The Chaco Canyon tapes

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Susan Terkel, Larry Terkel

It's the little things in life that make a big difference!Replace a soft drink with water at just one meal-say, lunch. Over the course of a year, you will drink approximately forty gallons more water, avoid consuming up to 50,000 calories, and save as much as $500. Indeed, just as the stray coins you toss into a jar each evening gradually build into an amount you can use to actually purchase something sub-stantial, small changes-of any kind-can really add up! In Small Change, husband-and-wife writing team Susan and Larry Terkel offer readers a gentle yet powerful program for making significant changes in their lives based on three simple principles:- Small changes are easier than big makeovers. (Each week add just one private dinner with your mate to your schedule and see your relationship improve by leaps and bounds.)- Small changes add up to big benefits over time. (Smile just a little each day and, over time, watch your stress levels decrease, your immune system grow stronger, and your relationships prosper.)- Small changes are more consistent with human nature and evolution. (After all, in the end, the tortoise did beat the hare.)With an emphasis on daily habits, and some simple recipes for improving them, this wise little book outlines a fresh perspective on the timeless quest for sustainable self-improvement and a (relatively painless!) pathway to a better you.

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Mark Powell

Luther Redding lost his job, and almost lost his wife, Pamela, and teenaged daughters Katie and Lucy, when the real estate bubble burst in Florida. Now he pilots a Reaper drone over the mountains of Afghanistan from a command center in the bowels of Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base, studying a target's pattern of life and awaiting the command to end that life. Meanwhile Bobby Rosen has returned home from his tours in Iraq to a broken marriage and an estranged son, his promising military career cut short in a moment of terrible violence in a Sadr City marketplace. As the tales of Luther and Bobby unfold, Mark Powell masterfully engages with the vexing, bifurcated lives of combatants in the global war on terror, those who are simultaneously here and there and thus never fully freed from the life-and-death chaos of the battlefield.

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Qi'ou Maikeli'er (Kyo Maclear) wen

Vanessa's sister, Virginia, is in a "wolfish" mood -- growling, howling and acting very strange. Vanessa tries everything she can think of to cheer her up, but nothing seems to work. Loosely based on the relationship between author Virginia Woolf and her sister, painter Vanessa Bell.

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Jean-Yves Loude, Françoise Malaval

Deux enfants aux origines différentes: Primo est roux et vient du Nord, Tima a les cheveux sombres raides et vient du Sud. L'un et l'autre se rejoignent pour jouer dans un camion abandonné. Le véhicule, immobilisé par un mur de béton qui le traverse, leur sert de décor afin d'explorer, en un jeu de rôle symbolique, divers aspects de leur amour naissant, dont une flûte interdite, que Tima transforme en un serpent menaçant. Inquiets et hésitants, ils iront consulter une vache, un arbre, un loup et un cours d'eau, reconnus pour leur sagesse, afin de vérifier la dangerosité du reptile, dont on évoque à chaque étape, les risques pour l'Homme. [SDM]. Un album complexe faisant de nombreuses références aux symboles culturels, mythologiques et oniriques de l'amour et de la sexualité et auxquels sont confrontés les personnages. Des collages combinant estampes aux robustes traits, papiers artisanaux et aplats de couleurs vives campent le tout dans des décors minimalistes ensoleillés qu'on pourrait associés à une région frontalière divisant les peuples du Nord et du Sud. En émane une leçon de tolérance faisant l'éloge du mélange des cultures, mais aussi une initiation à l'amour et à l'intimité dont on souligne cependant les risques de manière parfois dramatique. [SDM].