![]() ![]() Regina Hightower is a human conservationist from Tucson, AZ who has a special ability to communicate with animals. It will make the quiet, colonial town of Alamos, Sonora, one of the safest tourist spots, just as dangerous as Chihuahua, with its high murder count. She and her twin brother, Javier,a front plan to use it as a front for drug trafficking into the United States. However, the building of a food and bakery manufacturing plant in Alamos, Sonora, owned by Groupo Susteno, a corporation that Rosa Carrillo, head of the Carrillo Cartel in Chihuahua, Mexico, is a board member, threatens their home. The Maya jaguar shifters have lived in the Sonoran Desert of Sonora, Mexico, for hundreds of years away from human eyes. It's a celebration for Alejandro's Book Birthday! ![]() ![]() Join me for a live reading of my international best- selling book, Passion's Pride Alejandro. ![]()
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![]() When pressed, I take the kids’ point of view. Teachers tell me that the book helps them talk about interruption in the classroom, while also encouraging some kids to interrupt! I am not at all sad about that. When you do school visits, what have teachers shared about the difference that book has made in their classroom? He lives in Kew Gardens, NY with his wife and son.įrom the minute it came out, your Caldecott Honor-winning INTERRUPTING CHICKEN was embraced by teachers. His books have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Spanish, French, and Finnish. ![]() David received the Ezra Jack Keats award for LEAVES in 2008, and a Charlotte Zolotow Honor for POUCH! in 2010. Scholastic named it one of the top 100 books of all time for children. His book INTERRUPTING CHICKEN was awarded a 2011 Caldecott Honor, as well as many state awards. ![]() David Ezra Stein was born in Brooklyn, NY. ![]() ![]() Her dad is pushing her to grow up when she doesn't feel ready and that upsets her. Her mother passed many years in the past, leaving her dad and William to take care of her. ![]() Review 2: 3 Sad StarBased on the synopsis and cover and title of this book. And the Daddy in question just comes across as a pedo since he kidnaps the girl (after some other guy drugs her and tries to rape her) then proceeds to tie her up and ejaculate on her while she is knocked out. She acts about 5 years old or like she has a developmental disability or something. I mean, I guess I should have known what I was getting into when I read a "Daddy" book, but I still didn't expect the 18 year old female character to not know what an erection or sex is. ![]() In fact its poorly written with unlikable characters, hilariously bad dialogue, and a very creepy plot. Review 1: Well, I like me some erotica, but it has to be good. ![]() ![]() Jensen, Merrill The New Nation: A History of the United States during the Confederation, 1781-1789 1950 detailed discussion of return of Loyalists, popular anger at their return repeal of wartime laws against them.Loyalists and Community in North America (1994). ![]() The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1766-1781 (1973), the most detailed study Pole, eds., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the American Revolution (1991) The King's Friends: The Composition and Motives of the American Loyalist Claimants (1966). "The Reprieve of a Loyalist: Count Rumford's Invitation Home." New England Quarterly 1974 47(3): 368-385. ![]() The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson: Loyalism and the Destruction of the First British Empire (1974), full scale biography of the most prominent Loyalist In The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, enlarged edition, 230-319. ![]() ![]() Looking into the history of fertility and the LGBTQ+ community, she saw echoes of her own struggle. With no man factoring into their relationship, doctors were at best embarrassed and at worst disparaging of the couple.Soon Jenn found herself stepping outside of the system determined to disregard her. ![]() But they soon found themselves entrenched in a medical establishment that didn't know what to do with people like them. So when she and her wife Kelly decided to start building their family, they took the next logical step: they went to a fertility clinic. An LGBTQ memoir about one couple's struggles to defy the patriarchy and redefine the nuclear family, The Other Mothers dives into the history and social challenges queer couples face when trying to make a family.Jenn Berney was one of those people who knew she was destined for motherhood-it wasn't a question of if, but when. ![]() ![]() Each time, I thought: this could be the time when things go wrong. Again and again I walked him into the operating room, clutching his teddy bear, so the surgeons could try procedure after procedure. He grew weak and pale, surviving on an IV drip. It's called gastroparesis, and it was just bad luck. Nathan's stomach stopped working altogether. What followed was a month-long nightmare. ![]() Over the next year, he had two operations to pull everything back down and tighten that hole. ![]() All things considered, this is a fixable problem. His stomach, and most of his intestines, had slipped up around his lungs. He had a hiatal hernia: the hole for his esophagus was too big. ![]() It could be bad or it could be the end of the world. There's a universe of possibilities about that shadow. What could the shadow be? It could be anything. "We saw a shadow on your son's lungs," is what they told us. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1955, he completed his studies and returned to Sanok, working as a construction site supervisor, but found out he did not enjoy it. Zdzisław Beksiński was born in Sanok, southern Poland. The second period contained more abstract style, with the main features of formalism.īeksiński was stabbed to death at his Warsaw apartment in February 2005 by a 19-year-old acquaintance from Wołomin, reportedly because he refused to lend the teenager money. ![]() The first period of work is generally considered to contain expressionistic color, with a strong style of "utopian realism" and surreal architecture, like a doomsday scenario. His creations were made mainly in two periods. ![]() Beksiński did his paintings and drawings in what he called either a 'Baroque' or a 'Gothic' manner. Zdzisław Beksiński (pronounced 24 February 1929 – 21 February 2005) was a Polish painter, photographer and sculptor, specializing in the field of dystopian surrealism. ![]() ![]() "The Terra-Venusian War of 1979" ( Gerard E."The Trouble With H.A.R.R.I." ( Edward Mackin). ![]()
![]() ![]() When tragedy rips Wavy's family apart, a well-meaning aunt steps in, and what is beautiful to Wavy looks ugly under the scrutiny of the outside world. ![]() ![]() After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold.īy the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star gazing causes an accident. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Second Place Goodreads Best Fiction of 2016Ī beautiful and provocative love story between two unlikely people and the hard-won relationship that elevates them above the Midwestern meth lab backdrop of their lives.Īs the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. Book of the Month Club 2016 Book of the Year A New York Times and USA Today bestseller ![]() ![]() ![]() He is funny, sacarstic, kind and the best amatuer sleath I know. I love Adrien so much, baby is such an amazing character. □□□Īdrien and Jake are incredible characters. GAAHH!! I guess I appreciated this one more the 4th time and I can't wait to appreciate even more when I reread it for the 5th time. ![]() Josh is married and lives in Southern California.įind other Josh Lanyon titles at Follow Josh on Twitter, Facebook, and Goodreads. Josh is an Eppie Award winner, a four-time Lambda Literary Award finalist (twice for Gay Mystery), an Edgar nominee and the first ever recipient of the Goodreads Favorite M/M Author Lifetime Achievement award. ![]() The Adrien English Series was awarded All Time Favorite Male Male Couple in the 2nd Annual contest held by the 20,000+ Goodreads M/M Group. In 2016 Fatal Shadows placed #5 in Japan’s annual Boy Love novel list (the first and only title by a foreign author to place). ![]() Stranger on the Shore (Harper Collins Italia) was the first M/M title to be published in print. The FBI thriller Fair Game was the first male/male title to be published by Harlequin Mondadori, the largest romance publisher in Italy. Her work has been translated into eleven languages. Josh Lanyon is the author of over sixty titles of classic Male/Male fiction featuring twisty mystery, kickass adventure and unapologetic man-on-man romance. ![]() |