The (not So) Little Book of Surprises

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Publisher : Waterside Productions
ISBN 13 : 9781943625932
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (259 download)

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Book Synopsis The (not So) Little Book of Surprises by : Deirdre Hade

Download or read book The (not So) Little Book of Surprises written by Deirdre Hade and published by Waterside Productions. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statement of responsibility from front cover.

The Address Book

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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250134781
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis The Address Book by : Deirdre Mask

Download or read book The Address Book written by Deirdre Mask and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction | One of Time Magazines's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 | Longlisted for the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards "An entertaining quest to trace the origins and implications of the names of the roads on which we reside." —Sarah Vowell, The New York Times Book Review When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won’t get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class. In this wide-ranging and remarkable book, Deirdre Mask looks at the fate of streets named after Martin Luther King Jr., the wayfinding means of ancient Romans, and how Nazis haunt the streets of modern Germany. The flipside of having an address is not having one, and we also see what that means for millions of people today, including those who live in the slums of Kolkata and on the streets of London. Filled with fascinating people and histories, The Address Book illuminates the complex and sometimes hidden stories behind street names and their power to name, to hide, to decide who counts, who doesn’t—and why.

Parisian Lives

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Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385542461
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Book Synopsis Parisian Lives by : Deirdre Bair

Download or read book Parisian Lives written by Deirdre Bair and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art. In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted Ph.D. who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could be his biographer despite her never having written—or even read—a biography before. The next seven years comprised of intimate conversations, intercontinental research, and peculiar cat-and-mouse games. Battling an elusive Beckett and a string of jealous, misogynistic male writers, Bair persevered. She wrote Samuel Beckett: A Biography, which went on to win the National Book Award and propel Deirdre to her next subject: Simone de Beauvoir. The catch? De Beauvoir and Beckett despised each other—and lived essentially on the same street. Bair learned that what works in terms of process for one biography rarely applies to the next. Her seven-year relationship with the domineering and difficult de Beauvoir required a radical change in approach, yielding another groundbreaking literary profile and influencing Bair’s own feminist beliefs. Parisian Lives draws on Bair’s extensive notes from the period, including never-before-told anecdotes. This gripping memoir is full of personality and warmth and gives us an entirely new window on the all-too-human side of these legendary thinkers.

Needlework

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ISBN 13 : 9781910411506
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Needlework written by Deirdre Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I would like to make things beautiful, but a tawdry and repulsive kind of beauty. A braver sort than people have from birth. Sexy zombies on a bicep. That sort of thing.' Ces longs to be a tattoo artist and embroider skin with beautiful images. But for now she's just trying to reach adulthood without falling apart. Powerful, poetic and disturbing, Needlework is a girl's meditation on her efforts to maintain her bodily and spiritual integrity in the face of abuse, violation and neglect.

Tangleweed and Brine

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ISBN 13 : 9781910411926
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Tangleweed and Brine written by Deirdre Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bewitched retellings of classic fairy-tales with brave and resilient heroines. In the tradition of Angela Carter, stories such as Cinderella and Rumpelstiltskin are given a witchy makeover. Tales of blood and intrigue, betrayal, and enchantment from a leading Irish YA author--not for the faint-hearted or damsels in distress. Intricately illustrated with black and white line drawings, in the style of Aubrey Beardsley, by a new Irish illustrator.

Dress Casual

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Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469614073
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Book Synopsis Dress Casual by : Deirdre Clemente

Download or read book Dress Casual written by Deirdre Clemente and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dress Casual: How College Students Redefined American Style

Why the moon travels

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Publisher : Skein Press
ISBN 13 : 1916493513
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (164 download)

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Book Synopsis Why the moon travels by : Oein DeBhairduin

Download or read book Why the moon travels written by Oein DeBhairduin and published by Skein Press. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting collection of twenty stories rooted in the oral tradition of the Irish Traveller community. Brave vixens, prophetic owls and stalwart horses live alongside the human characters as guides, protectors, friends and foes while spirits, giants and fairies blur the lines between this world and the otherworld. Collected by Oein DeBhairduin throughout his childhood, retold in his lyrical style, and beautifully illustrated by Leanne McDonagh.

The Pretend Christian

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Publisher : Crosslink Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781633573123
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (731 download)

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Book Synopsis The Pretend Christian by : Deirdre Reilly

Download or read book The Pretend Christian written by Deirdre Reilly and published by Crosslink Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-20 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is your faith on life support, or do you ever wonder if you even deserve to call yourself a Christian? Guess what? You don't have to be a perfect, "churchy" person to experience God's love! In "The Pretend Christian," author Deirdre Reilly takes the reader on her personal journey to find authentic Christian faith, winding through common questions, doubts, and both negative and positive experiences that all lead to the stunning, life-changing reality of Christ's presence. Filled with raw honesty, sincere doubts, genuine searching, and moving, often-humorous insights, "The Pretend Christian" is a candid and bracing modern-day search for the one true God. "'The Pretend Christian' introduces the reader to the reality of relationship over religion. A 'now generation' message of great value; a pearl of great price." --Alveda King, evangelist In her easy-to-read, relatable narrative, Reilly explores: How judgmental Christians hurt the case for ChristHow a focus on being a "cookie-cutter" Christian or belonging to the "correct" denomination can interrupt a personal relationship with GodHow God powerfully handles our doubts and fearsThe evidence of God available to every searcherCan it really all be true -- did Christ come to save us? What does that mean for each one of us?

Little Dancer Aged Fourteen

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Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590519590
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis Little Dancer Aged Fourteen by : Camille Laurens

Download or read book Little Dancer Aged Fourteen written by Camille Laurens and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing, heartfelt work uncovers the story of the real dancer behind Degas’s now-iconic sculpture, shedding light on the struggles of late nineteenth-century Parisian life. She is famous throughout the world, but how many know her name? You can admire her figure in Washington, Paris, London, New York, Dresden, or Copenhagen, but where is her grave? We know only her age, fourteen, and the work that she did—because it was already grueling work, at an age when children today are sent to school. In the 1880s, she danced as a “little rat” at the Paris Opera, and what is often a dream for young girls now wasn’t a dream for her. She was fired after several years of intense labor; the director had had enough of her repeated absences. She had been working another job, even two, because the few pennies the Opera paid weren’t enough to keep her and her family fed. She was a model, posing for painters or sculptors—among them Edgar Degas. Drawing on a wealth of historical material as well as her own love of ballet and personal experiences of loss, Camille Laurens presents a compelling, compassionate portrait of Marie van Goethem and the world she inhabited that shows the importance of those who have traditionally been overlooked in the study of art.

Simone de Beauvoir

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671741802
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (717 download)

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Book Synopsis Simone de Beauvoir by : Deirdre Bair

Download or read book Simone de Beauvoir written by Deirdre Bair and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1991-08-15 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive biography is based on five years of interviews with de Beauvoir, and is written with her full cooperation. Bair penetrates the mystique of this brilliant and often paradoxical woman, who has been called one of the great minds of the 20th century, and surely, one of the most famously unconventional figures of her generation. "As a reference work . . . Simone de Beauvoir can be considered definitive".--The Atlantic. 16-page photographic insert.

Deirdre

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Publisher : Multnomah
ISBN 13 : 1576738914
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (767 download)

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Book Synopsis Deirdre by : Linda Windsor

Download or read book Deirdre written by Linda Windsor and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2002-03-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Saxon pirate prince, loyal to neither God nor country, is skeptical of his Christian mother's predictions about his birthright... until he captures a devout princess with the key to both heavenly and earthly kingdoms. What his mother said about his true birthright seems possible after all, even when his newfound faith is battered by storms of betrayal that wash him and his half-drowned bride upon the seaswept shores of Gleannmara. Deirdre, the third heroine in the Fires of Gleannmara series, is an Irish princess wed to a heathen thief. Although she is a reluctant heroine, compassion becomes her shield, prayer her sword, and God's Word her direction.

Turning Pointe

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Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1645036723
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)

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Book Synopsis Turning Pointe by : Chloe Angyal

Download or read book Turning Pointe written by Chloe Angyal and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reckoning with one of our most beloved art forms, whose past and present are shaped by gender, racial, and class inequities—and a look inside the fight for its future Every day, in dance studios all across America, legions of little children line up at the barre to take ballet class. This time in the studio shapes their lives, instilling lessons about gender, power, bodies, and their place in the world both in and outside of dance. In Turning Pointe, journalist Chloe Angyal captures the intense love for ballet that so many dancers feel, while also grappling with its devastating shortcomings: the power imbalance of an art form performed mostly by women, but dominated by men; the impossible standards of beauty and thinness; and the racism that keeps so many people of color out of ballet. As the rigid traditions of ballet grow increasingly out of step with the modern world, a new generation of dancers is confronting these issues head on, in the studio and on stage. For ballet to survive the twenty-first century and forge a path into a more socially just future, this reckoning is essential.

Deirdre's True Desire

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Publisher : Lyrical Press
ISBN 13 : 1516102916
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (161 download)

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Book Synopsis Deirdre's True Desire by : Heather McCorkle

Download or read book Deirdre's True Desire written by Heather McCorkle and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking the pot of gold at California’s end She married rich, but not well. Now, with the Civil War ended and her husband gone, Deirdre must make her own way in the world. The golden, untamed valleys of Sonoma County beckon, a land ripe with promise. But her dreams of building a home and starting a winery are thwarted by locals who don’t want to sell to a spirited, independent woman—much less an Irish one. Two very different gentlemen aid in Deirdre’s quest. Kin O’Leary is tall, dark, and oh-so-charming. Owner of Sonoma’s most successful inn, Kin is one of the wealthiest men in the county, and Deirdre believes this makes him an ill-advised suitor. Complicating her circumstance is Dylan O’Reilly, the strapping young cattle hand who stirs her passion to life but hides some dangerous secrets. With Deirdre’s dreams hanging in the balance, the forthright young widow faces a difficult choice. Will she have the luck of the Irish when it comes to love? “The love for Irish-American history is especially present . . . This is perfect for readers who love tackling difficult issues, Irish-American history and non-Regency settings.” —RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars, on Courting the Corporal

Deirdre and the Sons of Uisneach

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Deirdre

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Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Deirdre written by James Stephens and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deirdre is a medieval fantasy about a princess. In this magical, sweet tale, the king's love for Deirdre nearly brings about his kingdom's demise. Excerpt: Thus she grew in gentleness and peace, hearing no voice less sweet than the voice of the birds that sang in the sunshine...

Savage Her Reply

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Publisher : Little Island Books
ISBN 13 : 9781912417674
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Savage Her Reply written by Deirdre Sullivan and published by Little Island Books. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dark & witchy feminist retelling of the Irish myth of The Children of Lir. Aífe marries Lir, a chieftain with four children by his previous wife. Jealous of his affection for his children, the witch Aífe turns them into swans for 900 years. Retold through the voice of Aífe, Savage Her Reply is unsettling and dark, feminist and fierce, yet nuanced in its exploration of the guilt of a complex character.

Medieval Women

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ISBN 13 : 9780712358651
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Women written by Deirdre Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our understanding of the lives and roles of medieval women has changed dramatically in recent years. Far from being background characters of the middle ages, women often wielded an influence beyond their expected station. Many women fortunate enough to receive an education became patrons of literature, particularly secular tales of adventure and romance. Some bold pioneers became writers themselves. Others commissioned, or had dedicated to them, the earliest historical chronicles, bestiaries, and treatises on healthcare and military prowess. This book celebrates the importance that women across Europe assigned to reading and literature, and the many ways women advanced medieval culture.