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All the Shiny Things

Author : Robin Mahle
Publisher : Harp House Publishing
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-09
Category : Deception
ISBN : 099668302X

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MEET KATIE REID A young woman with a good job and a good life, until she discovers it was all a lie. Now, her desperate search for the truth begins and it will change her forever. A past revealed. A vengeance unleashed. Compelled to dig into a past no one wants to relive, Katie soon turns to Detective Marshall Avery. He is the only one willing to give her the resources she needs to find answers, but those answers could come at a steep price. When her search breathes new life into an old monster-one who has left a trail of innocent blood in his wake-it is too late to turn back. The monster is again unleashed and the FBI must be called upon. Special Agent Nick Scarborough finds himself entangled in a decades-old investigation that has now placed Katie's life in great danger. Katie's desire for retribution has already cost her dearly. So when the tables are turned, will Detective Avery be able to keep her from going too far? *Publisher's Note: This book was previously published as a two-part series, Redwood Violet and All the Shiny Things. Content has been modified to combine both books for this new edition, re-released under HARP House.

The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things

Author : Ann Aguirre
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250078100

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Sage Czinski is trying really hard to be perfect. If she manages it, people won't peer beyond the surface, or ask hard questions about her past. She's learned to substitute causes for relationships, and it's working just fine . . . until Shane Cavendish strolls into her math class. He's a little antisocial, a lot beautiful, and everything she never knew she always wanted. Shane Cavendish just wants to be left alone to play guitar and work on his music. He's got heartbreak and loneliness in his rearview mirror, and this new school represents his last chance. He doesn't expect to be happy; he only wants to graduate and move on. He never counted on a girl like Sage. But love doesn't mend all broken things, and sometimes life has to fall apart before it can be put back together again. . . .

Shiny Things

Author : Leonard Diepeveen,Timothy Van Laar
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789383781

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Shiny objects attract and fascinate us. While they used to derive their power from their rarity, today, shininess is pervasive: its attraction is a foundation of consumer culture and it has attendant effects on our architecture, our conceptions of the body, and our production of spectacle. In Shiny Things, Leonard Diepeveen and Timothy van Laar examine the meanings and functions of shininess in visual art and material culture. Exploring the works of a diverse range of artists--including Anish Kapoor, Olafur Eliasson, Jeff Koons, Carolee Schneemann, Audrey Flack, Fra Angelico, and Gerard ter Borch--the authors open the discourse to topics as disparate as automobiles, Richard Nixon, and Liberace. With accessible writing and a careful application of contemporary theory, this is scholarship that challenges stale thought and will appeal to any progressive thinker looking for new ways to present ideas.

Shiny Things

Author : Amanda Bacon,Anne-Renee Gumley
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780736973670

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What and who should get the best of us? And why is it so enticing to choose lesser things instead of lasting things? As moms we know the magnetic pull to steer away from what’s important and choose what feels irresistible in the moment. In Shiny Things, Amanda Bacon and Anne-Renee Gumley bring to light the distractions moms face every day. Honoring God and loving our families are our highest priority, but sometimes we need help keeping them there. For all of us who find ourselves caught in the cycle of distraction but are looking for a way out, Shiny Things will help us: identify the threat of distractions so we can learn to live with intention resist the pull to be interrupted by non-essentials and focus on God and our priority people purpose to live free from distraction with hearts turned Godward in all we do It’s never too late to take hold of what’s most important. Today’s a great day to start.

Shiny Objects

Author : James A. Roberts
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780062093622

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In Shiny Objects, a cross between In Praise of Slowness and The Tipping Point, consumer behavior expert Professor James A. Roberts takes us on a tour of America's obsession with consumerism—pointing out its symptoms, diagnosing specific problems, and offering a series of groundbreaking solutions. Roberts gives practical advice for how to correct the materialistic trends in our lives which lock us into a cycle of financial hardship and stress. Shiny Objects, a new The Paradox of Choice for the modern reader, is more than a critique of capitalism—it's also an exploration into how we can live happier, fuller, more productive lives today.

Bright Shiny Things

Author : Barbara Nadel
Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780749020187

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'This series has brilliantly established itself and this latest is another masterpiece from Barbara Nadel' CRIMESQUADA friend from the past asks for private investigator Lee Arnold's help in tracing his son: Fayyad al'Barri was last thought to be in Syria having embraced radical Islam. But a cryptic message has prompted his family to believe Fayyad has had a change of heart and is searching for a way back home. With fellow investigator Mumtaz Hakim's help, they might be able to establish contact.From the bright lights of the Western world, to shady boxing clubs and murky online jihadist recruitment, and while violence erupts close to home, Mumtaz and Lee are on an unknown path into the mind of a terrorist, journeying closer to danger than they ever imagined.

Every Shiny Thing

Author : Cordelia Jensen,Laurie Morrison
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781683352495

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In this beautifully constructed middle-grade novel, told half in prose and half in verse, Lauren prides herself on being a good sister, and Sierra is used to taking care of her mom. When Lauren’s parents send her brother to a therapeutic boarding school for teens on the autism spectrum and Sierra moves to a foster home in Lauren’s wealthy neighborhood, both girls are lost until they find a deep bond with each other. But when Lauren recruits Sierra to help with a Robin Hood scheme to raise money for autistic kids who don’t have her family’s resources, Sierra has a lot to lose if the plan goes wrong. Lauren must learn that having good intentions isn’t all that matters when you battle injustice, and Sierra needs to realize that sometimes, the person you need to take care of is yourself.

Butterflies and Shiny Things

Author : Jennifer Woodbeck Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1772773522

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IT'S TIME TO SHINE LIKE A BUTTERFLY! WOMEN DESERVE TO HAVE IT ALL TOO.Butterflies and Shiny Things will teach you how to take care of your money, and earn it your own way. This book is written by a woman, and made for women, so we too can have everything we want in life, while still maintaining a happy and healthy lifestyle. It used to be a man's world, but times have changed. Women should be a part of that world too, and have whatever their hearts desire. Jennifer gives you the tricks of the trade, and shows you how it can be done!"I am very thankful to have had Jennifer advise me about my finances this past year. Taking control over how I invest, what my retirement plans are, and leaving adequate insurance for my children has been the best form of self-care I could have asked for. Working together, we made adjustments to my account or made withdrawals to cover unforeseen expenses and focused, as a team, on what my needs were. Jennifer really took the fear out of financial planning and replaced it with trust. My only wish was that I had done it sooner!"- Joanne Valley, Thunder Bay, Ontario"Life is too short to say 'no' to an opportunity. Always say 'yes, ' then figure it out."- Jennifer Woodbeck ThompsonJennifer Woodbeck Thompson is the consummate financial professional. Not only does she provide the full spectrum of financial products and services, as well as knowledgeable advice, she is also an in-demand speaker and a published author. Jennifer is your Friendly Finance Coach, based in Mississauga, Ontario, and has clients throughout North America

Nine Shiny Objects

Author : Brian Castleberry
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062984425

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION "In this extraordinary novel, Castleberry brilliantly hopscotches from person to person, from era to era, while somehow making all this fancy footwork look effortless and essential." - Jenny Offill, author of Department of Speculation and Weather A luminous debut novel in the tradition of DeLillo and Egan, chronicling the eerily intersecting lives of a series of American dreamers whose unforeseen links reveal the divided heart of a haunted nation—and the battered grace that might lead to its salvation June 26, 1947. Headlines across America report the sighting of nine pulsating lights flying over the Cascade Mountains at speeds surpassing any aircraft. In Chicago, inspired by the news, Oliver Danville, a failed actor now reduced to a mediocre pool hustler, hitchhikes west in a fever-dream quest for a possible sign from above that might illuminate his true calling. A chance encounter with Saul Penrod, an Idaho farmer, and his family sets in motion the birth of “the Seekers”—a collective of outcasts, interlopers, and idealists devoted to creating a society where divisions of race, ethnicity, and sexuality are a thing of the past. When Claudette Donen, a waitress on the lam from her suffocating family, encounters the group, she is compulsively drawn to Oliver’s sister Eileen, but before she is able to join the enigmatic community, it has vanished. Reunited across the country, the Seekers attempt to settle in the suburbs of Long Island. One night, their purpose suddenly revealed, a stranger emerges, and a horrific crime ensues. In the decades that follow, the perpetrators, survivors, and their children will be forced to face the consequences of what happened—a reckoning that will involve Charlie Ranagan, a traveling salesman; Max Felt, a dissolute late-1960s rock star; Alice Linwood, an increasingly paranoid radio host; Stanley West, a struggling African American poet; Marly Feldberg, a Greenwich Village painter; and Debbie Vasquez, a Connecticut teenager trapped by an avalanche of midnight legacies. Each will prove to be a piece of a puzzle that, when assembled, reveals a shocking truth about the clash between the optimism of those who seek inspiration from spacious skies, and the venom of others who relish the underworld—not only via conspiratorial maneuverings, but the literal unearthing of the dead. The result is one of the most exciting, and unforgettable, debut novels in recent memory, and the launch of a major career in American letters.

Belonging

Author : Isabel Huggan
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307369611

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Isabel Huggan’s acclaimed Belonging is pure pleasure to read—richly entertaining, beautifully written, laced with gentle humour and valuable insights acquired during years of world travel. Beginning as a memoir and concluding with three short stories, Belonging illuminates the mysterious manner in which chance and choice together shape our lives. At the book’s core is Isabel Huggan’s stone house set among vineyards in the foothills of the Cévennes mountains in the south of France, from where she contemplates the meaning of home and the importance of remembrance.

All Things Shining

Author : Hubert Dreyfus,Sean Dorrance Kelly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1439101701

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In unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives, and yet our culture offers us no clear way to choose. This predicament seems inevitable, but in fact it’s quite new. In medieval Europe, God’s calling was a grounding force. In ancient Greece, a whole pantheon of shining gods stood ready to draw an appropriate action out of you. Like an athlete in “the zone,” you were called to a harmonious attunement with the world, so absorbed in it that you couldn’t make a “wrong” choice. If our culture no longer takes for granted a belief in God, can we nevertheless get in touch with the Homeric moods of wonder and gratitude, and be guided by the meanings they reveal? All Things Shining says we can. Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly illuminate some of the greatest works of the West to reveal how we have lost our passionate engagement with and responsiveness to the world. Their journey takes us from the wonder and openness of Homer’s polytheism to the monotheism of Dante; from the autonomy of Kant to the multiple worlds of Melville; and, finally, to the spiritual difficulties evoked by modern authors such as David Foster Wallace and Elizabeth Gilbert. Dreyfus, a philosopher at the University of California, Berkeley, for forty years, is an original thinker who finds in the classic texts of our culture a new relevance for people’s everyday lives. His lively, thought-provoking lectures have earned him a podcast audience that often reaches the iTunesU Top 40. Kelly, chair of the philosophy department at Harvard University, is an eloquent new voice whose sensitivity to the sadness of the culture—and to what remains of the wonder and gratitude that could chase it away—captures a generation adrift. Re-envisioning modern spiritual life through their examination of literature, philosophy, and religious testimony, Dreyfus and Kelly unearth ancient sources of meaning, and teach us how to rediscover the sacred, shining things that surround us every day. This book will change the way we understand our culture, our history, our sacred practices, and ourselves. It offers a new—and very old—way to celebrate and be grateful for our existence in the modern world.

Jewels, Jewelry, and Other Shiny Things in the Buddhist Imaginary

Author : Vanessa R. Sasson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824889524

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Renunciation is a core value in the Buddhist tradition, but Buddhism is not necessarily austere. Jewels—along with heavenly flowers, rays of rainbow light, and dazzling deities—shape the literature and the material reality of the tradition. They decorate temples, fill reliquaries, are used as metaphors, and sprout out of imagined Buddha fields. Moreover, jewels reflect a particular type of currency often used to make the Buddhist world go round: merit in exchange for wealth. Regardless of whether the Buddhist community has theoretically transcended the need for them or not, jewels—and the paradox they represent—are everywhere. Scholarship has often looked past this splendor, favoring the theory of renunciation instead, but in this volume, scholars from a wide range of disciplines consider the role jewels play in the Buddhist imaginary, putting them front and center for the first time. Following an introduction that relates the colorful story of the Emerald Buddha, one of the most famous jewels in the world, chapters explore the function of jewels as personal identifiers in Buddhist and other Indian religious traditions; Buddhaghosa’s commentary on the Jewel Sutta; the paradox of the Buddha’s bejeweled status before and after renunciation; and the connection in early Buddhism between jewels, magnificence, and virtue. The Newars of Nepal are the focus of a chapter that looks at their gemology and associations between gems and celestial deities. Contributors analyze the Fifth Dalai Lama’s reliquary, known as the “sole ornament of the world”; the transformation of relic jewels into precious substances and their connection to the Piprahwa stupa in Northern India and the Nanjing Porcelain Pagoda. Final chapters offer detailed studies of ritual engagement with the deity known as Wish-Fulfilling Jewel Avalokiteśvara and its role in the new Japanese lay Buddhist religious movement Shinnyo-en. Engaging and accessible, Jewels, Jewelry, and Other Shiny Things in the Buddhist Imaginary will provide readers with an opportunity to look beyond a common misconception about Buddhism and bring its lived tradition into wider discussion.

Shiny Little Things

Author : Frank Stangle
Publisher : Stillwater River Publications
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1955123454

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Skeeter and Rusty, two teenage boys who are thick as thieves, make a life-changing discovery while playing one night. Neither are ready for what happens next and along with their close friend Alexandria, they spend the next day trying to save themselves, their town, and maybe even the entire world. The three kids embark on an adventure of a lifetime and need to face down an unrelenting foe. They try their best to solve this problem, but every course of action they take seems hopeless, every step forward seemed like two steps back, until they get some help from an unlikely source. Around every turn the group is forced into life-or-death situations. They do learn something about themselves along the way. They learn how a little inner strength, determination and friendship can prevail over all circumstances, and no matter how hard things seem to be at times, never give up. The future is never preset for anyone, especially for the kids. It may not end up how they planned.

shiny gods

Author : Mike Slaughter
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781426761942

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Help your church create a culture and a lifestyle of giving.

Shiny Broken Pieces: A Tiny Pretty Things Novel

Author : Sona Charaipotra,Dhonielle Clayton
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062342447

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Now a Netflix TV show! Featuring a diverse cast of characters, plenty of gossip, lies, and scandal, Shiny Broken Pieces continues with the soapy drama readers loved in Tiny Pretty Things. June, Bette, and Gigi are competing one final time for a spot at the prestigious American Ballet Company. With the stakes higher than ever, these girls have everything to lose…and no one is playing nice. June is starting to finally see herself as a prima ballerina. But being the best could mean sacrificing the love of her life. Legacy dancer Bette is determined to clear her name after she was suspended and accused of hurting her rival, Gigi. And Gigi is not going to let Bette—or the other dancers who bullied her—go unpunished. It all comes down to this last dance. Who will make the cut? And who will lose her dream forever?