Women of a Certain Courage
Women of a Certain Courage is an uplifting read that follows the long tradition of women supporting and guiding other women. These 18 stories of courage will have you weeping, laughing and celebrating moments of bravery. With tales of activism, of finding a voice, escaping domestic violence, battling and much more, Women of a Certain Courage will inspire awe with the myriad ways women prevail and demonstrate courage.
Chewing the Page
This is the first collection of creative writing-related interviews originally posted on Mourning Goats, a website founded by the mysterious Mr Goat. Over a year of mostly anonymous work, the Goat managed to interview some of the most exciting English-language authors around. Edited by Phil Jourdan and the Goat himself, and featuring expanded interviews not available online, Chewing the Page offers a series of weird and hilarious glimpses at the world of writing. Includes interviews with Stephen Graham Jones, Craig Clevenger, Paul Tremblay, Donald Ray Pollock, Stephen Elliott, Chad Kultgen, Chelsea Cain, Rick Moody, Christopher Moore and Nick Hornby, and others.,
La Lucha
From Mexico to Patagonia, the struggle for women's rights in Latin America comes alive in the voices of the artists and activists making the change.La Lucha gathers the voices of 30 artists, scholars, and activists, from 17 countries, actively engaged in the fight for women's rights in Latin America. From the patriarchy to femicide, to the inflections of identity embedded in colour, class, and indigenous cultures, their struggle embodies the contested definitions and priorities of feminism. Their solidarity, and tirelessness, has yielded striking, game-changing results in areas as disparate, and as fundamental to women's lives, as reproductive health, environmentalism, anti-colonialism, and human rights. With contributors that include Isabel Allende, Selva Almada, Gabriela Cabez籀n C獺mara, Valeria Luiselli, Lina Meruane, Claudia Pi簽eiro, and Cristina Rivera Garza, this unprecedented collection is sure to challenge, provoke, and inspire.
Every Day is a GOOD Day
Anarchist, Zen Buddhist, Playboy editor and novelist Robert Shea is best known for the Illuminatus! Trilogy, a cult classic co-authored with Robert Anton Wilson that has never gone out of print. He also had a successful career writing action-filled but philosophical historical novels such as Shike and All Things Are Lights. Shea was still developing his career as a novelist and was just sixty-one when illness cut his writing career short, ruling out a planned sequel to Illuminatus! and also preventing the publication of other novels that were in the works. An outwardly conventional middle class man who was kind to his fans, Shea was also a radical who published anarchist fanzines, kept an authentic Samurai sword in his home, and interacted with Wobblies and counterculture oddballs. Now, three decades after his death, Every Day is a GOOD Day: Robert Shea on Illuminatus!, Writing and Anarchism collects many of his short pieces, giving readers a glimpse of the man behind Illuminatus! and Shike.- - - Entertaining, thought provoking and richly varied, Every Day is a GOOD Day is a perfect introduction to the anarchistic principles and humane thinking of Robert Shea - a man more interested in finding flaws in his own beliefs than he is in forcing those beliefs on others. - John Higgs, author of Love and Let Die and other booksEvery Day Is a GOOD Day is here to preserve the memory of this good-hearted, open-minded man - and to let more people enjoy his humane and freedom-loving writings. - Jesse Walker, author of The United States of Paranoia and Reason magazine books editorShea's intelligence and sense of humor, shine throughout this terrific book. Robert Shea truly seems "the very model of modern armchair anarchist." - Eric Wagner, author of An Insider's Guide to Robert Anton Wilson and Straight Outta DublinTom Jackson's delightful collection has rescued the wit, warmth, and anarchist mischief of Robert Shea - the other half of the Illuminatus! equation. This is a resurrection spell for a writer, and an enthusiast's treasure trove! - Daisy Eris Campbell, writer/director of Cosmic Trigger the Play
Narrative Songs of Dong Ethnic Group
Narrative Songs of Dong Ethnic Group: 'The Butterfly Lovers' of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai was published by The Ethnic Publishing House in 2020, under the editorship of Long Yaohong et al., who tried to preserve the style and characteristics of the original songs, besides making IPA transcriptions to the work. The Dong ethnic group in Guizhou has a rich tradition of narrative songs, including a popular rendition of the story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. The repertoire includes a range of genres such as grand songs, pipa songs, antiphonal songs, vernacular songs, folk songs, operas, wedding songs that express feelings of romantic love. What follows is a preliminary work on it, a try to conveying the meaning and the image, and a story of communication, exchanges, and integration of different ethnic groups in China.
Profiles in Hope
Fifteen Australians tell their stories of surviving suicide and finding the way back to a better life. Every day, nine Australians take their own lives. Nineteen years ago, John Brogden came very close to adding his name to these statistics. But John survived and, since his recovery, he has become a passionate voice for mental health and suicide prevention. Now he is the Honorary President of LifeLine International. Personally and professionally, John knows how urgent it is to talk openly about suicide, and to provide people in despair with a way back when they are at their lowest point. Giving hope to those who think there is no other answer is critical. John is living proof that it's possible to survive and thrive. Now, in Profiles in Hope, John has gathered together some incredible Australians to tell their stories. With contributions from people such as James Packer, Jacqui Lambie, Tom Boyd, Layne Beachley, Preston Campbell and Ian Thorpe, alongside powerful stories of ordinary Aussies, these deeply personal accounts of survival, recovery and lives of purpose are a balm for the vulnerable and a beacon of light to those struggling. This book is for those at risk and for the people who love them and don't know how to help. Searingly honest and ultimately life-affirming, these are stories of solace and hope, and a lifeline for dark times. All royalties earned from the sale of this book will go to Lifeline. 'Surprisingly hopeful' WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN
AFTER ... Joan's Story
After the devastating loss of her daughter in a car accident, grief consumes Joan Bradshaw. Her home becomes a hollow shell of what it once was as family and friends drift away, leaving her alone in the darkness. Just as she begins to claw her way toward recovery, tragedy strikes again-her middle son, Caleb, commits two murders before taking his own life. Joan's world shatters.Her husband, Joe, refused to acknowledge Caleb's existence, banning any mention of a funeral. For him, Caleb is a son who never was. But Joan cannot let go. Haunted by guilt for not seeing her son's pain, she defies Joe's wishes to honor Caleb's memory, igniting a fierce conflict that turns their home into a battleground. Between staying for her remaining family and leaving everything she knows, Joan faces an impossible choice-one Joe's simmering rage makes for her.Alone and untethered, Joan embarks on a journey of self-discovery. As she grapples with loss and regret, unexpected connections breathe new life into her. Old wounds begin to heal, including a strained relationship with her mother. Yet, even as she finds a glimmer of hope, Joan remains haunted by the question: could she have done anything to change the course of her family's tragedy?
Moments Swirling In Time
There are moments in life that will never make the front page, or be the most watched YouTube event, yet they will be in many young girls' diaries, and they will be discussed at the dinner table, or at Starbucks, maybe even in an outdoor caf矇 In Paris. Moments Swirling In Time brings to light the short tales about kids, parents, friendships, homes, travel, and work. Enjoy. It's a quick read into life as I know it. Joanne Sherry Mitchell
Essential Short Stories by Women of the Harlem Renaissance
The acknowledgment and admiration of fiction by women of the Harlem Renaissance is growing rapidly. Their stories encompass unique premises and perceptions and, taken as a whole, they balance the historically male-dominated perspectives in Harlem Renaissance literature. Their captivating narratives reveal insights and perspectives unique to the women who experienced the Harlem Renaissance. Through their presence, perseverance, and talent, these women played a crucial role in the historical progress of Black women's literature.This volume-a combination of two 'Short-Take' anthologies, plus 8 bonus stories-presents the best short stories by distinguished women writers, from those who have earned more widespread attention to those who haven't yet but are just as deserving. This informed and comprehensive collection is a combination of the stories by women most admired during the Harlem Renaissance and those most studied since then.- 25 short stories by 25 distinguished writers.- Includes a list of all the short stories by women recognized in national Harlem Renaissance literary contests.
The Life of Violet
Virginia Woolf's first fully realized work of fiction--published in its final, revised form for the first time A beguiling trio of fantastical and farcical anti-fairy tales about a giantess who builds a magical "cottage of one's own," battles a silver-scaled sea monster, and defies governesses and gravity alike In 1907, eight years before she published her first novel, a twenty-five-year-old Virginia Woolf drafted three interconnected comic stories chronicling the adventures of a giantess named Violet--a teasing tribute to Woolf's friend Mary Violet Dickinson. But it was only in 2022 that Woolf scholar Urmila Seshagiri discovered a final, revised typescript of the stories. The typescript revealed that Woolf had finished this mock-biography, making it her first fully realized literary experiment and a work that anticipates her later masterpieces. Published here for the first time in its final form, The Life of Violet blends fantasy, fairy tale, and satire as it transports readers into a magical world where the heroine triumphs over sea-monsters as well as stifling social traditions. In these irresistible and riotously plotted stories, Violet, who has powers "as marvelous as her height," gleefully flouts aristocratic proprieties, finds joy in building "a cottage of one's own," and travels to Japan to help create a radical new social order. Amid flights of fancy such as a snowfall of sugared almonds and bathtubs made of painted ostrich eggs, The Life of Violet upends the marriage plot, rejects the Victorian belief that women must choose between virtue and ambition, and celebrates women's friendships and laughter. A major literary discovery that heralds Woolf's ambitions to revolutionize fiction and sheds new light on her great themes, The Life of Violet is first and foremost a delight to read. This volume features a preface, afterword, notes, and photographs that provide rich historical, literary, and biographical context.
The Legend of Meng Jiangn羹's Bitter Weeping
Meng Jiangn羹 is the heartbroken heroine of The Legend of Meng Jiangn羹's Bitter Weeping, one of China's Four Great Folktales (alongside The Butterfly Lovers, Lady White Snake, and The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl). Set during the brutal reign of the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC), her story has endured for centuries as a powerful symbol of love, grief, and defiance against oppression.A young woman from a rural village, Meng Jiangn羹 marries Fan Xiliang (or Wan Xiliang, Wan Liang), only to have him forcibly conscripted by Qin officials to labor on the Great Wall of China. Shortly after, he dies from exhaustion, and his body is buried within the Wall itself. Devastated, Meng Jiangn羹 embarks on a thousand-mile journey to bring him winter clothes-only to discover his fate. Her anguished weeping moves heaven and earth, causing a section of the Wall to collapse, revealing his bones.As a shared cultural treasure of the Chinese nation, this legend originating from the Han people has spread across various ethnic groups, including the Man, Zhuang, Dong, Maonan, and Mulao, over the course of history. While each version possesses unique artistic expressions, spiritual beliefs, and social meanings, they all preserve the core narrative of "a husband conscripted into forced labor and a wife's desperate journey to find him." This reflects the Chinese nation's cultural inclusiveness and deep emotional bonds as a whole. The diverse ethnic adaptations of this story serve as a vivid testament to the pluralistic unity of Chinese culture, embodying the collective memory jointly created and cherished by all ethnic groups.Part of the story runs as follows: The wind howled through the abandoned battlefield, carrying whispers of two names: L羹 Bu and L羹 Buwei.Once, they had stood at the pinnacle of power-gilded names, men who could command armies with a flick of their wrist. But now? Their graves lay in silence, bearing no inscriptions, as if even the earth itself refused to remember them.Greed had coiled around them first as a whisper, then as chains.L羹 Bu, the warrior without equal, had traded his honor for illusory wealth, betraying lord after lord until his name became synonymous with treachery. His tomb stood unmarked, not out of reverence, but because no one dared etch his crimes into stone.L羹 Buwei, the merchant-king, had clawed his way to the heart of the Qin Dynasty, weaving webs of deception so vast they ensnared even the unborn. His legacy? A dynasty built on rot, his own wife coveting power like a thief covets gold.History laughed at them.The Spring and Autumn Annals had inked their deeds in black, a permanent stain no fire could cleanse. Their sins had erupted like wildfire, scorching every generation that followed-thieves raising thieves, each more ruthless than the last.And in the end?No peace. No redemption.A Wall of Sorrow, A Woman of JadeMencius once warned: "Mountains won't shield a rotting heart. A nation cannot be secured by the steepness of its rivers."Yet Qin Shi Huang, deaf to wisdom, raised his Great Wall-stone by stone, corpse by corpse.The earth trembled beneath the weight of his pride. Millions perished, their bodies pressed into the ramparts, their souls clinging to the stones. Even now, if one listens closely, the wind carries their whispers-breath reeking of turned soil and old blood.
Exacting Clam No. 18
The Discerning Mollusk's Guide to Arts and Ideas. Contributions by Emily Adams, Stephen Bett, Laurie Blauner, P.J. Blumenthal, Christopher Boucher, Marvin Cohen, Kevin Davey, W.J. Davies, R.J. Dent, Noah Drauschak, Gregory Feeley, Tom Formaro, Ron Ginzler, Jake Goldsmith, Paul Griffiths, Michael Hampton, Ernest Hilbert, Charles Holdefer, DJ Huppatz, Roy Lisker, Jean Lorrain, Carl Landauer, Kurt Luchs, Melissa McCarthy, Kat Meads, Brooke Mitchell, Sonya Moor, Fiona O'Connor, Ben Pester, Jennifer M. Phillips, Geoffrey Pitcher, Eric T. Racher, Nat Raum, David Rose, Shifra Sharlin, Mike Silverton, Hugo S. Sim繭es, Aug Stone, Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, Benjamin Wal, Eric Weiskott, Jon Willer, Lawrence Winkler, and Addison Zeller.
A Catalogue Of Books In John Harding's Circulating Library, In The Market-place, Abingdon, Berkshire
Mona Caird, the Daughters of Danaus
Mona Caird's immensely successful feminist novel, The Daughters of Danaus (1894), remains a popular choice among scholars and teachers of nineteenth-century British literature. This is the first critical edition and the first twenty-first century reprint of Caird's novel with a full editorial apparatus including a critical introduction, notes and appendices. Informed by the novel's fin-de-si癡cle context, references to Greek mythology and recent scholarship on Caird and the New Woman, this edition will be beneficial for students and scholars of British and Anglophone literature and gender.
A Catalogue Of The Entire Library Of The Late Rev. Samuel Farmar Jarvis ... Of Middletown, Connecticut
Creative World Of South Vietnam And Overseas 1954 - To The Present - Volume 1 (softcover - bw )
Daddy Long Legs
A trustee of the John Grier orphanage has offered to send Judy Abbott to college. The only requirements are that she must write to him every month and that she can never know who he is. Judy's life at college is a whirlwind of friends, classes, parties and a growing friendship with the handsome Jervis Pendleton. With so much happening in her life, Judy can scarcely stop writing to 'Daddy-Long-Legs', or wondering who her mysterious benefactor is...
Begegnungen Mit Jacob Burckhardt - Encounters with Jacob Burckhardt
Temple of Love
Temple of Love is a non-fiction parable that fuses alternative holistic and healing modalities such as yoga, Theta healing, and plant medicines with classic Eastern philosophies into one book. When the narrator meets Nayanna, the Curandera (female shaman), she learns about a legendary Mayan temple that promises 'true love' for anyone who reaches it. By passing through the heart of the Americas, deep in the jungles of Mexico, Temple of Love takes the reader on an equally exciting journey to self-discovery. To readers who love to discover energy-healing principles and who enjoy reading the classics, such as The Secret and The Power of Now, Temple of Love gives a wide array of different manifestation techniques, meditation practices, and inner healing principles to explore through a fictional lens. Inspired by true events, Temple of Love gives real, practical tools for overcoming emotional struggles and healing yourself, one chakra at a time.
