![]() "Albertans are looking for a government with a credible plan to address increasing crime in our communities while protecting survivors," she said. ![]() "To help support women and children who are at risk, a re-elected United Conservative government will provide $20 million (over four years) for women's shelters and for sexual assault counselling."įir said $10 million of that money would go to counselling centres across Alberta, while the other $10 million would go to women's shelters. "We know that women and children are disproportionately impacted by violence and in particular domestic violence," Tanya Fir, one of the Calgary candidates, said during a news conference. Smith didn't make any public appearances Wednesday, but some UCP candidates promised to increase support for women's shelters and sexual assault counselling centres if their party is re-elected. The week has been dominated by United Conservative Leader Danielle Smith's past comments comparing those who were vaccinated for COVID-19 to Nazi supporters. ![]() Alberta's two main political parties offered competing visions Wednesday for women's shelters and sexual assault counselling centres as the second week of Alberta's election campaign continued. ![]()
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![]() ![]() After her husband's death, Lindsey moved to Maine and did not remarry. The marriage continued, the couple residing in Hawaii and producing three children Alfred, Joseph and Garret, who have made her a grandmother. ![]() In 1970, when she was still in school, she married Ralph Bruce Lindsey, becoming a young housewife. That year, her family moved to Hawaii, likely to honor his wish. Her father always dreamed of retiring to Hawaii, but he died in 1964. The Howard family moved about a great deal when she was young due to her father's military career. Army, stationed in West Germany, where she was born. Her father was Edwin Dennis Howard, a soldier in the U.S. Her mother was Wanda Donaldson Howard, a personnel management specialist. Johanna Helen Howard was born on March 10, 1952, in Frankfurt, West Germany. All of her books reached the New York Times bestseller list, many reaching No. 1. Johanna Helen Lindsey (née Howard, Ma– October 27, 2019) was an American writer of historical romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() The modern fable is hilarious, poignant and action packed. Jin is embarrassed by his friend (the other new kid) because Jin wants to "fit in." Jin has a new Chinese-American friend, who when Jin gets angry at him, he calls him a FOB (fresh off the boat) because his friend's speech and mannerisms are more Chinese than American. ![]() Chin-Kee, the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype ![]() Jin Wang is the new kid and the only Chinese-American student This inch-thick, 235-page graphic novel consists of several separate stories that seem disconnected until the very end. ![]() The book has also been nominated for Best Book for Young Adults and has received praise from Scholl Library Journal. The National Book Award is one of the most prestigious awards in literature and American Born Chinese is the first graphic novel to be nominated in any category in its 57-year history-and has just been selected as one of the 20 finalist. This one is all that and more-it's earning honors already. Earlier this year I reviewed several other graphic novels (comic books made into a book form), most of high quality in every way, including content. ![]() ![]() In a world of scarcity it is a strain on resources and all who depend on them. Citizen Coke became a giant in a world of abundance. Its copious servings of high-fructose corn syrup have threatened public health. Its annual use of many billions of gallons of water has strained an increasingly scarce global resource. ![]() The costs shed by Coke have fallen on the public at large. Looking past its message of corporate citizenship, Elmore finds a strategy of relentless growth. Alongside Coke’s recent public investments in water purification infrastructure, especially in Africa, it has also built-less publicly-a rash of bottling plants in dangerously arid regions. But as Elmore shows, Coke was usually getting the sweet end of the deal. ![]() These men, and the company they helped build, were seen as responsible citizens, bringing jobs and development to every corner of the globe. ![]() Its growth was driven by shrewd leaders such as Asa Candler, who scaled an Atlanta soda-fountain operation into a national empire, and “boss” Robert Woodruff, who nurtured partnerships with companies like Hershey and Monsanto. Elmore explores Coke through its ingredients, showing how the company secured massive quantities of coca leaf, caffeine, sugar, and other inputs. ![]() ![]() A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year From Anchee Min, a master of the historical novel, Empress Orchid sweeps readers into the heart of the Forbidden City to tell the fascinating story of a young concubine who becomes China's last empress. A revisionist portrait of a beautiful and strong-willed woman' (Houston Chronicle). ' A fascinating novel, similar to Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha. Trick or Treat - Twelve Books Featuring Witches. ![]() 60 spectacular LGBTQIA+ books to read this Pride Month and every month.May Bookshop Chat - Books With Buzz May 2023.2023 British Book Awards Are Celebrated At Star-Studded Ceremony - We Love The #Nibbies.Put your Feet up and Catch up on Our May Summary of Highlights and Reading Recommendations.We mourn the loss of celebrated British author Martin Amis. ![]() Industry Insights May 2023: James Kellow, Ultimo Press.Prepare to Celebrate the Nation's Favourite Genre with National Crime Reading Month.Caffè Nero launches a major new set of book awards - The Nero Book Awards.TikTok launching its own book awards to celebrate titles, authors, content and creators of BookTok.International Booker Prize 2023 Won by Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel with Time Shelter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She discusses the history of biography through medieval saints’ lives, Boswell’s biography of Johnson and Strachey’s Eminent Victorians to Virginia Woolf’s biography of Flush (Elizabeth Barret-Browning’s spaniel). Her book explores different approaches to biography in the Anglophone world. ![]() Dame Hermione Lee is a Professor of English Literature at Oxford and a renowned biographer herself. Hermione Lee’s A Very Short Introduction to Biography is definitely one of the better short introductions out there. Some Very Short Introductions are better than others, but that is only expected in such a massive collection of books. It reminds me a bit of the Horrible Histories and Horrible Science books I used to read when I was a teenager –a solid, basic introduction to a subject aimed at the average semi-educated reader (although comics rarely feature in OUP books, sadly). Just in case you haven’t heard of the Very Short Introduction series from Oxford University Press – I absolutely love it! ![]() ![]() ![]() Roth, a pretty woman beset by insecurity and prey to a stalker. Sexual conquest is also on the mind of K.C. Spenser's hard-eyed stroll through the cloistered world of academia brings him into contact with Amir Abdullah, a black professor who is theatrically militant about African-American issues despite a long list of sexual conquests that includes the leader of a white supremacist organization. ![]() This time out, Spenser looks into the case of Robinson Nevins, a conservative African-American professor denied tenure, perhaps for his alleged affair with a male student, Prentice Lamont, who has committed suicide. Despite his quarter century on Boston's mean streets (he debuted in The Godwulf Manuscript in 1974), Parker's retrograde yet hip PI Spenser can still punch, sleuth and wisecrack with the best of them. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gwyneth Paltrow, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Alicia Silverstone all put their own spin on Emma’s titular blonde heroine in three very different versions of the 1815 comedy of manners. This must-watch list includes a Bollywood version of Pride and Prejudice, a prep school sendup of Mansfield Park, and a lovingly hilarious homage to Austen’s entire literary canon. (Even those who can’t fathom any movie living up to the book it’s based on- we know you’re out there, too). ![]() From tried-and-true adaptations to more modern takes on the iconic English author’s classic work, there is a film out there for every Austen fan. There are more than a few good and even great film adaptations of Austen’s books available to stream now. Those looking for a Jane Austen fix after watching Netflix’s adaptation of her final novel, Persuasion, starring Dakota Johnson, are in luck. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unspoken: Bathsheba The scandalous affair of David and Bathsheba did not end in one night. Unshaken: Ruth A love story of epic proportions, Ruth gave up everything, expected nothing, and God honored her. No matter how dark the harlot’s sin, God could still do wonderful things in her life. Unashamed: Rahab Rahab was a woman with a past to whom God gave a future. Unveiled: Tamar Betrayed by the men who controlled her future, Tamar fought for her right to believe in a loving God and to do right in His eyes. The stories of these five remarkable women still hold great meaning and inspiration for us today. ![]() And yet God, in His infinite mercy, used them to bring forth the Christ, the Savior of the world. Sometimes they made mistakes-big mistakes. Each faced extraordinary-even scandalous-challenges. This bestselling compilation contains five novellas about such people-women in the family tree of Jesus Christ. The Bible is filled with inspiring stories of unlikely candidates that God chose to change eternity. Five stories of unlikely women who changed eternity. ![]() ![]() Her Soul To Take is a rollercoaster of demons, amateur ghost hunters, a cult, and a damn big helping of wit. Nevertheless, it ties the story together with a neat little bow by the end.īuy it on Amazon Her Soul To Take by Harley Larouxįor fans of the spicy side of Haunting Adeline. The book cranks up the themes of trafficking and abuse while trading the spicy scenes of the first book for gratuitous violence. ![]() Picking up immediately after the first book, Zade rushes to rescue Adeline and take revenge on her kidnappers. Despite the title being one misspelling away from the first book’s, the sequel somehow takes things in a much starker and sinister direction. ![]() There’s not much that could follow up on Haunting Adeline like its sequel, Hunting Adeline. We’ve tried to balance between more accessible titles with the same atmosphere and some spicier books to follow up on Haunting Adeline’s other best feature. These books have that same overhanging dread mixed with romance, some haunted literally and others psychologically, but these books will send tingles down your spine, among other places. ![]() The haunting is a psychological one here, relying more on atmosphere and some spicy scenes to keep readers invested as Adeline and leading man Zade play their cat-and-mouse game. An extremely dark tale of a woman being stalked and toyed with by a vigilante as she investigates her great-grandmother’s death. Carlton’s Haunting Adeline is just the latest Gothic romance breakout to catch the literary world’s attention. ![]() |