Author : Maggie Estep
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Estep follows her first novel, "Diary of An Emotional Idiot, " with a set of linked stories that glimpses two women through the eyes of the men in their lives.
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Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 2021-07-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0128231823
Soft Robotics aims at providing state of art on research and potential approaches of soft robotics. It particularly challenges the traditional thinking of engineers, as the confluence of technologies, ranging from new materials, sensors, actuators and production techniques to new design tools, will make it possible to create new systems whose structures are almost completely made of soft materials, which bring about entirely new functions and behaviors, similar in many ways to natural systems. This is a huge research topic, “hot and with a huge potential due to new possibilities offered by these systems to cope with problems that cannot be addressed by robots built from rigid bodies. Chemical engineering can take part to the emerging field of soft robotics Soft and polymer materials can be used in sensing applications Soft robotics can solve many industrial issues and challenges
Author : Maggie Estep
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 193335481X
Alice turns to her half sister when things go wrong, and they discover an awful secret their mother has been keeping.
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Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 17,58 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Church and state
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Author : Maggie Estep
Publisher : Crown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307530825
Having drifted through thirty-three years of life, Ruby Murphy has put down roots in a rootless place: Coney Island. A recovering alcoholic who is fanatical in her love for animals and her misanthropic friends, Ruby lives above a furniture store and works at the musty Coney Island Museum. One day, Ruby is on the subway heading into Manhattan when the train stalls between stations. An elegant blond woman with a scarred face strikes up a conversation, and a misunderstanding between the two women leads to an offer Ruby decides she can’t refuse. The woman needs her boyfriend followed, and she thinks Ruby is the woman to do it—and do it right. Ruby’s life has been flat and painful lately. The Coney Island Museum isn’t doing much business, Ruby’s live-in boyfriend has moved out, and her best friend Oliver is battling cancer. Ruby agrees to follow the woman’s boyfriend, Frank, a man who works at Belmont Racetrack and seems to hang out in odd places with bad company. Ruby soon finds herself pushed headfirst into horse racing’s seamy underbelly. This is a dangerous world where nothing is as it appears, and people and horses seem to have limited life spans. When Ruby finds herself staring down the barrel of a loaded gun, she begins to have second thoughts. Only now it’s far too late.
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Page : 990 pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Short stories
ISBN :
Author : Maggie Estep
Publisher : Crown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 12,97 MB
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307523810
In the newest Ruby Murphy mystery, New York’s inadvertent sleuth discovers more about her shrink than she could have ever imagined as the doctor turns the tables, enlisting her help in the hunt for a one-legged man who’s been kidnapped and hidden in the Rockaways. Life gets even stranger when Ruby is inexplicably fired from her job at the Coney Island Museum, her friend Violet’s best racehorse is suddenly put up for sale, and a blue Honda begins shadowing Ruby’s every move as she journeys into the wilds of Pennsylvania in search of the woman she always thought had all the answers. Between her apartment that is spitting distance from the Cyclone rollercoaster, the barn deep in a no-man’s-land where she stables her horse, and the racetrack that is consuming her boyfriend, Ruby already knows her share of eccentric New York misfits. But in Flamethrower, she may have finally met her dangerous match.
Author : Lizzie Borden
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,4 MB
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1644212285
Illuminating accounts of how stripping and sex work informs writers’ experiences of friendship, motherhood, teaching, working, creating art, and activism. No one knows more than strippers about being looked at: as objects of desire, objects of curiosity, as angels or Jezebels or hookers with hearts of gold. In this anthology, twenty-three dancers whose careers span decades, geographies, and identities demand to be seen. Through stories from first nights on the job to the day they hung up their sky-high heels—or decided they never will—these writers offer glimpses into lives of camaraderie and celebration, joy, pride, despair, frustration, self-doubt, and fear. Their unfiltered perspectives on their lives, onstage and off, are a powerful counternarrative to the whorephobia that shrouds the conventional portrayals of strippers in crime movies, TV shows, music videos, newspaper articles, and legislative debates. Each of these illuminating essays and interviews peels away tired myths and salacious speculation and presents the naked truth: that sex work is real work and strippers are real people. Contributors: Cookie Mueller • Kathy Acker • Jo Weldon • Susan McMullen • Maggie Estep • Chris Kraus • Jodi Sh. Doff • Terese Pampellonne • Jill Morley • Susan Walsh • Debi Kelly Van Cleave • Elissa Wald • Essence Revealed • Sassy Penny • Jacq Frances • Reese Piper • Lindsay Byron • The Incredible, Edible Akynos • Antonia Crane • Lily Burana • A M Davies • Kayla Tange • Selena the Stripper
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Publisher :
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Arts, Latin American
ISBN :
Author : Maggie Estep
Publisher : Broadway Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,48 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN : 0609610333
Maggie Estep s critically praised heroine, Ruby Murphy, is back! Back in Coney Island with a bunch of endearing misfits, back at the racetrack ogling thoroughbreds, and back learning that, on the seamy side of the sport of kings, survival can be a long shot. Ruby s life is nothing if not complicated: she s spending a lot of her time worrying about a jockey named Attila Johnson; a good-hearted Teamster with a bad back; a neighbor who is suspicious of anything that moves; one very fat cat who craves raw meat; a missing FBI agent; an underused piano; a few fine horses and the sure knowledge that somehow, somewhere, there is a killer among them."
