Download or read book Mad Woman Rocking written by Farrah B. Mandala and published by Kind Press. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's experiences are unique. Our connections, our trauma and our strength all deserve a voice. Rosie Lane has endured enough tragedy and loss for one lifetime. And yet her plans to live peacefully in the splendour of farm life and write her first novel are thwarted when an old box containing four envelopes leads her to discover a hidden family history. When the doppelganger of her deceased son arrives on her doorstep, Rosie further uncovers the mystery of her parentage and learns of a brother she never knew. As the seasons pass, Rosie tries and fails to write as she navigates her resurfacing trauma and grapples with the inevitable task of telling her children the painful secrets she knows. Set within the stunning landscape of rural Australia, Mad Woman Rocking is about the power of creativity, inner strength, friendship and dreaming big.
Download or read book Mad Women written by Jane Maas and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maas offers an inside look at what it was really like to be an ad woman on Madison Avenue in the 1960s and 1970s, from casual sex to professional serfdom, in this bittersweet memoir.
Download or read book A Mad Wicked Folly written by Sharon Biggs Waller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Edwardian London, a girl dreams of being an artist, despite her family's disapproval. Welcome to the world of the fabulously wealthy in London, 1909, where dresses and houses are overwhelmingly opulent, social class means everything, and women are taught to be nothing more than wives and mothers. Into this world comes seventeen-year-old Victoria Darling, who wants only to be an artist—a nearly impossible dream for a girl. After Vicky poses nude for her illicit art class, she is expelled from her French finishing school. Shamed and scandalized, her parents try to marry her off to the wealthy Edmund Carrick-Humphrey. But Vicky has other things on her mind: her clandestine application to the Royal College of Art; her participation in the suffragette movement; and her growing attraction to a working-class boy who may be her muse—or may be the love of her life. As the world of debutante balls, corsets, and high society obligations closes in around her, Vicky must figure out: just how much is she willing to sacrifice to pursue her dreams?
Download or read book Angry Women in Rock written by Andrea Juno and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Please note, this book contains a lot of explicit sexual talk, violence and profanity". -- Rockrgrl Angry Women in Rock takes up where best-selling Angry Women left off. Thirteen female musicians and producers are featured, including Chrissie Hynde, Joan Jett, Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill), 7 Year Bitch, Jarboe (Swans), and more!
Download or read book The Madwoman in the Volvo My Year of Raging Hormones written by Sandra Tsing Loh and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A writer, performer, and contributing editor to "The Atlantic" humorously chronicles her experiences going through menopause while dealing with the end of her marriage, her preteen daughters, and the hijinks of her eighty-nine-year-old father.
Download or read book Angry Women in Rock written by Andrea Juno and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and important examination of gender, class, race, economics, and sexuality in op culutre, doubly relevant because the voices are those of pop cultre heroines themselves. The women here express lucid, intelligent opinions, with enough controversy and fire, giving an intriguing insight into the music world. Includes interviews with Chrissie Hynde, Joan Jett, Tribe 8 and other key women performers in the rock field.
Download or read book The Toymaker written by Jeremy de Quidt and published by David Fickling Books. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What good is a toy that will wind down? What if you could give a toy a heart? A real heart. One that beat and beat and didn't stop. What couldn't you do if you could make a toy like that? From the moment that the circus boy, Mathias, takes a small roll of paper from the dying conjuror, his fate is sealed. For on it is the key to a terrifying secret, and there are those who would kill him rather than have it told. Pursued by the sinister Dr. Leiter with his exquisite doll and malevolent dwarf, preyed on by the circus master and his vicious painted wife, Mathias is drawn into a relentless nightmare. A nightmare that will lead him to the Toymaker, and to a knife as cruel as frost. A relentlessly dark and sinister tale of a young boy's living nightmare, this debut novel will send shivers down your spine and will haunt you long after the final page. With the atmosphere of Philip Pullman's I Was a Rat!, this is a brilliantly frightening tale from an exciting new literary talent.
Download or read book Living the Life Unexpected written by Jody Day and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The book to recommend to patients when they face coming to terms with unavoidable childlessness.' – British Medical Journal In Living the Life Unexpected, Jody Day addresses the experience of involuntary childlessness and provides a powerful, practical guide to help those negotiating a future without children come to terms with their grief; a grief that is only just beginning to be recognized by society. This friendly, practical, humorous and honest guide from one of the world’s most respected names in childless support offers compassion and understanding and shows how it’s possible to move towards a creative, happy, meaningful and fulfilling future – even if it’s not the one you had planned. Millions of people are now living a life without children, almost double that of a generation ago and the numbers are rising still. Although some are childfree by choice, many others are childless due to infertility or circumstance and are struggling to come to terms with their uncertain future. Although most people think that those without children either 'couldn't' or 'didn't want’ to be parents, the truth is much more complex. Jody Day was forty-four when she realized that her quest to be a mother was at an end. She presumed that she was through the toughest part, but over the next couple of years she was hit by waves of grief, despair and isolation. Eventually she found her way and in 2011 created Gateway Women, the global friendship and support network for childless women which has now helped almost two million people worldwide. This edition, previously titled Rocking the Life Unexpected, has been extensively revised and updated, with significant additional content and case studies from forty involuntarily childless people (mostly women) from around the world.
Download or read book Dreamwalkers written by Sooz Parnam-Harris and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what happens in your dreams after you wake up? For some of us the journey begins when we close our eyes.
Download or read book 24 Hours written by Greg Iles and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles takes readers on a daringly executed roller-coaster ride as a family under attack takes justice into their own hands. It begins on a perfect night, with a perfect family about to be trapped in a perfect crime... Will Jennings is a successful young doctor in Jackson, Mississippi, with a thriving practice, a beautiful wife, and a five-year-old daughter he loves beyond measure. But Will and his family are being watched by a con man and psychopath who may be a genius. A man who has never been caught and whose victims have never talked to the police. A man whose life's work strikes at the heart of every family's unspoken fear: the unstoppable kidnapping. But this time he's picked the wrong family to terrorize. Because Will and Karen Jennings aren't going to watch helplessly as he victimizes them. They aren't going to let him get away with it. They're going to fight back...
Download or read book Rocking Autumn written by Alyne Hart and published by Alyne Hart. This book was released on 2021-12-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a second chance get a happily ever after? A sexy and sweet rock star romance that will make you believe in true love... Bookstore owner Autumn Brooks wasn't looking for love. She wasn't even looking for a man. It was just her, her books, her cupcakes and her cat, and that's the way she liked it. But when Jaxon West walked back into her life after ten long years away, she finds resisting him almost impossible. Now she just hopes she doesn’t get hurt when she falls hard for the guy who’s broken her heart once already. Jaxon West knows that Autumn is the one, even if it took him ten years to figure that part out. Now he's back, determined to win her heart, an effort she won't make easy on him. When he does, can their relationship survive the long distance? Can it survive the touring with his band and the missed phone calls? Can it survive the secret he's hiding from her?
Download or read book Unsettling written by Vincent Macraven and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4 out of 5 stars, “Canny and thought provoking” San Francisco review of books “A Standout, frequently profound story collection” Kirkus Reviews of Vincent Macraven’s collection of short stories, “A Diverse Gathering” Unsettling was unsettling, in the best way possible. There were a few times throughout the book that I actually had to put it down for fear of nightmares. Macraven takes the innards of our souls and hangs them out there for us to see, bloody and dripping. The images are disturbing and real and the storytelling is horror fiction at its finest. In Where the Dead Dwell, we visit the most haunted of houses, alive in its own evil. In Watching Black Mountain, the reader is introduced to a charismatic leader, a man with true belief in his own God-like abilities. His pride will leave you breathless. Finally, in The Devil Incarnate, a detective is faced with the murder victims he has failed at the hands of a much larger, much scarier force. These stories will entrance you and keep you up at night, willing you to face the demons in our world. Sarah Ghoshal
Download or read book This Chair Rocks written by Ashton Applewhite and published by Celadon Books. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age. In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their youthful appearance and vitality. Wrinkles are embarrassing. Gray hair should be colored and bald heads covered with implants. Older minds and bodies are too frail to keep up with the pace of the modern working world and olders should just step aside for the new generation. Ashton Applewhite once held these beliefs too until she realized where this prejudice comes from and the damage it does. Lively, funny, and deeply researched, This Chair Rocks traces her journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life. Explaining the roots of ageism in history and how it divides and debases, Applewhite examines how ageist stereotypes cripple the way our brains and bodies function, looks at ageism in the workplace and the bedroom, exposes the cost of the all-American myth of independence, critiques the portrayal of elders as burdens to society, describes what an all-age-friendly world would look like, and offers a rousing call to action. It’s time to create a world of age equality by making discrimination on the basis of age as unacceptable as any other kind of bias. Whether you’re older or hoping to get there, this book will shake you by the shoulders, cheer you up, make you mad, and change the way you see the rest of your life. Age pride! “Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower, but this book has empowered me.” —Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author
Download or read book In Paradise Book 1 written by Red Jordan Arobateau and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ghosts of Acadia written by Marcus LiBrizzi and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following in the tradition of his first collection of ghost stories, Dark Woods, Chill Waters, Marcus LiBrizzi has researched and written a collection of 21 true ghost stories from the Acadia/Mount Desert Island region of Maine. All the stories stand out due to their frightening elements and legendary qualities, combined with historical background and eye-witness accounts. The collection also provides a kind of gothic tour guide, recounting stories in settings that readers can go and visit.
