Notes on Fundamental Joy

Notes on Fundamental Joy
Author: Carmen Winant
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019
Genre: Feminism and the arts
ISBN: 9780894390982

"An experimental work that sits at the cross section of an artists' project and historical document, drawing from archival images borne out of the Ovulars, a series of darkroom/photography workshops held in various feminist & lesbian separatist communes of the early 80s across the Pacific Northwest. Notes on Fundamental Joy holds up the work of JEB, Clytia Fuller, Tee Corinne, Ruth Mountaingrove, Katie Niles, Carol Osmer, Honey Lee Cottrell, and others, documenting a community of women/womyn in their collective embrace of the 'back to the land' movement. Through the lens of pervasive image-making--women holding cameras, women taking pictures of women--the project considers the radical potential of social and political optimism predicated on the absence of men.The photographs are accompanied by a running essay from Winant, stretched across the bottom of each page as if a low horizon line, considering the images' collective power in picturing intimacy and pleasure. The self-reflexive text contends with the pull Winant feels towards these works--for their unabashedness and beauty--and considers how the images may have life and meaning outside of the subculture that produced them."--

Virtuosity

Virtuosity
Author: Jessica Martinez
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2011-10-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1442420529

Just before the most important violin competition of her career, seventeen-year-old prodigy Carmen faces critical decisions about her anti-anxiety drug addiction, her controlling mother, and a potential romance with her most talented rival.

Holiday Dream

Holiday Dream
Author: Gwynne Forster
Publisher: Harlequin Kimani Arabesque
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-10-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780373534883

Along with the scent of evergreen, romance is in the air this joyous holiday season, as three authors bring you heartwarming classic tales that are the perfect way to celebrate this special time of sharing, caring and falling in love. Christopher's Gifts by Gwynne Forster High-profile New York interior designer Nadine Carpenter advertises for a chauffeur and gets a handsome, overqualified divorcé named Wade Malloy. He has just two Christmas wishes: to win custody of his son and a certain career woman's love. Whisper To Me by Carmen Green When teacher Iman Parrish meets widower Cedric Hamilton, a self-made businessman and father of two who prizes his possessions, they celebrate Kwanzaa and find that the tradition opens their minds and joins their hearts. The First Noël by Felicia Mason Master woodworker Franklin Williams is determined to show an overworked Kia Simmons that the true wonder of the holiday season lies in a love that shines as brightly as the Christmas star.

Testament of Youth

Testament of Youth
Author: Vera Brittain
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 676
Release: 1994
Genre: Authors, English
ISBN: 9780140188448

An autobiographical account of a young nurse's involvement in World War I

Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
Author: Ann Brashares
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2007-01-09
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0375843183

The fourth and final novel in the wildly popular #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, from the author of The Whole Thing Together and The Here and Now. With unraveled embroidery and fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back for one last, glorious summer. It’s a summer that will forever change the lives of Lena, Bridget, Tibby, and Carmen, here and now, past and future, together and apart. Pants = love. Love your pals. Love yourself. “Genuinely moving." —Entertainment Weekly “A strong, satisfying conclusion.” —Booklist “An ode to love and friendship.” —Kirkus Reviews “A great read.” —Daily News (New York)

Glimpsed

Glimpsed
Author: G.F. Miller
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1534471367

“Filled with tongue-in-cheek humor…a gently fantastical world brimming with teen shenanigans.” —Publishers Weekly Perfect for fans of Geekerella and Jenn Bennett, this charming, sparkly rom-com follows a wish-granting teen forced to question if she’s really doing good—and if she has the power to make her own dreams come true. Charity is a fairy godmother. She doesn’t wear a poofy dress or go around waving a wand, but she does make sure the deepest desires of the student population at Jack London High School come true. And she knows what they want even better than they do because she can glimpse their perfect futures. But when Charity fulfills a glimpse that gets Vindhya crowned homecoming queen, it ends in disaster. Suddenly, every wish Charity has ever granted is called into question. Has she really been helping people? Where do these glimpses come from, anyway? What if she’s not getting the whole picture? Making this existential crisis way worse is Noah—the adorkable and (in Charity’s opinion) diabolical ex of one of her past clients—who blames her for sabotaging his prom plans and claims her interventions are doing more harm than good. He demands that she stop granting wishes and help him get his girl back. At first, Charity has no choice but to play along. But soon, Noah becomes an unexpected ally in getting to the bottom of the glimpses. Before long, Charity dares to call him her friend…and even starts to wish he were something more. But can the fairy godmother ever get the happily ever after?

Contemporary Art and Classical Myth

Contemporary Art and Classical Myth
Author: Jennie Hirsh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1351571036

Contemporary art is deeply engaged with the subject of classical myth. Yet within the literature on contemporary art, little has been said about this provocative relationship. Composed of fourteen original essays, Contemporary Art and Classical Myth addresses this scholarly gap, exploring, and in large part establishing, the multifaceted intersection of contemporary art and classical myth. Moving beyond the notion of art as illustration, the essays assembled here adopt a range of methodological frameworks, from iconography to deconstruction, and do so across an impressive range of artists and objects: Francis Al?s, Ghada Amer, Wim Delvoye, Luciano Fabro, Joanna Frueh, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Duane Hanson, Yayoi Kusama, Roy Lichtenstein, Kara Walker, and an iconic photograph by Richard Drew subsequently entitled The Falling Man.? Arranged so as to highlight both thematic and structural affinities, these essays manifest various aspects of the link between contemporary art and classical myth, while offering novel insights into the artists and myths under consideration. Some essays concentrate on single works as they relate to specific myths, while others take a broader approach, calling on myth as a means of grappling with dominant trends in contemporary art.

Fast Food Nation

Fast Food Nation
Author: Eric Schlosser
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0547750331

An exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences.

The Time of Our Singing

The Time of Our Singing
Author: Richard Powers
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 642
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374706417

“The last novel where I rooted for every character, and the last to make me cry.” - Marlon James, Elle From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory and the Oprah's Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers's magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted—and divided—family, set against the backdrop of postwar America. On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson’s epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish émigré scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Black Philadelphian studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and—against all odds and their better judgment—they marry. They vow to raise their children beyond time, beyond identity, steeped only in song. Jonah, Joseph, and Ruth grow up, however, during the civil rights era, coming of age in the violent 1960s, and living out adulthood in the racially retrenched late century. Jonah, the eldest, “whose voice could make heads of state repent,” follows a life in his parents’ beloved classical music. Ruth, the youngest, devotes herself to community activism and repudiates the white culture her brother represents. Joseph, the middle child and the narrator of this generation-bridging tale, struggles to find himself and remain connected to them both. Richard Powers's The Time of Our Singing is a story of self-invention, allegiance, race, cultural ownership, the compromised power of music, and the tangled loops of time that rewrite all belonging.