![]() ![]() Some of these are famous, while others are lesser known (at least by me). There are other features, such as muscle anatomy, statistics on TV coverage and the pay gap, influential sports teams and a bibliography.Ī variety of sports are represented and there is a diverse selection of athletes. ![]() At the beginning there’s a timeline, from the first Olympic Games around 776 BCE (women weren’t even allowed to watch, let alone compete) through to the present day, in which women are breaking records but are still ‘fighting for equal access, exposure and pay’. They are arranged in chronological order of birth, from figure skater Madge Syers to gymnast Simone Biles. ![]() Each athlete has two pages, containing biography, quotes and energetic illustrations. Published this year by Wren & Rook (Hachette Children’s), this book was bought as a gift for an eleven-year-old and I had to read it before the wrapping paper went on… ![]() Obviously that report writer hadn’t read this book! Beautifully illustrated and concisely written, it aims to inspire and encourage girls to achieve success in sports, featuring fifty female athletes who broke boundaries, overcame difficulties, achieved world records and followed their dreams. I even saw one report which claimed a ‘lack of role models’. We often hear negative things in the media about women in sport – unequal pay, lack of coverage on TV, body shaming, girls not participating in sports at school. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Violet can't believe its coincidence that Joseph turns up just as girls start getting murdered. Suddenly life is horrifyingly much more interesting. And then Violet's best friend disappears too. Then young girls start going missing, and turning up murdered. Joseph, her long-lost brother, comes home. He blows up Violet's grey little life, and she can't believe her luck. ![]() Beau's a Rocker& a motorcycle boy who arrives in an explosion of passion and rebellion. And it doesn't look like fame and fortune are going to come calling anytime soon. She was born at the exact moment Winston Churchill announced Victory in Europe& an auspicious start, but now she's just stuck in her family's fish and chip shop dreaming of greatness. The world is changing& but not for 16-year-old Violet. Battersea, 1961: London is just beginning to enter the swinging sixties. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Brother persists as a companion into Youssef’s adult life, supporting him but also stealing his memories and shaking his grip on the world. Youssef shares everything with his brothers, except for one secret: he sees a hallucinatory double, an imaginary friend who seems absolutely real, a shapeshifting familiar he calls Brother. The three boys are an inseparable trio, but conspicuous: Dayo is of Nigerian origin, Iseul is Korean, and Youssef indeterminately Middle Eastern. They are adopted as infants and share a bedroom perched atop a mosque in one of Staten Island’s most diverse and underserved neighborhoods. In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef. From the finalist for the NBCC John Leonard Prize and NYPL Young Lions Award , an astonishing debut novel about family, sexuality, and capitalist systems of control, following three adopted brothers who live above a mosque in Staten Island with their imam father ![]() ![]() ![]() "Much like the floating cities within its pages, this book is a perfect synthesis of high-tech futurism and dreamlike imagery. ![]() This is sci-fi at its best: floating cities, kindness and desert islands!" - Lauren James, author of The Reckless Afterlife of Harriet Stoker "In a climate-ravaged future, the love between two sisters is the only hope for humanity's future. Joan He's words will stay with you long after the final page." - Marie Lu, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Skyhunter "I fell in love with this haunting, futuristic world and the sisters searching for each other in it. "A melancholy, heartbreaking story of a young woman who loved her sister enough to survive years of horrors in order to get back to her.It's painful stuff, beautifully written, and He gives that suffering the space it deserves in this reflective novel." - The Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books An intriguing foray into a devastating future-and yet one where hope abides." - Kirkus Reviews Readers who puzzle through this world will find a curious struggle that may answer the question of whether humanity is worth saving. "The pacing is maddeningly slow at first, but midway through, the action accelerates, racing to a breathless end. "He crafts an intricate, well-paced rumination on human nature, choice, and consequence." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) ![]() ![]() “A heartfelt exploration of Black manhood and the power of possibility.” - People He’ll have to figure out for himself what it really means to be a man. Loyalty, revenge, and responsibility threaten to tear Mav apart, especially after the brutal murder of a loved one. When King Lord blood runs through your veins, though, you can't just walk away. In a world where he’s expected to amount to nothing, maybe Mav can prove he’s different. So when he’s offered the chance to go straight, he takes it. But it’s not so easy to sling dope, finish school, and raise a child. Suddenly he has a baby, Seven, who depends on him for everything. ![]() ![]() Until, that is, Maverick finds out he’s a father. Life’s not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav’s got everything under control. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad’s in prison. ![]() As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. ![]() International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() No one can deny that pictures of Leibovitz's dying parents or her late partner Susan Sontag are heart-rending. ![]() You could take pictures as good as these, said Ariella Budick in Newsday. Not at all museum-worthy, they at times reduce the exhibition to little more than 'œan unconscious exercise in ego gratification.' ![]() The more personal works however are shockingly bland. ![]() Jim Carrey contorts his rubbery face into a howl. Donald Trump shows off his private jet and brand-new trophy wife. The witty commercial works capture 'œa heady mix of intimacy and posturing, elaborated, like paintings of saints, by recognizable attributes.' Demi Moore poses pregnant and naked. But they're nearly outnumbered by photographs of the artist's family and other intimate relations. Like Richard Avedon before her, Leibovitz has become famous for photographing famous people, and celebrity portraits are certainly the main attraction at the Brooklyn Museum of Art's exhibition of her recent work. 'œApparently, it is time for Annie Leibovitz's close-up,' said Roberta Smith in The New York Times. ![]() ![]() ![]() There were some super old boy schools’ tennis teams in the D’Abernon Cup in 2013, as was highlighted in our royal battle in the semi final against a strong Old Bromsgrovians team. It is a testament to the strength of KCS Old Boys that they had a settled team all season, and Chris Diacon, KCS Old Boys long standing stalwart and KCS Old Boys captain commented: “Unlike the last couple of years the KCSOB D’Abernon Cup campaign found us with sufficient player availability that we have been able to select the side that played on each occasion, and especially so in the final at the All England Lawn Tennis Club. Saturday, 14th September saw KCS Old Boys beat UCS Old Boys 6-0, and win the final of the D’Abernon Cup 2013 played at the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club.Ī strong KCS Old Boys team featuring Blake Hutchins, Peter Dowdeswell, Scott Lloyd, Steve Morris, James Mustoe, Chris Clarke proved too strong for a plucky UCS Old Boys team of Jonathan Sumner, Tudor Rowe, Alex Dillon, Jonathan Dean, Anthony Hulse, Edward Haygarth. ![]() ![]() At the age of 17, he studied economics at Waseda University in Tokyo starting in 1912. ![]() The family moved to what is now Kameyama, Mie, and from there to Nagoya when he was age two. ![]() His father was a merchant, who had also practiced law. Tarō Hirai was born in Nabari, Mie Prefecture in 1894, where his grandfather had been a samurai in the service of Tsu Domain. Other authors who were special influences on him were Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whom he attempted to translate into Japanese during his days as a student at Waseda University, and the Japanese mystery writer Ruikō Kuroiwa.īiography Before World War II His pen name is a rendering of Poe's name. Ranpo was an admirer of Western mystery writers, and especially of Edgar Allan Poe. ![]() Many of his novels involve the detective hero Kogoro Akechi, who in later books was the leader of a group of boy detectives known as the "Boy Detectives Club" ( 少年探偵団, Shōnen tantei dan). ![]() Tarō Hirai ( 平井 太郎, Hirai Tarō, October 21, 1894 – July 28, 1965), better known by the pen name Edogawa Ranpo ( 江戸川 乱歩) was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery and thriller fiction. ![]() ![]() Currently, I teach at UCLA Extension, Antioch University, Los Angeles and for Writing Workshops L.A. I have also been teaching for twelve years. My work has been translated into many languages and it has received numerous awards, including the Margaret A. My most recent book, THE THORN NECKLACE: HEALING THROUGH WRITING AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS, is a memoir and craft book for writers and artists of all kinds. I’ve also published dozens more novels, memoirs, short story collections, books of poetry and essays, and I’ve written some screenplays including an adaptation of WEETZIE BAT. ![]() Since then, I’ve published six other books about Weetzie in the DANGEROUS ANGELS series and Weetzie has become a cult favorite. It’s a magical realist punk fairy tale about a young woman and her gay best friend growing up in L.A. ![]() I published my first book, WEETZIE BAT, in 1989. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far. Today we’d like to introduce you to Francesca Lia Block.įrancesca Lia, let’s start with your story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Agents of the Public Health Service's Compulsory Execution Unit are also in hot pursuit. He's not the only one looking for her, though. Zoichi Kanoe plunges into the depths of 9JO-an island city in the middle of the Pacific Ocean-in search of Eon Green, a girl with the power to transmute the N5S virus. Prepare yourself for the ultimate trip-prepare yourself for the world of BIOMEGA. Zoichi Kanoe, an agent of Toa Heavy Industry, is humanity's last hope, and he's not even human! With the help of Fuyu, a digitized intelligence built into the computer system of his Heavy Dual Coil motorcycle, Zoichi's search for the key to salvation will take him on a journey across surreal landscapes and hurl him into battle against mind-bending evil. Tsutomu Niheis sci-fi horror epic In Tsutomu Niheis nightmare vision of the future, the N5S virus has swept across the earth, turning most of the population. In Tsutomu Nihei's nightmare vision of the future, the N5S virus has swept across the earth, turning most of the population into zombie-like drones. ![]() Searching for the key to save a world beyond hope. In Tsutomu Niheis nightmare vision of the future, the N5S virus has swept across the earth. ![]() |