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Beautiful People Don't Just Happen: How God Redeems Regret, Hurt, and Fear in the Making of Better Humans
by Scott SaulsFind the freedom from regret, hurt, and fear that God wants for you while discovering joy, relief, and hope as you become the beautiful human he created you to be.We all carry regret, hurt, and fear. These are burdens that weigh us down and make us feel trapped.In twenty-five years of pastoral ministry, Scott Sauls has come alongside countless individuals and communities through weary seasons and circumstances. From his own seasons of regret, hurt, and fear--including battles with anxiety and depression--he knows what it's like to be unfinished and on the mend under Jesus' merciful, mighty healing hand.Beautiful People Don't Just Happen reads like a field guide that can help you: Find hope in how God is drawn toward you, not appalled by you, in your sin and sorrow.Practice emotional health with joy, gratitude, and lament.Quiet shaming, wearying thoughts with God's divine counter-voice.Discover how the defining feeling of faith is not strength but dependent weakness.Learn what the Bible calls "the secret of being content" in every circumstance.Dare to embrace the contentment, hope, and fullness God wants for you--offered to all who will receive it.
Beautiful Piece
by Joseph G. PetersonDuring a deadly Chicago heat wave thatÆs claiming hundreds of lives, Robert, whoÆs stuck in his apartment alone, fears heÆs going to be the next victim. In the apartment above him lives a shell-shocked Vietnam veteran who talks obsessively about the corpses of his war experience while alternately listening to Die Meistersinger and Madama Butterfly. One day, Robert ventures forth into the searing heat to gas up his car. Immediately he encounters enigmatic Lucy who is trying to escape her brutal fianc\u00e9, Matthew Gliss. On a whim, Lucy invites Robert to her apartment where she shows him her mysterious tattoo and tells him of her dangerous life with Matthew Gliss. She warns Robert that if Matthew ever catches them together he should run, not walk, because Matthew wonÆt think twice of killing him. So begins the risky, short-lived relationship that leads to a chilling climax. Each of RobertÆs increasingly hallucinatory recollections of what happened during the heat wave leads him to profoundly question his own culpability.
A Beautiful Place to Die: Martha's Vineyard Mystery #1 (Martha’s Vineyard Mysteries #1)
by Philip CraigMartha&’s Vineyard Mysteries now a movie series on Hallmark Channel starring Jesse Metcalfe! Ex-cop J.W. Jackson searches for answers after a mysterious and deadly boat explosion on Martha&’s Vineyard. During his career as a Boston cop, Jeff &“J.W.&” Jackson saw enough of the evil that men do to last a lifetime. So he retired to the serenity of Martha&’s Vineyard to spend his days fishing for blues. But when a local&’s boat mysteriously explodes off the coast, killing an amiable young drifter, Jackson finds himself reluctantly drawn back into the investigative trade.
A Beautiful Place to Die (Martha's Vineyard Mystery #1)
by Philip R. CraigAs a Boston cop, Jeff Jackson saw enough evil to last a lifetime. So he retired to the serenity of Martha's Vineyard. But when a local's boat explodes, and he is back in the investigative trade.
A Beautiful Place to Die
by Malla NunnAward-winning screenwriter Malla Nunn delivers a stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa, featuring Detective Emmanuel Cooper -- a man caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger for power make life very dangerous indeed. In a morally complex tale rich with authenticity, Nunn takes readers to Jacob's Rest, a tiny town on the border between South Africa and Mozambique. It is 1952, and new apartheid laws have recently gone into effect, dividing a nation into black and white while supposedly healing the political rifts between the Afrikaners and the English. Tensions simmer as the fault line between the oppressed and the oppressors cuts deeper, but it's not until an Afrikaner police officer is found dead that emotions more dangerous than anyone thought possible boil to the surface. When Detective Emmanuel Cooper, an Englishman, begins investigating the murder, his mission is preempted by the powerful police Security Branch, who are dedicated to their campaign to flush out black communist radicals. But Detective Cooper isn't interested in political expediency and has never been one for making friends. He may be modest, but he radiates intelligence and certainly won't be getting on his knees before those in power. Instead, he strikes out on his own, following a trail of clues that lead him to uncover a shocking forbidden love and the imperfect life of Captain Pretorius, a man whose relationships with the black and coloured residents of the town he ruled were more complicated and more human than anyone could have imagined. The first in her Detective Emmanuel Cooper series, A Beautiful Place to Die marks the debut of a talented writer who reads like a brilliant combination of Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene. It is a tale of murder, passion, corruption, and the corrosive double standard that defined an apartheid nation.
Beautiful Platters and Delicious Boards: Over 150 Recipes and Tips for Crafting Memorable Charcuterie Serving Boards
by The Coastal KitchenBeautiful Platters & Delicious Boards will teach you how to craft an array of serving boards sure to satisfy all tastes and budgets!Whether it is a gorgeous assortment of cheeses for a formal dinner party, or a simple afternoon nibble of nuts and sliced fruit, offering up anything on a serving board instantly elevates the moment. This book makes a delicious serving board design within reach no matter the time of day.Inside, you will find:Easy-to-follow recipes for homemade crackers and breads to preserves, dips, spreads, pickles, condiments, and more to add to your charcuterie boardHow-to guides create contrasts of flavor and texture to assemble memorable assortmentsGorgeous photographs to help you select the perfect board presentationExpert advice on elevating your charcuterie boards to new levelsDedicated chapters to each season for creating the perfect serving board no matter the time of yearBeautiful Platters & Delicious Boards makes a delicious serving board within reach no matter the time of day.
The Beautiful Poetry of Football Commentary
by Charlie EccleshareRoma have risen from their ruins!Manolas, the Greek God in Rome!The unthinkable unfolds before our eyes.This was not meant to happen, this could not happen . . . this is happening!Peter DruryIf football is the beautiful game, then commentators are its poets.Whether it's the brevity of Barry Davies, the boundless enthusiasm of Clive Tyldesley or the sheer eloquence of Peter Drury's monologues, the canon of football commentary is replete with memorable lines that would have some of the great classical orators nodding in appreciation. Curated by football journalist Charlie Eccleshare, The Beautiful Poetry of Football Commentary is a glorious anthology of iconic lines, set out as poems, celebrating the best commentators that have ever graced a microphone. Each poem is accompanied by 'scholarly' analysis capturing the enduring power of language on the beautiful game.So, drink it in, and immerse yourself in classic verse from Ali Brownlee, Andy Gray, Brian Moore, David Coleman, John Motson, Jon Champion, Jonathan Pearce, Kenneth Wolstenholme, Martin Tyler, and many more.
The Beautiful Poetry of Football Commentary
by Charlie EccleshareRoma have risen from their ruins!Manolas, the Greek God in Rome!The unthinkable unfolds before our eyes.This was not meant to happen, this could not happen . . . this is happening!Peter DruryIf football is the beautiful game, then commentators are its poets.Whether it's the brevity of Barry Davies, the boundless enthusiasm of Clive Tyldesley or the sheer eloquence of Peter Drury's monologues, the canon of football commentary is replete with memorable lines that would have some of the great classical orators nodding in appreciation. Curated by football journalist Charlie Eccleshare, The Beautiful Poetry of Football Commentary is a glorious anthology of iconic lines, set out as poems, celebrating the best commentators that have ever graced a microphone. Each poem is accompanied by 'scholarly' analysis capturing the enduring power of language on the beautiful game.So, drink it in, and immerse yourself in classic verse from Ali Brownlee, Andy Gray, Brian Moore, David Coleman, John Motson, Jon Champion, Jonathan Pearce, Kenneth Wolstenholme, Martin Tyler, and many more.
Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry
by David Orr"David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr’s a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of us who mostly just admire it from afar." —Tom Perrotta Award-winning New York Times Book Review poetry columnist David Orr delivers an engaging, amusing, and stimulating tour through the world of poetry. With echoes of Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer, Orr’s Beautiful & Pointless offers a smart and funny approach to appreciating an art form that many find difficult to embrace.
Beautiful Portrait Painting in Oils: Keys to Mastering Diverse Skin Tones and More
by Chris SaperHow to paint oil portraits like the Old Masters Mona Lisa. Girl with a Pearl Earring. Madame X. The infinite variety and beauty of humankind--like the mysteries behind sparkling eyes, a sly smile or an averted gaze--has captivated artists since the beginning of time. This expanded edition of Chris Saper's best-selling guide, Classic Portrait Painting in Oils, reveals keys for mastering how to paint beautiful portraits in oil to create soulful works of art. Through easy-to-follow lessons and expert oil painting tips and techniques, you'll find secrets for working from life, using reference photos and more to create rich, realistic portraits imbued with timeless character.14 step-by-step demonstrations teach how to paint 7 diverse subjects of varying skin tones from life and from photographic referenceAdditional exercises reveal expert oil painting techniques for defining facial details, like eyes, mouths, wrinkles, facial hair and eyeglassesProfessional tips for working from life, including ideal session times, posing, seeing and mixing color and even how to work with childrenThe basics of using natural, artificial, creative and "Rembrandt" lighting to light your subject and convey a moodExpanded key concepts of "perfect practice," the importance of regularly painting subjects in real time and an insistence on excellent photographic reference material, including a checklist for how to take--and self-edit--your own quality photosNew material on how to approach and execute paid commissions, including step-by-step demonstrations for painting both corporate and family subjectsThrough Saper's universal techniques, painters of all skill levels will learn to render more realistic portraits of every subject they paint, with predictable and joyful results.
The Beautiful Possible: A Novel
by Amy Gottlieb“Deeply felt and evocative. . . . Alive with characters and unafraid to examine ambiguous emotional complexities, this a moving debut.” —Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Interestings and BelzharSpanning seventy years and several continents, this epic, enthralling novel tells the braided love story of three unforgettable characters. In 1946, Walter Westhaus, a German Jew who spent the war years at Tagore’s ashram in India, arrives at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, where he meets Sol Kerem, a promising rabbinical student. A brilliant nonbeliever, Walter is the perfect foil for Sol’s spiritual questions—and their extraordinary connection is too wonderful not to share with Sol’s free-spirited fiancée Rosalie. Soon Walter and Rosalie are exchanging notes, sketches, and secrets, and begin a transcendent love affair. Months later they shatter their impossible bond, retreating to opposite sides of the country—Walter to pursue an academic career in Berkeley and Rosalie and Sol to lead a congregation in suburban New York. A chance meeting years later reconnects Walter, Sol, and Rosalie—catching three hearts and minds in a complex web of desire, heartbreak, and redemption“I’ve never read anything quite like this lyrical and infinitely wise novel. . . . If books could shimmer, this one would.” —Elizabeth Berg, author of The Dream Lover“[A] meditation on faith and religion, on love and faithfulness, on feminism, on the times in which the characters lived, and on the meaning of life . . . a truly satisfying novel.” —San Francisco Book Review“An ambitious study of faith, doubt, and desire both erotic and spiritual.” —Kirkus Reviews
The Beautiful President is too Proud: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Shi NianOnce I accidentally broke into her bathroom with a document for the beautiful director, so I had my first chemical interaction with her, which led to the interweaving of love and emotion, and so on and so forth. We broke through the restricted area only to discover that she had an important secret, and that her relationship with the mayor was very complicated.
The Beautiful Pretender
by Melanie DickersonAfter inheriting his title from his brother, the margrave has two weeks to find a noble bride. What will happen when he learns he has fallen for a lovely servant girl in disguise? The Margrave of Thornbeck has to find a bride, fast. He invites ten noble born ladies who meet the king's approval to be his guests at Thornbeck Castle for two weeks, a time to test these ladies and reveal their true character. Avelina has only two instructions: keep her true identity a secret and make sure the margrave doesn't select her as his bride. Since the latter seems unlikely, she concentrates on not getting caught. No one must know she is merely a maidservant, sent by the Earl of Plimmwald to stand in for his daughter, Dorothea. Despite Avelina's best attempts at diverting attention from herself, the margrave has taken notice. And try as she might, she can't deny her own growing feelings. But something else is afoot in the castle. Something sinister that could have far worse--far deadlier--consequences
Beautiful Princess Stirs the World: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Xue RanHanJiangTranscending, and she had actually become a noble princess consort!She had originally wanted to live a peaceful life, but who would have expected those people to plot and plot every step of the way and even want her life!From then on, the proud daughter of heaven no longer hid.She had become the focus of everyone's attention, attracting countless princes and their descendants.Faced with so many suitors, she disdained them. "Back then, you all despised me, but now, I despise you all. Hmph, scram as far away as you can!"
Beautiful Princess Stirs the World: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Xue RanHanJiangTranscending, and she had actually become a noble princess consort!She had originally wanted to live a peaceful life, but who would have expected those people to plot and plot every step of the way and even want her life!From then on, the proud daughter of heaven no longer hid.She had become the focus of everyone's attention, attracting countless princes and their descendants.Faced with so many suitors, she disdained them. "Back then, you all despised me, but now, I despise you all. Hmph, scram as far away as you can!"
Beautiful Princess Stirs the World: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Xue RanHanJiangTranscending, and she had actually become a noble princess consort!She had originally wanted to live a peaceful life, but who would have expected those people to plot and plot every step of the way and even want her life!From then on, the proud daughter of heaven no longer hid.She had become the focus of everyone's attention, attracting countless princes and their descendants.Faced with so many suitors, she disdained them. "Back then, you all despised me, but now, I despise you all. Hmph, scram as far away as you can!"
Beautiful Princess Stirs the World: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Xue RanHanJiangTranscending, and she had actually become a noble princess consort!She had originally wanted to live a peaceful life, but who would have expected those people to plot and plot every step of the way and even want her life!From then on, the proud daughter of heaven no longer hid.She had become the focus of everyone's attention, attracting countless princes and their descendants.Faced with so many suitors, she disdained them. "Back then, you all despised me, but now, I despise you all. Hmph, scram as far away as you can!"
Beautiful Princess Stirs the World: Volume 5 (Volume 5 #5)
by Xue RanHanJiangTranscending, and she had actually become a noble princess consort!She had originally wanted to live a peaceful life, but who would have expected those people to plot and plot every step of the way and even want her life!From then on, the proud daughter of heaven no longer hid.She had become the focus of everyone's attention, attracting countless princes and their descendants.Faced with so many suitors, she disdained them. "Back then, you all despised me, but now, I despise you all. Hmph, scram as far away as you can!"
Beautiful Province
by Clarence CooA fifteen-year-old boy decides to accompany his severely depressed high school French teacher on a road trip to the Canadian province of Quebec, where the mother tongue of Voltaire and Balzac is still spoken and cherished. Clarence Coos mesmerizing new play is a delicious amalgam of farce and tragedy, a carnival funhouse with very dark corners. Wildly inventive and heartbreakingly sad, the strange odyssey of Jimmy and the unpredictable Mr. Green takes many surprising turns, crossing the border from reality into unreality and back again while encountering displaced characters from history, literature, and the mundane, often dangerous world. Selected by Tony Award-winning playwright John Guare ("House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation, "and others) from over 1,000 submissions from 29 countries, Clarence Coos "Beautiful Province "is the sixth winner of the DC Horn Foundation/Yale Drama Series Prize. In his foreword, Guare calls Coos work "elusive and haunting . . . funny, desperate, insane," praising it for "its intriguing story and] its tone, sustained to the very end. " Lyrical and adventurous, "Beautiful Province "is an outstanding new theatrical work, well deserving of these accolades and more.
A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
by Frank WilczekDoes the universe embody beautiful ideas?Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this "beautiful question." With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wilczek's groundbreaking work in quantum physics was inspired by his intuition to look for a deeper order of beauty in nature. In fact, every major advance in his career came from this intuition: to assume that the universe embodies beautiful forms, forms whose hallmarks are symmetry--harmony, balance, proportion--and economy. There are other meanings of "beauty," but this is the deep logic of the universe--and it is no accident that it is also at the heart of what we find aesthetically pleasing and inspiring.Wilczek is hardly alone among great scientists in charting his course using beauty as his compass. As he reveals in A Beautiful Question, this has been the heart of scientific pursuit from Pythagoras, the ancient Greek who was the first to argue that "all things are number," to Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and into the deep waters of twentiethcentury physics. Though the ancients weren't right about everything, their ardent belief in the music of the spheres has proved true down to the quantum level. Indeed, Wilczek explores just how intertwined our ideas about beauty and art are with our scientific understanding of the cosmos.Wilczek brings us right to the edge of knowledge today, where the core insights of even the craziest quantum ideas apply principles we all understand. The equations for atoms and light are almost literally the same equations that govern musical instruments and sound; the subatomic particles that are responsible for most of our mass are determined by simple geometric symmetries. The universe itself, suggests Wilczek, seems to want to embody beautiful and elegant forms. Perhaps this force is the pure elegance of numbers, perhaps the work of a higher being, or somewhere between. Either way, we don't depart from the infinite and infinitesimal after all; we're profoundly connected to them, and we connect them. When we find that our sense of beauty is realized in the physical world, we are discovering something about the world, but also something about ourselves.Gorgeously illustrated, A Beautiful Question is a mind-shifting book that braids the age-old quest for beauty and the age-old quest for truth into a thrilling synthesis. It is a dazzling and important work from one of our best thinkers, whose humor and infectious sense of wonder animate every page. Yes: The world is a work of art, and its deepest truths are ones we already feel, as if they were somehow written in our souls.
Beautiful Questions in the Classroom: Transforming Classrooms Into Cultures of Curiosity and Inquiry (Corwin Teaching Essentials)
by Warren Berger Elise FosterHelping students ask bigger, more beautiful questions Why does engagement plummet as learners advance in school? Why does the stream of questions from curious toddlers slow to a trickle as they become teenagers? Most importantly, what can teachers and schools do to reverse this trend? Beautiful Questions in the Classroom has the answers. Written to be both inspirational and practical, this resource will help educators transform their classrooms into cultures of curiosity. Readers will find: · Strategies to inspire bigger, more beautiful student questions · Techniques to help educators ask more beautiful questions · Real-world examples, case studies, practical ideas, and question stems · Videos showing strategies at work
Beautiful Questions in the Classroom: Transforming Classrooms Into Cultures of Curiosity and Inquiry (Corwin Teaching Essentials)
by Warren Berger Elise FosterHelping students ask bigger, more beautiful questions Why does engagement plummet as learners advance in school? Why does the stream of questions from curious toddlers slow to a trickle as they become teenagers? Most importantly, what can teachers and schools do to reverse this trend? Beautiful Questions in the Classroom has the answers. Written to be both inspirational and practical, this resource will help educators transform their classrooms into cultures of curiosity. Readers will find: · Strategies to inspire bigger, more beautiful student questions · Techniques to help educators ask more beautiful questions · Real-world examples, case studies, practical ideas, and question stems · Videos showing strategies at work
Beautiful quotes of my life.: Motivate Your Inner Soul
by Debarati DuttaHUMANITY IS THE FIRST THING.. READ AND THINK, MOTIVATE POSITIVELY, FAULT LIES IN THE BASIC CAUSE, WHICH CAUSE DEPRESSION, UNHAPPINES, ILL MENTAL HEALTH . ELEMINATE IT AND LIVE HAPPY..
The Beautiful Race: The Story Of The Giro D'italia
by Colin O'BrienA celebration of the Giro d'Italia in all its kaleidoscopic glory after more than one-hundred stagings of this glorious race. Born of tumult in 1909, the Giro d'Italia helped unite a nation. Since then, it has reflected it's home country—the Giro's capricious and unpredictable nature matches the passions and extremes of Italy itself. A desperately hard race through a beautiful country, the Giro has bred characters and stories that dramatize the shifting culture and society of its home. There was Alfonsina Strada, who cropped her hair and raced against the men in 1924, or Ottavio Bottecchia, expected to challenge for the winner's "Maglia Rosa," the famed pink jersey, in 1928, until he was killed on a training ride—most likely by Mussolini's Black Shirts. And what would a book about the Giro d'Italia be without Fausto Coppi, the metropolitan playboy with amphetamines in his veins, guided by a mystic blind masseur, who seemed to glide up the peaks. But let us not forget his arch rival Gino Bartali—humble, pious and brave. It recently emerged that he smuggled papers for persecuted Jewish Italians. Then there is the Giro's most tragic hero, Marco Pantani, born to climb but fated to lose. Halted only by World Wars, the Giro has been contested for over a century, and The Beautiful Race is a richly written celebration of this legendary race.
Beautiful Redemption (Caster Chronicles #4)
by Kami Garcia Margaret Stohl<P>Is death the end . . . or only the beginning? <P>Ethan Wate has spent most of his life longing to escape the stiflingly small Southern town of Gatlin. He never thought he would meet the girl of his dreams, Lena Duchannes, who unveiled a secretive, powerful, and cursed side of Gatlin, hidden in plain sight. And he never could have expected that he would be forced to leave behind everyone and everything he cares about. <P>So when Ethan awakes after the chilling events of the Eighteenth Moon, he has only one goal: to find a way to return to Lena and the ones he loves. Back in Gatlin, Lena is making her own bargains for Ethan's return, vowing to do whatever it takes -- even if that means trusting old enemies or risking the lives of the family and friends Ethan left to protect. Worlds apart, Ethan and Lena must once again work together to rewrite their fate, in this stunning finale to the Beautiful Creatures series.