![]() ![]() ![]() That’s the official motto of the Scholomance. Until El realizes that sometimes winning the game means throwing out all the rules. El is determined that her chosen group will survive, but it is a prospect that is looking harder by the day as the savagery of the school ramps up. Narrative style: First person, limited.Ī budding dark sorceress determined not to use her formidable powers uncovers yet more secrets about the workings of her world in the stunning sequel to A Deadly Education.Īt the Scholomance, El, Orion, and the other students are faced with their final year-and the looming specter of graduation, a deadly ritual that leaves few students alive in its wake.Genres: Magic School Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Dark Fantasy.4.1.4 Characters outside the Scholomance (mentioned or in flashbacks).3.6 Chapter 6: Spelled Dye & Mortal Flame. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Ebola routinely sickens primates, and exposure to primates is what tends to infect humans. Many of Quammen’s protagonists are scientists, virologists, or veterinarians with a background in infectious disease and public health, and his Hendra narrative includes a scientist who identified the reservoir so that outbreaks could be understood, if not contained.Įbola takes Quammen to Africa, where he meets both naturalists and doctors. Hendra virus lives routinely in its “reservoir host” of bats, but when it enters horses, the virus multiplies easily and can spread to people. ![]() Quammen opens his narrative with a mysterious virus, Hendra, that sickened horses and a few people in Australia in 1994. He routinely intersperses these health mysteries with accounts of his own travels and personal meetings with experts so that he can meet zoonotic diseases in their environments, with the lurking threat that one will cause a pandemic. Quammen’s main subject is zoonotic disease: diseases that humans acquire from animals. In Spillover, Quammen’s narrative alternates between the outbreak and eventual discovery of recent emerging diseases, and the scientific discoveries of the past that made such advancements possible. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is so grief-stricken that he has a breakdown in the exam hall and walks out without writing his exams.Īfter hours of wandering about, Jacob sees a moving train and hops on it. Jacob is days away from his graduation from veterinary school when his parents die in an accident. ![]() ![]() From there begins a series of flashbacks by Jacob to when he was twenty-three. Jacob is infuriated by this claim and has an altercation with the man, the ladies around think that Jacob is overreacting and begin to fawn over Joseph. ![]() Joseph, one of the men in the home, claims he once worked with a circus and that he used to carry water for the elephants. Jacob is not sure of his exact age but knows he is either ninety or ninety-three years old.Įveryone in the nursing home (who are not senile or too frail anyway) is excited about the circus. There is preparation for a circus across the street from the nursing home where Jacob lives. Water for Elephants ”Spoiler-Free” Summary He remembers his personal challenges in those days amidst the complexities of relationships between humans and animals in the circus. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen is a novel about an old man in the early 21st Century whose memory of his youth in the 1930s as a veterinarian in a circus is triggered when a circus mounts close to the nursing home where he lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() The last thing he needs is more heartache, but he can’t seem to let her go again. ![]() ![]() Now she has to figure out who she was and why she made the choices she did - which includes leaving the supposed love of her life, tattoo artist Ed Larsen, only a month before.Įd can hardly believe it when his ex shows up at his tattoo parlor with no memory of their past, asking about the breakup that nearly destroyed him. When a vicious attack leaves 25-year-old Clementine Johns with no memory, she’s forced to start over. Open internationally for seventy-two hours. GIVEAWAY: A signed copy of my April 7 ebook & print release Repeat. From Audie Award winning, New York Times best-selling author Kylie Scott comes an irresistible new romance - available in audio first! Kylie Scott, profile picture Kylie Scott. ![]() ![]() ![]() Anna and Quan have to fight for their chance at love, but to do that, they also have to fight for themselves. However, when tragedy strikes Anna’s family she takes on a role that she is ill-suited for, until the burden of expectations threatens to destroy her. Their first attempt at a one-night stand fails, as does their second, and their third, because being with Quan is more than sex-he accepts Anna on an unconditional level that she herself has just started to understand. ![]() That’s where tattooed, motorcycle-riding Quan Diep comes in. The more unacceptable the men, the better. ![]() Translation: She’s going to embark on a string of one-night stands. And when her longtime boyfriend announces he wants an open relationship before making a final commitment, a hurt and angry Anna decides that if he wants an open relationship, then she does, too. When violinist Anna Sun accidentally achieves career success with a viral YouTube video, she finds herself incapacitated and burned out from her attempts to replicate that moment. A woman struggling with burnout learns to embrace the unexpected-and the man she enlists to help her-in this new New York Times bestselling romance by Helen Hoang. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel tells the story of what happened on the day a fire started near an HBOT chamber, known as Miracle Submarine, resulting in two deaths and numerous injuries.Ī series of narrators tell the story: Young Yoo and her husband, Pak Yoo, who emigrated from Korea and now own the HBOT chamber Matt Thompson, a medical doctor being treated for infertility Teresa Santiago, parent of Rosa, being treated with HBOT Mary Yoo, Young and Pak’s daughter Elizabeth Ward, accused of starting the fire, whose son Henry was killed in the fire and Janine Cho, Matt’s wife and an investor in Miracle Submarine. However, there are risks to this treatment, especially fire. Many people believe HBOT can also treat cancer, autism, and diabetes. ![]() HBOT traditionally treats carbon monoxide poisoning and decompression sickness in divers. Because damaged cells need oxygen to heal, such therapy can speed recovery. Breathing in oxygen at a higher atmospheric pressure allows the oxygen to be dissolved at greater levels than normal. Miracle Creek begins with a definition of HBOT, the central focus of the story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Malcolm X notes that the inseparability of the institution of policing from police brutality is a phenomenon that exists ‘ecause our people in this particular society live in a police state.’”(58) As we examine the incidence of police brutality, protests surrounding it, and more police brutality in response to those protests, we begin to see the expansion of Malcolm X’s concern that the United States is a police state in our contemporary moment. This means that the institution of policing has the possibility, when it functions properly, to provide protection rather than situating itself as a strictly coercive force. Michael Sawyer: I write in Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X that “hat seems to be important…is the notion that police brutality is distinct from policing. Roberto Sirvent: How can your book help BAR readers understand the current political and social climate? ![]() Sawyer is Assistant Professor of Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies in the Department of English at Colorado College. His book is Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X. This week’s featured author is Michael Sawyer. In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. “ A 'conversation' between Malcolm X and activists and organizers will enrich our ability to deal with the destabilized future of Black people in this country.” This book brings the indispensable voice of Malcolm X into our current political and social climate. ![]() ![]() So I look at my grandmother and stay in relationship with her, and she felt loved, and I know she did. You agree to the reality that the other actors have created and that is how you create a scene. ![]() It’s ‘yes, and.’ That is the number one rule of improv acting is you say ‘yes, and’ to everything. This is where the improv acting was so huge for me. And yet, if I sat with her and looked her in the eye, and we could have a nonsense conversation. So she wasn’t even married yet, she was going by her maiden name, she didn’t remember any of it. In an attempt to uncover the humanity behind the disease, and stay connected to her grandmother, Lisa began taking acting classes in addition to doing research: “So my grandmother didn’t know I was her granddaughter, she didn’t have access to memories beyond the age of 20. ![]() That ultimately became her inspiration for the story of Still Alice, which follows a 50-year-old woman and Ivy League linguistics professor day by day as she falls deeper into dementia as a result of her early-onset Alzheimer’s. ![]() ![]() In April 2009, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded Asim a fellowship in nonfiction, one of 180 awarded to artists, scientists and scholars selected from a group of almost 3,000 applicants. Harold Augenbraum, executive director of the foundation, "lauded Asim's ability to approach difficult topics with humility." ![]() He is a gentleman devoted to the cause of racial justice, is excited about his new role with the NAACP and we are energized by his joining our ranks." Īsim was chosen by the National Book Foundation to serve on the nonfiction panel for the 2013 National Book Awards. Asim is a seasoned editor, a fine writer and author of a new best selling book. In welcoming Asim to The Crisis in August 2007, then-publisher Roger Wilkins said: "Mr. He attended public schools there before studying at Northwestern University. In September 2022 he was named Emerson College Distinguished Professor of Multidisciplinary Letters.Īsim was born in St. ![]() In February 2019 he was named Emerson College's inaugural Elma Lewis '43 Distinguished Fellow in the Social Justice Center. He is the former editor-in-chief of The Crisis magazine, a journal of politics, ideas and culture published by the NAACP and founded by historian and social activist W. Jabari Asim (born August 11, 1962) is an author, poet, playwright, and professor of writing, literature and publishing at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() ![]() In electric, pitch-perfect prose, Pierson gives us rare insights into not only a subculture but also the deeply human craving for something more that drives it. Her MA, also in English Literature, was awarded in 1984 by Columbia University. She attended Vassar College, receiving her BA in English Literature in 1980. Biography Pierson was born in Akron, Ohio. ![]() The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing offers an intimate glimpse of an unusually independent yet supportive community as well as a revealing, unforgettable portrait of its most daring member. Melissa Holbrook Pierson (born December 14, 1957) 1 is a writer and essayist of non-fiction. But why? Pierson, who rediscovered the joys of motorcycling in the midst of a personal crisis, puts on her helmet and joins Ryan in his element in order to understand his singular desire and discipline, his passion and his obsession. ![]() Perhaps the most determined of them is John Ryan, a magnetic, enigmatic man who loves nothing better than breaking records of amazing distance-at no small risk to himself and his health. In this candid, eloquent, sharply observed book, Melissa Holbrook Pierson introduces us to this strange endeavor and the men and women who live to ride impossibly long distances, eating up road, almost without cease. "World's Toughest Motorcycle Riders"-long-distance motorcycling is not a pastime but an obsession. "Pierson is an even better writer than she is a rider."-Boston Globe ![]() |