By incorporating the authentic and unfiltered voices of the activists, she captures the anger, heartbreak, and desperation of the group composed of PWAs and their allies like Schulman, who fought against the indifference of wider society. ACT UP used aggressive and controversial tactics born out of anger, desperation, death, dying, and suffering of thousands of men and women from different backgrounds. In the tome, she weaves personal experience and large cuts of interviews that are now in ACT UP’s Oral History Project, which she and her colleague Jim Hubbard conducted from 2001 to 2018. The book is both a labor of love and the product of thousands of hours of work: nearly 200 interviews, and extensive archival research. Let the Record Show: A Political History of Act Up New York, 1987-1993 provides an insider’s view of the crisis.
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"In her stunning debut middle grade novel, Allen, who was also born with Turner syndrome, explores themes of family loyalty and personal resilience and resolve, wrapping them up in a clever story of science, how the universe works and how stars can truly guide the way. Does she have what it takes to care for the sister that has always cared for her? And what will it take for the universe to notice? If she wins the grand prize and gives all that money to Nonny's family, then the baby will be perfect. So she strikes a deal with the universe: She'll enter a contest with a project about Cecelia Payne, the first person to discover what stars are made of. Nonny and her husband are in a financial black hole, and Libby knows that babies aren't always born healthy. When her big sister Nonny tells her she's pregnant, Libby is thrilled-but worried. But she has lots of people who love her, and that makes her pretty lucky. Libby was born with Turner Syndrome, and that makes some things hard. She's not great at playing piano, sitting still, or figuring out how to say the right thing at the right time in real life. Twelve-year-old Libby Monroe is great at science, being optimistic, and talking to her famous, accomplished friends (okay, maybe that last one is only in her head). From debut author Sarah Allen comes What Stars Are Made Of, a pitch-perfect, heartwarming middle grade novel about growing up, finding yourself, and loving people with everything you're made of. The story is a reverse harem, so she ends up with more than 1 hottie. But, she has a stalker to deal with, college to enroll in, and her despicable father to handle. She blames the 3 guys that were there that night so imagine her dismay when she returns and finds out they pretty much rule the town. Madison Kate is a spoiled princess who ends up accused of murder, then sold off by her father. I grabbed book 1 on a whim during an Audible sale and then discovered, to my delight, it was a dual narration! That means that a female narrator read the female lines/thoughts and a male read the males. I binged the Madison Kate series by Tate James and it was awesome. ©2020 Tate James (P)2020 Silverton Agency Archer D’Ath and his boys messed with the wrong chick and they’re about to learn just how cold Madison Kate’s hate can run. How very convenient that someone just moved into the bedroom down the hall from me. Someone is going to catch the full force of my hate. Someone is going to pay for derailing my carefully laid out future. Those words changed my life, and not for the better.Īfter being charged with a string of offenses - and made an example of by my political minded father - I’m eventually released back into Shadow Grove with one thing on my mind. Madison Kate Danvers was murdered tonight. Also by this author: Elements of Mischief, Dark Glitter, The Complete Kit Davenport Series It was one of those perfect memories.”Īs a Rhode Island native, I had my fair share of PawSox hot dogs. “There was a game beforehand, there was that beautiful golden sunset, the whole family was there, we were eating the ice cream out of the baseball caps, we had the hot dogs. “I was in sixth grade and went for the fireworks,” he said. “It’s special to a lot of people.”Īllard's favorite memory of McCoy is all too familiar for many of us. “When I found out that (the team) was moving up to Worcester, I was disappointed that I had another place to cover,” he said. While Allard typically looks forward to covering abandoned places, McCoy Stadium was the first location that stung his inner child. From his abandoned middle school in Woonsocket to Chopmist Hill in Scituate, which was an intelligence hub during World War II, Allard dives deep into the rich history of these forgotten places and proves that their stories are worth sharing. Through extensive research, Allard documents historic places in the area and shows people why they deserve our attention and respect. His passion project, however, has garnered over 20,000 followers thanks to his series. At 33 years old, Jason Allard has made a career in video production as the senior video production manager for a production studio in Needham. Distilled from foul mushrooms by a cult of diabolists, those who drink it see terrible things-like the destruction of Long Island in fire and flood. What Ellie doesn't know is that this booze is special. So desperate that when wealthy strangers ask her to procure libations for an extravagant party Ellie sells them everything she has, including some booze she acquired under unusual circumstances. It's dangerous work under Prohibition-independent operators like her are despised by federal agents and mobsters alike-but Ellie's brother was accepted to college and Ellie's desperate to see him go. Tanzer is absolutely one to watch." - Seanan McGuire, bestselling, award-winning author of In an Absent DreamĪmityville baywoman Ellie West fishes by day and bootlegs moonshine by night. This book is a delicate dream, mixing its own internal mythology with a brutal tale of prejudice and human frailty. He just wants security for his family’s future. The novel got me thinking as to what I’ll do if I were on Kino’s shoes. The novel also discussed how our wants and desires could easily have their back against us. And it poses the question as to how we can equate fair and just with being bad or evil. It discussed what causes people to be evil at times and that being evil is already in the nature of humans. The study of evilness among us which is one of the realities of life. The novel’s primary premise is the study of evilness. How Kino protected the pearl equated to Kino protecting the future of his family. And from there the luck that they thought they have was overturned. But by sheer “luck” on that same day, having no choice but to go to the sea to search for pearls for them to sell and which the money will be used for the treatment of his son, Kino found a big pearl, the size of a goose egg, the Pearl of the World as what the townfolks call it. Having no money, the only town doctor refused to help them. The turn of events started when Coyotito was bitten by a scorpion. The community where they live has a defining line between the rich and the poor. The family is poor stricken and lives by fishing. The novel is about Kino and his wife Juan and their little boy Coyotito. Sissy's thumbs grow larger as she does the larger her thumbs grow, the more Sissy feels a strong desire to use them for some larger, more cosmic purpose. Sissy sees her thumbs as a unique characteristic that set her apart from the people in her small town, going so far as to say that her thumbs make her the vibrant, free-spirited person she is. Everyone in Sissy's life, it seems, is obsessed with her thumbs, except for Sissy herself. They worry that though Sissy is otherwise quite beautiful and pleasant, her thumbs make her a freak, and she has been dealt an unfair hand because of the mutation. Her thumbs are so abnormally large that her parents and friends feel sorry for her. The story begins in South Richmond, Virginia, where Sissy begins her life as something of a small-town spectacle. The novel, clearly inspired by the hippy movement of the 1960s and 1970s, demonstrates Robbins's appreciation for the absurdity and kindness of characters of all shapes, sizes, and temperaments. Along the way, Sissy meets other strange characters and comes to better love herself. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, a humorous novel by acclaimed bestselling author Tom Robbins, follows the journey of Sissy Hankshaw, a free-spirited, beautiful young woman with abnormally large thumbs, who seeks to make the most of her mutation by hitchhiking across America. He has also edited Breakfast News, the One o'Clock News, the Six o'Clock News and the Weekend News for the BBC. Over the next twenty years he worked on a number of BBC News and Current Affairs programmes, including making documentaries for The Money Programme and election programmes with David Dimbleby and Jeremy Paxman. He graduated with a degree in Law and Politics from Hull University in 1977 and, after working as a political researcher and journalist, joined the BBC in 1983 as a researcher on Panorama. In September 2001 Alex Gerlis was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, in 1955. In August 1998 he was the BBC TV News duty editor on the day of the Omagh bomb in Northern Ireland, the coverage of which later won a Royal Television Society award. Alex Gerlis was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, in 1955. People from the pages of her father's book lurk in the shadows, and locals aren't thrilled that their small town has been made infamous. Ghosts, after all, don't exist.īut when she returns to Baneberry Hall to prepare it for sale, her homecoming is anything but warm. She was too young to remember any of the events mentioned in her father's book. Now, Maggie has inherited Baneberry Hall after her father's death. His tale of ghostly happenings and encounters with malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon. They spent three weeks there before fleeing in the dead of night, an ordeal Ewan later recounted in a memoir called House of Horrors. Twenty-five years ago, she and her parents, Ewan and Jess, moved into a rambling Victorian estate called Baneberry Hall. Could we talk about something else? How does being a vampire affect your life at school? Can you participate in sports? Does it give you special advantages? I grew up with nannies I spent years explaining that to people… turns out it was all BS. It’s a disease that makes people super sensitive to sunlight, so we had to have heavy black curtains on all the windows and they only left the house at night. My parents had – well, I thought they had – porphyria cutanea tarda. When did you first realise that you and your family are different from other people? He is here to tell us about his personal journey in learning to deal with who he really is. Dear readers, tonight on the interview couch is a young man who had recently discovered some dark secrets in his family history. |