![]() ![]() (This play is fictional, but in the original text, the Actors rehearse the real Pirandello play The Rules of the Game.) The Leading Man objects to the “ridiculous” chef’s hat he is asked to wear, and the Manager declares that the play-within-a-play will turn out to be a “glorious failure.” ![]() The Manager walks onstage and declares it is in fact time for a rehearsal-they will be working through the Second Act of a Luigi Pirandello play, Mixing it Up. Six Characters in Search of an Author begins by defying the conventions of theater: when the audience enters, the curtain is raised and the stage is “as it usually is during the day time.” Some of the actors, who themselves play theater Actors, hang out on stage like they might have during their rehearsals. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Compassionate, resourceful and feisty heroine Around me, a cheer rises up from the crowd. It takes everything in me not to sick myself at the sight. “Blood sprays, and part of the man’s body goes one way, the rest, another. And so she must make the ultimate choice: surrender to War and watch humankind fall, or sacrifice everything and stop him. However, if there’s one thing Miriam has learned, it’s that love and war cannot coexist. ![]() But there’s another side to him, one that’s gentle and loving and dead set on winning her over, and she might not be strong enough to resist. Now Miriam faces a terrifying future, one where she watches her world burn town by town, and the one man responsible for it all is her seemingly indestructible “husband”. But when the massive and terrifying horseman corners Miriam, he calls her his wife, and instead of killing her, he takes her back to his camp. There is no surviving this, especially not once Miriam catches the eye of War himself. Houses are burning, the streets run red with blood, and a traitorous army is massacring every last resident. The day Jerusalem falls, Miriam Elmahdy knows her life is over. They came to earth, and they came to end us all. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity. They came to earth-Pestilence, War, Famine, Death-four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() 3 Anesthesiologists began focusing their efforts on reducing anesthesia-related adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes, including airway-associated morbidity and mortality. In the mid-twentieth century, general anesthesia for cesarean delivery gave rise to airway complications, including failed tracheal intubations, maternal aspiration, and Mendelsohn syndrome (aspiration pneumonitis). 2 In the early twentieth century, “twilight sleep,” a combination of morphine and scopolamine, became common, but was ultimately abandoned due to its depressant effects on the neonate. 2 Ultimately, the clinical use of ether and chloroform for labor analgesia was not driven by the scientific community, but by a shift in the social attitudes of patients who demanded it, persuaded by public rhetoric from feminist advocates. ![]() Women’s rights to request and receive labor pain relief was controversial-religious mores of the nineteenth century viewed pain, including labor pain, as divine punishment, and interference was considered sinful. ![]() The medical community expressed concerns about safety and toxicity. 1 While Simpson publicized this intervention as effective and innovative, he expressed reservations about its unknown effects on labor and the fetus. 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Half-angel Trinity and her bonded gargoyle protector, Zayne, have been working with demons to stop the apocalypse while avoiding falling in love. ![]() 1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. ![]() Don’t miss book two of the fantastical Harbinger trilogy from No. Dangerous secrets and forbidden desires lead to shocking consequences. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was raised to be strong, but planting the seeds of rebellion in Norta is a tougher job than expected-until she stumbles upon a connection that may prove to be the key to the entire operation: Mare Barrow. The second novella focuses on the life of Farley as she works to lead an uprising, eventually finding a leader in Mare. ![]() The first novella tells the story of the young Coriane and Tiberias. Queen Coriane, first wife of King Tiberias, keeps a secret diary-how else can she ensure that no one at the palace will use her thoughts against her? Coriane recounts her heady courtship with the crown prince, the birth of a new prince, Cal, and the potentially deadly challenges that lay ahead for her in royal life.Ĭaptain Farley exchanges coded transmissions with the resistance as she travels the land recruiting black market traders, smugglers, and extremists for her first attempt at an attack on the capital. A compilation of two short novellas, 'Cruel Crown' provides a glimpse into the past, as well as a bit more insight into the story's present. ![]() Buy Angelus: The Books of Raziel by Sabrina Benulis and Read this Book on Kobos. Discover the truth of Norta's bloody past in this paperback bind-up of two novella-length prequels to #1īestselling author Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen series. Cruel Crown (Ren Queen 0.5, 1.5) by Victoria Aveyard January 5th. ![]() ![]() ![]() When they find themselves embroiled in a treasonous plot, can they trust each other with their hearts, their secrets. But kissing each other is almost as much fun as arguing, and their affair burns hotter than either of them expects. When she mockingly challenges him to show her what she’s missing by not getting married, Tristan shocks them both by accepting her indecent proposal: one week of clandestine meetings, after which they’ll go their separate ways. Description: The Davies and Montgomery families have been locked in an ancient. Wickedly proper architect Tristan needs a respectable woman to wed, but he’s never stopped wanting bold, redheaded Carys. A Daring Pursuit (Ruthless Rivals 2) by Kate Bateman Free eBooks Download. There’s only one person who’s never bought her act-the only man who makes her heart race: Tristan Montgomery, one of her family’s greatest rivals. Outwardly confident and carefree, inside she’s disillusioned with both men and love. For the past two seasons, she’s scandalized the ton with her outrageous outfits and brazen ways in a futile bid to deter potential suitors. Staying single is the only way to hide the secret that could ruin her-and her family-if it was revealed. But it’s a thin line between love and hate.Ĭarys Davies is doing everything in her power to avoid marriage. ![]() The Davies and Montgomery families have been locked in an ancient feud. ![]() ![]() ![]() John Joseph Adams has called it "uproariously funny". "Allamagoosa" won the 1955 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. Two days later, the entire fleet is ordered to be grounded, and the crew realizes that "offog" was a typo of "off.dog", short for "official dog", and the headquarters are now grounding the fleet to conduct an investigation about how an animal could come apart under gravitational stress. The ship is soon ordered back to Earth for overhaul the crew, fearing that their deception will soon be uncovered, try to get rid of the "offog" and message headquarters that it "came apart under gravitational stress". The plan seems to work, and the ship passes the inspection. They devise a plan to pass the inspection anyway: going on the assumption that nobody else would know what it is either, they simply manufacture a small box with blinkenlights and feed the commanding officer some technobabble about what the device does. While preparing for an inspection, the crew of the starship Bustler reread their manifest and discover that they are supposed to have something called an "offog" however, nobody knows what that is. ![]() "Allamagoosa" is a science fiction short story by English author Eric Frank Russell, originally published in the May 1955 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and collected in The Hugo Winners (1962), The Best Of Eric Frank Russell (1978), and Major Ingredients: The Selected Short Stories of Eric Frank Russell (2000). 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