The Velveteen Daughter reveals for the first time the true story of two remarkable women: Margery Williams Bianco, the author of one of the most beloved children's books of all time,The Velveteen Rabbit,and her daughter Pamela, a world-renowned child prodigy artist whose fame at one time greatly eclipses her mother's. But celebrity at such an early age exacts a great toll. Pamela's dreams elude her as she struggles with severe depressions, an overbearing father, an obsessive love affair, and a spectacularly misguided marriage. Throughout, her life raft is her mother. The glamorous art world of Europe and New York in the early 20th century and a supporting cast of luminaries—Eugene O'Neill and his wife Agnes (Margery's niece), Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and Richard Hughes, author of A High Wind in Jamaica—provide a vivid backdrop to the Biancos' story. From the opening pages, the novel will captivate readers with its multifaceted and illuminating observations on art, family, and the consequences of genius touched by madness.
This study of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue demonstrates how the magazine encourages individual and institutional practices that create and maintain inequality. Laurel Davis illustrates how the interactions of media production, media texts, media consumption, and social context influence meaning. Individuals' interpretations of and reactions to the magazine are influenced by their views about gender and sexuality, views that have been shaped by their social experiences. Based on extensive interviews with Sports Illustrated producers and consumers, as well as analysis of every swimsuit issue from the first in 1964 to those of the 1990s, the book argues that Sports Illustrated uses the swimsuit issue to secure a large male audience by creating a climate of hegemonic masculinity. This practice produces considerable profit but on the way to the bank tramples women, gays, lesbians, people of color, and residents of the postcolonialized world.
Reach for the Stars is a children's history book of visionaries and their dreams. It's a collection of stories about these visionaries who are all heroes. Important quotes are used to illustrate their thinking and view of the world. Reach for the Stars introduces young readers to historical and influential greats such as Mother Teresa, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Benjamin Franklin, and fourteen others. These champions were hopeful for a bright and respectful future and all the challenges. Some of their dreams stood up to intolerance and hate, but they didn't quit.
This book is about Laurel Keyes own experiences growing up on a high plains ranch, and stories of those family members, friends and neighbors from whom she learned decency, kindness, strength and character.Those pioneers could not have been plunged into a vast, rugged land of beauty and hardship without courage and drama having been a part of their lives, and often they held secrets which were revealed only through death.Laurel writes of rich and passionate stories of courage and hope in a most difficult and wonderful period of our history. She gives credit not only to the valiant spirit of the majority of the people, especially the women, who came West and lived here, but to help you recapture the feeling of the world they knewtheir sufferings and endurance, their humor and faith, the every-day living which brought people from oxen-drawn covered wagons to men on the moon in less than one century. The most incredible century in all history, the most discoveries, innovations, fantastic developments which we accept today as a springboard into an even greater futureâbegan with people such as these.
On a rainy, moonless night in rural Mississippi, fourteen-year-old Missy Needham witnesses a brutal murder. Leaving her pa's heirloom pocket knife at the river and going back to retrieve it was the biggest mistake she ever made because the killer spotted her. Now her life and her pa's are in danger. Missy soon discovers a web of victimization hiding under the surface of their quiet town. Looking for answers, she forms a motley alliance with a school bully, a friendly nerd, and a rage-filled roommate. At a final stand-off with the murderer, Missy will have to remember lessons she learned at the river to survive.
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and yet so similar to our own" (The New York Times Book Review). Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine. On the basis of that diary, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich gives us an intimate and densely imagined portrait, not only of the industrious and reticent Martha Ballard but of her society. At once lively and impeccably scholarly, A Midwife's Tale is a triumph of history on a human scale.
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