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Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven

By: Susan Jane Gilman

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Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven

By: Susan Jane Gilman

They were young, brilliant, and bold. They set out to conquer the world. But the world had other plans for them. Bestselling author Susan Jane Gilman's new memoir is a hilarious and harrowing journey, a modern heart of darkness filled with Communist operatives, backpackers, and pancakes. In 1986, fresh out of college, Gilman and her friend Claire yearned to do something daring and original that did not involve getting a job. Inspired by a place mat at the International House of Pancakes, they decided to embark on an ambitious trip around the globe, starting in the People's Republic of China. At that point, China had been open to independent travelers for roughly ten minutes. Armed only with the collected works of Nietzsche, an astrological love guide, and an arsenal of bravado, the two friends plunged into the dusty streets of Shanghai. Unsurprisingly, they quickly found themselves in over their heads. As they ventured off the map deep into Chinese territory, they were stripped of everything familiar and forced to confront their limitations amid culture shock and government surveillance. What began as a journey full of humor, eroticism, and enlightenment grew increasingly sinister-becoming a real-life international thriller that transformed them forever. Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven is a flat-out page-turner, an astonishing true story of hubris and redemption told with Gilman's trademark compassion, lyricism, and wit.

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Grand Central Publishing

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044654468X

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The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street

A Novel

By: Susan Jane Gilman

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The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street

A Novel

By: Susan Jane Gilman

A clever and complex woman builds an ice cream empire after immigrating from Russia in this stunning novel of power, Prohibition, and performance set against the backdrop of early 20th-century America. In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales of gold and movie stardom, she tricks them into buying tickets for America. Yet no sooner do they land on the squalid Lower East Side of Manhattan, than Malka is crippled and abandoned in the street. Taken in by a tough-loving Italian ices peddler, she manages to survive through cunning and inventiveness. As she learns the secrets of his trade, she begins to shape her own destiny. She falls in love with a gorgeous, illiterate radical named Albert, and they set off across America in an ice cream truck. Slowly, she transforms herself into Lillian Dunkle, "The Ice Cream Queen" -- doyenne of an empire of ice cream franchises and a celebrated television personality. Lillian's rise to fame and fortune spans seventy years and is inextricably linked to the course of American history itself, from Prohibition to the disco days of Studio 54. Yet Lillian Dunkle is nothing like the whimsical motherly persona she crafts for herself in the media. Conniving, profane, and irreverent, she is a supremely complex woman who prefers a good stiff drink to an ice cream cone. And when her past begins to catch up with her, everything she has spent her life building is at stake.

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Grand Central Publishing

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1455555452

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Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress

Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless

By: Susan Jane Gilman

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Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress

Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless

By: Susan Jane Gilman

From the author of Kiss My Tiara comes a funny and poignant collection of true stories about women coming of age that for once isn't about finding a date.

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Grand Central Publishing

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0446510580

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9780446510585

Kiss My Tiara

How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess

By: Susan Jane Gilman

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Kiss My Tiara

How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess

By: Susan Jane Gilman

Irreverent, provocative, hip - this guide to power and attitude offers women an intelligent alternative to the negative messages we hear every day from magazines, TV and relatives. Gilman serves up advice on everything from sex to politics.

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Grand Central Publishing

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0759520984

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9780759520981

Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress

Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless

By: Susan Jane Gilman

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Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress

Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless

By: Susan Jane Gilman

From the author of Kiss My Tiara comes a funny and poignant collection of true stories about women coming of age that for once isn't about finding a date.

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Kiss My Tiara

How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess

By: Susan Jane Gilman

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How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess

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The Book Bible

How to Sell Your Manuscript—No Matter What Genre—Without Going Broke or Insane

By: Susan Shapiro

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The Book Bible

How to Sell Your Manuscript—No Matter What Genre—Without Going Broke or Insane

By: Susan Shapiro

A Brilliant, Buoyant Guide to Publishing Your Book Hundreds of thousands of books come out every year worldwide. So why not yours? In The Book Bible, New York Times bestseller and wildly popular Manhattan writing professor Susan Shapiro reveals the best and fastest ways to break into a mainstream publishing house. Unlike most writing manuals that stick to only one genre, Shapiro maps out the rules of all the sought-after, sellable categories: novels, memoirs, biography, how-to, essay collections, anthologies, humor, mystery, crime, poetry, picture books, young adult and middle grade, fiction and nonfiction. Shapiro once worried that selling 16 books in varied sub-sections made her a literary dabbler. Yet after helping her students publish many award-winning bestsellers on all shelves of the bookstore, she realized that her versatility had a huge upside. She could explain, from personal experience, the differences in making each kind of book, as well as ways to find the right genre for every project and how to craft a winning proposal or great cover letter to get a top agent and book editor to say yes. This valuable guide will teach both new and experienced scribes how to attain their dream of becoming a successful author.

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254

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Simon and Schuster

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1510763694

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Secrets of a Fix-up Fanatic

How to Meet & Marry Your Match

By: Susan Shapiro

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Secrets of a Fix-up Fanatic

How to Meet & Marry Your Match

By: Susan Shapiro

Ever since her former boss introduced her to her handsome, brilliant husband-to-be, Susan Shapiro has been on a marital mission. So far, she's fixed up twelve marriages and countless couples. Unlike all those "relationship experts" who are incapable of having a real relationship, or who took off their first ring to pledge their vows to their second or third life partner, Shapiro has witnessed--and scored--on all sides of the setup spectrum. She learned to charm her own blind dates, walk down the aisle with her personal Mr. Perfect, keep her first and only marriage rapturous, and expertly set up dozens of other duets. Now the author of the acclaimed memoirs Lighting Up and Five Men Who Broke My Heart, and a self-proclaimed "diehard romantic optimist," shares her honest, provocative, and sometimes downright subversive slant on every stage of dating, sex, and domestic relations. She'll show you how to: - Fix yourself up first so you're really ready to be fixed up fabulously - Recognize raw marriage material and not let a good one get away - Break through your fears, insecurities, and dating defenses to land true love - Find love mentors who will set you up and help you close the deal - Decide which love and marriage myths to lose if you want to win - Keep fixing up your relationship so it stays warm and loving forever

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Delta

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0385340591

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9780385340595

Reading Feminist Theory

From Modernity to Postmodernity

By: Susan Archer Mann,Ashly Suzanne Patterson

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Reading Feminist Theory

From Modernity to Postmodernity

By: Susan Archer Mann,Ashly Suzanne Patterson

Reading Feminist Theory: From Modernity to Postmodernity interweaves classical and contemporary writings from the social sciences and the humanities to represent feminist thought from the late eighteenth century to the present. Editors Susan Archer Mann and Ashly Suzanne Patterson pay close attention to the multiplicity and diversity of feminist voices, visions, and vantage points by race, class, gender, sexuality, and global location. Along with more conventional forms of theorizing, this anthology points to multiple sites of theory production--both inside and outside of the academy--and includes personal narratives, poems, short stories, zines, and even music lyrics. Offering a truly global perspective, the book devotes three chapters and more than thirty readings to the topics of colonialism, imperialism and globalization. It also provides extensive coverage of third-wave feminism, poststructuralism, queer theory, postcolonial theory, and transnational feminisms.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199364982

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9780199364985

Smile at Strangers

And Other Lessons in the Art of Living Fearlessly

By: Susan Schorn

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Smile at Strangers

And Other Lessons in the Art of Living Fearlessly

By: Susan Schorn

A rollicking memoir about the rewards of risk and the surprising facts of safety and self-defense, from a woman who has earned two black belts in her pursuit of living fearlessly.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0547774338

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9780547774336

Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven

By: Susan Jane Gilman

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Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven

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In her hardcover debut, bestselling author Susan Jane Gilman describes a very different kind of back-packing trip to China in which she and her college friend set out to conquer the world only to be conquered by it"--Provided by publisher.

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Grand Central Publishing

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0446578924

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The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street

A Novel

By: Susan Jane Gilman

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A Novel

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1455555452

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The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street Free Preview (The First 3 Chapters)

A Novel

By: Susan Jane Gilman

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A Novel

By: Susan Jane Gilman

A rich literary feast of 31 flavors (and twice that many colors, scents and sounds), Ice Cream Queen is a familiar schmatta-to-silk brocade story of immigrant New York...an upside-down, funhouse treat. You'll lick it up." - USA Today In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales of gold and movie stardom, she tricks them into buying tickets for America. Yet no sooner do they land on the squalid Lower East Side of Manhattan when Malka is crippled and abandoned in the street. Taken in by an Italian ices peddler, she manages to survive through cunning and inventiveness. As she learns the secrets of his trade, she begins to shape her own destiny. She falls in love with a gorgeous, illiterate radical named Albert, and they set off across America in an ice cream truck. Slowly, she transforms herself into Lillian Dunkle, "The Ice Cream Queen" -- doyenne of an empire of ice cream franchises and a celebrated television personality. Yet Lillian Dunkle is nothing like the whimsical motherly persona she crafts for herself in the media. Conniving, profane, and irreverent, she is a supremely complex woman who prefers a good stiff drink to an ice cream cone. And when her past begins to catch up with her, everything she has spent her life building will be at stake.

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The Rise of Enlightened Sexism

How Pop Culture Took Us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild

By: Susan J. Douglas

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The Rise of Enlightened Sexism

How Pop Culture Took Us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild

By: Susan J. Douglas

Women today are inundated with conflicting messages from the mass media: they must either be strong leaders in complete command or sex kittens obsessed with finding and pleasing a man. In The Rise Of Enlightened Sexism, Susan J. Douglas, one of America's most entertaining and insightful cultural critics, takes readers on a spirited journey through the television programs, popular songs, movies, and news coverage of recent years, telling a story that is nothing less than the cultural biography of a new generation of American women. Revisiting cultural touchstones from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Survivor to Desperate Housewives, Douglas uses wit and wisdom to expose these images of women as mere fantasies of female power, assuring women and girls that the battle for equality has been won, so there's nothing wrong with resurrecting sexist stereotypes—all in good fun, of course. She shows that these portrayals not only distract us from the real-world challenges facing women today but also drive a wedge between baby-boom women and their "millennial" daughters. In seeking to bridge this generation gap, Douglas makes the case for casting aside these retrograde messages, showing us how to decode the mixed messages that restrict the ambitions of women of all ages. And what makes The Rise Of Enlightened Sexism such a pleasure to read is Douglas's unique voice, as she blends humor with insight and offers an empathetic and sisterly guide to the images so many American women love and hate with equal measure.

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Macmillan

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1429995254

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9781429995252

Speed Shrinking

By: Susan Shapiro

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Speed Shrinking

By: Susan Shapiro

When self-help guru Julia Goodman's beloved psychoanalyst moves away, she copes the best way she knows how--with cupcakes. About to go on television to promote her new book on conquering sugar addiction, Julia desperately seeks a new shrink.

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Macmillan

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0312581564

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9780312581565

Integrated Language Arts in the Elementary School

By: Susan Jane Tchudi

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Integrated Language Arts in the Elementary School

By: Susan Jane Tchudi

Integrated Language Arts in the Elementary School reflects many of the most important recent developments in language arts teaching both in the United States and internationally. In keeping with current theory and research in children's language learning, the text emphasizes the view that the language areas should not be isolated into separate areas of study but should be integrated with an emphasis on whole meaningful experiences that absorb and engage students.

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0534130925

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9780534130923

Women who Would be Rabbis

A History of Women's Ordination, 1889-1985

By: Pamela Susan Nadell

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Women who Would be Rabbis

A History of Women's Ordination, 1889-1985

By: Pamela Susan Nadell

The definitive study of 'the road to women's ordination' in Judaism." --Jonathan D. Sarna, author of The American Jewish Experience Pamela S. Nadell mines a wealth of untapped sources to bring us the first complete story of the outstanding Jewish women who passionately defended their right to equal religious participation through rabbinical ordination. These personal stories--of w omen like Ray Frank, hailed as "the girl rabbi of the golden West" at the turn of the century, and Sally Priesand, ordained in 1972 as the first woman rabbi--are woven with fascinating history and accounts of the controversies that continue in many Je wish communities today. Women Who Would Be Rabbis is a 1998 National Jewish Book Award finalist.

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Beacon Press (MA)

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080703648X

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9780807036488

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