![]() “Everything one imagines in the way of genius and fun. “Wells imagined both dark and bright futures because his creed allowed both while promising neither, and because the eighty years of his life were years of immense intellectual and technological accomplishment and appalling violence and destruction.” -Ursula K. ![]() Wells was a visionary, a man of science with an enduring literary touch, and his originality and inventiveness are fully on display in this essential collection. He described the spectacle of space travel decades before men set foot on the moon. He envisioned a sky filled with airplanes before Orville Wright ever left the ground. Wells’s genius and reintroduces readers to his singular talent for making the unbelievable seem utterly plausible. ![]() Le Guin’s selection of twenty-six stories showcases H. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Westie was only a child when she lost her arm and her family to cannibals on the wagon trail. But it’s perfect for seventeen-year-old Westie, the notorious adopted daughter of local inventor Nigel Butler. The two-bit town of Rogue City is a lawless place, full of dark magic and saloon brawls, monsters and six-shooters. Our protagonist learns even her own memories should be questioned. Why Westword fans might enjoy it: Like Westword, this book takes place in a setting where nothing is what it appears on the surface. Because some of the prettiest flowers have the sharpest thorns. Until Mena starts to realize that their carefully controlled existence may not be quite as it appears.Īs Mena and her friends begin to uncover the dark secrets of what’s actually happening there-and who they really are-the girls of Innovations will find out what they are truly capable of. ![]() They are obedient young ladies, free from arrogance or defiance. ![]() Absent is the difficult math coursework, or the unnecessary sciences or current events. The girls learn to be the best society has to offer. Under the watchful gaze of their Guardians, the all-girl boarding school offers an array of studies and activities, from “Growing a Beautiful and Prosperous Garden” to “Art Appreciation” and “Interior Design.” The Girls of Innovations Academy are beautiful and well-behaved-it says so on their report cards. ![]() ![]() ![]() from the University of Iowa's famed Writer's Workshop. I knew from the moment I started writing that I never wanted to be writing about my life." In college he read Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams and was "in heaven". Tate wrote his first poem a few months into college with no external motivation he observed that poetry "became a private place that I was hugely drawn to, where I could let my daydreams-and my pain-come in completely disguised. He planned on being a gas station attendant as his uncle had been, but finding that his friends to his surprise were going to college, he applied to Kansas State College of Pittsburg (now Pittsburg State University) in 1961. The eventual poet said he belonged to a gang in high school and had little interest in literature. Tate and his mother moved out after seven years when she remarried. ![]() ![]() His father, a pilot in World War II, had died in combat on April 11, 1944, before Tate was a year old. Tate was born in Kansas City, Missouri, where he lived with his mother and his grandparents in his grandparents' house. He was a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work earned him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. James Vincent Tate (Decem– July 8, 2015) was an American poet. Poet, professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst ![]() Tate (left) at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop in 1965 with the owner, Gordon Cairnie ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This would be an excellent month to try out purchasing the Kindle + Audible combination so you can both SEE and HEAR the Spanish. Special Note: There's a fair amount of Spanish in this book club pick. The Kindle version is cheaper than the paperback AND you can save money on the Audible version if you own the Kindle copy! I love to use the Amazon Whispersync feature to go back and forth between audio and digital reading.You can get the book from your library.Money-saving tricks for reading this month’s book pick: Get your copy of this month’s book club pick:īuy the book on Audible. Built with ConvertKit July's Official Book Club Pick: You Had Me At Hola by Alexis Dariaįeatured as an Amazon editor's pick for "Best Romance," I’m pleased to announce that it is our official July Pick for this year. ![]() ![]() ![]() All plots report mean values ± standard deviation for BCI–FES group ( N = 14, red) and sham-FES group ( N = 13, light blue). Patient demographics and clinical scores. Results illustrate how a BCI-FES therapy can drive significant functional recovery and purposeful plasticity thanks to contingent activation of body natural efferent and afferent pathways. This increase is significantly correlated with functional improvement. ![]() ![]() Electroencephalography analysis pinpoints significant differences in favor of the BCI group, mainly consisting in an increase in functional connectivity between motor areas in the affected hemisphere. BCI patients exhibit a significant functional recovery after the intervention, which remains 6-12 months after the end of therapy. Such recovery is associated to quantitative signatures of functional neuroplasticity. Here we show that BCI coupled to functional electrical stimulation (FES) elicits significant, clinically relevant, and lasting motor recovery in chronic stroke survivors more effectively than sham FES. However, the efficacy and mechanisms of BCI-based therapies remain unclear. Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) are used in stroke rehabilitation to translate brain signals into intended movements of the paralyzed limb. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book, illustrated in oils by Minnesota artist Mary GrandPré who has also illustrated the popular Harry Potter novels, is both Maine historical fiction and a touching adoption story. Her first book, The Sea Chest (Dial Books for Young Readers, September 2002) (ages 5-up), is set on a fictional midcoast Maine island and is based on the Maine Hendricks Head Light baby-in-the-sea chest legend. She lives in Buxton, Maine amid wild turkeys and black flies with her husband, Ken Cyll, her son, Chris Cyll, 19. ![]() Buzzeo was named the 1999 Maine Library Media Specialist of the Year. Currently, she is a Library Media Specialist at Longfellow School in Portland, Maine. She has worked as a high school and college English teacher, a public children's librarian, and a school library media specialist. ![]() She holds a Masters degree in English from the University of Michigan and a Masters degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Rhode Island. Children's book author Toni Buzzeo is the creator of The Sea Chest and Dawdle Ducking, two picture books for young readers.īuzzeo was raised in Dearborn, Michigan and moved to Maine 23 years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Jared is forced to explore his magical heritage even as his mother’s ex-boyfriend David re-enters Jared’s life as a stalker. He ends up living with his estranged aunt, Mave, and quickly finds himself in the midst of an extended family, all of whom have their own issues to deal with. Having graduated high school early thanks to correspondence courses, Jared is almost eighteen and ready to attend technical school. ![]() Jared has been sober for nearly a year when he moves to Vancouver. Trigger warnings in this book for discussions of alcoholism, suicide, and self-harm, as well as forced drinking of alcohol. Spoilers for the first book but not this one. This kind of urban fantasy (as opposed to the more hardboiled, investigative/mystery urban fantasy that seems to predominate) is exactly what I need right now. ![]() Whereas Son of a Trickster was a slow burn towards pulling the veil back on the magical elements of the story, Trickster Drift is fairly upfront about it all. In particular, the book shifts more concretely into urban fantasy territory. ![]() Trickster Drift picks up about a year after Son of a Trickster, and it’s everything I wanted in a sequel and then some. ![]() ![]() At this time there are sixteen novels, some set in the present, others are historical, with another book due for release next year and two short ory books as well as a Shadowhunters Codex that is an encyclopaedia of all things shadowhuters. When I found my love of fantasy fiction a couple of years ago I asked in a Facebook group for recommendations of the best series to read and The Shadowhunters series by Cassandra Clare were top of the list. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight?. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace’s world with a vengeance when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. It’s also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Or was he a boy?This is Clary’s first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It’s hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing―not even a smear of blood―to show that a boy has died. ![]() When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. ![]() These first three books introduce the reader to the world of the Shadowhunters. ![]() ![]() ![]() He's a sexy baritone and, in many cases, he wears an ascot. Its titular character, Boy Staughton, is one such character. While "Fifth Business" may not be as grand as the best Hollywood films, it does have its share of quirky, eccentric characters. The story depicts the fifth business as a character in the plot, and the character can help to change the course of the plot. Many people are playing unrecognized supporting roles in our world, and yet their efforts can make a huge difference. The book explores an important theme in life: not everyone is the hero of their own story. ![]() But along the way, he encounters a series of unexpected obstacles and pitfalls. The story follows his attempts to create a new, more sustainable business. The novel explores the world of a small businessman who has an unconventional approach to achieving financial success. The fifth business is the title of a new novel by Canadian writer Robertson Davies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Weapons, show up, and let ourselves be seen.” “We fail the minute we let someone elseīe-we must again be vulnerable.“The courage to be vulnerable is not about winning or losing, it’s about the courage to show up when you can’t predict or control the outcome.”. ![]() The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs, who comes short again and again…who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.” ![]() “It is not the critic who counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Strong: The Reckoning, The Rumble, The Revolution The Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone ![]() |