![]() The menstrual cycle repeats from puberty (starting anywhere from the age of nine to 16) to menopause (which is when periods naturally stop – usually somewhere around the age of 50). When there’s no pregnancy (which is most of the time), the menstrual cycle repeats itself over and over again. If a pregnancy occurs, the menstrual cycle stops cycling. ![]() Under the influence of hormones, mostly oestrogen and progesterone, the menstrual cycle is a series of changes that the uterus and other female reproductive organs go through about once a month. The purpose of the menstrual cycle is to prepare the uterus for pregnancy. The menstrual cycle is a mystery to a lot of people, but it needn’t be! Half of the earth’s population has a menstrual cycle and without it, the human species wouldn’t even exist! Obviously, it’s a common, normal, and important part of life, so shouldn’t we all understand it? We think so. By Dr Melisa Holmes, OB-GYN & Founder of Girlology ![]()
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![]() ![]() “Angelique Lovelie Badeau deserves to come home.”īest-selling author of the long-running suspense series starring Boston Police Det. Maybe the question shouldn’t be why I am doing this, but why isn’t everyone looking? Too many will never be found, often based solely on the color of their skin. ![]() Elkin, a white middle-aged recovering alcoholic, plans to “rent a place, find a job, and question the neighbors.” Mattapan is a rough, poor, crime-ridden, mostly-Haitian neighborhood. Walked out of her school on a Friday afternoon in November and then … Poof. “Angelique disappeared eleven months ago from Mattapan, Boston. Three weeks before, she found a woman drowned in her truck at the bottom of a lake, now she is on her way to Boston, to search for a missing teenager. A self-described crazy woman, Frankie Elkin spends her days searching for people who have been lost. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can’t re-live your own love story, because by the time you’ve realized you’re living it, it’s over. But in order to keep them, I had to be in on their secrets.Secrets that cost us everything to keep.That’s the novelty of fiction versus reality. I gave into temptation and fed the beating beast, which grew thirstier with every slash, every strike, every blow.Triple Falls wasn’t at all what it seemed, nor were the men that swept me under their wing. ![]() Published by Independently published on July 28, 2020Ĭan you keep a secret?I grew up sick.Let me clarify.I grew up believing that real love stories include a martyr or demand great sacrifice to be worthy.Because of that, I believed it, because I made myself believe it, and I bred the most masochistic of romantic hearts, which resulted in my illness.When I lived this story, my own twisted fairy tale, it was unbeknownst to me at the time because I was young and naïve. ![]() Flock (The Ravenhood Duet, #1) by Kate Stewart This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from Wordsmith Publicity in exchange for an honest review. ![]() New Releases, Reviews New Release: Flock by Kate Stewart ![]() ![]() ![]() Neo is also featured as one of the main characters in the novel, RWBY: Roman Holiday. In " Tea Amidst Terrible Trouble", she was possessed by the Curious Cat after driving Ruby to ascend, who intended on using her body to leave the Ever After.Īfter the defeat of the Curious Cat in " Of Solitude and Self", she chose to stay in the Ever After instead of returning to Remnant, undergoing ascension. She is one of the secondary antagonists of Volume 9. ![]() In " The Final Word", she was betrayed by Cinder in the Central Location and knocked into the void, finding herself in the Ever After. After the Fall of Beacon, she hunts down Cinder Fall in revenge for Roman's death, but subsequently joins forces with her, shifting her target to Ruby Rose. She first appeared in " Painting the Town.". Her weapon of choice is called Hush, a parasol with a concealed blade. She was the partner of Roman Torchwick, with the two sharing a close possible romantic bond. Neopolitan, born Trivia Vanille and now better known as Neo, is a major antagonist in RWBY. Casey Lee Williams (English, BlazBlue). ![]() ![]() ![]() However, just before your lungs fill to capacity, drop your lower jaw – and blow out some of your air below the harmonica. Now try playing that G chord again, just like before. So, you will need to learn how to dump air – something I learned from watching 48 chord harmonica players. When you play rhythm, the song might stay in that draw chord for some time. When your lungs fill, breathe out until they are empty. With your clicking tongue, establish a beat. Click your tongue against the roof of your mouth to stop the flow of air. Once your lungs are filled to capacity breathe out and sound the blow chord. Start with the 2-3-4 draw chord on a C harmonica. You’ll especially want your mouth and throat relaxed to maximize tone. ![]() Don’t try to blow and suck air, just breathe and relax your embouchure as much as possible. When you chord, you are playing three notes at a time and you will need to maximize your lung power. If you’re playing bluegrass, versatile rhythm skills will earn you – and your instrument – considerable cred. If you want to develop solid rhythm skills, Beginner lessons will get you off to a strong start. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just how had her husband's previous wife so mysteriously disappeared? Had she really gone on an expedition up the Amazon River? Was it likely that she would have left her two young daughters for so long? And wasn't there something disconcertingly sinister about the fact that the two governesses for the children had simply vanished into the night?After all, the body in that grave had to belong to someone. Even the shock of discovering that he had been married before, and had twin daughters, could not diminish all she felt for him.īut then one day, in a rain-sodden field in the Kent countryside, the discovery of a small shallow grave was to raise to the forefront of Emma's mind all the doubts she had been at such pains to keep repressed. Admittedly it was something of a whirlwind marriage to husband, Barnaby, who remained in many ways a stranger, a man she had only recently met, but she felt she loved him with all her heart. Dorothy Eden (19121982) was the internationally acclaimed author of more than forty bestselling Gothic, romantic suspense, and historical novels. It seemed to Emma as if her happiness could never end. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Nick cooperates with investigators, including lead detectives Rhonda Boney and Jim Gilpin, answering their questions about his marriage with self-admitted lies, Amy recounts the heady early days of her and Nick’s whirlwind romance. When Nick receives a call telling him that his cat has gotten out, Nick drives to his and Amy’s large home in the suburb of North Carthage to find the front door standing wide open, and his wife “gone.”Īs the investigation begins, Nick’s present alternates with diary entries written by Amy over the course of the last seven years. From Nick and Go’s conversation at the bar, it becomes clear that Nick and Amy’s marriage is stale and uninteresting. After being laid off two years ago from their magazine jobs in the midst of the Great Recession, Nick and his wife, Amy Elliott Dunne, moved from Brooklyn to Carthage to help care for Nick’s ailing mother, Maureen, who has since passed away. On the hot July morning of his fifth wedding anniversary Nick Dunne arrives at the bar he co-owns with his twin sister, Go, in their hometown of Carthage, Missouri. Amy, 10 Months, 2 Weeks, 6 Days After the Return Nick Dunne, Twenty Weeks After the Return ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her first novel, Slammed, was self-published in 2012, but it wasn’t until 2021 that her books really started popping off worldwide, and since then her fan base, which has dubbed itself the CoHorts, has grown in both number and level of devotion. While there are “overnight success” elements to Hoover’s career arc, her popularity has been years in the making. ![]() She is the best-selling author in America now and likely for the foreseeable future. Even if you’ve never read a Colleen Hoover book, chances are you’ve seen one - if not on a bookstore or library shelf, then perhaps on the New York Times Best-Seller List (more than half of the top-ten titles in paperback fiction bear her name) or on TikTok (where her readers regularly work themselves into an emotional frenzy). ![]() ![]() ![]() Gregory Christie was named a top children's book illustrator by the New York Times and has received three Coretta Scott King Honors. ![]() Lewis), Dark Sons, The Road to Paris, and Words with Wings were each awarded Coretta Scott King Honors. Nikki Grimes won the Children's Literature Legacy Award, which honors an author or illustrator whose books have made a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children over a period of years. Her books Meet Danitra Brown (illustrated by Floyd Cooper), Jazmin's Notebook, Talkin' About Bessie (illustrated by E.B. Additionally, her book Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope (illustrated by Bryan Collier) was a New York Times bestseller, and she was acknowledged as an NAACP Image Award Finalist in 1993 for her book Malcolm X: a Force for Change. ![]() Among the many accolades she has received are the Golden Dolphin Award (2005),the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children (2006), the Coretta Scott King Award (2003) for Bronx Masquerade, and the Horace Mann Upstanders Award (2011) for Almost Zero: A Dyamonde Daniel Book. Nikki Grimes is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of dozens of children's and young adult books as well as a poet and journalist. ![]() ![]() During their two-week vacation, the couples enjoy going to dinner as a group, having drinks and chatting. ![]() They bond quickly as they are all British and live within driving distance of each other. The couples - Barry and Angela, Ed and Sue, David and Marina - meet at the swimming pool of a Sarasota resort. The chilling plot realistically intensifies as true personalities are revealed. That scenario provides a compelling plot for Mark Billingham’s stand-alone thriller, “Rush of Blood.” Best known for his hard-boiled police procedurals about Tom Thorne, Billingham tones down the violence and smoothly integrates character studies of three couples into an absorbing psychological thriller. But how many people keep the relationship going post-vacation, and just how well do they know each other? It’s a common situation - strangers meet on vacation, strike up a quick friendship and promise to keep in touch once everyone returns home. ![]() “Rush of Blood” (Atlantic Monthly Press), by Mark Billingham ![]() |