![]() ![]() Agyapong’s husband is currently self-isolating and has been tested for COVID-19. Her daugher, who was named Mary in memory of her mother, is “doing very well” according to hospital officials. Agyapong underwent an emergency C-section shortly after she was admitted, and gave birth to a baby girl. Stephanie ZacharekĪgyapong, who also went by her married name, Mary Boateng, tested positive for COVID-19 on April 5 and was hospitalized two days later. Let’s think of them with wet eyes and a high heart. These are just some of the people who have been taken from us, even as they have left us much to remember them by. It’s not comprehensive, nor is it meant to be. ![]() ![]() That’s the goal of this list: to acknowledge the remarkable and joyful lives of some of those we have lost. Maybe we can be better at celebrating life even as we’re saddened by its loss. But we all, at one time or another, have reason to mourn. We have no roadmap for this new territory. It’s a book of large truths disguised as small ones: “I remember,” he writes, “those times of not knowing if you feel really happy or really sad. In his jubilant and revivifying memoir, I Remember, the artist and writer Joe Brainard tabulated all the little things that can come to shape how we think about life. There can always be at least a glimmer of joy in remembering things that people gave us while they were here. ![]()
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![]() And the language is inclusive, reflecting today's various family configurations such as single-parent families, blended families formed by second marriages, families with gay and lesbian parents, and families formed by open adoption or surrogacy. Throughout, the presentation is crystal-clear, the tone is reassuring, and the voice is empowering. Only then does it cover possible complications and the care practices and procedures for resolving them. ![]() Unlike pregnancy guides that can overwhelm and alarm by telling you up front all the things that can possibly go wrong, this book first describes normal, healthy processes, their typical variations, and the usual care practices for monitoring them. Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn provides the information and guidance you need to make informed decisions about having a safe and satisfying pregnancy, birth, and postpartum period-decisions that reflect your preferences, priorities, and values. Parents love this book because it puts them in control experts love it because it's based on the latest medical research and recommendations from leading health organizations. ![]() Available for the first time in full color, the up-to-date and authoritative pregnancy guide that has sold 1.5 million copies-by recognizing that "one size fits all" doesn't apply to maternity care ![]() ![]() they sprinkle humor and warmth all over my life."- Ali Hazelwood, NYT bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis "Abby Jimenez's words are like fairy dust. contemporary romance gold."- Publishers Weekly "Abby Jimenez's words.sprinkle humor and warmth all over my life." -Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis especially when he calls in a favor she can't refuse. ![]() But when Jacob decides to give Briana the best gift imaginable-a kidney for her brother-she wonders just how she can resist this quietly sexy new doctor. Because suddenly he and Bri are exchanging letters, sharing lunch dates in her "sob closet," and discussing the merits of freakishly tiny horses. Worse, he might be this fantastically funny and subversively likeable guy who's terrible at first impressions. Like the kind that proves that Jacob isn't actually Satan. But just when all systems are set to hate, Dr. Her divorce is just about finalized, her brother's running out of time to find a kidney donor, and that promotion she wants? Oh, that's probably going to the new man-doctor who's already registering eighty-friggin'-seven on Briana's "pain in my ass" scale. ![]() Briana Ortiz's life is seriously flatlining. ![]() Book Synopsis A novel of terrible first impressions, hilarious second chances, and the joy in finding your perfect match from "a true talent" (Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author). ![]() ![]() ![]() Wolitzer ( Belzhar, 2014, etc.) likes to entice readers with strings of appealing adjectives and juicy details: Faith is both “rich, sophisticated, knowledgeable” and “intense and serious and witty,” and she always wears a pair of sexy suede boots. ![]() ![]() That might not be the most cutting-edge approach to feminism, Greer knows, but it will help her enter the conversation. Like a magical amulet in a fairy tale, that card leads Greer to a whole new life: After graduation, she gets a job working for Faith’s foundation, Loci, which sponsors conferences about women’s issues. During the question-and-answer period, Greer stands up to recount her assault and the college’s lackluster response, and, later, Faith gives her a business card. ![]() Then Greer meets Faith Frank, a second-wave feminist icon who’s come to speak at Ryland. This isn’t the life she was meant to lead: “You to find a way to make your world dynamic,” she thinks. On Greer Kadetsky’s first weekend at Ryland College-a mediocre school she’s attending because her parents were too feckless to fill out Yale’s financial aid form-she gets groped at a frat party. A decade in the life of a smart, earnest young woman trying to make her way in the world. ![]() ![]() When it was founded in 1993, Long-Term was hailed as the most impressive hedge fund in history. Drawing on confidential internal memos and interviews with dozens of key players, Lowenstein explains not just how the fund made and lost its money but also how the personalities of Long-Term’s partners, the arrogance of their mathematical certainties, and the culture of Wall Street itself contributed to both their rise and their fall. In this business classic-now with a new Afterword in which the author draws parallels to the recent financial crisis-Roger Lowenstein captures the gripping roller-coaster ride of Long-Term Capital Management. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUSINESSWEEK ![]() “A riveting account that reaches beyond the market landscape to say something universal about risk and triumph, about hubris and failure.”- The New York Times ![]() ![]() ![]() John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera is tackled several times: it was the theatre phenomenon of the age. There is also a great deal about painting, prints, the world of art, and of course the stage. ![]() We move from Charles II to the Prince Regent, from Milton to Byron, from periwigs and tumbling skirts to naturally ruffled hair above stocks and cravats. I was reading this most of the time in bed, or with the book resting on a fat cushion on my lap.īut I really wanted to keep reading, discomfort or not, because this history book is now, for me, the last word on how British literary culture changed between the last days of the early Modern period and the really Modern period of the Victorian age. It’s also very heavy, and produced in a largish format that, with its length, makes it just a bit too heavy to hold comfortably in one’s hands while one tries to maintain the right distance between the type and one’s eyes. It’s a huge, magnificently illustrated and pleasingly well produced slab of a book on eighteenth-century British cultural history. ![]() This book by John Brewer (a reissue from its 1997 incarnation) is a monster. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At one point the author, when talking about Dante, says that Dante was the first person to fall in love at first sight, and, this ushered in a whole new way of thinking to that time. The book is full of ridiculous statements delivered as truths. You definately know you are in hack territory when the author starts to compare themes in the book to The Matrix films (perhaps a certain ex-football commentator is the real author of this book), and the way in which the author tries to explain away the changes in society and culture from ancient times to modern day as some grand scheme that is foretold in the mystery schools is like a third rate episode of the x-files. ![]() I found the descriptions of the suppossed early world to be imaginative and absorbing but as it progressed into more recent history this book tried to find connections between almost every significant event and character in history as if they all stemmed from the same source. Many of these 'shocking truths' are recycled from previous accounts of esoteric religions and many of the connections between Chritianity and initiation cults are already cited. ![]() It's entertaining to listen to this book but its promise of revealing the hidden truths behind religions and secret organisations of the world is certainly not delivered. ![]() ![]() ![]() When they are cruelly torn apart, neither know how this play will end-with madness and heartache? Or healing, love, and the discovery of who they are truly meant to be. But clashing leads to breaking, breaking leads to the spilling of terrible secrets, and soon Isaac and Willow find Shakespeare’s words mirroring their lives. No one can play Hamlet but Isaac, and when the director pairs him with Willow in acting class, they clash again and again-neither willing to open their hearts to anyone. He wants nothing more than to escape to Broadway or Hollywood and leave Harmony behind for good. ![]() ![]() Isaac utterly disappears into his characters the stage is the only place he feels safe from his own traumatic home life. That he’s an acting prodigy only adds to his charisma. Girls pine for his attention and guys are in awe of him. Isaac Pearce is from the ‘wrong side of the tracks.’ The town bad boy. On a whim, she auditions for a part in the community theater’s production of Hamlet and unexpectedly wins the role of Ophelia-the girl who is undone by madness, and her love of Hamlet… When her father suddenly uproots the family from their posh penthouse in New York City to the tiny town of Harmony, Indiana, Willow becomes more untethered and lost under the weight of her secret. The happy, driven girl is gone, and she is left wracked by post-traumatic stress her body remembers even if she does not. ![]() The root of all madness is an unbearable truth…Īt seventeen, Willow Holloway’s life was torn apart. ![]() ![]() ![]() According to his nemesis Abraham Van Helsing, "He must indeed have been that Voivode Dracula who won his name against the Turk, over the great river on the very frontier of Turkey-land. Taking up arms, as befitting his rank and status as a voivode, he led troops against the Turks across the Danube. ![]() ĭracula studied the black arts at the academy of Scholomance in the Carpathian Mountains, overlooking the town of Sibiu (also known as Hermannstadt) and has a deep knowledge of alchemy and magic. there was no branch of knowledge of his time that he did not essay. He had a mighty brain, a learning beyond compare, and a heart that knew no fear and no remorse. Which latter was the highest development of the scientific knowledge of his time. ![]() ( November 2020)ĭetails of his early life are undisclosed, but it is mentioned that ![]() Further details may exist on the talk page. Please expand the article to include this information. This article is missing information about Dracula's backstory outlined in the 2018 prequel novel Dracul, written by Dacre Stoker from Bram Stoker's manuscripts. ![]() ![]() ![]() As in other books in the series, the story models and celebrates imaginative free play, supportive parents, and a close, loyal, realistic friendship. In this installment, kids at school call Ivy "spoiled" because she's an only child, so she and Bean think up a crazy scheme to get her "unspoiled" - including getting her a baby sister. Parents need to know that Ivy + Bean One Big Happy Family is the 11th book in Annie Barrows' popular Ivy + Bean series about two very different second-grade girls who are classmates, neighbors, and best friends. Bean's mom is understanding, tolerant, even when Bean comes up with a crazy idea - she lets it play out as Bean concludes that her imaginative but flawed scheme won't work. Yet Ivy does give Bean one of her favorite toys out of true friendship. ![]() Her teacher helps her understand that that's not a good idea. Ivy tries to show she's not spoiled by giving away her clothes, toys. Bean tries to help prove Ivy isn't spoiled, and to make her friend feel better when she's down. ![]() |