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The usual rules by joyce maynard6/12/2023 He takes her back with him to California, where she re-invents her life: Wendy now lives more or less on her own in a one-room apartment with a TV set and not much else. Through the eyes of thirteen-year-old Wendy, we gain entrance to the world rarely shown by those who documented the events of that one terrible day: a family's slow and terrible realization that Wendy's mother has died, and their struggle to go on with their lives in the face of such a crushing loss.Ībsent for years, Wendy's real father shows up without warning. An hour later comes the news: A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center-her mother's office building. Wendy is heading to school, eager to make plans with her best friend, worried about how she looks, mad at her mother for not letting her visit her father in California, impatient with her little brother and with the almost too-loving concern of her jazz musician stepfather. It's a Tuesday morning in Brooklyn-a perfect September day.
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The codebreaker isaacson6/12/2023 Like Lab Girl on steroids, The Code Breaker paints a detailed picture of how scientists work. With his dynamic and formidable style, Isaacson explains the long scientific journey that led to this tool’s discovery and the exciting developments that have followed, noting, “In the history of science, there are few real eureka moments, but this came pretty close.” It’s a hefty but inspiring book that chronicles Doudna’s and others’ development of the gene-editing tool CRISPR. That’s exactly the feeling you’ll have while reading Walter Isaacson’s marvelous biography The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race. When Doudna read James Watson’s book The Double Helix as a sixth grader, she realized that “science can be very exciting, like being on a trail of a cool mystery and you’re getting a clue here and a clue there. Instead, Doudna followed her passion and pursued biochemistry, inspired by her childhood explorations of beaches, meadows and lava flow caves in her hometown of Hilo, Hawaii. Thank goodness Jennifer Doudna didn’t listen to her high school guidance counselor, who told her that girls don’t do science.
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The oleander sword by tasha suri6/12/2023 On the other hand, Priya left the shadows of her life as a servant, embracing her power and becoming an Elder of Hirana. When we last saw our heroines, Princess Malini had turned her bloodthirsty brother’s dreams of fires into his worst nightmares as she set his army ablaze. It does let your attention drift from the pages, but the desire to know what happens next brings you back. The story’s pacing changes from moment to moment, from perspective to perspective, at times rapid and others like molasses. While The Jasmine Throne had a steady, measured pace leading up to its fiery crescendo, The Oleander Sword is more of a trek through bewitched woods. Readers of The Jasmine Throne have been waiting with bated breath for its sequel to drop, and after a year, two months and nine days (but who’s counting), the much-awaited sequel ‘The Oleander Sword’ is here, and audience I have to say it was worth the wait! The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suriĭesign by Lauren Panepinto Illustration by Micah Epstein
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A Bound Heart by Laura Frantz6/11/2023 Yet even when all hope seems dashed against the rocky coastline of the Virginia colony, it may be that in this New World the two of them could make a new beginning-together. But when his wife dies suddenly, Magnus and Lark find themselves caught up in a whirlwind of accusations, expelled from their beloved island, and sold as indentured servants across the Atlantic. Lark is but the keeper of his bees and the woman he is hoping will provide a tincture that might help his ailing wife conceive and bear him an heir. When a tragedy forces both to colonial Virginia as indentured servants, can a love thwarted by tradition come to life in a new land? Book Synopsis Though Magnus MacLeish and Lark MacDougall grew up on the same castle grounds, Magnus is now laird of the great house and the Isle of Kerrera. About the Book Their stations could not have been more different: a Scottish laird and a simple lass.
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Morrie memoir6/11/2023 He sees the book as a way to continue teaching and imparting wisdom long after his death. When Mitch decides to visit Morrie, Morrie takes the opportunity to both impart his knowledge to Mitch, and also supports the publishing of their "final thesis," which is the full text of the book. A teacher to the end, he uses the three Nightline interviews with Ted Koppel to spread what he learns about life and death to viewers around the US. He remains positive as the disease progresses, allowing himself only a little time in the mornings to mourn his fate. Instead of wallowing in self-pity, he takes it upon himself to teach the world how to live in the face of death. In 1994 he is diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS, a degenerative and terminal muscle disease. Genres Nonfiction Memoir Biography Classics Inspirational Philosophy Self Help.more. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live. Tuesdays with Morrie is a memoir by American author Mitch Albom about a series of visits Albom made to his former sociology professor Morrie Schwartz, as Schwartz gradually dies of ALS. He loves to dance and doesn't much care for material culture, preferring instead to spend his time cultivating meaningful relationships. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - Mitch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. His love of teaching and desire to treat others with compassion and understanding make him a beloved friend and mentor to many, including Mitch, the narrator. A professor of Sociology at Brandeis University.
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Megan e freeman books6/11/2023 Megan is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Northern Colorado Writers, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, Columbine Poets of Colorado, and Lighthouse Writers Workshop. She studied theater and dramatic literature for many years, earning degrees from Occidental College and the Ohio State University. Megan is also a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, and her poetry chapbook, Lessons on Sleeping Alone, was published by Liquid Light Press.Īn award-winning teacher with decades of classroom experience, Megan taught multiple subjects across the arts and humanities to students K-16, and she is nationally recognized for presenting workshops and speaking to audiences across the country. She writes middle grade and young adult fiction, and her debut middle grade novel, ALONE, is available from Simon & Schuster/Aladdin. Freeman attended an elementary school where poets visited her classroom every week to teach poetry, and she has been a writer ever since.
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Who moved the cheese book6/10/2023 Then, one wants to share a story he heard that helped him deal with the change. They are talking about how all their lives have changed over the past few years. In Chicago, a group of former classmates enjoys a high school reunion. The book begins with a realistic scenario. What the point of Who Moved My Cheese book? He served as Director of Communications for Medtronic, the makers of cardiac pacemakers as a Research Physician at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies as a Consultant to the Center for the Study of the Person and as a Leadership Fellow at Harvard Business School. He also completed internships at the Mayo Clinic and Harvard Medical School. in psychology from the University of Southern California. from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland after graduating with a B.A. He is best known for writing the book Who Moved My Cheese. Spencer Johnson was a physician and author. When it was first published in 1998, it sold 21 million copies in 5 years and tens of millions more copies after that). That's amazing about Who Took My Cheese or Who Moved My Cheese. How can anyone write a business book about mice looking for cheese? Even better, how does a book become a mega-bestseller?
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The Last Summer by Andrée A. Michaud6/10/2023 Boundary by Andrée Michaud, translated by Donald Winkler, is on the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. ( From Biblioasis)īoundary won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction in 2014. Michaud's award-winning Boundary is an utterly gripping read about a community divided by suspicion and driven together by primal terror. Have they been the victims of freak accidents? Or is someone hunting the young women of Boundary? And if there is a hunter, who might be next? The Summer of Love quickly becomes the Summer of Fear, and detective Stan Michaud, already haunted by a case he could not solve, is determined to find out what exactly is happening in Boundary before someone else is found dead.Ī story of deep psychological power and unbearable suspense, Andrée A. First one, and then the other, goes missing, and both are eventually found dead in the forest. During the early summer of 1967, inseparable teenage beauties Sissy Morgan and Zaza Mulligan wander among the vacation cottages in the community of Boundary, drinking and smoking and swearing - attracting the attention of boys and men. In the deep woods of the Maine borderlands, the legend of huntsman Pete Landry is still told around cottage campfires to scare children - a tragic story of love, lust and madness.
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Deep milk and honey poems6/10/2023 Some poems are beautiful, insightful and powerful while others read like a motivational tweet or something I might say to friend going through a hard time. The honesty and rawness cut deep.Īs a collection it's a mixed bag. I have no doubt in my mind that the author lived through these experiences her poetry explores incest, an abusive relationship, family and friendships. the hurting, the loving, the breakup, and the healing Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry divided into four sections. milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look. It is split into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose, deals with a different pain, heals a different heartache. It is about the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity. Milk and honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival.
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Now that I think about it, I’ve never read a book where the story is told solely from the male lead’s perspective. The next thing that picked up my interest ―after the cover― was the perspective being used in this book. That is the title of a fantasy book the one that exists inside this contemporary book. While I wasn’t right about it, I wasn’t totally wrong either. Ghostboy, Chameleon, and the Duke of Graffiti sounds exactly like a fantasy book for me. After I read the brief description available on Netgalley, I became more curious as I couldn’t make out where the title clicked with the story. This is the book that I doubt I would enjoy because of the childlike title yet something I would pick up anyway because of the unique title. *I received digital ARC of this book from the publisher through Netgalley* Ghostboy, Chameleon & the Duke of Graffiti by Olivia Wildenstein |