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This is Jessica’s story. It’s the story of an unforeseen battle that few know about, the greatest tragedy to befall any mother. Jessica Varian, who at the time was recently born again, lost her son. Although it reads as a novel, but this is a real life thriller! These pages of Jessica’s life are absolutely true. In this book Jessica takes readers down a dark path, through three nations. It’s a journey into the mind of a frantic mother who was faced with the unimaginable that shook her faith to the core--the loss of her first-born son Jorge to drugs, to homosexuality and finally, to SUICIDE in 2011. But that is not the end of Jessica’s story. She tells another story as well, the extraordinary story of how God’s light broke through and overcame darkness. This is a story of hope, and it is unlike anything you have ever read.
For anyone who has ever felt (or worse, been told): you've got no business doing that--Jessica Varian Carroll's story will challenge your perspective and inspire you to chase your dreams. As a successful entrepreneur and author of She Had No Business, Jessica transformed her situation against all odds to build a life of significance, service and leadership--all while trailblazing paths for others to do the same. Open, relatable and kind to the core, Jessica shares exactly how she's doing it with grace, honesty and humor in this touching memoir. While raising four children on her own, Jessica Varian Carroll started Organista Home, an award-winning professional organization service that has he...
Documenting arch-conceptualist Mel Bochner's fusion of architecture and quantification Produced in honor of the 50th anniversary of his first Measurement Room, Mel Bochner: Measurements (1968-1971) revisits this defining period early in the New York-based artist's renowned career. One of the most important conceptual artists of the 1960s and 1970s, Bochner (born 1940) applied various abstract systems in his artistic practice. Here, measurements--a numerical means of ordering the world--highlight the interplay of architecture and the viewer's relationship to it. Subverting a simple yet meticulous procedure by rendering it as aesthetics, the work challenges conventional understandings of dimensions in space and by consequence one's place in the world. Here, preparatory drawings, poetic artist's notes and archival photographs of the first Measurement Rooms reveal Bochner's thinking and process beyond this pivotal series while a contemporaneous interview with Elayne Varian and an essay by Dia curator Alexis Lowry add essential context.
When Candice finds a letter addressed to her grandmother in an old attic in South Carolina, she isn't sure she should read it. But the letter describes an injustice that happened decades ago, and the fortune that awaits the person who solves the puzzle. Can Candice decipher the clues to find the fortune, before the answers slip into the past?
Saving the school -- one con at a time. "A political heist page-turner set in middle school? Is that even possible? Varian Johnson shows us how it's done." - Gordon Korman, author of SWINDLE "Do yourself a favor and start reading immediately." - Rebecca Stead, author of WHEN YOU REACH ME Jackson Greene swears he's given up scheming. Then school bully Keith Sinclair announces he's running for Student Council president, against Jackson's former friend Gaby de la Cruz. Gaby wants Jackson to stay out of it -- but he knows Keith has "connections" to the principal, which could win him the presidency no matter the vote count. So Jackson assembles a crack team: Hashemi Larijani, tech genius. Victor Cho, bankroll. Megan Feldman, science goddess. Charlie de la Cruz, reporter. Together they devise a plan that will take down Keith, win Gaby's respect, and make sure the election is done right. If they can pull it off, it will be remembered as the school's greatest con ever -- one worthy of the name THE GREAT GREENE HEIST.
In Roots and Resilience, the authors invite readers to consider an intimate relationship with the California landscape and its history. Ranching in the region goes back centuries, and many of these essayists have long family lineages in the area, while other contributors are newer to the region. Through their authentic voices, these writers provide a lens through which we can better understand the language of this landscape. The editors have drawn together these stories, poems, and musings from ranchers across the state, calling upon real people to share their experiences, and beckoning readers to find a shared understanding concerning often divisive land-use topics. Many perspectives are considered, including those of transplanted suburbanites to seventh-generation heirs. Notably, many women’s writings are including in the book, offering unique and valuable perspectives on ranching culture. Roots and Resilience gives voice to California’s Indigenous, Mexican American, Basque and other European American ranchers, asking the reader to find common ground in the name of land stewardship and conservation.
"The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America guarantees its citizens freedom of speech. This book is an extraordinary, true-life account of two law-abiding gadflies who unwittingly became embroiled in the Mother of All SLAPP2s and refused to be silenced by corporate corruption and judicial malfeasance. Facing financial ruin, death threats and incarceration, these stalwart Americans used the power of the Internet and the words of the World Wide Web to take on the Varian SLAPP terrorists."--Cover.
In 1940 Varian Fry traveled to Marseille carrying a list of imperiled artists and writers he hoped to rescue within a few weeks. Instead, he ended up staying in France working under the veil of a legitimate relief organization to procure false documents, amass emergency funds, and set up an underground railroad
A visionary, maverick, and genuine American business hero, Ken Iverson is one of the most closely-watched business leaders in the world. Credited with single-handedly rejuvenating the rapidly declining American steel industry to the status of world-class producer, Iverson is one of the most successful and, as he likes to point out, one of the lowest-paid CEOs in the U.S. In his long-awaited book, Ken Iverson shares his ideas, observations, and the lessons he's learned about what it takes to grow a super-competitive, world-class organization.
Twelve-year-old Amelia gets the opportunity to attend a boarding school and learn how to use music to create magic, hoping to become a Maestro like her deceased mother.