![]() ![]() From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality debunking the myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making dinner, and that men can "allow" women to have full careers, Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century. ![]() Here are fifteen invaluable suggestions-compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive-for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response. ![]() From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today-written as a letter to a friend.Ī few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Two excited little children named Vyvyan and Cyril sit astride his back. He is down on the nursery floor, all six feet four inches of him. Picture Oscar Wilde – imposing, sophisticated, elegantly dressed in a tailored suit – on all fours. Read More about The Happy Prince & Other Tales Read Less about The Happy Prince & Other Tales With an introduction by Wilde expert Michèle Mendelssohn, The Happy Prince & Other Tales is certain to surprise and delight children and adults alike. This beautiful collector’s edition includes original watercolor illustrations and decorative motifs from the 1913 edition by Charles Robinson. What is love? asks “The Happy Prince.” How do you get what you need? asks “The Nightingale and the Rose.” How do you win friends-and avoid alienating people? Can you have too much compassion? How can you set the world on fire?īy turns moving and funny, these stories teach free thinking rather than giving prescriptive lessons. Featuring princesses, ogres, and talking animals, The Happy Prince & Other Tales poses questions that are as pertinent now as they were at the turn of the century. This collection of children’s stories, first published in 1888, explores timeless themes of good and evil, freedom and responsibility, love and death, beauty and self-sacrifice. Oscar Wilde’s stories have given pleasure to generations of readers. ![]() A collector’s edition of Oscar Wilde’s stories for children. ![]() ![]() ![]() When David searches the loading dock for something to cover Billy up with, he hears things slithering against the outside of the loading door. A woman with kids at home eventually asks for someone to escort her home, but everyone refuses, so the woman goes out into the mist alone, towards her car. ![]() The market is then struck and damaged by violent tremors. ![]() The patrons watch as the mist moves across the parking lot towards the market and engulfs it. A bloody-nosed Dan Miller rushes in, ranting about something in the mist taking John Lee. The morning after the small town of Bridgton, Maine is struck by a violent thunderstorm, commercial artist David Drayton, his son, Billy, and his wife, Stephanie, witness a mysterious mist moving across the lake towards their lakeshore home.Ĭoncerned with cleaning up the aftermath of the storm, David, Billy and their neighbour, Brent Norton, head into town, to the local grocery store, where the patrons' attention is drawn by an unusual amount of police and military activity. ![]() ![]() ![]() THE LAST OUTLAW - a modern day NY reporter goes to New Mexico to uncover the truth about a legend. MONROE CITY BLUES-A Brooklyn boy learns about baseball, prejudice and life in the 1960's South Georgia. A gritty comedic story with great dialogue and riveting characters. THE SIXTH FAMILY - about the "crews" of young men that do the dirty work for the Mafia bosses. He has also written nine books - ACROSS 7TH STREET - a love story between an Italian boy and an Orthodox Jewish girl in 1960's Brooklyn, NY. He was nominated for four Emmy Awards, won the prestigious Western Heritage Award and awards at the New York Film Festival. Marino Amoruso, an award-winning filmmaker and author has written, directed and edited over 50 films for broadcast and cable networks. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But picture books that use animals as metaphors for human identities have not gone away. Seuss probably wasn’t referring to us specifically it might have been an allegory for the civil rights movement, or a generic vision of anti-discrimination, or a belated attempt to soften his racist legacy. There are more Jewish picture books now than there were when I was a kid, and Dr. Since I didn’t have any other books about Jews (with the excellent exceptions of Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins and The Mouse in the Matzah Factory), it makes sense that I would do the work necessary to connect the dots between the star-less Sneetches, kept out of the best beaches and hot dog parties, with my rudimentary grasp of Jewish history. ![]() I knew that Jews were a minority, given that I was always the only one in my entire class and my classmates often didn’t even know what Jews were. When I read The Sneetches as a kid, I decided that it was about anti-Semitism. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of the browsers support the use of Cookies. ![]() Cookies will store details of the website's browsing behaviour and what is frequently chosen by you and your browser. Texts contained in Cookies typically consist of identifiable data, website’s name and some numbers and texts. 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No Archive Warnings Apply, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con. ![]() ![]() General Audiences, Teen And Up Audiences, Mature.Snyder's Study trilogy, Marvel Cinematic Universe, NCIS, Pirates of the Caribbean (Movies), Popslash, Rurouni Kenshin, Skyfall (2012) - Fandom, Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Star Trek: The Next Generation, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, Suits (TV), Suits (US TV), Supernatural, The Avengers (2012), The Eagle of the Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliff, The Losers (2010), The Magnificent Seven (TV), The OC (TV), The Unusuals, The West Wing, Thor (Movies), White Collar I’m a sucker for the trope where the hero wants the heroine to be his mistress but then realizes his feelings are deeper and proposes marriage. Rowling, Hathaways Series - Lisa Kleypas, Highlander: The Series, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Iron Man (Movies), Kushiel's Legacy - Jacqueline Carey, Law & Order: SVU, Leverage, Maria V. But I kinda forgot to add Marcus Westcliff. Ward, Black Jewels - Anne Bishop, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Burn Notice, Cobra Starship, Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds (US TV), Dark-Hunter Series - Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dirty Sexy Money (TV), Firefly, Gundam Wing, Harry Potter - J. ![]() Arsenic, arsenicarcher (Arsenic) Fandom: Alias, Angel: the Series, Anne Bishop's The Black Jewels, Arrow (TV 2012), Avatar (2009), Bandom, Black Dagger Brotherhood - J. ![]() ![]() ![]() His decision to publish the narrative under the name of Gustavus Vassa is interesting in and of itself, and is indicative of a man whose existence seems to be fraught by some vague internal contradiction. These discrepancies are never reconciled, and we are left with a portrait of a man who, despite being fervently opposed to the trade, never quite finds the means to embrace his African identity. Though a slave himself, not all of Equiano’s actions opposed the trade, and his proposed solution isn’t exactly compelling by retrospective standards. Equiano’s initial account of his enslavement may be the most compelling part of this book, but that doesn’t make his subsequent indictment of it any the less biting.Įquiano lived quite a complicated life, truth be told, and the book doesn’t make any attempt to reconcile some of the more contradictory aspects of it to his entreaty against slavery. ![]() ![]() ![]() Focusing on the tumultuous period from 1850 to 1875, she introduces us to Lister and his contemporaries-some of them brilliant, some outright criminal-and takes us through the grimy medical schools and dreary hospitals where they learned their art, the deadhouses where they studied anatomy, and the graveyards they occasionally ransacked for cadavers.Įerie and illuminating, The Butchering Art celebrates the triumph of a visionary surgeon whose quest to unite science and medicine delivered us into the modern world. At a time when surgery couldn't have been more hazardous, an unlikely figure stepped forward: a young, melancholy Quaker surgeon named Joseph Lister, who would solve the deadly riddle and change the course of history.įitzharris dramatically recounts Lister's discoveries in gripping detail, culminating in his audacious claim that germs were the source of all infection-and could be countered by antiseptics. These medical pioneers knew that the aftermath of surgery was often more dangerous than their patients' afflictions, and they were baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. ![]() She conjures up early operating theaters-no place for the squeamish-and surgeons, working before anesthesia, who were lauded for their speed and brute strength. ![]() In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Now, onto the technical side of the book. As he mentioned, we traveled by plane this last summer to move from the DC area to California and the Planes book was a huge hit! There are images of people getting on and off planes in the book and because of the small airport we initially left from, we were able to get aboard the plane just as they did in the book, which he loved! And though you would think these books wouldn't appeal to girls, even The Littlebug picked the Plane book out yesterday as her book of choice. Now that he is quite a bit older (at least two years have passed) he still picks them out of our full bookshelf. We initially purchased the Trucks book when he was very little and it instantly became a favorite. Mom's Two Cents: "I have to agree with The Turkeybird and the publishers summary. These books are a must have for every home. It was neat to look out the window and see the same sky that I was looking at in my book. ![]() I especially liked reading my plane book when we traveled cross country to our new home. Does it really get any better than trucks, planes, and trains? I would say not! They move, they have wheels, they go fast and they do all sorts of fun things. The Turkeybird Speaks: "Now this is the part where I tell you to pull up a chair and your favorite snack so you can settle into a great book. ![]() |