![]() ![]() Beginning with his own story of how his parents encouraged him to ‘let me be me,' Desmond segues into LGBTQ history, starting with the Stonewall Riots in 1969 in New York City. “An effortlessly informative introduction to drag culture for young readers, Desmond Is Amazing’s first book, wrapped in a riot of incredible watercolor and ink illustrations, is a winner for everyone, regardless of how they identify. Below are children’s and YA books available on OverDrive/Libby, Hoopla, and the Westchester Libraries for you to read and celebrate Pride.īe Amazing: A History of Pride by Desmond Is Amazing & Dylan Glynn Two book lists I recommend for kids and teens to celebrate Pride are No Time for Flashcards' 59 Children's Books That Celebrate Pride – LGBTQ Book List for Kids and Denise Schipani’s 16 Great LGBTQIA+ Books for Kids and Teens article for Brightly. Pride celebrates the achievements of LGBTQIA+ Americans, and it highlights the work that continues in order to achieve equal justice and equal opportunity for those in the LGBTQIA+ community. The Stonewall riots marked the beginning of a movement to abolish discriminatory laws and practices against LGBTQIA+ persons in the United States, which continues to our present day. ![]() LGBTQIA+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and all of the other sexualities, sexes, and genders that aren't included in these few letters) Pride Month is celebrated annually in June to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots, which took place in New York City. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A Whole New World Once Upon a Dream As Old as Time Reflection Part of. And readers will never look at the story of Aladdin in the same way again. A Twisted Tale, also called Twisted Tales in editions with the complete series. What happens next? A Street Rat becomes a leader. But soon their fight for freedom threatens to tear the kingdom apart in a costly civil war. Agrabah lives in fear, waiting for his third and final wish.To stop the power-mad ruler, Aladdin and the deposed princess Jasmine must unite the people of Agrabah in rebellion. The 1st installment in the New York Times best-selling A TWISTED TALE series asks: What if Aladdin had never found the lamp? When Jafar steals the Genie's lamp, he uses his first two wishes to become sultan and the most powerful sorcerer in the world. ![]() Children's Beginning Readers/Board Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Oh I love me some Sarina Bowen hockey romance and I really fell for Hudson and Gavin and their story. Too bad Gavin and I are terrible at resisting each other… And my team needs me to score goals, not whip up a media circus. ![]() ![]() My arrogant agent–who’s also my father–will lose his mind if I’m dating a dude. What he doesn’t do is hook up with the other new guy-a hot athletic trainer who lives in my building. The new guy knows to keep his head down and shoot the puck. Brooklyn is my last chance, especially after my poor performance last season.īut I can make this work. That’s what happens when you keep getting traded. My name is Hudson Newgate, but my teammates call me New Guy. A new male / male hockey romance from 24-time USA Today bestseller Sarina Bowen! ![]() ![]() ![]() They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other’s lives in unexpected ways. Into Julia’s regimented world step two outsiders-Doctor Kathleen Lynn, on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. ![]() In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city centre, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new flu are quarantined together. A small world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love, by the bestselling author of The Wonder and Room. It may not be the read for you right now (considering, well, everything) but it should be on your list at some point.ĭublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the great flu. It came through just last week and once I started reading, I couldn’t stop. I mean, who chooses to read a novel about a pandemic DURING a pandemic? Uh, me (see my review of Songs for the End of the Worldfrom last summer).Ī friend (I can’t remember who now but thank you!) read this earlier in the summer and I put a library hold on it immediately. I might just be a glutton for punishment with this week’s Summer Reads choice. ![]() This is part of my Summer Reads series where I’ll be reviewing a series of “not just cookbooks”. ![]() ![]() ![]() "As the novel progresses she ends up, against her will to some degree, getting entrenched into the clique. Things get very magical and violent and there are rabbits involved. But she's also drawn to it and wants to be accepted by them. She's repulsed by the Bunnies and their closeness and their sweetness. The story is told from the perspective of a girl named Samantha, who is also in the class and she is the outsider in the group. They are Master of Fine Arts students. They call each other Bunny and they move and speak as one. "It's about a clique of female graduate students at a college in New England. ![]() It's Awad's follow up to 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the 2016 Amazon.ca First Novel Award.ĬBC Books spoke to her about how she wrote Bunny. The novel has been optioned as a TV show. In Mona Awad's novel Bunny, a creative writing student meets a group of women with a disturbing secret - and eventually finds herself drawn into it too. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alongside his literary career, Trollope also worked for some time for the Post Office and is credited with the introduction of the iconic post box to Britain. The Chronicles of Barsetshire are perhaps his most well-known series of novels, though many of his works have been adapted for TV and radio, starring many familiar faces such as Alan Rickman, David Tennant, Bill Nighy and Tom Hollander. His first successful novel was The Warden followed by its sequel, Barchester Towers. ![]() The amount of works Trollope authored are testament to his belief in hard work. A prolific writer, he made no secret of the fact that money was his motivation for writing – an admission which raised eyebrows among his literary contemporaries at the time. He also wrote an autobiography, short stories and plays, travel articles, reviews and lectures. What will the two generations be able to learn from each other in a changing Victorian society?Īnthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was a Victorian writer and author of 47 novels. A formerly remote father figure to his children, the Duke now finds himself drawn into each of their romantic and professional troubles. In it, we are reunited with Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium in tragic circumstances. ‘The Duke’s Children’ is the sixth and final novel in Anthony Trollope’s popular ‘Palliser’ series of novels. ![]() ![]() Rhee and Alyosha are compelling characters, and the back-and-forth between their story lines keeps the pace fast explorations of family, identity, and the power of memory are punctuated by exciting action scenes. When Rhee discovers a plot to hijack people’s cubes (which record memory and allow instant memory playback), her plans for revenge take a backseat to new concerns. Meanwhile, 17-year-old reality star Alyosha Myraz and his best friend Vincent, who track renegade ships and poachers, are thrust into the wrong kind of spotlight when Alyosha is accused of Rhee’s assassination. When Rhee is attacked by someone she trusts on the eve of her coronation, a Fontisian named Dahlen comes to her aid, but his motives are suspect. Rhee is out for revenge, certain that Crown Regent Andres Seotra betrayed her family and plots to take over the throne. ![]() Sixteen-year-old Crown Princess Rhiannon “Rhee” Ta’an is the Rose of the Galaxy, the only survivor of a crash that killed her parents and sister. ![]() ![]() However, both young men fall in love with each other for real and Yuuen grows increasingly guilty at deceiving Emba. ![]() Yuuen is thus required to dress as a woman (as he has effeminate features) and distract Emba. As they lose more of their game to the Lakeside Tribe, most specifically that Tribe heir Emba, Yuni forces Yuuen to act and gain Emba's favor, thus giving their Tribe a chance to hunt. Yuuen is the second son to the East Forest Chief, Yuni, and seems incapable of aiding his tribe with the hunting. ![]() The story is set in prehistory, involving two rival tribes, the East Forest Tribe and the Lakeside Tribe and the budding romance between the leaders' sons, Emba and Yuuen. This volume includes a new story that is a sequel to the extra story Child Rock. In May 2007, Wild Rock was re-released in print in Japan called the Libre Edition. It is published in Spain by Ediciones La Cúpula, in Italy by Kappa Edizioni, in France by Taifu Comics, and in German by Carlsen Manga. Wild Rock ( ワイルド・ロック) is an explicit yaoi manga created by Kazusa Takashima and is published in English by Blu Manga, the boys love publishing division of Tokyopop. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the book, the author examines the life and dictatorship of Joseph Stalin, from his rise to power. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Visiting Professor at Buckingham University, he lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children. Montefiore talked about his book, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, published by Knopf. He has presented BBC television series on the Holy Cities of Jerusalem, Rome and Istanbul. Dr Montefiore's next major history book will be THE ROMANOVS: RISE AND FALL, 1613-1917. He is also the author of two acclaimed novels, SASHENKA and ONE NIGHT IN WINTER. JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY won the JEWISH BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE (USA). YOUNG STALIN won the COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD (UK), the LA TIME BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY (USA), LE GRAND PRIX DE LA BIOGRAPHIE POLITIQUE (France) and the KREISKY PRIZE FOR POLITICAL LITERATURE (Austria). ![]() STALIN: THE COURT OF THE RED TSAR won the HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE, BRITISH BOOK AWARDS. CATHERINE THE GREAT AND POTEMKIN was shortlisted for the SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE. His books are published in over 40 languages. Simon Sebag Montefiore read history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he received his Doctorate of Philosophy. ![]() ![]() While lots of people reached out to Devon during the months she tried to hide her pregnancy, I could see why she pushed them away. Devon basically raised herself, while trying to ignore her sexually inappropriate mother. As a psychologist, I felt Amy Efaw did a masterful job creating an authentic and sympathetic character in Devon, a young teen of a neglectful, narcissistic mother. Frightened, angry, distrustful but most of all traumatized, Devon struggles to adjust to her new surroundings and recall the events of her pregnancy and giving birth with the help of her no-nonsense but compassionate attorney. ![]() Grade: A After Devon Davenport hides her pregnancy then throws the baby into the trash, she's sent to a detention center to await the decision whether she will be tried as a juvenile or an adult. ![]() |