Sex, Wigs and Whispers
Sex, Wigs and Whispers

Author: Amy Gibson

Publisher: Createdhair, Incorporated

Published: 2015-07-01

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780986284243

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The Bible for any woman living with hair loss. Emmy Nominated Soap-Opera Star Amy Gibson brings you a ground-breaking How-To guide that provides essential, practical, life-saving tips for living with hair loss and keeping your wig a secret in successful dating, sex and intimacy while building your confidence and self-esteem to live a fulfilling, active life as a vital woman. Amy Gibson is an Author, 'The Voice of Hair Loss, ' Alopecia Spokesperson and the Leading Personal Hair Loss Consultant and Innovative Wig Designer for women in the U.S. In Sex, Wigs and Whispers, Amy literally walks you through every stage of hair loss: from dealing with your emotions, to showing you all that she has taught her clients, including professional styling tips to help you keep your look authentic and feel gorgeous and complete in your own skin again. In a bold clear voice, she addresses sensitive areas that many women have either been too afraid to talk about or have had no one to ask such as: "When is the right time to tell my partner about my hair loss?" "How do I date with my wig on without my partner finding out?" "How do I physically handle my wig so it doesn't come off during sex?" After losing her hair at a young age due to alopecia, Amy Gibson has dedicated her life to helping women worldwide cope with hair loss. Amy's story becomes even deeper however, as she reveals her own personal issues which include abuse during her fragile childhood, date rape and the many challenges she endured facing dramatic hair loss while starring as an Emmy-nominated lead actress on Daytime Soap Operas. She reveals the lengths she had to go to, to keep her secret from friends, lovers, cast mates and the Hollywood community. With poignancy and clarity, she takes you on her very personal Survival Story to show you that you too, can rise and overcome... You too, can go on to live a happy, healthy and spiritually rich and fulfilling life. Hair or no hair As a result of her own experiences, Amy's passion and dedication have been a bridge for alopecia sufferers who've lost their hair along with their confidence, to give them hope, inner strength and the necessary tools for feeling comfortable wearing a wig and living with hair loss in every area of their lives, so they can enjoy a full active life while staying connected to their power, and keep their secret, if they wish. "If you have suffered hair loss of any kind, Amy Gibson is your go-to girl to restore your sense of self. Join Amy's community, read Amy's book and you'll be empowered emotionally, psychologically, spiritually and sexually too Amy walks the walk... and she does it with Style " - Brenda Cooper, Emmy Award-winning Stylist and Color expert; Creator of Fran Dresher's bomb shell look for CBS's "The Nanny"

Chicago Whispers
Chicago Whispers

Author: St. Sukie de la Croix

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

Published: 2012-07-11

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0299286932

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Chicago Whispers illuminates a colorful and vibrant record of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people who lived and loved in Chicago from the city’s beginnings in the 1670s as a fur-trading post to the end of the 1960s. Journalist St. Sukie de la Croix, drawing on years of archival research and personal interviews, reclaims Chicago’s LGBT past that had been forgotten, suppressed, or overlooked. Included here are Jane Addams, the pioneer of American social work; blues legend Ma Rainey, who recorded “Sissy Blues” in Chicago in 1926; commercial artist J. C. Leyendecker, who used his lover as the model for “The Arrow Collar Man” advertisements; and celebrated playwright Lorraine Hansberry, author of A Raisin in the Sun. Here, too, are accounts of vice dens during the Civil War and classy gentlemen’s clubs; the wild and gaudy First Ward Ball that was held annually from 1896 to 1908; gender-crossing performers in cabarets and at carnival sideshows; rights activists like Henry Gerber in the 1920s; authors of lesbian pulp novels and publishers of “physique magazines”; and evidence of thousands of nameless queer Chicagoans who worked as artists and musicians, in the factories, offices, and shops, at theaters and in hotels. Chicago Whispers offers a diverse collection of alternately hip and heart-wrenching accounts that crackle with vitality.

Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.
Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.

Author: Alice Birch

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-08-05

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 1783197641

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You are expected to behave... Use the right words Act appropriately Don't break the rules Just behave. This play is not well behaved. Alice Birch examines the language, behaviour and forces that shape women in the 21st century and asks what's stopping us from doing something truly radical to change them. Winner of the George Devine Award for Most Promising New Playwright 2014.

Shmutz
Shmutz

Author: Felicia Berliner

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2022-07-19

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1982177640

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“Hilarious and endearing...Shmutz is a dirty book with a pure heart.” —The New York Times In this witty, provocative, and “compulsively readable coming-of-age story” (Cosmopolitan), a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get married fears she will never find a groom because of her secret addiction to porn. Like the other women in her ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn community, Raizl expects to find a husband through an arranged marriage. Unlike the other women, Raizl has a secret. With a hidden computer to help her complete her college degree, she falls down the slippery slope of online pornography. As Raizl dives deeper into the world of porn at night, her daytime life begins to unravel. Between combative visits with her shrink to complicated arranged dates, Raizl must balance her growing understanding of her sexuality with the expectations of the family she loves. “Clever, subversive, juicy, and surprising” (Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies), Shmutz explores what it means to be a fully realized sexual and spiritual being caught between the traditional and modern worlds.

Aurelia
Aurelia

Author: Anne Osterlund

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-04-17

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1101200510

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An impressive debut, equal parts commercial appeal and literary prowess. Princess Aurelia is next in line to rule the kingdom of Tyralt, but she would rather be one of the common folk, free to learn and roam and . . . not marry the next tyrannical prince that comes courting. Naturally, the king wants Aurelia to marry for political power. Aurelia wants to marry for love. And someone in the kingdom wants her . . . dead. Assigned to investigate and protect Aurelia is Robert, the son of the king?s former royal spy and one of Aurelia?s oldest friends. As Aurelia and Robert slowly uncover clues as to who is threatening her, their friendship turns to romance. With everything possible on the line?her life, her kingdom, her heart?Aurelia is forced to take matters into her own hands, no matter the cost.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Author: Dave Eggers

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Published: 2001-02-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0676973655

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"I think this book is kind of malleable. I've never really wanted to put it away and be done with it forever -- the second I first 'finished' it, I wanted to dig back in and change everything around. So I'm looking forward to getting back into the text, and straightening and focusing and deleting. Most of all, I'm thrilled that Vintage will be letting me include all the cool chase scenes, previously censored." -- Dave Eggers The literary sensation of the year, a book that redefines both family and narrative for the twenty-first century. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his seven-year-old brother. Here is an exhilarating debut that manages to be simultaneously hilarious and wildly inventive as well as a deeply heartfelt story of the love that holds a family together. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is an instant classic that will be read in paperback for decades to come. PAPERBACK EDITION -- 15% MORE STAGGERING - Eggers has written 15,000 additional words for the Vintage Canada edition, including an entirely new appendix.

The Best Laid Plans
The Best Laid Plans

Author: Cameron Lund

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-02-02

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0593114930

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High school senior Keely Collins takes on firsts, lasts, and everything in between in this sweet, sex-positive rom-com for fans of Meg Cabot and Jenny Han. It seemed like a good plan at first. When the only other virgin in her group of friends loses it at Keely's own eighteenth birthday party, she's inspired to take things into her own hands. She wants to have that experience too (well, not exactly like that--but with someone she trusts and actually likes), so she's going to need to find the guy, and fast. Problem is, she's known all the boys in her small high school forever, and it's kinda hard to be into a guy when you watched him eat crayons in kindergarten. So she can't believe her luck when she meets a ridiculously hot new guy named Dean. Not only does he look like he's fallen out of a classic movie poster, but he drives a motorcycle, flirts with ease, and might actually be into her. But Dean's already in college, and Keely is convinced he'll drop her if he finds out how inexperienced she is. That's when she talks herself into a new plan: her lifelong best friend, Andrew, would never hurt or betray her, and he's clearly been with enough girls that he can show her the ropes before she goes all the way with Dean. Of course, the plan only works if Andrew and Keely stay friends--just friends--so things are about to get complicated. Cameron Lund's delightful debut is a hilarious and heartfelt story of first loves, first friends, and first times--and how making them your own is all that really matters.

The Night Watch
The Night Watch

Author: Sarah Waters

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-07-28

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1350014087

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I thought everything would change, after the war. And now, no one even mentions it. It is as if we all got together in private and said whatever you do don't mention that, like it never happened. It's the late 1940s. Calm has returned to London and five people are recovering from the chaos of war. In scenes set in a quiet dating agency, a bombed-out church and a prison cell, the stories of these five lives begin to intertwine and we uncover the desire and regret that has bound them together. Sarah Waters's story of illicit love and everyday heroism takes us from a dazed and shattered post-war Britain back into the heart of the Blitz, towards the secrets that are hidden there. Olivier-nominated playwright Hattie Naylor has created a thrilling and theatrically inventive adaptation of a great modern novel. The stage adaptation of The Night Watch was premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, on 16 May 2016.

Cherry
Cherry

Author: Mary Karr

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2001-09-01

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1101650745

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From Mary Karr comes this gorgeously written, often hilarious story of her tumultuous teens and sexual coming-of-age. Picking up where the bestselling The Liars' Club left off, Karr dashes down the trail of her teen years with customary sass, only to run up against the paralyzing self-doubt of a girl in bloom. Fleeing the thrills and terrors of adolescence, she clashes against authority in all its forms and hooks up with an unforgettable band of heads and bona-fide geniuses. Parts of Cherry will leave you gasping with laughter. Karr assembles a self from the smokiest beginnings, delivering a long-awaited sequel that is both "bawdy and wise" (San Francisco Chronicle).