![]() ![]() We provide you with titles that incorporate the wide and varied lives of young people, non-fiction titles that challenge the status quo, and fiction that will break your heart and mend it together again.Īs a result of the sheer number of eligible titles and those ultimately chosen, for the first time in its history the committee separated these exceptional selections by age and created two Top 10 Titles lists. This year’s offerings give us everything from precious board books, touching picture books, astonishing true stories and biographies of remarkable people. ![]() The range of these contributions ensures that more young readers can see themselves reflected in the pages of a book. ![]() We’re delighted to see so many remarkable offerings in the expanding landscape of LGBTQIA+ literature for youth. This year’s committee evaluated close to 600 eligible titles and selected a total of 129 titles. The 2021 Rainbow Book List compiles some of the best LGBTQIA+ titles published in the USA and Canada between Jand December 31, 2020. This resource guide is meant to assist librarians, educators, parents, and others to ensure that everyone from babies and children to tweens and teens have access to selecting quality books with significant content regarding inclusion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and all that extends throughout the Rainbow spectrum. ![]() The Rainbow Book List, now in its 14th year, is an annual annotated bibliography consisting of quality LGBTQIA+ literature intended for readers from birth to age 18. ![]()
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![]() Neal Shusterman has created such a spellbinding, futuristic world that toys with ideas and philosophies we face in present day as well as those we may face in years to come. With that said, I would put the Arc of a Scythe series in the “best of YA” category. Not all YA is well-written, but then not all books are well written, right? In my opinion, the best of YA is just as good as any other genre, and it’s silly to think it wouldn’t be just because it’s written for a younger audience. They’re often stories that entice young people to become the advantageous adult readers we want them to be. For a long time they received a bad rap for being too simplistic or poorly written (and some people still push this narrative), but I think in general many people see the advantages of Young Adult literature. ![]() Traditionally, I’ve always been a big fan of YA novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() She graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in 1947, a master's degree in 1950, and a PhD in Egyptology in 1952, having studied with John A. ![]() ![]() Both have remained in print ever since, and revised editions were released in 20, respectively.īarbara Mertz was born on September 29, 1927, in Canton, Illinois. In the 1960s, Mertz authored two books on ancient Egypt: Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs, a popular history of ancient Egypt and Red Land, Black Land, which explores daily life in ancient Egypt. She was best known for her mystery and suspense novels, including the Amelia Peabody book series. In 1952, she received a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Chicago. Suspense, Mystery, Thriller, academic Egyptologyīarbara Louise Mertz (Septem– August 8, 2013) was an American author who wrote under her own name as well as under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Add in the facts that the attack happened months ago, the victim’s memory is fuzzy, and there are holes in the hotel’s surveillance system, and Veronica has a convoluted mess on her hands. ![]() The Neptune Grand has always been the seaside towns ritziest hotel. The hotel refuses to turn over its reservation list and the victim won’t divulge who she was meeting that night. Buy Mr Kiss and Tell: Veronica Mars 2 by Jennifer Graham at Mighty Ape Australia. The case is a complicated mix of hard facts, mysterious occurrences, and uncooperative witnesses. They turn to Veronica to disprove-or prove-the woman's story. When a woman claims that she was brutally assaulted in one of its rooms and left for dead by a staff member, the owners know that they have a potential powder keg on their hands. The Neptune Grand has always been the seaside town’s ritziest hotel, despite the shady dealings and high-profile scandals that seem to follow its elite guests. In the second book in the New York Times bestselling mystery series, Veronica Mars is back with a case that will expose the hidden workings of one of Neptune’s most murderous locations. ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the coming months, they are together a great deal and Caitlin's school work, friendship with her pal Rina and cheer performance suffer for the amount of time she spends with Rogerson. The incident forms an instant bond between the two because Caitlin is the only person who knows Rogerson's secret. They return to his house where Caitlin witnesses Rogerson's father hit him for being late. He invites her out and takes her along as he sells drugs. He has been in trouble with the law but Caitlin initially believes that Rogerson has turned his life around. Caitlin drifts into joining the cheer squad though she has no real desire to do so, then is drawn to a young man who represents the total opposite of what Cass had done in her life. Caitlin's parents are immediately caught up in their search for Cass and Caitlin's birthday-including the trip to get her driver's license-is put aside. Caitlin O'Koren wakes on the morning of her sixteenth birthday to find that her eighteen-year-old sister, Cassandra, has run away from home just before she was due to go to Yale. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They hear their lives in his lyrics, written in the tradition of Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle and other true-life troubadours. It's his music that draws them - a tangle of roots in blues, country and down-home rock 'n' roll, branded with his unique imprint. The road-toughened troubadour and his band have already logged thousands of miles playing 130+ dates a year in front of loyal rowdy crowds at far-flung, late-night clubs and concert halls all over Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Nebraska and beyond. But on his new album The Parade, boundaries disappear and things are getting real. Bart Crow is still the kind of guy and artist fans in the South and Midwest have grown to love. Bart Crow is coming your way.Īlways known as “the nice guy” with a smile on his face, the tides are turning and the gloves are coming off. ![]() Whether you're in a Manhattan hi-rise or at a truck stop somewhere off a Midwestern interstate, keep your eyes open. ![]() ![]() ![]() With Super Troopers 3: Winter Soldiers in the far-distant section of the pipeline, the story of the ‘orthopedically challenged’ Parisian bell-ringer drops on Hulu (US) and Disney+ (UK) without much fanfare, but while fans may feel short-changed not to see their favourite returning characters, Quasi finds the Broken Lizard brand is in fine fettle. ![]() ‘You nailed his scrotum to a tree stump… what is wrong with you people?’ is a line that captures the timeless Rabelaisian rudeness featured not only in Quasi, a satirical take on the classic Victor Hugo novel and the many screen versions that followed, but also within the Broken Lizard comedy troupe itself. ![]() ![]() ![]() Having spent all of her money to retrieve the Pahlad Budrakim from ‘Compassionate Removal,’ Ingray is dismayed to find that the person she awakens from suspension flatly denies being Pahlad and refuses to help with her scheme–a turn of events with an inconvenient criminal companion in tow as she returns, penniless, to her home planet of Hwae. ![]() Despite her certainty, she tries one last, desperate time to gain Netano’s favor by embarrassing a rival political family. In a society where prestige and power are handed down by taking on a parent’s name, Ingray knows that it’s likely her brother will be the next Netano Aughskold. The reader meets Ingray Aughskold just as her latest plan to gain her foster mother’s approval falls apart. ![]() PROVENANCE plays out on an intimate scale, the coming-of-age story of a woman who should have come into her own years ago. While the scope is broad, covering an uneasy interstellar treaty and the implications of a society obsessed with origins and authenticity, the real focus is on Ingray Aughskold, a foster child from a public crèche, acutely aware that in her mother’s eyes, she has always lacked “a certain something” (423). Ann Leckie’s PROVENANCE ( Amazon) is not a space opera. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because when you’re wildly in love with someone, it changes everything. ![]() And once you encounter His love, as Francis describes it, you will never be the same. Because the answer to religious complacency isn’t working harder at a list of do's and don'ts - it's falling in love with God. ![]() God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. Does something deep inside your heart long to break free from the status quo? Are you hungry for an authentic faith that addresses the problems of our world with tangible, even radical, solutions? Whether you’ve verbalized it yet or not, we all know something’s wrong. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss. The God of the universe - the Creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor - loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. Overwhelmed by a Relentless God By: Francis Chan Narrated by: Francis Chan. 'In the name of the Father, the Son, and. Have you ever wondered if we’re missing it? It’s crazy, if you think about it. A follow up to the profound message of Crazy Love, Pastor Francis Chan offers a compelling invitation to understand, embrace, and follow the Holy Spirits direction in our lives. Revised and updated edition of the best-seller, now with a new preface and a bonus chapter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Joe Grunenwald: How did you come to be involved with Norse Mythology ? ![]() It’s an ambitious project, and The Beat was happy to have the opportunity to chat with Russell about how he came on to the project (they didn’t have to twist his arm), how he approaches translating prose for comics, and what he thinks makes Neil Gaiman’s work so adaptable. The first two issues alone of the 18-issue series features work by Russell, Mike Mignola, and Jerry Ordway. He wrote and illustrated adaptations of Coraline, Sandman: The Dream Hunters, and Murder Mysteries, and more recently he wrote and artist Scott Hampton illustrated Dark Horse‘s three-volume adaptation of American Gods.įor Dark Horse’s latest Gaiman adaptation, Norse Mythology, the multiple Eisner-winning Russell is back at the helm, and teamed with a murderer’s row of artistic talent. In addition to having worked with Gaiman directly, Russell has also adapted multiple prose works by the writer into comics. Craig Russell is no stranger to interpreting the work of writer Neil Gaiman. ![]() |