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  First We Make the Beast...

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  This is a concise summary and analysis of First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, by Sarah Wilson. It is not the original book and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Sarah Wilson. Ideal for those seeking a quick and insightful overview.
   
  "First, We Make the Beast Beautiful" is a profound and deeply personal exploration of anxiety and mental health. The book redefines anxiety as a force that, while challenging, can lead to profound personal growth and self-awareness. Through a blend of personal anecdotes, philosophical insights, and practical advice, the author takes readers on a journey to understand and embrace their anxiety. The book emphasizes that anxiety can be a source of strength and beauty, offering a new perspective on how to navigate life’s challenges with resilience and hope.

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  Rewrite Your Life - Discover...

  Jessica Lourey

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  Learn the Art of Storytelling“A step-by-step guide for writers struggling to create fiction from their life . . . delivers on its promise with such honesty, simplicity, and beauty.”—William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author
   
  #1 Bestseller in Self-Help, CreativityShortlisted for an Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction!
   
  Tender, raw, and laugh-out-loud funny, Rewrite Your Life offers both a map and a compass for those seeking to harvest their life experiences to heal, lead a more authentic life, and craft a rich, powerful work of fiction.
   
  According to common wisdom, we all have a book inside of us. But how do we select and then write our most significant story—the one that helps us to evolve and invites pure creativity into our lives? In Rewrite Your Life, creative writing professor, sociologist, and popular fiction author Jess Lourey guides you through the redemptive process of writing a healing novel that recycles and transforms your most precious resources—your own emotions and experiences.
   
  There’s more to writing that meets the eye. This fact-to-fiction process provides not only the essential building blocks of bestselling novels but is also personally transformative. Based on the process the author developed and field-tested in the wake of her husband’s suicide, Rewrite Your Life is devoted to the practice of discovering, healing, and evolving through fiction writing. It combines research, practical and engaging guidance, and personal experience to meet readers where they are and take their creativity and personal growth to the next level.
   
  Rewrite your life teaches you to:
   
  Navigate the inner process to telling a storyUse tools and tactics to master fiction writingUncover the stories through your experiencesIf you have read books such as Save the Cat! Writes a Novel, How to Be Heard, or Story Power, you will love Rewrite Your Life.

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  Dome of the Rock The: The...

  Charles River Editors

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  Among the world’s most recognizable man-made structures, the Dome of the Rock – known in Arabic as the Qubbat as-Sakara – is also one of its most mysterious. Although much of the Dome’s construction, reconstruction, and later additions are well-known from historical texts and archeological work, what it represents, why it was built where it was, and even its use remain the subject of scholarly controversy. Known for its immense size and beauty, and also for being located in the middle of Jerusalem, one of the world’s holiest cities, the Dome of the Rock has been the focus of political leaders who wished to legitimize their rule, religious warriors who believed that it empowered their weapons, and pilgrims who thought it was a site of salvation and enlightenment. As it drew these often diverse and sometimes disparate people to it, it has served the purposes of devout Jews, Muslims, and Christians, who -- although often not peacefully sharing the site -- seem to recognize its spiritual importance. 
  The Dome of the Rock has been many things to many people over the centuries, and historians, art historians, and archaeologists have studied the Dome of the Rock and its background extensively. Academics have created an accurate chronology of its life, as well as details about how the monument was built, including the construction and artistic techniques that were used. The dome was built on the site of what is believed to have been the Solomonic Temple that the Israelites built to worship their god, Yahweh, setting the stage for the entire area to be a holy site for the Abrahamic religions over the following centuries. Historians believe that the Umayyad Muslims saw this background as a prime location to build one of the greatest religious complexes in the Islamic world.

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  The Midnight Locker -...

  D.L. Hartley

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  The Midnight Locker: Something’s Hiding at Hallowbrooke Elementary 
  At Hallowbrooke Elementary, the hallways fall silent after dark—except for the sound coming from locker #109. Every night at exactly midnight, it creaks open… even though no one’s touched it in years. 
  Fifth-grader Avery Quinn never believed in ghost stories—until strange things started happening at school. Desks rearranged themselves. Whispers echoed from empty rooms. And students began seeing shadows move where no one stood. 
  When Avery and a group of curious classmates decide to investigate the mysterious locker, they uncover a decades-old secret buried deep within the school’s history—a secret that someone, or something, wants to keep hidden. 
  Now, the kids must unlock the truth before the darkness inside the locker escapes for good. 
  A spine-tingling middle-grade mystery full of suspense, friendship, and eerie twists, The Midnight Locker is perfect for fans of Goosebumps, Stranger Things, and Coraline.

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  Racial Emotion at Work -...

  Tristin K. Green

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  This timely book unravels race and emotion in the workplace—exploring why racial emotion is often left out of equity conversations and why we must confront it. 
   
   
   
  Racial Emotion at Work is an invitation to understand our own emotions and associated behaviors around race—and much more. With this surprising and timely book, Tristin K. Green takes us beyond diversity trainings and other individualized solutions to discrimination and inequality in employment, calling for sweeping changes in how the law and work organizations treat and shape racial emotions. 
   
   
    
  Green provides listeners with the latest research on racial emotions in interracial interactions and ties this research to thinking about discrimination and disadvantage at work. We see how our racial emotions can result in discrimination, and how our institutions—the law and work organizations—value and skew our racial emotions in ways that place the brunt of negative consequences on people of color. It turns out we need to reset our institutional and not just our personal radars on racial emotion to advance racial justice. Racial Emotion at Work shows how we can rise to the task.

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  American Poetry - A Very Short...

  David Caplan

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  With lively writing and illuminating examples, David Caplan argues that two characteristics mark the vast, contentious literature. On the one hand, several of America's major poets and critics claim that America needs a poetry equal to the country's distinctiveness. They advocate for novelty and for a break with what is perceived to be outmoded and foreign. On the other hand, American poetry welcomes techniques, styles, and traditions that originate from far beyond its borders. The force of these two competing characteristics, American poetry's emphasis on its uniqueness and its transnationalism, drives both individual accomplishment and the broader field. These two characteristic features energize American poetry, quickening its development into a great national literature that continues to inspire poets in the contemporary moment. 
   
   
   
  American Poetry: A Very Short Introduction moves through history and honors the poets' artistry by paying close attention to the verse forms, meters, and styles they employ. Examples range from Anne Bradstreet, writing a century before the United States was founded, to the poets of the Black Lives Matter movement. This concise examination of American poetry enriches our understanding of both the literature's distinctive achievement and the place of its most important writers within it.

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