Download or read book I m Glad My Mom Died written by Jennette McCurdy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir by American former actress and singer Jennette McCurdy about her career as a child actress and her difficult relationship with her abusive mother who died in 2013

Download or read book Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal written by Jeanette Winterson and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller: The “magnificent” memoir by one of the bravest and most original writers of our time—“A tour de force of literature and love” (Vogue). One of the New York Times’ “50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years” Jeanette Winterson’s bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. Her internationally best-selling debut, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents, and has become a staple of required reading in contemporary fiction classes. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a “singular and electric” memoir about a life’s work to find happiness (The New York Times). It is a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a religious zealot disguised as a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the dresser, waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in a north England industrial town now changed beyond recognition; about the universe as a cosmic dustbin. It is the story of how a painful past, rose to haunt the author later in life, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother. It is also a book about the power of literature, showing how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights, or a life raft that supports us when we are sinking. Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded story of the search for belonging—for love, identity, home, and a mother.

Download or read book Love Mama written by Jeanette Bradley and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a heartwarming story and tender illustrations, Jeanette Bradley's debut picture book Love, Mama is perfect for Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, and any day when a child needs a reminder of the strength of a mother's love. When Mama leaves her young penguin Kipling, he knows she'll return home soon—yet he still can't help but miss her. After all, Pillow Mama won't read, Picture Mama won't laugh, and Snow Mama is too cold to cuddle. But then Kipling receives a special delivery from Mama, including a note that reads: My love for you stretches across the wide ocean, through day and night, from earth to sky and back again. And Kipling knows that no matter where Mama is, he is loved. Soon, Mama comes home, and Kipling ends the day where he belongs—right in her arms.

Download or read book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit written by Jeanette Winterson and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling author’s Whitbread Prize–winning debut—“Winterson has mastered both comedy and tragedy in this rich little novel” (The Washington Post Book World). When it first appeared, Jeanette Winterson’s extraordinary debut novel received unanimous international praise, including the prestigious Whitbread Prize for best first fiction. Winterson went on to fulfill that promise, producing some of the most dazzling fiction and nonfiction of the past decade, including her celebrated memoir Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?. Now required reading in contemporary literature, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a funny, poignant exploration of a young girl’s adolescence. Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial North of England and finds herself embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age, and comes to terms with her unorthodox sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household dissolves. Jeanette’s insistence on listening to truths of her own heart and mind—and on reporting them with wit and passion—makes for an unforgettable chronicle of an eccentric, moving passage into adulthood. “If Flannery O’Connor and Rita Mae Brown had collaborated on the coming-out story of a young British girl in the 1960s, maybe they would have approached the quirky and subtle hilarity of Jeanette Winterson’s autobiographical first novel. . . . Winterson’s voice, with its idiosyncratic wit and sensitivity, is one you’ve never heard before.” —Ms. Magazine

Download or read book A Little Blue written by Jeanette Goode and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Simmy is sent to live with his father on the West Coast of the South Island. He finds himself in a quiet rural place, devoid of technology. There is no internet and no mobile phone coverage! How will he survive away from his mum, his friends and the city life he is accustomed to? It takes a while to get used to living in such a remote and isolated place. He is forced to pick up a pen and write letters home to his mum to communicate his frustration and loneliness. When he realises she is ill and cannot respond, he knows he has to be brave. It is the kororā, little blue penguins who capture his attention and change the way he sees the world"--Author's website.

Download or read book Jeanette Winterson written by Susana Onega Jaén and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of Jeanette Winterson's work, containing analyses of her nine novels and cross-references to her minor fictional and non-fictional works. It establishes the formal, thematic, and ideological characteristics of the novels, and situates the writer within the panorama of contemporary British fiction.

Download or read book The Novels of Jeanette Winterson written by Merja Makinen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-04-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Reader's Guide brings together, in an approachable form, the range of review and critical material on the novels of Jeanette Winterson. Covering all of Winterson's work, from Oranges are Not the Only Fruit to The PowerBook, Merja Makinen traces the early review reception of each novel on its publication and considers it alongside the larger critical debates that have subsequently evolved. Makinen follows the controversial critical analysis of Winterson as a lesbian writer, and develops the examination of the postmodern aspects of her work, whether as postmodern or post-Modern. Including a brief discussion of Winterson's most recent novel, Lighthouse Keeping, this is an indispensable guide for anyone studying, or simply interested in, the work of one of Britain's most successful contemporary authors.

Download or read book The Complete Films of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy written by Philip Castanza and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief biographies, stills, and film synopses and credits help chronicle the careers of the Hollywood stars who became America's Singing Sweethearts.

Download or read book Transgressing Boundaries in Jeanette Winterson s Fiction written by Sonia Front and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subsequent chapters of the book deal with selected questions from Jeanette Winterson's fiction, such as gender issues, love and eroticism, language and time, constituting areas within which Winterson's characters seek their identity. As they contest and repudiate clichés, stereotypes and patterns, their journey of self-discovery is accomplished through transgression. The book analyzes how the subversion of phallogocentric narrative and scenarios entails the reenvisaging of relations between the genders and reconceptualization of female desire. The author attempts to determine the consequences of Winterson's manipulations with gender, sexuality and time, and her disruption of the binary system.

Download or read book Jeanette the Genius Defying My Evil Stepmother by Starting a Business with My Ride or Die Fianc Volume 2 written by Miyako Miyano and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Roussel Corporation’s new president, Jeanette decides it’s time to kick the business back into action. She collaborates with the charming Pakiran prince Kyuriakris, coming up with a new product that swiftly takes high society by storm: tulips! The flower’s popularity blooms across the nation, becoming the new hottest trend. However, this causes its price to skyrocket, forcing Jeanette to make a difficult decision... But of course, to the optimistic Jeanette, this challenge is just another reward! Meanwhile, her blackhearted fiancé Claus becomes even more doting in the face of Kyuriakris’s attempts at winning Jeanette’s heart. Jeanette’s stepfamily isn’t out of the picture yet either. Her evil stepmother Leila begins plotting once more, but Ariel is acting strange. Could it be that Jeanette’s stepsister is having a change of heart? Can the genius Jeanette handle contending with her stepfamily, her tenacious admirers, and the tulip bubble bursting?

Download or read book Jeanette Winterson s Narratives of Desire written by Shareena Z. Hamzah-Osbourne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Putting forward a new theory of fetishism - alternative fetishism - this book provides an up-to-date examination of the work of Jeanette Winterson, offering fresh perspectives and new insights on the topics of gender, sexuality, and identity in her writing. Combining contemporary theories in psychoanalytical and cultural studies, it proposes that a rethinking of fetishism allows Winterson's works to be brought into sharper critical focus by repositioning fetishism as a daily practice in society. In so doing, it argues that Winterson's work challenges orthodox, normative, and contemporary views of fetishism to reveal her own alternative version. Containing the transcript of an email Q&A with Winterson herself and covering the majority of Winterson's oeuvre, from her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), up to the most recent, Frankissstein (2019), the book is divided into three main chapters that each discuss a particular theme in Winterson's fiction: bodily fetishism, food fetishism, and sexual fetishism. While the book's focus is on Winterson, the theoretical framework it proposes can be applied to other authors and disciplines in the Arts and Humanities, such as theatre and film, offering new ways of thinking about topics such as fetishism, feminism, psychoanalytical theory, postmodernism, gender, and sexuality.

Download or read book Jeanette the Genius Defying My Evil Stepmother by Starting a Business with My Ride or Die Fianc Volume 1 written by Miyako Miyano and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jeanette’s father suddenly goes missing, her evil stepmother seizes the opportunity to cast her out of the house! Now she’s left with no family, no belongings, and nowhere to live. But Jeanette the eternal optimist firmly believes in one thing: “Every crisis is an opportunity for growth!” Eager to face her new life, she has only one thing left to do to break free of her old—call off her engagement with the popular and beloved Count Claus! Little does she know the saintly gentleman she’s supposed to marry is secretly a blackhearted schemer, and he has other plans. In fact, he’s so madly in love with her, he’ll use any means necessary to stay by her side and assist her! Once the couple begins working together, Jeanette’s enterprising nature starts to shine. With her positive attitude, her natural genius, and her clever, besotted fiancé, can Jeanette triumph over adversity and earn back what’s rightfully hers?

Download or read book Jeanette the Genius Defying My Evil Stepmother by Starting a Business with My Ride or Die Fianc Volume 3 written by Miyako Miyano and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2024-12-30 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeanette and Claus are in the midst of planning their wedding when Claus receives a summons to the royal palace from the king! It turns out that the play the pair had been performing around town caught the royal family’s eye. Eager to promote their business, Jeanette and Claus make the trip to the palace. However, the person who steps out to meet them isn’t the king, but Princess Meltia! Famed for her fairylike beauty as well as her fragile constitution, the girl is a sight to behold. Yet looks can be deceiving, for the spoiled princess crudely demands that Claus marry her! Despite his firm refusal, she uses her influence to force him to live in the palace, keeping him under house arrest. Jeanette starts making a plan to save the captive princess (Claus) using her intelligence and positive attitude, but can she truly stand up to the royal family? Not to mention, a certain Pakiran prince still has his eye on her... How will Jeanette deal with the biggest “reward” she’s ever faced?

Download or read book Clive M McCay and Jeanette B McCay History of Work with Soyfoods the New York State Emergency Food Commission Improved Bread and Extension of Lifespan 1927 2009 Extensively Annotated Bibliography and Sourcebook written by William Shurtleff and published by Soyinfo Center. This book was released on 2009 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Life and Letters of Mrs Jeanette H Platt written by Cyrus Platt and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy Paper Dolls in Full Color written by Tom Tierney and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "America's Singing Sweethearts," accompanied by 25 costumes from "Naughty Marietta," "Rose Marie," "Maytime," "Bittersweet," "The Girl of the Golden West," "Sweethearts," "New Moon," and "I Married an Angel."

Download or read book You Are Not Too Much Love Notes on Heartache Redemption Reclamation written by Jeanette LeBlanc and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A love letter to those in the midst of the breakdown or a reckoning or a rise. A love letter to the wild ones, to the lost souls, to the free. To the seekers and the lovers of leaving and those intent on finding themselves amidst the rubble. Love letters to you. And always, in the end love letters to myself.