5/24/2023 0 Comments The winter ghosts by kate mosse![]() ![]() By the time dawn breaks, he will have stumbled across a tragic mystery that goes back through the centuries.By turns thrilling, poignant and haunting, this is a story of two lives touched by war and transformed by courage. Over the course of one night, Fabrissa and Freddie share their stories of remembrance and loss. There he meets Fabrissa, a beautiful local woman, also mourning a lost generation. Shaken, he stumbles into the woods, emerging by a tiny village. ![]() During a snowstorm, his car spins off the mountain road. Unable to cope with his grief, Freddie has spent much of the time since in a sanatorium.In the winter of 1928, still seeking resolution, Freddie is travelling through the French Pyrenees - another region that has seen too much bloodshed over the years. In Freddie Watson's case, it took his beloved brother and, at times, his peace of mind. It robbed a generation of friends, lovers and futures. ![]() A haunting ghost story from the French mountains.The Great War took much more than lives. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments My life in pictures temple grandin![]() ![]() For the new edition, Grandin has written a new afterword addressing recent developments in the study of autism, including new diagnostic criteria, advancements in genetic research, updated tips, insights into working with children and young people with autism, and more. Originally published in 1995 as an unprecedented look at autism, Grandin writes from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person to give a report from "the country of autism." Introducing a groundbreaking model which analyzes people based on their patterns of thought, Grandin "charts the differences between her life and the lives of those who think in words" ( The Philadelphia Inquirer). What emerges is the document of an extraordinary human being, one who bridges the gulf between her condition and our own, shedding light on the riddle of our common identity.īook Synopsis The 25th anniversary edition of this seminal work on autism and neurodiversity provides "a uniquely fascinating view" (Deborah Tannen, author of You Just Don't Understand) of the differences in our brains, and features updated research and insights. ![]() ![]() About the Book In this unprecedented book, a gifted animal scientist who is also autistic, delivers a report on autism, written from her unique perspective. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments My Jim by Nancy Rawles![]() ![]() Wide Sargasso Sea, Rawles sketches an impressionistic portrait of a secondary 19th-century fictional character. Writing in sonorous slave dialect, Rawles creates a memorable protagonist in Sadie and builds on Twain's portrayal of Jim while remaining true to the original. ![]() Further disappointment comes after emancipation, when Sadie learns that freedom looks an awful lot like slavery. After countless tribulations, Sadie meets up again with Jim, who has ventured down the Mississippi with Huck Finn in the meantime, but the pair are not reunited. Jim finally escapes on his own, but is presumed dead when his hat is found floating in the Mississippi. ![]() Their plans change when Mas Watson dies, and Sadie is taken by a hateful neighbor while Jim is kept on by Mas Watson's daughter. ![]() Trained as a healer, Sadie helps bring Jim into the world when she herself is "no higher than a barrel." As they grow up together on Mas Watson's Missouri plantation, Jim only has eyes for Sadie, and after an informal marriage following their daughter Lizbeth's birth, they consider fleeing together. , Rawles shifts the focus to Jim's wife, Sadie, whose unspeakable losses set the tone for Jim's flight. In her spare, moving retelling of the story of escaped slave Jim from Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The Broken Road Cafe by T.A. Webb![]() can be found at Facebook under AuthorTAWebb, tweeted at #TomBearAtl, or if you really want to, you can email him at Read more Thus began a love affair with books that skirt the edge, and when he discovered gay literature, he was hooked for life. Always wanting more, he snuck a copy of The Exorcist under his parents' house to read when he was eleven and scared the bejesus out of himself. His sister taught him to read when he was four, and he tore his way through the local library over the next few years. ![]() After hours, he's the proud single papa of four rescue dogs, was born and raised in Atlanta, where he still lives, and is a pretty darned good country cook. ![]() He's worked with people living with HIV/AIDS and with children in the foster care system for over twenty years, and takes the smaller pay for the chance to make a difference for those who can't help themselves. By day, he's the director of finance for a non-profit agency. Webb is the writing name for the Mean Old Bear That Could. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The diabetes code fung![]() “The Diabetes Code is unabashedly provocative yet practical. The only way to treat type 2 diabetes effectively, he argues, is proper dieting and intermittent fasting-not medication. ![]() Fung explains why conventional treatments that rely on insulin or other blood-glucose-lowering drugs can actually exacerbate the problem, leading to significant weight gain and even heart disease. Writing with clear, persuasive language, Dr. Fung reveals in this groundbreaking book, is that type 2 diabetes is reversible. Today, most doctors, dietitians, and even diabetes specialists consider type 2 diabetes to be a chronic and progressive disease-a life sentence with no possibility of parole. Gundry, author of The Plant ParadoxĮverything you believe about treating type 2 diabetes is wrong. Fung reveals how can be prevented and also reversed using natural dietary methods instead of medications … This is an important and timely book. ![]() “The doctor who invented intermittent fasting.”- The Daily Mail.FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR DR. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments What joan didion means![]() The title of Didion’s new essay collection, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, almost seems like the kind of cruel joke one might find in one of her pieces. What is it about Joan Didion that seduces and then betrays? In her writing she promises little, and in her public life she offers even less. Here is Nancy wearing “the smile of a woman who seems to be playing out some middle-class American woman’s daydream, circa 1948.” 1 ![]() Here is Nancy pretending to pluck a rhododendron blossom. If not a competition of looks or a comparison of waistbands, then what could have accounted for the resulting article? “Pretty Nancy” followed the style that was then becoming distinctive of Didion’s journalistic prose: a blunt, self-assured series of descriptions and observations that lead the reader to believe she was just writing down what she saw. Perhaps, she speculated, these journalists were jealous of her, “a woman who wears size four” and who has “no trouble staying slim.” Her theory was put to the test when The Saturday Evening Post sent Joan Didion to profile her in 1968, the year that Ronald Reagan, then the governor of California, would lose the Republican presidential primary to Richard Nixon. ![]() Nancy Reagan once claimed that she couldn’t get fair press coverage from the women sent to write about her. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Outlaw woman roxanne dunbar ortiz![]() ![]() She is also the author of The Great Sioux Nation: An Oral History of the Sioux Nation and its Struggle for Sovereignty (1977), Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico (1980), Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie (1997), Outlaw Woman: Memoir of the War Years (2002), and Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War (2005).ĭr. Dunbar-Ortiz, who helped to develop the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies at California State University, has been a longtime member of the American Indian Movement and the International Indian Treaty Council. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Professor Emerita and author of the newly released book, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, will speak about her research into the histories of colonization, dispossession, settler colonialism, and genocide on the North American continent. ![]() Andrew Lamas's Urban Studies class, "Liberation and Ownership." Visiting Faculty Dr. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Chirri and chirra snowy day![]() ![]() ★Kaya Doi is on to something with her fantastical-nonsensical Chirri and Chirra books. ![]() ![]() A winter wonderland worth remembering for its soft radiance and abundant joy!Įverything about this new book communicates cozy, snuggly, soft and warm. Over the course of their adventures, Chirri and Chirra even become guests to a family of bears, spending the night in their igloo and dreaming of the northern lights. 9 15/16 x 6 1/2.īook Synopsis Book three in the charming Chirri & Chirra series, here we have foxes, bears, birds, goats, and cats all taking shelter together in an icy cavern, enjoying everything from freshly-baked delights to long soaks in hot springs. About the Book In Book Three of this charming series, translated from the original Japanese, Chirri and Chirra travel into the heart of an icy palace, where they discover all sorts of creatures, sights, and foods! Full color. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Defy series by sara b larson![]() On that same night, a massive, magical hedge grew and imprisoned them within the citadel. Zuhra and Inara have grown up in the Citadel of the Paladins, an abandoned fortress where legendary, magical warriors once lived before disappearing from the world-including their Paladin father the night Inara was born. The night my sister was born, the stars died and were reborn in her eyes…. ![]() Larson, Sisters of Shadow and Light is a timeless and fantastical tale of sisterly love and powerful magic ![]() ![]() From the acclaimed author of Defy, Sara B. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Little heaven a novel![]() ![]() I've written for magazines and newspapers, too. One of them even got turned into a movie. Do you like horror books? Do you like Boy Scouts (not in a weird, Canteen-Boyish way, but in a nostalgic way)? Do you like seeing said Boy Scouts confront a vicious enemy on an isolated Island off the coast of Prince Edward Island? If you said yes to one or more of these questions, you may enjoy this book.Īs for me: I've written a few other books under another name (the one my parents gave me). ![]() ![]() Personally, I wanted to be known as Lemondrop Pennyfeather, but that suggested nom de plume was cruelly stricken down.Īaaanywhoo, I've written this book, The Troop. Not that I'm putting myself in their league, no way no how, but I'm just saying that was the idea behind the name. Horror writers should have crisp, punchy names. A cool, tough pen name! Your mileage will vary on whether you agree, but that was the thinking. I've been asked to set this up by The Powers That Be, and I'm more than happy to, although I can't really say much about myself seeing as Nick Cutter doesn't exactly exist-he's a pen name. ![]() |