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Rhinestones in the Rough

By: Laurie Knitter

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Irene DiBello has left a volatile relationship where her husband decreed that two plus two equaled five and where she knew enough not to openly contradict it. But on a rainy Tuesday, amidst the pungent mix of Lysol and mustiness that habitually pervades the church basement that houses her children's day care, Irene meets Tess Gergen. As Tess corners Irene with an invitation to her son's birthday party, Irene has no idea that this simple exchange between two mothers will soon change her life. Despite a ten-year age difference, Tess and Irene become fast friends. One night over a bottle of wine, a hidden stash of candy bars, and a few packs of forbidden cigarettes, the women divulge all their secrets about marriage, divorce, and loves. As the two learn every nuance of each other's lives, both past and present, Tess realizes that Irene has made a brave journey out of an abusive relationship into single motherhood. Now it is up to Tess to help Irene gain enough confidence to trust anyone again. Rhinestones in the Rough is the inspiring tale of two newfound friends who refuse to give up on each other no matter what.

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1462019323

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9781462019328

Rhinestones in the Rough

By: Laurie Knitter

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Rhinestones in the Rough

By: Laurie Knitter

Irene DiBello has left a volatile relationship where her husband decreed that two plus two equaled five and where she knew enough not to openly contradict it. But on a rainy Tuesday, amidst the pungent mix of Lysol and mustiness that habitually pervades the church basement that houses her childrens day care, Irene meets Tess Gergen. As Tess corners Irene with an invitation to her sons birthday party, Irene has no idea that this simple exchange between two mothers will soon change her life. Despite a ten-year age difference, Tess and Irene become fast friends. One night over a bottle of wine, a hidden stash of candy bars, and a few packs of forbidden cigarettes, the women divulge all their secrets about marriage, divorce, and loves. As the two learn every nuance of each others lives, both past and present, Tess realizes that Irene has made a brave journey out of an abusive relationship into single motherhood. Now it is up to Tess to help Irene gain enough confidence to trustanyoneagain. Rhinestones in the Rough is the inspiring tale of two newfound friends who refuse to give up on each otherno matter what.

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1462019315

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9781462019311

Drunk, Divorced & Covered in Cat Hair

The True-Life Misadventures of a 30-Something Who Learned to Knit After He Split

By: Laurie Perry

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Drunk, Divorced & Covered in Cat Hair

The True-Life Misadventures of a 30-Something Who Learned to Knit After He Split

By: Laurie Perry

Featuring personal knitting recipes and patterns, this book is the irreverent first-person narrative of a contemporary, displaced Southern woman facing life after her husband leaves her to get his creativity back.

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Health Communications, Inc.

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0757305911

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9780757305917

A Twist of Fate

By: Laurie Friedman,Natasha Shaloshvili

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A Twist of Fate

By: Laurie Friedman,Natasha Shaloshvili

April is stunned when her grandma announces she has cancer. And rather than undergo difficult treatment, Gaga wants to cross an item off her bucket list: going skiing in the mountains. So she's taking the whole family to Utah! Despite their matching ski outfits, April is looking forward to time with her grandma and cousins. But tension builds as Sophie mysteriously shuts April out, Harry swoons over another skier, the aunts tiptoe around Gaga's feelings, and April faces peer pressure on the slopes. When disaster strikes, April has to try to embrace Gaga's approach: that life is what you make of it.

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Darby Creek

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151245866X

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9781512458664

The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death

Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal

By: Laurie Notaro

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The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death

Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal

By: Laurie Notaro

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Laurie Notaro has an uncanny ability to attract insanity—and leave readers doubled over with laughter. Need proof? Check out The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death and try not to bust a gut. Join Notaro as she experiences the popular phenomenon of laser hair removal (because at least one of her chins should be stubble-free); bemoans the scourge of the Open Mouth Coughers on America’s airplanes and in similarly congested areas; welcomes the newest ex-con (yay, a sex offender!) to her neighborhood; and watches, against her own better judgment, every Discovery Health Channel special on parasites and tapeworms that has ever aired—resulting in an overwhelming fear that a worm the size of a python will soon come a-knocking on her back door. In Notaro’s world, strangers are stranger than fiction. One must always check the hotel bathroom for hobo hairs and consciously remember not to stare at old men with giant man-boobies. And then there are the lessons she has learned the hard way: Though it may seem like a good idea, it’s best not to hire a tweaked-out homeless guy to clean up your yard. The Plain Dealer says that Laurie Notaro is “a scream, the freak-magnet of a girlfriend you can’t wait to meet for a drink to hear her latest story.” With The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death, Notaro proves she’s not only funny but resigned to the fact that you can’t look bad ass in a Prius. Don’t even try.

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Villard

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081297574X

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9780812975741

Just a Dropped Stitch

By: Laurie E. Levinger

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Just a Dropped Stitch

By: Laurie E. Levinger

Just a Dropped Stitch is a memoir told in interlocking short stories. It's a family photo album; each snapshot tells a mini-story. You're sure you understand what you're seeing, but it's not until you've þnished ßipping through the entire album that you develop an intimate sense of who this family is. You thought you knew them, understood all the subtleties and dynamics, but, change the angle, soften the focus, ßip the page; there's a different story. Jesse, the narrator, is on a search. She's trying to identify the dropped stitches in her own life, to name them, and reknit them into a whole. As the book opens Jesse's mother is dying, but Jesse and her father þnd it impossible to face the inevitable. Turn the page: Jesse desperately wants to have children; she's a lesbian; she has to þgure out how to make that happen. Later we meet her children, Noah and Sophie; we're introduced to Anna, who becomes Jesse's spouse, before the world has caught up with the concept. We meet grandparents, and learn that in Jesse's family writing is revered, but infused with unspoken taboos. And we meet her brothers who each has a particular place to stand in the family portrait. Jesse has a story to tell, and she isn't sure it's safe to tell it. Loss and grief, being silenced and silencing oneself, becoming frozen, and the heat-generating, melting power of love, these are the themes in Just a Dropped Stitch. The importance of naming, the redemption that comes from breaking silences, these are the interwoven threads. Meanwhile, keep ßipping through the album and you see snapshots of everyday life: hiking with Noah, shopping with Sophie for a bat mitzvah dress. And Jesse's mother, who refuses to completely disappear, makes a surprise appearance, embarrassing Jesse at a job interview. As we close the album, we're keeping vigil with Jesse in the hospital while she waits to hear whether she has the disease that killed her mother. And, then, there's a þnal snapshot: a handmade Chinese box, with sides that drop open, revealing a blood-red interior where there's nothing to hide.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1608990672

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9781608990672

The Great Husband Hunt

By: Laurie Graham

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The Great Husband Hunt

By: Laurie Graham

From the author of The Future Homemakers of America comes the hilarious and moving story of one unstoppable woman's unforgettable ride through an ever-changing century.. What hope is there for Poppy Minkel? She has kinky hair, big ears, skin that's too sallow, and an appetite for fun. Poppy's mother, Dora, despairs of ever finding her a husband, despite the lure of the family fortune offered by Minkel's Mighty Fine Mustard. Correctness, duty, and Dora Minkel Ear Correcting Bandages are the weapons in this husband hunt-and they serve as torture to a girl who has her own hazy ideas about beauty, love, and marriage. After the sudden death of her father, Poppy's rebelliousness bursts into full bloom. From one World War to the next, from New York to Paris, she'll invent her own extraordinary life with never a moment of self-doubt...as acclaimed author Laurie Graham treats us to a rollicking, exhilarating celebration of passion over prudence.

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Hachette+ORM

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0446554197

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9780446554190

The Bust DIY Guide to Life

Making Your Way Through Every Day

By: Laurie Henzel,Debbie Stoller

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The Bust DIY Guide to Life

Making Your Way Through Every Day

By: Laurie Henzel,Debbie Stoller

Get the know-how to do it yourself: “This lifestyle manual will come in handy when you need anything from a headache remedy to a dirt-cheap wedding.” —Entertainment Weekly The modern appeal of “do-it-yourself” projects has a broader reach than ever. And who better to teach us how to DIY our lives than the über-crafty editors of BUST, the quirky, raw, and real magazine “for women who have something to get off their chests”? In The BUST DIY Guide to Life, magazine founders Debbie Stoller (of Stitch ’n Bitch fame) and Laurie Henzel have culled more than 250 of the best DIY and craft projects from its 15-year history. Organized by category—beauty and health, fashion, food and entertaining, career, finance, travel, and sex—and written in BUST’s trademark brazen and witty style, this quintessential DIY encyclopedia from the quintessential DIY magazine is eclectic, empowering, hilarious, and downright practical, truly capturing the spirit of women today.

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ABRAMS

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1497601436

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9781497601437

Knit, Hook, and Spin

A Kid's Activity Guide to Fiber Arts and Crafts

By: Laurie Carlson

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Knit, Hook, and Spin

A Kid's Activity Guide to Fiber Arts and Crafts

By: Laurie Carlson

Dive into the wonderful and creative world of fiber arts and crafts with this easy-to-follow activity book packed with over 70 projects across a variety of fiber arts including knitting, felting, knotting and braiding, spinning, weaving, crocheting, and dyeing. Clear instructions and illustrations guide you in creating these cute, useful crafts. Learn to: felt a handy bag, braid a small rug, weave a colorful tapestry, knit comfy slippers, crochet an eye-catching belt, make and use natural dyes, repurpose old clothing, and much more! Along the way you'll learn fascinating fiber facts and history, such as how Viking ships' woolen sails were made, the history of rope bridges, how artists in Japan craft giant straw sculptures, and much more. Fun for younger kids to explore with a caregive or older kids to work through alone, Knit, Hook, and Spin belongs in any craft-loving kid's home or classroom.

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Chicago Review Press

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1613734034

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9781613734032

A Companion to Reality Television

By: Laurie Ouellette

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A Companion to Reality Television

By: Laurie Ouellette

International in scope and more comprehensive than existing collections, A Companion to Reality Television presents a complete guide to the study of reality, factual and nonfiction television entertainment, encompassing a wide range of formats and incorporating cutting-edge work in critical, social and political theory. Original in bringing cutting-edge work in critical, social and political theory into the conversation about reality TV Consolidates the latest, broadest range of scholarship on the politics of reality television and its vexed relationship to culture, society, identity, democracy, and “ordinary people” in the media Includes primetime reality entertainment as well as precursors such as daytime talk shows in the scope of discussion Contributions from a list of international, leading scholars in this field

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598

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119325196

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9781119325192

Viewers Like You

How Public TV Failed the People

By: Laurie Oullette

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Viewers Like You

How Public TV Failed the People

By: Laurie Oullette

How "public" is public television if only a small percentage of the American people tune in on a regular basis? When public television addresses "viewers like you," just who are you? Despite the current of frustration with commercial television that runs through American life, most TV viewers bypass the redemptive "oasis of the wasteland" represented by PBS and turn to the sitcoms, soap operas, music videos, game shows, weekly dramas, and popular news programs produced by the culture industries. Viewers Like You? traces the history of public broadcasting in the United States, questions its priorities, and argues that public TV's tendency to reject popular culture has undermined its capacity to serve the people it claims to represent. Drawing from archival research and cultural theory, the book shows that public television's perception of what the public needs is constrained by unquestioned cultural assumptions rooted in the politics of class, gender, and race.

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Columbia University Press

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0231529317

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9780231529310

Buried Indians

Digging Up the Past in a Midwestern Town

By: Laurie Hovell McMillin

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Buried Indians

Digging Up the Past in a Midwestern Town

By: Laurie Hovell McMillin

In "Buried Indians, Laurie Hovell McMillin presents the struggle of her hometown, Trempealeau, Wisconsin, to determine whether platform mounds atop Trempealeau Mountain constitute authentic Indian mounds. This dispute, as McMillin subtly demonstrates, reveals much about the attitude and interaction-past and present-between the white and Indian inhabitants of this Midwestern town. McMillin's account, rich in detail and sensitive to current political issues of American Indian interactions with the dominant European American culture, locates two opposing views: one that denies a Native American presence outright and one that asserts its long history and ruthless destruction. The highly reflective oral histories McMillin includes turn "Buried Indians into an accessible, readable portrait of a uniquely American culture clash and a dramatic narrative grounded in people's genuine perceptions of what the platform mounds mean.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299216845

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9780299216849

Home Is Where the Wine Is

Making the Most of What You've Got One Stitch (and Cocktail!) at a Time

By: Laurie Perry

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Home Is Where the Wine Is

Making the Most of What You've Got One Stitch (and Cocktail!) at a Time

By: Laurie Perry

She's back and quirkier than ever! For avid Laurie Perry fans and knitters, there's more adventures, eclectic projects, cocktails and cats in her topsy-turvy life.

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Health Communications, Inc.

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075731368X

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9780757313684

City of Men

Service and Servants in Baroque Rome

By: Laurie Nussdorfer

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City of Men

Service and Servants in Baroque Rome

By: Laurie Nussdorfer

This is the untold story of the men who fed, dressed, protected and advised the cardinals and great nobles of Baroque Rome. Against the background of demographic crisis and a Europe gripped by plague, war and famine, the papal capital lured ambitious gentlemen and hungry commoners to work in service. Mirroring a city where men far outnumbered women, elite households provided jobs for thousands of male immigrants from all over Italy and beyond. Footmen, secretaries, stable boys, cooks and accountants composed an all-male world that fit awkwardly within the paradigm of early modern patriarchy. A gender ideology dependent on the idea that men were innately superior to women had to navigate a society without women and justify the subordination of most men to the few. Rigid domestic hierarchies imposed by employers and implemented by gentlemen servants yielded only the barest subsistence to the robust but unskilled majority. The vagaries of the patron-client relationship doomed even the gentlemen to insecurity. In this context the streets, churches and squares of Rome offered richer, if sometimes dangerous, opportunities than the palaces to enjoy masculine privilege and the experience of egalitarian fraternity. This book mobilizes census records, trials, family account books and household manuals to show both the contradictions and the tenacity of patriarchy in a city of men.

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Viella Libreria Editrice

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ISBN 13

9791254694299

Petal Pusher

A Rock and Roll Cinderella Story

By: Laurie Lindeen

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Petal Pusher

A Rock and Roll Cinderella Story

By: Laurie Lindeen

Set in the years between the meteoric launches of Madonna and Courtney Love, Petal Pusher takes readers on a stirring journey across rock and roll, from the big-haired 1980s to the grunge-filled 1990s, when Laurie Lindeen brought her all-girl band, Zuzu's Petals, to compete in the indie rock arena. Minneapolis in the eighties was a musical hotbed, the land of 10,000 lakes and 10,000 bands that gave birth to Prince, the Replacements, and Soul Asylum. For Laurie Lindeen it was the perfect place to launch her rock-and-roll dream. She moved to the city with her best friends Phyll ("Annie Oakley meets Patsy Cline") and Coleen ("former cheerleader gone off the arty deep end") to crash in decrepit apartments and coax punk rock from crappy used guitars. But unbeknownst to her friends, Laurie has a secret in her past -- a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis that fuels her passion to make it big on the local, national, and international rock scene. With inspiring determination, Laurie and her Zuzu's Petals survive the many challenges of being underdogs in a man's world. Then Laurie is thrown a curveball when she falls for Paul Westerberg of Replacements fame and reevaluates exactly what it means to "make it big." By turns hilarious and heartrending, Petal Pusher is a brilliant behind-the-scenes look at music on the front lines, and the awe-inspiring tale of one woman's fight against disease and the disillusionment of life in the rock underground.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416545670

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9781416545675

Biography Today

Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers. Author Series, Volume 3

By: Laurie Lanzen Harris

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Biography Today

Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers. Author Series, Volume 3

By: Laurie Lanzen Harris

Biographical profiles written especially for young readers ages 9 and above.

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194

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Omnigraphics

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0780801660

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9780780801660

Drunk, Divorced & Covered in Cat Hair

The True-Life Misadventures of a 30-Something Who Learned to Knit After He Split

By: Laurie Perry

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Drunk, Divorced & Covered in Cat Hair

The True-Life Misadventures of a 30-Something Who Learned to Knit After He Split

By: Laurie Perry

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Health Communications, Inc.

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0757305911

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9780757305917

Laurie Anderson

By: RoseLee Goldberg

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Laurie Anderson

By: RoseLee Goldberg

Laurie Anderson is an acclaimed and innovative performance artist. This book explores every aspect of her work and career. It illuminates her creative process, interests in storytelling and technology, and the social and political contexts.

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0500019932

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9780500019931

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