![]() ![]() Reclaiming Our Health begins with an overview of the primary health concerns facing African Americans and explains who is at greatest risk of illness. Michelle Gourdine provides African Americans with the knowledge and guidance they need to take charge of their wellbeing. In this important and accessible book, Dr. ![]() "An interactive and empowering book" to help African American men and women create a new vision of better health and navigate the health care system ( BET.com).Īccording to the federal Office of Minority Health, African Americans "are affected by serious diseases and health conditions at far greater rates than other Americans." In fact, African Americans suffer an estimated 85,000 excess deaths every year from diseases we know how to prevent: heart disease, stroke, cancer, high blood pressure, and diabetes. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Little Britches is the first book in an autobiographical series. If a classroom full of students with BEHAVIOR problems can sit through this book without incident, you can imagine how compelling this story is. Experience the pleasures and perils of ranching in 20th Century America, through the eyes of a youngster.Īudible Audio EditionListening Length: 8 hours and 11 minutesProgram Type: AudiobookVersion: UnabridgedPublisher: Books in Release Date: October 27, 2008Language: EnglishID: B001JHT7DE Best Sellers Rank: #402 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > History > United States & Canada #449 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Historical > Biographical #1293 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Biographies & Memoirs The Moody family moves from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. ![]() Father and I Were Ranchers: Little Britches # 1 Audible – Unabridged ridged ![]() ![]() (As if puberty isn't traumatic enough!) Follow this lost heroine as she battles pimples, overcomes destructive friendships with hypercritical mean girls, endures painful oral surgeries, and finally finds her way to feeling at home in her own skin when she reaches high school. ![]() This one misstep plunged her into a four-year ordeal of painful procedures, torturous surgeries, not-to-mention a perpetually changing appearance at a time when every kid is having a crisis of confidence. Then, while horsing around with her friends, she fell, and knocked out her two front teeth. In sixth grade Tanglemeier got braces to fix a run-of-the-mill overbite. The author tells of her own particular journey of adolescent woe which came in the form of a seemingly endless tangle of dentists, endontists, periodontists, orthodonists, with their promises to perfect her not-so pearly whites. ![]() Graphic Novelist Raina Talgemeier knows this all too well she is the Odysseus of modern dentistry. ![]() Poet Ogden Nash said, "Some tortures are physical/And some are mental,/But the one that is both/Is dental." ![]() ![]() ![]() The stories, which range greatly in length, from several dozen pages through to a couple of paragraphs, are concerned with lonely, maladjusted individuals, struggling to make their way through life. Despite the fact that Schutt’s tales zip all over the American landscape, they remind me, at their heart, of the emptiness commonly associated with cities like Los Angeles, of ripeness curdled into rot, of the unsettling power of the Santa Ana wind. These words by Didion are what come to mind when reading the pieces contained within Pure Hollywood, the latest collection of short stories by American writer Christine Schutt. ![]() In her seminal essay ‘Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream’, Joan Didion, whose acuity in portraying the hollowness of the everyday is deeply unsettling, writes of a California buffeted by the Santa Ana wind, which “comes down through the passes at 100 miles an hour and whines through the eucalyptus windbreaks and works on the nerves.” It’s a land where “every voice seems a scream”, caught in “the season of suicide and divorce and prickly dread, wherever the wind blows.” California, despite its associations in popular culture with dreaming and love and soul, can be an inhospitable place the beauty of the sunshine that gives the state its nickname is tempered by its power – to dessicate, oppress, and crack open, like asphalt rutted open by an eternal summer. ![]() ![]() ![]() 80+ Must-read Novels by Black Writers - Black Lit Matters.Discover the Drama of the Courtroom in These 20 Fabulous Novels Celebrating National Crime Reading Month.Guest Editor, Summer 2023 - Vaseem Khan. ![]() June 2023 Book Club Recommendation: When Things Are Alive They Hum by Hannah Bent.13 Books to Support and Celebrate Caregivers for National Carers Week.The Joffe Books Prize Is Open Once Again and on the Look out for New Talent.60 + Novels Highlighting Empathy and Compassion - for National Empathy Day 8 June.Celebrate Read Caribbean Month and the achievements of the Windrush generation by reading 20+ brilliant books for National Windrush Day, 22nd June.60 spectacular LGBTQIA+ books to read this Pride Month and every month.12 Fabulous novels for Autistic Pride Day - Read, See a new Perspective, Enjoy and Celebrate Differences!.June Bookshop Chat - Books With Buzz June 2023.LoveReading wins the Small Business x Sage pop-up shop competition!. ![]() ![]() A sleek black limousine sat on the curb in front of my house. I didn’t.Īnd then, after a year, there was a knock on my door. How do you turn down what seems like free money, when you’re desperate? You don’t. Let me keep my baby brother in school and Mom’s hospice care paid for. It let me pay the bills without going into debt. It too contained a single word: “belong.”Ī third check, the next month. The next month, I received another check, again from VRI Incorporated. If you receive a mysterious check, for enough money to erase all your worries, would you cash it? No mention of repayment, interest, nothing…except a single word, on the notes line: “You.” Just those three letters. No hint of identity or reason for the check or anything. There was no name on the check, just “VRI Inc.,” and a post office box address for somewhere in the city. Enough to pay the bills and leave me some left over to live on until I found a job. ![]() Inside was a check, made out to me, in the amount of ten thousand dollars. And then, just when I thought all hope was lost, I found an envelope in the mail. There was no hope, no money in my account, no work to be found. ![]() Bills were piling up, adding up to more money than I could ever make. ![]() The first time it happened, it seemed like an impossible miracle. ![]() ![]() ![]() Radiation, mutation, extreme temperatures – whatever you like, whatever you deem necessary, is at the tips of your fingers. ![]() The unforgiving inevitability of right angles and straight lines alters the fabric of the universe, creating temporal pockets of reality where life becomes impossible. The magic of math – of geometry and probability, of statistics and analysis – is a lethal one. Or, more precisely, where math begets magic – as long as there are people who absolutely believe in this possibility. Ninefox Gambit, the first installment in Lee’s Machineries of Empire trilogy, presents a world in which math is the language of magic. This year started out very well – at least with regards to my SF reading □ I have only had the misfortune of reading one dud during these first two months of 2020, and it was fantasy, which I’ll definitely scour in a scathing review sometime in the future – but as this review deals with a violent military SF of the highest order, I shall focus on that with all the delight and diligence it deserves. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After a long marriage, they have their differences but have settled into an amicable, predictable, and manageable daily routine. “Harold Fry is recently retired and lives in a small English village with his wife. *This post contains Amazon affiliate links. I’m linking up today with Davida The Chocolate Lady’s Book Review Blog for #throwbackthursday. On Thursdays, I’ll be re-sharing a few of these great reads, and today I’m thrilled to share my review of the popular The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce …a reflection on life. This year as part of Blog Audit Challenge 2020 I’m going back to update older review posts. Genre/Categories: Contemporary Fiction, Friendship, Life Reflection, Quirky Character The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nobody goes out of their way to be cruel to her, but nobody goes out of their way to be friendly, either. Rebecca doesn't fit in amongst the caste-conscious kids at school, since as a visitor she doesn't have the same tight-knit history as the rest of them. She's only ever met this aunt once before, and the quiet social status power games of New Orleans are a totally different world from the bustling city she's used to. While her father is on business in China for six months, Rebecca is sent from her home in New York to stay with her "aunt" in New Orleans. I saw this cover last year and it stuck in my head enough that when I went browsing for something to take with me on my way out of town, I saw Ruined and thought "oh yeah, I was curious about that one!" And what's that? Could this be a depiction of a woman of colour? Why it is! Ok, I have no idea why she's in a backless dress, but it's very striking, and all the other elements of the cover are both relevant to the story and evocative of the book's tone. ![]() I love the wrought-iron title, the foggy and surreal look to the graveyard, and the semi-transparent young woman in the centre of it all. Yes, I got sucked in by the cover on this one. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The most obvious is Catherine, who is spending her last few weeks before entering the Abbey as a nun. Imber Court is described as ‘a buffer state between the Abbey and the world’ and it does seem that many of its occupants are in transition. ![]() “Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.” In many ways, The Bell is a book about actions and unintended consequences. *links provided for convenience, not as part of any affiliate programme Published: 2 nd August 1999 Genre: Literary FictionĪ.uk ǀ ǀ .uk (supporting local UK bookshops) Originally published in 1958, this funny, sad, and moving novel is about religion, sex, and the fight between good and evil.įormat: Paperback (352 pp.) Publisher: Vintage And everyone, or almost everyone, hopes to be saved, whatever that may mean. Meanwhile the wise old Abbess watches and prays and exercises discreet authority. A new bell is being installed when suddenly the old bell, a legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an order of sequestered nuns. ![]() |