![]() ![]() Wash Day Diaries includes an updated, full color version of this original comic-which follows Kim, a 26-year-old woman living in the Bronx-as the book's first chapter and expands into a graphic novel with short stories about these vibrant and relatable new characters. Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith originally kickstarted their critically acclaimed, award-winning slice of life mini comic, Wash Day, inspired by Rowser's own wash day ritual and their shared desire to see more comics featuring the daily lived experiences of young Black women. Each short story uses hair routines as a window into these four characters' everyday lives and how they care for each other. ![]() The book takes its title from the wash day experience shared by Black women everywhere of setting aside all plans and responsibilities for a full day of washing, conditioning, and nourishing their hair. Wash Day Diaries tells the story of four best friends-Kim, Tanisha, Davene, and Cookie-through five connected short story comics that follow these young women through the ups and downs of their daily lives in the Bronx. ![]() From writer Jamila Rowser and artist Robyn Smith comes a captivating graphic novel love letter to the beauty and endurance of Black women, their friendships, and their hair. ![]()
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![]() ![]() " dark and extravagantly imagined debut.The plot follows the separate and then intertwining lives of Celia and Marco, both forced to spend their lives pitting their unusual talents against each other in a cruel competition. ![]() "Erin Morgenstern's debut novel, The Night Circus, is quietly, enchantingly perfect.reading this novel is like having a marvelous dream, in which you are asleep enough to believe everything that is happening, but awake enough to relish the experience and understand that it is magical." "A Romeo and Juliet tale drenched in magic realism, The Night Circus defies both genres and expectations. When Celia calls their circus a 'wonder and comfort and mystery all together,' she could have been talking about this book." "If this novel is just cotton candy, it's cotton candy spun from strands of edible silver.With no more lust than a late volume of Harry Potter, Morgenstern manages to conjure up a love story for adults that feels luxuriously romantic. Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife Playful and intensely imaginative, Erin Morgenstern has created the circus I have always longed for and she has populated it with dueling love-struck magicians, precocious kittens, hyper-elegant displays of beauty and complicated clocks. ![]() ![]() ![]() While the media sages are probably right that DeSantis (or a similar Republican like Gov. Calling in an establishment voice for backup, Dowd quotes David Axelrod, former chief campaign strategist for Barack Obama: "The kind of tricks you use to get elected to other offices don't work in a presidential race because you get scrutinized so closely."Īnd on it goes: DeSantis is by turns "contrived," "robotic," "inept," "nasty" and "dull." OK, Maureen, we get the picture. Why did DeSantis' exploratory campaign flame out so spectacularly? Here Dowd, standing in for dozens of commentators, judges that DeSantis was simply not likable (in Dowd's world, everything in the known universe is reducible to sophomore class in high school, and people elect politicians for the same reasons they form lunchroom cliques).ĭeSantis' political stunts apparently exacerbate his unlikability. The epitaphs have been quick in coming Maureen Dowd's recent column in the New York times may serve as representative of the conventional wisdom. Ron DeSantis, they've driven a stake through the corpse's heart and stuffed its mouth with garlic. In the last few weeks the mainstream media have not only buried the presidential ambitions of Florida Gov. ![]() ![]() ![]() But will she be able to mend fences and forgive herself before she loses her one real shot at happiness? When Gigi finally realizes she can’t escape the present by returning to her past, she’s forced to reexamine her life and find the true meaning of love. Gigi’s girls are determined to make her look bad in front of the boys’ Head Counselor-the sexy but infuriating Perry-and every scrap of the campground is laced with memories. Taking the Head Counselor position at Camp Chinooka, Gigi hopes to reclaim the joy she felt as a camper, but the job isn’t all campfire songs and toasting marshmallows. With all of her dreams unravelling, she runs to the last place she remembers being happy. The same week that her best friends finally announce their wedding date, Gigi loses her high-profile design job. She knows it’s wrong and it has to stop, but she hasn’t been able to let go ever since they all met on the bus to summer camp back when they were seven years old. A fast-paced, enjoyable read!" - Kristin Harmel, international bestselling author of The Sweetness of Forgettingįor twenty long years, Gigi Goldstein has been pining away for her best friend’s guy. ![]() ![]() "If HBO’s Girls went to summer camp, this would be their story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Turning their backs on all the hard-wrought perfections of the hour, they were searching for the sweet uncertainties of a bygone year and for all its chance encounters – encounters which in the moment had seemed so haphazard and effervescent but which with time took on some semblance of fate. Meanwhile Eve uses her drive and wits to carve out a very different path in life.Īnd yet, I found my thoughts reaching into the past. Katey’s wit and charm raise her from one among many in a secretarial pool to a high-profile assistant at Gotham, a precursor to Vanity Fair. The novel follows Katey, Eve, Tinker and her friends through 1938, just before the sharp lines between social stratifications were blurred by the leveling influences of World War II, as their circumstances shift and change. Tinker is enigmatic, adorable and lives his life according to George Washington’s Rules of Civility, but is he all he says he is? There they meet the handsome, wealthy Tinker Gray, who charms them both, but connects in particular with Katey. On New Year’s Eve in 1937, Katey and her vivacious friend Eve scrape together their meagre dollars and head for a Village jazz club to see in 1938. ![]() Walker Evans, from Subway Portraits 1938 – 41 ![]() ![]() ![]() Connect with us We invite you to connect with us on social media.Guides and resources We have produced a range of resources, databases, indexes, finding aids and reading lists to help you with your research and to find information in our Collection.Research publications We produce a range of publications and other resources derived from our research.Native title research and access service The Native Title Research and Access Service is your first stop for information about the native title resources in the AIATSIS collection.Indigenous Research Exchange We improve outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples by ensuring there is more involvement and agency in research projects.Ethical research We provide leadership in ethics and protocols for research related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and collections.Current projects Our research contributes to the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and has a direct benefit to the communities we work with.AIATSIS holds the worlds largest collection dedicated to AustralianĪboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and histories. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He prayerfully sought the will of the Lord, and when the answer came to teach at the academy, he obeyed. At the same time, he was asked to teach at Brigham Young Academy, a “missionary institution” that would yield little pay. As a young man, he was offered a well-paid position with the Provo public schools. Long before he wrote Jesus the Christ, James Edward Talmage was a man committed to the Lord. It is a unique book not only in terms of its content and influence but also in terms of its own story, a story that deserves retelling during this centennial anniversary. It has been used as a course of study for priesthood and Relief Society classes, is one of the texts in the approved missionary library, and has contributed to readers’ doctrinal understanding of the Savior the world over. For 100 years, the book has never been out of print, going through numerous reprints and editions in multiple languages and formats. In the century since its publication, Jesus the Christ has become a classic work among Latter-day Saints. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stage actor and screen newcomer, drama school graduate Amelia Isaac Jones plays Skye in series three. In series three, Yvonne has been promoted, is living with Kenny and planning to start a family. In series three, Yvonne is played by actor-writer Isaura Barbé-Brown, whose many screen roles include The Gold, The Undeclared War, Halo, Toast of Tinseltownand Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. ![]() The role was originally played by Rochelle Neil and presumably due to a filming clash (Neil is starring in six-part period drama Three Little Birds, Sir Lenny Henry’s autobiographically inspired story of three Jamaican women’s emigration to England, coming to ITV later this year), was recast. Yvonne met and fell for Emun Elliott’s Kenny Burns at an AA meeting, and eventually turned Stevie in. Police officer Yvonne joined Guilt in series two as a recovering alcoholic who was being blackmailed by her corrupt colleague Stevie over an incident in her drinking past. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve thought of that book often in the time since: all the frustration, the palpable yearning after some sort of power or independence, packed in those two scribbled words. In the margins next to Pope Joan’s entry - in firm, enthusiastic script - one of them had written the words “papa femina.” Female pope. ![]() The nuns who owned the book were evidently fascinated by this legend. It was a fat, old tome on the history of the popes that looked unspeakably dull, and it was open in its display case to the entry on Pope Joan, the apocryphal figure who was thought to have disguised her gender and become pope in the Middle Ages. Two years ago, I saw a book at a library exhibit that once belonged to a medieval nunnery. The Vox Book Club is linking to to support local and independent booksellers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He can’t afford to do anything that might derail his career…like introducing the world to his boyfriend. Scott needs Kip in his life, but with playoff season approaching, the spotlight on him is suddenly brighter than ever. 'The Game Changers series is a game changer in sports romance (wink), and firmly ensconced in my top five sports series of all time.' - All About Romance, Best Books of 2020 'Reid's hockey-themed Game Changers series continues on its red-hot winning streak. When it happens it’s red-hot, incredible and frequent, but also only on Scott’s terms and always behind his closed apartment doors. Or kissed with reckless abandon, never mind touched everywhere all at once. Kip knew there was more to Scott’s frequent visits than blended fruit, but he never let himself imagine being invited back to Scott’s penthouse. So, when a smoothie made by juice bar barista Kip Grady precedes Scott breaking his on-ice slump, he’s desperate to recreate the magic.and to get to know the sexy, funny guy behind the counter. With this irresistible mix of sports, sex, and romance, Reid has scored. ![]() All About Romance, Best Books of 2020 Reid’s hockey-themed Game Changers series continues on its red-hot winning streak. Pro hockey star Scott Hunter knows a good thing when he sees it. The Game Changers series is a game changer in sports romance (wink), and firmly ensconced in my top five sports series of all time. In this case, it’s not just a lucky smoothie he’s craving-it’s the man who made it. New York Admirals captain Scott Hunter takes his pregame rituals very seriously. “Reid’s hockey-themed Game Changers series continues on its red-hot winning streak.” -Publishers Weekly, starred review for Common Goal ![]() |