![]() ![]() The town had decided to buildĬondominiums and expand a golf course into a forest and burial land that the Mohawk considered sacred. On 11 July 1990, Mohawk protesters clashed with Quebec provincial police over disputed land in Oka, Quebec. ![]() Horn-Miller first received national media attention during the Oka Crisis in 1990. Horn-Miller became the provincial champion for her age group in 1989. To help her excel, Kahn-Tineta Horn, a single mother, moved the family Horn-Miller began swimming competitively at age seven and participated in meets from 1982 to 1997. Her two older sisters are a doctor and professor, respectively. Her mother, Kahn-Tineta Horn, was a prominent Indigenous-rights activist, and her father, George Miller, was anĪcademic.Waneek’s youngest sister, Kaniehtiio Horn, is a Gemini Award-nominated actress. ![]() In 1975 and was the second youngest of four daughters. Horn-Miller was born to Mohawk parents in Montreal, Quebec,
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![]() ![]() Sapphire's work has been translated in eleven languages and has been adapted for stage in the United States and Europe. ![]() About her last book of poetry, Poet's and Writer's Magazine wrote, 'With her soul on the line in each verse, her latest collection, Black Wings & Blind Angels, retains Sapphire's incendiary power to win hearts and singe minds.' Sapphire's work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Black Scholar, Spin, and Bomb. Push was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work of Fiction. Push was named by TimeOut New York as one of the top ten books of 1996. When Precious first meets Jermaine in class, she wants nothing to do with her because she is a homosexual (someone Precious has been conditioned to hate). Push, now known as the book that inspired last years much-renowned hit film Precious, is the first-person account of the teenage life of Claireece Precious Jones, a Harlem teenager who as of writing this account has given birth to two children, a boy and a girl, both products of her rape at the hands of her biological father. ![]() Sapphire is the author of American Dreams, a collection of poetry which was cited by Publisher's Weekly as, 'One of the strongest debut collections of the nineties.' Her novel Push, won the Book-of-the-Month Club Stephen Crane award for First Fiction, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's First Novelist Award, and in Great Britain, the Mind Book of the Year Award. ![]() ![]() ![]() She wants to be just as proud of her man as he is of her. As a young doctor from the hood, Mercedes set minimum standards for the men she is willing to date, as she wants a man to build with, not a selfish, needy, leeching, money hungry dependent. With an open heart and an open mind, she continues her journey to find love. Finding that special someone proves to be more difficult than she could have ever imagined. She is unsure about marriage and children, although she wants someone with which to share her world. She believes, with all of her heart, that there is a special man in this world who is her life-mate, her soulmate. Moore has loved and lost, yet she has not given up on loving again. She enjoys shopping and spa treatments adores fashion and couture and thoroughly appreciates travel and luxury accommodations. ![]() ![]() She works hard for her money and treats herself as often as she can, schedule permitting. ![]() She has grown accustomed to the finer things in life. Her best friends for life are her first cousins, Dana and Tina-Marie, each successful in her own right. Her grandmother helped her parents raise her. Moore is a young African-American doctor who focused on her goals, followed her dreams, and made it out of the ghetto of North Philly, against all odds. She is a woman over 30: sophisticated, sassy, sexy, and successful. ![]() ![]() Firstly, given that Sandy has never had a bad dream, how can MiM convince him how important this new role is to the happy-being of children everywhere? And secondly, how can MiM keep this snoozy ally awake long enough to help? Indeed, Sanderson Mansnoozie seems the perfect choice. Since good dreams always trump bad ones, this means Pitch, the Nightmare King, will be further thwarted in his nefarious quest to terrorize children. His keen eye falls upon a sleepy little fellow living on a sleepy little island who is a sweet-dreamer extraordinaire. One foggy night, the Man in the Moon has a startling thought: When the moon is less than full and bright, who will keep children safe at night? He needs a backup plan! Or a backup Guardian, as it were. ![]() The second picture book in Academy Award winner William Joyce’s The Guardians of Childhood series, The Sandman tells the true story of the keeper of dreams. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Fire-Touched believe in an afterlife, in which the souls of the Forsaken become Lunes, bound to Luna in endless service, and the Pure (if they managed to remain pure) enter the paradise of Taga Dan, becoming spirits or reincarnating to guide the other Pure. If their foes refuse to acknowledge the moral and spiritual superiority of the Izidakh, bloody combat is the only alternative. ![]() The first is to demand submission and acquiescence from their foes. ![]() In fact, violence is typically their second course of action. The Fire-Touched claim that they use violence as a last resort, which is technically true. Their methods are seen akin to a disease or wildfire, spreading across the world and infecting everyone within it, to enlighten them to the truth of the Pure. They have a wide apparatus of rites for that purpose. They all have rallied to the purpose of purging sin away with fire and faith.įire-Touched believe that any sin against Harmony can be forgiven and the Werewolf restored to spiritual wholeness. The principles of faith and honesty are the bedrock of the tribe and are expressed in every Fire-Touched pack and indeed in every individual Izidakh, the world over. ![]() Fire-Touched ritually burn dishonesty away from their supplicants to make them truly pure before Rabid Wolf. This comes with a violent rejection to lies of any kind. The Fire-Touched ask for little among their members: only uncompromising faith in the cause of the Pure and in the wisdom of Rabid Wolf, who reveals the mysteries of the world to his loyal followers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Launched out of a Fifth Week Event tie-in Girlfrenzy: Young Justice - The Secret and a Justice League mini-series World Without Grown-Ups, the series was written by Peter David and ran for 55 issues before being cancelled. ![]() Meanwhile, Robin's popularity was matched by two other teenage superheroes with ties to Justice Leaguers: Impulse and Superboy - and the trio worked as a Power Trio. being forced upon Jurgens instead.) The lack of "Teen" in the "Titans" didn't help, either.Ĭancelled in 1998, DC decided to launch a new replacement book, but coming up with a new name for the new teen book. Most notably, the fact that no one wanted to let the 1996 Teen Titans writer Dan Jurgens use any of the major teen heroes running around DC at the time (particularly Robin/Tim Drake, who won a fan contest to select a new member of the team - only for the Batman editors to refuse to honor the contest results, resulting in Captain Marvel Jr. It failed, in part due to editorial interference. ![]() ![]() In 1996, riding high on the JLA (1997)'s relaunch, DC Comics attempted to relaunch Teen Titans yet again. ![]() ![]() ![]() This was my first Meagan Brandy novel, and while I wasn’t exactly blown away, I can say that she can also certainly write an engaging romance novel that had me turning the pages late into the night to see what happened next. It turned out, he and I were never playing the same game. The thing about pretending, though, someone’s always better at it, and by the time I realized my mistake, there was no going back. So well, the lines between us began to blur until they disappeared completely. I thought it would be harder, convincing everyone our school’s star receiver was mine and mine alone, but we played our parts well. Sometimes all you have to do is open your eyes and realize it found you first.” – Meagan Brandy, “Fake it ‘TIl You Break It” What It’s About: You don’t have to be looking to find the best fucking thing for you. Genre(s): New Adult, New Adult Romance Total Star Rating: 3.75 Stars ![]() ![]() ![]() Using a method to meta-analyze data from genetically-correlated traits, we identify an additional 120 income-associated loci. In a sample of 286,301 participants from UK Biobank, we identify 30 (29 previously unreported) independent-loci associated with income. Socioeconomic position (SEP) is a multi-dimensional construct reflecting (and influencing) multiple socio-cultural, physical, and environmental factors. ![]() Piketty's book provides a wealth of useful information, but it is also a prominent example for the inability of mainstream economics and social science to explain existing inequalities and to guide policies aimed at minimizing them. ![]() Although he advocates for inequality-reducing policies, he presents no coherent rationale to justify such an endeavor nor does he consider the individual differences in ability and personality that every effort at reducing inequality has to face. His neglect of psychology and biology leaves his treatment of ideology shallow and unenlightening. ![]() Piketty recognizes that ideology is causally effective rather than mere superstructure, and that it has driven in large part the political and economic developments that he describes. Like the earlier book, Capital and Ideology offers descriptions of historical developments that are sound, relevant and enlightening, and most of his policy proposals are commendable. Piketty's new book is a sequel to his 2014 bestseller The Capital in the 21 st Century. ![]() ![]() ![]() The couple had separated with the understanding that they would meet and decide about their future in a year's time. ![]() ![]() Not a murder but a disappearance marshals the efforts of Gamache with his protégé and son-in law Jean-Guy Beauvoir, in helping Clara, the village artist, search for her missing husband Peter, also an artist. Her cast of characters is now well established and the primary action in this novel centres on the interaction among them. While Penny's series might be described as both a police procedural and a village cozy, the latter category has taken over in THE LONG WAY HOME. Gamache is recovering from the gunshot he received in the dramatic conclusion of the previous novel which I enjoyed more than this present story. This tenth book in Penny's Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series finds the inspector happily retired in Three Pines, Penny's version of an English village set in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Please note that order processing times and shipping times are two separate things. And you know what that means.Now, it's my turn to get some. ![]() What I didn't expect was for him to retaliate and hit my ass with some crazy magic mojo strong enough to push me into the physical realm. Unfortunately, my bitterness carried over into the new realm, and then I attacked a fae prince with Love Arrows. You can only do so much before the cupid bosses get all huffy. Sorry, not sorry.Īll my bad cupid'ing might be why I was exiled from the human realm. And yeah, I'm probably responsible for some terrible matchmaking out there. ![]() I'm stuck in this never-ending afterlife where I'm invisible, lonely, and bitter as hell. They don't call us stupid cupids for nothing. I used to consider myself a hopeless romantic, so why wouldn't I choose to become a cupid? Sounds like a good idea, right? Wrong again. I can pass it out like sugar-free lollipops at a dentist's office, but I can't get any love for myself. Sure, I can blow some Lust into people's faces and watch the show, but I can't actually participate. You'd think that basically being in charge of love would be an epic job, right? Wrong. As this is a series, there will be a cliffhanger. Intended for audiences 18 years and older. It includes explicit language and sexual situations. Author's Note: This is a medium-burn reverse harem story. ![]() |