105 results for 'jenkinson monica'

Faux Queen: A Life in Drag is the memoir of a ballet-obsessed girl who moves to San Francisco from the suburbs and finds her people at the drag club.It joyously chronicles Monique Jenkinson’s...

2024 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction - Longlist 2024 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award - Longlist 2024 Fauve D'Or WINNER Angoulême Comics Festival New York Times Best Graphic Novels of...

The Satires contain six Latin poems of moderate length in the hexameter metre. Persius belonged to the well-to-do and landowning gentry of Italy and the tone and philosophical content of the Satires...

From the acclaimed author of American Mermaid ("I loved it...and have never read anything like it"--Elizabeth Gilbert) comes a wise, funny, and wildly original examination of female desire and the...

"Barter exchanges history for myth, direct speech for epistles, activity for observation . . . breathtaking." ―Claudia RankineFelix the Rat's hind feetcould be Barbie hands―same pink,...

Winner of the AASECT Book Award for Teens Under 18 years old Does fingering count as losing my virginity? How do I know if I am ready for sex?Does penis size actually matter Mother and teen duo...

An authoritative study of Gego, whose distinctive modernist practice sits at the intersection of architecture, design, and the visual artsThis important book is the first extended study of the life...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Every sentence of Monica Heisey's writing is a treat. No one makes me laugh like she does." --Dolly Alderton, New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Know About Love...

In Magical Habits Monica Huerta draws on her experiences growing up in her family's Mexican restaurants and her life as a scholar of literature and culture to meditate on how relationships among...

The bestselling, "gripping" (Entertainment Weekly), "powerful" (Hypable), "utterly thrilling" (Paste.com) winner of the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery, perfect for readers of Kristin Hannah...

“A book you won’t be able to put down. A Bangladeshi immigrant in London is torn between the kind, tedious older husband with whom she has an arranged marriage (and children) and the fiery political...

Timely and pathbreaking, Securing the Peace is the first book to explore the complete spectrum of civil war terminations, including negotiated settlements, military victories by governments and...

Reimagines photography through the long history of ideas of expressionThe end of the nineteenth century saw massive developments and innovations in photography at a time when the forces of Western...

A celebration of one of the world’s most influential painters, Frida Kahlo, and the animals that inspired her art and life—now available in paperback! Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor , 2018 ALA Notable...

“A Demon-Haunted Land is absorbing, gripping, and utterly fascinating... Beautifully written, without even a hint of jargon or pretension, it casts a significant and unexpected new light on the early...

"The perfect pick to really light a fire under my book club, and yours....A reminder that goodness, and books, can still win in this world." --New York Times Book Review "A beautiful, big-hearted...

A groundbreaking look at how the interrogation rooms of the Korean War set the stage for a new kind of battle—not over land but over human subjectsTraditional histories of the Korean War have long...

Superfine: Tailoring Black Style traces the complex and vibrant legacy of menswear across three centuries of Black culture—from today’s hip-hop aesthetic and popular street trends, through its use...

A groundbreaking look at how the interrogation rooms of the Korean War set the stage for a new kind of battle—not over land but over human subjectsTraditional histories of the Korean War have long...