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Lum by Libby Ware5/12/2023 ![]() I had to decide which condition she had so I decided that she would have Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH). When I started researching I learned that intersex was the preferred term and is an umbrella term that includes many different syndromes where an individual’s genitals or reproductive organs are not typical for either gender. I don’t remember when I first learned about hermaphrodites, but I had the mistaken idea that they had all the genitals and other gender traits. ![]() How did you first learn about intersexuality? ![]() I decided to write a short story about her, but it grew into a novel. My mother told me a story when I was a child about a “morphydite” who had no home of her own. What gave you the idea to have your protagonist be intersex? Ware, the owner of Toadlily Books in Grant Park, took a few minutes to talk about the book and the title character. Everything changes when the Blue Ridge Parkway is scheduled to come through her family’s farmland, and the community is subsequently torn apart. Identified at age eight as what we now know of as intersex, Lum is now a 33-year-old shuttled from one relative’s house to another in the Shenandoah Valley in the early 1930s. ![]() ![]() “Lum” (short for Columbia) is the title character of the book of the same name, released in late October. Atlanta lesbian author Libby Ware chose a unique and all too rarely voiced sexual minority to be the protagonist for her debut novel. ![]()
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Wild Hearts by Cherie Bennett5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Her father was a writer for such shows as The Twilight Zone, Route 66, and Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows. Along with other writers, she has been linked to Zoey Dean as well. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, writer Jeff Gottesfeld, and son. The item Wild hearts on the edge, Cherie Bennett represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation. ![]() She headed her own improv comedy trio, Zaniac, and performed as a vocalist, singing backup for John Mellencamp and in her play, Honk Tonk Angels.īennett's favorite non-writing activities are reading (memoirs, medical mysteries, and show-biz stories), film, theater, cooking, politics, and Internet shopping. She worked frequently as an actress, doing national musical tours, regional theater productions including Mark Medoff's When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? and a well-reviewed turn in the off-Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton. ![]() She attended Wayne State University, and then the University of Michigan, as a musical theater major. ![]()
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Cress meyer5/11/2023 ![]() I know I don’t need to tell you how much I hate this. “Another day, another press conference,” said Cinder, taking his hand. They turned to each other and shared a mutual sigh. ![]() They both smiled at the netscreen for a beat, then Kai reached forward and ended the transmission. Believe me, Iko-my adviser and public relations representative-has already started planning our celebratory ball for when this pandemic is over.” We’ll see you back on Earth as soon as we can. ![]() Words that she’d probably started to say in her sleep by now. “Wash your hands frequently,” said Cinder, reciting the words she’d said at the end of each of these press conferences. “For now,” Kai continued, “Lunar Ambassador Linh Cinder and I encourage you to continue using the protocols our medical experts have recommended to keep yourself, your family, and our society as safe as possible.” She often wondered if she would ever be as comfortable in front of the cameras, despite how Kai and so much of her own royal staff persisted in telling her that she was doing great. Still, it never ceased to make Cinder’s heart swell, just a little, to see him in his element. He’d been making public addresses to the world for years and had been in the media’s eye long before that. ![]() ![]() Fuacino,” said Kai, his expression serious yet calm as he looked into the netscreen. “In just a few minutes you’ll be hearing from Earthen Union’s lead medical researcher, Dr. ![]()
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Nedra glover tawwab books5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 78) of the stages of change that explains the different levels of change for someone trying to deal with family dysfunction. I like that each chapter starts with an example pulled from her own therapy clients or her Instagram comments or messages that highlight the topic of that chapter. Tawwab gives good advice and continuously reminds the reader to give yourself grace if you're trying to work through unhealthy family dynamics. ![]() The section on growing is all chapters about troubleshooting specific family relationships - parents, children, in-laws, blended families, etc. This book is divided into three sections - unlearning dysfunction, healing, and growing. And coming from a dysfunctional family herself, she has a lot of helpful advice and tips. Tawwab also states that many of her therapy clients come in looking for help in "dealing with" something to do with their family. Most people have boundary issues with their families or that's where a lot of issues start, so it makes logical sense that her next book would be about dealing with unhealthy family relationships. I really enjoyed Tawwab's first book, Set Boundaries, Find Peace, so I was excited to check out this one. ![]()
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Made in korea by sarah suk5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The White House hosts state dinners for leaders of allied countries. Angelina Jolie and Maddox Jolie-Pitt arrive for the State Dinner on April 26, 2023. Maddox wore a smart black suit with a long coat and shiny black shoes, reaching up to adjust his collar for the cameras. ![]() She accessorized flawlessly with gold jewelry and a matching clutch, and wore her famous brunette hair in soft curls. For the political event, Angelina wore a stunning cream-colored gown with a matching jacket. The actress brought her oldest son, Maddox Jolie-Pitt, 21, to the event, where South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk-yeol, was honored. Joe Biden and Jill Biden hosted a state dinner for South Korea at the White House on Wednesday, April 26, and Angelina Jolie was in attendance. Search Hollywood Life Search Trending Navigation Trending Latest Hollywood Celebrity & Entertainment News Primary Menu Menu Close Menu ![]()
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Rangan chatterjee feel great lose weight5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Chatterjee's guidance and encouragement, you'll turn simple and sustainable lifestyle changes into a more energized, confident, and healthier you. Dr Rangan Chatterjee has the answers you need to start feeling in control of your weight. ![]() ![]() Packed with quick and easy interventions, this book will help you: understand the effects of what, why, when, where and how we eat discover the root cause of your weight gain nourish your body to lose weight without crash diets or grueling workouts and build a toolbox of techniques to help you weigh less while living more.įeel Great, Lose Weight is a new way to look at weight loss - a 360-degree view that goes beyond calories to see the bigger picture, including not just physical but also mental and environmental factors. ![]() Rangan Chatterjee - BBC personality and author of the best-selling Feel Better in 5 - has created a conscious, compassionate, sustainable approach to weight loss that goes far beyond fad diets to find the individual strategies that will work for you. Feel Great, Lose Weight will help you to identify and understand the key causes behind unwanted weight gain and guide you step-by-step through the process of losing weight and keeping it off in a scientifically-proven and responsible way. And weight-loss programs designed to fit "everyone" are often too broad and restrictive to fit into the complicated lives of real people.ĭrawing on 20 years of experience, Dr. Dr Rangan Chatterjee has the answers you need to start feeling in control of your weight. Everyone wants fast results, but when it comes to losing weight with crash diets, what goes down nearly always comes back up. ![]()
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The Universe Next Door by James W. Sire5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For instead of diving into icy, foreign waters, an exploration of worldviews is a voyage into the depths of one's self and one's society. The investigation into a worldview is much like the explorations of Bruce in that Deep Rover, only more dangerous. Some believe it would make a great plot for a Hollywood movie, others get chills just hearing about such monsters, and still others are amazed to think that creatures this astonishing are only now becoming known. 1 People's reaction to a story like this is often mixed. Within moments several others swim up, surrounding Bruce and Deep Rover. The creature has thousands of tentacles, dozens of stomachs. Then all of a sudden, out of the black, emerges an enormous, semitransparent creature 40 meters long. Millions of tiny glowing creatures stream by, twinkling like fireflies. Bruce heads down 500 meters below the surface. We hold our breath as Deep Rover and Bruce head down into the ocean, watching the submarine turn from a solid metal, to a shimmering shape, then finally disappearing into the depths of the ocean. He's sitting inside a clear acrylic sphere, with lights on the front and a small bank of controls built into the seat. A biologist named Bruce was lowered over the side in a Deep Rover, a one person submarine. ![]() In 1985 an ocean research ship was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. ![]()
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Books like the hazel wood5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() White, petite, and princess-pretty Alice is a difficult heroine to like in her stormy (and frequently profane) narration, larded with pop-culture and children’s-literature references and sprinkled with wry humor her deceptive fragility conceals a scary toughness, icy hostility, and simmering rage. ![]() The Hinterland-and the Stories that animate it-appear as simultaneously wondrous and horrific, dreamlike and bloody, lyrical and creepy, exquisitely haunting and casually, brutally cruel. ![]() Now Althea is dead and Ella has been kidnapped, and the Hinterland seems determined to claim Alice as well. Instead, she has spent her entire 17 years on the run from persistent bad luck, relying only on her mother, Ella. Once upon a time, Althea Proserpine achieved a cult celebrity with Tales from the Hinterland, a slim volume of dark, feminist fairy tales, but Alice has never met her reclusive grandmother nor visited her eponymous estate. A ferocious young woman is drawn into her grandmother’s sinister fairy-tale realm in this pitch-black fantasy debut. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Read on to dive a little deeper into what the day is all about and their favourite ways to celebrate.īoth born and raised in their home nation’s capital, the duo are “very proud to say that we brought a special piece of Mexico City to Australia.” And that piece comes in the form of many flavours during Cinco de Mayo and all year round. Taking inspiration from Cholula Hot Sauce, w ith its rich ties to the origins of Cinco de Mayo and its authentic Mexican heritage (the town of Cholula where the hot sauce's traditional recipe was created neighbours Puebla where the celebrations originate), we spoke to the founders of Cartel del Taco in Brisbane, Marco Ramirez And Erick Martinez. If there’s one common thread that unites Mexican celebrations, it’s food-and the upcoming Cinco de Mayo is no exception. ![]()
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Just Kill Yourself by Percy Kachelhoffer5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() When it was opened, Wilderness Safaris Botswana managing director Kim Nixon said: “We are thrilled to be partnering with the Calitz family to reveal this exclusive new land-based camp and private concession - a highly-productive game-viewing area that has been unutilised for the past four years.” Another hunt planned The Wilderness website describes it as having a well-deserved reputation as a top Botswana safari destination, but does not reveal any link to its professional hunter owner. His lodge Qorokwe in NG32 is listed seamlessly as a Wilderness Safaris-branded camp and is booked through the company. Another elephant, with tusks nearly as big, was shot in NG41 in the Delta-Chobe corridor under the guidance of professional hunter Johan Calitz who, in 2001, had his licence suspended because of alleged unlawful conduct within his outfit during a hunt. ![]() |