Luckily, at the back of the book, there is Louisa May Alcott’s recipe for apple slump, so my daughter and I made it a few years ago. With a name like that, I was really curious what it would taste like. Along with the story there are descriptions of the food the family ate for their Thanksgiving meal. I was so excited to read a book by one of my favorite authors to my children, and they have enjoyed it too. It is a book geared for young children, full of scenic illustrations and a simple, heart-warming story of a New England family in the 1800s. When I became a mother and my children were young, my mother gave me the above-mentioned adaptation of Alcott’s An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving. That novel made a huge impact on me as a girl growing into a young woman and aspiring writer. I have been a fan of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women since I was an adolescent. One book that I like to pull out for inspiration around Thanksgiving time is An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott, illustrated by James Bernardin. For me, baking is a way to stretch across space and time and connect with people from the past and the present. In anticipation of the Thanksgiving holiday, my mind has been filling up with visions of warm, wonderful homemade food shared with family and friends.
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6/28/2023 0 Comments The Floods by Colin ThompsonIn addition to the oxycodone shortage, Ganio told PNN there were anecdotal reports of hydrocodone medications being in short supply. “We have been following up on some reports of these shortages and have recently added immediate-release oxycodone tablets to our shortage database,” said Michael Ganio, PharmD, Senior Director of Pharmacy Practice and Quality at ASHP. All three companies, which specialize in making generic drugs, said the tablets were on back order. Other drug companies still have oxycodone tablets of various doses available, according to ASHP.Īmneal and Rhodes did not provide a reason for their shortages, while Camber told ASHP it was “awaiting DEA quota approval for active ingredient,” which presumably is oxycodone. On March 17, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) added immediate release oxycodone to its nationwide list of drug shortages, with shortages of 5, 15, 20 and 30 mg tablets being reported by Amneal, Camber and Rhodes Pharmaceuticals. drug companies have reported shortages of oxycodone, the latest sign that efforts to limit the supply of opioid pain medication have gone too far and are harming patients. 6/28/2023 0 Comments Ashes book ilsa j bickBut Rule is a town of factions and unease, and what Alex discovers about its undercurrents may kill her. She eventually finds herself safe―or so she thinks―in Rule, where a council of church elders holds sway. "Seventeen-year-old Alex is alone on a Michigan mountainside when electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) released into the atmosphere above Earth shut down power and communications grids, trigger nuclear devices, and turn most adolescents into flesh-eating zombies. Highly Recommended." ―starred review, Library Media Connection ( Journal) Bick has a winner with this series and your students, including reluctant readers, will love it. Oh, and did I mention the Zombies? Fans of Hunger Games, and Everlost will be looking for the next book. Forming a small family with a little girl whose grandfather was killed and a young solider named Tom, Alex faces a new and terrifying world. However, she becomes an unexpected survivor of an EMP, electromagnetic pulse, that destroys every electronic device and leaves billions of people dead. The story opens with Alex, a teenage survivalist backpacking to a remote area to scatter her parents' ashes and deal with her own impending death from a brain tumor. "This book is the first in a new dystopian thriller trilogy. 6/28/2023 0 Comments Thomas piketty 2014This "Kuznets Curve" had been accepted by most parts of the economics profession until Piketty and his collaborators produced the evidence that it is false. Simon Kuznets, the Belarussian émigré who became a major figure in American economics, used the available data to show that, while societies become more unequal in the first stages of industrialisation, inequality subsides as they achieve maturity. To understand why the mainstream finds this proposition so annoying, you have to understand that "distribution" – the polite name for inequality – was thought to be a closed subject. The rising wealth of the 1% is neither a blip, nor rhetoric. Capitalism, in short, automatically creates levels of inequality that are unsustainable. Wealth will concentrate to levels incompatible with democracy, let alone social justice. If you get slow growth alongside better financial returns, then inherited wealth will, on average, "dominate wealth amassed from a lifetime's labour by a wide margin", says Piketty. So the fact that rich kids can swan aimlessly from gap year to internship to a job at father's bank/ministry/TV network – while the poor kids sweat into their barista uniforms – is not an accident: it is the system working normally. Piketty's argument is that, in an economy where the rate of return on capital outstrips the rate of growth, inherited wealth will always grow faster than earned wealth. 6/27/2023 0 Comments Carrie soto tennisIf there is one thing Carrie despises more than her descent into obscurity, it’s being bested. Through her climb to the top, Nicki has accumulated 20 Grand Slam singles titles, making her the first woman to do so after Carrie Soto in 1987. Carrie no longer plays tennis, and Nicki Chan is the new face of the sport. Coached by her father and former tennis star, Javier “the Jaguar” Soto, Carrie climbed to the top ranks of women’s tennis in the ‘80s with her domineering attitude and aggressive style, giving her the nickname ‘the Battle Axe.’ With 20 Grand Slam titles under her belt, Carrie is untouchable. The titular Carrie Soto is the greatest tennis player of all time. Taylor Jenkins Reid’s new novel “Carrie Soto is Back” has soared to the top of the New York Times bestseller list. “Carrie Soto is Back,” the newest novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, sees the return of a past-her-prime but all time great professional tennis player who strives to fight her way back to the top of her sport. 6/27/2023 0 Comments The manipulated man bookNo matter what a particular man does or how he spends his day, he has one thing in common with all other men - he spends it in a degrading manner. Therefore, the more desirable women in their own class are always being snatched away from under their noses by men who happen to earn more. For, unlike women (who have an eye for money), men notice only woman's external appearance. By a trick of fate, it is always the latter, the poorest, who are exploited by the least attractive women. Still others leave when it is not yet light, wearing overalls and carrying lunch boxes, to catch buses, subways, or trains to factories or building sites. Others leave an hour earlier, traveling in a middle-class sedan. “There are men who carefully manoeuvre a large limousine out of the garage at eight o'clock every morning. Please understand we are a two-person shipping operation and do our best to get your goods to you as quickly as possible. Ritualcravt ships two-three times per week. We’re excited to bring this book online as it has been a well loved book in the storefront for years. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.” Estés has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, and stories, many from her own family, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. “Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Updated version with new material by the Author. Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype. 6/27/2023 0 Comments Hermann hesse narziss ve goldmundGoldmund looks up to Narcissus, and Narcissus has much fondness for him in return. Narcissus (German: "Narziss" or, before the German orthography reform of 1996, Narziß ), a gifted young teacher at the cloister school, quickly befriends Goldmund, as they are only a few years apart, and Goldmund is naturally bright. Narcissus and Goldmund is the story of a young man, Goldmund ( pronounced ), who wanders aimlessly throughout Medieval Germany after leaving a Catholic monastery school in search of what could be described as "the meaning of life". At its publication, Narcissus and Goldmund was considered Hesse's literary triumph chronologically, it follows Steppenwolf. Narcissus and Goldmund ( German: Narziß und Goldmund also published as Death and the Lover) is a novel written by the German–Swiss author Hermann Hesse which was first published in 1930. 6/26/2023 0 Comments Christos the slapSometimes citizens of the city travel to the cellar to witness the suffering child. Malnourished, feeble, frightened, this child has been confined for years. Hearkening back to Victorian-era social realism, they explore systemic social flaws through their characters.Īward-winning Australian author Christos Tsiolkas. Tsiolkas has described his two most recent novels in particular – The Slap (2008) and Barracuda (2013) – as “social problem” or “condition of Australia” novels. Indeed, this has become an explicit project. It’s precisely this raw and outspoken political and social consciousness that gives power to Tsiolkas’ writing. Tsiolkas is unashamedly vocal in his politics and – in addition to his novels – often comments in public forums on some of the issues most critical and most controversial in contemporary Australian culture: asylum seekers, sexuality, religion, the economy. As such, it’s timely to reflect on his place in Australia’s intellectual landscape and on what the Barracuda series should try to capture from his novel. He has published five novels, numerous short stories (including a recent collection), as well as critical essays, plays and screenplays, and an experimental philosophical-autobiographical dialogue with Sasha Soldatow.īarracuda, Tsiolkas’ latest novel to be adapted for television, will reach our screens on Sunday. Christos Tsiolkas is, in both a popular and a critical sense, one of the most prominent literary figures in Australia today. 6/26/2023 0 Comments Contagious by jonah bergerIn this fast-paced, fun and highly-actionable episode, Jonah and I dive deep into his 6-step framework. Looking at everything from what makes certain consumer products pop to what makes an article top the New York Times most-emailed list, Berger has come up with some answers. Berger has spent the last 10 years researching key pieces of the accelerated word-of-mouth puzzle. But, still, they’ve found it near impossible to derive a scientifically-validated formula that fuels near-contagious word-of-mouth.Įnter Wharton/University of Pennsylvania professor and author the hot new book, Contagious: Why Things Catch On, Jonah Berger. To create something so cool, provocative, surprising, and valuable that the world rallies behind it, word of mouth explodes and you, your business, product, service, body of work or movement burst into the public consciousness.įor years, people have been trying to reverse engineer how to make things “go viral.” Large companies and marketing agencies have spent hundreds of millions on the quest. It’s the Holy Grail for nearly every mission-driven individual. |