A Face for Picasso

A Face for Picasso

Author: Ariel Henley

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Published: 2021-11-02

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0374314098

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A Schneider Family Book Award Honor Book for Teens "Raw and unflinching . . . A must-read!" --Marieke Nijkamp, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends "[It] cuts to the heart of our bogus ideas of beauty." –Scott Westerfeld, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Uglies I am ugly. There's a mathematical equation to prove it. At only eight months old, identical twin sisters Ariel and Zan were diagnosed with Crouzon syndrome -- a rare condition where the bones in the head fuse prematurely. They were the first twins known to survive it. Growing up, Ariel and her sister endured numerous appearance-altering procedures. Surgeons would break the bones in their heads and faces to make room for their growing organs. While the physical aspect of their condition was painful, it was nothing compared to the emotional toll of navigating life with a facial disfigurement. Ariel explores beauty and identity in her young-adult memoir about resilience, sisterhood, and the strength it takes to put your life, and yourself, back together time and time again.


Ariel's Ecology

Ariel's Ecology

Author: Monique Allewaert

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2013-06-01

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0816689016

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What happens if we abandon the assumption that a person is a discrete, world-making agent who acts on and creates place? This, Monique Allewaert contends, is precisely what occurred on eighteenth-century American plantations, where labor practices and ecological particularities threatened the literal and conceptual boundaries that separated persons from the natural world. Integrating political philosophy and ecocriticism with literary analysis, Ariel’s Ecology explores the forms of personhood that developed out of New World plantations, from Georgia and Florida through Jamaica to Haiti and extending into colonial metropoles such as Philadelphia. Allewaert’s examination of the writings of naturalists, novelists, and poets; the oral stories of Africans in the diaspora; and Afro-American fetish artifacts shows that persons in American plantation spaces were pulled into a web of environmental stresses, ranging from humidity to the demand for sugar. This in turn gave rise to modes of personhood explicitly attuned to human beings’ interrelation with nonhuman forces in a process we might call ecological. Certainly the possibility that colonial life revokes human agency haunts works from Shakespeare’s Tempest and Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws to Spivak’s theories of subalternity. In Allewaert’s interpretation, the transformation of colonial subjectivity into ecological personhood is not a nightmare; it is, rather, a mode of existence until now only glimmering in Che Guevara’s dictum that postcolonial resistance is synonymous with “perfect knowledge of the ground.”


Fuck Happiness

Fuck Happiness

Author: Ariel Gore

Publisher: Microcosm Publishing

Published: 2020-05-12

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 162106641X

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Happiness is big business. Books, consultants, psychologists, organizations, and even governments tout happiness secrets that are backed by scientific findings. The problem is that all of this science is done by and for cis white men. And some of the most vocal of these happiness experts were announcing that women could become happier by espousing "traditional" values and eschewing feminism. Skeptical of this hypothesis, Ariel Gore took a deep dive into the optimism industrial complex, reading the history, combing the research, attending the conferences, interviewing the thought leaders, and exploring her own and her friends' personal experiences and desires. Fuck Happiness is a nuanced, thoughtful examination of what happiness means and to whom, how it's played a role in defining modern gender roles and power structures, and how we can all have a more empowered relationship with the pursuit of joy in our lives.


Ariel's Undersea Adventures

Ariel's Undersea Adventures

Author: Random House Disney

Publisher: Golden/Disney

Published: 2013-07-23

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780736429863

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Girls ages 3-7 will have fun under the sea with their favorite Disney Princess, Ariel! Featuring 96 pages and a foil and embossed cover, this coloring and activity book will be available in time for the Diamond Edition DVD and Blu-ray release of Disney's The Little Mermaid in October 2013!


Ariel's Crossing

Ariel's Crossing

Author: Bradford Morrow

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2011-02-15

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1453212094

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DIVAriel Rankin seeks to locate and save her unknown father—a man deeply scarred by his secret and brutal role in the history of his country/div DIVIn the sequel to Bradford Morrow’s heralded Trinity Fields,young New Yorker Ariel Rankin learns that her birth father is not the man who raised her but rather a soldier named Kip Calder who disappeared into the jungles of Laos during the Vietnam War. Hoping to preserve her otherwise happy life, she pushes the revelation out of her mind. But when Ariel finds herself confronting motherhood, she decides to pursue the parent she never knew—a dying man burdened by some of his country’s most terrible secrets, who has returned home to New Mexico in search of redemption. Her quest will take her from the holy village of Chimayo to the highly restricted, pitiless deserts of the White Sands Proving Grounds as she goes straight to the heart of the American experience./divDIV /divDIVEvoking the rugged beauty of the New Mexican landscape, Ariel’s Crossing weaves social with magic realism while creating a moving portrait of that elusive thing we call home./div


Ariel: Nano Wolves 1

Ariel: Nano Wolves 1

Author: Donna McDonald

Publisher: Donna McDonald

Published: 2015-02-16

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1939988241

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Being a living experiment wasn’t part of the scientific career she’d planned for herself. Despite her sharp scientific mind and her degree in bio-molecular genetics, Dr. Ariel Jones hasn’t figured out how her life changed so much in a single day. Before she can blink and ask about what is going on, she is injected with a billion nanos and some very potent wolf blood. Now she can suddenly turn into a giant white wolf with the bloodlust of a starving animal. And she’s an alpha…or so she is told by the even larger, very male, black wolf who was used to create her. Hallucination? She wishes. Whether human or wolf, Reed talks in her head and tells her how to handle things…or rather how to kill them…starting with the men who hold them all captive. Too bad he can’t tell her how to put her life back like it was. Admittedly, there are perks to being a werewolf, such as meeting sexy werewolf guys like Matthew Gray Wolf. Science labs aren't overrun with sexy men in white coats. She also doesn’t mind learning about a side of herself she never knew existed. It's great changing into a real wolf whenever she wants, but being a living experiment wasn’t part of the scientific career she’d planned for herself. Neither was falling for the local werewolf alpha, but what else is a newbie werewolf caught in her burning time going to do? Topics: werewolf romance, shifter romance series, romance saga, romantic suspense, series starter, first in series, romance series, shapeshifter romance with sex, paranormal romance, shifter romance, romance ebook, romance series, top romance reads, fantasy romance, paranormal elements, contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, HEA, strong heroine, alpha hero, steamy romance, emotional romance, romance fiction, romance books, USA Today Bestseller, paranormal romance shifters series


Ariel's Locket

Ariel's Locket

Author: Christine Young

Publisher: Rogue Phoenix Press

Published: 2021-09-03

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1624204589

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Seeking revenge for crimes against his family, Misha Petrovich follows a path that leads straight to Ariel Cameron. The Legend The Crimea, 1294 Light mysteriously broke from the eastern horizon. The dark silhouette of a man on horseback stood in bold relief. In one hand he held a saber, in the other a rose. He held both objects aloft, his arms stiff while his battle cry filled the air, the sound stark and terrifying. The lone man remained on top of the hill but a moment and then, as if the delicate flower burned his hands, he threw the rose to the dry desert sands. When he turned his horse and rode away, the rose was trampled beneath the hooves of his stallion. A breeze lifted the petals of the flower from the stem one at a time, leaving only the thorns behind. Clouds rolled in, thunder demanding its place next to the sheets of lightning that suddenly controlled the dawn.


Ariel

Ariel

Author: Alexander Belyaev

Publisher: TSK Group LLC

Published: 2024-03-05

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13:

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Ariel does not know who he is, where he is from, or what is his purpose in life. The chance to get the answers comes in the form of a strange experiment, in which Ariel receives the ability to fly.


Ariel's Redemption

Ariel's Redemption

Author: Rowena Dawn

Publisher: Scarlet Leaf

Published: 2020-12-24

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13:

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Ariel doesn’t believe in herself or her powers anymore, and she forgot everything about getting in love. She doesn’t nurture any illusions that she will meet Prince Charming one day. She just goes through the motions, full of resentments, unfulfilled, and almost defeated. She wouldn’t have looked twice at Max on a regular day. On the few occasions they have been thrown together, she barely tolerated his presence. However, Max turns out to be the only one who can help her in her hour of need. Will Ariel see him in a new light? Will Max be the one to lift the curse haunting her from birth?