No-Drama Discipline by Daniel J. Siegel6/28/2023
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Agent: Jenny Savill, Andrew Nurnberg Associates (U.K.). The plot revolves around finding the bomber, but the heart of the story is the universal human quest for acceptance, understanding, and love. Pulley expertly employs the tools of mystery and fantasy to examine the social pressures faced by the marginalized. Carrow is determined to prove Mori’s guilt, and driven to make a scientific discovery that will free her from the limits society has placed on women. When Steepleton receives word of a clockwork bombing and an anonymous gift of a pocket watch on the same day, he begins investigating Mori, who has been accused of building the explosive device-but those accusations are rooted in English xenophobia and exploitation of Japanese immigrants. Their lives are brought together and into peril by association with Keita Mori, a genius watchmaker who can “remember” the future. Grace Carrow is a scientist seeking out the mysteries of ether. Nathaniel Steepleton is a telegraph clerk in the Home Office, trapped in a life as regular as clockwork. It captures the frenetic energy of a world undergoing extraordinary changes: London in the time of new electrical devices, Gilbert and Sullivan’s theater, and the terror of Irish nationalist bombings. Pulley’s electrifying debut is a triumph of speculative fiction. Natasha Pulleys first novel The Watchmaker of Filigree Street was a Sunday Times bestseller, won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Authors Club Best First Novel Award. Candide cover6/28/2023 Still, the events discussed are often based on historical happenings, such as the Seven Years' War and the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. A picaresque novel with a story similar to that of a more serious coming-of-age narrative ( Bildungsroman), it parodies many adventure and romance clichés, the struggles of which are caricatured in a tone that is bitter and matter-of-fact. Voltaire concludes Candide with, if not rejecting Leibnizian optimism outright, advocating a deeply practical precept, "we must cultivate our garden", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best" in the " best of all possible worlds".Ĭandide is characterized by its tone as well as by its erratic, fantastical, and fast-moving plot. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow and painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759) Candide: or, The Optimist (1762) and Candide: Optimism (1947). Candide, ou l'Optimisme ( / k ɒ n ˈ d iː d/ kon- DEED, French: ( listen)) is a French satire written by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, first published in 1759. Days without end sebastian barry summary6/28/2023 Depending on the study guide provider (SparkNotes, Shmoop, etc.), the resources below will generally offer Days Without End chapter summaries, quotes, and analysis of themes, characters, and symbols. And, as Yip and Dud's odyssey takes them further into the unknown - via travelling shows, escaped slaves and the greed of gold-hungry men - the pull of home only gets stronger. Among the summaries and analysis available for Days Without End, there is 1 Short Summary. Together, they embark on a journey that thrusts them unwittingly into a world of menace and violence, of lust and revenge. On the run, friendless and alone, he meets Dud Carter a savvy but unlikely companion. An uneventful life, until gold is discovered nearby and Yip is caught up in a bloody, grievous crime forcing him to flee. Yip Tolroy and his fiery Mama run the general store in Heron's Creek, Georgia. 'Paddy Crewe has a 24-carat gift' Sebastian Barry 'I can't recommend it enough' Rachel Joyce 'A rollicking, page-turning wild west adventure' Guardian SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION A THE TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR Batman nightwalker the graphic novel6/27/2023 Bruce attempts to make a connection with her and wants to help the police find out what she knows, but does Madeleine have an ulterior motive in connecting with him?īruce and friends finally have their graduation from high school. Instead of prepping for high school graduation, Bruce is at Arkham Asylum, performing community service for his antics when chasing the Nightwalker He meets a young girl imprisoned there, Madeleine, who is a part of the Nightwalkers, an anarchist group intent on destroying the rich of Gotham. Bruce Wayne can, however, and he takes off in pursuit. He’s out following GCPD, who’s in the process of chasing a vehicle caring an individual they refer to only as Nightwalker.Īfter blowing up a building, the Nightwalker speeds away. Who wouldn’t? On a day where he obtains his full inheritance and becomes the richest teenager in the world, one would think Wayne would be living up with his friends and others as they raise money in his late mother’s name. Synopsis(spoilers ahead): Bruce Wayne should be enjoying his birthday. But will his feelings for one of its members get in the way of solving the mystery and perhaps cost him his life? Instead, he finds himself in the grips of a case involving of a group of domestic anarchists determined to take out all of Gotham’s rich elite. Overview: A young Bruce Wayne should be enjoying his eighteenth birthday and graduating from high school. Irresistible from adam alter6/27/2023 Half of us would rather suffer a broken bone than a broken phone, and Millennial kids spend so much time in front of screens that they struggle to interact with real, live humans. We obsess over our emails, Instagram likes, and Facebook feeds we binge on TV episodes and YouTube videos we work longer hours each year and we spend an average of three hours each day using our smartphones. Welcome to the age of behavioral addiction-an age in which half of the American population is addicted to at least one behavior. Alter brilliantly illuminates the new obsessions that are controlling our lives and offers the tools we need to rescue our businesses, our families, and our sanity.” - Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take “One of the most mesmerizing and important books I’ve read in quite some time. Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario6/27/2023 He experienced love and care, which he hadn’t seen before from his family. With the appearance of Marco, there was a light in Enrique’s future. One might mention that one of the significant characters in the book was Enrique’s uncle Marco, who, unfortunately, did not stay in the boy’s life for a long time. Besides showing the dangers and fears of migration, the book represents the outcomes of the separation from parents. Enrique had a problematic life, changing his family members’ houses, not experiencing a mother’s love, which made him a rival and developed a drug addiction in the boy (Nazario 32). The feeling that children get by being abandoned by their parents, the inner fights that parents have as they are unable to keep their promises about reunion touch one’s heart sincerely. It is terrifying to read about such a painful life story of a family, realizing that there are numerous families like that one in real life. The major character of the book, Enrique, was left by his mother in early childhood, who, with the help of a smuggler, went to America to be able to support her children financially. Enrique’s Journey raises substantial obstacles and describes the harsh reality that the migrants from Central America face on their journey to the US, traveling across Mexico. A veritable cascade of frills, curls and bows towered over Poppy's head, the whole of it draped with strings of small pear-shaped pearls. Side panniers made it difficult enough to negotiate doorways and stairs, but this morning her French maid had outdone herself. She could feel her smile turning rigid so she picked up her skirts and edged down the three marble steps into the ballroom. He had drifted away to some other part of Beaumont House without bothering to be announced. When he said nothing about the duke, Poppy looked behind her . . . but Fletch was gone. "The Duchess of Fletcher," the butler announced with a magnificent bellow. Townhouse of the Duke and Duchess of BeaumontĪ morning party in celebration of the Earl of Gryffyn's victory in a duel We cannot comment on the veracity of this report, but we would note that dueling has been strictly prohibited by our gracious sovereign . . . It seems that the earl has stolen away the duke's fiancée. The buzz of the past few days amongst the ton has been the challenge that the Earl of Gryffyn offered the Duke of Villiers. Consciousness blackmore6/26/2023 There is not anything that can be done to remove the smell.” He was able to explain that the smell is due to glutamate that is released by the death of brain cells. "I asked the neurosurgeon why the patient's with traumatic brain injury tend to have a specific smell on their breath regardless of bathing, oral care, etc. It's the same smell regardless of any demographic and it tends to come on around day two or three and gets worse after a day or two.” "In my experience the odor coming off of neuro patients smells the same across the board. Nurses working in any Neuro ICU seem to have very similar descriptions of the odor that these patients produce: Healthcare providers have described neuro breath as a foul breath odor unique to patients in the Neuro ICU who have experienced brain damage via a TBI or some other type of brain injury, despite exceptional and adequate oral care for the patient. This phenomenon is neuro breath, and the condition's causes go deeper than many might think. A healthcare phenomenon that many have never heard of or discussed is plaguing Neuro Intensive Care Units and units treating patients with traumatic brain injuries or TBIs. Tower of babel bancroft6/26/2023 While Edith wars for the soul of the young woman, a greater crisis looms: They will have to face Marat on unequal footing and with Senlin caught in the crossfire.Īnd when the Bridge of Babel is finally opened, and the Brick Layer's true ambition revealed, neither they nor the Tower will ever be the same again. She seems to share more in common with the Red Hand now than her former self. As Adam unravels the mystery of his fame, he soon discovers the crowning ringdom conceals a much darker secret.Īboard the State of Art, Edith and her crew adjust to the reality that Voleta has awoken from death changed. In the city under glass at the Tower's summit, Adam discovers a utopia where everyone inexplicably knows the details of his past. The leader of the zealots is bound for the Sphinx's lair and the unimaginable power it contains. Caught in a charade, Senlin desperately tries to sabotage the rampaging Hod King, even as Marat's objective grows increasingly clear. His books are that rare alchemy: gracefully written, deliriously imaginative, action packed, warm, witty, and thought provoking." -Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of CirceĪs Marat's siege engine bores through the Tower, erupting inside ringdoms and leaving chaos in its wake, Senlin can do nothing but observe the mayhem from inside the belly of the beast. The incredible final book in the phenomenon fantasy series described as “future classics" follows one man's dangerous journey through a labyrinthine world and the mysteries he uncovers along the way. |