5/29/2023 0 Comments Airhead meg cabot summary![]() ![]() Meg Cabot was born on February 1, 1967, during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign. ![]() Librarian note: AKA Jenny Carroll (1-800-Where-R-You series), AKA Patricia Cabot (historical romance novels). Until, of course, she finds out that she’s stuck in supermodel Nikki Howard’s body. And Em has no idea why she’s being whisked off by famous people that’s she’s only heard of from skimming her sister Frida’s magazines. Her voice sounds funny, and soon her supposed best friend and celebutante Lulu Collins and her supposed boyfriend Brandon Stark kidnap her from the hospital and take her back to her supposed penthouse apartment. But that’s not the only strange thing that happens. She can only recall bits of what happened that day, such as a certain gorgeous British singer and songwriter, Gabriel Luna, who sneaks into the hospital to give her flowers. When Em wakes up in the hospital, she has no idea what happened. In an attempt to save her sister Frida from certain harm, Em tries to push Frida out of the way, getting crushed by a falling television screen in the process. She never wanted to go to the grand opening of the new Stark Megastore store. ![]()
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5/29/2023 0 Comments Blue bloods book series![]() ![]() Pink blood bottles also contain the anticoagulant EDTA. The pink bottles work in the same way as the purple ones, but are specifically used only for whole blood samples being sent to the transfusion lab. Pink blood bottle Pink blood bottle Overview ![]() You might also be interested in our OSCE Flashcard Collection which contains over 2000 flashcards that cover clinical examination, procedures, communication skills and data interpretation. However, to get an ESR you will need a full purple bottle. About 1ml of blood is sufficient to perform a full blood count. The purple tube needs inverting about 8 times to mix the sample with the EDTA. Less common tests performed using the purple blood bottle include:
![]() Common gags involve her impossible to comb hair, her huge shoes, and her fits when upset, which involve her going rigid as a board. Sidonia: Suske and Wiske's adoptive mom, and general Team Mom to the others during adventures.Sidonia's love interest when the plot calls for it. A Too Dumb to Live middle-aged man who is somewhat of a Small Name, Big Ego. Lambik: The Breakout Character of the series.After their first adventure, Rikki en Wiske in Chocowakije ( Rikki and Wiske in Chocovakia), Rikki vanished from the series, and Wiske was instead joined by the young boy Franciscus Antigoon of Amoras (nicknamed "Suske"), who was adopted into her family. The series started with a young girl named Louise (nicknamed "Wiske"), who lived with her brother Rikki and their aunt Sidonia. It's aimed at children, but adults have enjoyed it too over the years. It was created by Willy Vandersteen (1913-1990), and since his death, a dedicated team of writers and artists have continued publishing new stories. ![]() ![]() Suske en Wiske ( Bob and Bobette or Spike and Suzy in the UK, Willy and Wanda in America, Bob and Bobette in France and Israel) is a long-running (since 1945) Flemish comic book series. From top to below: Wiske, Suske, Aunt Sidonia, Lambik and Jerom. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Michael crichton sphere book![]() The duty officer of the base tasked with retrieving the satellite suspects it returned with an extraterrestrial contaminant and recommends activating "Wildfire", a protocol for a government-sponsored team of scientists intended to contain threats of this nature. Aerial surveillance reveals that everyone in Piedmont, Arizona, the town closest to where the satellite landed, is apparently dead. The Andromeda Strain appeared in the New York Times Best Seller list, establishing Michael Crichton as a genre writer.Ī team from an Air Force base is deployed to recover a military satellite that has returned to Earth, but contact is lost abruptly. It is written as a report documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investigating the outbreak of a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism in Arizona. ![]() ![]() The Andromeda Strain is a 1969 techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton, his first novel under his own name and his sixth novel overall. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Insanity, Illinois by Mark Sumner![]() ![]() ![]() 30, 1858Īutograph Letter of Abraham Lincoln, Dec. WashburneĪutograph Letter of Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 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Photograph of Abraham Lincoln, by Alschuler Tremont House, Chicago, from 1850 to 1871 ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Susan dennard witchshadow![]() ![]() It has been even longer since he saw them heal a Well.Ī hundred people attend, arranged in stiff rows around the wide pond. It has been a long time since he saw the Sun and the Moon come together. Iseult could embrace this power and heal the land, but first she must choose on which side of the shadows her destiny will lie. And Vivia-rightful queen of Nubrevna-finds herself without a crown or home.Īs villains from legend reawaken across the Witchlands, only the mythical Cahr Awen can stop the gathering war. Meanwhile, the Bloodwitch Aeduan is beset by forces he cannot understand. And though Iseult has plans to save her friend, they will require her to summon magic more dangerous than anything she has ever faced before. For Iseult to stay alive, she must flee Cartorra while Safi remains. Iseult has found her heartsister Safi at last, but their reunion is brief. Susan Dennard's New York Times bestselling, young adult epic fantasy Witchlands series continues with Witchshadow, the story of the Threadwitch Iseult. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Brutal Journey by Paul Schneider![]() ![]() By drawing on the accounts of the first explorers and the most recent findings of archaeologists and academic historians, Paul Schneider offers a thrilling and authentic narrative to replace a legend of North American exploration. The journey of the Cabeza De Vaca expedition is one of the greatest survival epics in the history of American exploration. They became, in other words, whatever it took to stay alive long enough to inch their way toward Mexico, the only place where they were certain they would find an outpost of the Spanish empire. Paul Schneiders beautifully crafted book takes us to. ![]() They became faith healers, arms dealers, canoe thieves, spider eaters, and finally, when there were only the four of them left in the high Texas desert, they became itinerate messiahs. Brutal Journey is a wonderfully rich account of an incredible cross-country journey of survival. They had become killers and cannibals, torturers and torture victims, slavers and enslaved. ![]() The four survivors of the Narváez expedition brought nothing back from their sojourn other than their story, but what a tale it was. Eight years and some five thousand miles later, three Spaniards and a black Moroccan wandered out of the wilderness to the north of the Rio Grande and into Cortes’ gold-drenched Mexico. ![]() One part Heart of Darkness, one part Lewis and Clark, Brutal Journey tells the story of a group of explorers who came to the new world on the heels of Cortés bound for glory, only four of four hundred would survive. A gripping account of four explorers adrift in an unknown land and the harrowing journey that took them across North America 270 years before Lewis and Clark ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey![]() It’s a must-read for all gothic horror fans." -Booklist, starred review "Delightfully creepy and heartbreakingly tragic, Just Like Home is equal parts raw terror of a dark childhood bedroom, creeping revelations of a true-crime podcast, and searing hurt of resentment within a family. Vera must face them and find out for herself just how deep the rot goes. There are secrets yet undiscovered in the foundations of the notorious Crowder House. He insists that he isn’t the one leaving notes around the house in her father’s handwriting… but who else could it possibly be? A parasitic artist has moved into the guest house out back and is slowly stripping Vera’s childhood for spare parts. Back to face the love she had for her father and the bodies he buried there, beneath the house he'd built for his family.Ĭoming home is hard enough for Vera, and to make things worse, she and her mother aren’t alone. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories - she's come back to the home of a serial killer. “Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. ![]() ![]() A July 2022 Loan Stars and ABA Indie Next Pick ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments The quiet americans book![]() Soviet communism really was an aggressive threat in the 1940s and 1950s, and an intelligence service was genuinely necessary, even many leftists now grant. ![]() In academia, the “new Cold War studies” has in the last 20 years painted a more rounded picture of the CIA’s activities during the conflict. Outrage against Obama’s CIA-led drone warfare program was relatively muted, and during his administration the agency experienced no Iraq-scale debacles. Yet in recent years, the CIA’s image has softened. ![]() We can recite the agency’s outrages as a shorthand litany: Mossadegh, Arbenz, Trujillo, Bay of Pigs, Diem, MK-ULTRA, Congress for Cultural Freedom, CHAOS, Allende, Mobutu, “Family Jewels,” Shah, Contras, Afghanistan, Curveball, “Slam Dunk.” Its purpose was to extend American hegemony its method dirty tricks (not excluding murder) to undermine popular movements or governments and impose brutal right-wing authoritarian regimes in client states. ![]() ![]() For decades, it’s been an article of faith among leftists that the CIA is fundamentally malign, and has been since its founding. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Scythe 2 book![]() ![]() ![]() I enjoyed this sequel a lot as it fully expands upon the world in a way that the previous entry doesn’t, mostly with the Thunderhead, the artificial intelligence which controls the world, playing a much larger part in the story than in the previous entry. ![]() Realizing she cannot do this alone, or even with the help of mentors Scythe Curie and Faraday, she risks her life to be able to communicate with the Thunderhead, the artificial intelligence that controls the entire world, including death and the immortality of the human race as a result of thousands of revival centers constructed around the world which can bring nearly any “deadish” individual back to the world of the living.Īfter reading the previous entry in the series, Scythe, I was very much looking forward to Thunderhead and I had very high expectations, which for the most part, were met. Citra, now a junior scythe under Scythe Curie, her mentor, sees the corruption and wants to help change it from the inside out, but is threatened at every turn by the “new order” scythes. In the year since Winter Conclave, he has gone off-grid, and has been striking out against corrupt scythes - not only in MidMerica, but across the entire continent, under the name “Sycthe Lucifer”. Rowan, previously a trainee Scythe under the mentorship of Scythe Faraday, has gone rogue, and taken it upon himself to put the Scythedom through a trial by fire, Literally. Thunderhead (Arc of A Scythe #2), by Neal Shusterman ![]() |