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Pop Tart
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 10:25 am
Post subject: Notable Romances
I'm participating on a Notable Books panel for my fellow librarians later this week. I'm presenting romances and am working on which titles to include. What are some of the romances that you consider to be notable/noteworthy in the last year or two?
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 11:17 am
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Cecilia Grant's A Lady Awakened (notable debut)
Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning (conclusion of popular series)
Just Like Heaven by Julia Quinn (1st in spinoff series from very popular series)
for starters, since they generated a lot of discussion and buzz in "mainstream" romance land.
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 11:57 am
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My suggestion would be "
On the Island
" by Tracey Garvis-Graves.
It is a book about a 30 something tutor, and her almost 17 year old pupil who end up stranded on a desert island. The book is about their survival, their mutal dependence and their evolving relationship. When they are rescued three years into the ordeal, the book looks at what happens when they get back to the "real world."
Besides the fact that it is a good book (and it definitely is that) what makes it notable is that this is the debut book for this author, it is self-published, and initially, at least, it's path to the reading public was in ebook format (although it can be purchased in paperback form.)
The book has made the Amazon bestseller list, the USA Today Bestseller list and the New York Times bestseller list (I think it has gone as high as 7). According to the author's blog the book has been optioned by MGM.
If all that doesn't make it notable, I don't know what would.
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 4:41 pm
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Is there any way in which you can NOT include
Fifty Shades of Grey
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 5:32 pm
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I would include
A Summer to Remember
by Mary Balogh. I can remember when it came out and it was huge - also, Balogh is just an absolutely lovely writer.
I would pick your favorite Roberts. You have to include her - she transcends the genre.
Pick your favorite Amanda Quick - she changed the nature of the genre. My understanding it is because of her that we have the all Regency market we do right now.
Nine Coaches Waiting
by Mary Stewart launched the popular gothic line.
I guess I should have asked before but are you looking for the books that formed the genre and are notable within it? Or are you looking for books librarians should recommend right now?
maggie b
She is too fond of books and it has turned her brain. - Louisa May Alcott
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 6:54 pm
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Everything by Courtney Milan and Carla Kelly. The first is going to be a major author and the second already is, although she doesn't get the attention that she deserves, IMO.
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 7:41 pm
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I guess I should have asked before but are you looking for the books that formed the genre and are notable within it? Or are you looking for books librarians should recommend right now?
I'm aiming for books that they could add to their collections and recommend right now - so more recent, though they don't have to be brand new. I'm trying to cover a range of sub-genres.
Is there any way in which you can NOT include Fifty Shades of Grey?
I'll probably mention it in passing, but more in terms of other books that could be suggested next to fans. Most librarians have heard about these books by now so I plan to talk about readalikes (so if you have any of those I'd love to hear about them).
Books I know I'll be including: Oracle Moon by Thea Harrison (her best since Dragon Bound and a great urban fantasy/romance, The Other Guy's Bride by Connie Brockway, fun book but notable as the long awaited sequel to As You Desire and as a first book in Amazon's Montlake line. Cinder by Marissa Meyer as a good Young Adult SF/romance, Dancing on Coals by Ellen O'Connell - good western.
Cecilia Grant's book is definitely on my list of possibles as is Courtney Milan (who I love) and I'm thinking about Kate Noble. Problem is these are all historicals so I'm trying not to overwhelm with them.
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 7:52 pm
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Fifty Shades is definitely noteworthy because it got me to download that kindle app to read it in Dec. I was sooo anti ebook. I loved the paperback now I'm finding a whole new world of romances in the ebook format.
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Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 9:34 pm
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I think I have mostly recent historicals to suggest too but I'll give the reasons I picked them.
Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie
, a book that hit the top ten of all kinds of polls and still has continuing buzz because of the sequels and with Ian in them.
Forbidden Rose
The Black Hawk
, for what an impact and place Joanna Bourne has made in romance. I'd pick FR. Or both?
Silk Is for Seduction
primarily for Loretta Chase's on-going, highest of standings in the romance world, but also because of the strong, capable working heroine with extended family, the unusual plot, and Chase's unfailing writing skills.
Mischief of the Mistletoe
for being set in two time periods, with the present day heroine being a researcher. Also for the humor--Turnip Fitzhugh.
The Wild Marquis
because the plot involves rare books and manuscripts.
How about any of the recent reissues of all the Mary Baloghs that have stood up so well with time?
The Famous Heroine
A fairy-tale themed book?
When Beauty Tamed the Beast
And I think Kate Noble is another unbeatable pick. I'd go with
Follow My Lead
for the road journey theme (including ship passages), in Europe, with lovely characters.
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 10:44 am
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I second the recommendation for Courtney Milan's books and would also like to suggest
Tessa Dare's spindle cove series, both "A Night To Surrender" and "A Week To Be Wicked" are lovely
Alissa Johnson's "Nearly a Lady"
Heather Snow's "Sweet Enemy" this is a debut novel with an unconventional heroine and a wonderful plot
If you are willing to include chick lit with a romantic element I suggest taking a look at Sophie Kinsella's "I've Got Your Number".
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 6:12 pm
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For me any notable romances are the kind that have true deep characterizations to them. I think these authors do a standout job on their romances because of the fact that their characters aren't black and white but have layers.
Sherry Thomas
Judith Ivory
Laura Kinsale
LaVyrle Spencer
To name a few. There are just no set standards for their characters and the storylines these authors give us leave you thinking long after you finish the book.
Many other authors as well but these are the ones that come to my mind at the moment.
Romance my favorite reading pastime.
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 7:40 pm
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I'm pretty sure that Julie Ann Long's
What I Did for a Duke
did very well, both market-wise and review wise.
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 8:20 pm
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What about
Butterfly Swords
and other books by Jeannie Lin? Nothing busts stereotypes quite like handing somebody a really well-written Harlequin set in Tang Dynasty China.
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 9:16 pm
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Jeannie Lin is a good idea Nana - she is definitely notable for her settings and characters and someone who's probably not as known to librarians.
I loved What I Did for a Duke by Long but will probably have to leave it off the list because I've got enough English historicals. I am going to include Alissa Johnson's Nearly a Lady (which I also loved) because I think it's a good example of a straightforward, almost traditional romance - no big, bad villain, no spy heroes, etc. Will probably also mention Joanna Bourne who is doing some great stuff.
What I'm looking for now is a straight contemporary - no suspense, not chick lit. I talked about Kristan Higgins the last time I did one of these panels. No one else is jumping out at me.
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One book that knocked me upside the head and kept me looking sideways for quite some time was Broken Wing by Judith James. While I didn't have quite the same reaction to other books, I did very much enjoy them. Their unusual setting makes them quite unique I think.
Pamela Clare's Frontier set books are also fascinating and really manage to bring you into the times they are written in.
"reading is dreaming with open eyes" - Yoyo
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Javier Baez homered in consecutive at bats, crushing a solo home run in the 7th and a walk-off two-run bomb in the 9th, helping to rally the Cubs to a 7-5 victory over Team Japan this afternoon at Dwight Patterson Field at HoHoKam Park in Mesa, AZ.
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Javier Baez worked a one-out walk on a 3-2 pitch, and advanced to third base on a Welington Castillo ground-rule (book rule) double that bounced off the right-centerfield warning track and over the fence. Alfonso Soriano lofted a sacrifice fly to right-center to score Baez, and Dave Sappelt drove-in Castillo with a rocket two-out double down the line and into the LF corner. Josh Vitters then ripped an RBI line-drive single to center to score Sappelt.
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Sho Nakata hammered a two-run HR over the LF fence with one out in the 2nd, and then after Kazuo Matsui reached base on a Javier Baez E-6 throwing error to open the 3rd, Shinnosuke Abe clubbed an RBI double into the left-center alley (Abe had two rope-doubles in the game), and Hayato Sakamoto followed with a monster two-run homer that hugged the LF foul line and landed in the parking lot.
Wood threw 4.2 IP (78 pitches - 53 strikes, 4/5 GO/FO), allowing five runs (four earned) on seven hits (four singles, a double, and two HR), but he did throw strikes and did not issue any walks, and he struck out four (three swinging). He also picked a runner of 1st base.
Cory Wade relieved Wood and got four outs (the last out in the 5th and all three outs in 6th), doing it on just eight pitches (seven strikes). Wade has been ultra-efficient in his Cactus League outings, making it look ridiculously easy at times (F-8, K, 1B, 6-4-3 DP today).
Rafael Dolis followed Wade and threw a nine-pitch 1-2-3 7th (F-8, 6-3, 3-U), and Casey Coleman worked a scoreless 8th (allowing a one-out double).
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A musician dressed in traditional Japanese warrior garb serenaded the crowd on the third-base side of the field (where Team Japan's bench and most of the Japanese fans were located), beating a Tzusami drum and playing a Hayashi flute throughout the game (Team Japan's version of Ronnie Woo Woo). I think my headache is almost gone.
@CarrieMuskat: #Cubs Javier
CarrieMuskat: #CubsJavier Baez told Welington Castillo, who was on deck: "You're not hitting" and then hit walkoff 2R HR for win over Japan
team USA is done...PR moves
team USA is done...PR moves on.
Japan's Ronnie Woo Woo and
Japan's Ronnie Woo Woo and the Baez walk off video:
Nice piece of video! That
Nice piece of video! That "Japan's Ronnie Woo Woo" has to be seen to be believed.
Side notes (baseball and not)
Side notes (baseball and not), as I wanted to post something somewhere:
- This Japanese team isn't that good. Yet ... right now, they might win the WBC again. If former Cubs farmhand Hung-Wen Chen gets one more strike against them, they would've been in the losers bracket in round 2, going up against a Cuba team that smashed them. Of course, that didn't happen, but it's a team that doesn't have a ton of power, and has a bunch of soft-tossers on the back-end of the pen. Tanaka is supposed to be the big arm, but out of the pen, he looked ... beatable.
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Javy is good at hitting
Javy is good at hitting dingers.
You left out the "Pro Tip:"
You left out the "Pro Tip:" at the start there.
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Junior Lake, batting 9th and playing RF for the Blue Jays...
*That was a fun HALF inning.
this game is no longer awesome.
he did...it was awesome.
I'm pretty sure that Len called Bryant's home run a Brexit.
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okay, this is just silly. 19 pitches in, 1 out, 4 runs in, men on 1st and 2nd...hendricks up to bunt.
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The inputs prepared by the ECESA Plus Cluster on social development aim at giving recommendations to strengthen the social pillar by focusing on three key areas: (a) green jobs; (b) social protection and transformative social policy; (c) social inclusion and the empowerment of marginalized groups. The move to a green economy will not be socially fair or sustainable unless productive employment and decent work are put at the centre of sustainable development strategies. With the right policies, a transition to a green economy can lead to gains in employment and benefit particularly those who have been short-changed by the conventional economic growth model. The transition to a green economy brings opportunities but, as a process of structural change, it also entails challenges. The main challenge is to ensure that this transition is fair and just and inclusive. Investment in social protection and equitable social services alongside the pursuit of active labour market policies is critical to make a green economy feasible and to seize the benefits for sustainable development. Inclusive social protection systems, universal access to basic services such as education and training, the creation of sustainable enterprises and the expansion of green jobs will make the transition beneficial for all. Increasing social and economic inequalities demonstrate that the challenge of inequality and social inclusion must be emphasized, giving particular attention to the empowerment of the most marginalized groups. The ECESA Plus inputs aim at bringing people at the centre of sustainable development, so that Rio+20 will indeed be a summit about people?s futures. Ensuring a better balance and deeper integration among the three pillars of sustainable development ? economic, social and environmental ? and policy coherence among them will be crucial to this endeavour. If sustainable development goals will be adopted, it will be pivotal to ensure that the social aspects of sustainable development are included and addressed. A. Green Jobs Proposed Text for the Outcome Document The promotion of green jobs is central to sustainable development as well as to the transition towards a greener economy and poverty eradication. Productive employment and decent work should be accessible particularly for those most in need, including youth, women, the working poor, and those working in the informal economy or in precarious jobs. POPULATION DYNAMICS, PARTICULARLY THE CHANGES IN AGE STRCTURES, WILL play a DEFINing role in shaping the size of THE LABOUR FORCE AND THE DEMAND FOR SERVICES. In order for the move to a green economy to be socially fair and to promote equity and inclusiveness, a ?just transition? strategy should be implemented. Key elements of this strategy are: promoting social dialogue that leads to people?s increased participation and empowerment in governance processes; increasing social protection coverage; ensuring access to education and enabling technologies; facilitating labour market adjustments through technical and vocational education and training, public employment schemes and entrepreneurship development in green sectors and markets; and ensuring access to financial and other incentives for creating enabling conditions for this transition, ensuring full respect for human rights. Recognizing the urgent need to improve opportunities for young people to gain access to productive employment and decent work while creating enabling environments for sustainable development, specific and targeted initiatives are needed to promote green jobs for youth. Background/Justification Moving towards a greener, more inclusive economy constitutes a significant policy challenge, particularly for poor countries. It entails generating sufficient productive, decent jobs for a population that is growing rapidly. The promotion of green jobs is central to the transition to a green economy and poverty eradication, since it can contribute to lessen current employment deficits. A transition to a more sustainable economy through the promotion of green jobs can be seen as both necessary i) to avoid massive losses of jobs and livelihoods due risks brought about by climate change and other challenges resulting of unsustainable development paths; and ii) as an opportunity to create employment in greener, more resilient sectors and to advance the goal of sustainable development. Such transition will be smoother if countries address population dynamics through effective policies that fully respect human rights. Green jobs comply with the pillars of decent work and are provided by economic activities that directly contribute to reduced environmental impact in different sectors of the economy, ultimately reducing such impact to sustainable levels. This includes ?decent? jobs that help to reduce consumption of energy and raw materials, de-carbonize the economy, protect and restore ecosystems and biodiversity and minimize the production of waste and pollution. Ultimately, given the broad scope of the green jobs concept, individual countries and organisations have to determine the appropriate boundary for green jobs within the economic sectors being analysed. Both developed and developing economies are experiencing a changing pattern of employment in which green jobs are being generated in many sectors as a result of measures to climate change mitigation and adaptation, and shift towards environmentally friendly societies. There is a strong potential for job creation in sectors that can contribute to reducing environmental impact while boosting economic growth and creating alternative job opportunities. Resilience, in particular, stands out as one of the hallmarks of green jobs. Disaster risk prevention can save both lives and livelihoods. Long-term sustainability must therefore be based on the ability of jobs and work-related policies in environmentally friendly sectors to leverage opportunities for productive employment, decent work, equality, social equity, welfare, empowerment of vulnerable groups, environmental sustainability and modern technologies. With the right policies, a just transition to a green economy can lead to net gains in employment, especially for women, youth and vulnerable groups. Green job policies can therefore provide a ?double dividend?. Green Jobs for Youth The current levels of youth unemployment pose great challenges. High youth unemployment is a consequence of lack of inclusive and equitable economic growth and, particularly in developing countries, of high population growth. Between now and 2050, about 33,000 young people will enter the labour force each day, looking for decent work. Addressing the youth employment challenges, in developing and developed countries alike, requires adequate investment in education and training systems to equip the younger generations with necessary skills, as well as productive investment in the economy to create employment opportunities for younger generations. While the potential for green jobs to contribute to sustainable development involves all members of society, young men and women have a pivotal role to play in the transition to a more sustainable economy. Their agency, leadership and participation will power the transition to and sustain the growth of a green economy in the context of sustainable development, while they are also the key beneficiaries of this transition. In order to take advantage of the opportunities given by a green labour market and face its demands, youth must have the skills required. They must be given opportunities to participate ? in both green jobs and in the processes of social dialogue that shape the social and economic conditions of those jobs. In this regard, it is critical to invest in young men and women and to ensure that they have access to adequate training, and education beyond primary education and in line with the fast evolving technological changes. But to enable young people, especially girls, to pursue their education and engage in labour markets also require a better health care, including reproductive health care and family planning. Need for a Just Transition While the transformation into a green economy will mean job opportunities for many, it must also be recognized that green job policies will have economic costs in the short run (e.g. higher investment or operational costs). Some sectors will see much slower growth or even downsizing with a loss of employment. This will require addressing both the demand for green jobs and their supply. Therefore, mechanisms to smooth the transition and to offset these costs by maximizing synergies and mitigating trade-offs are needed: - Identify sectors with potential for green jobs creation and poverty eradication, including sustainable infrastructure, construction and green buildings, renewable energy, energy efficiency, ?smart? transport systems, waste management and recycling, sustainable agriculture, fisheries and forestry, eco-tourism, eco-industries, and cultural and creative industries. - Identify entrepreneurship development programmes beneficial for green jobs creation. National policies and other programmes in the context of green growth strategies should provide incentives and support to young people and SMEs. To that end, it is important to ensure that the requisite enabling conditions are in place, such as full and low-cost access to education, skill development and technical know-how, and discounted and preferential access to credit and financial instruments. - Identify synergies/benefits (e.g. increase in production factors, enhanced efficiency with existing technology, increased resilience with existing technology, moving towards more equitable growth through employment creation and poverty reduction, promote inclusive development). - Address the current bottlenecks, including the need to adjust skills development to meet the new demands of a greener economy, especially through education for sustainable development and reorienting and intensifying technical and vocational education and training; the need to target education and training programmes towards women in order to promote women?s voice, agency and economic empowerment, recognizing that a majority of green jobs are expected to be in the secondary sectors, such as construction, manufacturing and energy production, in which women are under-represented; the need to create enabling conditions for skills development, such as employee incentives, industry discounts, individual incentive mechanisms, that are all critical for creating these propitious conditions. - Promote more sustainable patterns of consumption and production ? which are at the heart of green economies ? and address population dynamics. - Ensure universal access to social protection, including to education and health services. Social Dialogue and Governance for Green Jobs Ensuring participation and giving a voice to all stakeholders at finance decision-making bodies as well as in planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation is critical for good environmental governance. This entails building public oversight and social accountability mechanisms to help citizens to hold governments and businesses accountable of the way climate finance and other forms of public investment are spent. In this regard, gender-responsive budgeting is a tool that has shown success in helping governments ensure their funds are accountable to the needs of both women and men, and can be readily applied to sustainable development budgets. Participation and social dialogue must be ensured at the regional, national and sectoral levels, and in the workplace where the voice of workers is needed to help design new sustainable production systems and work practices. B. Social Protection and Transformative Social Policy Proposed Text for the Outcome Document Recognizing that sound social policies enable societies to advance the well-being, capabilities and security of their citizens, including the poorest and most marginalized, it is critical to develop and expand comprehensive social protection systems to ensure universal access to essential social services, investments in human capital, and the realization of human rights. At the same time, decent work is central to efforts to reduce poverty and inequality and is a means for achieving equitable, inclusive and sustainable development. Sound social policies ? including access to social protection, education and health services, promotion of income generating opportunities and active labour market policies ? and opportunities for decent work should therefore be developed and expanded to ensure a just transition to a green economy. Sound social policies need to be part of an integrated approach to sustainable development and poverty reduction that incorporates and builds upon the Social Protection Floor initiative and the Decent Work Agenda. Promoting universal access to essential social services through providing social protection floors is essential. Background/Justification Previous crises have proven that sound social policies serve as powerful economic and social stabilizers, helping to alleviate the negative consequences of social and economic changes. Yet, nearly 80 per cent of the world?s population lives without any access to social protection and social services, including health services, education, income generating opportunities, unemployment support, and pensions. The lack of social protection and social services can place considerable burdens on households and reinforce poverty traps. Insofar as social protection offers protection against the financial consequences of unemployment, sickness and other life-cycle contingencies, provides cash transfers to those in need and ensures basic standards for decent work, it is essential to reduce vulnerability and prevent the deterioration in living conditions. In the long-term, social protection can help individuals and families build human capital and improve their livelihood prospects, thereby addressing the underlying causes of poverty. A broader set of social policies is also necessary to adjust to other processes of economic transformation, such as changing unsustainable production and consumption patterns, addressing new disease patterns, migration or regulating the fair allocation of scarce resources such as water or energy and accounting for the social and economic costs of transition. Sound social policies, including social protection, are therefore, at the core of a just transition and a key factor for poverty eradication as they link the economy with social equity and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. Long-term sustainability cannot, however, be achieved based on social transfers alone. It must be based on the ability of policies to leverage opportunities for productive employment and decent work for all. Policies that focus on the promotion of decent work and extension of social protection while preventing the erosion of respect for workers? rights and strengthening social dialogue are necessary. Investment in social protection and social services alongside the pursuit of active labour market policies is critical to make a green economy feasible and to seize the benefits for sustainable development. Investing in Social Protection Investing in national social protection systems has positive economic effects as societies are able to move towards developing their full productive potential. These investments help to create a population that is sufficiently healthy, well nourished, educated, informed and better employable in the formal economy. However, investment in human capital can only help to strengthen the employability of the labour force; productive investment in the economy is necessary to create employment opportunities. The Social Protection Floor Initiative The Social Protection Floor Initiative promotes nationally defined strategies that protect a minimum level of access to essential services and income security for all. It underpins a broader social security system that caters to citizens of all levels of income. A basic SPF should comprise a basic set of essential, context-appropriate social transfers and access to essential services, including health care, education and adequate nutrition. This basic set of transfers or social protection floor is affordable, even in the poorest countries, if implemented progressively. Active Labour Market Policies Active labour market policies support broader social protection by helping to ensure inclusive social outcomes stemming from the changes in the structure of production brought about by the transition to a green economy. Such policies are intended to facilitate the reintegration of the unemployed into the labour market as well as the reallocation of labour resulting from structural changes or geographical, occupational and skill mismatches. Such measures include retraining schemes for displaced workers, job-search assistance, direct employment creation programmes, training programmes, and employment subsidies to promote the hiring of vulnerable groups such as low-skilled workers and new entrants to the labour force. The combination of active and gender-responsive labour market policies, which focus on the supply-side of labour markets, and growth and employment-oriented economic policies, which focus on the demand-side, can, if properly designed and implemented, help raise the overall employment rate, thereby boosting the employment intensity of the green economy and generating the triple dividends of social, economic and environmental progress. C. Social Inclusion and Empowerment of Marginalized Groups Proposed Text for the Outcome Document Ensuring the well-being of all people is necessary to achieve sustainable development. No development path leaving millions of people in poverty, hunger and socially marginalized can be sustainable. Therefore, people need to be at the centre of all policies geared towards achieving sustainable development. Acknowledging that a reduction of social and economic inequalities is key to sustainable development, particular attention should be given to the empowerment of women, youth, indigenous peoples and other social groups as well as local communities who are at risk of marginalization, in order to ensure that all people can actively participate and contribute to the green transition. Policies aimed at empowering marginalized groups and strengthening the resilience of local communities must be based on the respect of human rights, inclusive participation and non-discrimination. Concrete measures should include scaling up investments in human capital; promoting gender equality; improving the access to and quality of education and health at all levels, including reproductive health services; improving the legal environment and ensuring access to justice, making new job opportunities accessible to all, and building capacity of the communities to influence, implement and evaluate development programmes and policies. Background/Justification A people-centred approach to sustainable development must ensure social equity, equality, inclusiveness and protection of human rights for all, including people who are marginalized. Reducing social inequalities requires a strong focus on building enabling legal and policy environments to develop people?s resilience, protecting them against shocks and creating opportunities for the most marginalized. It also requires that the most marginalized have their voices heard in green economy debates, and in shaping social, economic and environmental policies for sustainable development. The empowerment of marginalized groups is essential to achieve an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable future. Empowering requires enabling them to gain control over the factors and decisions that shape their lives, and building their capacity to cope with transitions and contribute to sustainable development. Participation of all members of society in social, economic and political life is also important to ensure that Governments respond to social needs, including those of the most marginalized. The Rio Declaration and Agenda 21 highlight particularly the need to include indigenous peoples, women and youth in decision-making processes. While policies aimed at empowering marginalized groups should address the specific barriers to inclusion faced by each group, all groups share common concerns. Their concerns focus on issues such as equity and equality, inclusion and participation; for most groups, discrimination, the persistence of societal biases and stereotypes remain major obstacles to social inclusion. These groups also share more specific concerns, such as access to quality education and health care and to decent work. Therefore, effective policies aimed at empowering marginalized groups include promoting universal access to basic services such as quality education and healthcare, ensuring access to information and equal employment and remuneration, enhancing inclusive participation, creating an enabling environment for social movements, enabling gender equality and taking action against discrimination. Green economy policies Economic participation is critical to social inclusion. Green economy policies and measures should include explicit attention to human rights and gender equality in order to avoid negative impacts, particularly on marginalised communities. Green economy policies should address the differentiated needs of those most affected by specific social, economic and environmental problems at the country, region and community level, including indigenous peoples, persons living with disabilities, women, young people, older persons, refugees and internally displaced persons, migrants, persons living in poverty or slums, people living with or at high risk of HIV, and persons belonging to minorities. Such policies need to support the livelihoods and income security of the most affected and include investment in basic services such as health, education and training ? especially for girls and women ? as well as investment in open access resources, improved access to modern enabling technologies (e.g. broadband infrastructure and services) and strengthening of the media. It is also critical to strengthen resilience of communities under pressure due to environmental and climatic changes inter alia through facilitating the role of migration as an adaptation strategy. Harnessing knowledge of marginalized people Many marginalized groups already have green practices and policies that can contribute in a positive way to a green economy transition serving as examples. In particular, the knowledge and expertise of local communities and indigenous peoples are invaluable contributions towards sustainable development. These practices and policies need to be recognized, espoused and scaled up. ANNEX Resources - Outputs and activities by ECESA Plus Cluster agencies in each of the three key areas A. Green jobs for youth Relevant reports and documents ILO and UNEP, together with ITUC and IOE, launched the first Green Jobs Report in 2008 and are working on its second edition (to be released in the fall of 2011). An ILO report entitled ?Skills for Green Jobs: A global view? examines the experience of 21 developed and developing countries in adjusting their training programmes to meet the new demands of a greener economy. UNEP and UNFPA are preparing a paper on ?Youth and the Green Economy?. The paper should be released before the end of 2011. UNESCO published a report ?From Green Economies to Green Societies ? UNESCO?s Commitment to Sustainable Development? in 2011. Employment is also addressed under the chapter on the social dimensions of the joint UN system report on the green economy being prepared by the Environment Management Group (EMG). The report Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication (UNEP, 2011) , shows that green investments contribute to reduce environmental damage while creating jobs. The ILO has prepared a background note that articulates the social dimension of a transition towards a green and sustainable economy. The World Bank is developing a Green Growth strategy paper. The United Nations University (UNU) is in the process of publishing Green Economy and Good Governance for Sustainable Development (UNU Press Forthcoming), which comprehensively looks at green growth within the context of poverty alleviation and sustainable development as well as the institutional framework for sustainable development. UNU Institutes are currently researching several issues relating to the green economy, including green growth and the implications for development assistance; climate change and low carbon development; well-being and equity within the context of green growth; the governance angle of a green economy in Africa; sustainable production and consumption patterns; sustainable cities; science, technology and innovation; access to and sharing of information regarding green governance; oceans and sustainability; and the impact of climate change on health. UNU-WIDER held an international conference on the topic of ?Green Development? on 15 December 2010 at the request of the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs ? for the details see http://www.wider.unu.edu/events/research-presentations/seminars/past-seminars/en_GB/15-12-2010/ UNRISD has collaborated with UNCTAD in the preparation of the book Road to Rio+20, released in March 2011. The book is intended to highlight critical topics and focus global discussion in advance of the Conference. ESCAP serves as the chair of the Asia-Pacific Interagency Group on Youth, which works on a variety of youth issues with several stakeholders. The Asia-Pacific Interagency Group on Youth has developed a publication ?Investing in Youth Policy: The case for developing policies for young people in the Asia-Pacific region?, which covers a wide variety of issues including employment and environmental concerns. ESCWA is finalising a study on Business Opportunities for the SMEs in the Environmental Goods and Services Sectors. Considering that the SMEs in the region are the biggest provider of employment amongst the young generation, the study is assessing the possible impact of the EGS sector development on Youth Green Jobs. (The Report will be uploaded on ESCWA website shortly.) FAO has carried out studies on Greening the Economy with Agriculture, and these are available on the FAO website, as well as linked to the Rio+20 website. UN-Habitat has drafted the working paper Urban Patterns for Sustainable Development: Towards a Green Economy. UN Women aims to publish a compilation of innovative practices on women in green economy in time for Rio+20, which will bring attention to good practices that can be up-scaled and replicated post Rio, as well as include recommendations to create an enabling environment for their uptake and success. Cooperation and capacity-building The World Bank has launched a knowledge platform on Green Growth. In March 2008, it also launched the Global Fund for Youth Investment, a trust fund that provides grants to address the needs of youth in violent and post-conflict situations. UNESCO supports Member States to mainstream education for sustainable development in their national curricula. It also supports the mainstreaming of green technical and vocational education and training into education and training reforms. UNESCO publishes annually the Education for All Global Monitoring Report. UNESCO published the report ?Engineering: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for Development, 2010. UNESCO published ?Learning for a Sustainable World: Review of Contexts and Structures for Education for Sustainable Development?, 2009. By supporting universal access sexual and reproductive health care and family planning, UNFPA contributes to a decrease in unwanted pregnancies and teenage pregnancies. Thereby, UNFPA helps young women to pursue their education. In addition, UNFPA, together with partner agencies, actively promotes the participation of young people in political life and the consideration of their concerns in decision-making processes. UN-Habitat is developing a series of ?quick guides? that will assist urban managers and practitioners with city-regional planning in the transition to a green economy; one of these guides will focus on job creation, local governance and green industry. UN-Habitat?s next State of the World Cities Report will examine urban prosperity and its link to the green economy transition. The IMF is collaborating directly with the ILO on issues related to the social protection floor, the linkages between macroeconomic policies and policies for employment creation and labour market institutions, and deepening the social dialogue, consistent with the outcomes of the joint ILO/IMF conference at Oslo in September 2010. The Women Empowerment Principles (WEPs) is a joint initiative between UN Women and the UN Global Compact with the objective of integrating a gender perspective into Corporate social responsibility? businesses can advance gender equality in lock-step with sustainable economic growth. The private sector can have a powerful contribution in promoting gender responsive and environmentally-, economically- and socially-sustainable business practices and investments by way of their Corporate social responsibility, of which, the integration of ?corporate gender responsibility? is key to the process. Other activities UNRISD is organizing a conference on ?Green Economy and Sustainable Development: Bringing Back the Social Dimension?, 10-11 October 2011, Geneva. UNESCO has organized a Future Forum on ?Moving towards a Green Economy and Green Jobs? held 22-23 August 2009 and on ?Mitigating Climate Change ? Building a Global Green Society? held on 26 October 2009. ECLAC has coordinated the elaboration of an interagency document assessing sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean since 1992: Sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean 20 years on from the Earth Summit: progress, gaps and strategic guidelines. The preliminary version of this document is available for comments at www.cepal.org/rio20, along with information on the regional preparatory process for Rio+20. The final version will be published in 2012. ESCWA has organized a Workshop on Green Jobs in Lebanon on the 29-30 July 2011 in cooperation with ILO and UNDP. The Workshop presented the assessment reports for Green Jobs in the following sectors: Waste Management, Constructions, Agriculture and Energy. The youth dimension was discussed and the major findings published in relevant websites. Other information on regional preparations of ESCWA for Rio+20 can be found on the following webpage: http://www.escwa.un.org/information/meetingdetails.asp?referenceNum=1570E UN-Habitat Opportunities Fund for urban youth-led development. UN Women co-sponsored the first ever SEED Gender Equality Award by the SEED initiative in 2011? as part of an annual SEED initiative lead by UNEP, UNDP and IUCN. The SEED Gender Equality Award will highlight a women-lead innovative pilot project that advances sustainable development and gender equality. The recipient receives a grant, training and networking opportunities. UNITAR New York Office is holding a series of briefings and workshops to advance awareness and provide greater scope of information and ideas to the drafting and negotiations for the Rio+20 conference, the schedule is Special Briefing 25 October, 15 December, side event; 20 January, holistic perspective; 28 February Green Economy; and 6 April, inter-disciplinary discussion and presentations. B. Social Protection and Transformative Social Policy Reports and documents The World Bank has recently updated its Social Development Strategy and a new Social Protection Strategy. In the aftermath of the global recession of 2008-2009, ECLAC proposed governments a new regional development agenda, linking closely economic and productive challenges, and fiscal and public spending insufficiencies with the need to address the reproduction of poverty and inequality. Such agenda and, in particular, the expansion of social protection systems and the analysis of the fiscal space required are analyzed in detail in the two following reports: -ECLAC (2010), Time for Equality. Closing gaps, opening trails, LC/G.2432(SES.33/3), Santiago, May. -ECLAC (2011), 2010 Social Panorama of Latina America, LC/G.2481-P, Santiago, March ESCWA is completing a study on labour market structures and challenges in the region, looking at labour market regulation and active labour market policies. ESCAP launched a theme study, ?The Promise of Protection?, at the 67th Commission session during May 2011. FAO has carried out studies on Greening the Economy with Agriculture, and these are available on the FAO website, as well as linked to the Rio+20 website. UNESCO World Social Sciences Report, 2010. WFP has published Occasional Paper no. 20, ?Unveiling Social Safety Nets,? outlining the core areas of social protection and safety nets and laying out the key issues underpinning them at the analytical, policy, institutional, and implementation level; WFP and the World Bank?s ?Rethinking School Feeding - Social Safety Nets, Child Development and the Education Sector? explores how food procurement may help local economies, and emphasizes the centrality of the education sector in the policy dialogue on school feeding; and Home-grown school feeding: a Framework to Link School Feeding with Local Agricultural Production focuses on home-grown school feeding (HGSF) as a safety net that can help small-scale farmers increase productivity, produce better-quality crops, manage natural resources, and mitigate risks sustainably. Cooperation and capacity-building The World Bank has, over the last decade, supported a number of country-based programmes that provide social protection to vulnerable groups. Examples: China Loess Plateau rehabilitation; Ethiopia Productive Safety Nets Programme; Rwanda Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme. UNFPA promotes universal access to essential and integrated health care services. UNFPA promotes free access to essential health care services and supplies in order to enable all households to make use of these services even if their income deteriorates and they slip into poverty. Free access to essential health care services and supplies is an important element in social protection strategies, which complements other social transfers. ESCAP is implementing projects on social protection that are collecting evidence on good practices regarding social protection schemes and developing policy tools to build capacity. UN-Habitat?s Cities and Climate Change Initiative (CCCI) gives technical assistance to fast-growing cities in developing countries as they map the risks posed to their most vulnerable urban populations and devise adaptation strategies to strengthen their resilience. Through the Livelihoods, Early Assessment and Protection (LEAP) project, WFP is currently supporting the Government of Ethiopia to improve its capacity to manage drought and flood risk by developing an integrated national risk management framework that allows for a timely scale-up of the Productive Safety Net Programme in case of a major drought or flood. In addition, WFP reaches on average 30 million people every year through safety nets that transfer food and cash in return for natural resource management and other resilience building activities. Each year WFP provides school meals to around 22 million children in more than 60 countries. UNESCO works towards universal access to education by coordinating the international Education for All (EFA) efforts. UNESCO promotes cultural and creative industries as strategic outlets for jobs and income generation and as levers for economic development, social cohesion, and environmental protection (ref ?The Power of Culture for Development?, UNESCO 2010: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001893/189382e.pdf and UNESCO World Report on ?Investing Cultural Diversity and Intercultural Dialogue?. Other activities ESCWA will hold a major regional expert group meeting on Social Security in Western Asia, in Beirut on 8-9 September 2011. UN-Habitat International Expert Group Meeting on Forced Evictions and Housing Rights, Nairobi, 20-23 September. C. Social Inclusion and Empowerment of Marginalized Groups Reports and documents ESCWA has completed initial studies on the prevalence of disability in the region, the incidence of poverty among people with disabilities and their employment status. UN-Habitat?s Global Report on Human Settlements: The Challenge of Slums comprehensively surveys and analyses the urbanisation of poverty and identifies how cities? inherent capacities can tackle this issue. FAO has carried out studies on Greening the Economy with Agriculture, and these are available on the FAO website, as well as linked to the Rio+20 website. OHCHR has produced numerous reports, studies and methodological tools that pay particular attention to racial discrimination, women?s rights and gender issues, minorities and indigenous people. OHCHR?s work ranges from mapping emerging trends in human rights, addressing problems and documenting good practices, to developing tools and learning packages. OHCHR?s Report 2010, comprehensively outlines its work in this area. Cooperation and capacity-building A growing number of World Bank community driven development (CDD) and rural livelihoods support programmes are combining the social protection/ job-creation and environmental co-benefits of such approaches with much greater emphasis on empowerment of poor and marginalized people. The World Bank is also helping empower marginalized people through increasing voice of marginalized groups and increasing social accountability in the use of public finance for low-carbon growth and the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation and mitigation in national and sub-national planning and budgeting. The World Bank's use of tools for ex ante impact assessment, including through Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) has been instrumental in how the Bank has approached the distributional, social and poverty implications of climate change and green growth-related development policy lending operations. The World Food Programme reaches on average over 100 million people every year in the most vulnerable and at risk areas of the world, in most cases through food and cash based safety nets. Together with its partner agencies, UNFPA makes a special effort to help women gain access to health care, including sexual and reproductive health care and family planning. ESCAP works in the fields of gender, disability, HIV and AIDS, ageing, youth and migration to empower those who are most vulnerable and at risk of poverty and exclusion. Since 2000, more than 500 projects have been funded in the context of IOM?s response to environmental migration, demonstrating that creative solutions exist for communities affected by environmental degradation and climate change. In 2009 alone, activities related to migration, climate change and the environment have been implemented in more than 20 countries across four continents. From 2005 to 2008 funding received for responding to displacement induced by natural disasters reached almost USD 300 million. Of IOM projects related to natural disasters in 2007 and 2008, emergency and immediate assistance responses represented 54 per cent of the total number of projects endorsed. 46 per cent of projects were addressing longer-term recovery. WFP works to improve women?s access to food and sustainable livelihoods by implementing Food for Work and Food for Training programmes that take into consideration their distinct needs and priorities. OHCHR works to ensure the integration of a human rights perspective into development, humanitarian, peace and security, governance and rule of law programmes of the United Nations system. This approach is based on respect for all human rights of individuals and is particularly protective of those who have been victims of, or are most at risk of human rights violations, namely, marginalized people. OHCHR develops methodological tools and learning packages and provides technical assistance at country and regional levels, provides substantive and technical support to human rights mechanisms, and awareness raising activities. Support and outreach is provided to multiple stakeholders, including Member States, individual rights-holders, civil society, national and regional human rights institutions. UNESCO has promoted Education for All (EFA) as a fundamental right for over six decades, working towards the improvement of the quality of education. The Organization coordinates global Education for All efforts and is the lead agency for the United Nations Literacy Decade (2003-2012), as well as the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014). Through its recently launched Global Partnership for Girls? and Women?s Education, UNESCO is joining forces with Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State, and Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, to step up efforts to reduce female drop-out rates in the transition from primary to secondary education and to support women?s literacy programmes in Africa and Asia UNESCO?s Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS) programme works to build dialogue amongst traditional knowledge holders, natural and social scientists, resource managers and decision-makers to enhance the use of traditional green knowledge and secure an active and equitable role for local communities in resource governance. It also works to strengthen knowledge transmission between elders and youth, and explores pathways to balance community-based knowledge with global knowledge in formal and non-formal education. Details at www.unesco.org/links UNESCO?s Social and Human Sciences Programme contributes towards the promotion of gender equality by promoting policy-oriented research, capacity-building, training and advocacy for gender equality and women?s rights worldwide. The objective of UNESCO's programme on Youth is to help empower young people, reaching out to them, responding to their expectations and ideas, fostering useful and long-lasting skills. Freedom of expression, access to information and empowerment of people, UNESCO, 2009.


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Patrick Smith Named POYi's 2014 Sports Photographer of the Year
Freelance photographer Patrick Smith has won Sports Photographer of the Year honors at the 2014 Pictures of the Year International competition (POYi). Smith won for a diverse portfolio that emphasized his NASCAR coverage, but included sports action, portraits and feature photos of athletes and fans of various sports.
National Geographic magazine has won the top prize in the Sports Story Editing category for a story titled "On the Trail with the First Skiers," a story about skiers in a remote area of China and the clues they offer about the evolution of the sport. The story was photographed by Jonas Bendiksen.
Other categories in the 2014 POYi Sports Division contest and their first-place winners include:
Sports Action: Mark J. Terrill of Associated Press for his photograph of welterweight boxer Pablo Cesar Cano landing a punch on the face of opponent Ashley Theophane.
Sports Feature: Jabin Botsford, a student at Western Kentucky University, for an image he shot at a Kentucky high school cheerleading competition.
Recreational Sports: Alex Goodlett of the Daily Herald (Provo, Utah), for an image he shot at a high school volleyball match.
Sports Picture Story: Daniel Ochoa De Olza for a story about bullfighting in Spain.
Judges for the Sports Division entries were James Colton, Elsa Garrison, and John McDonnell
Judging for the Reportage Division (formerly Magazine Division) entries begins tomorrow and continues through this weekend. Editing and Multimedia Division entries will be judged next week.
Barbara Davidson Named 2014 POYi Newspaper Photographer of the Year
POYi Posts Winning Entries for Its Newspaper Division Contest (And PDN Names the Photographers)


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Among the Guardians, Alice Grey is known as the Black Widow—a woman trapped in a web spun by the demon Teqon. To save her soul, she agreed to deliver to Teqon the heart of the oldest and most powerful Guardian of all, or else be damned for eternity. After more than a hundred years, Teqon is calling in his debt.
Jake Hawkins is a novice Guardian whose gift of teleportation could be invaluable to Alice in determining her next move. But in aligning himself with her he never expected to fall in love. Now, their passionate flight to escape Alice's damnable bargain is threatening both their souls. For they're about to discover a hellish secret about the Guardians something that will change their universe forever.
I'm a huge fan girl of Meljean Brook. My love and respect for her has grown exponentially with each published novel/novella. And while 'Demon Bound' was not my favorite romantic pairing, I'm still in total awe of her world building and characters.
For starters, I would not recommend this book to anyone as an introduction to the Guardian Series. I'm afraid that if you never ventured into this world before that you may be utterly lost. First timers should either a) buy Ms. Brook's entire back list now because you should have done it a lllooonnnngggg time ago or b) check out Brook's website and visit the Guardian primer. Here Brook details everything from whose who, places of importance, glossary, timeline, and general plots of each subsequent book to 'Demon Bound'. The primer is also beneficial to readers who have visited Brook's world but need a little recap to get back into the major subplots or to freshen up on all the characters.
Also, Brook provides great excerpts on her website. She even has a four chapter posting for 'Demon Moon' which is my absolute favorite in the series. I love you Colin!
Anyhoo, back to the 'Demon Bound' review.
'Demon Bound' is the seventh novel in the Guardian Series and is as unique as every other series installment. At the beginning of the novel, Jake Hawkins, a former Vietnam Veteran and current Novice Guardian, is still trying to develope his Gift of teleportation. Suffice it to say, things in the Gift department aren't going well. As a 60 year old Guardian, Jake normally would have had another 40 years to perfect his skills before being noted as a full-fledged Guardian and called to duty. Yet due to the Ascension, whereby thousands of Guardians chose to move on to their respective places in Heaven or Hell, have left the remaining forty or so Guardians to protect mankind, thus requiring Jake's help. Currently, in order for Jake to teleport to a new destination, he first must be scared witless before his Gift will even work. This "technique" is unreliable at best.
After terrifying himself with images of blood and gore in the hopes of teleporting to the archives in Caelum (the Guardian's home), where he's desperate to not run into the Black Widow, keeper of the archives. With that thought in mind, where does Jake teleport to? Tunisia and the most amazing temple cut of pure granite along side the face of a cliff.
No mortal could have made it. The sheer angle of the cliff alone would have made it impossible. Inside are empty sunken pools resembling Roman bathes. In one dome of the temple a huge life like statue of a woman with Guardian wings, towers over what was once a kneeling statue that was taken from it's position. There is evidence of this based on the woman's outstretched palm with it's fingers snapped off at the ends. It's likely she was touching the head on the statue that had once been kneeling before her. Yet how this statue was taken is beyond Jake, for the woman in stone before him is positively gigantic with his 6'2" frame barely reaching the top of her foot. The statue kneeling would have been proportionate and thereby huge as well. It is here that Jake finds the Black Widow, A.K.A. Alice Gray. Jake's thoughts of her at the time of his previous attempt at teleportation had led him directly to her.
Alice Gray is a 120 year old Guardian and keeper of the archives in Caelum. Her Gift gives her the power to communicate and draw upon the heightened awareness of spiders, thus her nickname of The Black Widow. Before Alice's transformation, she unwittingly entered into a Bargain with the Demon Teqon. Either bring the heart of Michael (Doyen and leader of all Guardians) to him, or spend eternity frozen in Hell.
For the last 120 years, Alice has sought endlessly for a way to get out of her Bargain and the only way she can do this is either have Teqon simply release her, which is never going to happen, or she must find him something that he wants more than Michael's heart. Alice believes that the temples and the female Guardian statue is the key.
It is the shared curiosity of the temples combined with their passion for archeology that draw Jake and Alice together. Although Jake was initially scared and creeped out over Alice spider Gift, he begins to learn who she truly is and with this knowledge he begins to fall in love. Jake makes the brave decision of helping Alice find a way out of her Bargain and for this Michael promotes him to a full-fledged Guardian.
As the two scavenge the world for the mysterious temples that disclose the Guardian's history, Jake and Alice begin to learn a bit more than they bargained for. The history and creation of the Nephilim is revealed and wow, what a revelation it was! Michael's past is somewhat disclosed especially his creation which was a shocker to say the least. The origin of the prophecy and Belial's rise to power that was first discussed in 'Demon Night', is revealed. We are also introduced to new Guardian's and have even been granted a glimpse into the future and what it holds in store for Jake and Alice.
Alice was an intriguing character. I don't believe I've ever read a heroine quite like her, although I can pretty much say that about all of Brook's heroines. Each one is different not only to the Guardian Series but to the Paranormal Romance genre as well. I never would have guessed that a woman that can draw upon the instincts of spiders to be heroine material but Brook pulls it off with ease. Alice, because of her Bargain to murder the leader everyone loves, is a self-prescribed loner. She guards herself from feeling...anything for anyone because her fate is to rest for eternity in the frozen wastelands of Hell. Even if she fulfills her Bargain, to take the heart of Michael would make her murderer. So really her choices are the Pit and an eternity of torture, or her face will become part of a frozen landscape in Hell while her body is consumed, regrown, only to be consumed again by the monsters of Chaos. I don't blame Alice one bit for being closed off and emotionally unavailable. Who wouldn't be with that type of fate hovering in the back of your mind.
Her Gift also secludes her from others. The fact that it took her years to overcome her own fears of spiders is a testament to how others feel. Plus, because Michael is aware of the Bargain, even he has kept his distance from her. It's no wonder that Alice feels considerable shame for having entered into the Bargain to begin with. Never mind that at the time she was mortal and knew nothing of Michael or what he represented, let alone that Teqon was a Demon from Hell. One can't help admiring her strength amidst all the tragedy that has befallen her. But there is one Guardian who may just be naive and cocksure enough to go after Alice's heart and that's Jake.
Jake provides considerable comic relief for our buttoned-up heroine. His youth and enthusiasm is infectious while his mind is nimble and strong. Alice can't help but be intrigued by his obvious smarts and I think this in combination with his shear persistence is what captivates her first. Of course his gorgeous body quickly follows. And while initially Jake is a very immature boy, his relationship with Alice soon evolves him quickly into a man of considerable strength and dependability. Looking back, I believe that amongst all of Brook's heroes, Jake truly made the most sacrifices for his heroine. Wow, did he ever.
There was only one thing that dragged this book down for me, and unfortunately a biggie and that being the lack of sexual chemistry, IMHO. Yes, Jake made incredible sacrifices for Alice and they were a true testament of his love for her. But I missed the sexual tension that Brook has delivered to pure satisfaction in the past. This lack is perhaps due to Alice's nature of not only embodying the creepy and inhuman characteristics of arachnids but also from her past and what ultimately caused her transformation to Guardian. Jake in turn still seemed too young for her, in my reading experience. The burden that Alice had carried for more than a century just seemed to put her in a league way out of Jake's reach.
Despite the above mentioned, I've still been struck dumb by Brook and her amazing world and wow, what a crazy and intricate plot. The woman is amazing. I had absolutely no idea how Alice was going to get out of her Bargain. It truly seemed utterly hopeless there for a while and man what a fabulous and shocking ending. I loved the action and all the new and exciting surprises that were delivered to us. I can't even explain how in love I am with this series.
So far I've yet to see even a hint of who the next Guardian Series installment will feature but I'm definitely looking forward to continuing the ride with this amazing author.


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I don't know who I am anymore. I think this as I lie in bed, too early for a Solstice night, a night I said I would be dancing naked around a bonfire but am not. Instead I am lying naked in bed at 8:15 p.m. with my son's teddy bear, Schleppy, lying on top of me: a transitional object in reverse, given out of the love and anxiety of a too-fastly growing almost 9-year-old boy.
I have had many names, all of them from men who were not completely comfortable in their own identities, yet whose names I hotly took and claimed as my own: Scanlan. Nicholas. Flaherty. None fit me just right. None, when I put them on, made me look in the mirror and say, "I look good in this." Actually, I liked the second one, but I was forced to donate it to Good Will when it got a bit too tight, when it finally became unseemly to continue to wrap myself in it once I met someone else.
The whole name business is like trying on jeans at the Gap: frustrating, sweaty, walk-out-and-leave-them-in-a-pile sort of irritating. Why does nothing fit, I wonder as I walk out, hair slightly staticky and frayed looking, perspiration on my neck, feeling frumpy and pissed off. Surely, somewhere there is a name that is mine.
I stand — or more precisely lie — at this lovely, liminal age of 48 unsure of what to say when I introduce myself. I have been married (this third time) for a dozen years. I took my husband's name to simplify and unify our little family. It seemed, as they say, like a good idea at the time. But this past year I began using my maiden name more and more. Writing my first book, a memoir about my second marriage that ended with me being widowed, I vacillated about what to call myself. Was I my then-married name, Nicholas? Or was I my now-married name Flaherty? Or am I my maiden name, Ingram?
I chose the latter.
But even this causes me to question how that is anymore my name than the rest. It, too, came from a man, albeit a man who helped create me. That was followed by Scanlan, a name that hailed from Ireland but came to me in the form of an abusive, brown-skinned Polynesian who looked oh-so-beautiful but could offer little more than his own legacy of alcohol-induced rage, violence, and remorseful, drunken, obsequious apologies laced with passionate resentment. That marriage lasted nine months. The scars lasted some time longer than that. It took many years and a boatload of therapy to even be able to admit that I shared that name at all.
And there was marriage number two, the blue-blood dilettante, the kind, funny, wealthy, generous and deeply damaged soul who beguiled me with the strange and heady mixture of East Coast refinement, worldliness, wit and sensitivity. The pilot who looked like Andy Garcia but who could not find a way to be comfortable in his name or his skin. I wanted his name, Nicholas, wanted him, wanted us, but his life ended in an uncontrolled inverted spin seven months after we were married in that big beautiful wedding, leaving me his name but no identity.
Four years later there is the handsome, silver-haired 20-something opera singer. We meet in a production of "La Boheme." He is Marcello, the starving, fiery artist. We marry. He legally changes his name from his father's adoptive name, Stevens, to his mother's maiden name, Flaherty. Our name is Flaherty. No one can pronounce it correctly, including our own children. (It's "A" as in "apple") My brother proclaims it the Worst Name Ever, asks me why I don't keep Ingram or Nicholas. This serves only to piss me off.
I hug Schleppy to my chest, musing. I think about all these names — an inordinate number of names really. It was hell when we went into the bank to sign all the mortgage documents. A hundred pages to be signed and each page required that I sign as all of my prior incarnations. Katherine P. Ingram. Katherine Ingram Scanlan. Katherine Ingram Nicholas. Katherine Ingram Flaherty. Katherine Nicholas Flaherty. Katherine I Nicholas. You get the idea. I sigh out loud just thinking about how annoying and ridiculous it was, how much better and easier it would have been had I just kept my maiden name from the start. Why was I so eager to adopt these men's names? I toss the sheet off, too warm, unable to sleep.
Maybe my book precipitated this identity crisis as I attempt to identify who my self is before I share that self so unflinchingly with the world. Maybe it's not resonating so much with the man whose name I now share, the man who was Marcello but is, in real life, his total opposite: quiet and subdued; a man grappling with a mysterious illness, one that leaves him tired and withdrawn, barely able to manage the pain and incapacitation and leaves me alone with my thoughts.
The obvious arises: here, at 48, eleven months into what by all appearances, or lack thereof, seems to be the great transition into crone-dom, is another death. The death of youth and a certain self-image I scarcely knew I carried but quite clearly did. Maybe it is menopause that is provoking this this wondering, this desire to claim myself for myself, rather than being someone's wife or daughter or mother for that matter.
I want a new name; this much I know. I could pick any name I want I suppose. I could make something up out of thin air, or choose something randomly: Kate de la O (just because I like it), or Kate Middleton (she's not using it anymore), or I could go operatic, Kate Castronovo (poetic, dramatic, so Italian).
It makes sense, this wondering. As I muse, I hear an unseen entity whisper to me. "Write all this down," the voice says. "Okay," I reply out loud, get up, look for paper and pen, curse myself for not leaving them beside the bed, move quietly past my children's room stopping long enough to listen for their sleeping breath, stumble downstairs, naked, searching for writing implements.
This is how I figure it out, how I've always, unconsciously tried to name myself into existence, by writing my way into understanding. I am dying. I am waiting to be reborn. And in the liminal, sacred space between being and becoming, here in my womb-bed, a lone lamp illuminating my words in the darkened summer night that encloses me, I embrace the constant wonder.
This time, I muse, I will name myself in a new way. This time it will be an internal force that leads me into a new incarnation, like the mysterious movement that propels all new life into the world, unbidden, unknowable. This time I will wait for the voice, the same one that told me to write this down now; the one who named my son before he was conceived, the one who called to me when I was eight and frightened after the unexpected death of my young father, called to me saying, "Kate...Kate..." but I was too scared to follow.
I realize, of course, that it doesn't matter so much what I am called; what matters is that I am being called — by a force larger than my ego identity. I get this. And yet one's name is a marker, a way belonging, of connecting with or distancing from family and roots. It doesn't so much change who you are as reflect it. And maybe that's why I am feeling nameless. Perhaps once I figure out who I am, I will find my name. Until then, I am, as Shakespeare, the originator of my naming called me, plain Kate.


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Fleming Road, Staple, Canterbury, CT3 1LG, Tel: 07772 300 511, Email, www.barnsole.co.uk(3 miles, 5 km)
A family run vineyard with its own winery. Visitors are most welcome and may have a free mini-tour to see how our vines are grown and wine produced. Tastings are free and our wines are available for direct sale.
Goodnestone, Wingham, Canterbury, Kent, CT3 1PL, Tel: 01304 840107, Email, www.goodnestoneparkgardens.co.uk/(1 miles, 2 km)
Set in 14 acres with walled garden, arboretums, woodland and formal area. Awarded 2 stars in The Good Garden Guide. Visit our tearoom for delicious homemade cakes and light lunches made with garden produce.
Bekesbourne Road, Bekesbourne, Canterbury, CT4 5EL, Tel: +44 (0)844 842 4647, Email, www.aspinallfoundation.org/(3 miles, 4 km)
The Aspinall Foundation's Howletts Wild Animal Park in Kent is a great day out for groups of all sizes where education, conservation and fun combine. Set in over 100 acres of beautiful ancient parkland.
King Street, Fordwich, Canterbury, CT2 0DB, Tel: 01227 711950, www.fordwichtown.org/(5 miles, 8 km)
Although it is believed that there was an earlier building on the site, the present Guildhall, or Town Hall as it is known today, was built in 1544 during the reign of King Henry VIII.
Rusham Road, Wingham, Canterbury, Kent, CT3 1JL, Tel: 01227 720836(3 miles, 5 km)


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Adam Bernard Jones (Pacman) (twitter: @REALPACMAN24)
Position: DB
Height: 5-11 Weight: 187 lbs.
Born: September 30, 1983 in Atlanta, GA
High School: Westlake
College: West Virginia (school history) (Jones college stats)
Drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the 1st round (6th overall) of the 2005 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 47 (1690th overall since 1950)
1-time Pro Bowler & 1-time First-Team All-Pro (fine print)
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