![]() ![]() The story, compelling in itself, benefits immensely from her amazing artwork. Lighter Than My Shadow traces Green’s story of recovering from an eating disorder, during which she realized she had been sexually abused. If you only read one graphic novel this year, make it this one. This, dear reader, was strongly unfortunate. Moreover, the size and heft of the book meant I’d need time to read it – which I didn’t have at that point. Black and white illustrations seemed dismal during the long New England winter. ![]() For months, it sat on my living room coffee table waiting for me to read it. Last year at NYCC, I snagged a copy of Katie Green’s book. Getting the chance to interview Katie Green, author of the beautifully illustrated Lighter Than My Shadow, was the highlight of the entire weekend for me. The Lion Forge booth at NYCC may not be the biggest, but to me, it’s the brightest. NYCC increasingly vies with SDCC for big names and bigger spectacle, but I always most enjoy the genuine experiences – getting to talk to people with a common interest, getting to boost a small artist. In fact, it’s not often that I literally can’t contain my enthusiasm in a professional situation. It’s not often that I find a book so compelling and so helpful that I fangirl over the author. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Indeed, these tangential considerations, ranging from DNA analysis to mad Welsh spies, often include some fascinating facts encouraging further study. As Sanyal points out, history affects geography and vice versa, so seemingly irrelevant digressions on the Mughals’ predilection for lion hunting are not entirely inappropriate here. However, for many readers this will not be an entirely bad thing. Instead we are given some general descriptions of only some of these geographical elements instead discussions of the river Saraswati or the city of Delhi, for example, are interspersed with travelogue, history, political commentary, and the like. Given the size and geographic variability of India, one might expect a book rich with scientific and historical data encompassing jungles, forests, deserts, mountain ranges, rivers, oceans, rocks, rains, winds, ecosystems, wildlife, agriculture, human communities, and all the myriad ways in which these interact and affect each other. Ostensibly it is about India’s geography, but the amount of material pertaining to this subject is rather small. Land of the Seven Rivers- A Brief History of India’s Geography, by Sanjeev Sanyalĭespite the title, it is somewhat problematic classifying this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() She didn’t twitch or tremble like her husband. With a silver bead on her left temple and her eyes glazed like those of an amped-out meth junkie, Judy Snyder perched on the sofa, knees together, hands folded serenely in her lap. His gaze shifted back and forth between two points of interest: his wives. Except for his twitching fingers and the tremors, which were both involuntary, he did not move, not even to change position in the chair, because he had been told to be still. He had been ordered to remain silent, and he had lost the power to disobey. ![]() Instantaneous chemical cauterization of flesh and bone prevented bleeding. The bead was in fact packed with electronics, nanocircuitry, and was rather like the head of a nail in that it was the visible portion of a needle-thin probe that had been fired into his brain by a pistol-like device. ![]() As rounded and as polished as the head of a decorative upholstery tack, it looked like a misplaced earring. On his left temple, a silvery bead gleamed. His mouth hung slightly open, and his lower lip trembled almost continuously. ![]() He sat stiff, erect, his hands upturned in his lap. Owl-eyed and terrified, Warren Snyder occupied an armchair in his living room. ![]() ![]() This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). Taking its cues from contemporary thought leaders in the transformative justice movement such as adrienne maree brown and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, this provocative book is a call for nuance in a time of political polarization, for healing in a time of justice, and for love in an apocalypse. With the author’s characteristic eloquence and honesty, I Hope We Choose Love proposes heartfelt solutions on the topics of violence, complicity, family, vengeance, and forgiveness. ![]() In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. ![]() ![]() What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith? ![]() ![]() In the process of rebuilding her life, Scarlett faces the difficult and ultimate choice of starting all over again. ![]() A successful political correspondent, she finds herself at a crossroads when one error of judgement jeopardises everything she has worked so hard to overcome and achieve. Scarlett O'Hara has had many hurdles to cross in her life, not least her name. Suddenly, all that was once inevitable is no longer a certainty as she is embroiled in the very heart of the Easter Rising. Instead, however, she finds herself deeply affected by the social and political turmoil of a fledgling nation struggling for independence. ![]() ![]() lin in 1913, doomed, she fears, to a life of domestic service. Shadow of a Century (Audio CD / Audio, Unabridged edition)īy Grainger, Jean Read by Collins, Alana Kerr Producer Audible Incĭuring a time of great upheaval and unrest in Ireland, as men and women run to take up arms against the tyranny and occupation of the British Empire, the lives of three women are forever altered and thereby inextricably linked over the span of a century. ![]() ![]() Charlie quickly finds life at Bloor's pretty tough, with its strict rules and the malevolent head boy, Manfred, set against him. Although he tries to hide his new gift, Grandma Bone and her scary sisters soon find out, and send him to Bloor's Academy. Looking at a picture of a couple with a baby and a cat, he suddenly discovers he can hear their voices. ![]() Since his father died, Charlie Bone has lived with his mother and her mother, in the house of his other grandmother, Grandma Bone. ![]() The first instalment of the international best-selling fantasy series from Jenny Nimmo starring Charlie Bone. Perfect for fans of Harry Potter, Eva Ibbotson, Cornelia Funke's Inkheart and Shane Hegarty's Darkmouth.Īn Academy for magic and special talents. ![]() Classic magic and mystery from one of Britain's best-loved authors of fantasy adventure. ![]() ![]() But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine - as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.īoasting a throwback Forties/Fifties cover, Later comes via Hard Case Crime, an imprint boasting pulpy novels that include two previous King offerings: the 2005 mystery The Colorado Kid, centering on an unidentified body and 2013’s Joyland, about a Seventies carny who ends up embroiled in a murder. ![]() Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. LATER is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. Monday, he teased a new book titled Later with the tagline: “Only the dead have no secrets.”Ī full synopsis, courtesy of Amazon, is as follows. ![]() ![]() We may be currently living through Stephen King’s The Stand, but come March, the acclaimed horror novelist promises a new narrative - at least in terms of fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() It means coming with time to meditate and to mull over its personal application. When reading His Word, it means approaching it with an open mind and heart that’s not already bogged down with my own opinions and ideas of what the text is saying. Rather, it provides the basis for hearing from God at all times, whether I’m on my knees in prayer or on my feet hurrying through the nuances of my daily demands. ![]() The more I’ve continued to contemplate the implications of this concept, the more I’ve realized that it isn’t just specific to my prayer life. It all starts here: if we want to be able to sense His direction, we must slow down, quiet our hearts, and listen for the way His Spirit communicates. ![]() Before I could even begin to explore further instruction concerning how God speaks-or even why He speaks-I first had to ask myself whether or not I wanted to hear Him enough to stop doing all the talking so that I might listen. Creating time, space, and opportunity to hear God is paramount for those of us who desire to sense His Spirit’s conviction, to receive His detailed guidance, and to discern His intimate leading. ![]() ![]() So, how did Yugoslavia's experience in worker's self-management, to a certain degree, differ from the Soviet Union or the People's Republic of China? ![]() For those who noticed the name, but maybe didn't look it up, who is Milovan Djilas, and what was his analysis of the twentieth-century social experiments in the Soviet Union and China?Īnd then given that he's from Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia had its own sort of tradition, you know, that made it different than the Soviet Union and China in terms of its attempt at some kind of worker self-management while still kind of under the rule of a powerful communist party. KEVIN GUSTAFSON: You do name-drop somebody who is maybe not as well-known to socialists and non-socialists alike, which is Milovan Djilas. In part two of this episode, Professor Richard Wolff continues with Sensible Socialist about Yugoslavia, Milovan Djilas, and socialist movements. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother to ride out the pandemic, adding to his stress and isolation.īut when Matthew finds a tattered black-and-white photo in his great-grandmother's belongings, he discovers a clue to a hidden chapter of her past, one that will lead to a life-shattering family secret. ![]() From the author of Nowhere Boy - called "a resistance novel for our times" by The New York Times - comes a brilliant middle-grade survival story that traces a harrowing family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine that devastated Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s. ![]() |