.As an adult, Lauren Hough has had many identities: an airman in the U.S. Air Force, a cable guy, a bouncer at a gay club. As a child, however, she had none. Growing up as a member of the infamous cult The Children of God, Hough had her own self robbed from her. The cult took her all over the globe--to Germany, Japan, Texas, Chile--but it wasn't until she finally left for good that Lauren understood she could have a life beyond "The Family." Along the way, she's loaded up her car and started over, trading one life for the next. She's taken pilgrimages to the sights of her youth, been kept in solitary confinement, dated a lot of women, dabbled in drugs, and eventually found herself as what she always wanted to be: a writer. Here, as she sweeps through the underbelly of America--relying on friends, family, and strangers alike--she begins to excavate a new identity even as her past continues to trail her and color her world, relationships, and perceptions of self.
Vintage
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9780593080764
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Paperback
Call You When I Land
By Vargas, Nikki
"Colorful, vivid storytelling.... for anyone looking for a road to reinvention." - Kristin Newman. A soul-stirring memoir from Colombian immigrant and travel journalist Nikki Vargas, whisking us through the countries that brought her new love, self-discovery, and the inspiration to launch the first international feminist travel magazine, Unearth Women. At twenty-six years old, life looked a certain way for Nikki Vargas. She'd settled in New York City ready to join the ranks of the Carrie Bradshaws of the world, had landed in a promising advertising career, and was newly engaged to her college sweetheart. But between corporate happy hours and wedding dress fittings, she couldn't shake a deep underlying sense of imposter syndrome, a voice telling her that she was rocketing towards a future that didn't look like her.
Hanover Square Press
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9781335455093
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Paperback
Georgia O'Keeffe
By O'keeffe, Georgia
LONG RECOGNISED AS A MAJOR FIGURE IN AMERICAN ART, GEORGIA OKEEFE HAS HAD A NUMBER OF RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITIONS AT LEADING AMERICAN MUSEUMS, EACH ONE A MAJOR EVENT. YET NO FULL COLOUR COLLECTION OF HER WORK HAS BEEN AVAILABLE UNTIL NOW. THIS COMPREHENSIVE VOLUME CONSISTS OF 108 COLOUR PLATES ACCOMPANIED BY TEXT WRITTEN BY THE ARTIST.,
Penguin Books; Reissue edition
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9780140046779
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Paperback
Strip Tees
By Flannery, Kate
"Compelling and brave, Kate's story is a must read for all young women learning how to navigate adulthood and identity." -- Lili Reinhart, New York Times bestselling authorStrip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir -- Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem -- about a recent college graduate and what happens when her feminist ideals meet the real world.At the turn of the new millennium, LA is the place to be. "Hipster" is a new word on the scene. Lauren Conrad is living her Cinderella story in the "Hills" on millions of television sets across the country. Paris Hilton tells us "That's hot" from behind the biggest sunglasses imaginable, while beautiful teenagers fight and fall in love on The O.C.Into this most glittering of supposed utopias, Kate Flannery arrives with a Seven Sisters diploma in hand and a new job at an upstart clothing company called American Apparel.
‎Henry Holt and Co.
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9781250827289
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Hardcover
Cautiva en Arabia / Captive in Arabia
By Morato, Cristina
Espi para los britnicos, regent junta a su marido un hotel en el desierto sirio y se propuso ser la primera occidental que entrara en La Meca. Para ello, ya divorciada, se cas con un beduino y se convirti al islam. Su viaje al corazn de Arabia fu una autentica pesadilla, al ser recluida en un haren y mas tarde encarcelada en la terrible prisin de Yidda. Al abandonar Oriente Prxirno, se dedic al trafico de opio en el Paris ocupado por los nazis y acab sus dias tragicamente en Tanger. Pero quin era en realidad esta mujer fascinante Gracias a su estrecha colaboraci6n con Jacques d'Andurain, hijo menor de la condesa y hroe de la resistencia francesa, Cristina Morat ha podido reconstruir la azarosa vida de una mujer rnarcada por el escndalo y olvidada por la historia, que encontr en la aventura su razn de existir.
Debolsillo
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9786073189415
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Paperback
Rift
By West, Cait
"A powerful meditation on what it means to be trapped and what it takes to break free."Publishers Weekly STARRED Review. A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece together a future on your own terms. Raised in the Christian patriarchy movement, Cait West was homeschooled and could only wear clothes her father deemed modest. She was five years old the first time she was told her swimsuit was too revealing, to go change. There would be no college in her future, no career. She was a stay-at-home daughter and would move out only when her father allowed her to become a wife. She was trained to serve men, and her life would never be her own. Until she escaped. In Rift, Cait West tells a harrowing story of chaos and control hidden beneath the facade of a happy family.
Eerdmans
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9780802883582
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Hardcover
Under Our Roof
By Dean, Madeleine
When Madeleine Dean discovered that her son, Harry, was stealing from the family to feed a painkiller addiction, she was days away from taking the biggest risk of her life: running for statewide office in Pennsylvania. For years, she had sensed something was wrong. Harry was losing weight and losing friends. He had lost the brightness in his eyes and voice, changing from a young boy with boundless enthusiasm to a shadow of himself, chasing something she could not see. Now her worst fears had come to light. Under Our Roof is the story of a national crisis suffered in the intimacy of so many homes, told with incredible candor through the dual perspectives of a mother rising in politics and a son living a double life, afraid of what might happen if his secret is exposed.
Publisher: n/a
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9780593138069
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Hardcover
The Hyacinth Girl
By Gordon, Lyndall
"Superb ... brims with insight into T.S. Eliot's complex love of women and its impact on his poetry. Beautifully written, fiercely honest, The Hyacinth Girl permanently dissolves the myth of impersonality, fathoming the vexed, tormented emotional life behind Eliot's work." -- Jahan Ramazani, author of Poetry in a Global AgeWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, T.S. Eliot was considered the greatest English-language poet of his generation. His poems The Waste Land and Four Quartets are classics of the modernist canon, while his essays influenced a school of literary criticism. Raised in St. Louis, shaped by his youth in Boston, he reinvented himself as an Englishman after converting to the Anglican Church. Like the authoritative yet restrained voice in his prose, he was the epitome of reserve.
W. W. Norton & Company
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9781324002802
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Hardcover
The Lives of Isaac Stern
By Schoenbaum, David
A centennial celebration of the career and legacy of the first made-in-America violin virtuoso and one of the twentieth century's greatest musicians.No single American could personify what Henry Luce called the American Century. But over his eighty-one years, Isaac Stern came closer than most. Russian-Jewish parents brought him to San Francisco at ten months; practice and talent got him to Carnegie Hall, critical acclaim, and the attention of the legendary impresario Sol Hurok at twenty-five.As America came of age, so too did Stern. He would go on to make music on five continents, records in formats from 78 rpm to digital, and friends as different as Frank Sinatra and Sir Isaiah Berlin. An unofficial cultural ambassador for Cold War America, he toured the world from Tokyo to Tehran and Tbilisi.
W. W. Norton & Company
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9780393634617
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Hardcover
See No Stranger
By Kaur, Valarie
A renowned Sikh activist, filmmaker, and civil rights lawyer asks: How do we love in a time of rage How do we fix a broken world while not breaking ourselves "Valarie Kaur's powerful memoir offers a reliable moral compass guided by revolutionary love." - Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowValarie Kaur describes revolutionary love as the call of our time, a radical, joyful practice that extends in three directions: to others, to our opponents, and to ourselves. It enjoins us to see no stranger but instead look at others and say: You are part of me I do not yet know. Starting from that place of wonder, the world begins to change - it is a practice that can transform a relationship, a community, a culture, even a country. Kaur takes readers through her own riveting journey - as a brown girl growing up in California farmland finding her place in the world, as a young adult galvanized by the murders of Sikhs after 9/11, as a law student fighting injustices in American prisons and on Guantnamo Bay, and as a woman trying to heal from her own experiences with sexual assault and police violence.
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
By Hough, Lauren
.As an adult, Lauren Hough has had many identities: an airman in the U.S. Air Force, a cable guy, a bouncer at a gay club. As a child, however, she had none. Growing up as a member of the infamous cult The Children of God, Hough had her own self robbed from her. The cult took her all over the globe--to Germany, Japan, Texas, Chile--but it wasn't until she finally left for good that Lauren understood she could have a life beyond "The Family." Along the way, she's loaded up her car and started over, trading one life for the next. She's taken pilgrimages to the sights of her youth, been kept in solitary confinement, dated a lot of women, dabbled in drugs, and eventually found herself as what she always wanted to be: a writer. Here, as she sweeps through the underbelly of America--relying on friends, family, and strangers alike--she begins to excavate a new identity even as her past continues to trail her and color her world, relationships, and perceptions of self.
Call You When I Land
By Vargas, Nikki
"Colorful, vivid storytelling.... for anyone looking for a road to reinvention." - Kristin Newman. A soul-stirring memoir from Colombian immigrant and travel journalist Nikki Vargas, whisking us through the countries that brought her new love, self-discovery, and the inspiration to launch the first international feminist travel magazine, Unearth Women. At twenty-six years old, life looked a certain way for Nikki Vargas. She'd settled in New York City ready to join the ranks of the Carrie Bradshaws of the world, had landed in a promising advertising career, and was newly engaged to her college sweetheart. But between corporate happy hours and wedding dress fittings, she couldn't shake a deep underlying sense of imposter syndrome, a voice telling her that she was rocketing towards a future that didn't look like her.
Georgia O'Keeffe
By O'keeffe, Georgia
LONG RECOGNISED AS A MAJOR FIGURE IN AMERICAN ART, GEORGIA OKEEFE HAS HAD A NUMBER OF RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITIONS AT LEADING AMERICAN MUSEUMS, EACH ONE A MAJOR EVENT. YET NO FULL COLOUR COLLECTION OF HER WORK HAS BEEN AVAILABLE UNTIL NOW. THIS COMPREHENSIVE VOLUME CONSISTS OF 108 COLOUR PLATES ACCOMPANIED BY TEXT WRITTEN BY THE ARTIST.,
Strip Tees
By Flannery, Kate
"Compelling and brave, Kate's story is a must read for all young women learning how to navigate adulthood and identity." -- Lili Reinhart, New York Times bestselling authorStrip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir -- Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem -- about a recent college graduate and what happens when her feminist ideals meet the real world.At the turn of the new millennium, LA is the place to be. "Hipster" is a new word on the scene. Lauren Conrad is living her Cinderella story in the "Hills" on millions of television sets across the country. Paris Hilton tells us "That's hot" from behind the biggest sunglasses imaginable, while beautiful teenagers fight and fall in love on The O.C.Into this most glittering of supposed utopias, Kate Flannery arrives with a Seven Sisters diploma in hand and a new job at an upstart clothing company called American Apparel.
Cautiva en Arabia / Captive in Arabia
By Morato, Cristina
Espi para los britnicos, regent junta a su marido un hotel en el desierto sirio y se propuso ser la primera occidental que entrara en La Meca. Para ello, ya divorciada, se cas con un beduino y se convirti al islam. Su viaje al corazn de Arabia fu una autentica pesadilla, al ser recluida en un haren y mas tarde encarcelada en la terrible prisin de Yidda. Al abandonar Oriente Prxirno, se dedic al trafico de opio en el Paris ocupado por los nazis y acab sus dias tragicamente en Tanger. Pero quin era en realidad esta mujer fascinante Gracias a su estrecha colaboraci6n con Jacques d'Andurain, hijo menor de la condesa y hroe de la resistencia francesa, Cristina Morat ha podido reconstruir la azarosa vida de una mujer rnarcada por el escndalo y olvidada por la historia, que encontr en la aventura su razn de existir.
Rift
By West, Cait
"A powerful meditation on what it means to be trapped and what it takes to break free."Publishers Weekly STARRED Review. A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece together a future on your own terms. Raised in the Christian patriarchy movement, Cait West was homeschooled and could only wear clothes her father deemed modest. She was five years old the first time she was told her swimsuit was too revealing, to go change. There would be no college in her future, no career. She was a stay-at-home daughter and would move out only when her father allowed her to become a wife. She was trained to serve men, and her life would never be her own. Until she escaped. In Rift, Cait West tells a harrowing story of chaos and control hidden beneath the facade of a happy family.
Under Our Roof
By Dean, Madeleine
When Madeleine Dean discovered that her son, Harry, was stealing from the family to feed a painkiller addiction, she was days away from taking the biggest risk of her life: running for statewide office in Pennsylvania. For years, she had sensed something was wrong. Harry was losing weight and losing friends. He had lost the brightness in his eyes and voice, changing from a young boy with boundless enthusiasm to a shadow of himself, chasing something she could not see. Now her worst fears had come to light. Under Our Roof is the story of a national crisis suffered in the intimacy of so many homes, told with incredible candor through the dual perspectives of a mother rising in politics and a son living a double life, afraid of what might happen if his secret is exposed.
The Hyacinth Girl
By Gordon, Lyndall
"Superb ... brims with insight into T.S. Eliot's complex love of women and its impact on his poetry. Beautifully written, fiercely honest, The Hyacinth Girl permanently dissolves the myth of impersonality, fathoming the vexed, tormented emotional life behind Eliot's work." -- Jahan Ramazani, author of Poetry in a Global AgeWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, T.S. Eliot was considered the greatest English-language poet of his generation. His poems The Waste Land and Four Quartets are classics of the modernist canon, while his essays influenced a school of literary criticism. Raised in St. Louis, shaped by his youth in Boston, he reinvented himself as an Englishman after converting to the Anglican Church. Like the authoritative yet restrained voice in his prose, he was the epitome of reserve.
The Lives of Isaac Stern
By Schoenbaum, David
A centennial celebration of the career and legacy of the first made-in-America violin virtuoso and one of the twentieth century's greatest musicians.No single American could personify what Henry Luce called the American Century. But over his eighty-one years, Isaac Stern came closer than most. Russian-Jewish parents brought him to San Francisco at ten months; practice and talent got him to Carnegie Hall, critical acclaim, and the attention of the legendary impresario Sol Hurok at twenty-five.As America came of age, so too did Stern. He would go on to make music on five continents, records in formats from 78 rpm to digital, and friends as different as Frank Sinatra and Sir Isaiah Berlin. An unofficial cultural ambassador for Cold War America, he toured the world from Tokyo to Tehran and Tbilisi.
See No Stranger
By Kaur, Valarie
A renowned Sikh activist, filmmaker, and civil rights lawyer asks: How do we love in a time of rage How do we fix a broken world while not breaking ourselves "Valarie Kaur's powerful memoir offers a reliable moral compass guided by revolutionary love." - Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowValarie Kaur describes revolutionary love as the call of our time, a radical, joyful practice that extends in three directions: to others, to our opponents, and to ourselves. It enjoins us to see no stranger but instead look at others and say: You are part of me I do not yet know. Starting from that place of wonder, the world begins to change - it is a practice that can transform a relationship, a community, a culture, even a country. Kaur takes readers through her own riveting journey - as a brown girl growing up in California farmland finding her place in the world, as a young adult galvanized by the murders of Sikhs after 9/11, as a law student fighting injustices in American prisons and on Guantnamo Bay, and as a woman trying to heal from her own experiences with sexual assault and police violence.