![]() They must rid themselves of their dangerous magic before returning purified and ready to marry - if they're lucky. Tierney James lives in an isolated village where girls are banished at sixteen to the northern forest to brave the wilderness - and each other - for a year. That's why we're banished for our sixteenth year, to release our magic into the wild before we're allowed to return to civilisation. We're told we have the power to lure grown men from their beds, make boys lose their minds, and drive the wives mad with jealousy. ![]() 'An incredibly important and empowering read' Natasha Ngan ![]() a remarkable and timely story of the bonds between women' Sabaa Tahir ![]() seethes with love and brutality, violence and hope. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo '. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He writes about his years at the Sun-Times, his colorful newspaper friends, and his life-changing collaboration with Gene Siskel. In this candid, personal history, Ebert chronicles it all: his loves, losses, and obsessions his struggle and recovery from alcoholism his marriage his politics and his spiritual beliefs. It is a journey that began as a reporter for his local daily, and took him to Chicago, where he was unexpectedly given the job of film critic for the Sun-Times, launching a lifetime's adventures. ![]() Roger Ebert's journalism carried him on a path far from his nearly idyllic childhood in Urbana, Illinois. And now, for the first time, he tells the full, dramatic story of his life and career. But with the loss of his voice, Ebert has only become a more prolific and influential writer. In 2006, complications from thyroid cancer treatment resulted in the loss of his ability to eat, drink, or speak. He has appeared on television for four decades, including twenty-three years as cohost of Siskel & Ebert at the Movies. He has been reviewing films for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and was the first film critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize. Roger Ebert is the best-known film critic of our time. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hank’s had a thing for Olive for as long as he could remember. But when Hank finds out about her secret career, how could she turn down the offer for a hands-on research partner for her books? Now Olive has to deal with the guy that’s teased her their entire life. ![]() Then her best friend and roommate announced she’s moving out, and her older brother was moving in. She’s worked hard to achieve a zero-human interaction life and wants to keep it that way. Olive’s content living her anti-social existence, letting the characters she writes about fulfill her wild side. ![]() From USA Today bestselling author Molly O’Hare comes an enemies-to-lovers, older brother’s best friend, romantic comedy with a curvy, anti-social, supernatural-obsessed, all-year-round holiday-loving, secret romance author, and a hunky firefighter who is more than willing to be her new research partner. ![]() ![]() The Doctors Blackwell is an easy read about the Blackwell sisters’ lives and journeys. The journey of Elizabeth’s younger sister Emily Blackwell, who became the third woman in the United States to obtain an MD degree (in 1854), is also covered, since Emily’s career choice was largely due to Elizabeth’s influence and her life closely bound with Elizabeth’s. ![]() 3 Given the steady growth in female physicians in the United States since the 1970s and the more readily visible presence of women in medical education and the physician workforce today, it was with interest that I read The Doctors Blackwell, a biography of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive an MD degree in the United States - in 1849. medical schools in 2020–2021 (48,530 women out of 94,243 total students) and 50% of graduates of U.S. 2 The numbers for medical students and graduates fare better, with women accounting for 51% of students in U.S. ![]() Today, women account for 36% of all licensed physicians in the United States (369,139 women out of a total physician workforce of 1,018,776). ![]() ![]() And be warned, if you make to the end of this one, you'll pretty much have to read the rest. And then there are the three remaining volumes staring me in the face. Her student/sidekick, a bushman, provides an interesting counterpoint to the high tech world they work in (literally!) I like the book. The story takes place towards the end of this century (mostly?), shifting back and forth between RL and VR ( real life and virtual reality.) The main character is a female South African computer teacher, a sort of cyber detective. I knew right then that I was probably going to give it a pretty high rating. This has to be one of the oddest opening sequences ever written. I almost quit right there, but fortunately I hung in for a few more minutes and the narrative took a turn for the truly bizarre. Oh no, says I, no way I'm listening to another WWI trench warfare book. WAIT! Don't give up too soon! The City of Golden Shadow opens with trench warfare. ![]() ![]() ![]() The layers of ocean life and the benign Black Rock are beautifully rendered in this wonderfully tactile hardback, while the gently delivered environmental message adds a welcome real-life depth to the modern mythic tale.Īn original picture book story that is superbly illustrated from cover to cover, Joe Todd-Stanton's "The Secret of Black Rock" is a compelling and entertaining read for children ages 5 to 8, making it an extraordinary and highly recommended addition to family, elementary school, and community library collections. A young artist to watch.Ī fairytale world is created that should enchant children as much as the old-fashioned illustrations that fit the story perfectly. The gentle environmental message takes on a kind of magic in Todd-Stanton’s pictures of Erin suspended in the ocean among incandescent jellyfish or facing down a monstrous, weaponised fishing fleet in the moonlight. The illustrations are dazzling and vibrantly hued, the rich palette just right for the resplendent undersea scenes that adroitly float young readers’ sense of magic just under the surface of the mundane. ![]() However, he deftly infuses his narrative with quiet depth, including a positive ecological slant in which nature wins over machines, and portrays Erin’s single mother succeeding in a typically male-dominated profession. ![]() ![]() Todd-Stanton’s tale is, at first glance, a deceptively simple tale of acceptance and bravery. ![]() ![]() Frank describes “drivers” within an organization as those who make a significant impact and move the company forward in a way that the “passengers” do not. ![]() Most founders assume that a bad salesperson is to blame if sales are not where they’d like them to be, when the problem really lies with the product itself.Īll organizations have asymmetry when it comes to their workforce. If you’re struggling with product-market fit, you should take a harder look at the product, not those selling it. Once you master execution, your strategic problems will begin to reveal themselves and you can get to work on fixing them.Ī common mistake made by early-stage foundersĪ lack of intellectual honesty about what you’re building and the problems you’re facing can be very detrimental to an early-stage company. Strategy is incredibly important while running a company, but from Frank’s experience, leaders who over-index on strategy without that same momentum behind execution will have a hard time getting to the root of their company’s problems. In Frank’s opinion, leaders are obligated to raise the standards and intensity of work within their organization and transform this slack into a high-performing culture. Back in 2018, Frank penned an article about how large organizations, generally speaking, have a huge amount of slack. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eventually, with the help of some friendly aliens, she learns what she has to do. Much of the book's action involves her frustrating attempts to communicate by picking out syllables on a com-pad. Liddi comes from a world where voice-activated machines are the norm, so she does not know how to read or write. A young man named Tiav is willing to help, but communication is a problem. She escapes to an uncharted planet where she must convince the inhabitants that she does not mean them harm, while trying to rescue her brothers. But an evil company employee traps her eight older brothers-inventors working for JTI-in the conduits and implants a device in Liddi's throat that will kill them if she speaks. Gr 7 Up-Sixteen-year-old Liddi has grown up in the media spotlight as heir to Jantzen Technology Innovations, the corporation that invented most of the high-tech advancements in use on her planet and six others connected by transportation conduits. ![]() ![]() Miller is white and straight and into sailing - but he’s also into Wallace. There are at least two gay couples, a straight couple, a nastily effete European and a couple of dudes. His friends are mostly colleagues: Like innumerable grad students, they gather on evenings and weekends to drink, vape, eat and talk. The novel begins just weeks after he learned of his father’s death, as he struggles to share the news with colleagues and friends. When Wallace was in middle school in Alabama, his father left the family, relocating five minutes away but never contacting them again. He studies a type of worm called nematodes - unimportant creatures, except for the data they can provide to the head of the lab, an imperious woman named Simone who mistakes Wallace’s flat affect for indifference, though it really stems from trauma. Wallace is a graduate student at an unnamed large Midwestern university (Taylor holds a degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison). ![]() ![]() This transference of affect telegraphs Wallace’s shame over his past, even as he puzzles over what future he might have. ![]() “ Giovanni’s Room,” James Baldwin’s great novel of desire, identity and alienation, echoes meaningfully throughout “Real Life,” not simply because one character grapples with bisexuality but because Taylor takes that store clerk’s flat tone of voice and gives it to his protagonist, Wallace. ![]() ![]() A pacey and addictive novel of sexy bounty-hunting witches, cunning demons and menacing vampires Bargaining with demons has left Rachel Morgan in constant danger of losing her soul. They are searching for something they believe Rachel to possess – a danger that Rachel thought was well hidden and secret.īut when the human morgue starts to fill up with partially-turned lupine women who have been brutally murdered, Rachel realises that someone else knows the Focus still exists and that she may have been betrayed. After vampiric crime boss Piscary and villainous councilman Trent Kalamack learn about a demon-crafted artifact in Morgans possession, she becomes the. The fifth book in Harrison’s New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series starring Rachel Morgan. ![]() ![]() Bargaining with demons has left Rachel Morgan in constant danger of losing her soul.Īs if being famous in the underworld – for all the wrong reasons – and sharing her home with a vampire and her jealous girlfriend didn't make her vulnerable enough, one night Rachel finds demons ransacking her home with no fear of sanctified ground. ![]() |