![]() ![]() ![]() Chapter 4: Day One: Friday, July 4, 1:34 P.M.Paperweight follows seventeen-year-old Stevie’s journey as she struggles not only with a life-threatening eating disorder, but with the question of whether she can ever find absolution for the mistakes of her past…and whether she truly deserves to. And if Stevie gets her way, there are only twenty-seven days until she, too, will end her life. There are only twenty-seven days until the anniversary of her brother Josh’s death-the death she caused. But what no one knows is that Stevie doesn’t plan to stay that long. Her dad has signed her up for sixty days of treatment. Nurses and therapists watch Stevie at meal time, accompany her to the bathroom, and challenge her to eat the foods she’s worked so hard to avoid. ![]() Life in the center is regimented and intrusive, a nightmare come true. And now in an eating-disorder treatment center on the dusty outskirts of the New Mexico desert. This emotionally haunting and beautifully written young adult debut delves into the devastating impact of trauma and loss, in the vein of Laurie Halse Anderson’s Wintergirls. ![]()
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![]() With “Ducks,” Beaton’s graphic memoir that’s now competing in Canada Reads, she sought to show people what the experience can really be like. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - CBC *MANDATORY CREDIT* With the graphic memoir about her two years working in the oilsands, Beaton paints a nuanced portrait characterized by misogyny and corporate interests, but also unexpected acts of kindness and tight-knit community. Panellist for Canada Reads 2023 Mattea Roach poses with the book "Ducks" by Kate Beaton in this undated handout photo. “If you don’t have a personal connection to the actual area, the location, or the workforce, or the people that travel back and forth and work there, then it’s harder to have an understanding of day-to-day life there,” Beaton said in a phone interview from her home in Cape Breton. ![]() Those making the move now, some 15-plus years after the comics artist worked in Fort McMurray, have more information about the industry thanks to social media, she said. ![]() When Kate Beaton migrated west to work in Alberta’s oilsands, she didn’t know what to expect - other than a job that would allow her to pay down her student loans. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This breach of trust runs up to the highest levels of power, and exposing it may drag Kolarich into the fight of his life. To avoid jail, Kolarich must enter a world of wiretaps, double-dealing, and kickbacks, where he soon discovers that the murder of his informant was only the tip of the iceberg. ![]() Unfortunately, Kolarich's guns-blazing approach to justice lands him smack in the middle of an FBI probe of a deeply corrupt governor and his cronies. He can't bring back his family, but he can find out who killed Ramirez and bring the killer to justice. Kolarich blames himself not only for the deaths of his wife and child, but for the informant's murder as well. On the night of their deaths, Kolarich was at the office, awaiting a call from a confidential informant named Ernesto Ramirez-a call that never came. Jason Kolarich has spent the past year struggling to recover from the horrific deaths of his wife and baby daughter. Jason Kolarich returns in this shocking thriller from the award- winning author of The Hidden Men. Former college football star and criminal defense attorney Jason Kolarich returns in this shocking thriller from the award-winning author of The Hidden Man. ![]() ![]() ![]() I watched the TV series a week after I read the book, so with it still fresh in mind, I was able to pick up on the differences all too easily. While the plot setting was close to the original, there was a larger cast introduced on the show, and it was a little confusing to keep up with the changes in the flow of the story. I want to say it was pretty close to the book, but unfortunately not. In 2018, Netflix aired the TV show based on the book. Nightflyers was originally published in 1985, then followed a film adaptation in 1987 (which received low ratings and referred to as a ‘disaster’). One interesting fact about his early writing was that he started writing science fiction short stories, which put him on the map, as those were the years science fiction movies, like Star Wars, started rising in popularity, but not enough popularity to pay the bills just yet. Which could only mean one thing: there are lots of novels to explore by this author, going back many years. With a bit of research, I found out that he actually started writing in the 1970s already, and not the 1990s as I had thought. Martin had written anything besides the ‘ A Song of Fire and Ice‘ collection. Up until the day that HB brought this book home from one of his business trips, I had no idea that George R.R. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the space of a month I had gone from a kinda pantheistic Eastern mysticism to Isaiah's mysticism of the Suffering Servant.įor now, a full fifty-two years later, I find I rather LIKE Square One -Ĭause this unpopular and bitterly uncomfortable Present Moment. Nature did that, of course, just like it did to William and Dorothy Wordsworth in the wild northern Lake Country.īut upon returning to campus, my new panoptic worldview didn't wash wiith my profs. My own path to awakening began when I was twenty.įinding myself - in natural surroundings, way out in the country, a month before before the resumed hitting-of-the-books at uni was to begin - I momentarily got caught up in my Vedantic Oversoul. Or, it's like the forgotten Chinese student in the primitive mystical East who asked the Master what his Secret was? Or like Dante's vision of the Eternal Rose of the Seventh Heaven. The Present Moment is Borges' Aleph: the Lost Centre from which all the present moments of all the worlds Radiate. ![]() They just cannot be bested or improved by modern adaptations.Īnd so it is with the present moment itself. ![]() Some ancient volumes, like this one, contain the whole vast library of common-sense wisdom. ![]() ![]() ![]() All I wanted in this world was to come to New York and be Dorothy Parker. “I grew up on it and coveted it desperately. They crossed paths again when Ephron was twenty she remembered the meeting in crisp detail, describing Parker as “frail and tiny and twinkly.” But her encounters with the queen of the bon mot weren’t the point. Ephron first met Parker as a child, in her pajamas, at her screenwriter parents’ schmoozy Hollywood parties. Ephron was then thirty-two, and her subject was the particular clichéd ambition of becoming Dorothy Parker, a writer she had idolized in her youth. ![]() “I have spent a great deal of my life discovering that my ambitions and fantasies-which I once thought of as totally unique-turn out to be clichés,” Nora Ephron wrote in 1973, in a column for Esquire. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s only 19 and she leaves her home, penniless, suffer from hunger, taking the suicide mission to cleanse household of Magnus Rochester from the Evil Eye. Story is taken place a terrifying mansion: but instead of its claustrophobic theme and the master of the name is Rochester and heroine is abandoned young woman who sharpened her survival skills to stay alive, living at the streets, there are not much common things with Jane’s story and poor Rochester’s haunted life because of his wife.Īndromeda is raised by her master Jember who never showed any sign of affection for nearly 14 years, treated her harshly to force her toughen up at the young age. ![]() I have to admit this is not Jane Eyre’s retelling: the only resemblances with the classic are claustrophobic mansion/ castle premise, names and resilient, young heroine. Horrific, claustrophobic, YA fantasy version of Jane Eyre meets Exorcist and Mummy series!What a tempting, astonishing, dreamy combination of extreme fans of horror and action packed fantasy premises like me! ![]() ![]() ![]() We’re taking the oath to reveal some of the more secretive of the secret societies, as well as some of the less secretive ones. ![]() Whatever it is, Inside Secret Societies gets to the bottom of it. But why? After all this time, why do people still care about things like that? What is it about secret societies that so intrigues us? Is it the exclusivity? The desire to belong in a place where others can’t? What are they up to behind those walls, do they know something I don’t? Perhaps it’s the secret nature of it, with special handshakes and rituals and customs. Some societies that are hundreds of years old - like the Illuminati and the Freemasons - are still relevant today. Explore their surprising origins, powerful members, and fascinating rites and rituals.įor centuries, humans have had a fascination with secret societies. Inside the world's most mysterious groups. ![]() ![]() Thirteen-year-old Jonah has always known that he was adopted, and he’s never thought it was any big deal. Then, just as suddenly, the plane disappears. Thirty-six babies mysteriously on the plane. The plot is difficult to summarize without giving away too much, but I will try.Ī plane that appears out of nowhere. I just finished reading Found (The Missing) and I LOVED it. When I saw that she was beginning a new series, I was very excited. Her Shadow Children series has hooked many reluctant readers and turned them into voracious readers in my classroom. ![]()
![]() Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like love and illness now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. ![]() ![]() What Would your life say if it could talk? -from No Fly Zone With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. Smith, whose lyric brilliance and political impulses never falter ( Publishers Weekly, starred review) You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib. ![]() Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize * Poet Laureate of the United States * * A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * * A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * New poetry by the award-winning poet Tracy K. ![]() |