Beauty & Dynamite

An updated and revised edition celebrating the sixteenth anniversary of this cult classic memoir!

Once upon a time, a young girl walked into a world of wonder and delight. But that's not where this story starts.

The young woman published a nationally recognized children's book and edited a star-filled collection of stories to benefit the tsunami relief effort. But that's not where this story ends.

Meet Alethea Kontis, whose life is an adventure that tears through these pages like a hurrican...