his twin at Inked on Bourbon, tattooing butterflies onto every female under the age of 30. ![]() ![]() Lizzie may have the devil’s luck in choosing men, but she’s determined to prove that the age-old “once a playboy, always a playboy” theory is bulletproof. That’s what Beauty Influencer Lizzie Danvers tells her YouTube subscribers after getting dumped on Instagram. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I have waited so long for this book to be released and it checks every single box. Oh the feeling of mile-high expectations actually being fulfilled: pure bliss. Again, I just wanted more, but some moments never come to fruition. I found myself many times wishing this scene or that conversation more fully played out, but the author often plays it close to the chest. ![]() The development of familial attachments alongside romantic and platonic ones could have carried a lot more vivacity. In addition, Deaver builds believable secondary characters but they beg for more page time. For most of the novel, the plot just plods along. The book's heart does not always help it overcome much of its dryness. That said, my primary critique of Deaver’s novel is a longing for more. What follows is a story that is both tender and devastating, a reminder that the body’s need to speak its truth is primal and profound and that compassion and love can overcome hate and intolerance. What we see is Benjamin, barefoot, walking to a payphone to call an estranged sister they haven’t seen, or spoken to, in a decade. The reader is spared the immediate fallout-but the imagination conjures up enough horrors. Benjamin De Backer, buoyant with hopes of swift acceptance, is planning on coming out as non-binary to their parents. The beginning of I Wish You All the Best jarred me. ![]() ![]() ![]() Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe. Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch.You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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Packed with quick and easy interventions this book will help you: 1. ![]() Drawing on twenty years of experience as a GP, Dr Rangan Chatterjee has created a conscious, long-lasting approach to weight loss that goes far beyond fad diets and helps to find the best solutions that work for you. This is a whole new way of looking at what, why and how we eat and helps you design your own plan to build a better, healthier relationship with food' Fearne Cotton'A book with practical simple tips for everyone!' Tim Spector'It is a beautiful book and has so much in it to help us feel good and prioritise our happiness and health' Dr Gemma Newman'One of the most influential doctors in the country' Chris Evans _It's more important than ever before that we get in shape, stay healthy and live well - Dr Chatterjee is back to show you how.Weight loss isn't a race. ![]() THE LATEST BOOK FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER FEEL BETTER IN 5'This is not a diet book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was alerted to those stories of presence and participation by my white mother, and I stumbled across more and more stories of black British people as my interests took me further back, into the nineteenth and then the eighteenth century. I never expected that there I would encounter black and brown people who were like me and my family. I wandered into history looking for excitement. It had changed the lives of my white grandparents, whom I loved deeply, and I was intoxicated by the thought that German bombers had prowled the skies above my home town and that my grandfather had scanned those skies while on watch on the roof of the Vickers Armstrong factory by the River Tyne, where he worked building tanks. For the white working-class community that I grew up in, the war was the most exciting and significant event ever to collide with our terraced streets and decaying factories. Britain of the 1980s was a nation still saturated in the culture and paraphernalia of that conflict. I stumbled upon the subject that was to become my vocation out of a simple love of story, and because of a gung-ho fascination with the Second World War that was almost obligatory among boys of that period, whatever their racial background. ![]() ![]() As someone with ADHD & anxiety (which I’m sure many can relate to), this brought me right back to my own mental health journey and wondering: was I better or worse off before I had these labels to conform to? Am I using my adhd as an excuse? Am I just lazy? Lack the drive? Motivation? I hate that I’m even asking these questions. ![]() She talks about people who self sabotage by identifying too strongly with their anxiety such that it becomes a part of them in a negative way. ![]() She talks about you and self-sabotage are your greatest weaknesses. We’re talking self-help/improvement genre so I apologize in advance if this is not your cup of reading tea! I haven’t gotten very far in the book yet (maybe 30 pages in), HA! actually I’m laughing because in all likelihood I might not get much farther considering I’m reading 7 books at the moment and haven’t finished any of them and keep getting bored and buying a new one. ![]() Has anyone come across or read the book “The Mountain Is You” by Brianna Weist? (Same author as “101 essays that will change your life”). ![]() ![]() ![]() "So have I," she replied, "go there for me." Two years later in November 1974, Chatwin flew out to Lima in Peru, and reached Patagonia a month later. "I've always wanted to go there," Bruce told her. In 1972, Chatwin interviewed the 93-year-old architect and designer Eileen Gray in her Paris salon, where he noticed a map of the area of South America called Patagonia, which she had painted. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill (1982). This work established his reputation as Charles Bruce Chatwin was an English novelist and travel writer. When he arrived, he left the newspaper with a telegram: "Have gone to Patagonia." He spent six months in the area, a trip which resulted in the book In Patagonia (1977). ![]() Charles Bruce Chatwin was an English novelist and travel writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Phelps-Roper grew up, she saw that church members were close companions and accomplished debaters, applying the logic of predestination and the language of the King James Bible to everyday life with aplomb-which, as the church’s Twitter spokeswoman, she learned to do with great skill. ![]() Founded by her grandfather and consisting almost entirely of her extended family, the tiny group would gain worldwide notoriety for its pickets at military funerals and celebrations of death and tragedy. ![]() The activist and TED speaker Megan Phelps-Roper reveals her life growing up in the most hated family in AmericaĪt the age of five, Megan Phelps-Roper began protesting homosexuality and other alleged vices alongside fellow members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. ![]() |