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![]() ![]() “It was guys and girls who kissed in our grade, on TV, in the movies, in the world. “No one had ever told me, specifically, not to kiss a girl before, nobody had to,” Cameron writes in a novel penned from her perspective. At least that’s the story detailed in Emily Danforth’s young adult debut, “The Miseducation of Cameron Post,” a book that reads like a literary response to the Katy Perry hit “I Kissed a Girl” if it took place under a big Montana sky.Ĭameron Post is just 12 when she kisses her best girl friend on a dare - ostensibly as practice for future liaisons with boys. ![]() ![]() There’s something about the open spaces of the Great Plains that make the exploration of nascent homosexuality even more alienating and risky than the same experience in a big city or suburb. Balzer & Bray: 480 pp.: $17.99, for readers age 14 and up ![]() ![]() ![]() Glued to the screen as if John McClane was a teacher and I was his rapt student. (source: Goodreads) My thoughts…Īs much as I love fantasy and romance, I also really love thrillers and mysteries too. With breathless pacing and relentless suspense, Reece ruthlessly targets his enemies in the upper echelons of power without regard for the laws of combat or the rule of law.Īn intoxicating thriller that cautions against the seduction of absolute power and those who would do anything to achieve it, The Terminal List is perfect for fans of Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, Stephen Hunter, and Nelson DeMille. ![]() Now, with no family and free from the military’s command structure, Reece applies the lessons that he’s learned in over a decade of constant warfare toward avenging the deaths of his family and teammates. But when those dearest to him are murdered on the day of his homecoming, Reece discovers that this was not an act of war by a foreign enemy but a conspiracy that runs to the highest levels of government. On his last combat deployment, Lieutenant Commander James Reece’s entire team was killed in a catastrophic ambush that also claimed the lives of the aircrew sent in to rescue them. ![]() SYNOPSIS: A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the American government is behind the deaths of his team in this ripped-from-the-headlines political thriller. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Subjects participated in a mock trial in which they had to agree with other “jurors”-purportedly other study participants but actually creations of the researchers-on whether to convict. The only thing scarier than that is a woman who’s right.Ī 2015 study from Arizona State University, which looked at gender bias in a simulated jury deliberation, found that men were deemed more credible when they spoke with heat while women expressing anger made the people around them stubborn and resistant. The only thing scarier is a woman who’s angry a bo u t something. There is little more threatening to the social order than a woman who’s angry. ![]() Men fear our chaotic rage, but not nearly as much as they fear our focused grievances about very real injustice. The perennially restrained Michelle Obama was dogged by accusations of outsized anger for her eight years in the White House and beyond, simply because she was female and Black and, very gently, nobody’s fool.īut women’s anger is particularly reviled when it is nocked and aimed, the sharp end of an unwavering system of beliefs about what we will not endure. Anger in particular is more stingily restricted the darker you are. There will always be only so much emotion a woman, even a supposedly powerful woman, is allowed to have. What makes women’s anger monstrous? As with hunger and brilliance and ambition, it’s partly just the overstepping of closely guarded bounds. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thirteen-year-old Lacey wakes to a beautiful summer morning excited to begin her new job at the library, just as her mother is supposed to start work at the grocery store. ![]() "Imagine Anna Quindlen or Sue Miller turning her attention to writing a young adult novel, and you have an idea what has done for early teen readers…" -Audrey Couloumbis, author of the Newbery Honor Book Getting Close to Baby PLUS SPECIAL BONUS CONTENT: FIRST CHAPTER "SNEAK PEEK" OF CAROL LYNCH WILLIAMS'S MILES FROM ORDINARY. ![]() That is, without questioning them much-if you don't count her secret visits to the Mobile Library on Wheels to read forbidden books, or her meetings with Joshua, the boy she hopes to choose for herself instead of having a man chosen for her.īut when the Prophet decrees that she must marry her sixty-year-old uncle-who already has six wives-Kyra must make a desperate choice in the face of violence and her own fears of losing her family forever. Thirteen-year-old Kyra has grown up in an isolated community without questioning the fact that her father has three wives and she has twenty brothers and sisters, with two more on the way. Carol Lynch Willams' The Chosen One is a dazzling novel about a young teenager's rebellion from the polygamist cult that would have her become the seventh wife to her 60-year-old uncle ![]() ![]() ![]() Originally published to be available for his exhibition at the Petit Palais in Paris, entitled “Patrick Demarchelier: Images et Mode à Paris,” this book is thick with both imagery as well as artistic inspiration. This new monograph collects over 400 of his most referential images from that period of time. ![]() Patrick Demarchelier is a prolific, award-winning modern photographer who since the mid-1970s has worked for almost every major fashion publication, including Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper’s BAZAAR, Allure and Glamour. (Jeffrey Felner New York Journal of Books) ![]() There are few who can compare their body of work to this artist. Not only is the book filled with superb and memorable images, but there is also practically no text to encounter while viewing this mini museum disguised as a book. Patrick Demarchelier is an epic volume, in size and content, which serves as a catalog, a visual diary, a chronicle, and treasury of some of the most identifiable images from the 20th and 21st centuries taken by Demarchelier. ![]() ![]() It is not so much a series as it is a world, one that he has revealed to his readers for two decades. There is something special about David Moody’s Autumn series. I cannot wait to see where the story heads next. "A triumphant return to the rotting world of Autumn. "Autumn: Dawn is an instant classic of the zombie genre." -The Sci-Fi and Fantasy Reviewer ![]() keeps you gasping for air until the very end."-BookNest "Autumn: Dawn is an unabated, unforgiving onslaught of intensity. ![]() It's a delicate balancing act: stave off starvation while doing everything possible to avoid all-out war. They have no choice but to scavenge through the ruins of London to survive, but with every street they clear, every building they strip, they risk enraging the vast hordes of the undead that have them surrounded. If they can make it through winter, they'll have a shot at long-term survival, but with so many mouths to feed, food is at a premium. In all other directions, nothing but the dead. ![]() There are now more than three hundred people grouped together on the banks of the Thames in the shadows of the Tower of London. The survival of the rest still balanced on a knife-edge ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jon Cryer’s memoir, So That Happened, will be released on April 7. Sign up for Us Weekly's free, daily newsletter and never miss breaking news or exclusive stories about your favorite celebrities, TV shows and more! Sheen was eventually replaced by Ashton Kutcher, who played new leading man, Walden Schmidt, and the show went on for another four seasons before the series finale this past February. But then I found out that it was completely possible that Williams had, in fact, tried crack, and the result was not this play. I used to refer to it as the play Tennessee Williams would have written if he ever tried crack. As ridiculous and horrifying as those sentiments were, it was impossible for me not to feel their effect.” Like The play itself is a rip-roaring piece of Southern Gothic. ![]() “They directed their fury at Chuck but also at me, with hundreds of comments about how I’d betrayed Charlie, that I was a ‘homely f-g’ and that they’d never watch a show with me as the lead. “An astounding number of people stood up for Charlie, as though people should be able to show up to work rarely, if at all, verbally abuse their co-workers publicly with anti-Semitic slurs, get arrested on a regular basis - as well as abuse drugs to the point where they can barely function - and not have their high-paying jobs threatened,” he wrote. PHOTOS: Stars who have been fired Read article ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1998, the Modern Library listed the book at No. The book was a best-seller, and remained the most popular African-American autobiography until that of Malcolm X. Du Bois, among others, criticized some of his views. Washington was a controversial figure during his lifetime, and W. It was serialized so that Washington could receive feedback from his audience during the writing and could adapt his work to his diverse audience. This book was first published as a serial in 1900 through The Outlook, a Christian newspaper of New York. Washington explained that the integration of practical subjects is partly designed to "reassure the White community of the usefulness of educating Black people". His educational philosophy stresses combining academic subjects with learning a trade (reminiscent of John Ruskin). He describes his efforts to instill manners, breeding, health and dignity into students. ![]() ![]() He reflects on the generosity of teachers and philanthropists who helped educate Black and Native Americans. The book describes his experience of working to rise up from being enslaved as a child during the Civil War, the obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, and his work establishing vocational schools like the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to help Black people and other persecuted people of color learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps. Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of American educator Booker T. ![]() ![]() The relevant sections of Henri Martineau’s Ple´iade version of the Journal have been revised in the light of a rereading of the newly acquired manuscripts. This is the first paperback edition of Stendhal’s Journal, and the first in nearly seven decades to have been able to draw directly on six notebooks - dramatically acquired in 2006 from the private collection of Pierre Bere`s for the Bibliothe`que municipale de Grenoble - which cover a combined period of over three years between July 1805 and October 1814. Commentary by XAVIER BOURDENET and OLIVIER TOMASINI. STENDHAL: Vanina Vanini et autres nouvelles. Edition by HENRI MARTINEAU revised by XAVIER BOURDENET. ![]() DANIEL BREWER doi:10.1093/fs/knr230 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA STENDHAL: Journal. Nonetheless, along with his previous work, Robert Darnton’s latest book will remain an important vector in understanding the cultural history of the eighteenth century. ![]() JournalVanina Vanini et autres nouvelles JournalVanina Vanini et autres nouvellesĩ6 REVIEWS generated yet another ‘Darnton Debate’ (online, on H-France), with other historians calling for a less artful avoidance of questions of historical causality. ![]() |