![]() One day she was speaking to her sweetheart Felipe about something that happened in Brazil in the 1960s and then out of nowhere, the book idea came to herįelipe told her how the Brazilian government got a notion to build a giant highway across the Amazon jungle during an era of rampant development and modernisation. In Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert tells the story about the most magical thing that ever happened to her. When an idea thinks it found somebody (like you) who might be able to bring it into the world, the idea will visit you and it will try to get your attention. ![]() Therefore ideas spend eternity swirling around us searching for available and willing human partners. Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest, and the only way an idea can be made manifest is through human efforts that an idea can be escorted out of the ether and in the realm of the material. Gilbert believes that our planet is inhabited not only by animals and plants and bacteria and viruses but also by ideas. ![]() Because the truth is, she believes that creativity is a force of enchantment that is not entirely human in its origins. ![]() She is referring to the supernatural, the mystical, inexplicable, the surreal, the divine, the transcendent, the otherworldly. ![]() In Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert refers to magic, literally like in the Hogwarts sense. ![]()
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![]() Ava Dabrowski is a strong, "Yankee" woman who finds herself unsettled when she moves to a small Southern town where the rules of society are anything but clear. It explores the Southern culture, family loyalty and the difficulty of untangling fact from gossip and community lore. As Ava becomes embroiled in the lives of the Woodburns, she discovers that truth may be more compelling than fiction.Cathy Holton's Summer in the South is a well-written novel about a young woman caught in a dark mystery from the past. But things are not always as they first appear, and the mystery of Charlie and his untimely death have been kept secret for a long, long time. ![]() When she unearths a family mystery - that of the death of Charlie Woodburn - the story consumes her and her novel comes to life. Ava moves into Will's aunts' home - a rambling, historic house that is haunted by the ghosts of the past. Woodburn is a classic small Southern town and Will and his family take center stage. Ava has a dream to write a novel, but she finds it hard to get started once she arrives in Tennessee. ![]() Ava Dabrowski finds herself reeling from a failed romance and the death of her mother when she decides to accept an invitation to spend the summer in Woodburn, Tennessee at the home of an old college acquaintance, Will Fraser. ![]() ![]() Romantic, spellbinding, and adventurous, Let the Sky Fall had me hooked from the first page. ![]() Luckily, Let the Sky Fall was a great start to the Sky Fall series. It's a topic I don't see often in YA, so when I heard that Sky Fall series would be about them I was intrigued. And their greatest danger is not the warriors coming to destroy them-but the forbidden romance that’s grown between them. But unlocking his heritage will also unlock the memory Audra needs him to forget. He has a power to claim-the secret language of the West Wind, which only he can understand. When a hasty mistake reveals their location to the enemy who murdered both of their families, Audra’s forced to help Vane remember who he is. Even if it means sacrificing her own life. She’s also a guardian-Vane’s guardian-and has sworn an oath to protect Vane at all costs. She walks on the wind, can translate its alluring songs, and can even coax it into a weapon with a simple string of commands. Seventeen-year-old Audra is a sylph, an air elemental. And he has no idea if the beautiful, dark-haired girl who’s swept through his dreams every night since the storm is real. ![]() ![]() Seventeen-year-old Vane Weston has no idea how he survived the category five tornado that killed his parents. Summary/Cover Image from Publisher's Website: ![]() ![]() No sooner has Daniel set foot on his homeland when he is embroiled in a dark conflict that has been raging in the shadows for decades. But while much has changed outwardly, the duplicity and danger that once drove Daniel to the American Colonies is still coin of the British realm. Aging Puritan and Natural Philosopher, confidant of the high and mighty and contemporary of the most brilliant minds of the age, he has braved the merciless sea and an assault by the infamous pirate Blackbeard to help mend the rift between two adversarial geniuses at a princess's behest. ![]() The world is a most confused and unsteady place - especially London, center of finance, innovation, and conspiracy - in the year 1714, when Daniel Waterhouse makes his less-than-triumphant return to England's shores. ![]() ![]() Based on hundreds of new interviews with friends and family of the Bouviers, among them their own half-brother, as well as letters and journals, J. ![]() If the Bouvier women personified beauty, style and fashion, it was their lust for money and status that drove them to seek out powerful men, no matter what the cost to themselves or to those they stepped on in their ruthless climb to the top. Her sister, Lee, had liaisons with one and possibly both of Jackie's husbands, in addition to her own three marriages-to an illegitimate royal, a Polish prince and a Hollywood director. Less well known is the story of her love affair with a world renowned architect and a British peer. Kennedy and the story of their marriage is legendary, as is the story of her second marriage to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. ![]() They followed in their mother's footsteps after her marriages to the philandering socialite "Black Jack" Bouvier and the fabulously rich Standard Oil heir Hugh D. It was a lesson neither would ever forget. ![]() "Do you know what the secret to happily-ever-after is?" Janet Bouvier Auchincloss would ask her daughters Jackie and Lee during their tea time. ![]() A dazzling biography of three of the most glamorous women of the 20th century: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, her mother Janet Lee Auchincloss, and her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But there's something about the lovely, courageous Jane that he can't resist.even though it could mean the ruin of them both.The Heiress Effect is the second full-length book in the Brothers Sinister series. He certainly doesn't need to fall in love with her. He doesn't need to come to the rescue of the wrong woman. If he makes one false step, he'll never get the chance to accomplish anything. He's the bastard son of a duke, raised in humble circumstances-and he intends to give voice and power to the common people. Oliver Marshall has to do everything right. She'll do anything, even risk humiliation, if it means she can stay unmarried and keep her sister safe.Mr. Even her immense dowry can't save her from being an object of derision.And that's precisely what she wants. No matter how costly they are, her gowns fall on the unfortunate side of fashion. When she's in company, she always says the wrong thing-and rather too much of it. Miss Jane Fairfield can't do anything right. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jeanette Winter offers a playful glimpse into Zaha Hadid's world, inviting the young readers to approach things with Zaha's perspective, who was able to see beyond everyday objects. Determined to succeed, she worked hard for many years, and achieved her goals-and now you can see the buildings Hadid has designed all over the world. But as a Muslim woman, Hadid faced many obstacles. After studying architecture in London, she opened her own studio and started designing buildings. Zaha Hadid grew up in Baghdad, Iraq, and dreamed of designing her own cities. In this children's book, " The World Is Not a Rectangle," with colorful illustrations the author and illustrator Jeanette Winter portrays the life of Zaha Hadid, in this nonfiction picture book, with a selection of her works, and her world of inspirations. ![]() ![]() Those pressures may be why ‘Close Encounters’ remains the only film credited to Spielberg as sole writer and director. ![]() But all these years later, it’s the tricky personal stuff that makes the film remarkable: the depiction of a man crumbling under the pressure of forces he can’t understand the riotous, relatable scenes of madcap family life the sense that it’s a film as much about the pressures of creative inspiration as alien contact. Sure, the story’s thrilling and the set-piece special effects are still unrivalled – the mothership cresting Devil’s Tower stands as one of the few literally jawdropping moments in cinema. This lurking emotional discomfort is just one of the fascinating things about ‘Close Encounters’. For all its dewey-eyed optimism regarding creatures from another world, ‘Close Encounters’ is pretty uncomfortable with the inhabitants of this one.Įveryman hero Roy (Richard Dreyfuss) may be a loveable, star-gazing dreamer, but his wife is a nag who doesn’t understand him, his kids are shrieking pre-pubescent lunatics and let’s not even start on the shady military types who start nosing around following Roy’s night-time run-in with a flying saucer. ![]() As a husband and father, he says he no longer believes in the story of a man who abandons his family to explore the stars. Not too long ago, Steven Spielberg went public with his regrets about the climax of his 1977 science-fiction masterpiece ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tohono Chul says that about 1,500 people came to the garden on Friday night, where they got to see the Cereus greggii go from a small bud to a palm-sized flower right before their eyes. Plant-lovers often gather to celebrate its unfurling, and such gatherings are not a new idea. As the Washington Post writes, “Informal gatherings to witness the annual affair were commonplace in small-town America before World War II.” Local newspapers announced when the cereus buds were swelling and the bloom imminent, and “neighbors and strangers alike arrived for the show.” The night-blooming cereus is known for its ethereal, star-like blossoms, as well its tendency to bloom all at once. And so, last Friday, the garden sent out an email with the subject line: “Bloom Night is Tonight!” Staff at the Tohono Chul garden, a non-profit botanical garden and nature preserve in Tucson, Arizona, often can’t tell when their record-setting collection of Cereus greggiiflowers will unfurl their long, fragrant petals until a few hours before they do. The flowers are a bit of a scientific mystery: They usually bloom on just one night a year, and en masse. On Friday, June 12, the world’s largest private collection of night-blooming cereus plants burst open. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rise, thir Numbers, array of Battel, thir chief Leaders nam'd, according to the Idols known afterwards in Canaan and the Countries adjoyning. SatanĪwakens all his Legions, who lay till then in the same manner confounded They Order and Dignity lay by him they confer of thir miserable fall. Here, not in the Center (for Heaven and Earth mayīut in a place of utter darkness, fitliest call'd Chaos: Here Satan with his Angels lying on the burning Lake,Īfter a certain space recovers, as from confusion, calls up him who next in Presenting Satan with his Angels now fallen into Hell, describ'd Over, the Poem hasts into the midst of things, God, and drawing to his side many Legions of Angels, was by the command of Godĭriven out of Heaven with all his Crew into the great Deep. Or rather Satan in the Serpent who revolting from Wherein he was plac't: Then touches the prime cause of his fall, the Serpent, First in brief, the whole Subject, Mans disobedience, and the loss thereupon of Paradise ![]() |