![]() ![]() I loved the eerie style of writing, and the diverse cast of characters that included an asexual protagonist and a boy who is transgender. Very atmospheric and strange, but also full of wit and humour, this story is just damn near perfect. She offers them a place where they can be believed. Because Eleanor has been to her own world and she knows the sadness and loss these children experience when they are dragged back to the "real" world. Eleanor West promises to help them, and she does, just not in the way the parents imagine. ![]() The ones who claim to have been to a different world. No one, that is, except Eleanor West.Įleanor West's Home for Wayward Children is where despairing parents send their troubled kids. It's a kind of dark, creepy fairy tale about all those children who slipped through the cracks - a wardrobe, a rabbit hole, or a simple doorway - and found themselves somewhere else somewhere no one would believe they'd been. I have to try and explain Every Heart a Doorway somehow, but it isn't easy. ‘Be Sure.’ Sure of what? We were twelve, we weren’t sure of anything. “We went down, and at the bottom there was a door, and on the door there was a sign. ![]()
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![]() Praise for Suicide Notes: “With a sprinkling of dark humor and a full measure of humanness, Suicide Notes is quirky, surprising, and a riveting read.” - Ellen Hopkins, New York Times bestselling author of Fallout and Crank “Jeff’s wit and self-discovery are refreshing, poignant, and, at times, laugh-out-loud funny.” - School Library Journal Critical Praise “Makes a powerful emotional impact.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review) ![]() “Like the very best teen novels, Suicide Notes is both classic and edgy, timeless and provocative.” -Brent Hartinger, author of Geography Club “With a sprinkling of dark humor and a full measure of humanness, Suicide Notes is quirky, surprising, and a riveting read.” -Ellen Hopkins, author of The You I’ve Never Known and Love Lies Beneath ![]() Jeff is perfectly fine, perfectly normal not like the other kids in the hospital with him.īut over the course of the next forty-five days, Jeff begins to understand why he ended up here-and realizes he has more in common with the other kids than he thought. An unforgettable coming of age novel for fans of 13 Reasons Why, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.įifteen-year-old Jeff wakes up on New Year’s Day to find himself in the hospital-specifically, in the psychiatric ward.ĭespite the bandages on his wrists, he’s positive this is all some huge mistake. ![]() ![]() ![]() For example, Southwest Airlines prioritizes one mission above all else: “We are the low-fare airline.” The mission is clear and simple enough to guide employee decisions. You have stripped an idea down to its critical essence. Simplicity means you have found the core of the idea. ![]() The book is organized around understanding each of these six pillars of making ideas stick. 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She is on Twitter Julius Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution ![]() ![]() She has been featured on BBC radio, the PBS documentary series “Many Rivers to Cross,” Vox, and recently on the ABWH-TV episode, “Black Women, History, and State Violence.” Dr. Her research and teaching interests focus on race, gender, slavery, violence, illness, criminality, and public memory of the past. Mustakeem is an Associate Professor in the Departments of History & African American and African Studies at Washington University in St. Mustakeem, Manuel Barcia, and Ana Lucia Araujo. Below are the recommendations of Sowande’ M. We invited three prominent scholars to recommend books that speak to the current historical moment and help us better understand the protests. Perhaps more than ever, we need to better educate ourselves on the history of slavery, and consider the ways in which it informs how we have arrived at the present. ![]() ![]() This book is a minefield of spoilers, so I'll do my best to dodge them as best as possible, but if you're wanting to go in completely blind (as I was graciously allowed to), consider stopping here and finishing reading this review once you've read the book. As an author, she's clearly found her sweet spot within the genre and found a way to put her unique spin on the kind of stories that can feel stale and washed up when done in a repetitive manner. ![]() Kara has always had a way with words, and her plots are tight and gripping without fail, but something about this novel really put her in a top tier category for me. The twists and turns are solid, but the characterization and journey that we go on while reading this book is pretty epic, something I don't typically feel while reading a YA mystery novel. This book is stunning like the glimmer of a slick, sharpened knife. ![]() ![]() I've seen people wait years to find out what happened to their loved ones, and when they finally do, the answers aren't enough. ![]() ![]() A man seeming custom-made to grant every last one of Mike and Samira's sinful wishes. ![]() And now so has the risk - they're poised to take Mike's indecent desires to the next level, by opening their bed to a sexy, brazen stranger. As their games have intensified, so has the rush. But after witnessing the way they set him on fire, she yielded, and happily indulged. When Samira first learned of her husband's fantasies, she was reluctant, even. But at home he can be a different man entirely, harboring appetites only his wife gets to glimpse. When he's working, Mike Heyer is all business - every inch the alpha male, with the hard, capable body to back up his persona. The author of Hard Time and Give It All is back with a new series centred on a daring married couple set to explore their fantasies and those of the stranger they've invited to play. ![]() The first in a new series from the author of Hard Time and Give It All explores the fantasies of a daring married couple - and those of a stranger invited to play along in their scandalous little games. ![]() ![]() Description for Crosstown Crush Paperback. ![]() ![]() Slowly, surely, he starts to put together the plans for his city and starts to recruit people who think the way he does. Several decades later, the arch-capitalist Andrew Ryan is appalled at the “Socialist” New Deal and sets about devising a project where people like him can live and work in the capitalist utopia that the USA failed to become. It follows Ryan’s early life as a young boy escaping the Russian Revolution with his parents and going to America. (The third game is set in an equally impossible city, one in the sky and fifty years previously). ![]() It is the story of Andrew Ryan and the founding of Rapture – the city beneath the sea where the first two incredible games are set. This one has some very good reviews so I took the plunge. ![]() I’ve generally been mistrusting of this type of book, feeling they often lack the depth of other books. Having recently replayed all of the Bioshock games (including the DLCs I never played before), Amazon recommended me this – an official novelisation of the early years of the city where the first two games (and both DLCs) are based. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mounk provides an equally disturbing account of the decline of liberal democracy, but he traces the source of the crisis to the West itself. What political and ideological tools can the liberal democratic world use to resist the politics of eternity? ![]() What is missing is a sense of what stands in oppo-sition to this illiberal onslaught. Snyder’s lyrical prose gives the book its emotional power. Snyder argues that this “politics of inevitability” has collapsed, opening the door to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “politics of eternity,” a project in which illiberal states perpetuate themselves by manufacturing enemies, stoking grievances, manipulating the truth, and undermining foreign countries that offer alternative ideals to their citizens. The West’s grand vision is built on Enlightenment ideas and a belief in the inevitable spread of liberal democracy. For Snyder, the primary threat comes from Russia’s ideological challenge to the West. ![]() In his new work, Snyder argues that fascism and authoritarianism have returned in new and subtler guises. In an earlier book, Bloodlands, Snyder told the story of Nazi and Soviet genocidal violence in eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. Of all the books that seek to explain the current crisis of Western liberal democracy, none is more eloquent or more frightening than Snyder’s The Road to Unfreedom. ![]() ![]() Just when Gia begins to wonder if she could turn her fake boyfriend into a real one, Bradley comes waltzing back into her life, exposing her lie, and threatening to destroy her friendships and her new-found relationship. Gia owes him a favour and his sister intends to see that he collects: his ex-girlfriend’s graduation party-three hours, zero commitment, a few white lies. But tracking him down doesn’t mean they’re done faking a relationship. The one whose name she doesn’t even know. The problem is that days after prom, it’s not the real Bradley she’s thinking about, but the stand-in. After that, she can win back the real Bradley. The task is simple: be her fill-in boyfriend-two hours, zero commitment, a few white lies. So when she sees a cute guy waiting to pick up his sister, she enlists his help. ![]() ![]() This was supposed to be the night she proved he existed. After all, she’d been telling her friends about him for months now. When Gia Montgomery’s boyfriend, Bradley, dumps her in the parking lot of her high school prom, she has to think fast. Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Favourites, ChickLit. ![]() ![]() ![]() New activities and web resources offer more depth and new ways for students to extend their knowledge. These chapters focusing on decolonizing, indigenizing, and integrating these methods and applications to enhance participation of indigenous peoples as knowers and foster collaborative relationships.Īdditional information on indigenous quantitative research reflects new developments in the field. ![]() New to the second edition are three new chapters covering evaluation, mixed methods, and mixed methods evaluation. Addressing the increasing emphasis in the classroom and in the field to sensitize researchers and students to diverse perspectives-especially those of women, minority groups, former colonized societies, indigenous people, historically oppressed communities, and people with disabilities-the second edition of Indigenous Research Methodologies situates research in a larger, historical, cultural, and global context to make visible the specific methodologies that are commensurate with the transformative paradigm of social science research.Ĭhapters cover the history of research methods, ethical conduct, colonial and postcolonial epistemologies, relational epistemologies, emergent and indigenous methodologies, Afrocentric research, feminist research, narrative frameworks, interviewing, and participatory methods. ![]() Author Bagele Chilisa has revised and updated her groundbreaking textbook to give a new generation of scholars a crucial foundation in indigenous methods, methodologies, and epistemologies. ![]() |