A Girl's Guide to Chaos

A Girl's Guide to Chaos
Author: Cynthia Heimel
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1991
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573692383

Taking material from Ms. Heimel's Sex Tips for Girls, she has created a play where Cynthia and her friends Cleo and Rita talk about the facts of life for the contemporary heterosexual woman.

A Gentle Plea for Chaos

A Gentle Plea for Chaos
Author: Mirabel Osler
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2012-08-31
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1408837137

In this book the author describes the way her garden evolved and how, without meaning to do so, she let it take over her life. She suggests moving away from planning, regimentation and gardening with the mentality of a stamp-collector. Frequently funny and always stimulating, she writes of the alchemy of gardens, of the 19th-century plant-collectors and plant illustrators and of the gardening philosophers, all fertilizing great thoughts along with their hollyhocks. She won the 1988 Sinclair Consumer Press Garden Writer of the Year Award.

Spare Parts

Spare Parts
Author: Elizabeth Page
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1990
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573630323

The University of Wisconsin features information about the possibility of growing spare body parts naturally, as part of the Why Files resource. Research has been done on using stem cells to repopulate a damaged retina, using chemicals to force heart muscle to grow new arteries, and teaching cells in the pituitary gland to create insulin. Why Files uses news and current events to explore science and the issues it raises. The content is associated with specific National Science Education standards.

Absolutely Normal Chaos

Absolutely Normal Chaos
Author: Sharon Creech
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2009-10-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0061972436

"By turns sarcastic, tender, and irreverent, this will quickly make its way into the hands of readers who loved Walk Two Moons." —Kirkus This beloved prequel to bestselling author Sharon Creech's Newbery Medal winner Walk Two Moons chronicles the life of a thirteen-year-old during her most chaotic and romantic summer ever via journal entries, filled with hilarious observations on love, death, and the confusing mechanics of holding hands. Mary Lou is less than excited about her assignment to keep a journal over the summer. Boring! Then cousin Carl Ray comes to stay with her family, and what starts out as the dull dog days of summer quickly turns into the wildest roller-coaster ride of all time. Named one of the New York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing!

Moving Parts

Moving Parts
Author: Nina Shengold
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 289
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0140139923

Moving Parts offers actors the best monologues from great plays—pieces by both well-known and up-and-coming playwrights, including many minority artists—that offer a variety of dramatic styles for beginning and experienced actors. Included are more than a hundred monologues from such contemporary voices as Eric Bogosian, Caryl Churchill, Christopher Durang, Maria Irene Fornes, Athol Fugard, Philip Kan Gotanda, Václav Havel, Lanford Wilson, and George C. Wolfe. Designed for easy browsing, the monologues are indexed by gender, age, and subject to help actors locate appropriate material, and each is introduced with a short description of the plot, setting, and character type. These monologues stand on their own as good theater, while they give actors a well-defined character, a story to tell, and a wide range of behavior and feeling to portray.

A Girl's Guide to Chaos, and Other Pieces

A Girl's Guide to Chaos, and Other Pieces
Author: Cynthia Heimel
Publisher: Fireside
Total Pages: 126
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780671657598

A play and essays explore the problems of women who are trying to find the right man

A Piece of My Heart

A Piece of My Heart
Author: Shirley Lauro
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1992
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780573693335

"Suggested by the book [A Piece of my heart, compiled] by Keith Walker."

The Black Girl's Guide to Healing Emotional Wounds

The Black Girl's Guide to Healing Emotional Wounds
Author: Nijiama Smalls
Publisher: Nvision Solutions
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2020-02-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1734692804

"I wish my father had been present in my life, so I would not have accepted a lot of crap from men." "Growing up, I didn't feel loved by my mother which caused...." "It is hard to find and maintain a solid group of trustworthy girlfriends to do life with." "I was devastated by a previous lover and that hurt changed me for the worse." "I often don’t feel loved." "I’m not happy with how my life turned out." If you have ever said any of the above, then this book is for you! This means there may be emotional wounds that are stopping you from living your best life. Disappointments, rejection, competition, overthinking, and family secrets are some of the emotional wounds that cause inner chaos and damage our sense of self. As black girls, we suffer differently, and our history is complex. Nijiama Smalls is all too familiar with the suffering of black girls and shares her personal journey of uncovering the origin of Black girl trauma while also addressing the ongoing process of healing and recovery from wounds caused by past hurts.The beauty of this book is that it provides a prescription for healing in the form of a soul-cleansing process. Enter this journey so that you can be set free to live the life God has planned for you. Sis, it’s time to heal and end the suffering.

Behave

Behave
Author: Robert M. Sapolsky
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 801
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0143110918

New York Times bestseller • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • One of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the Year “It’s no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I’ve ever read.” —David P. Barash, The Wall Street Journal "It has my vote for science book of the year.” —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times "Immensely readable, often hilarious...Hands-down one of the best books I’ve read in years. I loved it." —Dina Temple-Raston, The Washington Post From the bestselling author of A Primate's Memoir and the forthcoming Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will comes a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior and an answer to the question: Why do we do the things we do? Behave is one of the most dazzling tours d’horizon of the science of human behavior ever attempted. Moving across a range of disciplines, Sapolsky—a neuroscientist and primatologist—uncovers the hidden story of our actions. Undertaking some of our thorniest questions relating to tribalism and xenophobia, hierarchy and competition, and war and peace, Behave is a towering achievement—a majestic synthesis of cutting-edge research and a heroic exploration of why we ultimately do the things we do . . . for good and for ill.