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Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures

*Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures* is a collection of short stories written by Vincent Lam. Released in 2005, it is Lam's first published work of fiction. The stories within tell the story of several med students as they gain experience in the medical field and in life.

## Characters

* Fitz
* Ming
* Chen
* Sri

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## Stories Within

* How to Get into Medical School, Part I
* Take All of Murphy
* How to Get into Medical School, Part II
* Code Clock
* A Long Migration
* Winston
* Eli
* Afterwards
* An Insistent Tide
* Night Flight
* Contact Tracing
* Before Light

## Publisher's Summary

*Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures* invites us into a world where the ordinary becomes the critical in a matter of seconds. A formidable debut, it is a profound and unforgettable depiction of today’s doctors, patients, and hospitals.

Provocative, heartbreaking, and darkly humorous, *Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures* introduces readers to a masterful new voice in fiction. A practicing ER physician, Vincent Lam delivers a precise and intimate portrait of the medical profession in his fiction debut. These twelve interwoven stories follow a group of young doctors as they move from the challenges of medical school to the intense world of emergency rooms, evacuation missions, and terrifying new viruses. Winner of the prestigious Giller Prize, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures marks the arrival of a deeply humane and preternaturally gifted writer.

Fitz, Ming, Chen, and Sri are the four ambitious protagonists of *Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures*. They fall in love as they study for their exams, face moral dilemmas as they split open cadavers, confront police who rough up their patients, and treat schizophrenics with pathologies similar to their own. In one harrowing story set amidst the 2003 SARS crisis, which the author witnessed firsthand, two of these doctors suddenly become the patients.

## Sources

* Goodreads
* Wikipedia
Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur Charles Clarke (1917-2008) was an author. Clarke is known as one of the great authors within science fiction - being known as one of the "big three" along with Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein.

## Written works

* Against the Fall of Night
* Prelude to Space
* The Sands of Mars
* Islands in the Sky
* Childhood's End
* Earthlight
* The City and the Stars
* The Deep Range
* A Fall of Moondust
* Dolphin Island
* Glide Path
* Rendezvous with Rama
* Imperial Earth
* The Fountains of Paradise
* The Songs of Distant Earth
* Cradle (with Gentry Lee)
* The Ghost from the Grand Banks
* The Hammer of God
* Richter 10 (with Mike McQuay)
* The Trigger (with Michael P. Kube-McDowell)
* The Light of Other Days (with Stephen Baxter)
* The Last Theorem (with Frederik Pohl)

### Space Odyssey

* 2001: A Space Odyssey
* 2012: Odyssey Two
* 2061: Odyssey Three
* 3001: The Final Odyssey
Artemis (Andy Weir)

## Artemis

*You may be looking for the Greek goddess.*

*Artemis* is a novel written by Andy Weir. Released in 2017, it tells of Jasmine Bashara life as a fugitive on the titular Lunar city of Artemis.

## Characters

* Jasmine "Jazz" Bashara

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## Synopsis

Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich.

Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown of Artemis, humanity’s first and only lunar colony. Just rich enough to move out of her coffin-sized apartment and eat something better than flavored algae. Rich enough to pay off a debt she’s owed for a long time.

So when a chance at a huge score finally comes her way, Jazz can’t say no. Sure, it requires her to graduate from small-time smuggler to full-on criminal mastermind. And it calls for a particular combination of cunning, technical skills, and large explosions—not to mention sheer brazen swagger. But Jazz has never run into a challenge her intellect can’t handle, and she figures she’s got the ‘swagger’ part down.

The trouble is, engineering the perfect crime is just the start of Jazz’s problems. Because her little heist is about to land her in the middle of a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself.

Trapped between competing forces, pursued by a killer and the law alike, even Jazz has to admit she’s in way over her head. She’ll have to hatch a truly spectacular scheme to have a chance at staying alive and saving her city.

Jazz is no hero, but she is a very good criminal.

That’ll have to do.

Propelled by its heroine’s wisecracking voice, set in a city that’s at once stunningly imagined and intimately familiar, and brimming over with clever problem-solving and heist-y fun, Artemis is another irresistible brew of science, suspense, and humor from #1 bestselling author Andy Weir.

## Summary

Jasmine Bashara is a 26-year-old woman who moved to Artemis, the only city on the moon with her father when she was 6. After making bad choices during her teenage years, she is now poor. She is a smuggler, bringing in illegal items, such as flammables, into the city. During one of her regular smuggling trips, she is offered one million slugs (the currency used in Artemis) by a billionaire named Trond Landvik to destroy the property of an aluminum factory. Trond wanted it destroyed because during the process of aluminum making, oxygen is created. Sanchez Aluminum, the company that owned the aluminum factory, had a contract with the city to provide them oxygen. Trond had been storing oxygen, and he wanted to take over the contract with the city.

Jasmine, after creating a plan to destroy the harvesters that took rocks in order to make them into aluminum, went through with the beginning steps of the plan, and all went well. However, while destroying the harvesters themselves, she was discovered by Sanchez Aluminum and they prevented her from destroying the last harvester. She had to leave the scene before she could finish destroying the harvesters.

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## References

1. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Artemis-Novel-Andy-Weir/dp/0553448145
Ace (Doctor Who)

Time Lord

Doctor Who Past Doctor Adventures

Citadel of Dreams

A Charitable Earth

Ace is a recurring character in *Doctor Who* - specifically a main character in Virgin's *Doctor Who New Adventures* series.

## Character

Portrayed as a reckless teenager with a proficiency for explosives, Ace's character is changed radically within the New Adventures (largely after her return to the TARDIS crew in Deceit) due to her service within Spacefleet.

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A Seer Novel Series

*The Seer* series is a series of three novels written by Rachelle Dekker.

## The Choosing

Like all citizens since the Ruining, Carrington Hale knows the importance of this day. But she never expected the moment she’d spent a lifetime preparing for—her Choosing ceremony—to end in disaster. Ripped from her family, she’ll spend her days serving as a Lint, the lowest level of society. She knows it’s her duty to follow the true way of the Authority.

But as Carrington begins this nightmare, rumors of rebellion rattle her beliefs. Though the whispers contradict everything she’s been told, they resonate deep within.

Then Carrington is offered an unprecedented chance at the life she’s always dreamed of, yet she can’t shake the feeling that it may be an illusion. With a killer targeting Lints and corruption threatening the highest levels of the Authority, Carrington must uncover the truth before it destroys her.

## The Calling

Remko Brant had never been so sure of anything as escaping the Authority City with Carrington Hale. But bravado comes easy when you have nothing to lose. Now a husband, father, and the tactical leader of the Seers, Remko has never had so much at risk.

As he and his team execute increasingly dangerous rescue missions inside the city, they face growing peril from a new enemy. Recently appointed Authority President Damien Gold claims to be guiding a city shaken by rebellion into a peaceful, harmonious future. But appearances can be deceiving. In order to achieve his dangerous ambitions, Gold knows he must do more than catch the rebels—he must destroy the hope their message represents . . . from the inside out.

With dissension in his own camp—and the CityWatch soldiers closing in—Remko feels control slipping through his fingers. To protect those he loves, he must conquer his fears and defeat Gold . . . before one of them becomes his undoing.

## The Returning

They say the Awakening is coming.

That she’s the key.

*But can she find her identity in the light*

*Before she perishes in the dark?*

Twenty years have passed since Carrington and Remko Brant’s baby, Elise, was kidnapped and they were forced to leave her captive in the Authority City. Though they fled with the Seers far from Authority reach, they’ve never given up hope of rescuing their daughter from the man who betrayed them. Now Authority President, he’s ushered the city into a new era of “peace”—one where the Scientist Roth Reynard’s Genesis Serum has eradicated all memory of emotion or rebellion.

But the mysterious Aaron and his Seers are once again on the move, threatening the illusion the Authority has worked so hard to build. As the Seers send seven chosen warriors to rescue Elise and bring restoration to the Authority City, the lines are drawn for a final battle between light and darkness. The key to ultimate victory may rest within the strangely powerful girl who has felt forgotten but was never abandoned—a truth she’ll need to wage war against the powerful forces of evil.
At Childhood's End

*At Childhood's End* is a novel written by Sophie Aldred, Mike Tucker, and Steve Cole. Released in 2020, it is the sixty-sixth book in BBC Books' *New Series Adventures* and tells of the Doctor being reunited with Ace.

## Characters

* Thirteenth Doctor
* Ace
* Ryan Sinclair
* Graham O'Brien
* Yasmin Khan

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## Publisher's summary

Once, a girl called Ace travelled the universe with the Doctor – until, in the wake of a terrible tragedy they parted company. Decades later, she is known as Dorothy McShane, the reclusive millionaire philanthropist who heads global organisation A Charitable Earth.

And Dorothy is haunted by terrible nightmares, vivid dreams that begin just as scores of young runaways are vanishing from the dark alleyways of London. Could the disappearances be linked to sightings of sinister creatures lurking in the city shadows? Why has an alien satellite entered a secret orbit around the Moon?

Investigating the satellite with Ryan, Graham and Yaz, the Doctor is thrown together with Ace once more. Together they must unravel a malevolent plot that will cost thousands of lives. But can the Doctor atone for her past incarnation’s behaviour – and how much must Ace sacrifice to win victory not only for herself, but for the Earth?
American Notes for General Circulation

*American Notes for General Circulation* is a nonfiction book written by Charles Dickens. Released in 1842, it recounts Dickens' first voyage to the United States of America.

## Publisher's summary

A fascinating account of nineteenth-century America sketched with Charles Dickens's characteristic wit and charm,

When Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842 he was the most famous man of his day to travel there - curious about the revolutionary new civilization that had captured the English imagination. His frank and often humorous descriptions cover everything from his comically wretched sea voyage to his sheer astonishment at the magnificence of the Niagara Falls, while he also visited hospitals, prisons and law courts and found them exemplary. But Dickens's opinion of America as a land ruled by money, built on slavery, with a corrupt press and unsavoury manners, provoked a hostile reaction on both sides of the Atlantic.

*American Notes* is an illuminating account of a great writer's revelatory encounter with the New World. In her introduction, Patricia Ingham examines the response the book received when it was published, and compares it with similar travel writings of the period and with Dickens's fiction, in particular Martin Chuzzlewit. This edition includes an updated chronology, appendices and notes.

## See also

* Handbook of Denominations in the United States by Frank S. Mead
A Free Man of Color

*A Free Man of Color* is a novel written by Barbara Hambly. Released in 1997, it is the first novel featuring recurring protagonist Benjamin January and features him investigating the murder of an "octoroon" that the authorities are reluctant to investigate.

## Characters

* Benjamin January
* Angelique Crozat

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## Publisher's Summary

A lush and haunting novel of a city steeped in decadent pleasures...and of a man, proud and defiant, caught in a web of murder and betrayal.

It is 1833. In the midst of Mardi Gras, Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher, is playing piano at the Salle d'Orleans when the evenings festivities are interrupted--by murder.

Ravishing Angelique Crozat, a notorious octoroon who travels in the city's finest company, has been strangled to death. With the authorities reluctant to become involved, Ben begins his own inquiry, which will take him through the seamy haunts of riverboatmen and into the huts of voodoo-worshipping slaves.

But soon the eyes of suspicion turn toward Ben—for, black as the slave who fathered him, this free man of color is still the perfect scapegoat....
A History of Humankind

*A History of Humankind* is a book written by Justin Richards. Released in 2016, it ties into the series *Doctor Who* and recounts the slices of human history found within the series.

## Characters

* Robin Hood
* Queen Elizabeth I
* Jack the Ripper

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## Publisher's summary

Robin Hood was just made up. Queen Elizabeth I never married. And nobody knows what happened to Jack the Ripper. Right?

WRONG. If you want to know the real story of human history, then this book is for you!

The Doctor has corrected this Coal Hill history textbook with his own notes and illustrations. Now packed full of *real* history (i.e. the kind with Daleks and Silurians and time travel), it tells you everything you need to know about our special planet.

It's history, but perhaps not quite as you know it . . .
Bless Me, Ultima

*Bless Me, Ultima* is a novel written by Rudolfo Anaya. Released in 1972, it tells of a young Chicano boy being visited by a curandera.

## Characters

* Antonio Marez
* Ultima

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## Publisher's summary

Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima enters his life. She is a curandera, one who heals with herbs and magic. 'We cannot let her live her last days in loneliness,' says Antonio's mother. 'It is not the way of our people,' agrees his father. And so Ultima comes to live with Antonio's family in New Mexico. Soon Tony will journey to the threshold of manhood. Always, Ultima watches over him. She graces him with the courage to face childhood bigotry, diabolical possession, the moral collapse of his brother, and too many violent deaths.

Under her wise guidance, Tony will probe the family ties that bind him, and he will find in himself the magical secrets of the pagan past—a mythic legacy equally as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America in which he has been schooled. At each turn in his life there is Ultima who will nurture the birth of his soul.
Billion Dollar Whale

*Billion Dollar Whale* is a nonfiction book written by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope. Released in 2018, it tells of the crime-filled life of Jho Low.

## Notable People Within

* Jho Low

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## Publisher's Summary

An epic true-tale of hubris and greed from two Pulitzer-finalist *Wall Street Journal* reporters, *Billion Dollar Whale* reveals how a young social climber pulled off one of the biggest financial heists in history--right under the nose of the global financial industry--exposing the shocking secret nexus of elite wealth, banking, Hollywood, and politics.

The dust had yet to settle on the global financial crisis in 2009 when an unlikely Wharton grad was setting in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude--one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system.

*Billion Dollar Whale* will become a classic, harrowing parable about the financial world in the twenty-first century.

## See Also

* The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
355

*355* is a novel written by Kit Sergeant. Released in 2017, it is the first book in Sergeant's *Women Spies* series and tells of a spy ring during the Revolutionary War.

## Characters

* Margaret "Meg" Moncrieffe
* Aaron Burr
* Elizabeth Burgin
* Jonathan Burgin
* Sally Townsend
* Robert Townsend
* Major John André

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## Publisher's Summary

Who was the Mysterious 355?

Culper Ring members such as Robert Townsend and Hercules Mulligan are well known for the part they played in the Revolutionary War, but who was the mysterious 355 that could “outwit them all?” Inspired by many of the same characters featured in AMC’s Turn and the Broadway musical Hamilton, 355: The Women of Washington's Spy Ring chronicles the lives of three remarkable women who use daring, skill, and, yes, a bit of flirtation, to help liberate America.

British sympathizer Margaret (Meg) Moncrieffe expects to find the carefree America she remembers as a youth when she returns from her Irish boarding school. Instead she finds the new country at war, with her father on one side and her new love, Aaron Burr, on the other. When her misguided attempt to end the war results in dire consequences for the Continental Army, Meg switches allegiances in order to amend the damage she caused.

After her husband Jonathan is captured by the British and dies aboard one of the notorious prison ships, a pregnant Elizabeth Burgin realizes she is stronger than she once thought. When a prominent member of the Culper Ring enlists her help on a heist of the prison ships, Elizabeth readily accepts, putting herself and her family in jeopardy in order to save the lives of strangers.

Patriot Sally Townsend wants nothing more than freedom for America. When her family is forced to take in enemy soldiers, Sally seizes the opportunity to garner information from them and pass it on to her brother, Robert, knowing that one false move could result in the noose for both of them. Instead of finding herself in danger when British intelligence officer Major John André shows up at her family’s doorstep, Sally finds herself falling in love. But Major André is playing the same dangerous game as her and Robert, albeit for the other side.

Told from the viewpoints of these three women—including the one operating under the code name 355—*355: The Women of Washington’s Spy Ring* is an absorbing tale of family, duty, love, and betrayal.
A Bill of Divorcement

*A Bill of Divorcement* is a play written by Clemence Dane. Released in 1921, it tells of a woman divorcing her husband due to his mental illness.

## Characters

* Margaret Fairfield
* Hester Fairfield
* Sydney Fairfield

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## Publisher's summary

Excerpt from *A Bill of Divorcement: A Play in Three Acts*

The curtain rises on the hall, obviously used as the common-room of a country house. On the right (of the audience) is the outer door and a staircase that runs down from an upper landing towards the middle of the room, half hiding what has once been a separate smaller room with a baize door at the back. In the corner a French window opens on to a snowbound garden. On the left, facing the entrance, a log fire is blazing. Staircase, pictures, grandfather clock, etc., are wreathed with holly and mistletoe. At the breakfast table, which is laid for three and littered with paper and string, sit Miss Hester Fairfield and Margaret Fairfield, her niece by marriage. The third chair has two or three parcels piled up on it.

Hester Fairfield is one of those twitching, high-minded, elderly ladies in black, who keep a grievance as they might keep a pet dog - as soon as it dies they replace it by another. The grievance of the moment seem to be the empty third chair, and Margaret Fairfield is, as usual, on the defensive.
FPKQL in Media

The FPKQL has several ways for fans to stay updated and connected with the league. One way is through the live streams on Twitch. Currently, Jerry Garcia and Ryan provide commentary for the matches.

In addition to the live streams, the FPKQL also has several podcasts available for fans. The FPKQL Podcast is hosted by Bee-Money (Bryan) and Cobeed (Crystal) and covers all things related to the league. FPKQL: HiveWatch is another podcast focused on the league and is hosted by Eric and Chris. Both podcasts can be found on anchor.fm/freeplay, along with other Free Play oriented podcasts.

Video of all league matches can be found on our YouTube channel

Fans can also stay updated and connect with the FPKQL through the league's Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fpkql/. This is a great way to stay in the loop on upcoming matches and events, and to interact with other fans and members of the league.

Overall, the FPKQL has a variety of media outlets for fans to stay connected and informed about the league. Whether you prefer to watch live streams, listen to podcasts, or join a social media group, there is something for everyone.
Beach Music

*Beach Music* is a novel written by Pat Conroy. Released in 1995, it tells of the life of Jack McCall after his wife's suicide.

## Characters

* Jack McCall

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## Publisher's Summary

An American expatriate in Rome unearths his family legacy in this sweeping novel by the acclaimed author of *The Prince of Tides* and *The Great Santini*.

A Southerner living abroad, Jack McCall is scarred by tragedy and betrayal. His desperate desire to find peace after his wife’s suicide draws him into a painful, intimate search for the one haunting secret in his family’s past that can heal his anguished heart. Spanning three generations and two continents, from the contemporary ruins of the American South to the ancient ruins of Rome, from the unutterable horrors of the Holocaust to the lingering trauma of Vietnam, *Beach Music* sings with life’s pain and glory.

It is a novel of lyric intensity and searing truth, another masterpiece among Pat Conroy’s legendary and beloved novels.

## Sources

* Goodreads
* Wikipedia
Autonomy (Daniel Blythe)

*Autonomy* is a novel written by Daniel Blythe. Released in 2009, it is the thirty-fifth novel in BBC Books' *Doctor Who* *New Series Adventures* series and tells of a mall being taken over by the Nestene Consciousness.

## Characters

* Tenth Doctor
* The Nestene Consciousness

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## Publisher's summary

Hyperville is 2013's top hi-tech 24 hour entertainment complex — a sprawling palace of fun under one massive roof. You can go shopping, or experience the excitement of Doomcastle, WinterZone, or Wild West World. But things are about to get a lot more exciting — and dangerous...

What unspeakable horror is lurking on Level Zero of Hyperville? And what will happen when the entire complex goes over to Central Computer Control?

For years, the Nestene Consciousness has been waiting and planning, recovering from its wounds. But now is ready, and its deadly plastic Autons are already in place around the complex. Now more than ever, visiting Hyperville will be an unforgettable experience.
Behind Closed Doors (B.A. Paris)

## Behind Closed Doors

*Behind Closed Doors* is a book written by B.A. Paris. Released in 2016, it is Paris' debut book, and tells of a seemingly perfect couple.

## Characters

* Jack
* Grace

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## Publisher's summary

Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth; she has charm and elegance. He’s a dedicated attorney who has never lost a case; she is a flawless homemaker, a masterful gardener and cook, and dotes on her disabled younger sister. Though they are still newlyweds, they seem to have it all. You might not want to like them, but you do. You’re hopelessly charmed by the ease and comfort of their home, by the graciousness of the dinner parties they throw. You’d like to get to know Grace better.

But it’s difficult, because you realize Jack and Grace are inseparable.

Some might call this true love. Others might wonder why Grace never answers the phone. Or why she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn’t work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so slim. Or why she never seems to take anything with her when she leaves the house, not even a pen. Or why there are such high-security metal shutters on all the downstairs windows.

Some might wonder what’s really going on once the dinner party is over, and the front door has closed.
Born for Love

*Born for Love* is a nonfiction book written by Leo Buscaglia. Released in 1987, it is a collection of various sayings on love and life.

## Publisher's Summary

*Born for Reflections on Loving*[sic] is a collection of short, poignant thoughts and inspirational quotes on love from New York Times bestselling author, professor, and PBS motivational speaker Leo Buscaglia.

Filled with inspirational quotes and structured so each section can be read individually, *Born for Love* can be picked up at any point, allowing the reader to guide their own experience through Buscaglia’s reflections on love. This approach encourages personal philosophical thinking and contemplation, creating a highly individualized experience and encouraging students of love toward a better comprehension of the art of loving.

Inspirational and thought-provoking, *Born for Reflections on Loving* conveys Leo Buscaglia’s message through short, poignant chapters filled with memorable, uplifting quotes. Just as Buscaglia insisted that love lasts forever, his poignant words continue to have everlasting relevance with today’s audience.
An Independent Woman

*An Independent Woman* is a novel written by Howard Fast. Released in 1997, it is the sixth book in Fast's *Lavette Family* series and tells of Barbara Lavette's new marriage.

## Characters

* Barbara Lavette
* Philip Carter

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## Publisher's summary

The critically acclaimed author returns to his best-selling Immigrants saga to finish the life story of his beloved heroine, wealthy matriarch Barbara Lavette, who embarks on a new marriage and faces the challenge of her life.
All Marketers Are Liars

*All Marketers Are Liars* is a nonfiction book written by Seth Godin. Released in 2005, it analyzes the world of marketing.

## Publisher's summary

Presents an analysis of current marketing trends, maintaining that the marketing campaigns that succeed are those that cater to the inclination of consumers to believe the best story, irrespective of the facts.

## See also

* 21 Secrets of Million-Dollar Sellers by Stephen J. Harvill
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder series

*A Good Girl's Guide to Murder* is a book series written by author Holly Jackson. It is composed of three books: *A Good Girls' Guide to Murder*, *Good Girl, Bad Blood*, and *As Good as Dead*.

## Books within

### A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

**The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it.**

But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the murder, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn't so sure. When she chooses the case as the topic for her final year project, she starts to uncover secrets that someone in town desperately wants to stay hidden. And if the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from the truth?

### Good Girl, Bad Blood

**Pip is not a detective anymore.**

With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her.

But she will have to break that promise when someone she knows goes missing. Jamie Reynolds has disappeared, on the very same night the town hosted a memorial for the sixth-year anniversary of the deaths of Andie Bell and Sal Singh.

The police won't do anything about it. And if they won't look for Jamie then Pip will, uncovering more of her town's dark secrets along the way... and this time everyone is listening. But will she find him before it's too late?

### As Good as Dead

**The finale to *A Good Girl's Guide to Murder* series. By the end of this mystery series, you'll never think of good girls the same way again...**

Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation ended. She’s used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true-crime podcast, but she can’t help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears?

Soon the threats escalate and Pip realizes that someone is following her in real life. When she starts to find connections between her stalker and a local serial killer caught six years ago, she wonders if maybe the wrong man is behind bars.

Police refuse to act, so Pip has only one choice: find the suspect herself—or be the next victim. As the deadly game plays out, Pip discovers that everything in her small town is coming full circle... and if she doesn’t find the answers, this time she will be the one who disappears...
A Dangerous Fortune

## A Dangerous Journey

*A Dangerous Fortune* is a novel written by Ken Follett. Released in 1993, it details the fallout of a drowning.

## Publisher's summary

In 1866, tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School. A young student drowns in a mysterious accident involving a small circle of boys. The drowning and its aftermath initiates a spiraling circle of treachery that will span three decades and entwine many lives.

From the exclusive men's club and brothels that cater to every dark desire of London's upper classes to the dazzling ballrooms and mahogany-paneled suites of the manipulators of the world's wealth, Ken Follett conjures up a stunning array of contrasts.

This breathtaking novel portrays a family splintered by lust, bound by a shared legacy... men and women swept toward a perilous climax where greed, fed by the shocking truth of a boy's death, must be stopped, or not just one man's dreams, but those of a nation, will die...

## Sources

* Goodreads
* Wikipedia
Adventures with a Microscope

*Adventures with a Microscope* is a nonfiction book written by Richard Headstrom. Released in 1941, it showcases various objects viewed under a microscope.

## Publisher's summary

With a simple microscope and this book, you can embark on 59 wonderful adventures in the natural world — make discoveries about the structures of numerous microscopic animals; find out what everyday objects and foods really look like at the cellular level; gain an understanding of how to prepare specimens and slides; and learn about many scientific phenomena such as how a fly can walk upside down on the ceiling. It's all here in simple-to-understand language and 142 clear line drawings.

The author first examines under the microscope such everyday objects as a human hair, air bubble, scale of a herring, poppy seed and sugar crystal, and then offers through-the-microscope views of such creatures and objects as the water flea, hydra, house fly, amoeba, euglena, volvox, diatoms, desmids, algae, blood corpuscles, honey bee, rotifer, water-mites, potato starch, and other food substances, lichen, paramecium, coffee, sponge, chalk, yeast, bacteria, mustard, pepper, bryozoan, moss, mushroom, molds, cotton, and other textile fibers, ferns, dragon-flies, flea, spider, roots, and other plant structures, paper, aphid, fingerprints, nervous system of the grasshopper, and more.

Richard Headstrom, formerly associated with the New England Museum of Natural History and an experienced teacher and writer on natural science for young people, has made this book simple enough for any beginner at home as well as interesting for more experienced students and lay readers. Enjoyable and instructive, these adventures with a microscope will appeal to all who are curious about what there is to see beyond the range of the naked eye.
A Confederacy of Dunces

*A Confederacy of Dunces* is a novel written by John Kennedy Toole. Posthumonously released in 1980, it tells of Ignatius Reilly's life.

## Characters

* Ignatius Reilly
* Myrna Minkoff

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## Publisher's Summary

Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one, who is in violent revolt against the entire modern age, lying in his flannel nightshirt in a back bedroom on Constantinople Street in New Orleans, who between gigantic seizures of flatulence and eructations is filling dozens of Big Chief tablets with invective.

His mother thinks he needs to go to work. He does, in a succession of jobs. Each job rapidly escalates into a lunatic adventure, a full-blown disaster; yet each has, like Don Quixote's, its own eerie logic.

His girlfriend, Myrna Minkoff of the Bronx, thinks he needs sex.

Ignatius is an intellectual, ideologue, deadbeat, goof-off, glutton, who should repel the reader with his gargantuan bloats, his thunderous contempt, and one-man war against everybody: Freud, homosexuals, heterosexuals, Protestants, and the assorted excesses of modern times.

A tragicomedy, set in New Orleans.

## See Also

* Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
* Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Babewyn (Faction Paradox)

The Babewyns (or the Mal'akh) are recurring antagonists within Faction Paradox - first appearing in Lawrence Miles' *Doctor Who* novel *The Adventuress of Henrietta Street*.

A race of hideous vampires directly descended from the Yssgaroth, the Babewyns are described as beastial, apelike creatures with massive claws and bloodstained jaws. They are seemingly sapient, but with an unquenchable desire to tear others limb-from-limb (presumably to feed on their bodies).

Babewyns can be summoned from their home through tantric rituals - even accidentally if the barrier between worlds is weakened. The Eighth Doctor experimented on babewyns in T*he Adventuress of Henrietta Street* and found that their biology is seemingly only made to please necropsies.

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## Notable Babewyns

* The King of Beasts

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"Why Won't You Just Tell Us the Answer?"

*"Why Won't You Just Tell Us the Answer?"* is a nonfiction book written by Bruce A. Lesh. Released in 2011, it details a new way to teach history.

## Publisher's summary

Every major measure of students' historical understanding since 1917 has demonstrated that students do not retain, understand, or enjoy their school experiences with history. Bruce Lesh believes that this is due to the way we teach historylecture and memorization. Over the last fifteen years, Bruce has refined a method of teaching history that mirrors the process used by historians, where students are taught to ask questions of evidence and develop historical explanations.

And now in his new book *'Why Won't You Just Tell Us the Answer?'* he shows teachers how to successfully implement his methods in the classroom. Students may think they want to be given the answer. Yet, when they are actively engaged in investigating the pastthe way professional historians dothey find that history class is not about the boring memorization of names, dates, and facts. Instead, it's challenging fun. Historical study that centers on a question, where students gather a variety of historical sources and then develop and defend their answers to that question, allows students to become actual historians immersed in an interpretive study of the past. Each chapter focuses on a key concept in understanding history and then offers a sample unit on how the concept can be taught.

Readers will learn about the Exploring Text, Subtext, and President Theodore Roosevelt and the Panama Canal, Chronological Thinking and The Rail Strike of 1877, Multiple The Bonus March of 1932, Continuity and Change Over Custer's Last Stand, Historical The Civil Rights Movement, Historical The Truman-MacArthur Debate By the end of the book, teachers will have learned how to teach history via a lens of interpretive questions and interrogative evidence that allows both student and teacher to develop evidence-based answers to history's greatest questions.
Annabeth Chase

**Annabeth Chase** is a major character within the works of Rick Riordan - the girlfriend of Percy Jackson and the daughter of Athena and Fredric Chase. She is also the cousin of Magnus Chase. She appears in the *Percy Jackson and the Olympians*, *The Heroes of Olympus*, and the *Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard* series.

## Character

### Physical Description

She has honey blonde hair that looks like Cinderella's that she puts in ponytails, tan skin like a Cali girl and fierce stormy grey eyes.

### Personality

She is knowledgeable and wants to be an architect and prove herself but she also can't sit still because of her ADHD.

### Skills

She is smarter compared to the average demigod or human and she is an architect.

## History

### The Titan's Curse

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The rest of Riordan's books.

## Etymology

**Annabeth** means favor, full of grace or my God is an oath.

**Chase** means to hunt.

## References

* https://riordan.fandom.com/wiki/Annabeth\_Chase
Blood Like Magic

*Blood Like Magic* is a book written by Liselle Sambury. Released in 2021, it tells the story of Voya Thomas as she is scrambling to find a lover to kill to fulfill a trial. A sequel - *Blood Like Fate* - was released in 2022.

## Characters

* Voya Thomas
* Luc

## Synopsis

An urban fantasy debut following a teen witch who is given a horrifying task: sacrificing her first love to save her family’s magic. The problem is, she’s never been in love—she’ll have to find the perfect guy before she can kill him.

After years of waiting for her Calling—a trial every witch must pass in order to come into their powers—the one thing Voya Thomas didn’t expect was to fail. When Voya’s ancestor gives her an unprecedented second chance to complete her Calling, she agrees—and then is horrified when her task is to kill her first love. And this time, failure means every Thomas witch will be stripped of their magic.

Voya is determined to save her family’s magic no matter the cost. The problem is, Voya has never been in love, so for her to succeed, she’ll first have to find the perfect guy—and fast. Fortunately, a genetic matchmaking program has just hit the market. Her plan is to join the program, fall in love, and complete her task before the deadline. What she doesn’t count on is being paired with the infuriating Luc—how can she fall in love with a guy who seemingly wants nothing to do with her?

With mounting pressure from her family, Voya is caught between her morality and her duty to her bloodline. If she wants to save their heritage and Luc, she’ll have to find something her ancestor wants more than blood. And in witchcraft, blood is everything.

## Sources

* Goodreads
* Wikipedia
Biscayne (Barry Jay Kaplan)

## Biscayne

*Biscayne* is a novel written by Barry Jay Kaplan. Released in 1988, it tells of the history of the Reade family.

## Characters

* Clara Reade
* Harry Reade

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## Publisher's summary

The most memorable character in this sporadically interesting generational saga is the city of Miami at the turn of the century. As its streets change from jungle trails to macadam, a classic power struggle is played out by the Reade family.

When young widow Clara Reade returns to her girlhood home in a frontier settlement on Biscayne Bay, she views the dense mangrove swamps and uncultivated citrus groves as a challenge to her business acumen. With her beloved son Harry working at her side, Clara manages to exploit the potential of her unpromising acreage by persuading a railroad magnate to extend his freight line to the bay in return for a whopping share of land.

In doing so, she opens wide the sluice gates of progress, hurting Harry, who loves an Indian woman whose tribe is being forced off the land, and ruining Quentin, a rough but loving friend. Only her bitter grandson Cameron applauds the gutting of old Miami to make way for a glittering new city. Kaplan, coauthor of Black Orchard, does not develop the psychological nuances that could animate this familiar cast. Instead, he bends the events of their lives around chunks of Miami history.
Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories

*Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories* is a collection of stories written by Herman Melville. Released in 1981, it features stories from the *Piazza Tales* and the titular novella.

## Stories within

* Billy Budd, Sailor
* The Piazza
* Bartleby, the Scrivener
* Benito Cereno
* The Encantadas
* The Bell-Tower

## Publisher's summary

If Melville had never written *Moby Dick*, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. *Billy Budd, Sailor*, his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God." It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority and individual freedom, human justice and abstract good. Melville also explores this theme in "Bartelby the Scrivener," his famous story about a Wall Street law clerk who takes passive resistance to a comic—and ultimately disastrous—extreme; and in "Benito Cereno," his dazzling account of oppression and rebellion on a nineteenth-century slave ship. Completing this collection of great tales are the eerie "The Encantados," the beautiful, romantic "The Piazza," and Melville's chilling science fiction parable, "The Bell-Tower."
A Conspiracy of Bones

*A Conspiracy of Bones* is a novel written by Kathy Reichs. Released in 2020, *A Conspiracy of Bones* features recurring protagonist Temperance Brennan working to solve a mysterious case that has links to a missing person case that Brennan testified in.

## Characters

* Temperance Brennan
* Andrew Ryan
* Skinny Slidell
* Margot Heavner
* Mama Brennan
* Nick Body

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## Publisher's Summary

It's sweltering in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Temperance Brennan, still recovering from neurosurgery following an aneurysm, is battling nightmares, migraines, and what she thinks might be hallucinations when she receives a series of mysterious text messages, each containing a new picture of a corpse that is missing its face and hands. Immediately, she's anxious to know who the dead man is, and why the images were sent to her.

An identified corpse soon turns up, only partly answering her questions.

To win answers to the others, including the man's identity, she must go rogue, working mostly outside the system. That's because Tempe's new boss holds a fierce grudge against her and is determined to keep her out of the case. Tempe bulls forward anyway, even as she begins questioning her instincts. But the clues she discovers are disturbing and confusing. Was the faceless man a spy? A trafficker? A target for assassination by the government? And why was he carrying the name of a child missing for almost a decade?

With help from law enforcement associates including her Montreal beau Andrew Ryan and the quick-witted, ex-homicide investigator Skinny Slidell, and utilizing new cutting-edge forensic methods, Tempe draws closer to the astonishing truth.
A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain

A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain (commonly known as a *A Tour **through** the Whole Island of Great Britain*) is a nonfiction book written by Daniel Defoe. Released in serial form from 1724-1727, it details Defoe's travels through Britain. Within Defoe's lifetime, this work (along with Robinson Crusoe) was his most well-known work.

## Publisher's summary

Britain in the early eighteenth century: an introduction that is both informative and imaginative, reliable and entertaining. To the tradition of travel writing Daniel Defoe brings a lifetime's experience as a businessman, soldier, economic journalist and spy, and his Tour (1724-6) is an invaluable source of social and economic history. But this book is far more than a beautifully written guide to Britain just before the industrial revolution, for Defoe possessed a wild, inventive streak that endows his work with astonishing energy and tension, and the Tour is his deeply imaginative response to a brave new economic world. By employing his skills as a chronicler, a polemicist and a creative writer keenly sensitive to the depredations of time, Defoe more than achieves his aim of rendering 'the present state' of Britain.

## Sources

* Wikipedia
* Goodreads
Bleeding Hearts

*Bleeding Hearts* is a novel written by Ian Rankin (under the name Jack Harvey). First released in 1994, it tells of an assassin being set up.

## Characters

* Michael Weston
* Hoffer

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## Publisher's summary

Michael Weston is paid well to do his work and ask no questions. When you're a professional assassin, total secrecy is part of the job. But after a successful mission in London, the police are immediately on his tail. How did they know how to find him? And who is his anonymous employer? Why did he or she want his target, a TV reporter, killed? Was he set up from the start?

The questions lead Weston to his nemesis Hoffer, a private detective who has been hunting him for years. Ever since Weston accidentally killed an innocent American girl, her grieving father has employed Hoffer on a relentless mission to bring Weston to justice. Could Hoffer finally have set a snare that worked?

Weston sets out to find his mysterious employer, traveling from London to Glasgow to Seattle-even if it means encountering Hoffer face-to-face at last. With the brilliant eye for character and taut pacing that have made him an internationally renowned bestseller, Ian Rankin delivers a gripping story that examines what happens when the assassin becomes the target, and proves yet again that "in Rankin, you cannot go wrong" (Boston Globe).

## Sources

* Wikipedia
* Goodreads
Anji Kapoor

Anji Kapoor is a major character within BBC Books' *Eighth Doctor Adventures* series.

## Character

A companion of the Eighth Doctor, Anji comes from a roughly normal background - working as a futures trader in London. Escape Velocity states that she favours science over religion and prefers rational explanations. Shortly before joining the Doctor, Anji's boyfriend, Dave Young, is killed (this happening in Anji's debut novel, *Escape Velocity*).

Anji is described as either being of Indian (which most novels lean towards) or Pakistani descent (which is mainly only shown in *The Domino Effect*). Author Lance Parkin describes the somewhat inconsistent character of Anji Kapoor as thus in an interview with Daniel Berry:

> The Indian background thing . . . when Colin Brake created her, I'm sure he thought nothing of it, but it's the sort of thing writers love to play with, and so suddenly there's more backstory, but it wasn't terribly well coordinated, so she was of both Pakistani and Indian origin, she was from a liberal household that was also religious and strict and so on, and you could almost hear us writers all thinking, 'What does her background mean?', which is a question with the best motives, but not one we would ever ask if she was Angie Cowper.
> [Another] problem is that we writers are all self-employed and basically sit around at home all day, and so for some of us 'working in an office' isn't, y'know, what every normal person does, we picture it as this weird world where people sell their soul and have empty, futile aspirations to be Ally McBeal if they're women and blokes in shaving gel ads if they're men. It didn't help that some of the writers saw Anji working specifically in financial services as somehow making her complicit in the deaths of every baby in the Third World since the dawn of time. As opposed to, say, not.
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