![]() ![]() The Black American couple have arrived in Africa after an initially unexplained incident in Alabama forces them to flee. It’s clever, if not especially subtle, foreshadowing of the violence that will stalk the young couple as they speed across Ghana, seeking safety in a country on the verge of a coup. ![]() “She had feared this day would come, yet nothing could prepare her for it.” But Bernadette need not fear, yet, for the explosion that wakes her is the sound of jubilant Ghanaians celebrating the New Year. In 1966, the young, beautiful Bernadette awakes in Accra to the sound of gunfire and believes that her fiancé, Melvin, has shot himself. Blitz Bazawule’s vibrant, funny thriller THE SCENT OF BURNT FLOWERS (235 pp., Ballantine, $27) begins, quite literally, with a bang. ![]()
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![]() ![]() RL.4.10 - By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the grades 4–5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. ![]() RL.3.10 - By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2–3 text complexity band independently and proficiently. RL.2.10 - By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the grades 2–3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. RL.1.10 - With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1. RL.K.10 - Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The mean lag time between sensor and YSI reference values was 4.5±4.8 min. ![]() The overall mean absolute relative difference was 11.4%. The percentage of readings within Consensus Error Grid Zone A on Days 2, 7, and 14 was 88.4%, 89.2%, and 85.2%, respectively. Results: The accuracy of the results was demonstrated against capillary BG reference values, with 86.7% of sensor results within Consensus Error Grid Zone A. Sensor readings were masked to the participants. Sensor glucose measurements were compared with capillary blood glucose (BG) results (approximately eight per day) obtained using the BG meter built into the reader (BG reference) and with the YSI analyzer (Yellow Springs Instrument, Yellow Springs, OH) reference tests at three clinic visits (32 samples per visit). Three factory-only calibrated sensor lots were used in the study. A sensor was inserted on the back of each upper arm for up to 14 days. Materials and Methods: Seventy-two study participants with type 1 or type 2 diabetes were enrolled by four U.S. Introduction: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the performance and usability of the FreeStyle ® Libre™ Flash glucose monitoring system (Abbott Diabetes Care, Alameda, CA) for interstitial glucose results compared with capillary blood glucose results. ![]() ![]() ![]() The build up of the ending is perfect due to all the reflections of suffering within the novel. She also has a knack for writing in an authentic teen voice. The characters dictate the depth of the plot, this may be emphasized by lack of description of locations.Īlthough The DUFF contains steamy scenes and a love triangle sure to keep the pages turning, Keplinger addresses more serious themes, too: body image, alcoholism and the sacrifices of friendship. This makes the novel more realistic as do major factors within the novel, such as Bianca's parents divorce, the views Wesley's family have, and the sense of bullying. ![]() I admit to love the pace in the book its not instalove, it's a gradual waterfall of over thinking. ![]() The book revolves around DUFF Bianca, however has a lot of other entwining characters. This contemporary book by Kody Keplinger, although swerved to being predictable, was still intriguing. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this richly-illustrated and unusual history, Jack Hartnell uncovers the fascinating ways in which people thought about, explored and experienced their physical selves in the Middle Ages, from Constantinople to Cairo and Canterbury. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different to our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention, or the heart of a king, plucked from his corpse, could be held aloft as a powerful symbol of political rule. ![]() Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love and had children. makes the past at once familiar, exotic and thrilling.' Dominic Sandbrook ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a telling balance of opposites in a novel devoted to the difficulties of feeling complete. The narrator is never named, and Jeffers is neither seen nor contextualised. Where the Outline trilogy centred the act of listening – the narrator often receding while the people she met recounted the details of their lives – Second Place re-establishes a more singular viewpoint, taking the form of either a letter or a slightly breathless address to someone called Jeffers. Second Place, it turns out, is a novel less about property, and more about the boundaries and misplaced emotional investment for which property is a proxy. This is, however, a Cusk novel, and in Cusk novels the surface, as experienced by reader and characters alike, invariably proves too fragile to be trusted. On the surface, then, this is a novel of glaring privilege, steeped in a mode of middle-class existence so rarified that the “lower things” must never be allowed to intrude. Now the narrator invites artists to use it as a kind of retreat, or, as she puts it, “a home for the things that weren’t already here – the higher things”. With the help of a group of men “who all help one another when there’s physical work to be done”, the cottage on the property was renovated. ![]() The narrator and her husband bought it “to prevent it from being misused”, or to put it another way, to prevent any disturbance to the boundaries of their idyll. The Second Place began as a “parcel of wasteland” adjoining the main property. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mercedes Thompson runs a garage in the Tri-Cities. My nose isn't at its best when surrounded by axle grease and burnt oil. I didn't realize he was a werewolf at first. MERCY THOMPSON: MECHANIC, SHAPESHIFTER, FIGHTER The best new fantasy series I've read in years' Kelley Armstrong The first novel in the New York Times bestselling Mercy Thompson series - the major urban fantasy hit of the decade Aircraft & Spacecraft: General Interest.Ships, Boats & Waterways: General Interest.Road & Motor Vehicles: General Interest.Fishing, Field Sports & Outdoor Activities.Sports Studies & PE: Textbooks & Study Guides.Literary Studies: Textbooks & Study Guides.Anthologies, Essays, Letters & Miscellaneous.Inventions & Technology: General Interest. ![]() Environment & Ecology: General Interest.Popular Culture & Media: General Interest.Politics & Government: Textbooks & Study Guides. ![]() ![]() When Gabi learns that he's capable of conjuring things much bigger than a chicken-including his dead mother-and she takes it all in stride, Sal knows that she is someone he can work with. ![]() except maybe Gabi, whose sharp eyes never miss a trick. Sal prides himself on being an excellent magician, but for this sleight of hand, he relied on a talent no one would guess. She is determined to prove that somehow, Sal planted a raw chicken in Yasmany's locker, even though nobody saw him do it and the bloody poultry has since mysteriously disappeared. ![]() Gabi, student council president and editor of the school paper, is there to support her friend Yasmany, who just picked a fight with Sal. Sal is in the principal's office for the third time in three days, and it's still the first week of school. Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents a brilliant sci-fi romp with Cuban influence that poses this question: What would you do if you had the power to reach through time and space and retrieve anything you want, including your mother, who is no longer living (in this universe, anyway)? How did a raw chicken get inside Yasmany's locker? When Sal Vidon meets Gabi Real for the first time, it isn't under the best of circumstances. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sookie – if you don’t behave in the next books, we’re going to have some problems! ![]() And given the fact that she is the main character in this series, I am wondering how I like this book. Or maybe, it is just the fact that she feels entitled because of her special ability, and likes to talk about how people always treat her badly because she is different. Maybe it is the lack of fear, empathy and emotion she feels. Possibly because she acts very immature at all times and behaves like a spoilt child, when others tell her no. The first book was great and I also loved the TV Show. I am usually a person that reads the books before watching the adaptations. But vampires usually mean trouble, and maybe Sookie is not really for all the troubles to start coming her way.Īfter watching the TV show “True Blood” and finding out that there is a book series, I had to read the books. When a vampire enters the bar and Sookie can’t read his mind – she is intrigued and wants to know this mysterious man better. We follow the life of Sookie, a waitress in Louisiana, who also has the ability to read people’s minds. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris is the first book in the Sookie Stackhouse series. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book also covers Cahalan's life after her recovery, including her reactions to watching videotapes of her psychotic episodes while in the hospital. Najjar used this to help diagnose Cahalan and start her road to recovery. ![]() Rather than drawing the clock face normally, the disease caused Cahalan to draw all the numbers 1 through 12 on the right face of the clock, because the right side of her brain, which regulates the left side of the body, was inflamed. ![]() Najjar diagnosed Cahalan using a test that involved her drawing a clock, a test normally given to people suspected of having dementia or Alzheimer's disease. Souhel Najjar, began to suspect that Cahalan was suffering from an autoimmune disease. Eventually several physicians, including Dr. ![]() Her eventual diagnosis was made more difficult by various physicians misdiagnosing her with several theories such as "partying too much" and schizoaffective disorder. She woke up in a hospital with no memory of the previous month's events, during which time she had violent episodes and delusions. The book narrates Cahalan's issues with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis and the process by which she was diagnosed with this form of encephalitis. It was first published on November 13, 2012, through Free Press in hardback, and was later reprinted in paperback by Simon & Schuster after the two companies merged. The book details Cahalan's struggle with a rare form of encephalitis and her recovery. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness is a 2012 New York Times best-selling autobiography by New York Post writer Susannah Cahalan. ![]() |