![]() ![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. It is slated to be release on Augby Running Press Kids. For fans of Little Leaders and Pride comes a nonfiction picture book celebrating 14 incredible LGBTQ+ change makers and forward thinkers throughout history. Kind Like Marsha: Learning from LGBTQ+ Leaders is a nonfiction children’s picture book written by Sarah Prager and illustrated by me. Johnson who took care of her trans community on the New York City streets. With a focus on a positive personality attribute of each of the historical figures, readers will be encouraged to be brave like the Ugandan activist fighting for LGBTQ+ rights against all odds and to be kind like Marsha P. Kind Like Marsha celebrates 14 amazing and inspirational LGBTQ+ people throughout history. Fan favorites like Harvey Milk, Sylvia Rivera, and Audre Lorde are joined by the likes of Leonardo da Vinci, Frida Kahlo, and more in this striking collection. Kind Like Marsha celebrates 14 amazing and inspirational LGBTQ+ people throughout history. For fans of Little Leaders and Pride comes a nonfiction picture book celebrating 14 incredible LGBTQ+ change makers and forward thinkers throughout history. ![]()
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![]() ![]() to get out from her mothers shadow is hard, but revealing the darkest parts of his soul is nearly impossible. As they grow closer, he discovers that convincing K.C. back into his life-except what he thought was a great twist of luck turns out to be too close for comfort. She was the one girl who wouldnt give him the time of day and the only one to ever say no. was supposed to stay away from in high school. ![]() Jaxon Trent is the worst kind of temptation and exactly what K.C. Now shes stuck in her small hometown for the summer to complete her court-ordered community service, and to make matters worse, trouble is living right next door. Carter has always followed the rules-until this year, when a mistake leaves her the talk of her college campus and her carefully arranged life comes crashing to a halt. Book Synopsis From the BookTok sensation and New York Times bestselling author of Bully and Falls Boys comes the fourth novel in the Fall Away series. ![]() ![]() ![]() “On balance, the financial system subtracts value from our society.”. ![]() The financial system siphons (or skims) the top of the returns earned by investors, businesses, etc. ![]() Net Return to Investors = Gross Return – Costs/Fees.Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have…enough.” “At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history.Bogle’s Enough draws from a lifetime of wisdom to reflect on the excesses of a financial system that led to the 2008 crisis and reminds readers of the benefits of a less greedy, long-term, client-first system (society) where success in life is defined by more than just money. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn), the head of the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit, sends Starling to meet Lecter in his cell at the Baltimore Hospital for the Criminally Insane, Demme moves us from her ascetic domain to his rococo one, from meticulous authenticity to nightmarish fantasy, from detective thriller to horror movie. How many other Hollywood heroines – or heroes – are anything like her? She is a clever, dedicated professional who succeeds by doing everything by the book and with the encouragement of her superiors. But Silence of the Lambs has a deep respect for the FBI’s methods, and so does Starling. Most films about law-enforcement agencies have maverick protagonists: agents who either break the rules (James Bond) or turn against their nefarious handlers (Jason Bourne). ![]() Demme goes on to stage several long scenes which were shot at the actual FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, so that we can see Starling’s colleagues doing their paperwork, practising their shooting, drinking their coffee. ![]() A trainee FBI agent, she pounds through the Bureau’s woodland assault course at the start of the film. One striking aspect of The Silence of the Lambs is the care taken by its director, Jonathan Demme, and its screenwriter, Ted Tally, to establish Starling and her well-ordered world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Steve tells about the great freedom and spontaneity of Crass, but also about the pressure of sudden and unexpected fame and the inevitable comedown when it's over. The kid knew a good thing when he saw it, heard it or felt it. Love and listen to his beautiful enthusiasm. For Steve it was the Angry young men writers and crucial, life-changing encounters with good people and kindred spirits, like hearing Toots and the Maytals and having that precious first glimpse at cool style and attitude. This is a story about being inspired and opening yourself up to great art. I felt it because I did the same thing and so did you. ![]() I felt like I was there with him pacing around that empty little apartment wondering what to do and where to go, and if anything different from that boredom was even possible. Yes there are great Crass stories here, but for me the most interesting part is Steve's childhood and adolescence. If you want to talk punk rock, then I'll say Crass is the ultimate and leave it at that. In fact, he's one of the greatest rock and roll singers for one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time. This is the life of an artist, and no need to worry your pretty little heads about it, Steve Ignorant IS an artist. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, as they navigate adulthood, careers, family responsibilities, and relationships, they must face their racial differences and how those differences have shaped each of them. Jenny and Riley have been constants throughout each other’s lives. Riley loaned them the money to try one last round, which was successful. For Jenny, much is riding on this pregnancy, as she and her husband are in debt from trying to conceive through in vitro fertilization. Jenny knows Kevin, knows he couldn’t be a racist monster and would never shoot that boy on purpose. ![]() As Jenny struggles with her husband’s actions, the potential indictment, online harassment, and death threats, she wishes her best friend, Riley, could be there for her. Jenny Murphy is in the last months of pregnancy when her husband, a police officer, is involved in the murder of an unarmed Black boy. This study guide refers to the hardcover version published by Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Published in 2021 in a time of racial protests, particularly after the murders of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, the novel uses its characters to help humanize the complicated and lasting implications of race. ![]() ![]() Her novel “March” (2005) explored the life of the mostly absent father from Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women,” a chaplain for the Union Army during the Civil War. Valuable legacies can disappear, is the underlying message - for years, this celebrity thoroughbred’s skeleton languished at the Smithsonian, shoved in an attic and marked only equus caballus - even as barbaric ones linger.Ī wide-ranging practitioner of historical fiction and adventuresome journalism, Brooks has visited the rocky terrain of race before. The subtext, if not the subtitle, is “Race.” Not for the contests Lexington won, though those are recreated in detail suitable for both the sports and society pages, but for the book’s confrontation of relations between Black and white people over the course of two centuries. ![]() The title of Geraldine Brooks’s new novel, “Horse,” alludes to Lexington: the real and extraordinary late-19th-century Kentucky bay stallion who drives its plot. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() But this time, you are getting it in Python flavor.Īfter you have learned all the basics it’s time to do some serious stuff. ![]() Do you recall famous LOGO? Yes, this “turtle like” computing language! You will find it here as well with all it’s simplicity. How to combine the code and pictures and make them work for you. After all the basics are laid out you will be told how to use graphics in applications. It would be fair to say, that half of the book is filled with these simple foundations of the development process. You will get familiar with arrays, maps and constructs that let you create conditions and loops within the application. You will learn concepts of variables, classes, objects. After you are ready to go, author takes you on the journey through the set of most basic constructs of the language. And for thous, who have never ever developed in the past, configuring Python may not be that straightforward. First of all he tells you how to install and configure programming environment. However, Jason makes his best and makes it really good, to give you plain and straightforward explanation of Python. Jason tries to make the subject as simple as possible, but this is really not that easy if you start looking at details. It’s hard to say how should you teach kids programming. Summary: Python and games development for kids ![]() ![]() ![]() The scenes in Planet Mail were some of the hottest and most erotic that I have ever read. She is most willing to be educated in the art of sensuality, to receive and give pleasure and to succumb to the wild desire that knows no limits. For beneath her calm and composed manner is a wanton woman who longs for a man's intimate caress. Sensual Seduction Sara Harrison knows she should be shocked and scandalized by Lord Sokorvsky's bold advances, but instead she is secretly aroused by this sensual, seductive man. Now the time has come for him to marry, but finding a woman who can satisfy his lustful desires proves a challenge.until he meets Sara and all he can think about is having her lie under his rock-hard body, begging him to taste and touch her. Summary: Sexual Satisfaction Ten years as a sex slave in a Turkish brothel left Lord Valentin Sokorvsky with an insatiable appetite for sex. ![]() |