An intersectional, feminist YA anthology from some of today's most exciting voices across a span of genres, all celebrating body diversity and fat acceptance through short stories. A Junior Library Guild Selection Fat girls and boys and nonbinary teens are: friends who lift each other up, heroes who rescue themselves, big bodies in space, intellects taking up space, and bodies looking and feeling beautiful. They express themselves through fashion, sports and other physical pursuits, through food, and music, and art. They are flirting and falling in love. They are loving to themselves and one another. With stories that feature fat main characters starring in a multitude of settings, and written by authors who live these lives too, this is truly a unique collection that shows fat young people the representation they deserve. With a foreword by Aubrey Gordon, creator of Your Fat Friend, and with stories by: Nafiza Azad, Chris Baron, Sheena Boekweg, Linda Camacho, Kelly deVos, Alex Gino, Claire Kann, amanda lovelace, Hillary Monahan, Cassandra Newbould, Francina Simone, Rebecca Sky, Monique Gray Smith, Renée Watson, Catherine Adel West, Jennifer Yen

The youngest of four daughters, Primrose Ainsworth is used to getting lost in the shuffle. When her parents decide to delay her debut into English society, Prim hatches a plan to go rogue on the night of her sixteenth birthday. She dons a mask and escapes to Vauxhall Gardens for one wild night-- and finds a masked stranger who becomes her partner in mischief and romance. -- adapted from jacket

From dark dilemmas to sharp wounds. That is what this unique collection by writers spanning a century can be summed up as. The stories, unflinching in style and content, focus on women s issues like abortion, rape, dowry and beyond. Each piece is reflective of a path-breaking vision that has altered the Telugu literary scene in form, style and content.

The 1st ed. includes an index to v. 28-36 of St. Nicholas.

Teaching the Selected Works of Chris Crutcher (Boynton/Cook, 2008)104 pages, paperback, $21.25Pub Alley: 51 ($889); BookScan: 71; WorldCat: Chris Crutcher by Michael A. Sommers (Rosen Pub Group, 2005), 112 pages, $33.25. 9781404203259.Pub Alley: 166 ($4,522.65); BookScan: 8; WorldCat: 107Presenting Chris Crutcher [Twayne's United States Authors Series] (Twayne, 1997), 144 pages, hardcover, $29Pub Alley: 180 ($5,040); BookScan: 18; WorldCat: 451

5 things you need to know about this book 1. It is written in lists 2. Set in Western Sydney 3. Features a dysfunctional narrator 4. Who is fixated on stories of missing children 5. Though she’s not entirely sure why. As her world falls apart, will she be able to put the pieces together?

Do you have a novel you've been dying to complete but can't seem to get started? Have you always wanted to write fiction but don't know where to begin? Have you finished a novel but don't know how to develop, edit, brand, market, or sell it? YOU ARE NOT ALONE! Being a novelist takes more than just an English degree and a desire to tell a story. It takes skill, practice, patience, and above everything else, diligence. Being Indie is for beginning writers who want to get started in the art and craft of storytelling. It includes tips, tricks, and tactics on how to: •Brainstorm, plan, and execute your story. •Develop, edit, and proofread your drafts. •Squash your inner troll. •Deal with failed projects. •Be more productive. •Salvage good ideas from bad stories. •Create and distribute audiobooks. •Start marketing your work.

These are the adventures of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers -- the topflight band of technical specialists, some of them human and some exotically alien, who can build, program, fix and figure out just about anything you ask them to, from ships to replicators to doomsday machines. When Captain Picard and the USS Enterprise defeat a gigantic marauding starship from parts unknown, the S.C.E. is called in to probe the vanquished hulk. Captain David Gold and the crew of the S.C.E. ship the USS da Vinci are in search of both new technology and of clues to the origin of the giant ship. Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge, on temporary transfer from the Enterprise, is assigned to assist them on their vital reconnaissance mission. Working alongside Gold, his first officer Sonia Gomez, and a top-of-the-line group of engineers to unravel the high-tech mysteries of the supposedly dead alien vessel, Geordi discovers that the real danger has only just begun...