References to infertility and forced sterilizationĮxplicit sexual content (all consensual) - includes BDSM, blood play, knife play, breath play, impact play, rough sex, some mild consensual non-consensual (CNC) roll playĪ snake - not everyone loves a danger noodle - but she's pretty badass (you might have noticed but.I love a good snake character) Physical violence, including fighting, killing, tortureĮxplicit sexual content (all consensual) - includes BDSM, blood play, knife play, breath play Sexual assault - groping of a character's breast (goes no further than this) Physical violence, including fighting and killing Snakes, because not everyone loves a spicy noodle, but Skye the snake has won many readers over by being a protective, sassy badass Physical violence, including warfare, fighting, killing If you have any questions at all or would like more detail about a particular book, or something you think should be added, please reach out to me at DIVINER The content warning for each book is listed below. There are a few things you will NOT find in any of my work, including dubcon/noncon or child sexual assault. If you're the type of reader who prefers to "go in blind", you may wish to skip this page! Characters in my work typically deal with different types of trauma. As much of my work contains dark and mature themes, it's important to include a comprehensive list of potentially triggering content for those readers who want to know what to expect.
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Oprah Winfrey enjoyed this gripping first novel so much that she not only made it her book club pick, she asked if she could narrate the audio release. With determination and humor, Astrid confronts the challenges of loneliness and poverty, and strives to learn who a motherless child in an indifferent world can become. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world of ritual and mystery. Each home is its own universe, with a new set of laws and lessons to be learned. White Oleander Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her beauty to intimidate and manipulate. White Oleander is the unforgettable story of Astrid's journey through a series of foster homes and her efforts to find a place for herself in impossible circumstances. Only Claire Richards, actress wife of a wealthy TV producer, seems to offer a. Her father long gone, Astrid ends up in foster care, moving through dysfunctional households across southern California. Astrid is 12 when her beloved mother, the poet Ingrid Magnussen, murders a former lover and is sent to jail. Deranged by rejection, Ingrid murders the man, and is sentenced to life in prison. A first-rate debut about a teenaged girl’s arduous six-year journey of self-discovery. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery - but their idyll is shattered when Astrid's mother falls apart over a lover. The unforgettable story of a young woman's odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes on her journey to redemption.Īstrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Tirra Lirra by the River is a moving account of one woman's remarkable life, a beautifully written novel which displays the lyrical brevity of Jessica Anderson's award-winning style. And while some things never change, Nora is about to discover just how selective her 'globe of memory' has been. Jessica Anderson (Author of Tirra Lirra by the River) Jessica Anderson’s Followers (22) Jessica Anderson Born in Gayndah, QLD, Australia SeptemDied JGenre Literature & Fiction edit data Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. Fleeing from her small-town family and then from her stifling marriage to a mean-spirited husband, Nora arrives finally in London where she creates a new life for herself as a successful dressmaker.Now in her seventies, Nora returns to Queensland to settle into her childhood home.But Nora has been away a long time, and the people and events of her past are not at all like she remembered them. But for some years now I have likened mine to a globe suspended in my head, and ever since the shocking realisation that waste is irretrievalbe, I have been careful not to let this globe spin to expose the nether side on which my marriage has left its multitude of images.Nora Porteous has spent most of her life waiting to escape. Liza used to say that she saw her past life as a string of roughly-graded balls, and so did Hilda have a linear conception of hers, thinking of it as a track with detours. She and her siblings enjoyed the opulent surroundings of the many palaces her father kept, although suffered periods of imprisonment, albeit in comfortable surroundings, when Edward’s position was challenged or defeated. The first half of the book covers the time before young Elizabeth’s marriage, aged nineteen, to King Henry VII. It did not help that Edward’s wife, Elizabeth Wydeville, exerted her considerable influence to promote members of her family to positions of power, leading to resentment among those from more established aristocratic families who regarded them as upstarts. The simmering rivalry between his kinsfolk, and those of the royal House of Lancaster, festered throughout his reign. Elizabeth was the eldest child of King Edward IV of the royal House of York. It is a novel rather than a biography, thereby enabling the author to fill in gaps between known facts about the woman who became the first Tudor Queen. Elizabeth of York, The Last White Rose, is the first book in a new trilogy by historian Alison Weir. In fact, Annabelle’s extremely colorful yarn does not appear to be ending anytime soon. When Annabelle finished knitting the sweater, she began knitting one for her dog as well. One fine day, Anabelle comes across a box of colorful yarn and decides to knit a sweater. In the cold town, everything is covered with soot and snow. In ExtraYarn, the readers are introduced to Anabelle, a girl who lives in an extremely cold and colorless world. His other picture book, Sam and Dave Dig Hole was awarded a Caldecott Medal Award and a Caldecott honor. Mac Barnett is mainly known for the picture book, Earn a Yarn, which won the Boston Globe book awards in the year 2013 and a White Read Award in the year 2013. Once he completed his high school education, Mac Barnett joined Pomona College, where he was placed under author, Foster Wallace. The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brownīorn 23 August 1982, Mac Barnett is a well-established children’s book writer, who resides in Oakland, California. The Clock Without a Face (With: Gus Twintig) Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem This “throwback slasher” stars horror royalty Doug Bradley ( Hellraiser), Linnea Quigley ( The Return of the Living Dead), Lloyd Kaufman ( The Toxic Avenger) Ari Lehman ( Friday the 13th) and The Last Drive-In host Joe Bob Briggs. The Barn Part II will join The Barn on May 26. A horror anthology film examining viral stories, this one finds a man trying desperately to escape an old abandoned house. May 23 brings Creepypasta exclusively to SCREAMBOX. They have unknowingly released an evil presence from below deck. An escape attempt results in a deadly, bloody riot, but that’s not the worse thing. In this sci-fi action/thriller mashup, a group of extradited criminals is transported by sea after a suicide attack disrupted the last extradition at the airport. Project Wolf Hunting hits SCREAMBOX on May 15. It's a private party - no parents, no cops.in fact, no one around for miles. It's Cindy's birthday, and her friends are throwing her a surprise party on Fire Island. Fear Street - Where Your Worst Nightmares Live. Its Cindys birthday, and her friends are throwing her a surprise party. Stine's original Fear Street series is back with a killer new look for six ofits top-selling titles. The terrifying phenomena of sleep paralysis is examined, as is the effect of trauma on family life. Stine - Fear Street - Where Your Worst Nightmares Live. While there, they are haunted by hallucinations and visions. In this Vietnamese film, a man moves his two daughters to an ancestral house to help the family recover from the death of his wife. Here’s what you can expect to see on SCREAMBOX this month.įirst up is SCREAMBOX original The Ancestral, which will be available on May 2. SCREAMBOX has a brand new batch of horror that will be available to stream in May, ranging from originals to old favorites. Sixteen years old and already pressed into domestic service for a white family, the girls run away to New Orleans. In 1954, Desiree and Stella disappear from their home in tiny Mallard, La. Bennett asks: What is the cost, to an individual and to a community, of the passing person’s estrangement from family, friends, culture and identity - all sacrificed to maintain an assumed whiteness? What toll might such a decision take on those left behind in blackness? With great ambition, Bennett explores these questions through 20 years in the lives of twin sisters, Desiree and Stella Vignes, one of whom chooses to pass while the other does not. Brit Bennett’s new novel, “The Vanishing Half,” grapples with that American racial chimera known as passing for white. "Images of America: American Painting," March 1–September 30, 1970, not in catalogue. "American Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum's Collections," October 1–December 7, 1969, no catalogue. "Three Centuries of American Painting," April 9–October 17, 1965, unnum. "Andrew Wyeth: Temperas, Water Colors, and Drawings," November 2–December 9, 1962, no. Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright-Knox Art Gallery. "Andrew Wyeth: A Retrospective of Temperas and Watercolors," November 7–December 5, 1960. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Charles Hayden Memorial Library. "The American Muse: Parallel Trends in Literature and Art," April 4–May 17, 1959, no. "Famous Paintings and Famous Painters," October 4–November 2, 1958, no. "The Philadelphia Tradition," December 1–29, 1957. "3rd Annual Exhibition," July 1–September 11, 1955. "Six Centuries of Headdress," April 3–May 1, 1955, no. "Artist Families," February 8–March 1, 1953, no catalogue. "Metropolitan Museum Masterpieces," June 26–September 1, 1952, brochure no. "Loan Exhibition of Seventy XX Century American Paintings," February 21–March 22, 1952, no. "Paintings and Drawings by Andrew Wyeth," August 10–September 8, 1951. "Paintings and Drawings by Andrew Wyeth," July 7–August 4, 1951. "Contemporary American Realists," April 29–May 20, 1951, no catalogue. "20th Century Painters: A Special Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Drawings Selected from the Collections of American Art in the Metropolitan Museum," June 16–October 29, 1950, unnum. With time running out, expert deep sea rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham) is recruited by a visionary Chinese oceanographer (Winston Chao), against the wishes of his daughter Suyin (Li Bingbing), to save the crew-and the ocean itself-from this unstoppable threat. The plot follows a group of scientists who encounter a pre-historic 75-foot-long (23 m) Megalodon shark. Filming on the film was accomplished on location in China and New Zealand. Pictures.ĭirected by Jon Turteltaub, The Meg stars English action star Jason Statham and award-winning Chinese actress Li Bingbing among others. The film was distributed in China by Gravity Pictures, and throughout the rest of the world by Warner Bros. It is a production of di Bonaventura Pictures, Apelles Entertainment, Maeday Productions, Inc., and Flagship Entertainment, in association with Beijing Digital Impression (BDI) Film, Inc. Ahead of the release of The Meg in August, author Steve Alten is soon unleashing the sixth book in his mega shark series that inspired the Jon Turteltaub-directed film. Heller sacrifices himself by distracting the Meg to save fellow crew member. In their moment of triumph, a second, much larger Meg emerges, devouring The Wall and the dead Meg, critically wounding Zhang, and destroying the crews ship. The science fiction shark film, based on the New York Times best-selling novel Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alten, is a presentation of Warner Bros. The Meg returns and attacks Taylor and Suyin, but it gets snagged on the cages line and dies from the poison. An American-Chinese co-production, The Meg, dominated North American box office with an estimated $44.5 million in its opening weekend, well surpassing all expectations. It's totally famous and often recommended. This ought to be required reading for everyone in possession of a uterus. 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