![]() ![]() Plus, it has the most gorgeous cover of the year.Īnnabel is the story of an intersex baby born in rural Labrador. ![]() Here are my three top picks (books, not friends), in case you’re looking for something to read this January:Įllen in Pieces, by Caroline Adderson, was raunchy, heartbreaking, and hilarious. ![]() I read seven books by people I know - a number I think I should improve upon, as a supportive fellow writer!Īnd, as always, some of my favourite reads were recommended by friends, either real-life friends or virtual. I am a disgrace to the non-fiction world. Both Cooked and Consumed, for example, have been languishing half-read in my bedside table drawer for months now. Or I get distracted in the middle of them and never go back. The problem: I often don’t finish non-fiction books. There were only eight non-fiction titles on my list, which I think is an inaccurate reflection of the amount of non-fiction that I actually read. I read 87 books in 2014, including 36 novels, 40 young adult or middle-grade books, and three short story collections. Before January escapes me completely, I thought I’d have a look at last year’s reading list. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A memoir, a love story, and an outreach for the marginalized, Precious's sojourn is a song of self-reliance and pride and an invitation to join in the chorus. ![]() She speaks to anyone who has ever tried to find their place in this world and imparts the wisdom that comes with surmounting odds and celebrating on the other side. She reveals her determination to dream through it and shares her profound journey as a trans woman now fully actualized, absolutely confident, and precious. In I Have Always Been Me, Brady-Davis reflects on a childhood of neglect, instability, and abandonment. You may know Precious Brady-Davis as the first transgender woman who appeared on Say Yes to the Dress. Yet she realized by coming into her identity that she had a purpose all along. As a biracial, gender-nonconforming kid, she felt displaced. Myles Brady-Davis had just arrived from the West Coast. Precious Brady-Davis remembers the sense of being singular and grappling with "otherness." Born into traumatic circumstances, Davis was brought up in the Omaha foster care system and the Pentecostal faith. In I Have Always Been Me, Brady-Davis reflects on a childhood of neglect, instability, and abandonment. Precious Brady-Davis was working at an LGBTQ youth center in Chicago when her future husband came strolling through the door. A powerful memoir of independence, releasing the past, and living the dream by award-winning trans advocate Precious Brady-Davis. ![]() ![]() Remembering Mama, Dara Dokas, Augsburg Fortress Pub. Story of Three Kids Whose Lives Changed, Amy, Allie, and David Dennison, ages 4 to 8 at the time, Free Spirit Never Say Goodbye, Lea Gillespie Gant, ages 3 to 8, Thomas Nelson ![]() Mudge, Gill and Steve, Jim Dainty, death of a baby, Church House Josh, Stephanie Jeffs & Jacqui Thomas, death of a friend, Norman Wright, workbook also available with age-specific sections, Parent’s Guide to Helping Children Through the Losses of Life, H. If Nathan Were Here, Mary Bahr, death of a friend, ages 4 to 8, How Does It Feel When A Parent Dies, Jill Krementy, told by children Hey, God! What Is Death? Roxie Caywood, ages 4 to 8, Helping Children Grieve: When Someone They Loves Dies, Theresa M. ![]() Heaven Is A Wonderful Place, Joanne Marxhausen, ages 4 to 9, Guiding Your Child Through Grief, Mary Ann & James Emswiler,ĭirectors of one of the largest support groups for grieving children and their families, Random House. Grandma’s Party, Meg Harper, ages 6 to 10, Barnabas Pub. Printable version link is located at the bottom of this page.Īnn’s Corn, Barbara Santucci, death of grandfather, EerdmansĬhildren and Grief: Helping Your Child Understand Death, Jay O’Connor, Fleming H. Listed below is a list for Grieving Children and Teens: ![]() Use of Building Agreement with Outside Entities.How to Properly Conduct Hospital Visits.How to Download the Pastoral Care Phone App.Funeral, Wedding, Equipment Use Checklist. ![]() ![]() Those are pricier than EVs like the little Bolt hatchback, which General Motors discontinued in favor of pickups. They’re more resource-intensive, too. The demand side – that is, consumer preferences – plays an important role, too.There are full-size EV pickups that can power homes, and some drivers do need big vehicles. For 2022, the firms involved in the mining and manufacturing for those accounted for 27% of Tesla’s total emissions, reports Quartz.But the supply side isn’t the only thing to consider as we think about EVs and making the future work. ![]() ![]() And such “Scope 3” emissions – including those of suppliers – represented the deepest part of the product line’s carbon footprint.Batteries are a big factor. But this time, in Tesla’s report, it was part of the tally. ![]() ![]() What should we make of a recent report from carmaker Tesla reminding us that, even though its cars have no tailpipes, there are significant carbon emissions associated with getting them built and on the road?It’s worth thinking about, though there’s a lot more at play when it comes to electric vehicles and CO2 emissions.The vast network needed to supply raw materials and component parts for EVs makes for difficult accounting. ![]() ![]() An IT thriller (like so many Murderbot stories) that functions at least partially as a forensic examination of linked surveillance and data systems. A cozy mystery garlanded with plasma cannons and spaceships. Martha Wells' newest entry in her award-winning, nerd-charming, trope-bending Murderbot series, Fugitive Telemetry, is a lot of things that you probably don't expect. Imagine that Agatha Christie or Nancy Atherton woke up one morning and decided to set their newest ticking-clock, cozy mystery not in some quaint English seaside village but in a quaint, progressive orbital station that Angela Lansbury's Jessica Fletcher was hurled forward a thousand years to find herself tutting over the body of a dead spaceman dumped in a hallway - no fingerprints, no DNA, no record of how he got there or who did him in. Armed and armored against all the evils that men do. ![]() Imagine for a moment that Hercule Poirot was a robot. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she's been hanging around the monastery since her accidental death, spying on the monks and the townspeople and keeping track of her descendants.īlanca is enchanted the moment she sees George, and the magical novel unfolds as a story of deeply felt, unrequited longing-a teenage ghost pining for a woman who can't see her and doesn't know she exists. ![]() In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. *A Cosmopolitan Best Book of Summer * One of BuzzFeed's Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books*Īn "exquisite.too lovely to bear" ( The New York Times Book Review) debut novel from an award-winning writer: a playful and daring tale about a teenage ghost who falls in love with the writer George Sands. ![]() ![]() I felt the sadness, frustration, anger, resentment, and all other feelings that Diana felt as she watched her husband carry on an affair with Parker-Bowles during their marriage. ![]() I always thought Parker-Bowles was introduced into the love triangle much later. I was horrified to hear just how involved Camilla Parker-Bowles was from the very beginning. I learned so much about how it began, how it evolved, and how it ended. Or, if I knew it, I didn't know the extent to which it affected her life. There is so much about this woman that I did not know. It is also fitting that I read it during the summer that is the 20th anniversary of her death. ![]() It just so happens that I was recently in St John's and stopped to browse a local used bookshop, inside which I found a pristine copy of the book. Ever since I heard of this I've wanted to read it. This is easily the best biography I've ever read. ![]() ![]() Along the route we traveled, there were none. That afternoon, we drove to Center City on an errand, and to check out the festivities there. After we left, I heard, the black cowboys rode in, and folks popped champagne to share with strangers. Black men driving sanitation trucks honked in celebration. We passed a dreadlocked man in a biblical-style flowing garment who was waving something that looked like a palm frond and screaming, “THANK YOU, JESUS!” The park featured dueling bands and a second-line situation. ![]() The streets were crowded with people banging pots with spoons. It wasn’t the first time he’d said that in our year of quarantine and of young boys actually washing their hands, but finally, history meant something entertaining. “We are literally living in history!” my son cried as we headed down Baltimore Avenue. ![]() ![]() I took my eight-year-old and his best friend down to the park to get into the mix. On Saturday, November 7th, in the annus horribilis of 2020, I stood in Clark Park and declared West Philadelphia the best place in this terrible world.Įarlier that morning, I was in my bedroom, opening windows to take in the unseasonably warm day, and as the neighborhood erupted in hooting, I got a text telling me that the election had been called. A man gestures to the camera while crossing the street near the 52nd Street El station. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic’s heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age. You can read this before Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage written by Alfred Lansing which was published in 1959–. Brief Summary of Book: Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing ![]() ![]() ![]() This momentous experience convinced him that the silence of the Cistercian Order was what he craved. However, when he was twenty-seven he made a retreat to a Trappist monastery in Kentucky. With his baptism he began entertaining thoughts of monasticism but his desire to enter the priesthood in a Franciscan monastery came to nothing, and he remained a lay teaching member of the order for some time. Gradually Merton recognized his need for faith and became a Catholic. His year at Clare College, Cambridge, was indulgent, and although Columbia University to which he went next suited his temperament better, it did nothing to assuage his restlessness. ![]() ![]() Travelling in his early years with his artist father in the United States, France and England, Thomas Merton prided himself on his worldly accomplishments. The complete and unedited edition of Thomas Merton's famous autobiography, one of the greatest works of spiritual pilgrimage ever written. ![]() |