Christina had her baby via surrogate, Adisa had five children and Ruth became a L&D nurse. The children watching – Christina (Mina’s daughter), Adisa (Ruth’s sister who at the time went by the name Rachel before she legally changed it), and Ruth – were each affected differently by this event. Ms Mina gave birth unexpectedly at home and Ruth’s mother was there to help her deliver. Her mother worked as a maid for a rich, white family – The Hallowells. She is also a mother to Edison, who made the Highest Honors list for every semester of his high school career. Initially, we are told the story of many other patients that Ruth helped to deliver their children, showing just what a great nurse she is. Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery (L&D) nurse. But then the baby goes into cardiac distress whilst Ruth is alone in the nursery.Ĭlick here to view on Amazon > Detailed Description The parents are white supremacists and don’t want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their child. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to find that she’s been reassigned to another patient. Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years’ experience.
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The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. This reading group guide for Sing You Home includes an introduction, discussion questions, ideas for enhancing your book club, and a Q&A with author Jodi Picoult. And it’s about what happens when the outside world brutally calls into question the very thing closest to our hearts: family. It’s about people wanting to do the right thing for the greater good, even as they work to fulfill their own personal desires and dreams. Sing You Home is about identity, love, marriage, and parenthood. When an unexpected friendship slowly blossoms into love, she makes plans for a new life, but to her shock and inevitable rage, some people-even those she loves and trusts most-don’t want that to happen. In the aftermath of a series of personal tragedies, Zoe throws herself into her career as a music therapist. A dirge that marked the years she spent trying to get pregnant.įor better or for worse, music is the language of memory. A dance beat that makes her think of using a fake ID to slip into a nightclub. There’s the melody that reminds her of the summer she spent rubbing baby oil on her stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. Music has set the tone for most of Zoe Baxter’s life. From the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author whom USA TODAY calls a “master of the page-turner,” comes the spectacular story of a woman’s complex quest to form a family.Įvery life has a soundtrack. The Blue Azurians are facing a dire shortage of blue exotic matter and the Republic of Azur is facing a volcanic extinction event of historic proportions. They reconnect with their alien friend, Blue Nova One, on Earth's sister planet, Azur, 11.5 billion light years away. But Ford warns them that their arch-enemy, Russian KGB super-agent Borya Krovopuskov, remains at large and a constant threat.įighting off the KGB and Krovopuskov, the group sets a trap for him as they plan to return to Area 51 in 1942 using the White Hole. They receive his blessing to use the White Hole Project to attempt intergalactic space travel in search of the cure for Hannah Lieb's breast cancer. Back from their mission as the Bad Love Tigers to secure the secrets of Area 51 and the White Hole Project, the Bad Love Gang are summoned to the Oval Office by President Gerald Ford. “History and folklore are deep wells, and they are honestly a fiction writer’s dream come true,” Mahnke said in a statement. The original podcast - named as one of iTunes’ “best podcasts” in 20 - continues to be produced and released on a bi-weekly basis. The comic book series is the third translation of Mahnke’s successful podcast into a new medium a television version of the series debuted on Amazon’s Prime Video in 2017, and recently finished its second season, and Penguin Random House/Del Rey has released three books to date in Mahnke’s The World of Lore series. Dawson with Mahnke, and the team of Piotr Kowalski and Brad Simpson taking care of the visuals, will introduce the new character of the Duke of Wellington, an investigator of exactly the kind of monsters and mysteries explored in the popular podcast series. This winter, he’s taking the mission to comic books with the all-new IDW Publishing miniseries Wellington. Since 2015, Aaron Mahnke has used the critically acclaimed Lore podcast to talk about scary stories that just so happen to be real. Coach Hernandez tells him the man is from a university and Neil discovers he his David Wymack, Coach of the Palmetto State Foxes. His coach, Hernandez, announces that there is someone who has come to see Neil and Neil, who has spent most of his life on the run from his past panics, but cannot get away before he sees a man he doesn’t recognise standing in the locker room doorway. The novel opens with Neil Josten after his high school exy team’s Millport Dingo’s loss, which had put them out of the state championships two games from finals. There has been no discussion, as of yet, for a movie or TV show adaptation for the series. The books, despite lack of promotion, have been rated best sellers on Smashwords and top ten in Amazon’s sports fiction category, and have an extensive young adult fan base on social media. The novels follow the protagonist Neil Josten on the run from his father and his father’s people, as well as Neil’s, and his team’s (The Palmetto State Foxes) journey to make it to the exy championships. The series contains three novels, the last of which, The King’s Men, was self-published March 31, 2016. Cover Art of the three books in the All for the Game SeriesĬreativeSpace Independent Publishing Platformĭownload a book of the serie All for the Game (Series) or buy them on amazonĪll for the Game is a series of novels by author Nora Sakavic. These lenses were called Katral, though Monet referred to them as “Mawas”, declaring them “perfect”. Afterwards, Monet sought assistance from ophthalmologist Jacques Mawas who dispensed a pair of glass lenses created by ZEISS. The lens of the eye focuses light, with the removal of the yellowed cataract lens, Monet’s perception of light in his right eye was altered and this is reflected in later works. In 1923, Monet had the lens of his right eye removed. In 1922 Monet’s ophthalmologist, Charles Coutela recorded a visual acuity of PL (light perception only) in Monet’s right eye and a 6/60 on his left eye and recommended he undergo cataract surgery. Monet an outdoor painter, suffered from severe yellowing in his lenses in his later years. Cataracts can be caused by age but there is data to suggest that UV light exposure may be a factor. Cataracts are a clouding and/or yellowing of the clear lens of the eye. Who would ever have thought that this outstanding artist had serious problems with his vision? The truth is he suffered from nearsightedness and distressing changes in his perception of color due to cataracts. When seeing the remarkable paintings of the great artist Claude Monet it’s easy to see why he has left an indelible mark on the Impressionist movement and the world. 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Cautious generals inexperienced, incompetent, or jealous administrators shortages of good people and supplies excess of both gloom and optimism, kept each side from swinging into decisive action. At first, it was not even much of a fight. Lincoln kept insisting, a fight to reunite the United States. It was not initially a war against slavery. And then the author reveals how the sweeping force of all-out conflict changed the war’s purpose, in turning it into a war for human freedom. This would not be the neat, short, “limited” war both sides had envisioned. First, he describes how the war slowly but steadily got out of control. In Terrible Swift Sword, Bruce Catton tells the story of the Civil War as never before-of two turning points which changed the scope and meaning of the war. The second episode in this award-winning trilogy impressively shows how the Union and Confederacy, slowly and inexorably, reconciled themselves to an all-out war-an epic struggle for freedom. Character-wise and (especially!) plot-wise, I can see it perfectly as a film that people of all ages would enjoy. In fact, I'd go ahead and say everything about this book screams BLOCKBUSTER FILM. The spectacular and visually-enticing cover aside, I enjoyed this book a lot, and found myself not having problems at all picturing it in my head. Thankfully, just like how Vithric saved Tristan against dark and sinister creatures (which pretty much jumpstarted their saving the rest of the world), The Nethergrim rescued me from this dark abyss and gave me hope that perhaps this genre isn't so dead and lackluster after all. Since then I've cursed this genre under my breath, and despaired over the fact that books of quality that are more about the adventure and friendship are far and few between. The majority of them also put too much emphasis on the romance, so much sometimes that other important aspects are forgotten and greatly overshadowed (I am looking at you, The Winner's Curse). So many of them these days have vague and shitty world-building, flat characters, and plotlines that are more apt to be called "plotholes". For many months now, I've been trying to find that perfect YA Fantasy book to satisfy my thirst, but have found nothing that could really satiate that intense craving. Lambinus considered that the philosophy which Lucretius advocated was wrong in a number of key respects: its theory of pleasure, its rejection of religion, its denial of divine providence and its opposition to the notion of the immortality of the soul. The edition by Lambinus was widely influential in disseminating knowledge of Lucretius and Epicureanism in France. To the ensuing pages I therefore refer my readers for additional information and am much mistaken if, on closing the volumes, they will not coincide with Lambinus in admitting that the philosophy of Epicurus was the most rational, and enforced the best principles of any system of philosophy recorded by prophane writers. In introducing his translation of Book I of On the Nature of Things (1805), John Mason Good says (pp. Three hundred years later the Cambridge classicist Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro, in his edition of Lucretius, published in 1860-1864, made a number of complimentary references to emendations and comments by Lambinus. The sixteenth-century classicist Denys Lambin (Dionysius Lambinus, 1520 or 1521 – 1572) produced an edition of Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things in 1563. |