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![]() The bears have their bile extracted on a normal basis, for use not just in traditional medicine, but in addition in many ordinary household solutions. In 2019 a moon bear was spotted living in the border area between North Korea and South Korea.Īlso in 2019, The Journal Of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine published research on how to preserve the populations of Asiatic bears and deal with the bear bile issue. The bears can communicate with each other, but we don’t think they use SMH and TBH or a GIF on twitter – at least not yet. These bears have a vocabulary of their own as they frequently make clucking sounds while playing and huffing sounds for warning. It is for this reason that one gall bladder of this bear is sold for as much as twenty thousand dollars in Korea, a catch considered so unique much like the elusive tasmanian wolf.Ĭhina, Russia, and North Korea have the biggest farming of moon bears. ![]() Customers usually visit the farms to select the bear for themselves for slaughter. Being caged for extracting their bile juice regularly for Chinese medicines the population of these bears has come down to mere sixteen thousand, a practice similar to the greed in pursuit of how much it costs to buy crab blood. ![]() ![]() They make dens in caves and can sleep in trees also. These bears are about four to six feet tall and owing to their strong claws they can climb trees easily and can swim as well. ![]() ![]() ![]() Those plans entail getting out of town, traveling and writing about the world. Reena is sixteen years old and with her good marks in school has plans for her life. In the Before chapters, the back story which takes place two years earlier, of Reena and Sawyer, is presented. Reena still works in the family restaurant while taking classes at Broward College. Reena now lives with her daughter, Hannah, and her father and stepmother, Soledad. ![]() Aaron who works as a treats Reena very well. But Reena is dating Aaron, her best friend, Shelby's, brother. Upon his return, Sawyer has learned that he has a daughter and now seems intent upon re-establishing a relationship with Reena. Sawyer left town at the time Reena learned she was pregnant with their child and she hasn't seen him in two years. The novel opens with an After chapter describing Reena's unexpected meeting with her ex-boyfriend, twenty year old, Sawyer LeGrande, in a 7-Eleven store. The novel is narrated by eighteen year old Serena (Reena) Montero, who tells in flashback chapters titled Before what happened to her in her junior year alternating with After chapters that tell about her life as it is today. How To Love is a cautionary tale about a young woman whose promising future is derailed by her relationship with a troubled older boy. ![]() ![]() The emphasis on connecting readers and books and the care of books pays homage to librarianship. The unifying metaphor of life as story is a powerful one, as is the theme of the transformative power of books. Even the furnishings and architectural details of the old-fashioned library in which the books “nest” like flying birds recall the codex. The motif of the bound, printed book is everywhere. Paradoxically, the animated books of the film and app are captured as though in a series of frozen frames. Filled with both literary (Shakespeare, Humpty-Dumpty) and film references ( The Wizard of Oz, The Red Balloon and Buster Keaton), the picture book version of Joyce's story has a quiet contemplative charm that demonstrates the continuing allure of the printed page. ![]() ![]() Morris Lessmore, whose personal library is blown away in a terrible wind but who finds meaning caring for the books he finds in a marvelous library. The story, in a nutshell, concerns the titular book-loving Mr. ![]() Ironically, this book in praise of books first appeared as a much-praised iPad app and Academy Award–winning animated short film. ![]() ![]() ![]() The second is that there’s a 2-year-old boy missing from the town in which she and her 13 -year-old son are currently living. We know she has secrets, but what exactly are they? This is part of mystery #1. ![]() Now, with a new publisher, William Morrow, Lori returns with THE DAY I DIED (April 11, 2017), an unforgettable tale o f a mother’s search for a lost boy.Īnna Winger is on the run. And then her second book, LITTLE PRETTY THINGS, won the Mary Higgins Clark award and was named a 2015 “most arresting crime novel” by the notoriously cranky Kirkus Reviews. Lori Rader-Day burst onto the literary scene in 2014 with her debut mystery, THE BLACK HOUR, which won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel and was a finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. THE DAY I DIED explores the fascinating and unique aspects of handwriting analysis to help track down a killer/kidnapper told in a dark, glimmering prose. ![]() ![]() May 2012: Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin.May 2010: Sucks to Be Me by Kimberly Pauley.March 2015: My Secret Guide to Paris by Lisa Schroeder.March 2011: The Body Finder series by Kimberly Derting.March 2010: The Lonely Hearts Club by Elizabeth Eulberg.June 2014: The Stepsister’s Tale by Tracy Barrett.July 2014: Brazen by Katherine Longshore.July 2013: The Watchers Series by Veronica Wolff.July 2012: Innocent Darkness by Suzanne Lazear.July 2011: The Revenant by Sonia Gensler. ![]()
![]() ![]() Mum doesn’t say it, but I know she doesn’t want me to work on cars, and she definitely won’t want me to race. Mum gets mad though when I get it on my clothes, but I don’t care. I love when Uncle John lets me work on the cars with him, and I get all covered in oil and dirt. He’s my dad’s best friend and my godfather. He’s not my real uncle, but I always call him that. I want to race like Dad does or maybe even be a mechanic like Uncle John. I won’t have time for boys when I’m older. Apparently, he’s going to keep a cricket bat by the front door to beat away any boyfriends I might have. My dad says I look like her, too, and that he’s in for a nightmare when I grow up. ![]() ![]() I wish I were small and petite, like the other girls in my class.Įveryone says that I look just like my mum though, which is a nice thing because she’s the most beautiful person in the world. ![]() I’m ten and taller than most of the boys in my class. She used to be a model, but she gave it up when she had me. She’s really beautiful, my mum, and very tall. I smile up at her, trying to make her feel better. I wriggle my fingers a little as they start to feel funny. He’s the champion, and he’s about to be the champion again. I don’t get nervous, ever, simply because my dad is the best driver in the world. I don’t know why she gets nervous though. I know she gets nervous, so I let her squish the life out of my hand because I know holding it makes her feel better. She always does this when Dad’s racing, but I don’t mind. She looks worried, and she’s holding my hand tight. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Autobiography of Malcolm X is a written testament of a complex man operating in a complex and evolving society. His views were shaped by the times and by the conditions of his upbringing and the relationship of that to our nation. ![]() No one however should commit to judging Malcolm unless they can objectively learn from the man. Either being for his sense of pride and ethnic nationalism or against what one would consider ‘radical’ views. And many people to this day feel very strongly about what he represented. And why not? He spoke with a conviction that he was always right, even when he would later believe he was misguided. Malcolm X may still be considered a controversial character. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kerala boat accident is a ‘cocktail of callousness, greed and apathy’, says High Court.Basic structure of India is ‘Hindu rashtra’, says Union minister SP Singh Baghel. ![]() ![]() Watch pilot’s poetic in-flight announcement that got passengers laughing out loud.‘Sirf Ek Banda Kaafi Hai’ trailer: Manoj Bajpayee plays a lawyer who prosecutes a godman.IPL 2023: Virat Kohli becomes first batter to cross 7,000 runs in tournament – ‘Full of gratitude’.Ramachandra Guha: How BJP is distorting Indian history to serve its majoritarian agenda.A new book examines the many forms of discrimination that women scientists face in Indian labs.IPL 2023, CSK vs MI: Rohit Sharma’s poor run of form continues, sets record for most ducks in IPL.Nine years after Muzaffarnagar riots, the only woman who pursued rape charges still awaits justice.On Rabindranath Tagore’s 162nd birth anniversary, read five newly translated poems from ‘Gitanjali’.My Kerala Story: Finding liberation in Malabar. ![]() ![]() What we become witness to instead is a fascinating and eerie portrait of the nature of high school alienation itself - the savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety and ennui, the longing for escape.Īs hypnotically beautiful as it is horrifying, Black Holetranscends its genre by deftly exploring a specific American cultural moment in flux and the kids who are caught in it- back when it wasn’t exactly cool to be a hippie anymore, but Bowie was still just a little too weird. ![]() ![]() There’s no turning back.Īs we inhabit the heads of several key characters - some kids who have it, some who don’t, some who are about to get it - what unfolds isn’t the expected battle to fight the plague, or bring heightened awareness to it, or even to treat it. The disease is manifested in any number of ways - from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) - but once you’ve got it, that’s it. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. A handful of comics have made it into the canon of respectable modern literature, but none of them are as jarring as Charles Burns’s Black Hole. ![]() Hardback with dust jacket, 368 pages, English, 24,4 x 17,5 x 4,5 cm ![]() |