![]() ![]() Langdon's worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican's holy conclave, when a messenger of theIlluminatiannounces he has hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. The Illuminati has surfaced from the shadows to carry out the final phase of it's legendary vendetta against it's most hated enemy. the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol - seared into the chest of a murdered physicist - he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She lived a frugal life, traveling between her cold-water-only apartment in New York to her family home in Alabama to care for her father. ![]() Lee continued as a reservation clerk until the late 50s, when she devoted herself to writing. Though she did not complete the law degree, she studied for a summer in Oxford, England, before moving to New York in 1950, where she worked as a reservation clerk with Eastern Air Lines and BOAC. While there, she wrote for several student publications and spent a year as editor of the campus humor magazine, "Ramma-Jamma". ![]() As a child, Lee was a tomboy and a precocious reader, and enjoyed the friendship of her schoolmate and neighbor, the young Truman Capote.Īfter graduating from high school in Monroeville, Lee enrolled at the all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery (1944-45), and then pursued a law degree at the University of Alabama (1945-50), pledging the Chi Omega sorority. ![]() Her father, a former newspaper editor and proprietor, was a lawyer who served on the state legislature from 1926 to 1938. Harper Lee, known as Nelle, was born in the Alabama town of Monroeville, the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. ![]() ![]() Bluni, an inspirational speaker as well, utilizes spiritual stretches to help readers discover the many gifts that nursing brings, such as joy, wonder, gratitude and grief. This book by registered nurse Rich Bluni, is a thought-provoking workbook that is meant to keep readers inspired by their chosen career of nursing. We’ve done a bit of research to make your reading venture a little easier and compiled our list of 25 must-read books for nurses just like you! Keep in mind, these books are in no particular order or preference, and were independently researched only to benefit our readers. There are a countless number of nursing books on the Internet and in bookstores, which means you may feel overwhelmed. Reading is one of the most effective and enjoyable ways to do this. As a nurse, it is your responsibility to inform, inspire and educate both yourself, your coworkers and your patients outside of your employer’s requirements. ![]() ![]() THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY, SPECIFICALLY NURSING, is constantly evolving as new medical technology, discoveries and innovations occur. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sure, there aren’t a ton of these books out there, but they sure pep up the autobiography assignment, I can assure you of that. Authors started writing more autobiographies and, glory be, they were done in a graphic novel format!!! Smile and Sisters by Raina Telgemeier, Sunny Side Up by Jenni Holm, El Deafo by Cece Ball, and The Dumbest Idea Ever by Jimmy Gownley. Then, like magic, something changed overnight. Not like there was a lot to pick and choose from. So depending on the age of the child I’d load them down with Knots in My Yo-Yo String by Jerry Spinelli or Marshfield Dreams by Ralph Fletcher or maybe one of the Beverly Cleary ones like A Girl From Yamhill. As it happens, middle grade authors of books for kids really like writing autobiographies. So like any good librarian I’d take the child to the biography/autobiography section and we’d start to hunt and peck. An AUTObiography, see? And there, clear as crystal, was the printed assignment. You mean a biography? No (of course not, silly librarian). ![]() A small child would walk into my room, belly up to the reader’s advisory desk, and ask for an autobiography. ![]() About ten years ago, when I was a children’s librarian in New York City, it was to be feared. I don’t pretend to know precisely why teachers give it out or what they hope child readers will get out of it. First Second (an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, Macmillan) ![]() ![]() But when, during the course of the family's annual summer retreat, she discovers her husband's betrayal, Helen wonders if she sacrificed her dreams for the wrong reasons. For decades Charlotte's mother, Helen, who married into the illustrious Wheelwright family, has been pressured to adhere to their way of life. But with her family's annual reunion and financial meeting looming, Nona must give up her days of quiet solitude to soothe her easily riled up family. More often than not, ninety-year-old Nona Wheelwright contentedly spends her time reminiscing about days gone by. ![]() ![]() But when she begins an organic garden on a portion of her grandmother's land, Charlotte learns to plant her feet in solid ground and begins to build a new life. ![]() From the New York Times bestselling author of Moon Shell Beach - a moving new novel about an unexpectedly magical summer for three generations of women At thirty, Charlotte Wheelwright remains the dreamer she's always been. ![]() |