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Mannequin Girl: A Novel

Author : Ellen Litman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393242749
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Mannequin Girl: A Novel written by Ellen Litman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartfelt and deftly told coming-of-age story, Mannequin Girl captures the bleakness of Soviet Russia and the hopeful turmoil of adolescence. "A perfect little figure," he says. "Our mannequin girl." She knows who mannequin girls are. They are in her grandmother's Working Woman magazines, modeling flouncy dresses and berets. "Bend," he tells her, and she does, so pliant, so obedient." Growing up in Soviet Russia, Kat Knopman worships her parents, temperamental Anechka and soft-hearted, absent-minded Misha. Young Jewish intellectuals, they teach literature at a Moscow school, run a drama club, and dabble in political radicalism. Kat sees herself as their heir and ally. But when she's diagnosed with rapidly-progressing scoliosis, the trajectory of her life changes and she finds herself at a different institution—a school-sanatorium for children with spinal ailments. Confined to a brace, surrounded by unsympathetic peers, Kat embarks on a quest to prove that she can be as exceptional as her parents: a beauty, an intellect, and free spirit despite her physical limitations, her Jewishness, and her suspicion that her beloved parents are in fact flawed. Can a girl with a crooked spine really be a mannequin girl, her parents’ pride and her doctors’ and teachers’ glory? Or will she prove to be something far more ordinary—and, thereby, more her own? An unforgettable heroine, Kat will have to find the courage to face the world and break free not only of her metal brace but of all the constraints that bind her.

Mannequin Girl

Author : Ellen Litman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393069281
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Mannequin Girl written by Ellen Litman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in Soviet Russia, Kat Knopman worships her parents, Jewish intellectuals who teach literature at a Moscow school, run a drama club, and dabble in political radicalism. When Kat is diagnosed with rapidly-progressing scoliosis, the trajectory of her life changes and she finds herself at a different institution-- a school-sanatorium for children with spinal ailments. Confined to a brace, surrounded by unsympathetic peers, Kat embarks on a quest to prove that she can be as exceptional as her parents despite her physical limitations, her Jewishness, and her suspicion that her beloved parents are in fact flawed.

Mannequin House

Author : R. N. Morris
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1780103875
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Mannequin House written by R. N. Morris and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1914. Called out to investigate the murder of a fashion model employed by the House of Blackley, a prestigious Kensington department store, Detective Inspector Silas Quinn of Scotland Yard’s Special Crimes Department is thrown into the bizarre: the chief murder suspect is a monkey. He may be sceptical, but how will Quinn ever get to the truth when faced with the maelstrom of seething jealousy, resentment, forbidden desires and thwarted passion that is the Mannequin House?

Mannequin

Author : Fannie Hurst
Publisher : MacMillan Company of Canada
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Mannequin written by Fannie Hurst and published by MacMillan Company of Canada. This book was released on 1926 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mannequin and Wife

Author : Jen Fawkes
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807174149
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Mannequin and Wife written by Jen Fawkes and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Phillip H. McMath Award for prose. In Mannequin and Wife, the debut story collection from Jen Fawkes, sharp and imaginative tales trip seamlessly across borderlands, navigating comedy and tragedy, psychological and magical realism, the mundane and the marvelous. Readers of these adventurous fictions will encounter a flock of stenographers, the strongest woman alive, a taxidermist with anger issues, an Elephant Girl, a fairy on her lunch break, and a married couple who live with a department store mannequin. Elsewhere, an American actor impersonates a code-breaking Britisher during World War II. A mother awaiting her son’s return discovers his personal ad soliciting the services of a cannibal (and fears the worst). A criminal mastermind’s protégé plots the destruction of Mount Rushmore from within an extinct volcano. A man buys a drive-in theater and transforms it into a carnival sideshow. And an attorney puzzles over how to leave someone his deceased client’s heart. Fawkes’s award-winning stories examine the vagaries of human relationships—mother and child, husband and wife, mentor and protégé—to tease out the startling complications that arise from our entanglements with those we loathe and those we love.

Night of the Mannequins

Author : Stephen Graham Jones
Publisher : Tordotcom
ISBN 13 : 125075206X
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Night of the Mannequins written by Stephen Graham Jones and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones returns with Night of the Mannequins, a contemporary horror story where a teen prank goes very wrong and all hell breaks loose: is there a supernatural cause, a psychopath on the loose, or both? We thought we'd play a fun prank on her, and now most of us are dead. One last laugh for the summer as it winds down. One last prank just to scare a friend. Bringing a mannequin into a theater is just some harmless fun, right? Until it wakes up. Until it starts killing. Luckily, Sawyer has a plan. He’ll be a hero. He'll save everyone to the best of his ability. He'll do whatever he needs to so he can save the day. That's the thing about heroes—sometimes you have to become a monster first. "Suffused with questions about the nature of change and friendship, “Night of the Mannequins” is a fairy tale of impermanence showcasing Graham Jones’s signature style of smart, irreverent horror." —The New York Times At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

Author : T Kira Madden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635571863
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls written by T Kira Madden and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The book I wish I'd had growing up.” -Chanel Miller, author of Know My Name Best Books of 2019: Esquire O, The Oprah Magazine Variety Lit Hub Book Riot Electric Literature Autostraddle Finalist: NBCC John Leonard First Book Prize Lambda Literary Award New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Selection Paste Best Memoirs of the Decade Elle Best Books of the Season Washington Post Best Books of the Month Indie Next Pick Indies Introduce Pick "A fearless debut." -New York Times "[A] gorgeous reckoning." -Washington Post "Flat out breathtaking." -Lit Hub "Gripping and gloriously written." -Elle "Utterly unforgettable." -NYLON "Unnervingly satisfying." -Oprah Magazine "Deeply compassionate." -NPR.org "Truly stunning." -Cosmopolitan Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where she found cult-like privilege, shocking racial disparities, rampant white-collar crime, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hiding in plain sight. As a child, Madden lived a life of extravagance, from her exclusive private school to her equestrian trophies and designer shoe-brand name. But under the surface was a wild instability. The only child of parents continually battling drug and alcohol addictions, Madden confronted her environment alone. Facing a culture of assault and objectification, she found lifelines in the desperately loving friendships of fatherless girls. With unflinching honesty and lyrical prose, spanning from 1960s Hawai'i to the present-day struggle of a young woman mourning the loss of a father while unearthing truths that reframe her reality, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls is equal parts eulogy and love letter. It's a story about trauma and forgiveness, about families of blood and affinity, both lost and found, unmade and rebuilt, crooked and beautiful. One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year: Entertainment Weekly, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, The Millions, Nylon, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Lit Hub, Refinery29, and many more

The Last Chicken in America: A Novel in Stories

Author : Ellen Litman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393078604
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Last Chicken in America: A Novel in Stories written by Ellen Litman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[An] elegantly constructed web of stories about Russian-Jewish immigrants....Warm, true and original."—New York Times Book Review In twelve "pristine, entrancing" (Booklist) linked stories, Ellen Litman introduces an unforgettable cast of Russian-Jewish immigrants trying to assimilate in a new world. Tender and wryly funny, these stories trace Masha's and her fellow immigrants' struggles to find a place in a new society—lonely seniors, families grappling with unemployment and depression, and young adults searching for love.

Illuminate

Author : Aimee Agresti
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547626142
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Illuminate written by Aimee Agresti and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brainy, shy high school outcast interning at a Chicago hotel discovers that the hotel staff has an evil agenda planned for her classmates on prom night.

Secrets of the Shopping Mall

Author : Richard Peck
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
ISBN 13 : 9780440980995
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Secrets of the Shopping Mall written by Richard Peck and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two eighth-grade loners decide to take up residence in a department store. Little do they know that theirs is not an original idea.

Terror Mannequin

Author : Douglas Hackle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781697831016
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Terror Mannequin written by Douglas Hackle and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-20 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-year-old Glont Lamont is a longtime employee of Fun 4-Life Corporation, where he gets paid good money to play videos games, watch TV, get drunk, get high, devour pizza, ride the company roller coaster, take long-ass naps, and toss off like a madman in an insane asylum. There's only one problem: Glont's sick of his job! Nowadays, all he really wants to do is work long, grueling shifts 7-days-a-week doing any sort of awful, backbreaking, tedious, demoralizing, soul-crushing, severely undercompensated labor. But with Halloween just a few days away, Glont has more important things to worry about than his workplace woes. Namely, he must take his two "freak" nephews out reverse trick-or-treating, which is a form of annual ritualistic tribute whereby the cruel townspeople force his nephews to walk door-to-door on Halloween night to hand out candy to people instead of receiving candy themselves. And this year, the last stop on the trio's reverse trick-or-treating itinerary is Fallingwater--built on a natural waterfall, Frank Lloyd Wright's world-famous architectural masterpiece is now closed to the public and allegedly haunted by an evil supernatural entity known as TERROR MANNEQUIN... "Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today." -Bradley Sands, author of Dodgeball High "...the best bizarro absurdist in the business." -Amy M. Vaughn, author of Skull Nuggets

Oksana, Behave!

Author : Maria Kuznetsova
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 052551189X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Oksana, Behave! written by Maria Kuznetsova and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[The] Ukrainian American heroine of this sweet-bitter debut is a wisecracking fatalist who can be counted on to say the inappropriate thing, a tendency that becomes more pronounced as doomed crushes and family crises pile up on the road to adulthood.”—O: The Oprah Magazine When Oksana and her family move from the Ukraine to Florida to begin a new American life, her physicist father delivers pizza at night to make ends meet, her cranky mother sits at home all day worrying, and her flamboyant grandmother relishes the attention she gets from men. All Oksana wants is to be as far away from her family as possible, to have friends, and to be normal—and though she constantly tries to do the right thing, she keeps getting in trouble. As she grows up, she continues to misbehave, from somewhat accidentally maiming the school-bus bully, to stealing the much-coveted key to New York City’s Gramercy Park, to falling in love with a married man. After her grandmother moves back to Ukraine, Oksana longs for the motherland that looms large in her imagination but is a country she never really knew. When she visits her grandmother in Yalta and learns about her romantic past, Oksana comes to a new understanding of how to live without causing harm to the people she loves. But will Oksana ever quite learn to behave? Praise for Oksana, Behave! “Tragicomic and bittersweet . . . an immigrant's coming-of-age tale done with brio.”—Kirkus Reviews “What luck for readers that Oksana can’t behave! Little devil, infinite imbecile, poor futureless child—all the names her displaced, loving family give to her as she crashes and burns and wanders the wilderness of her inheritance, fit perfectly. As outrageous as she is, as funny and as awful as she can be, though, in Oksana, Maria Kuznetsova has also created a character of great passion and depth—of tragedy, even, too—the very sort that populate the stories of Chekhov and Tolstoy, the poems of Anna Akhmatova, and all the other Russian writers Oksana looks to for comfort and company and some sort of bearing in this absurd world. This novel is a stark, hilarious delight.”—Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Tinkers

Bad Boy

Author : Eric Fischl
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0770435580
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Bad Boy written by Eric Fischl and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bad Boy, renowned American artist Eric Fischl has written a penetrating, often searing exploration of his coming of age as an artist, and his search for a fresh narrative style in the highly charged and competitive New York art world in the 1970s and 1980s. With such notorious and controversial paintings as Bad Boy and Sleepwalker, Fischl joined the front ranks of America artists, in a high-octane downtown art scene that included Andy Warhol, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, and others. It was a world of fashion, fame, cocaine and alcohol that for a time threatened to undermine all that Fischl had achieved. In an extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Fischl discusses the impact of his dysfunctional family on his art—his mother, an imaginative and tragic woman, was an alcoholic who ultimately took her own life. Following his years as a student at Cal Arts and teaching in Nova Scotia, he describes his early years in New York with the artist April Gornik, just as Wall Street money begins to encroach on the old gallery system and change the economics of the art world. Fischl rebelled against the conceptual and minimalist art that was in fashion at the time to paint compelling portraits of everyday people that captured the unspoken tensions in their lives. Still in his thirties, Eric became the subject of a major Vanity Fair interview, his canvases sold for as much as a million dollars, and The Whitney Museum mounted a major retrospective of his paintings. Bad Boy follows Fischl’s maturation both as an artist and sculptor, and his inevitable fall from grace as a new generation of artists takes center stage, and he is forced to grapple with his legacy and place among museums and collectors. Beautifully written, and as courageously revealing as his most provocative paintings, Bad Boy takes the reader on a roller coaster ride through the passion and politics of the art world as it has rarely been seen before.

Just Fly Away

Author : Andrew McCarthy
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616206292
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Just Fly Away written by Andrew McCarthy and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Lucy Willows discovers that her father had an illegitimate child, now an eight-year-old boy who lives in the same town, and she begins to question everything she thought she knew about her family and life.

Lost & Found

Author : Brooke Davis
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0147517737
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Lost & Found written by Brooke Davis and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 international bestselling debut novel about the wisdom of the very young, the mischief of the very old, and the magic that happens along the way Millie Bird, seven years old and ever hopeful, always wears red gumboots to match her curly hair. Her struggling mother, grieving the death of Millie's father, leaves her in the big ladies' underwear department of a local store and never returns. United at this fateful moment with two octogenarians seekers, she embarks with them upon a road trip to find Millie's mother. Together they will discover that old age is not the same as death, that the young can be wise, and that letting yourself feel sad once in a while just might be the key to a happy life.

Ugly

Author : Margaret McHeyzer
Publisher : Margaret McHeyzer
ISBN 13 : 9780994354747
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (547 download)

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Download or read book Ugly written by Margaret McHeyzer and published by Margaret McHeyzer. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If I were dead, I wouldn't be able to see. If I were dead, I wouldn't be able to feel. If I were dead, he'd never raise his hand to me again. If I were dead, his words wouldn't cut as deep as they do. If I were dead, I'd be beautiful and I wouldn't be so...ugly. I'm not dead...but I wish I was.

The Danish Girl

Author : David Ebershoff
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1760292788
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Danish Girl written by David Ebershoff and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starring Academy Award-winner Eddie Redmayne and directed by Academy Award-winner Tom Hooper, this major motion picture portrays an unforgettable celebration of love. It starts with a question, a simple favour asked by a wife of her husband, setting off a transformation neither can anticipate. Einar Wegener and his American wife Greta Waud have been married for six years, but are yet to have a child. Both painters, they live a life of bohemian languor in Copenhagen until one day their lives are irreversibly altered. The Danish Girl eloquently shows the intimacy that defines a marriage and the nearly forgotten story of the love between a man who discovers that he is, in fact, a woman, and his wife who would sacrifice anything for him. Set against the glitz and decadence of 1920s Copenhagen, Paris and Dresden, and inspired by a true story, The Danish Girl is about one of the most passionate and unusual marriages of the twentieth century. 'a story of true love, suffering and sacrifice' - Sunday Telegraph