![]() It was kind of the dirtiest of my Advent Calendar reads, but I say that in a good way! A Christmas story…set in a gay bathhouse!īrian McKay works at a gay bathhouse in Denver. But with a little bit of holiday magic, James might help Brian learn to accept Christmas again-and himself.Ī story from the Dreamspinner Press 2016 Advent Calendar “Bah Humbug.” ![]() The idea that James has interest in him beyond an easy hookup is more than Brian can fathom. He’s not proud of his own bear status or his struggle with weight. When James Olsen, a gorgeous daddy bear who frequents the bathhouse, notices him, Brian is at a loss. The arrival of the holidays-with the annoying music, Christmas shopping, and all the reminders of how he disappointed his father-just reinforces his reclusive nature. At the best of times, his social life consists of work, role-playing games at a local toy shop, and making YouTube videos with his Teddy Bear hamsters. ![]() Other than working the front desk of a gay bathhouse in Denver, Brian McKay is a bit of a recluse. SERIES: 2016 Dreamspinner Press Advent Calendar – Bah Humbug Third prize is 3 books from your Dreamspinner wishlist. Second prize is 5 books from your Dreamspinner wishlist. ![]() At the end of the month THREE winners will be picked to receive some great prizes! First prize is 10 books from your Dreamspinner wishlist. We will review the Dreamspinner Press advent calendar one review a day. ![]()
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![]() Jack shows Mark his paper animals, and Jack calls them “trash.” When Jack’s paper tiger knocks over and breaks Mark’s action figure, Mark insults Jack’s mother and tears up his tiger. Later, a neighborhood boy named Mark comes over to Jack’s house with an Obi-Wan Kenobi action figure. Jack overhears two female neighbors exchanging racist gossip about his family, wondering why Jack’s father married his mother and criticizing Jack’s biracial looks. The story shifts back to when Jack is 10, after his family has just moved into a new neighborhood. Afterward, Jack’s mother immigrated to the U.S. When he arrived, he learned that Jack’s mother spoke very little English, so he hired a translator to mediate between them. Jack’s father saw Jack’s mother in a catalogue and then flew to Hong Kong to meet her. His father explains that they met in Hong Kong through an introduction service that matched American men with Asian women. Once, when Jack is a teenager and is no longer speaking to his mother, he asks his father how he and Jack’s mother met. Later, she makes Jack more magical paper animals to play with. To comfort him, his mother makes him an origami tiger and breathes life into it. ![]() When the story begins, a young Jack is crying. “The Paper Menagerie” describes the relationship between a biracial Chinese American boy, Jack, and his Chinese immigrant mother. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Trade Paperback available at Half Price Books. voyage to the Barbarians - Zheng He's navigators' calculation of latitude and longitude - Voyage to the Red Sea - Cairo and the Red Sea-Nile Canal - China ignites the Renaissance - To the Venice of Niccolo Da Conti - Paolo Toscanelli's Florence - Toscanelli meets the Chinese ambassador - Columbus's and Magellan's world maps - The world maps of Johannes Schoner, Martin Waldseemuller, and Admiral Zheng He - Toscanell's new astronomy - The Florentine mathematicians: Toscanelli, Nicholas of Cusa, and Regiomontanus - Leon Battista Alberti and Leonard Da Vinci - Leonardo Da Vinci and Chinese inventions - Leonardo, Di Giorgio, Taccola, and Alberti - Silk and rice - Grand canals: China and Lombardy - Firearms and steel - Printing - China's contribution to the Renaissance - China's legacy - Tragedy on the high seas: Zheng He's fleet destroyed by a Tsunami - The conquistadores' inheritance: Our Lady of Victory. 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance by Menzies, Gavin. ![]() Setting the scene - A last voyage - The emperor's ambassador - The fleets are prepared for the. ![]() ![]() This point is not to apologize for the moral and social catastrophe that was state socialism in the 20th century, but rather to draw a distinction between the role of communists when in power and when in opposition. It’s not that Seeger did a lot of good despite his longtime ties to the Communist Party he did a lot of good because he was a communist. But most of them struck the balanced tone of The Washington Post’s Dylan Matthews, who tweeted, “I love and will miss Pete Seeger but let’s not gloss over that fact that he was an actual Stalinist.” ![]() Some comments were laudatory, praising every aspect of his advocacy. All the better - Seeger, the epitome of tireless commitment to the cause, would have liked it that way. ![]() When the legendary folk singer Pete Seeger died Monday at the age of 94, remembrances of him, unsurprisingly, focused less on his music than on his social activism. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But if she survives to initiation, Mia will be inducted among the chosen of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the only thing she desires. ![]() Treachery and trials await her with the Church’s halls, and to fail is to die. Now, a sixteen year old Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic ― the Red Church. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.ĭaughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Nevernight is the first in an epic new fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author, Jay Kristoff. ![]() ![]() ![]() Responding to increased demand for meat and dairy, about 60 per cent of the world’s agricultural land is used for livestock grazing. We can see this throughout the production and consumption process, beginning with how land is used. While progress on reducing hunger has stagnated in the last five years, evidence suggests that the problem we face today is not a lack of food. More to the point: how are we going to feed all these people, without causing more damage? ![]() Forests are cleared to create agricultural space, the atmosphere becomes warmer, diversity is systematically decreased, buffers that protect humans from animal-borne viruses–like COVID-19–are removed, soil and water is contaminated, and plants and animals are infused with substances with precarious effect. Long before it reaches grocery store shelves, the process of production unleashes a multiplicity of factors affecting the length and quality of life on earth. ![]() Worldwide, more than 10 per cent of people are hungry, roughly 25 per cent are overweight or obese, and another 25 per cent–who may also be either underfed or overfed–are micronutrient deficient.įood is not only a matter of eating. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the end I do like the accents that make a story even more realistic. Later in the book I did go back to the Echo and it seemed much better. Then I switched to my Bose headset and found it much easier to conectrate and I didn't find the accent a problem at all. I first started listening to this book on my Amazon Echo and found the accent a bit tough due to the extraneous noise, I really had to concentrate. Usually in a book like this it takes a while to get your ear tuned into the accent. ![]() ![]() One last thing, the narrator has a distinct Scottish accent. Well, you'll just have to listen to the book to find out. He mainly smokes too much but Rebus also drinks too much, has a terrible diet, has to take breaks walking up steps to the point where you wonder if Ranking is going to have him expire at book's end as an end to the series. As he is simply trying to tie up some loose ends before his retirement. Its late in the fall in Edinburgh and late in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. One side note to this book is answering the question, is this the last book in the series? The author makes references to Rebus' health throughout the book. Buy a cheap copy of Exit Music book by Ian Rankin. Working with his long time sidekick, DS Clark, John works the case(s) in his way, alienating coworkers and the bad guys along the way. This book has two murders and a solid beating that need solving at the very end of John's career. Rebus is like the other good crime novel series I like, the detective is flawed but you can't help but like him and he gets the crime solved even if not always in a conventional manner. If you've made it this far, you must be a John Rebus series fan. ![]() În şalvari şi cu işlic. Biserică, sexualitate, căsătorie şi d... by Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu6/28/2023 ![]() Reproducerea integrală sau parţială a textului, prin orice mijloace, fără acordul editorilor, este interzisă şi se pedepseşte conform legii. Ilnur MIRGALIYEV, Ph.D.Ĥ UNIVERSITATEA BABEŞ-BOLYAI INSTITUTUL DE TURCOLOGIE ŞI STUDII CENTRAL-ASIATICE STUDIA ET DOCUMENTA TURCOLOGICA PRESA UNIVERSITARĂ CLUJEANĂ 2013ĥ ISSN: ISSN-L: Editorii volumului. Editorial board secretary: Adina FODOR, Ph.D. Deputy editor-in-chief : Nagy PIENARU, Ph.D. Editorial Board Editor-in-chief: Professor Tasin GEMIL, Ph.D. (Romania) Director Professor Călin FELEZEU, Ph.D. Azerbaijan) Academician Professor Victor SPINEI, Ph.D. (Russian Federation) Professor Shahin MUSTAFAYEV, Ph.D. (Russian Federation) Professor Sergei KLASTORNIY, Ph.D. ![]() (Germany) Academician Professor Raphael S. (U.S.A.) Professor Barbara KELLNER-HEINKELE, Ph.D. (Turkey) Professor Emeritus Kemal KARPAT, Ph.D. ![]() (Hungary) Professor Mustafa KAÇALIN, Ph.D. (U.S.A.) Academician Professor György HAZAI, Ph.D. International Scientific Board Professor Jean-Louis BACQUÉ-GRAMMONT, Ph.D. 3 President Academician Professor Ioan-Aurel POP, Ph.D. ![]() ![]() Staffed by young adult Bhutanese, Radio Kuzoo casts a host of characters quite similar to America’s brand of young adults. ![]() (The $200-per-day-per-person tourist tax may have something to do with it.) Napoli, however, is given a free pass through the country’s doors to help run a fledgling radio station – coined Radio Kuzoo – created by Bhutan’s prince. Known best to the Western world as “The Happiest Place on Earth,” Bhutan is rarely visited by tourists. Stuck in a rut of regretful “what ifs?” Napoli quickly agrees to a six-week stay in Bhutan, an offer facilitated by a handsome man named Sebastian. It’s the chronicle of a country barreling toward change, and a woman’s search for what happiness really means at any age.Īt the outset of “Radio Shangri-La,” we find longtime journalist Napoli in her early 40s, unhappy with her job in public radio, and without a family to call her own. ![]() ![]() If Lisa Napoli’s Radio Shangri-La seems all too familiar at the outset, the book ultimately proves it is much more than just a story of a midlife crisis. It’s a story we think we’ve heard before: a woman, in the midst of a midlife crisis, flies across the globe for a chance of a lifetime that changes her life forever. ![]() |