RuPaul's Drag Race started out as a small reality TV show, and wound up reaching many, inspiring people, making them laugh and bringing them drama, creativity and drag right into their homes and hearts. In this book, we are given a bit of history of RuPaul and the show, with loads of interviews and quotes, …
Continue reading Don’t F&%k It Up! An Oral History Of RuPaul’s Drag Race by Maria Elena Fernandez
The Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest continual study of happiness inthe world, demonstrates that personal relationships are keys to emotional and physicalhealth (2023). By connecting to each other and to community, we in turn provide forourselves. Finding that true feeling of connection isn’t always easy. Introduction - Friends Of Friends Of Friends Friends …
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Meg Kissinger grew up in a family of 8, a rag tag bunch of kids in a loving home, but she also grew up hiding a secret: both of her parents were mentally ill and no one was talking about it. From her mother disappearing from the home for periods of time, to siblings struggling …
Stephane Breitwieser is the most prolific art thief of all time, taking art works and historical objects from museums all over Europe with the help of his girlfriend in broad daylight, amassing a collection worth over $2 billion. All of which he kept for his own enjoyment in his attic bedroom in his mother's house. …
His Majesty's Airship is the latest non-fic from Pulitzer prize finalist SC Gwynne, author of Empire of the Summer Moon. The books tells the story of the British Airship R101, which went down a huge blazing crash in 1930, causing more deaths than the Hindenburg disaster 7 years later. At the time, airships had been …
After being poisoned by pesticides used in her area, Diane Ladd's lungs were so scarred that she was given only 6 months to live. Her daughter, actress Laura Dern, was told that getting her mother walking might help and give her mother more time, so they started going for walks together. Terrified that they were …
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I wanted to be a ballerina for a while when I was a kid. I studied ballet from about 5 years old til I started high school, and though I haven't done ballet since then, I still love it and love to go see ballet whenever I can. Sadly this year I couldn't go see …
"The untold story of the six women who in programmed the world's first modern computer"When Kathy Kleiman came across photographs of the earliest computers, she saw women posed in the pictures. Told that they were just "refrigerator models", posed there just to make the machine look good, she wasn't convinced. Something about them looked professional …
When Paul Pringle got a tip about an overdose at a fancy hotel and the involvement of a medical man, he thought the story would be a quick one to complete. But the man at the hotel was Dean of Medicine at USC, Carmen Puliafito, and the University had it's fingers in a lot of …
Continue reading Bad City: Peril and power in the city of Angels by Paul Pringle
How good ideas get ignored in an economy built for men. The tagline above and on the cover explains the basic premise of this book. We open on the story of the wheeled suitcase. Anyone who has had to carry heavy bags or luggage will know that your fingers get cut into by the straps …
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