In Attitude, Coach Wright shares some of the leadership secrets that have enabled Villanova, a private university with an undergraduate enrollment of less than 6,500, to thrive in the hypercompetitive world of college athletics. In his twentieth season with the Villanova program, including a five-year stint as an assistant to Coach Rollie Massimino, Coach Jay Wright had achieved his lifelong dream-and witnessed the culmination of a decades-long effort to build a culture of winning around a set of core values. When Kris Jenkins sank a three-pointer at the buzzer to win the 2016 NCAA Tournament, it was a victory not just for a team and its coach but for an entire program. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BLOOMBERG From the coach of the 20 NCAA Tournament–winning Villanova University men’s basketball team comes a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a champion, along with lessons from his coaching career and the story of his personal road to success.
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Then there’s the Christian influence, the followers of which instantly see Krampus as none other than Satan himself. Krampus’s acolytes are referred to as Belsnickels, which is not Norse in origin but German, brought over by early immigrants to America from that country. Those familiar with Norse mythology will encounter many familiar personas (some directly and others by reference): there’s Odin, Loki, Hel, Geri, Freki, Huginn, Muninn, and others. Though the legend of Krampus cuts across different cultures and takes many forms as a result, Brom selects a decidedly Norse leaning interpretation of the horned creature. Though the beginning is a tad shaky, as we are introduced to the main character Jesse, once the disparate pieces start falling into place I was pleasantly surprised to find a wide array of characters with rich personalities and motives and a story that portrays Krampus as everything one would expect: he is both good and terrible, with qualities that make him, in many cases, as human as you or I. I went into this one with neither the highest expectations nor the foggiest idea what direction the story might take. Krampus by Brom celebrates the mythology and folklore surrounding the pagan figure of Krampus, the Yule Lord, in a novel that is part fantasy, part horror, and part holiday treat. And very nearby a very large wilderness with lots of animals in it, and sometimes the two meet. SAGAL: Now this is true, South Florida is filled, on the one hand, with an awful lot of people living in their homes near the ocean and all kinds of lovely things. SAGAL: Bob Freer, welcome to WAIT WAIT.DON'T TELL ME! He is the founder of a wild animal shelter in South Florida that was our guest when we visited along with Charlie Pierce, Roxanne Roberts and Paula Poundstone in January of 2005. KASELL: And when that happens, the man to call is Bob Freer. KASELL: Animals can be cute, they can be our friends or they can be lethal threats to our way of life. SAGAL: This week, and this is why you're clapping, it's the WAIT WAIT.DON'T TELL ME! morning zoo. And once again here's your host, at the Chase Bank Auditorium in downtown Chicago, Peter Sagal. CARL KASELL: From NPR and WBEZ-Chicago, this is WAIT WAIT.DON'T TELL ME!, the NPR news quiz. Whimsical, thoughtful, boyishly sarcastic, off-the-cuff. After going through traumatic times, a troubled, socially awkward teenager moves to a new school where he tries to reinvent himself. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. * "Comic artist Emond (Emo Boy) pens an endearing and self-deprecatingly witty debut novel à la illustrated diary. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. Praise for Winter Town :* "Compelling, honest and true-this musing about art and self-discovery, replete with pitch-perfect dialogue, will have wide appeal."- Kirkus, starred review Ana meets Cesar, one of the Ruiz brothers, when she lands in New York City. She is stuck with the sole companionship of Juan and the friends he brings to their apartment. This isolation from the world around her makes Ana feel lonely and homesick. She is initially frightened to leave her apartment or even answer the door. Her new home and neighbourhood are entirely different from her home in the Dominican. When Ana reaches New York City, she feels completely lost. During this time in the Dominican, political turmoil creates more instability and uncertainty. Although Ana has never dreamed of moving to America and doesn’t love Juan, she knows she must do this for her family. Marrying Juan Ruiz brings hope of immigration to America for the Cancion family. The Ruiz family is a prosperous family, according to Dominican standards. Like most arranged marriages, this is done to provide financial benefit to the Cancion family. “How many women get to choose who to marry and can truly dictate their own life? As God is my witness, my daughter will have choices.”ĭominicana is a story about a 15-year-old Dominican girl, Ana Cancion, who is arranged to marry a man twice her age, Juan Ruiz. Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020 And when she assembles a group of like-minded misfits at school and starts a band, Malú finally begins to feel at home. The real Malú loves rock music, skateboarding, zines, and Soyrizo (hold the cilantro, please). Her dad, who now lives a thousand miles away, says things will get better as long as she remembers the first rule of punk: be yourself. On Day One, twelve-year-old Malú (María Luisa, if you want to annoy her) inadvertently upsets Posada Middle School’s queen bee, violates the school’s dress code with her punk rock look, and disappoints her college-professor mom in the process. There are no shortcuts to surviving your first day at a new school-you can’t fix it with duct tape like you would your Chuck Taylors. The First Rule of Punk is a wry and heartfelt exploration of friendship, finding your place, and learning to rock out like no one’s watching. It was written to sell, too option, and yes read, but not to feed or inspire. It was written to be a large-budget movie more than a novel. His weaknesses is he sometimes runs into SciFi cliche, his plots are fairly predictable, and the whole set-up is far too clean. I think the strength of Brown is his characters and his occasionally artful phrase. It is a steroid Space Opera with the subtlety of a freight train filled with frat boys. He's aiming for movie rights, readers, and finds an unplowed row between Harry Potter, the Hunger Games, Divergent, Star Wars, and Game of Thrones. Pierce Brown isn't aiming for great SciFi lit. This isn't Isaac Asimov or Philip K Dick. And, sometimes, what you want is popcorn with butter. Persian Mystic Poem Not great, but good enough. Split the atom's heart, and lo! Within it thou wilt find a sun. This novella has barley over 200 pages but a very well-written storyline and perfect pace. The Christmas Cat is a light and fluffy read! All comments and opinions are entirely my own. I received this book from the author/publisher for the purpose of this review. Humorous and heartwarming, this latest Christmas story from bestselling author Melody Carlson is the perfect gift for pet lovers and anyone in whose heart Christmas holds a special place. Along the way, he may just meet someone who can make him stay. Garrison’s job is to match the cats with the right owners without disclosing the surprise gift. She has left Garrison with some challenging requirements for the future homes of her furry friends–plus a sizeable monetary gift for the new owners. While Garrison hopes to dispense with the task quickly, his grandmother’s instructions don’t allow for speed. When his beloved grandmother passes away a few weeks before Christmas, Garrison goes to her house to sort out her belongings, including six cats who need new homes. After years abroad, Garrison Brown returns home to Vancouver to build a new life. It also offers new approaches by combining cross-genre analysis of poetry and life writing. This project proposes the recovery of queer selves and subjective forms of identification in the work of seven/eight women writers Anne Lister, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Adelaide Anne Procter, Michael Field and Amy Levy, spanning the long nineteenth century. Underexplored links between literary form, the repelling of social restriction and the relationship between literary conventions and non-binary positions are also highlighted to emphasise the radical potential of performative subjects in women’s writing. In refusing this removal this study also aims to open up a space for the consideration of closets as protective and supportive spaces as well as symptoms of oppression. New readings are proposed which acknowledge, define and foreground multi-functional closets, inside and outside of texts. This research proposes original work, which breaks the links between Michel Foucault’s dating of the disciplinary coding of homosexuality and the assumed relationship with the closet. It challenges the removal of the closet from feminist, historicist scholarship and constructions of female sexuality based on an adherence to romantic friendship and lesbian continuum models. ABSTRACT This thesis aims to elucidate previously obscured aspects of nineteenth-century women’s writing, through the development of original approaches to the reading of gender ambiguity, queer subjectivities and non-normative desire. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Who is her one true love? Emma knows she has to listen to her heart. With a husband and a fiance, Emma has to now figure out who she is and what she wants. He's alive, and all these years he's been trying to come home to her. When Emma and Sam get engaged, it feels like Emma's second chance at happiness. Years later, now in her thirties, Emma runs into an old friend, Sam, and finds herself falling in love again. On their first wedding anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter over the Pacific when it goes missing. They build a life for themselves, living life to the fullest and seizing every opportunity for adventure. In her twenties, Emma marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. A moving love story about a woman unexpectedly forced to choose between the husband she has long thought dead and the fiance who has finally brought her back to life - from the bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six |