![]() ![]() For another, I have no phantom pain, which often plagues amputees whose brains remember their absent limbs. ![]() For one, I have no traumatic accident in my past. Though doctors refer to my condition as a “congenital amputation,” I think a distinction between someone like me and someone like Norm is an important one to make. Like Norm in the book, I only have one hand, but I was born this way. It’s about playing baseball and riding his bike.īefore I get too much further into this review, let me admit something: I am not an amputee. Norm is a kid, and from his perspective, losing his hand isn’t about learning to light cigarettes with a hook prosthesis. In 1946, it wasn’t uncommon to see an amputee, but they were usually war veterans. A week later, he is sent home from the hospital an amputee. Auch, eleven-year-old Norm’s life changes abruptly when his hand gets caught in the meat grinder in his father’s butcher shop. Within the first ten pages of One-Handed Catch by M.J. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The Campaigns of Napoleon is a masterful analysis and insightful critique of Napoleon's art of war as he himself developed and perfected it in the major military campaigns of his career. Napoleonic war was nothing if not complex-an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions, which by themselves went a long way towards baffling and dazing his conventionally minded opponents into that state of disconcerting moral disequilibrium which so often resulted in their catastrophic defeat. In this “engrossing,” (The New Yorker) vivid, and intensively researched volume, esteemed Napoleon scholar David Chandler outlines the military strategy that led the famous French emperor to his greatest victories-and to his ultimate downfall. ⚠️ This book will unfortunately be removed from the service on the 14th of May. ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters and their world come alive, and the characters and its world still live on. A Brief LookĮVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. Winspear has also was a Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist for her work and can be found as a top seller on Amazon. Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs series is a New York Times Bestselling series with eight of her books making the list. Winspear's latest book will tug on reader's heartstrings and pull on their adrenaline while they investigate with Maisie to find out what happened to the young apprentice, and her beloved friend. Shortly after Britain declared war on Germany, Maise Dobbs investigates the disappearance of an apprentice all the while the threat of invasion from Germany arrives to England. To Die but Once, Jacqueline Winspear's latest novel in the Maisie Dobbs' universe is here to set readers on the edge of their seats once more. ![]() To Die but Once by Jacqueline Conversation Starters ![]() ![]() ![]() No tears, a little crinkling off the top edges. There's a little crinkling at the spine ends, a little bit off the bottom edge of the front. There are two small tan spots on the rear. ![]() The yellow of the front and rear cover has faded to white on the spine. It has a smallish tear off the top edge of the spine, and the previous owner put a thin strip of tape over it on the unseen inside part of the jacket. You can see the dust jacket in the first few photos. Ryan's signature, no one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. ![]() I didn't see any conspicuous creasing, no turned-down corners or placeholder creases. I saw a bit of crinkling off the top edge of a few, quite minor. The binding seems solid, not perfect, but not a problem in any way. That isn't very conspicuous at all, quite inconspicuous actually, however the spotting at the middle page edge is very visible as you go through the pages. A little of the spotting manages to just peek over the middle edge of some of the actual pages. The middle page edge have some conspicuous, heavy spotting, the bottom edge a smaller amount. The edges and corners look good, there's one tiny dent at the rear top edge. The gilt lettering on the spine is nicely bright. ![]() There's a small space between the top edge of the cloth at the spine and the textblock. They have some light soiling, a little off the front bottom edge and two white spots off the rear top edge. You can see the maroon covers in the photos. Flat-signed on the title page by Kathryn Morgan Ryan (see photo). ![]() ![]() MY TWO CENTS: As a teenager, all you do is dream of being someone else, but for Moss, it is less about escaping his world and more about escaping himself. When tensions hit a fever pitch and tragedy strikes, Moss must face a difficult choice: give in to fear and hate or realize that anger can actually be a gift. Despite their youth, the students decide to organize and push back against the administration. Constant intimidation and Oakland Police Department stationed in their halls. Now, in his sophomore year of high school, Moss and his fellow classmates find themselves increasingly treated like criminals by their own school. Along with losing a parent, the media’s vilification of his father and lack of accountability has left Moss with near crippling panic attacks. ![]() ![]() ![]() Six years ago, Moss Jefferies’ father was murdered by an Oakland police officer. DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK: Moss Jeffries is many things-considerate student, devoted son, loyal friend and affectionate boyfriend, enthusiastic nerd.īut sometimes Moss still wishes he could be someone else-someone without panic attacks, someone whose father was still alive, someone who hadn’t become a rallying point for a community because of one horrible night. ![]() ![]() ![]() She initially self-published her comics on Flickr and as print zines. She started drawing comics at age twenty-seven to entertain herself and document her life while working in a kitchen in Sydney. ![]() ![]() ![]() She invites us to share, through her childhood memories in Ecuador and Colombia, the gaze of a woman whose existential attempts to understand love are projected through the lens of her strong political opinions. Her graphic stories are woven with lines, pictorial gestures, and emotional dialogues rich in exquisite detail. Paola’s inventive autofiction reveals everything to her audience-almost. As in a hyperbolic mirror, the spectator-like the artist-faces the extraordinary complexities of being a lover, a friend, a sibling, or simply being alive today. With a poetic approach, she urges us to observe a soul that undresses in the countenance of quotidian routines and rituals. Through captivating narrative, she shares with the public details about her daily life, while addressing the themes of sexuality, feminism, family, and personal identity. A visual artist, comic author and illustrator, she has published the memoirs Virus Tropical (2011), Por Dentro (2012), Diario (2013), qp (2014), Todo va a estar bien (2015), and Nos vamos (2016). Powerpaola was born in Quito, Ecuador, and grew up in Cali and Medellín, Colombia. ![]() ![]() ![]() Images glorifying childhood as period of unfettered creativity dominated the visual landscape of early 20th- century American fiction, magazines, and comics. ![]() The curtailed narrative induced readers to purchase the next installment, teaching its young audience the pleasures of both fantasy and delayed gratification. Each week Nemo attempted to reach the enchanted kingdom of Slumberland, only to have the journey preempted when he awakened and found himself safely at home in his bed. Featured on the cover of the New York Herald's Sunday supplement (and syndicated nationwide), the comic strip presented the bedtime adventures of a boy called Nemo. So begins an episode of Winsor McCay's epic series, Little Nemo in Slumberland, which ran in American newspapers from 1905 until 1914. He is jarred awake to find his bed floating out his window and into space. A young boy slumbers in his bed, ensconced in a non-descript, middle class bedroom. ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition, we built similar predictive models of yield and seed protein to assess the association of RAU and these plant traits. ![]() The predictive model for RAU showed relative mean square error (RRMSE) of 4.5% and an R 2 value of 0.69, estimated via cross-validation. ![]() Soybean N-fixation ranged from 60 to 98% across locations and years ( n = 95). The most relevant RAU predictors were N fertilization, atmospheric vapor pressure deficit (VPD) and precipitation during early reproductive growth (R1-R4 stages), sowing date, drought stress during seed filling (R5-R6), soil cation exchange capacity (CEC), and soil sulfate concentration before sowing. We selected the most important factors associated with the relative abundance of ureides (RAU) as an indicator of the fraction of N derived from N-fixation. Using the elastic net regularization of multiple linear regression, we analyzed 40 environmental factors related to weather, soil, and crop management. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the relevance of environmental factors driving N-fixation and to develop predictive models defining the role of N-fixation for improved productivity and increased seed protein concentration. Biological nitrogen (N)-fixation is the most important source of N for soybean, with considerable implications for sustainable intensification. ![]() ![]() ![]() Winner-Silver Falchion Award, Best First Novel: traditionalįinalist-Minnesota Book Award, Best Genre Fictionįinalist-Thriller Award, Best First Novelīest Books of 2014 (debut), Suspense MagazineĪmazon Editor’s Pick, “Books We Loved” 2014 Winner-Barry Award, Best Paperback Original Novel Winner-Rosebud Award, Best First Mystery Novel But in the end, it is the bond between Joe and his brother Jeremy that gives this novel its big (albeit tormented) heart. The Life We Bury is full of tension, twists and turns, and has a powerful, climactic ending sure to gratify. The power of that guilt weighs heavily upon Joe and will demand a resolution of its own. Throughout the novel, Joe has to intercede to protect his brother and is conflicted every time he has to once again leave his brother behind. ![]() Joe is torn by the guilt of going to college and abandoning his brother. To complicate things, Joe’s bi-polar, alcoholic mother has taken up with a low-life who hits Joe’s eighteen-year-old autistic brother. Carl agrees to tell Joe his story, and Joe sets out to unravel the tapestry of the thirty-year-old murder. At a nursing home he meets Carl Iverson, a man dying of cancer who has been medically paroled after spending thirty years in prison for the murder of a fourteen-year-old girl. The Life We Bury tells the story of Joe Talbert, a junior at the University of Minnesota, who receives a class assignment to write a biography of someone who has lived an interesting life. ![]() ![]() My fears were nothing compared to the anxiety she would live with at every moment until they were born. Monsters or super-people growing inside her. This was going to be harder on Christmas. I had dozens of questions and at the heart of most of them was a hysterical fear screaming, are we going to be the parents of twenty spiderling monsters with multiple limbs and grotesque heads? I said nothing. I would have to decide now-there was no going away to consider it. If there had been a micro-expression, I’d missed it. She was suppressing any facial cue, waiting for my reaction. She was telling me because she was convinced it was true. It’s positive.” I didn’t bother asking her about timings or if she was sure. ![]() I would take one very small step at a time. And if it was the scariest thing, I was going to do the right thing. Partnership or whatever it might be, was too important to treat casually. ![]() |