5/11/2023 0 Comments Gallant schwabBut Olivia is not about to leave the first place that feels like home it doesn't matter if her cousin Matthew is hostile, or if she sees half-formed ghouls haunting the hallways. Yet when Olivia arrives, no one is expecting her. Then, a letter invites Olivia to come home to Gallant. Olivia Prior has grown up in Merilance School for Girls, and all she has of her past is her mother's journal-which seems to unravel into madness. The Secret Garden meets Crimson Peak in this stand-alone novel perfect for readers of Holly Black and Neil Gaiman. Schwab weaves a dark and original tale about the place where the world meets its shadow, and the young woman beckoned by both sides. A seam, where the shadow meets its source. And as with every shadow, there is a place where it must touch.
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Suites by Federico García LorcaA book that hardly expresses visible Andalusia at all, but where the hidden Andalusia trembles". García Lorca himself described the work as a "carved altar piece" of Andalusia with "gypsies, horses, archangels, planets, its Jewish and Roman breezes, rivers, crimes, the everyday touch of the smuggler and the celestial note of the naked children of Córdoba. It was a highly stylised imitation of the ballads and poems that were still being told throughout the Spanish countryside. The Romancero gitano was instantly popular and remains García Lorca's best known book of poetry. All of the poems deal with the Romani people (gypsies) and their culture, but only as a theme used to carry the larger message that the poet was trying to convey. First published in 1928, it is composed of eighteen romances with subjects like the night, death, the sky, and the moon. The Romancero gitano (often translated into English as Gypsy Ballads) is a poetry collection by Spanish writer Federico García Lorca. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Attached by dr amir levineAn insightful look at the science behind love, Attached offers readers a road map for building stronger, more fulfilling connections. With fascinating psychological insight, quizzes and case studies, Dr Amir Levine and Rachel Heller help you understand the three attachment styles, identify your own and recognize the styles of others so that you can find compatible partners or improve your existing relationship. Secure people feel comfortable with intimacy and are usually warm and loving. Pioneered by psychologist John Bowlby in the 1950s, the field of attachment explains that each of us behaves in relationships in one of three distinct ways:Īnxious people are often preoccupied with their relationships and tend to worry about their partner's ability to love them back.Īvoidant people equate intimacy with a loss of independence and constantly try to minimize closeness. Heller reveal how an understanding of attachment. Heller reveal how an understanding of attachment theory - the most advanced relationship science in existence today - can help us find and sustain love. In this groundbreaking book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine and psychologist Rachel S. Is there a science to love? In this groundbreaking book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine and psychologist Rachel S. 'A groundbreaking book that redefines what it means to be in a relationship.' - John Gray, PhD., bestselling author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus 5/11/2023 0 Comments Hg wells best short storiesAs the blindness slowly spread over many generations, the people's remaining senses sharpened, and by the time the last sighted villager had died, the community had fully adapted to life without sight. The isolated community prospered over the years, despite a disease that struck them early on, rendering all newborns blind. The valley had been a haven for settlers fleeing the tyranny of Spanish rulers, until an earthquake reshaped the surrounding mountains, cutting the valley off forever from future explorers. Unknown to Nuñez, he has discovered the fabled "Country of the Blind". At the end of his descent, down a snow-slope in the mountain's shadow, he finds a valley, cut off from the rest of the world on all sides by steep precipices. While attempting to climb the unconquered crest of Parascotopetl (a fictitious mountain in Ecuador), a mountaineer named Nuñez slips and falls down the far side of the mountain. "'Carefully,' he cried, with a finger in his eye." 5/10/2023 0 Comments PercyjacksonThankfully, it seems that we’re going to be getting the correct aging for our favorite characters now. With the Percy Jackson films, the characters were significantly aged up from their book counterparts, something many fans were not happy with, considering a big part of the series was for Percy to advance in his powers from age 12-16, and yet, he was already sixteen in the first film. This casting, honestly, makes sense as well in terms of the ages of the characters. Known for his breakout role in the very popular Netflix film, The Adam Project, where he played a younger version of Ryan Reynolds’ character, Adam, Scobell has broken out as a great young actor, and I have a feeling he’ll be the perfect choice for Percy. We have found our Percy Jackson, who will be played by Walker Scobell. Already, we have a pretty well-rounded Percy Jackson and the Olympians cast, so you’ll be seeing plenty of stars in this new Disney+ show. 5/10/2023 0 Comments The gene siddharthaThe Gene is an important read for anyone concerned about a future that may redefine what it means to be human. As Siddhartha Mukherjee maps out the fascinating biography of the gene, from research and experimentation to scientific breakthroughs, he always returns to the narrative of his own family's tragic history of mental illness, reminding us that despite our huge leaps in knowledge, there is still much we do not understand about the incredibly complex human genome. Supporting material to enhance your understanding of the original workĪbout Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Gene: From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies, The Gene is a rigorously scientific, broadly historical, and candidly personal account of the development of the science of genetics, the dramatic ways genes can affect us, and the enormous moral questions posed by our ability to manipulate them.This short summary and analysis of The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee includes: Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Gene tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Siddhartha Mukherjee's book. Until the 1930s, books were designed with the intent for them to be painted instead of colored. This launched a trend to use coloring books to advertise a wide variety of products, including coffee and pianos. He authored Buster's Paint Book in 1907, featuring the character of Buster Brown, which he had invented in 1902. They continued to publish coloring books until the 1920s, when the McLoughlin Brothers became part of the Milton Bradley Company.Īnother pioneer in the genre was Richard F. The McLoughlin Brothers are credited as the inventors of the coloring book, when, in the 1880s, they produced The Little Folks' Painting Book, in collaboration with Kate Greenaway. Many educators concluded that all, regardless of background, students stood to benefit from art education as a means of enhancing their conceptual understanding of the tangible, developing their cognitive abilities, and improving skills that would be useful in finding a profession, as well as for the children's spiritual edification. Paint books and coloring books emerged in the United States as part of the "democratization of art" process, inspired by a series of lectures by British artist Joshua Reynolds, and the works of Swiss educator Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and his student Friedrich Fröbel. Then, 27 years later, the program came to an abrupt halt when President Nixon declared that ''the United States will renounce the use of any form of deadly biological weapons that either kill or incapacitate.'' What happened in those intervening years?Ī new ''American Experience'' documentary, ''The Living Weapon,'' offers a look at more than two decades of closed-door meetings, secret tests, determined scientists and human subjects that attempted to turn some of the world's most potent germs into some of the world's most effective weapons. down a path to develop a new weapon of mass destruction.
Teo, a 17-year-old Jade semidiós and the trans son of Quetzal, goddess of birds, has never worried about the Trials…or rather, he’s only worried for others. The winner carries light and life to all the temples of Reino del Sol, but the loser has the greatest honor of all―they will be sacrificed to Sol, their body used to fuel the Sun Stones that will protect the people of Reino del Sol for the next ten years. Ten semidioses between the ages of thirteen and eighteen are selected by Sol himself as the most worthy to compete in The Sunbearer Trials. I’m not a real hero.”Īs each new decade begins, the Sun’s power must be replenished so that Sol can keep traveling along the sky and keep the evil Obsidian gods at bay. “Only the most powerful and honorable semidioses get chosen. Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where teen semidioses compete in a series of challenges with the highest of stakes, in this electric new Mexican-inspired fantasy from Aiden Thomas, the New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery Boys. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Red planet by robert a heinleinWhen Jim and Frank sneak into Howe's office and rescue Willis, the bouncer repeats two overheard conversations between Howe and Beecher, the unscrupulous colonial administrator of Mars, detailing Beecher's plans for Willis and the colony. Howe, who confiscates Willis, claiming that it is against the new rules to have pets. They also share water, making Jim and Frank "water friends" with the Martian, who is named Gekko.Īt school, Jim gets into trouble with the authoritarian headmaster, Mr. The three-legged alien takes the two boys and Willis to join a ritual called "growing together" with a group of its fellows. At a rest stop, Willis wanders off and encounters one of the adult sentient Martians. Jim takes along his native Martian pet, Willis the Bouncer, a round fur covered ball the size of a vollyball, who is about as intelligent as a human child and has a photographic memory for sounds, which he can also reproduce perfectly. On Mars, colonial teenagers Jim Marlowe and Frank Sutton travel to the Lowell Academy boarding school for the start of the academic year. The novel is set in the future when Mars has been colonized by humans, but is administered by a governor appointed by the Earth government and the colonists have no political power. |