![]() The story is full of complicated relationships, layered on the backdrop of a city rising from the ashes of its collapse, and centered around a young man trying to find trust in a world where such connections are rare and fraught with potential peril. After being smuggled out of the city, Nate finds a family with a group of his peers, including the boy he secretly loves, Reed. The book tells the story of Nate, a sixteen-year old boy who is genetically engineered to serve as the cure for a pandemic ravaging the population of his city. ![]() Her debut young adult novel, Fragile Remedy (Flux), was released in March of 2021. A graduate of the University of Florida, where she received her bachelor’s degree in English with a focus on creative writing, she’s built a solid reputation as a marketing consultant, helping clients across multiple industries while running her own firm, Mora Creative Strategy.īut when she’s not helping her customers with their brand identity and content strategy, or trying to avoid Florida’s two billion mosquitos while enjoying her brunch, she spends her time building intricate fictional worlds for her readers. ![]() By any measure, Maria Ingrande Mora has been successful at her chosen career. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Jason Fung, a Canadian nephrologist, believes unequivocally that, yes, type 2 diabetes can be reversed, and his book, The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally, is an instruction manual on just how to do it. ![]() Whether reversing type 2 diabetes is possible is highly contentious among medical professionals and scientists, but there is certainly more acknowledgment that “pausing” diabetes or putting it “in remission” is possible. In recent years, very-low-carbohydrate diets that include frequent intermittent fasting have emerged as a way to not only treat type 2 diabetes, but also reverse it. Type 2 diabetes is a highly complex health condition with many possible treatment options. ![]() Publisher: Greystone Books, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, warfare erupts between the Eager Beaver and the rival Flesh Farm, and not even the Beaver's new attraction-patrons wrestling strippers in a vat of creamed corn-can stem the tide of customers to the Farm and it's "friction" dancing. ![]() Both wind up dead, victims of the sugar-growers' long and homicidal arm. Two men try to blackmail Dilbeck: one, a lovestruck fan of Erin's, wants the congressman to help reverse the judicial decision that granted custody of Erin's daughter to her psycho husband, Darrell the other, a sleazy lawyer, wants money. No big deal-except that the white knight is Congressman David Dilbeck, toady to sugar interests and up for reelection. Out of the audience rushes an old gent who clubs the mauler with a bottle of Korbel. The typically bizarre action begins at Fort Lauderdale's Eager Beaver club, where a drunk fan is pawing star stripper Erin Grant. And the most venal as well: Hiaasen's satire is more barbed than ever here, pricking at Florida's apparently corrupt sugar industry. a congressman-depicting the Sunshine State as the weirdest place this side of Oz. Here's the Miami Herald reporter's fifth comic thriller-a marvelous madcap yarn pitting a stripper vs. It's a wonder Florida hasn't yet banished Hiaasen (Native Tongue, etc.). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A little over 6 weeks later, I was breathing independently. With the aid of my medical team, we accomplished just that. When the doctors told my mom that I had a 0-5% chance of walking again, I mouthed to her, “I’ll be back.” But first, I had to be able to breathe on my own. The day after my accident, I was on a ventilator and unable to speak. What would have been an ordinary tackle left me paralyzed from the neck down. In 2010, during a Rutgers-Army game, I suffered a severe spinal cord injury after colliding with another player. This philosophy guided me through childhood, my studies at Rutgers University and after the football injury that shifted my life’s path. I say you never know what you can do until you believe you can do it. Some say you never know what you can do until you do it. ![]() ![]() Shit goes down, obviously, and Marlee is forced to.reassess her life circumstances a bit. Or whatever it is that rich, surgically genetically gifted trophy wives do with their free time. I always think to myself, I don't see WE out there with the football, lady.īut alas, I'm letting my jealously show.if only we could ALL be wives who lunch. I mean, we have all seen some of those wife interviews/comments in which they say, "Well, we WE got traded," or "when WE started with, blah, blah, blah." Part of me hopes that they aren't all really this heinous - and I'm sure some of the snark was dramatized for the story - but another part of me realizes some of the shit Marlee dealt with probably legit goes down. I'm not going to rehash the blurb or story line at length however, the main character (Marlee) is a longtime NFL girlfriend in a sea of NFL wives and, because Martin herself is a former NFL wife (her husband is retired), I felt like we were getting a backstage pass to one of those players' wives TV shows - with none of the cameras, but ALL the drama. ![]() I really enjoyed her writing style, her characters, and her sense of humor. This is Alexa Martin's debut novel and what a debut it is. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (A link to this book on Amazon is here: Susan Jeffers’ The Nutcracker on Amazon) Susan Jeffers’ picture book version of The Nutcracker is the perfect book to use in the dance classroom because the text is brief and the paintings depict dancers in scenes similar to what students might see on a live stage. I introduce my youngest students (ages 3-8) to The Nutcracker the way they are accustomed to receiving new stories–through a book. ![]() The studio where I teach presents a full-length, narrated version, and even if yours doesn’t, chances are there is a performance of The Nutcracker by someone going on somewhere near you this winter. The Nutcracker is the most famous and accessible of the full-length ballets. Late summer might seem an odd time to be posting about The Nutcracker, unless of course you are a dancer or dance teacher and you have already been making early preparations for the holiday show for months now. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thank you for stopping in on my blog and I hope you'll click to follow me while you're here! Now I enjoy dark and twisted! The darker and more twisted, the better! Dark Non-con Erotica is a favorite of mine! Followed closely by BDSM reads with male Dom/female sub, I prefer Master/slave when possible. My taste in reading has changed a lot too. My reading addiction started many years ago when I was about 5 years old and over the years it's come and gone depending on what was going on in my life. Welcome to my little corner of the net! My name is "nd" and I live in a small town in Western Kentucky. Fiction With Fizz - CC MacKenzie's Blog.Cassie Hynds - Want a little kink in your HEA?.Book Marketing Bestsellers: Book Promotion Blog. •![]() ![]() ![]() I could picture the beach, the sea, the houses, the shops. Locations in the book were well-described.I have several of her other books on my Want to Read List on Goodreads, and I was in the mood for a suspense/thriller story, so I decided to read I Found You. I enjoyed that book but it didn’t blow me away. That was the first time I read anything by the author and I gave it a solid three stars. Last year I read Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell. Who is the man on the beach? Where is Lily’s missing husband? And what ever happened to the man who made such a lasting and disturbing impression on Gray? Something about him makes Gray uncomfortable-and it’s not just because he’s a protective older brother. The annual trip to Ridinghouse Bay is uneventful, until an enigmatic young man starts paying extra attention to Kirsty. Twenty-three years earlier, Gray and Kirsty Ross are teenagers on a summer holiday with their parents. ![]() Soon, she receives even worse news: according to the police, the man she married never even existed. Meanwhile, in a suburb of London, newlywed Lily Monrose grows anxious when her husband fails to return home from work one night. Against her better judgment, she invites him inside. He has no name, no jacket, and no idea how he got there. ![]() In the windswept British seaside town of Ridinghouse Bay, single mom Alice Lake finds a man sitting on a beach outside her house. ![]() ![]() The Hunt Records take place hundreds of years before the other books, and Barzun, a nation between Tortall and the Inland Sea later is occasional mentioned. ![]() The Trickster books mostly take place in the Copper Isles, further south than the Yamani islands. To the east of Maren and Sarain is The Roof of the World, a large mountain range. Carthak (setting for Emperor Mage) is south of Tortall across the Inland Sea, while to the west lie the Yamani Islands and the Copper Isles. To the east are Galla, Tusaine, and Tyra, and past them are Maren and Sarain. Tortall and Scanra are at war in the last two Protector books and the first Trickster book, Trickster's Choice. ![]() To the north is Scanra, a wild and somewhat barbaric country. ![]() The capital of Tortall is Corus, located near the western coast on the Emerald Ocean. ![]() The Tortall series is named for the country in which the majority of the works are set, Tortall. The Tortall universe is a fictional setting shared by six book series: Song of the Lioness Immortals, or Wild Magic Protector of the Small Daughter of the Lioness, or Tricksters and Beka Cooper ( Provost's Dog) the Numair Chronicles, as well as multiple short stories. This is a list of works by American fantasy author Tamora Pierce. ![]() ![]() Complemented with detailed and beautiful drawings by the illustrator Ruth Brown, ‘The Christmas Day Kitten’ is a lovely addition to our library of Christmas books. The reason that I like it so much is because it doesn’t read as a child’s tale but as a simple story told by Herriot with a focus on a message that is meaningful during this time of year. Last year, a friend on Instagram recommended ‘The Christmas Day Kitten’ by James Herriot as a lovely festive picture book. ![]() James Herriot’s writing is a particular comfort read of mine and his heartwarming tales around his busy veterinary practice in Yorkshire are the perfect cozy books to read around Christmas. Oday’s Christmas Book Advent Calendar features ‘The Christmas Day Kitten’ by James Herriot – a story about love and loss around Christmastime. ![]() The Christmas Day Kitten by James Herriot ![]() |