![]() ![]() If you already own a copy of the book, you can make the change yourself, or you will be able to find new covers to print out on my website or on Scholastic’s website we will share the link once the art is up. ![]() The text inside won’t change, so the name George will still appear to reflect the character’s growth within the novel, but Melissa will be the first name readers will know her by. Calling the book Melissa is a way to respect her, as well as all transgender people. What we call people matters and we all deserve to be referred to in ways that feel good to us. No matter how many people have come to know it as George, we felt it was important to fix the title. It was published as George in 2015, but that’s a name the main character does not like or want to use for herself. I’m delighted to share that Scholastic and I are officially changing the title of my first book to Melissa, with a new cover available in spring 2022. Learn more about the meaning behind this monumental change from the author themselves below! We're so excited to share that George by Alex Gino will now be titled Melissa. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() It stormed up Amazon’s bestseller list pre-publication, however, after various passages leaked to the Guardian and New York magazine rushed out an exclusive excerpt. Wolff’s bomb cyclone of a book officially hit stores on Friday. I’m betting ‘Fire and Fury’ will withstand whatever charges of journalistic impropriety come at it. And suddenly everyone’s favorite warlock of the far-right comes right out with it: treason. Centrist and liberal media spent a year walking a prudent, scholarly line pontificating about the crimes Trump and his clan may or may not have committed. “treasonous” for meeting with Russians in June 2016. Take Stephen Bannon’s unpulled punch in calling Donald Trump Jr. ![]() So I’m betting “Fire and Fury” will withstand whatever charges of journalistic impropriety come at it.Īnd you’re a better woman than I am if you can look away. In John Sterling at Macmillan, the book has a masterful editor, and three fact-checkers reviewed it. Say what you will about Wolff: Unless the book is wholesale invention, something in his I’m-with-the-band swagger in the West Wing attracted awesomely sordid material from Trump’s scurvy syndicate. It takes a thief to catch a thief, and Michael Wolff, with his new book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” is the ideal hustler to capture President Trump, whom Wolff describes as having a “twinkle in his eye, larceny in his soul.” Wolff, if memory serves, is similar, minus the twinkle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The metrics of such things are shaky still, one professor has discovered that as many books were published about Trollope in the five years between 19 as had appeared in the entire near-century since his death, in 1882. ![]() This year marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of the English novelist Anthony Trollope, and maybe the fourth decade of the Trollope boom that has put him back into the most-read ranks of the English novelists. 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From age three to six, Strayed was sexually abused by her paternal grandfather. ![]() Strayed was born in Spangler, Pennsylvania, the second daughter of Barbara Anne "Bobbi" (née Young 1945–1991) and Ronald Nyland. Wild, which told the story of a long hike that Strayed took in 1995, was an international bestseller, and was adapted as the 2014 Academy Award-nominated film Wild. She has written four books: the novel Torch (2006) and the nonfiction books Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (2012), Tiny Beautiful Things (2012) and Brave Enough (2015). 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Theranos was once valued at more than nine billion dollars. of the now defunct medical-testing tech startup Theranos, began on August 31st, three years after Holmes’s indictment on numerous counts of fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The federal trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and former C.E.O. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is shaken down in the middle of the night by cops who, he’s warned, didn’t like him talking with Black residents at all. He has a totally chilling experience there: this question is not welcome among the whites of the town he encounters, although the Black citizens have a little more to say. Unavoidably, in the deep South, Heat-Moon finds racial tensions, which he follows to Selma to ask what’s changed since King’s march. But clearly its meaning applies to the mad trip of life: the joy and pathos and point is not in knowing but in discovering. The above quotation refers to a literal labyrinth, a maze the narrator walks that is too obvious. ![]() Today I continue my review of Blue Highways begun on Wednesday. And worse: knowing the way made traveling it perfectly meaningless. Without the errors, wrong turns, and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth. ![]() ![]() ![]() The reader was left wondering just what the subject was. ![]() At times it seemed she was lost in the history and had to bring herself back to the task of writing about Martha, Abigail and Dolly. And the author is repetitive in descriptions and historical facts. The book reads like a history textbook a lot of the time. So, for these first three First Ladies to define the office was no small task. One would have thought that most colonists wanted nothing to do with the lifestyle of the European monarchs. They were inventing the office as they lived it. They each walked a fine line between what they knew of the regal queens of Europe, especially Great Britain and what they knew the colonists wanted in their leaders. Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Dolly Madison each left their mark on the office of the First Lady. Abrams is an in-depth look at the first three First Ladies. First Ladies of the Republic by Jeanne E. ![]() ![]() ![]() Smita's hesitation to take on the assignment goes beyond her rusty Hindi and the uncharitable assumption of Mohan, Shannon's friend, who deems Smita a spoiled Indian American thumbing her nose at her country of origin. She eventually gives birth to their daughter. Meena, pregnant and severely injured, barely survives. ![]() Meena's brothers, hellbent on exacting revenge on the couple for their interfaith marriage and the dishonor it has brought, set fire to the newlyweds' hut while they are inside. The complainant, Meena, a low-caste Hindu, goes against her community and religion to elope with her beloved, Abdul Mustafa, a Muslim. Before she's wheeled into the operating room, Shannon begs Smita to travel to Birwad, an all-Muslim village near the Gujarat-Maharashtra border, to report on a groundbreaking legal case in her place. She is rushing to the bedside of her colleague Shannon Carpenter, a South Asian correspondent, who is facing imminent surgery. ![]() Thrity Umrigar's latest novel, "Honor," begins with a vacation cut short when Smita Agarwal, a foreign correspondent from Brooklyn, is forced to abandon the sunny beaches of the Maldives for an unexpected detour to bustling Mumbai. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alberta based her lessons in faith and social justice, raising Martin Luther to believe in what was right, and to dream. Louise had fought her own battles for change and taught her children about their activist roots.īerdis encouraged James to express himself in writing. It was a society that would deny their sons' humanity from the beginning as it had denied theirs, but Berdis, Alberta, and Louise raised their children to hope and work towards better. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them, all born into the beginning of the 20th century and its deadly landscape of racial prejudice. Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. ![]() In her groundbreaking and essential debut Three Mothers, Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America's most pivotal heroes: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin. ![]() ![]() ![]() In July 2021, a trilogy of films based on the franchise was released over the course of three weeks on Netflix. Stine revived the book series in October 2014. 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