![]() This story is so full of action and suspense that you are completely enthralled in the plot!!! What Magnolia is going through is scary and you want her to come out in too in the end. Magnolia!!! I know Moses from Meghans series Legend and wasn’t a fan but I am swaying to him now as he wants to protect his girl Magnolia any way he can. Now she wants out and to start fresh when her one weakness reappears in her life after 15 years!!! Moses is back and he only wants one thing. ![]() ![]() Creole Kingpin by Meghan March is absolutely incredible with her most fierce and sexy heroine yet!!! Magnolia Maison is truly a bada** and she knows it!!!! She took herself from nothing and working in the streets to being a madam and highly respected one at that!! She treats her girls right and takes care of them which is incredible. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Faderman’s immense cultural history will give today’s LGBTQ activists both a profound appreciation of their forebears and the motivation to carry the struggle forward. ![]() ![]() First-person accounts from over 100 interviews conducted as original research for the book punctuate this extraordinary story. Faderman depicts the struggle as a conflict between “suits and streets,” offering balanced coverage of both meticulous lobbying from the government, military, and professional organizations such as the American Psychological Association, and the rapid changes wrought by historical radicalizations such as the Stonewall riots, the Harvey Milk riots, and the aggressive medical activism of ACT UP. Lillian Faderman (Goodreads Author) 4. Great Events from History: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Events, 1848-2006, V.1. She digs deep into media and legislative archives to construct a comprehensive narrative, beginning in the 1950s with the scapegoating of homosexuals under “vag-lewds” law and the first formulation of homosexuals as a minority group, and continuing to the current and recent legal fights around the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), hate crime legislation, and marriage equality. Lillian Faderman, author of 'The Gay Revolution,' recounts five key moments in the LGBT civil rights movement. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Faderman ( Naked in the Promised Land), a scholar of lesbian history and literature, renders the slow transformation of culture into a sweeping narrative of the American struggle for gay and lesbian civil rights. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now he faces the greatest challenge of his life. Yet when he meets Ophelia again, the duke realises that he will marry her, or no one. She takes one look at him and heads for her carriage.ĭesperate to find a duchess, Hugo identifies an appropriate lady to woo. Hugo takes one look at Ophelia and loses his heart, but she doesn't want more children or a castle. ![]() Ophelia, Lady Astley, has a fine house, one well-behaved daughter - and no husband. Hugo Wilde, the Duke of Lindow, has a drafty castle, eight naughty children - and no wife. New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James returns to the Wildes series with a prequel about the Wilde children's parents, Hugo, Duke of Lindow, and Ophelia, Lady Astley. 'Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than Eloisa James' Julia Quinn New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James returns to the Wildes series with a prequel novella about the Wilde children's parents, Hugo, Duke of Lindow, and Ophelia, Lady Astley. ![]() ![]() The weather is closing in with heavy snow falling and there is a murder. I was hooked and this is a story based at a Hunting Lodge on The Loch Corrin Estate in the Highlands of Scotland a group of friends who have known each other for many years gather again to bring in the New Year Hogmanay style. It screamed Agatha Christie very quickly into the book. The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley was my first read fiction read that I started on New Years Day and it was the perfect read for the time of year. Not an accident – a murder among friends. In a remote hunting lodge, deep in the Scottish wilderness, old friends gather for New Year. ![]() The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley (Harper Collins) Summary: So many books could have made the list that I had trouble just choosing the top ten. Two books that really made my year and really got my attention. ![]() This year I am going to do something a little different rather than just select my favourites I am going to simply select my best fiction and non-fiction. ![]() Fiction and Non-Fiction Books of the Year 2019Īs the old year comes to a close it is time to look back at the books I have read and loved through the year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For queer readers, the book’s disjointed structure and indefinable genre were immediately recognizable as reflections of our own experience.įor queer readers, the book’s disjointed structure and indefinable genre were immediately recognizable as reflections of our own experience. Bluets quickly rose into a prominent position as a queer cult classic despite its heterosexual gaze, perhaps because of its fragmented form. But I wasn’t the only queer reader to understand Bluets as queer - not the story, perhaps, but the book itself. The way the book is constructed, it feels as if the reader has control over who the “you” is, and I felt deceived when I came to understand that the departed lover was male - that, in other words, it was about a heterosexual relationship. When I read Maggie Nelson’s memoir-in-fragments, Bluets, for the first time, I felt like someone had taken my singular experience of heartbreak and exposed it to the world - that is, until I realized it was written about a man. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work. ![]() ![]() ![]() 1 reconsideration request.Įditorial: Banning books has nothing to do with liberty Jennifer DeShazo, public information director for the Martin County School District, said Wednesday that Patterson’s "Maximum Ride" series was removed from the district's elementary school libraries after a Feb. ![]() Honestly, who would want Maximum Ride banned from schools? On what possible grounds? What do the majority of parents in Martin County think of this arbitrary and borderline absurd decision?" ![]() Ron DeSantis: "The Maximum Ride series was recently banned by the Martin County Florida School District. Patterson, who lives in Palm Beach County and owns a home in Martin County - asked his followers to "send a polite note" to Gov. Patterson - who had bestsellers eventually made into blockbuster movies such as "Along Came a Spider" and is known for the Alex Cross and Women's Murder Club series - took to Twitter on Monday after learning his "Maximum Ride" young-adult book series was removed from Martin County school library shelves. ![]() Books written by Picoult - including "My Sister's Keeper," "Lone Wolf," "House Rules" and "Keeping Faith" - also were removed from high schools after objections that they were romance novels for adults, not children, according to district records. Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" and "Beloved" had been on high school shelves. ![]() ![]() uncovers a journal detailing the last case his late father worked on-and stumbles upon a startling truth: His father is still alive. There's a reason they coin a phrase, “you can't go home.” Welcome to Killadelphia. Killadelphia Volume 1: Sins of the Father, written by Rodney Barnes, illustrated by Jason Shawn Alexander, colored by Luis NCT, and lettered by Marshall Dillon, is published by Image Comics. The city that was once the symbol of liberty and freedom has fallen prey to corruption, poverty, unemployment, brutality.īut the mystery goes even further when Jimmy's investigation leads him to uncover the source of the outbreak is long-thought dead President of the United States John Adams-a man secretly biding his time as he builds an undead army to start a new and bloodier American revolution. ![]() When a small town beat cop comes home to bury his murdered father-the revered Philadelphia detective James Sangster Sr.-he begins to unravel a mystery that leads him down a path of horrors and shakes his beliefs to their core. ![]() Featuring the show-stopping talents of Spawn series artist JASON SHAWN ALEXANDER, and the writer behind such hit shows as Wu-Tang: An American Saga, Marvel's Runaways, and Starz's American Gods-RODNEY BARNES. ![]() ![]() ![]() Carey is a loon from down under, a mad max who drives language and plot straight through the great barrier reef of the commonplace. It is a rudely brilliant, infuriatingly beautiful, belligerently profane work of art.” Carey has produced a humane, gloriously Australian book of grand passion, bad breath and high mischief. Theft is a novel that will get right up your nose. “The work of a novelist willing his way into greatness minute by gritty minute.” ![]() Carey’s book is afire with passion, both love and loathing.” ![]() Theft is a virtuoso inauguration, not to mention a great first date.” If you haven’t already, you might want to introduce yourself to Peter Carey. “Opening a Peter Carey novel is a little like being seduced. It’s not just the story, which is a roller coaster, or the characters, each of whom is so memorable, but the sheer physicality of Carey’s writing that makes Theft so good. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() No part of this book may be produced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including copying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without express permission from the author. Īnd which of them is really the Dark Prince. ![]() With two powerful men vying for her attention and their friendship stretched to breaking point, Océane must decide whom to trust. But the discovery also inspires Océane to create an extraordinary piece of art that cannot be confined to the pages of a book. A jewelled dagger put on display at a nearby museum hits the headlines with speculation of another race, the Fae. Océane DeBeauvoir is an artist and bookbinder who has always relied on her lively imagination to get her through an unhappy and uneventful life. With a love for the human world that runs deep, his relationship with Laen is being torn apart by his friend's prejudices. His golden eyes are rumoured to be a gift from the gods, and destiny is calling him. When he is sent back through the forbidden gates between realms to retrieve an ancient Fae artifact, he returns home with far more than he bargained for.Ĭorin Albrecht, the most powerful Elven Prince ever born. Laen Braed is Prince of the Dark Fae, with a temper and reputation to match his black eyes, and a heart that despises the human race. And a world ready to tear them all apart. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At last Arthur encounters the man himself, in a dingy café… Here he meets the femme fatale Betty May, who blames Crowley for the death of her husband, and tells fantastic tales of satanism in Sicily. In London, Arthur graduates towards the epicentre of Bohemian literary life in the pubs of Fitzrovia. When Arthur goes up to Oxford Vicky Bird connects him with circles who dabble in the supernatural. He is haunted by some romantic tragedy in his past, in which Crowley may be implicated. The title needs to be taken quite literally as much of the narrative revolves around the shadowy figure of occultist Aleister Crowley, at the height of his dubious powers during this era.Īs boys growing up in a small country town Arthur and his brother befriend an eccentric poet, whom they dub Vicky Bird – in fact a fairly well-known literary figure called Victor Neuberg. A charming, quirky memoir from British author Arthur Calder-Marshall, recalling his youth in 1920s England. ![]() |