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![]() ![]() Like any story from this time in American history, the cruelty of slavery exists in these pages. While the story flows through each of these women, it is Rue who leads us: through her childhood, marked by her careful observations of life on the plantation and her mother's midwifery and mysterious magic through adolescence and her shifting friendship with Varina to adulthood and her desperate yearning to save her community's children (who she's helped bring into the world as her mother's assistant and, later, a midwife in her own right) during a mysterious illness. The story follows the interwoven journeys of three women: May Belle, an enslaved Black midwife and healer her daughter Rue, who is somewhat begrudgingly training to follow in her mother's footsteps and Varina, the plantation master's white daughter and the same age as Rue.ĭivided between the times of slavery, the war, and the tenuous freedom that comes after, the book spans generations as it chronicles Rue's life alongside her mother and Varina. Is set in the years surrounding the Civil War on an unnamed fictional plantation in the South. ![]() ![]() ![]() How long did it take you to write it and see it through to the finished product? And there it was in its entirety! A little gift from heaven, to make up for the last gift (the baby), being such a crankenpuss! ![]() Painful, and yet exhilarating! I had collected dragons, and loved books about them, since I was a child, but never had a single idea for a book about them of my own until that very moment. What inspired you to write Dragon Slippers? (Or how did this novel come to be?)Īh, it was magical! I was on my way to bed, because my colicky baby was actually asleep for once, and the whole book downloaded into my brain in about three seconds. Part of me is really glad I didn't get the chance to read Dragon Slippers until this year, I don't think I could have patiently waited for the sequel! I was so very happy when Jessica Day George agreed to do an interview! I loved having the chance to ask her questions. In February and March, I read all three of Jessica Day George's novels. ![]() ![]() As a story of McKissick the man and his nearly indefatigable zeal, Soul City is nuanced and subtle, and it provides poignant, if not always fully intentional, commentary on the limitations of the political moment out of which McKissick’s idea emerged. The book is a moving account of McKissick’s commitment to his vision and the many obstacles, reasonable and unreasonable, objective and arbitrary, that hindered its realization. Thomas Healy’s book is an earnest and empathetic examination of Soul City, former civil rights lawyer and national director of the Congress of Racial Equality Floyd McKissick’s 1970s idea for a black-designed, black-led town in Warren County, North Carolina, near the Virginia border. ![]() ![]() Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia ![]() ![]() Number, mean and standard deviation of the outcome for each group Ln(x) and its standard error, where ln is the natural log and x is odds ratio, relative risk or hazard ratio Number and number with the outcome in each group Numbers of true positives, true negatives, false positives and false negatives of the diagnostic test The data that you will be looking to extract, to input into meta-analysis software, will depend on the outcome and these data will typically be: I’ll also try to demystify the maths by giving worked examples and only offering the derivation of the equations as an optional extra. The aim of this resource is to provide a series of useful tips on data extraction, to shed light on, and raise awareness of the different methods and equations that are available to convert data into what you need for meta-analysis. ![]() ![]() There are other resources but they’re scattered around and are sometimes not accessible to all those who may want to carry out meta-analysis, as some methods involve complicated equations. ![]() There are some great resources for data extraction to help you convert data from what’s reported into what you want, but perhaps randomised trials are better served (for example, by the excellent Cochrane Handbook) than other study designs. ![]() Extracting data for meta-analysis can be very frustrating because authors often don’t report the summary data that you want, that is, the same statistics and the right statistics for the meta-analysis software e.g. ![]() ![]() ![]() After Lydia’s death, Marilyn is forced to reckon with the fact that she did not understand her daughter as well as she thought. Marilyn ultimately projects her obsession with becoming a doctor onto Lydia, aggressively encouraging her daughter to enroll in advanced science courses. Her first novel, Everything I Never Told You (2014), was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2014, Amazon’s 1 Best Book of 2014, and named a best book of the year by over a dozen publications. However, in Toledo Marilyn discovers she is pregnant with Hannah, and she decides to return home. Celeste Ng is the author of three novels, Everything I Never Told You, Little Fires Everywhere, and Our Missing Hearts. When Marilyn learns that her neighbor Janet Wolff is a doctor, Marilyn abandons her family to finish her undergraduate degree in Toledo, with the intention of finally realizing her dream of attending medical school. ![]() After giving birth to Nath and Lydia, Marilyn becomes increasingly restless and dissatisfied with her life. On discovering that she is pregnant with Nath, Marilyn and James quickly marry, and the family moves to Middlewood, Ohio, where James has been given a professorial position. Top Picks Book Jacket: Clytemnestra Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati Book Jacket: Fatherland Fatherland by Burkhard Bilger Book Jacket: The Making of Yolanda. She dreams of becoming a doctor and she excels in her studies at Radcliffe (the women’s college within Harvard University), where she meets James. ![]() Growing up, Marilyn is disdainful of her mother’s perfect housewife performance and her vocation as a home economics teacher. Marilyn is the daughter of Doris Walker and was born and raised in Virginia. ![]() ![]() Today we publish some of the world's foremost authors, from Nobel prize-winners to worldwide bestsellers recent successes including the Booker-winning Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel, and George RR Martin's blockbusting A Song of Ice and Fire series. The worldwide group was formed following News Corp's 1990 acquisition of William Collins & Sons. In 1987, Harper & Row, as it had then become, was acquired by News Corporation. ![]() Winter in Aberdeen: murder, mayhem and terrible weather. DS Logan McRae and the police in Aberdeen hunt a child killer who stalks the frozen streets. The original Harper Brothers Company was established in New York City in 1817 and over the years published the works of Mark Twain, the Bronte Sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. The very first Logan McRae novel in the No.1 bestselling crime series from Stuart MacBride. ![]() In the UK, the Glasgow-based William Collins & Sons was founded in 1819 and published a range of bibles, atlases and dictionaries, later including classic authors HG Wells, Agatha Christie, JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis. With a heritage stretching back nearly 200 years, HarperCollins is one of the world's foremost English-language publishers, offering the best quality content right across the spectrum, from cutting-edge contemporary fiction to digital hymnbooks and pretty much everything in between. ![]() ![]() Sasaki Kojiro is extremely arrogant in the book though he mellows down a bit trough the ages. ![]() Musashi and Kojiro arrange a duel, Musashi arrives very late and strikes down an enraged Kojiro with a very long bokken he cut out from a boat oar. The book ends just like the legendary duel is often told. In the book Sasaki Kojiro is pure talent while, Musashi, also quite talented, gains most of his skills by lifelong honing and experience. To state the biggest difference: Sasaki Kojiro is not deaf in the book. Honestly, Mathachi is so rotten in the book it's not even funny anymore. Takuan, Otsu and Matahachi's mother are very close to the book, the rest of the characters are very different. ![]() ![]() Matahachi has no redeemable features in the book, Akemi is in love with Musashi and there are tons of other differences. ![]() ![]() ![]() He starts believing that his benefactor’s eye is evil and murders him because of it, a delusion that is consistent with the description by Owen et al. In the second story, The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, the unnamed main character also likely has schizophrenia. ![]() Ultimately, she starts believing that she is the person she created as part of her delusions: “’ I’ve got out at last,’ said I, ‘in spite of you and Jane?” (Gilman 656). Her husband and brother, both physicians, fail to notice her mental decline, possibly because she internalized her issues, as women are prone to doing (Needham and Terrence 1472). In the first story, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the main character, who may be named Jane, has schizophrenia, as indicated by her progressing delusion. ![]() ![]() Gothic romance is not meant to be terrifying, rather eerie and unsettling. Not quite horror, not quite romance, it sits squarely in the Gothic romance sub-genre, which is one of my absolute favorites. It’s the type of book I would love to see more of in YA. Synopsis aside, I really enjoyed House of Salt and Sorrows. Seriously, there’s an octopus embossed on the over beneath the dust jacket. There are ghosts, pretty dresses, mysterious balls, churning oceans, and a lot of octopi. Annaleigh is determined to find out why they keep dying, finding herself in some rather terrifying situations along the way. One by one, Annaleigh’s sisters keep dying of increasingly mysterious circumstances. She, her sisters, her father, and her step-mother live on the island of Salten, in a grand manor called Highmoor. Our main character, Annaleigh Thaumas, is one of twelve sisters of the noble Thaumas family. Set in a Victorian-inspired fantasy world, Salt and Sorrows is almost Poe-like in its horror. Salt and Sorrows is more of a Gothic romance than a horror story, but I enjoyed it all the same. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Craig, a much-hyped debut based on the “12 Dancing Princesses” story from the Brothers Grimm. It’s also the month where I review YA horror novels! Enter House of Salt and Sorrow by Erin A. The air is finally getting colder, the leaves are finally starting to change, and Hocus Pocus is on a different TV channel every single night until Halloween. Welcome to Spooky Season, everyone! The most wonderful time of year. ![]() |