![]() Calderia Taking that big step of admitting who you like can be scary but it’s a little easier when you have a no-nonsense best friend supporting you. They are definitely not all light-hearted and fluffy and a couple of them made me so angry or sad. While all the stories are tied together by the LGBTQIA theme, they are all unique and approach their subjects differently. The talented young writers who contributed to this book should be proud. Join them on their journey and help us celebrate their courage, their love, and their unique ways of seeing the world. ![]() We are honored to showcase these writers, their experiences, visions, and the glimpses into their hearts in these pages. These authors, all between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one, are the winners of our Young Author Challenge and represent the future voices of our community. Harmony Ink is proud to showcase the next generation of talented writers in our fifth annual Harmonious Hearts anthology. ![]() Diversity is our strength, and now more than ever, the voices of young LGBTQIA authors need to be heard. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I found the first story quite off putting. Not too long in I was thinking.uhhh, do I want to keep reading this? But I kept going because I could see some amazing passages hidden inside the less than stellar start. The critics have not been kind to Tom Hanks and his book. ![]() Old fashioned romp of stories, some real gems! They are surprising, intelligent, heartwarming, and, for the millions and millions of Tom Hanks fans, an absolute must-have!įeaturing additional performances by Peter Gerety, Peter Scolari, Cecily Strong, Holland Taylor, and Wilmer Valderrama on "Stay with Us". These are just some of the tales Tom Hanks tells in this first collection of his short stories. An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant venture into America looking for acquisitions and discover a down and out motel, romance, and a bit of real life. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game - and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves. A collection of 17 wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor.Ī gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How Stella Learned to Talk is part memoir and part how-to guide. A few years later, Stella now has a bank of more than thirty word buttons, and uses them daily either individually or together to create near-complete sentences. At night, she wondered: If dogs can understand words we say to them, shouldn’t they be able to say words to us? Can dogs use AAC to communicate with humans?Ĭhristina decided to put her theory to the test with Stella and started using a paw-sized button programmed with her voice to say the word “outside” when clicked, whenever she took Stella out of the house. During the day, she worked with toddlers with significant delays in language development and used Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices to help them communicate. When speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger first came home with her puppy, Stella, it didn’t take long for her to start drawing connections between her job and her new pet. An incredible, revolutionary true story and surprisingly simple guide to teaching your dog to talk from speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger, who has taught her dog, Stella, to communicate using simple paw-sized buttons associated with different words. ![]() ![]() She has been writing for both adults and children since 1978, winning numerous prizes including the Guardian Award and both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread (now Costa) Award twice over. She her philosopher husband, Kit, began a series of moves across Britain, America and Canada. She briefly worked as a secondary school teacher and for the charity Oxfam before publishing her first children's book, The Summer House Loon. ![]() She says she can’t ever remember not being able to read.Īnne studied politics and history at University. ![]() Anne Fine writes for both children and adults and her interest in politics and social issues comes across in many of her books.Ģ0th anniversary celebrations: read Anne Fine's letterīorn in the Midlands, Anne Fine was sent off to school early, aged three, when her mother had triplet girls. ![]() ![]() ![]() It has Calvin and Hobbes walking in the new fallen snow and exclaiming that the day is so full of possibilities. ![]() The quote comes from the very last strip that was released. Calvin and, by extension, Hobbes observe things with remarkable insight for a little boy. However, there are a lot of philosophical ideas as well. Since he is just a kid, he is very imaginative and constantly dreams of impossible adventures, such as being in outer space in his Spaceman Spiff persona. Most of the stories and gags usually revolve around Calvin’s imagination and how it gets him into trouble. Calvin is a very active kid and is best friends with his stuffed tiger, Hobbes. Unlike most comic strips, the jokes and stories never patronize the intelligence of the audience and can be read (and enjoyed) by kids and adults alike. The story behind the quote: Calvin and Hobbes is a very creative comic strip from Bill Watterson. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when Chester tries to make his fears known to the Monroes, he is completely misunderstood, and the results are truly hilarious. Chester becomes distraught and fears for the safety of the family. When the family finds a white tomato in the kitchen, sucked dry and colorless, well. it sure seemed like he was a vampire bunny. Pointy fangs, the appearance of a cape, black-and-white coloring, nocturnal habits. How could the family help but take the rabbit home and name it Bunnicula? Chester, the literate, sensitive, and keenly observant family cat, soon decides there is something weird about this rabbit. It all starts when Harold's human family, the Monroes, goes to see the movie Dracula, and young Toby accidentally sits on a baby rabbit wrapped in a bundle on his seat. ![]() This immensely popular children's story is told from the point of view of a dog named Harold. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() bookstores in 2021, she explores the dark areas of relationships between women- mothers and daughters, teachers and students, and teenagers in the oppressive atmosphere of an Opus Dei school for girls in Guayaquil. Candaya), which will be available in U.S. Her work, reminiscent with that of authors like Mariana Enríquez, Fernanda Melchor or Ariana Harwicz, pulls us by the leg. It takes us with it underwater so we can see the horror that lies in beauty and vice versa. For Ecuadorian Mónica Ojeda, writing is like opening your eyes under water and holding your breath. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Home Address College Park, GA)Ĭontributed by Steve Collins whose grandfather James is featured below. Sorry, he did not give full names and my mother did not think to ask when he was dictating his memoirs. Grandpa was inducted at Columbus, GA and discharged at Fort Gordon, GA. My grandfather is Robert Wilson Kerr III (1895-1991). Hoping this will be of aide to you, I remain your friend.įour Buddies from the Rainbow Division's 116th Field Artillery.ĭawn Street contributed four pictures of her Grandfather and his buddies from the 116th Field Artillery of the 42nd "Rainbow" Division: We were about six or eight miles from the front. The Picture was taken at St Orey, France the afternoon before we left for the frontline. Some of the boys were killed in action, in fact about half of them, and the rest like myself were wounded, all but one or two. The boy who is #10 was Harry's closest pal, they had been together all the time they were in the army. I have given you the names of these boys as I remember them. Sorry, but we lost some of the images on the outside edges. Please contact the editors if you can identify any of the individuals. 3rd Division Members on their Way to Chow. ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s a validity to a plot where hostility disguises attraction, but not how it’s handled here, with dialogue alternating between trite and pompous accompanied by yearning thought balloons. It continues after Ayo’s graduation and her assignment alongside Aneka to protect Queen Shuri, the Black Panther’s sister. It begins with Ayo, proud new recruit to the Dora Milaje, and her immediately combative and competitive attitude toward Aneka her trainer. A bunch of perfect females whose entire purpose is to fight for, and if necessary lay down their life to protect their King? Isn’t that a power fantasy just a step away from Conan the Barbarian? Some recognition of this was surely behind the hiring of acclaimed feminist writer Roxane Gay to inject credibility into what could be construed as sexist old tosh. However, a greater sophistication is now supplied to superheroes, the Black Panther in particular, and given the amount of context added to T’Challa and Wakanda over the past decade, the Dora Milaje appear altogether more suspect. When they were introduced Black Panther was a simpler series, so the King of the world’s most technologically advance nation having the services of an elite trained all-female bodyguard was, well, neat. The purpose appears to have been to reposition the Dora Milaje. Martinez, with Black Panther writer Ta-Nehisi Coates credited vaguely as “consultant”. ![]() World of Wakanda supplies three stories, the longest of them being ‘Dawn of the Midnight Angels’ by Gay and Alitha E. ![]() ![]() ![]() Laurier doesn’t talk much, and he moves quietly about, not unlike a cat who just seems to appear. When things really get rough, he and the others don their goggles, earplugs and dust masks. ![]() “But you have Whitey, who understands the way things work.”Ĭopes is wearing safety shoes. “You’re working underneath with these little tools,” he says. It needed overhauling: scraping, replacing bad wood with filler, sanding and painting.įashioning a new floor and guardrail for the shad skiff is a current project of the six or seven men, the stalwarts among Laurier’s group of 15 to 20 volunteers, whom his wife’s dubbed the “Mechanics Extraordinaire.”Ĭopes helped get the skiff up on its blocks for its restoration. More than a year ago, they restored the log canoe under a shed. The gang’s been together for about two years, working out of doors in decent weather until the stable was refurbished. McCoy, the ex-banker, pronounces Laurier “very easy to work for.” There’s no whistling as they work, just the occasional bang, bang, bang of a hammer, or the whir of the sander Laurier’s running. ![]() Between bites, the guys talk, then get down to business. But no one’s splitting hairs here, or punching a clock or looking for trouser creases.Īl Crane arrives with a batch of his wife’s blueberry-bran muffins in tow. ![]() |