A lighthearted, well-organized guide to forging a new life.
In this debut manual, the author uses his personal struggles to illustrate strategies for improving perspectives, feelings, and courses of action.
Wdowiak knows a thing or two about life lessons. Beginning this work with his own story, he describes the key lessons he learned after getting his high school girlfriend pregnant, marrying her, and raising a child at the age of 17. Employing this pivotal event as a tipping point, the author dives into the topic of self-help, focusing on the concept of the New You. The New You is something Wdowiak describes as a possibility for anyone, despite limitations or lack of resources. The author presents three stages of the transformation to the New You: Crawling, Walking, and Running. Crawling is assuming responsibility for your choices and deeds. Walking is modifying your mindset and thoughts. Running is taking action to achieve your goals. In describing this multifaceted journey, Wdowiak skillfully writes about cognizance: “Let’s say you are driving down a highway and there was a warning sign making you aware that an upcoming bridge was closed. You wouldn’t suddenly become paralyzed by fear, or freak out and crash, or keep driving towards and off the bridge, would you?” An openness to warning signs, teachings, and advice helps an individual create a better life, the author explains. Thus, becoming offended is a red flag that signifies people are stuck in traps, refusing to challenge their beliefs. While the manual is not scientific in nature, it is optimistic and easy to read and should provide an excellent reminder for anyone enmeshed in a rut to start making positive changes. The conversational book deftly encourages readers who need an extra boost of confidence while working on alterations.
A lighthearted, well-organized guide to forging a new life.Pub Date: Feb. 18, 2018
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 132
Publisher: FriesenPress
Review Posted Online: July 3, 2018
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.
Greed, depravity, and serial murder in 1920s Oklahoma.
During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal members holding "headrights" that could not be bought or sold but only inherited. This vast wealth attracted the attention of unscrupulous whites who found ways to divert it to themselves by marrying Osage women or by having Osage declared legally incompetent so the whites could fleece them through the administration of their estates. For some, however, these deceptive tactics were not enough, and a plague of violent death—by shooting, poison, orchestrated automobile accident, and bombing—began to decimate the Osage in what they came to call the "Reign of Terror." Corrupt and incompetent law enforcement and judicial systems ensured that the perpetrators were never found or punished until the young J. Edgar Hoover saw cracking these cases as a means of burnishing the reputation of the newly professionalized FBI. Bestselling New Yorkerstaff writer Grann (The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, 2010, etc.) follows Special Agent Tom White and his assistants as they track the killers of one extended Osage family through a closed local culture of greed, bigotry, and lies in pursuit of protection for the survivors and justice for the dead. But he doesn't stop there; relying almost entirely on primary and unpublished sources, the author goes on to expose a web of conspiracy and corruption that extended far wider than even the FBI ever suspected. This page-turner surges forward with the pacing of a true-crime thriller, elevated by Grann's crisp and evocative prose and enhanced by dozens of period photographs.
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.Pub Date: April 18, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-385-53424-6
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Doubleday
Review Posted Online: Feb. 1, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2017
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
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