![]() Five cents from every copy sold was donated by the publisher to orphans made fatherless or homeless by the war. ![]() ![]() Alcott herself served in the Georgetown Union Hotel Hospital, just outside Washington, DC, from December 1862 to January 1863, when she fell ill with typhoid pneumonia and was invalided out of the service.Īlcott's Hospital Sketches was first published in the abolitionist journal Boston Commonwealth from May to June 1863, and was published in book form in 1863 (Boston: James Redpath). The number of female nurses increased during 1862 under the direction of Dorothea Dix, a family friend of the Alcotts. ![]() Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) was a member of a famous reformist family and was beginning to establish herself as a writer when war broke out. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Thompson rarely uses periods and lets the language flow out non-stop. Thompson's style of writing in this book allows Eloise's true nature come alive through the grammatical structures. It is also a story of independence and finding your own path. Kay Thompson tells a poignant story in a light-hearted manner of what measures people will go to in order to fill a void in their lives while trying to make the best of things. She also gets to live vicariously it seems through the stories of the hotel staff's lives. Eloise also fills up much of her time by "making things up," as stated by Eloise herself. The hotel staff are tolerant but irritated as the reader can see from the spunky drawings by Hillary Knight within the book. She fills up her time by finding anything and everything to keep her busy, some of which leads to borderline trouble. ![]() The main conflict is that Eloise, besides the help of the loving Nanny, is left to raise herself. ISBN 067122350XĮloise is the story of a precocious six-year-old girl who lives in the Plaza Hotel in New York City. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I could see them being awkward to others - like how I get tripped up when I start a science-fiction novel and people have weird names that all sound the same.įirst, I want to talk about the actual cover art. I think it helped that I’m familiar with the Japanese language none of the cultural context or names were awkward to me. I’d never read a Murakami piece before (though now, I will probably seek out The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles) so I was green to his style of writing. ![]() I approached the novel after learning the vague premise, that other people whose opinions I respect loved it, and that the cover art was beautiful. I can’t say that I loved it, but I did enjoy it. It took a month of reading a few chapters here and there, before bed, to finish Murakami’s 1Q84. ![]() ![]() Radin adds, “I’ve spent the majority of my professional career doing what the four-year-old Dean described as being jet propelled - probing the far reaches of human consciousness using the tools and techniques of science. I was delighted to find groups of scientists who were as interested in these phenomena as I was, and the contacts I made eventually led to an appointment at SRI International, where I was a scientist on a classified US government project conducting research on psychic phenomena and espionage,” now commonly known as StarGate.ĭr. ![]() Then I discovered the Parapsychological Association and the Society for Scientific Exploration. Radin worked at AT&T Bell Labs, where he says, “I began to publish some of my psi experiments. ![]() ![]() Radin will review the current state of research findings regarding extrasensory phenomena (psi research) as well as relevant controversies and new areas of investigation related to quantum theory.īefore joining the IONS research staff almost 20 years ago, Dr. Dean Radin, IONS Chief Scientist, will speak virtually on November 7th about Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality at the 2020 Psychology and the Mind Workshop hosted by the Louisiana Psychological Association. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the book she wears “cheap black underwear” for the big day, her underarms are “chalky with deodorant” and “her nose is running a little.” She’s shaved her legs, a notable fact only because her hairy stems are the subject of high-school gossip. ![]() He’s a hot, popular jock and she’s the kind of dowdy know-it-all that guys mock on their way to Gaelic football practice.Īfter making out a few times, Connell invites Marianne over when his mom’s not home so they can get naked. The moment comes early on in the plot when Marianne and Connell, two high-school students in small-town Ireland, are keeping their hookups a secret. There’s a striking difference between the first sex scene in the TV version of Normal People and the book, written by Sally Rooney. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is an enormous bounty on his head as he managed to escape several times. He is over-protective of Zu, being a parent-like figure to her. Many children died as well and that keeps hunting him. He is a Blue and he led the escape of many of children out of the camp where he was kept. Claire seems to have a weird fascination and obsession with Ruby's power. Even though Ruby escapes her at the end Claire manages to force her to stay. Ruby soon finds out the true motives of Children's League which is using the kids to their advantage, they do not care about their future. She is the one who gets Ruby out of Thurmond with a promise of a better life outside. ![]() ClaireĬlaire is a doctor and a part of the Children's League. All the while she is facing an inner struggle: she is not accepting of her powers and thinks that they make her a monster. ![]() She manages to escape the camp where they held the kids with powers but is struck with other troubles on the outside world. She is a girl who gets into other people's heads and sees their thoughts, erases them, and manipulates them, which makes her an Orange. Written by Elmina Jazvin, Khori Nembhard and other people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Detective Yamada confronts Nao over a dead drug dealer, the Nao knows his organization isn’t responsible. Nao Murata is the new Godfather of the Matsukawa syndicate. War is looming, and Nao must choose between protecting Saehyun or avenging the honor of his old mafia family.Ī twisted cop. A shocking murder pulls Nao back into a past he’d all but abandoned. He commands the Korean mafia, the mortal enemy of Nao’s former syndicate.Īs Nao and Saehyun grow closer, so does the strength of the Korean mob. He knows nothing of his savior’s connection with the local mafia, but Saehyun has his own secrets. Saehyun would’ve died if not for Nao’s help. His past comes flooding back when he discovers a gravely injured man with a tattooed chest, a bloody knife, and a Korean business card. Nao hides from his violent past in the Japanese mob by opening a teahouse in Japan’s cultural center, Kyoto. ![]() Themes and genres: Contemporary Fiction, Thriller, Japan, crime, mafia, yakuzaĪ bloody past haunts him. There’s a giveaway, but first: a little bit about the four books included. Today I’m going to introduce you to the Yakuza Path Box Set by Amy Tasukada. ![]() ![]() ![]() But this one had a huge effect at the time. Fallen Angels was read, by me, several times in approximately sixth grade to junior high school, and I still can't believe that pre-teen Rachel chose to wrench herself from an endless diet of RL Stine and Christopher Pike for a serious book about a serious moment of historical relevance like the Vietnam War. So I decided that this would be a good time to return to an old childhood favorite. I am finding it hard to have the attention span for any reading above an eighth grade level, and even find myself momentarily overwhelmed by Tess Gerritsen. ![]() ![]() In the past four months, I've changed jobs, been forced to move out of my apartment back in with my parents temporarily, and begun the arduous task of DIYing a long neglected house into a livable space without, y'know, electrical wires dangling into the sink and cracked wood-paneled walls. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of Bloomberg Business's "Eight Books for Your Holiday Reading" Included on the Los Angeles Times's "Holiday Books Roundup" One of Vulture's "7 Books You Need to Read this November" ![]() It's all there: media hoaxes, Mafiosi, the CIA, the Pentagon, blackmail, love, gossip, murder-and clash of forces that have shaped Italy since World War II, from Mussolini to Berlusconi, that will keep readers turning the pages as the novel's thrilling plot unfolds. It's the scoop the newspaper desperately needs. As Colonna gets to know the team, he learns of the editor's paranoid theory that Mussolini's corpse was a body double and part of a wider Fascist plot. His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can't resist to ghostwrite a book. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain controversial. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. Description The worldwide bestselling novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murder from the acclaimed author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery ¶ #1 bestseller in Italy ¶ 1945, Lake Como. ![]() ![]() With her parents missing and the lives of her loved ones under siege, Mac is about to come face-to-face with a soul-shattering truth-about herself and her sister, about Jericho Barrons…and about the world she thought she knew. With her parents missing and the lives of. It’s an invitation Mac cannot refuse, one that sends her racing home to Georgia, where an even darker threat awaits. Its an invitation Mac cannot refuse, one that sends her racing home to Georgia, where an even darker threat awaits. Yet even the uniquely gifted sidhe-seer is no match for the Lord Master, who has unleashed an insatiable sexual craving that consumes Mac’s every thought-and thrusts her into the seductive realm of two very dangerous men, both of whom she desires but dares not trust.Īs the enigmatic Jericho Barrons and the sensual Fae prince V’lane vie for her body and soul, as cryptic entries from her sister’s diary mysteriously appear and the power of the Dark Book weaves its annihilating path through the city, Mac’s greatest enemy delivers a final challenge.… He has stolen her past, but MacKayla will never allow her sister’s murderer to take her future. And as Mac fights for survival on Dublin’s battle-scarred streets, she will embark on the darkest-and most erotically charged-adventure of her life. ![]() Far from home, unable to control her sexual hungers, MacKayla is now fully under the Lord Master’s spell.…In New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning’s stunning new novel, the walls between human and Fae worlds have come crashing down. ![]() ![]() MacKayla Lane lies naked on the cold stone floor of a church, at the mercy of the erotic Fae master she once swore to kill. ![]() |