![]() ![]() Matthew Harrington, Professor Adams and boy genius Lucas Andrews. ![]() She awakens to find herself changed into a human cyborg and spends her days in a sterile clinic undergoing testing and training under the care of Dr. Seventeen year old, Kaitlyn checked the box on her driver’s license donating her body to science in the event of her death. Mini review: a light science fiction read wrapped in a good romance. As the first book in the IFICS series, Freak of Nature, offered an engaging beginning but left me wishing for more depth. The idea of cyborgs and robotic limb replacement fascinates me. As he tries to help her rediscover her past, he finds himself falling for the brave girl struggling to find her place and acceptance between the human and computer worldsįreak of Nature by Julia Crane drew me in with its gorgeous cover and gripping synopsis. ![]() He never expected a science project to affect him the way she does. Kaitlyn finds an unlikely ally in Lucas, a handsome, brilliant scientist who can’t get over the guilt he feels knowing she was once a vibrant, beautiful young woman. If the scientists who made her find out, they’ll erase what remains of who she was. She awakens one day in a secret laboratory to discover that her body is now half-robot and is forced to hide her own secret: that she still has human emotions and a human mind. When seventeen-year-old Kaitlyn checked the box, she never suspected she’d have her life–and her body–stolen from her. ![]()
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![]() ![]() My passion for storytelling with visual documenting resulted in my first book, An Ordinary Day: Children with rare genetic diseases and a further book that captured people living with epilepsy. I have a deep professional experience working in specialized healthcare in intimate settings. I think it naturally draws my subjects to me as I hold space for them to best reveal their truest version of themselves. My intuition and ability to connect with my subjects comes from a sense of my own vulnerability, my allowing myself to be seen, as I am. ![]() Throughout my career, I have been drawn to unearthing with my lens, an authentic glimpse into a person’s way of life, their natural way of being. ![]() I am an NYC based photographer and published author specializing in portraiture and the documentation of the human condition. ![]() ![]() ![]() He must convince Ophelia that their blazing sensuality, his exquisite castle, and his eight charming children add up to a match made in heaven. Now he faces the greatest challenge of his life. Yet when he meets Ophelia again, the duke realizes that he will marry her, or no one. She takes one look at him and heads for her carriage.ĭesperate to find a duchess, Hugo identifies an appropriate lady to woo. ![]() Hugo takes one look at Ophelia and loses his heart, but she doesn’t want more children or a castle. ![]() Ophelia, Lady Astley, has a fine house, one well-behaved daughter-and no husband. Hugo Wilde, the Duke of Lindow, has a drafty castle, eight naughty children-and no wife. New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James returns to the Wildes series with a prequel about the Wilde children's parents, Hugo, Duke of Lindow, and Ophelia, Lady Astley. ![]() ![]() The success of this speech resulted a two-year lecture tour in Maine for the Anti-Slavery Society. In 1854, Watkins delivered her first anti-slavery speech on “Education and the Elevation of Colored Race”. In 1853, Watkins joined the American Anti-Slavery Society and became a traveling lecturer for the group. John Brown (not the same as the abolitionist). (Union closed in 1863 when the AME Church diverted its funds to purchase Wilberforce University.) The school in Wilberforce was run by the Rev. In 1850, Watkins moved to Ohio, where she worked as the first woman teacher at Union Seminary, established by the Ohio Conference of the AME Church. Harper Women's Christian Temperance Unions thrived well into the twentieth century. Many African American women's service clubs named themselves in her honor, and across the nation, in cities such as St. Over the next few years, it was reprinted in 20 editions. Her second book, Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects, published in 1854, was extremely popular. At fourteen, she found work as a seamstress.įrances Watkins had her first volume of verse, Forest Leaves, published in 1845 (it has been lost). He was a major influence on her life and work. William Watkins, who was a civil rights activist. She was educated at the Academy for Negro Youth, a school run by her uncle Rev. ![]() ![]() ![]() After her mother died when she was three years old in 1828, Watkins was orphaned. Born to free parents in Baltimore, Maryland. ![]() ![]() Her father’s job requires the family to move often, but Anderson grounds herself by reading books from the library and joining a swim team.Īs she grows older and the family continues to move, her father’s alcoholism worsens. Anderson is born to an alcoholic preacher father who was traumatized during his time serving in World War II and a stoic and passive mother. ![]() In Part 1, Anderson details her coming of age and her internal journey to understand how her sexual assault impacted her view of the world. ![]() Shout’s poetic and sometimes non-linear style is similar to the style Anderson used in Speak, utilizing shorter chapters, poems, and fragments to convey how trauma changes the way sexual assault survivors perceive the world around them. She pulled from these experiences in to write her memoir. Anderson has used her platform to become an outspoken advocate against censorship. Speak is widely considered a classic of the young adult genre and has been adapted into a film and graphic novel of the same name. The novel detailed a rape survivor named Melinda who reverts to silence after her assault, and it became a best seller. ![]() Laurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times best-selling author whose book Speak was a 1999 National Book Award finalist. ![]() ![]() In this meticulously researched title, Lo skillfully layers rich details, such as how Lily has to deal with microaggressions from gay and straight women alike and how all of Chinatown has to be careful of the insidious threat of McCarthyism. Lo’s lovely, realistic, and queer-positive tale is a slow burn, following Lily’s own gradual realization of her sexuality while she learns how to code-switch between being ostensibly heterosexual Chinatown Lily and lesbian Telegraph Bar Lily. A budding relationship develops with her first White friend, Kathleen, and together they sneak out to the Telegraph Club lesbian bar, where they begin to explore their sexuality as well as their relationship to each other. As she makes her way through her teen years in the 1950s, she starts growing apart from her childhood friends as her passion for rockets and space exploration grows-along with her curiosity about a few blocks in the city that her parents have warned her to avoid. ![]() ![]() Lily Hu has spent all her life in San Francisco’s Chinatown, keeping mostly to her Chinese American community both in and out of school. Finally, the intersectional, lesbian, historical teen novel so many readers have been waiting for. ![]() ![]() In an unusual twist, the killer specialises in killing men who have recently been released from prison for rape or other sexual offences. It's the apparent suicide of an MP by jumping from the walls of Edinburgh Castle which brings Rebus off the sidelines, but this is quickly followed by the discovery of clothing at a Clootie Well very close to Gleneagles which suggests that a serial killer is at work. ![]() His bosses wish that he'd retire: he doesn't know what he'd do with himself if he did. Only one officer seems to be relatively unemployed and that's Detective Inspector John Rebus. Every spare policeman in England and Scotland is in the area to protect the leaders and to police the streets of Edinburgh where the political activists are gathering to march first in the city and then onto Auchterader. It's July 2005 and world leaders are gathering for the G8 summit at Gleneagles in Scotland. ![]() It's a genius who produces a plot which is totally convincing and leaves you feeling that you know more about the events than you gleaned from the media at the time. It's a brave author who sets his novel in one of the most dramatic weeks in recent history, particularly when the events are so well known that there is no opportunity to tweak them or to use artistic licence. It's a fast-paced book and highly recommended at Bookbag Towers. ![]() ![]() Summary: Rebus finds himself investigating the apparent suicide of a young MP and the possibility of a serial killerall in the shadow of the G8 summit at Gleneagles. ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s especially adept at turning aside the sneaky enemies who seek to bring him down from within. ![]() Van der Pol, an attractive character, survives and succeeds mostly because he’s been around the block a few times - 54 years old and 30 years on the force - and he knows the sleuthing business inside out. But at dangerous stages of his investigations, the straight shooting van der Pol is invariably hassled by both Amsterdam’s police commissioner and an overly ambitious junior detective. In this first novel, van der Pol deals with assorted bad guys - Hungarian gangsters running a prostitution ring, a Ghanaian diplomat doing funny things with diamonds. But Bosch has it easy compared to Henk van der Pol, a senior detective on the Amsterdam Police. Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch, for example, has spent much of his career getting out from under the interference of the odious Deputy Chief Irvin Irving. Police detectives tend to be independent souls, guys who go off on tangents that irritate their superiors. Daniel has since become a good friend of mine, after I was lucky enough to give his whole Harbour Master collection a read. ![]() ![]() ![]() The journal is edited by a faculty member from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and includes a distinguished international board of advisory editors. ![]() Great Plains Quarterly seeks a readership of scholars and interested laypersons, and publishes articles on history, literature, culture, and social issues relevant to the Great Plains, which include Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. ![]() Great Plains Quarterly is published four times a year and includes peer-reviewed articles on a wide variety of regional topics. ![]() The Center seeks further to stimulate research in the Great Plains region by providing a publishing outlet for scholars interested in the past, present, and future of the region." Its general purpose is to use this means to promote appreciation of the history and culture of the people of the Great Plains and to explore their contemporary social, economic, and political problems. The Center for Great Plains Studies has several purposes in publishing the Great Plains Quarterly. Luebke edited the first issue of Great Plains Quarterly. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ".a definite feel good read." - a Goodreads "Top" reviewer With an ocean between them and all of the doubts and questions that come with the distance, will their relationship ever find wings? And when they finally meet in person, can their online romance become an IRL happily ever after?Ĭontent Warning: This story contains explicit male-male sexual content and adult language and may be considered offensive to some readers. However, with Jake studying abroad 8,000 miles away, Aidan soon finds himself struggling with the intense feelings that he's developed for a man he's never actually met. When Aidan logs onto the Internet one night during winter break, he hardly expects to meet tall, dark, and handsome Jake - let alone discover over the course of their chats and emails that Jake may actually be.well.pretty much perfect. Genre: Erotica,Books,Fiction & Literature,Gay,. ![]() |