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![]() ![]() I could tell it was something really bad. “We’ve got a problem,” a harsh voice said through the phone. This book contains dark-and sometimes violent-depictions of the world of organized crime, sexual assault, and suicide, and some events might be triggers for some readers. ![]() Not intended for readers younger than 18. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to locales, events, business establishments, or actual persons-living or dead-is entirely coincidental. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights. ![]() No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her message to readers is clear: self-awareness and finding a soul mate don't always come easily. "She had to admit: sometimes he made her smile and sometimes he made her laugh," writes Young (Don't Eat the Baby!), whose storytelling and watercolor cartooning are spot-on in their comic timing. When Lucy sees an ad in the newspaper for a unicorn, she sends in her twenty-five cents and. Clearly, Sparkle will never be the flashy showpiece Lucy dreamed of but maybe Lucy isn't the dainty princess type, either. Come to think of it, he's as stubborn as Lucy, with her relentless insistence that Sparkle is really a unicorn and therefore should wear a flower necklace and tutu (both of which prove edible). A Unicorn Named Sparkle: A Picture Book (A Unicorn Named Sparkle, 1) Book 1 of 4: A Unicorn Named Sparkle by Amy Young 622 Hardcover 103716.99 FREE delivery Fri, Apr 28 on 25 of items shipped by Amazon Or fastest delivery Wed, Apr 26 More Buying Choices 1. He also smells like a goat, eats like a goat, and is stubborn like a goat. ![]() ![]() The specimen that shows up, however, looks a lot like a goat. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 16. After sending away for a mail-order unicorn (only 25 cents!), Young's heroine, Lucy, fantasizes about naming him Sparkle, garlanding him with flowers, and riding over rainbows on his back. ![]() ![]() ![]() The upper middle class (not the middle middle, and not the lower upper). Not for one moment are we in any doubt about what this novel is interested in :ġ. John Galsworthy, our ever-affable, ultra-clubbable narrator, gradually, at a leisurely strolling pace (this is not a hard boiled crime story), unfolds, with the use of many, many commas, clauses and even, a stumbling-block for the modern reader, a free hand with the semi-colon, the situation of this nobby gang of Forsytes. So really you can only look at the family tree when you’ve read all nine novels in the saga. Because (of course!) it’s stuffed with spoilers – this person marries that person, that one divorces this one and marries her instead. ![]() ![]() Some of whom have seven or eight of their own and so on.īut my advice is, however helpful this family tree seems to be, DON’T LOOK AT IT. To get this pack of Forsytes into your head, then, you may consult the family tree helpfully printed at the front of the book, where you will see that the original Jolyon Forsyte had TEN children The first couple of chapters overwhelm the humble reader with Too Many Damn Characters, all of whom appear to be 75 years old. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the powers-that-be haven't entirely reckoned with the power of a gripping movie to change people's minds. Parliament is subject to the demands of a few wealthy media conglomerates. This brings him in touch with a demimonde of artists and activists who are trying to fight a new bill that will criminalize even more harmless internet creativity, making felons of millions of British citizens at a single stroke.Things look bad. Shamed and shattered, Trent runs away to London, where he slowly learns the ways of staying alive on the streets. ![]() Except it does, and it nearly destroys his family. ![]() In the dystopian near-future Britain where Trent is growing up, this is more illegal than ever the punishment for being caught three times is that your entire household's access to the Internet is cut off for a year, with no appeal.Trent's too clever for that to happen. ![]() From the New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother Cory Doctorow comes Pirate Cinema, a new tale of a brilliant hacker runaway who finds himself standing up to tyranny.Trent McCauley is sixteen, brilliant, and obsessed with one thing: making movies on his computer by reassembling footage from popular films he downloads from the Net. ![]() ![]() ![]() For example, although Alyssa, one of the main characters' sisters, is not a main character, she still has a storyline that adds context and emotion to the overall story. I liked this because although some of them were background characters, they still served a purpose. Every character in the story serves a direct purpose and gives readers the full picture of Lily’s life. The author's writing is so good that readers have no trouble sympathizing with the characters. Unlike other books, It Ends With Us portrays domestic violence realistically, allowing readers to understand that it is often harder to leave than they may expect. It is important for young people to realize the cycles of domestic violence, and it portrays the feelings of being stuck very well. The story is important to read because it is eye-opening in regards to domestic violence. While I wanted to hate the antagonist so badly, I could not, in just the way that the main character, Lily, could not. ![]() ![]() It leaves the reader not knowing how to feel, and it is that confusion that is most captivating. It is eye-opening to the ways that sometimes the people we love the most end up hurting us the most. The story itself is heartbreaking and inspiring, sad and happy, romantic and painful. It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover will have you feeling every emotion within the span of 376 pages. ![]() ![]() ![]() As she tries to bring her family back together before school starts again, she’s forced from her childish perceptions into the harsh realities of life. Over the summer, KB has trouble making friends and staying connected with her sister. ![]() As a result, KB’s mother drops her and her teenage sister, Nia, off to temporarily live with a grandfather they hardly know, in a strange new city. In this heartfelt portrayal of Black girlhood, KB's world is turned upside down when her father dies of an overdose, leaving a mountain of debt behind. What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris (February 1) From Akwaeke Emezi’s debut poetry collection on gender and self, to Laila Sabreen’s novel about Black Muslim teens fighting increasing Islamophobia, and Julian Winters’ queer friends-to-lovers romance, these are the 25 books by Black authors you should add to your bookshelves this year. The upcoming stories in 2022 show the fullness and diversity of the Black experience, not centering only our pain and trauma, but also highlighting Black joy and Black love. But in the face of it all, Black authors are still writing and sharing their stories with the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In so doing, I examine the ways in which these various representations of women’s hair are comparable, in terms of their associations with youthful and beautiful femininity, the idea of the beautiful woman as a part of nature, and, most notably, the sexual connotations ascribed to women’s hair. I examine Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s painting, La Ghirlandata (1873) as an example of the idealised and sexualised depiction of red-haired women during the Victorian era and then compare this to later depictions of women’s hair in stills and the poster from the film, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Tykwer, 2006). ![]() In this essay, I address the historic, symbolic associations of women’s hair, with particular reference to the Victorian era and re-imaginings of similar notions in the contemporary. Subject to the rigorous policing of religions, schools and prisons across diverse countries, women’s hair has been imbued with great power. Its representation aligns it with symbolic notions of femininity, female sexuality and all the ambivalent associations that various societies have with these notions. Women’s hair has been a prominent feature of many paintings, folktales, films and literary works over the centuries. ![]() ![]() Those who focus on the inherent inequalities of India's surrogacy industry believe the practice should be either banned or strictly regulated. They traverse borders and straddle relationships that test the boundaries of race, class, religion, and nationality. ![]() As surrogates, the women Pande meets get to know and make the most of advanced medical discoveries. ![]() While some women are coerced into the business by their families, others negotiate with clients and their clinics to gain access to technologies and networks otherwise closed to them. Pande's interviews prove surrogates are more than victims of disciplinary power, and she examines the strategies they deploy to retain control over their bodies and reproductive futures. From recruitment to training to delivery, Pande's research focuses on how reproduction meets production in surrogacy and how this reflects characteristics of India's larger labor system. ![]() In the first detailed ethnography of India's surrogacy industry, Amrita Pande visits clinics and hostels and speaks with surrogates and their families, clients, doctors, brokers, and hostel matrons in order to shed light on this burgeoning business and the experiences of the laborers within it. ![]() Surrogacy is India's new form of outsourcing, as couples from all over the world hire Indian women to bear their children for a fraction of the cost of surrogacy elsewhere with little to no government oversight or regulation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We talk about the release of this book at a time of heightened skepticism around reform projects and a growing popular awareness of abolition. Our wide-ranging conversation touches on how electronic monitoring denies people the ability to do the basic things they need to do to live, and shifts the costs of incarceration away from the government and onto the individual and their family, harming those important relationships in a multitude of ways. Importantly, it explores not only how these reforms fail to promote safety, but how they actually increase the size and scope of policing and incarceration. ![]() The book provides a comprehensive and thought-provoking critical analysis of popular reforms to policing and incarceration, such as electronic monitoring, diversion courts, so-called sex worker rescue programs, and a lot more. Brian Sonenstein and Kim Wilson welcome back Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law to discuss their new book, Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences Of Popular Reforms, on the Beyond Prisons podcast. ![]() |