“This dazzling writer has created a guidebook for growing up queer in the American South . . . a testament to human endurance and dignity.” —Nick White, author of Sweet & Low Growing up in a small town in the South, Julia and her childhood best friend Laura know the church as well as they know each other’s bodies—the California-shaped scar on Julia’s right knee, the tapered thinness of Laura’s fingers, the circumference of each other’s ponytails. When Laura’s family moves away in middle school and Julia gets a crush on the new priest’s daughter at their church, Julia starts to more fully realize the consequences of being anything but straight in the South. After college, when Julia and her best friend Kate wait tables at a rib joint in Julia’s hometown, they are forced to face the price of the secrets they’ve kept—from their families, each other, and themselves. From astronaut Sally Ride’s obituary, to a UFO Welcome Center, to a shark tooth collection, to DC Comic’s Gay Ghost, this memoir-in-essays draws from mythology, religion, popular culture, and personal experience to examine how coming out is not a one-time act. At once heartrending and beautiful, The Rib Joint explores how fear and loss can inhabit our bodies and, contrastingly, how naming our desire allows us to feel the heart beating in our chest. “A brilliant, unsettling book.” —Paul Lisicky, author of Later “Engaging, poignant, and at times wryly humorous . . . Julia Koets writes with vulnerability, warmth, and a lyrical style that pulls the reader straight through to the end.” —Kristen Iversen, author of Full Body Burden

Exploring the hazy line that can exist between friendship and desire, this memoir-in-essays is a coming out story that chronicles the childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood of Julia Koets, who grows up entrenched in religion in a small town in the South.

Killer Ribs serves up smokin' recipes for the most succulent sauces, spiciest rubs, and juiciest ribs you've ever tasted. With contributions from the hottest barbecue rib joints in the United States and Canada, every mouthwatering regional style is represented. Whether you're a seasoned barbeque enthusiast or a hungry greenhorn, you'll be inspired to create the tempting dishes cooked up by award-winning chefs from every corner of the continent. These passionate rib aficionados have developed unique and bona fide methods of smoking, grilling, and baking the most tender, unforgettablerib 'cue. Spanning from East to West, Texas to Toronto, and countless spots in between, the tried-and-true backcountry recipes and professional secrets packed into Killer Ribs will fire up your inner barbeque buff and leave you smacking your lips in delight. Killer Ribs offers up tantalizing recipes from the best barbecue rib chefs in the United States and Canada. Indulge your every ribcraving with: - Tangy, slow-roasted baby-backs - Falling-off-the-bone honey-mustard pork spare ribs - Zesty black pepper beef ribs - Sweet pineapple loin-back pork ribs - Citrus-laden alligator ribs ...Plus an array of mops, rubs, and sauces, from a Southern mutton mop to a tongue-torching Southwestern dry rub and a sweet-and-sticky Kansas City barbecue sauce.

It didn’t take long for students around the world to realize that anatomy texts just don’t get any better than Gray’s Anatomy for Students. Only in its 2nd edition, this already popular, clinically focused reference has moved far ahead of the competition and is highly recommended by anyone who uses it. A team of authors with a wealth of diverse teaching and clinical experience has updated and revised this new edition to efficiently cover what you’re learning in contemporary anatomy classes. An improved format, updated clinical material, and remarkable artwork by renowned illustrators Richard Tibbitts and Paul Richardson make anatomy easier than ever for you to master. Unique coverage of surface anatomy, correlative diagnostic images, and clinical case studies demonstrate practical applications of anatomical concepts. And, an international advisory board, comprised of more than 100 instructors, ensures that the material is accurate, up to date, and easy to use. Uses more than 1,000 innovative original illustrations— by renowned illustrators Richard Tibbitts and Paul Richardson—to capture anatomical features with unrivalled clarity, and makes body structures easy to locate and remember from one illustration to another through consistent use of color. Includes over 300 clinical photographs, including radiological images depicting surface anatomy and common clinical applications of anatomic knowledge. Presents an organization by body region that parallels the approach used in most of today’s anatomy courses. Features conceptual overviews summarizing each body region's component parts, functions, and relationship to other bodily organs. Uses clinical cases to underscore the real-life relevance of the material. Features a rewritten abdomen section for greater clarity. Provides updates and revisions to clinical material to provide you with the absolute latest knowledge in the field. Includes expanded discussions of cranial nerves for added clinical relevancy. Uses a new internal design and presents an improved index for easier retrieval of information. Provides more information on the general aspects of anatomy via introduction chapter.

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Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Pine maps a secret relationship between two women in the South, where certain kinds of desire --queer desire, in particular --have historically been hidden and feared. Creating new landscapes of identity by reimagining form, modifying villanelles, sonnets, elegies, thank-you notes, and dictionary entries, Pine's imagistic and metaphorical associations between the body and the natural world form a queer ecology of longing and loss.