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In a book that reframes the discussion of race in America, a brilliant young activist provides ideas from the front lines of post-9/11 America. She looks at topics including Islamophobia in the Bible Belt the "Bermuda Triangle" of anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim hysteria and the energy of new reform movements, including those of "undocumented and unafraid" youth and Black Lives Matter. Iyer asks whether hate crimes should be considered domestic terrorism and explores the role of the state in perpetuating racism through detentions, national registration programs, police profiling, and constant surveillance. In We Too Sing America, nationally renowned activist Deepa Iyer catalogs recent racial flashpoints, from the 2012 massacre at the Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, to the violent opposition to the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and to the Park 51 Community Center in Lower Manhattan. We may be less aware, however, of the ongoing racism directed against these groups in the past decade and a half. Many of us can recall the targeting of South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh people in the wake of 9/11. I loved how strong both of them were after their lives were upended. I am generally not a romcom fan but Ilsa drew me in with these characters. I read it twice in about 5 months because I loved so much. Their story is funny and sweet with a side of steamy. But when he proposes fake dating to keep the other woman off his back, she thinks she can put her heart and feelings aside to help him. Nova didn't expect to end up back in her hometown but here she is, and working with none other than the guy who was able to shatter her more than she though someone could in one night. But Ronan is still working on himself and coming to terms with this new life of his. Two years later they are in the same town and being drawn to each other. They have a hot and steamy time before everything goes so so wrong. His life was completely altered in a way that he was struggling to cope with. Ronan was a broken man who lost everything in a split second. I loved Ronan and Nova!! Ilsa has been becoming one of my one-click authors and this book definitely showed me why! Kehret's were the only parents who visited her each Sunday, and soon ``adopted'' her fellow polio victims. Bad haircuts and lost ball games would never bother me again.'' There are touching black-and-white photographs of her roommates, who had already been there for ten years. I had lived with excruciating pain and with loneliness and uncertainty about the future. ``I had a strange feeling that I was reading about a different lifetime. After her fever broke and she lay paralyzed in the hospital, her parents delivered a big brown packet of letters from her classmates. Kehret (Earthquake Terror, 1996, etc.) describes the disease, the diagnosis, the severe symptoms, treatments, physical therapy, slow recovery, and return home with walking sticks-and how she was forever changed. From a writer known for her fiction, a moving memoir about a 12-year-old who got polio in 1949 in Austin, Minnesota. This revolutionary book by the founder and CEO of the groundbreaking LA-based meditation studio Unplug Meditation brilliantly simplifies this powerful practice and shows the overwhelmed and overworked how easy it is to unplug in order to relieve stress, regain focus, and recharge. Studies show that you can get more done - and do it better - by doing less, just by consciously unplugging for a few minutes each day and meditating. Whether you're a Fortune 500 CEO or someone bogged down with a never-ending to-do list, the proven secret to being more effective and living a happier, healthier life is to hurry up and slow down, to unplug. A modernized approach to meditation that will appeal to anyone, even if - especially if - you believe you have no time, you can't sit still, or that it's just not you. No one could remember seeing the young man that afternoon… He had vanished three blocks from home. When a squad car arrived at the scene minutes later, the street was deserted. Suddenly: a squeal of brakes, a shout, and a thud wheels spinning through the dusk a blue bicycle crushed beneath a truck a shopping bag spewing green peas, tomatoes, and oranges across snow.Īt 4:44, the police received a call. On this particular January afternoon, gusts battered the city and a temperature of zero nipped at flesh and stone alike. Light and warmth seemed gone for good mountains of grey snow and sheets of ice destroyed the geometry of sidewalk and street. It was the bitterest, meanest, darkest, coldest winter in anyone's memory, even in one of the forgotten neighborhoods of Chicago. As dreams chase reality in a fearless yet sparkly search, 11-year-old Early Pearl will take you on a ride not easily forgotten. You will meet Dash, Sum, Early and Jubie … and many others living in a large city shelter. Now stir in an old Langston Hughes book on rhythms, the Chicago Public Library's huge downtown building, a family of four that find themselves in the midst of a spiraling nightmare, and the 2003 Antwerp Diamond Heist, the biggest in history. The mystery begins with a bizarre accident on a deserted, wintery street in Chicago. This book was followed by more than 75 others. Her first novel, a prairie love story titled Love Comes Softly, was published by Bethany House in 1979. Though she yearned to be a published novelist, she devoted herself to being a wife and mother because, she says, "there is no higher honor-that is my number-one priority." She began serious writing when her children were entering their teens. Edward eventually became president of Mountain View Bible College and recently established a coalition of colleges that became Rocky Mountain Bible College.ĭuring her earliest years, Janette sensed the desire to write. After graduating from Mountain View Bible College in Canada where she met her husband, Edward, they pastored churches in Canada and the U.S., and they raised their family of four children, including twin boys, in both countries. Janette was born during the depression years to a Canadian prairie farmer and his wife, and she remembers her childhood as full of love and laughter and family love. She also writes engaging children's stories and inspiring gift books that warm the heart. With over 23 million in sales, her historical novels portray the lives of early North American settlers from many walks of life and geographical settings. Janette Oke writes with a profound simplicity of what she knows best-real life, honest love, and lasting values. This hot romance has so much heart, it just might inspire you to hop on the next flight to Scotland and start searching for your very own "wolf in a kilt. WARNING: do not one-click this book if you're not ready for a REAL Scottish alpha wolf who will have you cursing him one moment, and saying, "Oh, Iain!" the next. This hot romance has so much heart, it just might inspire you to hop on the next flight to Scotland and start searching for your very own 'wolf in a kilt. The only thing more shocking than Iain's response to her resignation? The secret he's been hiding all along. WARNING: Theodora Taylor fansdo not one-click this book if youre not ready for a REAL Scottish alpha wolf who will have you cursing him one moment, and saying, 'Oh, Iain' the next. With only a few months left to live, Milly decides to make the most of the time she has left and puts in her two week's notice.Īpparently not for her sexy boss. So she has no choice but to put up with the boss from hell and his exacting standards.īut then she's given a terminal diagnosis. Unfortunately, he's also arrogant, excessively demanding, and far too sinfully handsome for his meek assistant to actually look in the eye.īut as Milly has been reminding herself every single day for the past three years, she really needs this job. Find out why real werewolves wear kiltsMillys boss, the visionary tech billionaire Iain Scotswolf, is brilliant, fascinating, and sexy as all get out. Milly's boss, the visionary tech billionaire Iain Scotswolf, is brilliant, fascinating, and sexy as all get out. But as she uncovers its unusual secrets, she begins to understand - and fear - the escalating dangers that await them all. Johannes’ gift helps Nella to pierce the closed world of the Brandt household. To furnish her gift, Nella engages the services of a miniaturist - an elusive and enigmatic artist whose tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in eerie and unexpected ways. Johannes is kind yet distant, always locked in his study or at his warehouse office - leaving Nella alone with his sister, the sharp-tongued and forbidding Marin.īut Nella’s world changes when Johannes presents her with an extraordinary wedding gift: a cabinet-sized replica of their home. But her new home, while splendorous, is not welcoming. On a brisk autumn day in 1686, 18-year-old Nella Oortman arrives in Amsterdam to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt. "There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed." Set in 17th-century Amsterdam - a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion - a masterful debut steeped in atmosphere and shimmering with mystery, in the tradition of Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, and Sarah Dunant. The second section is dedicated to sapphic Neurodiverse stories. The first section contains sapphic Age Gap books of all genres. Remember, this year you will be entered into the drawings for every level you complete, not just the highest. Have you reached a new level? Tell us about it here and enter the end-of-year drawings while you’re at it. With 100 categories and over 2,000 book recommendations coming your way this year, our aim is to make it as easy as possible to reach your reading goal! Remember, if you are participating in the reading challenge, you only need 15 books in 15 categories to reach the first level. Well done! We’ve also had 27 readers reach Topaz level, which is 25 books, and 14 amazing readers have reached Sapphire with 50 books! It will be a close race to see who can reach 100 books and move up to Amethyst first! Welcome to week 10 of the 2023 IHS Sapphic Reading Challenge, where we have so many sapphic books to share!įirst, congratulations to the 42 readers who have reached Garnet Level so far this year by reading 15 books. |