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  Heroine's Journey (With Anne...

  Star, Niina Niskanen

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  What an amazing episode! My guest Star is here to talk to us about the "heroine's journey". The heroine's journey came about in 1990 when Maureen Murdock, a psychologist published a book called The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness. 
  My guest Star is here to talk to us about Heroine's Journey and we are discussing the heroine's journey in Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables and Jo's heroine's journey in Little Women. I was told that Gilbert's proposal to Anne in the 80s AOGG is almost exactly the same as Laurie's proposal to Jo in 1933 Little Women. Of course, I had to check if this was true and I have recorded these two proposals and mine and Star's reactions. It is an interesting detail and I think it might be one of the reasons why so many people somehow link Anne and Gil and Jo and Laurie together. Oh Hollywood what do you do to us?

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  Pete and the Water Tower

  Jill Penrod

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  Peter doesn’t need mothered… 
  After his mom suffers a brain injury and his dad walks away, Peter Stafford, his big sister Star, and their broken mother move to a small town to live with Pete’s grandmother. While Star fights the changes every step of the way, Peter wants to make this work, but what do you do when your mom thinks like a ten-year-old? 
  Wendy Pickens knows she mothers people. Smothers people. Her younger sister and everyone else point that out all the time. But how can she stop being who she is? When she finds a new guy hiding in the park one morning, all those maternal feelings get going, and not with the best results. Why would God send her Pete, who doesn't think he needs even one mother, let alone two? Does God not know her at all? 
  But their issues are their strengths, and his loss and her smothering might lead them to rescue one another and a few other lost souls along the way. 
  Part of the Snack Cake Chronicles young adult novel series, Pete and the Water Tower is a Christian teen read that's just as appealing to adults. Read them in any order, tales about growing up, growing in faith, and learning to love.

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  You Can't Wear Underpants! - a...

  Justine Avery

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  For the big, grownup boys out there, the potty masters in training, You Can't Wear Underpants! is a cry (the big-boy kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering underpants pride. 
  Each turn of the page reveals an infant, animal, toy or other object obviously not suited for big-boy underpants: "No... YOU can't wear underpants!" Each facing page beams with the brilliance of a self-proud, underpant-wearing hero: "I wear big-boy underpants!" Underpants-wearer or not, all readers will be singing and rejoicing in the household's new mantra—all day long! 
  You Can't Wear Underpants! is a perfect companion to the potty training process at all stages, serving up read-aloud, chant-along fun and motivation, inspiring even the most reluctant to join the celebration and excitement of dropping the diapers and embracing the BIG boy underpants and true toilet independence.

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  A Christmas Inspiration

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

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  Christmas is not in the lights, nor the gifts, nor the glittering decorations—it is in the hands that give, the hearts that open, the kindness that expects nothing in return. A Christmas Inspiration is a tale that shimmers with the quiet beauty of generosity, a story where one small act of warmth illuminates the season far brighter than any candle. With Montgomery's signature grace, the narrative unfolds like freshly fallen snow—soft, luminous, and filled with the hush of something deeply, unmistakably good. This is Christmas distilled to its essence: not what we receive, but what we choose to give.

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  Lost Sci-Fi Books 321 thru 325 -...

  H. G. Wells, Murray Leinster, A....

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  Lost Sci-Fi Books 321 thru 325 - Five Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960sThe Man Who Could Work Miracles by H. G. WellsNobody Saw the Ship by Murray LeinsterThe Venus Evil by Chester S. Geier The Ultimate Vice by A. Bertram ChandlerBlank? by Randall Garrett 

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  Greenbrier Bunker The: The...

  Charles River Editors

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  In October 1962, American spy planes discovered the Soviets were building nuclear missile sites in Cuba, and intelligence officials informed President John F. Kennedy of this on October 16th. It went without saying that nuclear missile sites located just miles off the coast of the American mainland posed a grave threat to the country, especially because missiles launched from Cuba would reach their targets in mere minutes. That would throw off important military balances in nuclear arms and locations that had previously ensured the Cold War stayed cold. Almost all senior American political figures agreed that the sites were offensive and needed to be removed, but how? Ultimately, Kennedy's administration crafted an eventual plan that sought to avoid all-out war: a blockade of Cuba. 
  In the weeks and months following the crisis, Kennedy sought to ease nuclear tensions. By 1963, the first agreement was signed to limit the testing of nuclear devices, and the habit of secretly taping all meetings, phone calls, and other communications continued, due to the great assistance the practice had provided throughout the crisis.  
  As it turned out, October 1962 was probably the closest the Soviet Union and United States came to formally engaging in a war against each other, but of course, the possibility of a destructive nuclear war had been contemplated years before the Cuban Missile Crisis. That doomsday scenario is precisely why the federal government was working on a secret nuclear fallout bunker underneath the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia in the years preceding the crisis. Its existence would remain a secret for decades until being declassified shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and to this day the bunker remains both a source of curiosity and mystery. 

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