Thursday, July 29, 2010
Read the first 8 chapters from “I Am Number Four”
By Julie Wiegan
Read the first 8 chapters from the book here:
I Am Number Four 8 chapters
I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore will be in bookstores on August 3, 2010 and is currently being adapted into a film which is due out in 2011.
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
I Am Number Four
By Sara Moore
In the beginning, nine aliens left their home planet of Lorien when it fell under attack by the evil Mogadorian. These nine aliens came to Earth and look like ordinary teenagers living ordinary lives, but have extraordinary, paranormal skills.
The Nine had to separate and go into hiding. The Mogadorian caught Number One in Malaysia, Number Two in England, and Number Three in Kenya. All of them were killed. John Smith, of Paradise, Ohio, is Number Four. He knows that he is next.
Read the first 9 pages from the book here:
I Am Number Four
I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore will be in bookstores on August 3, 2010 and is currently being adapted into a film which is due out in 2011.
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Monday, January 11, 2010
This is the year to keep your New Year’s Resolutions!
According to Brook Noel, life management expert and bestselling author of the new book The Make Today Matter Makeover, more than 80% of New Year’s resolutions are abandoned by late February. This is because most people see resolutions as another pressure in their already pressure-filled lives. Here are some of Noel’s tips for keeping your resolutions:
Aim for improvement, not perfection
Many people make rigid goals such as exercising everyday for 20 minutes or drinking 60 ounces of water everyday. Everyday is a lot of days! When setting a goal, it’s important to optimize your opportunity for success and also create the opportunity to exceed your goal. If you set a goal for 7 days per week, it is impossible to exceed the goal. Instead, set a goal for 5 days or less per week.
Take control of your time
Schedule the time you will need to complete your goal on your planner. Obviously, this goal is important to you or you wouldn’t have set it. Respect this “goal time” as you would any other appointment.
Be accountable
Whether it is an online group, a friend, a coach, a doctor, a spouse, or a child – share your goal plan with someone who will hold you accountable. You can visit BrookNoel.com for online groups and programs to help you stay on target.
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Angry Fat Girls
By Julie Wiegan
Frances Kuffel lost 188 pounds and documented that weight loss in her first book Passing for Thin. But when she gained over half of those pounds, Kuffel formed new friendships with four women in similar situations through the power of the internet, which she chronicles in her new book Angry Fat Girls.
Calling themselves the “Angry Fat Girlz,” Frances, Lindsay, Katie, Mimi, and Wendy, ask themselves and each other the difficult questions: Who am I inside all this weight? How much am I allowed to enjoy myself, and how much do I have to deny myself? What could I do if I was thin? The book is a funny and painfully honest memoir about these five women as they diet and eat, lose and gain, and struggle to find their individual definition of freedom along the way.
ANGRY FAT GIRLS: 5 Women, 500 Pounds and a Year of Losing It… Again
A Memoir by Frances Kuffel
January 5, 2010
Berkley Hardcover
$23.95
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Mildred Muhammad is no longer Scared Silent
By Abbey Khan
They say behind every man is a woman, and this was the case of John Allen Muhammad, aka the DC Sniper. When Muhammad randomly killed 10 people in 2002 in the DC metro area, he was really gunning for his ex-wife Mildred Muhammad.
In her memoir Scared Silent: When the One You Love Becomes the One You Fear, Mildred opens up about their tumultuous twelve-year marriage, how John kidnapped their three children and went on the run for 18 months, and how John threatened to kill her. “I knew he could kill. He was a military man and had fought in a war. I also knew that he had promised to kill me because he believed I had taken his children away from him,” she writes. “And I knew John to be a man of his word when it came to a threat or a promise of revenge… But I did not foresee, not even in my wildest nightmare, that John would ever kill people who had nothing to do with me or our troubled marriage.”
Mildred writes about the John she met and the John he had become, whose troubling behavior started after returning from military duty in the Persian Gulf in the early 90’s. “I was accustomed to living with a John who was typically enthusiastic and expressive… Instead, the John who returned from the Gulf acted like somebody had run over him and flattened him out,” writes Mildred. “The first thing he told me was that he wanted to get out of the military. He sounded completely disillusioned and discouraged by the military. He said, ‘The United States is wrong, and I don’t want to be a part of this madness anymore.’ He told me about his anger at having to dismantle bombs that our country had given Saddam Hussein. ‘How do you know they were our equipment?’ I asked him. ‘They had USA stamped on them,’ he replied.”