![]() The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune This is a feel-good summer book about friendship, relationships, and community. ![]() But Codi doesn’t tell Maritza and JaKory about any of it. Ricky is also gay, and they strike up a friendship that surprises and delights Codi, especially when he introduces her to his own friend group and she finds acceptance and a new crush. ![]() All three of them are queer, and are itching for romance and adventures, but Codi isn’t quite brave enough to go with Maritza and JaKory to a stranger’s party…but then she ends up showing up late to bail out her drunk friends, and meets Ricky. LGBT YA books in particular have been delivering cute, heartwarming, and funny queer stories for a few years, and we’re happy to showcase a variety of recent and upcoming cute LGBT books that will make you happy! Late to the Party by Kelly QuindlenĬodi Teller is looking forward to a summer with her best friends Maritza and JaKory. Luckily for us, there are so many cute LGBT books on shelves now that readers have more options. ![]() ![]() Those stories are very important, but the emotional weight can take a toll, too. For so long, whenever books starring queer characters were published, they were often focused on queer suffering or complicated coming out narratives. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In the third installment of the acclaimed series, the Sattouf family begins to implode under the pressure of Hafez al-Assad's regime and the suffocation of their rural Syrian village. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() British Freedom had title to forty acres, and another one and a half of what the lawyers' clerks in Halifax were pleased to call a "town lot." Now he was a hardscrabbler stuck in a wind-whipped corner of the world between the blue spruce forest and the sea. Like most of the Preston people, British Freedom was black and had come from a warmer place. Along with a few hundred other souls - Scipio Yearman, Phoebe Barrett, Jeremiah Piggie and Smart Feller among them - he was scratching a living from the stingy soil around Preston, a few miles northeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Ten years after the surrender of George III's army to General Washington at Yorktown, British Freedom was hanging on in North America. ![]() ![]() By the thousands, Africans enslaved by American colonists chose to fight for Britain in the Revolutionary War. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Ruth downie medicus in order![]() She is not the same person as the RS Downie who writes real medical textbooks. Ruth lives in North Devon with a husband, a fine view and too many cats. IN 2019 she was a contributor to 'RUBICON', the Historical Novel Society's collection of Roman-era short stories. 2017 saw the publication of 'THE BEAR AND THE WOLF', a short story of love and danger on Rome's northern border, written with SJA Turney. In 2015 Ruth helped to put together 'A YEAR OF RAVENS: a novel of Boudica's rebellion' with co-conspirators Stephanie Drey, E Knight, Kate Quinn, Vicky Alvear Shecter, SJA Turney and Russell Whitfield. SEMPER FIDELIS (at last, only one title!) ![]() ![]() PERSONA NON GRATA ('Ruso and the Root of All Evils')ĬAVEAT EMPTOR ('Ruso and the River of Darkness') TERRA INCOGNITA ('Ruso and the Demented Doctor') MEDICUS (the first story, AKA 'Medicus/Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls') The latest book is a novella, PRIMA FACIE, published in July 2019. In the meantime she is also the New York Times bestselling author of a mystery series featuring Roman legionary doctor Gaius Petreius Ruso and his British partner, Tilla. Ruth (RS) Downie left university with an English degree and a plan to get married and live happily ever after. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Dragon Howl by Vanessa Rouse![]() ![]() What a delightful way to teach children about courage, empathy, and kindness towards others who are different from themHope you enjoy reading and sharing Dragon Howl with your special little oneCheck out the book trailer for Dragon Howl on Vanessa's Amazon Author Page or on Youtube: http: //youtu.be/RY6E9vcmzic", : Dragon Howl (9781478234401) by Rouse Ph.D., Vanessa Rouse M.A., Philip and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. But when their soaring and roaring friendship is in danger, only clever courage can capture the hearts of the terrified townDragon Howl is a wonderful, rhyming adventure that will inspire you and your childrenThis beautiful and fun story is certain to captivate the imagination of both parents and kids. "item_description" : "Hold on tight for this inspiring and playfully rhyming tale, full of fun and delightful drawingsEmbark upon a fantastic adventure where a brave young boy befriends a misunderstood, lonely dragon, who truly has a beautiful heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the next eight years, her case made it all the way to the Supreme Court, where she lost again. When she filed a sex-discrimination case against Goodyear, Lilly won-and then heartbreakingly lost on appeal. Nineteen years after her first day at Goodyear, Lilly received an anonymous note revealing that she was making thousands less per year than the men in her position. ![]() She was one of the first women hired at the management level. In 1979, when Lilly applied for her dream job at the Goodyear tire factory, she got the job. Lilly Ledbetter always knew that she was destined for something more than what she was born into: a house with no running water or electricity in the small town of Possum Trot, Alabama. The inspiring story of the woman at the center of the historic discrimination case that inspired the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, her fight for equal rights in the workplace, and how her determination became a victory for the nation ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Bright dead things![]() ![]() Finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle AwardĪ Best Poetry Book of 2015: New York Times and Buzzfeed Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately "disorderly, and marvelous, and ours." A book of bravado and introspection, of 21st century feminist swagger and harrowing terror and loss, this fourth collection considers how we build our identities out of place and human contact-tracing in intimate detail the various ways the speaker's sense of self both shifts and perseveres as she moves from New York City to rural Kentucky, loses a dear parent, ages past the capriciousness of youth, and falls in love. ![]() ![]() The stereotypes cast in the early pages at his school are the main reason I put the book down the first time. I’m glad I did.Įthan Wate lives in Gatlin, South Carolina and can’t wait to leave for all the typical reasons. But as I was on a 17-hour road trip to Alabama for Spring Break, I stuck it out this time. ![]() In fact, as I was reading, I realized I had picked it up before and never gotten past the first few pages. It did take me a few chapters to get into. Starting with Beautiful Creatures, by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. ![]() So, while we’re waiting for all that to go down, I’m going to sneak a couple of book reviews in over the next two weeks. In the meantime, Ebb Tide is available for pre-order on the Amazon website. It’s undergone final revisions and is currently out to my last line of defense, my amazing Typo Sweeper. ![]() After three consecutive posts about the research that went into my upcoming novel, this was supposed to be the grand finale, the big announcement that Ebb Tide has released!!!! ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Blue like jazz author![]() (The story of the reverse confession booth is worth the price of the book.) The title is meant to be evocative, and the subtitle-"Non-Religious" thoughts about "Christian Spirituality"-indicates Miller's distrust of the institutional church and his desire to appeal to those experimenting with other flavors of spirituality. ![]() But more often Miller is enjoyably clever, and his story is telling and beautiful, even poignant. and go to the church God shows you"), and sometimes falls into merely self-indulgent musing. ![]() Written as a series of short essays on vaguely theological topics (faith, grace, belief, confession, church), and disguised theological topics (magic, romance, shifts, money), it is at times plodding or simplistic (how to go to church and not get angry? "pray. As such, it offers a postmodern riff on the classic evangelical presentation of the Gospel, complete with a concluding call to commitment. But the narrative is episodic rather than linear, Miller's style evocative rather than rational and his analysis personally revealing rather than profoundly insightful. This book, in its own elliptical way, tells the tale of that journey. The film is my first introduction to Miller and the world hes created with the. An earnest evangelical who nearly lost his faith, he went on a spiritual journey, found some progressive politics and most importantly, discovered Jesus' relevance for everyday life. Ill begin by saying I have not read Donald Millers book Blue Like Jazz. Miller ( Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance) is a young writer, speaker and campus ministry leader. ![]() ![]() "He just goes out and has fun."Ĭarolina has a lot invested in Young after trading away four draft picks and wide receiver D.J. Mingo said Young is "poised, relaxed and smooth" in the pocket, always knowing where he wants to go with the ball. Mingo said he was impressed with Young's presence in the huddle, which included serious moments and others where they joked around and enjoyed the music being pumped in through speakers on the sidelines. Mingo took some advice from former Panthers wide receiver and NFL analyst Steve Smith, who stopped by to see the rookies. He's making me better, and I'm making him better."īetween plays, Young received coaching from longtime NFL quarterback Josh McCown, the team's new QBs coach. Just keep practicing, Practicing makes us better. "We have to keep building our chemistry and help the team win. "I've been on the opposite side of Bryce for the last two years and I'm 0-2 against him, so it's a blessing to finally be on his side," Mingo said. On a crossing route, Mingo caught a perfectly thrown spiral in stride before quickly turning up the field toward the end zone. ![]() ![]() Several of Young's completions during the non-padded practice went to Jonathan Mingo, the team's second-round draft pick from Mississippi - a connection the Panthers hope will turn out to be special for years to come. ![]() |