![]() ![]() Through DNA testing to which she had only submitted because her husband had done so, Shapiro discovered that she shares none of hers with her father’s side of the family and that the sperm that impregnated her mother had come from someone else. I had somehow convinced myself that I was only my father’s daughter.” Eventually, she learned that she wasn’t her father’s daughter at all, at least not in the way that she had initially understood. “My single best defense had always been that I was my father’s daughter,” she writes. The author’s relationship with her mother was difficult. In her latest, she delves into an origin story that puts everything she previously believed and wrote about herself in fresh perspective. Before focusing on memoirs, Shapiro ( Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage, 2017, etc.) drew from her family life in her fiction. ![]()
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![]() Just as her books do, Roth encouraged parents to involve their children in conversations about healthy eating and animal rights. The toughest part of being vegan is often the pressure people face from well-meaning friends, family, and medical professionals. The lecture was very eye-opening! I’ve been a vegan for over 15 years and thought I’d seen it all-but Roth wowed me with info I didn’t know, such as how public thinking about health, children, and animals is shaped. She examined pop culture, the media response to her books, and talked about challenges of being vegan and raising vegan kids. Learn more about her work at .Ī few months ago I had opportunity to attend a lecture by Roth, where she explored the transformative power of veganism on society and the individual (children included!). Vegan is Love is a terrific look at human-animal relationships and how you’re never too young to put compassion into action (7-10). V is for Vegan is great introduction to veganism for the younger set (3-7), and That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals is a more in-depth look at veganism for older kids (6-9). ![]() They’re a great launching point for discussing animal issues with kids. ![]() I’ve given her books as gifts because the images captivate and the messages are perfectly age-appropriate. Ruby Roth is an acclaimed author who has written and illustrated several amazing children’s books about animals and veganism. ![]() ![]() But my backlist didn’t generate those dollars all by itself. This year, for example, only 25% of my income came from front list titles. Books that performed amazingly well and books that originally “failed” have both gone on to earn me money year after year. In fact, I have built my entire career off of reviving backlist books. ![]() It’s heartbreaking and shakes your confidence, and we authors tend to try to move on by pushing that low earner aside and concentrating on “doing better” in the future.īefore you write off that “failed” book forever, though, I’ll tell you what I’ve learned in my seven years of publishing as an indie author: A book has many lives. ![]() In a business that often relies on timing, algorithms, exposure in a crowded market, and just plain luck, you’re bound to have a book release that doesn’t perform how you expect or want. You’ve heard these phrases before, and if you’ve been writing long enough, you’ve probably said one of them yourself. ![]() “Guess that one was a waste of time writing.” In our second September blog post on the theme of Marketing and Communications, New York Times bestselling author Laurelin Paige shares her tips on how to breathe new life – and new sales – into backlist titles. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters are definitely becoming more multi-faceted and I feel Godbersen is fully hitting her stride. "After reading this book in the series, I'm liking it more. I couldn’t put The Luxe down!” -Cecily von Ziegesar, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Gossip Girl series “Mystery, romance, jealousy, betrayal, humor, and gorgeous, historically accurate details. ![]() ![]() This is Manhattan, 1899.Īfter bidding good-bye to New York’s brightest star, Elizabeth Holland, rumors continue to fly about her untimely demise.Īll eyes are on those closest to the dearly departed: her mischievous sister, Diana, now the family’s only hope for redemption New York’s most notorious cad, Henry Schoonmaker, the flame Elizabeth never extinguished the seductive Penelope Hayes, poised to claim all that her best friend left behind-including Henry even Elizabeth’s scheming former maid, Lina Broud, who discovers that while money matters and breeding counts, gossip is the new currency. True love. False friends. Scandalous gossip. In this delicious sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Luxe, nothing is more dangerous than a scandal.or more precious than a secret. Gossip Girl meets the Gilded Age in this delicious and compelling novel, the second in the New York Times bestselling series from author Anna Godbersen.Īs old friends become rivals, Manhattan’s most dazzling socialites find their futures threatened by whispers from the past. ![]() ![]() He has gloopy eye medicine to try to help with the pain, plus the need to wear a hat at all times to protect his face due to the ongoing treatment. He is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an eye sealed in a permanent wink. Suddenly he is the cancer kid, and everything he does, how he looks, and how he behaves falls under the scrutiny of the other kids in school. When Ross is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, aged 12, his desperate attempts at school to just be 'normal' become impossible. It looks at the difficulties all children face at school, not just those specific to Ross, who has been diagnosed with cancer. ![]() Summary: A dark subject, but sensitively told with some lovely, humourous moments. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her latest novel for young readers, Treasure Island: Runaway Gold, releases in October 2023. Her novel Bayou Magic is featured in the third season of Apple TV+'s Emmy award-winning series Ghostwriter. Rhodes is also the author of Paradise on Fire (winner of the Green Earth Book Award), Towers Falling and the celebrated Louisiana Girls Trilogy, which includes Ninth Ward, winner of a Coretta Scott King Honor Award, Sugar, and Bayou Magic. She is the author of several books for children including the New York Times bestsellers Black Brother, Black Brother and Ghost Boys, which has garnered over 50 awards and honors including The Walter Award, the Indies Choice/EB White Read-Aloud Award, and the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award for Older Readers. ![]() Jewell Parker Rhodes (born 1954 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American bestselling novelist and educator. ![]() ![]() ![]() Turns out their parents call themselves The Pride and owe their success to the Gibborim, a group of Old Gods who will destroy the current world, burning it to the ground so that The Pride–and their children–can remake the world anyway they want. ![]() Until one year, when, while exploring a secret passageway, the kids happen upon their folks performing some good ol’ dark magic, a ritual that has them murder a young woman and steal her soul. ![]() While the adults gather to talk about the various charities they run together (supposedly) their children get a boring day spent playing nice with one another. These teenagers lead separate lives, only coming together for an annual meeting between their families. Runaways #1-18 (2003-2004), Runaways #1-24 (2005-2007)Īrt by Adrian Alphona (co-creator), Takeshi Miyazawa, Mike NortonĪside from living in a world where Spider-Man isn’t just an action figure and Captain America does regular press conferences, life is pretty normal for Alex Wilder, Niko Minoru, Molly Hayes, Chase Stein, Gert Yorkes, and Karolina Dean–the children of wealthy and powerful pillars of the Los Angeles-area. ![]() Cover of Runaways Omnibus #1, art by Adrian Alphona & David Newbold The Series ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s the book that that Borges called ‘a prodigious novel’, one which Clarke said is ‘probably the most powerful work of imagination ever written’, and upon reading which, Virginia Woolf wrote to Stapledon saying, ‘you are grasping ideas that I have tried to express, much more fumblingly, in fiction. Clarke, Jorge Luis Borges, Brian Aldiss, Kim Stanley Robinson, Bruce Sterling, just to name a few, Stapledon was the writer who influenced these greats.Īnd his 1937 masterpiece – Star Maker – sees Olaf Stapledon at his most sweeping, ambitious, influential and cosmic best, a book in which we get a glimpse into one vision of a future through the eyes of eternity. If the authors of today are influenced by masters such as Virginia Woolf, Arthur C. His writing has inspired so many authors that the Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction says that his influence on the development of science fiction is second only to that of H.G. ![]() ![]() A crying shame, given the vast influence of this British philosopher and writer’s books and ideas on science fiction. You don’t often hear Olaf Stapledon’s name much anymore. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Somebody described this book perfectly: "I felt like I was up against a Level 97 Boss and I was only Level 70." The book ends with an appendix on Quine's objection to quantified modal logic. The first of these, the problem of reconciling the moral perfection and omnipotence of God with the existence of evil, can, he concludes, be resolved, and the second given a sound formulation. In the final chapters Professor Plantinga applies his logical theories to the elucidation of two problems in the philosophy of religion: the Problem of Evil and the Ontological Arguement. The arguement is developed by means of the notion of possible worlds and ranges over key problems including the nature of essence, trans-world identity, negative existential propositions, and the existence of unactual objects in other possible worlds. This book, one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate to which Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Ruth Marcus and others have contributed, is an exploraton and defence of the notion of modality "de re," the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this summary of Mythology by Edith Hamilton, you’ll learn It can therefore be a good idea to get to grips with the basics of classical mythology, which is exactly what you’ll get here! If you find yourself confronted by these myths in stories or in museums, it can feel like you’re missing out on something if you don’t have a grounding in them.īut you’re not the only one who’s stood in front of a sculpture such as Bernini’s Rape of Proserpina, or a Greek vase adorned with red figures, and felt like something was missing because you didn’t know the whole story. While that’s not generally the case anymore, its impact can still be felt across Western culture. ![]() This is partly because the stories of classical mythology and literature were part of education. Moreover, the power of these myths has inspired opera, tragedy, sculpture and painting for many centuries. From the creation of the world to squabbles on Mount Olympus, the siege of Troy to Orpheus’s loss of Eurydice, these stories have moved and thrilled people for generations. Greek and Roman mythology is, quite literally, the stuff of legend. ![]() |