Download or read book Ruminations of a Catholic School Girl written by Vicki Lindgren Rimasse and published by First Edition Design Pub.. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruminations of a Catholic School Girl is a compendium of random thoughts on food, love, sex, shopping, marriage, divorce, death, rebirth, the existential vacuum and music through essays, notes passed in class, and diary entries. With vivid imagery and sardonic commentary, brings to life the story of a Boomer from Long Island, Gwen Patrick (the author's alter-ego), who loves shoes, Beaujolais, shopping, food and most of all - food, family and friends. Chronicling her life from her first experience with parochial school in the 60s through her son Zimmerman's high school years, it tells the story of a Long Island boomers experience and continuing journey.With references to Plutarch and Popeye, the Bible and Sex and the City, Jim Morrison, Joni Mitchell and Opera, Gwen's journey will resonate with women of any age - and men who understand the importance of having the right mustard for their pastrami.
Download or read book Agatha of Little Neon written by Claire Luchette and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree “An enchanting, sparkling book about the many meanings of sisterhood.” —Kristin Iversen, Refinery29 Claire Luchette's debut, Agatha of Little Neon, is a novel about yearning and sisterhood, figuring out how you fit in (or don’t), and the unexpected friends who help you find your truest self Agatha has lived every day of the last nine years with her sisters: they work together, laugh together, pray together. Their world is contained within the little house they share. The four of them are devoted to Mother Roberta and to their quiet, purposeful life. But when the parish goes broke, the sisters are forced to move. They land in Woonsocket, a former mill town now dotted with wind turbines. They take over the care of a halfway house, where they live alongside their charges, such as the jawless Tim Gary and the headstrong Lawnmower Jill. Agatha is forced to venture out into the world alone to teach math at a local all-girls high school, where for the first time in years she has to reckon all on her own with what she sees and feels. Who will she be if she isn’t with her sisters? These women, the church, have been her home. Or has she just been hiding? Disarming, delightfully deadpan, and full of searching, Claire Luchette’s Agatha of Little Neon offers a view into the lives of women and the choices they make.
Download or read book The American Diary of a Japanese Girl written by Yone Noguchi and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking work of Asian American fiction in a brand new edition.
Download or read book Text Presentation 2016 written by Graley Herren and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together some of the best work from the 2016 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore, this collection of essays presents the latest research in comparative drama, performance and dramatic textual analysis. A variety of approaches and formats--including twelve research papers, five book reviews and one transcript--cover topics ranging from Ancient Greece to 21st century America. A highlight is the keynote conversation featuring the great American playwright Tony Kushner.
Download or read book The Hired Girl written by Laura Amy Schlitz and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A 2016 Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award Winner Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a moving yet comedic tour de force. Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself—because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl could only dream of—a woman with a future. Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz relates Joan’s journey from the muck of the chicken coop to the comforts of a society household in Baltimore (Electricity! Carpet sweepers! Sending out the laundry!), taking readers on an exploration of feminism and housework; religion and literature; love and loyalty; cats, hats, and bunions.
Download or read book State of Mind written by Constance Lewallen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is not a trace of the provincial nor the apologetic in the tone of the State of Mind texts. Rather there is a justified claim for the sophisticated originality of this Californian art—sophisticated because the authors have convincingly argued that the artists, for the most part, had many conscious connections and familiarity with art from the rest of the country and Europe, yet were driven by a desire to be independent and different." —Moira Roth, editor and contributor, The Amazing Decade: Women and Performance Art in America 1970-1980 "State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970 is an essential overview of the rich and complex moment when California assumed its role as a leading center for the making and exhibition of the kind of adventurous and progressive art that immediately fascinated the world, and over the years has come to define a generation and a region. An unmatched source of hard-to-find primary images combined with thought-provoking critical essays, this book can easily function as a standard text on this subject.” —David Ross, former director of SFMOMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art, and currently Chairman of the MFA program in Art Practice at The School of Visual Arts
Download or read book The Man who Made Wall Street written by Dan Rottenberg and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After decades of detective work, Dan Rottenberg has succeeded in writing the first biography of this exceptionally influential and elusive man.
Download or read book Women in Context written by Barbara Kanner and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and versatile source for researchers in a broad range of disciplines, Women in Context is a biographical, analytical, and critical bibliography of narrative autobiographies written by over eight hundred women born in the United Kingdom and British territories from the mid-eighteenth century to mid-twentieth centuries. Each entry provides publication and catalog information, a brief biographical sketch, an analysis of the topical content, and a critical comment on style, tone, and purpose of the autobiography.
Download or read book Stutterer Interrupted written by Nina G. and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nina G bills herself as “The San Francisco Bay Area’s Only Female Stuttering Comedian.” On stage, she encounters the occasional heckler, but off stage she is often confronted with people’s comments toward her stuttering; listeners completing her sentences, inquiring, “Did you forget your name?” and giving unwanted advice like “slow down and breathe” are common. (As if she never thought about slowing down and breathing in her over thirty years of stuttering!) When Nina started comedy nearly ten years ago, she was the only woman in the world of stand-up who stuttered—not a surprise, since men outnumber women four to one amongst those who stutter and comedy is a male-dominated profession. Nina’s brand of comedy reflects the experience of many people with disabilities in that the problem with disability isn’t in the person with it but in a society that isn’t always accessible or inclusive.
Download or read book Culture and Difference written by Antonia Darder and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1995-12-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The yearning to remember who we are is not easily detected in the qualitative dimensions of focus groups and ethnographic research methods; nor is it easily measured in standard quantified scientific inquiry. It is deeply rooted, obscured by layer upon layer of human efforts to survive the impact of historical amnesia induced by the dominant policies and practices of advanced capitalism and postmodern culture. Darder's introduction sets the tone by describing the formation of Warriors for Gringostroika and The New Mestizas. In the words of Anzaldua, those who cross over, pass over . . . the confines of the `normal.' Critical essays follow by Mexicanas, poets, activists, and educators of all colors and persuasions. The collection coming out of the good work of the Southern California University system relates to all locales and spectrums of the human condition and will no doubt inspire excellent creativity of knowing and remembering among all who chance to read any part thereof.
Download or read book The Poignant Tale of Megalha written by Duke R Silva and published by Duke R Silva. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of a female life shattered in dreams and truncated in its animation by the cruel effects of a childhood molestation, whose trail extends rearward to remote peaceable shores of an island itself detached from the modern world, later leaping onward to the latter modern land for the greater aggravation of its psychosomatic behavioral symptoms. It is a piercingly familiar story shared by many a woman, but whose rightful tone and tenor had long been stifled by the same forces that caused its cursed birth upon their chaste innocent lives. This is a female tale that must be heard and shared, so that others suffering from like cause and subsequent symptoms might seek to find soever good a relief, and seek a settled upon closure that would allow for a degree of personal peace and a charitable counsel to a sister whose fortune also had then been turned to fires, then to ashes leading to destructive sufferings in the shadows of all ingrate cynical societies.
Download or read book Late Europeans and Melancholy Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium written by Ian Ellison and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comparative study of novels by Patrick Modiano, W. G. Sebald, and Antonio Muñoz Molina. Drawing on many literary figures, movements, and traditions, from the Spanish Golden Age, to German Romanticism, to French philosophy, via Jewish modernist literature, Ian Ellison offers a fresh perspective on European fiction published around the turn of the millennium. Reflecting on what makes European fiction European, this book examines how certain novels understand themselves to be culturally and historically late, expressing a melancholy awareness of how the past and present are irreconcilable. Within this framework, however, it considers how backwards-facing, tradition-oriented self-consciousness, burdened by a sense of exhaustion in European culture and the violence of its past, may yet suggest the potential for re-enchantment in the face of obsolescence.
Download or read book Vygotsky and Creativity written by M. Cathrene Connery and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents a Vygotskian perspective on children's and adults' symbolic engagement in play, multi-modal meaning making, and the arts. Psychologists, artists, and educators present research and practice in a variety of learning environments through the lens of Vygotsky's cultural historical theory. The connections between creative expression, learning, teaching, and development are situated in a theoretical framework that emphasizes the social origins of individual development and the arts. The authors share a view of learning as an imaginative process rooted in our common need to communicate and transform individual experience through the cultural lifelines of the arts. This book is suitable for readers or courses in the following areas: art and aesthetics; art education; art therapy; cultural historical activity theory; communication; creativity studies; early childhood education; education; educational perspectives; educational psychology; emotional development; cultural and societal foundations; language, literacy, and sociocultural studies; learning and development; mental health and catharsis; multiliteracies; multimodal meaning making; play; play therapy; psychology; semiotics; social construction of meaning; trauma, resilience, and therapeutic processes and practices; and Vygotskian approaches to psychology.
Download or read book Rat Girl written by Kristin Hersh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the 25 Greatest Rock Memoirs of All Time” --Rolling Stone Magazine (#8) “Sensitive and emotionally raw… it’s also wildly funny”--The New York Times Book Review A powerfully original memoir of pregnancy and mental illness by the legendary founder of the seminal rock band Throwing Muses, 'a magnificently charged union of Sylvia Plath and Patti Smith' - The Guardian Kristin Hersh was a preternaturally bright teenager, starting college at fifteen and with her band, Throwing Muses, playing rock clubs she was too young to frequent. By the age of seventeen she was living in her car, unable to sleep for the torment of strange songs swimming around her head - the songs for which she is now known. But just as her band was taking off, Hersh was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Rat Girl chronicles the unraveling of a young woman's personality, culminating in a suicide attempt; and then her arduous yet inspiring recovery, her unplanned pregnancy at the age of 19, and the birth of her first son. Playful, vivid, and wonderfully warm, this is a visceral and brave memoir by a truly original performer, told in a truly original voice.
Download or read book Timeshoppers written by Amy Fate and published by The Hudson Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timeshoppers by Amy FateWhen a lonely nuclear physicist accidentally invents a time machine over the Christmas holidays, his teenage daughters use it to go shopping! Professor Bill Zeitman has spent the last dozen years trying to find gravity waves. Massively in debt and about to lose their home, Bill blows the last of the family's money in a final, desperate effort to make it work. It fails. He's in despair. They're about to be homeless at Christmas. Then he discovers a miracle: he's accidentally invented a portal in time. To Bill the machine is a telescope on the past, and a way to land tenure and stave off foreclosure, maybe even win a Nobel Prize. But when he reveals it to Plum and Holly, his twin teenage daughters, and shows them ancient Pompeii, they rescue things lost in Mount Vesuvius's explosion. One rescue leads to another, and they soon use it to go shopping and get the clothes they need. To the creative, fashion-forward girls the machine is a Cinderella's coach. They want to land spots on the Fete Ball Committee, which runs their school's big holiday party, so that they can do something cool for a change, and also win their school's vicious social and fashion competition. Then Bill succumbs to temptation. For years he has obsessed over Lindsey Livingston, a classic movie star who who vanished just before Christmas in 1938. When he goes to take a peek, he winds up accidentally rescuing her from a stalker. Chaos ensues when Holly and Plum are mysteriously kidnapped. Lindsey helps Bill find a way to get his girlsand all of them home for Christmas. Along the way they all find the real, creative, gift of the holidays.
Download or read book The Christian Union written by Henry Ward Beecher and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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