God Never Blinks

God Never Blinks
Author: Regina Brett
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2010-04-13
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0446569674

Already an internet phenomenon, these wise and insightful lessons by popular newspaper columnist and Pulitzer Prize finalist Regina Brett will make you see the possibilities in your life in a whole new way. When Regina Brett turned 50, she wrote a column on the 50 lessons life had taught her. She reflected on all she had learned through becoming a single parent, looking for love in all the wrong places, working on her relationship with God, battling cancer and making peace with a difficult childhood. It became one of the most popular columns ever published in the newspaper, and since then the 50 lessons have been emailed to hundreds of thousands of people. Brett now takes the 50 lessons and expounds on them in essays that are deeply personal. From "Don't take yourself too seriously-Nobody else does" to "Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift," these lessons will strike a chord with anyone who has ever gone through tough times--and haven't we all?

Blink & Caution

Blink & Caution
Author: Tim Wynne-Jones
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2011-03-08
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0763654558

Two street kids get tangled in a plot over their heads - and risk an unexpected connection - in this heart-pounding thriller by Tim Wynne-Jones. (Age 14 and up) Boy, did Blink get off on the wrong floor. All he wanted was to steal some breakfast for his empty belly, but instead he stumbled upon a fake kidnapping and a cell phone dropped by an "abducted" CEO, giving Blink a link to his perfect blonde daughter. Now Blink is on the run, but it’s OK as long as he’s smart enough to stay in the game and keep Captain Panic locked in his hold. Enter a girl named Caution. As in "Caution: Toxic." As in "Caution: Watch Your Step." She’s also on the run, from a skeezy drug-dealer boyfriend and from a nightmare in her past that won’t let her go. When she spies Blink at the train station, Caution can see he’s an easy mark. But there’s something about this naïve, skinny street punk, whom she only wanted to rob, that tugs at her heart, a heart she thought deserved not to feel. Charged with suspense and intrigue, this taut novel trails two deeply compelling characters as they forge a blackmail scheme that is foolhardy at best, disastrous at worst - along with a fated, tender partnership that will offer them each a rare chance for redemption.

What You Missed While Blinking

What You Missed While Blinking
Author: Rachel Wolchin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020-11-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781999588946

Infamous Instagram and social media author, Rachel Wolchin's debut collection of poetry and prose, What You Missed While Blinking, is a culturally relatable voyage of self-discovery and spiritually conscious living. In her transformative and easy to integrate photographic novel, Rachel expands on topics such as pain, growth, self-forgiveness, self-love, as well as love and forgiveness of others and all things, explaining that where there is the most pain there is also the most room for growth. Her inspirationally compassionate messages of encouragement reveal how the patterns we repeat are continuously reflected back to us in the form of different people and situations so that we can become aware and objectively grow from them. Rachel reminds us that the most powerful transformations occur through the desire to heal from our past.What You Missed While Blinking takes readers along a journey filled with moments of both darkness and Light. It is in these moments--between each blink of our eyes--where we gain the clarity and certainty we need to face any challenge, and the power to redefine the life we are meant to live.

Blinking Lights and Other Revelations: The Story of Eels

Blinking Lights and Other Revelations: The Story of Eels
Author: Tim Grierson
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2012-01-19
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0857127470

Blinking Lights is the first biography of an extraordinary band, Eels. Writer, Tim Grierson, gives an in-depth examination of their extensive career, insight into their remarkable lives, and a detailed discography of their work. Over the last 15 years, Mark Everett’s band has released nine acclaimed albums, from Beautiful Freak to 2010’s Tomorrow Morning. Everett is one of music’s most fascinating characters and Blinking Lights covers his unusual childhood, the tragedy of his sister’s suicide, his relationship with his brilliant mathematician father, and his initial struggles to succeed in the music industry. Featuring interviews with those close to Everett – who gave his blessing – to those closest to him, including former band members.

On Blinking

On Blinking
Author: Jeremy Fernando
Publisher: punctum books
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2012-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 908170916X

"On Blinking" opens a dossier on seeing. It looks not only to the epistemological sense of what it means to see or the hermeneutical sense of what is the meaning of that which is seen but attends to various sites of knowledge-photography, literature, and philosophy. And in doing so, it questions the privileging of presence and sight in Western thought. Thus, this book, through the essays- "Emerging Sight, Emerging Blindness" (Brian Willems); "Augen, Blicke, Stätten" (Julia Hölzl); "At the risk of love" (Jeremy Fernando); and "Suspended in a Moving Night: Photography, or the Shiny Relation Self-World" (Jessica Aliaga Lavrijsen)- attempts to address the question what is seeing.

Blinking Red

Blinking Red
Author: Michael Allen
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2013-09-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1612346162

After the September 11 attacks, the 9/11 Commission argued that the United States needed a powerful leader, a spymaster, to forge the scattered intelligence bureaucracies into a singular enterprise to vanquish AmericaÆs new enemiesùstateless international terrorists. In the midst of the 2004 presidential election, Congress and the president remade the postûWorld War II national security infrastructure in less than five months, creating the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and a National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). Blinking Red illuminates the complicated history of the bureaucratic efforts to reform AmericaÆs national security after the intelligence failures of 9/11 and IraqÆs missing weapons of mass destruction, explaining how the NSC and Congress shaped the U.S. response to the 9/11 attacks. Michael Allen asserts that the process of creating the DNI position and the NCTC is a case study in power politics and institutional reform. By bringing to light the legislative transactions and political wrangling during the reform of the intelligence community, Allen helps us understand why the effectiveness of these institutional changes is still in question.

Rising Sun Blinking

Rising Sun Blinking
Author: Jose Maria Lacambra
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2010-03-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1450203272

In the middle of 1942, the Japanese landed in Iloilo, deep in the heart of the Philippine Archipelago. Earlier, like a skittish octopus, the Japanese Empire had spread its tentacles across the islands, after the last American strongholds of Bataan and Corregidor had fallen. Jose Lacambra was only eleven years old when the Japanese occupied Iloilo. His firsthand account of the adventures and rites of passage were drawn from a diary he kept during those war years. With wry wit and a sharp memory for detail, he re-creates the horror, adventure and excitement of those unforgettable years, describing them all with a novelists skill and style.

The Mystery Of The Blinking Eye

The Mystery Of The Blinking Eye
Author: Kathryn Kenny
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2005-05-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375830529

The Bob-Whites, plus their friends from Iowa, add detective work to their New York City sightseeing trip after Trixie helps a stranger and receives, as thanks, a purse containing a cryptic prophecy and a promise of great fortune.