Butts heather radke6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() It is a body part unique to humans, critical to our evolution and survival, and yet it has come to signify so much more: sex, desire, comedy, shame. ![]() Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big, too small, or anywhere in between, humans have a complicated relationship with butts. “Lively and thorough, Butts is the best kind of nonfiction.” - Esquire, Best Books of 2022Ī “carefully researched and reported work of cultural history” ( The New York Times) that explores how one body part has influenced the female-and human-experience for centuries, and what that obsession reveals about our lives today. “Winning, cheeky, and illuminating….What appears initially as a folly with a look-at-this cover and title becomes, thanks to Radke’s intelligence and curiosity, something much meatier, entertaining, and wise.” - The Washington Post ![]()
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![]() His greatest works are now presented in a deluxe two-volume Library of America boxed set, collecting: Ray Bradbury: Novels and Storiy Cycles (LOA #347) THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES FAHRENHEIT 451 DANDELION WINE SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES Appendix: A Few Notes on The Martian Chronicles Day After Tomorrow: Why Science Fiction? No Man Is an Island Just This Side of Byzantium (An Introduction to Dandelion Wine) Dandelion Wine Revisited Carnivals, Near and Far (An Afterword to Something Wicked. ![]() Book Synopsis For the first time in a deluxe collectors boxed set, here is the ultimate Ray Bradbury edition, including three novels, three story collections, and thirty-three other stories and rarities Ray Bradbury has inspired generations of readers to dream, think, and create. ![]() The book with no pictures to read6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() PFEIFFER: When you say masking, you're talking about sort of concealing how you might want to express yourself? And I think one of the biggest things for me is that, especially - I mask. Like, literally - like, there's so much that just kind of, like, goes on. I want to say it's indescribable 'cause, you know, I got one. How would you describe the beauty of an autistic mind? And what the pediatrician wrote was that your book captures the beauty of an autistic mind. PFEIFFER: I noticed that one of the promotional blurbs for your book was written by a pediatrician. TIFFANY HAMMOND: I try to tap into a lot of who I am as well, in conjunction with who my children are and what I see in other children and how they respond to and interact with my own. Tiffany Hammond wants everyone to understand how they can embrace and accept people with autism, so she wrote a book about Aidan, called "A Day With No Words." It's a children's book, illustrated by Kate Cosgrove, and it follows Aidan through a regular day - pushing buttons to tell his mom he wants to go to the park or that he wants fries and root beer for lunch. ![]() Aidan's mom, Tiffany Hammond, has autism, too. ![]() He also uses a tablet that vocalizes words for him. ![]() He's autistic and doesn't speak, so he uses gestures and body language. Aidan Hammond is a 16-year-old who communicates with his family in unconventional ways. ![]() Dr strange and mr norrell book6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Their dark practices cause them more trouble than they could ever, possibly imagine. ![]() A battle between these two magicians threatens to overshadow even the war. Although only a novice, his talents are brilliant and whilst Norrell has poured for years over his books to obtain his knowledge Strange's natural aptitude for the subject knows no bounds. Enter Jonathan Strange, a young man who appears to challenge Mr Norrell's status. He is at pains however, to ensure that no other lays claim to his title of England’s Greatest (and only) Magician and with the help of his servant Childermass, he searches out every book of practical magic to be added to his private library and every theoretical magician to ensure their interest in the subject swiftly wanes.with a little persuasion. A street peddler foretells of a prophesy of the return of magic to England, which has been dead since the disappearance of the Raven King some three hundred years ago.Įnter Mr Norrell, his magical displays enchant the nation, he raises fair maidens from the dead and sends ghost ships to battle the French. The Napoleonic wars are raging in France and magic, an academic subject only, is no longer practised. The year is 1806 and the country is England. ![]() Frayed silk ella fields6/25/2023 ![]() I am left wondering what the private eye number asked for would be used for if the author will continue the storyline in another book just for Jared? I LOVED Leo and thought he was extremely well written. ![]() Overall, I loved this story truly an impossible read amongst a lot of the same old stories out there these days. The story does include cheating yet that isn’t the basis of this story and the author throws in a very, very, good reveal and will spin everything you know up to that point on its axis. Our heroine tries to scare her husband into caring/noticing her and his reaction shocks her and this reader. The author writes the heroine’s day-to-day very well as we get to know her married girlfriends and a younger man named Jared who’s very interested in Lila. Because if he won’t do it, then they only person who can fix this pain and make me happy again is me.” ![]() I think it needs to snap once and for all. I can’t keep hanging on by a frayed thread. From the first page, her cries for any sort of reaction from Leo that he cares that their marriage is sinking is heartbreaking. The story is about a wife and mother of two, Lia who has been married for ten years to her husband Leo. Her writing is solid, sexy, and suspenseful. ![]() ![]() Stop breaking me.”Įlla Fields delivers one hell of a debut novel that was impossible to put down. ![]() Rez Runaway by Melanie Florence6/25/2023 ![]() The only problem is they can’t decide what to be: a boy or a girl? A bird or a fish? A flower or a shooting star? At school, though, they must endure inquisitive looks and difficult questions from the other children, and have trouble finding friends who will accept them for who they are. And Miu Lan is not just any child, but one who can change into any shape they can imagine. In the magical time between night and day, when both the sun and the moon are in the sky, a child is born in a little blue house on a hill. ![]() Get Published: The Writing for Children Kitįrom the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea by Kai Cheng Thom, illustrated by Kai Yun Ching and Wai-Yant Li (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2017) Ages 3-8.Bibliovideo: Canadian Kids’ Books on YouTube.How You Can Help the CCBC – A resource for educators.Donate to the David Booth Children’s and Youth Poetry Award.Donate to the Jean Little First Novel Award.Donate to Canadian Children’s Book Week. ![]() CCBC Articles of Continuance and By-laws. ![]() The novice summoner book one6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() As the pieces on the board manoeuvre for supremacy, Fletcher must decide where his loyalties lie. Othello is the first ever dwarf at the academy, and his people have long been oppressed by Hominum's rulers, which provokes tension amongst those he studies alongside.įletcher will find himself caught in the middle of powerful forces, with nothing but his demon, Ignatius, to help him. Then there is Sylva, an elf who will do anything she can to forge an alliance between her people and Hominum, even if it means betraying her friends. ![]() The power-hungry Forsyth twins lurk in the shadows, plotting to further their family's interests. Rubbing shoulders with the children of the most powerful nobles in the land, Fletcher must tread carefully. The academy will put Fletcher through a gauntlet of grueling lessons, training him as a battlemage to fight in the Hominum Empire's war against the savage orcs. Fletcher is working as a blacksmiths apprentice when he discovers he has the rare ability to summon demons from another world. ![]() Chased from his village for a crime he did not commit, he must travel with his demon to the Vocans Academy, where the gifted are trained in the art of summoning. Fletcher is nothing more than a humble blacksmith's apprentice when a chance encounter leads to the discovery that he has the ability to summon demons from another world. ![]() Winners take all anand giridharadas6/24/2023 ![]() A call to action for elites and everyday citizens alike. Giridharadas asks hard questions: Why, for example, should our gravest problems be solved by the unelected upper crust instead of the public institutions it erodes by lobbying and dodging taxes? He also points toward an answer: Rather than rely on scraps from the winners, we must take on the grueling democratic work of building more robust, egalitarian institutions and truly changing the world. We hear the limousine confessions of a celebrated foundation boss witness an American president hem and haw about his plutocratic benefactors and attend a cruise-ship conference where entrepreneurs celebrate their own self-interested magnanimity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We see how they rebrand themselves as saviors of the poor how they lavishly reward “thought leaders” who redefine “change” in winner-friendly ways and how they constantly seek to do more good, but never less harm. WINNERS TAKE ALL The Elite Charade of Changing the WorldĪn insider’s groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite’s efforts to “change the world” preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve.įormer New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can–except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it. ![]() Witch Fall by Amber Argyle6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Menacing messages like, “Stop playing a man’s game, little girl”, and “Someone kill this wh*re”, can be heard throughout the room, to provide an insight into the real-life experiences of female gamers, and give a tiny insight into the aggressive messages women receive. Video content from the experience shows the real-time reactions of players as they’re slowly given increasingly aggressive messages while they try to game. The high-level gaming simulator highlights the terrifying level of harassment that female gamers face. To shine a light on the abuse experienced by female gamers in the UK, Sky Broadband has created a new immersive experience, in partnership with Guild Esports, at the Sky Guild Gaming Centre in Shoreditch. ![]() Amanda Holden has her say on future of This Morning after Phillip Schofield. ![]() ![]() Bad Education among five BBC comedies returning for new series.The research, commissioned by Sky Broadband, also found that over half of males (51 per cent) report witnessing female streamers being harassed on live streams.Īnd 71 per cent of all those polled say they have stepped in to stop any abuse they have spotted. Stephanie Ijoma says the abuse is 'unacceptable', and must be challenged (Image: PinPep/Cover Images)īut it is not just the online harassment they worry about – as almost a third of women fear being attacked in real life, after suffering a barrage of threats on online gaming platforms. ![]() Kitchen yoshimoto banana6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() After the death of Yuichi’s mother some years ago, Eriko made the choice to undergo a sex change and dedicate herself to continuing her wife’s legacy as a devoted mother. Yuichi lives with his mother, though it is quickly revealed that Eriko was in fact, at one time, Yuichi’s father. From here, we are hit with the death of Mikage’s grandmother and an offer to be taken in by a young man of whom her grandmother was a great admirer: Yuichi Tanabe. I was going into junior high when my grandfather died.” After that my grandparents brought me up. “My parents both died when they were young. Mikage’s youth is spent in a shroud of death. Her originality, however, is what makes her writing truly staggering. ![]() In Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto, like Hemmingway, Steinbeck, and all the others before her, profoundly probes the theme of transience: the brevity of life, the dangerous potential of love and happiness to be painfully fleeting. Though it is rarely the themes themselves that we care about, but rather how these themes are explored. ![]() |