![]() Having waited on her high school sweetheart's discharge from the military for 12 years, she was shocked with a startling revelation that blew her carefully planned life out of the water. ![]() All Suzanna Truitt ever wanted was to find her one true love. Prince Nathaniel Kenneth Stratton, "Nate Kenneth for traveling purposes of Brighton is visiting in Georgia, contemplating his life and the changes that will occur when his father succumbs to cancer in the near future. The characters are so believable, even when maybe they are not, and the books are long enough to allow growth and depth inside a rich plot ![]() The trust and faith that the two main characters demonstrate is amazing and carries them through many tough times. This is a fictional, modern-day fairy tale that keeps the reader intrigued, captivated, and entertained from page one all way through to the conclusion. ![]()
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![]() Non-drug techniques for easing labor painĬesarean birth and complications that may require itįor the partner who wishes to be truly helpful in the birthing room, this audiobook is indispensable. Pitocin and other means, including natural ones, to induce or speed up labor Normal labor and how to help the woman every step of the wayĮpidurals and other medications for labor 1 Your role as birth partner begins before the mother is in labor. Preparing for labor and knowing when it has begun Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. The Birth Partner includes thorough information on: Now, in audio for the first time, The Birth Partner remains the definitive guide to helping a woman through labor and birth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since the original publication of The Birth Partner, partners, friends, relatives, and doulas have relied on Penny Simkin's guidance in caring for the new mother, from her last trimester through the early postpartum period. Birth Partner 2nd Edition by Penny Simkin available in Trade Paperback on, also read synopsis and reviews. ![]() A Complete Guide to Childbirth for Dads, Partners, Doulas, and All Other Labor Companions (5th Edition) Penny Simkin, P.T., is a physical therapist, childbirth educator, doula, and birth counselor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() □Īt his father's suggestion, Noah tries to enlist the help of Lice Peeking, who used to work on the Coral Queen. So Noah and his younger sister Abbey decide they'll expose Dusty's filthy deeds. Moreover, Paine refuses to be bailed out of jail until something's done about the poop pollution, which causes financial problems for the Underwood family.and aggravates Noah's mom. Unfortunately, Paine can't prove his charges against Dusty, since the shipowner flushes the waste at night, when no one is around. This lands Paine in jail but doesn't do much to stop Dusty, who resurrects the boat and goes on with his business. So when Paine learns that Dusty Muleman - crooked owner of the casino-boat Coral Queen - regularly (and illegally) dumps the ship's toilet waste into the ocean. Like the author's adult novels, it tells an amusing story while addressing the topic of environmentalism and conservation in south Florida.□□□Įleven-year-old Noah Underwood's dad, Paine Underwood, is an environmentalist who's very protective of the Florida Keys - where the family lives. This is one of Carl Hiaasen's middle-grade books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her newest book is gothic romance written for adults called BESTOW THE DARKNESS. She has published over twenty novels, including The Kanin Chronicles, the Watersong quartet, My Blood Approves series, the Valkyrie duology, and Freeks. ![]() Her zombie series, The Hollows, has been adapted into a graphic novel by Dynamite. Several of her books have made the New York Times Bestsellers list. She spends her time in Minnesota, taking care of her menagerie of pets and working on her next book. Her love of pop culture and all things paranormal influence her writing. AMANDA HOCKING is the author of over twenty young adult novels, including the New York Times bestselling Trylle Trilogy and Kanin Chronicles. ![]() ![]() He was eight years over the age limit for pilots in such squadrons, so he petitioned relentlessly for exemption until it was finally granted by General Dwight Eisenhower. In April of 1943, shortly after the book came out, 43-year-old Saint-Exupéry shoved his Little Prince manuscripts and drawings in a brown paper bag, handing it to his friend Silvia Hamilton - “I’d like to give you something splendid,” he told her, “but this is all I have.” - and departed for Algiers as a military pilot with the Free French Air Force. ![]() ![]() But what few realize is that Saint-Exupéry, a commercial pilot who never mastered English and penned his masterwork in French, wrote The Little Prince ( public library) not in Paris but in New York City and Long Island, where he arrived in 1940 after the Nazi invasion of France. ![]() Although Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (June 29, 1900–July 31, 1944) only wrote one children’s book in his lifetime, it is among the most beloved of all time, one of those rare gems with most timeless philosophy for grown-ups. ![]() ![]() What was the inspiration-what led you to write about Asperger’s? (And please tell us a little something about Asperger’s…I actually had to google it!) And the hope that if we could all get inside each other's heads, maybe we could understand each other better. And draw attention to the senselessness of it. I also wanted to pay tribute to those who have lost their lives in school shootings, like the Virginia Tech shootings in 2007. The longer answer is that I wanted people to understand what it's like to have Asperger's and have to navigate through tough issues, which are tough for all of us, but even harder for those with Asperger's. ![]() Here's the short answer: A girl with Asperger's must deal with the loss of her beloved brother, killed in a school shooting. Please tell us about your forthcoming novel, MOCKINGBIRD. ![]() I’m absolutely ecstatic to kick it off with an interview with Kathryn Erskine, author of IBHUBESI: THE LION, QUAKING, and the forthcoming MOCKINGBIRD (due out from Philomel on April 15, 2010). Soooo, I’m going to begin featuring interviews with fellow writers on my own blog. ![]() I’ve been featured on enough reviewer’s and writer’s blogs lately that I thought it was time to return the favor. I’ve been astounded-really, astounded by how incredibly welcoming the writing and book blogging communities are. ![]() ![]() Winner of the 2013 Etisalat Prize for Literature Winner of the 2014 Zora Neale Hurston/ Richard Wright Legacy Award for fiction Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize Winner of the 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction Winner of the 2014 PEN / Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction "Original, witty, and devastating." - Peopleįinalist for the 2013 Guardian First Book Award Coetzee - while she tells a vivid, raw story all her own. NoViolet Bulawayo's debut calls to mind the great storytellers of displacement and arrival who have come before her - from Junot Diaz to Zadie Smith to J.M. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad.īut Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America. ![]() ![]() In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before. Description Finalist for the Booker Prize: the "deeply felt and fiercely written" story of a young girl's journey out of Zimbabwe and to America ( New York Times Book Review), from the author of Glory.ĭarling is only ten years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. ![]() ![]() Pearce is primarily known as the author of The Hedonistic Imperative, a 1995 book-length manifesto in which he theorized how to "eradicate suffering in all sentient life" through paradise engineering. ![]() ![]() Pearce co-founded Humanity+, then known as the World Transhumanist Association, and is a prominent figure in the transhumanist movement, inspiring a strain of transhumanism based on paradise engineering and ending suffering. A transhumanist and a vegan, Pearce believes that we (or future evolutions of humans) have a responsibility not only to avoid cruelty to animals within human society but also to redesign the global ecosystem so that animals do not suffer in the wild. His book-length internet manifesto The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how technologies such as genetic engineering, nanotechnology, pharmacology, and neurosurgery could potentially converge to eliminate all forms of unpleasant experience among human and nonhuman animals, replacing suffering with gradients of well-being, a project he refers to as "paradise engineering". ![]() He believes and promotes the idea that there exists a strong ethical imperative for humans to work towards the abolition of suffering in all sentient life. David Pearce is a British independent philosopher. ![]() ![]() But until Percy can confront the decisions she made, they’ll never know whether their love is bigger than their biggest mistakes of their past. When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. ![]() Eventually that friendship turned into something more, before it fell spectacularly apart. Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek-the man she never thought she’d have to live without.įor six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant, Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Instead of spending glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she stays in a stylish city apartment keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. ![]() ![]() They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Part of the Anglo-Irish diaspora, I grew up not questioning what it meant to be berated as a ‘rip’ or an ‘eejit’ when I had been villainous or wilful, or both. As she wrote near the end of her life, ‘the Irish are sardonic often, lyrical often, but comic – never’. She didn’t do ‘perhaps’, ‘quite’, ‘maybe’ or ‘rather’ and, although she is celebrated for the comedy of Good Behaviour, her plots and characterization are bracing and unsentimental, even risky. ![]() It speaks to me of the Anglo-Irish, their lack of self-regard, their stubbornness. Molly Keane (1904–96) never considered herself a writer: ‘It’s all a great surprise to me – if you were to give me some old book of mine I’d read it with great surprise as though I had no connection with it at all.’ But this extravagant tone was neither archness nor Mitfordian flippancy (although, appropriate to her upbringing, she exhibited a strong, unsnobbish belief in the value of taste). She was ‘ecstatic’ over its success, calling it ‘too extraordinary’. When Molly Keane’s best-known novel, Good Behaviour (1981), was pipped to the Booker Prize post by Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children she did not much mind. ![]() |