A Book for Her

A Book for Her
Author: Bridget Christie
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2015-07-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1448185335

Bridget Christie is a stand-up comedian, idiot and feminist. On the 30th of April 2012, a man farted in the Women’s Studies Section of a bookshop and it changed her life forever. A Book For Her details Christie’s twelve years of anonymous toil in the bowels of stand-up comedy and the sudden epiphany that made her, unbelievably, one of the most critically acclaimed British stand-up comedians this decade, drawing together the threads that link a smelly smell in the women’s studies section to the global feminist struggle. Find out how nice Peter Stringfellow’s fish tastes, how yoghurt advertising perpetuates rape myths, and how Emily Bronte used a special ladies’ pen to write Wuthering Heights. If you’re interested in comedy and feminism, then this is definitely the book for you. If you hate both then I’d probably give it a miss. “Christie is adept at turning on a sixpence between being comical, or serious, or both at once, and at pricking her own earnestness.” Telegraph ‘Christie piles derision and tomfoolery upon everyday sexism, while never pretending that jokes alone will solve the problem.’ Guardian

Film for Her

Film for Her
Author: Orion Carloto
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2020-10-21
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781524853778

With both pen and camera lens, Orion Carloto captures the dreamlike beauty of memory. Film for Her is a story book of people, places, and memories captured on film. Through photographs, poetry, prose, and a short story, Orion Carloto invites readers to remember the forgotten and reach into the past, find comfort in the present, and make sense of the intangible future. Film photography isn't just eye candy; it's timeless and romantic--the ideal complement to Carloto's writing. In Film for Her, much like a visual diary, word and image are intertwined in a book perfect for both gift and self-purchase.

For Her Own Good

For Her Own Good
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2013-10-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0307764168

This women's history classic brilliantly exposed the constraints imposed on women in the name of science and exposes the myths used to control them. Since the the nineteenth century, professionals have been invoking scientific expertise to prescribe what women should do for their own good. Among the experts’ diagnoses and remedies: menstruation was an illness requiring seclusion; pregnancy, a disabling condition; and higher education, a threat to long-term health of the uterus. From clitoridectomies to tame women’s behavior in the nineteenth century to the censure of a generation of mothers as castrators in the 1950s, doctors have not hesitated to intervene in women’s sexual, emotional, and maternal lives. Even domesticity, the most popular prescription for a safe environment for woman, spawned legions of “scientific” experts. Barbara Ehrenreich and Dierdre English has never lost faith in science itself, butinsist that we hold those who interpret it to higher standards. Women are entering the medical and scientific professions in greater numbers but as recent research shows, experts continue to use pseudoscience to tell women how to live. For Her Own Good provides today’s readers with an indispensable dose of informed skepticism.

Vegan for Her

Vegan for Her
Author: Virginia Messina
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2013-07-09
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0738216720

Vegan for Her, a blueprint for optimal health and wellness at any age, will show you how to: lower your risk for breast cancer and heart disease; manage conditions like arthritis and migraines; diminish PMs and cramps; build strong bones for life; enhance fertility; make an easy transition to a vegan diet; and incorporate principles of both fashion and compassion into your home and wardrobe.

Falling for her Fake Boyfriend 1-6: A Collection of Steamy Romance Short Stories (Complete Series)

Falling for her Fake Boyfriend 1-6: A Collection of Steamy Romance Short Stories (Complete Series)
Author: Ann King
Publisher: Ann King
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2017-01-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A Steamy Collection of Romance Short Stories in One Boxed Set. A Neighbors to Lovers/Friends to Lovers Romance Collection. One passionate night. One hot kiss with her sexy neighbor. Her life would never be the same again. As if life isn't complicated enough for Holly. Firstly, she's struggling to finish college on limited funds, then her former guardian and aunt is calling her bluff on having a boyfriend--since in her aunt's opinion, single girls are single because something is wrong with them. Period. When she asks her neighbour Evan to pretend to be her beau, knowing very little about him, except he's hot and smart, she might get more than she bargained for... Evan Knights can't believe his luck when the cute neighbor from down the hall asks him to pretend to be her boyfriend--just for the weekend. Trouble is--there's nothing pretence about his hot feelings for her. When Holly tells him she'll return a favor to him, his mind is set on having a night of mind-blowing unforgettable passion. Will his sizzling attraction be too hot for her to handle? But he's hiding a dark secret. Getting too close to Holly might be too risky. But isn't love all about risks?

Search for Her

Search for Her
Author: Rick Mofina
Publisher: MIRA
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2021-03-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488078343

"Mofina's books are edge-of-your seat thrilling."—Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author "A gifted storyteller."—Library Journal A missing daughter, a family with secrets, a race for the truth… At a truck stop near Las Vegas, fourteen-year-old Riley Jarrett vanishes from her family’s RV, turning their cross-country dream of starting over into a nightmare. Investigators have their work cut out for them. The massive, bustling truck plaza in the desert is the perfect place for someone to disappear—or be taken. Detectives pursue every chilling lead as all eyes fall to the newly blended family with a tragic past. With the clock ticking down on the likelihood that Riley’s alive, suspicions run deep. Everyone—from Riley’s mom to her stepdad to her stepbrother and her ex-boyfriend—has something to hide. And their secrets could prove deadly.

The Complete Poems of San Juan de la Cruz

The Complete Poems of San Juan de la Cruz
Author:
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2021-04-13
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1571319603

In 1578, during months of imprisonment for his reformist beliefs, San Juan de la Cruz composed a series of narrative poems inspired by the Biblical Song of Songs—and, the story goes, a popular love song overheard from his cramped cell—that take God as the beloved. Erotically charged, initially scandalous, his mystical poetry engages with the journey of the soul through the darkest trenches of suffering and despair toward an enlightened spiritual connection with God. For hundreds of years, these poems have resonated deeply with those who search for meaning in the dark, and have influenced generations of poets, artists, and philosophers. This bilingual edition of the Complete Poems—including “Dark Night” and both the Sanlúcar and Jaén manuscripts of “Spiritual Canticle”—presents an intimate and exceptionally collaborative new translation from María Baranda and Paul Hoover. Baranda, one of the most distinguished Mexican poets of her generation, lends her deft hand with expansive, meditative poetry. Hoover—the accomplished American poet, editor, and translator—offers his dexterity with form and the possibilities of language. The product is uniquely faithful to image and idea, and loyal to the ecstatic lyricism of this canonical text. A volume that hums with the soul’s longing to find solace, The Complete Poems of San Juan de la Cruz is a collection to be treasured.

Tried for Her Life

Tried for Her Life
Author: Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2019-12-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

'Tried for Her Life' by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth is a gripping tale of a young woman, Sybil, who is abducted and taken through an underground passage to an unknown destination. As she is carried further away from her familiar world, Sybil's fear and anxiety mount. She is at the mercy of her captors, who remain silent as they lead her through the dark, damp, and suffocating passage. Sybil is left to wonder what fate awaits her in this terrible place, until finally, they reach a cavern filled with sparkling gems and a mysterious figure. Sybil's terrors may be over, but now she faces a new threat as the figure declares that Sybil's liberty and perhaps even her life are at stake.

Everything for Her

Everything for Her
Author: Alexa Riley
Publisher: Carina Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2016-12-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488022666

"I devour every single delicious word Alexa Riley writes." —#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Maya Banks New York Times bestselling author Alexa Riley's first full-length novel shows just what happens when a strong, possessive man finds the woman of his dreams I'll never forget the way she looked, so confident and sure of herself. I watched her from a distance. She wasn't ready for me yet. I didn't approach her and I didn't disturb her, but I never once took my eyes off her. Mallory Sullivan is ready to start her new life. After graduating at the top of her class, she's landed one of the most coveted internships in the United States. Hard work and determination have gotten her to this moment of living the life she only dreamed of growing up in foster care. From the start, I knew that she would be my greatest achievement, so the day I let her go, I set down a path for her. A path to me. She never expected Oz to be the greatest culmination of those dreams. But sometimes fate determines who you fall in love with. Who makes you lose control. Who owns your soul. And then you realize it wasn't fate at all… I've wanted to care for and protect her since the first moment I saw her. I've constructed everything in our lives so that at the perfect moment, I could have her, could give her the life she deserves. The time has come. This book is approximately 97,000 words One-click with confidence. This title is part of the Carina Press Romance Promise: all the romance you're looking for with an HEA/HFN. It's a promise!

Rise and Float

Rise and Float
Author: Brian Tierney
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2022-02-08
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1571317724

Chosen by Randall Mann as a winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, Brian Tierney’s Rise and Float depicts the journey of a poet working—remarkably, miraculously—to make our most profound, private wounds visible on the page. With the “corpse of Frost” under his heel, Tierney reckons with a life that resists poetic rendition. The transgenerational impact of mental illness, a struggle with disordered eating, a father’s death from cancer, the loss of loved ones to addiction and suicide—all of these compound to “month after / month” and “dream / after dream” of struck-through lines. Still, Tierney commands poetry’s cathartic potential through searing images: wallpaper peeling like “wrist skin when a grater slips,” a “laugh as good as a scream,” pears as hard as a tumor. These poems commune with their ghosts not to overcome, but to release. The course of Rise and Float is not straightforward. Where one poem gently confesses to “trying, these days, to believe again / in people,” another concedes that “defeat / sometimes is defeat / without purpose.” Look: the chair is just a chair.” But therein lies the beauty of this collection: in the proximity (and occasional overlap) of these voices, we see something alluringly, openly human. Between a boy “torn open” by dogs and a suicide, “two beautiful teenagers are kissing.” Between screams, something intimate—hope, however difficult it may be.