![]() ![]() Vicki learned, through extensive interviews and story sharing, what made these cats special, and how they fit into Dewey's community of perseverance and love. The amazing felines in this book include Dewey, of course, whose further never-before-told adventures are shared, and several others who Vicki found out about when their owners reached out to her. Now, Dewey is back, with even more heartwarming moments and life lessons to share.ĭewey's Nine Lives offers nine funny, inspiring, and heartwarming stories about cats - all told from the perspective of "Dewey's Mom," librarian Vicki Myron. Dewey touched readers everywhere, who realized that no matter how difficult their lives might seem, or how ordinary their talents, they can - and should - make a positive difference to those around them. No doubt about it, Dewey has created a community. It has sold nearly a million copies, spawned three children's books, and will be the basis for an upcoming movie. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World was a blockbuster bestseller and a publishing phenomenon. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() These essays by the famous analytical psychologist and student of creativity Erich Neumann belong in the context of the depth psychology of culture and reveal a prescient concern about the one-sidedness of patriarchal Western.
![]() Jones has the unique ability of capturing so much meaning in so few words. One line I found myself returning to again and again reads, “Just as some cultures have a hundred words for ‘snow,’ there should be a hundred words in our language for all the ways a black boy can lie awake at night.” Instead, I took the time to allow myself to sit with the carefully crafted phrases and truly appreciate them. ![]() In fact, it is clear and accessible to people who may not be accustomed to reading poetry. This is not because Jones’ writing is difficult to understand. ![]() Multiple times while reading, I found myself pausing to read paragraphs again to allow their meaning to wash over me. His evocative and poetic writing, which has been recognized with a Pushcart Prize and the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, shines through in this new form. Jones’ Craftĭespite the memoir’s prose form, Jones’ background in poetry is evident. Through a series of vignettes, Jones guides the reader from summers at his conservative grandmother’s house to college in Kentucky to teaching and writing in New York. ![]() Jones, raised in Lewisville, Texas, shares his story of growing up as a queer Black man raised by a single mother. In celebration of Pride Month and as a part of my yearly goal to diversify the media I consume, I recently read Saeed Jones’ 2019 memoir, “ How We Fight for Our Lives.” Not knowing much about the book beforehand, I was pleasantly surprised by the raw, beautifully crafted story and found myself surprised at its lack of recognition outside of the literary world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Prince Aedan of the Isles believes in no such nonsense until he awakens on Kell itself and meets the sensuous siren who rescued him from the sea.ġ721: Ronan MacMhuirich, Earl of Kell, is the target of an unlikely assassin: Leila, a mysterious woman from an exotic land. Now the author of The Secret Swan delivers a gift from the sea: three hauntingly beautiful tales connected by a legend, a locket, and a love beyond time.ĥ31 a.d.: The tiny island of Kell is said to be enchanted, inhabited by an extraordinary creature who comforts shipwrecked sailors passing into the next world. Shana Abe has entranced countless readers with her passion-filled novels of adventure, intrigue, and romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But before the holiday is over, tragedy strikes and their world is utterly changed. On one Fourth of July weekend, as they do every year, the four sisters come home to Connecticut for their family’s annual gathering. In New York, oldest sister Sabrina is an ambitious young lawyer, while Annie is an American artist in Florence, living for her art. Her sister Tammy has a job producing the most successful hit show on TV, and a home she loves in L.A.’s Hollywood Hills. Four sisters, a Manhattan brownstone, and a tumultuous year of loss and courage are at the heart of Danielle Steel’s new novel about a remarkable family, a stunning tragedy-and what happens when four very different young women come together under one very lively roof.Ĭandy–it’s the only name she needs-is blazing her way through Paris, New York, and Tokyo as fashion’s latest international supermodel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She starts to doubt herself and to give up on bringing the family together, and the boys finally begin to notice her contributions to their home. The Challenger explosion shakes all their worlds, especially Bird’s. Each sibling’s story is told in alternating chapters, showing their perspective about this event and the other happenings in school and at home. The story is told over the course of the weeks leading up to the Challenger launch in January, 1986. Cash is feeling like he’s not good at anything after failing seventh grade the first time and getting cut from the basketball team. Fitch loves hanging out at the arcade playing video games, but struggles with his anger. Bird is a good student, passionate about space exploration, who longs for her family to be closer. Summary: Bird, Fitch, and Cash are siblings in the seventh grade (Bird and Fitch are twins, and Cash was held back a year), but their orbits rarely intersect. ![]() ![]() ![]() This story will be retold by the novel’s close, just as the novel will retell itself. The ending ignites an immediate desire to reread the chapters leading up to it: incidents and characters that seemed trivial acquire new meanings. It is the web itself that provides the solution. The official investigators in Disappearing Earth dither at the story’s periphery and come up empty-handed. But for Phillips the intricate web linking her characters is not a mystery to be uncovered by a solitary detective. all that shared personal history becomes a breeding ground for intrigue. ![]() Petropavlovsk uncannily resembles a small, overlooked city in the American West, with its old-timers praising the way things used to be, its restless youth dreaming of metropolitan glamour and escape. ![]() As remote as this world is, readers will find it strangely familiar. ![]() ![]() She and a girlfriend went to see it on Saturday night. ![]() (There are still women of my generation, in their early '40s, who can recall being forbidden it by their mothers - and some, like my cousin, who got hold of it when she was about 12 and realized she'd stumbled onto hot stuff.) When Otto Preminger's bowdlerized film version (starring Linda Darnell) came out in 1947, I think that the experience my aunt had was not unique. ![]() "Forever Amber" was the book girls wanted to read and were warned against by their mothers - who were probably reading it themselves. ![]() The book sold 100,000 hardcover copies in its first week alone (on its way to an eventual 3 million plus), was banned in Boston, and was denounced by Hollywood's Hays Office before anyone had even purchased the movie rights. That year, Macmillan published her first novel, a fat (nearly a thousand pages), juicy Restoration bodice-ripper called "Forever Amber." To say it was a sensation is not to leave fact behind for hyperbole. ![]() Her quiet death, after years of being out of the spotlight, shouldn't let us forget the stir she caused in 1944 at the tender age of 24. It's likely that most New York Times readers flipped right past the obituary in Wednesday's edition for Kathleen Winsor, who died in Manhattan this past Monday at the age of 83. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is found dead in her room beside her bed, having been hit in the head by the old stand-by, a blunt instrument. The nurse’s patient, the new wife of the expedition’s leader, is the primary victim. There are a few other relatively minor changes and enhancements, but for the better, I can’t swear to it. In the book the story was largely told from the point of view of Nurse Leatheran (Georgina Sowerby), but in this made-for-TV adaptation her role has been cut down considerably. ![]() In this film Agatha Christie’s famed Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is in what is known as Iraq today, visiting an archaeological dig, and so is his good friend Captain Hastings, although he was not in the novel. Based on the novel by Agatha Christie (1936). ![]() (Season 8, Episode 2.) David Suchet (Hercule Poirot), Hugh Fraser (Captain Hastings), Ron Berglas, Barbara Barnes, Dinah Stabb, Georgina Sowerby, Jeremy Turner-Welch, Pandora Clifford, Christopher Hunter, Christopher Bowen, Iain Mitchell. “Murder in Mesopotamia.” An episode of Agatha Christie’s Poirot. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here are six nursing diagnoses for hypertension nursing care plans:īlood pressure is the product of cardiac output multiplied by peripheral resistance. ![]() Nursing care planning goals for hypertension include lowering or controlling blood pressure, adherence to the therapeutic regimen, lifestyle modifications, and prevention of complications. Classification of blood pressure for adults. The American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association published new guidelines (as of 2018) and ways to categorize blood pressure. ![]() Hypertension is repeatedly elevated blood pressure exceeding 140 over 90 mmHg. It is categorized as primary or essential (approximately 90% of all cases) or secondary due to an identifiable, sometimes correctable pathological condition, such as renal disease or primary aldosteronism. Hypertension is the term used to describe high blood pressure. Get to know the common nursing diagnosis for hypertension, nursing assessment, nursing interventions, and rationale, including teaching and goals. Your nursing care planning guide includes 6 nursing diagnoses for hypertension (HTN). ![]() |