![]() ![]() Plett, Casey Plett Fitzpatrick, Cat, eds.Stonewall Book Award: Barbara Gittings Literature Award Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction Plett was on the Giller Prize jury in 2022. Her short story collection A Dream of a Woman was longlisted for the 2021 Giller Prize. ![]() She has cited Imogen Binnie, Elena Rose, and Julia Serano as some of her influences. ![]() Meanwhile, Elsewhere received a Stonewall Book Award in 2018. In addition to her work as an author she is the co-editor with Cat Fitzpatrick of Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers, an anthology of speculative fiction from trans authors from Topside Press. She is a book reviewer for the Winnipeg Free Press and has published work in Rookie, Plenitude, The Walrus, and Two Serious Ladies. Plett previously wrote a regular column about her gender transition for McSweeney's Internet Tendency. She attended high school in Eugene, Oregon and later moved to Portland for college and New York for graduate school. Plett was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and grew up in a Mennonite family in Morden, Manitoba. A Safe Girl to Love, Little Fish, A Dream of a WomanĬasey Plett (born June 20, 1987) is a Canadian writer, best known for her novel Little Fish and Giller Prize-nominated short story collection A Dream of a Woman. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Part 1 of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism looks at specific historical, political, and economic circumstances that led to the rise of surveillance capitalism. ![]() The author argues that surveillance capitalism’s secret exploitation of the mass public is a dire threat to the future of democratic society, threatening the very idea of free will. These products are sold on behavioral futures markets to buyers who wish to know and influence people’s future behaviors. In her introduction, Zuboff defines surveillance capitalism as a process whereby technology firms collect data on lived human experience to create prediction products. Please note that this study guide uses the first edition eBook and citation pages may vary from print editions. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Briggs, Unlearning questions intellectual foundations and charts new paths forward. By recounting residents' quest to learn why their children died and documenting their creative approaches to democratizing health, the authors open up new ways to address some of global health's most intractable problems.Ī provocative theoretical synthesis by renowned folklorist and anthropologist Charles L. ![]() The book provides a new framework for analyzing how the uneven distribution of rights to produce and circulate knowledge about health are wedded at the hip with health inequities. Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs relay the nightmarish and difficult experiences of doctors, patients, parents, local leaders, healers, and epidemiologists detail how journalists first created a smoke screen, then projected the epidemic worldwide discuss the Chávez government's hesitant and sometimes ambivalent reactions and narrate the eventual diagnosis of bat-transmitted rabies. Tell Me Why My Children Died tells the gripping story of indigenous leaders' efforts to identify a strange disease that killed thirty-two children and six young adults in a Venezuelan rain forest between 20. ![]() ![]() ![]() There's also a guy who's super cute, even in a dorky dwarf costume-if only Ainsley could get Prince Handsome to stop babbling about himself long enough for her to say more than 'hi' to the cute dwarf! But once the cruise starts, things start to go wrong: the laundry turns pink, the kitchen runs out of food, the guy playing the Pig King is always in Ainsley's hair, and her mom expects her to be in a hundred places all at once. Review: Once Upon a Cruise by Anna Staniszewski. A humorous tale where a bold and spunky girl ends up the one saving. ![]() ![]() Things aren't all bad-it's good to see her mom acting confident again after the divorce, and she's learning a lot about obscure German fairy tales and how to fold towels into entertaining shapes for little kids (um, yay?). She was a Writer-in-Residence at the Boston Public Library and a winner of the PEN New England Susan P. Ainsley never wanted to spend her summer on a fairy tale cruise-especially since, instead of lounging by the pool, she's running around the ship doing favor after favor for her cruise director mom. Anna Staniszewski is the talented and prolific author of over a dozen books for young readers, ranging from the novels Once Upon a Cruise and The Dirt Diary series, to picture books such as Dogosaurus Rex and Power Down, Little Robot. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has also appeared on numerous television series, most notably Melrose Place. A student of the Lee Strasberg Insitute in Los Angeles, Lords starred in John Waters' Cry-Baby in 1990 and Serial Mom in 1994. In the 1990s, however, Lords proved herself to be a legitimate actress. Though she claimed to be 18 at the time, when the truth came out years later, it scandalized the X-rated industry, and earned Lords notoriety that continues today. She got her start in front of the camera at the age 15, appearing in dozens of adult films. Traci Lords was born Nora Louise Kuzma on May 7, 1968, in Steubenville, Ohio. She has also appeared on numerous TV series, most notably Melrose Place. Later a student of the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles, Lords starred in John Waters’ Cry-Baby and Serial Mom. Though she claimed to be 18 at the time, when the truth came out years later, it scandalized the industry and earned Lords notoriety. Traci Lords started in film at the age 15, appearing in dozens of adult films. ![]() ![]() Jack Pierce created Gwynplaine’s horrific smile he would also devise the iconic makeup for Frankenstein, 1932’s The Mummy and 1941’s The Wolf Man. Hall, who’d designed the sets for Phantom, oversaw production design (and went on to art direct Dracula and Frankenstein in 1931). The budget for Laughs was $1 million ($17 million today), making it one of the most expensive films of its time.Ĭharles D. (That film established the tone for much of the classic Universal horror to come.) To play Gwynplaine, Leni cast fellow German Conrad Veidt, best known to American audiences as Cesare, the sleepwalker roped into committing murders in 1920’s The Cabinet of Dr. To direct, he chose Paul Leni, a German Expressionist who’d impressed with the 1927 silent horror film The Cat and the Canary, about an escaped lunatic who stalks an heiress in her late uncle’s mansion. Hollywood Flashback: 'White Men Can't Jump' First Scored 31 Years Ago ![]() ![]() ![]() The book follows two 12-year-old girls: Bett Devlin and Avery Bloom. Palacio’s Wonder, Ross Wellford’s Time Travelling with a Hamster and Mitch Johnson’s Kick. To Night Owl from Dogfish is a novel written entirely in emails and letters. Is keeping a family together as easy as they think it is? From two extraordinary authors comes this moving, exuberant, laugh-out-loud novel about friendship and family, told entirely in emails and letters. Avery Bloom, whos bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in New York City. But when the worst happens and their dads break up, Avery and Bett must figure out a way to get them to fall in love again. To Night Owl From Dogfish is authentic, sweet, and funny, and youll find yourself beginning to love the characters as you get to know them and they get to. Against all odds, the girls soon can’t imagine a life without each other. ![]() Their dads hope that they will find common ground and become friends – and possibly, one day, even sisters. Bett and Avery are sent, against their will, to the same camp for the summer vacation. What they have in common is that they are both twelve years old and their dads are dating each other. Avery (Night Owl) is bookish, intense, likes to plan ahead and is afraid of many things.īett (Dogfish) is fearless, outgoing and lives in the moment. ![]() A Reverse Parent Trap For A New Generation From New York Times Bestselling Authors Holly Goldberg-Sloan And Meg Wolitzer. ![]() ![]() ![]() This engaging little book carries huge messages as it inspires hope for the future, and calls children to action while teaching them a love for books. The alliteration, rhyming, and vibrant illustrations make the book exciting for children, while the issues it brings up resonate with their parents’ values of community, equality, and justice. Įven if the words are a preposterous song about eating ants for breakfast, or just a list of astonishingly goofy sounds like BLAGGITY BLAGGITY and GLIBBITY GLOBBITY.Ĭleverly irreverent and irresistibly silly, The Book with No Pictures is one that kids will beg to hear again and again. He is also acclaimed for his standup comedy, his performances in motion pictures, and his New York Times bestselling book of short stories, One More. ![]() Everything written on the page has to be said by the person reading it aloud. Novak is well known for his work on NBC’s Emmy Award-winning comedy series The Office as an actor, writer, director, and executive producer. You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. Novak will turn any reader into a comedian-a perfect gift for any special occasion! A #1 New York Times bestseller, this innovative and wildly funny read-aloud by award-winning humorist/actor B.J. But it does have super fun words on each page that will have everyone giggling. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His tale of places and people in Provence, a region tucked away into France’s southwest corner, is also surprisingly well-known. And as I experienced the splendor of late August in Provence, I relished the experience of rereading Mayle’s colorful descriptions of a year of his own experiences. But I couldn’t help but feel inspired with awe as I witnessed stone villages with earthy pink and lush green valleys extending for miles. Having read A Year in Provence, I had fashioned a mental image of Provence that was surprisingly close to the real thing. In the front of the house grew fig trees that bore fruit so sweet that by journey’s end figs had become a favorite food of mine. In our backyard, rows of grape vines were weighed down with heavy bunches ready for collection. ![]() Though I was only to spend a week, my family and I would rent a car and a house in the countryside. Anyone who has read Peter Mayle’s A Year in Provence will appreciate the anticipation that consumed me when I had the opportunity to spend the last week of August attempting to live the author’s Provencal life in southern France’s Luberon Valley. ![]() ![]() ![]() In order to find the truth, Gamache will have to decide whether he can trust his friends, his colleagues, his instincts, his own past. Soon the whole family is caught up in a web of lies and deceit. It sends them deep into the secrets Armand’s godfather has kept for decades.Ī gruesome discovery in Stephen’s Paris apartment makes it clear the secrets are more rancid, the danger far greater and more imminent, than they realized. When a strange key is found in Stephen’s possession it sends Armand, his wife Reine-Marie, and his former second-in-command at the Sûreté, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, from the top of the Tour d’Eiffel, to the bowels of the Paris Archives, from luxury hotels to odd, coded, works of art. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident, but a deliberate attempt on the elderly man’s life. On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand’s godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. In All the Devils Are Here, the 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light. ![]() ![]() "Robert Bathurst is just about perfect delivering the 16th Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novel.Listen to all the Gamache audiobooks for maximum satisfaction." - AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner ![]() |