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  Gender Rebels

  Anneka Harry

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  Includes audio exclusive bonus material: Suranne Jones, Maya Jama, Gemma Cairney and Anneka Harry discuss their favourite Gender Rebels, feminism, their female role models and how women are missing (or misrepresented) in the history books.Meet the unsung sheroes of history: the diverse, defiant and daring (wo)men who changed the rules, and their identities, to get sh*t done.You'll encounter Kit Cavanagh, the swaggering Irish dragoon who was the first woman to be buried in London with full military honours; marauding eighteenth-century pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny, who collided on the high seas after swapping their petticoats for pantaloons; Ellen Craft, an escaped slave who masqueraded as a white master to spirit her husband-to-be to freedom; and Billy Tipton, the swinging jazz musician, who led a double life as an adult, taking five wives along the way. Then there are the women who still have to dress like men to live their best lives, like the inspirational football-lovers in Iran, who risk everything to take their place in the stands.A call to action for the modern world, this book celebrates the #GenderRebels who paved the way for women everywhere to be soldiers and spies; kings and queens; firefighters, doctors, pilots; and a Swiss Army knife's-worth more. These superbly spirited (wo)men all had one thing in common: they defied the rules to progress in a man's world.

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  The Vinyl Frontier - The Story...

  Jonathan Scott

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  In 1977 a group of scientists, artists and writers gathered in a house in Ithaca, New York to work on the most important mixtape ever conceived. It wasn't from one person to another – it was from Earth to the cosmos. When NASA sent Voyagers 1 and 2 on a Grand Tour of the outer planets, they knew the ultimate fate of these plucky probes would be to drift forever in the unimaginable void of interstellar space. With this gloomy outcome in mind, NASA did something optimistic: they commissioned astronomer Carl Sagan to create a message to be fixed to the side of the spacecraft, should they ever be found by aliens. So Carl Sagan made a record. A metal record. The Vinyl Frontier tells the story of Voyager Golden Record, from first phone call to final launch, when Voyager 1 and 2 left our planet bearing their hopeful message from the Summer of '77 to a distant future. “Bursts with gloriously geeky detail.” THE TELEGRAPH“A vital addition to the library of anyone with an interest in the Voyager missions, extraterrestrial contact, or Carl Sagan.” ASTRONOMY NOW

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  Poetry Unbound - 50 Poems to...

  Pádraig Ó Tuama

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  In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama's appealing, unhurried reflections. With keen insight and warm personal anecdotes, Ó Tuama considers each poem's artistry and explores how its meaning can reach into our own lives. 
   
   
   
  Focusing mainly on poets writing today, Ó Tuama engages with a diverse array of voices that includes Ada Limón, Ilya Kaminsky, Margaret Atwood, Ocean Vuong, Layli Long Soldier, and Reginald Dwayne Betts. Natasha Trethewey meditates on miscegenation and Mississippi; Raymond Antrobus makes poetry out of the questions shot at him by an immigration officer; Martín Espada mourns his father; Marie Howe remembers and blesses her mother's body; Aimee Nezhukumatathil offers comfort to her child-self. Through these wide-ranging poems, Ó Tuama guides us on an inspiring journey to reckon with self-acceptance, history, independence, parenthood, identity, joy, and resilience. 
   
   
   
  For anyone who has wanted to try their hand at a conversation with poetry but doesn't know where to start, Poetry Unbound presents a window through which to celebrate the art of being alive.

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  Diaries of a Distant Affair

  Brittani Malonson

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  In life, we all go through experiences that are simple, but become complicated with time. When I got my dream job, all I wanted was to aspire to be the best worker bee, I didn't expect a mutual infatuation with someone who was in a relationship as a life experience; but it happened. I ended up becoming the other woman to witness the relationship come apart the way it came together, but from distance. Listen to explore my diary of emotional rollercoasters with dark euphoric highs and hard to swallow realizations while journaling my self discovery and working within a love triangle.

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  Lethal Lolita - A True Story of...

  Maria Eftimiades

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  The inside account of one of the 1990s’ most sensational true crime scandals: teenaged Amy Fisher’s shocking affair with the married Joey Buttafuoco. 
   
  Her father called her his little princess . . . 
   
  The adored only child of affluent parents who placed the world at her feet, Amy Fisher had a glowing future. But she yearned for excitement, for the dark thrill of danger. 
   
  Her friends called her a mysterious loner . . . 
   
  While her classmates happily planned dates for the prom, seventeen-year-old Amy Fisher appalled them with tales of her wild sexual escapades, of her steamy, obsessive alleged affair with a married man—of a wife she wanted out of the picture. 
   
  Police called her a call girl and a killer . . . 
   
  But it wasn’t until Amy was arrested for attempting to slay unsuspecting Mary Jo Buttafuoco in cold blood in front of her own home, that police and reporters uncovered stories that included a sinister hidden world of secret call girl rings, attempts to hire hitmen with payment in sex—and a beeper still nestled in her purse on which clients could page her with personal codes. 
   
  Veteran People reporter Maria Eftimiades has covered the case in Lethal Lolita—and in this riveting book reveals a story even more shocking than the sensational headlines that captured the attention of the nation, and turned an all-American town inside out.

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  Confessions of a Black...

  Gareth Holloway

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  "Confessions of a Black Conservative: A Journey Through Late Transformations" : 
  Offers a profound exploration of personal evolution with enlightening guidance and explanations. 
  Are you ready to advance your understanding and gain insights from unexpected personal transformations? Looking for a comprehensive resource that covers all the essential aspects of profound change and growth? 
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