![]() ![]() She lives in New York City with her husband, Marc, their children, and their dog, Soren. ![]() ![]() Her other books include the New York Times bestsellers Don’t Let Them Disappear: 12 Endangered Species Across the Globe Start Now! You Can Make a Difference She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going! The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience, co-written with Hillary Rodham Clinton and Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why?, co-written with Devi Sridhar.Ĭhelsea Clinton is the vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, where she works on many initiatives including those that help to empower the next generation of leaders. ![]() She is also the author of the picture book Grandma’s Gardens, co-written with Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the forthcoming She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changed the Game. Chelsea Clinton is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling picture book She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World, which was praised in a starred review by Publishers Weekly as a “lovely, moving work of children's literature polished introduction to a diverse and accomplished group of women." ![]()
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![]() ![]() It’s fabulous and I can’t wait to have you all to myself.” You and I are a family, aren’t we? I love the idea. Wanted to make their own traditions without the shadow of Zach between them. But I thought it would be nice to get away.” We’d be back for the New Year’s Eve party your sister is planning. She scrambled around him to wrap herself around his waist, wanting him to see how much she loved this present. Restaurant looks good, but they have room service too if we want it.” High enough to get snow sometimes the owner said. She smiled but he couldn’t see it so she kissed him again. “So I thought we could, you know, get away for a few days. “This will be our first Christmas as a couple.” He paused and she kissed the top of his head. ![]() ![]() They’d all grown up together and spent the holidays as a family since Rori had returned to Oakley some years before. “I know we both normally spend Christmas at Kelly and Max’s house.” Kelly was Rori’s sister and she was married to Max, Jude’s brother. He laughed, settling back into her so she could wrap her arms around him and hold on tight. ![]() ![]() In a slim novel, his presence was powerful.Įmezi plays fast-and-loose with chronology and narrative voice here as Vivek’s death fractures the world around him. ![]() We see his birth and his childhood and his quest for his own identity we also hear his voice from beyond the grave and those were perhaps the most poignant passages. We learn who Vivek was we learn to love him we learn (eventually) how he died we learn the impact his death has had on his family, friends and community.Īnd despite being dead, Vivek remains a vital character in the novel: we are treated to flashbacks all the way back to to his parents’ courtship in a bravura opening chapter imagining a sequence of photographs telling their own own stories. And this image of Vivek, naked, wrapped in a cloth, delivered dead to his parents door is the brutal central moment around which this novel revolves. This is one of the most potent opening lines I have come across. They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died. And the opening line delivered exactly that: What was I expecting? The usual from Emezi: brutal and unflinching honesty, glorious language, compelling characters and heart ache. Their novels are glorious, but also challenging. A release of one of their books is an event in my literary calendar and I have been looking forward to this one from the moment it was released, but I did not feel that I was in the right place to read it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Akwaeke Emezi is one of my favourite contemporary writers. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was more than skeptical about the NBC prequel TV series Hannibal, but great reviews and the involvement of Bryan Fuller got me to check it out. Since I felt like Harris was just cashing in and had pretty much ruined Hannibal in the process, I hadn’t felt the urge to revisit Red Dragon or The Silence of the Lambs in some time. So after Thomas Harris and Hollywood ran the character into the ground after the second movie, it’s been years of shaking my head and saying, “Man, nothing’s been the same since Anthony Hopkins gave his Oscar acceptance speech.” Twice! (I’m pretty sure this is the literary equivalent of claiming to have seen a band in a bar with eleven other people long before their first record deal.) Hell, I’m so Hannibal-hip that I’d caught Brian Cox playing him in Michael Mann’s adaptation Manhunter, and I didn’t just see it on VHS like all the other late-comers, I actually saw it in the theater. ![]() ![]() I’d read this years before the book of The Silence of the Lambs came out and led to the excellent film adaptation that skyrocketed Hannibal to the top of pop culture villains. When it comes to Hannibal Lecter, I’m like one of those music hipster douche bags that everyone hates because I’ll snootily declare that I knew about him long before most people did and that he’s sucked ever since he got really famous. ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. 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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lifetime created a movie out of Midnight Bayou. ![]() ![]() Her male leads are alpha males who never cross the line to Neanderthal, and her female protagonists are more salty than sweet. Nora Roberts is the comfort food of romance writers, possibly predictable, but she’s also a consummate storyteller, so it ultimately doesn’t matter. Lena is no swooning damsel-in-distress, and Declan will have his work cut out for him, convincing her to fall into his waiting arms. The house has an unresolved past of heartbreak and loss, and Declan will find himself spending as much time managing its ghosts as he will sanding its floors.ĭon’t despair for Declan, li Squad he will also meet the beautiful and prickly Lena, and sparks will fly. No dilapidated home in the bayou worth its salt comes without a few ghosts, and Manet Hall is no exception. Nora Roberts’ Midnight Bayou tells the story of Declan, who chucks his law career and his fiancé in one fell swoop, buys a ramshackle mansion in the Louisiana bayou, and dedicates himself to restoring it. Although the romance genre is chock full of vampires, werewolves, and the occasional witch, good luck finding one where the meet-cute happens at a Halloween party. I thought I’d round out October with some Halloween-adjacent reads. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus, in this study, an experiential digital game has been developed and presented to a fifth grade class learning the Analects of Confucius at an elementary school in Taipei city. In addition, the experiential game-based approach is a learning method with great potential for motivating students and stimulating their willingness to engage in continuous and constant learning. Several studies have shown that by properly incorporating learning contents into game scenarios, an experiential game-based learning approach might foster students' motivation to learn through experience. Meanwhile, with the advancements of technology, learning with computer games is currently a rapidly developing area of interest for researchers, teachers, material writers and application developers in the educational field. However, educators have indicated that most students fail to understand its abstract thoughts, or even realize its spirit in their daily life experience. Students have to learn a collection of the thoughts of Confucius which have shaped world history and the soul of China. ![]() The Analects of Confucius is an important course in the curriculum of Asian Studies in the Chinese community and around the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() So in 2019, Grann flew to Chile and chartered a 52-foot vessel…ĭavid Grann: The boat looked- you know, it looked pretty big. And so it was then that I decided to try to make this trip. There's always a moment where something gnaws at you, something unknown. But there came a point where I began to fear that I could never fully understand what these 150 or so men had gone through on that island unless I went. One hundred forty five castaways, many sick from scurvy, swam to the nearest island….you'd think the name alone-the Gulf of Pain-would discourage visitors, especially one bespectacled 56-year-old man who admits he hates camping.ĭavid Grann: I spent the first two years doing research, in a way very suited to my physical attributes- which is in archives.ĭavid Grann: Yes, indoors. The Wager careened into rocks, ripping apart. ![]() As they're coming around, they're desperately, frantically trying to avoid this land. Grann showed us on his own map where the Wager got into trouble, a place aptly named.ĭavid Grann: They're barreling into the Gulf of Pain. But, one of the ships in the squadron lost its way just off the coast of Patagonia. That meant rounding Cape Horn, negotiating some of the world's most treacherous waters and winds. With their Empires at war, a British squadron of roughly 2,000 men set out to capture a Spanish galleon filled with treasure off the Philippines. All these names and symbols told a larger story. ![]() ![]() In the aftermath of so much turmoil, it is Isabelle who emerges as an unlikely leader, proffering a healing vision for the land and for the newly free citizens of Old Ox. But when their secret is discovered, the resulting chaos, including a murder, unleashes convulsive repercussions on the entire community. The young men, recently returned from the war to the town of Old Ox, hold their trysts in the woods. ![]() Parallel to their story runs a forbidden romance between two Confederate soldiers. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother, who was sold away when they were boys. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. ![]() An Instant New York Times bestseller / An Oprah's Book Club Pick In the spirit of The Known World and The Underground Railroad, an award-winning "miraculous debut" ( Washington Post ) about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, forever In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry-freed by the Emancipation Proclamation-seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Elevated levels of insulin are the primary cause of obesity.Reducing calorie intake does not lead to weight loss.Intermittent fasting is recommended in the last chapter of the book (although a vegan diet is not). While not the most popular nutrition book of all time, it has impacted the public conversation around nutrition and appears at the top of the Google results page when searching for “best nutrition books.”Īdditionally, US Senator from New Jersey and current presidential candidate Cory Booker has been open about his intermittent fasting vegan diet, placing intermittent fasting closer to the mainstream. We chose to review TOC because it was very popular when it was released a few years ago and it has been referenced many times in mainstream news articles on health. Parts five and six describe what is purportedly wrong with our current diet and how to address these problems. Parts three and four discuss a “new model” of how obesity develops along with some sociological contributors to obesity. Parts one and two discuss how obesity became an epidemic and try to refute what it calls “myths” about obesity. From that beginning premise, the book deconstructs the conventional model of obesity and then re-educates the reader on how we get fat and what to do about it. The Obesity Code (TOC) begins by suggesting that conventional nutrition advice is wrong, and so is the conventional understanding of obesity. ![]() |