![]() ![]() Contradiction is a norm in my working day. That experience could have been distracting were it not so common. I got off at the second landing, went to my classroom and opened the windows to let in some air. I was used to the smells of industrial disinfectant, body odour and weed, but in that moment they became smothering. The next day, I stepped on to B Wing, but when I was walking up the stairs, the sound of a man banging on the inside of his cell door rattled me more than it usually did. He closed one eye as he tried to remember, and said he was on B Wing, on the third landing, and told me the number on his door. A couple of years ago, I asked him which cell he was in because I was excited at the thought of seeing it. My uncle Frank used to be locked up in one of the prisons where I teach philosophy. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() And many books that did receive that label do not meet the definition of pornography - or anything close - under state or federal law.ĭeSantis touted data collected by the Florida Department of Education from a survey of 23 school districts that removed books from their libraries. Few of the books removed from Florida school libraries were deemed pornographic or sexually explicit. īut new records, obtained by Popular Information, shows the reality is starkly different. "Removing clear instances of pornography and sexually explicit materials, often within arms reach of our youngest kids, is not book banning," Florida Department of Education Commissioner Manny Diaz, Jr. DeSantis claimed the notion that Florida was involved in book banning was "a nasty hoax because it’s a hoax in service of trying to pollute and sexualize our children." Rather, they were simply removing "pornography" from school libraries and classrooms. " During the event, DeSantis claimed that Florida schools, under his leadership, were not banning educational materials. On March 8, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) conducted a press conference in which he purported to debunk the " book ban hoax. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) on (Photo by Paul Hennessy via Getty Images) ![]() ![]() “My cousin’s brother-in-law is Down syndrome,” says a traffic cop. The screenplay, by Erik Linthorst, is particularly acute when it comes to tone-deaf empathy. An opening scene, which sees Scotty waking with the aftermath of an erotic dream prominently on display to his mother, gives a hint of his daily humiliations and explains the rough edges in his temperament. The film loses points for its decision to cast able actors in the central roles, but explores its theme of sexuality and disability with admirable candour. Driving their minibus is Sam (Gabourey Sidibe), a no-nonsense former nurse, who earns their respect early on by threatening Scotty with physical violence after he persists in calling her “sweetheart”. A remake of the Belgian comedy drama Hasta La Vista, Come As You Are is a briskly unsentimental road trip, which follows Scotty (Grant Rosenmeyer), fellow wheelchair-user Matt (Hayden Szeto) and Mo (Ravi Patel), who is sight impaired, as they embark on a covert adventure to Canada and the Chateau Paradis, a brothel that caters specifically for differently abled clientele. But, as his brutally candid friends point out, the main reason that Scotty fails to score is his horrible personality. ![]() For a long time in Western science and medicine, women’s sexuality was viewed as Men’s Sexuality Lite - basically the same but not quite as good, she writes. Emily Nagoski had me hooked in the introduction. A paraplegic since birth, he blames his disability for his lack of success with the ladies. Come As You Are is one the best books written on women and sex. ![]() ![]() ![]() out what they had left behind, very much in her element as she bounded through the snow after game, often leaving them for half a day in her hunts. They lay close enough together to share blankets and warmth, but no lustful touch crossed his skin and no possessive arms pulled him into the sheltering warmth of Bloodraven’s big body. Didn’t speak more than a few necessary words and seemed to fall progressively into a fouler and fouler mood. Bishonenworks Color Art Collection BishonenWorks Erotic Comic Art Collection The Warren organize filter Works by P. Snow seemed a permanent part of the landscape now.įor several nights, Bloodraven didn’t touch him. Bitterly cold during the nights, simple misery during the days as they reached higher and higher ground. He paid little heed to his surroundings, passing time in a daze as they traveled, wrapped in a miasma of culpability that he couldn’t shake. Even during waking hours, he couldn’t shake the feeling of dread, of blood-drenched guilt that created too vivid images in his mind. “He was plagued by nightmare visions of blood and slaughter and the screams of the dying rang in his ears when he awoke, usually to Bloodraven’s prodding, the next morning. ![]() ![]() ![]() Etta suffered from moods and needed sedatives to calm her down. Her grandmother Etta's first husband died in a horrified farming accident. Meanwhile, the narration is interspersed with information about the women in Blythe's family and her childhood. When a boy falls off a playset and dies, Blythe suspects Violet tripped him on purpose. Violet has trouble getting along with other kids and there's incidences of violence towards them, too. As Violet gets older, Violet continues to be antagonistic and even violent towards Blythe. ![]() Soon, she starts to resents Fox for seeing her solely as Violet's caregiver, and Fox thinks Blythe is deficient as a mother. She senses Violet prefers Fox, but Fox insists it's all in her head. Blythe struggles with Violet from the beginning, Blythe is exhausted, and motherhood proves far tougher than she anticipated. Soon, they have their first child, a girl named Violet. The book ends by implying that Gemma suspects Violet has now harmed Jet.īlythe and Fox Connor are a couple who meet in college and get married at 25. Throughout the book, it's not clear if Violet is innately bad, if Blythe is a bad mother (Blythe comes from a line of bad mothers) or if it's all in Blythe's head. Fox has a son, Jet, with his new wife, Gemma. When their infant son Sam is killed, Blythe blames Violet. ![]() Blythe thinks Violet is violent and lacks empathy, but Fox thinks Blythe's insufficient love for Violet is the problem. ![]() The one-paragraph summary of this book: Blythe and Fox have a daughter, Violet. ![]() ![]() ![]() Connie was also featured in an article published by National Inquirer. In 1995 Connie was featured on a segment of the CBS news show 48 Hours, a television production that devoted an entire program to the romance novel industry. ![]() Always an avid reader, writing was one of Connie's dreams. Prior to her first published work in 1984, Connie was a full time homemaker. Connie makes her home in Tarpon Springs, Florida with her husband Jerry. Connie was named Story Teller of the Year in 1990 by Romantic Times and was awarded Career Achievement award in the Western category by Romantic Times in 1994. ![]() Her tales of passion and adventure are set in exotic as well as American locales. Connie Mason or Cara Miles is the best-selling author of more than fifty historical romances and novellas. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not exactly happy about having to spend the year with his father’s new family, Elec just wants to stay away from everyone until the time comes when he can be on his way. Unfortunately, he’s also a rated A pain in the ass.Įlec has a serious chip on his shoulder and finds it all kinds of fun to tease, ridicule and embarrass Greta. From the moment Elec walks through the door, Greta can’t keep her temperature down, he is smoking. The story begins as Greta and her mother prepare their house for their new arrival, Greta’s never-met-before stepbrother – Elec. ![]() Pass me the fan and run me a cold shower, this book is hawt. It is only appropriate for adult readers age 18+ **Contains graphic sexual content and harsh language. ![]() Stepbrother Dearest is a standalone novel. I had a feeling my heart was about to get broken again. When tragedy struck our family, I’d have to face him again.Īnd holy hell, the teenager who made me crazy was now a man that drove me insane. Then, just as quickly as he’d come into my life, he was gone back to California. But things started changing between us, and it all came to a head one night. ![]() I hated that he brought girls from our high school back to his room.īut what I hated the most was the unwanted way my body reacted to him.Īt first, I thought all he had going for him were his rock-hard tattooed abs and chiseled face. I hated that he took it out on me because he didn’t want to be here. When my stepbrother, Elec, came to live with us my senior year, I wasn’t prepared for how much of a jerk he’d be. You’re not supposed to want the one who torments you. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alexie’s unadulterated honesty and boundless compassion come together in a poetic vision of a world in which the gaps between past and present are not really gaps after all. We follow Thomas Builds-the-Fire, the longwinded storyteller no one really listens to his half-hearted nemesis, Victor, the basketball star turned recovering alcoholic and a wide cast of other vividly drawn characters on a haunting journey filled with humor and sorrow, resilience and resignation, dreams and reality. The twenty-four linked tales in Alexie’s debut collection-an instant classic-paint an unforgettable portrait of life on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation, a place where “Survival = Anger x Imagination,” where HUD houses and generations of privation intertwine with history, passion, and myth. ![]() ![]() Sherman Alexie’s darkly humorous story collection weaves memory, fantasy, and stark reality to powerfully evoke life on the Spokane Indian Reservation. ![]() ![]() ![]() So say the conventional, one-line references to the etymology of the term ‘propaganda,’ generally appearing in contemporary accounts of the history of public diplomacy. Propaganda was simply an acceptable process of exhortation on behalf of a cause the term did not acquire its nefarious connotations until sometime between the First and Second World Wars. Propaganda was not about mind-control or robbing the masses of their ability to rationally respond to facts by denying them full and unbiased information. Rather, the connotation of this first use of the term ‘propaganda,’ and its meaning until the twentieth century, was a value-neutral one. ![]() In this context, it is often noted that the Pope’s intention in making his new congregation responsible for ‘ propaganda fide’-literally, propagating the faith-was not to endorse a shared information policy based on deceitful practices. Before public diplomacy, there was propaganda, a term coined by Pope Gregory XV in 1622 when he founded a new college to train missionaries to be sent to Protestant Northern Europe, Asia, and the New World. ![]() ![]() The first book of the series, The Lost Hero, was published on October 12, 2010. ![]() Riordan introduces Roman mythology in the series alongside several new characters, primarily from the Roman Camp Jupiter. The series can be read as a standalone volume, but is meant to be read after Percy Jackson and the Olympians. In the fourth book of the series, there is also a fight against Tartarus, which, in Greek mythology, was the darkest and deepest point of the Underworld. The novels detail a conflict between Greek demigods, Roman demigods, and Gaia (Roman name Terra). The Heroes of Olympus is a pentalogy of fantasy- adventure novels written by American author Rick Riordan. ![]() Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book Fantasy, young adult fiction, mystery, adventure, Greek and Roman mythological fiction ![]() |