![]() ![]() her classmate Dolly asking if it’s hard for Hanna to see with her different shaped eyes). ![]() ![]() There are several people in town who exhibit obviously racist behavior (such as the white parents who object to having Hanna attend school with their children) or speak thoughtlessly to Hanna (e.g. Park also deliberately included Dakota dialogue in the text to acknowledge language that has been ignored in children’s literature. This resulted in her correcting an accidental error in the way she described Wichapiwin’s communication with Hanna so that she motions with her lips instead of pointing with her finger. I appreciate that the author did research to learn more about the Native peoples from the local area by visiting important sites and consulting with members from the nations who live there. A striking difference between PRAIRIE LOTUS and the LITTLE HOUSE books is that characters in this book exhibit empathy instead of contempt for the American Indians who were the original pioneers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Rendering the space probe will entail two basic ingredients:ġ) A model for the space probe itself, with a reflective material Ģ) A high-resolution, 360-degree stellar background, which is the environment for the probe to reflect. ![]() I’ll share the source files at the end of the post. I only use freely available software (Blender, Python) and assets (a star map from ESA). In this post I’ll describe the way I create images of the probe. Its surface appears to be perfectly reflective at all wavelengths. The vessel I am referring to is the Trisolaran probe or `droplet’, which is described as a teardrop-shaped craft, about 3.5 meters long, made of a type of exotic matter called ‘strong-interaction material’. I highly recommend this trilogy, and will try to avoid spoilers as much as possible! The second book of the series, The Dark Forest, contained an alien spacecraft that I immediately wanted to visualize. A friend recently recommend Liu Cixin’s amazing Three-Body trilogy to me, and I am almost done reading the third book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The large study of 12,879 young adult cancer survivors is the first study to estimate the risk of heart failure among young adult cancer survivors treated with anthracyclines. Study raises awareness for patients, clinicians to monitor for heart failure symptoms, consider strategies for preventionĬHICAGO - Imagine surviving cancer only to learn the drug that saved your life has introduced a completely different health risk: heart failure.Ī new Northwestern Medicine study has found young adult cancer survivors (between 18 and 39 years old at diagnosis) were at higher risk (2.6 times) of heart failure when treated with anthracyclines, a specific category of chemotherapy that damages DNA in cancer cells.First study to estimate risk of heart failure among young adult cancer survivors treated with this category of chemotherapy.Mean age at diagnosis of heart failure was 32 years old.Journal: JACC: CardioOncology Download study PDF ![]() ![]() ![]() In the neighboring kingdom of Eldr, when Prince Kol’s father and older brother are killed by an invading army of magic-wielding ogres, the second-born prince is suddenly given the responsibility of saving his kingdom. She’ll have to be stronger, faster, and more powerful than Irina, the most dangerous sorceress Ravenspire has ever seen. To do that, Lorelai needs to use the one weapon she and Queen Irina have in common-magic. Lorelai Diederich, crown princess, and fugitive at large, has one mission: kill the wicked queen who took both the Ravenspire throne and the life of her father. Redwine which is a young adult, fantasy, retelling of Snow White that includes different lands that include dragons and mardushkas (magical beings) that was published on Februby Balzer + Bray.įrom the synopsis from the back of the book: The Shadow Queen is the first book in Ravenspire series by C.J. ![]() I will be including a spoiler-free and a discussion section. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, The President announces his "Return to Family" campaign, which includes plans to limit access to abortion and birth control. Lucy ends up being extremely helpful by giving her sex advice and buying Sam contraceptives. Unsure of whether she's ready for that step in their relationship, she consults her older sister Lucy. ![]() When David invites her to spend Thanksgiving at Camp David, Sam believes that he wants to have sex. She and David also start to take a life-drawing class together, though she did not realize that it was about sketching nude models. As a way to go back to being unnoticed, Sam dyes her naturally red hair to jet black at the beginning of the novel. She is also still a semi-celebrity for saving the President's life but does not like the attention she gets for it. ![]() Samantha "Sam" Madison is still teen ambassador to the United Nations and happily dating the President's son, David. The book takes place about one year after the events of All-American Girl. ![]() Both were written by Meg Cabot, who is also the author of The Princess Diaries. Ready or Not is the sequel to the novel All-American Girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There were no crises in their vision … only opportunities. Essentially, she says: “It’s important to remember that Google is an ad platform and that Facebook is a surveillance platform.” I envied their sense of entitlement to the future. Microsoft is the “highly litigious Seattle-based software conglomerate”. Facebook is the “social network everyone hated” and Edward Snowden is “the NSA whistleblower who was back in media”. Deftly drawn characters are granted pseudonyms and companies are unnamed instead they are identified by cutting descriptions. In the book Wiener condenses five years of working at tech startups in Silicon Valley into a neat narrative about outsized male egos, dramatic wealth disparities and the psychological toll on young female employees.ĭespite its unsavoury and troubling contents – unregulated surveillance technology, ruthless bosses, casual sexual harassment – the book is a delight. “All writing is a sort of performance,” she says. It will come as no surprise to readers of her debut, Uncanny Valley, that Wiener is as quick witted in person as she appears on the page. “There’s a man wearing shiny pants, holding forth on artificial intelligence and ‘the Chinese hegemon’,” she says, eyes glimmering with amusement. In a leafy cafe courtyard in San Francisco, Anna Wiener is cradling a cup of tea while eavesdropping on the next table. ![]() ![]() Young Mungo recasts Romeo and Juliet with two teenaged boys as the leads, but the novel is also a broader social canvas. And with a gay love story at its heart, Young Mungo is a more explicitly queer book than Shuggie-Douglas writes about how Mungo and James fall in love with a tenderness that is deeply moving.” It’s a beautiful novel about family love and the dangers of being different in a violent, hyper-masculine world. As his editor, Peter Blackstock, notes, “ Young Mungo is an extraordinary novel, a book that will live up to the very high expectations set by Shuggie Bain-and even exceed them. citizenship and was thus eligible for both accolades he lives with his husband in Manhattan.) There’s no sophomore slump here: Young Mungo is, if anything, a richer story, confirming Stuart’s emerging status as a consummate stylist. A finalist for the National Book Award, it won the prestigious Booker Prize. Stuart’s debut, Shuggie Bain, hit readers and critics like a thunderbolt out of a blue sky, a piercing portrait of an impoverished boyhood in 1980s Glasgow and the protagonist’s struggles with an alcoholic mother. ![]() ![]() The spare yet elegant composition-an adolescent boy photographed from underwater, his face bisected by the waterline, mouth and nose immersed-suggests an innocent adrift in an undertow, not waving but drowning. In an exclusive announcement, Oprah Daily is revealing the new cover for Douglas Stuart’s second novel, Young Mungo, which Grove Press is publishing in April 2022. ![]() ![]() But increasingly he finds himself torn between duty and his desire to understand the magic that has been forbidden.Īs kings prepare, exorcists gather, and divisions widen between the warring clans of Ireland, Aisling and Jordan must come to terms with powers given and withheld, while a world that can still foster magic hangs in the balance. ![]() ![]() Jordan, the Vatican commander tasked with vanquishing the remnants of otherworldly creatures from a disenchanted Europe, has built a career on such plots. Both England and Rome have a stake in driving magic from the Emerald Isle. ![]() But within medieval Ireland interests are divided, and far from its shores greater forces are mustering. What became of magic in the world? Who needed to do away with it, and for what reasons? Drawing on myth, legend, fairy tales, and Biblical mysteries, The Last Days of Magic brilliantly imagines answers to these questions, sweeping us back to a world where humans and magical beings co-exist as they had for centuries.Īisling, a goddess in human form, was born to rule both domains and-with her twin, Anya-unite the Celts with the powerful faeries of the Middle Kingdom. An epic novel of magic and mysticism, Celts and faeries, mad kings and druids, and the goddess struggling to reign over magic’s last outpost on the Earth ![]() ![]() It is the twists and turns and red herrings that are unexpected. It is a traditional Christie mystery, with locked room, people roaming the halls after all have gone to bed, secrets and atmosphere. The murderer has struck in five instances and five locations, and will probably strike again. ![]() There is the retired colonel and his sharped tongued wife who runs the guest home the research doctor and his invalided wife and her nurse three single men and a single woman - among them is a murderer. Among the guests at Styles is Hastings’ daughter, who is working with a research doctor. Poirot is in bad health and has asked Hastings to meet at Styles. This makes for a full circle of Poirot’s life. The setting is a country house called “Styles,” the site of his first case and where he met the person he would partner with on many cases - Arthur Hastings. ![]() “Curtain” is an apt title for this Poirot mystery, as it is his last case. ![]() ![]() With a fearless attitude and a stylish flair in bagging the baddies, she carries the right dose of vulnerability that unfolds towards the finale. As a vigilante heroine, she is easy to root for. Alexandra solves cases alongside her two half-deity brothers, known as The Kambal, who protect her with their mystical abilities. The series follows Detective Alexandra Trese, an investigator of supernatural crimes and corruption in Metro Manila. In the past, their creatures have only made minor appearances, such as the winged Manananggal in Marvel’s Blade and the vampiric Aswang in the “Mommy Dearest” episode of NBC’s Grimm. The release is a milestone, marking the first time Filipino folklore has moved to the forefront of Western media. It launched internationally on June 11 and is based on the Neil Gaiman-endorsed graphic novel. “There are monsters among us, and some of them are human,” speaks the titular character of Trese, Netflix’s new anime horror-crime series. ![]() |