![]() NESTOR: Well, it wasn't one thing in particular, it was several things that kept happening over several years. ![]() PRENTICE: What personal or professional confluence of events led you to your exploration of the respiratory system? JAMES NESTOR: Thanks a lot for having me. And James Nestor is with us this morning. But then last year, he gave us the book Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art… just in time for all of us to take a serious deep breath. I should also note that he has surfed the breaks in the Arctic Circle, penned a bestseller on freediving, and reminds more of us that we should be running our cars on used vegetable oil. Author and journalist… reporting for, among other places, The Atlantic, the BBC, The New York Times and NPR. ![]() GEORGE PRENTICE: It is Morning Edition on Boise State Public Radio News. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The underlying theme of her frustrating, sad, and maddening journey was not just the inability of medical practitioners to diagnose her Lyme disease and communicate with each other, but that doctors believed it to be in her mind simply because of her gender. The reality is that women like Khakpour with mysterious physical illnesses spend years in torment before confirmation of a diagnosis. Khakpour provides evidence that women suffer most from Lyme disease and other autoimmune illnesses like my own, multiple sclerosis. In Sick, Khakpour spotlights America’s diseased health care system, and in particular how it infects the most vulnerable: immigrants citizens of different races, nationalities and religions and women, specifically those living with a disabling chronic illness. Porochista Khakpour’s insightful and haunting narrative of her battle with incurable late-stage Lyme disease is more than a memoir of her own illness. ![]() ![]() Pranks involving frogs and decapitated lawn gnomes do not a potential boyfriend make. The annoyingly attractive next-door neighbor might seem like a prime candidate for romantic comedy fantasies, but Wes has only been a pain in Liz’s butt since they were kids. ![]() Now that he’s back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar-and maybe snag him as a prom date-even befriend Wes Bennet. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. ![]() In this rom-com about rom-coms, in the spirit of Kasie West and Jenn Bennett, a hopeless romantic teen attempts to secure a happily-ever-after moment with her forever crush, but finds herself reluctantly drawn to the boy next door. ![]() Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersĪmazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play Books ![]() We’ll be raving about the books we love and being total fangirls. This year we’re spotlighting our favorite books, old and new. Sunday Spotlight is a feature we began in 2016. ![]() ![]() Janie is quickly reunited with her biological parents, Jonathan and Sada Sands, and her older brother Stephen and younger sister Jodie. They believe that Hannah may have kidnapped Janie and posed her as her own child. Janie tells Hannah's parents what she's learned, showing them the milk carton. ![]() Unable to escape the thought that her parents could have kidnapped her, Janie and her friend Reeve track down the Sands family and realize she has exactly the same red hair as every member of their family. ![]() They tell her that Hannah was involved in a cult and showed up at their door one day with three-year-old Janie in tow. When Janie confronts her parents about the fact that she has no baby photos, they admit that they are her grandparents and that Hannah is her real mother. Janie searches the attic where she finds a trunk containing items from a girl named "Hannah". Then her world is shattered when she spots a picture of three-year-old missing child Jennifer Sands, whom she recognizes as herself, on Sarah Charlotte's milk carton. ![]() She has great parents named Miranda Jessmon and Frank Jessmon and best friend named Sarah Charlotte. Janie Jessmon is 16 and living a happy life. The movie stars Kellie Martin as Jennifer Margaret Sands/Janie Jessmon, a sixteen-year-old girl who finds her face on the back of a milk carton of child abduction and puts the pieces of her past together. ![]() The Face on the Milk Carton is a 1995 American made for television drama film based on Caroline B. ![]() ![]() In 1939, Stalin sent him to govern Ukraine, and he continued the purges there. He supported Joseph Stalin's purges, and approved thousands of arrests. With the help of Lazar Kaganovich, he worked his way up the Soviet hierarchy. He was employed as a metalworker in his youth, and during the Russian Civil War was a political commissar. Khrushchev's party colleagues removed him from power in 1964, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier. Khrushchev was responsible for the partial de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy. ![]() He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964. ![]() Soviet Union's leader during part of the Cold War. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story begins in 1619-a year before the Mayflower-when the White Lion disgorges “some 20-and-odd Negroes” onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United States. Jones on Jamestown's first slaves to historian Annette Gordon-Reed’s portrait of Sally Hemings to the seductive cadences of poets Jericho Brown and Patricia Smith, Four Hundred Souls weaves a tapestry of unspeakable suffering and unexpected transcendence.”-O: The Oprah Magazine a gateway to the solo works of all the voices in Kendi and Blain’s impressive choir.”-The Washington Post “A vital addition to curriculum on race in America. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. A chorus of extraordinary voices comes together to tell one of history’s great epics: the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present-edited by Ibram X. ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters are well developed in the sense that you can accurately put yourself in their shoes and know how they would act, and the author also gives some backstory to provide details on why they are the way they are. ![]() The best story I’ve read so far because of the following things: The plot is ordered nicely and is interconnected at many points in time. I think the negative parts are that it could be quite repetitive in certain aspects of the story and also how many chapters there are but that should not discourage you from reading a novel light like this because overall it is an enjoyable read. I also found the comedy quite enjoyable as well even when there is a big event happening it just gives it something more to look forward to. I also like the aspect of realism used to show the amount of time needed to be become someone strong in the that world and the struggles they endure to get it. The reason this one captured my eye was the amount of detail put into to the world building and the unique way it used a gaming aspect to show how powerful the charactes and the amount of power they need to obtain to defeat there enemy. I like this novel because I personally like fantasy types like this. Possessing a very unique ability, he will use that, and the dream, to forge his path in the world now known as the Lost Paradise. ![]() But, one fleeting dream that may not be a dream at all reawakens his once-lost senses. He was an addict, a loser, a despicable human being. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Prove him wrong by choosing the correct painting - the Portrait of a Merchant.įor pointing out the correct piece, the dealer will give you a tip: a painting by the unpopular artist, van Rogh, is going on auction but you could earn a nice profit by selling it to an avid admirer and collector in Novigrad. If you say you know a bit about art, Yaromir will challenge your knowledge as he'll assume you know as little about art as Vivaldi, who only buys to invest rather than loving the artwork. ![]() Note: Each of Vivaldi's associates will have a mini challenge for you with extra for successfully completing it, and each conversation is only a one-time opportunity, so think twice before declining further interactions with them. Once inside, Vivaldi will converse until you head upstairs where, upon reaching the auction floor, he offers to introduce you to some of his fellow business associates. Thankfully, Vimme Vivaldi steps in and adds you as his +1. Upon reaching the Borsodi Brothers' Auction House, you'll be confronted by two guards who inform you no one is admitted without an invitation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Devastated by his rejection, she commits an act of extreme violence that, considered unnatural to her gender and tender personality, is categorized as madness. Most importantly, both works involve a climax in which an innocent young woman is condemned by her lover for lack of virtuous firmness. ![]() Either in a Gothic or a pastoral manner, both authors draw on the pagan to illustrate the rural landscape and transform it into an active force that shapes the characters’ identities and development. This thesis explores the multiple affinities and key differences between Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891) and Sir Walter Scott’s The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), which Hardy commended as “an almost perfect specimen of form.” The two novels rely upon legends and omens to emphasize an inevitable destiny and advance the story toward a tragic conclusion. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m going to start by saying that I loved the representation in this book, and in this series overall. Their quest? Defeat the cruel, oppressive government and bring peace and equality to all humankind. ![]() Then she meets Merlin, who has aged backward over the centuries into a teenager, and together they must break the curse that keeps Arthur coming back. When Ari crash-lands on Old Earth and pulls a magic sword from its ancient resting place, she is revealed to be the newest reincarnation of King Arthur. I have a magic sword, a cranky wizard, and a revolution to start. As a fugitive refugee in the territory controlled by the tyrannical Mercer corporation, I’ve always had to hide who I am. Synopsis: I’ve been chased my whole life. Genre: Fantasy, Sci-fi, Retelling, Young Adult, LGBT ![]() |