![]() The only problem is they can’t decide what to be: a boy or a girl? A bird or a fish? A flower or a shooting star? At school, though, they must endure inquisitive looks and difficult questions from the other children, and have trouble finding friends who will accept them for who they are. And Miu Lan is not just any child, but one who can change into any shape they can imagine. In the magical time between night and day, when both the sun and the moon are in the sky, a child is born in a little blue house on a hill. A relevant tale of love and acceptance that can find a home in any children’s collection.” – Kirkus Reviewsįeatured on CTV’s The Social and in The New York Times “ This book’s themes can resonate with any child who feels excluded (or excludes others) and can also open up conversations about nonbinary gender identities. ![]() ![]() ![]() From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea ![]()
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![]() ![]() Each hauled twenty pounds of iron, chains that draped from neck to neck and wrist to wrist, binding them all together. Hurrying in locked step, the thirty-odd men came down the dirt road like a giant machine. N OT LONG AFTER THEY heard the first clink of iron, the boys and girls in the cornfield would have been able to smell the grownups’ bodies, perhaps even before they saw the double line coming around the bend. Told through the intimate testimonies of survivors of slavery, plantation records, newspapers, as well as the words of politicians and entrepreneurs, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. Craven Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansĪmericans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution - the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her books accurately depict these locales in different eras. In 1956, she and her husband bought their own home on Meldazy Drive in a beautiful new subdivision in Scarborough, when McCowan was a gravel road and north of Ellesmere was farmland. Her husband was transferred to Peterborough, so they moved to Millbrook when her children were young. As a new bride, she lived on Gladstone Avenue in Toronto. She attended Runnymede Collegiate, but didn't graduate because the war started and she went to work (depicted in The Girls They Left Behind). The "new house" was on Cornell Avenue and she went to Birchcliff Public School, but most of her childhood and teens were spent on Lavinia, which is why Swansea claims her for their own. (Despite the hardships of poverty, it was her nature to be happy, so the books are upbeat.) They lived in Birchcliff and Swansea. ![]() The Booky Trilogy, set during the Great Depression, depicts her family being forced to stay ahead of the bailiff, who threw them out when her unemployed father couldn't afford the rent. She struggled in school because they moved so often. No Greats.īernice was the middle child of 5 children (Wilma, Gordon, Bernice, Jack and Robert). She married her high school sweetheart, Lloyd Hunter, and had two children, Anita and Heather, and four grandchildren, Meredith, Lisa, Hunter and Franceline. She was born in Toronto, Ontario, on Novemand died May 29, 2002. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What “Between the World and Me” does better than any other recent book I can think of is relentlessly drive home the point that “racism is a visceral experience.” As Coates so compellingly explains, “It dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth.” To be black in the ghetto of his youth “was to be naked before the elements of the world, before all the guns, fists, knives, crack, rape, and disease.” Throughout this book, he describes being in an at times feverish, at times numb-inducing fear for the safety of his own body. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Melinek shows a gift for story-telling, as this book presents a series of stories about her experience in New York City's office of the Medical Examiner at the turn of the century. I remember listening to this as an eAudiobook while commuting to my previous job as a medical librarian at Stanford. shows and movies have so glamorized forensic science to the point that real-life juries now have completely unrealistic demands and expectations, I urge us all to make an effort to educate ourselves to understand what medical examiners actually do and what forensic science can (and more importantly) cannot tell us about a crime. This was only one of the more disconcerting "take-aways" I found in Judy Melinek's Working Stiff : two years, 262 bodies, and the making of a medical examiner. Want to get away with murder? Kill someone that New York City police and DAs do not consider important. ![]() ![]() Urn:oclc:869558735 Republisher_date 20160827163644 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1004 Scandate 20160822043718 Scanner . : Since its publication in 1996, George Saunders’s debut collection has grown in esteem from a cherished cult classic to a masterpiece of the form, inspiring an entire generation of writers along the way. 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As Levi and Dominic scramble to prevent the city's destruction, they're opposed by treacherous forces that propel them toward catastrophe. /rebates/2fA-Chip-and-a-Chair-Cordelia-Kingsbridge2fbook2f42853573&. When a secret burial site is discovered in the desert with the remains of the Seven of Spades's earliest victims, that goal finally seems within reach.īut just as the net is tightening, the neo-Nazi militia Utopia launches their master plan with a devastating act of terror that changes the landscape of Las Vegas forever. Detective Levi Abrams and PI Dominic Russo are reunited and more committed to each other than ever, but they can't truly move forward with their lives until the serial killer who's been tormenting them is behind bars. 38. ![]() ![]() ![]() But instead of a straw man, they realize that the would-be Guy Fawkes is actually Harrison's office rival and he's been murdered. ![]() It's a cold, clear night, perfect for the British tradition of tossing a straw stuffed effigy of Guy Fawkes, traitor to the crown, onto the bonfire. The hats prove to be quite the conversation starters as the girls mingle with the guests – never suspecting that one of them is a killer. Invited to a posh party by their friend Harrison Wentworth, Scarlett and Viv decide to promote their hat shop, Mim's Whims, by donning a few of their more outrageous creations. For Scarlett Parker, part of the fun of living in London is celebrating the British holidays, and she's excited to share her first Bonfire Night with her cousin Vivian Tremont. ![]() ![]() Comics Projects: Return to Planet Earth. ![]() Starblazer Checklist: Starblazer Abroad.Starblazer Recalled: Forgotten Fantasy Fiction – With Pictures.British Comic Reference | British Comic Characters Profiled | Garth.Marvel UK | “Genesis ’92”: Looking Back and What Might Have Been.Marvel UK in Print: Captain Britain, Death’s Head, Doctor Who and more – A Quick Guide.Action – The Sevenpenny Nightmare – Micro Site.British and Irish Creators and Publishers on Twitter.British Classic Comics and Creators on Facebook.British Comics Sales Figures: The Good Old Days.British News Stand Comics and Magazines for Teens, Pre-Teens and Children.Why Your Favourite British Comic Strip of 1974 Hasn’t Been Reprinted – Yet!.Lakes Festival Focus – Comic Creator Interviews.Roy of the Rovers – Rebellion Books Check List. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the first book in the Legendary Alston Boys Adventure trilogy. Now, with the help of some very strange people and even stranger creatures, Otto and Sheed will have to put aside their differences to save their town-and each other-before time stops for good.” ![]() That is, until a mysterious man appears with a camera that literally freezes time. ![]() “And as the summer winds down and the first day of school looms, the boys are craving just a little bit more time for fun, even as they bicker over what kind of fun they want to have. In this middle grade fiction book, cousins Otto and Sheed are the local sleuths in their zany Virginia town, masters of unraveling mischief using their unmatched powers of deduction. ![]() |