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The Life Writing of Otherness

Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston, and Winterson

By: Lauren Rusk

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The Life Writing of Otherness

Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston, and Winterson

By: Lauren Rusk

Focusing on innovative works by Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston and Winterson, the author analyzes how they each represent the self as unique, collectively "other," and inclusively human, and how these conflicting aspects of selfhood interact.

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Routledge

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1136537430

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9781136537431

Death Lines

Walking London's Horror History

By: Lauren Jane Barnett

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Death Lines

Walking London's Horror History

By: Lauren Jane Barnett

The first walking guide to London’s role in the evolution of horror cinema, inspired by the city’s dark histories and labyrinthine architectures. Death Lines is the first walking guide to London’s role in the evolution of horror cinema, inspired by the city’s dark histories, labyrinthine architectures, atmospheric streetscapes, and uncanny denizens. Its eight walks lead you on a series of richly researched yet undeniably chilling tours through Chelsea, Notting Hill, Westminster, Bloomsbury, Covent Garden, and the East End, along the haunted banks of the river Thames, and down into the depths of the London Underground railway. Each tour weaves together London’s stories and takes the reader to magnificent, eerie, and sometimes disconcertingly ordinary corners of the city, unearthing the literature, legends, and history behind classics like Peeping Tom and An American Werewolf in London, and lesser-known works such as mind-control melodrama The Sorcerers; Gorgo, Britain’s answer to Godzilla; tube terror Death Line; and Bela Lugosi's mesmeric vehicle The Dark Eyes of London. Tinged with humor, social critique, and more than a few scares, Death Lines delights in revealing the hidden and often surprising relationship between the city and the dark cinematic visions it has evoked. Whether read on the streets or from the comfort of the grave, Death Lines is a treat for all cinephiles, horror fans, and lovers of London lore.

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MIT Press

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1913689387

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Pictures in the Firestorm

By: Lauren Rusk

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Pictures in the Firestorm

By: Lauren Rusk

Rusk's poems range from evocative glimpses of the momentary to complex meditations on art and its relationship to the world.

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Plain View Press, LLC

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1891386662

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Power And Prejudice

The Politics And Diplomacy Of Racial Discrimination, Second Edition

By: Paul Gordon Lauren

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Power And Prejudice

The Politics And Diplomacy Of Racial Discrimination, Second Edition

By: Paul Gordon Lauren

Since it first appeared, Power and Prejudice has been hailed as a bold, pioneering work dealing with one of the central and most controversial issues of our time?the relationship between racial prejudice and global conflict. Powerfully written and based on documents from archives on several continents, this award-winning book convincingly demonstrates that the racial issue, or what W.E.B. Du Bois called ?the problem of the twentieth century,? has profoundly influenced most major developments in international politics and diplomacy.Lauren begins with a thought-provoking discussion of the heavy burden of history's pattern of conquest and slavery wherin skin color identified master and slave, conqueror and conquered. He then examines bitter twentieth-century conflicts over race, including immigration exclusion and the ?Yellow Peril,? the ?Final Solution? of the Holocaust, decolonization, the impact of the Cold War on the civil rights movement, and the global struggle against racial prejudice. In this new edition, Lauren adds dimensions about Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific, exploring the racial dimensions of immigration exclusion and warfare. He contributes significant new material about international issues regarding indigenous peoples around the world, including self-determination, sovereignty, and discrimination. And finally, he examines the dramatic events surrounding the end of apartheid in South Africa.Eloquent, provocative, and informed by first-rate scholarship, the insights of this highly original work will appeal to general readers as well as to students and scholars from a broad range of disciplines.

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Routledge

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0429972148

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9780429972140

The Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come

Women Writing Fantastic Fiction, 1960s to the Present

By: Lauren J. Lacey

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The Past That Might Have Been, the Future That May Come

Women Writing Fantastic Fiction, 1960s to the Present

By: Lauren J. Lacey

This book explores how contemporary fantastic fiction by women writers responds to the past and imagines the future. The first two chapters look at revisionist rewritings of fairy tales and historical texts; the third and fourth focus on future-oriented narratives including dystopias and space fiction. Writers considered include Margaret Atwood, Octavia E. Butler, Angela Carter, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing, and Jeanette Winterson, among others. The author argues that an analysis of how past and future are understood in women's fantastic fictions brings to light an "ethics of becoming" in the texts--a way of interrupting, revising and remaking problematic power structures that are tied to identity markers like class, gender and race. The book reveals how fantastic fiction can be read as narratives of disruption that enable the creation of an ethics of becoming.

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McFarland

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147661430X

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9781476614304

The China Hands' Legacy

Ethics And Diplomacy

By: Paul Gordon Lauren

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The China Hands' Legacy

Ethics And Diplomacy

By: Paul Gordon Lauren

A group of American Foreign Service officers and journalists in China during and after World War II—collectively known as "the China Hands"—were accused of disloyalty, and in some cases treason, for reporting on events as they saw them. Faced with the ethical dilemma of what a public official's responsibility is when one believes one's government's

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Routledge

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1000315355

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9781000315356

Unmeasured Strength

By: Lauren Manning

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Unmeasured Strength

By: Lauren Manning

In this update to the 2011 New York Times Bestselling book, the reader will find: - Timely new information about Manning's struggles within the healthcare system - Additional details about the author's childhood - And an emotional new essay from the author about her father, who died shortly after the book's publication A survivor's awe-inspiring story of how she overcame tragedy and re-created herself as a wife, mother, and woman She was a hardworking business woman, had a loving husband and an infant son, and a confidence born of intelligence and beauty. But on 9/11, good fortune was no match for catastrophe. When a wall of flame at the World Trade Center burned more than 80 percent of her body, Lauren Manning began a ten-year journey of survival and rebirth that tested her almost beyond human endurance. Long before that infamous September day, Manning learned the importance of perseverance, relentless hard work, and a deep faith in oneself. So when the horrific moment of her near-death arrived, she possessed the strength and resilience to insist that she would not yield--not to the terrorists, not to the long odds, not to the bottomless pain and exhaustion. But as the difficult months and years went by, she came to understand that she had to do more than survive. She needed to undergo a complete transformation, one that would allow her to embrace her life and her loved ones in an entirely new way.

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Macmillan

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1250012147

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9781250012142

Socializing Intelligence Through Academic Talk and Dialogue

By: Lauren Resnick,Christa Asterhan,Sherice Clarke

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Socializing Intelligence Through Academic Talk and Dialogue

By: Lauren Resnick,Christa Asterhan,Sherice Clarke

Socializing Intelligence Through Academic Talk and Dialogue focuses on a fast-growing topic in education research. Over the course of 34 chapters, the contributors discuss theories and case studies that shed light on the effects of dialogic participation in and outside the classroom. This rich, interdisciplinary endeavor will appeal to scholars and researchers in education and many related disciplines, including learning and cognitive sciences, educational psychology, instructional science, and linguistics, as well as to teachers curriculum designers, and educational policy makers.

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0935302611

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9780935302615

To Bring the Good News to All Nations

Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations

By: Lauren Frances Turek

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To Bring the Good News to All Nations

Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations

By: Lauren Frances Turek

When American evangelicals flocked to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century to fulfill their Biblical mandate for global evangelism, their experiences abroad led them to engage more deeply in foreign policy activism at home. Lauren Frances Turek tracks these trends and illuminates the complex and significant ways in which religion shaped America's role in the late–Cold War world. In To Bring the Good News to All Nations, she examines the growth and influence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s, assesses the effectiveness of Christian efforts to attain foreign aid for favored regimes, and considers how those same groups promoted the imposition of economic and diplomatic sanctions on those nations that stifled evangelism. Using archival materials from both religious and government sources, To Bring the Good News to All Nations links the development of evangelical foreign policy lobbying to the overseas missionary agenda. Turek's case studies—Guatemala, South Africa, and the Soviet Union—reveal the extent of Christian influence on American foreign policy from the late 1970s through the 1990s. Evangelical policy work also reshaped the lives of Christians overseas and contributed to a reorientation of U.S. human rights policy. Efforts to promote global evangelism and support foreign brethren led activists to push Congress to grant aid to favored, yet repressive, regimes in countries such as Guatemala while imposing economic and diplomatic sanctions on nations that persecuted Christians, such as the Soviet Union. This advocacy shifted the definitions and priorities of U.S. human rights policies with lasting repercussions that can be traced into the twenty-first century.

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Cornell University Press

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1501748920

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9781501748929

Weapons Under Fire

By: Lauren Holland

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Weapons Under Fire

By: Lauren Holland

First Published in 1997. In an effort to find the validity of middle ground, this book offers a comprehensive analysis that looks further than the House Committee on National Security's actions on the B-2 bomber, President Clinton's campaign promise to support the Seawolf submarine, and the Pentagon's use of a concurrent and risky management strategy for the $71.6 billion F-22 fighter aircraft program. It provides a dissection of the decision-making process for a representative sample of major weapons systems to invalidate the claims that pork and malfeasance are both pervasive and determinate.

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1135594376

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9781135594374

Prehistory of the Paximadi Peninsula, Euboea

By: Tracey Cullen,William R. Farrandy,Lia Karamali,Donald R. Keller,Lauren E. Talalay

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Prehistory of the Paximadi Peninsula, Euboea

By: Tracey Cullen,William R. Farrandy,Lia Karamali,Donald R. Keller,Lauren E. Talalay

The results of two related fieldwork projects are presented: a brief salvage excavation at Plakari (a Final Neolithic site near the modern town of Karystos) and a survey of prehistoric sites on the Paximadi peninsula (the western arm of the Karystos bay), both located in southern Euboea. These ventures were part of the larger mission of the Southern Euboea Exploration Project (SEEP), a multidisciplinary research program dedicated to the study of the Karystian past and which maintained a presence in southern Euboea for over 25 years. These projects have found that, contrary to what archaeologists once believed, southern Euboea was hardly an uninhabited and isolated region in prehistory. The inhabitants actively participated in the expanded maritime and social landscape that characterized the later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in the Aegean, taking part in exchange networks of stone, ceramics, marble figurines and vessels, and possibly agricultural goods and metalwork.

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INSTAP Academic Press

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1623033489

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9781623033484

The White Giraffe Series: Operation Rhino

Book 5

By: Lauren St John

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The White Giraffe Series: Operation Rhino

Book 5

By: Lauren St John

The fifth and final book in the heart-warming White Giraffe series by Lauren St John, featuring the African adventures of Martine and her magical white giraffe. Martine is starstruck when her boyband hero visits Sawubona for a safari. But within hours, poachers have pounced, leaving behind an orphaned rhino calf. Martine and Ben are entrusted with taking the baby rhino to a remote sanctuary. But Martine has a guilty secret - one that's stolen her healing gift. Alone in the wilderness, with the poachers closing in, Martine and Ben need all of the survival skills they possess to save one of the most endangered animals on earth.

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Orion Children's Books

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1444012746

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Thunder & Lightning

Weather Past, Present, Future

By: Lauren Redniss

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Thunder & Lightning

Weather Past, Present, Future

By: Lauren Redniss

From the National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, author of Radioactive, comes a dazzling fusion of storytelling, visual art, and reportage that grapples with weather in all its dimensions: its danger and its beauty, why it happens and what it means. WINNER OF THE PEN/E. O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND SHELF AWARENESS Weather is the very air we breathe—it shapes our daily lives and alters the course of history. In Thunder & Lightning, Lauren Redniss tells the story of weather and humankind through the ages. This wide-ranging work roams from the driest desert on earth to a frigid island in the Arctic, from the Biblical flood to the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Redniss visits the headquarters of the National Weather Service, recounts top-secret rainmaking operations during the Vietnam War, and examines the economic impact of disasters like Hurricane Katrina. Drawing on extensive research and countless interviews, she examines our own day and age, from our most personal decisions—Do I need an umbrella today?—to the awesome challenges we face with global climate change. Redniss produced each element of Thunder & Lightning: the text, the artwork, the covers, and every page in between. She created many of the images using the antiquated printmaking technique copper plate photogravure etching. She even designed the book’s typeface. The result is a book unlike any other: a spellbinding combination of storytelling, art, and science. Praise for Thunder & Lightning “[An] aesthetically charged and deeply researched account . . . a wild rainstorm of a book, pelting the reader with ideas and inspiration.”—Nature “A gorgeous and illuminating illustrated study of weather in all its tempestuous variety . . . Redniss’s combo of fact, folklore, and vibrant etched copperplate prints enthralls.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Eerily beautiful . . . Contains plenty of scientific explanation (including more than a few nods toward global warming), but also far-flung personal stories that illuminate the beauty, wonder and chaos inherent in the elements.”—The New York Times “Magical . . . Redniss has . . . shown us how human beings live with nature—fighting, coexisting, taming, predicting via leech barometer and radar and intuition.”—The New York Times Book Review “[A] twenty-first-century genius . . . Redniss is inventing a new literary genre. . . . The reader willing to put herself fully in Redniss’s hands will be rewarded with a delicious feeling of being enveloped by a phenomenon that eclipses the chiming trivialities of daily life.”—Elle “Lends a graphic-novel-like allure to some of nature’s most curious paradoxes.”—Vogue “Redniss is one of the most creative science writers of our time—her combination of beautiful artwork, reporting, and poetic prose brings science to life in ways that words alone simply cannot.”—Rebecca Skloot “Redniss combines her own dual punch of expressive art and impressive erudition to give an entirely new take on all that happens above our heads. This is an illuminated book that is also an illuminating one.”—Adam Gopnik “A strange and wonderful thing, the work of a first-class mind that refuses to submit to any categories or precedent.”—Dave Eggers “Beautiful and totally original.”—Elizabeth Kolbert

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Random House

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0812993179

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9780812993172

The Willful

By: Lauren Nicolle Taylor

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The Willful

By: Lauren Nicolle Taylor

When a heart is in pieces, can it still be broken? Quiet, contemplative Esther is in love. It’s an all-encompassing love that sweeps her off her feet but also leaves her dangling with nothing to hold onto. It’s thrilling, unlike anything she’s ever felt before, and she gives her whole heart to this marriage, to this willful, passionate man. Things change when she becomes a mother. It’s not just the two of them anymore, and as Esther gives a large piece of her heart to her daughter, Rosa, she starts to realize that maybe love shouldn’t be this hard. That she shouldn’t have to give up her whole self to be with him. That now that she’s a mother, she can’t. Set in the years leading up to The Woodlands, The Willful follows Esther, Rosa’s mother, as she navigates young motherhood, a marriage on the brink, and the hard decisions that come with living in a controlled world with an uncontrollable man.

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Clean Teen Publishing

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1634220498

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9781634220491

Read Aloud Handbook for Native American Children

By: Lauren Waukau-Villagomez,Samantha J. Villagomez

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Read Aloud Handbook for Native American Children

By: Lauren Waukau-Villagomez,Samantha J. Villagomez

This book is essential for teachers of reading and Native American Children to improve the reading scores of Native children. The book promotes the use of read alouds with Native American children in order to develop oral language, vocabulary and background knowledge. In addition, American Indian English and Standard English are discussed as issues for Native American Children. The importance of code-switching and bilingualism are examined so teacher have a better understanding of their students’ worldviews. This will lead to a respect for the children;s culture and subjugated knowledge. The book includes an annotated bibliography of books to use as read alouds. Many books have been field tested at Menominee Tribal School on school children in grades K-8. The books include some classic award-winning books and Native American books. The books were chosen for their use of Standard English. The Menominee Reservation is a focus of the book.

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1641135921

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The Anatomy of National Fantasy

Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life

By: Lauren Berlant

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The Anatomy of National Fantasy

Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life

By: Lauren Berlant

Examining the complex relationships between the political, popular, sexual, and textual interests of Nathaniel Hawthorne's work, Lauren Berlant argues that Hawthorne mounted a sophisticated challenge to America's collective fantasy of national unity. She shows how Hawthorne's idea of citizenship emerged from an attempt to adjudicate among the official and the popular, the national and the local, the collective and the individual, utopia and history. At the core of Berlant's work is a three-part study of The Scarlet Letter, analyzing the modes and effects of national identity that characterize the narrator's representation of Puritan culture and his construction of the novel's political present tense. This analysis emerges from an introductory chapter on American citizenship in the 1850s and a following chapter on national fantasy, ranging from Hawthorne's early work "Alice Doane's Appeal" to the Statue of Liberty. In her conclusion, Berlant suggests that Hawthorne views everyday life and local political identities as alternate routes to the revitalization of the political and utopian promises of modern national life.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226043770

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9780226043777

A Pocket Guide to Clinical Midwifery

The Efficient Midwife

By: Lauren A. Dutton,Jessica E. Densmore,Meredith B. Turner

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A Pocket Guide to Clinical Midwifery

The Efficient Midwife

By: Lauren A. Dutton,Jessica E. Densmore,Meredith B. Turner

A Pocket Guide to Clinical Midwifery: The Efficient Midwife, Second Edition is a must-have resource for midwives and women’s health nurse practitioners.It features important concepts, diagnostic tools, algorithms, and management options, including conventional, lifestyle, and complementary therapies, all in one place.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284152812

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9781284152814

The Life Writing of Otherness

Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston, and Winterson

By: Lauren Rusk

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The Life Writing of Otherness

Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston, and Winterson

By: Lauren Rusk

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0815336551

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Pictures in the Firestorm

By: Lauren Rusk

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Pictures in the Firestorm

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Rusk's poems range from evocative glimpses of the momentary to complex meditations on art and its relationship to the world.

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L.A. Candy - L.A. Candy

By: Lauren Conrad

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L.A. Candy - L.A. Candy

By: Lauren Conrad

Estrela do programa The Hills, um dos mais populares da MTV, e ex-participante do reality show Laguna Beach, Lauren Conrad mergulha na ficção baseada em seu sucesso na mídia. Em L.A. CANDY, que ocupou por semanas o primeiro lugar na lista de mais vendidos do New York Times, a autora flerta com a sua própria realidade ao narrar a história da personagem Jane. O romance é o primeiro da trilogia homônima, que já vendeu mais de 1,5 milhão de exemplares em todo o mundo. Recém-saída da escola, Jane Roberts mal pode esperar para aproveitar tudo o que Hollywood tem a oferecer. Ela pode ter ido a Los Angeles para um estágio, mas também pretende se divertir — e sua melhor amiga, Scarlett, não pode ficar de fora. Quando um produtor de TV aborda as duas para gravar um reality show sobre quatro jovens que tentam ganhar a vida na cidade – uma "versão real de Sex and the City" – elas desconfiam da própria sorte. Afinal, um programa de TV só para elas? Com certeza!

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