"But now, some days I wake up and it's like whoa, I am lucky to be alive." "Before, it felt like I was almost just existing," Collins explains. So we can feel what it is to have a chance at being human again. "They just give us enough so that we are not a mess. "They're not medicating us to the point where we are like 'arghhhh,'" he says throwing his head back and rolling his eyes. On the way I ask Collins how his life has changed since he began getting his heroin from the clinic. When Collins is cleared to leave the clinic, he thanks the staff and heads off to meet his father who works across the city in a design studio. "We need to get away from thinking this is a criminal problem - it is a medical problem and it is a chronic, manageable illness." 'A chance at being human again' "This is a treatment for a chronic relapsing illness, just like diabetes and high blood pressure," he says. Scott MacDonald, the lead physician at the clinic - the only one in the country that prescribes diacetylmorphine, the medical term for heroin - says the way to curb the crisis is to stop viewing opioid addiction as a criminal problem. Kevin McGarragan says the Crosstown Clinic has saved his life by allowing him to avoid street drugs.
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Don't look behind to see who's gaining on you, runners remember Lot's wife. In "Hell's Event," Barker imagines, Without the human urge to compete, and to bargain, and to bet, Pandemonium might well have fallen for want of citizens. Hell hot on runners' heels, the infernal nether regions come to race, literally so, in the streets of London. I wholeheartedly concur with this sentiment. Don't you know that Quaid, who forces others to face their fears, will have his never-ending moments of dread himself? This is often considered one of Barker's finest moments and has turned up in several best-of horror anthologies. Filled to bursting with woundings and madness, monstrous absurdities of flesh and bone, and the nonsenses of fear, despair, and revulsion, Volume 2 is one of my favorites in Barker's series and contains two of his very greatest stories.Ĭollege students and their mad messiah: "Dread" takes a philosophical approach to terror, as strange Quaid posits that fear underlies everything humans are. In a way, it's a mantra for his early novels and tales, a neatly-done epigram that sums up not just his work but the entire horror genre itself. So begins the aptly titled "Dread," the lead story in the second volume of Clive Barker's essential six-volume collection, Books of Blood. There is nothing remotely human about them. So I am happy to see that the Lankies are a genuinely alien foe. While you can get away with that in TV and film due to the limiting factor of having to use human actors, in literature it’s a lot harder to justify. All too often they’re just people with funny accents, or wonky foreheads. In all honesty, I’m not a big fan of aliens. Towering over humans like Godzilla, terraforming planets and pumping out lethal gas without mercy. But things really kick up a notch in the climax of Book 1, when we get our first look at an alien race. It’s well written and engaging for all of that. At first we follow Andrew Grayson from slums, through boot camp, and then into full military service. While the series starts off in fairly typical gung-ho, America-in-space style, with the North American coalition fighting the dastardly Sino-Russian Alliance, there’s a lot more to the series than that. Set a few centuries from now on a bleak, overpopulated Earth, the daily grind of boot camp has never felt so real. The best military SF is written by those with experience, and you can tell from the opening stages of Terms of Enlistment that Marko Kloos knows his way around the army. Unfortunately, we’re not the only ones who want them… Humanity is expanding into space, settling dozens of new worlds. As such it contains minor spoilers for all books. This is a review of the entire Frontlines series. "Relevant and essential."- Bloomberg Businessweek "New York may be underwater, but it's better than ever."- The New Yorker Lastly there are the coders, temporary residents on the roof, whose disappearance triggers a sequence of events that threatens the existence of all - and even the long-hidden foundations on which the city rests. Then there are two boys who don't live there, but have no other home - and who are more important to its future than anyone might imagine. There is the internet star, beloved by millions for her airship adventures, and the building's manager, quietly respected for his attention to detail. There is the detective, whose work will never disappear - along with the lawyers, of course. There is the market trader, who finds opportunities where others find trouble. For the residents of one apartment building in Madison Square, however, New York in the year 2140 is far from a drowned city. New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson returns with a bold and brilliant vision of New York City in the next century.Īs the sea levels rose, every street became a canal. Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century. 100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.
I have never lived in a small town like Paint Creek, Kentucky where the population is around 750. This cozy mystery is fun and left me smiling after I swiped the last page. I want to give her other series a try too. It’s the first book I’ve read by this author and it won’t be my last. The book had an old fashioned, quaint feel to it. She doesn't back down.įor a few hours, I was transported to Kentucky and trying to figure out who killed the poor guy. Mercy is a wonderful character who would make a wonderful friend. Crazy, sweet, funny, romantic and even a couple of bad guys thrown in to add to the excitement. The cast of characters is a wide variety of personalities. At the same time, the sparks fly between Mercy and Brody. It’s difficult for Mercy when the investigation leads her in the direction of people she has known most of her life. Mercy assists the handsome new Sheriff Brody Hayes in the investigation. Everyone is thinking murder, while some wacky townspeople think it could be vampires. It’s not long before it’s discovered that the tornado didn’t kill the man. A tornado strikes the small town leaving one of their own dead. Paint Creek may be a small town, but there’s quite a bit of craziness going on there. Now she owns it and plans to make a life for herself. She buys the Old School Diner, which had originally been founded by her grandfather. After leaving a very stressful life and career as an emergency room nurse in Louisville, Mercy Howard heads back to her hometown of Paint Creek, Kentucky. Most of all, the book traces in breathtaking detail FDR’s revolutionary efforts with his New Deal legislation to transform the American political economy in order to save it, his forceful-and cagey-leadership before and during World War II, and his lasting legacy in creating the foundations of the postwar international order. Brands explores the powerful influence of FDR’s dominating mother and the often tense and always unusual partnership between FDR and his wife, Eleanor, and her indispensable contributions to his presidency. Brands offers a compelling and intimate portrait of Roosevelt’s life and career. Drawing on archival materials, public speeches, personal correspondence, and accounts by family and close associates, acclaimed bestselling historian and biographer H. A sweeping, magisterial biography of the man generally considered the greatest president of the twentieth century, admired by Democrats and Republicans alike.Traitor to His Classsheds new light on FDR's formative years, his remarkable willingness to champion the concerns of the poor and disenfranchised, his combination of political genius, firm leadership, and matchless diplomacy in saving democracy in America during the Great Depression and the American cause of freedom in World War II. The remains of Shiro and Yumei’s late dinner had been cleared from the table, and the unlit brazier was devoid of light or warmth. Wrapping an arm around herself for warmth, she slid a panel open and peeked into the main room. A short, fumbling search uncovered no extra blankets in the closet within her small alcove. Cold hit her like a splash of frigid water but even that wasn’t enough to dispel her drowsy daze. Yawning, she forced her tired body off the futon. A winter storm? A feverish ache throbbed in her muscles, though she didn’t think she had slept for more than a few hours. Curled in a tight ball beneath her blankets, she exhaled harshly, half expecting her breath to fog the air.īeyond the thin partition that separated her sleeping quarters from the rest of the room, the windows rattled in a fierce wind. The chill in the room cut right through the layers of blanket and kimono, and her toes ached from the cold. Violent shivers pulled Emi from the depths of sleep. They appear throughout the poetry of skalds, in a 14th-century charm, and in various runic inscriptions. Valkyries are attested in the Poetic Edda (a book of poems compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources), the Prose Edda, the Heimskringla (both by Snorri Sturluson) and the Njáls saga (one of the Sagas of Icelanders), all written-or compiled-in the 13th century. Valkyries also appear as lovers of heroes and other mortals, where they are sometimes described as the daughters of royalty, sometimes accompanied by ravens and sometimes connected to swans or horses. When the einherjar are not preparing for the events of Ragnarök, the valkyries bear them mead. There, the deceased warriors become einherjar ( Old Norse "single (or once) fighters" ). In Norse mythology, a valkyrie ("chooser of the slain") is one of a host of female figures who guide souls of the dead to the god Odin's hall Valhalla. The "valkyrie from Hårby", silver-gilt figurine depicting a female with a sword and shield, often interpreted to be a valkyrie. As of May 2010, Wright's previous eight albums had sold over 1,000,000 copies in the United States. Overall, Wright has released seven studio albums on various labels, and has charted more than fifteen singles on the country charts. Two years later, her fourth album yielded her first number one single, the title track, "Single White Female". Wright's first Top 40 country hit came in 1997 with "Shut Up and Drive". On the strength of her debut album in 1994, the Academy of Country Music named her Top New Female Vocalist in 1995. She tells her story of being a closeted lesbian in her memoir Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer. In May 2010, she became the first major country music performer to publicly come out as gay. Country music star Chely Wright is a singer, songwriter, author and gay rights activist. |