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![]() ![]() back to the Speaking of Sex Podcast for her third interview with us, this time celebrating the release of the newly revised and updated Come As You Are. Join us as we welcome author Emily Nagoski, Ph.D. With equal parts science and story, this book offers a wellspring of erotic knowledge that we all need – and need to share! ![]() Nagoski shines in making even the geekiest science relatable and accessible for us all. Come As You Are invites you to come home to yourself, just as you are, and that’s why it will always be one of our foundational texts and recommendations. You’ll get tools to understand the most essential lessons of all: you are normal, your body isn’t broken, and you can gain erotic joy and confidence over time. This book introduces you to research-backed frameworks that help you understand your own experience of sex. ![]() Come As You Are: the surprising new science that will transform your sex life by Emily Nagoski is a must-read for anyone interested in human sexuality – and since you are here, we bet that is you! ![]() ![]() Marius’s question starts a friendship between Zazoo and Félix, in which he helps her correspond with Marius, who lives in Paris. ![]() He asks Zazoo a puzzling question about the village pharmacist, Félix Klein, a gray-haired Jew in his early 60s. He claims that she saved him from the ghosts of his past, and her gentle compassion toward him is moving.Įarly one morning, a handsome 16-year-old stranger named Marius shows up on his bicycle. ![]() Zazoo’s serious, contemplative nature is heightened by her worries about Grand-Pierre’s waning memory. The canal is Zazoo’s natural habitat: she swims underwater and rows the small, flat-bottomed boat Grand-Pierre built for her. The two live in an old stone mill on a canal, where Grand-Pierre tends the lock. She affectionately calls him Grand-Pierre ( grand-père is French for grandfather). Zazoo is a Vietnamese orphan adopted as a toddler by a Frenchman named Pierre, then 67 and now 78. She also learns that the same person can be both good and bad, kind and cruel. ![]() Zazoo, the 13-year-old protagonist, learns a great deal about life, death, war, love and reconciliation. This lyrical book, set in rural France, weaves together three love stories: one between two modern French teens, and two involving men over age 60 devastated by the same catastrophe during World War II. By Richard Mosher – Houghton Mifflin, 2001 ![]() ![]() This included Lucky Comics who, in 2018, released Scorpio's Sting. Independent comic book publishers have also published their own comics for the event. Unlike Titan, however, they did not release any Doctor Who-related content for the event during their time with the license. IDW Publishing have also been taking part in the event since its inception. All issues released have contained new comic stories tying into their various ongoing Doctor Who titles. Titan Comics began releasing special Doctor Who comic issues for the event yearly from 2015 to 2019, and again in 2022. Published August 10th 2015 by Titan Comics Doctor Who FCBD 2015. It is held on the first Saturday in May every year.įor the event, major publishers release special standalone comics to tie in to one or more of their currently-ongoing titles, effectively acting as a free sampler for what their series has to offer. by Nick Abadzis First published May 2nd 2015 Doctor Who: Free Comic Book Day (Kindle Edition). ![]() Free Comic Book Day, abbreviated as FCBD, is an annual promotional effort by the North American comic book industry designed to help bring new readers into independent comic book stores. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the center of Mellor’s universe lie Frank and Cleo, who are entangled with each other, certainly, but are also tangled with others at the hems of their lives. Coco Mellors, the author of the whole shebang, has based her debut on a privileged milieu of characters- most of them are painters, part-time designers and heirs to Eastern European fortunes- connected to each other in sparkling cross-networks, each hankering for some kind of final truth to pin their life to. They serendipitously meet on New Years Eve, in a first chapter spun with gold, glitter and astonishing repartee. ![]() ![]() ‘Cleopatra and Frankenstein’ – UK cover featuring a painting by London-based painter Gill ButtonĬleopatra and Frankenstein is the love-story of Frank, a handsome advertising executive and Cleo, a beautiful British artist. ![]() ![]() This year’s keynote speaker featured writer, actor, comedian, and activist Franchesca Ramsey, who spoke on: “Your Powerful Online Voice: Social Media for Social Change.” I started my afternoon by attending Oregon State University’s 35th Annual MLK Celebration. In order to become united, we have to go within and do our own individual work so that we can come to a place of understanding, rather than constantly demonizing and blaming each other.Īfter attending multiple events in Corvallis, Ore., a flame lit within me: I thought about my own thought process and role during this important period in time, and I realized there are so many other people who are thinking and feeling the exact same way I do. Regardless of your stance on current global issues, we are all in a similar position. 16, 2017, marked the day we honored Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy as a nation by taking time to reflect on how far we’ve come, and how far we are from equality and social justice. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.” ![]() There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. Franchesca Ramsey was the keynote speaker at OSU’s 35th Annual MLK Celebration ![]() ![]() ![]() What Seuss saw made a deep impression, and when he returned to America, he started work on Horton Hears A Who! The book is dedicated Nakamura. With the help of Mitsugi Nakamura, dean of Doshisha University in Kyoto, Seuss went to schools all over Japan and asked kids to draw what they wanted to be when they grew up. ![]() He wanted to write about the effects of the war and post-war efforts on Japanese children. In 1953, Seuss visited Japan to research an article for Life magazine. ‘Horton Hears A Who!’ reflects his change of heart about the Japanese. If we want to win, we’ve got to kill Japs.We can get palsy-walsy afterward with those that are left.” Seuss wrote back saying, “But right now, when the Japs are planting their hatchets in our skulls, it seems like a hell of a time for us to smile and warble: 'Brothers!' It is a rather flabby battlecry. When readers complained about these depictions, Dr. Among them were racist portrayals of Japanese people with slant-eyes, pig-noses, and coke-bottle glasses. Seuss, drew over 400 political cartoons for the newspaper PM. From 1941-1943, Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. ![]() ![]() ![]() A bounty hunter for the Undying Empire, Eliana believes herself untouchable-until her mother vanishes. One thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a fairy tale to Eliana Ferracora. ![]() If she fails, she will be executed.unless the trials kill her first. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven elemental magic trials. When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light, and a queen of blood. The stunningly original, must-read fantasy of 2018 follows two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world.or doom it. ![]() ![]() ![]() I know you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but it seems you should extend this to the praise by others printed upon said cover as well. ![]() ![]() The empty beach town becomes their playground, and as they sneak into abandoned summer homes, go sailing, walk naked under the stars, make love, and drink a great deal of gin, Henry and Effie slip from innocence into betrayal, with irrevocable consequences that reverberate through the rest of their lives… Just as they get ready to cut the trip short, a decadent and glamorous set suddenly sweep them up into their drama – Clara, a beautiful socialite who feels her youth slipping away Max, a wealthy playboy and Clara’s lover and Alma, Max’s aloof and mysterious half-sister. As they tentatively discover each other, they begin to realize that everyday married life might be disappointingly different from their happily-ever-after fantasy. It’s the end of the season and the town is deserted. Henry and Effie, young newlyweds from Georgia, arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As the onset of the War of Liberation threatened the family, Senait's father made the shocking decision to 'give' Senait and two of her stepsisters to the guerrilla troops of the ELF (Eritrean Liberation Front). Born in 1974 to an Ethiopian mother and an Eritrean father, Senait was abandoned by her parents as a baby and spent her early years in a state orphanage before being returned to her father. An unwanted baby, her mother packs her inside a suitcase, puts the case in the wardrobe and goes away. Ī 'child from a suitcase' - that's how Senait Mehari's story begins. As the onset of the War of Liberation threatened the family, Senait's father made the shocking decision to 'give' Senait and two of her stepsisters to the guerrilla. A 'child from a suitcase' - that's how Senait Mehari's story begins. ![]() |