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The Art of Keeping Cool

2017-05-16 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2017-05-16
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Art of Keeping Cool by : Janet Taylor Lisle

Download or read book The Art of Keeping Cool written by Janet Taylor Lisle. This book was released on 2017-05-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The War At Home Fear permeates the Rhode Island coastal town where Robert, his mother, and sister are living out the war with his paternal grandparents: Fear of Nazi submarines offshore. Fear of Abel Hoffman, a German artist living reclusively outside of town. And for Robert, a more personal fear, of his hot-tempered, controlling grandfather. As Robert watches the townspeople's hostility toward Hoffman build, he worries about his sensitive cousin Elliot's friendship with the artist. And he wonders more and more about the family secret everyone seems to be keeping from him—a secret involving Robert's father, a bomber pilot in Europe. Will Elliot's ability to detach himself from the turmoil around him be enough to sustain him when prejudice and suspicions erupt into violence? And can Robert find his own way to deal with the shocking truth about his family's past?

The Art of Keeping Cool

2008
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Release : 2008
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Agnes Parker-- Keeping Cool in Middle School

2007 Interpersonal relations
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Release : 2007
Genre : Interpersonal relations
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Book Rating : 786/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Agnes Parker-- Keeping Cool in Middle School by : Kathleen O'Dell

Download or read book Agnes Parker-- Keeping Cool in Middle School written by Kathleen O'Dell. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agnes Parker tries to maintain her old persona and keep a low profile in middle school, but her best friend Prejean's problems, persistent harassment from the eighth-grade boys, and a friendship with an interesting boy in her art class make it difficult.

De ira

2019-02-19 Philosophy
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Release : 2019-02-19
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 950/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis De ira by : Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Download or read book De ira written by Lucius Annaeus Seneca. This book was released on 2019-02-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman Seneca In his essay “On Anger” (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC–65 AD) argues that anger is the most destructive passion: “No plague has cost the human race more dear.” This was proved by his own life, which he barely preserved under one wrathful emperor, Caligula, and lost under a second, Nero. This splendid new translation of essential selections from “On Anger,” presented with an enlightening introduction and the original Latin on facing pages, offers readers a timeless guide to avoiding and managing anger. It vividly illustrates why the emotion is so dangerous and why controlling it would bring vast benefits to individuals and society. Drawing on his great arsenal of rhetoric, including historical examples (especially from Caligula’s horrific reign), anecdotes, quips, and soaring flights of eloquence, Seneca builds his case against anger with mounting intensity. Like a fire-and-brimstone preacher, he paints a grim picture of the moral perils to which anger exposes us, tracing nearly all the world’s evils to this one toxic source. But he then uplifts us with a beatific vision of the alternate path, a path of forgiveness and compassion that resonates with Christian and Buddhist ethics. Seneca’s thoughts on anger have never been more relevant than today, when uncivil discourse has increasingly infected public debate. Whether seeking personal growth or political renewal, readers will find, in Seneca’s wisdom, a valuable antidote to the ills of an angry age.

Cool for America

2020-07-07 Fiction
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Release : 2020-07-07
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 237/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Cool for America by : Andrew Martin

Download or read book Cool for America written by Andrew Martin. This book was released on 2020-07-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding the world of his classic-in-the-making debut novel Early Work, Andrew Martin’s Cool for America is a hilarious collection of overlapping stories that explores the dark zone between artistic ambition and its achievement The collection is bookended by the misadventures of Leslie, a young woman (first introduced in Early Work) who moves from New York to Missoula, Montana to try to draw herself out of a lingering depression, and, over the course of the book, gains painful insight into herself through a series of intense friendships and relationships. Other stories follow young men and women, alone and in couples, pushing hard against, and often crashing into, the limits of their abilities as writers and partners. In one story, two New Jersey siblings with substance-abuse problems relapse together on Christmas Eve; in another, a young couple tries to make sense of an increasingly unhinged veterinarian who seems to be tapping, deliberately or otherwise, into the unspoken troubles between them. In tales about characters as they age from punk shows and benders to book clubs and art museums, the promise of community acts—at least temporarily—as a stay against despair. Running throughout Cool for America is the characters’ yearning for transcendence through art: the hope that, maybe, the perfect, or even just the good-enough sentence, can finally make things right.

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