But what they don’t expect is to discover another boat already anchored off Meroe’s sandy beaches. Shimmering on the horizon after days at sea, Meroe Island is every bit the paradise the foursome expects, despite a mysterious history of shipwrecks, cannibalism, and even rumors of murder. But like Lux, they may have other reasons to be seeking an escape. The two women say they want to travel off the beaten path. She’s also quick to bond with their passengers, college best friends Brittany and Amma. Stuck in a dead-end job in Hawaii, and longing to travel the world after a family tragedy, Lux is eager to climb on board The Susannah and set out on an adventure. When Lux McAllister and her boyfriend, Nico, are hired to sail two women to a remote island in the South Pacific, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set on an isolated Pacific island with a dark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware.
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7/8/2023 0 Comments Long way down ewan mcgregorThe format is familiar: two dudes on cycles overcoming the usual vehicular emergencies and chatting up the locals. Their preparations suggest hair-raising adventures to come, but what we get when they finally hit the road is more akin to a prosaic vacation. Regrettably, this proves to be the most exciting section of the book. The authors prepare for the trip in the United Kingdom by learning survival tactics: how to sweet-talk hostile army officers carrying AK-47s, etc. They get the travel bug again here, but decide this time to point their headlights toward the often-discussed but seldom-experienced continent of Africa. Two best friends set out on a road trip across Africa.īritish actors and bosom buddies McGregor and Boorman produced a surprise hit in 2004 with the fun-loving travelogue Long Way Round (2004), which chronicled the duo’s adventures as they cruised around the globe on their motorcycles, making friends and delivering wisecracks along the way. 7/8/2023 0 Comments Haben by haben girmaShe took an hour off from school each day to learn Braille. In Oakland, she attended a traditional public school. They have access to school in the United States, thanks to IDEA, Section 504, and the ADA. Yet, the ADA, Section 504, and IDEA all guaranteed them access to school. In the United States, there were schools for the blind and deaf, but there were no chances for deaf-blind pupils. Mussie Gebre, six years older and likewise born deaf-blind in Eritrea, is Girma’s brother. Tigrinya, Amharic, and English are the three languages that Haben Girma’s parents are conversant in. In California, Saba Gebrevesus met Girma Kidane. During the Eritrean War of Independence and the Ethiopian Civil War in 1983, her mother Saba Gebrevesus, and many other Ethiopian and Eritrean refugees escaped to Sudan. Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa was the hometown of her father, Girma Kidane Adgoy. Attorney Haben Girma was born in Oakland, California, on 29 th July 1988. Brooke left Hillcrest for good, and that was the last time I saw her.įourteen years later, I’m staring at her face on the television. Three months later, her father died, and Kai became the head of the Bennett Family. Her father said accident, but Brooke said murder. They were mafia, and Brooke’s oldest brother was dead. He came to our school with their father, and that’s when I learned what kind of family Brooke came from. Kai had eyes that pulled me in and a face that haunted my dreams. I became fascinated with her second-oldest brother. The only things she showed me were photographs of her brothers. She was fun and outgoing, but she kept quiet about her family. The wealthiest of the wealthy sent their kids to our boarding school, and Brooke Bennett had been at the top, though I never quite knew why. There were always whispers about my roommate at Hillcrest Academy. 7/8/2023 0 Comments Your voice in my head bookSoon after this event, she met the therapist who ultimately changed her life, a man she refers to as Dr. “I couldn’t work fast enough to harm myself, so the boyfriend was helping out,” she writes of a sexual injury that landed her in the emergency room. Although she had the support of her parents - whom she portrays as not merely functional but downright adorable - as well as a precocious career in journalism and a first novel, “Namedropper,” already on the way, she became a bulimic and an obsessive cutter, and soon began walking “hand in hand with the thought of suicide.” She also had a knack for acquiring terrible boyfriends whose bad behavior inspired her to hurt herself more, and who sometimes aided and abetted the abuse. that I saw in her my own destiny.”Ī decade ago, when she was in her 20s, Forrest (now a screenwriter in Los Angeles) moved to Manhattan. “I believe that she infected me,” she writes. Indeed, on her book’s first page Forrest invokes the patron saint of mentally ill beauties with bad taste in men, as she describes how, at 13, she began making regular pilgrimages after school to the Tate in London, to visit Millais’s portrait of the drowned Ophelia. Emma Forrest’s memoir, “Your Voice in My Head,” is part of a literary tradition that began long before Susanna Kaysen’s girlhood was interrupted or Elizabeth Wurtzel got her first Prozac prescription. Many early Latter Day Saints, including Joseph Smith, had phrenological readings done, and these readings were used by adherents and critics as supporting evidence of their respective viewpoints. Phrenologists themselves considered themselves a secular science, compatible and even supporting of religion. This contrasts with the basic attitude of Orthodox Christian clergy, who generally condemned phrenology as "atheism, materialism, and determinism". Phrenology was never endorsed as a part of church theology or doctrine, but neither was it considered incompatible. Developed in the 1790s, it became widely popular in the United States in the 1830s and 1840s, coinciding with the rise of the Latter Day Saint movement. Phrenology is a pseudoscience which involves the measurement of bumps on the skull to predict mental traits. Phrenology has been a cultural factor in the Latter Day Saint movement (informally Mormons) since around the time of its founding in 1830. Phrenology chart published in Latter Day Saint newspaper The Prophet on Janu 7/7/2023 0 Comments The end of gender dr debra sohWeinstein, PhD, host of The Portal) that will arm you with the facts you need to come to your own conclusions about gender identity and its place in the world today. The End of Gender is conversation-starting "required reading" (Eric R. She debates today's accepted notion that gender is a social construct and a spectrum, and challenges the idea that there is no difference between how male and female brains operate. nurture debate and exploring what it means to be a woman or a man in today's society.īoth scientific and objective, and drawing on original research and carefully conducted interviews, Soh tackles a wide range of issues, such as gender-neutral parenting, gender dysphoric children, and the neuroscience of being transgender. Debra Soh uses a research-based approach to address this hot-button topic, unmasking popular misconceptions about the nature vs. Mexicos third gender sheds light on the biological correlates of sexual. Is our gender something we're born with, or are we conditioned by society? In The End of Gender, neuroscientist and sexologist Dr. clinical psychologist and professor emeritus at the Uni. International sex researcher, neuroscientist, and columnist Debra Soh debunks popular gender myths in this scientific examination of the many facets of gender identity that "is not only eminently reasonable and beautifully-written, it is brave and vital" (Ben Shapiro, #1 New York Times bestselling author). The Bloggs soon hear of enemy missiles heading towards England and make it into their shelter before a nuclear explosion. With the first being a nuclear missile on a launch pad, labelled "MEANWHILE, ON A DISTANT PLAIN.", the second a squadron of Warthogs, labelled "MEANWHILE, IN THE DISTANT SKY.", and third a nuclear submarine labelled "MEANWHILE, IN A DISTANT OCEAN." A constant theme is Jim's optimistic outlook and his unshakeable belief that the government knows what is best and has the situation under full control, coupled with Hilda's attempts to carry on life as normal.ĭuring their preparations the action is interrupted by two-page dark illustrations. Their reminiscences are used both for comic effect and to show how the geopolitical situation has changed, but also how nostalgia has blotted out the horrors of war. Jim immediately starts construction of a fallout shelter (in accordance with a government-issued Protect and Survive brochure, which he has collected from a public library), while the two reminisce about the Second World War. One afternoon, the couple hears a message on the radio about an "outbreak of hostilities" in three days time. The book follows the story of the Bloggs, a couple previously seen in the book Gentleman Jim. The book was later made into an animated film. When the Wind Blows is a 1982 graphic novel, by British artist Raymond Briggs, that shows a nuclear attack on Britain by the Soviet Union from the viewpoint of a retired couple, Jim and Hilda Bloggs. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Metternich by Wolfram SiemannSiemann goes to great lengths to justify Metternich’s reactionary policy and his war on subversion in the 1830s and 1840s, going so far as to argue that Britain and France were just as autocratic as the Habsburg monarchy. He is represented as the principal actor in the coalition that brought down Napoleon and the master operator at the Congress of Vienna, while other players such as Tsar Alexander, Castlereagh and Talleyrand are marginalised. His wisdom and judgment are unquestioned and his achievements over-praised. My only quibble is that Metternich is very much the hero as well as the subject of the book, and its rather reverent tone can jar. A hand-drawn sketch recording where every Italian subversive had gone to ground, from Buenos Aires to Brussels, brings to life his obsession with the threat they posed. It covers every aspect of Metternich’s life with a wealth of detail, and dishes up some delightful gems. No less enlightening is his coverage of Metternich’s education by remarkable tutors at the universities of Strasbourg and Mainz. Siemann’s meticulous account of these negotiations is highly revealing of the gradations in what is usually represented as a monolithic aristocracy, and goes a long way to explain Metternich’s acute sense of order and hierarchy. Last year in the US, the company updated this information to display the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, a network of state and local call centers from the US Department of Health. But this isn't the first time Google has made an attempt to help individuals thinking of suicide.įor several years, suicide prevention information has been available at the top of relevant search results. The pre-written messages were developed by Google in partnership with the International Association for Suicide Prevention. The person could choose the message that best expresses their feelings and thoughts and then text it directly to a loved one, who hopefully will be able to intervene and provide aid and comfort to that person. "I don't want to die but I don't know how to live."This is really hard for me to say but I'm having painful thoughts and it might help to talk."I'm struggling right now and just need to talk to someone-can we chat?". |