Champion by Emmy Chandler7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() “I look forward each semester to applauding their efforts, and we all take pride in the results of their hard work. "The success of our student-athletes in the classroom has always been one of the crown jewels of our athletics program,” stated UTC Vice Chancellor & Director of Athletics Mark Wharton. ![]() This is the fifth time in the last seven terms Chattanooga has posted a 3.2 or higher. The Mocs' top 10 semesters in the classroom have all come in the last five years. This is the 18th time in the last 19 semesters, and the 10th straight overall, UTC has posted over a 3.0 GPA. The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Athletics Department continued its tradition of outstanding work in the classroom in the spring of 2023 with a 3.20 overall student-athlete grade-point-average. ![]()
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Patron saints of nothing cover7/5/2023 ![]() This last part is a bit far-fetched so maybe not so perfect, but I’ll let this one slide. ![]() His friend, Seth, smokes pot, but Jay somehow has the willpower to not succumb to peer pressure. Patron Saints of Nothing is about a 17-year-old boy named Jay, who’s just been accepted into the University of Michigan but doesn’t seem all that excited to be going. Purchase: Amazon | A Summary of Patron Saints of Nothing But I was looking for a good book on the Philippines, and Patron Saints of Nothing had such a high rating (4.35) on Good Reads that I couldn’t pass it up. ![]() Except for the Harry Potter books, I don’t usually read young adult novels (YA novels–books written for people ages 12 to 18). Almost a perfect ending.Īnd never in a million years would I have expected the perfect book to be one written for teens. ![]() Patron Saints of Nothing has got every element a book needs to be perfect. I think I’ve found it-the perfect novel for you during the beginning of hopefully a better 2021. ![]() Cutting for stone review7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Verghese gives us his first novel, Cutting for Stone. I was smitten all over again.Īnd now 10 years later, Dr. Verghese read at a small bookstore in Knoxville after The Tennis Partner was published, and I have to say that he reads just like he writes. Again, Verghese's writing is simply exquisite. This memoir details his relationship with his medical student and tennis partner, who, like many in the medical profession, becomes a drug addict. I was excited several years later when The Tennis Partner was published. Verghese is a tremendous writer, full of lyrical medicine and poetry. My Own Country is the powerful book that came out of his experiences dealing with people, mostly men, coming home to the mountains to die. Verghese was discovering a huge pocket of AIDS cases in upper East Tennessee, and he became the local AIDS expert. ![]() About the same time that most of the U.S. I was a college student, and he was a young doctor specializing in infectious diseases at the Veterans' Hospital, where I used to take walks. Verhese and I were living in the same town in upper East Tennessee (Johnson City) at the same time-in the mid-to-late 1980s. I became enamored with him in the early 1990s with his memoir My Own Country. I have to say, right off the bat, that I am a huge fan of Abraham Verghese. I don't know if it's possible for me to do this book justice in a review. ![]() ![]() Which is when Whit takes off in the dead of night. When Whit gets into trouble one night, Summer invites him in. Fills her with a longing she doesn't understand. But his intense gaze traps her under a spell. Beautiful Summer Savage has no time for Whit. A page turning blend of combustible chemistry, a strong sassy heroine, dark desires and red-hot steam' 5***** Reader Review _ Whit Lancaster is the cold, heartless and devastatingly handsome bad boy at Lancaster Prep. I'm literally STILL thinking about it after reading it TWICE!!' 5***** Reader Review 'Dark, twisty, and utterly enthralling. 'Whit and Summer's chemistry is absolute fire from the beginning. From the bestselling author of A Million Kisses In Your Lifetime, this is the deliciously dark Lancaster Prep novel that will have you hanging onto every word. ![]() Moon-Bright Tides by RoAnna Sylver7/5/2023 ![]() Expect to see the occasional wedding related post!Īfter a little over a week of Hawaiian vacation bliss, it was rough coming back home and getting back into the swing of things (especially as I was rolling right into my second busy season at work). Now we have loads of wedding planning ahead of us (I have done pretty much nothing aside from buying a wedding planning binder and downloading The Knot wedding planning app) but come spring we will definitely have to kick the planning into high gear (though we’re not targeting a date until 2019). Max and I got engaged during our trip! Granted, it wasn’t really a surprise (when you’ve been with someone for ten years you expect to get engaged at some point) but it was a perfect combination of a birthday trip/engagement-moon (yes, I’m making that a thing). ![]() ![]() Is it just me, or did January feel like an EXTREMELY long month? Between work, my birthday, going on vacation, and settling into the new year, I feel like it’s already been 2018 for quite a while! We started out the year with a vacation to Hawaii and some other exciting news… ![]() Goodnight June by Sarah Jio7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() While sorting through Ruby’s stock, June comes across letters exchanged in the 1940s between Ruby and her best friend, children’s author Margaret Wise Brown. She is attracted to Gavin, who owns the adjoining restaurant, and an encounter with her estranged sister, Amy, forces June to confront unresolved issues from the past. At first, the pragmatic June intends to sell the store, but events conspire to change her mind. ![]() After an alarming health episode, doctors warn her to change her ways, but she only takes an enforced break when she receives a letter from a law firm in her hometown of Seattle informing her that her great-aunt Ruby has died and that she has inherited her bookstore. June Andersen is a career-driven New York banker teetering on the edge. ![]() The power of now author7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Paperback, Large Print (April 6th, 2010): $33.The concept of self-reflection and presence in the moment. Accessing the deepest self, the true self, can be learned, he says, by freeing ourselves from the conflicting, unreasonable demands of the mind and living present, fully, and intensely, in the Now. The Power of Now presents itself as a discussion about how people interact with themselves and others. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment Tolle, Eckhart Published by New World Library (2004) ISBN 10: 1577314808 ISBN 13: 9781577314806 New Softcover Quantity: 1 Seller: Irish Booksellers (Portland, ME, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Condition: New. In The Power of Now he shows readers how to recognize themselves as the creators of their own pain, and how to have a pain-free existence by living fully in the present. The Power of Now (1997) offers a specific method for putting an end to suffering and achieving inner peace, living fully in the present and separating. ![]() ![]() Tolle took another ten years to understand this transformation, during which time he evolved a philosophy that has parallels in Buddhism, relaxation techniques, and meditation theory but is also eminently practical. World-renowned spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle conveys simple wisdom that transcends any particular religion, doctrine, or guru. In The Power of Now, already a word-of-mouth bestseller in Canada, the author describes his transition from despair to self-realization soon after his 29th birthday. Eckhart Tolle is emerging as one of today's most inspiring teachers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dolphin loves Marigold and thinks she is wonderful and unique, while Star is embarrassed by Marigold's tattoos and erratic behaviour. Marigold, an avid lover of tattoos, has bipolar disorder and also has a drinking problem. ![]() Plot ġ1-year-old Dolphin and her older half-sister, 13-year-old Star, live with their mother, Marigold, in a small council flat in London. Delacorte Press published the first American edition only in 2005. īy 2001 translations had been published in Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, and Catalan. Wilson and The Illustrated Mum won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, judged by a panel of British children's writers. The title is a reference to The Illustrated Man, a 1951 book of short stories by Ray Bradbury, also named for tattoos. ![]() Set in London, the first person narrative by a young girl, Dolphin, features her manic depressive mother Marigold, nicknamed "the illustrated mum" because of her many tattoos. The Illustrated Mum is a children's novel by English author Jacqueline Wilson, first published by Transworld in 1999 with drawings by Nick Sharratt. ![]() In the night kitchen illustrations7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() Pure delight for young children." - Booklist "The story of Mickey's nighttime adventure in the bakers' kitchen is a highly original dream fantasy deliciously playful illustrations chantable, easily remembered text. "A celebration of the primal, sensory world of childhood and an affirmation of its imaginative potency," proclaimed Children's Books and Their Creators. He escapes in a plane made of bread dough and helps the bakers find the milk at last. The bakers in the night kitchen need more milk for their batter, but then Mickey falls into the cake! They decide to put him in the oven anyway, but Mickey has different plans. "Milk in the batter! Milk in the batter! We bake cake and nothing’s the matter!" the bakers sing. In the Night Kitchen is the classic story of Mickey's adventures in the bakers’ kitchen as they prepare our morning cake. This comic fantasy will delight readers of all ages with playful illustrations and an imaginative world only Sendak could create. From the acclaimed author-artist Maurice Sendak comes a Caldecott Honor-winning tale of a fantastical dream world. ![]() Grishaverse book 37/4/2023 ![]() Now her hopes lie with the magic of a long-vanished ancient creature and the chance that an outlaw prince still survives. The Darkling rules from his shadow throne while a weakened Alina Starkov recovers from their battle under the dubious protection of the zealots who worship her as a Saint. Saint.The nation's fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army. See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with Shadow and Bone, now a Netflix original series.Įnter the Grishaverse with Book Three of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom. But as she begins to unravel the Darkling's secrets, she reveals a past that alters her understanding of the bond they share and the power she wields". ![]() Alina forges new alliances as she and Mal search for Morozova's last amplifier. ![]() About the Book "The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne. ![]() |