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"Jana Rubio and her best friend, Maddy Parsons, have an epic senior year finale queued up: catching their favorite band at the Orchards, an outdoor music festival a two-hour drive away. When a blow-up over Maddy's time-sucking boyfriend exposes a rift that may have already been growing between them, Jana calls off their joint trip and gets a lift to the festival from her church friend Nathan . . . only to realize Maddy and her boyfriend are along...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Eliot Brown & Maureen Farrell's The Cult of We
In The Cult of We (2021), Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell detail the different forms of corruption that took hold of WeWork, the once-heralded office rental company, including reckless spending, unprofessional behavior, lack of organization, and constant changes of executives and managers and their responsibilities. The work environment was challenging, especially...
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"We Philologists" is an early text written by Friedrich Nietzsche around 1874, but it was only published after his death in 1900. The title refers to philology - the study of ancient languages - which was Nietzsche's academic specialty prior to venturing into philosophy full-time. In this intriguing early paper, Nietzsche describes his fellow philologists' physical and mental proclivities with the barbed frankness which soon became his signature style....
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Olivia Rodrigo may be young, but she's already a global pop superstar. Her emotional ballads and edgy bangers have proven to be anthems for people of all ages who can relate to the agony of a bad breakup ("Drivers License"), or the sting of seeing your ex with a new love ("Jealousy, Jealousy"), or feeling incredibly hurt as a result of someone’s unexpected betrayal ("Vampire"). It’s that authenticity that allows
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As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment-the end of a breath, the end of a day, the end of a relationship, and ultimately the end of life. And accompanying each ending is a beginning, though it may be unclear what the beginning holds. In How We Live Is How We Die, Pema Chödrön shares her wisdom for working with this flow of life-learning to live with ease, joy, and compassion through uncertainty, embracing new beginnings,...
13) Here we go again
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"A queer rom-com following once childhood best friends forced together to drive their former teacher across the country"--
15) Together We Fall
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"Ich würde es nicht ertragen, sie mit in meine Dunkelheit zu ziehen. Lieber lebte ich in einer Welt, in der ich sie nie würde haben können, als dass ich das Risiko einging, Valerie zu zerbrechen."
Kunststudentin Valerie kann es nicht fassen: Ihre Abschlussarbeit wird von Graham Harper, DEM Shootingstar der New Yorker Kunstszene, zerrissen. Er war ihr großes Vorbild - doch jetzt empfindet Valerie nur noch Abscheu und möchte ihn zur Rede stellen....
16) United We Kill
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Humankind is under the gravest threat in its history.
The enemy Naxli keep advancing, taking humans prisoner and destroying human worlds. But this isn't the Naxli's first rodeo, and humanity is not alone.
Other races have suffered at the hands of the enemy, and they've proposed that humanity join them and present a united front to defeat the Naxli once and for all.
The Congress of Humanity deploys the First Human Expeditionary Brigade to join with...
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"Brother and Sister Bear are very excited to be going back to school, but there's one big question on their minds: who will be their new teacher? Why, it's none other than Miz Bearly, known for giving lots of homework, loving pop quizzes, and always looking a bit grouchy. But the cubs soon realize that Miz Bearly can also make learning fun, and if they just give her a chance, they may even find this tough teacher is a big softy at heart"--