Download or read book The Bouquet written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Belinda s Bouquet written by Lesléa Newman and published by Alyson Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belinda's best friend Daniel, and Daniel's two mothers, help her to accept her body shape.
Download or read book My Brotha Jay written by Thaddeus M. Robinson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Brotha Jay is a 28 year old African American male that hits the lottery for millions. He later squanders all his winnings as a result of not listening to his financial advisor. So he reverts to playing the lottery and consequently loses his girlfriend. Now he finds it difficult coping with everyday life.
Download or read book Greetings of the Season and Other Stories written by Barbara Metzger and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the magic of the holiday season with a little Regency romance! Originally published in separate anthologies, and out-of-print for many years, these Christmas-themed novellas by legendary Regency romance author Barbara Metzger are in one volume for the first time ever! This collection includes the following stories: Greetings of the Season The Proof Is in the Pudding Three Good Deeds Christmas Wish List Little Miracles
Download or read book Our Continent written by Albion Winegar Tourgée and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Taking Up Space written by Pattie Thomas, Ph.D. and published by Pearlsong Press. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking Up Space is a sociological memoir about being fat and the physical, emotional and economic costs of trying to pass for thin in a culture that stigmatizes fat people. Making her own life a case study, medical sociologist Pattie Thomas, Ph.D., with the help of her co-author and husband Carl Wilkerson, M.B.A., outlines how stigma limit and shape the life chances of all people and are supported within culture. Through narrative text, poetry, essays, photos and drawings, Dr. Thomas shares her own process and demonstrates how a sociologically examined life can be a source for personal growth. An extensive resource section challenges both the popular reader and the academic to further exploration. Kathleen LeBesco, author of Revolting Bodies: The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity, has called Taking Up Space "a road map through the minefield of the 'war on obesity.'" Foreword by Paul Campos, author of The Obesity Myth (published in paperback as The Diet Myth). The original trade paperback edition of Taking Up Space was published in 2005. The ebook edition was published in 2012 and contains an additional, updated preface.
Download or read book The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ Children s Picture Books written by Jennifer Miller and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-05-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books, Jennifer Miller identifies an archive of over 150 English-language children’s picture books that explicitly represent LGBTQ+ identities, expressions, and issues. This archive is then analyzed to explore the evolution of LGBTQ+ characters and content from the 1970s to the present. Miller describes dominant tropes that emerge in the field to analyze historical shifts in representational practices, which she suggests parallel larger sociocultural shifts in the visibility of LGBTQ+ identities. Additionally, Miller considers material constraints and possibilities affecting the production, distribution, and consumption of LGBTQ+ children’s picture books from the 1970s to the present. This foundational work defines the field of LGBTQ+ children’s picture books thoroughly, yet accessibly. In addition to laying the groundwork for further research, The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books presents a reading lens, critical optimism, used to analyze the transformative potential of LGBTQ+ children’s picture books. Many texts remain attached to heteronormative family forms and raced and classed models of success. However, by considering what these books put into the world, as well as problematic aspects of the world reproduced within them, Miller argues that LGBTQ+ children’s picture books are an essential world-making project and seek to usher in a transformed world as well as a significant historical archive that reflects material and representational shifts in dominant and subcultural understandings of gender and sexuality.
Download or read book Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory The written by Corey White and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corey White was a golden child. He knew this because his father would hit his mother and his sisters but not him. And his mother adored him so much she let him drop out of primary school. After losing his father to jail and his mother to heroin, though, he became a target for cruelty and dysfunction in foster homes. A scholarship to a prestigious boarding school lifted him out of foster care and awakened a love of learning and reading for him, but this was soon overwhelmed by a crushing depression and drug addiction. Through it all, he kept thinking - sometimes hoping, sometimes fearing - that he was destined for something bigger. Would he find salvation in the halls of a university, or a poetically grimy crack den, or through love? Or would the golden glow that had been in him since childhood ultimately fade, leaving only darkness and ruin? The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory is a memoir of trauma and survival that will break your heart and then show you how to rebuild it. It is a powerful, lyrical and darkly funny debut from one of Australia's brightest young comedians. 'Equal parts hilarious and horrifying, Corey's story is one of the most powerful I have ever read.' Wil Anderson 'Look back in anger. Look around in acceptance. Look forward in love. Harrowing, and yet hopeful.' Tim Rogers
Download or read book Fang Is King written by Joel Epstein and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vacation took a curious turn for Dexter when he discovered he had a very unusual relationship with Martin Luther King. Dexter couldn't tell his mother, because she was too preoccupied trying to get a promotion. His aunt Nina might've been sympathetic, but she had a drinking problem. His cousin Alexis was definitely not an option either. She was too busy teasing him about carrying around a big stuffed dog named Fang. But Dexter had received Fang the day his dad died and had no intentions of ever getting rid of his furry best friend. Although he was very smart, there were some things that Dexter simply didn’t understand. Why was Mr. Hummel so intent for him to visit the top of the Gateway Arch? How could someone as hateful and selfish as Alexis possibly care for a new baby? And why was Ralph being so friendly to him? As summer wore on, Dexter eventually learned the answers to these questions and began to understand how to apply Martin Luther King’s teachings to his own life.
Download or read book Out of the Closet and Into the Classroom written by Marjorie Lobban and published by K. G. Saur. This book was released on 1996 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of the Closet and Into the Classroom is the first bibliography dealing with homosexuality in books for young people, revealing various ways in which sexual preference and sexuality are presented to this audience. A selection tool for school and public librarians, it covers 194 recent English-language books with homosexual characters or themes. Among the 74 new titles in this edition are 28 picture books for younger readers, many aimed at children growing up as part of lesbian or gay families.
Download or read book The Youth s Companion written by Nathaniel Willis and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes music.
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Download or read book Rainbow Family Collections written by Jamie Campbell Naidoo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the only highly praised resources on this important topic, this thoughtfully compiled book examines and suggests picture books and chapter books presenting LGBTQ content to children under the age of 12. Highlighting titles for children from infancy to age 11, Rainbow Family Collections examines over 250 children's picture books, informational books, and chapter books with LGBTQ content from around the world. Each entry in Rainbow Family Collections supplies a synopsis of the title's content, lists awards it has received, cites professional reviews, and provides suggestions for librarians considering acquisition. The book also provides a brief historical overview of LGBTQ children's literature along with the major book awards for this genre, tips on planning welcoming spaces and offering effective library service to this population, and a list of criteria for selecting the best books with this content. Interviews with authors and key individuals in LGBTQ children's book publishing are also featured.
