5/13/2023 0 Comments Geek Girl by Holly Smale![]() ![]() It is in a really wonderful hardcover and it’s the perfect gift for your loved ones. So, I was all kinds of excited for Holly Smale’s Geek Girl Christmas short story. Ha! If you know me well enough, you know that my ideal literary best friend would be Harriet Manners because she’s just adorable and she has such a sparkling personality. Now she just needs to work out what’s supposed to happen next… She knows that the first artificial Christmas trees were made out of goose feathers.īut this Christmas is extra special for Harriet, because four days ago she had her First Ever Kiss. ![]() She knows that Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was almost definitely a girl. She knows that every year Santa climbs down 91.8 million chimneys. Harriet Manners knows a lot about Christmas. Publisher: HarperCollins Children’s Books (5th Nov 2015) ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments The dirty life farm![]() ![]() ![]() Department of State estimates that traffickers bring some 14,500 to 17,500 people into the United States each year. Sex trafficking flourishes in areas of male-dominated industries, such as fracking and oil boomtowns, military bases and, as a slew of recent court cases and victim accounts show, farm labor camps. ![]() Every couple of weeks, a van would take her and other women and girls-some as young as 12-to Charlotte, where she would spend a week or more, forced to have sex with strangers at a brothel by night and at farm labor camps by day. Janet was forced into prostitution in Mexico by a boyfriend named Antonio in 1999 coyotes brought them across the border the following year, and they went to live with Antonio's family in the borough of Queens in New York City, where she was put to work in brothels. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments A princess ate my daughter![]() ![]() She quotes Laura Miller in Salon who observes: She explores the effects of the Disney Empire – not only the princess look, but the princess philosophy and how compelling it is. Another 8,200 in this age group received Botox injections! In 2008, nearly 43,000 children under age eighteen surgically altered their appearance. By middle school, she reports, “how a girl feels about her appearance – particularly whether she is thin enough, pretty enough, and hot enough – has become the single most important determinant of her self-esteem.”. ![]() ![]() She notes some disturbing statistics, indicating that the number of girls who fret over their looks and weight are rising, as are rates of depression and suicide. “According to the American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture’s emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls’ vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, risky sexual behavior.” This is a subject that has been covered in depth in academic books and articles, but it is good to see this important topic presented for a wider audience. Orenstein asks what the long-term consequences are of the pink/princess/hottie culture for little girls (albeit basically white and middle-to-upper class little girls). ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Warrior ravenpaw![]() River (I think Mistystar and some other RiverClan cats?) Series 7 (8 if you count the prequel): A Starless Clan: Place of no Stars (The Imposter, Ashfur The Raging Storm (Twigbranch on the left and Violetshine on the right) River of Fire (Rowanclaw on the left and Leafstar on the right) Darkest Night (Bramblestar on the left and Hawkwing on the right) Shattered Sky (Darktail on the left and Needletail on the right? Unsure.) Thunder and Shadow (Twigpaw on the left and Violetpaw on the right) The Apprentice's Quest (Alderpaw at the front, Needlepaw further back) I decided to create a list of every book in the Warrior Cats series (and who's on the newer covers of the main series) because I was bored - most of it is in chronological order, but some things (like the novella's with 3 stories in them) can't really be ordered because the stories in them are from different times. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Kira willey breathe like a bear![]() All kids can do yoga, even if they’re challenged or impaired in some way it benefits everyone, and it can be done anywhere. And one of the simplest, most beneficial, non-competitive-yet very athletic-forms of exercise is yoga, which is why it’s the focus of my movement programs. A quick movement break in the middle of a class is ten times as effective as trying to verbally convince kids to stop fidgeting. ![]() Not only for physical health, but because it helps their brains focus so they can learn. We all know exercise is good for us, but for kids-whose recesses are getting ever shorter-it’s absolutely essential. I think kids should be given tons of opportunities to experience live music-and hopefully take it up, because studying an instrument has incredible benefits for the body and the mind. Music is good for kids in so many ways: it engages them, calms them, gets them moving, and unites them. ![]() ![]() All young kids love listening to it, creating it, moving to it. I believe kids are hardwired from birth to love rhythm and music. I bring music, movement, and mindfulness to kids, in lots of different ways: through my books and music, with my school programs and performances, and by working with educators and parents. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A huge success when it first appeared in 1747, and translated into French and German, it remains one of the greatest of all European novels. Told through a complex series of interweaving letters, "Clarissa" is a richly ambiguous study of a fatally attracted couple and a work of astonishing power and immediacy. And yet, Clarissa finds his charm alluring, her scrupulous sense of virtue tinged with unconfessed desire. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage are accompanied by unwelcome and increasingly brutal sexual advances. Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his protection. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Bending the arc keeda haynes![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Traditionally, redaction erases what is top secret in Felon, Betts redacts what is superfluous, bringing into focus the profound failures of the criminal justice system and the inadequacy of the labels it generates. Drawing inspiration from lawsuits filed on behalf of the incarcerated, the redaction poems focus on the ways we exploit and erase the poor and imprisoned from public consciousness. The poems move between traditional and newfound forms with power and agility-from revolutionary found poems created by redacting court documents to the astonishing crown of sonnets that serves as the volume's radiant conclusion. Reginald Dwayne Betts confronts the funk of postincarceration existence and examines prison not as a static space, but as a force that enacts pressure throughout a person's life. Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration in fierce, dazzling poems-canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace-and, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagined life. A searing volume by a poet whose work conveys 'the visceral effect that prison has on identity' (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Featuring the edgy art style of Nicole Goux, Shadow of the Batgirl tells the harrowing story of a girl who overcomes the odds to find her unique identity. Sarah Kuhn, author of Heroine Complex and I Love You So Mochi, takes on one of her favorite heroes for a new audience of readers. ![]() But Batgirl hasn't been seen in Gotham for years, and when Cass's father threatens the world she has grown to love, she'll have to step out of the shadows and overcome he r greatest obstacle-that voice inside her head telling her she can never be a hero. Shadow of the Batgirl 2020 E DC ComicsENGLISH 199 Print Pages ratings (242) borrow by Sarah Kuhn illustrated by Nicole Goux Part of the Shadow of the Batgirlseries Cassandra Cain, teenage assassin, isnt exactly Batgirl material.not yet, at least. But with Batgirl missing from Gotham City, can Cassandra defy her destiny and take on a heroic mantle of her very own? She'll have to go through an identity crisis of epic proportions to find out.Īfter a soul-shattering moment that sends Cass reeling, she'll attempt to answer this question the only way she knows how: learning everything she possibly can about her favorite hero-Batgirl. ![]() Cassandra Cain, teenage assassin, isn't exactly Batgirl material.not yet, at least. One of the first books, Sarah Kuhn’s Shadow of the Batgirl, has given us a new version of the Cassandra Cain story (Cassandra was one of the Batgirls in comics history) that includes a library, romance, childhood trauma, friendship, food, and a focus on mentorship between women. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The last gambit release date![]() ![]() ![]() Avery is just weeks from living a year in Hawthorne House and gaining full access to the astronomical amount of money left to her by Tobias Hawthorne. ![]() What I Loved: It was wonderful to return to the world Jennifer Lynn Barnes paints of Avery Kylie Grambs and the Hawthorne family in the mysterious Hawthorne estate. In this game, there are hearts and lives at stake-and there is nothing more Hawthorne than winning. It soon becomes clear that there is one last puzzle to solve, and Avery and the Hawthorne brothers are drawn into a dangerous game against an unknown and powerful player. She knows their secrets, and they know her.īut as the clock ticks down to the moment when Avery will become the richest teenager on the planet, trouble arrives in the form of a visitor who needs her help-and whose presence in Hawthorne House could change everything. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. Avery’s fortune, life, and loves are on the line in the game that everyone will be talking about. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Screwed by K.M. Neuhold![]() ![]() I stumble a little, the four shots I took in quick succession going straight to my head.ĭaniel slips his hand into mine without hesitation. “You know what will make you feel better than booze? Dancing.” He doesn’t even wait for my response before grabbing my arm and hauling me out of my seat. ![]() ![]() There are no bear shifters in this series, only the OTHER kind of bears. *Screwed is a woke up married, faking it to their friends but also totally hooking up, sweet, STEAMY love story that happens to be the fourth book in the Four Bears Construction series. Does he feel it too, or am I totally screwed? The only problem is the longer he stays, the more the lines blur between what’s real and what’s for show. I’ve never managed to make a real relationship last nearly a year, there’s no way Daniel will stick around long enough to win this bet. My feisty new husband, determined to make our friends pay up? Double check. A hefty bet about how long it will last? Check. I’ve had my fair share of less than proud relationship moments, but waking up married to my brother-in-law’s best friend is a new low.Ī drunken wedding to a man who already rejected me once? Check. ![]() Four Bears Construction Series, Book Four ![]() |