![]() After he realized he was a trans boy, Aidan and his parents fixed the parts of life that didn't fit anymore, and he settled happily into his new life. His parents gave him a pretty name, his room looked like a girl's room, and he wore clothes that other girls liked wearing. When Aidan was born, everyone thought he was a girl. This sweet picture book celebrates the changes in a transgender boy's life, from his initial coming-out to becoming a big brother. Notable Children's Book, Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) ![]() ![]() White Raven Selection, International Youth Libraryīest Books of the Year, School Library Journal Rainbow List, GLBTQ Round Table, American Library Association (ALA)īest Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street College of Education ![]() Stonewall Book Award Winner, American Library Association (ALA) ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Signs of pain and protest are few and far between. Spain and Italy are simply too big to fail. The Spanish business attitude, mocking or machismo, underlines worries about Spain’s economy, which is as big as Canada, Russia or India. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Last week, the International Monetary Fund warned Spain to undertake more financial and banking reforms, and spending cuts, in order to allay market fears about woes. He also said that apartment and house prices have remained level - almost double Germany’s - despite Spain’s unemployment, low economic growth and dramatically lower wages than Germany’s.īanco collapso What makes sense is that, obviously, the Spanish are still able to indirectly bail out their banks so they do not foreclose or write off non-performing mortgages. A German-born retailer I spoke with maintained that many Spanish seek employment, but there are jobs. Spain seems to be managing its downside cunningly. The next issue of Financial Post Top Stories will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. ![]() ![]() Zoe has terrible news: Her close friend Tara has been murdered, savagely stabbed and dumped in a wood. ![]() Zoe is now studying at Cambridge, where Mariana and Sebastian met and courted. She’s galvanized out of her fog by a call from her niece, Zoe, who was raised by Mariana and Sebastian after her parents died. At 36, she’s a widow, reeling from the drowning a year before of her beloved husband, Sebastian. This book’s protagonist is Mariana, who has a busy practice in London specializing in group therapy. ![]() The author’s second novel features a psychotherapist as its main character, as did his 2019 debut, The Silent Patient (whose main character makes an appearance here). ![]() A blend of psychological mystery and gothic thriller puts a psychotherapist in pursuit of a serial killer on the campus of Cambridge University. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch.You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() There is a picture book series and a board book series for younger toddlers.īears on Chairs Series by Shirley Parenteau illustrated by David Walker, 2009 Short rhymes and cute illustrations make this series a classic. ![]() My favorites are Llama Llama Time to Share and Nelly Gnu and Daddy Too. I actually didn’t love the first book in the series, Llama Llama Red Pajama, because I thought it would make my own son afraid of going to bed, but I absolutely adore every other book in the series. Llama Llama Red Pajama ( Llama Llama series) by Anna Dewdney, 2005 ![]() This series appears in many different formats including picture books, board books, and lift the flap versions. ![]() Since so many different topics are covered in a child-friendly way, this series not only makes for an entertaining read aloud, but also serves as a nice way to prepare children for a new experience. Toddlers will delight in watching Maisy and her friends experience many of the same activities they do including bedtime, getting dressed, going on vacation, swimming, etc. The Maisy series features the adventures of an adorable little mouse. Here are a few of our favorites for toddlers ready to move up to “big kid” books. ![]() They also love books that illustrate a song. Children this age usually gravitate toward books with bright pictures, sparse text, and a story with a simple plot. Once toddlers are ready to move from board books to picture books, it can be difficult to find the perfect picture book that keeps their attention. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like any couple, they have their difficult moments, but you can always tell the love is there. None of that matters though because Charles and Anna are so much in love. She is outside the hierarchy of the pack. Everyone but Anna.Īs an Omega, Anna is not influenced by the orders of an Alpha. His life has been violent, and he is feared by almost everyone. Charles is not the Alpha of the pack, but he is an Alpha, and he is his father’s enforcer. Anna is a rare type of wolf shifter known as an Omega. ![]() I love that Mercy is such a kickass heroine and she gives her mate Adam a fit.Īnna is nothing like Mercy. I love the Mercy Thompson books and these are a spinoff of that series. The Fae’s cold war with humanity is about to heat up-and Charles and Anna are in the cross fire. Or at least, it starts out that way…Ĭharles and Anna soon discover that a dangerous Fae being is on the loose, replacing human children with simulacrums. This time, their trip to Arizona is purely personal, as Charles plans to buy Anna a horse for her birthday. *Guest book review contributed by Elaine Willis*įor once, mated werewolves Charles and Anna are not traveling because of Charles’s role as his father’s enforcer. ![]() ![]() ![]() The scenario, heavily laced with rhythm, dialect, alliteration, and exacting imagery, reveals two of the author's strengths - her natural gift for language and her insistence on an upbeat, gentle self-deprecation, easily flowing from the humor sparked by incongruity and wit. The opening lines introduce a crucial theme - the Maya character's movie-star dream of being so blond-haired and blue-eyed that she amazes onlookers. ![]() Unable to contain her urine on the church porch, she wets her clothes then, sure that she will be punished for misbehavior, laughingly embraces her sense of freedom. Rising out of childhood's bitter memories of a too-long cut-down lavender Easter dress made from "a white woman's once-was-purple throwaway," Marguerite "Maya" Johnson, the central intelligence, or key voice, well into adulthood, recalls in a flashback her fantasy of being suddenly transformed into a white girl and her intense need to be excused from church services. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He currently lives in Mexico and is a retired real estate developer. He also wrote a parody of a writing guide that he called How to Sell a Gazillion eBooks in No Time. These include Zero Sum, The Geronimo Breach, Fatal Exchange, Night of the Assassin, The Delphi Chronicle trilogy, Silver Justice, The Voynich Cypher, and far more.īlake’s nonfiction work includes an animal biography that was titled An Angel with Fur. He also became the bestselling author of many standalone novels that did quite well. ![]() Russell Blake has published the majority of his books himself but was also chosen to write two books with Clive Cussler that ended up being about the treasure hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo in The Eye of Heaven and the sequel, The Solomon Curse.īlake was named one of the most popular indie novelists in 201. He has written nearly two dozen novels and counting and tries to write up to ten thousand words a day. Russell Blake is an American author of thriller novels and more. ![]() ![]() ![]() Moreover, during the trial, in his speech of self-defence, Socrates twice mentions that Plato is present at the trial (34a and 38b). Įxcept for Socrates's two dialogues with Meletus, about the nature and logic of his accusations of impiety, the text of the Apology of Socrates is in the first-person perspective and voice of the philosopher Socrates (24d–25d and 26b–27d). Aristotle believed the dialogue, particularly the scene where Socrates questions Meletus, represented a good use of interrogation. ![]() ![]() Although Aristotle later classified it as a genre of fiction, it is still a useful historical source about Socrates (469–399 BC) the philosopher. As such, Plato's Apology of Socrates is an early philosophic defence of Socrates, presented in the form of a Socratic dialogue. ![]() The Apology of Socrates, by the philosopher Plato (429–347 BC), was one of many explanatory apologia about Socrates's legal defense against accusations of corruption and impiety most apologia were published in the decade after the Trial of Socrates (399 BC). Marble, Roman artwork (1st century), possibly a copy of a lost bronze statue by Lysippos. Plato from Raphael's The School of Athens (1509–1511)īust of Socrates. ![]() ![]() When disaster strikes, Efrén is faced with crossing the border alone to see Amá. At the same time as Apá takes an extra job to earn the money needed to get her back, Efrén struggles to look after Max and Mía, while also dealing with schoolwork, his best friend’s probably-doomed campaign for class president, and his fears about what might happen to his family next. Now it’s up to Efrén to be brave and figure out how to act soper himself. Sure enough, Efrén’s worst nightmare comes true one day when Amá doesn't return from work and is deported across the border to Tijuana, México. And according to the neighborhood talk, or local chisme, families like his are in great danger. ![]() Both Amá and Apá work hard all day to provide for the family, making sure Efrén and his younger siblings, Max and Mía, feel safe and loved.īut Efrén worries about his parents although he’s American-born, his parents are undocumented. Efrén Nava's Amá is his Superwoman-or Soperwoman, named after the delicious Mexican sopes his mother often prepares. ![]() |