Fans of Eleanor and Park, The Spectacular Now, Willow, and Perfectly Good White Boy won't be able to put down this gritty but hopeful love story about two struggling teens.Tyler has a football scholarship to Stanford, a hot girlfriend, and a reliable army of friends to party with. Then his mom kills herself. And Tyler lets it all go. Now he needs to dodge what his dad is offering (verbal tirades and abuse) and earn what his dad i...

This Element examines eighteenth-century manuscript forms, their functions in the literary landscape of their time, and the challenges and practices of manuscript study today. Drawing on both literary studies and book history, Levy and Schellenberg offer a guide to the principal forms of literary activity carried out in handwritten manuscripts produced in the first era of print dominance, 1730-1820. After an opening survey of sociable literary culture and its manuscript forms, numerous cas...

Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives is the first collection of essays on poet and public intellectual Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825). By international scholars of eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature, these new essays survey Barbauld’s writing from early to late: her versatility as a stylist, her poetry, her books for children, her political writing, her performance as editor and reviewer. They explore themes of sociability, materiality, and affect in Barbauld’s writin...

Life has taught me I'm forgettable—unless someone needs something from me.While things are going great, people forget I exist, but the second hell breaks loose, my number is the one they call. It sucks.Just once, I'd like to be a priority in someone's life. I'd like to be taken into consideration. I want my voice to be heard.But that's never going to happen. I'm the forgettable one. Always have been. Always will be.Wanting to feel like I'm a...

Natalie didn't always consider herself an investor, even after spending over seven years working on Wall Street and in private equity. The very real and regular covert put downs, aggressive bro culture, and pointed remarks (and harassment) to push women out of the space did just that. Finance wasn't (and still isn't) a space where women were naturally invited - or celebrated. Today, with almost two decades of angel investing experience, a portfolio of 45+ private investments, and an averag...

“Essential reading” on some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States (Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black)Here, in their own words, thirteen women recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their harrowing struggle for survival once insides. Among the narrators:Theresa, who spent years believing her health and life were in danger, being aggressively treated with a variety of medi...

Henry James wrote of Lucy Aikin: "Clever, sagacious, shrewd...and an accomplished writer, one wonders why her vigorous intellectual temperament has not attracted independent notice." The most important long poem by a woman from the British Romantic era, Aikin's Epistles on Women (1810) is the first text in English to re-write the entire history of western culture, from the creation story of Genesis through the eighteenth-century, from a feminist perspective. Responding to Alexander Pope's ...

Finalist, Poetry, Reading the West (Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association)Best Poetry Books of 2023, Book Riot"This anthology explores plenty of themes, including community, culture, family, history, and identity…. [it] even features poems in Spanish, encompassing themes such as their city and the experiences of asylum seekers. 'Querido Nuevo México, // Te pregunto, pa’ ‘onde vas? (Dear New Mexico // I ask you, where are you going?)' write...

Embark on a riveting journey of justice and redemption in "The Alpha Construct" by Michael Mcdonald-Low, skillfully narrated by Dan Levy and Michelle Ochitwa. This audiobook immerses listeners in a tale of resilience and retribution, where past traumas collide with the quest for healing. Join Dr. James Galloway, a compassionate clinical psychologist, as he guides his Alpha patients through a labyrinth of pain and seeks to right the wrongs ...