I love my LBDs-my little black dresses. When I throw one on, I feel fabulous and empowered. No one can bring me down. But then something like divorce enters your life, all that confidence goes right out the window-and that's why I decided to write this book. Just as your other LBD fills you with confidence and optimism, so can my LBD book! I understand what you're going through. I've been there. I want to encourage you to look at divorce differently. Are you sick and tired of feeling so full of sadness, shame or regret every time you even think about divorce? Wouldn't it feel better if you could be divorced and proud? My LBD book explores the many reasons why people stay put-often for all the wrong reasons. Would you rather be controlled ... or be in control? I'm going to show you not only how to create a stronger, healthier life, but why you are absolutely worth it-no matter what it takes. You deserve to be happy and free. It's that simple.

In this generous collection of book reviews and literary essays, legendary Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau showcases the passion that made him a critic—his love for the written word. Many selections address music, from blackface minstrelsy to punk and hip-hop, artists from Lead Belly to Patti Smith, and fellow critics from Ellen Willis and Lester Bangs to Nelson George and Jessica Hopper. But Book Reports also teases out the popular in the Bible and 1984 as well as pornography and science fiction, and analyzes at length the cultural theory of Raymond Williams, the detective novels of Walter Mosley, the history of bohemia, and the 2008 financial crisis. It establishes Christgau as not just the Dean of American Rock Critics, but one of America's most insightful cultural critics as well.

Presents a guide to nearly 27,000 children's oicture book titles grouped in over 1,200 subjects and indexed by author, title, and illustrator.

Already an internet phenomenon, and destined to be the 'little book that could...' this collection of light-hearted yet landmark insights will make you see the possibilities in your life in a whole new way. 'You can get through anything life hands you if you stay put in the day you are in and don't jump ahead.' When Regina Brett turned fifty, she wrote a column on the fifty lessons life had taught her. She reflected on everything she had learned through becoming a single parent, looking for love in the wrong places, battling cancer and making peace with a difficult childhood. Here, in the tradition of THE LAST LECTURE, TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE, SIMPLE ABUNDANCE and DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF, Regina takes her fifty lessons and explores them in short essays that are deeply personal. From 'Don't take yourself too seriously - nobody else does' to 'Life isn't tied up with a bow, but it's still a gift', her warm and wise words will strike a chord with anyone who needs a little help to get back on track and feel good about life.