6/30/2023 0 Comments Sing you home music![]() ![]() Songs specially composed for this book by Jodi Picoult and Ellen Wilber, and performed by Ellen Wilber, are available to listen to and download at. From tragedy to self-discovery and joy, Zoe, Vanessa and Max will realise the undeniable truth - that you can't choose who you love. Sing You Home is an honest and moving story of contemporary relationships and the consequences of love and desire colliding with science and the law. This mission becomes personal for Max when Zoe and her partner want permission to raise his unborn child. Max, meanwhile, has found peace at the bottom of a bottle, until he is redeemed by an evangelical church where the pastor has vowed to fight the 'homosexual agenda' that threatens traditional family values. When Zoe allows herself to start thinking of having a family again, she remembers that she and Max still have frozen embryos they never used. Soon after marrying, the two decide to try for a baby using the three. Meanwhile, Zoe, a music therapist, befriends Vanessa and their friendship ultimately blossoms into love. When Vanessa, a guidance counsellor, asks Zoe to work with a suicidal teen, Vanessa and Zoe's relationship moves from business to friendship and then, to Zoe's surprise, blossoms into love. Max finds himself staring at the bottom of a bottle, until he finds salvation in the conservative Eternal Glory Church after a near-fatal, alcohol-induced car accident. ![]() In the aftermath she throws herself into her career as a music therapist. But a terrible turn of events takes away her baby and breaks apart her marriage to Max. ![]() Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to have a baby, and finally it looks as though her dream is about to come true - she is seven months pregnant. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The story was almost soured for me by some predictable and reality defying conflict that arises around Jacob. It is nice to see the other sisters and female friends from around Keating Hollow interacting and having fun as well as offering support as each woman navigates their own highs and lows. There was tons of comedy, flirtation, and drama abounding as always in Keating Hollow along with plenty of family interactions and the ongoing concerns about the Townsend sisters' father, Lincoln, who is still battling cancer. Yvette is a fun confident, take no nonsense woman, having just been left by her husband for another man and now reeling from just having her first one night stand with a new guy in town who just happens to be.her new business partner at her book store, Jacob Burton. And well into halfway through this volume things were cruising along easily establishing this as my favorite so far in the series. I dove into this third installment immediately after finishing Heart of the Witch having loved the teaser final chapter for this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() With long sequences of Mike Deodato, Stuart Immonen, Steve McNiven, Sara Pichelli and Valerio Schiti, plus shorter runs from Frank Cho, Mike Del Mundo, Francesco Francavilla, Kevin Maguire and Ed McGuinness, there’s very little substandard art, and a fair proportion of it is spectacular. However, the one area where the series consistently shone was the art, and these oversized editions are designed to showcase that at its best. All of that delivers several reasons not to bother with an expensive hardcover collection. ![]() It didn’t start well and only infrequently sparked into life, featured decompressed plots, left out chapters from crossovers, had characters sidelined and disappearing, and gave the impression of Bendis either not coming to grips with cast or coasting. In graphic novel form, much of Brian Michael Bendis’ Guardians of the Galaxy run was disappointing. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments The plague 1947![]() “These genomes can inform us of the spread and evolutionary changes of pathogens in the past, and hopefully help us understand which genes may be important in the spread of infectious diseases.” “The ability to detect ancient pathogens from degraded samples, from thousands of years ago, is incredible,” Swali said. Researchers drilled into the teeth of these ancient people and extracted dental pulp, which can trap remnants of the DNA of infectious diseases. How do researchers locate 4,000-year-old bacteria? The team took samples from the skeletal remains of 34 individuals across the two sites, according to the study. Benjamin Roberts, an associate professor of archaeology who researches later European prehistory at Durham University in the United Kingdom. “The evidence of widespread transmission across such a vast spatial area in just a few centuries is very interesting and seems to be one aspect of the rapid movement of people, technologies and ideas during this period,” said Dr. ![]() The distance between the sites suggested the disease was widespread during the late Neolithic period and the Bronze Age, Swali said. The samples of the plague-causing bacteria were found at two different mass burial sites: one in southwest England in the county of Somerset and the other in the northwestern county of Cumbria, near the border of England and Scotland. ![]() ![]() Origins of plague could have emerged centuries before outbreaks, new study suggests ![]() Courtesy McMaster University or Museum of London Archaeology ![]() |