Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing

Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing
Author: Julie Marie Wade
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2020
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780814255674

Lyrical essays reflecting on gender, sexuality, embodiment, family, and culture as the author considers her personal history with her body, beauty, and love.

Small Fires

Small Fires
Author: Julie Marie Wade
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1936747022

Wade's self-aware, grief-inflected essays attempt to answer the question--what have you given up in order to become who you are?

CROWNED: AN ORDINARY GIRL

CROWNED: AN ORDINARY GIRL
Author: Natasha Oakley
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2015-01-23
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 4596682062

Ten years ago, Marianne had no choice but to accept the betrayal of the man she’d devoted everything to. When she saw the press conference for his engagement and realized that he was actually Prince Sebastian II, she couldn’t believe anything about his love had been real. But her failed love affair is a thing of the past now, and Mariannefocuses on her career as a historian. Unfortunately a cruel twist of fate brings him back into her life. Though she can’t help wishing they’d never met, her feelings for him have only grown stronger….

An Ordinary Woman

An Ordinary Woman
Author: Donna Hill
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2003-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312307295

Learn to play the bongos with this step-by-step instructional guide from Alan Dworsky. Designed for the first-time hand drummer, this programme teaches 21 fun and funky grooves that will fit with all kinds of music. Each pattern is taught with overhead and side views, and slow motion is used to make sure that every detail is clear.

Just an Ordinary Woman with a Testimony

Just an Ordinary Woman with a Testimony
Author: Jessica Zuniga-Gomez
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2016-06-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1365224910

...Without God's powerful Holy Spirit saving me from all this corruption, I wouldn't be able to find Jesus. Now with God's blessings, I can deliver the good Gospel to others like me: the lost ones, the ones that have no guidance, and the ones that have no hope. This chapter in my life was missing a piece, and it was Jesus. But with God's true love, He can help put this missing piece into your life, as he has done to mine. Glory be to God, His name, Jesus. Amen

How to Breathe Underwater

How to Breathe Underwater
Author: Julie Orringer
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307426297

A New York Times notable book and winner of The Northern California Book Award for Best Short Fiction, these nine brave, wise, and spellbinding stories make up this debut. In "When She is Old and I Am Famous" a young woman confronts the inscrutable power of her cousin's beauty. In "Note to Sixth-Grade Self" a band of popular girls exert their social power over an awkward outcast. In "Isabel Fish" fourteen-year-old Maddy learns to scuba dive in order to mend her family after a terrible accident. Alive with the victories, humiliations, and tragedies of youth, How to Breathe Underwater illuminates this powerful territory with striking grace and intelligence. "These stories are without exception clear-eyed, compassionate and deeply moving.... Even her most bitter characters have a gift, the sharp wit of envy. This, Orringer's first book, is breathtakingly good, truly felt and beautifully delivered."—The Guardian

Still Breathing

Still Breathing
Author: E. A. Fournier
Publisher: Eugene Fournier
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2018-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Newly widowed and on the threshold of seventy, Lizzie Warton questions the value of her remaining years. Uncharacteristically, she decides for the first time in her life to do what she wants, instead of what everyone expects. ​Against the wishes of family and friends, she sets out for Africa to work at a Ugandan middle school. When she lands at night in the Entebbe airport, her hosts are not there to meet her. Near panic, she hires a local taxi. The driver drugs her, steals everything, and dumps her limp body in a slum. Waking in the dark, she feels someone tugging off her shoes. ​Without money, a passport, clothes, or medications, Lizzie is forced to start over and find a way to survive. Soon she learns that nothing in Africa is as it appears. The grind of daily life in the third-world is beyond anything Lizzie imagined. Nevertheless, encouraged by budding friendships in surprising places, and against every sensible instinct she’s ever developed, Lizzie’s own personal search for meaning becomes the grand adventure of a lifetime.

Telephone: Essays in Two Voices

Telephone: Essays in Two Voices
Author: Julie Marie Wade
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781734816730

Literary Nonfiction. "TELEPHONE is, for me, a stellar example of what can be achieved in collaborative work where two voices figure out how to link connective threads that bring out the best in each of their words, images, and narrative flourishes. This is a real gift of a book, one I hope to keep learning from."--Hanif Abdurraqib "Miller and Wade's TELEPHONE is a polyphonic emergency. These divinely nostalgic and politely oracular essays,--are they essays? watch them essai,--pursue the maximum boundaries of genre, and there, in the peripheries, together, we reach into our pockets to read their decoded message: I love."--Lily Hoang "Wade and Miller's collaborative essay collection, TELEPHONE, stretches the possibilities of the form, creating a kind of thought puzzle that you're happy to never truly solve. Their voices bounce and blend, weave and bob, in a way that seems almost impossible and magical. TELEPHONE is a testament to the power of voice and the beauty of collaborative art."--Steven Church "TELEPHONE is unusual, thoughtful and compelling. The two voices together are clever, passionate, entertaining and intriguing. TELEPHONE pushes the boundaries and demonstrates the power and potential of the creative nonfiction genre."--Lee Gutkind "Miller and Wade's marvelous TELEPHONE takes the ordinary--cars, exercise, toys, sex--and elevates it to the extraordinary. Each subject is subjected to lyrical rendering and astonishing interpretation. TELEPHONE stuns us with its burnished music, its use of form, and its brilliant musings on seemingly quotidian subjects. In these twin-voiced essays is a celebration of narrative's thrall, but also a liberation blueprint that frees us from the tyranny of a single self, a single story."--James Allen Hall

The Dead and the Living

The Dead and the Living
Author: Sharon Olds
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2012-12-05
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0307760545

From the Pulitzer Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner comes a beautifully realized collection of poems about childhood, love, marriage, children, and honoring the dead. Larry Lewis say, “The Dead and the Living is an unignorable book, something truly rare. The feeling behind it is painful, but exquisitely so. Pain made into art or what, in another time, people called ‘beauty.’” It is an achievement of a poet writing in the full measure of her powers. The Lamont poetry selection of the Academy of American Poets.