![]() ![]() The truths they conceal are far more stunning than anything Elias could ever have imagined, and he finds himself caught in the middle of it all-while he's supposed to be resting. But there are more than just tunnels and stalagmites waiting to be discovered there are mysteries hiding around every turn. So he is thrilled when Stephen, one of the slaves who works in the cave, invites him to walk further through its depths. At first, living in a cave sounds like an adventure, but after a few days, Elias feels more sick of boredom than his illness. Twelve-year-old Elias has consumption, so he is sent to Kentucky's Mammoth Cave-the biggest cave in America-where the cool vapors are said to be healing. In a stunning story that "makes history come alive" ( Booklist ), a boy is sent to Mammoth cave to fight a case of consumption-and ends up fighting for the lives of a secret community of escaped slaves, who are hidden deep underground. Jennifer Bradbury is the author of the middle grade novel River Runs Deep and of several critically acclaimed young adult novels, including A Moment Comes, Wrapped, and her debut, Shift which Kirkus Reviews called fresh, absorbing, compelling in a starred review. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It is the circumstances that bring about life changing moments in this book. SL: Speaking of conflicts, I sort of dig the idea of not having a villainous character ripping the two lovers apart. ![]() I loved the idea of the chemistry still being there but a conflict as well. MJ: Yes, plus I wanted to add a nice large serving of discomfort at the beginning of the section once they’re adults and Rory refuses to be friends with Ben. Was that what you were going for, to have the readers warm up to their friendship and then show us how beautiful a friends-to-lovers relationship can be? I have read this book and I especially loved the friendship that you showed us between Rory and Ben. The whole friends-to-lovers-to-enemies and then back to lovers is kinda unique. SL: If you see it that way, this dynamism does set the book apart. I hate to judge if something is unique or not but I loved combining the sweetness of best friends with the angst of enemies. ![]() ![]() Years later, they’re thrown together working in adjacent classrooms and sparks of all sorts fly. MJ O’Shea: This book is a story about best friends who fell in love when they were teenagers but one betrayed the other and they haven’t spoken since. MJ, can you please tell the readers a bit about this book? About why this is a unique love story? To tell my followers about this event, MJ O’Shea is here with us to promo her latest release – Newton’s Laws of Attraction. Sid Love: Welcome to the Blog of Sid Love, MJ. ![]() ![]() And massive tunnels, kilometers in depth, will be drilled into the Martian mantle to create stupendous vents of hot gases. Black dust sprinkled on the polar caps will capture warmth and melt the ice. The colonists place giant satellite mirrors in Martian orbit to reflect light to the planets surface. And for the genetic "alchemists, " Mars presents a chance to create a biomedical miracle, a breakthrough that could change all we know about life.and death. For some, Mars will become a passion driving them to daring acts of courage and madness for others it offers and opportunity to strip the planet of its riches. ![]() ![]() John Boone, Maya Toitavna, Frank Chalmers, and Arkady Bogdanov lead a mission whose ultimate goal is the terraforming of Mars. Now, in the year 2026, a group of one hundred colonists is about to fulfill that destiny. ![]() For centuries, Mars has beckoned to mankind to come and conquer its hostile climate. In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research and cutting-edge science in the first of three novels that will chronicle the colonization of Mars.įor eons, sandstorms have swept the barren desolate landscape of the red planet. ![]() ![]() ![]() They all reckon Tessa was having an affair with Arnold, but he was gay theirs was a meeting of minds, not bodies. "It must have been taken when she was killed."īugger them, thought Justin. ![]() Now you didn't happen to find Tessa's laptop, did you? The police say it's still missing." "Terribly sorry about Tessa, old chap," soothed the Pellegrin after Justin's recall to London. Tessa was a loose cannon and we don't want her and her African doctor's investigation into the Dypraxa TB drug trials jeopardising relations with the Kenyans or the pharmaceutical industry." "Scotland Yard's sending out two detectives and we don't want them poking their noses in. "Bury the story as best you can," barked the Pellegrin. I'm not surprised, Sandy thought, recalling his own unrequited passion for Justin's wife. "The papers are going wild about 'Wife of British diplomat killed by African lover'. "All hell's broken loose this end," said Sandy a few hours later as he phoned Bernard Pellegrin, HM's top spook back in London. ![]() ![]() SUMMERS: Gordon debunks all this and more in her new book ""You Just Need To Lose Weight": And 19 Other Myths About Fat People." When we talked, we started with the idea of an average body size and how it plays into everything in our environment, from the size of airplane seats to the distance between tables at a restaurant to the size of a blood pressure cuff at the doctor's office. It was developed by a mathematician, statistician and astronomer working exclusively with data from French and Scottish military conscripts in the 1800s. GORDON: The BMI was not developed by a health care provider. SUMMERS: Or that BMI, body mass index, is a reliable way to measure health. GORDON: Researchers have been clear for years that our body size isn't solely or even primarily the result of our own choices. SUMMERS: And along with that come myths, a whole lot of them about fat people - myths like being fat is a choice. ![]() And a lot of that pressure is rooted in what author and podcast host Aubrey Gordon describes as anti-fatness.ĪUBREY GORDON: Anti-fatness is a sort of web of beliefs, interpersonal practices, institutional policies that are designed to keep fat people sort of on the margins. ![]() ![]() This time of year, there's a lot of pressure to change the way you look. ![]() ![]() ![]() To kick off the Riverdale actress’s latest partnership with Bamboo Underwear, Madelaine Petsch donated 200 pairs of Bamboo Underwear to My Friends Place, an organization helping Los Angeles youth experiencing homelessness move toward wellness, stability and self-sufficiency. ![]() Tickets for the new shows will go on sale to the public beginning Friday, Nov. The international sensation is giving music fans 14 more chances to see her in Las Vegas with the announcement of new 2023 show dates to her highly acclaimed Las Vegas residency “Katy Perry: PLAY,” at Resorts World Theatre. “Welcoming all my #flatearthers #spaceisfakers #birdsarentrealers #skyisntbluers to come see my broken doll eye party trick IRL in Vegas next year! □ The show’s set list is a fun □ through memory lane going all the way back to 2008, a time when we weren’t all frozen by the paranoia of our own echo chambers! □□♀️ This show is a nonstop party about finding unconditional love and strangely (for me) not political at all, heck I pour beer out of my tits (that’s a party trick too… I don’t actually lactate hops silly goose!)□ Hope to sing along with you in 2023! And we’ll drink, this one’s on me, cause we’re all #chainedtothealgorithm □⛓ #therealproblemlolhaha□” ![]() Today, Katy Perry announced new dates for her Resorts World Theatre residency via a video on Instagram HERE, joking in her caption: ![]() ![]() ![]() In these stories, the real and the miraculous are within a breath of one another, life gives way to death, and death to life doorways open into other states of existence, and each doorway leads us back to our own dreams and fears. That the artist is constantly working on an elaborate and fantasticated self-portrait, but at the end has drawn, unbeknownst, a picture of the world." - Clive Barker, "Private Legends: An Introduction"Ĭlive Barker, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author, playwright, artist, producer, director, screenwriter, and one of the world's master storytellers, writing in the haunting and moving traditions of Poe and Dickens, invites us to join him on a dazzling, wondrous journey through the worlds of his imagination and to experience visions, dreams, love, terror, heaven and hell, and revenge.Īs we read, we discover and explore the dream-sea Quiddity and the islands of Ephemeris the five Dominions of the Imajica, of which the Earth is but an imperfect facet the rapturous world woven into an ancient, threadbare carpet in a derelict house in Liverpool Hood's Holiday House where each day contains four seasons and children's wishes may come true the Sky Room of Galilee, where the creation of the universe may be witnessed and the clubs and bars of San Francisco and New York, in which all manner of sexual adventures lie in wait. "I wonder if the reverse is not also in some way true. ![]() ![]() The supernatural element was a nice touch as a mcguffin. I like stories where a female lead can have a male best friend who's reliable, always there for her, and not trying to date her. I also like robbie and hoped to hear more from him. Despite the somewhat morbid premise, I'm pleased to say it has a happy ending. ![]() ![]() The two girls have a great time with laser tag, walking the dog, and dying hair. I like how the book is more about the best-friends aspect and less on romance (and even less on sex). I loved them both and this was no exception. I read two of Siera Maley's books previously, Dating Sarah Cooper and Taking Flight. She portray's the characters hesitancy, anguish, and excitement very well. I was a little nervous about the narrator since I didn't see any other books she narrated on audible, but she did a great job. ![]() I already read this book before, but I was excited when I saw Siera Maley is entering the audiobook market and knew I had to get the audiobook. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The importance of sva-dharma is illustrated well by the Bhagavad Gita. What is correct for a woman might not be for a man or what is correct for an adult might not be for a child. Each person therefore has their own dharma known as sva-dharma. ![]() Dharma is universal but it is also particular and operates within concrete circumstances. Dharma is the power that maintains society, it makes the grass grow, the sun shine, and makes us moral people or rather gives humans the opportunity to act virtuously.īut acting virtuously does not mean precisely the same for everyone different people have different obligations and duties according to their age, gender, and social position. Hindus generally believe that dharma was revealed in the Vedas although a more common word there for 'universal law' or 'righteousness' is rita. In Hinduism it means 'duty', 'virtue', 'morality', even 'religion' and it refers to the power which upholds the universe and society. Dharma is an important term in Indian religions. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Murty Classical Library of India makes available original texts and modern English translations of the masterpieces of literature and thought from across the whole spectrum of Indic languages over the past two millennia in the most authoritative and accessible formats on offer anywhere. This new version of the Therīgāthā, based on a careful reassessment of the major editions of the work and printed in the Roman script common for modern editions of Pali texts, offers the most powerful and the most readable translation ever achieved in English. The poems they left behind are arguably among the most ancient examples of women's writing in the world and they are unmatched for their quality of personal expression and the extraordinary insight they offer into the lives of women in the ancient Indian past-and indeed, into the lives of women as such. These women were thers, the senior ones, among ordained Buddhist women, and they bore that epithet because of their religious achievements. The Thergth, composed more than two millennia ago, is an anthology of poems in the Pali language by and about the first Buddhist women. These women were therīs, the senior ones, among ordained Buddhist women, and they bore that epithet because of their religious achievements. Therigatha: Poems of the First Buddhist Women. The Therīgāthā, composed more than two millennia ago, is an anthology of poems in the Pali language by and about the first Buddhist women. ![]() |