![]() ![]() Shalof describes a colleague who is managing a “crashing” patient: “I looked at her. It all took its toll on the staff.Īnd yet, on good days, they thrived on what they did. ![]() A woman rescued – too late – from a burning house. ![]() A boy struck down by a cerebral aneurysm in the middle of a little-league hockey game. A number of patients were admitted when it was too late even for heroic measures. Doctors and nurses alike wondered if what they did for terminally-ill patients was not, in some cases, too extreme. With their skill, dedication, and the resources of modern science, they sometimes were almost too successful. Many patients, quite simply, were dying, and the staff strove mightily to prolong their lives. Working in the ICU was both emotionally grueling and physically exhausting. ![]() The others accused her of being “sooo sensitive.” Justine, the union rep, wore t-shirts emblazoned with defiant slogans, like “Nurses Care But It’s Not in the Budget.” Shalof was the one who had been to university. Frances, from Newfoundland, was famous for her improvised recipes. Laura set the tone with her quick remarks. The team of nurses that Tilda Shalof found herself working with in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a big-city hospital was known as “Laura’s Line.” They were a bit wild: smart, funny, disrespectful of authority, but also caring and incredibly committed to their jobs. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Complemented by archival photos from Margaret Pokiak-Fenton's collection and striking artworks from Liz Amini-Holmes, this inspiring first-person account of a plucky girl's determination to confront her tormentor will linger with young readers. Hardcover 21.95 ISBN 9781773213514 Buy From These Retailers: Bookshop Amazon IndieBound Barnes & Noble Ebooks: Apple Books Paperback Description The beloved story of an Inuvialuit girl standing up to the bullies of residential school, now available as an audiobook for a new generation of readers. ![]() Although a sympathetic nun stands up for Margaret, in the end it is this brave young girl who gives the Raven a lesson in the power of human dignity. In the face of such cruelty, Margaret refuses to be intimidated and bravely gets rid of the stockings. In an instant Margaret is the laughingstock of the entire school. ![]() Intending to humiliate her, the heartless Raven gives gray stockings to all the girls - all except Margaret, who gets red ones. She immediately dislikes the strong-willed young Margaret. At school Margaret soon encounters the Raven, a black-cloaked nun with a hooked nose and bony fingers that resemble claws. ![]() Faced with unceasing pressure, her father finally agrees to let her make the five-day journey to attend school, but he warns Margaret of the terrors of residential schools. Eight-year-old Margaret Pokiak has set her sights on learning to read, even though it means leaving her village in the high Arctic. ![]() ![]() ![]() There they find the unpredictable, hedonistic, and sometimes frightening world of the tropics.Īlong the way, these saints and sinners encounter devastating hurricanes, vicious drug dealers, true loves, charming rogues, clueless do-gooders, and much more. Fleeing boredom, bad marriages, and dead-end jobs, these adventurers wander south to Playa Paraiso-a lush, unspoiled village on Mexico’s idyllic Caribbean coast. This captivating book follows modern-day nomads escaping the rat race in search of a fresh start. ![]() Enter to win one of three autographed paperback copies of Driftwo Have you ever dreamed of running away to a tropical beach? Then this book is for you.Įnter to win one of three autographed paperback copies of Driftwood: Stories from the Margarita Road, the perfect and timely antidote for anyone who has grown weary of quarantines and sheltering in place. Have you ever dreamed of running away to a tropical beach? Then this book is for you. ![]() ![]() He Said, She Said is a fun and fresh novel from Kwame Alexander that throws these two high school seniors together when they unexpectedly end up leading the biggest social protest this side of the Mississippi-with a lot of help from Facebook and Twitter. He Said, She Said Light for the World to See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope Kwame Alexanders Page-to-Stage Writing Workshop: Awakening the Writer. She does not have a minute to waste on Mr. Here's what Claudia Clarke cares about: Harvard, the poor, the disenfranchised, the hungry, the staggering teen pregnancy rate, investigative journalism. He says: Omar "T-Diddy" Smalls has got it made-a full football ride to UMiami, hero-worship status at school, and pick of any girl at West Charleston High. ![]() ![]() ![]() This paperback edition includes a Q&A with author Kwame Alexander. Sparks will fly in this hip-hop-hot teen novel that mixes social protest and star-crossed romance, from Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author Kwame Alexander! He Said, She Said is perfect for fans of Walter Dean Myers and Rachel Vail alike. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lynda Rutledge has delivered a wonderful, bittersweet coming-of-age novel designed to celebrate hope in a hopeless world. He begins to write a journal of an eventful trip he took with a young pair so many decades ago. This includes giraffes, which so much of his growing up depended on. Now at the age of 105, Woody is in a VA center where he has become aware of the near extinction of so much wildlife because of the ever-increasing human population taking over their habitat. It was 1938, the Great Depression had taken hope from the nation and if that wasn't bad enough, the Dust Bowl era added to the despair. When 17-year-old Woodrow Wilson Nickel buried the last of his family, he struck out from his Texas panhandle home to find his cousin in New York City. ![]() ![]() ![]() She traveled to Florida several times between 18 to investigate insectivorous plants further. Treat wrote letters to engage in botanical and entomological discourse not only with Darwin and Gray, but Auguste Forel and Gustav Mayr as well. It was through Gray that she was introduced to Charles Darwin. She also collected plants and insects for other researchers, one of whom was the eminent Harvard botanist Asa Gray. Her book, Injurious Insects of the Farm and Field, originally published in 1882, was reprinted five times. Beginning in 1870, she published popular naturalist pieces in Garden and Forest, Hearth and Home, Harper's, and Lippincott's. Following separation from her husband in 1874, Treat supported herself by publishing popular science articles for periodicals such as Harpers and Queen. Her research quickly expanded from entomology to ornithology and botany, detailing bird and plant life in the southern New Jersey region and specifically the Pine Barrens. Over 28 years she wrote 76 scientific and popular articles as well as five books. Treat’s first scientific article was a note published in The American Entomologist when she was 39 years old. ![]() After her move to New Jersey, Treat began her scientific studies in earnest, and collaborated with her husband on entomology articles and research. ![]() ![]() ![]() or is it hope? Raw, harrowing, and peopled with vibrant characters, In Darkness is an extraordinary book about the cruelties of man and nature, and the valiant, ongoing struggle for a country's very survival.īoth violent and subtle, unexpectedly reminding me of The Wire. ![]() What unites a child of the slums with the man who would shake a troubled country out of slavery? Is it the darkness they share. It is the presence of slave and revolutionary leader Toussaint L'Ouverture, whose life was marred by violence, and whose own end came in darkness. Yet as Shorty waits in darkness for a rescue that may never come, he becomes aware of another presence, one reaching out to him across two hundred years of history. Surrounded by lifeless bodies and growing desperately weak from lack of food and water, death seems imminent. "Shorty" is a Haitian boy trapped in the ruins of a hospital when the earth explodes around him. Printz Award Bloomsbury is proud to be the global publisher of In Darkness, a stunning tour-de-force set in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake. ![]() ![]() ![]() In terms of real estate or belongings, Paris has a $5.9 million home in Sherman Oaks, California. ![]() With millions of followers across all social media platforms, Paris Hilton is one of the most popular celebrities. Hilton also released a celebrity sex tape, which was one of the first since Pamela Anderson made it popular in the late '1990s. In the '2010s, Paris entered the world of DJing and became the highest-paid female DJ of 2014. Hilton also owns a successful nightclub franchise across the United States and has her own record label that she launched in 2006. In other ventures, she has her own perfume and jewlery lines. She also released ' Your Heiress Diary: Confess It All To Me' in 2005. In 2004, she published ' Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Cheek Peek behind the Pose'. For starters, Paris is the author of two different books that hit the New York Times' best sellers' list. How much is Paris Hilton worth?Īccording to Forbes most recent cut, Paris Hilton is worth an estimated $300 million, let's break down where all her money comes from. There are many different types of companies she runs and many different ways in which she managed to amass a huge fortune. ![]() Other than that, Paris has made it her life's work to become a businesswoman with many different ventures that have made her fortune sky rocket. Paris Hilton is one of four heirs of the Hilton hotel chain that is worth an estimated $14.2 billion, althoug she will likely get a fourth of that once her parents pass away. ![]() ![]() In 2002, she was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story “You in America”, and her story “That Harmattan Morning” was selected as a joint winner of the 2002 BBC World Service Short Story Awards. She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2021. She was the recipient of the PEN Pinter Prize in 2018. In 2008, she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant. ![]() Her most recent books are Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (2017), Zikora (2020) and Notes on Grief (2021). ![]() ![]() She was described in The Times Literary Supplement as "the most prominent" of a "procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature", particularly in her second home, the United States.Īdichie has written the novels Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and Americanah (2013), the short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck (2009), and the book-length essay We Should All Be Feminists (2014). Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about The Thing Around Your Neck on Bookbits radioĬhimamanda Ngozi Adichie ( / ˌ tʃ ɪ m ɑː ˈ m ɑː n d ə ə ŋ ˈ ɡ oʊ z i ə ˈ d iː tʃ eɪ/ ( listen) CHIM-ah- MAHN-də əng- GOH-zee ə- DEE-chay born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian writer whose works include novels, short stories and nonfiction. ![]() |