Download or read book What We Don t Talk About When We Talk About Fat written by Aubrey Gordon and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people. Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social justice movements to be inclusive of plus-sized people’s experiences. Unlike the recent wave of memoirs and quasi self-help books that encourage readers to love and accept themselves, Gordon pushes the discussion further towards authentic fat activism, which includes ending legal weight discrimination, giving equal access to health care for large people, increased access to public spaces, and ending anti-fat violence. As she argues, “I did not come to body positivity for self-esteem. I came to it for social justice.” By sharing her experiences as well as those of others—from smaller fat to very fat people—she concludes that to be fat in our society is to be seen as an undeniable failure, unlovable, unforgivable, and morally condemnable. Fatness is an open invitation for others to express disgust, fear, and insidious concern. To be fat is to be denied humanity and empathy. Studies show that fat survivors of sexual assault are less likely to be believed and less likely than their thin counterparts to report various crimes; 27% of very fat women and 13% of very fat men attempt suicide; over 50% of doctors describe their fat patients as “awkward, unattractive, ugly and noncompliant”; and in 48 states, it’s legal—even routine—to deny employment because of an applicant’s size. Advancing fat justice and changing prejudicial structures and attitudes will require work from all people. What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat is a crucial tool to create a tectonic shift in the way we see, talk about, and treat our bodies, fat and thin alike.

Download or read book Like a River from Its Course written by Kelli Stuart and published by Kregel Academic. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An epic novel exposing the ugliness of war and the beauty of hope. The city of Kiev was bombed in Hitler's blitzkrieg across the Soviet Union, but the constant siege was only the beginning for her citizens. In this sweeping historical saga, Kelli Stuart takes the reader on a captivating journey into the little--known history of Ukraine's tragedies through the eyes of four compelling characters who experience the same story from different perspectives" --

Download or read book Firecracker written by David Iserson and published by Razorbill. This book was released on 2014 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expelled for cheating at her private school, seventeen-year-old Astrid, who lives in a rocket ship parked in her backyard, must attend public school where she learns some lessons about family, friendship, and romance.

Download or read book The Reaper s Shadow written by Alicia Rades and published by Crystallite Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even witches can’t outrun their curses. Nadine My magic’s been awakened, but being a witch is a death-wish. I’m the only Curse Breaker alive, and if the coven found out, they’d turn on me. I must hide who I truly am to ensure my freedom. There’s a witch in town intent on driving me out of my home. Chloe has stepped up her mean-girl tactics, but I refuse to leave Octavia Falls. I must find a way to break the curse over our families before her powers are awakened. As if one curse wasn’t enough. I’m on the verge of becoming the Reaper’s Shadow, the cursed mate of a Reaper’s Apprentice. Being with Lucas should be easy. I just have to outrun my darkness long enough to break the curse... Lucas Two children have gone missing from the coven, and no magic can find them. I want to help, but I don't know how. The only way to get my hands on information is to pursue my own investigation. Meanwhile, I fear that I’ve damned Nadine to a cursed life. If only I could keep my hands off her long enough to save her from death. *** Witches, warlocks, and reapers return in the thrilling second installment of the College of Witchcraft series! Read tarot, summon ghosts, and fight supernatural forces in this paranormal academy romance series. This series takes place in the Hidden Legends Universe, along with the University of Sorcery series, the College of Witchcraft series, and the Prison for Supernatural Offenders series. The Hidden Legends universe features college-aged protagonists attending magical academies, dual points-of-view, disabled and diverse main characters, and steamy, empowering romances. Each series stands on its own and can be read in any order. This is a full-length novel over 400 pages. Recommended reading age 18+ Face the reaper's curse and order today!

Download or read book Wrong Bed Right Brother written by Rebecca Brooks and published by Entangled: Brazen. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’ve been crushing on my coworker for months. And now he’s moving... across the country. I’ve got one shot to make my move. We’re all holed up in this amazing house upstate and tonight I’m going to sneak into his room and finally Make. Something. Happen. So I go for it. I climb into Luke’s bed and the kissing is so much better than I imagined. Why did we wait so long to feel this? I moan his name and Bam! He jumps out of bed. WTF? It isn’t Luke. It’s his twin, Noah. I don’t even like Noah. And he certainly doesn’t like me. This will NEVER happen again...until the next day against the barn door. Why can’t I stop seeing him? It will never work. We're complete opposites. Enemies with benefits is a thing, right? But what happens when I start to want more?

Download or read book A Cowboy in Her Stocking written by Trish Milburn and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas is the perfect time for romance with a cowboy! Enjoy this holiday novella from Harlequin American Romance When Talia Ardmore inherits her family's run-down ranch in Blue Falls, Texas, all she wants is to sell the place and get back to the life she's made for herself in California. But then she hires her high school crush Jake Monroe to fix up the house, and now she can't help dreaming of what might have been. Jake's happy to see Talia, but he's hurt she never told him why she ran away all those years ago. Still, with Christmas on the way and his daughter Mia's medical bills piling up, the widowed rancher can use the extra work. The last thing he expects is for Talia to ignite a fire in him that he thought had gone out forever…. It's not long before Talia's head over heels for Jake—and his little girl. But Talia must face her past before they can both receive the gift of a future together and a lifetime of happy holiday seasons.

Download or read book Bloodshed Final written by Jordan Clay and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in an otherworld, Talia is just one of many young girls in a small village. Talia is sweet and innocent, so when an evil unknown to her enters her home, she, and the other villagers, don't know what to do. They assign blame, and their fingers are pointed at Talia. Her home and family destroyed by monsters, Talia sets out to avenge their deaths. Secluding herself from the world, she never considers that with six years of hate filling her heart, she may not stay the innocent little girl she once was. During her journey's, Talia finds a new home, with a new family. This time, when life threatens to strip her away from those she loves once again, she refuses to go down without a fight. Plunged headfirst into a world of murderers, charmers, and demons in disguise, Talia will do whatever it takes to stay with the ones she loves, no matter how much blood she has to spill to do it.

Download or read book College of Witchcraft Books 1 3 written by Alicia Rades and published by Crystallite Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 1625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Alicia Rades presents a spellbinding three-book box set where love is cursed at a paranormal academy and witches investigate dark mysteries to save their coven. Nadine is the only witch of her kind. With unique powerful abilities, she’s a prime contender to sit on the witch’s council—yet she’s anything but welcome. A haunting family curse threatens to force her out of her magical college, and revealing her greatest secret may lead to the destruction of her people. Lucas is the Reaper’s Apprentice, the only warlock of his generation destined to ferry the souls of the dead. Accepting his dark gift is as brutal as investigating the coven’s mysteries—from finding missing children to exposing the culprit behind a dangerous brew. He’s prepared to fight the darkness alone, until he receives a warning beyond the grave from Nadine’s mother. Magic is disappearing from the town, and fear is causing the coven to turn against their own. Nadine and Lucas agree to come together to restore the coven’s magic, but the priestesses that rule their coven have other plans… *** College of Witchcraft: Books 1-3 includes the first three books in a new adult urban fantasy series. Witches, warlocks, and reapers solve mysteries in this college-aged paranormal romance featuring a diverse cast and disabled main characters. Over 1300+ pages of wicked drama and supernatural schemes! The Coven's Secret is a Gold Medal Winner in the Readers' Favorite International Book Awards Contest. "Nadine and Lucas serve as the linchpins of The Coven's Secret, and Rades does an admirable job rounding them out with interesting, heartfelt—and, most importantly—relatable backstories." -The BookLife Prize by Publishers Weekly "The story has a lot of action and plenty of twists - the ending will leave you wanting to read the next book straight away." -Anne-Marie Reynolds, Readers' Favorite ★★★★★ "The Coven’s Secret is a magical story that pulled me in from the first word and had me enthralled right up until the end." -Nancy Allen, The Avid Reader ★★★★★ "This was dark, mysterious, drama and angst filled, a touch romantic, tons magical and I can't wait for the next book so I can jump back into this world that I was not ready to leave! " -KRLGA, Smada's Book Smack ★★★★★ This title is one omnibus in a set of Hidden Legends collections. The Hidden Legends Universe features college-aged protagonists attending magical academies, dual points-of-view, disabled and diverse main characters, and steamy, empowering romances. Omnibus sets connected to this series include Academy of Magical Creatures, University of Sorcery, and Prison for Supernatural Offenders. Recommended reading age 18+ Search terms: paranormal romance, fantasy romance, urban fantasy, box set, magical books, academy books, new adult fantasy, witchcraft

Download or read book Dragon Bones written by Brendan Hudson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something evil is stirring. With the war over, Emily was hoping to begin her adventure and finally have some fun in the dragon world. But with her transformation into a dragon steadily worsening every time she goes home, she is becoming increasingly frustrated, distancing herself from everyone and behaving recklessly. Emily travels deeper into the dragon world in search of a magical ingredient to cure her problem, but instead she discovers the truth behind the war. A truth she wishes she never unveiled. With evil threatening to return, time is running out. With some new friends to help and old enemies to fight, Emily will have the fight of her life to save both worlds and keep herself alive.

Download or read book Blood of the Ogre written by Andrew Vaillencourt and published by Andrew Vaillencourt. This book was released on 2024-07-24 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE IMPASSE… An ancient agreement between aloof gods ends a ten-thousand-year galactic war but abandons the survivors to the vicious attentions of corrupted Tuariel overseers. These all-powerful servants wage a never-ending battle against evolution and progress, their inscrutable directives driving them to prune entire civilizations without mercy. They are remorseless, unstoppable, and unkillable… Or so they were until a strange new power from another plane starts to bleed into this one. A select few harness this Aether, resisting tyranny with strange abilities capable of harming the Tuariel. They fashion living weapons to fight back, igniting pockets of hope across the populated worlds. On a distant backwater planet, a young man with a terrible secret must flee home and family to escape certain death at the hands of the Tuariel. An old warrior takes the boy under his wing, revealing dark secrets of his own in the process. When they encounter a strange enclave of misfits and undesirables hiding at the edge of space, events take a turn that will forever alter the course of history. In a universe where science and magic are indistinguishable from each other, one confused young man finds himself the catalyst for a war he did not even know was brewing. Old grudges, new allies, and the hopes of trillions of souls come together in one chaotic moment that will define the future of all sentient life forever.

Download or read book Final Reckoning written by J. Gregory Keyes and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tyrannical regime of the Psi Corps turns against its creator, Alfred Bester, forcing him to confront his own monstrous legacy.

Download or read book The Witch s Temptation written by Rory McCauley-Hayman and published by Infinite Joy. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 973 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clover Harrison is a rare, triple affinity witch. After refusing an arranged marriage from her family, she went to Oregon to run her great aunt's potion shop and teahouse. There's a fearsome beast that all seers see in her future and Clover is driven to live her life to its fullest before she encounters the beast. Stanton Bruinwald is looking for his Ursa, the woman who will help him run his sleuth. Even though he's starting his search for her a year or two before most Alpha bears do, he feels the time is right. All he needs is some direction. Old friends and new come together in the third book of the T wisted Design Series.

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Download or read book Blessings Of A Curse USA Edition written by Wayne Edward Clarke and published by Norman Imbong. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book One of The Nexus of Kellaran Series. A mighty world of wonder approaches a global turning point, and a global war. Join us for adventure, romance, and a ton of action in this passionately acclaimed High Fantasy Epic! We follow Mark as he finds himself at the center of an intense whirlwind of events that will transform the world of Kellaran in only seven days! Uses American Imperial Units.

Download or read book The Mermaid s Madness written by Jim C. Hines and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would happen if a star writer went back to the darker themes of the original fairy tales for plots, and then crossed the Disney princesses with Charlie?s Angels? What he?d end up with is The Mermaid?s Madness?a whole new take on The Little Mermaid. And with Jim C. Hines, of Jig the Goblin fame, penning the tale, you canbet itwon?t be ?Theylived happily ever after.?

Download or read book Tallchief s Bride written by Cait London and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MAN OF THE MONTH THE TALLCHIEFS MR. SEPTEMBER Calum Tallchief: A sexy, half-Sioux loner who wants a wife—and there's only one way to recognize her. The Ring: The lost heirloom's legend says: When a Tallchief places the ring on the right woman's finger, he'll capture true love. His Intended Bride: She went to the ends of the earth to find the gold band with the three garnets. With the legend-filled ring sparkling on her finger, Talia Petrovna could dream of saying "I do" to Calum, having his gray-eyed babies and settling down in Amen Flats, Wyoming, with a family's love. But was a woman like her truly fated to be Tallchief's bride? MAN OF THE MONTH: This Tallchief will find the love that legends—and little ones—are made of. THE TALLCHIEFS

Download or read book Compelling Evidence written by Steve Martini and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first “engrossing”(Entertainment Weekly) legal thriller in the New York Times bestselling Paul Madriani series! Defense attorney Paul Madriani was on the rise with the California law firm of Potter, Skarpellos—until a short-lived affair with Potter's wife, Talia, cost him his job. A year later, when Talia is accused of Potter’s murder Paul is thrust back into the big time—and he soon uncovers secrets that may end his career...and his life.