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West of the Jordan: A Novel Bluestreak Book 19

Hala is torn between two worlds-in love in Jordan, drawn back to the world she has come to love in Arizona. Interweaving their stories, allowing us to see each cousin from multiple points of view, Halaby creates a compelling and entirely original story, a window into the rich and complicated Arab world.
Soraya is lost in trying to forge an acceptable life in a foreign yet familiar land, in love with her own uncle, and unable to navigate the fast culture of California youth. This is a brilliant and revelatory first novel by a woman who is both an Arab and an American, who speaks with both voices and understands both worlds.
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The Good Body

They wore girdles and waist-pinchers. They had a blond Clairol wave in their hair. They stay perfect. I could never be good. The good body starts with eve’s tortured relationship with her own “post-forties” stomach and her skirmishes with everything from Ab Rollers to fad diets and fascistic trainers in an attempt get the “flabby badness” out.
As eve hungrily seeks self-acceptance, she is joined by the voices of women from L. A. They don’t eat too much.
The Apology

It is revolutionary, honesty, asking everything of each of us: courage, and forgiveness. After years of work as an anti-violence activist, by her, she decided she would wait no longer; an apology could be imagined, for her, to her. Through the apology eve has set out to provide a new way for herself and a possible road for others, so that survivors of abuse may finally envision how to be free.
Immeasurable grace. Anita hill“courageous, transformative, and yes--healing. Anne lamott"Unflinchingly increases our understanding of the human experience. Michael cunningham“The Apology will change how all of us think about our souls. Johann hari“Shatteringly brilliant. The times "the geometry of toxic masculinity is contained within these pages.
Marc maronlike millions of women, Eve Ensler has been waiting much of her lifetime for an apology.
Honors Physics Essentials: An APlusPhysics Guide

This book is designed to assist beginning physics students in their high school and introductory college physics courses as an invaluable supplemental resource in class as well as a review guide for standardized physics assessments such as the SAT Subject Test in Physics, PRAXIS Physics, and CST Physics exams.
Honors physics Essentials is integrated with the APlusPhysics. Com website, videos, animations, which includes online question and answer forums, and supplemental problems to help you master the essential concepts of physics. Advance praise for Honors Physics Essentials:"This book is thorough and entertaining.
The charts and illustrations helped me organize key information, and I felt like I understood the concepts behind every question on the test. Nick, Physics Student. The physics concepts are explained clearly enough for anyone to understand. Jeff, Physics Teacher.
The Member of the Wedding

Here is the story of the inimitable twelve-year-old Frankie, who is utterly, hopelessly bored with life until she hears about her older brother’s wedding. The novel that became an award-winning play and a major motion picture and that has charmed generations of readers, Carson McCullers’s classic The Member of the Wedding is now available in small- format trade paperback for the first time.
. A marvelous study of the agony of adolescence” Detroit Free Press, astute, The Member of the Wedding showcases Carson McCullers at her most sensitive, and lasting best.
Necessary Targets: A Story of Women and War

Melissa, an ambitious young writer, and J. S. A successful but unsatisfied middle-aged psychiatrist, have nothing in common beyond the methods they have been taught to distance themselves from other people. As J. S. Begins to feel compassion for the women whose tragedies she has been sent to expose, she turns on Melissa, who finds safety in control.
And the women she is supposedly treating find a common ground, a place to be taught and a place to learn. Necessary targets has been staged in new york by Meryl Streep, and Calista Flockhart, Anjelica Huston, and performed in Sarajevo with Glenn Close and Marisa Tomei. In an unexpected moment of revelation, J.
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In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection

Soon after, she is diagnosed with uterine cancer, punctured, cut, and through months of harrowing treatment, she is forced to become first and foremost a body—pricked, scanned. Because i did not, could not inhabit my body or the Earth, " she writes, "I could not feel or know their pain. But ensler is shocked out of her distance.
From the bestselling author of the vagina monologues and one of newsweek's 150 women Who Changed the World, the self, author, and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female body—how to talk about it, a visionary memoir of separation and connection—to the body, and the worldPlaywright, how to protect and value it.
As she connects her own illness to the devastation of the earth, her life force to the resilience of humanity, she is finally, fully—and gratefully—joined to the body of the world. Unflinching, and inspiring, generous, Ensler calls on us all to embody our connection to and responsibility for the world.
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A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer: Writings to Stop Violence Against Women and Girls

But above all, together they create a true and profound portrait of this issue’s effect on every one of us. Selections from the “until the violence stops” festivalfeaturing writings by abiola abrams • edward albee • tariq ali • maya angelou • periel aschenbrand • patricia bosworth • nicole burdette • kate clinton • kimberle crenshaw • michael cunningham • edwidge danticat • ariel dorfman • mollie doyle • slavenka drakulic • michael eric dyson • dave eggers • kathy engel • eve ensler • jane fonda • carol gilligan • jyllian gunther • suheir hammad • Christine House • Marie Howe • Carol Michèle Kaplan • Moisés Kaufman • Michael Klein • Nicholas Kristof • James Lecesne • Elizabeth Lesser • Mark Matousek • Deena Metzger • Susan Miller • Winter Miller • Susan Minot • Robin Morgan • Kathy Najimy • Lynn Nottage • Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy • Sharon Olds • Hanan al-Shaykh • Anna Deavere Smith • Diana Son • Monica Szlekovics • Robert Thurman • Betty Gale Tyson • Alice Walker • Jody Williams • Erin Cressida Wilson • Howard ZinnThis groundbreaking collection, edited by author and playwright Eve Ensler, features pieces from “Until the Violence Stops, ” the international tour that brings the issue of violence against women and girls to the forefront of our consciousness.
She’s a countercultural consciousness-raiser, an empowering figure, a truth-teller. Chicago Tribune. These diverse voices rise up in a collective roar to break open, and examine the insidiousness of brutality, neglect, a punch, expose, or a put-down. Here is edward albee on s&m; maya angelou on women’s work; michael cunningham on self-mutilation; Dave Eggers on a Sudanese abduction; Carol Gilligan on a daughter witnessing her mother being hit; Susan Miller on raising a son as a single mother; and Sharon Olds on a bra.
Birds Without Wings

It’s a place that has room for a professional blasphemer; where a brokenhearted aga finds solace in the arms of a Circassian courtesan who isn’t Circassian at all; where a beautiful Christian girl named Philothei is engaged to a Muslim boy named Ibrahim. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters.
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel

Lily is haunted by memories–of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. In nineteenth-century china, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for communication: nu shu “women’s writing”.
She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. Snow flower and the secret fan is a brilliantly realistic journey back to an era of Chinese history that is as deeply moving as it is sorrowful. The two find solace, developing a bond that keeps their spirits alive.
But when a misunderstanding arises, their lifelong friendship suddenly threatens to tear apart. As the years pass, loneliness, they reflect upon their arranged marriages, through famine and rebellion, and the joys and tragedies of motherhood. Some girls were paired with laotongs, “old sames, ” in emotional matches that lasted throughout their lives.