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The Cucumber for Java Book: Behaviour-Driven Development for Testers and Developers

Seb Rose, Matt Wynne and Aslak Hellesoy

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Teams working on the JVM can now say goodbye forever to misunderstood requirements, tedious manual...

Volcano Street

David Rain

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'What would Germaine do?' This is the mantra that Skip and Marlo Wells turn to as they navigate...

Atlas of Neural Therapy: With Local Anesthetics

Dr. Mathias Dosch

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The neural therapy techniques that can be learned from this book comprise an entire healing system...

Gun Culture in Early Modern England

Lois G. Schwoerer

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Guns had an enormous impact on the social, economic, cultural, and political lives of civilian men,...

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Oct 9, 2019

Doctor Sleep

Stephen King | 2013 | Horror, Science Fiction/Fantasy

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Doctor Sleep is the sequel to ‘The Shining’. Following the life of Dan Torrance (the little boy from The Shining) the book quickly covers what happens after the events at the Overlook Hotel where Dan finds his lifestyle copying that of his alcoholic farther. His life starts to turn around when he arrives at a small town in New Hampshire where the now middle aged Dan finds a number of things; Help with his alcohol problem, A job in a nursing home, good friends and, with the help of his Shinning a child in need of help.
Doctor Sleep Focus’ on the power of the Shinning, what it can do and how it affects not only the people with the power but others around it. Unlike the first book ghost’s do not play a major part in most of the story, there is a bit in the beginning which ties up events at the Overlook but, although ghosts are mentioned they have been (Mostly) replaced by a group called The True Knot, a group of vampire like beings who feed off the Shining instead of blood. As Dan finds himself caught up with The True Knot he finds that he is being pulled back to the site of the Overlook.
A big part of the book is about how you can’t escape your past and that, until you accept your mistakes you will never really be able to move forward. It is also about acceptance and the fact that you are never really alone, that other people have experienced what you are going through and that they can help you get through life if you let them and it is about family, accepting the one you have but also find a new one, finding people who will accept you as you are but it is mostly about psychic Vampires and the power of the Shining.