![]() ![]() ![]() They are projected onto you in such a way that you have no choice but to internalize them. You just sink right into every word you read. ![]() Ten Tiny Breaths follows Kasey’s journey as she goes through the stages of her life, healing from trauma, finding forgiveness for unimaginable hurt, falling in love when she thought it was beyond her, and rediscovering the beauty of life. This book doesn’t ease you in to the story, it just plunges you right in and submerges you in its beautiful and spiraling journey of pain, horrific loss and heart ache, and then it pulls out back up, until you feel the forgiveness and healing the characters have reached. I’ll take everything that comes with it.” This is a story about a girl who was drowning in the pain of her shattered life and the boy with a dark past of his own who pulled her out and helped her to breath, to live, and to love again. ![]()
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![]() ![]() With the rise of women finding their voices and speaking out about sexual assault in the media, this reworking of the enduring 1999 classic should be on everyone’s radar. ![]() Carroll’s stark black-and-white illustrations are exquisitely rendered, capturing the mood through a perfectly calibrated lens. Melinda relies upon art to work as a vulnerary this visual adaptation takes readers outside Melinda’s head and sits them alongside her, seeing what she sees and feeling the importance and power of her desire to create art and express herself. Although Anderson’s novel came out nearly 20 years ago, this raw adaptation feels current, even with contemporary teenage technological minutiae conspicuously absent. In addition to internalizing the emotional aspects of the assault, Melinda is relentlessly bullied by her peers and often runs into her attacker-a popular senior-who delights in terrorizing her. When the semester begins, Melinda has become a pariah who spends her days silent. ![]() In an attempt to report the crime, Melinda calls 911, and the party is shut down. Melinda, a nascent freshman, is raped at a party shortly before the beginning of school. ![]() Anderson’s timeless and important tale of high-school sexual assault and its aftermath undergoes a masterful graphic novel transformation. ![]() ![]() ![]() She completed her international career having played in 42 matches and scored 14 goals at these 7 international tournaments. ![]() She led the team at three Olympic Games, including: 1996 in Atlanta (the first time women’s soccer was played), 2000 in Sydney, and 2004 in Athens. She played college soccer for the North Carolina Tar Heels women’s soccer team and helped the team win four consecutive NCAA Division I Women’s Soccer Championship titles.ĭuring her tenure with the national team, Hamm competed in four FIFA Women’s World Cup tournaments: the inaugural 1991 in China, 1995 in Sweden, 19 in the United States. Hamm was the face of the Women’s United Soccer Association (WUSA), the first professional women’s soccer league in the United States, where she played for the Washington Freedom from 2001–2003. Hailed as a soccer icon, she played as a forward for the United States women’s national soccer team from 1987–2004. Mia Hamm is a professional soccer player, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and two-time FIFA Women’s World Cup champion. ![]() |