I love free ebook Friday from Barnes and Nobles! This looks like an interesting addition to my nook color library. I think that people forget how medical advances, healthcare and ObamaCare has and will impact the longevity of our lives. This novel based on history and the tuberculosis epidemic that swept the world should be a pageturner so make sure you download the novel and write a review.
Have a great Free Friday!
Free Fridays: A White Wind Blew by James Markert and the Savannah Adventures! App
“A compelling and thought-provoking novel that will move and inspire readers of all kinds.” -John Burnham Schwartz, author of Reservation Road
Today’s Free Fridays book selection, James Markert’s White Wind Blew, is an emotional, complex, and ultimately uplifting historical novel.
Markert sets his tale at Louisville’s Waverly Hills sanatorium during a 1920s tuberculosis outbreak. Few epidemics were so deadly, and Dr. Wolfgang Pike is beleaguered to the point of exhaustion. His wife’s death leaves him in even more despair, as he struggles to save the few lives he can amidst constant suffering.
But fortunes change when a former concert pianist checks in to Waverly Hill, and Dr. Pike—an amateur composer—is taken with the new patient’s musicality. Soon Pike is forming a hospital orchestra, bringing a sense of hope and enjoyment to the ward. While music can’t cure TB, it does awaken a new resolve in Dr. Pike and his patients, and brings a welcome relief from the struggles they’re facing.
Is it really August already? School’s just around the corner, and today’s Free Fridays app selection will help kids ages 3-6 develop critical math skills for the year ahead. Savannah Adventures! Fun Math educational games for kids: Numbers, Counting & Addition from the i Learn With team offers a wide range of fun challenges that helps kids build skills like counting, addition, ordering, subtraction and number recognition.
Each challenge teaches a new skill and features a different Savannah animal, but my kids were immediately drawn to the ostrich level, where they had to load and unload the giant flightless birds into a truck until it had exactly 20 ostriches. They’ve always been charmed by the antics of the comical ostrich at our local zoo, so this game was the perfect way to build their addition and subtraction skills while having a great time.
Once they’ve mastered their math skills, young learners can explore weather, animals, and more with the other great NOOK Apps from i Learn With.
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