Download or read book Adonis Garage written by Rynn Williams and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Adonis Garage introduces a talent exquisitely keyed to the register of New York City?s pulse and to the heartbeat of the day. Raw and graphic, with a brash and beautiful voice, Rynn Williams?s poetry immerses us in disillusionment and desire and bears witness to the meaning of survival. ø Judith Ortiz Cofer called Adonis Garage ?a book of life written by someone who has lived honestly and passionately, and whose art has been mastered in order to bear witness and find meaning in each day.? Rynn Williams's poems are ?brutally frank, brutally beautiful, and sexy,? said writer and critic Jonathan Holden.
Download or read book Gangland Gotham written by Allan R. May and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-08-12 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized crime and the mob figures who run it have long captured the imagination of the American public, appearing since the early twentieth century as characters in a host of popular books, movies, and television programs. But often what the public knew of such figures and their criminal careers was as much myth as fact. This book offers highly readable, carefully researched biographies that dispel the the myths but preserve the fascination surrounding 10 infamous New York mob leaders of the twentieth century. Each in-depth biography will help interested readers understand how and why each of these men achieved special notariety within the world of organized crime. Each biography describes the early years of each man, assessing how he came to a criminal career; his rise to prominence within the mob, providing reaction from those who knew him and witnessed his actions; and the last years of his career, assessing why it ended as it did. Each biography is illustrated with a picture of its subject and concludes with a listing of additional information resources, both print and electronic. A detailed subject index provides further access to the large amount of information contained in each biography. A timeline allows readers to quickly and easily track the birth, death, and important events in the life of each mobster.
Download or read book A Woman s Worth written by Nikita Lynnette Nichols and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If 28-year-old Monique Morrison had only one wish, it would be to fall in love with a man sent from God; a man who will cherish her forever. But Monique makes a huge mistake when she chooses to help herself. Going against her Christian values, she decides to play house and move in with her musician boyfriend, Boris Cortland. Boris is in no hurry to get to the altar now that Monique has already signed on to play the role of a wife. Though she's in church Sunday after Sunday, praying for God to touch Boris's heart and turn him from his wicked ways, it seems Monique's pleas are going unanswered. Suffering from neglect, rejection, and plenty of verbal abuse, Monique has all but given up on her dream of a relationship that represents unconditional love; that is, until Adonis Cortland moves in and does for Monique all of the things that Boris won't do. Could Boris's own cousin be the man Monique had been seeking? "This book is profound yet enlightening. The characters are believable and unique. The storyline is entertaining, and the readers of the book should definitely walk away examining their own lives and how their lives affect others." —Pastor Ricky Harris of Alpha and Omega Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois
Download or read book Username Bladen written by J.V. Carr and published by WestBowPress. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if messing up insanely in a video game could somehow cause serious catastrophic events on Earth? Like maybe a devastating hurricane or an airplane crash? Thats what happens to eighteen-year-old Bladen, after hes chosen to play in the real-life game Arcis. At first he thinks its cool, until his dreams become plagued by a black widow spider that begs for his help; death players want to murder life players like him on Earth, and Bladen realizes that when a level is lost, disasters cant be stopped. Bladens life becomes more and more tormented, as he stumbles between two worlds filled with hatred, jealousy, and love, until he hits a turning point and has to decide what he wantsto continue to sacrifice in the game, even if it costs him his life, or give it all up for his first love.
Download or read book Transfiguring medievalism written by Cary Howie and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transfiguring medievalism combines medieval literature, modern poetry and theology to explore how bodies, including literary bodies, can become apparent to the attentive eye as more than they first appear. Transfiguration, traditionally understood as the revelation of divinity in community, becomes a figure for those splendors, mundane and divine, that await within the read, lived and loved world. Bringing together medieval sources with modern lyric medievalism, the book argues for the porousness of time and flesh, not only through the accustomed cadences of scholarly argumentation but also through its own moments of poetic reflection. In this way, Augustine, Cassian, Bernard of Clairvaux, Dante, Boccaccio and the heroes of Old French narrative, no more or less than their modern lyric counterparts, come to light in new and newly complicated ways.
Download or read book The Prairie Schooner Book Prize written by James Engelhardt and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After ten years of selecting great books from writers, new and established, Prairie Schooner celebrates the first decade of its Book Prize series by offering this collection of excerpts from each year's winners in fiction and poetry. Writers such as Brock Clarke, Anne Finger, Rynn Williams, and Paul Guest open windows to ordinary and fantastic experience showcasing the liveliness and power of contemporary literature. Greg Hrbek's darkly comic, genre-bending tales stand alongside Ted Gilley's stories about achieving bliss through pain and John Keeble's reflections on community and the difficulty of love. Here Shane Book's poems serve as an elegiac witness to suffering, while Kathleen Flenniken's poems consider ordinary women constructing their own significance, and Kara Candito's explore sex, loss, and human passions. Whether the topic is fantastic or quotidian, childbirth or monsters, South American airplane disaster or suburban Wisconsin, this writing carries us to the furthest reaches of human experience.
Download or read book Nalani written by Claudia Genoveva Medrano and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War, greed and fear; that is what the world of Ezekiel knows all too well. Well throughout the years war has ravaged the seven nations like a disease. But where there is violence peace does eventually follow, but peace never lasts long. Three centuries after the great battle in Gamaliel, peace begins to shrivel away as a new power hungry group called Maura seizes control over the nations. It seems that no one is able to stop them, not even the governments. Corruption is one of the tools that Maura takes advantage of. But hope is not completely erased; there is one who still has a strong will to fight off this new threat. Even as she struggles to understand herself and remember her past, she falls into this cold world and finds that her past is somehow tied with Mauras. Now as she confronts the enemy and their victims she finds herself torn between her past and the present. Will she be able to confront her past that will help shape not only her destiny but the worlds? Will she find this Legendary Ezekielor find herself part of the old legend?
Download or read book In The End written by Michael Weisberg, M.D. and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "…….a thriller that opens along the lines of Robin Cook; but with more social and psychological issues, which are explored in greater, more satisfying detail. Its progression from a seemingly singular experience to humanity’s greatest catastrophe creates a fine cross-genre experience between medical novel, thriller, and sci-fi that keeps readers on their toes……" — D. Donovan, Midwest Book Review Gabriel, Rachel, Lester, Adonis and Charlotte; fictional characters whose lives mirror modern day challenges. Who will defy the odds? What will happen to bring them together? Novelist and Gastroenterologist Michael Weisberg, M.D. crafted the idea for In The End from a routine procedure. Before putting patients to sleep for their colonoscopies, he asks them if they have any questions. Many comically reply, "Doc, what's the meaning of life?" He always replies that this question cannot be answered because there is no one meaning to life, but instead the question should be, what gives meaning to your individual life?
Download or read book Sunclouds written by Octavus Roy Cohen and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wish You Were Here written by Ian Jack and published by Granta Magazine. This book was released on 2005 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Granta 91" is about ordinary life in Africa now -- without the gauze of sentiment or glare of media lights. Featuring new fiction from leading African writers, both established and new, including younger writers from the African diaspora such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Helon Habila. Plus Daniel Berger on the former Los Angeles cop now training Liberian police, John Ryle on Mussolini and the obelisk he stole from Ethiopia, and Andrew Rice on a Ugandan man in search of his son, kidnapped by rebels.
Download or read book Poets Writers written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poetry written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes for My Body Double written by Paul Guest and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who would guess that Godzilla, the Invisible Man, Elvis, Donald Duck, Ted Williams, and the Three Stooges might have something to say about the love and loss that shape the way we see the world? And yet these are the pop-culture coordinates that chart the emotional life brilliantly mapped out in Paul Guest?s second book of poems. Winner of the Prairie Schooner Prize in Poetry, this collection plumbs the depths of nature and culture (how, for instance, ?gar? in Old English means ?spear,? and an octopus can lose a limb during mating) to give form to the darkness and the light that make us human. ø In poetry whose tone is largely one of lament tempered by a wry and intelligent humor, Paul Guest does what a poet does best: he gives us the moments of his life refashioned to reflect the larger arc and meaning of our own?of life, that is, writ large.
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Download or read book Obsession written by Kiearra Baxter and published by Total Love Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 4 steamy black woman white man (BWWM) romance short stories with no cliffhanger! Off the Field - BWWM Football Sport Romance Emily was in between jobs and just trying to get back on her feet. Leaving a job interview with the New England Calvary, she had been full of hope of joining their first-rate medical team as a physical therapist. For the first time in a long time, she had been optimistic about the future. That’s when star quarterback Adonis Goodman crashed into her life. With his fancy sports car and charismatic smile, Emily was not prepared for the upheaval he caused. Two seconds, that’s all it took. Not even the length of time to throw a winning touchdown, or block an opponent, and Adonis’ life crashed, literally, into Emily. Pulling a beautiful woman from a burning car is not how he saw his day going. But, here is, trying to get her out before they both bite it. When he is attracted to her but she can’t stand the site of him, Adonis kicks it up a notch and unleashes his dazzling charm. Will that be enough to penetrate Emily’s tough shell and even tougher heart? Forbidden Love - BWWM Vampire Romance Alina was sent with her team of trained vampire hunters to clean up the Rochester area of vampire covens. They were successful and skilled in their task of eradicating the vampires. Until Jeremih, an heir to leading his own coven, creates his own team to fight against the hunters. Both sides have their own talents and the hunters’ numbers are dwindled just as the vampires’ are. Then in a fight near Alina and her hunters’ base, she is captured by the vampires and taken to a secret hideout in the backwoods of Minnesota. There Jeremih intends to get the information he needs about the hunters’ whereabouts from Alina, but she proves difficult to crack. Jeremih treats Alina with surprising gentleness and Alina soon realizes the vampires aren’t as bad as the hunters have made them out to be. Jeremih can’t deny he is attracted to Alina, but they are sworn enemies. Will the two fall into their hidden passion for each other? Will they get to be together? Jailbird - BWWM MC Biker Romance Nia doesn’t know if she can take any more pain. Her heart has been broken in ways that she never thought possible. Everything that she told herself that she would not tolerate, she has and everything that Jordan Rivers said that he wouldn’t do, he did. Yet, Nia still can’t seem to walk away. She is in too deep to give up now, at least, not without a fight. It seems that she is not the only one who believes that Jordan is worth fighting for. Jordan and Nia’s love is far from a fairy tale. In actuality, what they face, many couples have gone through and will go through, but what’s different, is how they handle adversity. Will these two grow together or grow apart? Is their love strong enough to withstand? Only time will tell and Jordan is facing a lot of it. Nia must decide if love is worth fighting for or if it would be easier to just walk away. Will Jordan finally be a man and stand up for the woman he loves? In this love story, Nia and Jordan find out that love is an action word and it takes effort. California Dreamer - BWWM Romance p-and-coming stadium jumper, Annique Rogers is competing for the top prize at the prestigious Del Mar Fairgrounds. After completing the first round with zero faults, she’s poised to take the top prize as she heads into the final round. Her horse stumbles, sending her flying through the air. Coming to her aid is the handsome, and available Dr. Connor Braun. But, Connor has a dark past in the form of his crazy ex-wife, Rosie, who has sabotaged every relationship Connor has had since their divorce five years before. When Rosie sees that Annique is not easily run off by her normal stunts, she pulls out all the stops to chase Connor’s latest fling away. But Connor and Annique are not willing to give up that easily. Will Rosie stop before she goes too far? Or will her jealousy push her over the edge, dragging Annique and Connor with her?
Download or read book The Delineator written by R. S. O'Loughlin and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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