![]() ![]() Together they make the perfect partnership: the sharp-tongued, sharp-witted dwarf, and his vibrant mistress, trained from birth to charm, entertain, and satisfy men who have the money to support her. With a mix of courage and cunning they infiltrate Venetian society. Escaping the sack of Rome in 1527, with their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed, the courtesan Fiammetta and her dwarf companion, Bucino, head for Venice, the shimmering city born out of water to become a miracle of east-west trade: rich and rancid, pious and profitable, beautiful and squalid. Thus beginsIn the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant’s epic novel of life in Renaissance Italy. My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor’s army blew a hole in the wall of God’s eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment. ![]()
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![]() Ramachandran's radical new approach will have far-reaching effects. The brain 'needs to create a "script" or a story to make sense of the world, a unified and internally consistent belief system'. Ramachandran believes that cases such as these illustrate fundamental principles of how the human brain operates. In a series of experiments using nothing more than Q-tips and dribbles of warm water the young man helped Ramachandran discover how the brain is remapped after injury. Ramachandran is internationally renowned for uncovering answers to the deep and quirky questions of human nature that few scientists. Phantoms in the Brain (1998) is an enduring classic of popular science that has transformed how we think about the brain and its relationship to the human. A woman maintains that her left arm is not paralysed, a young man loses his right arm in a motorcycle accident, yet he continues to feel a phantom arm with vivid sensation of movement. Ramachandran, through his research into brain damage, has discovered that the brain is continually organising itself in response to change. She is the third generation in a family of science writers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Phantoms in The Brain', using a series of case histories, introduces strange and unexplored mental worlds. She has cowritten many books, including the bestselling Second Chances with Judith Wallerstein. 'Phantoms in The Brain' takes a revolutionary new approach to theories of the brain, from one of the world's leading experimental neurologists. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If your style isnt in the list, you can start a free trial to access over 20 additional. ![]() Of course with 100 years of history and manners and changing sensibilities this could have been a much longer and more detailed book, which is my only criticism, the book was much to short. Citation styles for What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew How to cite What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew for your reference list or bibliography: select your referencing style from the list below and hit copy to generate a citation. (But she loves David very much.) Daniel Pool wrote a good resource for anyone who reads the fiction or non-fiction of 19th Century England. Boys were much more valued, Aunt Betsy knows this and still she insists on her own opinion that girls are much more satisfactory. Elizabeth does not concern herself with superficial appearances but actual behaviors, such as her stupid sister Lydia living in sin. ![]() Women did not walk or go anywhere without a chaperone or they sacrificed their reputations. So what does it matter that Elizabeth Bennett walked three miles by herself or David Copperfield's Aunt Betsy disliked boys? Who cares what life was like in 1800's England? When you know what the mores and limitations for people of that time were, this understanding makes reading these classic authors and books all the more incredible. What Austen Ate and Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And nothing ticks off a killer more than a portly ex-pop star who's sticking her nose where it doesn't belong. ![]() That was before she left the pop-idol life. Heather Wells Rocks Or, at least, she did. So Heather makes the decision to take on yet another new career: as spunky girl detective! But her new job comes with few benefits, no cheering crowds, and lots of liabilities, some of them potentially fatal. Buy Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot for 40.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. who owns the brownstone where she lives - even when more students start turning up dead in equally ordinary and subtly sinister ways. Yet no one wants to listen - not the police, her colleagues, or the P.I. The cops and the college president are ready to chalk the death off as an accident, the result of reckless youthful mischief. That is, until the dead body of a female student from Heather's residence hall is discovered at the bottom of an elevator shaft. Now that the glamour and glory days of endless mall appearances are in the past, Heather's perfectly happy with her new size 12 shape (the average for the American woman!) and her new job as an assistant dorm director at one of New York's top colleges. That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two - and lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, and her life savings (when Mom took the money and ran off to Argentina). /rebates/2fbook2f1635668642fSize-12-Is-Not-Fat-A-Heather-Wells-Mystery&. HEATHER WELLS ROCKS! Or, at least, she did. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hoops Holiday was a fantastic story of two side characters from Kennedy Ryan’s ‘Hoops’ series. NEW, never-before-read content for LONG SHOT (Iris & August) and for BLOCK SHOT (Banner & Jared) ![]() HOOPS HOLIDAY is live for 99 cents for a limited time and #FREE in #KU!įull-Court Press novella, originally published in the TEAM PLAYER Anthology (expanded with new content & epilogue) (Avery + Deck's story) Some of my all time fave characters ever! I couldn't get enough of them! ![]() I loved being in August, Iris, Jared and Banner's worlds again. I just don't want to leave their world.Īnd there's bonus content! If you've read LONG SHOT or BLOCK SHOT (and if not, what the hell man? They're on my top reads of 2018, you MUST read them!) The bonus content is A DELICIOUS TREAT. I'm still all up in my feelings! I could cry from thinking about this story I LOVE IT SO MUCH. ![]() *faints* I had this huge ass grin while reading. A wonderful and heart felt second chance romance. I wish it was longer, but she told their story PERFECTLY. SO thanks for that Kennedy! *side eyes you* It's hard to get a book hangover from a novella, don't you think? It doesn't happen to me very often, but Deck and Avery's story not only pulled me out of my book funk, it gave me book hangover. ![]() ![]() The real problem is that you get the feeling that the inspectors would prefer to be somewhere else and think that they have better things to do. This is unusual for crime fiction, yet not really for PD James’ (same happened in The Murder Room, which I reviewed earlier), and I don’t see it as a weakness at all. The first murder occurs at about the half of the book and the pace gains momentum at 2 thirds. The background information of every suspect is cleverly dispensed and interesting. Of course, everyone has a good reason to kill the victim, and the characters depiction is the strong point of PD James. This fictional island never really came close to believable, nor did the reasons why beloved Inspector Dalgliesh should get there to solve the mystery in the first place. Most books are supposed to work only if the reader benevolently suspends his/her disbelief, but here, unfortunately, I couldn’t. It’s a classic whodunit, set in a closed environment, as always, here a fictional island off Cornwall. If you’re an unconditional fan of PD James, my disappointed review won’t really deter you, but beware, there are spoilers ahead… But today, about her latest book, The Lighthouse, I’m going to commit the sacrilege. Together with Ruth Rendell, she is the queen of my personal crime fiction pantheon. ![]() I find it almost sacrilegious to say anything bad about PD James’s mysteries. ![]() ![]() ![]() 3.Īmong the emphases in Floyd-Thomas’s teaching are the intersection of race, ethnicity, and religion in United States study of new and alternative religious movements the varieties of African-American religious experience and African-American churches and sociopolitical reform.įloyd-Thomas is author of The Origins of Black Humanism: Reverend Ethelred Brown and the Unitarian Church and Liberating Black Church History: Making It Plain. ![]() 3, he will speak on the topic “‘Up from the Ashes’: The Ongoing Lessons and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre.” Register here for 1 p.m. ![]() 2 lecture is titled “‘If you are silent about your pain.’: Racial Reckoning, Religious Reflection, and Redemptive Remembrance on the Tulsa Race Massacre 100 Years Later.” Register here for 7 p.m. Advance Zoom registration is required for each lecture.įloyd-Thomas’s Nov. The Williams Institute lectures are open to all and will be presented online at no charge to participants. 3 on the theme “America at the Cross(roads): A Century of Struggle from 1921 Tulsa Massacre to #BlackLivesMatter.” Floyd-Thomas, associate professor of African American religious history at Vanderbilt Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion. ![]() The Williams Institute at Methodist Theological School in Ohio will present two lectures by Juan M. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has audio engineering experience, producing dozens of high quality retail-ready audiobooks and voice overs, and has access to a team of proofreaders, editors, and engineers who allow her to focus solely on telling your story. Jessica records in her professional home studio with an industry standard setup. She also specializes in educational narration, working for the nationally known clients Amazon, Microsoft, Intel, National Geographic, TiVo, Walmart, and Old Navy. When working on fiction titles, her strong background with character development and versatile storytelling allow her to bring your characters to life through audio. Jessica has a passion for non-fiction titles, with an articulate and genuine tone, allowing listeners to relate to her as she presents the information outlined in your audiobook with ease. ![]() * Broadway World Award Winner for Best Supporting Actress in a Play (2019) ![]() * Audible Approved Producer on ACX with over 100+ Audiobook Titles completed Some highlights of her experience include: With a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting, Jessica has worked on stage for over 20 years and behind the mic for over 10, currently working full-time as an audiobook narrator, voice over artist, and actor. Friendly, professional, articulate, and engaging. ![]() ![]() ![]() Elizabeth Rudnick has written a ton of other movie adaptation books in the past, but this was my first by her. Then when walking through Target one day, I saw this gorgeous little book with the smooth and pretty cover flap titled Maleficent. I've been pretty much head over heels about the upcoming movie Maleficent since I heard about it early last year. The question is, who really is the evil one in this fairy tale? ![]() And while she learns to harness her great powers, the forces against her only grow stronger. That is, until she experienced the ultimate betrayal by a trusted friend.Įnraged and embarking on a quest fir vengeance, Maleficent must forge her own path in the world to make sense of it all. Happy and spirited, Maleficent was beloved by all who knew her. For another, she believed there had to be some good in everyone, including humans. For one thing, she was raised by all the Fair Folk after her parents were killed. ![]() Maleficent was a different sort of faerie. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Weeks after giddily sharing stories of her new boyfriend at Saturday morning recovery meetings, Christie receives a gift from a friend. ![]() Her days of agonizing in group therapy over guys who won't commit are over, the grueling emotional work required to attach to another person tucked neatly into the past. From the author of Group, a New York Times bestseller and Reese's Book Club Pick, comes a moving, heartwarming, and powerful memoir about Christie Tate's lifelong struggle to sustain female friendship, and the friend who helps her find the human connection she seeks.Īfter more than a decade of dead-end dates and dysfunctional relationships, Christie Tate has reclaimed her voice and settled down. Her days of agonizing in group therapy over guys who won't commit are over, th. ![]() |