The Lost Boys

The Lost Boys
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 514
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ISBN-10 : 9781448176564
ISBN-13 : 1448176565
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis The Lost Boys by : Lilian Carmine

Fate has brought them together. But will it also keep them apart? Having moved to a strange town, seventeen-year-old Joey Gray is feeling a little lost, until she meets a cute, mysterious boy near her new home. But there’s a very good reason why Tristan Halloway is always to be found roaming in the local graveyard... Perfect for fans of Stephenie Meyer and Lauren Kate, The Lost Boys is a magical, romantic tale of girl meets ghost.

Lilian's Story

Lilian's Story
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Publisher : Text Publishing
Total Pages : 345
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ISBN-10 : 9781922458056
ISBN-13 : 1922458058
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Lilian's Story by : Kate Grenville

Kate Grenville’s debut novel, complete with a special new introduction, is now available as a Text Classic. A must-read for fans of one of Australia’s most prominent writers.

Between Two Worlds

Between Two Worlds
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
Total Pages : 104
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015050107039
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Between Two Worlds by : Kendall H. Brown

Lilian May Miller, the daughter of an American diplomat, was one of the few artists who succeeded in bridging the artistic and cultural gap between the U.S. and East Asia in the early decades of the 20th century. Trained in Japan in traditional painting styles and techniques, Miller created lyrical sketches, ink paintings, and woodblock prints of Japan and Korea. In particular, her woodblock prints, often made from blocks carved by Miller herself, won acclaim in Japan and the U.S. Between Two Worlds is a comprehensive survey of Miller's career and explores the artistic, cultural, and sociological motivations behind her work as a single, self-supporting female artist living in two cultures.

Woman

Woman
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 596
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ISBN-10 : 9780300265170
ISBN-13 : 0300265174
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Woman by : Lillian Faderman

A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century “An intelligently provocative, vital reading experience. . . . This highly readable, inclusive, and deeply researched book will appeal to scholars of women and gender studies as well as anyone seeking to understand the historical patterns that misogyny has etched across every era of American culture.”—Kirkus Reviews “A comprehensive and lucid overview of the ongoing campaign to free women from ‘the tyranny of old notions.’”—Publishers Weekly What does it mean to be a “woman” in America? Award-winning gender and sexuality scholar Lillian Faderman traces the evolution of the meaning from Puritan ideas of God’s plan for women to the sexual revolution of the 1960s and its reversals to the impact of such recent events as #metoo, the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the election of Kamala Harris as vice president, and the transgender movement. This wide-ranging 400-year history chronicles conflicts, retreats, defeats, and hard-won victories in both the private and the public sectors and shines a light on the often-overlooked battles of enslaved women and women leaders in tribal nations. Noting that every attempt to cement a particular definition of “woman” has been met with resistance, Faderman also shows that successful challenges to the status quo are often short-lived. As she underlines, the idea of womanhood in America continues to be contested.

Wood, Wire, Wings

Wood, Wire, Wings
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Publisher : Thinkingdom
Total Pages : 26
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ISBN-10 : 9781635924008
ISBN-13 : 1635924006
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Wood, Wire, Wings by : Kirsten W. Larson

This riveting nonfiction picture book biography explores both the failures and successes of self-taught engineer Emma Lilian Todd as she tackles one of the greatest challenges of the early 1900s: designing an airplane. Emma Lilian Todd's mind was always soaring--she loved to solve problems. Lilian tinkered and fiddled with all sorts of objects, turning dreams into useful inventions. As a child, she took apart and reassembled clocks to figure out how they worked. As an adult, typing up patents at the U.S. Patent Office, Lilian built the inventions in her mind, including many designs for flying machines. However, they all seemed too impractical. Lilian knew she could design one that worked. She took inspiration from both nature and her many failures, driving herself to perfect the design that would eventually successfully fly. Illustrator Tracy Subisak's art brings to life author Kirsten W. Larson's story of this little-known but important engineer.

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 405
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ISBN-10 : 9780231530743
ISBN-13 : 0231530749
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by : Lillian Faderman

As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "no constants with regard to lesbianism," except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, she reclaims the history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America, tracing the evolution of lesbian identity and subcultures from early networks to more recent diverse lifestyles. She draws from journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, media accounts, novels, medical literature, pop culture artifacts, and oral histories by lesbians of all ages and backgrounds, uncovering a narrative of uncommon depth and originality.

Host a Little Ghost and the Story of the Mystical Mums

Host a Little Ghost and the Story of the Mystical Mums
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Publisher : Little Ghost Publishing
Total Pages : 28
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0578144034
ISBN-13 : 9780578144030
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Host a Little Ghost and the Story of the Mystical Mums by : Kevin McCormick

An autumn whirlwind came to Tommy and Suzie's town bringing with it a new friend, who would teach them the true spirit of caring, sharing, and the joy of the Halloween season! This story follows the adventures of the twins Tommy and Suzie in the days before Halloween.

Gay L.A.

Gay L.A.
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 458
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780520260610
ISBN-13 : 0520260619
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Gay L.A. by : Lillian Faderman

Charts LA's gay history, from the first missionary encounters with Native American cross-gendered 'two spirits' to cross-dressing frontier women in search of their fortunes, and from the 1960s gay liberation movement to the creation of gay marketing in the 1990s.

A Girl Called Thursday

A Girl Called Thursday
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Publisher : Orion
Total Pages : 385
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ISBN-10 : 9781409130222
ISBN-13 : 1409130223
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis A Girl Called Thursday by : Lilian Harry

A terrifically compelling wartime story of love and loss from the author of A SONG AT TWILIGHT. Born at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, Mary and Walter Tilford's baby daughter is named Thursday. It was meant to be a message of hope for the future - but they could not foresee that by the time Thursday celebrated her twenty-first birthday, Britain would once again be at war with Germany. Thursday is determined to help in the war effort and volunteers as a Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse. She is attached to the Royal Navy, and begins her service at Haslar Hospital on the shores of Portsmouth Harbour. The realities of war are brought home to her when the casualties begin to arrive from Dunkirk and Thursday begins to understand the true meaning of courage. While experiencing all the natural hopes and dreams of any young woman, finding pleasure and joy as well as sorrow in her work, Thursday is given her own opportunity to show strength and bravery in the face of war - and find a lasting love.

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Total Pages : 302
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781250113337
ISBN-13 : 1250113334
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by : Kathleen Rooney

NOW A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER A love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney paints a portrait of a remarkable woman across the canvas of a changing America: from the Jazz Age to the onset of the AIDS epidemic; the Great Depression to the birth of hip-hop. “In my reckless and undiscouraged youth,” Lillian Boxfish writes, “I worked in a walnut-paneled office thirteen floors above West Thirty-Fifth Street...” She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for R.H. Macy’s to become the highest paid advertising woman in the country. It was a job that, she says, “in some ways saved my life, and in other ways ruined it.” Now it’s the last night of 1984 and Lillian, 85 years old but just as sharp and savvy as ever, is on her way to a party. It’s chilly enough out for her mink coat and Manhattan is grittier now—her son keeps warning her about a subway vigilante on the prowl—but the quick-tongued poetess has never been one to scare easily. On a walk that takes her over 10 miles around the city, she meets bartenders, bodega clerks, security guards, criminals, children, parents, and parents-to-be, while reviewing a life of excitement and adversity, passion and heartbreak, illuminating all the ways New York has changed—and has not. Lillian figures she might as well take her time. For now, after all, the night is still young. “Transporting...witty, poignant and sparkling.” —People (People Picks Book of the Week)