Tag: Edelweiss
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REVIEW: Spirits of the Coast: Orcas in Science, Art and History
The Official Description: Spirits of the Coast brings together the work of marine biologists, Indigenous knowledge keepers, poets, artists, and storytellers, united by their enchantment with the orca. Long feared in settler cultures as “killer whales,” and respected and honored by Indigenous cultures as friends, family, or benefactors, orcas are complex social beings with culture…
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REVIEW: The Fascinators by Andrew Eliopulos
The Official Description: A magic-infused YA novel about friendship, first love, and feeling out of place that will bewitch fans of Rainbow Rowell and Maggie Stiefvater. Living in a small town where magic is frowned upon, Sam needs his friends James and Delia—and their time together in their school’s magic club—to see him through to…
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REVIEW: All Boys Aren’t Blue by George. M. Johnson
The Official Description: official description Just the facts: A memoir written in essays, being black and queer. A must read for all queer, black people… and everyone else for that matter. – Kinzie Things My thoughts bit: This is a remarkable memoir by George M. Johnson. Amongst other things, he is an award-winning journalist and activist.…
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REVIEW: Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
The Official Description: From Stonewall and Lambda Award–winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time. Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and…
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REVIEW: The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickles
The Official Description: Set in 1986, a year after Rock Hudson’s death brought the news of AIDS into living rooms and kitchens across America, Lambda Literary award-winning author Carter Sickels’s second novel shines light on an overlooked part of the epidemic, those men who returned to the rural communities and families who’d rejected them. Six short…
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REVIEW: The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper
The official description: As a successful social media journalist with half a million followers, seventeen-year-old Cal is used to sharing his life online. But when his pilot father is selected for a highly publicized NASA mission to Mars, Cal and his family relocate from Brooklyn to Houston and are thrust into a media circus. (GoodReads.com)…
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REVIEW: The Falls of Wyona by David Brendan Hopes
Official description: In The Falls of the Wyona by David Brendan Hopes, four friends growing up on the banks of a wild Appalachian river just after WWII discover, almost at the same time, the dangerous, alluring Falls and the perils of their own maturing hearts. Seen through the eyes of his best friend Arden, football…
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