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Eleanor’s home life is a mess, and listening to the music Park curates for her is her only chance at escaping her needy siblings, her fawning, battered mother Sabrina, and her cruel stepfather Richie. ![]() Park begins making mix tapes for Eleanor and bringing her batteries so that she won’t run out of juice while she listens at home each night to songs he’s chosen for her. When Eleanor expresses frustration with the comics, though, the two begin talking about music-and find that they never run out of feelings to discuss and bond over when it comes to the punk, new-wave, and shoegaze anthems of the mid-80s they so love. Slowly and wordlessly, Park begins allowing Eleanor to read with him, and then brings her comic books of her own to read. ![]() When Eleanor and Park first start interacting on the bus to school, they bond over comic books as Eleanor reads Watchmen, Batman, and others silently over Park’s shoulder when they’re forced, by chance, to sit together. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "In the crisp, noirish prose of the era, Towles portrays complex relationships in a city that is at once melting pot and elitist enclave - and a thoroughly modern heroine who fearlessly claims her place in it." - O, The Oprah magazine. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel her on a yearlong journey toward the upper echelons of New York society - where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve." - from the rear outer cover. "On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit at the neighboring table. Includes Praise for Rules of Civility About the Author Author Dedication Preliminary Page Quote from Matthew 22:8-14 Preface Epilogue: Few Are Chosen Appendix: The Young George Washington's Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation and Acknowledgments. Fine unread condition photographic softcover wraps. ![]() ![]() Jolie’s queerness is heavily shaped by the rural culture she grew up in - specifically in her gender identity. I had this very early understanding that queer people exist in these communities and that people are going to respond to it differently the way they would in any other community.” And he was very afraid of what the people he worked with would think. “I had this clear idea of someone who I was very close to, who I loved, who helped take care of me, who my mom loved and had no judgement about, but it was the ’90s. ![]() Chris was gay and deeply closeted, but Jolie’s mother knew, and Jolie found out herself around age 12. ![]() That was the catalyst for Jolie’s exposure to queerness - one of the guys on the race car crew moved in with Jolie’s mother. Jolie’s father was a race car driver and was hit by a drunk driver when she was four. My earliest memories of life are dirt roads, creeks, yards that went on forever, and the woods.” Jolie’s memoir, Rust Belt Femme, is an exploration of her rural foundation combined with alternative ’90s punk culture shaped her as she is today - “a queer femme with PTSD and a deep love of the Midwest.” Raechel Anne Jolie grew up in a rural working-class community in Northeast Ohio at “the very beginning of country Ohio, ten minutes and I was in a suburb, ten more minutes and I was in Cleveland so I was at the very edge of rural Ohio. ![]() The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Peace and tranquillity thrive in this utopian land, forcing the explorers to question how their own corrupted, male-dominated world can survive. Herland, first published in 1915, follows a group of three men as they arrive in a female-only society. ![]() And then there's the putrid, yellow wallpaper which seems to shift and creep around the room before her very eyes. Her husband John, a physician, is of no comfort and she can't bear to sit with the new baby as his crying makes her much too nervous. In The Yellow Wallpaper a woman frantically paces the empty nursery at the top of a secluded mansion. Collected here, both The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland are extraordinary for scrutinising the patriarchal norms of turn-of-the-century America. Hailed as one of the most distinctive and compelling literary voices of her era, Charlotte Perkins Gilman is praised today for her ground-breaking, feminist writing. 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Over the centuries, cities, and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. ![]() ![]() Fraa Erasmus is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the "Saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. ![]() ![]() ![]() His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. ![]() ![]() Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. ![]() ![]() ![]() Throwing it open, he leaned down and boomed, “It’s Mason’s agent! How are you, man?!” It felt like he was crawling inside the vehicle, but he was just sitting down. Get in the back with Dierek.”Ī wide smile came over the footballer, and he was quickly moving to the back door. He paused, saying over the hood, “Shut up. You got another sister we didn’t know about?” “Whoa!” His voice came out loud and was barely muffled through the glass. He’d been reaching for the door handle on my door when he looked through the window and saw me. Nate was coming back to his side, and Matteo was rounding the vehicle, carrying a large bag in hand. “Oh.” His eyebrows dropped back down, and he straightened in his seat. “He’s my half-brother.” Normally, I’d say nothing more. Nate and Matteo were starting to turn for the SUV, but Dierek asked, almost gently, “Nate mentioned that your brother is Graham Robertson?” I knew then, but I hadn’t been feeling it. Nate’s words from the beginning came back, and now this time, they were haunting. I felt a slicing going down the middle of my body. ![]() I was trying not to have a reaction, but it was there. She came out for a visit one time to see Mason’s wife. I know there’s a Channing near where they grew up, and I’ve not met him. ![]() ![]() It must be, what? Almost ten years by now? Nine, maybe?” He glanced at me but turned back to the window. “I scooped Mason up right away, and everyone else came with him. “How long have you known everyone in Nate’s group?” ![]() |