![]() ![]() He finished his postgraduate medical training at Harvard that included general surgery and ophthalmology. Many have been made into motion pictures.Ĭook is a graduate of Wesleyan University and Columbia University School of Medicine. Many were also featured in the Literary Guild. A number of his books have also been featured in Reader's Digest. His books have been bestsellers on the "New York Times" Bestseller List with several at #1. He is best known for being the author who created the medical-thriller genre by combining medical writing with the thriller genre of writing. ![]() Robin Cook (born in New York City, New York) is an American doctor / novelist who writes about medicine, biotechnology, and topics affecting public health. Librarian Note: Not to be confused with British novelist Robin Cook a pseudonym of Robert William Arthur Cook.ĭr. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Here are a few samples of the students’ work and thinking: In addition to composing pictures with found materials, I was also looking for children to express a connection with/understanding of the story we read as well as demonstrate some story telling/imaginative skills when talking about what they had made. ![]() After reading this book with my students, I created a provocation of leaves, stones, and sticks and asked the children if they could create their own leaf creature. “Leaf Man” is a story about a man made of leaves who blows across the sky over several other leaf-composed creatures (birds, farm animals, etc.). If you haven’t had the pleasure of discovering Lois Ehlert, award-winning author and illustrator of over 20 children’s books, then I highly recommend that you take a trip to your local library and check her out! This month I was reading one of my favourite Ehlert books, “Leaf Man.” For weeks the children have been bringing in leaves they have discovered on their way to school and I wanted to find a way to celebrate and encourage their discoveries. ![]() ![]() ![]() In much of the developed and developing world, that decline is already underway, as urbanisation, women’s empowerment, and waning religiosity lead to smaller and smaller families. This time, however, we’re thinning ourselves deliberately, by choosing to have fewer babies than we need to replace ourselves. Throughout history, depopulation was the product of catastrophe: ice ages, plagues, the collapse of civilizations. Rather than growing exponentially, they argue, the global population is headed for a steep decline. But a growing number of experts are sounding a different kind of alarm. ![]() A radical, provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political and economic landscape.įor half a century, statisticians, pundits and politicians have warned that a burgeoning planetary population will soon overwhelm the earth’s resources. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Persie Merlin and the Witch Hunters (Book 20) Persie Merlin and the Door to Nowhere (Book 19) Persie Merlin and Leviathan's Gift (Book 18) Harley Merlin and the Mortal Pact (Book 9)įinch Merlin and the Fount of Youth (Book 10)įinch Merlin and the Djinn's Curse (Book 12)įinch Merlin and the Locked Gateway (Book 13)įinch Merlin and the Forgotten Kingdom (Book 14)įinch Merlin and the Everlasting Vow (Book 15)įinch Merlin and the Legend of the Luminary Harley Merlin and the Challenge of Chaos (Book 8) Harley Merlin and the Detector Fix (Book 7) Harley Merlin and the Cult of Eris (Book 6) Harley Merlin and the Broken Spell (Book 5) Harley Merlin and the First Ritual (Book 4) Harley Merlin and the Stolen Magicals (Book 3) Harley Merlin and the Mystery Twins (Book 2) Harley Merlin and the Secret Coven (Book 1) ![]() Sign up to Bella's New Release email list and you'll automatically be notified as soon as her next book is released: Find her on Amazon: Check out her website for a full list of her books: Here's a list of some of Bella's books: ☞ Harley Merlin 20: Persie Merlin and the Witch Hunters ☞ A Shade of Vampire: A Gate of Light (Book 91) She has sold over seven million books since her first novel was published in 2012. Bella Forrest is a lover of fantasy, romance, action, and mystery infused stories with twists you don’t see coming. ![]() ![]() It was really refreshing to read about a character who wasn’t a size 10 and yet this wasn’t over played – loved that! Agoraphobia isn’t a subject I have read much about and it was sensitively written by Ward. She was doing what you or I could do which I really appreciated.įor a crime novel the book covered a number of other issues – from how your reading ability effects your everyday life and how your reputation can precede you, to agoraphobia and the size of your jeans. More to the point her investigations felt realistic, she wasn’t suddenly running forensic tests, shooting suspects or involved in high speed car chases. I loved meeting them, discovering their problems and considering whether I thought they were capable of murder!īea is a strong central character who I took to immediately. In Costsave, the local supermarket, Ward has created the perfect backdrop complete with an overflowing well of characters all available for use in future books. To describe the book as a cosy crime novel would be spot on as the violence was minimal yet the warmth of the characters really shone through. ![]() She enlists the help of Ant, the seemingly gormless new trainee – but can she really trust him? Customers and colleagues become suspects, secrets are uncovered, and while fear stalks the town, Bea risks losing the people she loves most.” ![]() “After a young woman is brutally attacked on her way home from the local supermarket, checkout girl Bea is determined to find out who’s responsible. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was impressed with their ingenuity, although my favorite cave they've ever made has to be this one. We watched this video by way of explanation, and then this video of singing Hungarian provinces just for fun and to hear and see the Hungarian (or Magyar) language. Did you know that Hungarians actually call their country Magyarország? Not similar at all. ![]() Links in this post are affiliate links, meaning that if you buy anything using them I get a cut at no extra cost to you.)Īfter researching for a bit, I knew that the first thing we had to do is figure out why Hungary is called that. (You're welcome to follow along and use our ideas at home. The kids chose Hungary for this week, probably because we did Turkey last week and they're hilarious like that. Now they laze around in their pajamas learning about countries, which is a little bit of an improvement, I guess. But it gives the kids something to do other than laze around in their pajamas reading. Every summer, I pretend to take my kids on a trip around the world using books, recipes, music, and whatever crafts I can get my hands on. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This was an interesting story told in letters that were written by a 38-year-old man who still lives at home with his mother and who pretends to be Richard Gere in order to calm her during her last days of dementia ridden cancer. In a rented Ford Focus, they travel to Canada to see the Cat Parliament and find Bartholomew's biological father. ![]() But mostly the letters reveal one man's heartbreakingly earnest attempt to assemble a family of his own.Ī struggling priest, a "Girlbrarian," her feline-loving, foulmouthed brother, and the spirit of Richard Gere join the quest to help Bartholomew. Jung and the Dalai Lama, philosophy and faith, alien abduction and cat telepathy, the Catholic Church and the mystery of women, are all explored in his soul-baring epistles. Believing that the actor is meant to help him, Bartholomew awkwardly starts his new life by writing Richard Gere a series of letters. In her final days, Mom called him Richard-there must be a cosmic connection. But how does a man whose whole life has been grounded in his mom, Saturday Mass, and the library learn how to fly?īartholomew thinks he's found a clue when he discovers a "Free Tibet" letter from Richard Gere hidden in his mother's underwear drawer. His redheaded grief counselor, Wendy, says he needs to find his flock and leave the nest. When she gets sick and dies, he has no idea how to be on his own. For thirty-eight years, Bartholomew Neil has lived with his mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Until the end of his days, he and the others who had known Virginia on the plateau liked to pause now and then to think of the woman in khaki who never, ever gave up on freedom. The last of those famous Diane Irregulars-the ever-boyish Gabriel Eyraud, her chouchou-passed away in 2017 while I was researching Virginia’s story. ![]() In the midst of hardship and fear, she had shared with them a fleeting but glorious state of happiness and the most vivid moment of their lives. But the warrior they called La Madone had shown them hope, comradeship, courage, and the way to be the best version of themselves, and they had never forgotten. They had enjoyed nearly forty years of freedom since spending a mere couple of months in Virginia’s presence in 1944. “Four thousand miles away in France, the old boys from the Haute-Loire Resistance wrote to each other to share the devastating news. ![]() ![]() ![]() Webb’s discovery of separate rings, published Monday in Nature Astronomy, has fueled hopes for finding planets around Fomalhaut. “Any time an astronomer sees a gap and rings in a disc, they say, ‘There could be an embedded planet shaping the rings,’” says Schuyler Wolff, a member of the study team and an astronomer at the University of Arizona, in a statement. While other telescopes had previously photographed one ring around the star, Webb used its infrared capabilities to reveal two more rings nearer to Fomalhaut-a cosmic surprise for the researchers.Įach of the three rings is an asteroid belt-with space dust, asteroids and fragments of ruined planets-and the gaps between them are a strong indicator that as-yet undiscovered worlds could be shifting the debris with their gravity. ![]() The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the first asteroid belt found outside our solar system-and discovered it may hold evidence of hidden planets.Īstronomers focused the high-tech observatory on Fomalhaut, a nearby young star in a solar system that, though similar to ours, is much more chaotic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They may be conquering heroes, but that means they must suffer the fate of heroes, in being set apart from all they loved before. With a year of Cretan polish behind them, they too have changed and they find that their family, friends and lovers might as well be strangers. They long to be able to step back into the relationships they left behind, but things have changed forever. No one except their fellow Cranes can comprehend the thrill of life in the bull-ring and the dazzling achievement of having survived. But the joy fades quickly: Theseus is greeted by news of his father’s premature death and, for all the Cranes, the Athens they return to seems smaller and more provincial than the city they left. Having brought down the ancient Cretan house of Minos, he comes home to Athens flushed with glory, accompanied by his loyal team of bull-leapers, the Cranes. Published four years after The King Must Die, this book picks up the thread of Theseus’ story once again. ![]() |