![]() ![]() Sometimes, this takes them to dangerous places. Time Travel technology allows Oxford historians of the future to travel back in time for research. If you’ve read my posts before, you know I am a sucker for a good time travel book. Set in an English town outside London, Years of Wonder focuses on Anna as her community deals with death, superstition, and paranoia, all while she falls in love. Years of Wonder: A Novel of the Plague by pulitzer prize winning Geraldine Brooksīrooks is best known for her novel March, but she also wrote a novel set during the plague. ![]() This was the first book on the Plague I read and I still think it’s a nice intro. This is still an academic nonfiction text, but a lot more accessible (and short!) if those Cohn books are overwhelming (or just not your cup of tea). ![]() In The Wake of the Plague by Norman Cantor ![]()
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![]() I was super excited to see her on stage at the 2018 National Book Festival (she’s on the left, with her iconic hairstyle)! I bought her memoir but didn’t have the chance to ask for her autograph. So in most stories I read growing up, I felt like a bit of an outsider. Hawaii bookstores did feature local authors who wrote more diverse characters, but they were harder to come by. It was especially bad with picture books: an Asian kid occasionally made an appearance as a classmate or friend of the white main character, sporting slanted eyes and unreadable expressions. Because during my childhood, even in Hawaii, the most iconic books were written by and for Caucasian children. ![]() It was the first time that I could see someone similar to myself in a book written in English: Asian American women who struggle with the dichotomy of two cultures. I was blown away when I first read The Joy Luck Club in high school. ![]() I’m especially excited that I get to write about this during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, as well as a few weeks after Mother’s Day. The third book is Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This section ends when the princess locks herself away in a tower and waits for a prince to come and rescue her. It goes through her relationships with family members, her younger life, and her past assault. The first section focuses mainly on the author, and her battles in the past. ![]() The Princess Saves Herself in This One has four sections, each showing the princess's progression in agreement with an overlying theme. The book won the Goodreads Choice Award for poetry in 2016. It is the first installment in a series called Women Are Some Kind of Magic, which focuses on the resilience of women. Its narrative arc follows a princess who is learning to become her own savior the semi-autobiographical book's author is the princess. The Princess Saves Herself in This One is the debut collection of poetry by American poet Amanda Lovelace, first self-published in 2016 through CreateSpace and then published by Andrews McMeel Publishing in 2017. ![]() ![]() ![]() Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.Įxception Details: : A potentially dangerous Request.Path value was detected from the client (<).Īn unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. A good-sized blast had laid open the subterrene secret and now, through a jagged aperture perhaps five feet across and three feet thick, there yawned before the avid searchers a section of shallow limestone hollowing worn more than fifty million years ago by the trickling ground waters of a bygone tropic world. Server Error in '/' Application.Ī potentially dangerous Request.Path value was detected from the client (<). A potentially dangerous Request.Path value was detected from the client (<). ![]() ![]() All the joys and troubles of the busy Amish society burst from the pages with Barbara Caruso's superb performance. Beverly Lewis creates a refreshingly clean tale of poignant secrets, shattered dreams - and new hope for the future. From that moment, Katie is determined to learn the truth behind the garment, even if it destroys the only life she has known. As she explores a dusty trunk, she discovers a satin infant gown, much too fancy for an Amish baby. ![]() Her thoughts in turmoil, she heads to the attic to be alone. She should be excited, but instead she feels trapped. 29.00 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Land Records, 1729-1750, and Land Warrants. The Heritage of Lancaster County Series 3 primary works 4 total works Book 1 The Shunning by Beverly Lewis 4. She is a member of the Lancaster County Mennonite Historical Society. ![]() ![]() In a few days, Katie will marry Bishop John, a widower with five young children. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Church Records of the 18th Century, Volume 5. The Kate Burkholder series is a series of crime thriller novels by American author. In The Shunning, beautiful 22-year-old Katie Lapp longs to experience the forbidden things of the outside world, even while she is making plans to forever embrace the traditions of her people. Popular inspirational novelist Beverly Lewis transports you to the quiet Amish community in Hickory Hollow, Pennsylvania where time has stood still. ![]() ![]() All day to think and read and linger over a Welsh rarebit at The Faculty Club, not to mention teach English 240 where he gets to discuss all his 19th-century favorites, like Mark Twain. To Eph Russell, who looks and sounds like an avatar of privilege (shh! - he’s anything but) Devon is heaven. If she’s fabulous and no one sees it, what’s the point? To Lulu Harris - It Girl-in-the-Making - her first year at the ultra-competitive Ivy-like Devon University is a dreary impediment. Her closet isn’t big enough for two weeks’-worth of outfits, much less her new Rag & Bone for fall. A wickedly delightful audiobook that may remind you of Tom Wolfe and David Lodge. ![]() ![]() Joyous, fast and funny, Scott Johnston’s Campusland is a satiric howl at today’s elite educational institutions - from safe spaces to tribal infighting to the sheer sanctimony. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is a frequent speaker at writing conferences and events, and is known for her engaging and humorous presentations. ![]() Lynn.Īrmentrout has won several awards for her writing, including the 2012 Reviewer’s Choice Award for Best Young Adult Novel and the 2015 Wheatley Award for Best Young Adult Book. In addition to her young adult books, Armentrout also writes new adult and adult romance novels under the pen name J. ![]() Her books often feature strong and relatable heroines, fast-paced action, and swoon-worthy romance. She has since gone on to publish over 50 books, with several of them landing on the New York Times bestseller list.Īrmentrout is best known for her young adult series, including the Lux series, the Covenant series, and the Dark Elements series. Armentrout began writing at a young age and self-published her first book at the age of 19. She was born on June 11, 1980, in West Virginia and grew up in Martinsburg, where she still resides with her husband and dogs. Armentrout is a bestselling American author of young adult, new adult, and adult fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This makes for a snappier routine for audiences today, without much loss to the impact. Although the professional routine uses a string of 10 blades, the outfit supplied has a string of 5. They include the specially gimmicked spool of thread, the loose Sharp Blades, and the threaded blades on a string. We supply you the props for this classic effect. In effect the performer swallows several sharp Razor Blades, then a length of string, and finally regurgitates the blades threaded on the string. Various methods have appeared for performing this, but the one described by Bruce Elliott in his "Classic Secrets of Magic" under the title "Razor Sharp" is perhaps the best and most straight forward. The Razor Blade Mystery is one of those Bizarre effects that has caught the imagination of performers and audiences over decades. Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Choose a country in the list to show prices and articles available for that country Afghanistan ![]() ![]() ![]() The international bestselling YA thriller by acclaimed author, Karen M. I could not put this book down' - THE SUN 'Pretty Little Liars meets The Breakfast Club' - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY 'Tightly plotted and brilliantly written, with sharp, believable characters, this whodunit is utterly irresistible' - HEAT 'Twisty plotting, breakneck pacing and intriguing characterisation add up to an exciting single-sitting thrillerish treat' -THE GUARDIAN 'A fantastic murder mystery, packed with cryptic clues and countless plot twists. Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you'll go to protect them. ![]() He dies 24 hours before he could post their deepest secrets online. ![]() And outsider Simon, creator of the notorious gossip app at Bayview High, won't ever talk about any of them again. Prom queen Addy is holding together the cracks in her perfect life. Bad boy Nate is one misstep away from a life of crime. Sports star Cooper only knows what he's doing in the baseball diamond. Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Within an organism's lifespan, the respiratory apparatus adapts in various ways to upregulate oxygen uptake in hypoxia and restrict uptake in hyperoxia. Here, we review the origin of oxygen homeostasis, a primal selection factor for all respiratory systems, which in turn function as gatekeepers of the cascade. ![]() Efficient respiratory gas exchange, coupled to downstream convective and diffusive resistances, comprise the “oxygen cascade”-step-down of PO 2 that balances supply against toxicity. Disparate systems exhibit similar directions of adaptation: toward larger diffusion interfaces, thinner barriers, finer dynamic regulation, and reduced cost of breathing. adult lungs) or simultaneous (e.g., skin, gills, and lungs in some salamanders). Habitat expansion compels the use of different gas exchangers, for example, skin, gills, tracheae, lungs, and their intermediate stages, that may coexist within the same species coexistence may be temporally disjunct (e.g., larval gills vs. ![]() Ambient oxygen tension ( PO 2) fluctuated through the ages in correlation with biodiversity and body size, enabling organisms to migrate from water to land and air and sometimes in the opposite direction. Life originated in anoxia, but many organisms came to depend upon oxygen for survival, independently evolving diverse respiratory systems for acquiring oxygen from the environment. ![]() |