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Brand: Nunzio Rimaudo
EAN: 9788892928725
Categoria: Libri e riviste

\"Il grembiule di Nylon\" è la storia vera di un bambino nato a Milano, nel quartiere del Giambellino, figlio di uno spazzino siciliano e di una madre pugliese che, bullizzato a scuola per la sua povertà, dovrà imparare a difendersi. È una storia del riscatto sociale di Nunzio Rimaudo, che ce l'ha fatta partendo dal nulla. Inizia a farsi le ossa nel mondo dei balordi aspirando a diventare anch'esso uno di loro, temuto e rispettato, ma l'incontro col Judo, di cui sarà campione nazionale, mette fine a queste sue velleità. A soli 24 anni è già milionario e ha 4 figli eppure ha istinti suicidi perché i soldi non compensano il suo vuoto culturale e il bisogno d'appartenenza. Nella sua lunga e variegata carriera è stato guru di Marketing e Vendite, ideatore del metodo Judo management, esperto in psicoterapia dell'anima e ipnologo lacaniano, esperto esoterista, osteopata, bio terapeuta, ha fondato ad Atene una Accademia di Medicina Complementare e realizzato la prima Mostra Mercato Europea dell'Artigianato e delle PMI in Fiera di Milano. Nel 1986 si avvicina alla chiesa Ortodossa e viene poi consacrato Sacerdote nella sua qualità di Protopresbitero del Trono Ecumenico Costantinopoli... Il peso delle proprie origini, il Sessantotto e i cambiamenti generazionali, le difficoltà padre-figlio, le dicotomie ricco-povero, peccato-giustizia, prete-uomo e le disuguaglianze sociali sono solo alcuni dei temi portanti in una vita che, tra salite e discese da batticuore, portano, alla fine, sempre al raggiungimento di ogni obiettivo, pur senza sconti di pena, grazie a una ostinata determinazione.

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Brand: Dizz Tate
EAN: 9780571374458
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Riveting. Elle\n'Brilliant.' Sophie Mackintosh\n'Glittering.' Marie Claire\n'Enthralling.' New York Times\n'Manages to bottle up that chaotic and messy feeling of girlhood.' Stylist\n\n\nHuddled at a bedroom window, a group of teenagers peer out at their scorched, swampy, fame-hungry town. Taking turns with the binoculars, their gaze sweeps across the highway and the abandoned construction site to the lake. Figures drift across the landscape: mothers, fathers, a preacher's daughter.\n\nThese girls know everything about everyone - perhaps too much. \n\n'Beautiful and deeply strange. I loved it.' Mariana Enriquez\n'Assured, insightful, quietly savage.' Nicole Flattery\n'Brutes feels wonderfully untethered, wild and unpredictable.' Danya Kukafka

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Brand: Kaveh Akbar
EAN: 9781035026067
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A most anticipated book of 2024 for Time, Nylon, Oprah, Marie Claire and CNN\nOne of Sarah Jessica Parker's Books of the Year\n\n‘I will carry this story, and the people in it, with me for the rest of my life’ - John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars\n\n'Smart, dazzling, different . . . This book is thrilling. It's like watching the novel itself be reinvented' - Ann Patchett, author of Tom Lake\n\n'This book vibrates with love of life, beauty and language. I’m in awe...' - Natalie Portman\n\nCyrus Shams is lost.\n\nEver since his mother’s plane was senselessly shot down over the Persian Gulf when he was just a baby, Cyrus has been grappling with her death. Now, newly sober, he is set to learn the truth of her life.\n\nWhen an encounter with a dying artist leads Cyrus towards the mysteries of his past – an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as an Angel of Death, a haunting work of art by an exiled painter – he finds himself once again caught up in the story of his mother, who may not have been who or what she seemed. As Cyrus searches for meaning in the scattered clues of his life, a final revelation transforms everything he thought he knew.\n\nElectrifying, funny, wholly original, and profound, Martyr! heralds the arrival of a blazing and essential new voice in contemporary fiction.\n\n* Martyr! was an instant New York Times bestseller w/c 27/1/24

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Brand: Royston M. Roberts
EAN: 9780471602033
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Many of the things discovered by accident are important in our everyday lives: Teflon, Velcro, nylon, x-rays, penicillin, safety glass, sugar substitutes, and polyethylene and other plastics. And we owe a debt to accident for some of our deepest scientific knowledge, including Newton's theory of gravitation, the Big Bang theory of Creation, and the discovery of DNA. Even the Rosetta Stone, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the ruins of Pompeii came to light through chance. This book tells the fascinating stories of these and other discoveries and reveals how the inquisitive human mind turns accident into discovery. Written for the layman, yet scientifically accurate, this illuminating collection of anecdotes portrays invention and discovery as quintessentially human acts, due in part to curiosity, perserverance, and luck.

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Brand: Beppe Tosco;francesco Tosco
EAN: 9788836248384
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Nel piccolo paese vicino al grande fiume, tutti i bambini sono partiti per le vacanze. Tutti tranne Geppi, che, per sfuggire alla solitudine, si diverte a creare una banda di amici con frammenti di plastica, vetro, carta e alluminio trovati sulla riva. E proprio quando il più incredibile dei desideri si avvera e Nylon, Wallace, Pirina e Boom-Boom prendono magicamente vita, per Geppi e la sua banda iniziano le disavventure: il potere di una stella cadente ha trasformato in creature viventi tutti i rifiuti che l’uomo ha disseminato nell’ambiente. E la spazzatura è molto, molto arrabbiata... Età di lettura: da 9 anni.

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Brand: Aurora Mattia
EAN: 9781643621487
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Named a must read book of 2023 by Nylon, BookRiot, Vulture , The Millions, and Ms. Magazine!\n\nA baroque work of intimate myth exploring one woman's interdimensional search for beauty and embodiment, through kaleidoscopic renderings of hospital corridors, brutal breakups, and passionate romance.\n\nThe Fifth Wound is a phantasmagorical roman a clef about passion as a way of life. In one dimension, this is a love story-Aurora & Ezekiel-a separation and a reunion. In another, we witness a tale of multiple traumatic encounters with transphobic violence. And on yet another plane, a story of ecstatic visionary experience swirls, shatters, and sparkles. Featuring time travel, medieval nuns, knifings, and t4t romance, The Fifth Wound indulges the blur between fantasy and reality. Its winding sentences open like portals, inviting the reader into the intimacy of embodiment-both its pain and its pleasures.

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Brand: Laura Clark
EAN: 9781911427261
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Dr Molly Beaujolais (Lecturer in Performing Arts and Applied Theatre) and Jonathan Nylon (Lecturer in History) both keep diaries and have offices next door to each other. Two unlikely lovers, particularly since much of Molly's time is taken up internet dating while Jonathan Nylon obsesses about his presentation of the battle of Narvik, his course on medieval disease and punishment and his impossible lodger, but life likes to play around with the impossible. Wickedly funny, clever and daring. And touching because it's all about being human in a very lonely world. 'Hilarious. I couldn't get enough of these characters. Different and moresih' DAILY MAIL

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Brand: Hannah Levene
EAN: 9781643622132
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Nylon's Most Anticipated Books of 2024\n\nThe Paris Review’s Favorite Books of 2023\n\nSet against a backdrop of 1950s New York, this experimental novel follows an ensemble cast of all-singing, all-dancing butch dykes and Yiddish anarchists through eternal Friday nights, around the table, and at the bar. \n\nIn one of many bars, Frankie Gold sings while Sammy Silver plays piano after a day job at the anarchist newspaper. The Butch Piano Players Union meets in the corner next to the jukebox. Laur smokes on the back steps, sweaty thigh to thigh with Vic. Frankie’s childhood sweetheart, Lily, turns up at yet another bar to see a second Sammy play every Friday night. And before all that, there’s always dinner at Marg’s. Fabulated out of oral histories, anthologies, as well as the fiction of the butch-femme bar scene and Yiddish anarchist tradition, Greasepaint is a rollicking whirlwind of music and politics—the currents of community embodied and held inside the bar.

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Brand: Karen Sander
EAN: 9788809818408
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Una macabra sorpresa attende Georg Stadler, capo della Omicidi di Düsseldorf, mentre apre come ogni giorno la posta sulla sua scrivania: da una strana busta imbottita, senza mittente, spunta un involucro di nylon che contiene due dita umane mozzate di netto. E se appartenessero all'ennesima vittima del feroce serial killer su cui Stadler indaga da mesi? Il commissario ha ancora negli occhi le agghiaccianti immagini dei cadaveri di due ragazzi e una ragazza ventenni, orribilmente mutilati. Nella gola di ognuno il killer ha conficcato un ritaglio di giornale con proverbi dalle allusioni inquietanti: \"Chi ha orecchie per intendere intenda\", \"Occhio per occhio dente per dente\"... Stadler capisce che l'assassino lo sta sfidando, e c'è solo una persona in grado di aiutarlo, una persona che come nessun'altra riesce a penetrare le menti criminali: Elisabeth Montario, la brillante psicologa che un anno prima aveva dato una svolta decisiva alle indagini sullo \"Squartatore\". E il cui fascino inquieto aveva messo a dura prova l'etica professionale di Stadler... Liz, che ormai vive e lavora a Liverpool, non è certo il tipo da tirarsi indietro e mentre la sete di sangue del killer cresce di ora in ora, lei e Stadler si ritroveranno di nuovo fianco a fianco in una spietata caccia all'uomo.

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Brand: Morgan Parker
EAN: 9781472153180
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Publishers Weekly's Ten Best Poetry Collections of Spring A Most Anticipated book at Buzzfeed, NYLON and Bustle One of i-D's emerging female authors to read in 2017 'Outstanding collection of poems. So much soul. So much intelligence in how Parker folds in cultural references and the experiences of black womanhood. Every poem will get its hooks into you. And of course, the poems about Beyonce are the greatest because Beyonce is our queen.' Roxane Gay 'I can and have read Morgan Parker's poems over and over ...She writes history and pleasure and kitsch and abstraction, then vanishes like a god in about 13 inches.' Eileen Myles 'Morgan Parker has a mind like wildfire and these pages are lit. I can't recall being this enthralled, entertained, and made alert by a book in a very long time.' Jami Attenberg The only thing more beautiful than Beyonce is God, and God is a black woman sipping rose and drawing a lavender bath, texting her mom, belly-laughing in the therapist's office, feeling unloved, being on display, daring to survive. Morgan Parker stands at the intersections of vulnerability and performance, of desire and disgust, of tragedy and excellence.\nUnrelentingly feminist, tender, ruthless and sequinned, these poems are an altar to the complexities of black American womanhood in an age of non-indictments and deja vu, and a time of wars over bodies and power. These poems celebrate and mourn. They are a chorus chanting: You're gonna give us the love we need.

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Brand: Mia Mercado
EAN: 9780063238312
Categoria: Libri e riviste

AN NPR BOOK-OF-THE-DAY • A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STAFF PICK • A NYLON MUST-READ • A FORTUNE NEW BOOK TO READ IN AUGUST\n\n“And, at the center of it all, am I actually nice or am I just performing a role I think I’m expected to play?” Mia Mercado is a razor-sharp cultural critic and essayist known for her witty and hilarious dissections of the uncomfortable truths that rule our lives. In this thought-provoking collection of new essays, Mercado examines what it means to be “polite,” “agreeable,” and “nice.” She covers topics from the subtleties of the “Bad Bitch” and why women dominate the ASMR market, to what makes her dog an adorable little freak and how you know if you’re shy. This is a book about the unspoken trick mirror of our “good” intentions: the inherent performance of the social media apology, celebrating men when they do the bare minimum, and why we trust a Midwesterner to watch our stuff when we go pee.\n\nThroughout, she ponders her identity as an Asian woman and asks what “nice” even means—and why anyone would want to be it. With writing that is as precise as it is profound, and cultural references that range from trash reality television to the New York Times Sunday-morning crossword puzzle, Mercado uncovers weird, long-overdue truths about our frailties and failings. In the end, she sees them not as a source of shame but as a cause for celebration. Filled with revelations that range from the silly to the serious,\n\nShe’s Nice Though offers a mind-bending glimpse into the illusions and delusions of contemporary life—and reveals who we *really* are when no one is watching.

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Brand: Paolo Morelli;alessandro Cirinei
EAN: 9788864384740
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A Roma ci sono i coatti. A Milano ci sono i tamarri. A Livorno ci sono i \"cugi\". Anzi, per meglio dire, c'erano i \"cugi\", quei giovani livornesi che negli anni Ottanta indossavano il bomber jacket di nylon, calzavano Camperos Valleverde, impennavano col Bravo Piaggio (elaborato col kit Polini) e andavano in discoteca alla domenica pomeriggio per ballare Billie Jean di Michael Jackson. Morelli e Cirinei - tra i più gloriosi e leggendari \"cugi\" livornesi - descrivono con ironia la sottocultura e mitologia del \"cugi\" che permeavano l'esuberante Livorno adolescenziale di trent'anni fa.

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Brand: Elizabeth Winder
EAN: 9788860888013
Categoria: Libri e riviste

È il 31 maggio del 1953 quando una emozionata Sylvia Plath, appena ventenne, sbarca nella Grande Mela. Bionda, abbronzata, tiene fra le mani una valigia, frutto dello studio accurato di mesi: due tubini neri, una camicia da notte, due pigiami blu, e poi camicie, calze di nylon, una borsetta rossa con scarpe coordinate, un rossetto rosso... e il biglietto che l'ha portata da Wellesley, Massachusetts, a New York. Ha vinto una borsa di studio di un mese come praticante nella redazione di Mademoiselle, una prestigiosa rivista che ogni anno, a giugno, seleziona venti studentesse meritevoli che lavoreranno al ventiduesimo numero, quello dedicato al college. Per Sylvia è la realizzazione di un sogno: non solo entra a far parte dello staff di una testata importante, famosa per aver pubblicato inediti di grandi scrittori, ma soggiorna con le altre ragazze al Barbizon Hotel, va alle feste, a teatro e alle sfilate di moda; assiste a una partita allo Yankee Stadium e balla al West Side Tennis Club, fa indigestione di ostriche e caviale e scopre il suo drink preferito (vodka liscia, con ghiaccio). Arriva addirittura a pedinare Dylan Thomas... Basandosi sulle testimonianze di chi l'ha conosciuta e ha vissuto con lei quegli intensissimi ventisei giorni, Elizabeth Winder racconta da una prospettiva inedita l'educazione sentimentale di Sylvia Plath sullo sfondo di una New York anni Cinquanta dinamica e sfolgorante, prima che la sua vita e il suo talento la trasformassero nell'icona che tutti conosciamo.

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Brand: Chelsea Devantez
EAN: 9781335455079
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER\n\n\"It’s f*cking great!!! Raw, intimate, hilarious, actually inspiring.” –Jon Stewart\n\nA RECOMMENDED READ FROM: NPR * PUREWOW * USWEEKLY * BUSTLE * SHEREADS * NYLON * BOOKRIOT * AND MORE\n\nThe dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her tumultuous upbringing and uproarious career path into Hollywood.\n\nThere are things Chelsea Devantez probably shouldn’t be telling you. Many of them are in this book: some are embarrassing (like when she tried to break her three year spell of celibacy using a guide of seduction tips). Some are confessional (getting sentenced to the “hell hill” at Mormon church camp). Some are TMI (a series of outrageous doctor visits that ended with one doctor misdiagnosing her as “pregnant.” Woopsies!).\n\nThen there are things Chelsea really shouldn’t be telling you: like the time her biggest family secret was publicly outed, or about the drive-by shootings and the precipitating domestic violence she survived. Yet through it all, it’s the women in Chelsea’s life who kept her going – from the lowest points of her childhood when she and her mom had only $100 left to their name, all the way to her career highs as the Emmy-nominated Head Writer for The Problem with Jon Stewart and sensational podcaster deemed “the celebrity memoir whisperer” by her fans. \n\nIn I Shouldn't Be Telling You This, Chelsea centers each story around a different woman who shaped her life, taking us on a tour of friends and strangers, fictional characters and celebrities, heroes and villains who will destroy any Netflix algorithm for a “strong female lead.” Reading it will feel kinda like that moment at a party when your friend beckons you close, sloshes her martini around, and covertly whispers, “I really shouldn’t say this, but…”

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Brand: Kathleen Hanna
EAN: 9780008361891
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A roadmap for a new generation \n VOGUE\n \n\n\n 'Radical, funny and fearless’ VANITY FAIR\n\n\n \n ‘Gripping’ \n NYLON\n \n\n\n An electric, searing memoir by the original Riot Grrrl and legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre\n Kathleen Hanna’s rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the punk scene of the 1980s, ’90s, and beyond. Her band, Bikini Kill, embodies this iconic time, and today their gutsy, radical lyrics of anthems like ‘Rebel Girl’ and ‘Double Dare Ya’ are more powerful than ever. But where did this transformative voice come from?\n\n\n In Rebel Girl, Hanna’s raw and insightful new memoir, she takes us from her tumultuous childhood home, to her formative college years in Olympia, Washington, and on to her first years on tour, fighting hard for gigs and for her band. As Hanna makes blindingly clear, being in a ‘girl band’, especially a punk girl band, in those years was not a simple or a safe prospect. Male violence and antagonism threatened at every turn, and surviving as a band took limitless amounts of grit and bravery.\n\n\n But the relationships she developed during those years buoyed her – including with her bandmates Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox, and Billy Karren; her friendship with Kurt Cobain; and her introduction to Joan Jett – and they were a testament to how the true punk world nurtured and cared for its own.\n\n\n Hanna opens up about falling in love with Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys and her debilitating battle with Lyme disease, and she brings us behind the scenes of her later bands, Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin. She also writes candidly about the Riot Grrrl movement and its decline, documenting with love its grassroots origins but critiquing its later exclusivity.\n\n\n In an uncut voice all her own, Hanna reveals the darkest, hardest times along with the most joyful – and how it all fuelled her revolutionary art, from the 1980s to today.

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Brand: Joseph Cassara
EAN: 9781786074409
Categoria: Libri e riviste

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY Buzzfeed * Esquire * Bustle * The Millions * The Wall Street Journal * Entertainment Weekly * Nylon * Elle * Dazed * The Irish Times\n\n\n\n'Cassara has written a heartbreaking tale of gay men struggling to survive in a world of clubbing and drugs. It is also an unexpected love story.' Graham Norton, Top Five Reads of 2018\n\n\n\n'Cassaras's propulsive and profound first novel, finding one's home in the world - particularly in a subculture plagued by fear and intolerance from society - comes with tragedy as well as extraordinary personal freedom.' Esquire\n\n\n\nA gritty and gorgeous debut inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza made famous by the seminal documentary Paris Is Burning\n\n\n\nNew York City, 1980\n\n\n\nNowhere is the city's glamour and energy better reflected than in the burgeoning Harlem dance scene. \n\n\n\nAngel\n\n\n\nJust seventeen years old and burnt by her traumatic past, she wants to create a family for those without.\n\n\n\nHector\n\n\n\nWhen Angel falls in love with him, the two decide to set up the House of Xtravaganza, the first ever all-Latino house on the dance circuit. \n\n\n\nThe Xtravaganzas\n\n\n\nThey are joined by Venus, Juanito and Daniel, all with their own devastating stories to tell, each determined to survive.\n\n\n\nTold in a voice that brims with wit, rage, tenderness, and fierce yearning, The House of Impossible Beauties is a gritty and gorgeous debut - a tragic story of love, family, and the dynamism of the human spirit.

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Brand: Miranda July
EAN: 9781838853440
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A BEST SUMMER READING PICK FOR THE TIMES, THE DAILY MAIL, THE FT AND THE GUARDIAN\nA 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR BBC R4 OPEN BOOK, THE OBSERVER, GQ, GRAZIA, HERO, I-D, NYLON\n\nA semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey.\n\nMiranda July's second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July's wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one woman's quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic and domestic life of a 45-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectations while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive.

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Brand: Crystal Hana Kim
EAN: 9780062645180
Categoria: Libri e riviste

“An immersive, heartbreaking story about war, passion, and the road not taken.” — People\n\n\"One of the most beautiful and moving love stories you’ll read this year.\" — Nylon Magazine\n\nNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • The New York Post • Vulture • Real Simple • Bustle • Nylon • Thrillist • Mental Floss • Self magazine • Booklist • Refinery 29\n\n\n\nAn emotionally riveting debut novel about war, family, and forbidden love—the unforgettable saga of two ill-fated lovers in Korea and the heartbreaking choices they’re forced to make in the years surrounding the civil war that still haunts us today.\n\nWhen the communist-backed army from the north invades her home, sixteen-year-old Haemi Lee, along with her widowed mother and ailing brother, is forced to flee to a refugee camp along the coast. For a few hours each night, she escapes her family’s makeshift home and tragic circumstances with her childhood friend, Kyunghwan.\n\nFocused on finishing school, Kyunghwan doesn’t realize his older and wealthier cousin, Jisoo, has his sights set on the beautiful and spirited Haemi—and is determined to marry her before joining the fight. But as Haemi becomes a wife, then a mother, her decision to forsake the boy she always loved for the security of her family sets off a dramatic saga that will have profound effects for generations to come.\n\nRichly told and deeply moving, If You Leave Me is a stunning portrait of war and refugee life, a passionate and timeless romance, and a heartrending exploration of one woman’s longing for autonomy in a rapidly changing world.

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Brand: Xuan Juliana Wang
EAN: 9781786497437
Categoria: Libri e riviste

* * NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019 BY NYLON, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, THE MILLIONS AND LITHUB * *\n____________________\n\n'Soulful, striking and ablaze with promise' Observer\n__________________\n\nAt the Beijing Olympics, a pair of synchronized divers stand poised at the edge of success and sexual self-discovery. A Chinese-American girl in Paris finds her life changed when she begins wearing a dead person's clothes. And on a winter evening, a father creates an algorithm to troubleshoot the problem of raising a daughter across an ever-widening gulf of culture and experience.\n\nFrom second-generation rich kids and livestream stars to a glass-swallowing qigong grandmaster, this funny and wise debut collection upends the well-worn path of the immigrant experience to reveal a new face of belonging: of young people testing the limits of who they are and who they will one day become, in a world as vast and various as their ambitions.\n\n__________________\n\n'Artful, funny, generous and empathetic' Lauren Groff, author of Florida\n\n'Sublimely captivating' Vogue\n\n'Striking, soulful and ablaze with promise.' Observer

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Brand: Jenny Zhang
EAN: 9781408892374
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction\nA Guardian, Nylon, Buzzfeed, Cosmopolitan, Vulture and Shelf Awareness Book of the Year 2017\n\n'Relegate anything else you're reading - there is no other book to be seen with now' The Times\n\n'Obscene, beautiful, moving' New Yorker\n \nCentred on a community of immigrants precariously balanced on the edge of poverty in 1990s New York City, the stories that make up Sour Heart examine the ways that family and history can weigh us down, but also lift us up. From the young woman coming to terms with her grandmother's role in the Cultural Revolution, to the daughter struggling to understand where her family ends and she begins, these vibrant, raw and powerful stories introduce a bold and singular new voice.

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Brand: Manuele Giacomelli
EAN: 9788833777351
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Sono passati cinque anni dalla scomparsa di Giulia quando, un altro atroce avvenimento segna le tranquille e pacifiche acque dell'Isola d'Elba suscitando sgomento e preoccupazione tra gli abitanti del posto. Il corpo di una ragazza viene trovato senza vita, avvolto con del nylon trasparente su una delle spiagge dell'isola. Il giovane tenente della piccola caserma, Manuele Rinaldi, ancora scosso dalla scomparsa della figlia, si troverà ad indagare su un omicidio dai risvolti misteriosi dove il passato e il presente sembrano intrecciarsi tra loro prepotentemente. Rinaldi si accorgerà che dovrà combattere con le sue debolezze e le sue paure contro un killer invisibile e inafferrabile trovandosi trascinato inevitabilmente dentro un vortice emotivo senza precedenti. Una corsa contro il tempo dove il tenente e i suoi stretti collaboratori cercheranno di fermare il folle piano di questo assassino irraggiungibile.

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EAN: 9788857218939
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Nelle opere di Paolo Grassino la materia plasmata, modellata, stratificata, graffiata, penetrata, violata, diventa forma, sostanza, elemento ora reale ora simbolico di un complesso \"teatro dell'assurdo\" in cui il ferro, la spugna, il nylon, l'alluminio, il polistirolo, la cera, la resina, il cemento, la luce e il suono danno forma agli elementi di queste tranches de vie, di questi \"documenti umani\" dalle dimensioni drammatiche, oscure, impenetrabili; figure plastiche che giocano un finale di partita tra realtà e immaginazione, tra vita e dimensione onirico-fantastica. Lampadine, barattoli, tubi, macchine, imbuti, rami, vetri, e ancora cuori, polmoni, cani, cervi, uomini, diventano la trama di una narrazione essenziale e al contempo improbabile, del racconto inquietante di una realtà che si confronta con la frammentazione della vita quotidiana. Questa pubblicazione è stata realizzata in occasione di \"Percorso in tre atti\", un progetto di Paolo Grassino (a cura di Stefano Pezzato) per il Museo Pecci Milano, promosso da regione Toscana e Comune di Prato, in collaborazione con Piercarlo Borgogno.

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Brand: Destiny O Birdsong
EAN: 9781538721391
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A GMA Buzz Pick!\n\nA Most Anticipated Book by Essence * The Millions * Atlantic Journal Constitution * Bustle * BookPage * Nashville Scene \n\nA Best Book of February by Washington Post * Nylon\n\nIn this glittering triptych novel, Suzette, Maple and Agnes, three Black women with albinism, call Shreveport, Louisiana home. At the bustling crossroads of the American South and Southwest, these three women find themselves at the crossroads of their own lives. \n\nSuzette, a pampered twenty-year-old, has been sheltered from the outside world since a dangerous childhood encounter. Now, a budding romance with a sweet mechanic allows Suzette to seek independence, which unleashes dark reactions in those closest to her. In discovering her autonomy, Suzette is forced to decide what she is willing to sacrifice in order to make her own way in the world.\n\nMaple is reeling from the unsolved murder of her free-spirited mother. She flees the media circus and her judgmental grandmother by shutting herself off from the world in a spare room of the motel where she works. One night, at a party, Maple connects with Chad, someone who may understand her pain more than she realizes, and she discovers that the key to her mother's death may be within her reach.\n\nAgnes is far from home, working yet another mind-numbing job. She attracts the interest of a lonely security guard and army veteran who's looking for a traditional life for himself and his young son. He's convinced that she wields a certain \"magic,\" but Agnes soon unleashes a power within herself that will shock them both and send her on a trip to confront not only her family and her past, but also herself.\n\nThis novel, told in three parts, is a searing meditation on grief, female strength, and self-discovery set against a backdrop of complicated social and racial histories. Nobody's Magic is a testament to the power of family-the ones you're born in and the ones you choose. And in these three narratives, among the yearning and loss, each of these women may find a seed of hope for the future.

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Brand: Eliot Duncan
EAN: 9781804440308
Categoria: Libri e riviste

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2023\n\n'Incendiary . . . A uniquely trans story' Dazed\n'Gutting and glittery' Nylon\n'Eliot Duncan's melancholic transboy swagger sparkles . . . An astonishing first novel' ANDREA LAWLOR\n\nIn the first of three acts, Ponyboy's titular narrator - a pill-popping, speed-snorting, trans-masculine lightning bolt - unravels in his Paris apartment. Ponyboy is caught in a messy love triangle between Baby, a lesbian painter who can't see herself being with someone trans, and Toni, a childhood friend who can actually see Ponyboy for who he is.\n\nStrung out, Ponyboy follows Baby to Berlin where he sinks deeper into drugs and falls for Gabriel, all the while pursued by a megalomaniacal photographer hungry for the next hot thing. As his relationships crumble, Ponyboy unexpectedly wakes up alone in Iowa, his childhood home. Now Ponyboy must finally choose a name.\n\nAn evocative novel of art and addiction, self-destruction and re-construction, Ponyboy thrums with the joys, aches and pains of becoming who you are meant to be.

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Brand: Emma Specter
EAN: 9780063278370
Categoria: Libri e riviste

AS FEATURED IN NYLON • W MAGAZINE • GLAMOUR • BOOK RIOT • HEYALMA • BUSTLE • ELECTRIC LITERATURE • ROMPER • AND MORE!\n\n\"Tender, funny, angry, and sharp as hell. This is an essential book for anyone with a body, anyone with a heart.\" —Helen Rosner, James Beard Award-winning food journalist and New Yorker staff writer\n\nAn unflinching and deeply reported look at the realities of binge-eating disorder from a rising culture commentator and writer for Vogue.\n\nMillions of us use restrictive diets, intermittent fasting, IV therapies, and Ozempic abuse to shrink until we are sample-size acceptable. But for the 30 million Americans who live with eating disorders, it isn’t just about less. More, Please is a chronicle of a lifelong fixation with food—its power to soothe, to comfort, to offer a fleeting escape from the outside world—as well as an examination of the ways in which compulsory thinness, diet culture, and the seductive promise of “wellness” have resulted in warping countless Americans’ relationship with healthy eating.\n\nMelding memoir, reportage, and in-depth interviews with some of the most prominent and knowledgeable commentators currently writing about food, fatness, and disordered eating—Virginia Sole-Smith, Virgie Tovar, Aiyana Ishmael, Leslie Jamison, and others—Emma Specter explores binge-eating disorder as both a personal problem and a societal one. In More, Please, she provides a context, a history, and a language for what it means to always want more than you’ll allow yourself to have.

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Brand: Instructables.com
EAN: 9781510771390
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Step-by-step projects utilizing this ideal material for tons of crafts due to its durability and flexibility!\n\nParachute cord, which is now universally known as paracord, is a lightweight nylon rope originally used by paratroopers during World War II. It is now employed as a general purpose utility cord by military personnel and civilians alike. Hikers and other outdoor enthusiasts have made \"survival bracelets\" from paracord, which are meant to be unraveled when needed to secure cargo, lash together poles, and fix broken straps and laces. As more colors become available, crafters are discovering that paracord makes an excellent material for fun and stylish friendship bracelets, lanyards, belts, dog leashes, key chains, and more.\n\nOriginating from Instructables, a popular project-based community made up of all sorts of people with a desire to pass on their wisdom to others, Practical Paracord Projects contains ideas from a number of authors who show just how easy it is to make virtually anything from paracord.\n\nPractical Paracord Projects provides step-by-step instructions on a variety of useful and fun objects involving paracord. Guided by detailed photographs, the reader will create such practical and unusual projects as:\n\n\nA laptop harness\nA can koozie\nAn eyeglass lanyard\nA hanging chair\nSandals\nA leatherman pouch\nAnd much more!

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Brand: Kathleen Hanna
EAN: 9780008365349
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A roadmap for a new generation \n VOGUE\n \n\n\n 'Radical, funny and fearless’ VANITY FAIR\n\n\n \n ‘Gripping’ \n NYLON\n \n\n\n An electric, searing memoir by the original riot grrrl and legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre\n \n Hey girlfriend I got a proposition, goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want.\n \n\n\n Kathleen Hanna’s rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the punk scene of the 1980s, ’90s, and beyond. Her band, Bikini Kill, embodies this iconic time, and today their gutsy, radical lyrics of anthems like ‘Rebel Girl’ and ‘Double Dare Ya’ are more powerful than ever. But where did this transformative voice come from?\n\n\n In Rebel Girl, Hanna’s raw and insightful new memoir, she takes us from her tumultuous childhood home, to her formative college years in Olympia, Washington, and on to her first years on tour, fighting hard for gigs and for her band. As Hanna makes blindingly clear, being in a ‘girl band’, especially a punk girl band, in those years was not a simple or a safe prospect. Male violence and antagonism threatened at every turn, and surviving as a singer who was a lightening rod for controversy took limitless amounts of determination.\n\n\n But the relationships she developed during those years buoyed her – including with her bandmates Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox, and Billy Karren; her friendship with Kurt Cobain; and her introduction to Joan Jett – and they were a testament to how the true punk world nurtured and cared for its own.\n\n\n Hanna opens up about falling in love with Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys and her debilitating battle with Lyme disease, and she brings us behind the scenes of her later bands, Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin. She also writes candidly about the Riot Grrrl movement and its decline, documenting with love its grassroots origins but critiquing its later exclusivity.\n\n\n In an uncut voice all her own, Hanna reveals the darkest, hardest times along with the most joyful – and how it all fuelled her revolutionary art, from the 1980s to today.

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