![]() She thought she’d moved on, but her new diagnosis illuminated the way her past continued to threaten her health, relationships, and career. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD-a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years.īoth of Foo’s parents abandoned her when she was a teenager, after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, NPR, Mashable, She Reads, Publishers Weeklyīy age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. ![]() providing real hope for those who long to heal.”-Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone ![]() ![]() A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life ![]()
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![]() Dealing with his teen son is complicated enough, but with his ex-wife causing trouble and his daughter wanting to move in, John s house and his relationship with Ryan threaten to split at the seams. Now if only the rest of his life would fall into place. For John, loving Ryan is as natural as breathing. ![]() I ve met a man ? That s a bumpy ride he s not looking forward to. But telling his father and brothers I m gay. Hell, he even ran into a burning building for John and his son, and he d do it again if he had to. For the first time in his life, love feels easy. ![]() ![]() Building a life together? Don t make Fate laugh." "The Rebuilding Year, " Book 2 After spending the first part of his life chasing pretty girls, love has finally come to Ryan in the form of John, a tall, lanky, red-headed landscape architect with wide shoulders and a five-o clock shadow. ![]() ![]() ![]() And she tells it in a way I won’t soon forget. Jeanette Winter doesn’t waste words, but she tells the story of a woman who added beauty to the world. End notes tell where each featured building is located. Zaha died in 2016, but her designs are still being built. ![]() When she was finally selected, the city commission refused to build it.īut Zaha continued, and the pictures show buildings she designed located all over the world – the pictures place them alongside the landscapes and natural objects that inspired them. She submitted designs in many competitions. When she grew up, she ventured away from her country and studied in London. She had a passion for design from an early age, and was inspired by the landscapes and textiles of Iraq, where she grew up. The book simply shows how she got inspiration from nature. The World is Not a Rectangle, by Jeanette Winter This is a beautiful biographical picture book about the life and career of Zaha Hadid, a world-renowned architect. This is a simple but brilliant picture book biography about Zaha Hadid, an architect I’d never heard of, who was an Arab and a woman and who designed buildings located all over the world. ![]() Beach Lane Books (Simon & Schuster), 2017. ![]() ![]() The staff at the hospital have been working around the clock since the fighting started in Sudan. Rival generals are battling for control in Sudan. Each surgery takes a long time,” she says, stressing how dangerous it is for civilians to walk down the streets of the capital.Ībdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo Getty Images ![]() Every injury we get has multiple gunshot wounds – bullets in the chest, stomach, leg. Most of the other injuries she treated and saw are the result of bullets. The rest of the family have various injuries,” she says almost mechanically. ![]() “They were two brothers and their cousin. And in the third, another boy lies in a red T-shirt darkened by the blood from wounds that pierce his jaw. In the second photo, the brain of a young boy is visible through a gaping hole in his skull that extends from his forehead to the top of the head. ![]() One shows a boy with a severed leg, his muscles and bones pouring out of the skin that once held his thigh to the hip. “The kids were playing when a mortar hit their house,” she says over the phone after she shares three pictures of their lifeless bodies wrapped in blood-soaked bedsheets. In the deluge of gunshot wounds and war injuries at the small Alban Gedid hospital in Khartoum, Dr Howida AlHassand distinctly remembers the family killed in their house. ![]() ![]() One weakness is that Hosoi says little about the legal system that incarcerated him - a nonviolent if troubled man who had tremendous potential to educate the public but instead wasted half a decade in jail. Showing a humility that suggests his sobriety is the real thing, he includes the damning recollections of his old drug buddies. Hosoi talks candidly about his drug use and the disastrous effects it had on his family and career, and unlike most celebrity memoirists, he gives plenty of hideous details. Readers interested in Hosoi's addiction, his related criminal behaviors and his eventual 5-year prison term will also appreciate this book. If you toyed around on a skateboard in the Reagan era and enjoy 1980s nostalgia to a healthy, non-obsessive degree, Christian's anecdotes about skate tournaments, Tony Hawk and the "Two Coreys" era of Hollywood will be an amusing guilty pleasure. Hosoi nobly attempts to satisfy them all but the limitations of the first-person genre, namely, the sporadic input of others and the subject's selection of events to prioritize, results in a book that is wide in scope but slim in substance. ![]() As far as memoirs go, "Hosoi" has perhaps the most divergent mix of target readers out there: skaters, 1980s enthusiasts, recovering drug addicts, and new school Christians. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cue Reid – a friend of Dana’s – stepping in to the breach. That means that Cassie – due to corporate sexism which keeps her from directing herself in the shoot – has to step in for Dana as a model for the campaign, and that she needs a new director/photographer to help her shoot it. It turns out Dana is pregnant, and her pregnancy is complicated and requires much bed rest. They’ve been rivals in all things photography for years, but when Dana suddenly falls ill in the middle of a shoot, Cassie’s plans change. ![]() This is music to Cassie’s ears she has ambitions of making it big as a photographer, and to outdo Reid Montgomery, photographer for Chicago Magazine. ![]() Dana in turn wants Cassie to photograph the campaign for her new plus-sized lingerie line, Dreamland, which is about to go national. The Accidental Pinup is fun, smart, well-written and filled with snappy dialogue with a lovable heroine and a fun premise.Ĭassie Harris runs a boudoir photography company called Buxom Boudoir, and has convinced her friend Dana to model for her. ![]() ![]() He continued developing other creator-owned projects: the Eisner-winning Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland, with Eric Shanower Sword of Ages and the gritty sci-fi adventure Onyx, with Chris Ryall. In 2007, he co-created the award-winning series Locke & Key with Joe Hill. He earned the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long-running comic book series, Locke & Key, featuring the eye-popping art of Gabriel Rodríguez.īorn in Santiago, Chile, Gabriel Rodríguez began working as an illustrator in the late 90s and in 2002 started drawing books for IDW Publishing, including CSI, George Romero's Land of the Dead, and Beowulf, amongst others. ![]() His book of short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, won the Bram Stoker Award and British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. His horror novella In the Tall Grass, co-written with Stephen King, was made into a feature film from Netflix. ![]() Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Full Throttle, The Fireman, Heart-Shaped Box, and NOS4A2, recently made into a TV series from AMC. ![]() ![]() However, things have just taken a turn for the worse. ![]() It’s a business that’s been passed from generation to generation and there’s no way she is going to have it fold, not on her watch. Keira Kilgore is drowning in debt, trying to keep her family business, the Seven Sinners Whiskey Distillery afloat. Gulp! Holy hell Lachlan Mount! Talk about suspense, surprise sin and flippin’ hot sex! WOW! Ruthless King needs to come with a warning of a possible spontaneous Kindle combustion when reading! Keira and Mount positively burn up the pages, fighting each other every step of the way with explosive chemistry and a gripping push, pull between the pair! And helloo… hello… alpha, possessive, sexy, dirty anti-hero….music to our ears…we knew we had to read this story! We were so in the mood for a walk on the dirty gritty side and Ruthless King delivered exactly that and more! ![]() ![]() Because you’re going to fucking love it by the time I’m done with you.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Grande candidly tells the story of her family’s transition from her poor Mexican village to city life in Los Angeles, California. Grande challenges her readers to reflect on the multiplicity of the immigrant experience and the emotional warfare that goes unnoticed by many in “El Otro Lado” (Spanish: “The Other Side,” referring to the United States of America). ![]() The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UTĪward-winning novelist Reyna Grande skillfully depicts the “other” side of the immigrant experience-the life-unseen that the hegemonic white gaze often fails to fully comprehend. The Distance Between Us: A Memoir, Grande, Reyna. ![]() ![]() Sophie has also written seven standalone novels which have all been bestsellers in the UK, USA and other countries around the world: Can You Keep A Secret?, The Undomestic Goddess, Remember Me?, Twenties Girl, I’ve Got Your Number, Wedding Night, and My Not So Perfect Life, which was a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist for Best Fiction in 2017. Becky Bloomwood came to the big screen in 2009 with the hit Disney movie Confessions of a Shopaholic, starring Isla Fisher and Hugh Dancy. Becky has since featured in seven further bestselling books, Shopaholic Abroad (also published as Shopaholic Takes Manhattan), Shopaholic Ties the Knot, Shopaholic & Sister, Shopaholic & Baby, Mini Shopaholic, Shopaholic to the Stars and Shopaholic to the Rescue. The book’s heroine, Becky Bloomwood – a fun and feisty financial journalist who loves shopping but is hopeless with money – captured the hearts of readers worldwide. ![]() ![]() Sophie Kinsella first hit the UK bestseller lists in September 2000 with her first novel in the Shopaholic series – The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic (also published as Confessions of a Shopaholic). ![]() Sophie Kinsella has sold over 40 million copies of her books in more than 60 countries, and she has been translated into over 40 languages. ![]() |