![]() ![]() ![]() vividly written, almost painterly' - The New York Times Book Review '.full of lush, mesmerizing detail' - The New Yorker 'Emily Bitto writes so well about art, childhood, infatuation, loneliness-you name it. Shortlisted for the HWA Debut Crown 2017 Winner of the Stella Prize 2015 Winner of the Tina Kane Emergent Writers Award University of Canberra 'Book of the Year' 2016 Longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript Shortlised for the Dobbie Literary Award Shortlisted for the Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Prize for New Writing Shortlisted for an Amazon Rising Star Award Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction `Academy Recommends' Read 'Remarkable first novel. ![]()
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![]() Anyone could be a baby farmer there were no regulations to conform to, no qualifications to be met, no paperwork, and no supervision of the premises or type of care the children received. There were strict laws against the mistreatment of animals but, until 1872, there were no such laws to govern baby farmers. ![]() Barely a week would pass without the police finding a little corpse abandoned in a railway carriage, left on the banks of a canal, or thrown into the swiftly flowing River Thames. ![]() A number of them, though, abandoned, starved, or even killed the infants in their care to increase their profits. The majority of baby farmers were caring and honest. Legitimate baby farms supplied a much in demand service for unmarried, pregnant women in the Victorian era. Baby farmers were women who looked after children for a fee. ![]() The articles attracted a great deal of attention and brought the term "baby farming" into widespread use. Over the course of the following year the British Medical Journal, published in a series of sensationalist pieces that many baby farmers committed serial infanticide. The term "Baby Farming" was first used by the British Medical Journal in 1867, in an article entitled "Baby-Farming" in which they described a mother who had turned her children over to the "baby farmer" with the clear understanding that they would be neglected until they died. ![]() Baby farmers both repulsed and fascinated the public of the day. In this short book, author Sylvia Perrini profiles eleven Baby Farmers. ![]() ![]() CC BY-SA 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 true true ![]() This licensing tag was added to this file as part of the GFDL licensing update. ![]()
![]() ![]() So he’ll need help, from his friends, his teachers, Sierra, the strong-willed classmate with creative dreams of her own, even Tyrell, the local bully who’d be a perfect movie villain if he weren’t too terrifying to talk to. until he realizes he can turn the story of the cartoon superhero he’s been drawing for years into an actual MOVIE! There’s just one problem: he has no idea what he’s doing. Marcus is NOT happy to be stuck in after-school film class. "Keep kid readers on the edge of their seat." –Parents Magazine ![]() ![]() Perfect for readers of James Patterson's Middle School series and Lincoln Peirce's Big Nate series. Stand-up comedian and Hollywood box-office hit Kevin Hart keeps the laughs coming in an illustrated middle-grade novel about a boy who has big dreams of making a blockbuster superhero film. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Norse mythology the mischief-maker is Loki, who is also a shapeshifter. ![]() įrequently the trickster figure exhibits gender and form variability. In Slavic folktales, the trickster and the culture hero are often combined. He is the patron of thieves and the inventor of lying, a gift he passed on to Autolycus, who in turn passed it on to Odysseus. In some Greek myths Hermes plays the trickster. Many cultures have tales of the trickster, a crafty being who uses tricks to get food, steal precious possessions, or simply cause mischief. The trickster openly questions, disrupts or mocks authority. ![]() Tricksters can be cunning or foolish or both. Often, this bending or breaking of rules takes the form of tricks or thievery. The trickster crosses and often breaks both physical and societal rules: Tricksters "violate principles of social and natural order, playfully disrupting normal life and then re-establishing it on a new basis." Lewis Hyde describes the trickster as a "boundary-crosser". Tricksters, as archetypal characters, appear in the myths of many different cultures. In mythology and the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a character in a story ( god, goddess, spirit, human or anthropomorphisation) who exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and defy conventional behavior. ![]() The trickster figure Reynard the Fox as depicted in an 1869 children's book by Michel Rodange ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the impossible odds, Jehanne became a fearless warrior who has inspired generations. As a girl in a mans world, at a time when women truly had no power, Jehanne faced constant threats and violence from the men around her. She runs away from home, dresses in mens clothes, and convinces an army that she will lead France to victory. ![]() Through sheer determination and incredible courage, Jehanne becomes the unlikeliest of heroes. She begins to understand that she has been called by God, chosen for a higher purpose-to save France. Until one day, she hears a voice call to her, telling her she is destined for important things. Jehanne was an illiterate peasant, never quite at home among her siblings and peers. This extraordinary verse novel from award-winning author Stephanie Hemphill dares to imagine how an ordinary girl became a great leader, and ultimately saved a nation. Book Synopsis The Language of Fire is a lyrical, dark, and moving look at the life of Joan of Arc, who as a teen girl in the fifteenth century commanded an army and helped crown a king of France. ![]() About the Book This extraordinary verse novel from the Printz Honor-winning author of Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath dares to reimagine the life of Joan of Arc, who as a teen girl in the 15th century commanded an army and helped crown a king of France. ![]() ![]() Barnes has brought a new level of precision to a popular slogan and has then set about defending it with all the familiar tools of contemporary analytic philosophy. "Elizabeth Barnes has written an interesting and important book about disability. "Elizabeth Barnes' new book offers a much-needed philosophical discussion of disability capitalizing on relevant research in bioethics, feminist philosophy and disability studies." - Elena Fell and Natalia Lukianova, The Philosophical Quarterly I would enthusiastically recommend this text to anyone interested in disability and philosophy, and especially to those new to philosophy." - Tessa-May Zirnsak, Metapsychology Online Reviews ![]() ![]() ![]() "I am happy to unequivocally say that this text makes a fascinating and groundbreaking contribution to feminist and disability philosophy. ![]() ![]() ![]() On her sixteenth birthday, Conor Cassidy knew her life was going to change, but not in the way it did. Again, this is dark romance with kink and a kick, Pam Godwin style. I also feel the need to mention that there may be triggers for some readers, specifically when it comes to the main female character being raped by two perpetrators while her boyfriend, brother, and boyfriend's brother are forced to witness. ![]() This is very much a Godwin-esque novel, and it is most definitely not meant for those in the YA crowd. Don't let the young adult (YA) feel fool you in the first few pages of this book. Yes, Knotted is the first in the author's new Trails of Sin trilogy, and if you think that it's a cowboy love story with Godwin's patented brand of dark romance, you've got another thing coming. ![]() Pam Godwin has just managed to leave me gobsmacked yet again with her latest novel, and the best part about it is that it's the first in a series but it doesn't end in a cliffhanger. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Dracula anthology contains: Introduction: I Bid You Welcome by Stephen Jones Dracula: or The Un-Dead: Prologue by Bram Stoker The Devil Is Not Mocked by Manly Wade Wellman Dracula's Library by Christopher Fowler The Heart of Count Dracula, Descendant of Attila, Scourge of God by Thomas Ligotti Daddy's Little Girl by Mandy Slater Conversion by Ramsey Campbell Teaserama by Nancy Kilpatrick Blood Freak by Nancy Holder Zack Phalanx is Vlad the Impaler by Brian Lumley When Greek Meets Greek by Basil Copper Coppola's Dracula by Kim Newman The Second Time Around by Hugh B. ![]() Both books are lightly rubbed on the corners with flat uncreased spines no interior markings. Frankenstein has a personalized inscription to author/editor Don Hutchinson by Stephen Jones on the title page. Please note, these are very heavy books and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping might be higher than normal. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s a King-like writer: punchy, down-to-earth, fond of closing out his chapters with sinister one-liners: The ceiling of the living room. Jones is the winner of multiple horror and fantasy awards, and his most recent novel has earned praise from Stephen King. At the bottom of a cliff they spot the elk, spread out like a carpet of easy prey-and so begins a hunt that spans a decade and threatens not only their own lives, but the next generation. So they roll through the woods in the kind of broken-down truck Keith Secola would sing about. Winter is coming, and they haven’t managed to fill their freezers with big game. They dub the trip the “Thanksgiving Classic,” and they are in the woods for fun, for friendship-but also out of economic need and shame. The antiheroes of Stephen Graham Jones’s revenge-horror novel, The Only Good Indians, are four Blackfeet men, childhood friends, who on the Saturday before Thanksgiving go poaching in the part of the forest set aside for tribal elders. ![]() |