A collection of short stories featuring some of Agatha Christie's best-loved detectives -- Hercule Poirot, Parker Pyne, Mr Satterthwaite and Harley Quin! All great crime writers have their favourite creations. Similarly, every great sleuth has his own preferred method of deduction. Take the charming Parker Pyne, who relies upon an intuitive knowledge of human nature to solve the Problem at Pollensa Bay. Or Mr Satterthwaite, who seeks inspiration through his collaboration with the enigmatic Mr Quin in The Harlequin Tea Set mystery. Then, of course, there's Poirot, whose measured analysis of motive and opportunity is tested to the full in Yellow Iris, when he receives an anonymous call about a matter of life and death.
Well duh of course it's an Agatha Christie book! It's one I have on my shelf already and it's short stories, so this is an easy one to fit in here and there when I have time.
About seventy-five years before the advent of Jesus Christ, the prophet Alma met with his son Helaman to give him counsel. The theme of the 2011 BYU Women's Conference focuses on one facet of that advice, that "by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise" (Alma 37:6).
The talks compiled here reflect that wise yet seemingly contradictory statement: Small and simple doctrines, acts, and thoughts are the basis of the great things that are accomplished through the gospel of Jesus Christ: from consistent daily prayer comes the faith and direction needed for a family to realize their dreams of living together forever; from monthly visits comes enduring friendship and inspired help; from steady scripture reading and pondering comes deep and abiding faith and insight.
The talks contained in this treasury show the benefit of taking Alma's advice and focusing on the "small and simple things" of the gospel; steady, daily progress through small and simple acts of faith that garner great rewards in our Father's kingdom.
I read the talks from 2010 a few months ago and loved them. Then this book was on sale for $3 and I grabbed it! It's a bunch of talks, so again, this is an easy one to fit in here and there.
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Topics include: How to Come Off the Pill, What Your Period Should Be Like, What Can Go Wrong, and How to Talk to Your Doctor.
The second half of the book is a comprehensive treatment guide including General Maintenance, and treatment protocols for specific period problems such as PCOS, PMS, heavy periods, endometriosis, and more.
Written by a Naturopathic Doctor with 20 years experience, this book is a compilation of everything that “works” for hormonal health.
So a few weeks ago I found a kickstarter and backed it. It was from 5th Vital Sign and it's a subject I am very passionate about. So the book came from becoming a backer. Also their kickstarter was fully funded and now they will be going around the country giving free classes! Seriously check out their webpage for tour details.
Agatha Christie's private detective Hercule Poirot and mystery devotees alike have presumed for three quarters of a century that Dr. James Sheppard, the narrator of the 1926 novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, is the only possible culprit in the title character's death. In this inquiry into the way readers perceive and writers construct the perfect mystery, Bayard, a French psychoanalyst, presents the possibility that Sheppard was wrongly accused. Examining this classic novel through a Freudian lens, Bayard discovers flaws in Poirot's deductive reasoning that led to the allegation, and shows how to find the real killer by learning how to see a certain way. That kind of seeing involves paying attention not only to the obscuring of information, but also to its omission, or "psychic blindness," a literary convention of which Christie was a master, according to Bayard. Employing his knowledge of psychoanalytic and literary theory, and the Van Dine principleAthe 20 rules of the detective mystery, established by S.S. Van Dine in the 1928 issue of the American MagazineABayard conducts a close reading of the novel to demonstrate how he came to consider Sheppard's innocence, and further suggests that we rethink the deaths of literary characters Madame Bovary and Bergotte, ask what happened to Les Liaisons dangereuses's Madame de Merteuil after her flight to Holland and contemplate who really unleashed the disaster in Emile Zola's Germinal. Bayard is an intuitive and passionate reader of the genre, and manages to build suspense while mounting his airtight argument against Sheppard as murderer and to finger the real killer.
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