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A rivetingly imagined re-telling of the voyages of Frances Barkley (1769–1845), who as a young woman travelled the world on a trading mission with her sea captain husband. Over two hundred years ago, Frances Barkley, a seventeen-year-old girl fresh out of a convent school in France, met twenty-six-year-old sea captain, fell deeply in love, and married him after a six-week courtship. Five weeks later, she stepped aboard his ship, the Imperial Eagle, to set sail on an eight-year voyage that would take them around the world twice. Frances Barkley's story is a remarkable one.

« Dans la famille toutes les femmes sont folles, de génération en génération. Lisa et moi on a respectivement hérité de maman les tendances suicidaires et la nymphomanie. Mais c'est pas génétique, c'est à cause des mensonges qu'on nous raconte depuis qu'on est toutes petites. » Quatre générations de femmes—une « folie » familiale qui se décline au féminin pluriel—racontée du point de vue d'une jeune narratrice lucide et ironique sur une société qui laisse peu d'espace et de liberté aux marginaux.

National Bestseller • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books) — and haunted its author long after he finished writing it. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.

50th Anniversary Edition • With an introduction by Caity Weaver, acclaimed New York Times journalist This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken. Also a major motion picture directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro.

Voici une biographie littéraire où la voix de l’autrice, sa musique, son style comptent autant que le personnage auquel elle s’attache. C’est aussi la rencontre de deux femmes : l’une écrit, l’autre chante, peint, courtise, pose, compose ou joue. Pour sa première expérience de biographe, Françoise Sagan pétille d’intelligence, de verve et d’esprit, et se distingue de tous ceux qui ont encensé ou condamné Sarah Bernhardt, en prenant le parti d’interroger son héroïne dans un portrait-miroir.

Needless to say, moments like now, when the hurdles to becoming a respected author are at their lowest. When the only hurdles to being published are the quality of your writing and your patience to deal with certain less and less important gatekeepers. Moments in history like this, must be acknowledged and celebrated. That's what this anthology is: It's a celebration. A moment to cry out, Look how many of us have a voice! There are stories, and poetry in this country that are about people like me! I am not alone!

"Dazzling... In glittering prose, Momaday recalls stories passed down through generations, illuminating the earth as a sacrosanct place of wonder and abundance. At once a celebration and a warning, Earth Keeper is an impassioned defense of all that our endangered planet stands to lose." —Esquire. A magnificent testament to the earth, from Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and poet N. Scott Momaday. One of the most distinguished voices in American letters, N.

A hilarious how-to on creative writing that makes the writing process fun for aspiring middle-school authors.

All Sky, Mirror Ocean is for everyone looking to understand the complex issues around mental illness and healing. Combining autobiography, research-creation, poetry, and creative philosophy, Brad Necyk uses art and words to uncover and tell new stories about trauma and recovery. Necyk weaves his own histories with bipolar affective disorder and childhood medical trauma with those of other people dealing with grief and loss: head and neck cancer patients in Edmonton, psychiatric inpatients in Toronto, and communities in Iqaluit stricken by suicide.

This is a book about women and ageism. There are twenty-nine contributing writers, ranging in age from their forties to their nineties. Through essays, short stories, and poetry, they share their distinct opinions, impressions, and speculations on aging and ageism and their own growth as people. In these thoughtful, fierce, and funny works, the writers show their belief in women and the aging process.