![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Bracken's book can serve as a primary reference for parents and can be used as well by health care professionals and teachers." -Science Books and Films "Comprehensive, well written, accurate, and compassionate. "A remarkable job.The technical information is clearly stated, up to date and accurate.But most of all, this is a human book."-Los Angeles Times It also includes an appendix of common medical tests, a glossary of terms, and comprehensive lists of organizations, clinics, and cancer centers, complete with names and addresses. A comprehensive road map for families of children diagnosed with various malignancies. Knowledgeable, compassionate voice of author with first hand experience with this difficult disease. Describing in detail the whole range of childhood cancers, Bracken explores how they affect the child, the treatments available, how to cope with the changes this diagnosis will bring to the entire family, and where to go for both medical and emotional help. Full of important information for parents of children combating cancer. The information ranges from sophisticated, hard-to-find medical facts to practical tips on how to handle side effects, and much more. ![]() Written honestly, yet in a reassuring tone, by a reference librarian whose child has survived cancer, Children with Cancer draws together a wealth of up-to-date information essential for anyone who wishes to help a child or family through this ordeal-including relatives, friends, teachers, and clergymen, as well as doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals. ![]() ![]() Children can and do survive cancer the last decade has seen many major advancements in treatment. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But when a young girl dies using the Nexus and a defect is discovered, NEXUS CEO Austin Wheeler decides lawsuits are cheaper than a recall. Riddled with guilt over the accident that crippled Brooke, Donovan buries himself in developing the Nexus. Steve Donovan, founder of NEXUS Corp, has developed a virtual technology that could help his daughter walk again. ![]() ![]() In a war of information, everyone is on the frontline. military’? Welcome to the present, where the lines are blurred between terrorists and governments, virtual worlds and reality. What if a terrorist were a computer virus, its weapon a defect, and its target the U.S. In a setting reminiscent of THE MATRIX and in the man-verses-science spirit of JURASSIC PARK, the players in this techno thriller novel move between reality and virtuality, finding danger, death, and betrayal in both worlds. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pi, his mother, father, and brother Ravi all board the Tsimtsum along with the zoo’s animal inhabitants (who are on their way to be sold around the world).Īn unexplained event causes the Tsimtsum to sink, and Pi is the only human to make it onto the lifeboat and survive. Thanks to government upheaval that has long been distressing Pi’s father, the Patels decide to close the Pondicherry Zoo and move to Canada when Pi is sixteen. A precocious and intelligent boy, by the age of fifteen Pi-Hindu from an early age-has also adopted Christianity and Islam, and considers himself a pious devotee to all three religions. Pi, born Piscine Molitor Patel, grows up in the South Indian city of Pondicherry, where his father runs the zoo. ![]() Life of Pi tells the fantastical story of Pi Patel, a sixteen-year-old South Indian boy who survives at sea with a tiger for 227 days. ![]() ![]() Who can put it together for me, who can make it last? He destroyed it utterly, as if He had not built it. Placing therein a noble spirit, putting it to the trial. I wonder at the house He has built and shaped, Read more in the article “Two Poems from the Diwan” How then can I possibly hope for any rest, dwelling as I do in such a place and state? My Lord it is who says that He has created me in a state of suffering and loss. Like a bow have I grown, and my true posture is as my rib. ![]() This flesh of mine is as pure silver, while my inner reality is as pure gold. ![]() Thus am I constrained to submit to the rule of parting, so that my hand is now empty and contains nothing.īound to this moment we are in, caught between the yesterday that has gone and the tomorrow that is yet to come. With my very own hands I laid my little daughter to rest because she is of my very flesh, SellsĪnd at a Shore that did not have an ocean Īnd at a Night that was without daybreak Īnd at an azure Dome raised over the earth,Ĭirculating ’round its center – Compulsion Īnd at a rich Earth without o’er-arching vaultĪnd no specific location, the Secret concealed…įrom the Kitāb ‘Anqā’ mughrib, one of the earliest surviving works by Ibn Arabi. ![]() ![]() Wherever its caravan turns along the way,įrom Poem 11 of the Tarjuman al-ashwaq, translation by Michael A. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since childhood she has been enormously gifted and highly intelligent, attending one of the best universities in Russia to study French and Linguistics, and also won the gold medal for pistol shooting in the Russian University Games when she was only a freshman. 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"His words confirmed what she had always known, even at her lowest ebb: that she was different, that she was special, that she was born to soar."Ī 2015 British novel by Luke Jennings, and the basis for the 2018 TV show Killing Eve. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's an engrossing read."-David Ebershoff, author of The Danish Girl and The 19th Wife Next Year in Havana is about journeys-into exile, into history, and into questions of home and identity. 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There’s just so much to learn-from brushing and flossing to dentin and pulp to every student’s nightmare: tooth decay!īest listened to with a toothbrush in hand, this hilarious book is full of interesting facts (for instance, George Washington’s teeth were not made of wood, despite popular belief) and a classroom full of quirky characters. Flossman is excited to meet the incoming class of thirty-two-eight incisors, four canines, eight premolars, and twelve molars, including the four wisdom teeth. And to the gums on which we stand, strong and healthy, with toothbrushes and toothpaste for all.’” OPEN WIDE: T O OTH SCHOOL INSIDE by Laurie Keller Themes: Dental Hygiene, Health, Humor, Learning, School Ages: 4-10 Running Time: 18 minutes SUMMARY This witty movie makes learning about teeth enter-taining and interesting. ![]() ![]() “Before the principal’s announcements, will you all please stand and recite our pledge: ‘I pledge allegiance to this mouth and to the dentist who takes care of us. From the author of The Scrambled States of America, here is a fun-filled introduction to teeth pulp to every students nightmare: tooth decay Open Wide: Tooth School Inside by Laurie Keller Hardcover From the author/illustrator of The 164269891875. ![]() ![]() Both works appeared within a month of one another in the spring of 1925, like companion pieces. ![]() Dalloway, she was working also on the collection of literary criticism which was to become The Common Reader. While she was working on the novel which was to become Mrs. As her emphatic capitalisation implies, the two activities went hand in hand for Woolf during this time. ![]() She lights upon it in this diary entry of August 1923, which falls in the midst of a period in which she was working on and indeed ‘thinking furiously about’ both ‘Reading & Writing’. Virginia Woolf’s famous caving method, or what she later termed her ‘tunnelling process’, is perhaps as much a method of reading as it is a method of writing. The Diary of Virginia Woolf, 30 August 1923 The idea is that the caves shall connect, & each comes to daylight at the present moment - Dinner! ![]() I should say a good deal about The Hours, & my discovery how I dig out beautiful caves behind my characters I think that gives exactly what I want humanity, humour, depth. You see, I’m thinking furiously about Reading & Writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Main Street is the Lewis novel best known in the author's birthplace, Sauk Centre, Minnesota, for in spite of its satire, it reflects the true nature of the town and its inhabitants. Lewis Mumford maintains that Carol Kennicott's struggle with the stodgy, self-satisfied society of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere, since the same story could occur in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas, Kentucky, or Illinois. It is well written, full of a sharp sense of comedy, and rich in observation and completely designed. Read our full plot summary and analysis of Main Street, scene by scene break. genuinely human but also authentically American. Main Street is a novel by Sinclair Lewis that was first published in 1920. Connected also with the decline of the American village was the exodus to the cities of many of its brighter and more aggressive young people, in search of more attractive living conditions and better work opportunities. Lewis gives little recognition to the forces contributing to small-town deterioration, notably the advent of the automobile as a common means of transportation and the consequent increase of city buying at the expense of local trade. The book satirizes the ugliness and conformity found in small Midwest towns during the second decade of the twentieth century and ridicules the uninspired and self-satisfied inhabitants. Main Street became a household word, both in the United States and abroad, within a few years after the publication of Sinclair Lewis' widely read novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() His right hand is General James Longstreet, a brooding man who is loyal to Lee but stubbornly argues against his plan. ![]() Lee has made this daring and massive move with seventy thousand men in a determined effort to draw out the Union Army of the Potomac and mortally wound it. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia is invading the North. This handsome new hardcover edition introduces a whole new generation to Shaara's masterpiece-and offers readers everywhere a literary keepsake for years to come. After more than a quarter of a century and three million copies in print, Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, The Killer Angels, remains as vivid and powerful as the day it was originally published. Shaara's unforgettable novel served as the basis for the acclaimed feature film Gettysburg, has sold millions of copies, and inspired the bestselling Civil War novels Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure by his son, Jeff Shaara. Since it was first published in 1974, "The Killer Angels" has become the most beloved, widely-read Civil War novel of the post-World War II era. ![]() |