![]() This one sounded good because it includes the words “The List” in the title, and I am a sucker for a list.īut just like I was when I was sucked in by the words “trapped in a library” in the synopsis of West’s By Your Side, I have been made a fool. Now I read only the ones that sound good, which is not very many because they usually are not good. And that price is called “this book is not very good.” Unfortunately, all that cranking-out of romantic plotlines comes at a price. That’s the kind of ideal YA-based symbiotic relationship I am looking for. ![]() Kasie West writes a lot of contemporaries. But giving up all the same.Īs I have been on the record as saying before, in my own reviews and maybe in some newspapers (I don’t know I don’t read every newspaper it’s a possibility shut up), I really want to like Kasie West. ![]() Kasie West, I am slowly giving up on you.Īgonizingly slowly. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He was a four-time nominee for Publishers Weekly Sales Representative of the Year and has served multiyear terms on both the NEIBA and SEBA advisory councils. Perfectly charming line drawings by Leif Parsons illustrate each storefront and other distinguishing features of the shops. Ronald Rice has worked in book publishing as a sales and marketing professional for twenty-five years, working with and promoting bookstores. It's a joyful, industry-wide celebration of our bricks-and-mortar stores and a clarion call to readers everywhere at a time when the value and importance of these stores should be shouted from the rooftops. ![]() My Bookstore collects the essays, stories, odes and words of gratitude and praise for stores across the country in 81 pieces written by our most beloved authors. 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We can’t believe that it’s been 20 years since Bridget Jones’s Diary came into our lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And having leading indicators of these things, even if they aren’t perfect, puts me in a better position to protect myself than remaining blissfully unaware and unprepared for what might happen.īeing unaware of best-case scenarios can be equally bad. ![]() Knowing this, I am constantly looking for leading indicators of the same things happening again. For example, there are numerous examples in history of revolutions, wars, and acts of nature leading to violent events in which virtually all wealth is wiped out or confiscated. That is a big advantage relative to being unaware. Knowing how things have changed in the past leads me to consider the possibility that something similar might happen in the future. I have learned to look at the past 1) to determine what’s likely to happen and 2) to protect myself and others I am responsible for against the possibility I am wrong or missing something important. Since I’ve personally experienced it to be true, it has affected how I look at both the future and the past. “He who lives by the crystal ball is destined to eat ground glass” is a market adage I learned when I was about 14. ![]() ![]() ![]() The follow-up to that book, The Voices of AIDS (William Morrow, 1995), was a collection of interviews with people whose lives have been affected by the AIDS crisis. Named an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults, the book became the most widely used resource in HIV education programs for young people and was translated into more than a dozen languages. He was also nominated for a Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award (for his novel The Dollhouse That Time Forgot) and a Gay lactic Spectrum Award (for his short story "Night of the Were puss").įord began his writing career in 1992 with the publication of 100 Questions & Answers about AIDS: What You Need to Know Now (Macmillan), one of the first books about the AIDS crisis for young adults. ![]() ![]() His work has been nominated for eleven Lambda Literary Awards, twice winning for Best Humor Book and twice for Best Romance Novel. He is best known for his best-selling novels Last Summer, Looking for It, and Full Circle and for his five essay collections in the "Trials of My Queer Life" series. Michael Thomas Ford is the author of more than fifty books for both young readers and adults. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Silko was awarded the MacArthur Grant in 1981 as well as the Native Writers’ Circle of Americas Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. She burst onto the writing scene with her first, widely acclaimed short story, “The Man to Send Rain Clouds,” and followed by publishing more stories, and poems as well as her Ceremony in 1977. She considered becoming a lawyer and briefly attended law school, but soon dropped out to pursue a literary career. Silko grew up on the Laguna Pueblo Reservation in New Mexico, then attended the University of New Mexico. ![]() She is of Laguna, Mexican, and Anglo-American heritage, and in her work often explores multicultural themes exploring the intersection and tensions inherent in her background. Leslie Marmon Silko is often known as the first Native American woman author published in the United States. ![]() |