![]() ![]() One of my coworkers wrote on the flyleaf, “This book changed the course of my life”-a response repeated by others around the world. We knew in an instant that this was Richard Wurmbrand.Ībout a year earlier, the board of AFCI had read Wurmbrand’s best-selling book, Tortured for Christ (1967). That was what we saw appearing through the door: suit, collar, and hat, with a dark overcoat against the winter chill of August in Sydney. We had seen pictures of our guest-6 feet 3 inches and always in a dark suit, clerical collar, and homburg hat. The door opened, and a figure stood gazing into the crowd. The sliding door opened at intervals a trickle of passengers arriving in Australia made their way into the terminal. ![]() I was standing with the crowd in the international arrivals hall at Sydney Airport, along with two other representatives from Ambassadors for Christ International (AFCI). ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() “When Roger is trying to make peace with dying, he says to Chaz, ‘I’ve had a great life.’ And, boy, did that apply.”Įven though Ebert participated in the filming, he was adamant that James be given final cut over the film. He didn’t know where it would take him, but he was along for the ride. As he says in the, he viewed his life as a movie that was ever unfolding. “And, most profoundly, it’s about his love affair with Chaz. ![]() “But it’s also about his love affair with Chicago and his tortured love affair with Gene Siskel. “I think it’s about Roger’s love affair with movies,” notes the filmmaker. James thinks of “Life Itself” as a love story on several different levels. Moving back and forth in time, just as Ebert’s book does, “Life Itself” chronicles Ebert’s early years at the Sun-Times, his tenure as a screenwriter for B-movie king Russ Mayer, his complicated relationship with Siskel and his advocacy of filmmakers as diverse as Martin Scorsese and Errol Morris (“Fog of War”). When he was X-rayed, doctors discovered that his cancer had spread to his spine. The documentary began filming in December 2012, just as Ebert’s wife Chaz had taken him to a Chicago rehab hospital for a hairline hip fracture. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Anti-Anxiety Workbook: Proven Strategies to Overcome Worry Phobias Panic and Obsessions (The Guilford Self-Help Workbook Series)īy Martin M.Getting Over OCD: A 10-Step Workbook for Taking Back Your Life.Compulsive Acts: A Psychiatrist's Tales of Rituals and Obsessions.OCD Treatment of Asperger's Syndrome & OCD. ![]() Treatment of OCD in Children and Adolescents.The book list is broken down into the following categories, for easier browsing: Books ![]() The IOCDF is an official Amazon Associate and when purchasing a book through one of the links below a portion of that purchase is directed back to the IOCDF. Readers should not view the material in the books as a substitute for care from a professional. The IOCDF does not specifically recommend or endorse any book or its author. The IOCDF does not review or provide this designation to self-help books and memoirs written by consumers or professional books written by professionals. The following list is just a small percentage of all the books out there on OCD and related disorders, and is provided for informational purposes only.īooks with a checkmark ( ) are self-help books written by professionals which meet the IOCDF Book Review Task Force’s criteria for evidence-based self-help books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reaktion Books has an entire book series called Edible dedicated to monograph long treatments of the histories of individual foods. ![]() What single food history books am I missing? Other books that teach us about how the world works and has changed through the lens of a single food include: chicken, the potato, spices, tomatoes, bananas, and booze. In fact, it is Cod that really kicked of the genre of the historical food biography. We have read and loved all of Kurlansky’s previous deep dives into the history, biology, economics, politics, genetics, and literature of specific foods.Īmongst the Kurlansky classics include books on Salt, Oysters, and Cod. There are those amongst us that are guaranteed readers of Mark Kurlansky’s latest book Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas. ![]() Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas by Mark Kurlansky ![]() ![]() ![]() Eugenie handles a Glock as smoothly as she wields a wand, but she needs some formidable allies for a job like this. ![]() Now Eugenie is a hot target for every ambitious demon and Otherworldy ne'er-do-well, and the ones who don't want to knock her up want her dead. Hired to find a teenager who has been taken to the Otherworld, Eugenie comes face to face with a startling prophecy-one that uncovers dark secrets about her past and claims that Eugenie's first-born will threaten the future of the world as she knows it. Her most recent case, however, is enough to ruin her appetite. ![]() No love life to speak of for months, then all at once, every horny creature in the Otherworld wants to get in your pants.Įugenie Markham is a powerful shaman who does a brisk trade banishing spirits and fey who cross into the mortal world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Merci’s relationship with Lolo is heartbreakingly beautiful and will particularly strike readers who can relate to the close, chaotic, and complicated bonds of live-in grandparents. Medina writes about the joys of multigenerational home life (a staple of the Latinx community) with a touching, humorous authenticity. ![]() ![]() At home, Merci’s beloved Lolo begins to act erratically, and it becomes clear something secret and serious is happening. What’s worse is that her assigned buddy is Michael Clark, a new tall white boy in her class. At school, Merci has to deal with condescending mean girl Edna Santos, who loves to brag, boss around her friends, and throw out hurtful comments that start with “No offense….” Although Merci wants to earn money so that she can afford a new bike, she’s stuck volunteering for Sunshine Buddies, in which current students mentor new ones. Instead of a stately mansion, Merci lives with her parents and older brother, Roli, in one of three identical homes next to her Cuban-American extended family: Abuela and Lolo, Tía Inéz, and her rambunctious little twin cousins. Merci navigates the challenges of being a scholarship kid at a posh South Florida private school and the expectations of and responsibilities to her intergenerational family.Įleven-year-old Merci Suárez isn’t the typical Seaward Pines Academy sixth-grader. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Published in 1954, Christy Brown's ground-breaking poetic autobiography ‘My Left Foot’ resonates today with messages that bring the ICF to life vividly and memorably. The World Health Organization's 2001 reconsideration of ‘disability’ (the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health or ICF) has spawned considerable uptake and adaptation of contemporary concepts, notably with the ‘F-Words for Childhood Disability’ (now the ‘F-words for Child Development’). ![]() Remarkably, 70 years ago, the ideas now taking root were expressed with poignant clarity by Ireland's Christy Brown, providing lessons that were there to be learned, illustrating why ‘My Left Foot’ remains a singular contribution to the literature about child development and disability. The field of childhood disability has undergone a sea-change in the past two decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() When a deer heart appears on the coffin of a royal governess who did not confess to the dreadful sin it represents, the older Sin Eater refuses to eat it. Orphaned and friendless, apprenticed to an older Sin Eater who cannot speak to her, May must make her way in a dangerous and cruel world she barely understands. For the crime of stealing bread, fourteen-year-old May receives a life sentence: she must become a Sin Eater-a shunned woman, brutally marked, whose fate is to hear the final confessions of the dying, eat ritual foods symbolizing their sins as a funeral rite, and thereby shoulder their transgressions to grant their souls access to heaven. ![]() "For fans of The Handmaid's Tale.a debut novel with a dark setting and an unforgettable heroine.is a riveting depiction of hard-won female empowerment" (The Washington Post).The Sin Eater walks among us, unseen, unheard Sins of our flesh become sins of Hers Following Her to the grave, unseen, unheard The Sin Eater Walks Among Us. ![]() ![]() ![]() For her, descriptions and reports of war crimes are unsettlingly banal: “Incidents like that aren’t out of the ordinary, or, let us say, they happen in contexts like this. In the second section, set apparently in the present day, an unnamed woman reads about the crime in the newspaper, and for reasons she cannot quite understand, feels compelled to try and find out what happened, using only some maps of the area to guide her.įor the unnamed woman narrator in the second part, the crime we read in the first catches her eye because of the date it occurs on: August 13, her birthday. They bring the one young woman back to camp with them, and though the officer appears to consider how to keep her safe, she is repeatedly gang raped and eventually murdered. ![]() ![]() While undertaking routine patrol, some soldiers encounter a group of Arabs and immediately kill the men in the group. The novel is written in two parts: the first is set in August 1949, a year after the Nakba, as an Israeli officer oversees the clearing of the Negev Desert and the establishment of the border with Egypt. ADANIA SHIBLI’S SLIM NOVEL Minor Detail is an intense and penetrating work about the profound impact of living with violence, whether it occurred in the past or contemporaneously. ![]() ![]() ![]() Victoria had been missing for several weeks, and when the earl finally finds her and brings her home, she is surprised to find it is the real life scene and home that was in the picture of her future. Victoria wakes up to find herself transported to 1897 where she is the Countess of Guildford, married to Nicholas Thornhill, Earl of Guildford. Nick stays in the hospital, not wanting to leave Victoria alone. He has always had a special feeling for the painting that caught Victoria’s fancy, as well as his two prized portraits (which look exactly like the woman who had just entered his gallery). When an explosion takes place, she falls into a coma and is rushed to the hospital. The story opens in the present when Victoria enters an art gallery to find a special picture and a very special man, though she doesn’t really know what they represent. ![]() Reviewed by Trudi LoPreto for Readers' Favoriteįorever Mine is a lovely romance traveling from the present back to the past of 1897. ![]() |