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Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady is Florence King's classic memoir of her upbringing in an eccentric Southern family, told with all the uproarious wit and gusto that has made her one of the most admired writers in the country. Florence may have been a disappointment to her Granny, whose dream of rearing a Perfect Southern Lady would never be quite fulfilled. But after all, as Florence reminds us, "no matter which sex I went to bed with, I never...
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"Growing up during the Depression in the segregated coal-mining town of Slab Fork, West Virginia, the bright and willful Doris Payne dreamed big. Fascinated by the fine clothes, jewels, and lifestyles in magazines such as Town & Country and Harper's Bazaar, she imagined a world beyond herself, one in which she did not carry the weight of limitations that others imposed on her and where her beloved mother was free from her father's abuse. After the...
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In 2009, Samieh Hezari made a terrible mistake. She flew from her adopted home of Ireland to her birthplace in Iran so her 14-month-old daughter, Rojha, could be introduced to the child's father. When the violent and unstable father refused to allow his daughter to leave and demanded that Samieh renew their relationship, a two-week holiday became a desperate five-year battle to get her daughter out of Iran. If Samieh could not do so before Rojha turned...
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The forefront British dance critic and award-nominated author of Bloomsbury Ballerina presents a revisionist assessment of the movement that shattered the boundaries of conventional femininity through the lives of six figures that exemplified it, including Lady Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka. Glamorised, mythologised and demonised, the women of the 1920s prefigured the 1960s...
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A humorous life story told through 100 different sexual encounters with an unfiltered view into a man-whore's mind. The author uses sex and relationships as a backdrop to discuss a plethora of topics such as: life on the ocean and in the military, world travel, spirituality, health, animal training, sexual dysfunction, addiction, the list goes on. The redemption is a call to arms for every democratic citizen on planet earth. Some of the language and...
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A Simple and Hope-filled Blueprint to Break Free from a Hurtful Childhood that May Be Holding You Back-Secret Hurts, Destructive Cycles, Buried Anger, and More
Hiding inside every man is a little boy. For some this kid is healthy and strong. For others he's insecure. Afraid. Angry. And broken. This describes Patrick Morley. Successful entrepreneur and businessman, Patrick ignored the pain of his childhood wounds for decades. This book tells his story...
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"A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year" "A Prospect Book of the Year: Lives" "A FiveBooks Best Philosophy Book of the Year" David Edmonds is a writer and philosopher whose many critically acclaimed books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. He is the author of The Murder of Professor Schlick and Would You Kill the Fat Man? (both Princeton) and the coauthor, with John Eidinow, of the international bestseller Wittgenstein's Poker....
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THE AWAKENED covers a very personal and intensive almost two-year period of UFO activity in my life. Much of it happened while living in the San Francisco Bay area. I believe it to be one of the most extensive, illuminating, and intimate UFO encounters of my generation. Having kept a journal of my highly unusual experience, I was able to create a complete record of dates, and roughly calculate lengths of missing time.
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Book Preview: #1 The Alphabet Grid is a method of non-vocal communication. It makes it possible to form your words by simply pointing to their letters, instead of having to write them out one by one. This allows you to anchor your words, which would otherwise flutter off as soon as you tried to speak them.
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At twenty-eight, Mira Ptacin discovered she was pregnant. Though it was unplanned, she embraced the idea of starting a family and became engaged to Andrew, the father. But five months later, an ultrasound revealed that her child would be born with a constellation of birth defects and no chance of survival outside the womb. Mira was given three options: terminate the pregnancy, induce early delivery, or wait and inevitably miscarry.
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11) Drawing Blood
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Art was my dearest friend.
To draw was trouble and safety, adventure and freedom.
In that four-cornered kingdom of paper, I lived as I pleased.
This is the story of a girl and her sketchbook.
In language that is fresh, visceral, and deeply moving-and illustrations that are irreverent and gorgeous-here is a memoir that will change the way you think about art, sex, politics, and survival in our times.
From a young age, Molly Crabapple had the eye...
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From the legendary frontman of the Sex Pistols, comes the complete, unvarnished story of his life in his own words.
John Lydon is an icon-one of the most recognizable and influential cultural figures of the last forty years. As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead singer of the Sex Pistols-the world's most notorious band. The Pistols shot to fame in the mid-1970s with songs such as "Anarchy in the UK" and "God Save the Queen." So incendiary was their impact...
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Dick Cavett is back, sharing his reflections and reminiscences about Hollywood legends, American cultural icons, and the absurdities of everyday life
In Brief Encounters, the legendary talk show host Dick Cavett introduces us to the fascinating characters who have crossed his path, from James Gandolfini and John Lennon to Mel Brooks and Nora Ephron, enhancing our appreciation of their talent, their personalities, and their place in the pantheon....
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A history of gay Key West starting in 1954, when the city police chief Bienvenido Perez promised to rid the island of the "scores of sex deviates" that had supposedly flocked to the island to escape a crackdown by Miami police. "The town is full of them," he said at the time. "We don't want that kind of people in Key West."
Twenty-nine years later Richard Heyman, an out-and-proud homosexual, was elected mayor. But no one in 1954 would have believed...
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In the whirlwind of early 20th-century Germany, Heinrich Himmler grapples with questions of masculinity and identity amidst a society in flux. Denied the opportunity to prove himself in war, Himmler is forced to confront his own biases when faced with the complexities of homosexuality.Coming from a conservative background, Himmler's beliefs clash with the realization that masculinity can manifest in diverse ways, including within the LGBTQ+ community....
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A vivid narrative that recreates the life of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome's first modern" poet, and follows a young man's journey through a world filled with all the indulgences and sexual excesses of the time, from doomed love affairs to shrewd political maneuvering and backstabbing-an accessible, appealing look at one of history's greatest poets.
Born to one of Verona's leading families, Catullus spent most of his young adulthood in Rome, mingling...
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One of The New Yorker's "Books We Loved in 2017"
"Arbitrary Stupid Goal is a completely riveting world-when I looked up from its pages regular life seemed boring and safe and modern like one big iPhone. This book captures not just a lost New York but a whole lost way of life." -Miranda July
In Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian childhood, a funky, tight-knit...
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Is this really happening? Seventeen-year-old Jozef Benarz stands quietly in his parents' living room in Brzesciany, Poland, listening to the angry Nazi soldiers telling his parents they are going to take his father away to a forced labor camp in Germany. He knows in his heart the aging abusive father who raised him will not survive imprisonment during WWII. He tells the frightful men they can take him instead of his dad, much to his mother's horror...
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What impossibly big dream or impossibly big failure is God calling you to take a journey circling around the promise and to fail better?
Sharing inspiring human experiences from her own journey to fail better in prison, Anmy Tran will help you uncover your heart's deepest desires and God-given promises and unbridle them through the kind of audacious communication that God delights to give you the desire of your heart.
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Did I disturb ye good people? I hopes I disturb ye, I hopes I disturb ye enough to want to see this, your house, in ruins all around ye! Have you had enough yet? Or do you still have time for chaos? - Words spoken in court by Temperance Lloyd when she was tried for witchcraft in Devon in 1682Do You Still Have Time for Chaos? tells the story of poet and teacher Lynn Davidson's late-life decision to leave Aotearoa New Zealand, with scant...
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