Not Your Average American Girl

Author : Christine Beatty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Sex
ISBN : 0963740628

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Not Your Average American Girl by Christine Beatty Pdf

Christine Beatty's autobiography chronicles her surprising evolution as a transsexual woman, her recovery from a life of addiction and prostitution, and her biggest and most impossible seeming dreams coming true. With this memoir she opens a window into a world most people never see and seldom lets go of those who venture in too far. Aside from ascending in her career against all odds, she is a pioneering rock musician, a controversial journalist and a survivor of the worst pandemic of the 1980s. Told with the unflinching honesty of someone with nothing left to hide, the humor of a survivor who discovers silver linings in darkest clouds and the spirit of a rebel who refuses to be beaten down, Beatty's is a tale of sublime pathos and the triumph of the human spirit.

Author : Wendy Wan-Long Shang,Madelyn Rosenberg
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338037784

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Not Your All-American Girl by Wendy Wan-Long Shang,Madelyn Rosenberg Pdf

A multicultural story full of heart and hilarity about what it means to be all-American. Lauren and her best friend, Tara, have always done absolutely everything together. So when they don't have any classes together in sixth grade, it's disastrous. The solution? Trying out for the school play. Lauren, who loves to sing, wonders if maybe, just maybe, she will be the star instead of Tara this time.But when the show is cast, Lauren lands in the ensemble, while Tara scores the lead role. Their teacher explains: Lauren just doesn't look the part of the all-American girl. What audience would believe that she, half-Jewish, half-Chinese Lauren, was the everygirl star from Pleasant Valley, USA?From amidst the ensemble, Lauren tries to support her best friend. But when she can't bring herself to sing anymore, her spot in the play and her friendship are in jeopardy. With the help of a button-making business, the music of Patsy Cline, and her two bickering grandmothers, can Lauren find her voice again?Acclaimed coauthors Madelyn Rosenberg and Wendy Wan-Long Shang return to the 1980s world of Sydney Taylor Honor Book This Is Just a Test with this laugh-out-loud coming-of-age story.

Author : Cara Natterson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781609581657

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The Care and Keeping of You Journal by Cara Natterson Pdf

This companion to our bestselling book, The Care & Keeping of You, received its own all-new makeover! This updated interactive journal allows girls to record their moods, track their periods, and keep in touch with their overall health and well-being. Tips, quizzes, and checklists help girls understand and express what�s happening to their bodies--and their feelings about it.

Author : Chera Kee
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477313190

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Not Your Average Zombie by Chera Kee Pdf

A thorough analysis of zombies in popular culture from the 1930s to contemporary society. The zombie apocalypse hasn’t happened—yet—but zombies are all over popular culture. From movies and TV shows to video games and zombie walks, the undead stalk through our collective fantasies. What is it about zombies that exerts such a powerful fascination? In Not Your Average Zombie, Chera Kee offers an innovative answer by looking at zombies that don’t conform to the stereotypes of mindless slaves or flesh-eating cannibals. Zombies who think, who speak, and who feel love can be sympathetic and even politically powerful, she asserts. Kee analyzes zombies in popular culture from 1930s depictions of zombies in voodoo rituals to contemporary film and television, comic books, video games, and fan practices such as zombie walks. She discusses how the zombie has embodied our fears of losing the self through slavery and cannibalism and shows how “extra-ordinary” zombies defy that loss of free will by refusing to be dehumanized. By challenging their masters, falling in love, and leading rebellions, “extra-ordinary” zombies become figures of liberation and resistance. Kee also thoroughly investigates how representations of racial and gendered identities in zombie texts offer opportunities for living people to gain agency over their lives. Not Your Average Zombie thus deepens and broadens our understanding of how media producers and consumers take up and use these undead figures to make political interventions in the world of the living. “Kee provides a compelling synthesis of theory and criticism . . . useful for horror scholars interested in how portrayals of zombie intersect with race and gender.” —Popular Culture Studies Journal “Kee’s Not Your Average Zombie is an important book . . . Put simply: if it's the one book you read about or cite on zombie, you've made an excellent choice.” —American Quarterly “[Not Your Average Zombie] offers a fresh theoretical framework to a fast-growing field . . . A fascinating contribution to the critical conversation about the zombie as a fantastic figure.” —Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts “I’m impressed by Kee’s scholarship across several fields—film history and gender and critical race studies, especially—and her cultural and historical contextualizing of the current zombie renaissance.” —James H. Cox, University of Texas at Austin, author of The Red Land to the South: American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico

Author : Ralph E. Shaffer
Publisher : The Endangered History Project
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Letters From the People by Ralph E. Shaffer Pdf

In 1881, Los Angeles was a rough, frontier community more in touch with the past than the future. The city had two dailies, the Herald and the Express, and the founding of the Times drew only modest attention. Then, in 1882, Harrison Gray Otis launched a formal column, LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. Hundreds of letter writers used the column to call attention to the matters they thought should be the immediate concern of all Angelenos. While historians have recorded the euphoria of skyrocketing real estate prices, mass migration from the east, the Americanization of the city, and the growth of specific industries and institutions, life in Los Angeles can only be fully understood by examining the concerns of its citizens. The topics discussed reveal a Los Angeles that was occupied with concerns that still divide us today: education, crime, unequal justice, immigration, the treatment of minorities, women's rights, health care, transit, water, the river, lack of infrastructure, and government's negative effect on the business climate. Derived from more than 2,000 letters to the editor, LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE is an in-depth anthology supplemented with much historical data about the writers and events that shaped early Los Angeles on the eve of its explosive growth.

Author : Jason Evert,Crystalina Evert
Publisher : Totus Tuus Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780983092322

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How To Find Your Soulmate without Losing Your Soul by Jason Evert,Crystalina Evert Pdf

While navigating through the dating scene, every woman begins to wonder: How do I know when a guy really loves me?Am I being too picky?Do I even deserve love?Is my relationship worth keeping?Is love worth the risk?Are any decent guys left? Single women often feel left alone to find answers to their deep questions about love and intimacy. Some hang out and hook up, hoping for love. Others are afraid even to hope. At some point, every woman needs reassurance that she—and her standards—are not the problem. In How to Find Your Soulmate without Losing Your Soul, you’ll discover twenty-one strategies to help you raise the bar, instead of sitting at it, waiting around for Mr. Wonderful. Isn’t it time that you discovered a love that helps you to become yourself?

Author : Nancy Holyoke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781683371656

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A Smart Girl's Guide: Crushes by Nancy Holyoke Pdf

"Ã2001, 2013, 2018, 2020 American Girl."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11391123

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Annual Report of the Board of Agriculture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nancy L. Green
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226137520

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The Other Americans in Paris by Nancy L. Green Pdf

A “thorough and perceptive” portrait of the not-so-famous expatriates of the City of Light (The Wall Street Journal). History may remember the American artists, writers, and musicians of the Left Bank best, but the reality is that there were many more American businessmen, socialites, manufacturers’ representatives, and lawyers living on the other side of the River Seine. Be they newly minted American countesses married to foreigners with impressive titles or American soldiers who had settled in France after World War I with their French wives, they provide a new view of the notion of expatriates. Historian Nancy L. Green introduces us for the first time to a long-forgotten part of the American overseas population—predecessors to today’s expats—while exploring the politics of citizenship and the business relationships, love lives, and wealth (or in some cases, poverty) of Americans who staked their claim to the City of Light. The Other Americans in Paris shows that elite migration is a part of migration, and that debates over Americanization have deep roots in the twentieth century.

Author : New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : HARVARD:HXHR62

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Report by New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture Pdf

Author : New Hampshire. Dept. of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3020915

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Report by New Hampshire. Dept. of Agriculture Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Waring McMaster
Publisher : Jennie C. Olbrych
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Girls of the Sixties by Elizabeth Waring McMaster Pdf

Collection of reminiscences of women eyewitnesses to American Civil War in Columbia, SC and environs, and, in particular, Sherman's March.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3037158

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Plays of the 19th and 20th Centuries by Anonim Pdf

Author : Vicki Courtney
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781433691751

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Reflect by Vicki Courtney Pdf

"The world tells you to base your self-worth on a narrow defination of beauty, social media stats, and accomplishments, but God sees a different reflection of you--one that is loved and beautiful no matter what. Using straight talk and wisdom, best-selling author Vicki Courtney encourages you to love what you see in the mirror, to deal with the pressures to look and be perfect, and to truly believe you are worthy and wonderful, just the way God created you." --pg 4 of cover.

Author : Valorie Lee Schaefer
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Girls
ISBN : 0606315756

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The Care & Keeping of You by Valorie Lee Schaefer Pdf

For use in schools and libraries only. An updated edition of a best-selling reference for younger adolescents shares practical, expert advice on topics ranging from hair care and healthy eating to menstruation and acne.