![]() ![]() ![]() Despite their differences, a deep friendship blossoms between them when Muddy takes Harley under his wing and shows him everything that, in his eyes, makes life worth living: bird-watching, karaoke, rugby, and the band Oasis.īut this newfound friendship is complicated. Muddy is everything Harley is not: ostensibly heterosexual, freewheeling, confident in his masculinity. Fortunately for him, things don’t go according to plan, and his attempt on his own life is interrupted by his new roommate, Muddy. Estranged from his father and finding every attempt at happiness futile, Harley is on the verge of making a devastating final decision. It’s 2005 and Harley has dropped out of college to move home, back to rural England, where he works a dead-end job at a movie theater. ![]() An unexpected friendship saves a young man’s life in this moving, utterly charming debut about chosen family, the winding road to happiness, and the grace of second chances.Ĭould I one day inspire happiness in others, the same way he seemed to do in me? ![]()
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![]() ![]() The problem is, living with someone means getting to know them. Liam was already entrenched in his aunt’s house like some glowering grumpy giant when Mara moved in, with his big muscles and kissable mouth just sitting there on the couch tempting respectable scientists to the dark side…but Helena was her mentor and Mara’s not about to move out and give up her inheritance without a fight. Okay, sure, technically she’s the interloper. And other rules Liam, her detestable big-oil lawyer of a roommate, knows nothing about. Though their fields of study might take them to different corners of the world, they can all agree on this universal truth: when it comes to love and science, opposites attract and rivals make you burn….Īs an environmental engineer, Mara knows all about the delicate nature of ecosystems. ![]() ![]() Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first, scientists always. ![]() ![]() That's the only way to truly survive in this game-with the help of the loot boxes dropped upon you by the generous benefactors watching from across the galaxy. And if you do have that "it" factor, you may just find yourself with a following. You gotta fight with vigor, with excitement. It's about building an audience and killing those goblins with style. ![]() In this game, it's not about your strength or your dexterity. You have but days to find a staircase to the next level down, or it's game over. And what's worse, each level has a time limit. A dungeon so enormous, it circles the entire globe. The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot. ![]() In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth-from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds-collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. ![]() A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. ![]() ![]() ![]() But damn if that couple isn’t charming.Īdam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston are back as Nick and Audrey Spitz, who have now started a private investigator agency in Brooklyn. Enter: the perfect movie, “ Murder Mystery 2.”įour years after the first blandly titled ( dare we say meta?) take on Agatha Christie meets the “Vacation” movies, the sequel is back with plenty of “my wife” jokes and outlandish locations for an unassuming American couple to ruin. Or, it’s late or you’re hungover or doing laundry or just in need of background noise. If you’re only looking for a Netflix streaming whodunit, there’s “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” just a click away. If you’re in the mood for an action movie, there’s the superb “John Wick: Chapter 4” in theaters. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even some of his finest scholarly translators focus on positive ethical or political values in the text, as if those were what’s important in it. The temptation is to grasp at something tangible in the endlessly deceptive simplicity of the words. Note UKLG: Everything Lao Tzu says is elusive. The whole book is both an explanation and a demonstration of it. ![]() It’s not a statement susceptible to logical interpretation, or even to a syntactical translation into English but it’s a concept that transforms thought radically, that changes minds. Note UKLG: Over and over Lao Tzu says wei wu wei: Do not do. ![]() To let go of that belief is to find safety. To believe that our beliefs are permanent truths which encompass reality is a sad arrogance. Note UKLG: One of the things I read in this chapter is that values and beliefs are not only culturally constructed but also part of the interplay of yin and yang, the great reversals that maintain the living balance of the world. I think of it as the Aleph, in Borges’s story: if you can see it rightly, it contains everything. Note UKLG: A satisfactory translation of this chapter is, I believe, perfectly impossible. ![]() ![]() ![]() What is surprising is that soldiers began to use torture, a tactic never before used in American warfare. Given their legal status and long history, it is not surprising that commanders adopted these strategies. Despite the public outcry against them, the practices of population concentration, property destruction, and the destruction of food supplies were legal strategies that America had used in prior conflicts, even against its own citizens in the Civil War. ![]() It was thus particularly ironic that the American army used torture, population concentration, property destruction, and food embargoes to win the war against Filipino guerrillas after having denounced the same strategies when used by the Spanish. ![]() The Philippine War was a direct result of the Spanish-American War, which the United States fought in part due to concerns over Spanish mistreatment of Cuban guerrillas and civilians. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is also an art therapist and former graphic designer and creative director, working with top brands in Spain. Beautifully illustrated using cardboard cutouts and mixed media, this is a great starting point to open up a conversation about emotions and exploring how a child feels when they experience each one mentioned. The Color Monster : Kids books read aloud by Books with Blue Books with Blue 8.31K subscribers Subscribe 1. Anna Llenas is the author-illustrator of the worldwide favorite The Color Monster and its companion The Color Monster Goes to School. The author has used classic storybook role-reversal here which children will enjoy: the small girl takes the lead and imparts her wisdom on the (much larger) monster. At the end of the story, the colour monster has calmed down and jarred all his emotions, which has made room for a new (pink) one to blossom…love! She describes each feeling for him, and offers to help him through the challenging ones. She assigns a colour to each emotion: yellow for happiness, blue for sadness, anger is red, black is fear and calm is green. The girl begins a mission to help her friend recognise and separate his feelings (and put each one in a jar so they can look properly at them). He’s feeling all mixed up and very confused, and the girl explains that it is because his feelings (and colours) are ‘all stirred together’. Anna Llenas graduated with a degree in Creative Illustration in Barcelona Escola Eina in 2009. His emotions are all over the place he feels angry, happy, calm, sad and scared all at once. Author: Anna Llenas Illustrator: Anna Llenas Publisher: Templar PublishingĪ small girl narrates the story, and begins by introducing her friend, the colour monster. The Colour Monster, One day, Colour Monster wakes up feeling very confused. ![]() ![]() ![]() Indoor air pollutants specifically lead to an increase in chronicīronchitis, respiratory infections, and pneumonia. 1 Women and children, typically present duringįood preparation, are disproportionally affected by indoor air pollutants. 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Levels to cause respiratory illnesses and other health problems. Stoves often emit particulate matter and carbon monoxide at sufficient ![]() Improve efficiency compared to open cooking fires or traditional semienclosedĬookstoves, called poyos, typical of rural Guatemala. ![]() Rocket stove was developed to reduce emissions and ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Through light and often humorous detail, readers see clearly not only each individual character, but also the complex set of group dynamics at play in Simon's loving family and circle of friends. Simon's social landscape is carefully and seemingly effortlessly drawn. When he leaves himself logged into Gmail at the school library, a boy named Martin reads Simon's emails with Blue and uses the threat of outing Simon to insinuate himself into a relationship with one of Simon’s female friends. Simon is impulsive, full of heart and not always as careful as he should be. ![]() Their conversations, which readers see interspersed with prose chapters written from Simon's point of view, are heartfelt, emotionally intimate and increasingly flirtatious-enabled, perhaps, by the fact that neither boy knows the other's identity. A gay teen comes out to friends, family and classmates after his secret correspondence with another boy is discovered.Įver since he discovered a post about being gay on his school's unofficial Tumblr, Simon has been corresponding with its author, an anonymous gay classmate who calls himself Blue. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man-a more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imagined-but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. ![]() Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters-Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson-and dramatic events. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America's beloved and distinguished historian. ![]() The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. ![]() |