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In her first collection of poems, Gabrielle G. depicts different love stories from the initial spark to the last heartbreak and writes in verses the heartache we've all been through. A poetry book to make your heart smile and weep at the same time.
A theory of the neural bases of aesthetic experience across the arts, which draws on the tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional humanist inquiry. In Feeling Beauty, G. Gabrielle Starr argues that understanding the neural underpinnings of aesthetic experience can reshape our conceptions of aesthetics and the arts. Drawing on the tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional humanist inquiry, Starr shows that neuroaesthetics offers a new model for understanding the dynamic and changing features of aesthetic life, the relationships among the arts, and how individual differences in aesthetic judgment shape the varieties of aesthetic experience. Starr, a scholar of the humani...
Melancholy & Cinnamon is a collection of over a hundred poems divided into eleven chapters each depicting the non-linear journey of the author through depression.
Eighteenth-century British literary history was long characterized by two central and seemingly discrete movements—the emergence of the novel and the development of Romantic lyric poetry. In fact, recent scholarship reveals that these genres are inextricably bound: constructions of interiority developed in novels changed ideas about what literature could mean and do, encouraging the new focus on private experience and self-perception developed in lyric poetry. In Lyric Generations, Gabrielle Starr rejects the genealogy of lyric poetry in which Romantic poets are thought to have built solely and directly upon the works of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. She argues instead that no...
When you're consumed by grief, can love find a way to bloom? For as long as I can remember, I've been in love with Chris. I was never old enough or brave enough to act on it. He never saw me like anything more than his best friend's little sister.So, when he falls in love with my best friend, I smile and try to move on. Only I never thought I would lose them both.*** One tragic night. One day leaving me wondering what my future holds.One event that has me seeing Salomé under a different light. She's the only one who can understand what I'm going through. She's also the only one who can soothe my pain.I need her to survive. But I certainly shouldn't take advantage of it.An emotional brother's best friend novel like no other. Please be aware this book is not an easy love story. Subjects such as grief and sudden death are addressed.
Cruel beetle fashionista, Lucretia Cutter, is at large with her yellow ladybird spies - and she has a devious plan. Darkus, Virginia and Bertolt are determined to stop her, but Darkus's dad is dead set against their involvement. Hope rests on Novak, Lucretia's daughter and a Hollywood actress, but the beetle diva is always one scuttle ahead ...
I've avoided my hometown for twenty-seven years for one reason. Aaron Gritt. Now that I'm back in Springs Falls, I've done my best to not run into him.If I happen to, let's hope he isn't as hot as he was at eighteen. But the universe is funny that way. My life is proof of it-secrets and all.So I'm not surprised when he stands in my classroom before me as the parent of one of my students. Forgiving him when he walked away had always been hard, but not as hard as it is to finally tell him the truth.*** Can you forget your first love? I didn't. Even if I didn't recognize her right away, the girl with a star-shaped birthmark was always somewhere on my mind. But she isn't the competitive and driven seventeen-year-old captain of the girls hockey team I loved anymore.I don't know what happened but she has lost her fire and never made it into the pros like she dreamt of.Now I know why, and it's my turn to decide if I can forgive her. A second-chance, small town romance novel you won't be able to put down.
A one-night stand with a rockstar on my birthday? I'll pass. But Dan Darling, sexy and irresistible as he is, doesn't take no for an answer. What follows? Five incredible days and a connection I thought I'd never feel. Until he leaves on tour. Until we're done before we're anything.It hurts, but it's nothing compared to what I've been through before.***The first time I saw Anna, I knew she was it. Then I doubted myself. Thought my feelings were only a product of my impulsivity. How can she love me when I've kept secret who I really am? Can I pull myself together enough to be with her and make it work? Is she the soothing medication I need to survive, or should I continue living my life one o...
An incredibly important and powerful look at how our culture treats the pain and suffering of women in medical and social contexts. A polemic on the state of women's health and healthcare. One in ten women worldwide have endometriosis, yet it is funded at 5% of the rate of diabetes; women are half as likely to be treated for a heart attack as men and twice as likely to die six months after discharge; over half of women who are eventually diagnosed with an autoimmune disease will be told they are hypochondriacs or have a mental illness. These are just a few of the shocking statistics explored in this book. Fourteen years after being diagnosed with endometriosis, Gabrielle Jackson couldn't bel...
From the award-winning author of The Intern, Faking It and Remind Me How This Ends. School's out. Forget study, exams and mapping out the future. For the next seven days, the only homework is partying with friends, making new ones and living in the moment. There are no parents or curfews - and no rules. Zoe, Samira and Dahlia are strangers, but they have something in common: their plans for a dream holiday after their final year of school are flipped upside-down before they even arrive at the beach. From hooking up and heartache, to growing apart, testing friendships and falling in love, anything can go down this week. PRAISE 'This novel is Tozer at her best-it has the humour of The Intern p...