I haven’t gotten to know the characters too well yet, but it’s an LGBTQIA+ story so if that’s something you usually go for and are excited about, definitely give it a try. I like the writing – it’s well-edited – and the contemporary + fantasy combination. However, I did start it and I am quite curious about where it’s going. Hi, everyone! Normally, when I do blog tours, I share a review of the book in the post, but it’s exam period so I have not had the time to finish reading this gorgeous-looking book. La Sala created a work that toys with fantasy as in dreams contrasted with reality and the fantasy genre itself, which for so long has had a narrow concept of who gets to be heroes. Genres & Themes: Young Adult, Fantasy, LGBTQIA+
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Adam and Eve after the Pill examines as no book has before the seismic social changes caused by the sexual revolution. Her chapters range across academic disciplines and include supporting evidence from contemporary literature and music, women's studies, college memoirs, dietary guides, advertisements, television shows, and films. Anscombe and novelist Tom Wolfe and a host of feminists, food writers, musicians, and other voices from across today's popular culture, Eberstadt makes her contrarian case with an impressive array of evidence. Drawing on sociologists Pitirim Sorokin, Carle Zimmerman, and others philosopher G.E.M. But what has been the result? This ground-breaking book by noted essayist and author Mary Eberstadt contends that sexual freedom has paradoxically produced widespread discontent. Perhaps nothing has changed life for so many, so fast, as the severing of sex and procreation. Secular and religious thinkers agree: the sexual revolution is one of the most important milestones in human history. The shipping of personalized items ordered while Peter is away may be delayed. Reynolds book or print, please keep in mind that Peter's travel schedule will affect his ability to complete personalizations. The extra charge for signature and personalizations helps support Peter’s brick and mortar indie bookshop and its efforts to support local and national literacy initiatives. The final book in the Creatrilogy is Sky Color which along with The Dot and Ish are models for inspiration. The unexpected teacher in this book is his younger sister who reminds him that his loose and free lines are her "perfect-ish." We all learn the art of creating bravely and nurturing our "ish" within. In the sequel to The Dot, Ramon discovers the magic of "ish-ful" creativity after his quest to be a perfectionist. Ultimately, it becomes a story about valuing ones own creative output. *Please write personalization in the Suggestion section at the end of your order if it is the option chosen* It starts about the relationships between siblings. Throughout this memoir, Peralta traces her growing self-understanding as a woman attracted to both men and women. Over the next decades, the author grew up, had a family, started a dance school, got divorced, had lesbian affairs, became a therapist, and moved back and forth between Mexico and the United States. She told her 18-year-old daughter that “t is better to be a whore than a lesbian,” after she found some love notes a woman wrote to Marina. But if desire for boys was wrong, desire for a woman was worse, according to Peralta’s mother. “By now I should know that feeling pleasure in my body is wrong,” a 16-year-old Marina concluded. She was even criticized for dancing too close to a boy in a socially approved setting in an event hall. Her love for dancing and applause earned censure, too: “Only lower-class women go into show business,” her mother said. Growing up in midcentury Mexico, Peralta was told that sexual desire was dirty. Peralta, a Mexican woman now living in Southern California, surveys her romantic past and her struggle to understand herself as a bisexual in this memoir. Steward's Fork - Appendix: Biota Mentioned in the Text - References and Further Reading - IndexĪ compelling story of place, Steward's Fork explores northwest California's magnificent Klamath Mountains-a region that boasts a remarkable biodiversity, a terrain so rugged that significant landscape features are still being discovered there, and a wealth of natural resources that have been used, and more recently abused, by humans for millennia. Principles of Future Sustainability - 14. My Botanical Contest with Miss Alice Eastwood - 6. Includes bibliographical references and index.įrontmatter - Contents - Figures and Tables - Acknowledgments - 1. and Or.)ĭescription based upon print version of record. Sustainable development - Klamath Mountains (Calif. and Or.)Ĭonservation of natural resources - Klamath Mountains (Calif. Natural history - Klamath Mountains (Calif. Ageeīerkeley, : University of California Press, 2007 Steward's Fork ] : a sustainable future for the Klamath Mountains / / James K. (Visualizza in formato marc) (Visualizza in BIBFRAME) Autore: He desperately tries to research his past, though no book makes any mention of it. Takei touches on that throughout this graphic memoir. Our history books are notoriously white-washed, never delving into the parts of our past that makes white Americans look like the "bad guys." For example, I was never taught about these American concentration camps in my public school history class, though we spent every year of middle and high school learning about those in Europe. We are also shown the repercussions this period has on American politics. Through flash forwards from the '40s to present day, we see the repercussions this terrible experience has on George as he finds his voice while processing what his country put him through. While his parents are just trying to get through the day and keep their family safe, young George and his brother Henry think they are going on a vacation or an adventure. Seeing this all through a young child's eyes was even more heart-wrenching. We follow a four-year-old George Takei and his family as they are forced into concentration camps during WWII because of their Japanese ancestry. I've been a big fan of graphic memoirs ever since reading Persepolis, and this book is the perfect example of why. McKinley’s assassination and the growing unrest from the populist movement forced Roosevelt to search for answers to these problems. The rapid industrialization had led to the creation of a massive lowly paid labor force, and a high immigration rate that led to population growth and overpopulation in urban towns. The rapid industrialization under McKinley’s rule created social and political problems for the country. Under McKinley, the US had embodied the social and political conservatism castigated under his republican party at the end of the 19th century. McKinley’s death arose many questions in regards to the nation’s culture and also led to far reaching changes in political and social institutions under Roosevelt’s administration.The rise of Roosevelt to power marked the progressive era in America’s history of the early 20th century. In his analysis of Mckinley’s murder, Rauchway wants the reader to understand the social and political struggles that faced the nation at the dawn of the 20th century and the solutions that got proposed. She is a character to love and hate, pity and sympathise with - the innocence of her years as Dauphine, before coming to the throne at nineteen ('We are too young to rule', as goes the famous quote here attributed to her), her love and devotion to her children, and her dignity at the end. Marie Antoinette, whose story this is, adapted to the boredom and frustration of her younger years by seeking to enjoy privilege to the full, although she only ever wanted to please and make people love her by the time she understood her position and responsibility, it was too late. Louis was well-meaning and gentle, unsuited to his role as king yet interested in the welfare of his people perhaps the one argument for a republic he would have understood is that those in power should be chosen for their strengths and abilities, and not have authority forced upon them. Plaidy brings a familiar sequence of events to life - an awkward marriage, the strict etiquette and spoiled extravagance of Versailles, a frivolous and naive young woman seeking escape in pleasure, the building wrath of a nation - and makes history accessible, as well as debunking legends. Show More historically accurate (based upon existing research) portrayal of Marie Antoinette, and also the subject, who was far from either a cruel and grasping queen or a martyred saint. And yet, they cannot stop what feels so incredibly right. They know their relationship is wrong and cannot possibly continue. Their clandestine romance quickly blooms into deep, desperate love. So close, in fact, that they have fallen in love. And the stress of their lives-and the way they understand each other so completely-has also brought them closer than two siblings would ordinarily be. As de facto parents to the little ones, Lochan and Maya have had to grow up fast. Together they have stepped in for their alcoholic, wayward mother to take care of their three younger siblings. Seventeen-year-old Lochan and sixteen-year-old Maya have always felt more like friends than siblings. Perfect for readers who enjoyed Flowers in the Attic, this is a heartbreaking and shocking novel about siblings Lochan and Maya, their tumultuous home life, and the clandestine, and taboo, relationship they form to get through it. But all of that gets put on hold Princess Leia tasks Wexley and her crew to rescue her hubby Han Solo and his BFF Chewbacca after the two disappear while on a mission to liberate the Wookie home world of Kashyyk. Set after the events of Star Wars: Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi, but long before The Force Awakens begins, Star Wars Aftermath Life Debt picks up where Aftermath left off: with Rebel pilot Norra Wexley and friends chasing after members of the Imperial leadership. Thankfully, for the second book in his Aftermath trilogy, Star Wars Aftermath Life Debt ( hardcover, digital), Wendig is bringing back some old friends for a much more exciting and satisfying adventure. It’s why Claudia Gray’s original trilogy-overlapping Lost Stars and Greg Rucka’s Force Awakens prequel Star Wars Before The Awakening have been the strongest, while Chuck Wendig’s “it’s post- Return Of The Jedi but where did everybody go?” Star Wars Aftermath, though entertaining, is one of the weakest. If there’s one constant in the nearly dozen Star Wars novels released since Disney reset the canon of the expanded universe, it’s that’s the best ones have been those most connected to the movies. |