6/8/2023 0 Comments Wires and nerve![]() ![]() I really liked Gone Rogue! This series is a pretty good follow-up to the Cinder series, and I’m glad I read it! Questions of love, friendship, and mortality take Iko on an emotional journey that will satisfy and delight fans of this bestselling series. ![]() But it is Iko who must face her deepest fears when she uncovers the truth about her own unusual programming. Unless Cinder can reverse the mutations that were forced on them years before, Steele and his soldiers plan to satisfy their monstrous appetites with a massacre of the innocent people of Earth.Īnd to show he’s serious, Steele is taking hostages.Ĭinder and Kai, Scarlet and Wolf, Cress and Thorne, and Winter and Jacin all feature in this epic new battle. Iko–an audacious android and best friend to the Lunar Queen Cinder–has been tasked with hunting down Alpha Lysander Steele, the leader of a rogue band of bioengineered wolf-soldiers who threaten to undo the tenuous peace agreement between Earth and Luna. The world of the Lunar Chronicles comes alive in this thrilling continuation of Wires and Nerve. Published January 2019 by Square Fish|336 pages ![]()
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6/8/2023 0 Comments Killer in Drag by Ed Wood![]() ![]() Hayes does a pretty good job in Muddled Mind: The Complete Works of Edward D. It's high time someone provided a detailed overview of Wood's literary output, and Chicago writer, actor, screenwriter and filmmaker David C. His books and sleazy magazines - many of which he created all by himself - are still in demand, fetching big prices for collectors. But even that sleaze had Wood's iconic and unique touch and value. ![]() The tragedy of Wood's life is that he was a drunk after the mid 1960s most of his written work - and all of his film work - was in porn. And Wood was a damn good writer, Imagine Elmore Leonard writing without an editor and submitting a first draft. What the average Ed Wood fan doesn't know is that Wood wrote a heck of a lot of novels, short stories and news articles 80 novels, several hundred short stories and a few hundred non-fiction articles. ![]() ![]() Hayes, 2009 update, Ramble House Press, Reviewer received a review copy.ĭepending on your point of view, Ed Wood was either a famous, or infamous filmmaker. Muddled Mind: The Complete Works of Edward D. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments The Fairy End by Ellie Aiden![]() ![]() This year’s offerings give us everything from precious board books, touching picture books, astonishing true stories and biographies of remarkable people. The range of these contributions ensures that more young readers can see themselves reflected in the pages of a book. We’re delighted to see so many remarkable offerings in the expanding landscape of LGBTQIA+ literature for youth. This year’s committee evaluated close to 600 eligible titles and selected a total of 129 titles. ![]() The 2021 Rainbow Book List compiles some of the best LGBTQIA+ titles published in the USA and Canada between Jand December 31, 2020. ![]() This resource guide is meant to assist librarians, educators, parents, and others to ensure that everyone from babies and children to tweens and teens have access to selecting quality books with significant content regarding inclusion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and all that extends throughout the Rainbow spectrum. The Rainbow Book List, now in its 14th year, is an annual annotated bibliography consisting of quality LGBTQIA+ literature intended for readers from birth to age 18. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Back on top by samantha x![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Look, I look at the days that it'd take to get to the House and to the Senate. KEVIN MCCARTHY: It's very concerning to me. But yesterday, Speaker McCarthy told reporters he's not seeing what he sees as sufficient progress. Staff worked through the weekend on this. So what happened since they met a week ago?īARBARA SPRUNT, BYLINE: White House aides and congressional leadership staff have been meeting to chart out possible courses here before the leaders were to meet again. Barbara, this is going to be the second debt ceiling discussion between the president and the Senate and House leaders. NPR congressional reporter Barbara Sprunt. The federal government is only about two weeks away from running out of money to pay its bills, by a Treasury Department estimate. President Biden plans to meet with congressional leaders today to talk about raising the debt ceiling. ![]() ![]() ![]() Anyone could be a baby farmer there were no regulations to conform to, no qualifications to be met, no paperwork, and no supervision of the premises or type of care the children received. There were strict laws against the mistreatment of animals but, until 1872, there were no such laws to govern baby farmers. ![]() Barely a week would pass without the police finding a little corpse abandoned in a railway carriage, left on the banks of a canal, or thrown into the swiftly flowing River Thames. A number of them, though, abandoned, starved, or even killed the infants in their care to increase their profits. ![]() The majority of baby farmers were caring and honest. Legitimate baby farms supplied a much in demand service for unmarried, pregnant women in the Victorian era. Baby farmers were women who looked after children for a fee. The articles attracted a great deal of attention and brought the term “baby farming” into widespread use. Over the course of the following year the British Medical Journal, published in a series of sensationalist pieces that many baby farmers committed serial infanticide. The term “Baby Farming” was first used by the British Medical Journal in 1867, in an article entitled “Baby-Farming” in which they described a mother who had turned her children over to the “baby farmer” with the clear understanding that they would be neglected until they died. ![]() Baby farmers both repulsed and fascinated the public of the day. In this short book, author Sylvia Perrini profiles eleven Baby Farmers. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Credence penelope douglas![]() This book was such a good read I finished all of the nearly 500 pages in one day. And it is absolutely bonkers! But OMG I absolutely loved it! This book was so eloquently written, had no typos, was so descriptive, and built some amazing dynamic characters. Honestly, there is not a good way to summarize this book without it sounding absolutely bonkers. Will she stay in Chapel Peak? What will her relationships be like with her new step uncle and step cousins? Will she have time to find herself after her parents’ sudden death? With her new home at the top of a mountain, they get snowed in for six months of the year. It helps her cousins are super hot, though. She visit Chapel Peak and falls in love with the area, but not so much the people. Her uncle Jake invites her to come and stay with them until she is of age and then she can be off to do whatever she pleases. Turns out she has a step uncle, Jake, Who has two sons, Kaleb and Noah, and they live in Chapel Peak, Colorado. Now she’s unsure of what’s coming next, especially since she’s under age for a couple more months. ![]() Her parents died by committing suicide together in their bedroom, leaving her alone to find the bodies. ![]() ![]() ![]() An intense romance with some taboo plot lines and a great ending! ![]() ![]() ![]() I need to read/re-read more of him.Īs a Bengali, Tagore's works have been an intimate part of my life and culture. And I could not get over how beautiful the language is, as I read this in Bengali. The philosophies of religion and country (swadesh) have been debated beautifully. ![]() Does Binoy forever listen to Gora, can Gora stay true to his principles and how does the society all around reacts, forms the crux of the novel.Īpart from the plot, there is much more to this book. People, principles, plans clash mightily and the existing order is shaken up. When Binoy accidentally befriends Sucharita and slowly becomes their family friend, a whole chain of events unfold that changes everyone's lives. Sucharita and Lalita are educated girls who have their own independent thoughts and principles. As her counterpoint, there is Pareshbabu, the girls' guardian/father, who while being Brambho is not bound by any dogma and promotes independent thinking to great cost. ![]() There is Anondomoyee, Gora's mother, who is mother to both these friends and is very very refreshingly completely modern in her outlook and actions. Binoy while intelligent and educated, still is very heavily influenced by Gora. ![]() Gora is the leader with strict principles which he is ready to defend at any cost. This is the story of two Hindu Bengali friends - Gora and Binoy, and two Brambho Bengali sisters - Sucharita and Lalita. What can I say about this that has not already been said? Still let me try recording my impressions. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Body alchemy loren cameron![]() ![]() 'You feel that something's amiss that the skin that you're in isn't quite on right,' he told National Geographic's Taboo. ![]() ![]() Mr Cameron, an award-winning literary figure and photographer, born in 1959, grew up in Pasadena, California and recalls that as young as five years old, he felt uncomfortable in his body. "There is also the possibility that it may not be the best use of taxpayers' resources.' Still, Campus Reform spokesman Josiah Ryan suggested: 'I think that there is the possibility that it could offend people," Ryan told the Daily News. 'I feel that that takes the fear element out of it for people.' Honest: Mr Cameron, who is the author of several books about his personal transformation, was paid a $4,000 honorarium for exhibiting his work, enraging Campus Reform members who see it as potentially 'offensive' ![]() ![]() ![]() The book was released on 21 July 2007, ending the series that began in 1997 with the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the seventh and final of the Harry Potter novels written by British author J. The dust-jacket in now protected with a new Mylar sleeve covering. There is also a holographic sticker on the book denoting its participation in the tour, ensuring the authenticity of the author's signature. In addition to the genuine signature gracing the book, you'll also receive an original ticket from the Open Book Tour. ![]() He was chosen as one of only a few lucky readers who were granted access to the event. Rowling directly onto the title page!ĭesignated as Very Fine condition, this like-new book is being sold by the original owner, who personally obtained the author's autograph at the Open Book Tour held at the Stern Auditorium in Carnegie Hall in October 19th of 2007. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Henry david thoreau![]() ![]() In 1866, four years after Thoreau's death, the essay was reprinted in a collection of Thoreau's work ( A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers) under the title Civil Disobedience. Resistance also served as part of Thoreau's metaphor comparing the government to a machine: when the machine was producing injustice, it was the duty of conscientious citizens to be "a counter friction" (i.e., a resistance) "to stop the machine". ![]() Nonetheless, Thoreau was initially inspired by the Christian anarchist ideals espoused by Ballou and Garrison. The latter title distinguished Thoreau's program from that of " non-resistants" or Christian anarchists like Adin Ballou and William Lloyd Garrison, as Thoreau argued that their insistence on nonresistance as praxis against the state was grossly ineffectual. ![]() This formed the basis for his essay, which was first published under the title Resistance to Civil Government in an 1849 anthology by Elizabeth Peabody called Æsthetic Papers. In 1848, Thoreau gave lectures at the Concord Lyceum entitled "The Rights and Duties of the Individual in relation to Government". ![]() |