Tyra, meanwhile, has plans to renounce her birthright and join the Varangian Guard in Byzantium she’s a serious fighting machine who has little interest in marriage, but her four younger sisters are forbidden to marry until she has either wed or left the country. The formidable young woman takes Adam by force to her Norse homeland, where he agrees to try trepanning Thorvald’s skull in exchange for a night with Tyra. From Publishers Weekly ‘Two years without a woman, and the first one that arouses me is wearing chain mail and scratching at her groin,’ Adam, the hero of this bizarre but humorous historical, muses upon meeting Princess Tyra of Stoneheim, a Viking warrior who wants nothing more than to be viewed as ‘one of the guys.’ Since the death of his sister, renowned Saxon healer Adam refuses to see new patients, but this doesn’t sit well with Tyra, who has come seeking help for her comatose father, King Thorvald.
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Voland’s help, Ollie, Coco, and Brian reach out to the dead voices at Mount Hemlock. Ollie, Coco, and Brian want to trust him, but Ollie’s watch, which once saved them from the smiling man, has a new cautionary message: BEWARE. Voland, a mysterious ghost hunter, arrives in the midst of the storm to investigate the hauntings at Hemlock Lodge. Coco is convinced she has seen a ghost, and Ollie is having nightmares about frostbitten girls pleading for help. Ollie, Coco, and Brian are determined to make the best of being snowed in, but odd things keep happening. But when a snowstorm sets in, causing the power to flicker out and the cold to creep closer and closer, the three are forced to settle for hot chocolate and board games by the fire. Having survived sinister scarecrows and the malevolent smiling man in Small Spaces, newly minted best friends Ollie, Coco, and Brian are ready to spend a relaxing winter break skiing together with their parents at Mount Hemlock Resort. Starred reviews in Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist The book is divided into three main sections. However, Reich is prone to overstate his case in ways that will infuriate some readers for example, Chapter 1 is titled "How the Genome Explains Who We Are." His prose is readable, and he has avoided overuse of jargon and highly technical terms. He has written a personalized account that will interest a wide audience that includes both professionals and the lay public. The author, David Reich, is a primary innovator in this new field of study. Today, these data are flooding in, and they are contributing a new dimension to our investigations of prehistory. Twenty-five years ago the idea of DNA extracted from the remains of long dead beings was science fiction. David Reich's book Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (New York: Pantheon Books, 2018 xxv+335 pp.) is a landmark synthesis of findings from studies on DNA sequences collected from the bones of ancient people. |