Author: Quinn Dalton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451604408
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In Bulletproof Girl, Quinn Dalton offers eleven raw and witty stories powered by a rich mix of women's voices. The stakes are high in these diverse narratives. "Dinner at Josette's" explores the nature of female friendships in the story of a woman whose best friend is in love with a gay man. "Midnight Bowling" follows seventeen-year-old Tess as she escapes her fanatically religious mother's pipe dreams and her dead father's legacy. In "Lennie Remembers the Angels," a woman confronts a long-ago vision as she recovers from a hit-and-run accident. In "Graceland," a once supportive businessman's wife turns to murder. And in "How to Clean Your Apartment," a jilted lover creates a spring cleaning reference guide as she tries to get over her man. At times tragic and savagely funny, Bulletproof Girl is a dynamic anthology from a strong new voice in fiction.
Bulletproof Girl
Author: Quinn Dalton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451604408
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In Bulletproof Girl, Quinn Dalton offers eleven raw and witty stories powered by a rich mix of women's voices. The stakes are high in these diverse narratives. "Dinner at Josette's" explores the nature of female friendships in the story of a woman whose best friend is in love with a gay man. "Midnight Bowling" follows seventeen-year-old Tess as she escapes her fanatically religious mother's pipe dreams and her dead father's legacy. In "Lennie Remembers the Angels," a woman confronts a long-ago vision as she recovers from a hit-and-run accident. In "Graceland," a once supportive businessman's wife turns to murder. And in "How to Clean Your Apartment," a jilted lover creates a spring cleaning reference guide as she tries to get over her man. At times tragic and savagely funny, Bulletproof Girl is a dynamic anthology from a strong new voice in fiction.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451604408
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In Bulletproof Girl, Quinn Dalton offers eleven raw and witty stories powered by a rich mix of women's voices. The stakes are high in these diverse narratives. "Dinner at Josette's" explores the nature of female friendships in the story of a woman whose best friend is in love with a gay man. "Midnight Bowling" follows seventeen-year-old Tess as she escapes her fanatically religious mother's pipe dreams and her dead father's legacy. In "Lennie Remembers the Angels," a woman confronts a long-ago vision as she recovers from a hit-and-run accident. In "Graceland," a once supportive businessman's wife turns to murder. And in "How to Clean Your Apartment," a jilted lover creates a spring cleaning reference guide as she tries to get over her man. At times tragic and savagely funny, Bulletproof Girl is a dynamic anthology from a strong new voice in fiction.
Bulletproof Vest
Author: Maria Venegas
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374117314
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
"After a fourteen-year estrangement, Maria Venegas returns to Mexico from the United States to visit her father, who is living in the old hacienda where both he and she were born. While spending the following summers and holidays together, herding cattle and fixing barbed-wire fences, he begins sharing stories with her, tales of a dramatic life filled with both intense love and brutal violence--from the final conversations he had with his own father, to his extradition from the United States for murder, to his mother's pride after he shot a man for the first time at the age of twelve"--Amazon.com.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374117314
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
"After a fourteen-year estrangement, Maria Venegas returns to Mexico from the United States to visit her father, who is living in the old hacienda where both he and she were born. While spending the following summers and holidays together, herding cattle and fixing barbed-wire fences, he begins sharing stories with her, tales of a dramatic life filled with both intense love and brutal violence--from the final conversations he had with his own father, to his extradition from the United States for murder, to his mother's pride after he shot a man for the first time at the age of twelve"--Amazon.com.
Bulletproof Diva
Author: Lisa Jones
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385471238
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In Bulletproof Diva, Lisa Jones brings the wit and candor of her infamous Village Voice column, "Skin Trade," to a much larger audience. Chock full of the "fierce black girl humor" that has made her column so popular, this provocative collection of essays and observations on race, sex, identity, and the politics of style speaks to a young generation of blacks who were raised in an integrated society and are now waiting for America to deliver on its promises of equality. The thirty-seven short pieces and six long essays in Bulletproof Diva cover a wide range of topics, many of them extremely controversial. Jones moves smoothly from issues of ethnicity in a changing America, challenging viewpoints on African-American and mixed race identity, to "butt theory" and the roller-coaster politics of black hair. Written in a style that is as appealing as it is unapologetic, Bulletproof Diva marks the debut of a genuinely gifted young writer with a distinctive voice and a fresh perspective on the black cultural scene.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385471238
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In Bulletproof Diva, Lisa Jones brings the wit and candor of her infamous Village Voice column, "Skin Trade," to a much larger audience. Chock full of the "fierce black girl humor" that has made her column so popular, this provocative collection of essays and observations on race, sex, identity, and the politics of style speaks to a young generation of blacks who were raised in an integrated society and are now waiting for America to deliver on its promises of equality. The thirty-seven short pieces and six long essays in Bulletproof Diva cover a wide range of topics, many of them extremely controversial. Jones moves smoothly from issues of ethnicity in a changing America, challenging viewpoints on African-American and mixed race identity, to "butt theory" and the roller-coaster politics of black hair. Written in a style that is as appealing as it is unapologetic, Bulletproof Diva marks the debut of a genuinely gifted young writer with a distinctive voice and a fresh perspective on the black cultural scene.
The Fireproof Girl
Author: Loretta Lost
Publisher: ThunderWords
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
I'm Sophie Shields. At least, that's one of my names... My whole life has been running. Surviving. I've only known love once, and it was so fierce that it nearly destroyed me. He became a part of me. In this brutal, violent world, he was my only safe place. But I was afraid. And I lost him. Since then, I've been a shell of a woman. Going through the motions, barely existing. I thought it was better that way. Until everything came crashing down. And I realized... I would tear down heaven and earth to get back what I've lost. I will risk facing the monsters who nearly destroyed me when I was a child, in order to seize justice. No more hiding. I will risk death, dismemberment, or any sort of pain, if it means making this right... I know that I'm damaged, and I know that I broke the purest, most beautiful thing I've ever had. But I'm ready to fight. I'm ready to heal. I'll do whatever it takes to mend my mistakes, if it isn't too late... This is a dark romantic suspense and psychological thriller of 80,000 words, featuring a main character with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Trigger warnings for abuse, self-harm, CSA, pregnancy-related issues. Award winner in the 2017 Readers' Favorite Contest Finalist in the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards
Publisher: ThunderWords
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
I'm Sophie Shields. At least, that's one of my names... My whole life has been running. Surviving. I've only known love once, and it was so fierce that it nearly destroyed me. He became a part of me. In this brutal, violent world, he was my only safe place. But I was afraid. And I lost him. Since then, I've been a shell of a woman. Going through the motions, barely existing. I thought it was better that way. Until everything came crashing down. And I realized... I would tear down heaven and earth to get back what I've lost. I will risk facing the monsters who nearly destroyed me when I was a child, in order to seize justice. No more hiding. I will risk death, dismemberment, or any sort of pain, if it means making this right... I know that I'm damaged, and I know that I broke the purest, most beautiful thing I've ever had. But I'm ready to fight. I'm ready to heal. I'll do whatever it takes to mend my mistakes, if it isn't too late... This is a dark romantic suspense and psychological thriller of 80,000 words, featuring a main character with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Trigger warnings for abuse, self-harm, CSA, pregnancy-related issues. Award winner in the 2017 Readers' Favorite Contest Finalist in the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards
Fight Girls #1
Author: Frank Cho
Publisher: AWA Studios
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Ten hard-as-nails women face off in an ancient contest of champions where the winner truly takes all: the title of “Queen of the Galaxy.” To win the challenge each contestant must survive the hazards of the planet’s harsh landscape, the ferocious predators on and below its surface, and their fellow contestants. This edition of the contest has a twist: one of the contestants is an infiltrator who has her eye on something bigger than the prize. Who is she and what does she really want?
Publisher: AWA Studios
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Ten hard-as-nails women face off in an ancient contest of champions where the winner truly takes all: the title of “Queen of the Galaxy.” To win the challenge each contestant must survive the hazards of the planet’s harsh landscape, the ferocious predators on and below its surface, and their fellow contestants. This edition of the contest has a twist: one of the contestants is an infiltrator who has her eye on something bigger than the prize. Who is she and what does she really want?
Bulletproof
Author: Maci Bookout
Publisher: Post Hill Press
ISBN: 1618688650
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
*** NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *** Maci Bookout was just a normal, slightly overachieving high school girl in Chattanooga, Tennessee. But then she got pregnant, and everything turned upside down. Even as she rose to fame on MTV's hit series Teen Mom, Maci was struggling to balance life as a single teen mom with her own hopes and dreams...all while honoring her own sense of independence. This is the true story of how she took charge of the unexpected to build a life for herself and her son Bentley, and managed not to go crazy in the process. Because sometimes growing up is an act of will...and Maci's will is bulletproof.
Publisher: Post Hill Press
ISBN: 1618688650
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
*** NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *** Maci Bookout was just a normal, slightly overachieving high school girl in Chattanooga, Tennessee. But then she got pregnant, and everything turned upside down. Even as she rose to fame on MTV's hit series Teen Mom, Maci was struggling to balance life as a single teen mom with her own hopes and dreams...all while honoring her own sense of independence. This is the true story of how she took charge of the unexpected to build a life for herself and her son Bentley, and managed not to go crazy in the process. Because sometimes growing up is an act of will...and Maci's will is bulletproof.
High Strung
Author: Quinn Dalton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451604378
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Years after running away from America and the mysteries surrounding her mother's death, Merle Winslow winds up editing trash novels at X Publishing in West London and shacked up with a drug-addled diplomat's son. Shaky and defeated, she heads home to Florence, Ohio, with no money and no idea of what to do next. Meanwhile, Merle discovers that her brother Olin, rich and successful from marketing Marilyn Monroe meat thermometers, is poised to embark on a dubious performance art career, and that her stodgy father might be falling in love after years of living alone. As Merle looks for clues about her mother's life she uncovers disturbing new truths about her own romantic failings. She suspects she's never really escaped her old life; she's simply dragged it along with her, "like an outfit that was ill-fitting and too revealing, but impossible to get rid of." But with the help of her tough-talking grandmother, free-spirited brother, and a pilot who nurses a failing plane, Merle finally begins to face her family's checkered past and her own uncertain future. In vivid cinematic prose, High Strung balances humor on the rough edge of loss, regret, and wounded family love. Merle is an unforgettable creation in an exhilarating debut novel from a young writer to watch.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451604378
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Years after running away from America and the mysteries surrounding her mother's death, Merle Winslow winds up editing trash novels at X Publishing in West London and shacked up with a drug-addled diplomat's son. Shaky and defeated, she heads home to Florence, Ohio, with no money and no idea of what to do next. Meanwhile, Merle discovers that her brother Olin, rich and successful from marketing Marilyn Monroe meat thermometers, is poised to embark on a dubious performance art career, and that her stodgy father might be falling in love after years of living alone. As Merle looks for clues about her mother's life she uncovers disturbing new truths about her own romantic failings. She suspects she's never really escaped her old life; she's simply dragged it along with her, "like an outfit that was ill-fitting and too revealing, but impossible to get rid of." But with the help of her tough-talking grandmother, free-spirited brother, and a pilot who nurses a failing plane, Merle finally begins to face her family's checkered past and her own uncertain future. In vivid cinematic prose, High Strung balances humor on the rough edge of loss, regret, and wounded family love. Merle is an unforgettable creation in an exhilarating debut novel from a young writer to watch.
The Poets & Writers Guide to the Book Deal
Author:
Publisher: Poets & Writers Inc
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Publisher: Poets & Writers Inc
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Wonder Women and Bad Girls
Author: Valerie Estelle Frankel
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476641633
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Shuri, and Black Widow. These four characters portray very different versions of women: the superheroine, the abuse victim, the fourth wave princess, and the spy, respectively. In this in-depth analysis of female characters in superhero media, the author begins by identifying ten eras of superhero media defined by the way they portray women. Following this, the various archetypes of superheroines are classified into four categories: boundary crossers, good girls, outcasts, and those that reclaim power. From Golden Age comics through today's hottest films, heroines have been surprisingly assertive, diverse, and remarkable in this celebration of all the archetypes.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476641633
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Shuri, and Black Widow. These four characters portray very different versions of women: the superheroine, the abuse victim, the fourth wave princess, and the spy, respectively. In this in-depth analysis of female characters in superhero media, the author begins by identifying ten eras of superhero media defined by the way they portray women. Following this, the various archetypes of superheroines are classified into four categories: boundary crossers, good girls, outcasts, and those that reclaim power. From Golden Age comics through today's hottest films, heroines have been surprisingly assertive, diverse, and remarkable in this celebration of all the archetypes.
Witchblade #159
Author: Tim Seeley
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
SAVIORS', PART 1...Sara Pezzini will get drawn deeper into Chicago's corruption when magician Cain Jorgenson asks her to investigate a mysterious Cult threatening a community organizer and popular young politician. In the process, Sara will discover that the most sinister evil can present itself in the most unlikely vessel.
Publisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
SAVIORS', PART 1...Sara Pezzini will get drawn deeper into Chicago's corruption when magician Cain Jorgenson asks her to investigate a mysterious Cult threatening a community organizer and popular young politician. In the process, Sara will discover that the most sinister evil can present itself in the most unlikely vessel.