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![]() ![]() Ultimately hopeful, the book empowers readers with some simple ideas for protecting themselves and their families, and changing things for the better. The chemicals that build up in our body when carpets and upholstery off-gas.Toxins in our urine caused by leaching from plastics and run-of-the-mill shampoos, toothpastes and deodorant.Flame-retardant chemicals from electronics and household dust polluting our blood. ![]() Key concerns raised in Slow Death by Rubber Duck: Parents and concerned citizens will have to read this book. 0 Ratings 0 Want to read 0 Currently reading 0 Have read Not in Library. Slow death by rubber duck the secret danger of everyday things by Rick Smith. For this book, over the period of a week - the kind of week that would be familiar to most people - the authors use their own bodies as the reference point and tell the story of pollution in our modern world, the miscreant corporate giants who manufacture the toxins, the weak-kneed government officials who let it happen, and the effects on people and families across the globe. Slow death by rubber duck by Rick Smith, 2009, Counterpoint edition, in English. This book exposes the extent to which we are poisoned every day of our lives. Smith and Lourie ingested and inhaled a host of things that surround all of us all the time. The most dangerous pollution has always come from commonplace items in our homes and workplaces. Pollution is no longer just about belching smokestacks and ugly sewer pipes - now, it's personal. ![]() Funny, thought-provoking, and incredibly disturbing, Slow Death by Rubber Duck reveals that just the living of daily life creates a chemical soup inside each of us. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, since Tanya’s clearly gone rogue in dealing with Zach, Gordon Simpson, her boss at Homeland Security, reveals an interest in the shipment that doesn’t exactly coincide with hers. Back on his home turf, Zach quickly insinuates himself into Duncan’s gang but finds himself more and more reluctant to betray his old schoolmate and his wife, Karen, who lost her virginity to Zach in high school. When Tanya Gibbs, a Homeland Security agent obsessed with avenging a friend who worked at the World Trade Center, gets wind of the shipment, she reaches out to Zach Morrow, who went to school with Duncan Crowley before he enlisted in the Coast Guard and earned a dishonorable discharge, to intercept the truck. So does Francois Oullette, president of Quebec’s Iron Steeds biker gang, after his attempt to extract a pass-through fee from the Crowleys ends with the execution of the collectors, Oullette’s nephew and his driver. Naturally, backwoods New Hampshire drug dealer Duncan Crowley, who, with his ex-con older brother, Cameron, has been charged with ensuring that the shipment arrives on schedule, has an interest in the truck. ![]() A truck laden with suspicious and perhaps dangerous cargo is crossing from Canada to the U.S., and everyone on either side of the border wants a piece of the action. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though nothing has been made official, it's looking increasingly likely that the series won't hit the streaming service until sometime in 2024. X-Men '97 still doesn't have a premiere date after being pushed back from its initial debut this fall. ![]() ![]() Logan looks pretty much the same as he did in the original series, but his mask might be slightly more streamlined? Either way, we don't expect much variation with the re-introduced characters, since X-Men '97 is set shortly after X-Men: The Animated Series concluded. During last year's Comic-Con, we got a glimpse of some of the villains who'll feature in the upcoming Disney+ X-Men '97 animated series, and now thanks to a new LEGO set, we have a first look at Wolverine in his classic yellow, blue and black costume from the '90s show. ![]() ![]() ![]() Joe-Jim allows Hugh to read books he’s never seen before and gives him access to new parts of the ship he’d never seen, such as the control room. Hugh is captured by muties, but instead of being killed, he becomes the servant and, eventually, friend of Joe-Jim, a two-headed mutie. Hugh longs to be a Scientist - the learned members of the crew who read books and tend to important ship-related duties. The book follows the long and strange journey of Hugh Hoyland. ![]() ![]() The ship is their whole world and the idea that anything could be “outside” or that the ship moves is unfathomable, much like humans on earth once thought the earth was flat or that the sun moved around us and that anything else was heresy. There are no windows, so there is no way to see outside. The bulk of the crew is killed, the ship stops moving and the remaining people on board are split into two factions: the crew and the cannibalistic “muties.” After several generations, both groups forget everything about the mission or that there is even anything that exists outside of the ship. The story takes place on a colony ship that was on its way to another world when it is seized by mutiny. ![]() Robert Heinlein frequently pokes at religion in his books, questioning and analyzing it, but “Orphans of the Sky” is a truly unique and frighteningly real story that explores and questions the origins of religion. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And Kirsty and Rachel are model tweens - respectful, polite, helpful, and clever (they usually use their brains to outwit the bad guys, rather than brawn) - who value their friendship and their secret alliance with the fairies. Though the stories are all pretty similar, they're a fine introduction to fantasy adventures for young kids there's always some kind of suspense or mild peril, but it's always resolved quickly and painlessly. Each story follows best friends Kirsty Tate and Rachel Walker as they help their fairy friends resolve a problem involving bad guy Jack Frost and his goblin minions. ![]() Parents need to know that the Rainbow Magic series is made up of several smaller sets of seven adventures, for a total of more than 200 individual books. Jack Frost can speak cruelly, which might bother kids who don't like meanness.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. Each adventure finds Kirsty, Rachel, and their fairy friends in some kind of danger/peril (typically while trying to outsmart Jack Frost and his goblins), but it's usually quite mild and resolves quickly. ![]() ![]() ![]() Le Guin & Her Cohort Wendell Berry Zadie Smith Parker Ross Macdonald & Margaret Millar Shel Silverstein Stanislaw Lem Stephen King Toni Morrison Ursula K. Wodehouse Philip Roth Rachel Carson Ralph Ellison Randy Watts Ray Bradbury Robert A. Tolkien Kurt Vonnegut Lee Child Loren Eiseley Louise Erdrich Louise Penny Lovecraft and Howard Malcolm X Margaret Atwood Marianne Moore and Her World Mo Willems Neil Gaiman Norman Mailer Octavia Butler Pat LaMarche and the Charles Bruce Foundation P.G. Thompson & New Journalism James Baldwin Joan Didion John D. White, James Thurber, and Their World Eric Sloane Georges Simenon Hunter S. Authors Agatha Christie Albert Camus & His World Alistair MacLean Amy June Bates, Artist and Book Illustrator Anthony Burgess Arthur Conan Doyle Ayn Rand The Bronte Sisters Carl Hiaasen Charles Bukowski E.B.Ali: A Life - WHISTLESTOP BOOKSHOP WHISTLESTOP BOOKSHOP ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Spies Like Us’ production glides and clowns through locations, interactions and characters in no small part thanks to Ollie Norton-Smith’s movement and sound design (the latter with Oscar Maguire). Whilst Greene’s story is very much one of trenchant dialogue (thus lending itself so well to the classic 1959 film starring Alex Guinness), this rendition has a Beyond the Fringe revue quality to it. For the audience, it is a ride of jolly good fun and some impressive improv-style deployment of just a few vacuum cleaner parts serving as feather boas and canine creatures as much as the ersatz ‘secret weapons’ from which Wormold profits. With the performing troupe of four men and two women multi-rolling as everything from local informants, German assassins and the titular Man in Havana, James Wormold (played by Alex Holley) to airplanes and taxis – this team has a brilliant time whilst working up a sweat very fitting of a Caribbean climate. ![]() As such, much jaunty amusement does indeed ensue.ĭirector Ollie Norton-Smith creates his world without the aid of any stage sets and only the most limited number of props. Spies Like Us Theatre has seized the opportunity of a balmy pre-revolutionary Cuban setting inhabited by the British ruling class in its full absurdity to go all out with their physical theatre japes. Graham Greene’s political farce about a vacuum cleaner salesman turned bogus intelligence source-for-pay to the British Secret Services has always been a brilliant example of the hilarity that can ensue when obsessions and avarice meet. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gavin chose to correct others when they got his pronouns wrong. ![]() But when his school took away his right to something as simple as using the boy’s restroom, Gavin knew he had a big decision to make.īecause there are always more choices than the ones others give you. And Gavin knew that he was a boy-even if others saw him as a girl. When you’re a kid like Gavin Grimm, you know yourself best. A Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Best Book of the Year! ![]() A celebratory and empowering story from young trans activist Gavin Grimm, two-time Stonewall Award-winning and Newbery Honor-winning author Kyle Lukoff, and illustrator J Yang follows the true story of how a young boy stood up for himself-and made history along the way. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The painting was commissioned by Sir John Aird, 1st Baronet for £4,000 in 1888. In his notes to the Augustan History, Thayer notes that "Nero did this also (Suetonius, Nero, xxxi), and a similar ceiling in the house of Trimalchio is described in Petronius, Sat., lx." (Satyricon). Although the Latin refers to "violets and other flowers", Alma-Tadema depicts Elagabalus smothering his unsuspecting guests with rose petals released from a false ceiling. The painting depicts a (probably invented) episode in the life of the Roman emperor Elagabalus, also known as Heliogabalus (204–222), taken from the Augustan History. A woman plays the double pipes beside a marble pillar in the background, wearing the leopard skin of a maenad, with a bronze statue of Dionysus, based on the Ludovisi Dionysus, in front of a view of distant hills. ![]() The Roman emperor Elagabalus reclines on a platform behind them, wearing a golden robe and a tiara, watching the spectacle with other garlanded guests. It shows a group of Roman diners at a banquet, being swamped by drifts of pink rose petals falling from a false ceiling above. The Roses of Heliogabalus is an 1888 painting by the Anglo-Dutch artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema depicting the young Roman emperor Elagabalus hosting a banquet. ![]() |