asks fundamental and challenging questions about what it means to be a man or woman in our society.” San Francisco Chronicle “ leading edge of contemporary debate about sexual identity and gender. Kate Bornstein is a historic figure in the queer and trans community.” The Huffington Post What People Are SayingĪ foundational voice. Now, some twenty-odd years later, this book stands as both a classic and a still-revolutionary work-one that continues to push us gently but profoundly to the furthest borders of the gender frontier. Gender Outlaw was decades ahead of its time when it was first published in 1994. But this particular coming-of-age story is also a provocative investigation into our notions of male and female, from a self-described nonbinary transfeminine diesel femme dyke who never stops questioning our cultural assumptions. On one level, Gender Outlaw details Bornstein’s transformation from heterosexual male to lesbian woman, from a one-time IBM salesperson to a playwright and performance artist. The trouble is, we’re living in a world that insists we be one or the other.” With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers readers on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity. and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m probably not a woman, either.
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The bones not only outline how large the eyes were, but how much light they let in. Schmitz and Motani investigated delicate eye bones of various dinosaurs to see how those structures, called scleral rings, related to when the reptiles might have been active. And in 2011, paleontologists Lars Schmitz and Ryosuke Motani suggested that various non-avian dinosaurs were active at different times of the day, too. Animals today tend to be mostly active either during the day, at night, or at dawn and dusk. ” These once-real animals had plenty of other concerns in their daily lives - like resting, dozing, and sleeping.īefore getting into how dinosaurs said goodnight, however, it’s worth asking when dinosaurs napped. But dinosaur lives were not simply “ red in tooth and claw. All those teeth, claws, spikes, horns, and other weird adornments have provided plenty of inspiration for dramatic - and often brutal - Mesozoic scenes through the years. From museum halls to movie screens, we love to see dinosaurs at their fiercest. Her family connections helped her establish her literary career, and she published some of her early work in Beaumont's Bystander magazine. She spent her youth sailing boats, travelling on the Continent with friends, and writing stories. Her elder sister, Angela du Maurier, also became a writer, and her younger sister Jeanne was a painter. She and her sisters were indulged as a children and grew up enjoying enormous freedom from financial and parental restraint. Born into a family with a rich artistic and historical background, her paternal grandfather was author and Punch cartoonist George du Maurier, who created the character of Svengali in the 1894 novel Trilby, and her mother was a maternal niece of journalist, author, and lecturer Comyns Beaumont. In many ways her life resembles a fairy tale. Daphne du Maurier was born on at 24 Cumberland Terrace, Regent's Park, London, the middle of three daughters of prominent actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and actress Muriel, née Beaumont. He spoke with CBC Books about his art, his career and his unique approach to children's literature. It's an ambitious book that is longer than a typical picture book and includes weighty themes of anxiety, confirmation bias and isolation. Klassen's latest children's book, The Rock from the Sky, marks his first solo project since 2016. His long list of prestigious honours includes the American Caldecott Medal and CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal (both for This Is Not My Hat, which he wrote and illustrated), as well as the Governor General's Literary Award for children's literature - illustration for Cats' Night Out, which was written by Caroline Stutson. In 2018, it was announced that Klassen was selected to become a member of the Order of Canada for "his transformative contributions to children's literature." Jon Klassen is a Canadian author and illustrator now based in Los Angeles. Klassen is one of the most sought after illustrators in North America his books include the Hat series - I Want My Hat Back, This is Not My Hat and We Found a Hatand he has also frequently collaborated with American author Mac Barnett on books like Triangle, The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse, Sam and Dave Dig a Holeand Circle. He lives with his wife, daughter, and doggies in a wee cottage. He cooks tasty omelets, hugs trees, and paints miniature army dudes. a savvy urban fantasy adventure.Library Journal, on HoundedĪbout the AuthorKevin Hearne is a middle-aged nerd who still enjoys his comic books and old-school heavy metal. a strong modern hero with a long history and the wit to survive in the twenty-first century. Neil Gaimans American Gods meets Jim Butchers Harry Dresden.SFF World, on Hounded Review Hearne is a terrific storyteller with a great snarky wit. If Atticus survives this time, he vows he wont be fooled again. Just when the Druid thinks hes got a handle on all the duplicity, betrayal comes from an unlikely source. Plot Summary Druid Atticus O'Sullivan hasn’t stayed alive for more than two millennia without a fair bit of Celtic cunning. So when vengeful thunder gods come Norse by Southwest looking for payback, Atticus, with a little help from the Navajo trickster god Coyote, lets them think that theyve chopped up his body in the Arizona desert.īut the mischievous Coyote is not above a little sleight of paw, and Atticus soon finds that hes been duped into battling bloodthirsty desert shapeshifters called skinwalkers. Tricked is the fourth novel in The Iron Druid Chronicles, an urban fantasy series written by Kevin Hearne. “Druid Atticus OSullivan hasnt stayed alive for more than two millennia without a fair bit of Celtic cunning. His mesmerising stories, written in sizzling, sparkly language, will lead you into adventures you’ll never ever forget!įrom 1945 until his death, he lived at Gipsy House, in Buckinghamshire, where he wrote his famous children’s books. He wrote a number of books and short stories for adults, many of which were televised as the hugely popular Tales of the Unexpected.īut it was as a children’s author that he found greatest fame and satisfaction, saying “I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers…Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.” Millions of fans around the world agreed and have chuckled and gasped at his amazing stories. Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of the President of the USA liked it so much he was invited to the White House and became friends with the President, Franklin D Roosevelt. His very first children’s book, written in 1943 was called The Gremlins. After the war he worked in America, and soon started writing stories. In the second world war he fought as a fighter pilot, and was badly injured when his plane crashed. His first job was in Africa, with the Shell Oil Company. He went to Repton school, in Derbyshire, and left school in 1933. His parents were Norwegian, and were called Harald and Sofie. Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, South Wales on September 13th 1916. Now seventeen, Oak is charming, beautiful and manipulative. Suren is saved by none other than Prince Oak, heir to Elfhame, to whom she was once promised in marriage and who she has resented for years. She believes herself forgotten until the storm hag Bogdana chases her through the night streets. Lonely, and still haunted by the merciless torments she endured in the Court of Teeth, she bides her time by releasing mortals from foolish bargains. Suren, child queen of the Court of Teeth, and the one person with power over her mother, fled to the human world, where she lives feral in the woods. There she is using an ancient relic to create monsters of stick and snow who will do her bidding and exact her revenge. But in the icy north, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth, has reclaimed the Ice Needle Citadel. And a quest that may destroy them both.Įight years have passed since the Battle of the Serpent. Johns began his comics career writing STARS AND S.T.R.I.P.E. After moving to Los Angeles, he worked as an intern and later an assistant for film director Richard Donner, whose credits include Superman: The Movie, Lethal Weapon 4 and Conspiracy Theory. Johns was born in Detroit and studied media arts, screenwriting, film production and film theory at Michigan State University. He is the author of The New York Times best-selling graphic novels GREEN LANTERN: RAGE OF THE RED LANTERNS, GREEN LANTERN: SINESTRO CORPS WAR, JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA: THY KINGDOM COME, SUPERMAN: BRAINIAC and BLACKEST NIGHT. He has written highly acclaimed stories starring Superman, Green Lantern, the Flash, Teen Titans, and Justice Society of America. Geoff Johns is one of the most prolific and popular contemporary comic book writers. Author Mark G Kortepeter spent seven and one-half years working there in a variety of positions, including in the Biosafety Level 4 maximum-containment lab that deals with diseases of the highest hazard level such as anthrax and Ebola. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Inside the Hot Zone: A Soldier on the Front Lines of Biological Warfare is a first-hand account of life inside one of the most dangerous places on the earth, the U.S. Potomac Books, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2020, 336 pagesīook Review published on: January 10, 2020 Inside the Hot Zone A Soldier on the Front Lines of Biological Warfare Mark G. Verity spends most of the book as a passenger, being moved around to escape from a corrupt corporation who hired her at the start of the novel. This strict alternation regardless of what's going on and who has the most at stake at the time, and this choice of viewpoint characters, soon begin to work against the success of the book.īoth viewpoint characters are essentially passive. The author establishes a strict alternation between two viewpoint characters: Verity, in a version of 2017 California where the US election of 2016 and the Brexit vote went the other way, and Netherton, in a post-apocalyptic future descended, quite possibly, from our version of the timeline. In fact, they do almost nothing, and it's narrated at great length. They do almost nothing that has any impact on anything. What it doesn't have much of is a plot, and what the characters don't have much of, by irony that may or may not be unconscious, is agency. This tedious William Gibson novel is clearly a William Gibson novel: it has the effortless prose, the vivid (if occasionally inaccurate) imagery, the geek-culture namedrops, the characters who are outsiders to power and the mainstream. I never thought I would use the phrase "tedious William Gibson novel," but apparently this is the version of the world we now live in. |