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An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated her adolescence and shapes her still. “Her tale of compulsion and healing is candid and powerful.”—People NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MARIE CLAIRE For almost thirty years, Susan Burton hid her obsession with food and the secret life of compulsive eating and starving that dominated her adolescence. This is the relentlessly honest, fiercely intelligent story of living with both anorexia and binge-eating disorder, moving past her shame, and learning to tell her secret. When Burton was thirteen, her stable life in suburban Michigan was turned upside down by her parents’ abru...
Becoming Ms. Burton
Winner of the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency’s Media for a Just Society Awards Winner of the 2017 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice “Valuable . . . [like Michelle] Alexander's The New Jim Crow.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “Susan Burton is a national treasure . . . her life story is testimony to the human capacity for resilience and recovery . . . [Becoming Ms. Burton is] a stunning memoir.” —Nicholas Kristof, in The New York Times Winner of the prestigious NAACP Image Award, a uniquely American story of trauma, incarceration, and "the breathtaking resilience of the human spirit" (Michelle Alexander) Widely hailed as a stunning memoir,...
The Summer Queen
Strange things are happening in Muriel Grayson's safe and plodding routine of eat-sleep-work-repeat! Not just strange. Unusual. Transforming. She's hearing the clarion call of adventure. Leaving her job and old name behind, she revisits a dream of becoming an archaeologist by applying to attend a summer dig in coastal Yorkshire. Led by the British poster boy for archaeology, Jack Shepherd, the dig is trying to locate a bronze age burial site. The newly named Samantha Grayson arrives on site and is immediately at odds with Jack Shepherd over the dig location. Through studying local folklore, myth and legend, Samantha's adventure becomes a personal odyssey, an obsession to find the burial site on her own. Along the way, she makes new friends and finds allies in her quest, uncovers her courage and self-belief, and undergoes emotional shifts and spiritual experiences so profound and closely entwined that she no longer sees any separation between them. And on one truly magical afternoon, amongst the sand dunes, the truth is revealed.
Letters from the Inside
The relationship between two teenage girls who become acquainted through letters intensifies as their correspondence reveals some of the terrible problems of their lives.
Summary of Susan Burton's Empty
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was always steeling myself for things like sleepovers and school trips where you went overnight to nature camp, because I dreaded being away from home. But I never wavered, even when I knew my behavior had been registered as rude or strange. #2 I was ten when I got my first period. I was sitting on a beanbag in the reading corner at school, and I was wearing madras Bermuda shorts. I knew that I would be the first girl in my generation to get her period. #3 I was a shy person, but I was also one of the shy people who wanted to be seen. I was a blond, bossy older sister who sang solos and won blue ribbons. But as I grew up, I became more and more awkward. #4 I was no longer the person I’d been my whole life. I was growing up, and I didn’t like my new body. I was not attractive, and I was not blossom-ing; I was coarsening.
Robert Burton's Rhetoric
Illustrates how Oxford scholar Robert Burton used the resources available to a seventeenth century academic: genres and languages, as well as academic disciplines such as medicine and rhetoric. Demonstrates how early modern practices of knowledge and persuasion can offer a model for transdisciplinary scholarship today.
Entry Lessons
“A call to action … A reminder of the beautiful resilience of formerly incarcerated women and a celebration of all that they have to offer.” —Susan Burton, author of Becoming Ms. Burton and founder of A New Way of Life Urgent and empathetic, Entry Lessons is one of the first examinations of the lasting impact of incarceration on women and their families Recent reports show that women make up the fastest-growing population within the United States’ criminal justice system. And yet, despite necessary conversations about incarceration and prison abolition, their stories of abuse, neglect, poverty, and family separation often go untold. Now, through immersive storytelling and expert an...
The Richard Burton Diaries
The irresistible, candid diaries of Richard Burton, published in their entirety “Just great fun, and written out of an engaging, often comical bewilderment: How did a poor Welshman become not only a star, but a player on the world stage that was Elizabeth Taylor’s fame?”—Hilton Als, NewYorker.com “Of real interest is that Burton was almost as good a writer as an actor, read as many as three books a day, haunted bookstores in every city he set foot in, bought countless books on every conceivable subject and evaluated them rather shrewdly. . . . Apt writing abounds.”—John Simon, New York Times Book Review Irresistibly magnetic on stage, mesmerizing in movies, seven times an Acade...
Child Pain, Migraine, and Invisible Disability
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- Permissions -- Preface: A note to readers -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Migraine as invisible disability -- 2 A history of pediatric pain and the politics of pill culture -- 3 Materia medica and literary migraine -- 4 Testifying against trigemony -- 5 Visibility machines and pain proxies -- Conclusion: Animality, empathy, and interdependence -- Afterword: Scars (a migraine diary) -- Appendix -- Works cited -- Index
Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm
Actor and longtime educational advocate LeVar Burton has had more than 30 years' experience speaking directly to children about grown-up situations, and The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm is a story that helps ease the fears and worries of a young childMica Mouse lost her house in a terrible storm, and now she trembles when the weather turns rough. She's not so different from other children who've experienced something very disturbing in their life or heard about tragic or frightening events in the news. Mica's father tells her the story of a brave blue rhinoceros who learns how to get through rough times with friendship, helpers, love, and by "feeling your feelings." LeVar Burton has poured a lifetime of experience storytelling to children into The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm, and the result is more than a book—it's a manual for finding the light in the midst of dark times.
