![]() ![]() I didn’t hate her, in a lot of ways I actually related to her. Of all the happy coincidences to ever exist, it’s one of the happiest.” “A thousand electric cars could run on how you feel when you know that the person you like likes you back. ![]() It felt gratuitous or I hate to say it even lazy. This book handles a lot of hard topics, some were expanded on - like Foster’s abandonment, while others were kind of just there? Teen pregnancy and a brief mention of addiction were added and not really discussed they made a brief appearance and went on their way. I mean, I know why - not only was not much happening, but some of the main characters’ decisions weren’t my favorite? This felt longer than it probably should have. But when the town’s star running back, Ezra, discovers that Foster is a natural at kicking, Foster is put in the spotlight on the varsity team. Her younger cousin, Foster, moved in with her and her parents over the summer and now she has to deal with him sticking to her side. I’ve never seen Friday Night Lights, but I’m a huge fan of Pride and Prejudice and it’s Emma Mills, so I mean… I had to check this one out.ĭevon Tennyson is in her last year of high school with no plans for the future. And then sometimes we’re the other people, and the strangers are in the frames.” ![]() Sometimes it feels like we’re still the ones in the pictures, and everything that happened after happened to other people. Drug Addiction, Abandonment, Grief, Death ![]()
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![]() brokered the North American rights agreement with Cindy Spiegel. Game designer, author, and futurist Jane McGonigal sold Imaginable: How to Pick Ourselves Up, Heal from the Pandemic, and Prepare for a Decade of Unthinkable Change to Spiegel & Grau. Foreign rights for Weyward have sold to houses in Finland, France, Spain, the U.K., and elsewhere. ![]() The publisher said the book “explores witchcraft and female intuitive powers, told over five centuries through the lens of three connected women,” and was “pitched for readers of Sarah Perry, Jessie Burton, and Kate Morton.” Hart, who grew up in Australia and lives in London, trained as a lawyer. Martin’s Press took North American rights from Alexandra Machinist at ICM Partners. The debut novel Weyward by Emilia Hart was acquired in a seven-figure, two-book deal. ![]() ![]() It was in 2010 that she accidentally stumbled into writing. After school, she found herself doing mind-numbing receptionist and administration jobs as there was nothing else she was qualified for. Unlike many authors, Natasha did not grow up as a serial book reader as she drifted through school often achieving average grades. She has two children form her marriage to Joseph. ![]() She is married to Joseph, a man whose patience, help, and love she claims is the reason she is the author she is today. She writes young adult fiction, romance and thrillers spread over several series including “Silence”, “The Cellar” and several freestanding novels. Growing up, many people loved to call her Tash or Tasha and the name stuck through to her adulthood. ![]() Natasha Preston is a British author who has lived most of her life in the small hamlets and villages of the English countryside. ![]() ![]() “This past year alone, we have experienced extreme weather anomalies and rising sea levels, which have endangered New Yorkers’ lives, their homes, and their livelihoods. “It is evident to anyone who opens their eyes that we are in the midst of a climate crisis in this city and around the world, so it’s time to think outside the box and determine how we can handle the crisis before it's too late,” said Mayor Adams. ![]() Mayor Adams highlighted these accomplished environmentalists’ proven track record of promoting cleaner air, advancing climate resiliency, and protecting New Yorkers. Aggarwala as chief climate officer and commissioner of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Vincent Sapienza as chief operations officer of DEP, and Kizzy Charles-Guzman as executive director of the new Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice (MOCEJ) - which consolidates multiple city agencies into one. NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced the appointments of his climate leadership team that will focus on environmental protection and environmental justice across New York City. ![]() ![]() Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice Will Consolidate and Incorporate Four City Agencies ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Model Misfit then, we see Harriet attempting to get in terms with her model status and dealing with various teenage girl crises: boys, best-friends, bullies, etc. Yet things work out for her despite her dilemma over whether or not she can (or should) keep working as a model. ![]() For a brief moment, in a very Hannah Montana way, she tries to hide her popular persona and…fails miserably. In Geek Girl #1we met Harriet Manners, a bullied high school geek who lives in the UK and gets “spotted” by a big modeling company to work as a teen supermodel. Model Misfit is the sequel to the first book in Holly Smale’s Geek Girl series. The only way to find out is to read on! Model Misfit by Holly Smale The title sort of gives you an idea but we can never trust authors, dear friends. Hello there, fellow bibliophiles and welcome to another installment of your favorite fortnightly column, the Geek Girls’ Book Blog aka G2B2! As promised, today I bring to you a review of the second book from Holly Smale’s Geek Girl series where we’ll learn more about the (not so) secret life of Harriet Manners and whether or not she can handle being a geeky schoolgirl and a teen top model at the same time. ![]() ![]() ![]() Given the statutory requirement to draw up a statement of investment principles, it discusses the strategies that trustees might pursue and reviews the pros and cons of “liability driven investments”, a new approach for managing potential deficits. Edited by Robin Ellison, it sets out the challenges that trustees now face in making investment decisions, providing them with a set of working definitions and the financial techniques and tools they need in order to improve their returns and safeguard their risks. This book is designed as a practical, easy-to-follow guide to the new UK financial environment in which pension trustees now have to operate. ![]() At the same time, they are having to consider more complex and innovative financial instruments to diversify their portfolios and to improve their returns. Trustees are now expected to take center stage in making informed financial decisions to cover a scheme’s future liabilities and to manage risks in a way in which they can be held accountable. Far too many British pension trustees-even in large funds-have an inadequate understanding of investment and the financial markets. ![]() ![]() ![]() O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, “O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, ― Walt Whitman, quote from Leaves of Grass This is what you shall so: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.” Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost. If the greatnesses are in conjunction in a man or woman it is enough.the fact will prevail through the universe.but the gaggery and gilt of a million years will not prevail. ![]() ![]() “All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not intentionally (the Caldecott committee didn't recognize it as problematic either), but nonetheless, you were misinformed. It carries a sticker on it that tells you it is an award winning book. You are not a bad person for having used McDermott's book with students in your classroom. ![]() If you are a teacher using the book and feel embarrassed or uncomfortable by this harsh essay on his book, I hope that you read the entire essay, spend time on this site, and then walk away from your computer thinking carefully about what you read here. And think about all the non-Pueblo children who are being mis-educated through this book. Lest you feel sympathy for McDermott, think about all the Pueblo Indian children who are reading his book, know that it is wrong, but have to regurgitate his words for their teachers when they discuss the book in the classroom. It's new title, I think, should be:Īrrow to the Sun: Gerald McDermotts misleading-erroneous-inaccurate "Pueblo Tale" that cannot in fact be called a Pueblo Indian tale ![]() I hasten to say that McDermott's award-winning Arrow to the Sun is deeply flawed and should not be subtitled "A Pueblo Indian Tale." It is so deeply flawed, in fact, that the word "Pueblo" should be replaced. Today I present a critique of the "Arrow to the Sun Discussion Guide" created by Weston Woods, a company that turned McDermott's book into a video. Scholastic has written and consolidated a great deal of resource material for teachers. ![]() ![]() ![]() They are an impressive and in-depth read onto major topics that affect us in life whether we like it or not, and potentially hold the key to mastery over ourselves, and others, in building that dream life, business, and otherwise increase power and control in life. Some yell charlatan, others yell genius, and these books were infamously banned from many prison libraries. Some say the advice in contradictory, wrapped in stories that oviscape any actionable information, while others laud the books as the key to mastering their lives, their business, and their relationship with others to build the lives they want. Even the general look at the books varies within different demographic groups. His books deep diving topics like power, charisma, seduction, and leadership are either lauded or reviled – once again, based on who you talk to. ![]() Robert Greene is an author who has garnered a lot of controversy for different reasons depending on the groups. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story, The Winter Flies, was in Judith Merril's huge anthology SF12. ![]() We rarely get to thank those who shaped us. Our mutual friend Harlan Ellison had sent him a copy of Sandman #18, A Dream of 1000 Cats, which was my own small tribute to Leiber's cat stories, and I told him he had been an inspiration, and he said something more or less inaudible in return, and I was happy. He said nothing, during the dinner, not that I can remember. He seemed so old: a tall, serious, distinguished man with white hair, who reminded me of a thinner, better looking Boris Karloff. We were sitting next to each other at a banquet at the World Fantasy Convention. ![]() I met Fritz Leiber (it's pronounced Lie-ber, and not, as I had mispronounced it all my life until I met him, Lee-ber) shortly before his death. Fritz Leiber with wife Jonquil, Beverly Hills, 1937 ![]() |