![]() ![]() ![]() With the Sun City’s growing interest in the faraway provinces of the Northern River combined with redoubtable Tsamihui’s persistence in invading the south with more and more forces,Īnd now the additional weaponry of his former southern captive, a clash of unheard-of proportions loomed, spelling disaster for all sides. Should he attempt to go back to his native south for the chance of revenge on the filthy traitor or was it wiser to let the past rest,Įnjoy his new life, a new beginning? Ononta claimed it was a bad idea, and yet… In his new home at the far north, at the mouth of the Ohio River, Ahal was confronted with similar dilemmas. Leaving Sele pregnant and very furious, or was it better to leave the matter alone? Should he venture back to his native east and sniff around, find out what happened, ![]() Iciwata couldn’t help wondering, worrying about the fate of the tribute collector, pondering his possibilities. With rumors of the terrible defeat reaching the Great Sun City, flooding its plazas and market squares, Raven of the North (The Mound Builders, Book 4) ![]()
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![]() Gould’s purpose is to debunk biological determinism, and most especially, to discredit the idea that intelligence can be represented as a single entity, a number, which can be used to rank individuals and groups. The potential misuse of Gould’s arguments ironically emphasizes one of his major themes, which is the appropriation of allegedly scientific ideas to meet the requirements of a particular political climate and to reinforce fashionable dogma. At a time when the National Education Association and Ralph Nader, among others, are allied in a campaign to ban standardized tests, a history which portrays the racism of the forefathers of testing offers a useful weapon in the ideological battle. ![]() Since mental tests of all varieties have been under attack for more than a decade, it is scarcely surprising that Stephen Jay Gould’s The Mismeasure of Man has been received in some quarters as a devastating critique of testing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book was over, but I was very much living the realities of it.” I’d written this book about the safety net, and everything was broken. “During Covid, I got an email congratulating me about Want while we were packing up our apartment because my husband lost his job,” she says. Angry posts on Goodreads said Want’s narrator, Elizabeth, should suck it up and leave New York, just as Strong and her husband had to, well, suck it up and leave New York. The intensely first-person account, centered on a Brooklyn academic whose family’s economic situation turns dire, found critical acclaim and substantial readership-but Strong’s life didn’t exactly change. Her second novel, Want, hit shelves in summer 2020, and like the rest of us, she was essentially locked inside her home at the time. But Strong comes at this fear from a particular experience. “But I feel so scared and uncertain around being a writer.”Įvery writer can relate, surely. ![]() “I love writing, I really do-I’m not one of those writers that doesn’t like it,” she says via Zoom from her home in Portland, Maine. She’s reading, scrolling through social media, looking for anything to distract her from her complicated feelings around the publication of her next book, Flight (Mariner, Nov.). ![]() ![]() Her chapbooks, There are no Doors, First Night and Doors are available directly from her, and Red Flag Press and Dancing Girl Press. ![]() Hartman’s work also appears in multiple journals and anthologies in America and overseas. ![]() A definite change of pace from her first two books, this book is haunting and unforgettable. The Lost Journal of my Second Trip to Purgatory, is a deeply disturbing look at child abuse, this book is a demanding expose of America’s still untreated epidemic. Michelle Hartman’s first four full length books, Disenchanted and Disgruntled, Irony and Irreverence, (from Lamar University Literary Press) The Lost Journal of My Second Trip to Purgatory, and Wanton Disarray, are all available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. ![]() ![]() ![]() But why, in the first place, are queer adults forming such intense emotional bonds to children’s media, and what effect does a steady diet of soft-edged pastel art have on the adult mind? That this particular segment of fandom has often turned to intense online harassment when upset over their chosen fiction is a separate issue addressed in part by my piece on online puritanism. ![]() In the queer community especially, shows like Rebecca Sugar’s Steven Universe, Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko’s Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Noelle Stevenson’s She-Ra and the Princesses of Power have found significant cultural purchase among older teens and adults well into their 30s and 40s. Over the past two decades, “adult who consumes primarily children’s media” has gone from a reviled fringe identity - think Bronies, adult male fans of the My Little Pony revival, monopolizing cons and fanart forums meant for actual children - to a more or less normative way for grown people to relate to art. ![]() Image taken from Strange Suspense Stories #60, artist Jack Kirby, pub. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Milk is a rich source of protein, with just one cup containing 8 grams. Mind that its nutritional content can vary depending on many factors. Including vitamins, minerals, protein, healthy fats and antioxidants. ![]() The nutritional content of milk varies, depending on factors like its fat content and the diet and treatment of the cow it came from ( 10).įor example, milk from cows that eat mostly grass contains significantly higher amounts of conjugated linoleic acid and omega-3 fatty acids ( 11).Īlso, organic and grass-fed cow’s milk contains higher amounts of beneficial antioxidants, such as vitamin E and beta-carotene, which help reduce inflammation and fight oxidative stress ( 12). Milk is also a good source of vitamin A, magnesium, zinc and thiamine (B1).Īdditionally, it’s an excellent source of protein and contains hundreds of different fatty acids, including conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) and omega-3s ( 5).Ĭonjugated linoleic acid and omega-3 fatty acids are linked to many health benefits, including a reduced risk of diabetes and heart disease ( 6, 7, 8, 9). It provides potassium, B12, calcium and vitamin D, which are lacking in many diets ( 4). Milk is an excellent source of vitamins and minerals, including “nutrients of concern,” which are under-consumed by many populations ( 3). Just one cup (244 grams) of whole cow’s milk contains ( 2): The nutritional profile of milk is impressive.Īfter all, it’s designed to fully nourish newborn animals. ![]() ![]() ![]() We're the only ones that can bring us back together." "I want to scream and shout it's us you fool. I love you can be said in many other ways through actions and even the little things. So, next time just be careful and make sure that they actually love you, and you have proof to back it up. ![]() Some people say "I love you" without actually meaning it, and some do. Always make sure it's verified and accurate (almost like you would for your news intake), because at the end of the day words can be deceiving. Never believe something without seeing some kind of proof that proves that it's true. People can always say this and that and they can always promise things, but they might not actually mean it or even come close to keeping their promises. This quote is a reminder for yourself when you encounter these type of people. "There is a difference between someone telling you they love you and them actually loving you."ĭon't you love when people say they're going to do something, but never live up to their own words. ![]() ![]() There's only one slight problem: their manipulation of time and space could put the entire universe at risk. When Gabi learns that he's capable of conjuring things much bigger than a chicken-including his dead mother-and she takes it all in stride, Sal knows that she is someone he can work with. except maybe Gabi, whose sharp eyes never miss a trick. ![]() Sal prides himself on being an excellent magician, but for this sleight of hand, he relied on a talent no one would guess. She is determined to prove that somehow, Sal planted a raw chicken in Yasmany's locker, even though nobody saw him do it and the bloody poultry has since mysteriously disappeared. Gabi, student council president and editor of the school paper, is there to support her friend Yasmany, who just picked a fight with Sal. Sal is in the principal's office for the third time in three days, and it's still the first week of school. Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents a brilliant sci-fi romp with Cuban influence that poses this question: What would you do if you had the power to reach through time and space and retrieve anything you want, including your mother, who is no longer living (in this universe, anyway)? How did a raw chicken get inside Yasmany's locker? When Sal Vidon meets Gabi Real for the first time, it isn't under the best of circumstances. ![]() ![]() ![]() I didn’t set out to write for young people but if you look at my body of work, including my published plays, the characters I’m likely to write happen to fall between 10 and 30 years old. At times I’ve created in other ways – directing plays, dancing (for fun not professionally), and the occasional dipping into photography, but I always come back to what I love the most: words, words, and more words. Whether it’s playwriting, journaling, writing short stories, or now novels, I’ve just always gravitated towards words and specifically, dialogue. ![]() I know that’s not the most exciting answer, but it’s my way of expressing myself, the way I access my creativity and the form that’s most natural to me. I’ve always written since I was a very young girl. The following is a complete transcript of Kayla’s interview with Cracking the Cover for her debut novel, Piper Perish. She has several published plays, two award-winning comic books, and various essays. Kayla Cagan is a writer and dramaturge who has run social media and content for events like the LA Times Festival of Books and The Taste. ![]() ![]() In this case, if it wasn't " The Bachelor meets The Hunger Games," it was pretty darn close. ![]() It's a bad sign when you can figure out the elevator pitch for a novel from the get-go. Though the villains sometimes tend toward melodrama, this feeds into the extremity of the setting.Īn above-average dystopia intelligent and absorbing. Her gritty, lifeless world, the result of the destruction of all of the world’s trees, is populated by desperate drifters who survive with portable solar respirators. ![]() By embedding one dystopia into another, Crossan keeps readers on their feet. However, when the groups arrive, they learn that Sequoia might be an even worse tyranny than the one they escaped earlier worse, the Sequoia group intends to kill thousands in the pod city. Separated, Bea and Quinn try to find Sequoia, the only remaining sanctuary, while Alina heads in the same direction with her small group of survivors. Also on hand are Alina, one of the first rebels, and Quinn, disaffected son of the pod’s army general. Now, he joins the rebels when he meets Bea on a trip outside the pod. Ronan, son of the dictatorial pod minister, became disillusioned when he helped to destroy the rebels’ sanctuary in the last book. ![]() Readers are plunged directly into the adventure with little recap. This conclusion to the dystopian romance begun in Breathe (2012) follows a group of teens trying to survive in the airless, derelict wilderness outside of their domed, tyrannical pod. ![]() |