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This treatise deals with the practice of alchemy in medicine, and the use of antimony and lead in particular. Roger Bacon provides the recipe for processing antimony to make the famous red oil of the philosophers. In Bacon’s opinion, this elixir was efficacious against a wide array of afflictions like fever, plague, gout, and leprosy.

Whether it is the panic that provokes you to ponder your decisions twice, or the distance to yourself you naturally develop when things begin to pick up, it can be so inconvenient for you. But it also comes with the fact that these kinds of emotional behavior will hinder you from getting the exact connections you wish for.

In the bustling heart of New York, twelve-year-old Aiko Takahashi’s world is shattered when she returns home one evening to find her parents brutally murdered. Her uncle Hiroto steps in to care for her, being the only family she has left. However, just as Aiko begins to settle into life with her uncle, a fierce custody battle erupts with her mother’s best friend. The court deems Hiroto’s troubled past unfit for raising a child, forcing Aiko to live with a strict family friend.

Aided by a race she once believed extinct, Sabine Rhyonselle has escaped the Rüddan who enslaved her and fled Khapor. Now half a world away, she joins the Aethel prince Aodhan and his companions in a race to beat the Rüddan to the one thing that can secure humanity's freedom: the godstone Fyrleoht.

Mark is uprooted from his home and high school in the Twin Cities and forced to move with his family into a Victorian in Nowhere-ville. Busy with the relocation and fitting in, Mark’s parents don’t see what’s unfolding around them—the way rooms and left behind objects seem alive with a haunted past.

Her husband's death shattered her world. But it's what he left behind that just might destroy her. Taryn Metcalf is a 33-year-old journalist whose life is turned upside down when her husband is tragically killed. But just when she thinks things couldn't get any worse, she stumbles upon a shocking letter from her late husband, confessing to a heinous act he committed over a decade ago. Grief-stricken and determined to uncover the truth,

A Fish Has No Word for Water is a memoir about what it's really like for homeless kids, the strength of chosen family, and a hard love letter to San Francisco.