![]() ![]() Many librarians have been left adrift, struggling to understand this unique medium while trying to meet patron demands as well as protests. In order to build a collection, it is important to understand the media and its cultural nuances. ![]() But the sheer number of titles available can be overwhelming, not to mention the diversity and quirky cultural conventions. Libraries have begun purchasing both manga and anime, particularly for their teen collections. Librarians are confused by it and patrons are demanding it. This book gives the novice background information necessary to feel confident in selecting, working with, and advocating for manga and anime collections and it offers more experienced librarians some fresh insights and ideas for programming and collections.Teens love it. ![]() We're sorry this specific copy is no longer available. ![]()
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Now his double life is starting to unravel, thanks to a certain Highlander whose storm-riddled eyes turn John inside out, who wears a kilt like he was born in it.įergus is the first man John wants to share his secret with-but he’s the last man who could handle it. Nobody-not his university mates, not the men he beds-knows his family’s shame. Boyfriends are for guys with nothing to hide. John Burns has a rule of his own: Don’t get attached. ![]() ![]() He does NOT need a brash, muscle-bound lad messing with his head and setting his body afire. For that, he needs strict rules and careful plans. Reeling from a brutal breakup, he’s determined to captain his LGBT soccer team out of scandal and into a winning season. 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They connected with the boy’s histrionic internal monologue that reads like a child pulling on flower petals: He loves me…he loves me not…he loves me… Put to the page in the 2007 novel Call Me by Your Name, their devastating story of first love, set over the course of one sweltering summer, resonated with readers all over the world. A precocious 17-year-old, Elio, falls in love with a visiting graduate student, Oliver, somewhere in northern Italy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She shortly worked for Deutsche Welle in Berlin as an anchor and political correspondent, but then returned for a brief spell with BBC World and as a night shift presenter for BBC News 24 before taking maternity leave. She was the BBC’s Los Angeles correspondent during 1996–97 and filed reports on the O. Fearful her short BBC contract would not be renewed after a mishap in a difficult situation, she applied for, and was taken on, by BBC World for work as a presenter, which led to her becoming a reporter for Newsnight. After two years on attachments, she began to work as a network radio reporter in 1992 on such programmes as Today. She presented Sunday Morning Live, a topical discussion programme on BBC One from 2012 to 2013. She was a reporter and presenter on Channel 4 News from 2000 to 2011. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, and The Spectator magazine’s Arts Blog. Samira Ahmeds new novel bounces between two timelines, following a Muslim American art student in Paris, and the mysterious harem woman she believes inspired work by Lord Byron and his circle. Samira Ahmed is a British award-winning journalist, writer, and broadcaster at the BBC, where she has presented Radio 3’s Night Waves and Radio 4’s PM, The World Tonight, Sunday and Front Row and has presented the Proms for BBC Four. ![]() Samira Ahmed Wiki – Samira Ahmed Biography Samira Ahmed Wiki – Samira Ahmed Biography. ![]() ![]() ![]() Asked to put words to how they drew such accurate conclusions, however, most people will fail miserably. It is also what allows a tennis pro watching a game to predict an error like a double fault before it actually happens and a “speed dater” to determine in a matter of minutes the suitability of a potential mate. Paul Getty Museum had recently spent millions of dollars on and declare it a fake, despite the fact that its “authenticity” had been proven by state-of-the-art tests. It is this element of the mental process that, in one famous example, allowed an art expert to simply glance at a sculpture that the J. Most of Gladwell’s examples in Blink hinge on the irritatingly named concept of “thin-slicing,” which refers to that part of rapid cognition that allows our unconscious to draw conclusions from very narrow slices of experience. Gladwell’s new book employs his familiar eclecticism to explore a similar premise: that the rapid-fire decisions we make in the blink of an eye are actually governed by an amazingly complex series of processes. Malcolm Gladwell, a staff writer at The New Yorker, made a name for himself with his bestseller, The Tipping Point, which looked at how small trends can suddenly and unexpectedly morph into mass phenomena. ![]() ![]() ![]() Flynne Fisher works at a local 3D printing shop and lives with her mother and her brother Burton, who sustained brain trauma from cybernetic implants he received while serving in the U.S. The novel begins sometime in the near-future in a small town in rural America. The second future is set further along in time, after a series of not-quite-cataclysmic events that have killed most of the world's population, leaving behind a monarchic class of gangsters, performance artists, and publicists in an otherwise deserted London. The first, not far off from our own present day, takes place in a Winter's Bone–ish world where the only industries still surviving are lightly evolved versions of Walmart and the meth trade. The Peripheral is an emphatic return to the science fiction he ceased to write after the turn of this century, set in not one but two futures. When Burton is hired for a security job which takes place in what he thinks is cyberspace and Flynne temporarily takes his place, she witnesses a possible murder. The novel focuses on Flynne and her brother, Burton. ( November 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ![]() Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Together, they navigate a diabolically convoluted maze of illusions, lies, and their own incompetence in an attempt to uncover a terrible truth they - like you - would be better off not knowing. While investigating a fairly straightforward case of a shape-shifting interdimensional child predator, Dave, John, and Amy realized there might actually be something weird going on. Yes, it works with audiobooks, too, I don't have time to explain how. No, don't put the book back on the shelf - it is now your duty to purchase it to prevent others from listening to it. To quote the Bible, "Learning the truth can be like loosening a necktie, only to realize it was the only thing keeping your head attached". Though, to be fair, "They" are probably right about this one. It's the story "They" don't want you to listen to. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here too are the Roman Catholic religious leaders of the Americas, whose internecine struggles created possibilities that the emerging Jesuit order was well-positioned to fill. ![]() Alongside Philip we find the entitled descendants of New Spain’s original explorers-men who, like their king, came into possession of land they never conquered and wielded supremacy they never sought. His forty-two-year reign changed the face of the globe forever. ![]() In World Without End, Hugh Thomas chronicles the lives, loves, conflicts, and conquests of the complex men and women who carved up the Americas for the glory of Spain.Ĭhief among them is the towering figure of King Philip II, the cultivated Spanish monarch whom a contemporary once called “the arbiter of the world.” Cheerful and pious, he inherited vast authority from his father, Emperor Charles V, but nevertheless felt himself unworthy to wield it. But the dramatic human story of the extraordinary projection of Spanish might in the second half of the sixteenth century has never been fully told-until now. The legacy of imperial Spain was shaped by many hands. Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Empire and building on five centuries of scholarship, World Without End is the epic conclusion of an unprecedented three-volume history of the Spanish Empire from “one of the most productive and wide-ranging historians of modern times” ( The New York Times Book Review). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tilly’s diligently remodels the house and cares for Molly, and Molly becomes much calmer and healthier. The townspeople ignore and ostracize Molly because she is unwell, and Molly’s house has fallen into disrepair. When Tilly arrives, Molly is extremely sick. Tilly returns to Dungatar to stay with her mother, Molly, who is mentally ill. Love and friendship have the power to transform people in the novel. ![]() However, while Tilly’s dresses transform some characters on the surface, many of these transformations are only temporary illusions that do not reveal, but instead disguise, those characters’ true natures. Through these contrasting examples, Ham suggests that changing one’s appearance isn’t enough to create genuine transformation real change can only come from meaningful human connections. Her fashionable creations cause a stir in Dungatar, and her caring presence causes genuine positive change across the community. These transformations begin when Tilly Dunnage, a young woman who left the town as a child after she was wrongly accused of murdering a classmate, returns and sets up a dressmaking business. The residents of Dungatar undergo a variety of transformations throughout the story. Rosalie Ham’s novel The Dressmaker is set in Dungatar, a remote Australian town, in the 1950s. ![]() |