Author: Simone Amelia Jordan
Publisher: Hachette Australia
ISBN: 0733649769
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This book is a love letter to women longing to break free of the boxes their postcode, skin colour, gender and bank balance put them in. Its title is a rebel yell to ambitious women and girls hungry for more. Growing up on the whitewashed Central Coast in the 1980s and attending an elite school as a scholarship student from the wrong side of the tracks, Lebanese-Cypriot Simone Amelia Jordan felt like an outcast among her peers for years. Her lifeline was hip-hop, then in its golden age. From girlhood, Simone recognised the art form's pro-Black consciousness, and the rappers' resonant words inspired her to embrace her own identity and back herself. From founding Australia's most successful hip-hop and R&B publication to moving to New York City and interviewing the biggest stars of the time as the editor of the world's most beloved rap magazine; falling in love and getting her heart broken; grappling with her family ties to culture; and struggling through illness and sexual grooming, Simone's inspiring story is about defying the odds to reach for your dreams. But it is also about figuring out those dreams can change as you do. Tell Her She's Dreamin' is a deeply personal story of family, culture and music that disrupts the long-held view that women, and racially diverse women especially, are limited in their power as bold, playful explorers. It is a timely manual for those hellbent on going places and an inspiration for anyone who has ever been told they can't. (Spoiler alert: you can!)
Tell Her She's Dreamin'
Author: Simone Amelia Jordan
Publisher: Hachette Australia
ISBN: 0733649769
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This book is a love letter to women longing to break free of the boxes their postcode, skin colour, gender and bank balance put them in. Its title is a rebel yell to ambitious women and girls hungry for more. Growing up on the whitewashed Central Coast in the 1980s and attending an elite school as a scholarship student from the wrong side of the tracks, Lebanese-Cypriot Simone Amelia Jordan felt like an outcast among her peers for years. Her lifeline was hip-hop, then in its golden age. From girlhood, Simone recognised the art form's pro-Black consciousness, and the rappers' resonant words inspired her to embrace her own identity and back herself. From founding Australia's most successful hip-hop and R&B publication to moving to New York City and interviewing the biggest stars of the time as the editor of the world's most beloved rap magazine; falling in love and getting her heart broken; grappling with her family ties to culture; and struggling through illness and sexual grooming, Simone's inspiring story is about defying the odds to reach for your dreams. But it is also about figuring out those dreams can change as you do. Tell Her She's Dreamin' is a deeply personal story of family, culture and music that disrupts the long-held view that women, and racially diverse women especially, are limited in their power as bold, playful explorers. It is a timely manual for those hellbent on going places and an inspiration for anyone who has ever been told they can't. (Spoiler alert: you can!)
Publisher: Hachette Australia
ISBN: 0733649769
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This book is a love letter to women longing to break free of the boxes their postcode, skin colour, gender and bank balance put them in. Its title is a rebel yell to ambitious women and girls hungry for more. Growing up on the whitewashed Central Coast in the 1980s and attending an elite school as a scholarship student from the wrong side of the tracks, Lebanese-Cypriot Simone Amelia Jordan felt like an outcast among her peers for years. Her lifeline was hip-hop, then in its golden age. From girlhood, Simone recognised the art form's pro-Black consciousness, and the rappers' resonant words inspired her to embrace her own identity and back herself. From founding Australia's most successful hip-hop and R&B publication to moving to New York City and interviewing the biggest stars of the time as the editor of the world's most beloved rap magazine; falling in love and getting her heart broken; grappling with her family ties to culture; and struggling through illness and sexual grooming, Simone's inspiring story is about defying the odds to reach for your dreams. But it is also about figuring out those dreams can change as you do. Tell Her She's Dreamin' is a deeply personal story of family, culture and music that disrupts the long-held view that women, and racially diverse women especially, are limited in their power as bold, playful explorers. It is a timely manual for those hellbent on going places and an inspiration for anyone who has ever been told they can't. (Spoiler alert: you can!)
Brown Girl Dreaming
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698195701
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Winner Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Red at the Bone, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child’s soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson’s eloquent poetry also reflects the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, despite the fact that she struggled with reading as a child. Her love of stories inspired her and stayed with her, creating the first sparks of the gifted writer she was to become. A National Book Award Winner A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Award Winner Praise for Jacqueline Woodson: Ms. Woodson writes with a sure understanding of the thoughts of young people, offering a poetic, eloquent narrative that is not simply a story . . . but a mature exploration of grown-up issues and self-discovery.”—The New York Times Book Review
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698195701
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Winner Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Red at the Bone, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child’s soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson’s eloquent poetry also reflects the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, despite the fact that she struggled with reading as a child. Her love of stories inspired her and stayed with her, creating the first sparks of the gifted writer she was to become. A National Book Award Winner A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Award Winner Praise for Jacqueline Woodson: Ms. Woodson writes with a sure understanding of the thoughts of young people, offering a poetic, eloquent narrative that is not simply a story . . . but a mature exploration of grown-up issues and self-discovery.”—The New York Times Book Review
Dreaming in Cuban
Author: Cristina García
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307798003
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
“Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban “Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.”—The Washington Post “Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.”—The Denver Post
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307798003
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
“Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban “Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.”—The Washington Post “Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.”—The Denver Post
Dream I Tell You
Author: Helene Cixous
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474465730
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Dream I Tell You".
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474465730
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Dream I Tell You".
Remember to Dream, Ebere
Author: Cynthia Erivo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780316496155
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
"A girl dreams of a rocket ship, and her mother encourages her to follow her big, bright, bold dream"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780316496155
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
"A girl dreams of a rocket ship, and her mother encourages her to follow her big, bright, bold dream"--
In the Dream House
Author: Carmen Maria Machado
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1644451026
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope—the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman—through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. Machado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1644451026
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope—the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman—through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. Machado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.
Dreaming Nightmares
Author: M. W. Rowe
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1471648672
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Autumn and Coco both have the ability to get inside of people's heads. They are capable of invading another person's dreams whilst they are sleeping and of course alter the way that the dreams play out. Coco uses this power for evil and does all that she can to torment, torture and worry people whilst they dream. Autumn is the good force that does everything that she can to try and stop Coco from hurting people. Who will triumph? Good or evil?
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1471648672
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Autumn and Coco both have the ability to get inside of people's heads. They are capable of invading another person's dreams whilst they are sleeping and of course alter the way that the dreams play out. Coco uses this power for evil and does all that she can to torment, torture and worry people whilst they dream. Autumn is the good force that does everything that she can to try and stop Coco from hurting people. Who will triumph? Good or evil?
New Directions in Dream Interpretation
Author: Gayle M. V. Delaney
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791416051
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
A menu of seven approaches to dream interpretation as practiced by psychiatrists and psychologists, emphasizing the practical aspects of actually doing it rather than the theory. Each of the contributors has used the system they describe for at least two decades, and includes case studies and transcripts of therapy sessions. A basic text for mental health students and professionals, but also accessible to general readers. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791416051
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
A menu of seven approaches to dream interpretation as practiced by psychiatrists and psychologists, emphasizing the practical aspects of actually doing it rather than the theory. Each of the contributors has used the system they describe for at least two decades, and includes case studies and transcripts of therapy sessions. A basic text for mental health students and professionals, but also accessible to general readers. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Sylvia Browne's Book of Dreams
Author: Sylvia Browne
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101209739
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned psychic Sylvia Browne offers a startling and revealing look into the world of dreams, illuminates a path to the beauty and truth that resides within everyone, and gives readers the knowledge to use their dreams to contact the world beyond.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101209739
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned psychic Sylvia Browne offers a startling and revealing look into the world of dreams, illuminates a path to the beauty and truth that resides within everyone, and gives readers the knowledge to use their dreams to contact the world beyond.
Lucid Dreams
Author: L. V. Tamez
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781475926545
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Although seventeen-year-old Darcy has always remembered her dreams, shes never bothered to interpret them beyond writing them down in her journal. But after a date with her boyfriend, Harley, goes horribly wrong, the only thing she wants to do is retreat into themto the attractive boy she dreams about every night. Soon, to Darcys surprise, she realizes that she is able to communicate with the mysterious dream boyJackson, who introduces himself as Jack. Despite everything going on in her waking life, she knows that she is safe with him. As the chemistry grows between them, Darcy and Jack make every effort to be together as often as possible, even if its only in their dreams. As their budding romance grows, Darcy learns that Jack has secrets of his ownpossibly deadly onesand she finds herself wondering why he must be away from her for long periods of time. Where does he go? What does he do when hes gone? But just when the two decide that the past no longer matters, dark forces in Jacks life arise and threaten to take Darcy from him forever. Will they be able to overcome them and find a way to be together?
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781475926545
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Although seventeen-year-old Darcy has always remembered her dreams, shes never bothered to interpret them beyond writing them down in her journal. But after a date with her boyfriend, Harley, goes horribly wrong, the only thing she wants to do is retreat into themto the attractive boy she dreams about every night. Soon, to Darcys surprise, she realizes that she is able to communicate with the mysterious dream boyJackson, who introduces himself as Jack. Despite everything going on in her waking life, she knows that she is safe with him. As the chemistry grows between them, Darcy and Jack make every effort to be together as often as possible, even if its only in their dreams. As their budding romance grows, Darcy learns that Jack has secrets of his ownpossibly deadly onesand she finds herself wondering why he must be away from her for long periods of time. Where does he go? What does he do when hes gone? But just when the two decide that the past no longer matters, dark forces in Jacks life arise and threaten to take Darcy from him forever. Will they be able to overcome them and find a way to be together?