![]() ![]() One morning, Emmaline climbs over the wall of the hospital’s abandoned gardens and discovers something incredible: a white horse with a broken wing has left the mirror-world and entered her own. There are winged horses that live in the mirrors of Briar Hill hospital - the mirrors that reflect the elegant rooms once home to a princess, now filled with sick children. ![]() Summary: "Deserves a spot on the shelf next to the most beloved children's classics - yes, even The Secret Garden." - Shelf Awareness, Starred Review Described as "reminiscent of the Chronicles of Narnia " in a starred review, The Secret Horses of Briar Hill shows readers everywhere that there is color in our world - they just need to know where to look. ![]()
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![]() But when Sylvia begins to suspect she isn’t the only one harboring a few secrets, she realizes that Rafe may pose a risk to far more than her heart. Emily Sullivan The Hellion and The Hero is out now Named one of the ten best romances of 2022 by the Fated Mates podcast Praise for Emily’s books : One particular gem of a new voice is Emily Sullivan, whose 19th century tales of romance and intrigue are designed to keep a reader on the edge of their seat. ![]() The fiery bluestocking is resolved to avoid Rafe, until a chance encounter between them reveals the normally irreverent man’s unexpected depths - and an attraction that’s impossible to ignore. She trusted the wrong man once and paid for it dearly. Though most women would be thrilled to catch the eye of a tall, dark, and dangerously handsome man, Sylvia is through with that sort of adventure. ![]() But when he encounters the intriguing-yet-prickly lady’s companion Miss Sylvia Sparrow while on assignment at a Scottish house party, he finds himself thoroughly distracted by the secretive beauty. As relentless as he is reckless, Rafe has never come upon a mission he couldn’t complete. Rafe Davies might seem like just another charismatic rake, but in reality, he is one of the crown’s most valuable agents. ![]() Fans of Netflix’s Bridgerton series will love this enchanting story of a spy who finds himself entangled with the most intriguing bluestocking - from the series that delivers “both emotional intensity and lush sensuality, and vivacious writing enhanced by ample measures of wit” ( Booklist, starred review). ![]() ![]() invite readers to pause, reflect, and empathize. Gives opportunity for countless inferences and deep discussion. Lyrical and stylistically tight writing act in perfect counterpoint to the gentle but detailed watercolor paintings. Lewis dazzles with frame-worthy illustrations, masterful use of light guiding readers' emotional responses." - Kirkus Reviews * "Always on-target navigating difficulties in human relationships, Woodson teams up with Lewis to deal a blow to the pervasive practice-among students of all economic backgrounds-of excluding those less fortunate. The matter-of-fact tone of Chloe's narration paired against the illustrations' visual isolation of Maya creates its own tension. Woodson's spare, eloquent free verse and Lewis' beautiful, spacious watercolor paintings tell a story for young kids that will touch all ages." - Booklist, starred review "Unfolds with harsh beauty and the ominousness of opportunities lost. ![]() * "This quiet, intense picture book is about the small actions that can haunt. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This was the 'big bang' of globalisation, which ushered in a new era of exploration and trade and which paved the way for Europeans to dominate after Columbus reached America.ĭrawing on a wide range of new historical sources and cutting-edge archaeology, Hansen shows, for example, that the Maya began to trade with the native peoples of modern New Mexico from traces of theobromine - the chemical signature of chocolate - and that frozen textiles found in Greenland contain hairs from animals that could only have come from North America. ![]() But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it was the year 1000, when for the first time new trade routes linked the entire globe, so an object could in theory circumnavigate the world. When did globalisation begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. ![]() ![]() ![]() Afterward, they visit the Council of Guardians, where they meet Urvashi and Hanuman. Expecting a fierce warrior, they are both taken back by germophobic Mini. ![]() ![]() They leave to find the other known sister. After time is frozen in her town and Aru herself is briefly frozen, a pigeon enters the museum and explains that Hindu mythology is real and that she is a Pandava. She accidentally releases the Sleeper, a demon who can freeze time. Under pressure, she lights the Cursed Lamp of Bharata to prove them wrong, since she once told her class the Lamp is cursed. While she is at home during school break, three of her classmates arrive at the museum to find that Aru lied about spending her time in France. She has a wide imagination and is ashamed to be living in a museum. The novel received critical acclaim, with critics praising the story, the tone, the humor, and the characters.Īru Shah is a twelve-year-old girl, living in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, who often stretches the truth to please her friends, a trait developed due to her mother's distant behavior. It is the first of many " Rick Riordan Presents" imprint books, and focuses on twelve-year-old Aru Shah who doesn't fit in at school and often stretches the truth to please her friends, but discovers her Pandava sisters, and the very real world of Hindu mythology. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-bookĪru Shah and the End of Time is a 2018 American- fantasy- adventure novel written by Roshani Chokshi and published in March 2018 by Disney-Hyperion. ![]() ![]() ![]() “As a trauma neurosurgeon, I have witnessed the compassion, the work ethic, and the selflessness of our nurses in countless situations. This book will make you laugh, make you cry, make you understand. ![]() –Sebastian Junger, author of Freedom and The Perfect StormĪround the clock, across the country, these highly skilled and compassionate men and women sacrifice and struggle for us and our families. "James Patterson's account of the twilight world between life and death that nurses inhabit is one of the most moving things I have ever read.” –Sanjay Gupta, MD, neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent, CNN “The compassion, the work ethic, and the selflessness of nurses … are given the respect they deserve and captured beautifully here.” ![]() The life-or-death intensity of working on the front lines, from America’s greatest unsung heroes. They save our lives every day, and we’ve never heard their stories. ![]() ![]() The fundamental activity of a startup is to turn ideas into products, measure how customers respond, and then learn whether to pivot or persevere. This learning can be validated scientifically by running frequent experiments that allow entrepreneurs to test each element of their vision. They exist to learn how to build a sustainable business. Startups exist not just to make stuff, make money, or even serve customers. In fact, as I will argue later, I believe “entrepreneur” should be considered a job title in all modern companies that depend on innovation for their future growth. A startup is an institution, not just a product, and so it requires a new kind of management specifically geared to its context of extreme uncertainty. That means entrepreneurs are everywhere and the Lean Startup approach can work in any size company, even a very large enterprise, in any sector or industry. The concept of entrepreneurship includes anyone who works within my definition of a startup: a human institution designed to create new products and services under conditions of extreme uncertainty. You don’t have to work in a garage to be in a startup. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her mother was Della Ella Murrell Parker. Parker, was a successful physician and pharmacist who graduated from Meharry Medical College, the first medical school in the South for African-Americans. ![]() Early life and education Ĭarolyn Beatrice Parker was born in Gainesville, Florida, on November 18, 1917. Parker is the first African-American woman known to have gained a postgraduate degree in physics. Leukemia was an occupational risk for workers on the Dayton Project. According to family, her completion of a doctorate in physics at MIT was prevented by the leukemia that would kill her at age 48. ![]() Parker earned two master's degrees, one in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1941 and one in physics from MIT in 1951. She then became an assistant professor in physics at Fisk University. She was one of a small number of African American scientists and technicians on the Manhattan Project. ![]() Carolyn Beatrice Parker (Novem– March 17, 1966) was a physicist who worked from 1943 to 1947 on the Dayton Project, the polonium research and development arm of the Manhattan Project. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sutton is one of Australia’s leading anthropologists. Sprawled across a dining room table is an almost-finished book about the early 20th century Queensland anthropologist Ursula Hope McConnel, who was brave and brilliant and solitary. There are other records, from western Arnhem Land, Daly River, the Murranji Track – ghost road of the drovers, Central Australia and the corner country of the Lake Eyre basin. Sutton has spent many decades with the Wik people danced with them, cried with them. It’s a rambling old house of stone and timber, everything you would expect an anthropologist’s home to be: rooms filled with books, papers, a large volume of genealogies of Wik families from Cape York among whom he has spent much of his professional life, including some 2000 records of births and deaths. ![]() The walls of Peter Sutton’s home in country South Australia are hung with ghosts – black-and-white photographs he has collected from second-hand shops over the years, the long-gone people he calls “poignant strangers”, staring out from the past, without families who want or remember them. ![]() Warning: The following article contains images of Indigenous people who are deceased. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size ![]() ![]() ![]() Thomas has a two-second lead over Primož Roglič. Other riders have also had to abandon after returning positive tests for COVID-19, including Domenico Pozzovivo and Rigoberto Urán.įormer Tour de France champion Geraint Thomas, who rides for Ineos Grenadiers, moved into the lead after pre-race favorite Evenepoel withdrew. “We will continue to monitor and implement our testing protocol on the three riders and staff that remain at the race.” “Therefore a PCR test was carried out on the seven remaining riders, the results of which showed that the four guys were positive,” he said. Team doctor Toon Cruyt said that after Evenepoel tested positive two more riders started to feel unwell, but their antigen tests returned negative. ![]() “Following the positive test of maglia rosa Remco Evenepoel, a further round of tests were made on the riders and staff that remained in Italy, with Jan Hirt, Josef Cerny, Louis Vervaeke and Mattia Cattaneo unfortunately unable to continue,” the Belgian team said in a statement before Stage 11. BRUSSELS - Four teammates of world champion Remco Evenepoel tested positive for COVID-19 and followed the Soudal Quick-Step leader by pulling out of the three-week Giro d’Italia.Įvenepoel had won the individual time trial to reclaim the leader’s pink jersey, but his team later announced that he tested positive for COVID-19. ![]() |