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Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch
Category: Fiction
The bestselling author of The Small Backs of Children offer a vision of our near-extinction and a heroine--a reimagined Joan of Arc--poised to save a world ravaged by war, violence, and greed, and forever change history, in this provocative new novel. In the near future, world wars have transformed the ...Show more
Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
Category: Biography
From the debris of her troubled early life, Lidia Yuknavitch weaves an astonishing tale of survival. A kind of memoir that is also a paean to the pursuit of beauty, self-expression, desire - for men and women - and the exhilaration of swimming, The Chronology of Water lays a life bare.It is a life that ...Show more
Dora: A Headcase by Dr Lidia Yuknavitch
Category: Biography
"Dora: A Headcase" is a contemporary coming-of-age story based on Freud's famous case study--retold and revamped through Dora's point of view, with shotgun blasts of dark humor and sexual play. Ida needs a shrink . . . or so her philandering father thinks, and he sends her to a Seattle psychiatrist. Imm ...Show more
Dora: a Headcase by Lidia Yuknavitch; Chuck Palahuniuk (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
Ida has a secret: she is in love with her best friend. But any time she gets close to intimacy, Ida faints or loses her voice. She needs a shrink. Or so her philandering father thinks.Immediately wise to the head games of her new shrink, Siggy, Ida - and alter-ego Dora - hatch a plan to secretly film hi ...Show more
On Being Human - A Memoir of Waking up, Living Real, and Listening Hard by Jennifer Pastiloff; Lidia Yuknavitch (Foreword by)
Category: Biography
Centered around the touchstone stories Jen tells in her popular workshops, On Being Human is the story of how a starved person grew into the exuberant woman she was meant to be all along by battling the demons within and winning.
The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
In the near future, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the unending violence and the planet's now-radioactive surface, humans have regrouped to a mysterious platform known as CIEL, hovering over their erstwhile home. The changed world has turned evolution on its head: the ...Show more
The Book of Joan: A Novel by Lidia Yuknavitch
Category: Fiction
The bestselling author of The Small Backs of Children offers a vision of our near-extinction and a heroine—a reimagined Joan of Arc—poised to save a world ravaged by war, violence, and greed, and forever change history, in this provocative new novel. In the near future, world wars have transformed the ...Show more
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
Category: Biography
From the debris of her troubled early life, Lidia Yuknavitch weaves an astonishing tale of survival. It is a life that navigates, and transcends, abuse, addiction, self-destruction and the crushing loss of a stillborn child.A kind of memoir that is also a paean to the pursuit of beauty, self-expression, ...Show more
The Chronology of Water: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch; Chelsea Cain (Introduction by)
Category: Biography
This is not your mother's memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the listener through issues of gender, sexuality, violence, and the family from the point of view of a lifelong swimmer turned artist. In writing that explores the nature of memoir itself, her story traces the ...Show more
The Misfit's Manifesto by Lidia Yuknavitch
Category: Personal Development | Series: TED 2
'If the road you came in on led through several hells and you walked it more alone than you'd ever want anyone to be, if you were a wolf who chewed off her own leg to escape where you started out, if you paved the road with broken things and crawled in on your knees, this is your book, full of your peop ...Show more
The Small Backs of Children by Lidia Yuknavitch
Category: Fiction
In a war-torn village in Eastern Europe, an American photographer captures a heart-stopping image: a young girl fleeing a fiery explosion that has engulfed her home and family. It becomes an icon for millions, winning acclaim and prizes - and a subject of obsession for one writer, the photographer's bes ...Show more
The Small Backs of Children by Dr Lidia Yuknavitch
Category: Fiction
National Bestseller - A masterful literary talent explores the treacherous, often violent borders between war and sex, love and art.With the flash of a camera, one girl s life is shattered, and a host of others altered forever. . .In a war-torn village in Eastern Europe, an American photographer capture ...Show more