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One part of John Waters?s iconic ?Trash Trilogy,? Flamingos Forever is a dark-comedy screenplay about a drag queen trying to retain her title of ?Filthiest Person in the World.?Fifteen years after the events of Pink Flamingos, Babs Johnson returns to Baltimore from a life spent largely in bus station lavatories, only to find that she once again has to fight for the right to claim the title of ?World?s Filthiest Person.? Her nemesis Connie Marble?s sister, Vera Venninger, and her necrophiliac husband, Wilbur, are in her way. So begins a new battle of filth.This raucous, filthy?and essential!?volume in John Waters?s oeuvre never made it to the screen, so this is readers? and his legions of fans? one chance to see how this ghastly and irreverent saga meets its end!

Discover the incredible journey of leaves each season and their essential role in nature! As winter fades into spring, the big job of leaves begins—unfurling from buds and stretching out to soak up the sun. From delicate maple leaves to the large fronds of ferns and everything in between, learn what leaves can do in this pitch-perfect picture book for young readers. With clear, informative text and bright, charming illustrations, along with amusing interjections from the leaves themselves, this is an exciting addition to the LITTLE SEASONS picture book series exploring natural life cycles!

A Best Book of the Year: Kirkus, The Brooklyn Public Library, NBC New York A National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Book Review Editors? ChoiceA Best Book of the Year (So Far): W magazineA Must-Read: The New York Times Book Review, Nylon, Star Tribune, Ms., Kirkus Reviews, The Bay Area Reporter, Town & Country, InsideHook, San Francisco Chronicle?[A] monumental biography.? ?Hilton Als, The New Yorker?A rich portrait of a glittering, communal, and bygone NYC . . . [and] of the glamorous queer icon.? ?Arimeta Diop, Vanity FairFrom the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol superstar Candy Darling.You must always be yourself no matter what the price . . . Don?t dare destroy your passion for the sake of others. The Warhol superstar and transgender icon Candy Darling was glamour person? d, but she was without a real place in the world.Growing up on Long Island, lonely and quiet and queer, she was enchanted by Hollywood starlets like Kim Novak. She found her turn in New York?s early O?-O?-Broadway theater scene, in Warhol?s ?lms Flesh and Women in Revolt, and at the famed nightclub Max?s Kansas City. She inspired songs by Lou Reed and the Rolling Stones. She became friends with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, borrowed a dress from Lauren Hutton, posed for Richard Avedon, and performed alongside Tennessee Williams in his own play.Yet Candy lived on the edge, relying on the kindness of strangers, friends, and her quietly devoted mother, sleeping on couches and in cheap hotel rooms, keeping a part of herself hidden. She wanted to be a star, but mostly she wanted to be loved. Her last diary entry was: ?I shall try to be grateful for life . . . Cannot imagine who would want me.? Candy died at twenty-nine in 1974, just as conversations about gender and identity were beginning to enter the broader culture. She never knew it, but she changed the world.Brimming with all the ?zz and wildness of New York in the 1960s and ?70s, this is the ?rst biography of this extraordinary ?gure?an unintentional pioneer who became an icon. Cynthia Carr?s Candy Darling is packed with tales of luminaries, gossip, and meticulous research, laced with Candy?s words and her friends? recollections, and signals Candy?s long-overdue return to the spotlight.Includes 16 pages of color photographs

A witch generationally cursed to never find true love sets out to break the spell cast on her family, and must team up with the last person who wants to help her ? the witch who set the curse in the first place.Doreen MacKinnon is doomed to die of a broken heart - if she can?t break the centuries old curse placed on her family.Three hundred years ago, Ambrose MacDonald, a powerful male witch, fell in love with a MacKinnon. And when the MacKinnon witches forbade him from seeing his love, by secretly hiding her away, he retaliated by cursing the family and its future generations to never find love. But it wasn?t without a cost. Now, Ambrose is imprisoned by those same witches, trapped in a tempest and doomed to outlive everyone he has ever loved.But Doreen isn?t like the other MacKinnon witches. As the 13th generation of the MacKinnon line, Doreen is one of the most powerful witches in centuries? and one of the loneliest. So when she discovers where Ambrose has been trapped, she releases him to help her break the curse, once and for all. Ambrose agrees to help, but with his own motive: vengeance. He plans to use her as bait to enact his revenge on her family. Together, they enter a series of trials, which take them to a castle in Scotland, off a cliff, and into a world beyond their wildest dreams. As they work together, sparks start to fly, but soon Doreen must choose how far she is willing to go to break the curse, and what she''s willing to sacrifice.Paige Crutcher''s A Circle of Uncommon Witches is a story of adventure, romance, and destiny, that asks: is true love worth the cost?