Download or read book The Barbie Diaries written by Dale Champlin and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-17 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This funny, sexy and sometimes harrowing collection of poems is a refreshing look at ourselves through the unexpectedly human eyes of Barbie. Not only is she an icon of feminine perfection but an observer who misses nothing and deeply feels the joys, losses and longings of life. Barbie's devotion to her girl, the freedom of cutting loose with Ken and the secret pleasures of new relationships are contrasted with the cuts of misogyny, the cruelties of adolescence and the desolation of abandonment. A stroke of bad luck lands Barbie in an extended confinement and gives her time to muse and reflect on the changing seasons, the briefness of childhood and the price of immortality. Barbie is a survivor. Dale Champlin has given Barbie such a strong voice and persona in this smart and engrossing collection that it's hard to realize these poems have not been found in some secret trove of Barbie's personal papers.
Download or read book The Barbie Diaries written by Reader's Digest Children's Books and published by Reader's Digest Children's Books. This book was released on 2006-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this storybook and journal, young girls can get a glimpse into Barbie's diary which ties-in with The Barbie Diaries direct-to-video release. Includes a removable key that can be worn as a necklace and blank writing pages. Consumable.
Download or read book The Barbie Party Cookbook written by Helene Siegel and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A party-planner featuring a variety of activities and recipes.
Download or read book Tales from a Not So Happy Birthday written by Rachel Renée Russell and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Nikki Maxwell's birthday!! Will it be a blast or a bust?
Download or read book A Year With Barbie written by Edda USA Editorial Team and published by Edda USA. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plan your year with Barbie and write down important dates, birthdays, thoughts, and dreams in this beautiful year planner. The book is filled with great images, fun and inspirational quotes from Barbie and ideas for fun activities with your friends. You will have an amazing year with this book in hand!
Download or read book The Inspiration Blueprint written by BarbieTheWelder and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using my unique experiences as I went from being on welfare to becoming a world renowned metal sculptor I share with you step by step how I designed my perfect life by creating a picture, an Inspiration Blueprint, and how you too can create yours and live your most inspired life!
Download or read book Perfect Princess written by Meg Cabot and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sleeping Beauty, Victoria, Cleopatra, Snow White, Elizabeth, Pocahontas, Mia Thermopolis: all princesses Do YOU have what it takes to be a princess? princess mia will help you find out Best-selling Princess Diaries author Meg Cabot and acclaimed fashion artist Chesley McLaren team up again to display this clever royal roster of princesses of the world. Big or small, old or new, fact or fiction, our favorite princess Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo (aka Mia) will point out why these princesses rule, and how any girl can too!
Download or read book The Vatican Diaries written by John Thavis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling inside look at one of the world’s most powerful and mysterious institutions For more than twenty-five years, John Thavis held one of the most remarkable journalistic assignments in the world: reporting on the inner workings of the Vatican. In The Vatican Diaries, Thavis reveals Vatican City as a place struggling to define itself in the face of internal and external threats, where Curia cardinals fight private wars and sexual abuse scandals threaten to undermine papal authority. Thavis (author of The Vatican Prophecies: Investigating Supernatural Signs, Apparitions, and Miracles in the Modern Age) also takes readers through the politicking behind the election of Pope Francis and what we might expect from his papacy. The Vatican Diaries is a perceptive, compelling, and provocative account of this singular institution and will be of interest to anyone intrigued by the challenges faced by religion in an increasingly secularized world.
Download or read book Nutcracker and Mouseking written by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Little Failure written by Gary Shteyngart and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MORE THAN 45 PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • NPR • The New Yorker • San Francisco Chronicle • The Economist • The Atlantic • Newsday • Salon • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Guardian • Esquire (UK) • GQ (UK) After three acclaimed novels, Gary Shteyngart turns to memoir in a candid, witty, deeply poignant account of his life so far. Shteyngart shares his American immigrant experience, moving back and forth through time and memory with self-deprecating humor, moving insights, and literary bravado. The result is a resonant story of family and belonging that feels epic and intimate and distinctly his own. Born Igor Shteyngart in Leningrad during the twilight of the Soviet Union, the curious, diminutive, asthmatic boy grew up with a persistent sense of yearning—for food, for acceptance, for words—desires that would follow him into adulthood. At five, Igor wrote his first novel, Lenin and His Magical Goose, and his grandmother paid him a slice of cheese for every page. In the late 1970s, world events changed Igor’s life. Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev made a deal: exchange grain for the safe passage of Soviet Jews to America—a country Igor viewed as the enemy. Along the way, Igor became Gary so that he would suffer one or two fewer beatings from other kids. Coming to the United States from the Soviet Union was equivalent to stumbling off a monochromatic cliff and landing in a pool of pure Technicolor. Shteyngart’s loving but mismatched parents dreamed that he would become a lawyer or at least a “conscientious toiler” on Wall Street, something their distracted son was simply not cut out to do. Fusing English and Russian, his mother created the term Failurchka—Little Failure—which she applied to her son. With love. Mostly. As a result, Shteyngart operated on a theory that he would fail at everything he tried. At being a writer, at being a boyfriend, and, most important, at being a worthwhile human being. Swinging between a Soviet home life and American aspirations, Shteyngart found himself living in two contradictory worlds, all the while wishing that he could find a real home in one. And somebody to love him. And somebody to lend him sixty-nine cents for a McDonald’s hamburger. Provocative, hilarious, and inventive, Little Failure reveals a deeper vein of emotion in Gary Shteyngart’s prose. It is a memoir of an immigrant family coming to America, as told by a lifelong misfit who forged from his imagination an essential literary voice and, against all odds, a place in the world. Praise for Little Failure “Hilarious and moving . . . The army of readers who love Gary Shteyngart is about to get bigger.”—The New York Times Book Review “A memoir for the ages . . . brilliant and unflinching.”—Mary Karr “Dazzling . . . a rich, nuanced memoir . . . It’s an immigrant story, a coming-of-age story, a becoming-a-writer story, and a becoming-a-mensch story, and in all these ways it is, unambivalently, a success.”—Meg Wolitzer, NPR “Literary gold . . . bruisingly funny.”—Vogue “A giant success.”—Entertainment Weekly
Download or read book The Princess Diaries Volume V Princess in Pink written by Meg Cabot and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the release of Disney's sequel to the Princess Diaries movie in August, the princess phenomenon will be in full swing in 2004. Girls will be overjoyed with this hilarious addition to their favorite series, which involves seven minutes in heaven, citywide strikes, and Mia's mission to get asked to the senior prom.
Download or read book Undeadly written by Michele Vail and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The day I turned 16, my boyfriend-to-be died. I brought him back to life. Then things got a little weird… Molly Bartolucci wants to blend in, date hottie Rick and keep her zombie-raising abilities on the down-low. Then the god Anubis chooses her to become a reaper—and she accidentally undoes the work of another reaper, Rath. Within days, she's shipped off to the Nekyia Academy, an elite boarding school that trains the best necromancers in the world. And her personal reaping tutor? Rath. Life at Nekyia has its pluses. Molly has her own personal ghoul, for one. Rick follows her there out of the blue, for another…except, there's something a little off about him. When students at the academy start to die and Rath disappears, Molly starts to wonder if anything is as it seems. Only one thing is certain—Molly's got an undeadly knack for finding trouble….
Download or read book Tales from a Not So Friendly Frenemy written by Rachel Renee Russell and published by Thorndike Striving Reader. This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nikki Maxwell has the worst luck. Of all the schools she could have been assigned to for the student exchange week program, she's stuck at North Hampton Hills, her arch nemesis MacKenzie Hollister's new school. Even worse, there might just be someone at NHH who can out-MacKenzie MacKenzie! At least Nikki can write about every moment of drama in her diary, so readers won't miss a moment of it. Can the queen of dorks survive a week at the head CCP's new school or will it be a dorky disaster? ("--
Download or read book The Incest Diary written by Anonymous and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout her childhood and adolescence, the anonymous author of The Incest Diary was raped by her father. Beneath a veneer of normal family life, she grew up in and around this all-encompassing secret. Her sexual relationship with her father lasted, off and on, into her twenties. It formed her world, and it formed her deepest fears and desires. Even after she broke away, even as she grew into an independent and adventurous young woman, she continued to seek out new versions of the violence, submission and secrecy she had struggled to leave behind. In this graphic and harrowing memoir, the author revisits her early traumas and their aftermath - not from a clinical distance, but from deep within - to explore the ways in which her father's abuse shaped her, and still does. As a matter of psychic survival, she became both a sexual object and a detached observer, a dutiful daughter and the protector of a dirty secret. And then, years later, she made herself write it down. With lyric concision, in vignettes of almost unbearable intensity, this writer tells a story that is shocking but that will ring true to many other survivors of abuse. It has never been faced so directly on the page.
Download or read book Callie Comes of Age written by Dale Champlin and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ringing with an exquisite lyricism, Dale Champlin's amazing Callie Comes of Age-a novel in the form of poetry-will hold you in thrall. Set in the harsh ranch country of the American West, which shapes her life, Callie's story evolves from an early childhood filled with tenderness and a strong sense of belonging into a grim tale of a sexually precocious and fiercely independent adolescence, in which glimmers of a dark secret begin to emerge. The deftly nuanced narrative will keep you on edge of your seat all the way to the end.-Ingrid Wendt, Oregon Book Award winner in poetry, author of Evensong
Download or read book Tales from a Not So Posh Paris Adventure written by Rachel Renee Russell and published by Aladdin. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nikki Maxwell deals with the trials and triumphs of middle school in this fifteenth installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series!
Download or read book Barbie Princess Adventure the Royal Switch written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbies next adventure is in the Kingdom of Floravia! Barbie has been invited to the Kingdom of Floravia, along with her friends. Barbie plans to vlog the whole trip, but when she arrives, she is surprised... Barbie looks exactly like the princess of Floravia, Princess Amelia! Princess Amelia has a coronation in a few days time, but she wants to spend the last few days just like a regular person. Barbie and Princess Amelia agree to swap places for a few days, but things start to go wrong and someone is up to something nefarious! Can Barbie save Princess Amelia, the coronation and the Kingdom of Floravia in time? A retelling of the hit Netflix film, Barbies Princess Adventure, this storybook is the perfect book for young Barbie fans.
