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The foundation of the organization was laid when Heather Booth helped her friend's sister obtain a safe abortion in 1965. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Jane Collective or Jane, officially known as the Abortion Counseling Service of Women's Liberation, was an underground service in Chicago, Illinois affiliated with the Chicago Women's Liberation Union that operated from 1969 to 1973, a time when abortion was illegal in most of the United States. 1969–1973 American underground abortion organization ![]() ![]() ![]() Even though Bernie didn't want Heidi to go on her adventure, she only said so out of love. Though her mama doesn't know how to express her feelings, Heidi knows that she loves her. Heidi shows a lot of love for her family, as they do for her. This would frighten many children, but not Heidi. Though she was only thirteen years old, she decided that she would travel across the country to a place she'd never been, not knowing what was in store for her. ![]() There are many examples of Heidi's courage mentioned in the story, but the biggest one is when she decided to go to New York to get answers to her past. Though they have to go their separate ways, they both know that they will never forget each other. Then she meets Georgia, and this time, she tells the truth about her family, and finds that people can be understanding. ![]() Everything heads downhill with their friendship, and when Alice gets off the bus, Heidi thinks that all is lost. She weaves a complex, make-believe story about a grandma who's a famous celebrity and loves to bake cakes. They started their friendship off on a good foot, but as Heidi found out, sometimes lying is easier that telling the truth. Before that moment, Heidi had never had a chance to make many friends, and didn't quite know what to expect. Examples of friendship in the story include when Heidi met Alice at the bus station. It has a theme that revolves around the ideas of friendship, courage, and love for family. ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s your typical early-twenty something, fresh out of art college and not sure what she’s doing with her life. April is our heroine and narrator throughout the novel.Automatically becoming the spokesperson for the international situation, April has to battle new-found fame (and all the problems and dangers that come with it) while trying to unravel the mystery of why the statues are here, and what exactly they want from us. ![]() ![]() When she wakes up the next day, April discovers the video has gone viral, amidst hundreds of identical statues appearing all around the world at the exact same time. Well, this is exactly what happens for April, who then decides to call her best friend (and cameraman) Andy so they can make a quick video about the discovered sculpture and upload it online. ![]() You’re walking home from a long work day, in basically the middle of the night, when you happen upon a giant statue of what seems to be an armour-clad stone robot. You’re 23 years old, in a job you’re not particularly happy about, living in New York City trying to work out what you want from life and where you fit in. *Spoiler free* Summary of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing Find An Absolutely Remarkable Thing on Goodreads. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gordon’s text alternates between the lives of the two extraordinary women, poignantly and powerfully drawing attention to the echoes of Wollstonecraft reverberating throughout Shelley’s life. But I did not fully grasp the significance of the fascinating mother-daughter dynamic shared between Mary Wollstonecraft and Shelley, until reading Charlotte Gordon’s biography, Romantic Outlaws. Wollstonecraft’s legacy came to live in the spirit of her daughter, and directed Mary Shelley throughout her life, reaching and guiding her from beyond the grave.Īs an English literature student, I have always loved the Romantic period and its chaotic multitude of revolutionary, radical writers. But with this new life came the tragic loss of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, who passed away just days after giving birth. ![]() ‘The memory of my mother has always been the pride and delight of my life’ġ797 saw the arrival of Mary Shelley (or Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin, as she was born). ![]() MAYA WILSON AUTZEN contemplates the sanctity of the mother-daughter relationship, and how this resonates in the literary works of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's the biggest job yet for the family wedding business-" Don't leave your big day to chance, leave it to the Chans!"-and nothing, not even an unsavory corpse, will get in the way of her auntie's perfect buttercream flowers.īut things go from inconvenient to downright torturous when Meddy's great college love-and biggest heartbreak-makes a surprise appearance amid the wedding chaos. Unfortunately, a dead body proves to be a lot more challenging to dispose of than one might anticipate, especially when it is inadvertently shipped in a cake cooler to the over-the-top billionaire wedding Meddy, her Ma, and aunties are working at an island resort on the California coastline. When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. You get 4 meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue! ![]() What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family? ![]() ![]() ![]() Neverwhere is home to Door, the mysterious girl Richard helped in the London Above. Slipping through the cracks of reality, Richard lands in Neverwhere-a London of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels that exists entirely in a subterranean labyrinth. Richard Mayhew is a young London businessman with a good heart whose life is changed forever when he stops to help a bleeding girl-an act of kindness that plunges him into a world he never dreamed existed. It is now available here, and features strikingly atmospheric, painstakingly detailed black-and-white line art by Chris Riddell, one of Gaiman’s favorite artistic interpreters of his work. In 2016, this gorgeously illustrated edition of the novel was released in the UK. Over the years, various versions have been produced around the world. ![]() ![]() National Bestseller Selected as one of NPR’S Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of All Time The #1 New York Times bestselling author’s dark classic of modern fantasy, beautifully illustrated for the first time by award-winning artist Chris Riddell, and featuring the author’s preferred text and his Neverwhere tale, “How the Marquis Got His Coat Back.” Published in 1997, Neil Gaiman’s first novel, Neverwhere, heralded the arrival of a major talent. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you cannot even crack that, then and then only private colleges come into the picture. And the admission procedures are centralized state wise. Does Bhagat even know the admission procedure in engineering colleges of India? There are engineering colleges in India which even though are not NIT/IITs are government funded and quiet reputable (In some cases, even as good as the NIT/IITs). If you cannot get into IIT/NITs, the only option left is private colleges or to become a watchman (Seriously, he wrote that). Bhagat implies it on every page that it’s either IIT/NIT or bust. ![]() Two boys try to get into IIT/NIT in order to become engineers. To say that the story is extremely shallow might be the understatement of the year. You almost feel that Bhagat wanted to cash in on the Anna Hazare movement against corruption. Instead, it becomes a highly clichéd love story which has nothing to do with revolution whatsoever. But, Revolution 2020 never even comes close to that. When you name your novel Revolution 2020, one expects a kind of soul searching, revolutionary story about a country that needs change more than ever. ![]() ![]() ![]() That's great if you've read the other books, but if not, everything will be terribly confusing and I don't think you'd enjoy it much. ![]() ![]() Furthermore, she likes to bring back minor sub-plots and characters from as far back as book one and wedge them into the current proceedings in clever ways. Angie Sage doesn't spare a single word of her massive 600+ page-count reviewing the past adventures of her equally massive cast of characters. I'm going to say this first thing: don't pick up this book if you haven't read any of the other Septimus Heap books. It's utterly deserted except for a girl and a cat-shaped lighthouse, and an eerie voice is calling to Septimus in his sleep. To make matters worse, there's something strange about the island they've become stranded on. Its wings are badly wounded, making escape for Septimus and his friends, Beetle and Princess Jenna, impossible. um, dragon-wrecked on a lonely island somewhere far out at sea. Highly recommended, but only if you've read the earlier books in the series.Īfter four books and 2,000 pages of plot far to complicated to recoup here, we meet ExtraOrdinary Wizard-apprentice Septimus Heap again, this time ship. Summary: The fifth book in the bestselling Septimus Heap series is the best so far, with more Magyk, more excitement, and more adventure, all packaged up in Angie Sage's trademark warmth and wit. ![]() |