6/26/2023 0 Comments Stories from night shift![]() ![]() She grabs her nurse’s badge and drives to First Step Resource Center, a clinic that offers round-the-clock care for people who have been assaulted. Her breath is steady by the time she changes into the clothes she laid out close to her back door before going to bed. Towarnicki tiptoes down the stairs of her home to avoid waking her young son, as her half-asleep husband whispers encouragement into the dark. When her phone rings, it’s typically in the middle of the night. A survivor may need protection against sexually transmitted infections, medicine to avoid getting pregnant, or evidence collected to prosecute their attacker. She’s on call once a week and a weekend a month. These nights on duty are Towarnicki’s second job. “You almost want to curse,” Towarnicki, 38, said. Towarnicki’s breath caught, a familiar feeling after four years of working night shifts as a sexual assault nurse examiner in this northwestern Montana city. She had a new case, a patient covered in bruises who couldn’t remember how the injuries got there. Jacqueline Towarnicki got a text as she finished her day shift at a local clinic. ![]()
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6/26/2023 0 Comments Thirteen witches the memory thief![]() ![]() At times, development of the themes-for example, the magic and power of stories-can be a little heavy-handed, but readers who connect with Rosie likely will benefit from such reassurances. The magical plot requires lots of exposition but reads quickly. The will-they-grow-apart friendship storyline is handled with love and nuance. With help from Germ and a ghost friend, Rosie must learn how her mother protected her as a baby and obtain a weapon to use against the witch. But the sight also draws the attention of the Memory Thief’s servants, bringing the witch directly up against Rosie. Friendlier ghosts lead her to her mother’s hidden witch hunter’s manual and educate her on her family’s long, tragic quest against the 13 evil witches who counter the good Moon Goddess. ![]() ![]() ![]() Deciding to set aside her childish things, she burns her stories in doing so, she awakens her sight, which allows her to see all the ghosts in her house. But when Rosie’s bold best friend, Germ, starts growing up faster than Rosie, she worries she’ll be left behind. Sixth grader Rosie wishes her cold, neglectful mother loved her-readers know from the prologue that her mother’s under the Memory Thief’s powerful curse-and copes by writing fairy-tale–esque stories. A girl uncovers family secrets and faces off against a witch called the Memory Thief. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments American doll party![]() ![]() Not valid at Indigo™ or Chapters™ retail locations Amazon, Kohl’s, or Barnes & Noble retail locations or websites. 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When Paolo Bacigalupis young adult novel Ship Breaker begins, Nailer, a boy in his late teens, is helping to disassemble wrecked ships for sale to. ![]() Suzanne Collins may have put dystopian literature on the YA map with In this powerful novel, Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a fast-paced adventure set in the vivid and raw, uncertain future of his companion novels ![]() But when, by luck or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota-and hopefully live to see another day. Grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. In America's flooded Gulf Coast region, oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer. This thrilling bestseller and National Book Award Finalist is a gritty, high-stakes adventure of a teenage boy faced with conflicting loyalties, set in a dark future America devastated by the forces of climate change. ![]() ![]() ![]() It had not been the first time he had contemplated suicide, only to be held back by forces greater than himself. That man was William Cowper, the famous English poet. For reasons he could not conceive, the life that brought such despair and misery could not be ended… The rope snapped, and his housekeeper rushed in, responding to the noise. ![]() Each time, it was as if an invisible hand were pushing it away. ![]() But he couldn’t raise the bottle to his lips. Returning home, the desperate man decided to poison himself with an overdose of laudanum, a potent drug derived from opium. Moreover, despite the rainfall, the tides were low-too low to drown a man. When he reached the quays, he noticed a strange man sitting there, staring at him, as if on guard. He stepped down from the coach and walked through the fog toward the river’s edge. Only when he cast himself into the roiling Thames and drowned, he thought, would his agonizing trials finally end. He hired a coach to take him to the river. Late one stormy London night in 1763, a broken man was determined to end his life. In our inaugural issue of Mysterious Ways, contributing editor Rosie Schaap told the story behind these well-known words: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then when Edgar was almost three his mother died of tuberculosis then shortly after that his father, who was an alcoholic, disappeared. This probably messed his idea of death up greatly. SIX or seven times a week when Edgar was very young he would have to sit and watch his mother die In the play and then be alive again afterwards back stage. His mother was an actress, which was not very high in the working class back then, who played Juliet in the play Romeo and Juliet. Those are only a few things that may have had an affect on his writing, which was not appreciated until well after his death. He also lived In poverty for most of his life. All of the women Poe ever loved ended up dying including his wife. His father disappeared when he was very young and then his mother died, leaving him an orphan. Many things that happened to him were very tragic and gave him an understanding of death that he carried with him his whole life. Edgar Allan Poe’s Life and How It Affected His Writing.Īllan Pope’s life had a big affect on his writing. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Pinker enlightenment now![]() The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature-tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking-which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing.įar from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. Instead, follow the data: In 75 jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. ![]() "My new favorite book of all time." - Bill Gates ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Howard griffin black like me![]() ![]() ![]() No matter exactly how clever they were, regardless of how well dressed, or well talked, no matter just how * white * they tried to appear to assimilate, they would certainly never be given the chance to confirm themselves on their own values. I have striven, and also I do should have those things.īut these are points that blacks never ever had the opportunity to do. My ‘white benefit’ has nothing to do with me not working hard and not deserving things that I have actually completed. However having read this, I can ultimately appreciate it. To really obtain a feel for how much this nation has can be found in 50 brief years, as well as to truly understand how far we have delegated go, you require to read this.Īs a white man, I’ve constantly been angered by the term ‘white benefit’, due to the fact that it suggests that I in some way didn’t help what I have. I picked this up totally on a whim after hearing a person state it online. ![]() ![]() Jamie recently left his “day job” as a tech support analyst to be a full-time writer. ![]() After nine years together, Jamie and Erich have married and purchased a house together in the wilds of Raymond, New Hampshire, where there are no street lights, turkeys and deer wander through their yard, and coyotes serenade them on a nightly basis. He then began writing novels and published his first novella in 2010. With Erich alternately inspiring and goading him, Jamie wrote several screenplays and directed a few of them as micro-budget independent films. He published a couple short pieces in his high school’s literary magazine and had another story place in the top 100 in a national contest, but it wasn’t until he met his partner, Erich, almost twenty years later, that he began writing again in earnest. Mason Collier isn’t big on authority figures. ![]() Jamie Fessenden set out to be a writer in junior high school. Read 179 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. ![]() Most involve romance, because he believes everyone deserves to find love, but after that anything goes: contemporary, science fiction, historical, paranormal, mystery, or whatever else strikes his fantasy. Amie Fessenden is an author of gay fiction in many genres. ![]() ![]() She is a trained chef and most of the recipes in her novels such as Strays are ones that you could find her cooking for her family on weekends. On most days you can find her scrolling through her feed doing very little, while shouting at her animals and menagerie of children, all the while attempting to tame the wonderful though unruly FOX. When she is not writing or designing, she loves to spend her time on twitter and asserts that she is one of the greatest procrastinators in the literary world. She also co-owns with Dan Burgess the famous LGBTQA photographer. She designs e-book designs for independent authors and a range of publishing houses at. Besides her writing, Leigh is an award-winning graphic designer and came in second at the 2016 Benjamin Franklin Awards. In 2016, Misfits her polyamorous novel made the shortlist at the LAMBDA Awards. She would go on to win the Best Bisexual debut for her first novel Slide at the 2014 Rainbow Book Awards. She genuinely does not remember how she got into writing, asserting that it just happened and she ran with it. ![]() She currently works with Fox Love Press, Riptide Publishing, Loose Id, and Dreamspinner Press. Garrett Leigh, who also goes by the pseudonym Grace Leigh is an award-winning British novelist and graphic designer best known for a series of popular contemporary romance novels. ![]() |