![]() ![]() ![]() Lustig starts by discussing the four pillars of personal responsibility: knowledge, access, affordability, and the fact that your actions shouldn’t hurt anyone else (ahimsa).ġ:53: The main cause of the public health care crisis is presented, namely chronic metabolic diseases and the lack of preventive services for these conditions.ģ:15: Is it true that if obese people would eat less and exercise more, the entire health care crisis would be solved? Dr. ![]() He is also director of UCSF’s WATCH program (Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health), president and cofounder of the nonprofit Institute for Responsible Nutrition, and author of several books on obesity and the impact sugar has on human health.Ġ:34: Dr. Lustig is an American pediatric endocrinologist, who specializes in neuroendocrinology and childhood obesity, and professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Healthy, Wholesome, Food ingredients, Sugar, Sweets, Fat, Unhealthy, Health ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() His essays are in anthologies including It Came From the Closet (2022), the 2021 Lambda finalist Trans-Galactic Bike Ride, the 2012 Lambda finalist Letters for my Brothers: Transitiona Tucker Lieberman is the author of the novel Most Famous Short Film of All Time (tRaum Books, September 20, 2022). ![]() His bilingual poetry book, Enkidu is Dead and Not Dead / Enkidu está muerto y no lo está (2021), inspired by the Epic of Gilgamesh, was a finalist in the 2020 Grayson Books poetry contest and nominated for a 2022 SFPA Elgin Award. He also wrote Ten Past Noon: Focus and Fate at Forty (2020), Painting Dragons: What Storytellers Need to Know About Writing Eunuch Villains (2018), Bad Fire: A Memoir of Disruption (2019, revised 2021). Tucker Lieberman is the author of the novel Most Famous Short Film of All Time (tRaum Books, September 20, 2022). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. They can’t stand to break their friends’ hearts, and so they’ll play their parts. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they’ll all have together in this place. Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blissful week they leave behind their daily lives have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most. Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. And still haven’t told their best friends. Except, now-for reasons they’re still not discussing-they don’t. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college-they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by BuzzFeed ∙ Paste Magazine ∙ Elle ∙ Southern Living ∙ SheReads ∙ Culturess ∙ Medium ∙ Her Campus ∙ Readers Digest ∙ Zibby Mag and more!Ī couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. “The beach-read master hooks us again.'-People ![]() ![]() Upon graduation, she became a physical training instructor for eight years. ![]() ![]() The name Gordon does not appear in either her family or her history.Įlizabeth Mackintosh came of age during World War I, attending Anstey Physical Training College in Birmingham, England during the years 1915 - 1918. The district of Daviot, near her home of Inverness in Scotland, was a location her family had vacationed. Mackintosh also wrote plays (both one act and full length), some of which were produced during her lifetime, under the pseudonym Gordon Daviot. She also used the Daviot by-line for a biography of the 17th century cavalry leader John Graham, which was entitled Claverhouse (1937). The first of these, The Man in the Queue (1929) was published under the pseudonym of Gordon Daviot, whose name also appears on the title page of another of her 1929 novels, Kif An Unvarnished History. ![]() As Josephine Tey, she wrote six mystery novels featuring Scotland Yard's Inspector Alan Grant. Josephine was her mother's first name and Tey the surname of an English Grandmother. Josephine Tey was a pseudonym of Elizabeth Mackintosh. ![]() ![]() Upon moving into a new neighborhood, they meet an older couple, Bob and Ruth, who live across the street. ![]() It is nothing short of incredible.Ī Map into the World is a heartwarming story inspired by Kao Kalia Yang’s family and young daughter. And now… IT IS HERE! And I finally got my hands on a copy. I have been looking forward to it ever since. I was captivated by her journey as a writer and the stories behind her books The Song Poet and What God Is Honored Here? She also gave us a sneak peek of her upcoming (at the time) debut picture book A Map into the World. Kao Kalia Yang lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota and she visited the University of Minnesota campus this past April. I absolutely LOVED that book, I was moved by her exceptional writing, and I learned a lot about the experiences and histories of her Hmong American family. This memoir shares her family’s powerful and poignant journey from war-torn Laos to refugee camps in Thailand and finally to the United States. Four years ago, I read her memoir The Latehomecomer. ![]() She visited campus to share her stories and writing journey. A Map into the World is a beautiful picture book that I have been eagerly awaiting ever since I met author Kao Kalia Yang last spring. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, the True Knot start to die of an infectious disease. At the same time, the True Knot's leader, Rose the Hat, is also aware of Abra's existence as a potential major source of sustenance. Horrified, Abra telepathically reaches out for Dan, but they are unable to do anything for the boy. One night, Abra psychically witnesses a ritual torture and murder of a boy by the True Knot, a group of quasi-immortals who wanders across America and periodically feed on "steam", a psychic essence that children with "the shining" produce when they are tortured to death. As she grows, the contact becomes more conscious and voluntary. In the meantime, Abra, a toddler girl with psychic powers greater than Dan's, slowly and unintentionally establishes a telepathic bond with him. With the aid of a cat that can sense when a person is about to die, Dan becomes known as "Doctor Sleep". He settles in a New Hampshire town and works in a hospice, where his remnant psychic abilities provide comfort to the dying. Dan drifts for decades, but eventually finds an AA community and gives up drinking. ![]() The adult Dan reprises his father's legacy of anger and alcoholism. Chef Hallorann eventually teaches Danny how to imprison the ghosts in lock boxes inside his mind. Angry ghosts from the Overlook Hotel eventually find Danny, including the woman from Room 217. Following the events of The Shining, Danny remains psychologically traumatized, while Wendy, his mother, slowly recovers from her injuries. ![]() |