Author: Melissa Wehler
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147663937X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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The CW's hit adaptation of Supergirl is a new take on the classic DC character for a new audience. With diverse female characters, it explores different versions of the female experience. No single character embodies a feminist ideal but together they represent attributes of the contemporary feminist conversation. This collection of new essays uses a similar approach, inviting a diverse group of scholars to address the many questions about gender roles and female agency in the series. Essays analyze how the series engages with feminism, Supergirl's impact on queer audiences, and how families craft the show's feminist narratives. In the ever-growing superhero television genre, Supergirl remains unique as viewers watch a female hero with almost godlike powers face the same struggles as ordinary women in the series.
Author: Andrew Helfer
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
ISBN: 9780671475666
Category : Adventure stories.
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Young readers send Supergirl to do battle with the evil Brainiac, to fight alongside King Arthur, or to challenge the Land of Oz's Wicked Witch of the West in a story that enables youngsters to decide the plot.
Author: Danielle Steel
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 0440245214
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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In this heartfelt, incisive novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family. BIG GIRL A chubby little girl with ordinary looks, Victoria Dawson has always felt out of place in her family, especially in body-conscious L.A. While her parents and sister can eat anything and not gain an ounce, Victoria must watch everything she eats, as well as endure her father’s belittling comments about her body and see her academic achievements go unacknowledged. Ice cream and oversized helpings of all the wrong foods give her comfort, but only briefly. The one thing she knows is that she has to get away from home, and after college in Chicago, she moves to New York City. Landing her dream job as a high school teacher, Victoria loves working with her students and wages war on her weight at the gym. Despite tension with her parents, Victoria remains close to her younger sister, Grace. Though they couldn’t be more different in looks, they love each other unconditionally. So when Grace announces her engagement to a man who is an exact replica of their narcissistic father, Victoria worries about her sister’s future happiness, and with no man of her own, she feels like a failure once again. As the wedding draws near, a chance encounter, a deeply upsetting betrayal, and a family confrontation lead to a turning point. Behind Victoria is a lifetime of hurt and neglect she has tried to forget. Ahead is a challenge and a risk: to accept herself as she is, celebrate it, and claim the victories she has fought so hard for and deserves. Big girl or not, she is terrific and discovers that herself.
Author: Jeph Loeb
Publisher: DC
ISBN: 1401266983
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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This now-classic run by Jeph Loeb features the first chapter of Kara Zor-ElÕs triumphant return! When SupermanÕs Kryptonian parents rocketed their infant son to Earth, his aunt and uncle did the same with their young daughter, Kara Zor-El. The two cousins were meant to arrive on Earth together, but instead Kara arrived just a few months ago, after spending decades in space in suspended animation. Now taking the name Supergirl, Kara possesses strength and speed that rivals (or even surpasses) her cousin SupermanÕs. As she searches for her role in this new world, sheÕll cross paths (and trades blows) with the JSA, the Teen Titans and the Outsiders. But while she's facing off against other heroes, SupermanÕs nemesis Lex Luthor has uncovered a truth that could change the Girl of Steel forever! SUPERGIRL VOL. 1: THE GIRL OF STEEL features creators Jeph Loeb, Joe Kelly, Ian Churchill and more. Collects SUPERGIRL #0-10, #12
Author: Danielle Steel
Publisher:
ISBN: 0399179623
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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After JT Tucker's wife died, he built the biggest ranch in California, but when he dies suddenly, the ranch is inherited by his three daughters who struggle with their differences and moving on from the loss of their dad.
Author: Melissa Wehler
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476672016
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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Book Description
The CW's hit adaptation of Supergirl is a new take on the classic DC character for a new audience. With diverse female characters, it explores different versions of the female experience. No single character embodies a feminist ideal but together they represent attributes of the contemporary feminist conversation. This collection of new essays uses a similar approach, inviting a diverse group of scholars to address the many questions about gender roles and female agency in the series. Essays analyze how the series engages with feminism, Supergirl's impact on queer audiences, and how families craft the show's feminist narratives. In the ever-growing superhero television genre, Supergirl remains unique as viewers watch a female hero with almost godlike powers face the same struggles as ordinary women in the series.
Author: Loretta Hill
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 1742758053
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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A story of red dust and romance, of strength and dreams, discovered in the unlikeliest of places--the great Australian outback. Lena Todd is a city girl who thrives on cocktails and cappuccinos so when her boss announces he's sending her to the outback to join a construction team, her world is turned upside down. Lena's new accommodation: an aluminium box called a dongar. Her new social network: 350 men. Her daily foot attire: steel-capped boots. Unfortunately, Lena can't refuse. Mistakes from the past are choking her confidence and she needs to do something to right those wrongs and prove herself. Going to a remote community might just be the place to do that, if only tall, dark, and obnoxious Dan didn't seem so determined to stand in her way.
Author: Michelle Rawlins
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008427283
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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When war breaks out, friendship will see them through ‘A heart-warming story perfect for saga lovers’, Nancy Revell,Sunday Times bestselling author of The Shipyard Girls series
Author: Kady Cross
Publisher: Mira
ISBN: 9781848451124
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A steampunk novel for young adults. It's 1897: Finley Jayne is running from a vicious attack, but also from her own dark reaction to the violence. She's rescued by an orphaned duke, a misfit, who is fighting the criminal mastermind The Machinist; he has a use for her, if she will put her life in his hands and can keep control of her Jekyll and Hide nature.
Author: Robin Donnelly
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781726119917
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Growing up in a hardscrabble steel town in West Virginia, Robin wants just one thing: to be happy. But that's hard to do when your parents have substance-abuse problems, anger-management issues, and expect you to be the one to raise your baby brother.And when Robin's parents split up? It's no better. Traveling back and forth between the homes of an abusive father and neglectful mother, it's tough to tell which is the frying pan and which is the fire. Always on the move, never staying in one place long enough to grow roots or make lasting friends, Robin learns to navigate her uncertain universe by coming to rely on one amazingly strong and resilient person: herself.Reminiscent of Jeanette Walls' Glass Castle and Augusten Burroughs' Running with Scissors, this brave memoir is a welcome addition to the dysfunctional-literature bookshelf. At once moving and tender, courageous and fierce, with a healing dose of humor tossed in, this against-the-odds story of one steel town girl will win readers' hearts. A triumph.
