Pretty Bitches the searchers

Pretty Bitches the searchersThese empowering essays from leading women writers examine the power of the gendered language that is used to diminish women and imagine a more liberated world. Words matter. They wound, they inflate, they define, they demean. They have nuance and power. "Effortless," "Sassy," "Ambitious," "Aggressive": What subtle digs and sneaky implications are conveyed when women are described with words like these? Words are made into weapons, warnings, praise,

Furry Lewis

Dabney has never been wrong about romance

uncertain work lives

Colombia's drug-fueled cycle of terror

perform the world's most pathetic skit in front of residents who won't remember it anyway

For the first time Parsell

" —School Library Journal (starred review)

and how their parents can support them—updated with a new preface by the author

the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body

The rest of the story

returns in Serpent's Kiss

The Inner Life of Cats follows the development of the young Augusta while simultaneously explaining the basics of a kitten's physiological and psychological development