Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City

Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City

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  • Author: Anne Thomas Soffee
  • Publisher: Chicago Review Press
  • ISBN: 1556529899
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 208

This hilarious peek into the early years of the hair-band era reveals the hierarchy of fishnets, bustiers, and chicks with the Holy Grail--a backstage pass. After college, Anne Thomas Soffee journeyed to Los Angeles to start a career as a rock journalist and small-time heavy-metal flack. A taste for other people's prescriptions and too much beer edges her freelance journalism work right off her schedule. She struggles with not being thin enough, pretty enough, or cool enough when, in the midst of the L.A. riots, Soffee is offered a coveted slot in Virginia Commonwealth University's MFA writing program. Determined to pull herself out of current habits, Soffee starts turning her life around, making a stop at rehab before she heads off to graduate school. Her quarter-life crisis is packed with offbeat characters that prove that fact is often funnier than fiction.


Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City

Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City

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  • Author: Anne Thomas Soffee
  • Publisher: Chicago Review Press
  • ISBN: 1556526474
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 256

This hilarious peek into the early years of the hair-band era reveals the hierarchy of fishnets, bustiers, and chicks with the Holy Grail--a backstage pass. After college, Anne Thomas Soffee journeyed to Los Angeles to start a career as a rock journalist and small-time heavy-metal flack. A taste for other people's prescriptions and too much beer edges her freelance journalism work right off her schedule. She struggles with not being thin enough, pretty enough, or cool enough when, in the midst of the L.A. riots, Soffee is offered a coveted slot in Virginia Commonwealth University's MFA writing program. Determined to pull herself out of current habits, Soffee starts turning her life around, making a stop at rehab before she heads off to graduate school. Her quarter-life crisis is packed with offbeat characters that prove that fact is often funnier than fiction.


Richmond Independent Press

Richmond Independent Press

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  • Author: Dale M Brumfield
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
  • ISBN: 1614239975
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 235

An acclaimed local author recounts the evolution of Richmond’s alternative newspapers, comics, and small presses beginning in the Civil Rights Era. As the political and social upheaval of the 1960s took hold across the United States, even the sleepy town of Richmond, Virginia, experienced a countercultural shift. New attitudes about the value of journalism spurred an underground movement in the press. “The Sunflower,” Richmond’s first underground newspaper, appeared in 1967 and set the stage for a host of alternative local media lasting into the 1990s and beyond. Publications such as the “Richmond Chronicle,” “Richmond Mercury,” and “Commonwealth Times,” as well as numerous minority-focused presses such as “Richmond Afro-American,” served the progressive-minded citizens of the River City. In Richmond Independent Press, the historian, activist and former “ThroTTle” editor Dale Brumfield reveals the untold story of this cultural revolution in the River City.


Richmond Noir

Richmond Noir

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  • Author: Andrew Blossom
  • Publisher: Akashic Books
  • ISBN: 1936070774
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 220

The River City emerges as a hot spot for unseemly noir in this anthology with a foreword by New York Times–bestselling author Tom Robbins. A rich literary tradition sets the stage for this talented group of authors who take their inspiration from Virginia’s capital city. Edgar Allan Poe has left his mark on the atmospheric town, giving its residents a taste for walking on the dark side. It’s no wonder that three local writers took it upon themselves to curate this moody and menacing collection, featuring stories by Dean King, Laura Browder, Howard Owen, Yazmina Beverly, Tom De Haven, X.C. Atkins, Meagan J. Saunders, Anne Thomas Soffee, Clint McCown, Conrad Ashley Persons, Clay McLeod Chapman, Pir Rothenberg, David L. Robbins, Hermine Pinson, and Dennis Danvers. “[Fifteen] gritty and ominous tales . . . The writing of Poe—who grew up and forged a literary reputation in Richmond, and is usually credited with inventing the detective story—may have set the stage for the town’s kiss-me-deadly tradition.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch


New Books on Women and Feminism

New Books on Women and Feminism

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  • Category : Feminism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 88


Nerd Girl

Nerd Girl

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  • Author: Jemma Bell
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781514174159
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 190

Amy Jenkins is your typical bookish Nerd Girl. She believes her heart will be safer crushing on fictional characters than the real thing. As her bad luck would have it she runs into her favorite book boyfriend in the most unlikely of places. Derrick Walker is a cover model for a world famous author. He has a busy schedule and never expected to have the girl of his dreams literally fall at his feet.The Nerd Girl and The Hunk in love. Can a relationship work between these two? Along for the ride are smart aleck best friends, an agent who makes the wicked witch look like a girl scout and a coonhound named Clyde. Nerd Girl is sure to be a wild ride.


School Library Journal

School Library Journal

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  • Category : Children's libraries
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 688


The British National Bibliography

The British National Bibliography

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  • Author: Arthur James Wells
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Bibliography, National
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 2744


Snake Hips

Snake Hips

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  • Author: Anne Thomas Soffee
  • Publisher: Chicago Review Press
  • ISBN: 1556525222
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 318

"Snake Hips" follows an Arab-American woman through her adventures in love and belly dancing.


Vigilante Nights

Vigilante Nights

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  • Author: Erin Richards
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 1440562369
  • Category : Young Adult Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 304

A "good boy" will do anything for vengeance when a gang rite kills his twin sister. Will Lucas win, or follow his sister Silver into the darkness? After a hideous car wreck, Lucas wakes from a coma to find that his world is gutted. Not only is his beloved twin sister, Silver, gone forever, but Lucas is broken in body and spirit. He will never be a college athlete, and is robbed of what he now realizes was the most important bond of his life. Although they weren't identical twins, Lucas and Silver shared a bond so fierce it defied reason, and was nearly supernatural. After her death, that bond seems to endure when Lucas sees Silver everywhere he turns. Either he's crazy, or Silver is trying to tell him something about the California gang initiation they stumbled into that cost Silver her life. Lucas is bent on revenge, turning on Raymond, Silver's former boyfriend; the one Lucas never wanted her to date. He forms a posse of vigilantes to take out the gangsters responsible for Silver's death, but he risks not only his own life, but the love of the new girl on his block, who knows more about Lucas and Silver than can be accounted for by mere chance.