![]() ![]() ![]() And now she’s been rejected from an art show because her work “has no heart.” So when she gets another opportunity to show her paintings, Abby isn’t going to take any chances.Ībby gives herself one month to do ten things, ranging from face a fear (#3) to learn a stranger’s story (#5) to fall in love (#8). She hasn’t been able to manage her mother’s growing issues with anxiety. She has a not-so-secret but definitely unrequited crush on her best friend, Cooper. Seventeen-year-old Abby Turner’s summer isn’t going the way she’d planned. What do you do when you’ve fallen for your best friend? Funny and romantic, this effervescent story about family, friendship, and finding yourself is perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han. ![]() Audience: Young adult contemporary romance ![]()
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![]() ![]() The book provides powerful myth-busting on topics that have historically not been addressed in eating disorder recovery books, such as clean eating and orthorexia, exercising in recovery, and fat positivity. The authors explain the difference between dieting and eating disorders, break down the stages of recovery, and provide tips on how to thrive in each stage. Written from the perspective of two eating disorder therapists, both of whom are recovered from their own eating disorders, the text uses humor, personal narratives, and research-proven techniques to offer specific actionable guidelines on how to reclaim one's life from an eating disorder. The Inside Scoop on Eating Disorder Recovery is a fresh, smart, how-to book that helps people with eating disorders to heal their relationship with food, their bodies, and ultimately themselves. ![]() ![]() ![]() He changes his mind after a conversation with a local preacher and intends to make his relationship with Nonnie public. The two have a secret affair, and Nonnie becomes pregnant by Tracy, who secretly plans for her to marry "Big Henry," whom she despises, while he marries the good little white girl his parents expect him to marry. Strange Fruit takes place in a Georgia town in the 1920s and focuses on the relationship between Tracy Deen, son of prominent white townspeople, and Nonnie, a beautiful and intelligent young Black woman whom he once rescued from attacking white boys. ![]() Roosevelt interceded at his wife Eleanor's request. Postal Service until President Franklin D. ![]() Strange Fruit was also banned from being mailed through the U.S. Smith maintained the book's title referred to the "damaged, twisted people (both black and white) who are the products or results of our racist culture." Īfter the book's release, it was banned in Boston and Detroit for "lewdness" and crude language. In her 1956 autobiography, singer Billie Holiday wrote that Smith named the book after her 1939 song " Strange Fruit", which was about lynching and racism against African Americans. ![]() Its working title was Jordan is so Chilly, but Smith retitled it Strange Fruit prior to publication. Strange Fruit is a 1944 bestselling debut novel by American author Lillian Smith that deals with the then-forbidden and controversial theme of interracial romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Volume I (1940–43), the soldiers seem like actors on a military sitcom set. Once Mauldin got “up front,” his cartoons took on his signature style, a bold but loose expressionistic brushstroke. As a result, Volume II (1943–45) is more urgent and essential. Still, if the war made boys into men, it certainly made a cartoonist out of Mauldin. Mauldin enlisted at age 18, and I’m not sure the reader gains much by the 136 pages drawn by the teenaged Mauldin I would rather have seen tearsheets reproduced from the 45th Division News or Stars and Stripes to see how his comics looked in their original context, since the early work is mostly uninspired gags in a generic style. Willie & Joe includes every wartime cartoon Mauldin produced. Covered in army-green linen, this set could sell as well in Army-Navy stores as in Barnes & Noble. Anything that Jacob Covey, who designed Willie & Joe, does is worth looking at, and this is no exception. Happily, there’s nothing beat-up about Willie & Joe: The WWII Years, a stunningly produced two-volume collection of more than 600 cartoons that document foot soldiers as they travel from training camps to trenches, to the occupied streets of Europe, and back home. His book Up Front was a best-seller in 1945, when Mauldin was 23, he won the Pulitzer Prize. ![]() I often come across old copies of Bill Mauldin books that are as beat-up-looking as Willie and Joe, Mauldin’s famous GIs, who let America see World War II through soldiers’ eyes. ![]() ![]() It leaves behind a wake of destruction creating millions of medically dependent and sickly people burdened with poor-quality lives. ![]() Fast food kills, but it also perpetuates bigotry and derails the American dream of equal opportunity and happiness for all. This book identifies issues at the heart of our country's most urgent problems. Fast Food Genocide draws on twenty-five years of clinical experience and research to confront our fundamental beliefs about the impact of what we eat. ![]() Bestselling author, board-certified physician, nutritional researcher, and leading voice in the health field Joel Fuhrman, M.D., explains why the problem of poor nutrition is deeper, more serious, and more pervasive than anyone imagined. Heart attacks, strokes, cancer, obesity, ADHD, autism, allergies, and autoimmune diseases all have the same root cause-our addiction to toxic ingredients. The indisputable truth is that our highly processed diet is the source of a national health crisis that is exploding into a genocide with unseen tragic implications. Fast foods have become the primary source of calories in the United States and consequently the most far-reaching and destructive influence on our population. ![]() These include: cold breakfast cereals commercial and preserved (deli) meats and cheeses sandwich breads and buns chips, pretzels, and crackers fried foods energy bars and soft drinks. "Fast food is far more than just the burgers, fries, and burritos served at chain restaurants it is also the toxic, human-engineered products found in every grocery store across America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And I’m sure that she, like all females, will learn to adore me. How is that even possible? But I know what I want and, for the moment, I want her. Even more shocking, this unforgiving female is completely unimpressed by me. gods! That endless name! But what am I to do? I am Celyn the Charming with direct orders from my queen to protect this unforgiving female. ![]() And now I’m trapped with Elina Shestakova of the Black Bear Riders of the Midnight. Forget you put a woman in the local jail for a few months-and she takes it so personally! And yet she is the one trying to assassinate the queen. The trouble with humans is that they’re far too sensitive. The New York Times bestselling author offers “ absolutely everything a reader could want in a book: action, sex, craziness, passion, lunacy and. ![]() ![]() ![]() Estés illustrates why this twofold way of being "old while young, and young while old" is the secret to holding and replenishing the center, thus living wildly and wisely ensouled amidst life's travails and triumphs. Through captivating stories and insights, Dr. We are born with two forces that give us every lens we need to see who we really are: the wild and ever-young force of imagination, which contains intuition and instinct, and the wise elder force of knowledge, which holds boundaries and carries the heart of the visionary. Estés animates the archetypal patterns of the Wise Woman through her original stories, poetry, and blessings. In six "inspire 'til you're on fire" sessions, Dr. Three decades in the writing, The Dangerous Old Woman presents part one of Dr. Estés asks, "Did you know, you were born as the first, and the last and the best and the only one of your kind, and that eccentricity is the first sign of giftedness? These are two of the crone truths I have to offer you." If you have any doubt, come join us at the fireside of The Dangerous Old Woman for the soul-healing wisdom that will ignite your creativity and support your highest calling in life. ![]() ![]() ![]() She takes a stick, some vines, and a very special flower to make a magical wand. She isn't worried at all, because she knows just what to do. ![]() Pinkalicious and Peter visit their favorite park, but on the way Pinkalicious's wand breaks. ![]() Pinkalicious combines magic, love, and imagination to turn an ordinary place into an Emeraldalicious world. IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languagesĮveryone's favorite pink-loving gal returns in Emeraldalicious, the imaginative, glitterlicious sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling Pinkalicious! Series Pinkalicious starRating 3.8 title Emeraldalicious crossRefId 1206958 sortTitle Emeraldalicious images ![]() ![]() Künstlerinnen der Nationalgalerie vor 1919 (English title: Fighting for Visibility: Women Artists in the Nationalgalerie before 1919), which represented “the first extensive study dedicated to all the works in the Nationalgalerie produced by women painters and sculptors before 1919.” Moreover, a special issue of the French cultural magazine Télérama, published in 2021 and entitled Femmes artistes– ni vues ni connues ( Women Artists-Neither Visible nor Known), presented more than 20 international women artists from the 16th century until today. ![]() In 2019, for example, the National Gallery in Berlin organized the exhibition Kampf um Sichtbarkeit. This fact is most certainly owed to the great and seemingly growing number of projects, especially exhibitions, which are specifically dedicated to women artists, and which consider themselves to be contributing to raising awareness thereof. When it comes to the representation of women artists either in art historical research, in the media, or in exhibitions, the viewer and reader cannot avoid observing the inflationary use of the terms visibility and invisibility. ![]() 1_Women Artists’ In_Visibility-The Omnipresence of a Rather Old Phenomenon ![]() ![]() ![]() Tracy ( Sophie Lee) is the only college graduate (from beauty school), and Dale ( Stephen Curry) is the narrator. The Kerrigans may be the proudest and happiest family you've ever met, what with Dad's prosperous tow truck business and the inventions of Steve ( Anthony Simcoe), the "idea man" who specializes in fitting tools together so they can do two jobs equally badly. ![]() "The Castle," directed by Rob Sitch, is one of those comic treasures like " The Full Monty" and " Waking Ned Devine" that shows its characters in the full bloom of glorious eccentricity. ![]() They've been told that the three most important words in real estate are "location, location, location"-and how could they improve on their home's convenient location, so close to the airport? So close, indeed, that jumbo jets pass within inches of the property line, and the house trembles when they take off. ![]() |