Try a Neti PotĪnother way to prevent nasal dryness is with a neti pot, a nose-rinsing device found in drug and health-food stores (just make sure the device is clean and you’re using it properly to ensure that it’s safe and effective, according to the FDA). Be sure to follow the instructions to keep it clean if you are using it infrequently. You can also help keep nasal and throat passages moist by using an air humidifier, particularly in the winter months when heating makes the air inside your home very dry. But be sure to avoid caffeinated or alcoholic drinks, as they can cause dehydration. Good hydration helps moisturize the lining of the nose and throat, which makes mucus easier to clear. Here are 10 cold remedies to try at home that will have you feeling better before you know it. Soothing the common cold can be as easy as gargling with salt water and spooning down the chicken soup. It turns out that your grandma was on to something.
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Especially troubling is the suffering felt by adults who were encouraged to transition as children but later came to regret it.Īnd there is a reason that many do regret it. He introduces readers to people who tried to "transition" but found themselves no better off. He reveals a grim contrast between the media's sunny depiction and the often sad realities of gender-identity struggles. Anderson offers a balanced approach to the policy issues, a nuanced vision of human embodiment, and a sober and honest survey of the human costs of getting human nature wrong. Drawing on the best insights from biology, psychology, and philosophy, Ryan T. When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment provides thoughtful answers to all of these questions. In the space of a year, it's gone from something that most Americans had never heard of to a cause claiming the mantle of civil rights."reassign" sex? Is sex something "assigned" in the first place? What's the loving response to a friend or child experiencing a gender-identity conflict? What should our law say on these issues? The transgender movement has hit breakneck speed. Did I mention that both Audrinas share a birthday? What are the odds of that?! Anyway, Audrina is the apple of her weird father’s eye, and he manifests his love by having Audrina sit in a rocking chair in Audrina #1’s bedroom all day because that’s what fathers do. So, what is it about? Well, I’m so glad you asked because I want to dive into this, in detail, and I promise you, I have not made any of this up.Īudrina Adare is your typical 7-year-old, if your typical 7-year-old was named after her dead older sister, who went into the woods one day and never returned because she was raped and murdered. Not to mention multiple homicides that take place by pushing people down the same set of stairs.įriends, I f*cking love this bonkers, bananas, beautiful mess of a book. A recurring, warped tea party where two sisters put on their Sunday best, drink, trade insults, and pretend to be a dead aunt, communicating beyond the grave via a photograph. A villain with an evil heart and brittle bones. Sure, we dove into the incest, arsenic-laced world of Flowers in the Attic previously, but in my mind, nothing is as bonkers, over the top, “did she really just write that?!” than Andrews’ smutty, trashy, wonderful classic My Sweet Audrina. We’re rounding out our month of books we read as kids (but probably shouldn’t have) with the granddaddy of them all: My Sweet Audrina. For instance, the Bottom is established through trickery. The trauma characters face is both severe and beautiful as a result. Toni Morrison writes black pain like few can. If you’re read anything by Morrison, though, you know it’s not always the plot, but how it’s told that is magic. Their friendship can’t stand up under betrayal, especially since the two are so different as people now.īasically, that’s the general plot of Morrison’s book. Ten years pass, and when Sula returns it’s with bad omens galore. Sula and Nel are girls inseparable until one day Nel gets married and thus Sula leaves. Then, we meet Sula, her mother, grandmother, and a gaggle of “strays” that live with them. Sula focuses on a few individuals who live in Medallion, Ohio, a place commonly referred to as “the Bottom.” We begin by learning about how the Bottom came to be, how National Suicide Day started, then move to Nel, her mother, and grandmother. Published in 1973 by Plume, originally by Knopf I have two goals for 2017: read books with positive representations of fat women, and read books I already own written by black women. The novel won many awards, including the California Young Reader Medal, and was named one of Publishers Weekly's "Best Books of the Year" in 2008. In writing The Hunger Games, Collins drew upon Greek mythology, Roman gladiatorial games, and contemporary reality television for thematic content. It was praised for its plot and character development. The book received critical acclaim from major reviewers and authors. The Hunger Games is an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle royale to the death. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. It is written in the perspective of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the future, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Hunger Games is a 2008 dystopian novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. Reality television programs Juvenile fiction, Jeux télévisés Romans, nouvelles, etc. It is the summer of 1911, the Carney Sibley is back home in her beloved town of Deep Valley, Minnesota. Betsy returns from Europe to marry Joe Willard and soon learns that beloved friend Tacy is expecting a baby! It’s wartime in America, but Betsy, Joe, and their wonderful circle of friends brave their hardships together. Her name may have changed, but her life remains as full of love and laughter as it’s been since she was a little girl living on Hill Street in the first of the classic BETSY TACY books. Luckily Betsy Ray make that Betsy Willard has always thrived on challenge. It’s even harder than algebra and much messier. There’s cooking, ironing, and budgeting as well not to mention forging her career as a writer! For Betsy, the writing part comes naturally, but cooking is another matter. But as Betsy discovers, marriage isn’t all candlelight, kisses, and roses. They’ve been separated for a year, and they’re determined never to be apart again. Before he even says hello, he asks Betsy to marry him. Here Comes the Bride When Betsy Ray arrives in New York after a tour of Europe, her old flame Joe Willard is waiting at the dock. Each creature the ducks meet is seen in its own habitat and behaves in a true-to-life manner, offering a very simple first view of biology and geography. Following the little ducks as they float to all parts of the globe, young explorers can see for themselves the meanings of directional words and learn simple math concepts, such as counting and the use of cardinal and ordinal numbers. In this poignant and funny story, illustrated with strikingly designed collages, Eric Carle takes readers on an exciting voyage of discovery. Small readers and listeners will empathize with the little duck's plight-and will rejoice at the heartwarming surprise ending. But as the sun sets, the 10th little rubber duck is left all alone, bobbing helplessly on the big wide sea. One drifts west, where a friendly dolphin jumps over it. The ducks are swept away in various directions. "Ducks overboard!" shouts the captain, as a giant wave washes a box of 10 little rubber ducks off his cargo ship and into the sea. Feeding their inspirations into a computer, they become obsessed with their story, dreaming up links between the Templars and just about every occult manifestation throughout history, and predicting that culmination of the Templars' scheme to take over the world is close at hand. As a lark, the three decide to invent a history of the occult tying a variety of phenomena to the mysterious machinations of the Order. The narrator, Casaubon, an expert on the medieval Knights Templars, and two editors working in a branch of a vanity press publishing house in Milan, are told about a purported coded message revealing a secret plan set in motion by the Knights Templars centuries ago when the society was forced underground. This complex psychological thriller chronicles the development of a literary joke that plunges its perpetrators into deadly peril. If a copy (often unread) of The Name of the Rose on the coffee table was a badge of intellectual superiority in 1983, Eco's second novel-also an intellectual blockbuster-should prove more accessible. alternating male and female perspectives,. recipes (she’s a Food Network champion and founded Nadia Cakes),. I’ve since devoured New York Times bestselling author Abby Jimenez’s entire catalog to date, known for repeated elements like: They also tend to be more plot-driven, whereas I prefer character-driven stories.īUT… Bookstagram sucked me into trying Abby Jimenez’s popular The Happy Ever After Playlist when it came out, and I too ADORED this sweet and light “rock star romance”– so much that I even added it to my list of favorite love stories of all time. I’m very logical, and they tend to feel too idealized for me. If you can’t get enough of modern romance novels, learn about all the Abby Jimenez books in order to read them as you devour her delightful catalog of love stories.Ĭonfession: I am generally not much of a romance book reader. Spock, and the discovery of an invisible 'Planet of the Titans'." ( The Star Trek Compendium, 4th ed., p. The ancient astronauts being the crew of the Enterprise who have plunged through a black hole and arrived at Earth in the time of Cro-Magnon man!" In the words of author Allan Asherman, " The script concerned the disappearance of Captain Kirk, the resignation of Mr. 8) described this plot as " a curious tale with overtly Von Daniken (Chariots of the Gods ) ideas that Man's early evolution had been influenced by ancient astronauts. ( The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, pp. After introducing fire to the primitive Humans living at the time, Kirk and his crew were revealed to be the legendary Titans. Ultimately, Captain Kirk was forced to take the Enterprise into the black hole to defeat the Cygnans, a decision that sent the starship and its crew backwards in time thousands of years and into orbit around Earth. As the planet was pulled into a black hole, the USS Enterprise must also face off against the Cygnans, the alien race responsible for the disappearance of the Titans. As written by Chris Bryant and Allan Scott, the film was set after the five-year mission depicted in the series, and involved Starfleet competing with the Klingons for claim to the supposed homeworld of the mythical Titans, a technologically advanced race, long thought extinct. |