![]() ![]() Their greatest hopes rested on me, because I was a boy. Read as part of the Our Shared Shelf March pick. The perfect book to read over World Book Day and International Women’s Day □□□ I do, however, believe in dangerous stories. But when things go terribly wrong, she must find the truth within herself in order to stop the violence and discover what it really means to grow up and find your family. When one of their number is brutally murdered, the protagonist joins her sisters in forming a vigilante gang to fight back against the transphobes, violent johns, and cops that stalk the Street of Miracles. Under the wings of this fierce and fabulous flock, Dearly blossoms into the woman she has always dreamed of being, with a little help from the unscrupulous Doctor Crocodile. ![]() ![]() Striking off on her own, she finds her true family in a group of larger-than-life trans femmes who live in a mysterious pleasure district known only as the Street of Miracles. ![]() Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is the highly sensational, ultra-exciting, sort-of true coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl, pathological liar, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents’ abusive home in a rainy city called Gloom. ![]()
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![]() The pair also wrote A Stranger At Home, When I Was Eight and Not My Girl, introducing many young readers to the horrors of residential schools. It was this experience that inspired her bestselling picture book Fatty Legs: A True Story, which was co-written with her daughter-in-law, Christy Jordan-Fenton. She had a strong desire to learn how to read and begged to go to the school, despite its horrific reputation. She spent her early years on Banks Island going on hunting trips by dogsled and taking dangerous treks across the Arctic Ocean.Īt the age of eight, she travelled to Aklavik, a fur trading settlement founded by her great-grandfather, to attend the Catholic residential school there. Pokiak-Fenton was born on Holman Island in the Arctic Ocean in a nomadic family. ![]() ![]() Pokiak-Fenton's publisher Annick Press shared the news of her death on June 2, 2021. Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, the Inuvialuit knowledge keeper, residential school survivor and co-author of bestselling book Fatty Legs: A True Story, is dead at 84. ![]() ![]() ![]() She discovers that their castle is incased in a bubble with no way in or out. Cimorene and Morwen along with a few other friends hunt for the sword but by the time they find it, Cimorene can no longer reach Mendanbar. Morwen discovers that the wizards have stolen Mendanbar's sword, which kept them from stealing the Enchanted Forest's magic. Once they rescue Kazul, Cimorene and Mendanbar gets married. She meets the King of the Enchanted Forest, Mendanbar and goes on adventures with him while looking for Kazul who is now the King of the dragons and has been captured by the evil wizards. ![]() ![]() With the help of her friends she exposes and foils the wizards evil plans. When she discovers a plot by the wizards to take control of the Dragons. With the help of another princess she starts to learn magic. When she finds them she goes to work for the dragon Kazul. Being a Princess is boring!Īfter talking it over with a frog she leaves home to look for dragons. ![]() It is the story of an unconventional princess, Cimorene who wants to have adventures and all of the other fun stuff that Princesses aren't suppose to do. Wrede has hinted at a fifth book in the series. Talking to Dragons was actually first published in 1985, and then reprinted with tie-ins to the rest of the series as the last book. The series currently contains four books: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles (EFC) were written by Patricia C. ![]() ![]() Grace doesn’t remember some recent events prior to her waking up – all she recalls is throwing herself in front of Jaxon to save him from Hudson. The second book, “Crush,” begins with Grace waking up from a long slumber, but she wasn’t greeted by her handsome vampire prince Jaxon. Jaxon is also a prince, who has a dark secret that involves his older brother Hudson. ![]() Not only does she discover that her cousin is a witch, but her relationship with the mysterious and very attractive Jaxon Vega leads her to discover that she’s fallen hard for a vampire, who is convinced that she is his mate and that the two have an unbreakable bond. Grace soon finds out that the school is designed for supernatural students. Grace’s uncle is the headmaster of Katmere and her cousin Macy is a student. Grace is forced to move from California to Alaska to attend the Katmere Academy boarding school after her parents are tragically killed. The first book in the series, “Crave,” is told from the point of view of 17-year-old Grace. ![]() With an intriguing storyline and a set of powerful supernatural characters to root for, this series is a must-read. “Crush” is the second book of the series and there is no way to prepare for the bombshells that Wolff drops throughout the novel’s 704 pages. ![]() If you haven’t checked out Tracy Wolff’s fictional series “Crave,” then this is your sign. ![]() ![]() This story didn’t take long at all to dive into the steamy bits and from what I can tell so far it might just tip the scales in the sexy department.Īs the COO of the Seven Sinners Distillery, Temperance Ransom is Keira Kilgore’s trusted second in command and friend. ![]() It is a standalone series but you may want to read the Mount Trilogy because it will give you a better sense of the kind of environment the main characters come from and it was a super sexy and action-packed thrill ride. SAVAGE PRINCE is book one of a spin-off trilogy of the ”Mount” series. My rational brain tells me I can’t keep doing this. ![]() But even that doesn’t curb my growing addiction. I don’t know anything about him except he’s dangerous. ![]() Savage Prince is book one of the Savage Trilogy, set in the same world as Ruthless King, however you do not need to read the Mount Trilogy to devour this scandalously hot new trilogy. I’ll have her my way, even if it means dragging her into the darkness. My lifestyle suits the savage I am, and she doesn’t.īut Temperance Ransom is my newest addiction, and I’m nowhere near ready to quit her yet. I knew I shouldn’t touch her, but it didn’t stop me.ĭidn’t stop me the second time either. ![]() I don’t follow anyone’s rules-even my own. Who knew things could get even darker and dirtier in New Orleans? New York Times bestselling author Meghan March introduces the Savage Prince of the city, the man you never want to meet. ![]() ![]() What if, we have been trapped by what we fear? ![]() What if, nameless and hidden from our view, it still controls the world?Ī world, which seems to be quickly changing, into a bad place for people everywhere. ![]() It's this, our rightful fear of its totalizing powers, that made us banish Utopia. And with time it kind of almost became unthinkable.īut what if, being unable to think it, has also made us blind to see it, to recognize Utopia? It's either ridiculous or will lead to the horrors of Stalinism and Nazi Germany. If we think about Utopia, we think about it only in negative terms. Yet, today a lot of people believe, even if maybe naïve and useless, that such imaginary exploration of difference, if taken seriously, will always and inevitably lead to disaster. And if one thinks about it like this, it doesn't sound very alarming, more like a rather harmless exercise of the imagination, a thought experiment. ![]() Utopia by definition is a 'good place that is no place'. I stole this from recent panel called Apocalypse Buffering 1., but thought I change it just a little bit.īecause I'm here to talk to you about Utopia, not so much as science fiction, but as a thinking tool that can be used by anyone, and that I hope will help us get our future back. ![]() ![]() ![]() She mocks the well-established notion of "little invisible pathogens, you know, that randomly jump around from person to person". Alternative medicine controversiesīrogan promotes the belief that human diseases are caused not by infectious agents, but rather by psychological factors. īrogan wrote about health on Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop retail website and was featured on expert panels at several Goop events. She no longer claims to be certified in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine on her website. Heimlich stated that she appears not to have maintained certification with the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, according to the association's database. īrogan maintained a psychiatry practice in Manhattan from 2009 to 2019, specializing in helping people wean themselves off medication. She uses the title of "holistic psychiatrist". Background and credentialsīrogan graduated from Cornell University Medical College, and has a B.S. Kelly Brogan is an American author of books on alternative medicine who has promoted conspiracy theories and misinformation about discredited medical hypotheses. ![]() ![]() ![]() There were also many pirates on the Caribbean coast here. Sara: Colombia is the land of magical realism, and here we have many stories of mythical beasts, some that transform from marine to human form. The original Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen was dark anyway – the mermaid dies in the end – and I took a few bits from Disney too. I wanted a tale with a woman having her own ambition, her own drive. What inspired such a twisted tale?Īlexandra: I wanted to re-imagine the old fairy tales, where female characters were victims of the plot and even if it was their story, a man was pushing it forward. ![]() At first glance, with a siren (Lira) as the lead character, it’s like the Little Mermaid. ![]() Sara: To Kill a Kingdom has deadly sirens, swashbuckling seafarers, and mythical lands. Our cub reporter Sara Hide – 12 years old and a huge fan of the fantasy novel – caught up with the author at FILBo this week. It’s only her first book, but already Alexandra Christo’s To Kill a Kingdom is flying off shelves worldwide, and a Spanish-language version is making waves in Bogotá. ‘Sometimes I would get so tired and absent-minded I’d cut myself cooking. ![]() Interviewer Sara Hide poses with the author of one her favourite books. ![]() ![]() The reason for the efforts begin to be dubious & manufactured. After so many & the associated angst I grew tired. Very much like a fable, the story seemed to have a specific goal of change for 1 of them & then focused on it in multiple ways to affect the change. ![]() And later there's cunnilingus 2x near the end. Almost 4 hrs into the story there's minor touching five hrs in there's breast touching. Instead it was referenced by words like "curls" or "being parted. The bit more because the f-word is used twice, though not during any act. The writing is good but just a little bit more than a YA bedtime story most of the story. And the ways the Beauty gets Beast to act differently in spite of his sexual desire, has been done plenty, ways like getting him to laugh, have fun or treating him better than others in just humane ways. There is NO sex during the vast majority of the story but some innuendos, nakedness, primarily flimsy seduction of Beauty, her flirting & tempting Beast w/ no fulfillment (until almost the end). ![]() This book was a little more than the development of trust & friendship between a kind hearted human female & a male ogre-like man in beast form. ![]() ![]() With just two main characters, one storyline, and everything squeezed into a 24-hour time frame, his lean tale of philosophical serial killer Edgler Vess and Chyna Shepherd-the young woman who courageously steps into his blood-spattered path to save a teenage girl-was a short, sharp little switchblade of a story. Like a master carver, Dean Koontz meticulously sliced away everything that wasn’t essential on his 1995 novel Intensity, ending up with a tidy, 300-page knockout of a horrific suspense yarn. Here’s a shortened version of the story that ran in the September 1997 issue of Fango, the one with Spawn on the cover. Normally I wouldn’t give a rat’s ass about a FOX-TV miniseries, but this one was based on a novel I really loved by Dean Koontz, so I was in. Back in ’97 I got assigned by Fangoria magazine to cover the filming of a FOX-TV miniseries called Intensity. ![]() |