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Agatha Christie by Agatha Christie5/9/2023 And I don’t believe I really like children.” This has been stripped down in a new edition to state: “They come back and stare, and stare. The word “natives” has also been replaced with the word “local”.Īmong the examples of changes cited by the Telegraph is the 1937 Poirot novel Death on the Nile, in which the character of Mrs Allerton complains that a group of children are pestering her, saying that “they come back and stare, and stare, and their eyes are simply disgusting, and so are their noses, and I don’t believe I really like children”. The newspaper reported that the edits cut references to ethnicity, such as describing a character as black, Jewish or Gypsy, or a female character’s torso as “of black marble” and a judge’s “Indian temper”, and removed terms such as “Oriental” and the N-word. The updates follow edits made to books by Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming to remove offensive references to gender and race in a bid to preserve their relevance to modern readers. Sensitivity readers had made the edits, which were evident in digital versions of the new editions, including the entire Miss Marple run and selected Poirot novels set to be released or that have been released since 2020, the Telegraph reported.
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The raven fatty legs5/9/2023 Volume 2, Report of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry in Manitoba by Justices Hamilton and Sinclair because being from northern Manitoba, and then moving to Winnipeg, the stories of Helen Betty Osborne and Joseph Harper echoed throughout my childhood, teen years and early adulthood. What inspires my writing Two books have been especially important to my writing. For a kid who lived at the edge of the bush or out on the farm, the Scholastic books that we ordered through school were like Christmas a few times a year. I was also a big fan of Gordon Johnston’s It Happened in Canada series. My childhood reading I’m not sure if there were any well-known Indigenous children’s book authors when I was a kid but Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf is a book that I really enjoyed. Smith sent me a package of fan mail from her students including a poem I had written when I was in Grade 3! Attached to the poem was a Post-it that said “I always knew you would be a writer.” Michael Hutchinson (Misipawistik Cree Nation), The Case of the Burgled Bundle (Second Story Press) My dad also did everything he could to keep me on the land and teach me what he remembered from his childhood though he was taken from home as a baby and kept at residential school, then Indian day school. I also learned about our stories and knowledge systems from my wilp (this is a house group which is comprised of one or more families tied together through clan and history).
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Winterworld by Chuck Dixon5/9/2023 Follow Scully and Wynn from their icy home of Wintersea into a killing wasteland where the coldest place is the human heart. Winter is coming early! All new stories based on the Chuck Dixon/Jorge Zaffino classic! The apocalyptic international comics sensation of an Earth turned to an icy hell is back with Dixon returning to script and Butch Guice doing some of the best work of his illustrious artistic career as they take on the bleak and frozen future.
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Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians. COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions.
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After Hours by Cara McKenna5/8/2023 If they want to have more than just an affair, both will have to open up and reveal what they truly need. But he can’t play the tough guy indefinitely. What Erin finds even more shocking than Kelly’s indecent proposal is how much she enjoys submitting to his every command. But she finds herself drawn to him anyway, even when he shows up at her door, not eager to take no for an answer. She’s seen firsthand, via her mess of a sister, what chaos guys like him can bring into a woman’s life. Kelly Robak is the type of guy that Erin has sworn she’d never get involved with. Needing to move closer to her dysfunctional family, she takes a dangerous job at Larkhaven Psychiatric Hospital, where she quickly learns that she needs protection-and she meets the strong, over-confident coworker who’s more than willing to provide it. Ames’ review of After Hoursby Cara McKenna.Ī dangerous infatuation with a rough and ready man…Įrin Coffey has been a nurse for years, but nothing’s prepared her for the physical and emotional demands of her new position.
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Inwijding by Veronica Roth5/8/2023 That removes the threat of anyone exercising independent will and threatening the population's safety again by war or some other human-created catastrophe. The background to the story, revealed in the first novel of the trilogy, explains how Chicago in the post-apocalyptic future is now a society that defines its citizens by strict conformity to their social and personality affiliations with five different factions. Ī film adaptation of the novel was released on March 20, 2015.įurther information: Factions (Divergent) Insurgent received mostly positive reviews from critics, with reviewers praising Roth's writing. and HarperCollins Children's Books in the UK, and a "Collector's Edition" was published on October 30 in the United States. The book was first published on May 1, 2012, by the HarperCollins imprints Katherine Tegen Books in the U.S. While trying to save the people that she loves, Tris faces questions of grief, forgiveness, identity, loyalty, politics, and love. Following the events of the previous novel, a war now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. As the sequel to the 2011 bestseller Divergent, it continues the story of Tris Prior and the dystopian post-apocalyptic version of Chicago. Insurgent is a 2012 science fiction young adult novel by American novelist Veronica Roth and the second book in the Divergent trilogy.
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The wife upstairs book review5/8/2023 Jane can't help but see an opportunity in Eddie-not only is he rich, brooding, and handsome, he could also offer her the kind of protection she's always yearned for. His wife, Bea, drowned in a boating accident with her best friend, their bodies lost to the deep. Recently widowed, Eddie is Thornfield Estates' most mysterious resident. Where no one will think to ask if Jane is her real name.īut her luck changes when she meets Eddie Rochester. The kind of place where no one will notice if Jane lifts the discarded tchotchkes and jewelry off the side tables of her well-heeled clients. Newly arrived to Birmingham, Alabama, Jane is a broke dog-walker in Thornfield Estates-a gated community full of McMansions, shiny SUVs, and bored housewives. A delicious twist on a Gothic classic, The Wife Upstairs pairs Southern charm with atmospheric domestic suspense, perfect for fans of B.A.
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Light in august first edition5/8/2023 I will say, I thought his girlfriend was kind of yummy.” In one video released by Media Matters on Tuesday, Carlson tells someone off-camera: “You wouldn’t. The Wall Street Journal, a Fox News stablemate, also reported that executives were angered by Carlson’s language. The Times report about Carlson’s comments, as well as “highly offensive” messages redacted in filings in the Dominion case, was released amid widespread speculation about the reason for his firing. In one clip, Carlson seemed to anticipate leaks, telling Media Matters: “Go fuck yourself.”Ĭarlson was suddenly fired by Fox News last week, in the aftermath of the network’s $787.5m settlement of a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems over its broadcast of Donald Trump’s electoral fraud lies. The clips were released by Media Matters for America, a progressive watchdog that on Monday released other video in which Carlson derided the Fox Nation streaming service. The first two remarks were previously reported by the New York Times.
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The Ark Plan by Laura Martin5/8/2023 She does have a best friend, though, another orphan, Shawn. Her mother died when she was a baby, so she’s an orphan in a group of people who’ve been told not to like her. In the first book, The Ark Plan, Sky most of all wants to find news of her scientist father, who vanished five years ago when she was seven. After the great human die-off more than 100 years ago, and amid huge carnivorous beasts, living underground became the only safe place. Biologists had cloned dinosaurs from their DNA, and at the same time had loosed this ancient disease, deadly to nearly everyone. Plucky Sky Mundy, in an underground colony in what once was northern Indiana, is just one of a few hundred humans alive, survivors of a plague. The Edge of Extinction by Laura Martin, a series of two books published in 20, provides a dystopian Jurassic Park tale for middle-graders.
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This prophecy will reunite estranged mothers, daughters, aunts, and cousins-for better or for worse. Desperate for guidance, she consults Auntie Hua, her trusted psychic in Hawaii, who delivers an unexpected prediction: this year, her family will witness a marriage, a funeral, and the birth of a son. Mai is convinced they might drive her to an early grave. Though Mai's three adult daughters, Priscilla, Thuy, and Thao, are successful in their careers (one of them is John Cho's dermatologist!), the same can't be said for their love lives. She's divorced, and after an explosive disagreement a decade ago, she's estranged from her younger sisters, Minh Pham (the middle and the mediator) and Khuyen Lam (the youngest who swears she just runs humble coffee shops and nail salons, not Little Saigon's underground). Oanh's current descendant Mai Nguyen knows this curse well. About the Book "It started with their ancestor, Oanh, who dared to leave her marriage for true love-so a fearsome Vietnamese witch cursed Oanh and her descendants so that they would never find love or happiness, and the Duong women would give birth to daughters, never sons. |