Between crushing on Siobhan, the new girl from Ireland (who has a boyfriend) struggling under the responsibility of paying the bills after her mom is laid off and keeping up with SAT prep and homework, Mahalia doesn’t know if the party can even happen. Inspired, Mahalia decides to save up for a coming-out party, complete with music, confetti, and a rainbow dress to celebrate her queerness. When she tells Naomi how frustrated she feels about needing to come out at all-why does society assume people are straight unless they say otherwise?-Naomi suggests she do things on her own terms and make a big splash. Mahalia also doesn’t know how to come out to her mom. Mahalia is having a hard time accepting that-even though deep down she thinks complaining about it makes her a brat-but her best friend, Naomi, gets to have a big gala for her 16th birthday. When Mahalia was 6, her mom promised her that she could have a Sweet 16 party, but it turns out there isn’t enough money for it this year. A queer Black teen struggles with revealing her sexuality to her religious mom.
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5/22/2023 0 Comments Author gabby riveraIn 2022, Gabby became a Sundance Screenwriters Fellow and received an Advancing Justice Award from Catalyst California, alongside activist Dolores Huerta and politician Sheila Kuehl. Gabby presented before the United Nations in 2020 as an invited speaker to their Unstereotyping Alliance Conference, and she has collaborated with groups such as the Ford Motor Company, the Makers Women’s Conference and Somos Familia, to uplift joyful storytelling and the magic of queer diasporicans everywhere. Mic named it one of the 25 essential books to read for Women’s History Month, and Latina magazine called it the “dopest LGBTQA YA book ever.” Gabby’s critically acclaimed debut novel Juliet Takes a Breath was called “f*cking outstanding” by Roxane Gay and was re-published by Penguin Random House in 2019. Gabby is the first Latina ever to write for Marvel comics, penning the solo series AMERICA about America Chavez, a portal-punching queer Latina powerhouse. Gabby Rivera is a Bronx-born queer Puerto Rican babe on a mission to create the wildest, most fun stories ever. “Gabby Rivera’s voice is a force-moving, alive, and bursting with feelings” - Britta Lundin, author of Ship It While Turing’s achievements remain relevant decades after his death, the story of his life in post-war Europe continues to fascinate audiences today.Īward-winning duo Jim Ottaviani (the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Feynman and Primates) and artist Leland Purvis (an Eisner and Ignatz Award nominee and occasional reviewer for the Comics Journal) present a factually detailed account of Turing’s life and groundbreaking research-as an unconventional genius who was arrested, tried, convicted, and punished for being openly gay, and whose innovative work still fuels the computing and communication systems that define our modern world. His code breaking efforts led to the cracking of the German Enigma during World War II, work that saved countless lives and accelerated the Allied defeat of the Nazis. The Imitation Game presents a historically accurate graphic novel biography of Turing’s life, including his groundbreaking work on the fundamentals of cryptography and artificial intelligence. Selected as a 2017 ALA/YALSA Great Graphic Novel for Teens: NonfictionĪward winning authors Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis present a historically accurate graphic novel biography of English mathematician and scientist Alan Turing in The Imitation Game.Įnglish mathematician and scientist Alan Turing (1912–1954) is credited with many of the foundational principles of contemporary computer science. Luiselli reveals each successive question when describing particular cases on which she worked as a translator, uniting their experiences and illuminating a pattern of abuse and neglect. The list of 40 questions were designed by nonprofit organizations in order to collect the experiences of immigrant children into a cohesive narrative for attorneys to reference in their defense. The 40 questions referenced in the title of the essay refer to the intake questionnaire. Interwoven through the list of questions are the author’s own experiences with issues of immigration, identity, and belonging. From her position as an immigrant, mother, educator, writer, and translator she describes the process of screening children through an intake questionnaire. In this four-part essay, Valleria Luiselli explains the phenomenon of the 2014 “immigration crisis” in which thousands of undocumented children from Central America arrived at the southern border of the United States. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions. The following version of this book was used for the creation of this study guide: Luiselli, Valeria. According to some Texas Library Association surveys, the Hank the Cowdog books are the most popular selections in many libraries' children's sections. Teachers, librarians, and students alike love Hank. When teachers began inviting Erickson to their schools, Hank found his most eager fans. So in 1983, he self-published 2,000 copies of The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog, and they sold out in 6 weeks. Hank the Cowdog made his debut in the pages of The Cattleman, a magazine for adults, and when Erickson started getting "Dear Hank" letters, he knew he was onto something. Publishers Weekly calls Hank a "grassroots publishing phenomena," and USA Today says this is "the best family entertainment in years." This series of books and tapes is in school libraries across the country, has sold more than 7.6 million copies, is a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and is the winner of the 1993 Audie for Outstanding Children's Series from the Audio Publisher's Association. Through the eyes of Hank the Cowdog, a smelly, smart-aleck Head of Ranch Security, Erickson gives readers a glimpse of daily life on a ranch in the West Texas Panhandle. Erickson, a former cowboy and ranch manager, is gifted with a storyteller's knack for spinning a yarn. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Gathering blue novelI had just turned nineteen - just finished my sophomore year in college - when I married a Naval officer and continued the odyssey that military life requires. High school was back in New York City, but by the time I went to college (Brown University in Rhode Island), my family was living in Washington, D.C. I was born in Hawaii, moved from there to New York, spent the years of World War II in my mother’s hometown: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and from there went to Tokyo when I was eleven. I was a solitary child who lived in the world of books and my own vivid imagination.īecause my father was a career military officer - an Army dentist - I lived all over the world. That left me in-between, and exactly where I wanted most to be: on my own. Little brother Jon was the only boy and had interests that he shared with Dad together they were always working on electric trains and erector sets and later, when Jon was older, they always seemed to have their heads under the raised hood of a car. My older sister, Helen, was very much like our mother: gentle, family-oriented, eager to please. "I’ve always felt that I was fortunate to have been born the middle child of three. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Amazon book working backwardsWorking Backwards is both a practical guidebook and the story of how the company grew to become so successful. With a focus on customer obsession, long-term thinking, eagerness to invent, and operational excellence, Amazon’s ground-level practices ensure these characteristics are translated into action and flow through all aspects of the business. With keen analysis and practical steps for applying it at your own company-no matter the size-the authors illuminate how Amazon’s fourteen leadership principles inform decision-making at all levels of the company. With twenty-seven years of Amazon experience between them-much of it during the period of unmatched innovation that created products and services including Kindle, Amazon Prime, Amazon Studios, and Amazon Web Services-Bryar and Carr offer unprecedented access to the Amazon way as it was developed and proven to be repeatable, scalable, and adaptable. In Working Backwards, two long-serving Amazon executives reveal the principles and practices that have driven the success of one of the most extraordinary companies the world has ever known. Working Backwards is an insider's breakdown of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership, and best practices from two long-time Amazon executives-with lessons and techniques you can apply to your own company, and career, right now. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Iain gately drinkGately states in his opening paragraph: "Alcohol is a fundamental part of Western culture. It can't be wished away, as Americans above all should understand, having suffered through Prohibition and its appalling consequences.īetter, instead, to face the inescapable reality and try to understand the many ways in which, over the ages, we have used and abused it, profited and suffered from it, refined it and been changed by it. Those who take the occasional (or more than occasional) drink are likely to enjoy it more than those who do not, but a central theme should be of interest to all: like it or not, alcohol has been and always will be with us, an important part of human history, culture and society. Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol is thorough, informative, briskly readable and witty. Iain Gately, a British writer who six years ago published Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilisation, now turns his attention to booze, a subject of similar character but considerably larger import. Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol, by Iain Gately. “Plague Year” is crammed with rolls of the dead and other helpful lists, as well as page upon page of city regulations governing the duties of citizens, the conduct of the inspectors, etc. Defoe, however, although did he live in London at the time, was born in 1660, and was therefore only five years old when the Hand of Death fell upon the city of London.ĭefoe creates a convincing persona by making his narrator a stolid burgher who fears his God, respects his fellow Londoners, and admires his city, an unimaginative man who above all reverences reliable testimony and verifiable facts. Perhaps the most impressive thing about “A Journal of the Plague Year" is that it is an extraordinarily convincing account narrated by the voice of a mature, solid citizen-thoroughly respectable and reliable-who has personally witnessed the extraordinary and often horrific incidents he describes. A brief study of Daniel Defoe's book on the London plague of 1665-1666 illustrates this principle. A person's strengths and weaknesses are often two sides of the same coin-the sympathetic character is often permissive, the assertive unreasonable, the ardent rash-and the same thing can be said of an author's beauties and his faults. Because writing is an expression of human character, what is true of one's character is true of one's writing as well. Two of the arrows point to representations of trees, while the third points to the phrase "Because magic rules itself."įurther text included with this graphic talks about how "Magic knows no master," and refers to a "fraying edge between reality and unreality." This could be referring to a sort of purgatory between life and death, or. A data-driven interludeĪ two-page data dump breaks up the comic then, with an eight-pointed anarchy symbol. Prestige uses her mutant abilities to 'see' the past and learn Magneto took it himself. Meanwhile, Northstar, Daken, and Prestige investigate Magneto's home for any clues - and find that a Cerebro helmet is missing. That option turns out to be the always-conniving Emma Frost and the Stepford Cuckoos in white, one-piece outfits - which works to distract Tony Stark in particular from noticing their Resurrection Protocols. Polaris asks Jean to erase the Avengers' memories, but Marvel Girl balks at this notion and expresses hope for another option. While this is going on, Polaris and Jean Grey telepathically express concerns the Avengers might see and learn of their secret ability to resurrect their fallen mutant comrades (That's something being investigated by Ben Urich in the main X-Men book as well). (Image credit: Lucas Werneck (Marvel Comics)) |