![]() ![]() Instead, according to a study published in eLife by scientists at the China Agricultural University, it is stabilizing and adapting to better recognize human-like receptors. ![]() The H3N2 avian influenza virus-highly contagious and lethal in the bird population-successfully jump to dogs around 2006. The so-called dog flu may be moving ever closer to infecting humans, according to a new Chinese study. Continued adaptation in mammals could mean an eventual threat to humans.The virus originally spawned from the bird flu and has stabilized within canines, although there’s still no jump to humans.A Chinese study says that tracking the H3N2 canine influenza virus for 10 years has shown adaptions that allow the dog flu to recognize a human-like receptor. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In my former life, I was a teacher (both grade school and college-don't ask), but more recently I've been a graduate of Ellen Hopkin's Nevada Mentor Program and a student of James Scott Bell, Christopher Vogler and Don Maass. Because of this, I am often referred to as the Quentin Tarantino of YA among writing friends. My writing style has been described as edgy and rule-breaking, and by some-a touch Tim Burton-esque. You will always find a purple wall (or two) in my house (currently in my writing room), and there may or may not be a hidden passageway that leads to a mystery room. (Okay, so you won't find a hidden passageway, but a girl can dream, can't she?) Oh, and tea. I prefer creating things to cleaning things, and believe laughter is a one-stop-shop solution to all that ails you. I have a love/hate relationship with chocolate, grammar, and technology and would rather hang out with a dog, than a cat. I love to read, write, paint (walls and paper). ![]() ![]() I love strong heroines, despise whiny sidekicks, and adore a good story about a triumphant underdog. I'm Jacqueline Garlick, author of young adult and new adult fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Scenario: “What if Arthur wasn't meant to be king?”.Scenario: “What if Tiana made a deal that changed everything?”.Scenario: “What if Rapunzel's mother drank a potion from the wrong flower?”.Scenario: “What if Meg had to become a Greek god?”.Scenario: “What if Wonderland was in peril and Alice was very, very late?”. ![]() ![]() Scenario: “What if Cinderella never tried on the glass slipper?”.Scenario: “What if Wendy first traveled to Never Land with Captain Hook?”.Published as Let It Go in certain regions.Scenario: “What if Anna and Elsa never knew each other?”.Scenario: “What if the Evil Queen poisoned the prince?”.Based on: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.Scenario: “What if Ariel had never defeated Ursula?”.Scenario: “What if Mulan had to travel to the Underworld?”.Scenario: “What if Belle's mother cursed the Beast?”.Scenario: “What if the Sleeping Beauty never woke up?”.Scenario: “What if Aladdin had never found the lamp?”.They are published by Disney-Hyperion, and written by different authors, including Liz Braswell, Jen Calonita, Elizabeth Lim, and Farrah Rochon. A Twisted Tale, also called Twisted Tales in editions with the complete series, is an anthology series of books based around alternate " What if" spins on classic Disney animated films. ![]() ![]() ![]() Interesting and intriguing to say the least! What remains is the suspicion that the author has much more to tell. There is a distinctly creepy and frightening flavour to each story which will leave the reader thinking and wanting more. Nevertheless, the author very capably manages to build up suspense and tension in her tales in a subtle yet powerful way. If you are looking for blood and gore, this is not the anthology for you. It takes bickering to a whole new level and much higher plane! Perhaps my favorite however is "Yew Tree Lane" which pits two servants of the Lord at odds with one another. ![]() There is also a very unusual entry about possessed teeth, and a heartwarming.yet eerie. We have a ghostly love story to begin the book, and finish it with quite the opposite. ![]() There are five tales in total, with the first and last entries being the longest. The book is presented as a collection of short stories which have been woven together into one book. Written by author Fiona Roberts, The Crystal Ball and Other Supernatural Stories can transform even the most skeptical individual into a believer of the hereafter and unexplained. What do a talking dog, chattering teeth and an evil crystal ball all have in common? Give up? They are all part of a collection of supernatural tales which will tingle your senses and curl your toes. ![]() ![]() There are some pretty near impossible feats of derring-do, but not so many to cause a raised eyebrow. The atmosphere is good, the doubts and what the heck is gonna happen and who to, is kept tense until near the very end. ![]() Lee Childs tale drives hard and fast. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Persuader (Jack Reacher Series 7) by Lee Child 4.1 (380) Paperback (Tall Rack Paperback - Reprint) 8.99 9.99 Save 10 Paperback 8.99 eBook 7.99 Audiobook 0.00 Audio CD 14. There’s still plenty wrong, there’s still the feeling that he wrote it and then added a whole load of unnecessary, to make it into a package holiday-friendly house-brick. Persuader by Lee Child, 9780440245988, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. ![]() ![]() Otherwise, it’s good, maybe the best one yet (I’ve read, I’m reading them in series order, this is as far as I’ve got so far). Best you just dive in and find out for yourself. Hmmm…it’s not really going to be possible to give you much of an idea about the plot, after the above and especially the last line of the back-cover blurb there. Has Reacher lost his sense of right and wrong? ![]() When Reacher witnesses a brutal kidnap attempt, he takes the law into his own hands. But he has a burning desire to right wrongs – and rewrite his own aginizing past. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But to return to the reader, Juliet Stevenson. ![]() The male characters range from self absorption and selfishness, directionless laziness, caring partners: again these men are recognisable today. At the same time, she has tragically unrealistic expectations of a marriage where she believes she can help achieve her partner's fulfillment rather than her own. The main heroine, Dorothea, is remarkably portrayed: she could be a woman of 2012: she is ruled by a confused idealism, wanting to contribute positively to an unequal and unfair society and work towards higher philosophical understanding of the nature of existence. Then there are the calls for the liberation of women, not only on a social level, but urging women to recognise their own position in the society of the 1830s and respond even if it only within the confines of their family. There is the subtle humor and the witty and insightful political and social commentary. Listening to it being read - so very beautifully by Stevenson - allows the listener to absorb the many dimensions of this classic. ![]() ![]() Other staff members jostling for position include Ivar Harstad, the university's ineffectual provost Loraine Walker, his secretary, who really runs the place (and isn't above quietly shuffling money in and out of departments, depending on who gains her favor) associate English professor Timothy Monahan, whose social climbing in New York publishing is one of the book's funniest sequences and earthy Helen Levy, professor of foreign languages, who likes to make life uncomfortable for her pompous male colleagues. Lionel Gift, self-satisfied apostle of free-market economics, and "Chairman X," an unreconstructed '60s radical who heads the horticulture department. ![]() ![]() Budget cuts have been imposed by the state's yahoo governor the faculty will have to clean their own offices, and food services will be taken over by McDonald's, which has no use for the unionized kitchen staff. At an unnamed Midwestern state university familiarly known as Moo U., the academic year 1989-90 is not going well. A comic novel proves an agreeable change of pace for the ordinarily serious-minded Smiley ( A Thousand Acres, 1991, etc.). ![]() ![]() Often times these teen characters go against supposedly smarter more savvy adults and yet, they are victorious in their quest. In a series, there is often an overall arc that ties all the books together, even though the primary plot of the book is resolved.Īctions books are perfect escapism reads this type of story rarely happens in real life. With action novels, readers quickly turn the pages – often reading these novels in a single setting. Following the success of the first book in the series, Lois Lane: Fallout, author Gwenda Bond returns with a new story of the adventures of a teenage Lois Lane, as she begins to discover her. ![]() Often, at the end of the story, the hero or heroine is never the same. The events that trigger the action or danger are typically outside the protagonist’s day to day life. Elements of risk and surprise are key factors in action stories. ![]() They can cross a wide-range of genres, from spy fiction to murder mysteries.Īction books are often very heavy on the plot with danger pulling the story forward, leaving readers on the edge of their seat desperate to know what happens next. Books with lots of action are often a home run with readers, especially those who like a plot-driven story. ![]() ![]() It's clear that a powerful force does not want them to succeed in their mission. They're searching frantically to locate the only man whose blood they believe can save their tsar's life.Īs the trio journey through an altered America, they're set upon by enemies. She may be young, but Gunnie Rose has acquired a fearsome reputation and the wizards are at a desperate crossroads, even if they won't admit it. ![]() Battered by a run across the border to Mexico, gunslinger Lizbeth Rose takes a job offer from a pair of Russian wizards. Set in a fractured United States, in the southwestern country now known as Texoma, this is a world where magic is acknowledged but mistrusted. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the SOOKIE STACKHOUSE series and the inspiration behind HBO's True Blood, comes an electrifying new thriller centered on a young gunslinging mercenary, Lizbeth Rose. 'Immersive, involving, suspenseful, and intriguing, with a main character you'll love' Lee Childįrom the No. ![]() ![]() A BRAND NEW supernatural series by the #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of the SOOKIE STACKHOUSE series, also known as TRUE BLOOD ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The researchers also found that women preferred old, well-thumbed paperbacks, whereas men had a slight fixation with the stiff covers of hardback books. Ideas touching on isolation and "aloneness" were strong among the men's "milestone" books. "The men's list was all angst and Orwell. "They read novels a bit like they read photography manuals." Women readers used much-loved books to support them through difficult times and emotional turbulence, and tended to employ them as metaphorical guides to behaviour, or as support and inspiration. "We found that men do not regard books as a constant companion to their life's journey, as consolers or guides, as women do," said Prof Jardine. There was a much broader mix between contemporary and classic works and between male and female authors. They also named a "much richer and more diverse" set of novels than men, according to Prof Jardine. Women, by contrast, most frequently cited works by Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Margaret Atwood, George Eliot and Jane Austen. ![]() On the whole, men preferred books by dead white men: only one book by a woman, Harper Lee, appears in the list of the top 20 novels with which men most identify. ![]() The results are strikingly different, with almost no overlap between men's and women's taste. ![]() |