![]() ![]() 22, the publisher quickly ordered another 100,000 copies, which arrived in bookstores, schools and libraries around Feb. After the announcement of the Newbery on Jan. “The Higher Power of Lucky” was first published in November by Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, accompanied by a modest print run of 10,000. ![]() Libraries and bookstores routinely order two or more copies of each year’s winners, with the books read aloud to children and taught in classrooms. But in the world of children’s books, winning a Newbery is the rough equivalent of being selected as an Oprah’s Book Club title. If it were any other novel, it probably would have gone unnoticed, unordered and unread. “That’s what censors do - they pick out words and don’t look at the total merit of the book.” “The people who are reacting to that word are not reading the book as a whole,” she said. ![]()
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She also attends leather/kink events as Ms. When not putting the voices in her head on paper, Brenda is attending book and fantasy/Sci-fi conventions to meet fans. ![]() She is active in the Tampa Bay GLBT, kink, & leather communities, and the owner of Florida Leather & Fetish Pride Weekend event which includes a Mr. Brenda is an Amazon and ARe best-selling author and resides in Tampa, FL with her husband, six cats, a dog, a turtle named Tammy, and a rabbit named Alice. ![]() ![]() These include Valenti’s Sex Object, Shrill by Lindy West – and Clementine Ford’s Fight Like a Girl. It’s hardly surprising that she and other ‘professional feminists’, to use Valenti’s own descriptor, sometimes take social media breaks, or that navigating misogyny online is central to the contents of several popular feminist books released in 2016. Earlier this year, Guardian columnist Jessica Valenti went offline after a troll threatened to rape her young daughter. Who would want to be a high-profile feminist in the age of social media? I sometimes find myself thinking this as I scroll through the Facebook and Twitter feeds of well-known feminists that I follow or the comments sections of their columns, awed by both their output (I’m an academic – so my work is slow in comparison) and struck by the high volume of cyber-hate that comes in the wake of even the most benign opinion pieces. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Witty banter, lively humor, and electric sexual tension provide an exquisite counterpoint to the more serious issues of spousal abuse and the lack of women’s rights in this poignant, passionate, spicy story that pairs a marriage-averse heroine with a caring, determined hero and stretches out the disquiet until the very end. What is it about this brazen seductress that he finds so hard to resist? And how can he stop himself from falling into her bed a second time? 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That Chrissy’s just “fair” at her job comes clear when she fouls up Savannah’s wish to find a prince who loves her for her true qualities, sending her back into the Middle Ages first as Cinderella, then Snow White, then as a damsel in distress who has to aid a poor warrior bard (fellow high-schooler Tristan Hawkins) in becoming a prince. ![]() When gorgeous track star Hunter dumps her for her more organized, responsible sibling, Savannah is offered three consolation wishes by a bored, shopoholic fairy godmother, “Chrissy” (short for Chrysanthemum). Savannah Delano pays more attention to her hair than her vocabulary, unlike her 18-year-old college-bound sister, Jane. ![]() A decidedly non-serious 16-year-old Virginia student wishes herself into fairy-tale land in Rallison’s giddy, ornately plotted fantasy. ![]() |