![]() No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.Ĭinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. ![]() Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. Related Posts: Cinder (Lunar Chronicles #1), Scarlet (Lunar Chronicles #2),, Glitches (The Lunar Chronicles #0.5), The Queen's Army (The Lunar Chronicles #1.5), Carswell's Guide to Being Lucky (Lunar Chronicles #3.1), Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles #2), Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3), Winter (The Lunar Chronicles #4), Stars Above (A Lunar Chronicles Collection), Heartless, Wires and Nerve, Volume 1 (Wires and Nerve #1), Renegades (Renegades #1) ![]() Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adultįind it on the web: Buy from Amazon // Goodreads Date Completed: May 20, 2015 I’ve already done one formal review of CINDER back when I first picked up the series in January 2013 so I thought I’d compile a mini-review with some more feeling-related thoughts since you can see my initial review for my first reactions! Title: Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles #1) ![]() ![]() With Winter coming out this November and bringing the series to a close, I knew I wanted to stack up some re-reads back to back to back to refresh my memory of the details of the series and also just to enjoy the books all over again. I’ve grown obsessed over the years and yet somehow, I hadn’t re-read any of the books. I’m sure by now you know that The Lunar Chronicles is one of my all-time favorite series out there. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In Mister Dash and the Cupcake Calamity (Tundra, 2013) Mister Dash, alas, is required to help out when Madam Croissant’s 500 cupcakes, freshly baked with the messy but enthusiastic “assistance” of Daphne, are in danger of not reaching their destination intact. And of course the gallant Mister Dash steps up, racing to the rescue to save Daphne from danger. Too well-mannered to refuse, Mister Dash endures, bow tie in place, until one Sunday, more is required. ![]() That’s when Daphne, an extraordinarily loud and active young girl, takes over the house, spending the day with her grandmother, gift-shop owner Madam Croissant, but also requiring Mister Dash to be her playmate. Mister Dash, a rather fastidious pooch who wears a vest and eats his popcorn one kernel at a time, does not look forward to Sundays. Merci Mister Dash! (Tundra, 2011) is a rollicking picture book story that hooks us right from the first page. ![]() ![]() ![]() They showed me I wasn't alone when bullies tried to shatter my spirit and gave me context for experiences my still-maturing mind didn't understand. Because I was painfully shy, the characters I met within those pages kept me company on lonely afternoons. ![]() I was that kid with a thriller hidden under my desk during Math class, who'd rather curl up with a novel at recess than run around after a ball. Needless to say: books can change lives, whether they're intended to be inspirational or just come to us at the moment we need them most. And who among us can resist a juicy romance novel that reminds us that chivalry isn't dead? Of course, the best nonfiction books can also open our eyes to lived experiences far beyond our own perspective. Others love the shiver that goes up your spine when you crack open a creepy ghost story that makes you think twice before turning off the light to go to bed. Some of us like to unwind with a great fiction book that transports us to places we've never been, into lives that differ from our own. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though she was terrified of being caught up in a bar raid, her time in New York was a respite from her marriage and influenced her later novels. There she caught glimpses of gay life in Greenwich Village. At this time she was living in Philadelphia and was able to escape to New York City on the weekends. Weldy chose the surname “Bannon” simply because she liked the fact that it contained her first name. The result was Odd Girl Out, published in 1957, and Ann Bannon was born. She followed his advice and gave Carroll a finished manuscript in just a few months' time. Bannon took the rough draft to her editor, Dick Carroll, was promptly handed back to her with the admonition that she cut it by half and pursue the strong storyline, which involved two women. ![]() With surprising and welcome help from author Vin Packer, to whom Bannon had written for advice, the manuscript found its way to Dick Carroll, editor-in-chief of Gold Medal Books. The book sparked a fire in Bannon, only a year out of college herself, and eventually led to her own lesbian narrative. She found the book that became the inspiration for her own writing on a drugstore shelf: it was Vin Packer’s Spring Fire, a story of two college sorority sisters who have an intense affair. When she started writing in 1955, Bannon was a twenty-two-year-old housewife living in Philadelphia. Ann Bannon read their books and decided that she wanted to do this too. Ann Bannon's early role models were lesbian fiction authors such as Claire Morgan, Vin Packer, and Tereska Torres. ![]() ![]() ![]() She takes on the identity of Jang, a male cadet killed in battle, and enlists the aid of two other supernatural Space Force cadets: Haneul, a female dragon, and Sujin, a nonbinary goblin. Min and her family are gumiho, or shape-shifting foxes, but they present as human to hide their magical natures. Lee has created an adrenaline-filled space opera with mythological creatures living alongside humans. ![]() Fans will breathlessly watch while fox-spirit Min charms her way onto a hijacked starship, ending up on her brother’s military star cruiser on the way to the lawless Ghost Sector. It’s a Rick Riordan trademark to thrust mythological figures into new settings. Naturally, Min runs away from home to clear her brother’s name. Thirteen-year-old Min cannot believe her older brother, Jun, has deserted his Space Force post, as he’s been accused of doing. This latest in the Rick Riordan Presents imprint launches Korean mythological creatures into outer space. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a case that unfolds in the past (the 1950s) and the present, it seems that a Russian spy infiltrated the nuclear testing site and now someone is looking for that long-ago, all-but forgotten person, who holds the key to what happened then and to the deadly goings on now. If that wasn't strange enough, a current FBI agent shows up to help Beck's investigation. He was brutally tortured before he was killed and clues at the scene point to a mystery dating back to the early days of the nuclear age. All is relatively quiet in this corner of the world, until an old, retired FBI agent is found killed. ![]() Now he's back home, doing the same lawman's job his father once did, before his father started to develop dementia. ![]() Born and raised there, he left to join the Army, where he worked in Intelligence, deep in the shadows in far off places. 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We’re especially seeing it take hols in the apparel industry. “If you intend for things to not contaminate the world, then you change your design”.Ĭradle to cradle is applicable to all product design. “Design is the signal of human intention,” says McDonough and the intentions he sets as a practitioner and economist is that we need to be coming to design with intentions that are fair for the environment, people and society. That is, to employ tactics and strategies that eliminate waste, upcycle materials or find a new lease of life on materials that would normally reach the end of its life cycle in landfill. It challenges the linear economy’s “business as usual” approach by closing the loop on “take, make, waste”. It’s called “Cradle to cradle” and it’s design thinking that marks a tremendous departure from the way we currently make and take things to market. William McDonough, architect, author and pioneer of the circular economy talks to us about design principles for the creating in today’s world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They have long been the target of individuals who have felt the inequality of American justice. ![]() The mayor told them he would finish the jobĪ crucial thing to know here is that these attacks on Confederate monuments are not a new phenomenon. Protesters tried to remove a Confederate monument in Birmingham. And yet, largely white-led GOP legislatures throughout the South have passed laws to protect these memorials and leave them firmly in place as what, for many, is a demonstration of white authority over the levers of power across the region.Ī man walks past a toppled statue of Confederate veteran Charles Linn in a Birmingham, Alabama, park, following a night of demonstrations. Time and again – particularly in the aftermath of white supremacist-fueled violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, but also after the Charleston massacre of 2015 – Confederate symbols, both flags and monuments, have come under fire, prompting calls for the removal of monuments from shared public spaces. Lee was marked with the words “No more white supremacy” and “Blood on your hands,” to Oxford, Mississippi, where the statue of the common soldier that sits at the entrance to the University of Mississippi was tagged with the words “spiritual genocide,” citizens are railing against systemic racism and accurately tying it to the legacy of white supremacy that these monuments represent. From Richmond, Virginia, where the large equestrian statue of Robert E. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her first novel, Choices, was released in 2007, and quickly gained popularity both within the gay and lesbian community and the urban fiction community. ![]() Right now Skyy is worki Skyy is a 30-year-old writer from Memphis, TN. The books resonate with truismsamong women of all ages and gender identities. ![]() Lynn Harris, Skyy blurs the lines between lesbian and straight communities in her fiction by speaking with intimate familiarity about the striking commonalities of loving and living as African American women in urban America. The highly anticipated sequel, Consequences, was released in 2009 with high praise, and rocketed to the top-10 best-seller lists on as well as at independent bookstores across the country. Skyy is a 30-year-old writer from Memphis, TN. ![]() ![]() ![]() At once a psychological investigation of the pressures facing Japanese women and a classic work of noir fiction, Grotesque is a brilliantly twisted novel of ambition, desire, beauty, cruelty, and identity by one of our most electrifying writers. Natsuo Kirino, celebrated author of Out, seamlessly weaves together the stories of these women’s struggles within the conventions and restrictions of Japanese society. Beautiful Yuriko and her unpopular, unnamed sister exist in different spheres the hopelessly awkward Kazue Sato floats around among them, trying to fit in.Years later, Yuriko and Kazue are dead - both have become prostitutes and both have been brutally murdered. ![]() Life at the prestigious Q High School for Girls in Tokyo exists on a precise social axis: a world of insiders and outsiders, of haves and have-nots. ![]() Introduction In the dreary, exhausting hours of the nightshift at a boxed-lunch factory, four women have formed a friendship of sorts. You can read this before Grotesque PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Written by Natsuo Kirino, one of Japan’s most popular writers, Out won Japan’s Grand Prix for Crime Fiction and was an Edgar Award Finalist for Best Mystery Novel in the United States. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Grotesque written by Natsuo Kirino which was published in 2003–. Out is a story in solidarity for these four women, and an indictment on a society that allows for this to happen. Brief Summary of Book: Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino ![]() |