![]() ![]() They would argue about the best take-out pizza, Android vs. ![]() So over the next seven years, Misha and Ryen embarked on a great friendship. It didn’t take long for them to figure out their teachers’ mistakes. Misha and Ryen have been penpals since the fifth grade because each of their teachers misgendered the kids because of their names with Misha sounding like a girl’s name and Ryen sounding like a boy’s name. I gave it 5/5 stars! CW: Bullying, Suicide Attempt, Dubious Consent, Parental Abandonment. Anyways, I absolutely fell in love with Punk 57 by Penelope Douglas! It’s a penpal, New Adult romance set during Misha and Ryen’s senior year of high school. Let’s just say my “Favorite Books of 2020” post is going to be a very long post.īefore I begin, this book is problematic so please be aware of that before you decide to pick it up. Hey, friends! I know I’ve said this before, but I have a new favorite book. ![]()
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![]() But when Hector dies of AIDS-related complications, Angel must bear the responsibility of tending to their house alone.Īs the mother of the house, Angel recruits Venus, a whip-fast trans girl who dreams of finding a rich man to take care of her Juanito, a quiet boy who loves fabrics and design and Daniel, a butch queen who accidentally saves Venus’s life. When she falls in love with Hector, a beautiful young man who dreams of becoming a professional dancer, the two decide to form the House of Xtravaganza, the first-ever all-Latino house in the Harlem ball circuit. Burned by her traumatic past, Angel is new to the drag world, new to ball culture, and has a yearning inside of her to help create family for those without. It’s 1980 in New York City, and nowhere is the city’s glamour and energy better reflected than in the burgeoning Harlem ball scene, where seventeen-year-old Angel first comes into her own. ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Heart of Yoga Desikachar offers a distillation of his father's system as well as his own practical approach, which he describes as "a program for the spine at every level-physical, mental, and spiritual." This is the first yoga text to outline a step-by-step sequence for developing a complete practice according to the age-old principles of yoga. Desikachar has based his method on Krishnamacharya's fundamental concept of viniyoga, which maintains that practices must be continually adapted to the individual's changing needs to achieve the maximum therapeutic value. Desikachar lived and studied with his father all his life and now teaches the full spectrum of Krishnamacharya's yoga. Iyengar, Pattabhi Jois, and Indra Devi, who all studied with Krishnamacharya. Elements of Krishnamacharya's teaching have become well known around the world through the work of B. Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who lived to be over 100 years old, was one of the greatest yogis of the modern era. ![]() This new edition adds thirty-two poems by Krishnamacharya that capture the essence of his teachings. The first yoga text to outline a step-by-step sequence for developing a complete practice according to viniyoga-yoga adapted to the needs of the individual.Ī contemporary classic by a world-renowned teacher. ![]() ![]() The foundation for such an amazing, lifelong love story begins even before you meet your future spouse-by allowing the Author of romance to script your love story and show you how to love like He loves. After all, God is the One who invented the concept of romance in the first place! And God doesn’t need to imitate the world’s way of building a relationship-He has His own perfect, amazing, beautiful way of writing a love story that is far more fulfilling and romantic than anything Hollywood could ever concoct. Rather than building a love story the way the world does (with a few Christian morals tacked on for good measure) this book introduces readers to a far superior way of building a love story…God’s way. ![]() This bestselling book has provided the foundation for a whole new way of thinking about relationships among today’s generation. ![]() ![]() This book will appeal to artists and fans of John Howe's work by leading you step-by-step through a range of specially commissioned demonstrations, sketches and finished paintings, some designed specifically for this book, that reveal John's renowned artistic approach in action, plus the techniques and stories behind each. Discusses the rewarding journey into fantasy art, from the first steps of building a compelling portfolio to book illustration, graphic novels and the big screen.Leads you step-by-step through a range of specially commissioned drawing and painting demonstrations that reveal John's renowned artistic approach in action.Examines in fascinating detail over 150 of the artist's outstanding sketches, drawings and paintings, plus the techniques and stories behind each.Brings together Fantasy Art Workshop and Fantasy Drawing Workshop into a combined volume, fully updated and with new art. ![]() ![]() Discover the creative processes and intriguing inspirations behind the work of leading fantasy artist John Howe - conceptual designer on The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy - in this comprehensive practical art book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He took a leading part in the framing of the Indian constitution, outlawing discrimination against untouchables, and skillfully helped to steer it through the assembly. The fundamental rights provide for freedom, equality, and abolition of untouchability and remedies to ensure the evolution of rights. One of the greatest contributions of Dr.Ambedkar was in respect of fundamental rights and directive principles of state policy enshrined in the constitution of India. In 1947 Ambedkar became the law minister of the government of India. He was born in a Dalit Mahar family of western India, he was a boy humiliated by his high-caste schoolfellows. He had knowledge of 9 languages like Hindi, Pali, Sanskrit, English, French, German, Marathi, Persian, and Gujarati. ![]() He is considered as a great critique of the caste system. He was considered a messiah for a suppressed class as he belongs to the untouchable’s community. He played a significant role for the upliftment of the downtrodden. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar also known as Babasaheb Ambedkar, was one of the most prominent lawyers, economists, politicians, and social reformers who inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement and campaigned against social discrimination against the Untouchables. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her newest book, Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything – Even Things That Seem Impossible Today, teaches us how to train our brains to think the unthinkable and imagine the unimaginable using the same tools she used to predict the COVID-19 pandemic. ![]() Combining decades of psychological and neurological research with extensive gaming expertise, Jane’s books bring to light the power that games have on us and the world at large. Her games have been used by organizations including the World Bank, the New York Public Library, the International Olympics Committee, and the American Heart Association. ![]() The games she designs, from world-renown apps like SuperBetter to custom mini-games used in her interactive presentations, challenge players to tackle real-world problems such as their own symptoms of anxiety, depression, and chronic pain as well as larger societal issues including poverty, hunger, and climate change. As the Director of Game Research and Development at the Institute for the Future, her research focuses on how games are transforming the way we lead our real lives and how they can be used to anticipate hard-to-predict futures, ready ourselves for any future scenario, and increase our resilience and well-being. Jane McGonigal is a futurist, game designer, and bestselling author. ![]() ![]() On the Road is based on the travels of writer Jack Kerouac and his friends across the US in a quest for self-knowledge and experience. The copy of On the Road now sits in a shelf of first editions, which include Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea and A Moveable Feast, and Ian Fleming's Octopussy. There was great excitement among staff at Adventure Books when the copy arrived in a shipment from the United States. The book may have been opened and read, but there are no defects to the book, jacket or pages. ![]() Recently, first-edition hardback copies of On the Road in ''fine'' condition have been selling for between $US4500 and $US35,000 on the American Book Exchange website ( A ''fine'' book approaches the condition of ''as new'', but without being crisp. He grabbed the book and took it straight to the counter. Knowing he had found a rare and undervalued copy, his heart ''started beating fast''. It was in a bookshop in Austin that he stumbled across the first edition copy of On the Road, selling for just $US150. The owner of Oamaru bookshop Adventure Books had been in North America to attend his daughter's graduation from New York University, and spent the following three weeks ''book scouting'' in his home country. ![]() ![]() Stmubling across a first-edition copy of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road in ''pristine'' condition, tucked away in a bookshop in Austin, Texas, Bill Nye's heart started beating fast. ![]() ![]() ![]() Scene: The Mississippi Valley Time: Forty to fifty years ago I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech. IN this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect the ordinary “Pike County” dialect and four modified varieties of this last. ![]() ![]() PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.īY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance. ![]() ![]() ![]() I watch as they land on their feet, and I curse when they propel themselves into the thick fog cloaking the gauntlet. ![]() I dive to the edge, even as people continue to pass through me en masse. That’s at least a hundred feet worth of drop zone! My guys are the first to drop off the side. Without a second of hesitation, everyone on this platform starts racing through me, rushing toward the drop. “The day of the gauntlet begins now!” the man shouts. The elephant man looks away when all six heirs give one nod of approval in eerily timed unison. They just know them, probably have them memorized. They don’t even have to look back to see these people. The same one born to Eve, after Lucifer deployed his plan to corrupt humanity and prove he was right all along, sending his own son into the womb of Eve, just before he was cast from the heavens,” Ezekiel tells me. The same Cain who killed his brother-Abel. ![]() “The blonde is Hera,” Kai tells me, resuming the interrupted conversation, and when I open my mouth, he adds, “Yes, that Hera, and yes, she posed as a Greek Goddess for a while. ![]() |