![]() Guided by Artemis's twin-the handsome and entirely-too-self-assured god Apollo-Daphne's journey will take her from the labyrinth of the Minotaur to the riddle-spinning Sphinx of Thebes, team her up with mythological legends such as Theseus and Hippolyta of the Amazons, and pit her against the gods themselves.Ī reinterpretation of the classic Greek myth of Daphne and Apollo, Daughter of Sparta by debut author Claire Andrews turns the traditionally male-dominated mythology we know into a heart-pounding and empowering female-led adventure. Nine mysterious items have been stolen from Mount Olympus and if Daphne cannot find them, the gods' waning powers will fade away, the mortal world will descend into chaos, and her brother's life will be forfeit. ![]() ![]() But an unexpected encounter with the goddess Artemis-who holds Daphne's brother's fate in her hands-upends the life she's worked so hard to build. Content Warnings: Violence, torture, moderately strong language About the Author: Claire Andrews was raised in both Alaska and Scotland, but currently lives in Vermont when not writing, she can usually be found outside swimming, skiing or hiking across the state’s famous green mountains. Seventeen-year-old Daphne has spent her entire life honing her body and mind into that of a warrior, hoping to be accepted by the unyielding people of ancient Sparta. Out Now from Little, Brown and Company 375 pages. ![]() In this thrilling reimagining of ancient Greek mythology, a headstrong girl does whatever it takes to rise up and become the most powerful fighter her people have ever seen. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The narrator describes feeling as though meaning is floating on the surface of things, untethered from their physical reality. Though she is skeptical of supernatural phenomena, the datura slowly undermines that skepticism each day seems to bring one serendipitous event after another, not to mention mild hallucinations. Datura is known to cause delirium and dissociation, but it may also ease the symptoms of asthma, which the narrator has. ![]() In Leena Krohn’s novella “Datura, or A Figment Seen by Everyone,” the narrator, who works for a paranormal-news magazine, transcribes the inscrutable fifteenth-century text known as the Voynich manuscript while slowly poisoning herself with the seeds from a datura plant. “Leena Krohn: Collected Fiction” is the most extensive English translation yet of work by the celebrated Finnish writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() What time is the first Cable Car to Knox / Henderson in Dallas?. ![]() The 3 is the last Bus that goes to Knox / Henderson in Dallas.
![]() ![]() Things are pretty good now, for the haves, and there aren’t many have-nots left. ![]() Wilf Netherton lives in London, seventy-some years later, on the far side of decades of slow-motion apocalypse. She made more as a combat scout in an online game, playing for a rich man, but she’s had to let the shooter games go. Flynne earns what she can by assembling product at the local 3D printshop. Her brother Burton lives on money from the Veterans Administration, for neurological damage suffered in the Marines’ elite Haptic Recon unit. The New York Times bestselling author of Neuromancer and Agency presents a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that takes a terrifying look into the future.ĭON'T MISS THE SERIES-NOW STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON PRIME VIDEO!įlynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural America where jobs are scarce, unless you count illegal drug manufacture, which she’s trying to avoid. ![]() ![]() ![]() Piper trying to cook spaghetti for Hannah, and the frying pan incidentīrendan stopping by before his fishing trip to install new locks on the doors for the girls, and dropping off take out menus, circling his favorite things. As she settles into small town life, and discovers her roots, she starts to wonder if she can let go of the glamourous life she had in LA, and make Westport - and Brendan - her home. ![]() And he learns that Piper isn't just beautiful on the outside, but the inside as well. With Westport being a small town, and the more she runs into the gorgeous fisherman, the more she learns there is more to him than meets the eye. Wanting to prove her stepfather, and Brendan wrong, Piper digs her feet in for the long haul. As soon as she walks into the bar, she meets Brendan, and he makes it clear - she doesn't belong in Westport. As punishment, she is cut off, and sent to Westport, Washington for 3 months, along with her sister, to run her deceased father's dive bar. ![]() When Piper acts out by breaking into a fancy hotel's pool and throwing an insane party after an embarrassing break up, she ends up in jail. Hannah and Piper make the perfect sister team. Brendan's insight and love make the reader want to scratch away at Piper's artificial surface. Brendan and Piper are an unlikely pair - sea captain versus uptown girl. It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey is the first book in her Bellinger sisters duology, and centers around Piper Bellinger, a twenty-eight year old socialite, and Brendan, a gorgeous, but grouchy fisherman. I now want to read the second book in the series. ![]() ![]() ![]() He had a best friend called Soha,his neighbour and classmate too. The story revolves around Roshan,who was not good at studies. "Everything I never told you" is written by the bestselling author Ajay K Pandey and published by Sristi publishers and distributors. Will Soha be able to set herself free of a love she has nurtured all her life?Įverything I Never Told You is a burning reminder that the heart knows no restrictions, and of the boundless power of love. Will Roshan be able to choose between Anuj and Soha? Will Anuj be able to see someone else in place of his mother? His resolve to convince his son brings him to a point where he will have to make a choice. ![]() History repeats itself after years, but this time, Roshan decides to not give up. Soha walked back into his life after Roshan lost Manisha to cancer. ![]() When Anuj was born, theirs was a happy family. He married Manisha with the hope of moving on, and his life unfolded with a new definition of love. Roshan failed to convince his father and had to let Soha go. They wanted to be together, but the world saw them as a Hindu and a Muslim before everything else. Roshan and Soha were not just class-mates and neighbours, but also best friends. We can live without religion, but we cannot survive without love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, towards the beginning of his introduction to the new Vintage edition of the book, Michael Morpurgo writes: "I remember being mesmerised by the beauty of the prose – a prose poem, a narrative poem, I thought, a word painting." Writing in the Observer back in 1959, Harold Nicolson said of the book: "Its vigour and delicacy animate the loveliness of existence."Ĭlearly, this is a valid view of Cider With Rosie. Plenty of contributors to the Reading group would have agreed with me too, judging by comments like the following: "It's a truly beautiful book", "Its beauty, humour and humanity leave me speechless and uplifted each time I read it. But beyond that, I'd have been sure that this was a book of spring ripening into summer, of blooming life and golden light. ![]() ![]() I'd perhaps have had an uncomfortable recollection of a midnight murder by a crossroads, and another of a suicide in a millpond. I'd have laughed about funny local characters like Gran Trill and her lifelong, long-life rivalry with Granny Wallon. I'd have spoken about fun trips on charabancs, youthful energy, fecund nature and sexual awakening. If you'd asked me two weeks ago what this book was about, I'd have confidently told you that it's a happy, nostaligic, idealistic evocation of a lost time and place. Memory, as the gloriously unreliable narrator of Cider With Rosie probably wouldn't admit, is a strange, distorting thing. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is consistent with chiropractic concepts and teaching on innate intelligence.Ģ ![]() “What does an immune system do when it’s not properly trained? It overreacts,” accounting for the rise in autoimmunity. “The hygiene hypothesis stated that our environment has become so clean that it has left our immune system insufficiently trained.” Over-cleanliness and other infection suppression efforts damage the immune system. He attributes this to the “hygiene hypothesis,” noting that a lifelong adequate immune response requires that humans actually be infected early in life. Yet, Richtel thoroughly explains that the most important immunology problem today is an immune system that is working too well, overworking, resulting in the escalation of autoimmune diseases. It seems that everyone is obsessed with enhancing immunology. ![]() As always, I read this book with an eye toward chiropractic applications, and I found three that are noteworthy:ġ ![]() When I saw this book profiled in The Wall Street Journal, Science News and Scientific American, I quickly picked it up. My entire career, I have had an interest in chiropractic and the immune system, sparked by seeing published anecdotes, journal studies and my own clinical experiences. ![]() ![]() ![]() The work concludes with "Queries" - speculations concerning light and gravitation. Book I contains his fundamental experiments with the spectrum, Book II deals with the ring phenomena, and Book III covers diffraction. In language that lay readers can easily follow, Sir Isaac Newton describes his famous experiments with spectroscopy and colors, lenses, and the reflection and diffraction of light. ![]() One of the most readable of all the great classics of physical science, this volume will impress readers with its surprisingly modern perspectives. "An underpinning for the entire edifice of physics." - Scientific AmericanĪ comprehensive survey of eighteenth-century knowledge about all aspects of light, Opticks also offers countless scientific insights by its distinguished author. "The publishers do us a service by issuing this reprint." - The Institute of Physics "Recommended to all scientists." - Journal of Royal Naval Scientific Service ![]() ![]() Is the flood going to take them all to heaven? ‘Fiddlesticks,’ said Moominmamma genially and whisked away another speck of soot from her snout. ![]() ![]() ‘Everybody’s burning up!’ shouted Little My happily, ‘And everybody’s houses and gardens and playthings and little sisters and their playthings!’ And now, after all these years, exactly when I’ve finished my washing, it has to sneeze once again and blacken all the things I hang out.’ It’s always kept quiet and good ever since I married. ‘Yes, it’s a mountain not so very far from here, and all of a sudden it’s begun spitting fire and smoke over the whole valley,’ explained Moominmamma. ‘Volcano?’ asked Little My, and thrust an interested head out of the wool. ‘So very annoying, this volcano,’ she remarked. The Moomin family wild adventures starting with a volcano and a flood which separates them - for a while ![]() |