Author: Kjerstin Gruys
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 158333548X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A scholar and bride-to-be spends a year without mirrors to get a better view of what really matters When Kjerstin Gruys became engaged, she was thrilled—until it was time to shop for a wedding dress. Having overcome an eating disorder years before, Gruys found herself struggling to maintain a positive self-image; so she decided to refocus her attention. Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall charts Gruys’s awakening as she vows to give up mirrors and other reflective surfaces, relying on friends and her fiancé to help her gauge both her appearance and outlook on life. The result? A renewed focus on what truly matters, regardless of smeared makeup or messy hair. With humorous and poignant scenes from Gruys’ life, Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall sparks important conversations about body image and reclaiming the power to define beauty.
Lake Like a Mirror
Author: Ho Sok Fong
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1846276926
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
By an author described by critics as 'the most accomplished Malaysian writer, full stop'. Lake Like a Mirror is a scintillating exploration of the lives of women buffeted by powers beyond their control. Squeezing themselves between the gaps of rabid urbanisation, patriarchal structures and a theocratic government, these women find their lives twisted in disturbing ways. In precise and disquieting prose, Ho Sok Fong draws her readers into a richly atmospheric world of naked sleepwalkers in a rehabilitation centre for wayward Muslims, mysterious wooden boxes, gossip in unlicensed hairdressers, hotels with amnesiac guests, and poetry classes with accidentally charged politics - a world that is peopled with the ghosts of unsaid words, unmanaged desires and uncertain statuses, surreal and utterly true.
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1846276926
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
By an author described by critics as 'the most accomplished Malaysian writer, full stop'. Lake Like a Mirror is a scintillating exploration of the lives of women buffeted by powers beyond their control. Squeezing themselves between the gaps of rabid urbanisation, patriarchal structures and a theocratic government, these women find their lives twisted in disturbing ways. In precise and disquieting prose, Ho Sok Fong draws her readers into a richly atmospheric world of naked sleepwalkers in a rehabilitation centre for wayward Muslims, mysterious wooden boxes, gossip in unlicensed hairdressers, hotels with amnesiac guests, and poetry classes with accidentally charged politics - a world that is peopled with the ghosts of unsaid words, unmanaged desires and uncertain statuses, surreal and utterly true.
Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall
Author: Kjerstin Gruys
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 158333548X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A scholar and bride-to-be spends a year without mirrors to get a better view of what really matters When Kjerstin Gruys became engaged, she was thrilled—until it was time to shop for a wedding dress. Having overcome an eating disorder years before, Gruys found herself struggling to maintain a positive self-image; so she decided to refocus her attention. Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall charts Gruys’s awakening as she vows to give up mirrors and other reflective surfaces, relying on friends and her fiancé to help her gauge both her appearance and outlook on life. The result? A renewed focus on what truly matters, regardless of smeared makeup or messy hair. With humorous and poignant scenes from Gruys’ life, Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall sparks important conversations about body image and reclaiming the power to define beauty.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 158333548X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A scholar and bride-to-be spends a year without mirrors to get a better view of what really matters When Kjerstin Gruys became engaged, she was thrilled—until it was time to shop for a wedding dress. Having overcome an eating disorder years before, Gruys found herself struggling to maintain a positive self-image; so she decided to refocus her attention. Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall charts Gruys’s awakening as she vows to give up mirrors and other reflective surfaces, relying on friends and her fiancé to help her gauge both her appearance and outlook on life. The result? A renewed focus on what truly matters, regardless of smeared makeup or messy hair. With humorous and poignant scenes from Gruys’ life, Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall sparks important conversations about body image and reclaiming the power to define beauty.
In a Mirror
Author: Mary Stolz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Universe in a Mirror
Author: Robert Zimmerman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691146357
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Hubble Space Telescope has transformed our understanding of the universe, revealing new information about its age and evolution, the life cycle of stars, and the existence of black holes, among other discoveries. This book tells the story of the Hubble Space Telescope and the people responsible for it.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691146357
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Hubble Space Telescope has transformed our understanding of the universe, revealing new information about its age and evolution, the life cycle of stars, and the existence of black holes, among other discoveries. This book tells the story of the Hubble Space Telescope and the people responsible for it.
Mirror Girls
Author: Kelly McWilliams
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0759553858
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
A thrilling gothic horror novel about biracial twin sisters separated at birth, perfect for fans of Lovecraft Country and The Vanishing Half As infants, twin sisters Charlie Yates and Magnolia Heathwood were secretly separated after the brutal lynching of their parents, who died for loving across the color line. Now, at the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, Charlie is a young Black organizer in Harlem, while white-passing Magnolia is the heiress to a cotton plantation in rural Georgia. Magnolia knows nothing of her racial heritage, but secrets are hard to keep in a town haunted by the ghosts of its slave-holding past. When Magnolia finally learns the truth, her reflection mysteriously disappears from mirrors—the sign of a terrible curse. Meanwhile, in Harlem, Charlie's beloved grandmother falls ill. Her final wish is to be buried back home in Georgia—and, unbeknownst to Charlie, to see her long-lost granddaughter, Magnolia Heathwood, one last time. So Charlie travels into the Deep South, confronting the land of her worst nightmares—and Jim Crow segregation. The sisters reunite as teenagers in the deeply haunted town of Eureka, Georgia, where ghosts linger centuries after their time and dangers lurk behind every mirror. They couldn’t be more different, but they will need each other to put the hauntings of the past to rest, to break the mirrors’ deadly curse—and to discover the meaning of sisterhood in a racially divided land.
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0759553858
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
A thrilling gothic horror novel about biracial twin sisters separated at birth, perfect for fans of Lovecraft Country and The Vanishing Half As infants, twin sisters Charlie Yates and Magnolia Heathwood were secretly separated after the brutal lynching of their parents, who died for loving across the color line. Now, at the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, Charlie is a young Black organizer in Harlem, while white-passing Magnolia is the heiress to a cotton plantation in rural Georgia. Magnolia knows nothing of her racial heritage, but secrets are hard to keep in a town haunted by the ghosts of its slave-holding past. When Magnolia finally learns the truth, her reflection mysteriously disappears from mirrors—the sign of a terrible curse. Meanwhile, in Harlem, Charlie's beloved grandmother falls ill. Her final wish is to be buried back home in Georgia—and, unbeknownst to Charlie, to see her long-lost granddaughter, Magnolia Heathwood, one last time. So Charlie travels into the Deep South, confronting the land of her worst nightmares—and Jim Crow segregation. The sisters reunite as teenagers in the deeply haunted town of Eureka, Georgia, where ghosts linger centuries after their time and dangers lurk behind every mirror. They couldn’t be more different, but they will need each other to put the hauntings of the past to rest, to break the mirrors’ deadly curse—and to discover the meaning of sisterhood in a racially divided land.
The Orient in a Mirror
Author: Sabrina Michaud
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810948440
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Using the mirror as their motif, the Michauds pair traditional Islamic art miniatures, some of which date back several centuries, with their own photographs of the Middle East ... Through their pairings, the photographers provoke a fascinating interplay between past and present, between art and identity ... The photographs cover a period of nearly half a century, while the miniatures accompanying them reach back some eight hundred years. Geographically, the ensemble of both stretch from Morocco in the west to China in the east, embracing the heart of the Muslim world. Further enriching the timeless feel of both photographs and painted miniatures are extracts from the Koran and The Thousand and One Nights, as well as beautiful examples of Arab calligraphy"--Front and back flaps.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810948440
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Using the mirror as their motif, the Michauds pair traditional Islamic art miniatures, some of which date back several centuries, with their own photographs of the Middle East ... Through their pairings, the photographers provoke a fascinating interplay between past and present, between art and identity ... The photographs cover a period of nearly half a century, while the miniatures accompanying them reach back some eight hundred years. Geographically, the ensemble of both stretch from Morocco in the west to China in the east, embracing the heart of the Muslim world. Further enriching the timeless feel of both photographs and painted miniatures are extracts from the Koran and The Thousand and One Nights, as well as beautiful examples of Arab calligraphy"--Front and back flaps.
The Mirror in the Mirror
Author: Michael Ende
Publisher: hockebooks
ISBN: 395751374X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
“The Mirror in the Mirror” – in the E-Book now also with illustrations by his father Edgar Ende, to whom Michael Ende dedicated this book. It is a fantastic story labyrinth of a very special kind. For the author himself, this work was of great importance: in interviews, he liked to call it his “never-ending story for adult readers.” The reader is taken into a mysterious narrative world, full of bizarre situations and mysterious fates, surreal images and philosophical thoughts. Those who open themselves in amazement to these enigmatic visions and allow themselves to be drawn into the fantastic stories will emerge from Michael Ende’s magic labyrinth with a new perspective. The core question is: What is reflected in a mirror that is reflected in a mirror? If two readers read the same book, they are still not reading the same thing. For both people immerse themselves into the reading. The book becomes a mirror in which the reader is reflected. But in the same way, the reader is also a mirror in which the book is reflected: The mirror in the mirror refers the reader back to himself. The FAZ, one of the major newspapers in Germany, writes that Michael Ende shows with the book “how much darkness, wildness and rawness is inherent in dreams. He does not trivialize. His dreams make reference to reality because in dreams, Cicero wrote, ‘the remnants of those objects roll and tumble about in the souls which we have thought and impelled while awake’.”
Publisher: hockebooks
ISBN: 395751374X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
“The Mirror in the Mirror” – in the E-Book now also with illustrations by his father Edgar Ende, to whom Michael Ende dedicated this book. It is a fantastic story labyrinth of a very special kind. For the author himself, this work was of great importance: in interviews, he liked to call it his “never-ending story for adult readers.” The reader is taken into a mysterious narrative world, full of bizarre situations and mysterious fates, surreal images and philosophical thoughts. Those who open themselves in amazement to these enigmatic visions and allow themselves to be drawn into the fantastic stories will emerge from Michael Ende’s magic labyrinth with a new perspective. The core question is: What is reflected in a mirror that is reflected in a mirror? If two readers read the same book, they are still not reading the same thing. For both people immerse themselves into the reading. The book becomes a mirror in which the reader is reflected. But in the same way, the reader is also a mirror in which the book is reflected: The mirror in the mirror refers the reader back to himself. The FAZ, one of the major newspapers in Germany, writes that Michael Ende shows with the book “how much darkness, wildness and rawness is inherent in dreams. He does not trivialize. His dreams make reference to reality because in dreams, Cicero wrote, ‘the remnants of those objects roll and tumble about in the souls which we have thought and impelled while awake’.”
Mirror
Author: Suzy Lee
Publisher: Seven Footer Press
ISBN: 9781934734391
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A young girl dances with her reflection in a mirror in this story told without words.
Publisher: Seven Footer Press
ISBN: 9781934734391
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A young girl dances with her reflection in a mirror in this story told without words.
The Mirror
Author: Marlys Millhiser
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504010183
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
In this twisting time-travel thriller, a woman faints on the eve of her wedding—and awakens at the turn of the century in her grandmother’s body . . . The night before she is supposed to get married, Shay Garrett has no idea that a glimpse into her grandmother’s antique Chinese mirror will completely transform her seemingly ordinary life. But after a bizarre blackout, she wakes up to find herself in the same house—but in the year 1900. Even stranger, she realizes she is now living in the body of her grandmother, Brandy McCabe, as a young woman. Meanwhile, Brandy, having looked into the same mirror, awakens in Shay’s body in the present day—and discovers herself pregnant. As Rachael—the woman who links these two generations, mother to one and daughter to another—weaves back and forth between two time periods, this imaginative thriller explores questions of family, identity, and love. Courageous, compassionate Shay finds herself fighting against the confines of a society still decades away from women’s liberation, while Brandy struggles to adapt to the modern world she has suddenly been thrust into. The truth behind this inexplicable turn of events is more complex than either woman can imagine—and The Mirror is a tribute to the triumph of the female spirit, even in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. “What happens will surprise you. In the meantime, settle down for a good read.” —The Denver Post
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504010183
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
In this twisting time-travel thriller, a woman faints on the eve of her wedding—and awakens at the turn of the century in her grandmother’s body . . . The night before she is supposed to get married, Shay Garrett has no idea that a glimpse into her grandmother’s antique Chinese mirror will completely transform her seemingly ordinary life. But after a bizarre blackout, she wakes up to find herself in the same house—but in the year 1900. Even stranger, she realizes she is now living in the body of her grandmother, Brandy McCabe, as a young woman. Meanwhile, Brandy, having looked into the same mirror, awakens in Shay’s body in the present day—and discovers herself pregnant. As Rachael—the woman who links these two generations, mother to one and daughter to another—weaves back and forth between two time periods, this imaginative thriller explores questions of family, identity, and love. Courageous, compassionate Shay finds herself fighting against the confines of a society still decades away from women’s liberation, while Brandy struggles to adapt to the modern world she has suddenly been thrust into. The truth behind this inexplicable turn of events is more complex than either woman can imagine—and The Mirror is a tribute to the triumph of the female spirit, even in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles. “What happens will surprise you. In the meantime, settle down for a good read.” —The Denver Post
Lightning in a Mirror
Author: Jayne Ann Krentz
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0349432201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
'Sparkles with wit and clever plotting' Publishers Weekly 'Sexy . . . clever, fun' Kirkus Reviews Return to a dark world of deadly secrets in the final instalment of the Fogg Lake trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz. ________ Olivia LeClair, psychic investigator, has survived a lot - from paranormal disturbances to murder attempts. So, when the enigmatic Harlan Rancourt - long believed dead - approaches her with a dangerous request, she's less than impressed. According to Harlan, she's the one person who can help him locate the legendary Vortex lab. Unfortunately for Olivia, she doesn't have much choice: her psychic investigation firm works for the mysterious Foundation, who are determined she assist Harlan. Harlan - shadowy and distant - isn't easy to trust. But before she can decipher his real motivations, they're both pulled into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse: sinister forces are also desperate to unlock the secrets of the long-lost lab. Worse still, they too are convinced Olivia is the key. Only her unique psychic talent can defuse the ticking time bomb that is Vortex. While neither trusts the other, Olivia and Harlan have no alternative but to work together to stay alive - and unlock the Bluestone Project's most dangerous secrets before more innocent people die. Find out why readers are RAVING about Jayne Ann Krentz: 'Krentz expertly entwines high-stakes suspense, a paranormal-spiked plot, and a generous dollop of sexy romance with delightfully dry wit as she launches a thrilling and chilling new series' Booklist (starred review) 'A smart, creative series start from a romance master who always entertains' Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0349432201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
'Sparkles with wit and clever plotting' Publishers Weekly 'Sexy . . . clever, fun' Kirkus Reviews Return to a dark world of deadly secrets in the final instalment of the Fogg Lake trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz. ________ Olivia LeClair, psychic investigator, has survived a lot - from paranormal disturbances to murder attempts. So, when the enigmatic Harlan Rancourt - long believed dead - approaches her with a dangerous request, she's less than impressed. According to Harlan, she's the one person who can help him locate the legendary Vortex lab. Unfortunately for Olivia, she doesn't have much choice: her psychic investigation firm works for the mysterious Foundation, who are determined she assist Harlan. Harlan - shadowy and distant - isn't easy to trust. But before she can decipher his real motivations, they're both pulled into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse: sinister forces are also desperate to unlock the secrets of the long-lost lab. Worse still, they too are convinced Olivia is the key. Only her unique psychic talent can defuse the ticking time bomb that is Vortex. While neither trusts the other, Olivia and Harlan have no alternative but to work together to stay alive - and unlock the Bluestone Project's most dangerous secrets before more innocent people die. Find out why readers are RAVING about Jayne Ann Krentz: 'Krentz expertly entwines high-stakes suspense, a paranormal-spiked plot, and a generous dollop of sexy romance with delightfully dry wit as she launches a thrilling and chilling new series' Booklist (starred review) 'A smart, creative series start from a romance master who always entertains' Kirkus Reviews (starred review)