![]() ![]() She examines barriers to education in depth-early child marriage and childbearing, slavery, sexual trafficking, gender discrimination, and poverty-and shows how removing these barriers means not only a better life for girls, but safer, healthier, and more prosperous communities. Now, award-winning author Tanya Lee Stone deftly uses new research to illuminate the dramatic facts behind the film, focusing both on the girls captured on camera and many others. Girl Rising, a global campaign for girls’ education, created a film that chronicled the stories of nine girls in the developing world, allowing viewers the opportunity to witness how education can break the cycle of poverty. ![]() ![]() But one girl with courage is a revolution. Tanya Lee Stone has been featured in Glamour! Check it out.ĪBOUT THE BOOK: Worldwide, over 62 million girls are not in school. Join Tanya Lee Stone for a talk on Girl Rising, a book that will inspire readers of all ages to join together in a growing movement to help change the world. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And at first no head could be seen in the mess of blood and flesh. ![]() A ragged hem about a crumpled centre suggested the skin had been torn from the back in one quick ripping motion. The pelt was spread out across surrounding branches, holed but stretched taut in places. Between the limbs of a spruce tree it was displayed, but in such a tattered state they could not tell what it had once been.įrom the large rib cage drooped the gut, wet and blue in the light seeping through the canopy of leaves. Looked up.Ībove them, beyond the reach of a man standing upright, the dead thing sagged. ![]() Bent from the weight of the rucksacks, bedding and wet tents, they stood under it. Breathing hard, damp with sweat and rain, speechless with fatigue, they came to a halt. ![]() Right after they clambered over another fallen tree to stumble into more of the scratching bracken, they came across it. All four of them saw it at the same time. But it was the dead thing they found hanging from a tree that changed the trip beyond recognition. The rain fell hard and cold, the white sun never broke through the low grey cloud, and they were lost. And on the second day things did not get better. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Things died down around the turn of the century, but then there was a brief resurgence from 2006-2011. Throughout the 1990s, both companies routinely put out a multitude of holiday specials. ![]() The late 1980s saw DC return to the holiday special game and Marvel joined in in 1991. The 1970s saw Marvel and DC begin to tell more holiday-themed stories in their comics and that decade saw the release of the first superhero holiday specials from both companies (with both releasing them as Treasury Editions). Stan Lee generally believed that holiday-related stories distracted from the universal feel of Marvel stories, so it wasn't until the late 1960s that Marvel Comics had its first notable holiday comic. That tradition fell by the wayside during the 1950s and 1960s, at least in superhero titles (DC released a "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer holiday comic special every year from 1950 through 1962, and Walt Disney Comics routinely put out "Christmas Parade" specials). In the Golden Age of comics, there was practically a Christmas-related issue of any given title once a year, like clockwork. ![]() Holiday specials have an interesting history. This is DC's first company-wide holiday special since 2009 (although the publisher has had other holiday comics since then, including a number of Harley Quinn specials). DC Comics recently announced it will return to the tradition of releasing a holiday special with "DC Rebirth Holiday Special" #1. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is one use of strong language and somewhat regular occurrences of moderate language and taking the name of deity in vain. The Body Finder is a fairly entertaining teen read that works pretty well both as an age-appropriate thriller and romance. But she ends up putting herself in danger, too. And now, she’s found another one.Īs it becomes clear a serial killer is preying on young women in Violet’s town, she feels she must use her gift to help catch him and stop the killing. Once, however, when she was 8, she found the dead body of a girl. ![]() Giving them a proper burial has helped her move on. through various senses that draw her to them. Since she was little, she has been finding dead bodies - squirrels, mice, birds, etc. The big thing that sets Violet apart, though, is her ability to sense bodies that have been killed. At the same time, she’s getting attention from another guy who’s also been a friend for a long time. Violet Ambrose is 16 and trying to figure out how to deal with her newfound romantic feelings for the guy who’s simply been her best friend for years, Jay. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An evolutionary ecologist at Brigham Young University, Peck teaches the philosophy of biology. Righteous Moabites accuse Dora of the murder, but who really killed their child? Did a coyote dingo the baby? Was it an alien abduction as Dora claims? Was it Hyrum? Or could it have been the only witness to the crime, one of a pair of Oxford-educated conjoined twins who cowboy in the La Sals on sabbatical? ![]() To make matters worse, Hyrum's illicit affair with Dora Tanner, a local poet thought to be mad, results in the delivery of a bouncing baby boy who vanishes the night of his birth. Young Hyrum Thayne, an unrefined geological surveyor, steals a massive dictionary out of the Grand County library in a midnight raid, startling the good people of Moab into believing a nefarious band of Book of Mormon thugs, the Gadianton Robbers, has arisen again. ![]() What happens when a two-headed cowboy, a high school dropout, and a poet abducted by aliens come together in 1970s Moab, Utah? The Scholar of Moab, a dark-comedy perambulating murder, affairs, and cowboy mysteries in the shadow of the hoary La Sal Mountains. “Steven Peck has imagined a world ever-so-slightly tweaked from this real one… The Scholar of Moab explores the otherworld of nature, imagination, and mind.” 2011 Best Novel, Association for Mormon letters ![]() ![]() ![]() Maggie lives in Virginia with her husband and their two children. She is also the author of LAMENT and BALLAD. Printz Honor Book by the American Library Association, while PUBLISHERS WEEKLY selected Maggies THE RAVEN BOYS as a Best Book of the Year. Her novel THE SCORPIO RACES was named a Michael L. Maggie Stiefvater is the #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of the novels SHIVER, LINGER, and FOREVER. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human-or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever. Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. ![]() until the cold makes him shift back again. In summer, a few precious months of being human. Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. ![]() One yellow-eyed wolf-her wolf-is a chilling presence she cant seem to live without. Book Synopsis From a dazzlingly talented young writer, a haunting and original supernatural romance in the vein of TWILIGHT.For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. About the Book The first novel of Stiefvaters phenomenal New York Times-bestselling trilogy that chronicles the haunting romance between human girl Grace and Sam, a wolf that can shift into human form during summer. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was a time when gay activists were becoming bolder. “Jeanne opened that door.”Ĭórdova gained prominence as an activist in 1970, when she became president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis, a lesbian civil and political-rights organization. ![]() “We were so sheltered from the world and had no idea what a kaleidoscope of diversity lay outside our door,” Lu Córdova said. They questioned what it meant - coming out, being gay. ![]() She later reconciled with her parents, who persisted, unsuccessfully, in trying to win her back to the faith, Córdova wrote.įor her siblings, she was fascinating, Lu Córdova said. She recounted her convent experience in her 1990 book, “Kicking the Habit: A Lesbian Nun Story.”Ĭórdova’s devout Catholic parents struggled with their daughter’s coming out, and there was a “dark age” when she was estranged from the family for several years, Lu Córdova said. She left the convent and earned a master’s degree in social work from UCLA. She soon began questioning her sexuality and faith. Córdova joined the Immaculate Heart of Mary order of nuns in 1966. ![]() ![]() ![]() She closed the bathroom door swiftly and he could hear her giggles floating through the wooden door to where he stood. She was nimble, too fast for his powerful body her agility reminding him of the Sultan of Sokoto’s well bred horses. She playfully leapt off the bed, and he pursued. She ignored his question and turned to lay on her side.Įddy shrugged off his robe and proceeded to hold her lithe frame in his arms. “I can’t tell you,” she said in her native Hausa.Ī knowing smile curled his usually grim lips. She shrugged and smiled mysteriously, causing his curiosity to swell even more. The honeyed scent she wore was enough to cause such blissful imagination. He believed he had died and gone to heaven. After receiving lots of positive feedback from several reviewers on the Youwriteon site and also from the remarkable ladies of Romance Writers of West Africa, I thought I’d share with you the opening chapter of my latest completed work, The Officer’s bride. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the first chapter of The Dumbest Generation, the author claims, With these experiences, Bauerlein was able to witness the problems with education among the youth. This agency promotes and supports participation in arts and creativity. Bush administration in the National Endowment for the Arts. ![]() Additionally, Bauerlein worked under the George W. The author’s ethos comes from his experience as an English professor. In the book, The Dumbest Generation, Mark Bauerlein argues that teens and young adults comprise the dumbest generation. However, even though the emergence of new technologies has had some negative impacts, there have also been several advantages (such as increased awareness and tolerance) of the technological advancements this generation has seen. Bauerlein argues that the digital era has endangered the future because it has stupefied the younger generation. He writes his argument in the book The Dumbest Generation which was published in 2008. Mark Bauerlein is one person who emphasizes the negative effects of technology on the younger generation. Some might argue that these changes have had positive influences while others might contend there have been more negative impacts on society. Electronic systems have now become incorporated into every aspect of life. Since the introduction of technology, people have become increasingly dependent on electronic devices, especially the younger generation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dignall writes with a pleasing light touch and some of the jokes would be worthy of La Truss herself. ![]() And a section on the "double possessive" left me genuinely baffled (for some reason "she was a former girlfriend of the prince" is wrong). Having rightly steered us away from the dreaded greengrocer's apostrophe, she suddenly presents us with p's and q's, and the grotesque no's (rather than noes) as the plural of no. Thus in the apostrophe chapter we are told it's Mars' and Venus' for the possessive of the ancient gods, but Mars's for the planet and Venus's for the tennis player, and it's Dickens's, but Jesus'. OK, we all make mistakes, but a bigger problem is that many of Dignall's rulings are dubious, and some absurd. So barely three pages into the first chapter we find a "forego" (she means forgo) and, worse, "David Lloyd-George" (sic) is cited as an example of a hyphenated proper name. It's always tempting to point out the mistakes in such a book, so I will (it's known as Muphry's law, from which Guardian Style is not, alas, immune: "If you write anything criticising editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written"). ![]() |