![]() To save her mother, Xingyin embarks on a perilous quest, confronting legendary creatures and vicious enemies across the earth and skies. Disguising her identity, she seizes an opportunity to learn alongside the Crown Prince, mastering archery and magic, even as passion flames between her and the emperor's son. But when Xingyin's magic flares and her existence is discovered, she is forced to flee her home, leaving her mother behind.Īlone, untrained, and afraid, she makes her way to the Celestial Kingdom, a land of wonder and secrets. ![]() Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the powerful Celestial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing his elixir of immortality. ![]() A captivating debut fantasy inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon goddess, Chang'e, in which a young woman's quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm and sets her on a dangerous path - where choices come with deadly consequences, and she risks losing more than her heart. ![]()
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![]() Here are some reasons why designers and illustrators might consider retirement … Smith’s informative article in The New York Times it details that when the bill was signed, average life expectancy was at a lower level and the majority of the workforce was involved in heavy industry. Regardless of your age, you should read Dana G. So retiring before 65 exacts lower monthly payments. Americans born in 1960 or later, however, must wait until 67 to be eligible for their full Social Security benefits. Roosevelt (who died two years short of the deadline) through the original Social Security Act of 1935. The legal retirement age of 65 in the United States was secured by Franklin D. But inevitably the time will come when it is time. Among the professions least likely to even consider cold-turkey retirement, illustrators and designers are high on the list. ![]() ![]() ![]() For others, it is a giant step into an abyss. Time to Re-tire was a great slogan for Fisk Tires but time for retirement is a double-edged X-Acto: a release from and reward for decades of toil-for some. ![]() ![]() ![]() They bind soil particles so they don’t blow apart when water passes by and they seed raindrops. Without decomposing fungi we’d be buried under miles of plant debris, and with them, all sorts of organic compounds may be decomposed, from petroleum to sarin gas. They function as a shadow immune system and procurer of nutrition for plants they are the source of some of the worst plagues of people and animals and crops, and the best medicine we have. They live most everywhere and in most everything, and some can-theoretically-live forever. Fungi are implicated in all aspects of life on Earth. I admit it was a rather mercenary starting point, but the more I learned about fungi and their fruiting bodies, mushrooms, the more fascinated I became. That required some study on why they lived where they lived. Like many people, I got interested in mycology because I wanted to find wild mushrooms, especially morels, which are in season right now. ![]() ‘The more we learn about fungi,’ writes Merlin Sheldrake, ‘the less makes sense without them.’ Photo: DESIGN PICS/national geographic ![]() ![]() loving a house and, always, the pleasures of food, would make a perfect gift for a loved one. Now with a new afterword from Frances Mayes, the twentieth-anniversary edition of Under the Tuscan Sun revisits the book's most popular characters.Ī New York Times Notable Book of 1997 "This beautifully written memoir about taking chances, living in Italy. Under the Tuscan Sun inspired generations to embark on their own journeys-whether that be flying to a foreign country in search of themselves, savoring one of the book's dozens of delicious seasonal recipes, or simply being transported by Mayes's signature evocative, sensory language. But it's so delicious, read it first yourself."- USA Today For more Frances Mayes, including a tour of her now iconic Cortona home, Bramasole, watch PBS's Dream of Italy: Tuscan Sun Special ! More than twenty years ago, Frances Mayes-widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer-introduced readers to a wondrous new world when she bought and restored an abandoned Tuscan villa called Bramasole. ![]() #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The beloved memoir of self-discovery set against the spectacular Tuscan countryside that inspired the major motion picture starring Diane Lane-now in a twentieth-anniversary edition featuring a new afterword "This beautifully written memoir about taking chances, living in Italy, loving a house and, always, the pleasures of food, would make a perfect gift for a loved one. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My first brush with queer characters in fantasy began with Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments series. Like a lot of life-changing discoveries, I stumbled upon my first queer fantasy romance story accidentally. It wasn’t until I started reading more widely and more deliberately that I realized that there is so much more out there to discover. They mostly featured cis, white, straight characters – and as long as those were good stories, I rarely complained. That I would grow up to be someone who loves fantasy didn’t surprise anyone, but for a long time, my idea of fantasy books was very limited. I’ve always loved stories about otherworldly creatures, from Bengali folk tales about the shakchunni – a witch who hides in trees and traps unsuspecting women if their hair is kept loose after dark – to layered narratives like the Arabian Nights, filled with magical creatures. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jared Diamondbiologist, anthropologist, and author of the stunning book Guns, Germs, and Steelshould be the perfect guide to them. Many of us have wondered for years about these cultures. Unlike the ancient civilizations of Greece or Rome, most of Diamonds lost cultures were small and isolated, but their names are familiar to most of us: the Anasazi who lived in Chaco Canyon in what is now New Mexico the residents of Easter Island in the Pacific, who left giant, broken, humanlike statues and the Vikings, who settled Greenland when the climate was warmer but died out when it grew colder. The interior book is an effort to marshal the facts surrounding the disappearances of past civilizations known for the most part by the tantalizing relics they left behind. Scott AtlasĪ fascinating book lies within the nearly six hundred pages of Jared Diamonds Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Single Issues of The Independent Review.Podcast: Independent Outlook / Conversations.International Economics and Development. ![]() ![]() ![]() Constant medical procedures, physical therapy, and limitations around how she aproaches the most simple everyday challenges. OI means a life of physical and emotional pain for Willow. The collagin in her bones isn’t developed correctly and so her bones break at something as small as a sneeze, tripping on something, jumping off the couch. She has osteogenesis imperfecta, or Brittle bone disease. She was born with many broken bones, and will over her life sustain hundreds. That might sound strange but not for Willow. This if forbiden as she actually broke her arm pretending to skate on the kitchen floor. ![]() She’s talkative, loves collecting random facts and longs to be able to ice skate. Willow O’Keefe is a bright energetic and loving six year old girl. Her books usually have a court/ trial in them, and always leave the reader with much to consider. I just finished rereading a novel by Jodi Picoult who is an amazing author on books dealing with tough themes around race, disability, religion ETC. ![]() ![]() ![]() Adam Carlson, a faculty member in her department. She kisses a guy to make her best friend think she’s dating someone, but it turns out that guy is Dr. In the present, Olive is researching early detection methods for pancreatic cancer. She doesn’t catch his name but remembers the conversation distinctly. student who meets a guy in the bathroom after her interview for her degree. Both the novels quickly topped the charts and became a romantic sensation.īelow is the detailed yet quick summary of the book: Part 1 ![]() The Love Hypothesis was the debut novel of Ali Hazelwood which was followed by Love On The Brain. The novel shows how a fake relationship between two scientists can be thrown into chaos by the irresistible force of attraction and cause a woman’s carefully calculated theories on love to be thrown into disarray. In The Love Hypothesis, Ali Hazelwood tells the story of a female scientist who goes on a comedic journey in search of true love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nessus recruits the human Wu, a catlike alien Kzin named Speaker-to-Animals, and a young human woman named Teela Brown. ![]() Mind you, the chance to flee a doomed galaxy does not hurt. The alien has just the right currency with which to purchase the ancient human’s time: a precious commodity that the bland, homogenized world that is Earth of 2850 cannot offer Wu: novelty. This is an unexpected development, not least because the Puppeteers have not been seen on Earth since they fled Known Space in the 27 th century. Louis Wu’s teleport-booth-tour of an inexplicably backward-spinning 29 th century Earth 1 is interrupted when the ancient man is waylaid by Nessus, a Pierson’s Puppeteer. 1970’s Ringworld is the first volume in Larry Niven’s Ringworld series, which is set in Niven’s Known Space universe. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is so straightforward, so real and so flawed – I just loved her! She goes through a mayor development and learns to listen to and trust herself again and she starts being able to figure out what she really wants from her life. ![]() I adore Brett and the way she react to her mother’s idea. Even though I guessed almost all the plot twists, the book was still amazing. ![]() But it’s beyond sweet and heartwarming and lovable. The storyline isn’t particularly surprising and it’s not very realistic – quite the opposite, actually! The letters from Elizabeth (the mother) are absurdly accurate and the entire story contains so much random luck for it to even happen the way it does. Now Brett just has to fulfill the life list within a year to get her heritage – like that will be no biggie at all! In The Life List, Brett wrote such a list when she was 14 years old and she is lucky enough to have a mother who saved it for her. It’s such a shame, because I would love to see what my life goals where at a certain ages and how many of my life goals I have actually accomplished. I simple don’t know where they go, but I forget about them and when I remember them again, I can’t find them anywhere. I have manage several times to write bucket lists/life lists and every single time I’ve lost the. ![]() |