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If you’re looking for polished takes, breaking news, and insiders pretending they know everything… yeah, this ain’t that. The Better Get Us Now Podcast is a UConn-centric, UConn-obsessed, proudly biased ride hosted by three absolute stooges who somehow found microphones. This show leans all the way into what being a fan actually is—loud, irrational, emotional, and occasionally (accidentally) insightful. Cheers.

Welcome to Endocrine Echo Lounge with Dr. Henry — where hormones, metabolism, and health finally make sense. In this podcast, Dr. Henry breaks down complex endocrine topics like diabetes, metabolic syndrome, weight, and hormones into clear, practical conversations you can actually understand and use in everyday life. No heavy jargon. No confusion. Just real talk about how your body works. Each episode connects the dots — from insulin resistance and abdominal weight to gut health, blood sugar, and long-term wellness — helping you see the bigger picture of your health. Whether you're ...

Come along on a journey through the history of Mazes and Labyrinths by W.H. Matthews. Get lost in the wonders of winding paths, from ancient Egyptian temples to medieval cathedrals and English garden mazes. Blending mythology, archaeology, and folklore, discover how these puzzling patterns have symbolized everything from spiritual quests to playful challenges. From the Minotaur’s lair to elegant hedge mazes at country estates, Matthews reveals how humanity has always loved getting lost—on purpose. - Summary by Carrie Mae Streb

This short book has the objective of showing how important it is to stamp out malaria as soon as possible. Unlike a plague that suddenly takes it victims and leaves its survivors, malaria is a debilitating infection. It seizes all, fit and unfit alike, gradually lessening the general vitality until, in some cases, it has exterminated the people among whom it has become endemic. Extensive evidence has been compiled and summarised from consultation with medical authorities, antique literature, and historical sources to show how this insidious disease has undermined the integrity of a pair of ...

Longfellow’s classic poem of the heroine Evangeline searching for her lost love Gabriel...

OTRA VUELTA DE TUERCA: Otra vuelta de tuerca es una historia de suspenso psicológico que sigue a una joven institutriz encargada de cuidar a dos niños huérfanos en una remota mansión inglesa. A medida que pasan los días, la institutriz comienza a percibir extrañas presencias y eventos sobrenaturales que la llevan a creer que los niños están bajo la influencia de espíritus malignos. Con una narrativa ambigua y una atmósfera cargada de misterio, James deja al lector cuestionando la realidad de los eventos: ¿son los fantasmas reales o producto de la mente perturbada de la protagonista?

Was wäre, wenn du nicht mehr Motivation bräuchtest, sondern einfach ein System, das selbst an deinen schlimmsten Tagen funktioniert? Schiebst du wichtige Aufgaben immer wieder auf, obwohl du weißt, dass sie wichtig sind?

Mostly a collection of story-telling poems told by a group of friends in a tavern late one night. "Tales" includes the famous Paul Revere's ride, together with poems of many tales, countries and styles. (Summary by Peter Yearsley)

A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family between 1916 and 1922. The fourth volume, published in 1919, contains several notable poems by the recently deceased Wilfred Owen. The other poets represented are Francisco Quevedo, Aldous Huxley, Arnold James, Iris Tree, Sherard Vines, and Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. - Summary by Algy Pug

Un recorrido por los textos esenciales de Henry D. Thoreau (Desobediencia civil, Caminar y fragmentos de Walden), acompañados por una introducción del crítico literario Toni Montesinos. Vivir de forma sencilla también puede ser un acto de resistencia. ¿Qué significa llevar una vida libre...

Murray (1840-1904) was a sometime clergyman, journalist, and purveyor of the outdoor life. His books did much to popularize the virtues of outdoor experience, especially in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. Here are stories, some humorous some serious, of the out-of-doors, of love between man and woman, man and horse, man and dog, teacher and acolyte, of wisdom and foolishness. This recording is a selection of his short stories from "The Busted Ex-Texan And Other Stories" (1889), "How Deacon Tubman And Parson Whitney Kept New Years And Other Stories" (1888) and "A Ride With A Mad ...

Beautiful on the outside, deadly evil on the inside. Throughout Eddie's childhood, two things remained constant: cold, hateful violence and the vicious smiles of the Scary Lady who haunted him. The love of his adoptive parents shielded him from her horrible influence—at least for a time. Years...

" . . . each page is well-spun with action [ . . . ] a masterpiece."—Romuald Dzemo, Readers' Favorite Reviews The cold waters of Lake Genosgawa hide a terrifying secret. After his first encounter, waking dreams torment eleven-year-old Greg Canton. The creature in the lake feeds on his emotions...

A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family between 1916 and 1922. The third volume, published in 1918, contains poems by Aldous Huxley, Arnold James, Iris Tree, Sherard Vines, and Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. ( Algy Pug)

This special anthology, published in 1885, is formed of seven stories, together with an introductory chapter setting up a framing narrative by Henry Norman, which is returned to at the end of each subsequent tale. This connecting narrative concerns a group of travelers on a transatlantic crossing. When their ship, the Bavaria suffers a ‘broken shaft’, they are forced to remain becalmed mid-ocean, telling stories to pass the time. - Summary by Ann Boulais

The author of this book, Ralph Henry Barbour, was a prolific writer of scholastic and college sports and adventure fiction for boys. Here is a departure from that niche. This is a story about the good, and not so good, adventures of Fritz the dachshund, as a puppy (Part 1) and an adult dog (Part 2), as told by ... Fritz the dachshund. A very heart-warming story for children. - Summary by Donald Cummings

Each summer, in the ancient hill town of Siena, Italy, there erupts one of the most extraordinary, exciting, and dangerous horse races in the world— the Palio. So furious is the rivalry that it is often said the Palio is more battle than race, and that "Fate is the Queen of the Palio." This magnificent book is a true story of the Palio —a thrilling, heart-stirring tale of a boy and a beautiful half-Arabian mare who won undying fame. Marguerite Henry tells—as only she can—how the life of Giorgio Terni, a boy of the Maremma marshes, became linked in strange and dramatic fashion with that...

The Brownies of the Mansion at Hillside are under siege from Pixie forces. The Pixies, whose treacherous weavings mimic those of our own useful backyard spiders, are determined to claim Hillside for their own. Will the faithful Brownies, along with their allies, be able to protect their homeland and dear loved ones, and drive the Pixie forces back? The tale not only provides an entertaining story but also brings magic to the ordinary spiders, insects, and other creatures of nature that thrive in the same spaces where we humans make our homes. - Summary by Catherine Arwine

In 1898, during the construction of river-crossing bridge for the Uganda Railway at the Tsavo River, as many as 135 railway workers were attacked at night, dragged into the wilderness, and devoured by two male lions. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo is the autobiographical account of Royal Engineer Lt. Col. J.H. Patterson's African adventures. Among them, his hunt for the two man-eaters. This book was the basis for the 1996 film The Ghost and the Darkness. (Summary by James Christopher)

Misty is a Chincoteague pony mare who is close to foaling, and the Beebe family is anxious about it. Unfortunately, a terrible storm system arrives first, setting up over Chincoteague with floods, hurricane winds, ice, and snow. The story is fictional, but is based on historical characters, human and equine. Stormy describes events on Chincoteague Island during the Ash Wednesday Storm that hit the Eastern Seaboard March 6, 1962. This is the sequel to Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)