![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mediocre investigates the real costs of this phenomenon in order to imagine a new white male identity, one free from racism and sexism.Īs provocative as it is essential, this book will upend everything you thought you knew about American identity and offers a bold new vision of American greatness. Mediocre The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo Trade Paperback ebook Hardcover Audiobook Download Unabridged 17. Through the last 150 years of American history - from the post-reconstruction South and the mythic stories of cowboys in the West, to the present-day controversy over NFL protests and the backlash against the rise of women in politics - Ijeoma Oluo exposes the devastating consequences of white male supremacy on women, people of color, and white men themselves. What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments? From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an “illuminating” ( New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Her new life was one of thrilling adventure and freedom, but still she was haunted by the ghosts of her lonely and traumatic childhood. She found a sense of belonging among straight-edge anarchists who taught her how to traverse the country by freight trains, sleep in fields under the stars, and feed herself by foraging in dumpsters. Quinn's story burns through us and bleeds beauty on every page."-Noe lvarez, author of Spirit Run- A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land After a childhood marked by neglect, poverty, and periods of homelessness, with a mother who believed herself to be the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, Carrot Quinn moved out on her own. The unforgettable story of one woman who leaves behind her hardscrabble childhood in Alaska to travel the country via freight train-a beautiful memoir about forgiveness, self-discovery, and the redemptive power of nature, perfect for fans of Wild or Educated. ![]() ![]() But one does not become top dog merely through power. Peterson, in being the "top dog" in a community and society at large. We can expand our efforts to the broader community once we have our "house in perfect order." There is utility, according to dr. Personal responsibility needs to be coherently integrated with society and the broader community. Society is composed of the people we surround ourselves with, the wider community, social institutions. While our individual responsibility and actions are the most immediate means of power we all have available, society shapes our personas. Rule One - Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement Peterson's work): personal responsibility.īelow is a breakdown of each rule, accompanied with a description of it. The recurring underlying theme (omnipresent in dr. Peterson in this book form a north star that can guide our existence. All together, the twelve rules presented by dr. Striking a great balance between chaos and order, yin and yang, is the ultimate ingredient of a meaningful life. ![]() As a matter of fact, excess order in our life is just as dangerous as excess chaos, contrarily to what some of us may think. Peterson provides twelve additional principles for life to bring back the balance of order and chaos when there is excess order, broadly speaking. ![]() In Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, dr. ![]() ![]() He opened his mouth to answer, but I held out my hand, stopping him before he started. But why are we having dinner together?” I said. Really, the man was a master of simplicity. “We’re having dinner together,” Isaac responded. Being a scary lurker looking for reasons to harass me was one thing, but paying attention to minute details about my eating habits and then remembering them a dozen years later? That was just creepy. You were always so excited about lasagna day at the cafeteria, you asked for extra feta at that falafel stand by the park, you ordered mint chocolate chip ice cream in a cone but you never ate the cone, and-” “What do you mean, how do I know? We grew up together. “How do you know what food I like, Isaac?” ![]() He’d said that about the lasagna too, hadn’t he? And the feta. “I love mint chocolate chip ice cream, though,” I added. “Drinking decaf coffee is like watching censored porn.” I didn’t know whether you liked regular or decaf so I got one of each.” ![]() “There’s mint chocolate chip in the freezer and cones on the counter.” He tilted his chin toward the counter, where I saw a grocery bag and a few cups from the coffee shop across the street. ![]() ![]() ![]() She later recalled her childhood as a lonely one, with her happiest moments spent exploring Maryland's Tidewater region on horseback. She studied in a school kept by her stepfather, Joshua L. Her father died in 1824, and per his deathbed request she was christened Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte. Southworth was born Emma Nevitte on December 26, 1819, in Washington, D.C., to Susannah Wailes and Charles LeCompte Nevitte, a Virginia merchant. Though The Hidden Hand (1859) was her most popular novel, Southworth's favorite of her works was her novel Ishmael (1876). In her novels, her heroines often challenge modern perceptions of Victorian feminine domesticity by showing virtue as naturally allied to wit, adventure, and rebellion to remedy any unfortunate situation. She was the most popular American novelist of her day. Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (December 26, 1819 – June 30, 1899) was an American writer of more than 60 novels in the latter part of the 19th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() It gave me confidence in my abilities to sustain a novel-length story and draw in readers. That book (which eventually became part of a trilogy) was exactly the jump I needed to become a professional author. ![]() Eventually I wrote my first original novel, Stasis, a dark fantasy set in an alternate universe, with gay men as the protagonists. But my writing really kicked into gear decades later when I began writing fanfiction (Buffyverse, and it was Spike slash thanks for asking). The earliest I remember was something about a haunted spacesuit (a concept I may or may not have plagiarized from Arthur C. I’ve been writing stories since I was a little kid. Origin: How did the first story you ever wrote influence your career as an author and how do you feel about that story now?.With that, let’s chat with Kim.Īfter reading, be sure to leave a comment to win a copy of The Bureau: Volume 1 and The Bureau: Volume 2! ACwA guest: Kim Fielding ( Brute is still my favorite.) Kim’s works span different subgenres so there something for every reader. Over the years, I’ve read many Kim Fielding books and loved them all. Little did she know I wasn’t going to disappear any year soon. She was kind to me when I attended my first writing conference and didn’t know anyone. ![]() Kim was one of the first authors I met in person. ![]() Happy Wednesday Readers! Today’s guest is my good friend Kim Fielding. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stephanie, Ranger, Lula, and Evelyn's lawyer/laundromat manager set out to find Annie. Trenton cop and on-again, off-again fiancé Joe Morelli, and Stephanie's mentor, Ranger, enter the scene, and because Stephanie needs Ranger's expertise, she accepts his help - even though it might mean paying some past debts. ![]() Steven is somehow linked with the very scary Eddie Abruzzi. Stephanie follows Annie and Evelyn's trail - and finds a lot more than she bargained for. ![]() But Evelyn's grandmother lives next door to Stephanie's parents, and they're not about to see their neighbor lose her house because of the abduction. The money was secured by a mortgage on Evelyn's grandmother's house, and the True Blue Bonds Agency wants to take possession of it.įinding a kidnapped child is not Stephanie's thing. He and Evelyn signed a child custody bond, and Steven wants the bond money to search for Annie. Evelyn's estranged husband, Steven, is not happy. Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has a problem: 7-year-old Annie Soder and her mother, Evelyn, have disappeared. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That they do so while trying to build a relationship with someone who's seen them as they really are, to move past shame into intimacy, makes the story that much more touching. She currently teaches at the MFA Writing for Children program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughter. ![]() Bea and Beck, who readers see through Bea's sympathetic and knowing eyes, get worse and better not according to a predetermined outline but according to their individual trajectories. Corey Ann Haydu is the author of OCD Love Story, Rules for Stealing Stars, Eventown, and several other critically acclaimed young adult and children’s novels. Debut novelist Haydu doesn't sugarcoat the difficulties of OCD or reduce her characters to a symptom list. And then there's the fact exciting and mortifying in equal parts that the group includes Beck, an adorable compulsive hand-washer Bea met while he was having a panic attack. When Bea's therapist decides she would benefit from group therapy, Bea is sure that if she starts talking about her "little anxieties about driving and missing my ex-boyfriend, these people will feel approximately a thousand times worse about themselves." But Bea isn't just an over-cautious driver and a blurter she's afraid to be around sharp objects in case she suddenly harms someone and is basically stalking the couple that has therapy before her. Corey Ann Haydu is the author of OCD Love Story, Rules for Stealing Stars, Eventown, and several other critically acclaimed young adult and children’s novels.She currently teaches at the MFA Writing for Children program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() In New South Wales Oscar loses his scholarship after he is unable to stop gambling. They play cards together until Oscar becomes panicked at the sight of a storm. On the boat over he meets Lucinda and hears her confess to gambling which he denies is a sin. He earns a scholarship to study in New South Wales. While studying he is introduced to gambling and becomes massively successful, using his winnings to fund his studies and giving the rest to the poor. Meanwhile, a young Oscar is being raised as a Plymouth Brethren by his father but after receiving a sign from God he decides to join the Anglican faith. She buys a glass factory with her money and takes to gambling after her accountant introduces her to it. Lucinda's parents die and she is left a wealthy heiress after her guardians sell off the vast farmland that was her family's home. As a child living in Australia, Lucinda Leplastrier is given a Prince Rupert's Drop which sparks a lifelong obsession with glass. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when the Green Man casts a magical Web of Protection to shield the garden, a firestorm of media attention rages out of control, and Alice must risk losing everything she holds dear to save the one man she can't keep. While Alice's teenage sons take opposite sides in the conflict, her ex-husband schemes to put an end to her garden and her new romance in the hope of winning her back. Select the department you want to search in. Delivering to Sydney 1171 Sign in to update Kindle Store. ![]() As Alice and Fergus work together to prevent the destruction of the garden, the developer pushes ahead with his agenda. Alice and The Green Man eBook : Sprague, Constance: : Kindle Store. She is skeptical of the Green Man's claims, but unable to ignore the way her body and soul respond to his. I am deeply grateful to the readers and supporters who encouraged me to keep the Green Man growing. The cover by Deborah Harris is the original artwork created for the first edition, here given more space in which to glow. Fergus, one of the legendary immortal Green Men whose job it is to nurture and protect all green and growing things of Earth, offers to help Alice protect the garden. This restored edition of Alice and The Green Man includes material left out of the previous print edition. But when a developer threatens to pave over her paradise, Alice has no way to stop the corporate bulldozer until a mysterious Green Man steps out of a tree and into her life. A Quirky Fairytale for the Green at Heart Betrayed, angry, and newly divorced, Alice Owens found solace in a beautiful garden she planted on the abandoned lot next to her tiny house in Falls Church, Virginia. ![]() |