At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. On March 9, Trump tweeted: “So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. On March 7, when asked by reporters whether he was concerned about the pandemic affecting the U.S., Trump said: “No, I’m not concerned at all.” 7 interview with Woodward, the president suggested on Twitter that the coronavirus would disappear as “the weather starts to warm.” The president’s comments to Woodward about the coronavirus were in stark contrast with what he was saying in public: “You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed,” Trump said, adding: “This is deadly stuff.” death from COVID-19 was announced.Īccording to audio excerpts from interviews Woodward conducted for his forthcoming book, “ Rage,” which were published Wednesday, Trump told the journalist and Washington Post columnist that he knew the virus - which has now killed more than 890,000 people worldwide and over 190,000 Americans - was “more deadly than even your strenuous flus.” “This is deadly stuff,” Trump told Woodward on Feb. Even as he publicly sought to downplay the threat of the coronavirus to Americans earlier this year, President Trump told author Bob Woodward that he knew the virus was serious and deadly.
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She-Who-Is-Alone sacrifices what she treasures most to the Great Spirit. This book, written for younger elementary readers, explores the beliefs of Native American people during a drought. He’s a prolific author that has earned many prestigious awards for his work. “The Legend of the Bluebonnet” by Tomie dePaolaĪuthor dePaola has published over 200 children’s books in 15 countries. It’s written for younger elementary children, but the pictures and story may pull in older children to its magic as well. Betty Huffmon is a Yup'ik elder and storyteller who collaborated with Sloat to bring this story to life. The heroine, Anana, creates a spell to transform the crowberries into delicious treasures, giving the Eskimos blueberries, cranberries, raspberries and salmonberries. Long ago the berries of the tundra were tasteless and hard. “Berry Magic” by Betty Huffmon, Terry Sloat Recommended for children in middle grades. It’s a story about loss and self-discovery that should resonate with its readers. The story is an introduction to the Navajo language and includes a pronunciation guide. While her sister is away, Tess has to care for her horse. Tess, a 13-year-old part white and part Navajo girl has to cope with her sister’s enlistment and deployment to the Iraq war. “Soldier Sister, Fly Home” by Nancy Bo Flood Some are about the myths and legends of the Native American people and others are contemporary stories of culture and adaptability. Need more inspiration for reading about Native American culture? Here are seven more books that will delight readers of all genders. Some types of porn are illegal, even for adults. You can also see advice on how to support a child with pressure to share nudes on our sexting page. Young people can get support from Childline throughout the process. 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Is watching or sharing porn against the law? But those seemingly ordinary artifacts-a painting, a ring and a flat bone disc-will turn Sara's world upside down and lead her to places she never dreamed could exist: a world of mists and forests, ancient magics, mythical beings, ageless bards.and restless evil. When Sara Kendell opens a box of oddments in the storeroom of the Merry Dancers Old Book and Antique Emporium, she has no idea that she'll stumble across anything unusual. We are grateful to Charles Vess for the use of his cover and interior illustrations. Unique to this Triskell Press edition is a new afterword by de Lint reminiscing on the impact of his seminal work. Moonheart is the award-winning novel that propelled Charles de Lint to his status as a master of urban fantasy. Sorry to discover there were glitches in the first upload if you already purchased this book prior to December 25/13, please download it again (at no cost). I currently teach in the Science and Technology Studies department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.īeyond my scholarly work, I write frequently on a freelance basis for a variety of media sites on topics such as open source, machine learning and blockchain. For more on this project, please click here. In For Fun and Profit, Christopher Tozzi offers an account of the free and open source software (FOSS) revolution, from its origins as an obscure. My second book, For Fun and Profit: A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution (MIT Press, 2017), explores the history of software whose source code is freely shared, as well as the ideological, economic and cultural impact of such software. I am also interested in the history and culture of technology. My first book, Nationalizing France's Army: Foreign, Black, and Jewish Troops in the French Military, 1715-1831 (University of Virginia Press, 2016), explores the history of nationality, citizenship and nation-building during the French revolutionary era from the perspective of troops who served in the French army but were not considered fully French. Trained as an historian of revolutionary France, I received a Ph.D. I am an historian, researcher and writer. Well now, the near universal praise for Alan Bloom's translations of Plato suggests that I should tackle Plato, again. There are no other significant ancient sources on a life, and anything modern would necessarily draw upon these, and these would, of course, be better than something like Leonidas: Hero of Thermopylae, which is a children's book. The best you can do is to read the entry in the Oxford Classical Dictionary and then the relevant sections of Plutarch mentioned here, as well as Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus. In a difficult struggle they were killed by the swarming Persians, pouring in on all sides. Rather than dying in the pass, Leonidas led his men right up to Xerxes' tent and, finding him absent, sought him throughout the enemy camp, killing everyone in their path. Specifically Plutarch has just accused Herodotus of obscuring or dimming 'the greatest act' of Leonidas. In his work on the malice of Herodotus (conventionally given the Latin name De malignitate Herodoti), he says that certain things neglected by that historian will be written in the Life of Leonidas. I know of no Life of Leonidas, though Plutarch apparently intended to write one. She even occasionally leaves the city to visit her family in the wastes, though she struggles to feel at home in either place. She works-and shamelessly flirts-with her enticing yet aloof handler, Dell, as the two women collect off-world data for the Eldridge Institute. Now she has a nice apartment on the lower levels of the wealthy and walled-off Wiley City. Identified as an outlier and therefore a perfect candidate for multiverse travel, Cara is plucked from the dirt of the wastelands. On this Earth, however, Cara has survived. Cara’s life has been cut short on 372 worlds in total. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying-from disease, turf wars, or vendettas they couldn’t outrun. Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens her new home and her fragile place in it, in a stunning sci-fi debut that’s both a cross-dimensional adventure and a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging. Watching the new movie version of Are You There God, which is in theaters this weekend, I suddenly realized how much my adolescent self had wanted to hide her existential yearning. No, what embarrassed me about the book was Margaret’s earnest search for meaning, her questions for God. I was self-conscious, sure, but only because having a human body is so inherently weird and puberty is the first time you realize that. It’s not the subject of puberty that disconcerted me - getting boobs and my period never embarrassed me (though referring to breasts as a bust has always made me cringe). But it’s also because I found the book just a touch mortifying. Partly that’s because the heroine didn’t wear petticoats or face the risk of an early death. I read it then and I liked it - it’s a quick little gulp of a book - but it didn’t reverberate in my sixth-grade psyche the way some other books did. This might be the only essay about Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret that does not start with a declaration of how much the book meant to me when I was 11 years old. Now he lies blind, lonely, and broken on a deserted beach. The Paragon, known by many as the Pariah, went mad, turned turtle, and drowned his crew. Only to discover that the Vivacia has been signed away in her father’s will to her brutal brother-in-law, Kyle Haven… Althea waits for the ship that she loves more than anything else in the world to awaken. The liveship Vivacia is about to undergo her quickening as Althea Vestrit’s father is carried on deck in his death-throes. Like many other legendary wares, it comes only from the Rain River Wilds.īut how can one trade with the Rain Wilders, when only a liveship fashioned from wizardwood can negotiate the perilous waters of the Rain River? Rare and valuable a liveship will quicken only when three members, from successive generations, have died on board. The most precious commodity in the world. The trail leads to a despicable mass killer whom Gamache prosecuted and delivered to a maximum-security prison years before. Gamache sets off with his eclectic team to hunt down the painter - and the answers to the riddles it holds. What is inside shakes the townsfolk to the core: a painting, morbid and detailed, containing clues to stories none of them care to acknowledge. Meanwhile, a letter from a dead stonemason has been sent, referring to a hidden room in an attic. Armand is thrilled to see the girl, but he's shaken by the brother's reappearance. Armand befriended the girl, but shunned the brother, in whom he saw a brooding cruelty.Īfter many years, the siblings reappear. Years before, Armand rescued a young girl and boy from an abusive life. All of the quirky characters are back, plus a few new faces that bring a dark dimension to the ensemble.Ĭhief Inspector Gamache and his wife, Reine-Marie, are the heartbeat of the village. Have we really been through 18 books in the stellar Armand Gamache series?Ĭanadian author Louise Penny reaches a crescendo with her latest tale from Three Pines, a wondrous hamlet outside Montreal. |