【推荐2】A License to Heal

Steven Bentley, M. D.

www.iuniverse.com

$11.95 soft cover

In the world of emergency medicine, there are pain and blood, but there are also hope and compassion (同情). A License to Heal shows readers the stories from an ER (emergency room) doctor that brings this world to life. In this book, an emergency room physician describes the world of the ER — as one filled with pain and fear, but also compassion, hope, and a surprising amount of humor.

Batting Rocks over the Barn

Lawn Griffiths

www.xlibris.com

$19.99 soft cover

Country life during the 1950s and 1960s comes alive through the eyes of an Iowa boy who grew up to become a newspaperman and farm editor. Follow his stories in Batting Rocks over the Barn.

Honeyball

Pete Liebengood

www.xlibris.com

$17.99 soft cover

A group of women pull together in a campaign to find success at the box office while their leader finds the love of her life and the persons responsible for the death of her father in a plane crash.

The Armageddon Virus

Robert Gallant

www.iuniverse.com

$16.95 soft cover

Travis Weld, leader of a secret government team pursuing (追踪) terrorists, discovers the meaning of a phone message from someone offering to sell a deadly new virus to an illegal weapons (武器) dealer. Can he track the seller and secure this mysterious Armageddon virus?

This book of essay and poems by Maya Angelou, a respectable American poet, is written for "the daughter she never had" —the millions of women, both young and old, who she considers to be her "family". From the viewpoint of a caring, older relative, this book contains lessons taken from her own life experiences, including the birth of her only child, a son, as well as the development and loss of friendship.

"She left us at night,” Tracy K. Smith, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, writes in the first sentence in Ordinary Light. She gives a description of her mother's last days and moments, and her own private farewell. She moves on to search for her mother through memories. She remembers her as a steady presence during visits to grandparents, while spending time with her much-older sisters and brothers. Ordinary Light is a memory, a discovery, a blessing.

This essay by English writer Virginia Woolf is based on her several lectures given to two women's colleges at Cambridge University in 1928. In it, Woolf describes that it's situation not talent alone that allows men to be more successful at writing. Women, in other words, spend so much time cooking, cleaning _? and tending to their children that they have no time left for art. To write well, therefore, a woman must have "a room of her own". While on its surface, this essay appears to be only about writing, it is actually about wealth and class, freedom and imprisonment （囚禁），and the power struggle between sexes.

"When you think things are bad, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do!"

The classic book by Dr Seuss begins with the advice of a wise man and provides the perfect ways for readers of all ages who are feeling down. Thanks to Dr. Seuss's trademark rhymes （韵律）and signature illustrations （插画），readers will realize just how lucky they truly are.

【推荐1】Skillswise Delivery (递送) Services

Christmas Job Opportunities (机会)

Aged between 16 and 65 years? Need some money for Christmas?

Are you available to work at short notice?

Can you work early in the morning or late at night? We are looking for careful and patient people to help to sort and deliver parcels in the Reading area from late November until the end of December.

Pay for weekdays, including Saturdays and Sundays, will be:

Ages 16 to 17—￡4.80 per hour.

Age 18 and over—￡6.10 per hour.

So if you have good communication skills and are able to work as part of a team, we would like to hear from you.

To get an application form (申请表) please write to:

Elaine Grey, PersonnelOfficer, Skillswise Delivery Services, Windsor Road.

Reading, RG5 4BR

Tel: 0118 932 814 (24 hr. answer phone)

Closing date: 10th November

【推荐2】Here are four tourist attractions in Havana in Cuba.

The Museum of the City was built in 1791. The building once served as the Presidential Palace and home to colonial governors. The museum’s exhibits include collections of weapons, history and art as well as rooms documenting wars for Cuban independence.

+53-7-861-6130

Open: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. , Monday through Saturday

Admission: $ 3

Revolution Square is one of the largest open public spaces in Cuba and one of the largest public squares in the world. The site is home to the 138-foot Jose Marti Memorial, the tallest structure in Havana, which celebrates the national hero. Cuba’s important leaders, including Fidel Castro, usually use the platform in front of the memorial to address the large crowds that gather on the square. The Jose Marti Memorial also includes a museum and an elevator that takes tourists to the top of the monument.

+53-7-338-060

Open: 9:30 a.m. to 5p.m. ,Monday through Saturday

Admission: $ 5

Cuba’s famous cigar-making factories are open to the public. Three cigar factories in Havana show public tours how Cuba’s cigars are hand-rolled in the traditional way. The Partagas Cigar Factory, founded in 1827, is the oldest in Havana. The other two factories open for tours are La Corona and Romeo Julieta, and they include gift shops.

+53-7-338-6363

Tour hours: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. , Monday through Friday

Admission: $ 10

Old Havana is the capital’s historic district, which dates back to 1519 when Spain used the city as a colonial port. Old Havana was an important Spanish naval base. Presently, Old Havana’s stone streets are home to museums, hotels and restaurants among the grand colonial buildings that once housed Spanish power.

+53-7-885-752

Open: daily

Admission: free