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"From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells. Rich with Mukherjee's revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, The Song of the Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer's exploration...
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Get the Summary of Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Song of the Cell in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Mukherjee begins this magnificent story in the late 1600s, when a distinguished English polymath, Robert Hooke, and an eccentric Dutch cloth-merchant, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek looked down their handmade microscopes. What they saw introduced a radical concept that swept through biology and...
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A small-town girl becomes a world-famous artist in this powerful coming-of-age novel from one of the twentieth-century's most celebrated authors From childhood piano lessons to center stage at the Metropolitan Opera House, The Song of the Lark is the poignant story of an artist discovering herself. Fiercely independent and singularly talented, Thea Kronborg realizes at an early age that she is destined to leave her family and the frontier town of...
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""A gripping historical novel that tells the little-known story of Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII. 1939: Two young girls meet in Shanghai, also known as the "Paris of the East". Beautiful local Li and Jewish refugee Romy form a fierce friendship, but the deepening shadows of World War II fall over the women as they slip between the city's glamorous French Concession district and the teeming streets of the Shanghai Ghetto. Yet soon...
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Winter, 1211. King John's reign is harsh, and his tax collectors wring money from people near to starvation. Homeless, desperate men are reduced to walking the streets, begging for handouts, and the nuns at Hawkenlye Abbey, now under John's iron rule, are all but powerless to help. Former abbess Helewise decides to move back to her cell near the abbey, to better help the needy, putting a strain on her tentative relationship with Sir Josse D'Acquin....
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The old gods are growing restless. An ancient evil is stirring. Can they stop the coming storm?
Mercenary Casia Greythorne cares about two things: completing whatever her latest job is, and earning enough coin to buy the expensive medicine that's keeping her mentor alive.
So when the king himself offers her a job, she can't resist the massive reward he offers-even if it means working with Captain Elander, the arrogant, mysterious right-hand to that...
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When the Castle of Destiny announces they are going to put on a musical, Selena is the only Melowy who does not want to audition, but her friends are determined to help her overcome her fear.
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"How did the nightingale get its golden voice? A beautiful creation story answers the question. The mountains, trees, and plants are young and full of color, but the animals are dull and drab, so the painter gets to work. She dabs dots on ladybugs and spots on butterflies, stripes on zebras and pentagons on giraffes. Finally, she comes to the very last creature--a patient beetle--and uses her special pot of gold paint. The painter is about to pack...
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A strange final message from a ghost ship, comes alive with the voices of the past. Listen or die.
"The Song of The Lady Rose" by Gabino Iglesias one of 27 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology.
Come Join Us by the Fire S2 is the second installment of Nightfire's audio-only horror anthology, featuring a wide collection of short stories from emerging voices in the horror genre as well as longtime fan favorites. The collection showcases...
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The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem written around 1200 in Middle High German. Its anonymous poet was likely from the region of Passau. The Nibelungenlied is based on an oral tradition that has some of its origin in historic events and individuals of the 5th and 6th centuries. The poem is split into two parts: in the first part, Siegfried comes to Worms to acquire the hand of the Burgundian princess Kriemhild from her brother King Gunther....
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After the publication of his first novel and given the repercussions generated by it, the author continued the story with The Swallow's Song, a work that although it takes up a part of the previous novel, it has its own imprint. The story takes place at a time marked by revolutions, revolts and international struggles. And in the midst of this scenario, in a convulsed Argentina shaken by extreme political violence, that of the fifties, a woman tries...
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When her entire family is murdered, a young Palestinian girl is forced to pretend to be a man simply to survive. She buries her name, her identity, her past…but has she buried it so far it can't be found, even by herself? The girl now-known as Dusty is soon caught up in a whirlwind of violence and drama as the Crusades rage around her, and her turmoil rages within. And then her path crosses with the handsome and persistent Will Scarlett; a man determined...
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Bazrad might be an ex-dwarven cleric living in exile, but she's content with her life in the Woodland Realms. She has the perfect partner, a somewhat annoying best friend, and a project to keep her hands busy. When tragedy befalls her homeland, she risks everything in order to help the survivors. But there's more to this "accident" than first appears, and being back home means confronting the past Bazrad has fought to hide from her lover. Will Elarnaud...
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An absorbing investigation of chimpanzee language and communication. This edition contains a new final chapter and a new preface.
The Song of the Ape traces the individual histories of five chimpanzeest Interspersed with these histories, the book details the long history of scientists attempting (and failing) to train apes to use human grammar and language. Ultimately, the book shows that while laboratories try in vain to teach human grammar to a...
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Suzume left Kaito behind to find answers. But the break isn't clean on other side. As they both return to their separate homes, neither finds what they were expecting.
Suzume's father, the emperor, is intent on destroying Yokai. While Kaito's kingdom is under threat from human extermination.
Now they find themselves on opposite sides of a war. Can they learn to work out their differences in time before the war between the yokai and humans destroys...
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The ocean has always been a place of freedom for Lisa Whelan, and after her newborn son passes away, she returns to her family home by the sea to seek freedom from her grief. She's not expecting to meet anyone, and is caught off guard by the attraction she feels for Rachel, the part-owner of a local restaurant. That initial spark is dampened, however, when Lisa realizes that Rachel has a child. Rachel Murray has worked hard to build a life for herself...
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An evil omen clouds the sky. A song of power returns. Can one man's quest save the world?
Voran, a young warrior of Vasyllia, lives in a dying world. As blight ravages the countryside and darkness cover the sun, he can't avoid hearing the rumors of an ancient spirit that devours souls. He feels powerless to fight the oncoming devastation until a mythical creature entrusts him with a long-forgotten song. Legend has it that such a song can heal the...
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"Song of the Lake Dwellers" (approx 20 pages): Plunge into the depths of horror with "Song of the Lake Dwellers," a riveting short horror story that will send shivers down your spine. Join an unsuspecting camper as she sets out for a weekend of relaxation by a serene isolated lake. However, her peaceful escape takes a harrowing turn when she encounters creatures that defy imagination and challenge her very sense of reality. As the lake dwellers' haunting...
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Queen Nefertiti Has Fallen From FavorWill the winds of change sweep her away forever? Akhenaten and Nefertiti have done the impossible: they've led Egypt into a new age centered around the worship of the Aten. But not everyone is happy about the new Golden Age. Enemies arise, inside and outside the palace, and Nefertiti must fight to keep her children safe and her kingdom intact. Akhenaten breaks her heart, and she loses someone close to her. After...
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