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The podcast is Books That Burn because the original idea was "books that burn you", discussing fictional depictions of trauma. It's also an intentional reminder of the pile of burning books, you know the photo I mean, the one from WWII. It's a pile of books about queerness, gender, and sexuality. Just in case you don't know, the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Science) was headed by Magnus Hirschfeld.  It was a resource for gay, intersex, and transgender people, both of knowledge and medical help. It also helped the community with addiction treatment and contraception. It wasn't perfect and some of the ideas they had seem out of date now, the ones we know about anyway. But they were trying to make queer people's lives better, and they were a community resource at a time when people really needed it. Which is all the time, we always need these accesses. And the Nazis burned the whole library. It took days, they had to drag the books ou...
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BBNYA Spotlight - Ordinary World by Jack T. Canis

About BBNYA and the Spotlight Tours

The Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) is celebrating the books that made it to the semi-finals with a mini spotlight blitz tour for each title.

BBNYA is a yearly competition where book bloggers from all over the world read and score books written by indie authors, ending with 16 finalists and one overall winner.

If you want some more information about BBNYA, check out the BBNYA Website https://www.bbnya.com/ or take a peek over on Twitter @BBNYA_Official. BBNYA is brought to you in association with the @Foliosociety (if you love beautiful books, you NEED to check out their website!) and the book blogger support group @The_WriteReads.

Book Details

LENGTH: 405 Pages
GENRE: Science Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Fantasy
AGE CATEGORY: Adult
DATE PUBLISHED: November 13, 2023

Bookshop (Affiliate): https://bookshop.org/a/12882/9798223883975

Indie Story Geek: https://indiestorygeek.com/story/6094

Amazon Link: https://a.co/d/cmdzs6E (Canada) https://a.co/d/gcoSLX2 (USA) https://amzn.eu/d/90rbfKs (UK)

Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/202105901-ordinary-world

The Story Graph Link: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/32469ae2-689a-474b-81bd-85ab740a953a 

Blurb

Life often boils down to simple questions with complex answers. Olivia Buchanan's question was simple, if twofold:

'Was sixteen year old Olivia Buchanan truly the culmination of a secret 30 year genome project, by a clandestine research organisation, to create the ultimate human in order to save humanity from itself?

Or: Has she merely inherited her mother's delusional schizophrenia, spiralling her into a nightmarish hell created by a diseased and fractured mind?'

Simple.


Author Bio

Jack T Canis lives in South Wales, UK with his wife, three neurodivergent children & menagerie of animals. He started his professional career as an archaeologist, but through the years has also been a self-employed armourer; an administrator for the NHS and in recent years a qualified person-centred counsellor specialising in bereavement and loss, now retired. Currently he is a full-time carer for his youngest child who has Sotos Syndrome and carer for his eldest child who is autistic. He is a part time writer. He is published in a number of publications including: Purple Wall magazine (honourable mention & co-champion), Datura, & Sledgehammer Literary magazine. He is in four anthologies and has been longlisted in the Cranked Anvil monthly competition & Bridport Flash Fiction Competition (2021). All his published works can be found on his website:

https://www.jacktcanis.co.uk/ 

Twitter (daily): @jackcanis.

Facebook (rarely): @jacktcanis.

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