Bulletproof Girl

Author : Quinn Dalton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451604405

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Bulletproof Girl by Quinn Dalton Pdf

In Bulletproof Girl, Quinn Dalton offers eleven raw and witty stories powered by a rich mix of women's voices. The stakes are high in these diverse narratives. "Dinner at Josette's" explores the nature of female friendships in the story of a woman whose best friend is in love with a gay man. "Midnight Bowling" follows seventeen-year-old Tess as she escapes her fanatically religious mother's pipe dreams and her dead father's legacy. In "Lennie Remembers the Angels," a woman confronts a long-ago vision as she recovers from a hit-and-run accident. In "Graceland," a once supportive businessman's wife turns to murder. And in "How to Clean Your Apartment," a jilted lover creates a spring cleaning reference guide as she tries to get over her man. At times tragic and savagely funny, Bulletproof Girl is a dynamic anthology from a strong new voice in fiction.

Author : Brian K. Vaughan
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:JUN120569

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Saga #6 by Brian K. Vaughan Pdf

The epic hit series continues, as Alana and her baby finally reach the legendary Rocketship Forest, where everything changes forever.

Author : Maria Venegas
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847087768

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Bulletproof Vest by Maria Venegas Pdf

Maria Venegas had been estranged from her father for fourteen years when she finally made the journey back from the US to Mexico to visit him in the old hacienda where both he and she were born. As they begin spending summers and holidays together, herding cattle and fixing barbed-wire fence posts, he starts to share stories with her, tales of a dramatic life filled with both intense love and brutal violence - from the final conversations he had with his own father and his extradition from the US for murder, to his mother's pride after he shot a man for the first time at age twelve. In spare, gripping prose, Venegas traces her own life and her father's through the stories she inherited from him and gradually comes to understand the violent undercurrent that has shaped them both.

Author : Quinn Dalton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1451604378

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High Strung by Quinn Dalton Pdf

Years after running away from America and the mysteries surrounding her mother's death, Merle Winslow winds up editing trash novels at X Publishing in West London and shacked up with a drug-addled diplomat's son. Shaky and defeated, she heads home to Florence, Ohio, with no money and no idea of what to do next. Meanwhile, Merle discovers that her brother Olin, rich and successful from marketing Marilyn Monroe meat thermometers, is poised to embark on a dubious performance art career, and that her stodgy father might be falling in love after years of living alone. As Merle looks for clues about her mother's life she uncovers disturbing new truths about her own romantic failings. She suspects she's never really escaped her old life; she's simply dragged it along with her, "like an outfit that was ill-fitting and too revealing, but impossible to get rid of." But with the help of her tough-talking grandmother, free-spirited brother, and a pilot who nurses a failing plane, Merle finally begins to face her family's checkered past and her own uncertain future. In vivid cinematic prose, High Strung balances humor on the rough edge of loss, regret, and wounded family love. Merle is an unforgettable creation in an exhilarating debut novel from a young writer to watch.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Poets & Writers Inc
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Poets & Writers Guide to the Book Deal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Norita Mdege
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000990522

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Cinematic Portrayals of African Women and Girls in Political Conflict by Norita Mdege Pdf

This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the cinematic representations of the experiences of African women and girls in situations of political conflict. The role of cinema is important in providing information about the situation of women and girls in situations of political conflict, and the main characters often also become signifiers of wider social, political and economic ideas, at both global and local levels. Drawing on fictional and biographical cinematic representations, this book considers films covering a range of different regions, experiences, historical periods and other contexts, to draw a nuanced picture of African women and girls who participate in or are affected by African political conflicts. The films are analysed using a decolonial feminist cultural approach, which combines cultural approaches, African feminisms and the contrapuntal method to ensure an inter-textual, intersectional and decolonial examination. The book engages with multiple themes and topics, including nationalism, nation-building, neocolonialism, memory, history, women’s and girls’ agency and activism. Through these themes and topics, the book explores how the films represent African women’s and girls’ agency in relation to their participation in social, economic and political activities. This book will make a significant contribution to literature focused on African women and girls within politics, conflict studies and film studies.

Author : Tim Seeley
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:MAY120632

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Witchblade #159 by Tim Seeley Pdf

SAVIORS', PART 1...Sara Pezzini will get drawn deeper into Chicago's corruption when magician Cain Jorgenson asks her to investigate a mysterious Cult threatening a community organizer and popular young politician. In the process, Sara will discover that the most sinister evil can present itself in the most unlikely vessel.

Author : Ariane Resnick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781682450499

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The Thinking Girl's Guide to Drinking by Ariane Resnick Pdf

This edgy cocktail book includes more than 100 recipes for delicious alcoholic drinks and mocktails that are made from quality, healthful ingredients and include healing properties with nutritional benefits to keep you feeling sexy, healthy, and fabulous. The Thinking Girl’s Guide to Drinking is all about showing you how you can, and should, enjoy drinking healthfully. Author Ariane Resnick wants to wipe away the notion that drinking healthfully has to mean downing glasses of green smoothies and juices and otherwise starving yourself. Sure, detox drinks have a time and a place, but there’s no need to suffer and live without the things you love. The key to drinking cocktails when you’re trying to be mindful is drinking in moderation and using wholefoods and high-quality ingredients that both taste delicious and have health value and nutritional benefits. Some of the healing ingredients include: —Lemons and limes: nutritional powerhouses of liver detoxification that lower the cholesterol and also happen to pair well with nearly any alcohol; —Kombucha: the sparkling probiotic beverage that provides good bacteria for your gut and comes in a million mixable flavors; —Fresh ginger: a powerful anti-inflammatory that is great for reducing nausea and lowering blood sugar; —Coconut cream: to help our brains and our metabolisms; —Herbs and spices: include antibacterial and antiviral properties and are high in B-vitamins; —Green juices: full of extra vitamins and nutrients; —Mint: known for its calming effects on the digestive and nervous systems and keeping tummies content; —Kava: a medically-proven anxiety-relieving root that’s known for its calming, relaxing, therapeutic effects, and other restorative properties. —And more!

Author : James Arena
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476628943

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Stars of 21st Century Dance Pop and EDM by James Arena Pdf

 Dance music has seen an unprecedented explosion in the 21st century as a stampede of subgenres, such as dance pop and EDM (electronic dance music), have come to define the pop music scene worldwide. In this collection of original interviews, 33 hitmakers from 11 countries discuss their lives and careers in this still-unfolding new age—including Alcazar’s Andreas Lundstedt, Dave Audé, Bart & Baker, Bimbo Jones, Chris Cox, Darude, Inaya Day, Deepend, Freemasons, D.O.N.S./Warp Brothers’ Oliver Goedicke, Xenia Ghali, Gryffin, Harrison, In-Grid, Kimberley Locke, Paul Oakenfold, Suzanne Palmer, Ralphi Rosario, Sak Noel, Richard Vission and more. Special commentary provided by Moto Blanco’s Danny Harrison and clubland queen Martha Wash.

Author : Jo Reger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317721482

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Different Wavelengths by Jo Reger Pdf

The original essays in this collection ground the shifting terrain of feminism in the 21st century. The contributors define and examine the complexity of the Third Wave by answering questions like: how appropriate is a "third wave" label for contemporary feminism; are the agendas of contemporary feminism and the "second wave" really all that different; does the wave metaphor accurately describe the difference between contemporary feminists and their predecessors; how do women of color fit into this notion of contemporary feminism; and what are the future directions of the feminist movement?

Author : Andrea N. Richesin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1585424676

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The May Queen by Andrea N. Richesin Pdf

With original essays by women in their thirties, this intriguing collection celebrates this often-maligned period in a woman's life as productive, dynamic, and vibrant.

Author : Andrea N. Richesin
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781426831003

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Because I Love Her by Andrea N. Richesin Pdf

This profound and poignant collection highlights some of the best literary writers of our time in an era when the roles of mothers and daughters are constantly being questioned and redefined. Because I Love Her explores the deepest bonds and truths of motherhood by sharing stories and secrets of becoming a mother and grandmother. Ranging from established and bestselling authors to exciting new voices, these women reveal what their mothers taught them, what they in turn hope to impart to their daughters and, finally, what they've learned as a bridge between the two.

Author : Georgann Eubanks
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780807899526

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Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont by Georgann Eubanks Pdf

Read your way across North Carolina's Piedmont in the second of a series of regional guides that bring the state's rich literary history to life for travelers and residents. Eighteen tours direct readers to sites that more than two hundred Tar Heel authors have explored in their fiction, poetry, plays, and creative nonfiction. Along the way, excerpts chosen by author Georgann Eubanks illustrate a writer's connection to a specific place or reveal intriguing local culture--insights rarely found in travel guidebooks. Featured authors include O. Henry, Doris Betts, Alex Haley, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, John Hart, Betty Smith, Edward R. Murrow, Patricia Cornwell, Carson McCullers, Maya Angelou, Lee Smith, Reynolds Price, and David Sedaris. Literary Trails is an exciting way to see anew the places that you already love and to discover new people and places you hadn't known about. The region's rich literary heritage will surprise and delight all readers.

Author : Les Back,John Solomos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781000158328

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Theories of Race and Racism by Les Back,John Solomos Pdf

Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader is an important and innovative collection that brings together extracts from the work of scholars, both established and up and coming, who have helped to shape the study of race and racism as an historical and contemporary phenomenon. This second edition incorporates new contributions and editorial material and allows readers to explore the changing terms of debates about the nature of race and racism in contemporary societies. All six parts are organized around the contributions made by theorists whose work has been influential in shaping theoretical debates. The various contributions have been chosen to reflect different theoretical perspectives and to help readers gain a feel for the changing terms of theoretical debate over time. As well as covering the main concerns of past and recent theoretical debates it provides a glimpse of relatively new areas of interest that are likely to attract more attention in years to come.

Author : Sherwin Tjia
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1552451534

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The World is a Heartbreaker by Sherwin Tjia Pdf

The World Is a Heartbreaker inaugurates a new subgenre: imposter poetry. This collection is a set of 1600 pseudohaikus, bite-sized chunks of poetic goodness shotgunned at the distracted masses. What's a pseudohaiku? It's the poetry of pure indulgence, a three-liner without the constraint, the pretension or the 5-7-5 syllable form. The subject matter? Relationships, cats, insecurities - themes recur and build into a kind of non-linear narrative. These micropoems are easily digestible yet remarkably acute, a catalogue of scattered thoughts and pointed observations that go down like potato chips - betcha can't read just one. Sometimes sexy, sometimes scandalous, sometimes sentimental, but always three lines long, these pseudohaikus are the future of poetry in a world awash with sound bites, news clips, catchphrases. There are no pleasures like the guilty ones. About Tjia's earlier books: 'Gentle Fictions is a tender, playful and inspiring poetry collection ... Tjia's poems are often silly, cute and irreverent, but artfully so.' - Matrix '[Pedigree Girls] is hilarious. It's also filled with raw, biting social criticism. [It's] the weirdest comix you'll read all year ... discover the seductiveness of nihilism by way of an author with a sharp sense of humour.' - NOW