You are cordially invited to the wedding of the decade, when Christian Grey will make Anastasia Steele his wife. But is he really husband material? His dad is unsure, his brother wants to organize one helluva bachelor party, and his fiancée won’t vow to obey… Their passion for each other burns hotter than ever, but Ana’s defiant spirit continues to stir Christian’s darkest fears and tests his need for control....
Joey Green has returned to Beaufort, South Carolina to look after his ailing father, who is succumbing to dementia. Marshall Green’s short-term memory has all but evaporated, but his oldest memories are vivid. His mind keeps retreating into long-ago yesterdays of growing up in Beaufort as a boy, but Joey grows increasingly anxious as his father’s hallucinatory arguments with figures from his youth begin to hint at deadly secrets, long buried and forgotten....
Gotham City is torn apart by the war between Batman and the Joker. Ready to take it to the next level, The Joker recruits the flaming sword-wielding knight Azrael to create their version of heaven on Earth while exposing hidden Wayne family secrets. Batman and his estranged allies can stop them—but the distrust between them runs deep. Sean Murphy reimagines the Batman mythos in Batman: Curse of the White Knight....
Today busyness has become a badge of honor. We want to say we’re busy, yet at the same time we feel exhausted. Instead, we should start taking rest seriously as a method of self-care and this book can help us to work out how. The Art of Rest draws on ground-breaking research Claudia Hammond collaborated on — ‘The Rest Test’: the largest global survey into rest ever undertaken. Counting down through the top ten activities which people find most restful, Hammond explains why rest matters, what really works, and offers a roadmap for a new, more restful, and balanced life....
In Lobizona, bestselling author Romina Garber weaves together Argentine folklore and what it means to be illegal “in a timely tale of identity and adventure that every teenager should read” (Tomi Adeyemi, bestselling author of Children of Blood and Bone). at Brightly: Ain’t Nothing But a Family Thing: Books About All Kinds of Families at BuzzFeed: 25 Magnificent Middle Grade Novels To Get Your Hands On ASAP at Crime Reads: 8 Mystery Novels Featuring Collections at Electric Lit: What to Read to Get Ready for the Queer Black Revolution at Epic Reads: 16 Books With the Summer Vibe We’re Missing at Get Literary: Love, Victor TBR List: 4 LGBTQ Romances to Make You Swoon at Mental Floss: 9 Books That Predicted the Future at POPSUGAR: 10 New Thrillers That Will Keep You Awake During Hot August Nights at Riveted Lit: Books to Read if You Absolutely Love Taylor Swift’s Folklore at Shondaland: 10 Books About Book Lovers For National Book Lovers Day at Tor....
From Ellen Oh, co-founder of We Need Diverse Books, comes a gripping story inspired by her mother’s real-life experiences during the Korean War. Junie Kim just wants to fit in, but when racist graffiti appears at her middle school, she must decide between staying silent or speaking out. Then Junie’s history teacher assigns a project and Junie decides to interview her grandparents, learning about their unbelievable experiences as kids during the Korean War....
Of course, the first and most important board book that I could suggest has to be The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. It’s the perfect book on the subject: the colors are vivid (because a snowy day doesn’t have to be gray), the story is quiet (because snow makes everything sound like a whisper) and the text is simple (because wonder doesn’t have to be complicated). The Snowy Day was published in 1976, but Keats found his first piece of inspiration for the book in 1940....
The experiences that lead to trauma can also be hugely diverse. Some people have trauma from one specific, extreme incident, while others are traumatised by thousands of seemingly smaller, but still affecting, events over a course of time. Marginalised people will often experience systemic trauma, as a result of a lifetime of engaging with systems that treat them as Other; for example, a Black person can be traumatised after many years of racist microaggressions, even if they have not experienced a singular extreme event....
9 Books About Roommates Fishbowl by Sarah Mlynowski When I decided I wanted to do a list of books about roommates, I knew I had to include Fishbowl, which is a clever little novel about three young women who set their apartment on fire. Now too much money in the hole, the roommates devise a plan to make the cash they need to fix up their space. With a scheme to teach dating advice, Allison, Jodine, and Emma may not know it, but there’s a pair of watchful eyes on them and giving readers an insight to their lives—but who is it?...
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The titles, which Gaiter found on an online list of books being challenged in public school libraries elsewhere, include The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, and Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James. She said that by carrying these books, “The library is not being inclusive of my Christian ethics” and that the library shouldn’t “endorse children to read pornography without a parent’s permission....
In fact, his father helped pioneer the practice among business people. According to former Trump executive Jack O’Donnell in his 1991 book Trumped, the Trump organization purchased tens of thousands of copies of the Art of the Deal upon its release in 1987. They put copies of the book on pillows during turn-down service. He also pressured his executives to buy 4,000 or more copies of the book each. Though Trump helped to bring the idea mainstream, he was following in some authors’ footsteps from a decade earlier....
So reads the Mission Statement of Lambda Literary, the parent group of the Lambda Literary Awards. Are they upholding those values in their literary awards? I’ll take a look back to the origins of the awards, the judging process, and the main controversies that have come up over the years to let you decide for yourself. AIDS Literature Gay Debut Fiction Gay Fiction Gay Mystery/Science Fiction Gay Nonfiction Gay Small Press Lesbian Debut Fiction Lesbian Fiction Lesbian Mystery/Science Fiction Lesbian Nonfiction Lesbian Small Press Poetry...
When you follow something so avidly for more than half your life, and there’s constant chatter about adaptations for film and tv that never come to pass, you start to think it will never really happen. But here we are, sixteen years since I picked up The Eye of the World, and there’s a trailer. A real, two minutes plus trailer. You simply must watch it. I’ll wait— and squee— while you do....
That said, there are some trends in the media that I don’t see slowing down anytime soon and some trends I hope to see get even bigger in the next few years, so I’m going to go on record in officially guessing what we’ll see more of soon and why. But what’s next? While I don’t think we’ll see a slowdown of this genre soon, I do think the adaptations will start looking in more niche spaces....
Born to Italian parents on April 25, 1927, in Fismes, France, Uderzo was recognized for his artistic skills early on. He was more interested in becoming a clown, or an aircraft engineer like his brother Bruno. When he was around 11 years old, it was discovered that he was colorblind. This did not affect his art much; he simply labeled his colors. In 1940 at the age of 13, Uderzo finished his basic education and joined his brother Bruno in aircraft engineering to help with the war effort....
Please understand, dear reader, that these rankings are scientific and, as it says in the title, not at all biased. I should also say that this list isn’t as diverse as I would like, but that will hopefully change in the future. And there you have it: a surprise ending (but not as surprising as Lizzie Bennet practicing archery, Aldous). No portrayal of Mister Fitzwilliam Darcy can earn a full 30 points because none of them will ever measure up to the Mr....
Romance Booktok in particular has become really big over the past few months. The genre has seen a huge boost in interest and sales largely because of BookTok. If you’ve been to a Barnes & Noble recently, you’ve seen a table full of “As seen on BookTok” books. There’s no denying that Tiktok provided the perfect platform for readers to share their favorites and that it is having a vast impact on the industry....
My journey into yoga did not begin with books but with videos, and specifically Jillian Michaels Power Yoga. It was a fine place to begin the physical practice, but it did not give me the tools I needed to understand the greater context of yoga. The best yoga books for beginners, unlike that video or the myriad other videos out there—some of which are outstanding!—root the practice in its historical context....
