![]() ![]() A therapist’s primary function, Yalom says, is to “remove obstacles” that stand in the way of a client’s natural growth and healing process (1).I found it extremely helpful and can’t wait to put the lessons contained here into practice. This is the first book I’ve read for my graduate program that felt like we were finally getting into the nuts and bolts of how therapy works.Written with tremendous spirit, deep compassion, and candid intelligence, The Gift of Therapy is an essential examination of one of modern life’s most challenging and rewarding vocations. The text’s many concise and enlightening chapters cover a range of topics that unveil Yalom’s therapeutic theory and practice, focusing on his experiences with individual therapy, group therapy, and existential therapy. ![]() Yalom’s The Gift of Therapyis a guidebook written for people entering the psychotherapy profession. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I just love reading fairy tales and if I find that a book is even loosely based on a fairy tale, well, I just have to go and read it, even if it means jumping my scheduled reads! Her latest adventure is writing about her love of animals. When not writing, she can usually be found either curled up in her recliner with her cat and a good book, or in the kitchen baking sourdough bread or bagels. Sharon was born and raised in Washington and currently lives on the Olympic Peninsula with her husband. She has hit Amazon’s top fifty ranking and her books have been #1 in sales for contemporary romance, action adventure, and non-fiction animal books. Also published in foreign languages, and audiobooks. ![]() ![]() Sharon Kleve is a best-selling Northwest author who has published twenty-four stories and they are available in eBook, paperback and hardcover. ![]() ![]() ![]() Under the name of Dawn Cook, she writes the Decoy Princess and Truth series, published in the first few years of the 21st century. ![]() The Rachel Morgan urban fantasy series is set in an alternate history in which a worldwide pandemic caused by genetically modified tomatoes led to the death of a large portion of the world's human population. She has also published traditional fantasy under the name Dawn Cook. Harrison is best known as the author of the New York Times #1 best selling Hollows urban fantasy series, but she has also published over two dozen books spanning the gamut from young adult, accelerated-science thriller, anthology, and a unique, full-color world book, and has scripted two original graphic novels set in the Hollows universe. Kim Harrison (born 1966) is a pen name of American author Dawn Cook. Harrison at a book-signing event for A Perfect Blood, Ann Arbor, Michigan ![]() ![]() " These Savage Shores transports elements of Dracula to the Silk Route of the 1700s, bringing that text’s themes of xenophobia into an entirely new light and melding it with far older legends of India." - Paste Magazine But he will soon find that the ground along the Indus is an ancient one with daemons and legends far older than himself.Ĭollects the complete, bestselling five issue series.įrom bestselling and award-winning writer Ram V (Eisner Award winner Blue in Green (Image Comics), The Many Deaths of Laila Starr (BOOM! Studios), Grafity's Wall (Dark Horse), Batman,Detective Comics, Justice League Dark, Swamp Thing, Catwoman (DC Comics), and Venom (Marvel)) and star artist Sumit Kumar ( Justice League Dark, Justice League, Batman (DC Comics)) comes the savagely haunting tale of blood and vengeance. An old evil now sails aboard a company ship, hoping to make a home in this new found land. Two centuries after the first European ship sailed to the Malabar Coast and made landfall at Calicut, The East India Company seeks to secure its future along the lucrative Silk Route, in the year 1766. ![]() But along the shores of the Indus lurk darker and more ancient powers, and a war is brewing in the night.ĪLONG THESE SAVAGE SHORES, WHERE THE DAYS ARE SCORCHED AND THE NIGHTS ARE FULL OF TEETH. In 1766 an insatiable vampire sails from London to the Malabar Coast, aboard an East India Company ship. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a boy, he was teased for his appearance and high-pitched voice, which often made him feel isolated, and he later wrote a story about a boy named Hans who gets made fun of as a child. Some of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales are autobiographical.Īccording to scholars, the tale of The Ugly Duckling reflects Andersen’s own feelings of alienation. Here are seven surprising facts about Andersen’s life and legacy that you won't find in the children's section of a bookstore. However, few people know much about the man behind these famous fairy tales-a man who endured many hardships and, by some accounts, transformed his pain into art. Famed Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) is recognized around the world for his beloved books, including The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina, The Little Match Girl, The Princess and the Pea, and many others. ![]() |