Author: Tatiana Gill
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781792936364
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 131

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Over 100 line drawings of fat women to color in and celebrate: fat fairies, fat superheroes, fat witches, fat beach babes, fat rock stars, fat warriors, fat athletes, fat movie and TV stars. Women with body hair, stretch marks, cellulite and floppy bellies. Women with magic, sex appeal, anger and joy, owning their power.

Author: Shatroyia Phillips
Publisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 0996051015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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"e;When they called me "e;Plus-Sized"e;, I declared it "e;Queen-Sized"e; instead. "e;Shatroyia Phillips has always done things her way, -with a Queen-Sized Attitude & a Queen-Sized Boldness. Since her life positioned her as the first in everything, she was forced to take the lead -ready or not. Life didn't give her any instructions or mercy. Instead it gave her hard solid blows that knocked her down to her knees; Trials & Tribulations that are unbearable to some, & only survived by the Chosen. Once she had risen, it hit her again until she learned how to stand. And once she learned how to stand, then life handed over her Crown. There is always an order to things, & in all things there is a Hierarchy. -All Hail The Queen.Broward business woman and socialite Shatroyia Phillips, the winner of the 2013 Miss Miami Plus Size Pageant has released her autobiography in April 2014. The tell-all entitled "e;All Hail The Queen: From Trials and Tribulations to Triumphs and Victories"e; is her first-hand account of her life and how she was able to turn her trials into triumph. Phillips is the daughter of the high profile "e;alleged"e; drug kingpin Elroy Phillips who has been proven to be wrongfully convicted but still awaits release from Federal custody. Ms. Phillips' literary offering is a bold, raw testimony of how she faced abandonment in her earlier life which led her down the same path of incarceration as her parents. The novel takes you through a twenty five year span of Ms. Phillips young and adult life. The novel is candidly honest and in her own words "e;Inspiring"e;. The self- titled "e;Plus Sized Socialite"e; says she was inspired to write the book after winning the 2013 Miss Miami Plus Size Pageant. "e;I was amazed at the amount of women that reached out to me after the pageant. There were teenaged as well as adult women who told me their personal stories of struggle with self-esteem and self-image because they were full figured, and how I inspired them. I wanted to do more. I wanted them and everyone else to know that beauty and success comes in all sizes."e; "e;All Hail The Queen: From Trials and Tribulations to Triumphs and Victories"e;

Author: Karina Garcia
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1499807155
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Create your own slime at home by following these 15 easy, borax-free slime recipes from YouTube sensation Karina Garcia. Get ready to become a slime master with these fifteen DIY recipes from YouTube sensation Karina Garcia! This full color book, with step-by-step instructions, will teach you how to make Liquid Gold Slime, Glow-in-the-Dark Slime, Balloon Slime, and more! Along with four brand-new recipes, this book also includes tips on how to store your slime, all the amazing things you can do with slime, and fun, cool facts about Karina. All recipes are borax free.

Author: Tressie McMillan Cottom
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620974371
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Named a notable book of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune, Time, and The Guardian As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly, Well-Read Black Girl, and Chris Hayes, "incisive, witty, and provocative essays" (Publishers Weekly) by one of the "most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time" (Rebecca Traister) “Thick is sure to become a classic.” —The New York Times Book Review In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom—award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed—is unapologetically "thick": deemed "thick where I should have been thin, more where I should have been less," McMillan Cottom refuses to shy away from blending the personal with the political, from bringing her full self and voice to the fore of her analytical work. Thick "transforms narrative moments into analyses of whiteness, black misogyny, and status-signaling as means of survival for black women" (Los Angeles Review of Books) with "writing that is as deft as it is amusing" (Darnell L. Moore). This "transgressive, provocative, and brilliant" (Roxane Gay) collection cements McMillan Cottom's position as a public thinker capable of shedding new light on what the "personal essay" can do. She turns her chosen form into a showcase for her critical dexterity, investigating everything from Saturday Night Live, LinkedIn, and BBQ Becky to sexual violence, infant mortality, and Trump rallies. Collected in an indispensable volume that speaks to the everywoman and the erudite alike, these unforgettable essays never fail to be "painfully honest and gloriously affirming" and hold "a mirror to your soul and to that of America" (Dorothy Roberts).

Author: Violet Eicher
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665510811
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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I know you can overcome the things you're struggling with today, and every day to come. How do you ask? I know because I've been there, I've seen the ugly in the world. I've been hurt by the ugly in the world, and I've taken it and turned it into something truly beautiful, poetry. So, I've compiled all the poems I've written since the first inpatient program I went through as a young child where I participated In a creative writing class. That class and form of therapy changed my life. My hopes and dreams are that whoever is reading this, wherever you're reading this you not only read it you feel it too. I'm hoping that you can take comfort in my words and relate to every simile, metaphor, and idiom within these pages. I hope that whatever precious soul is reading my book can feel in my poetry that you are never alone because I'm only ever gonna be a few steps away. All you've got to do is walk to your bookshelf and I'll be there for you.

Author: Mary Jo Buttafuoco
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0757396003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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"I think, every once in a while, about the life I should be living, the one I fully expected to be enjoying right about now. In the life I was supposed to have, my husband and I would be admiring the view from our waterfront home in the town where we were both born and raised. Good friends and neighbors would be next door, up the street, and all over the neighborhood. Our parents would live only blocks away, in our childhood homes. We'd be taking our grandchildren to the beach club on weekends, enjoying the fruits of our labors and looking forward to a peaceful retirement. That was the plan, anyway . . . but the whole world knows how that turned out." Mary Jo Buttafuoco's anonymous life as a suburban wife and mother in sleepy Massapequa, New York, on Long Island, ended in May 1992, when she was shot in the head on her own front porch by her husband's sixteen-year-old mistress. The 'Long Island Lolita' saga sparked a media frenzy that continues to this day. As the years passed and Mary Jo steadfastly stood by her man, Joey Buttafuoco, while he and Amy Fisher continued to make headlines, one question lingered in the minds of people everywhere: Why did she stay for so long? In Getting It Through My Thick Skull, Mary Jo finally answers that question fully and convincingly. The answer is simple, yet it took almost three decades of turmoil to discover for herself—she was married to a sociopath. Using her tragic and triumphant life lessons and never-before-told accounts of life with Joey, Mary Joe helps readers undrestand sociaopathic behavior and the emotional traps it springs on willing partners, and offers hope and help for the millions of people caught in the cycle of toxic relationships. In addition, readers will meet a new-and-improved Mary Jo, confident and at peace with her new life, and will be inspired by her comback. Through private details of the resiliency and rebuilding she has forged over the past seventeen years, Mary Jo shares for the first time: Her addiction to painkillers and her recovery through the Betty Ford Center Her overdue decision to leave Joey and start over again in California—3,000 miles from her support system Taking control of her physical, spiritual, and emotional health and learned to feel attractive and in control again Her highly controversial forgiveness of Amy Fisher The letters she recieved from both Amy and Joy, and her reactions to both How she found the courage to trust, believe, and find hope in a committed relationship once again The details of the new love in her life and the joys and challenges of raising a Brady Bunch—style family Includes a 16-page color insert from the Buttafuoco family album.

Author: K. A. Applegate
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338271954
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Her human name is Eva. There was a time when she had a loving husband and a son, Marco. When she had a wonderful career. But that was before she was infested by Edriss 562. Before the invasion of Earth. Now, Edriss 562 lives in Eva's head and controls her every movement. And through Eva, Edriss has become the highest-ranking general in the Yeerk empire, surpassing even her arch rival, Visser Three. She is Visser One.But it has become known that Visser One's tactics for attaining her current position were less than acceptable -- even to the Yeerks. Now she's on trial for treason. If she's found innocent she'll continue to rule. But if she's found guilty, she'll lose her life -- and possibly the life of her host, Eva. Which will mean that Marco will never, ever see his mother again...

Author: Brandi Cheyenne Harper
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683359232
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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From knitting expert Brandi Harper, a must-have pattern book for modern knitters, with essays on self-care and sourcing creativity. There is no such thing as being “kind of” a knitter—the wobbly scarves and that oversize sweater you tried to shrink all count, too. Each contribution that you make to the world through knitting is meaningful, but maybe you’ve slowed your commitment to this craft, or you can’t seem to find the time to be creative. There’s a lot to be distracted by, and the path forward isn’t always clear. Brandi Harper aims to bring those challenges to the forefront and help you unearth the immense benefits that knitting has to offer. In her debut book, Knitting for Radical Self-Care, Harper offers tips and suggestions for carving out time for creativity, alongside beautiful patterns to try yourself. The book includes 10 original and diverse style patterns inspired by revolutionary women of color, and Harper will speak to these women and their immense impact on her life and our world. The patterns include detailed instructions, alongside her original prose, all designed to inspire.

Author: Amber L. Johnson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100006817X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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Gender Futurity, Intersectional Autoethnography showcases a collection of narrative and autoethnographic research that unpacks the complexity of gender at its intersections, i.e. by ability, race, sexuality, religion, beauty, geography, spatiality, community, performance, politics, socio-economic status, education, and many other markers of difference. The book focuses on gender as it is lived, chaperoned, and chaperones other social identity categories. It tells stories that reveal problematic gender binaries, promising gender futures, and everything in between—they ask us to rethink what we assume to be true, real, and normal about gender identity and expression. Each essay, written by both gender variant and cisgender scholars, explores cultural phenomena that create space for us to re-imagine, re-think, and create new ways of being. This book will be useful for undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional degree students, particularly in the fields of gender studies, qualitative methods, and communication theory.

Author: Jemma Wilson
Publisher: Michael Joseph
ISBN: 9780718179205
Category : Cake
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Jamie Oliver's Food Tube presents The Cake Book, a collection of 50 deliciously inventive and exciting cake and cupcake recipes from Food Tube's own Cupcake Jemma. 'Split up seasonally, you'll have a wonderfully naughty treat to choose from, whatever the time of year - this book might be small in size, but it's crammed full of brilliant recipes' - Jamie Oliver As owner of Crumbs & Doilies, one of London's most creative cake and cupcake bakeries, Jemma shows you the easiest everyday classics alongside four chapters of super-cool seasonal cake recipes. With step-by-step instructions alongside handy hints and tips The Cake Book is a beautifully presented collection of recipes you'll want to bake time and again, including epic layer cakes such as Raspberry Ripple, Super Lemon Meringue and Ridiculous Chocolate as well as amazing cupcakes like Blueberry Cheesecake, Buttered Popcorn, Cookies & Cream, Eton Mess and more. Jemma Wilson began baking professionally at the esteemed Rose Bakery before starting her own business in 2006. Crumbs & Doilies has since become one of the most respected and exciting makers of cakes and cupcakes in London, with an emphasis on top quality ingredients, imaginative flavours, beautiful presentation and attention to detail that Jemma carries through to all her recipes.