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No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
Award-winning filmmaker and performing artist Miranda July brings her extraordinary talents to the page in a startling, sexy, and tender collection In these stories, July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly potency. A benign encounter, a misunderstanding, a shy revelation can reconfigure the world. Her characters engage awkwardly -- they are sometimes too remote, sometimes too intimate. With great compassion and generosity, July reveals their idiosyncrasies and the odd logic and longing that govern their lives. No One Belongs Here More Than You is a stunning debut, the work of a writer with a spectacularly original and compelling voice..
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There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America
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The Problem with Here Is That It's Where I'm From (Dear Dumb Diary, No. 6)
Sneak a peek inside the diary of Jamie Kelly, who promises that everything she writes is true . . . or at least as true as it needs to be. This follow-up to DDD #5, a New York Times Bestseller, is sure to be full of laughs! .
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No One Here Gets Out Alive
Here is Jim Morrison in all his complexity: singer, philosopher, poet, delinquentthe brilliant, charis-matic, and obsessed seeker who rejected authority in any form, the explorer who probed the bounds of reality to see what would happen. Meticulously researched, this definitive biography tells the story of a genius who shot like a rocket across the musical horizon, then fell in burning fragments as his life spiraled out of control..
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There's No Place Like Here
Sometimes it takes losing everything to truly find yourself ..Since Sandy Shortt's childhood classmate disappeared twenty years ago, Sandy has been obsessed with missing things. Finding what is lost becomes her single-minded goal--from the lone sock that vanishes in the washing machine to the car keys she misplaced. It's no surprise, then, that Sandy's life's work becomes finding people who have vanished from their loved ones. Sandy's family is baffled and concerned by her increasing preoccupation. Her parents can't understand her compulsion, and she pushes them away further by losing herself in the work of tracking down these missing people. She gives up her life in order to offer a flicker of hope to devastated families...and escape the disappointments of her own. Jack Ruttle is one of those devastated people. It's been a year since his brother Donal vanished into thin air, and he has enlisted Sandy Shortt to find him. But before she is able to offer Jack the information he so desperately needs, Sandy goes missing too...and Jack now finds himself searching for his brother and the one woman who understood his pain. One minute Sandy is jogging through the park, the next, she can't figure out where she is. The path is obscured. Nothing is familiar. A clearing up ahead reveals a camp site, and it's there that Sandy discovers the impossible: she has inadvertently stumbled upon the place-- and people--she's been looking for all her life, a land where all the missing people go. A world away from her loved ones and the home she ran from for so long, Sandy soon resorts to her old habit again, searching. Though this time, she is desperately trying to find her way home... .
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No Sweetness Here and Other Stories
No Sweetness Here, Ama Ata Aidoo's early volume of short fiction, is now available in the U.S. Set in West Africa, these stories chart a geography of consciousness during a period of transition from a colonial society through independence into a postcolonial world still in progress today. The characters-as many men as women come alive on these pages-enjoy good fortune and suffer pain in a tradtional African manner: through brilliant, witty, defiant, image-laden speech. The style of these stories renders African orality dramatically; characterization emerges as much through the unique voice as through physical appearance. The special strength of these stories lies in Aidoo's sensitivity to men's as well as women's lives. Sometimes one can feel even more compassion for the men who are often set in ways counter-productive to living in an African-controlled but tightly-hierarchical society. Even the most critical consciousness-the Western-educated African living abroad or returning home-sometimes doesn't "get it," for the changes are too vast, the future too uncharted. The title story suggests more than meets the eye. If there is no "sweetness," there is the salt essential to life, even if it comes from tears, and the strength that comes from a history of endurance. There is also the wit of the word and the compassion of family and friends. The volume is at once entertaining and deeply instructive not only about a changing Africa, but about such universal themes as love, marriage, work, family, sacrifice, privilege, and hierarchy. .
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"No, It's Not Hot In Here" , A Husbands Guide to Menopause
The silence that surrounds menopause is lifting -- but up until now, only for women. In a survey of menopausal wives who were asked what they wanted most from their husbands, the most common reply was: "Understanding and support I just wish he knew what I was going through " In response, the main goal of "NO IT'S NOT HOT IN HERE" is to help husbands understand menopause enough to support their wives. In order to create that understanding the book is written in a casual, anecdotal style and is short and easy to read. Yet it is still informative and full of the latest hard science. The book begins with the basics, i.e., what happens inside a woman's body at menopause. Then, after explaining that each menopause will be different, the book goes on to discuss the physical and emotional changes that might accompany menopause and offers men advice about how to help their wives through this passage. Husbands often approach menopause full of fear and misunderstanding. In response, the book includes a much-needed chapter about menopause and sex, then covers controversies like HRT (hormone replacement therapy) and hysterectomies. Because women are being presented with so many choices, the book also briefly discusses the alternatives to HRT, such as natural hormones, acupuncture, and rites of passage. The author is careful to caution husbands not to try to become the decision-maker, but rather an aware and informed support system in their wife's decision-making process. Some men might want to blame their wives for their own problems. Others will need to learn new skills, such as how to listen, to gain understanding. Without being either overbearing or simplistic, the book has a chapter for men about their own mid-life changes and a chapter with commonsense advice about relationships during menopause. "NO IT'S NOT HOT IN HERE" concludes with a "Word to the Wives," a must-read chapter for women who want to understand and help their husbands help them through menopause..
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From There to Here: Stories of Adjustment to Spinal Cord Injury
Forty-five people. Forty-five diverse yet personal life stories All of them are connected by a powerful, shared life experience - spinal cord injury. From There To Here: Stories of Adjustment To Spinal Cord Injury is certainly about hope -- but not by way of mere inspiration. These essays are the stuff of whole human lives, and illustrate the real and complex process of how people respond to sudden and overwhelming change. They start from trauma and confusion, their vision of the future challenged to the core, and ultimately arrive at a place that each of them in their own way calls "adjustment." A place that none of them could have imagined when they were There. The heart of these stories is what happened in between - the actual journey to adjustment, acceptance, meaning, and possibility. The journey to Here..
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Marsha's Unbearable Day (Here Come the Brownies No. 10) (Here Come the Brownies)
When her Brownie troop hosts a traveling teddy bear from a faraway land, every member of the troop gets a chance to take him home, but Marsha dreads the forthcoming Teddy Bear Picnic when she accidentally loses the Guest Bear. .
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