The first time I looked into the face of opioid addiction, it was of a heavily made-up woman in her late fifties at a food bank in eastern Kentucky. Years in the making, its ruinous consequences will stretch years into the future. McGreal tells the story, in terms both broad and intimate, of people hit by a catastrophe they never saw coming. But American Overdose exposes the powerful forces they were up against, including the pharmaceutical industry’s coopting of the Food and Drug Administration and Congress in the drive to push painkillers - resulting in the resurgence of heroin cartels in the American heartland. The starting point for McGreal’s deeply reported investigation is the miners promised that opioid painkillers would restore their wrecked bodies, but who became targets of “drug dealers in white coats.”Ī few heroic physicians warned of impending disaster. Journeying through lives and communities wrecked by the epidemic, Chris McGreal reveals not only how Big Pharma hooked Americans on powerfully addictive drugs, but the corrupting of medicine and public institutions that let the opioid makers get away with it. The opioid epidemic has been described as “one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine.” But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the history of greed, corruption, and indifference that pushed the US into consuming more than 80 percent of the world’s opioid painkillers. A comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic - devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusions
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As the intruder is investigated Neena and William’s affair comes to light. Luckily, the gun misfires and Matt is able to chase the intruder out of the house. One night, Matt wakes up to an intruder with a gun in his mouth. Matt, Neena’s husband also falls off the balcony of their house and Cat gets poisoned at Neena’s house party. Towards the end of the book (view spoiler) [ Neena and William have an affair. William is their prize-he comes off as bland and manipulative, and not that smart, but he’s an attractive, powerful, and handsome millionaire, so I guess he’s worth it? I didn’t like either one of them but was interested in seeing how their game would play out. Providing Neena with the excuse she needs to insert herself into their lives and marriage.Ĭhapters alternate between Cat and Neena. In a calculated move, Neena accepts a corporate life coach position with William’s firm, and along with her husband, purchases the abandoned fixer-upper next door. More pointedly, William and everything he’s so willingly provided for his wife. Her days are spent lounging around their estate, gossiping with friends, and chairing an annual event. Cat is a woman who lives a picture-perfect life alongside her handsome, uber-successful husband, William. Every Last Secret follows two women, Cat and Neena. Antarctica was mapped when its coasts were still free of ice. The Americas were mapped thousands of years before Columbus. Not only were these unknown people more advanced in mapmaking than any people prior to the 18th Century, it appears that they mapped all the continents. Working with his students over a period of seven years, Hapgood has discovered evidence that many of these maps must have originated in a civilization in some ways much more advanced scientifically than Europe in the 16th Century, or than the ancient civilizations of Greece, Egypt, and Babylonia. He has found the evidence in many beautiful maps long known to scholars, the so-called Portolano charts of the Middle Ages, and in other maps until now thought to have originated around the time of Columbus. Hapgood has produced the first concrete evidence of the existence of such a civilization. They have even claimed that this lost civilization was almost as advanced as ours today. Some scholars have long claimed that a world civilization existed thousands of years ago - long before Egypt. She always wanted to be a writer and wrote her first ‘novel’ when she was nine, filling in countless Woolworths’ exercise books as she grew up. Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945, but spent most of her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames. And until then, no-one is going to be better at the Dare Game than me! Still, it will have to do until my real mum comes and gets me. No designer clothes, when I really need them. Of how my foster-mum, Cam, has turned out to be a real meanie. I've bought a big fat purple notebook for writing down all my mega-manic ultra-scary stories in. I'm Tracy Beaker, the Great Inventor of Extremely Outrageous Dares - and I dare YOU not to say this is the most brilliant story ever! Tracy is back on TV in My Mum Tracy Beaker! Watch the major TV series on CBBC and iPlayer.Ī fabulous new cover look for this brilliant story starring Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson's most enduring and popular character. Le ha anche descritte in modo diverso, rendendole molto meno umane e più legate alle piante. Aprilynne Pike ha deciso invece di rivisitare la cosa, facendole diventare fondalmente buone, per ora, e mettendole a difesa del loro regno. Oddio, non una bellissima lettura, ma non lo schifo che pensavo.ĭi solito parlando di fate si ci concentra sul loro essere creature ambigue, di solito piuttosto malvagie e manipolatrici. Riguardandolo, il fatto che ci sia un commento di Stephanie Meyer non prometteva nulla di buono (odio profondo per Twilight e compagnia bella), ma alla fine non si è rivelato malaccio. Questo libro era di mia sorella, e non mi ricordo perché l'ho messo nella mia TBR sinceramente. Penso che questo (assieme al libro che recensirò giovedì) sia il primo che leggo a riguardo, se non si contanto i libri di Shadowhunters in cui le fate comunque appaiono. Ma non quanto quello che succede improvvisamente al suo corpo e che la porterà a scoprire chi è davvero e qual è la sua missione.Īllora, devo dire che le fate non sono esattamente il mio forte. Ora che si sono trasferiti, i genitori la fanno andare in una scuola normale, cosa che certamente la destabilizza. La giovane Laurel è una ragazza particolare: il suo corpo riesce ad ingerire solo frutta e verdura, non mostra i segni tipici dello sviluppo della sua età, e ha passato tutta la sua vita a studiare a casa. The marketing copy for this novel calls it a “fantasy romance,” but I don’t think that’s accurate. (I’m not sure why, because I do like podcasts, but I don’t like audiobooks very much.) Since romance fantasy is not thick on the ground, I will Hoover up anything that even seems subgenre-adjacent. I was squee-level excited when her Audible original fantasy novel for adults, The Bridge Kingdom, was released on Kindle earlier this year. Jensen since her debut novel, Stolen Songbird, which is about a beautiful songstress who is stolen away to live under a mountain with trolls and gets married to a very dreamy troll prince. The fact that I enjoyed the book quite a lot until that point made my disappointment even more intense. The Bridge Kingdom started out incredibly strong, but things that happened in the last 15% or so of the book soured the reading experience for me. I keep reading books that are very hard for me to grade, because I have conflicting reactions to them. Theme: Arranged Marriage, Enemies to Lovers, Political Genre: New Adult, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy Although the women's connection to nature at times feels like an unneeded dose of the supernatural in this already gripping novel, the ways in which they are subjected to the whims and cruelties of male dominance are chilling and realistic. In the present day, Kate Ayres has fled her abusive live-in boyfriend before he can discover that she’s pregnant, taking refuge in her great-aunt Violet’s cottage as she attempts to rebuild her life and protect herself and her baby. Hundreds of years later, in the early 1940s, Violet Ayres chafes against the heavy-handed scrutiny and control of her father and struggles to learn more about her mother, Elizabeth Weyward, who died under mysterious circumstances when Violet was young. In 1619, healer Altha is put on trial for witchcraft after having been seen near a field where a farmer is trampled by his cows and because her own mother was suspected of being a witch due to her involvement in treating people in the village. But they are also all victimized and controlled by men in a variety of ways. Over the course of centuries, the Weyward women of Crows Beck in Cumbria, England, have shared a common gift: the ability to connect deeply with and seemingly communicate with nature, particularly animals. Three generations of women struggle against the bounds of patriarchy in this debut novel. In a world where curtseying, deportment and etiquette are the backbone of the curriculum, and tea is still served by uniformed maids, this is a glorious slice of fantastical escapism. Wells and Wong return for another gripping tale of blackguardly behaviour at Deepdean, where old allies have become foes and old certainties are in flux. This teen murder-mystery, set in an exclusive girls’ school in 1936 is reminiscent of Enid Blyton’s boarding school novels, but with a hefty dose of Agatha Christie’s gruesome, puzzling plotlines. Will the restrictive school regimen prevent the girls from maintaining their superb record of crime-solving or will their insider knowledge be the thing that gives them the edge over conventional detectives? But all that changes when their friend and fellow teen detective, Beanie, witnesses a shocking incident from the window of their dormitory.Īs Daisy and her cronies slip in to full-on investigation mode, the body count rises steadily but evidence seems thin on the ground. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Top Marks for Murder (A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery). Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. At Deepdean boarding school for girls, Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are anticipating a rather tedious end to the summer term. Top Marks for Murder (A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery) - Kindle edition by Stevens, Robin. When Carly’s costar is sidelined, Lauren must decide whether renewing a long-forgotten dream will jeopardize what she has percolating with Carly. Added bonus: The uptight stage manager is a sexy distraction. If schlepping it onstage will raise her star again, she’ll listen to her pesky agent. So, why is their chemistry turning her the hell on?Īfter partying her way through her twenties and ruining a successful film career, Carly Daniel has to take whatever she can get. Unfortunately, the resident director has cast celebrity, Carly Daniel: Headstrong, entitled, and always late. Instead, Lauren established herself as a successful stage manager at the esteemed McAllister Theatre. After years of unsuccessful auditions, performing just wasn’t in the cards. Yes, her nightgown snagged and brought the set tumbling down, but she was hooked. Lauren Prescott had dreamed of being an actress since she was cast as Wendy in her junior high production of Peter Pan. Hi Lynette and welcome to The Rest Is Still Unwritten! I'm super excited to have you answer some questions and talk to you about your debut novel Akarnae.įirst off, congrats on getting Akarnae out into the world! I know it must be a very exciting time for you right now how does it feel having your novel out there for people to read? Will Alex risk her entire world-and maybe even her life-to save Medora? Only she can save the Medorans, but what if doing so prevents her from ever returning home? is looming.Īn unwilling pawn in a deadly game, Alex's shoulders bear the crushing weight of an entire race's survival. She soon starts to enjoy her bizarre new world and the friends who embrace her as one of their own, but strange things are happening at Akarnae, and Alex can't ignore her fear that something unexpected. While waiting for him to reappear, Alex attends Akarnae Academy, Medora's boarding school for teenagers with extraordinary gifts. Desperate to return home, she learns that only a man named Professor Marselle can help her. With just one step, sixteen-year-old Alexandra Jennings's world changes-literally.ĭreading her first day at a new school, Alex is stunned when she walks through a doorway and finds herself stranded in Medora, a fantasy world full of impossibilities. |