The Baglady's Guide to Elegant Living

The Baglady's Guide to Elegant Living
Author: Dina Dove
Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2008-04
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0757307221

An inspiring, introspective guide to living a satisfying life---no matter what your situation

Women's Fiction

Women's Fiction
Author: Deborah Philips
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2014-06-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1441150226

Now in its second edition and with new chapters covering such texts as Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love and 'yummy mummy' novels such as Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It, this is a wide-ranging survey of popular women's fiction from 1945 to the present. Examining key trends in popular writing for women in each decade, Women's Fiction offers case study readings of major British and American writers. Through these readings, the book explores how popular texts often neglected by feminist literary criticism have charted the shifting demands, aspirations and expectations of women in the 20th and 21st centuries.

The Devil, the Lovers, & Me

The Devil, the Lovers, & Me
Author: Kimberlee Auerbach
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780525950219

The author describes her survival of an abusive relationship, her mother's mid-life sexual proclivities, and the interference of friends and her father during a promising new romance, challenges that prompted her visit to an atypical tarot card reader.

Spitalfields Life

Spitalfields Life
Author: Gentle Author
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Dwellings
ISBN: 9781444703955

I am going to write every single day and tell you about my life here in Spitalfields at the heart of London... Drawing comparisons with Pepys, Mayhew and Dickens, the gentle author of Spitalfields Life has gained an extraordinary following in recent years, by writing hundreds of lively pen portraits of the infinite variety of people who live and work in the East End of London.

Haunted

Haunted
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2005-05-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0385515839

Haunted is a novel made up of twenty-three horrifying, hilarious, and stomach-churning stories. They’re told by people who have answered an ad for a writer’s retreat and unwittingly joined a “Survivor”-like scenario where the host withholds heat, power, and food. As the storytellers grow more desperate, their tales become more extreme, and they ruthlessly plot to make themselves the hero of the reality show that will surely be made from their plight. This is one of the most disturbing and outrageous books you’ll ever read, one that could only come from the mind of Chuck Palahniuk.

Timequake

Timequake
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1998-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780425164341

A New York Times Notable Book from the acclaimed author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, and Cat's Cradle. At 2:27pm on February 13th of the year 2001, the Universe suffered a crisis in self-confidence. Should it go on expanding indefinitely? What was the point? There's been a timequake. And everyone—even you—must live the decade between February 17, 1991 and February 17, 2001 over again. The trick is that we all have to do exactly the same things as we did the first time—minute by minute, hour by hour, year by year, betting on the wrong horse again, marrying the wrong person again. Why? You'll have to ask the old science fiction writer, Kilgore Trout. This was all his idea.

Simple Whatnots II

Simple Whatnots II
Author: Kim Diehl
Publisher: Martingale
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2021-04-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1683561430

Proving that the best things really do come in small packages, Kim Diehl shares 18 cute-as-can-be quilt designs in this delightful sequel to Simple Whatnots. Dig into your scrap bin, box, or basket, and get ready to have some quilting fun. And be sure to read Kim's expert advice sprinkled throughout as Extra Snippet tips to help your sewing time be even more enjoyable. Dozens of photos offer inspiration for displaying completed quilts on the wall, as table toppers, draped on a charming school desk or ladder--the options are plentiful! Layer these little showstoppers with your favorite antiques and collections to bring a bit of sparkle to even the smallest nooks in your home.

Sensitive Objects

Sensitive Objects
Author: Jonas Frykman
Publisher: Nordic Academic Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2016-04-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 918816862X

Some objects seem especially personal and important to us - be it a quickly packed suitcase, an inherited vase, or a photograph. In Sensitive Objects the authors discuss when, how, and why particular objects appear as 'sensitive'. They do so by analyzing the objects' affective charging in the context of historically embedded practices. Sensitive Objects is a contribution to the upcoming field of 'affect research' that has so far been dominated by psychology and cultural studies, and the authors examine the potential for epistemic gain by connecting the studies of affect with the studies of material culture. The contributors, predominantly ethnologists and anthropologists, use fieldwork to examine how people project affects onto material objects and explore how objects embody or trigger affects and produce affective atmospheres.