Unruly Curls

Unruly Curls
Author: Michael Price
Publisher: Hardie Grant
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-03-21
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781784880828

Having curly hair can be a real drag. Most curly-haired children are told their hair is messy and that they should straighten it, which stays with them as adults. But hairdresser Michael Price is about to change the rules. In Unruly Curls, he teaches anyone with curly hair how to love their locks, and how to get the most out of them. If you have curly hair and have spent your life trying to tame it, this is the book for you. From tight ringlets to larger, wavy hair, Michael shows you how to care for your curls, whatever they look like and whatever your age. The book features how to get the best haircut for your curls, and how to create salon-styled hair at home. As well as daily maintenance, there will be some hair tutorials to show you how you can mix up your look. This book aims to be a handbook for those with curly hair to refer to on a daily, weekly, and seasonal basis, with a cool aesthetic that has never been done before. With a pro-curl attitude and a focus on the positives of curly hair, Unruly Curls is a celebration of this hair type and will inspire anyone with curly hair.

Lights

Lights
Author: Rajiv Kapoor
Publisher: Abbott Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2014-05-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1458215601

Vera Lights is a former Broadway star whose life has taken a new direction. Now a single mother living in a hotel in midtown Manhattan with her two young children, Henry and Loretta, Vera does her best to protect and nurture them, despite her meager resources. Alone after failed marriages and with seemingly no hope for a career revival, she must rely on her inner strength to carry her through her exhausting days. While Vera works as a waitress in a Broadway diner to make ends meet, Henry and Loretta grow up in a dark, challenging world in which vagrants, pimps and drug dealers own the street corners, police turn a blind eye, and tourists avoid Times Square. But as life comes full circle and a resurrection of Broadway and midtown Manhattan begins, Vera and her children may be able to rise from the depths of despair and breathe life back into their dreams. Lights is a poignant, sweeping story of revival as a Broadway actress attempts to restore her hope, faith, and separate destinies for her family while living in a city marked by hate, ignorance, and poverty.

Breaking Perfect

Breaking Perfect
Author: Lydia Michaels
Publisher: Lydia Michaels Books
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2024-08-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Bestselling and award-winning author Lydia Michaels unleashes a scorching psychological romance that breaks the rules of fidelity and redefines perfection in a why-choose love story that delivers! On the outside, our life looks perfect. Inside, I’m screaming. I suffer from severe and profound OCD, triggered by a trauma I survived when I was a young girl. My husband saved me. I crave order because chaos stirs the messy parts of my mind I’d rather keep tied down. But when my husband’s ex-lover shows up unannounced–a man I had no idea existed from a secret part of my husband’s past he kept hidden from me–tension unfolds and our perfect life starts to unravel. My compulsions come out to play. Only, our house guest isn’t like my tolerant husband. He doesn’t ask for control. He takes it. And I surrender to this stranger’s will, because the twisted parts of me have become so rigid I sense my perfect life is about to break, and choosing to break seems the only choice left within my control.

How We Got By

How We Got By
Author: Shaina Feinberg
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2023-09-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1524891916

When your world is upended, how do you react? Who do you become? New York Times columnists, illustrator Julia Rothman and writer Shaina Feinberg, seek answers to these questions and more in this gorgeously illustrated collection of sometimes heartbreaking, always illuminating first-person stories. Based on one of Feinberg and Rothman's columns in the New York Times, “How We Got By: New Yorkers’ Advice for Getting Through a Crisis,” How We Got By is an ambitious journalistic undertaking rendered in an artful, collectible package. Each accompanied by one of Rothman’s full-color illustrated portraits, these personal accounts touch on a wide variety of subjects, from money and business to relationships, family, trauma, and death. A window into the world of how others think, feel, and, ultimately, survive, How We Got By invites us to remember our shared humanity as well as our truly extraordinary resilience.

I Don't Want Curly Hair!

I Don't Want Curly Hair!
Author: Laura Ellen Anderson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2019-03-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1526611015

NO! I do not want this BIG CURLY HAIR! It's messy and silly and just plain unfair. All Curly Haired Girl has ever wanted is straight and luscious locks, but when she meets a little girl with the smoothest, silkiest hair, who says all she's ever wanted is spirally, squiggly hair, they are BOTH confused! A hilarious tale about loving what we have. And hair, lots and lots of hair. I Don't Want Curly Hair! is glorious new picture book for little people who always want what they can't have! Illustrated by the brilliant Laura Ellen Anderson, this eBook comes with a glorious audio accompaniment by CBeebies star Justin Fletcher, complete with rich sound effects.

Am I A Chosen One?

Am I A Chosen One?
Author: Alice K Jones
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2024-08-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

‘Am I a Chosen One?’ is an autobiography - a bold and truthful presentation of a courageous woman's journey through life. Shy and nervous during girlhood days, the writer found herself to be in 'wonderland' after attaining motherhood! The writing is in stream-of-consciousness style, taking the reader through the labyrinth of the author's thoughts, ideas and experiences. “This attempt”, writes the author in her preface, “just reveals how an ordinary woman, initially timid and diffident became brave and self-confident later. In a nutshell, my unwavering faith in God guided me through all my sufferings. The thought that sharing my experiences could be beneficial to others, goaded me into taking up this labour of love…… After reading this autobiography, if some get inspired to lead an honest life; to live with the true coordination in their thoughts, words, and deeds; to replace fear of God with LOVE OF GOD, I would feel amply rewarded for my effort.”

Dress and Undress

Dress and Undress
Author: Iris Brooke
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2024-11-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1040259650

Originally published in 1958, this book deals with the details of dress – formal and informal – from the time of Charles II to the end of the eighteenth century. Most of the illustrations are taken from existing garments preserved in private collections or museums. Many verbatim descriptions are quoted from contemporary sources such as magazines, diaries, letters and newspapers. The popular idea of costume in this period is the formal aspect as shown in portraits, and the undress clothes of the time are little known although obviously commonly worn. These the author has illustrated together with the stays, hops, puffs and panniers, hairdressing and shoes that help to make up the complete appearance. The book will be of interest to those in theatre studies, costume design and social history.

The Thistle and the Rose

The Thistle and the Rose
Author: Becky Lee Weyrich
Publisher: Diversion Books
Total Pages: 597
Release: 2014-07-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1626813426

“Weyrich writes a sensuous love story!”—Affaire de Coeur When Anna Rose leaves her beloved family in Scotland to set off to America with her new husband, she has dreams of roads paved in gold and an exciting new life. Instead, she finds herself widowed, penniless, and pregnant. So begins Anna Rose’s saga of survival and determination as she struggles to elude a life of servitude, reunite her family, and recapture a love lost.