![]() ![]() Called “the perfect combination of style and substance” by Essence magazine, Nancy holds an honors degree in women’s studies from Harvard University. Nancy Redd is an award-winning on-air-host, a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, a two-time Mom’s Choice Award winner, an NAACP Image Award nominee for outstanding literary work, and a GLAAD Media Award nominee for outstanding digital journalism. Read our MiJa Books review of Bedtime Bonnet. I always wear a bonnet over my braids, but tonight I can’t find it anywhere!īedtime Bonnet gives readers a heartwarming peek into quintessential Black nighttime hair traditions and celebrates the love between all the members of this close-knit, multi-generational family. ![]() ![]() Mama gathers her corkscrew curls in a scarf. Sis swirls her hair in a wrap around her head. In my family, when the sun goes down, our hair goes up! It’s perfect for little Black girls, but also simply a fun multi-generational story that all children can enjoy. Bedtime Bonnet is a joyous and loving celebration of family, and is the first-ever picture book to highlight Black nighttime hair traditions. ![]()
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![]() ![]() With college just around the corner, Liza agrees to help out at the bakery's annual junior competition to prove to her mom that she's more than her rebellious tendencies once and for all. Yang is the owner of Houston's popular Yin & Yang Bakery. The one thing mother and daughter do agree on is their love of baking. Yang's traditional values, especially when it comes to dating. Compared to her older sister Jeannie, Liza is stubborn, rebellious, and worst of all, determined to push back against all of Mrs. Smart, kind, and pretty, she dreams big and never shies away from a challenge. To her friends, high school senior Liza Yang is nearly perfect. For fans of Jenny Han, Jane Austen, and The Great British Baking Show, A Taste for Love, is a delicious rom com about first love, familial expectations, and making the perfect bao. ![]() ![]() We couldn’t be more excited to have Jim lend his talents to this story as well,” added Berlanti and Schechter. ![]() “We have long admired Ryan’s work and talent and are thrilled to be a part of his directorial debut, Ryan’s singular voice and perspective deserve to be shared with the world. It’s unlike anything else out there, and we’re thrilled to be part of it, alongside our wonderful partners at Berlanti/Schechter,” said Ashley Fox, FilmNation Entertainment’s president of production. Ryan is the perfect filmmaker to bring this personal-yet-universal underdog story to life. “When Ryan pitched us ‘Just by Looking at Him’ in his singular style - in his words, a Nora Ephron movie with a ton of gay sex - we were immediately hooked by his hilarious, totally original, empathetic vision for the film. “Just by Looking at Him” is a reunion of sorts since Parsons executive produced “Special” through his production company, That’s Wonderful Productions. He’s also written for The New York Times, Vice and Vulture, as well as for television, including MTV’s “Awkward,” “Will & Grace,” Netflix’s “The Baby-Sitter’s Club” and Peacock’s “Queer as Folk” reboot, which he also stars in. That statement, witty and no-holds-barred, is a glimpse of what made O’Connell’s Netflix series “Special” such a treat. ![]() ![]() ![]() “It’s been absolute heaven working on the adaptation of my novel with the smarties at Berlanti/Schechter and FilmNation, and I’m beyond excited to terrorize a new medium with my gay filth!!!” O’Connell said in a statement. ![]() ![]() She was trying to keep them all safe while they were on Anderson’s plane, so she drugged him because she didn’t believe he would be able to stay quiet that whole time.Īfter a while, Kenji finally regains consciousness and right when he gets up, he realizes that there is someone in the room. ![]() Now believe it or not, Nazeera had good intentions while doing this. ![]() Now remember when I said that Kenji fainted in the middle of the meeting? Yeah, well the reason for that and why he felt not in his right mind was because Nazeera drugged him while they were rescuing Juliette and Warner. He breaks up Warner and Juliette in the middle of their intimate moment (you know Warner was NOT happy about that) to tell them. So the thing that blows away any sense of sanity he has left is when he finds out that Adam and James are being held hostage by Anderson. He even faints in the middle of a meeting, but we’ll get to the reason behind all this later. Throughout most of the book, Kenji is either angry, delirious, stressed, exhausted, or not in his right mind. He gets in a fight with Nazeera, insults her and also confesses that he’s in love with her. That’s reason enough to think something is wrong with him. SPOILER ALERT Kenji doesn’t want to eat his cake. In this book, Kenji starts to have conflicting feelings about a lot of things. ![]() ![]() ![]() “It proves that time, distance, and devastation allow people enough ![]() Crying and making bad decisions.” – REMINDERS OF HIM BY COLLEEN HOOVER “Crying seems to be the only thing left in life that I’m good at. “We’re all just a bunch of sad people doing what we have to do to make it until tomorrow.” – REMINDERS OF HIM BY COLLEEN HOOVER “I take a drink of my coffee and close my eyes and cry because life can be so f-ing cruel and hard, and I’ve wanted to quit living it so many times, but then moments like these remind me that happiness isn’t some permanent thing we’re all trying to achieve in life, it’s merely a thing that shows up every now and then, sometimes in tiny doses that are just substantial enough to keep us going.” -REMINDERS OF HIM BY COLLEEN HOOVER And in the off chance that the people we lose are still somehow able to hear us, maybe we should never stop talking to them.” -REMINDERS OF HIM BY COLLEEN HOOVER Maybe the best way to cope with the loss of the people we love is to find them in as many places and things as we possibly can. “Maybe it doesn’t matter whether something is a coincidence or a sign. For some reason, I never thought there would be an after you.” – REMINDERS OF HIM BY COLLEEN HOOVER “There was before you and there was during you. “Now that I’ve forgiven myself, the reminders of him only make me smile.” – Reminders of Him by colleen hoover ![]() ![]() ![]() A lot of my characters are complex and unlikeable. What I learned from reading Toni Morrison is that I didn't want stock characters. I didn't want to shy away from the brutality of slavery, but I also didn't want to shy away from how brutal slaves could be to each other. What if somebody dragged them into a huge, murderous rebellion plot? Q: How did you go about creating Lilith and Homer, and was it difficult writing women characters? A: Lilith is the protagonist, but she also murdered nine people in the book. ![]() I wondered what would happen if these slavewomen had a secret government that nobody knew about. When I was figuring out the novel, I sat down with an African poet I know, and she told me about African society and its matriarchal structure. The idea of an all women-conceived rebellion is pretty fictitious, for nothing like that happened. Q: What interested you in putting an impending slave rebellion at the center of your new novel? A: In Jamaica, there were always slave rebellions. Paul, Minn., where he spoke by telephone with freelance writer Dylan Foley. James teaches creative writing at Macalester College in St. His first novel, "John Crow's Devil," was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize. James, 38, was raised in Kingston, Jamaica. ![]() ![]() and pages.) of her inner monologue in a totally real and twisted way but it never feels overly sentimental or frustrating to read or anything. Imogen has this amazing ability to lay bare what’s driving Maria totally bonkers and give pages (and pages. ![]() So here we go: The book is funny, it reads super fast, the main character Maria is insanely loveable and hilarious even as she’s self-destructive and is kind of a jerk to her friends and generally just does a lot of stupid dumb shit. ![]() There’s lots of reasons the book is fucking great so maybe I’ll say a lot of those things and then get to what’s been bugging me. I have a Word doc with like a page of notes of what I wanted to say about it, and a pitch to a magazine about it that didn’t go anywhere, but mostly when I’ve tried to write about it I’ve ended up doing something else. 3 would’ve been) then I read it again a little more slowly and thoughtfully in January. I got an advance copy early in November from Topside (which only felt slightly cooler than how I imagine getting an early copy of Super Mario Bros. The two days before which I spent most of reading the book in bed, lots of it drinking whiskey and/or crying and/or grinning and giggling like a dumbass. ![]() ![]() Pretty much the day after I finished reading Imogen Binnie’s Nevada, I decided I had to write about it. (Note: I tried to write this without spoiling stuff and completely failed, so, uh, this has spoilers?) ![]() ![]() ![]() Tracy Barrett, Dark of the Moon (2011), a retelling of the Minotaur legend, as told by the Minotaur's sister, Ariadne, and his killer, Theseus. Tracy Barrett, King of Ithaka (2010), a retelling of Homer's Odyssey narrated by Telemachos, the son of Odysseus. Purchase from the Book Depository, Amazon or Powell's Books SOA = Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction IBBY = International Board on Books for Young People Honour Book See also the article Rosemary Sutcliff, about Sutcliff's books for young people.Īncient Britain and Ireland (various ages)īiblical Times and the Ancient Middle East (teens)īiblical Times and the Ancient Middle East (preteens)ĪLANCB = American Library Association Notable Children's BookīBYA = An American Library Association "Best Books for Young Adults" pickīFYA = An American Library Association "Best Fiction for Young Adults" pick (replaced the BBYA after 2010) ![]() Many of these novels are also read and enjoyed by older adults. This page lists historical novels for young readers set in ancient times, from times as early as the fourteenth century B.C. ![]() Historical Novels for Teens and Preteens: Ancient History ![]() ![]() ![]() They lurk through the story as we are told a local girl has gone missing. The novel is not told by a single narrator but by a chorus who moves and thinks as one. The book, a story of a strange group of girls who act as a single entity, recalls Jeffrey Eugenides’s 1993 debut novel The Virgin Suicides. Tate’s Floridian roots came in handy when deciding a location for her debut novel, Brutes. ![]() “I just completely fell in love with it.” “I was watching it as if it was a movie,” Tate tells me in the Faber offices in Bloomsbury. As a blow-in, she approached her new surroundings with the observant eye of an outsider, sizing up the fairground town like a topographer. Born in London but raised in Orlando, Florida, Tate spent most of her teen years in the States, attending a high school that lay in the shadow of roller coasters and round-ups. Dizz Tate’s accent flicks between British and American, a result of her transatlantic upbringing. ![]() ![]() ![]() As one of the heartiest drinkers in the world, I speak with a voice of authority. It was released posthumously in 1959 and became immensely popular for its cynical tone and candid depiction of the world of filmmaking in Hollywood. We who are weak take to it and are destroyed by it, but is essentially a weakness of governments everywhere to allow this poison to circulate like a river through the bloodstream of the human race. My Wicked, Wicked Ways is an autobiography written by Australian-born American actor Errol Flynn with the aid of ghostwriter Earl Conrad. ![]() Drinker that I am, I think essentially I am the victim of an addiction that is here in the world, revealed to all, exposed to all. Yet beer and liquor ads maintain newspapers, television, some huge portion of the national and the world economy. Alcohol makes man mad, leads to such strange behaviourism. But of course if you prohibit something you deprive people of an essential liberty when you deny the right of choice you oppose the greatest gift in the world. Prohibition was one of the worthiest attempts of a group to impose their will upon the rest of the people. Instead of barring it altogether, the dispensation of alcohol should have been under prescription, or some other control. It was a great pity that Prohibition failed. It destroys your morals, destroys your vitality, kills the sexual potential, and you become sluggish. You can buy alcohol on any street corner throughout the world. “Alcohol is a far greater killer than all opiates. ![]() |