The Weird Sisters
Title | The Weird Sisters PDF eBook |
Author | Eleanor Brown |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 21 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0007393725 |
Unwillingly brought together to care for their ailing mother, three sisters who were named after famous Shakespearean characters discover that everything they have been avoiding may prove more worthwhile than expected.
Weird Sister
Title | Weird Sister PDF eBook |
Author | Kate Pullinger |
Publisher | Kate Pullinger Books |
Pages | 379 |
Release | 2014-04-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0992851955 |
Agnes Samuel is an American, beautiful, witty, cool, the kind of woman people remember. She arrives among the respectable citizens of Warboys like a cat among the pigeons. Before long she has insinuated herself into the affections of the sleepy Fenland village and into the heart of the ancient Throckmorton family, a family that harbours a dark secret. Nobody remembers another Agnes Samuel from long ago, a frightened girl betrayed by her wealthy neighbours and hanged as a witch. Weird Sister is a chilling tale of revenge across generations that will send shivers your spine. Praise for Weird Sister: “A perfect, gruesome, little tale” Independent on Sunday “Daphne du Maurier retold by Margaret Atwood” Times Literary Supplement “Pullinger has created a thrilling combination of Rebecca and Mrs Danvers” Independent “Pullinger’s exercise in gothic fantasy is as seductively clever as its heroine." Sunday Times “The real possibility that, this time, good will not overcome evil keeps you reading.” Daily Telegraph “This is a bewitching yarn, perfect reading for a dark winter’s night with the wind howling at the door.” Daily Mail
Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird
Title | Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird PDF eBook |
Author | Vivian Vande Velde |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 94 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 015205572X |
Presents thirteen twisted versions of such familiar fairy tales as Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Hansel and Gretel, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Letters To My Weird Sisters
Title | Letters To My Weird Sisters PDF eBook |
Author | Joanne Limburg |
Publisher | Atlantic Books |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2021-07-01 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 1838950060 |
'Limburg describes movingly her own struggles as a new mother and the pressure of society's expectations...Through such delicately intertwined experiences, Limburg quietly shouts for change.' Times Literary Supplement It seemed to me that many of the moments when my autism had caused problems, or at least marked me out as different, were those moments when I had come up against some unspoken law about how a girl or a woman should be, and failed to meet it. An autism diagnosis in midlife enabled Joanne Limburg to finally make sense of why her emotional expression, social discomfort and presentation had always marked her as an outsider. Eager to discover other women who had been misunderstood in their time, she writes a series of wide-ranging letters to four 'weird sisters' from history, addressing topics including autistic parenting, social isolation, feminism, the movement for disability rights and the appalling punishments that have been meted out over centuries to those deemed to fall short of the norm. This heartfelt, deeply compassionate and wholly original work humanises women who have so often been dismissed for their differences, and will be celebrated by 'weird sisters' everywhere.
Unsolved Mysteries
Title | Unsolved Mysteries PDF eBook |
Author | Marie Buck |
Publisher | Roof Books |
Pages | 90 |
Release | 2020-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781931824897 |
Poetry. Fiction. Drama. Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Marie Buck's new Roof Book UNSOLVED MYSTERIES collects a group of short prose pieces that mashup stories from the television show Unsolved Mysteries and her reminiscences growing up in rural South Carolina. Buck's work unravels not only the mysteries of the tv series, but also how American popular culture portrays the working class. The violence of the lives and deaths of people named Dexter and Kari Lynn in the tv show inspire in Buck ambitions for social justice, revelatory sexual engagements and hope for clarity in documenting what really happens to people in contrast to the cleaned-up versions of more commercial narratives. Buck keeps hoping people will be alright, but she knows they died in pain and their deaths cause unending sorrow to their families. Such clear and poignant social texts are rare among today's poets, especially when they converge honesty and sympathy. Readers will find no sentimentality in UNSOLVED MYSTERIES, but they may find themselves.
The Weird Sister Collection
Title | The Weird Sister Collection PDF eBook |
Author | Marisa Crawford |
Publisher | Feminist Press at CUNY |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2024-02-13 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1558613013 |
Collecting the best of the underground blog Weird Sister, these unapologetic and insightful essays link contemporary feminism to literature and pop culture. Launched in 2014, Weird Sister proudly staked out a corner of the internet where feminist writers could engage with the literary and popular culture that excited or enraged them. The blog made space amid book websites dominated by white male editors and contributors, and also committed to covering literary topics in-depth when larger feminist outlets rarely could. Throughout its decade-long run, Weird Sister served as an early platform for some of contemporary literature’s most striking voices, naming itself a website that “speaks its mind and snaps its gum and doesn’t apologize.” Edited by founder Marisa Crawford, The Weird Sister Collection brings together the work of longtime contributors such as Morgan Parker, Christopher Soto, Soleil Ho, Julián Delgado Lopera, Virgie Tovar, Jennif(f)er Tamayo, and more, alongside new original essays. Offering nuanced insight into contemporary and historical literature, in conversation with real-life and timely social issues, these pieces mark a transitional and transformative moment in online and feminist writing.
Middle Time
Title | Middle Time PDF eBook |
Author | Angela Hume |
Publisher | Omnidawn |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781632430168 |
A debut meditation on bodies and ecologies that risk and resist the totality of "end times"