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Umbilical
by Andrés NeumanEl conmovedor relato de la gestación de un padre, por el ganador del premio Alfaguara 2009 «Encantado, hijo mío, de empezar a la vez a ser lo que seremos». Un hombre aguarda el nacimiento de su hijo. Asiste fascinado a la gestación junto a la madre, imagina a ese ser que vendrá a revolucionar su casa, su lenguaje, su pareja y su propia historia familiar. A lo largo de un año memorable, el hombre narra los primeros compases de una existencia nueva: la suya como padre junto a la madre y el hijo, tres personajes de una historia universal que encuentra palabras recién nacidas. Umbilical es un relato lírico cuyas búsquedas resuenan tanto en el plano íntimo como en el colectivo. Sus reflexiones sobre la experiencia de la paternidad sitúan a la masculinidad frente al milagro de la vida y su incesante relectura del presente, en una época de redefinición de los roles, aceptando así la invitación de la poetaAnne Waldman que encabeza estas páginas: «Que los hombres detengan su alboroto / frente a la maravilla del bebé». Pero es también, y sobre todo, una declaración de amor. El libro más íntimo de un autor fundamental en el catálogo para lectores de todo el mundo. La crítica ha dicho sobre Fractura:«De una inmensa brillantez: visiones múltiples, construcción casi cubista del personaje principal a través de sus actos propios y del recuerdo y la verbalidad que ha dejado en sus personas más próximas. [...] Fractura es una de las grandes noticias literarias de 2018».Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos «Un personaje fascinante, por cuyas venas circula toda la filosofía de la vida [...]. La parte tanto del comienzo como el viaje que decide hacer se cuentan entre las mejores páginas que le he leído [...]. Al lector llegan con fuerza los trazos y huellas de tal fractura en el rostro y alma de un viejo que alcanzará a ser memorable».José María Pozuelo Yvancos, ABC Cultural «Las observaciones sobre la vida en pareja son tan certeras que dan miedo, del mismo modo que son muy certeras las emociones y los pensamientos de estas cuatro mujeres. A la vez hay momentos de exquisito sentido del humor. La sensibilidad ecológica de la novela es extraordinaria y la recorre como un esqueleto, pero culmina sobre todo en el bellísimo tramo final. Una novela ambiciosa en el mejor sentido de la palabra».Marta Sanz «Una hermosa metáfora que sirve como referencia para acercarnos al inolvidable protagonista [...]. Hay humor, gracias sobre todo a alguna de las mujeres de su vida, reflexiones sobre la forma de amar con el paso de los años. También hay ternura, y haikus y proverbios zen, hay mucho polvo de oro en este libro que vuelve a demostrar que es un novelista con una gran capacidad de seducción».Sagrario Fernández-Prieto, La Razón «Una novela bella y delicada [...] Plena de empatía y precisión».Ariane Singer, Le Monde «Una novela para nuestro tiempo y asombrosamente relevante».Lucy Popescu, The Guardian «Fractura es atrevida, generosa y seductora, y tiene un apetito de vida que es, para mí, el sello de la gran ficción».Juan Gabriel Vásquez «Resulta imposible encasillar a Andrés Neuman: cada uno de sus libros es una nueva aventura del lenguaje, guiada por la inteligencia y el puro placer de la palabra. Nunca deja de sorprender y es, sin duda, uno de los escritores más arriesgados de la literatura hispanoamericana, dispuesto a cambiar, desafiarse y explorar, siempre con una elegancia única».Mariana Enriquez
Umbral: El frío de una vida
by Anna CaballéCrónica de un dandy español en el 15 aniversario de su muerte. La publicación de El frío de una vida, en 2004, marcó un antes y un después en el dominio del género de la biografía española. La brillante y rigurosa interpretación que se hacía de la escritura umbraliana a partir de los obstáculos y dificultades reales que no dejaron de asediar al escritor a lo largo de su vida (1932-2007) -y que hasta entonces habían permanecido ocultos- supuso una novedad y también un desafío. Anna Caballé fijó las circunstancias en las que transcurrieron la infancia y adolescencia de Francisco Umbral y su llegada a Madrid. También analizó y contextualizó en profundidad su incansable labor como articulista y escritor y su relación con las mujeres y el poder, todo ello construido en el libro con una pasión contenida que, sin embargo, es siempre muy perceptible en el estilo de la autora. El resultado fue un libro iluminador, valiente y arriesgado que huía de los cumplidos para exponer los hechos más relevantes de la vida de Umbral, sin obviar tampoco una posible interpretación de los mismos. La biografía de un escritor vivo como no se había escrito hasta entonces en España. Casi veinte años después de aquella edición, se reedita revisada y con los imprescindibles ajustes que incluyen el cierre de los interrogantes que en la primera edición quedaron sin resolver.
The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper Club
by Marlena de Blasi'If you loved Under the Tuscan Sun, you’ll love this' Red Magazine Every week on a Thursday evening, a group of four rural Italian women gather in an old stone house in the hills above Italy’s Orvieto. There – along with their friend, Marlena – they cook together, sit down to a beautiful supper, drink their beloved local wines, and talk. Surrounded by candle light, good food and friendship, the four women tell Marlena their evocative life stories, and of cherished ingredients and recipes whose secrets have been passed down through generations.
The Umpire Is Out: Calling the Game and Living My True Self
by Dale Scott Rob NeyerDale Scott&’s career as a professional baseball umpire spanned nearly forty years, including thirty-three in the Major Leagues, from 1985 to 2017. He worked exactly a thousand games behind the plate, calling balls and strikes at the pinnacle of his profession, working in every Major League Baseball stadium, and interacting with dozens of other top-flight umpires, colorful managers, and hundreds of players, from future Hall of Famers to one-game wonders. Scott has enough stories about his career on the field to fill a dozen books, and there are plenty of those stories here. He&’s not interested in settling scores, but throughout the book he&’s honest about managers and players, some of whom weren&’t always perfect gentlemen. But what makes Scott&’s book truly different is his unique perspective as the only umpire in the history of professional baseball to come out as gay during his career. Granted, that was after decades of remaining in the closet, and Scott writes vividly and movingly about having to &“play the game&”: maintaining a facade of straightness while privately becoming his true self and building a lasting relationship with his future husband. He navigated this obstacle course at a time when his MLB career was just taking off—and when North America was consumed by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Scott&’s story isn&’t only about his leading a sort of double life, then opening himself up to the world and discovering a new generosity of spirit. It&’s also a baseball story, filled with insights and memorable anecdotes that come so naturally from someone who spent decades among the world&’s greatest baseball players, managers, and games. Scott&’s story is fascinating both for his umpiring career and for his being a pioneer for LGBTQ people within baseball and across sports.
Un altro sguardo al bipolarismo: Non c’è da vergognarsi nel preferire la felicità
by Benjamin NemopodeL’incredibile percorso di un uomo con il disturbo bipolare Come è sprofondato nella più profonda disperazione, per poi uscirne trionfante. Ti è stato diagnosticato il bipolarismo? Conosci qualcuno che soffre di questa malattia e che lotta per ritrovare se stesso? Vorresti saperne di più di questo terribile disturbo psicologico? Sei alla ricerca della pace o sei interessato al buddhismo? Disturbo bipolare o verità del risveglio spirituale? Segui il viaggio di Arthuro Jobsquare, bipolare, da Parigi a Montreal, passando per Londra, fino allo stato di buddha. Un’avventura fantastica, uno scacco al bipolarismo. Un’incredibile determinazione nel voler superare la malattia che minacciava di controllarlo per sempre. Descrizione della malattia e dell’incredibile percorso di un bipolare di tipo I. Questo libro espone l’incredibile percorso di una persona bipolare fornendo una descrizione corretta e accurata della malattia. Se cerchi un libro sul disturbo bipolare o sul risveglio spirituale, non cercare oltre, l’hai trovato... Ordina SUBITO la tua copia e inizia il tuo percorso di risveglio. Estratti dalle recensioni di lettori Amazon ★★★★★ “L’autore condivide con noi il suo doloroso percorso di vita con il disturbo bipolare di tipo I. Una testimonianza toccante, compiuta e scritta splendidamente...” - Frédérique Madison (Francia) ★★★★★ “Ho letto questo libro in più tempi, cosa che non è mia abitudine fare. Ma ogni tanto ho dovuto fermarmi a riprendere fiato. Si sente chiaramente tutta la sofferenza di una persona che cerca di prendere le distanze dalla propria esperienza...” - Armand Poursin (Francia) ★★★★★ “Consiglio questo libro in quanto utile complemento alle proprie ricerche sulla malattia e anche come testimonianza di chi ne è affetto. Ora posso dire di averla compresa molto più chiaramente e di amare
Un Amico Italiano
by Luca Spaghetti'My grandmother always said this last name will bring you luck . . . 'In September 2003, Luca Spaghetti got an email from an American friend that would change his life: 'A friend from university is about to move to Rome for three months. She'll contact you. She's a writer and her name is Elizabeth Gilbert. 'Luca did not have high hopes for this bookish tourist but he needn't have worried. Here was someone who wanted to discover the true Rome, the Rome of Romans. And who better to show her than a born and bred Romano. This is Luca's unconventional guide to his city as he knows and lives it. From the hotspots and hidden corners to the most amazing art, food and traditions, this is a very personal, zesty, inspiring insight into the Eternal City. 'Luca writes with as much charm and warmth as he speaks – so now everyone can join the conversation at the table. I'm delighted to share my friend through this marvellous book, which I cannot recommend highly enough . . . 'ELIZABETH GILBERT
Un-Gandhian Gandhi: The Life and Afterlife of the Mahatma
by Claude MarkovitsThis major study reconsiders the creation of the Gandhian legend through the myriad texts and images that helped spread it through both India and the Western world.
Un historien dans la cité: Gaétan Gervais et l’Ontario français (Amérique française)
by François-Olivier DoraisÀ la fois témoin et acteur des grandes transformations socio-identitaires qui ont marqué l’Ontario français depuis la fin des années 1960, Gaétan Gervais est aussi connu à titre de créateur du drapeau franco-ontarien en 1975. Les divers lieux d’enracinement de sa pensée sont étudiés depuis le Sudbury français des années 1940 et 1950, en passant par le contexte de mutations culturelles, politiques et historiographiques des décennies d’après-guerre. L’étude s’étend au contenu des écrits de l’historien ainsi qu’à ses interventions dans les sphères publique et gouvernementale de l’Ontario et de la francophonie canadienne, notamment au regard de l’éducation postsecondaire. L’analyse fait ressortir les paramètres structurants de sa pensée et montre comment celle-ci opère dans l’espace propre au milieu minoritaire francoontarien. Elle fait apparaître l’historien comme l’une des principales figures énonciatrices d’une représentation identitaire axée sur une continuité référentielle avec la mémoire du Canada français historique.
UN/MASKED: Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl on Tour
by Donna KazUN/MASKED, Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl On Tour! follows the surprising 25 year journey of a young, New York City actress swept off her feet by a rising movie star who carries her to Malibu and back for a three-plus year love affair that is both fantastical and physically dangerous. When Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman are murdered in Brentwood she hears a bell go off, awakening her angry, activist spirit. Always an outsider, she takes one step further into invisibility and becomes a Guerrilla Girl, a feminist activist who never appears in public without wearing a rubber gorilla mask and who uses the name of a dead woman artist instead of her own. As a Guerrilla Girl, Aphra Behn creates comedic art and theater that blasts the blatant sexism of the theater world while proving feminists are funny at the same time.These two narratives-that of a young victim of domestic violence at the hands of a successful film actor and that of an artist so fed up with sexism in the theater world that she puts on a gorilla mask and takes the name of a dead woman artist to provoke change-have been lived by one woman. Donna Kaz offers her compelling firsthand account-illuminated by more than thirty behind-the-scenes photographs, stickers and posters -of her transition from a silent observer to an unapologetic activist.This is the memoir of a woman-turned-survivor-turned-radical-feminist who takes off her mask and, by merging her identities, reveals all.
UN PORCELLINO D'INDIA PER COLAZIONE
by Andrea Gardiner Sara Di NardoEpilogo A volte mi guardo intorno e tutto quello che vedo è un bisogno enorme; tanti bambini che non vanno a scuola, malati e sofferenti, tante morti, incidenti e tragedie. La mia mente e il mio cuore non possono sopportare tutto. Non posso aiutarli tutti. Quello che posso fare è davvero poco. Ma posso fare la differenza per qualcuno, trovare uno sponsor al prossimo bambino, costruire una casa per la prossima famiglia, curare un’ulcera al prossimo paziente. Posso fare la differenza per loro. Per tutti non posso. Tutti noi possiamo aiutare le persone che attraversano il nostro cammino. E ogni persona la cui vita abbiamo il privilegio di toccare è un prezioso figlio di Dio. Anche se abbiamo solo un bicchiere d'acqua da dargli, Gesù sa che lo stiamo facendo per lui. Quindi continuiamo a farlo. Non dimentichiamolo. Non stanchiamoci di farlo. Continuiamo a venire per Lui che ci dona l'amore e la forza per andare avanti, per continuare ad amare, per continuare ad aiutare. Non so cosa troverò nella prossima curva. Non so cosa il domani mi porterà. Viviamo giorno dopo giorno, fidandoci di Dio per soddisfare le nostre esigenze mentre proseguiamo lungo il cammino. Ma so che sarà sempre con noi. Sono così grata per essere stata tanto fortunata. Ma so che i poveri sono sempre con noi. Mentre Dio mi concede la forza, continuerò a servirli come meglio posso. Unisciti a me per servirlo.
Una casa propia: Historias de mi vida
by Sandra CisnerosWinner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative NonfictionFrom Chicago to Mexico, the places Sandra Cisneros has lived have provided inspiration for her now-classic works of fiction and poetry. But a house of her own, a place where she could truly take root, has eluded her. In this jigsaw autobiography, made up of essays and images spanning three decades—and including never-before-published work—Cisneros has come home at last. Written with her trademark lyricism, in these signature pieces the acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street shares her transformative memories and reveals her artistic and intellectual influences. Poignant, honest, and deeply moving, A House of My Own is an exuberant celebration of a life lived to the fullest, from one of our most beloved writers.
Una famiglia in guerra
by Gordon Smith Chiara BabeliDESCRIZIONE DEL LIBRO: “Una famiglia in guerra” è ambientato agli inizi del ‘900 durante il periodo della prima guerra mondiale. La storia segue le vicissitudini di sei componenti di una famiglia australiana mentre scelgono, per diverse ragioni personali, di andare a combattere. Il libro racconta i loro alti e bassi, i sacrifici e le vittorie: passando in rassegna ciò che queste persone si lasciano alle spalle, famiglie e bambini inclusi, e le difficoltà che affrontano lungo i loro percorsi, risulta stimolante e straziante allo stesso tempo. La storia include i loro spostamenti nel mezzo della guerra in Europa, esplora alcune delle complesse caratteristiche del territorio e riassume le vite dei tre ragazzi che tornarono a casa. Evidenzia anche l’angoscia della madre il cui figlio venne dichiarato disperso durante la battaglia di Fromelles e il cui corpo, cento anni dopo, non è ancora stato identificato. Sei membri della famiglia andarono in guerra. Solo tre ritornarono!
Una forta abraçada: Sis-cents quaranta-cinc dies i nits
by Sandro Rosell«Després de passar 645 dies tancat he decidit compartir el meu dia a dia a la presó, on m'he adonat de l'enorme valor d'una forta abraçada.» Sandro Rosell Moltes persones a qui estimo i que m'estimen m'han desaconsellat publicar aquest llibre. Un llibre escrit en present, dia a dia, i per ordre cronològic. He volgut deixar testimoni de les experiències, les reflexions, els pensaments, els somnis i els malsons que vaig tenir durant 645 dies i nits a la presó, i parlar de les persones, innocents o culpables, amb qui vaig compartir els gairebé dos pitjors anys de la meva vida i en qui em vaig recolzar per passar els moments de més feblesa personal. El títol del llibre descriu, simplement, allò que més anheles dins la presó quan et priven de llibertat. No hi ha res que necessitis més que... una forta abraçada.
Una frugale estate in Charente
by Elisabetta Borghi Sarah Jane ButfieldIncontriamo Sarah Jane, una donna con una reputazione per i disastri culinari che tenta di sfamare la sua famiglia in circostanze particolari nella Francia rurale. Una vita frugale non è parte del piano quando arrivano dall'Australia per intraprendere la ristrutturazione di un pittoresco cottage nella Charente. Però, quando la vita lancia loro una palla curva, accettano la sfida. Sopravvivere in Francia con pochi soldi e due cani. La risposta arriva sotto forma di cinque galline, quattro anatre e un orto! Il piano è risparmiare con ogni mezzo possibile per investire ogni soldo guadagnato per continuare la ristrutturazione del cottage. In vero stile "Vita Felice", Sarah Jane affronta la sfida a testa alta, allevando qualche animale e convertendo un giardino simile ad un prato in un 'potager' francese o orto domestico. La tradizione francese di usare i prodotti dei 'potager' è rinomata per permettere alle famiglie di creare pasti sani, economici e semplici. Trentuno ricette, per cibi e bevande, incluse in una registrazione mensile di come un giardino inutilizzato si trasforma in un frugale, ma produttivo, orto domestico da espatriati.
Una mestra a Katmandú
by Vicki SubiranaLa peripècia vital d'una mestra amb un somni: Katmandú.El llibre en el que es basa la pel·lícula de Icíar Bollaín. La historia inacabada de la Vicki Subirana s'inicia amb el relat de les il·lusions d'una jove mestra solidària amb una missió entre cella i cella, i culmina amb la consolidació d'un projecte educatiu universal per als més pobres i marginats del Nepal, per als quals ha aconseguit l'ensenyament que qualsevol persona voldria per als seus fills en el nostre món privilegiat. En el seu afany per dur a terme els seus ideals, la Vicki va haver de fer front a dificultats de tota mena, i per evitar que la deportessin fins i tot va acceptar un matrimoni de conveniència amb un xerpa... que al final es va convertir en un gran amor. El relat de l'apassionant peripècia vital i professional de l'autora dóna com a resultat un llibre extraordinari en el qual el lector trobarà no sols una bella i sorprenent història d'amor, barrejada amb un fascinant llibre de viatges, sinó, sobretot, una visió divulgativa però contundent de la realitat més crua del Tercer Món.
UNA PRIMAVERA EN EL DESIERTO (EBOOK)
by Marcelo CantelmiEn diciembre de 2010, poco antes de Año Nuevo, un jovencito universitario que sobrevivía vendiendo frutas con un carro se encendió como una antorcha en Túnez. Ese sacrificio, causado por la furia y la frustración, fue el disparador de uno de los procesos geopolíticos de mayor importancia de este comienzo de siglo. Conocido luego como la Primavera Árabe, se trató de un conmovedor alzamiento republicano en el norte de África contra dictaduras que gobernaron por décadas con mano de hierro, muchas de ellas amparadas por Occidente. El autor de este trabajo, que cubrió periodísticamente durante varios meses el fenómeno, demuestra que ese súbito despertar a la democracia y a la libertad no fue un gesto espontáneo sino una de las consecuencias más extraordinarias de la crisis económica global de 2008. Desmitifica el poder de las redes sociales en la fragua de este levantamiento y remarca que la Primavera Árabe, maltratada en el mundo por izquierda y por derecha, sí fue, contra lo que muchos piensan, una auténtica revolución, ya que cambió la historia con efectos que no se disiparán. En la heroica plaza Tahrir de El Cairo nació el movimiento de los #indignados# que se esparció de España a Israel y a Wall Street. Es mucho más de lo que se supone lo que ha sucedido y sucede en esa constelación de naciones. Y es mucho más lo que inevitablemente acabará por ocurrir.
Una vez fui tú: Mi vida entre el amor y el odio en los Estados Unidos (Atria Espanol)
by Maria Hinojosa&“El punto de vista de María es poderoso y vital. Hace años, cuando In the Heights empezaba a presentarse en teatros off-Broadway, María corrió la voz en nuestra comunidad para que apoyáramos este nuevo musical que trataba sobre nuestros vecindarios. Ella ha sido una campeona de nuestros triunfos, una crítica de nuestros detractores y una fuerza clave para enfrentar y corregir los errores de nuestra sociedad. Cuando María habla, estoy listo para escuchar y aprender de ella.&” —Lin-Manuel Miranda La periodista ganadora de cuatro premios Emmy y presentadora de Latino USA de NPR, María Hinojosa, cuenta la historia de la inmigración en los Estados Unidos a través de las experiencias de su familia y décadas de hacer reportajes, con lo cual crea un riguroso retrato de un país en crisis.María Hinojosa es una periodista galardonada que ha colaborado con las cadenas más respetadas y se ha distinguido por realizar reportajes con un toque humano. En estas memorias escritas con gran belleza, nos relata la historia de la política de inmigración de los EE.UU. que nos ha llevado al punto en que estamos hoy, al mismo tiempo que nos comparte su historia profundamente personal. Durante treinta años, María Hinojosa ha informado sobre historias y comunidades en los Estados Unidos que a menudo son ignoradas por los principales medios de comunicación. La autora de bestsellers Julia Álvarez la ha llamado &“una de las líderes culturales más importantes, respetadas y queridas de la comunidad Latinx&”. En Una vez fui tú, María nos comparte su experiencia personal de haber crecido como mexicanoamericana en el sur de Chicago y documentar el páramo existencial de los campos de detención de inmigrantes para los medios de comunicación que a menudo cuestionaban su trabajo. En estas páginas, María ofrece un relato personal y revelador de cómo la retórica en torno a la inmigración no solo ha influido en las actitudes de los estadounidenses hacia los extranjeros, sino que también ha permitido la negligencia intencional y el lucro a expensas de las poblaciones más vulnerables de nuestro país, lo que ha propiciado el sistema resquebrajado que tenemos hoy en día. Estas memorias honestas y estremecedoras crean un vívido retrato de cómo llegamos aquí y lo que significa ser una superviviente, una feminista, una ciudadana y una periodista que hace valer su propia voz mientras lucha por la verdad. Una vez fui tú es un llamado urgente a los compatriotas estadounidenses para que abran los ojos a la crisis de la inmigración y entiendan que nos afecta a todos. También disponible en inglés como Once I Was You.
Unabomber: How the FBI Broke Its Own Rules to Capture the Terrorist Ted Kaczynski
by Donald Max Noel Jim Freeman Terry D. TurchieSoon to be a major motion picture - Unabomb - starring Viggo Mortensen! This is the story of how the FBI broke its own rules to catch the notorious Unabomber, who had randomly killed and maimed people while leaving a cold trail of terrorism for sixteen years. Between 1978 and 1995, the Unabomber mailed 16 bombs, killing three people and injuring 23 more, and the FBI was no closer to catching him. When a new team of hand- picked investigators devised a different strategy to crack the genetic code that protected the Unabomber’s anonymity, the first task was to blast away the layers of bureaucratic constraints that had plagued the earlier efforts to retrace the trail of crimes. As the rules broke and the bureaucratic restraints crumbled, the puzzle pieces of earlier bombings that the terrorist left behind were found and the puzzle collapsed around the Unabomber like a deck of cards. This is the story, told in the narrative, by the three FBI Agents who led the chase, of how, they broke the Bureau’s own rules and finally captured the notorious Unabomber who had led the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the longest chase in its century- old history.
Unabomber: The Secret Life of Ted Kaczynski
by Chris Waits Dave ShorsAuthor Chris Waits was Ted Kaczynski's friend and neighbor in the Montana mountains for 25 years. ABC News called Waits the "Man who knew him best." That unique knowledge cast Waits as a key figure in the FBI's relentless investigation, a role that provided the author with volumes of Kaczynski's personal journals that illuminate--for the first time--the lifestyle, crimes and twisted logic of the notorious Unabomber.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
by Sylvia PlathThe complete, uncensored journals of Sylvia Plath—essential reading for anyone who has been moved and fascinated by the poet's life and work."A genuine literary event.... Plath's journals contain marvels of discovery." —The New York Times Book Review Sylvia Plath's journals were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. This new edition is an exact and complete transcription of the diaries Plath kept during the last twelve years of her life. Sixty percent of the book is material that has never before been made public, more fully revealing the intensity of the poet's personal and literary struggles, and providing fresh insight into both her frequent desperation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons.
Unabrow
by Una LamarcheIn between highbrow and lowbrow, there's Unabrow. "Take the cast of 'Bridesmaids,' add a dash of pre-pubescent Eugene Levy, and you have the humor stylings of Una LaMarche."-- Ann Imig, founder of Listen to Your Mother As a girl, Una LaMarche was as smart as she was awkward. She was blessed with a precocious intellect, a love of all things pop culture, and eyebrows bushier than Frida Kahlo's. Adversity made her stronger...and funnier. In Unabrow, Una shares the cringe-inducing lessons she's learned from a life as a late bloomer, including the seven deadly sins of DIY bangs, how not to make your own jorts, and how to handle pregnancy, plucking, and the rites of passage during which your own body is your worst frenemy. For readers who loved Let's Pretend This Never Happened and for fans of Mindy Kaling, Tina Fey, and Amy Schumer, Unabrow is the book June Cleaver would have written if she spent more time drinking and less time vacuuming.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Unaccompanied Women
by Jane JuskaAs a result of what she calls 'the only stroke of genius I've ever had', Jane Juska placed a personal ad in a newspaper, that began: 'Before I turn 67 - next March - I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like.' The response was overwhelming, and it changed Jane's life. She told all in A ROUND-HEELED WOMAN, which Lynne Truss called 'the best book about sex I have read', and which shocked some, amused many and became a bestseller. Five years later, Jane has, like it or not, become a kind of icon for the post-menopause generation. She's a friend and confessor to women of all ages with poignant, tragic or enchanting stories - unaccompanied women, alone for now but searching for sex and romance. And despite her success, Jane herself is still looking for a man to keep her company - not a husband, not even a partner, but the perfect lover, described by Katharine Hepburn as one who 'lives nearby and visits often'. So the story continues, looking around at her generation, back to her youth, and forward to. . . whatever grabs her fancy. And like many unaccompanied women, Jane's also in search of a better place to live. Her current tiny apartment doesn't allow for much in the way of romance, let alone the giant toy box she wants to fill for her granddaughter, born on her birthday and now just two, who's brought another kind of love to her life. But as a sporadic earner on a teacher's pension, she can never afford the dream house. So the search continues, for love, friendship, sex, a roof over her head - it's what keeps this seventy-two year old author young, and will keep readers wonderfully entertained in this funny, deft and touching memoir.
The Unarmed Truth: My Fight to Blow the Whistle and Expose Fast and Furious
by John DodsonA hard-hitting inside account of the Fast and Furious scandal—the government-sponsored program intended to “win the drug war” by providing and tracking gun sales across the border to Mexico—from whistle-blower and ATF agent John Dodson.After the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, John Dodson pulled bodies out of the wreckage at the Pentagon. In 2007, following the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech, John Dodson walked through the classrooms, heartbroken, to cover up the bodies of the victims. Then came Arizona. The American border. Ten days before Christmas, 2010, ATF agent John Dodson awoke to the news he had dreaded every day as a member of the elite team called the Group VII Strike Force: a U.S. border patrol agent named Brian Terry had been shot dead by bandits armed with guns that had been supplied to them by ATF. Was this an inevitable consequence of the Obama administration’s Project Gunrunner, set in place one year earlier ostensibly to track Mexican drug cartels? Brian Terry’s murder would not only change John Dodson’s life forever; it would reveal a scandal so unthinkably unpatriotic that it forced President Barack Obama to claim executive privilege and caused Attorney General Eric Holder to be held in contempt of Congress. Federal Agent John Dodson, an ex-military man, took an oath to defend the world’s greatest country, and proudly considered himself a walking patriotic example of the American Dream. Brian Terry, ex-military like Dodson, was only forty years old, a family man who served his country by working for the government. Dodson was terrified when the next phone call came, one with the potential to destroy his career, his family, and his life. CBS investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson asked Dodson to go public with what he knew about Fast and Furious. To Agent Dodson, this meant blowing the whistle. But to the family of Agent Terry, it was a chance to save lives and right a wrong. As he took a fight from the border towns of Arizona to a showdown in the halls of Congress, John Dodson clung to the hope that truth would prevail, that he would be redeemed, and that Brian Terry’s death would not be in vain. Like whistle-blowers before him, John would not be welcome back on the job. But he found strength in his conscience, in the support of the American public, and in Senators Darryl Issa and Chuck Grassley. When his first-amendment rights to publicly tell his story were threatened, the ACLU took up his case. For her report revealing John Dodson as the key whistle-blower in Fast and Furious, Sharyl Attkisson received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism. Ultimately, John Dodson was cleared by the Inspector General’s office, publicly heralded as a hero, and returned to Arizona. Perhaps a lesson gleaned from John Dodson’s powerful account is well stated by former Speaker of the House of Representatives Sam Rayburn: “If you always tell the truth, you don’t have to remember what you said.”
Unarrested Archives
by Linda M. MorraCalling upon the archives of Canadian writers E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913), Emily Carr (1871-1945), Sheila Watson (1909-1998), Jane Rule (1931-2007), and M. NourbeSe Philip (1947- ), Linda M. Morra explores the ways in which women's archives have been uniquely conceptualized in scholarly discourses and shaped by socio-political forces. She also provides a framework for understanding the creative interventions these women staged to protect their records. Through these case studies, Morra traces the influence of institutions such as national archives and libraries, and regulatory bodies such as border service agencies on the creation, presentation, and preservation of women's archival collections.The deliberate selection of the five literary case studies allows Morra to examine changing archival practices over time, shifting definitions of nationhood and national literary history, varying treatments of race, gender, and sexual orientation, and the ways in which these forces affected the writers' reputations and their archives. Morra also productively reflects on Jacques Derrida's Archive Fever and postmodern feminist scholarship related to the relationship between writing, authority, and identity to showcase the ways in which female writers in Canada have represented themselves and their careers in the public record.
Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim
by Leah VernonA searingly honest memoir of one young woman's journey toward self-acceptance as she comes to see her body as a symbol of rebellion and hope and chooses to live her life unapologetically.Ever since she was little, Leah Vernon was told what to believe and how to act. There wasn't any room for imperfection. Good Muslim girls listened more than they spoke. They didn't have a missing father or a mother with mental illness. They didn't have fat bodies or grow up wishing they could be like the white characters they saw on TV. They didn't have husbands who abused and cheated on them. They certainly didn't have secret abortions. In Unashamed, Vernon takes to task the myth of the perfect Muslim woman with frank dispatches on her love-hate relationship with her hijab and her faith, race, weight, mental illness, domestic violence, sexuality, the millennial world of dating, and the process of finding her voice. She opens up about her tumultuous adolescence living at the poverty line with her fiercely loving but troubled mother, her deadbeat dad, and her siblings, and the violent dissolution of her 10-year marriage. Tired of the constant policing of her clothing in the name of Islam and Western beauty standards, Vernon reflects on her experiences with hustling paycheck to paycheck, body-shaming, and redefining what it means to be a "good" Muslim.Irreverent, youthful, and funny, Unashamed gives anyone who is marginalized permission to live unapologetic, confident lives.