Love interest is bisexual, as well as a POC As Ben and Nathan's friendship grows, their feelings begin to change, and what started as a disastrous turn of events looks like it might just be a chance to start a happier, new life. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist, and try to keep a low profile in a new school.īut Ben's attempts to survive the last half of senior year unnoticed are thwarted by when Nathan Allan, a funny and charismatic student, decides to take Ben under his wings. When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. But that's all it take to change everything. TW/CW: homophobia, anxiety/panic attacks, unsupportive parents (who appear once in the beginning, twice toward the ending), misgendering, body dysphoria/dysmorphia (MC shows signs of both)Īre you a sucker for romance? Are you nonbinary (or just struggling with gender in general)? This book hits those two automatically.
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When the school’s website is vandalized with hateful messages, Zenobia must decide whether to lie low or use her skills to help, even if it brings unwanted attention.īunker herself is a transgender woman, and on June 16 she and her wife celebrated their one-year wedding anniversary. Attending school as a girl for the first time, Zenobia tries to make friends and avoid the mean girls. Her latest book “Zenobia July” follows the eponymous Zenobia, a genius computer whiz who recently moved to a new city after her gender identity was not accepted by her family. all the elements of the story,” Bunker said.īunker has turned her dream into a successful career, recently publishing her second book for pre-teens that intertwines actual life events with more complex issues of gender and sexuality. “I feel like I just happen to have been born with a bubbling spring in my mind, and what bubbles out of the spring is words, images, characters, dialogue. Even as she grew up and pursued careers in radio and politics, she was always working on a side writing project. EXETER - Ever since she was 5 years old, Lisa Bunker has loved writing. History has tricked us into revering these men, Diaz suggests, so he will too. In his first novel, the nearly perfect “ In the Distance,” Diaz created the un-Bevel in a mid-19th century Swedish immigrant named Håkan, a man of enormous physical stature and dejected humility who accidentally turns himself into a folk hero. He specializes in plaster busts that look like marble only from a distance. The hollow core of the great man myth is Diaz’s recurring project. As one character explains, “e had no appetites to repress.” He claims in his autobiography, “My name is known to many, my deeds to some, my life to few,” but that implies there is a life to know. His whims flip the markets, demolish industries, control the livelihoods of every creature in this country. Nonetheless, Bevel’s name is engraved in stone on New York institutions and pressed onto the front pages of newspapers. A 6-feet-tall stack of $100 bills dressed in a Savile Row suit, Bevel’s only notable trait is that he’s a schmuck. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.Īndrew Bevel, the elusive Manhattan financier at the center of Hernan Diaz’s “ Trust,” is all story, no substance. To his surprise, he discovers that he has been named executor to the estate of an old lady that he’s never heard of, together with Myrna, the bookseller from Three Pines, and a young builder unknown to either of them named Benedict. Just as snow is starting to cover the roads, Gamache is driving to an old house that he has never seen before. This latest mystery is the 14th in the series centred around Gamache and the village of Three Pines in Quebec, and at first it does not seem to have murder at its core at all. Yet in the end, much to the delight of Louise Penny’s loyal readers, the words did flow. The author says that for a long time after her husband’s death she felt unable to revisit this thoughtful, calm and uxorious character, who had been partly inspired by him. Written by Louise Penny - In a rather moving afterword to the book, Louise Penny admits that she thought she was done with her beloved creation, Armand Gamache, former head of the Sûreté du Québec. Already writing and publishing as an undergraduate, he was able to pay some of his university bills by selling articles to provincial and London newspapers. After the war he matriculated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he studied history and political science as well as English literature. He served with both the Duke of Wellington's and the Devon regiments from 1914 to 1919. His early education was at the Bradford School, but this career was interrupted, as happened to many of his contemporaries, by service in World War I. John Boynton Priestley was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, in the North of England on September 13, 1894, the son of Jonathan Priestley, a schoolmaster. Priestley (1894-1984) had a career which spanned more than 60 years and included authoring novels, essays, plays, and screenplays. Called by some the last "sage" of English literature, J. Three captivating mysteries, compulsive reading for 9-11 year-olds. Determined to find out who is responsible, the friends come face to face with pirates and slave-dealers. Sheltering in the refugee camps following the eruption, they discover that children are being kidnapped from the camps in THE PIRATES OF POMPEII. When Mount Vesuvius erupts, they flee one of the greatest natural disasters of all time. Not long after solving this mystery, THE SECRETS OF VESUVIUS finds them relaxing near Pompeii. They have new neighbors: a boy named Jonathan, his sister. The thieves of Ostia by Caroline Lawrence. Flavia lives in Ostia, the seaport of Rome, where her father is often away at sea. The Thieves of Ostia (The Roman Mysteries 1) by Caroline Lawrence, 2001, Orion Childrens edition, in English. A fast-paced, crackling good mystery is set in the tenth year of the Emperor Vespasian and aimed at middle-grade readers. In THE THIEVES OF OSTIA, the four friends get on the trail of the killer who is silencing the town's watchdogs. by Caroline Lawrence RELEASE DATE: May 1, 2001. Join Flavia Gemina, a Roman sea captain's daughter, Jonathan, her Jewish neighbour, Nubia, the African slave-girl, and Lupus, the mute beggar boy, on three exciting adventures. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, not price clipped (£9.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. First edition, second impression with number line '3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2'. Agreeing to do whatever it takes to convince them she’s ready, the White Berkeley teen agrees to spend her summer at the Connecticut Shakespearean Summer Academy with a parentally assigned list of so-called normal teenage experiences she must check off, including making a friend, engaging in small talk, hugging people, doing something outdoorsy, and pulling a prank. When she confesses to her parents-sex therapists who share a practice-that she not only applied to Oxford, but was accepted to attend in the fall, they worry she is not prepared to move to another country by herself. Sixteen-year-old math genius Beatrice Quinn has been home-schooled her entire life, avoiding socializing and studying hard to secure her dream of attending the University of Oxford. What better way to prove to your parents that you can be a regular teenager than to enroll in Shakespeare camp? " I loved Esther and Jonathan's journey from awkwardness to comfortable friendship to love." -Smart B*tches, Trashy Books Will loving her neighbor be her undoing or her salvation? Before she knows it, he's broken down her carefully constructed defenses and thrown her well-ordered life into chaos. Only the more time Esther spends with him, the more loathing turns into attraction-and attraction into something even deeper. He'll ask out her friend, and she'll work with him on his script. Lucky for Esther, Jonathan needs help with a sci-fi script, and she's exactly the rocket scientist to do it. Until she realizes he's exactly the hipster hottie she needs.to distract her best friend from a bad-news ex. As far as she's concerned, they've got nothing in common. Loathe thy neighbor or love thy neighbor?Įverything about the guy in the apartment next door drives Esther to distraction: his hipster beanie, his movie and food opinions, and the fact that he won't. Many government programs that are widely used today have their seeds in the New Deal. The Folsoms continue to expose the idyllic legend of Franklin D. An accessible and compelling follow-up to New Deal or Raw Deal? that exposes how FDR transformed American government and American life during the war years with continuing repercussions in the current economy.īurton Folsom's New Deal or Raw Deal? was heralded by critics across the board, and #1 New York Times bestselling author and media personality Glenn Beck called it "a must read to help understand our current fiscal problems." Now, writing with his wife Anita Folsom, a domestic policy specialist, FDR Goes to War expands on the premise that FDR's legacy has damaged America and helped lay the groundwork for the current economic crisis. I wonder how the baseball commissioner, Bowie Kuhn, felt about the book? Ahh yes, he called Ball Four “detrimental to baseball.” This book hit baseball players/managers/owners like a psycho nun with a steel studded ruler was rapping their knuckles over and over again. He was taking notes and immortalizing most of the one year this team was in existence. Probably few would remember this organization except for the fact that Jim Bouton was with the team. They only existed for one year, 1969, and then they were moved to Milwaukee to become the Brewers. Now if you haven’t heard of the Seattle Pilots, don’t feel bad because I’d never heard of them either. When we catch up with Jim, he is with the Seattle Pilots expansion team, trying to learn how to throw a knuckleball in an attempt to resurrect and lengthen his career. Jim Bouton won two World Series games in 1964 with the New York Yankees, but in 1965 he developed arm troubles that turned the pitching phenom from a starter into a bullpen pitcher. It is interesting how the words honest and controversial seem to travel together like a Harley Davidson with a sidecar. This is probably the most controversial book and the most honest book ever written about baseball. “A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.” |