![]() Readers become immersed in these young adults’ voices and experiences. Speaking with equal impact to both the reader’s heart and mind, Beyond Magenta is highly recommended. Kuklin’s important new book brings welcome clarity to a subject that has often been obscure and gives faces-literally and metaphorically-to a segment of the teen population that has too long been invisible. strikingly in-depth examination of the sometimes clinical complexities of being transgender, even as Kuklin’s empathy-inducing pictures put a human face on the experience. ![]() The collective portrait that emerges from these narratives and pictures is diverse, complex and occasionally self-contradictory - as any true story should be.Informative, revealing, powerful and necessary. ![]() ![]() Kuklin brings her intimate, compassionate and respectful lens to the stories of six transgender young people. As Kuklin writes, “My subjects’ willingness to brave bullying and condemnation in order to reveal their individual selves makes it impossible to be nothing less than awestruck.” She isn’t wrong. Kuklin captures these teenagers not as idealized exemplars of what it “means” to be transgender but as full, complex, and imperfect human beings. Sorely needed resource for teens and, frankly, many adults. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The novel powerfully imagines the lives of women and trans people in this setting, stories erased by a history recorded by generations of patriarchal straight white men. Mixing elements of historical fiction and Fantasy, Sistersong tells a story set in ancient Devon, of the Britons and their traditional pagan beliefs coming under threat of the Saxons and Christianity. Holland beautifully captures the dark, sinister feel of the original ballad, whilst crafting a powerful story full of compelling characters. I am delighted to say that Holland’s novel more than lived up to my expectations. As such my expectations for Sistersong going in were particularly high. ![]() The Child Ballads represent a strain of ancient British folklore rife with fairies, magic and blood that has served as an inspiration for some of Fantasy’s finest novels, from Diana Wynne Jones’ Fire & Hemlock (1984) to Ellen Kushner’s Thomas The Rhymer (1990). Lucy Holland’s Sistersong (2021) is a fantasy novel based on the Child Ballad ‘The Twa Sisters’. I’ve left our world for theirs – the nameless land where goddesses sing to the stars, where lost spirits linger in the twilight.” “I wander so long, it feels as though I’ve crossed some hidden boundary. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the last year or so a real forgery has been discovered. ![]() I read this yesterday – and was amused by this element of the story. Its about dishonesty and it is about integrity too. Property is our heroine, but she is certainly supported by other the other brilliant characters, including my favourite Gunther, a cat who has decided opinions about things and expresses himself very clearly – very much in the way my Pakka does. This is the story of what happens when all that changes, it seems for the better. They are happy enough, though financially things are not quite what they should be. The Jones family, Netty, Michael and Property own the White Stag – a bookshop sited in an old pub. I have been selling it to all discerning young readers ever since. I enjoyed her first, Erica’s Elephant when it came out, and wrote a post about it. ![]() ![]() Patterson wrote the first novel, 1st to Die. Ī New York Times article states that Patterson set The Women's Murder Club in San Francisco to gain more fans on the West Coast, where competitor John Grisham had been leading in book sales. Įvery book except 7th Heaven and 10th Anniversary were #1 New York Times Best Sellers. ![]() The main characters were originally Lindsay Boxer (police officer), Cindy Thomas (reporter), Claire Washburn (medical examiner), and Jill Bernhardt, but later in the series, defense attorney, Yuki Castellano, is introduced. The series follows the women through their personal issues, including Lindsay Boxer's medical issues, marriage, and pregnancy. Set in San Francisco, the novels follow a group of women from different professions relating to investigating crime as they work together to solve murders. The books have been adapted into a made for TV movie, a television series and several games. ![]() ![]() The books are set in San Francisco and feature an ensemble of lead characters. Women's Murder Club is a series of mystery novels by American author James Patterson. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Well, there was one character that was easy to hate, but otherwise, I loved them all. The characters were really well developed and even when they made bad choices or the storyline took an unexpected turn, it was still hard to hate them. The plot took so many twists and turns that even 1600ish pages went quickly. The story in the Bible only gives us a few short paragraphs where Liz Curtis Higgs unfolds the story over 3 books at about 1600 pages, so she’s got plenty of room for creative liberty, while still maintaining Biblical themes of love, forgiveness, and truth. It’s set in 1800ish in the Scottish Lowlands and it is beautifully written. Whence Came a Prince starts exactly where the 2nd book leaves off with no review of what’s happened so far. The whole Lowlands of Scotland series is a retelling of the Biblical story of Jacob, Rachel, & Leah. ![]() ![]() I breezed through the first two books ( Thorn in My Heart is the first, Fair is the Rose is the second) rather quickly and got distracted by my TRB list for several months (said no bookish person ever…) before returning to Whence Came a Prince for the culmination to a riveting story. My sister in law had lent me all three books last summer. This is the 3rd book in the Lowlands of Scotland series. ![]() ![]() ![]() The main difference is the concrete building. Home and house are confused often but it is important to know the difference. Video Translation of Home in 10 Other Languages Home in Other Foreign Languages Different Languages Translation of word Home in almost 10 Austronesian languages. Translation of word Home in almost 13 African languages. Translation of word Home in 4 middle eastern languages. Translation of word Home in almost 36 Asian languages. Translation of word Home in almost 42 European languages. ![]() Translation of word Home in almost 100+ different languages of the world. ![]() A house is a spot in which you can be free to do anything. A place to feel comfortable and secure is a home. Most people say that home is our loved ones and the apartment, house, or sleeping room doesn’t make a house necessarily. Often it is a house, an apartment or a separate building or a mobile home, a yurt or any other shelter. Home in Different Languages: Home is place where a person lives and spends time with his family. Video Translation of Home in 10 Other Languages. ![]() ![]() Likewise for the experts who write the clinical practice guidelines that define our standards of care. For example, one of pharma's best-kept secrets is that the peer reviewers charged with ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the clinical trial reports published in medical journals do not even have access to complete data and must rely on manufacturer-influenced summaries. John Abramson-one of the foremost experts on the drug industry's deceptive tactics-combines patient stories with what he learned during many years of serving as an expert in national drug litigation to reveal the tangled web of financial interests at the heart of the dysfunction in our health-care system. At the heart of the problem is Big Pharma, which funds most clinical trials and therefore controls the research agenda, withholds the real data from those trials as corporate secrets, and shapes most of the information relied upon by health care professionals. ![]() The United States spends an excess $1.5 trillion annually on health care compared to other wealthy countries-yet the amount of time that Americans live in good health ranks a lowly 68th in the world. ![]() ![]() The inside story of how Big Pharma's relentless pursuit of ever-higher profits corrupts medical knowledge-misleading doctors, misdirecting American health care, and harming our health. ![]() ![]() After finally making it to Borneo the team travel across the the Indonesian archipelago. From Bali, Charley embarks upon a series of boat journeys navigating his way across the Indonesian archipelago. The boat carrying the team to Borneo runs into difficulties. He gets off his bike and on to local means of transport, avoiding commercial airlines wherever possible to travel over land and sea on more than 100 different modes of transport, including container ships, dug-out canoes, solar cars and an elephant. Charley returns for his most daring journey so far, covering three continents, 25 countries and over 20,000 miles from Ireland to Australia, the crew comprised only Boorman, Malkin and a cameraman, Paul "Mungo" Mungeam. ![]() ![]() Travelling from Wicklow, Ireland, to Sydney, Australia, it features him completing the journey using 112 modes of transport and only travelling by plane when absolutely necessary.Īfter Long Way Round and Long Way Down, Boorman and producer Russ Malkin conceived By Any Means in late 2007. ![]() Travel Documentaryhosted by Charley Boorman, published byīy Any Means, also known as Ireland to Sydney by Any Means, is a television series following Long Way Round and Long Way Down star Charley Boorman. ![]() ![]() ![]() For one thing, he's been dreaming- which is supposed to be impossible. Proctor Bennett, Managing Director of the Department of Social Contracts, has a satisfying career as a ferryman, gently shepherding the elderly through the retirement process- and, when necessary, enforcing it. When that happens, they retire themselves, embarking on a short ferry ride to the island known as the Nursery, where their failing bodies are renewed, their memories are wiped clean, and they are readied to restart life afresh. ![]() In this island paradise, Prospera's lucky citizens enjoy long, vigorous, and fulfilling lives- that is, until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant to measure their physical health and psychological well-being, fall below 10 percent. ![]() Founded by the mythical genius known as the Designer, Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. Life on the island archipelago of Prospera is everything a person could hope for. From the New York Times bestselling author of THE PASSAGE comes a riveting new saga in which a small portion of the human population survives on a hidden island nation-until one man begins to realize that the truth isn't what it seems. ![]() ![]() With a text-to-speech engine and spoken by Kendra, a high quality Layer 3) - Provides audio only with no text. Refreshable Format) - Digital Braille for use with refreshable Books thatĬontain images will have the download option of ‘DAISY Text with ![]() Just about every type of access technology that reads text. (Digital Accessible Information System) - A digital book file format.ĭAISY books from Bookshare are DAISY 3.0 text files that work with The features of DAISY with a single click of the "Read Now" link. 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