Busting myths along the way, Jandial helps readers get wired for success at work and school, perform better when the pressure is on, boost memory, control stress and emotions, minimize pain, stick to a healthy eating plan, unleash creativity, raise smarter kids, and stay sharp as they age. Jandial’s broad-spectrum expertise and brings together the best of various fields-surgery, science, brain structure, the conscious mind-all to explain the bigger picture of brain health and rejuvenation. It is a journey into his operating room, around the world on his surgical missions, inside his laboratory, and to the outer edges of neuroscience to reveal the latest brain breakthroughs that are turning science fiction into reality, translating their implications for everyday life. Rahul Jandial is on the cutting edge of the latest advancements in neuroscience. With engrossing stories from the OR and the lab, a leading neurosurgeon and neuroscientist explores the cutting-edge science that can be applied to everyday life for peak performance, improved memory, enhanced creativity, and much more.įrom the operating room, where he performs some of the riskiest surgeries around, to the lab, where he works on leading clinical trials, Dr.
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5/28/2023 0 Comments Poirot the hollowHickory Dickory Dock (1955) does nothing with its rhyme, and relatively little with anything else. Five Little Pigs (1942/3) involved Hercule Poirot investigating a 16-year-old murder of the artist Amyas Crale for which his wife Caroline had been sentenced, dying in prison Poirot’s chief evidence oral and written is from five survivors one of whom he finds to have been the actual murderer (Robert Barnard, in his A Talent to Deceive (1980) - perhaps the best critique of Christie - thought it her best): the crucial witnesses are admirably profiled as the individual pigs of the rhyme beginning ‘This Little Pig …’. Agatha Christie had made previous use of (nursery) rhymes to supply titles with varying success in the past. ALFRED TENNYSON, Maud - A Monodrama (1855) Part 1, I.i The red-ribbed ledges drip with a silent horror of blood,Īnd Echo there whatever is asked her, answers ‘Death.’ Its lips in the field above are dabbled with blood-red heath, I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood, New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award He now lives in Toronto and works in a shared studio space in Chinatown. Sydney has received the Amelia Frances Howard Gibbon Illustrator’s Award. He is also the illustrator of Grant and Tillie Go Walking by Monica Kulling and The White Cat and the Monk by Jo Ellen Bogart. Since graduating from NSCAD University, he has illustrated multiple children’s books, including the highly acclaimed wordless picture book Sidewalk Flowers, conceived by Jon Arno Lawson, which won a Governor General’s Award and was shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. Sydney Smith was born in rural Nova Scotia and has been drawing from an early age. Joanne has been a children’s librarian for more than twenty-five years. Her most recent book is Pinny in Summer, illustrated by Isabelle Malenfant. Her other books include City Alphabet and City Numbers, with photos by Matt Beam, and two Inuit folktales with Cape Dorset elder Qaunaq Mikkigak The Legend of the Fog, illustrated by Danny Christopher, and Grandmother Ptarmigan, illustrated by Qin Leng. Her first picture book, Our Corner Grocery Store, illustrated by Laura Beingessner, was nominated for the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award. Joanne Schwartz was born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Tristan strong rick riordanPerfectly paced, this cinematic adventure never drags, anchored by Tristan’s conversational narration and balanced by his struggle to cope with a friend’s passing. Mbalia’s epic debut centers African American characters and tradition, featuring a pantheon of legends and a plot worthy of such tricksters as Brer Rabbit and Anansi the Weaver. Readers who want more than just a taste of Alke will be eager for future books.- Kirkus chattel slavery and the Middle Passage specifically) touch on the tensions between the cultures, a cultural nuance oft overlooked. Mbalia's African American and West African gods (with villains tied to U.S. Mbalia expertly weaves a meaningful portrayal of family and community with folklore, myth, and history-including the legacy of the slave trade-creating a fast-paced, heroic series starter.- Publishers Weekly 5/27/2023 0 Comments RoadsidepicnicLe Guin and a new afterword by Boris Strugatsky explaining the strange history of the novel's publication in Russia. This authoritative new translation corrects many errors and omissions and has been supplemented with a foreword by Ursula K. And the news he gets from his girlfriend upon his return makes it inevitable that he'll keep going back to the Zone, again and again, until he finds the answer to all his problems.įirst published in 1972, Roadside Picnic is still widely regarded as one of the greatest science fiction novels, despite the fact that it has been out of print in the United States for almost thirty years. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a full empty, something goes wrong. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. In 1644, Darius is writing in his diary about how after his mother's death, his stepfather, Marklon, dumped him at the Bloodletter's cave and didn't look back. Reminder that this wiki contains spoilers so please proceed with caution. Readers should be aware this book contains homophobic characters, kidnapping, rape, and deals with post-traumatic stress disorder. Other Characters Black Dagger Brotherhood Members As a vicious personal vendetta takes John into the heart of the war, he will need to call up on both who he is now and who he once was in order to face off against evil incarnate…and rescue his one true love. Indeed, the fallen Brother Darius has returned, but with a different face and a very different destiny. After he was taken in by the Brotherhood, no one could guess what his true history was-or his true identity. John Matthew has come a long way since he was found living among humans, his vampire nature unknown to himself and to those around him. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Ascension by Jacqueline KoyanagiEven so, and despite the repeated urgings of her sister, Nova – a wealthy and successful spirit guide – Alana can’t bear to give up working the ships she loves for the sake of a steady paycheck. But business is bad, and medicine is expensive, forcing Alana to live hand to mouth. Alana also has Mel’s Disease: a degenerative genetic condition that, if left untreated, causes her intense pain that could potentially cause her permanent, even lethal physical damage. Ever since the Othersiders and their fantastic technology appeared through a rift in space, regular businesses have been taking a succession of hard economic hits, leading to a decline in demand for sky surgeons. Alana Quick is a talented sky surgeon – a fixer and mender of spaceships – but despite her skills, her life is anything but easy. Select the quantity of the product you desire and click the "Add" button. Read Less Below is a list of products arranged by condition. But the secrets she unveils will expose a darker, more dangerous side of the war-and of her own past.“You’ll be loyal subject, ready to follow her wherever she goes.”-O: The Oprah Magazine Relying on her quick wit and keen instincts, Maggie infiltrates the highest level of Berlin society, gathering information to pass on to London headquarters. After serving as a secret agent to protect Princess Elizabeth at Windsor Castle, Maggie is now an elite member of the Special Operations Executive-a black ops organization designed to aid the British effort abroad-and her first assignment sends her straight into Nazi-controlled Berlin, the very heart of the German war machine. Read His Majestys Hope: A Maggie Hope Mystery by MacNeal, Susan Elia, lexile & reading level:, (ISBN: 9780345538758). King, and Anne Perry, whip-smart heroine Maggie Hope returns to embark on a clandestine mission behind enemy lines where no one can be trusted, and even the smallest indiscretion can be deadly.World War II has finally come home to Britain, but it takes more than nightly air raids to rattle intrepid spy and expert code breaker Maggie Hope. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Author of under the hawthorn treeNot a word, spoken or unspoken, nor an emotion, is wasted. Join siblings Eily, Michael, and Peggy on their incredible journey as they overcome tragedy, famine, and poverty to make their way in a dangerous new world.īeautiful and moving.historically true and fictionally vivid. Winner of many awards and accolades, these are all-time classics in historical fiction for children. Marita Conlon-McKenna's Children of the Famine series brings to life as never before the Great Famine of 1840s Ireland and the immigrations that followed. One of the greatest historical fiction adventures in children's literature. Their only hope is to find the great-aunts they have heard about in their mother's stories. When their father and mother go missing in a desperate search for food, the three O'Driscoll children are left to fend for themselves. About the Book Ireland in the 1840s is in the grip of a terrible famine. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Opening the Gates by Margot Badran"An expression of indigenous, intrepid feminism in the Arab world."-Ms. represent a powerful series of vignettes by women who were both insightful and gifted, into the lives of women who have lived 'behind the veil' over the last 100 years."-Arab Book World "This impressive collection of writings by Arab women. "This collection of stories, speeches, essays, poems and memoirs bears fierce testimony to a tradition of brave Arab feminist writing in the face of subjugation by a Muslim patriarchy."-Publishers Weekly Here are first-class stories with the energy and freshness we expect from a beginning." -Doris Lessing, The Independent "Anyone interested in good writing should read. "An impressive collection of more than 50 pieces-essays, poems, folktales, short stories, memoirs, film scripts, lectures/speeches-by Arab women challenging the widely accepted view of Middle Eastern women as submissive non-thinkers to whom feminism is a foreign concept." -Booklist |
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