It’s a new modern-day, star-crossed romance about what it really means to love your country–and most importantly yourself–from acclaimed author Shaun David Hutchinson. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. But if it wasn’t hard enough being on opposite sides of the aisle, a shady third-party candidate suddenly claims to have pictures that will change everything–pictures that could cause Dean and Dre’s worlds to fall apart. The State of Us is written by Shaun David Hutchinson and published by HarperTeen. And as chance meetings on the campaign trail become less left to chance, their friendship quickly becomes the deepest connection either of the boys have ever known. The only problem is that Dre is the son of the Democratic opposition.īut when Dean and Dre find themselves locked together in the green room before the start of the first debate, they’re surprised at their instant connection. Finally, there’s someone in Dean’s life who actually understands him. Yet no one knows who Dean really is–that is until Dean meets Dre Rosario. As far as everyone know, Dean is button-down shirt wearing, church-going, straight-A high school student. But that doesn’t mean Dean was ready for the public scrutiny or the 24-hour news cycle that comes along with it. When Dean Arnault’s mother decided to run for president, it wasn’t a surprise to anyone, least of all her son. Illustration by Mia Nolting, design by Corina Lupp.
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Thoroughly researched and written in clear and accessible language, Period Repair Manual is the ultimate guide to better periods. Topics include how to come off hormonal birth control what your period should be like what can go wrong how to talk to your doctor treatment protocols for all common period problems, including PCOS and endometriosis. Lara's book, previously self-published, has already garnered rave reader reviews because of its willingness to deal with this important aspect of women's health openly and compassionately.Ĭontaining invaluable advice for women of every age and circumstance, and detailing natural treatments from nutritional supplements to a healthy diet, this book promises to help women change their relationship with their menstrual cycle. Half the population will menstruate in their lifetime, and 1 in 2 women will struggle with their period health. Naturopathic doctor Lara Briden wants to give women the knowledge and tools to improve their period health. 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Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 06:08:27 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA40389920 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ◊ Mayor's Book Talk from January 14, 2009 Before their mama lands in prison - just like an embarrassing lyric from a country-western song - Mace and her sisters must find the real culprit. It doesn't help that the handsome detective assigned to the case seems determined to prove Mama's guilt or that the cowboy who broke Mace's heart shows up at the local Booze 'n' Breeze in the midst of the investigation. This time, the trouble is real: Mama found a body in the trunk of her turquoise convertible and the police think she's the killer. One night, while settling in to look for ex-beaus on COPS, Mace gets a frantic call from her mother. Mama's antics - especially her penchant for finding trouble - drive her daughters Mace, Maddie, and Marty to distraction. Meet Mama: a true Southern woman with impeccable manners, sherbet-colored pantsuits, and four prior husbands, able to serve sweet tea and sidestep alligator attacks with equal aplomb. It’s 1951, in the middle of the Korean War, and two. The Naked Tree paints a stark portrait of a single nation’s fabric slowly torn to shreds by political upheaval and armed conflict. Grass is translated from Korean by Janet Hong, an award-winning writer and translator based in Vancouver. Critically acclaimed and award-winning cartoonist Keum suk Gendry-Kim returns with a stunning addition to her body of graphic fiction rooted in Korean history. Grass is a landmark graphic novel that makes personal the desperate cost of war and the importance of peace. Cartoonist Gendry-Kim's interviews with Lee become an integral part of Grass, forming the heart and architecture of this powerful non-fiction graphic novel and offering a holistic view of how Lee's wartime suffering changed her. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim The Naked Tree A delicate, timeless, and breathtaking coming-of-age classic, reimagined Critically acclaimed and award-winning cartoonist Keum Suk Gendry-Kim returns with a stunning addition to her body of graphic fiction rooted in Korean history. Grass is painted in a black ink that flows with lavish details of the beautiful fields and farmland of Korea and uses heavy brushwork on the somber interiors of Lee's memories. Keum Suk Gendry-Kim emphasizes Lee's strength in overcoming the many forms of adversity she experienced. Beginning in Lee's childhood, Grass shows the leadup to World War II from a child's vulnerable perspective, detailing how one person experienced the Japanese occupation and the widespread suffering it entailed for ordinary Korean folk. Grass is a powerful anti-war graphic novel, offering up firsthand the life story of a Korean girl named Okseon Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the second World War - a disputed chapter in 20th century Asian history. The novel follows the adventures and trials of this family for four generations.Ī modern reprint of this novel rightly described it as having “established du Maurier’s reputation and style with an inimitable blend of romance, history, and adventure.” Janet Coombes marries her cousin, Thomas Coombes, who is a shipbuilder. Though no longer as well known as some of du Maurier’s more iconic works, The Loving Spirit is included here because it was her first, and launched what would become a stellar career.īeginning in the early 1800s, The Loving Spirit tells the story of the Coombes family and is mainly set in Cornwall, a part of England in which the author spent much of her life. With the exception of The Loving Spirit, all of the following have also been made into well-known films, sometimes more than once. Here we’ll list the books that Dame Daphne is best remembered for. And there’s a group of novels among her canon that approach it in terms of quality and longevity. She went on to publish numerous works of full-length and short fiction as well as nonfiction and plays.Īrguably, Rebecca (1938) is du Maurier’s masterwork and best-known work. If you want to delve into the novels of Daphne du Maurier (1907 – 1989), where should you begin? The prolific British novelist, playwright, and short-story writer launched her publishing career at age twenty-two with The Loving Spirit (1931), her first novel. Kennedy, the term sellout refers to Black people who “knowingly or with gross negligence act against the interest of blacks as a whole.” And it is such a person who is the central character of Paul Beatty’s The Sellout-which Alta’s California Book Club will discuss at its February 18 gathering. According to law professor and author Randall L. A quick online search of the word sellout yields the following definitions: (1) “the selling of an entire stock of something, especially tickets for an entertainment or sports event ” (2) “a sale of a business or company ” and, most important, (3) “a betrayal of one’s principles for reasons of expedience.” The word, as we can see, is associated with inventory, commerce, and morals.īut there is also another definition, one that takes the aforementioned meanings and twists them into something much more derogatory, and reserved exclusively for Black people. The natives and invaders have interbred for so long that sounding the horn would rip the country into shreds. A legitimate and respected ruler, heir to the combined bloodlines of both Palladian and Ibisian royal families, sits on the Palladian Silver Throne. When she wakes five hundred years later, the war is long over, and her side lost. Medair does find the horn, and makes the fatal mistake of resting in the enchanted vault. We’ve heard this story a million times, right? Well, no, not quite. With her country on the verge of disaster before the invading Ibisians, she goes on a quest to find a legendary horn that, when blown, will repel the invaders. Medair an Rynstar, herald for the Palladian Empire, is on the losing side. To become so engrossed in a story that the real world gets put on hold for a few hours, to identify so strongly with a character that I can feel how much it costs her to keep her chin up and her voice steady when she would rather throw herself onto her bed and sob-that’s the magic that keeps me coming back for more. I cried over Andrea K Höst’s noblebright fantasy novel, The Silence of Medair. For me, as a zombie fan and an author of zombie books and stories, that’s at least one positive aspect of the past several years. They say that the increase in popularity of zombies can be tracked against worsening economic circumstances the stock market takes a dive, zombies start to rise. But I kept writing anyway because my husband had suggested “Write what you love,” and what I loved was the idea of surviving in a world that’s so irrevocably different from the one we live in now where the existence of the walking dead isn’t an accepted reality.īecause really, aren’t we all-teens and adults-still trying to figure out how to bring meaning to our lives amidst the chaos of the world around us? I just added zombies to that chaos to heighten the stakes and pinpoint that part of ourselves that yearns to do more than merely exist. Not only were there not a lot of zombie books being published, there certainly weren’t any set decades after the zombie apocalypse (that I knew of). When I began writing The Forest of Hands and Teeth, I was pretty sure it wasn’t going to sell. How Will We Get to the Beach? A Guessing Game Story by Brigitte Luciani Isaac the Ice Cream Truck by Scott Santoro Lottie's New Beach Towel by Petra Mathers Hats Off for the Fourth of July! by Harriet Ziefert The Great White Man-Eating Shark by Margaret Mahy Patrick's Day), check out these hoppy books! Or to create an "It's Not Easy Being Green" storytime (fun around St. Or for a rabbit storytime go to, Reading for Rabbits The Boy Who Didn't Believe in Spring by Lucille CliftonĪ Match Between the Winds by Shirley ClimoĪlso, to help April showers bring May flowers,go to McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash by Sarah Weeks (Other good "spring cleaning" theme books include Alpha and the Dirty Baby by Brock Cole, The Man Who Didn't Wash His Dishes by Phyllis Krasilovsky and Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish) |