Bestselling author Nina G. Jones has published her first collection of horror stories, The Smile and Other Stories, under the name Cyn Nightly. This collection contains a diverse mix of horror genres with familiar backdrops: a cabin in the woods, an isolated hike, a car on a lover's lane. But these stories are not your typical slashers, they are horrors of the mind. While there is no shortage of gore, the true terrors in this collection are the demons we all may face at some point in our lives: betrayal, grief, the loss of a loved one, sexual assault, revenge. Stories: What Came With The Storm: After the unexpected passing of her father, Carlie and her fiancée, Arielle, plan to spend some alone time in his cabin. On the first night, an unexpected guest appears. The Smile: What happens when two evil men cross paths and you are stuck in the crossfire?Where They Go: A woman tries to find her way back home after a cursed hike. The Wingman: Rav, a self-proclaimed pickup artist has to cut some corners to maintain his reputation. One night, the tables are turned and it's Rav who finds himself to be the object of someone else's desire.The Moonlit Bridge: A devastated woman gets the rare chance to bring her lover ́back to life. She thinks the price she paid upfront will cover the cost, but she soon learns that there is a much larger balance due. 60,217 words. Triggers: Sexual assault.
Nina G bills herself as “The San Francisco Bay Area’s Only Female Stuttering Comedian.” On stage, she encounters the occasional heckler, but off stage she is often confronted with people’s comments toward her stuttering; listeners completing her sentences, inquiring, “Did you forget your name?” and giving unwanted advice like “slow down and breathe” are common. (As if she never thought about slowing down and breathing in her over thirty years of stuttering!) When Nina started comedy nearly ten years ago, she was the only woman in the world of stand-up who stuttered—not a surprise, since men outnumber women four to one amongst those who stutter and comedy is a male-dominated profession. Nina’s brand of comedy reflects the experience of many people with disabilities in that the problem with disability isn’t in the person with it but in a society that isn’t always accessible or inclusive.
Comedians of the San Francisco Bay Area changed comedy forever. From visiting acts like Richard Pryor, Steve Martin and Whoopi Goldberg to local favorites who still maintain their following and legacy, the Bay Area has long been a place for comedians to develop their voice and hone their stand-up skills. Popular spots included Cobb's, the Purple Onion, Brainwash, and the holy grail of San Francisco comedy during the 1980s boom, the Holy City Zoo. For over seventy years, these iconic venues and others fostered talent like Ali Wong, Moshe Kasher and the Smothers Brothers, introducing them to local crowds and the world beyond. Join comedians Nina G and OJ Patterson on a hilarious and thoughtful tour through the history of Bay Area comedy.
Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This synthetic overview, written with a poetic touch and taking many intriguing side excursions, is a guidebook to the pliable covering that makes us who we are. This book celebrates the evolution of three unique attributes of human skin: its naked sweatiness, its distinctive sepia rainbow of colors, and its remarkable range of decorations. Author Jablonski begins with a look at skin's structure and functions and then tours its three-hundred-million-year evolution, delving into such topics as the importance of touch and how the skin reflects and affects emotions. She examines the modern human obsession with age-related changes in skin, especially wrinkles, then turns to skin as a canvas for self-expression, exploring our use of cosmetics, body paint, tattooing, and scarification"--Publisher's description.
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A "tale from the trenches" of educational reform, this book chronicles a year in the life of four teachers as they implement an innovative new program.
The book by Anna-Nina Kovalenko included prose works of various years up to 2017. (Year 2017 will be devoted to the memories of the departed artists of the League, but this will be another book.) The innocent or provocative stories of this book introduce the reader to the underground of Moscow and New York in the 1980s. The reader will find himself face-to-face with such legendary characters as artistic Bohema as Anatoly Zverev, Konstantin Kuzminky, Vyacheslav Zavalishin, Alexander Ocheretyansky, and many more. And novels (novelettes) about the life of community of old believers in the United States or religious and mysterious episodes during the Second World War will surprise, perhaps, even the most skeptical reader.
This book investigates the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing how our body's most visible trait influences our social interactions in profound and complex ways. The author begins with the biology and evolution of skin pigmentation, explaining how skin color changed as humans moved around the globe. She explores the relationship between melanin pigment and sunlight, and examines the consequences of rapid migrations, vacations, and other lifestyle choices that can create mismatches between our skin color and our environment. Richly illustrated, this book explains why skin color has come to be a biological trait with great social meaning-- a product of evolution perceived by culture. It considers how we form impressions of others, how we create and use stereotypes, how negative stereotypes about dark skin developed and have played out through history. Offering examples of how attitudes about skin color differ in the U.S., Brazil, India, and South Africa, the author suggests that a knowledge of the evolution and social importance of skin color can help eliminate color-based discrimination and racism.
Collection of poems and short stories - about the beauty of the world, about the vicissitudes of life, situations, relationships, in the form of prose or rhyme reflecting the aesthetic and sometimes ironic vision of the author. The book designed to help the reader learn some truths of life and in general to raise his (her) spirits
This work is about the motherly beginning of all earthy, about spiritual origin of humanof a specific person, a woman. Heroine nicknamed Dove, sent to Earth of our time by Morena, the goddess of death and fertility. Dove lives among ordinary people, working, suffering, losing, loving, and tolerating. And finally she returns to the kingdom of Morena riding on a white horse, which was given to her for a worthy mission on Earth, and in the company of the child, whose name is associated with a particular object of the global hunt.
Novel LANDINGS is about a woman-artist, who, in search of recognition, Love, harmony, landing in different geographical points and cultural-social circles. Narration goes on from first face in forms of journal comments; correspondents, thoughts, sincere tales about events of last 24 years of her life; her quest succeeded in one main point : harmony. For wide circle of readers.
This is the follow up to Nina's first book - NINA ST TROPEZ. She whips up more charming recipes, more elegant desserts and more of her trademark chic French and English style. Nina Parker has a passion for puddings. After university, she joined the team at L'Anima, London as a commis chef and fell in love with their style of pastry and cooking using fresh Italian ingredients with a rustic touch. She has spent time in some fantastic kitchens: from preparing moelleux au chocolat at The Dorchester for Alain Ducasse, Tarte Tatain at Tom Aikens, fresh marshmallows at The Ledbury, to rolling out the croissant dough at 5am in The Senequier Bakery, St Tropez. Whilst working as chef for Bocca di Lupo's Gelupo in Soho, they won Time Out's "best gelateria". In 2012 she launched her own catering company NINA, dedicated to bringing a taste of her childhood to the heart of London and beyond.
Ever since Kate Sanders made cheerleader, she's become the most popular girl in school. But when she injures her ankle during cheerleading practice, the other girls kick her off the squad. Suddenly, Kate isn't quite so popular anymore.
The theme of my novel is: Life and Death of a working class woman. Life as a creative process (All I want to draw,"-she repeats); desire for peace, aviditry to love. Death is a special season/point (introduced in book as Morena-Goddess of Death and Fertility), when/where our heroine arrives rewarded by white horse she's riding and a little orphan, named...
Follows the adventures of Lizzie McGuire, a fourteen-year-old girl who experiences friendship, crushes, school, and the trials and tribulations of being a teenager.
The STIAS research theme on Being Human Today explores the interrelated questions: What does it mean to be human? And: What is the nature of the world in which we aspire to be human? In the context of post-apartheid South Africa race and racism remain key references in both these questions. Why is this so, considering that the biological basis of race thinking has been refuted? Templates of race and racialism remain at the core of state policy in South Africa, periodic gross incidents of racism surface in public, and notions of the existence of races remain central to everyday thinking and discourse. This book is the result of the work of a group of leading thinkers and their in-depth conversations at STIAS during the winter of 2015 on the effects of race. Convened by evolutionary anthropologist Nina Jablonski and sociologist Gerhard Mare, the group included Njabulo Ndebele, Chabani Manganyi, Barney Pityana, Crain Soudien, Goeran Therborn, Mikael Hjerm, Zimitri Erasmus and George Chaplin. The group reconvened annually through 2017. This is the first in a series of planned publications on the their work.
I love this sad, beautiful, hopeful book." --Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces and How to Make Friends With the Dark For fans of Nina LaCour and Jennifer Niven, a richly layered novel that's both uplifting and heartbreaking, about piecing yourself together after loss and the dark truths we choose to keep from each other and ourselves. San Francisco. New Year's Eve. A tragic accident after the party of the year. Cara survives. Her best friend, G, doesn't. Nine months later, Cara is still struggling, consumed by grief and a dark secret she'd rather forget. In the hopes of offering a fresh start, her mother sends her to boarding school in Switzerland, a place where no one knows what happened--and where they never will, if Cara can help it. But her new classmates Ren and Hector won't let her close herself off. They are determined to break down the walls she has so carefully built up. And maybe Cara wants them to . . . especially Hector, who seems to understand her like no one else does. The problem is that the closer Cara gets to Hector, the more G slips away. If moving on means letting go of the past--and admitting what she did that night--Cara's not sure how. But a second chance awaits, if she can only find the strength within herself. "A poignant exploration of grief, guilt, and forgiveness." --Sophie Kinsella, New York Times bestselling author of Finding Audrey and the Shopaholic series "Transportive and redemptive, this is a gentle story about the universality of grief, the beauty of self-forgiveness, and how new friendship can help heal old wounds."--Ashley Woodfolk, author of The Beauty That Remains and When You Were Everything "Atmospheric....this is a delicious read."-Irish Times "A good choice for readers who enjoyed Stephanie Perkins's Anna and the French Kiss and Gayle Forman's If I Stay."--SLJ
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