Sex scandal rocks megachurch!Returning from a two-year mission trip in Mozambique, Trina Michaels plans to ignore the sensational headline that screams from the front page of the Washington Times. Her heart is still in Africa, the place that feels more like home than anywhere she's ever lived—and the place where the love of her life still is. Her dream of a quick return to Mozambique fades within hours when Trina discovers that her mother has been diagnosed with cancer. The cost of treatment is expensive, and Trina is forced to return to her career in public relations to pay for it.She is assigned a damage control client—the bishop whose church made headline news when an associate pastor and deacon were accused of sexually abusing young boys. To complicate matters, the young boys are now men, and one of them is married to Trina's best friend. Representing Bishop Walker could cost Trina her most valued friendship, her reputation, and a future with her new love. As she plows deeper into the scandal and the bishop blackmails her to cover the church's secrets and lies, Trina realizes it could cost her soul.
• <i>Kimiko Does Cancer</i> is another title in the growing genre of “Graphic Medicine”: graphic novels or nonfiction that deal with health issues. Last year we had great success with <i>Dear Scarlet</i>, the graphic memoir about postpartum depression that was widely acclaimed (including a <i>New York Times</i> rave); in 2020 it was longlisted for the highly visible Canada Reads competition on CBC.<br> • When the author Kimiko Tobimatsu was diagnosed with breast cancer, she found herself thrust into a world she wasn’t familiar with. In her own words: “I kept having these interactions with doctors and fellow cancer patients that reflected such a different world view than the bubble than I typically occupied – queer, lefty-types. For example, doctors who just assumed I would want breast reconstruction if I got a mastectomy or cancer patients who had the same disease but had different political views than mine.” <br> • For Filippinx illustrator Keet Geniza, the subject matter was also personal: “I was drawn towards this project because at the time Mika approached me for it, my father was sick (and dying) of cancer and it was perhaps (selfishly) a way of mitigating grief, to give me something else to think about. And I also believe that a queer woman of color’s story is always worth telling, especially that illness narratives (especially cancer/chronic illness) need more QPOC representation.”<br> • <i>Kimiko Does Cancer</i> upends the traditional cancer narrative by telling it from a young, queer, and BIPOC perspective. <br> • The book is also interesting for not ending with Kimiko’s cancer going into remission; we also witness her struggles with PTSD as she attempts to return to a semblance of a normal life after having gone through the trauma of cancer.<br> • The book will appeal to cancer patients and survivors, and their families, especially queer and BIPOC.<br> • Publicity by Beth Parker PR in New York.
Meet Ari, a young person who doesn’t like to be called by their birth name Edward: “When I think of the name Edward, I imagine old kings who snore a lot.” Throughout this beautiful and engaging picture book, we watch Ari grow up before our very eyes as they navigate the ins and outs of their gender identity; we see how, as a child, they prefer dolls and princess movies, and want to grow out their hair, though their father insists on cutting it short, “because that’s what boys look like.” At nine, they play hockey but wish they could try on their mother’s dresses; at fifteen, they shave their face, hoping to have smooth skin like girls. At sixteen, they want to run away, especially from their father who insists, “You’re a boy, so you have to act like one.” Who will Ari become?
Moving from age six to adolescence, <i>The Name I Call Myself</i> touchingly depicts Edward’s tender, solitary gender journey to Ari: a new life distinguished and made meaningful by self-acceptance and unconditional love.
Ages 5 to 12.
Jennifer T. Pedrotti and Denise A. Isom's <em>Multicultural Psychology </em>will help students apply concepts to their own lives, to assess their own awareness and progress, and to consider their own role and ability to engage in social change. With this balanced approach, the text helps students entering the course with varied levels of cultural and diversity awareness to understand their individual and social cultural contexts, to gain awareness of their interactions with others, and to understand the intersections that occur with other cultures across their lives and careers.
Families & Change: Coping With Stressful Events and Transitions presents current literature detailing families’ responses to varied transitions and stressful life events over the life span. Integrating research, theory, and application, this bestselling text implements interdisciplinary content to address a multitude of both predictable and unpredictable problems and stressors as they relate to family sciences. Editors Kevin R. Bush and Christine A. Price bring together cutting-edge research and scholarship to examine issues across the life span and how these factors can be applied across diverse family situations.
Reflecting the latest advancements in the field and complete <em>DSM–5 </em>criteria, Robert Weis’ I<strong>ntroduction to Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology</strong> by Robert Weis provides students with a comprehensive and practical introduction to child psychopathology. The book uses a developmental psychopathology approach to explore the emergence of disorders over time, describe the risks and protective factors that influence developmental processes and trajectories, and examine child psychopathology in relation to typical development and children’s sociocultural context. The fully revised <strong>Fourth Edition</strong> includes a new chapter on research methods, a greater emphasis on the ways social-cultural factors affect each disorder covered, and recent research findings on topics such as autism spectrum disorder and adolescents’ use of nicotine and marijuana vaping products.
The GND has the potential of becoming one of the largest global campaigns of our times, and it started in Ann Pettifor's flat. In 2008, the first Green New Deal was devised by Pettifor and a group of English economist and thinkers, but was ignored within the tumults of the financial crash. A decade later, the ideas was revived within the democratic socialists in the US, forefront by Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. The Green New Deal demands a radical and urgent reversal of the current state of the global economy: including total de-carbonisation and a commitment to fairness and social justice. Critics on all sides have been quick to observe that the GND is a pipe dream that could never be implemented, and would cost the earth. But, as Ann Pettifor shows, we need to rethink the function of money, and how it works within the global system. How can we bail out the banks but not the planet? We have to stop thinking about the imperative of economic growth-nothing grows for ever. The program will be a long term project but it needs to start immediately.