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The yellow house
A little girl's fascination with the yellow house she passes each day leads her into its garden which is full of fantastic surprises.
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The lost garden
In this eloquent and atmospheric novel, Li Ang further cements her reputation as one of our most sophisticated contemporary Chinese-language writers.The Lost Gardenmoves along two parallel lines. In one, we relive the family saga of Zhu Yinghong, whose father, Zhu Zuyan, was a gentry intellectual imprisoned for dissent in the early days of Chiang Kai-shek's rule. After his release, Zhu Zuyan literally walled himself in his Lotus Garden, which he rebuilt according to his own desires.
Forever under suspicion, Zhu Zuyan indulged as much as he could in circumscribed pleasures, though they drained the family fortune. Eventually everything belonging to the household had to be sold, including the Lotus Garden. The second storyline picks up in modern-day Taipei as Zhu Yinghong meets Lin Xigeng, a real estate tycoon and playboy. Their cat-and-mouse courtship builds against the extravagant banquets and decadent entertainments of Taipei's wealthy businessmen. Though the two ultimately marry, their high-styled romance dulls over time, forcing them on a quest to rediscover enchantment in the Lotus Garden. An expansive narrative rich with intimate detail,The Lost Gardenis a moving portrait of the losses incurred as we struggle to hold on to our passions.
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Just as Surprised as Everybody Else
Applauded crime fiction author Louise Welsh published Plague Times, a cross-genre trilogy set in the context of a flu-like pandemic, only a few years prior to the outbreak of COVID-19. The fictional nature of Plague Times feels particularly realistic and ominous when read after enduring an actual global pandemic, due to Welsh’s thorough research on epidemics and her insight into human nature. This interview is articulated around how fiction and reality converged, and this understanding of human reactions in the face of fear. The subjects of solidarity—or lack thereof—and community are key as we approach the main characters, strangers who, following their own storyline in the first two instalments of the trilogy, finally team up in the last novel. Their journey is not only that of personal growth, but also geographical; there is a deliberate choice of locations contextualizing the development of both characters and story. This conversation takes place outdoors, on a sunny day in Louise Welsh’s Glasgow neighbourhood community garden, a coincidental parallelism with the optimistic outlook that permeates an otherwise sombre topic.
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Work it out wombats!. Episode 3, Snout and about
Work It Out Wombats! follows a playful trio of marsupial siblings -- Malik, Zadie, and Zeke -- who live with their grandmother (named Super!) in a fantastical treehouse apartment complex. The Treeborhood is home to a diverse and quirky community of neighbors who just happen to be wombats, snakes, moose, kangaroos, iguanas, fish, tarsiers, and eagles! Each day drops a new challenge into the Wombats' laps, requiring them to find, debug, fix, order (then re-order) -- and create, test, and re-create when things don't go according to plan. But thanks to their creativity and collaborative spirit, their sense of family, and the role they play within the larger Treeborhood community -- as problem-solvers, friends, and neighbors -- the Wombats always win the day. Episode 3: It's All Hands on Deck! when Zadie and Malik retrace their steps to locate Zeke's beloved stuffy. Then when Zadie messes up Mr. E's shell garden, the key to fixing the pattern is ... JunJun's song.
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Stories from bug garden
A series of vignettes provide an imaginative glimpse into the secret lives of a garden's unusual insects, including a ladybug who likes making mud angels and a cricket who dreams of grand adventures.
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RATIONAL VALUES AS REFINED AESTHETIC MOLD-ERASMUS DARWIN
Medical profession helps people not only by healing the body but also the soul. Medicine has been by man's side since its beginnings, and a society that lacks care for man is doomed to suffering. Even if sometimes the doctors who became literate abandoned the path of practicing medicine, their thoughts turned consciously or not to this noble profession. As Richard Gordon said, without medicine we could not talk about the human being himself: \"Man's activities have been hopelessly open to disaster since that calamitous business of the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Best treatment is to admit, to analyze, to avoid. Medicine readily confesses its share. But what a disaster, were there no doctors amid the world's unending catalogue of disasters.\"1 Literature is just one of the languages that doctors use to relate to the world and reality. Of all the exact sciences, medicine is the closest to literary fiction. The art of the word is a reference to what defines us as people. Human gregariousness had to be supported through communication, and medicine has language as its main means of existence and of creating deep inter-human connections. Hence the naturalness of the expression of deep feelings on the page written by those who heal their fellow men physically.
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My garden
After helping her mother weed, water, and chase the rabbits from their garden, a young girl imagines her dream garden complete with jellybean bushes, chocolate rabbits, and tomatoes the size of beach balls.
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