Download or read book Billie s Kiss written by Elizabeth Knox and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an Edwardian twist on The Tempest, and surprising, earthy, and magical qualities, this irresistible novel is set on the remote, divided Scottish island of Kissack and Skilling, one half of which looks historically and geographically towards Catholic Ireland, the other toward the Protestant north and Scandinavia. In the spring of 1903 a ship explodes as it docks on the island, drowning many of the passengers and crew in the icy waters of Stolnsay harbor. Young, strawberry-blonde-haired Billie Paxton is among the only survivors. Clumsy, illiterate, and suddenly alone, Billie will not say why, before the explosion, she jumped from ship to shore, and so falls under the immediate suspicion of her fellow passenger, Murdo Hesketh, and his cousin and employer, Lord Hallowhulme, who owns the island—and has controversial plans for improving the lives of its inhabitants. Gloriously inventive and vividly atmospheric, Billie’s Kiss conjures up a way of life hurtling toward a brave new world in an enchanting novel that brings together murder and eugenics, progress, prejudice, and the loss of innocence.
Download or read book Kiss Billie for Me Xxx written by Jeanette Gray and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1929, Betty Trainer, a beautiful, twenty-year-old woman immigrated to Australia from Scotland. Brave and ready for the unknown, she embarked on a new life, including getting married and having two children. But challenges developed, and soon she dealt with an abusive husband and postnatal depression, a tragic mix that led her to kill one of her sons and attempt to kill the other. In Kiss Billie for Me xxx, author Jeanette Gray, Bettys granddaughter, tells her story and that of Billie, the surviving boy who grew up to be Grays father. She shares Bettys tragedy as she migrated to Australia with no family to help her birth, parent, or recover from the unknown effects of postnatal depression. Gray narrates how Bettys situation and her actions had dramatic consequences for her and her surviving son and changed the course of this familys history. Kiss Billie for Me xxx offers insight into postnatal depression and restores dignity not only to Betty, but also to other women who suffer from the same affliction. While Kiss Billie for Me xxx is a story of tragedy and pain, it is also a story of great love and compassion, and serves as a lesson for treating mental illness with the love and care it deserves.
Download or read book Billies Kiss Proof written by Elizabeth Knox and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 13 by Shanley written by John Patrick Shanley and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). Thirteen plays by the Oscar-winning author of Moonstruck . Includes: "The Big Funk," "Savage in Limbo," "Danny & The Deep Blue Sea," "Welcome to the Moon," "The Red Coat," "Down & Out," "Let Us Go Out Into the Starry Night," "Out West," "A Lonely Impulse of Delight," "Women of Manhattan," "The Dreamer Examines His Pillow," "Italian-American Reconciliation," and "Beggars in the House of Plenty." Also includes an introduction by the author.
Download or read book OMG Queer written by Katherine E. Lynch, PhD. and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope. Fear. Desire. Despair. Promises. Betrayals. Lesbian. Gay. Bisexual. Transgender. Questioning. Intersex. This anthology of short stories gives voice to the rising generation as they define what it means to grow up queer in the twenty-first century. What is it like to grow up in a society that embraces you in certain ways but discriminates against you in others? How do you choose a label from the alphabet soup, and should you even have to? By turns heartwarming and heartbreaking, comical and caustic, these stories, imagined and told by youth across America, provide a snapshot of queerness at the dawn of the new millennium. Will Valentine be able to control her thirst—for blood and for vengeance? And can Valentine and Alexa's relationship endure against seemingly impossible odds?
Download or read book Judas Kiss written by Carol Marvell and published by Carol Marvell. This book was released on 2023-11-05 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinary jewellery heists in upper-class stores across Melbourne have been baffling the Melbourne police force. Each store targeted was fitted with the most sophisticated security system available, and yet, not a single alarm was activated in each attack. The only clue as to the perpetrator is a small token left behind at each location. The tokens are all identical, found on the forehead of a brutally murdered guard and inscribed with two words: “The Banca”. When a jewellery store in Sydney is targeted next, Detective Billie McCoy’s interest is piqued, but her mind is focused on more pressing personal matters closer to home. Jill Kuzac, cousin to Billie’s best friend, was lucky enough to receive community work instead of a jail term, only due to Billie’s support in the courtroom. Jill has barely finished her first month of service and is already lacking interest, particularly after meeting Harmony Conner. Billie’s instincts make it hard to trust the newcomer, but before she can investigate further, her life is suddenly turned upside down. Incriminating evidence emerges that places Billie as the number one suspect in the latest jewellery heist. To make matters worse, the evidence links her to the murder of a former police officer at the scene. Billie has no choice but to go on the run. With the full force hunting her down, she will need all her skill to prove her innocence. If she’s not careful who she trusts, she might just find she’s the next person found with a token on her forehead…
Download or read book Women of Manhattan written by John Patrick Shanley and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1986 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Rhonda, Judy and Billie are having dinner, over which they lament the fact that, while their careers are flourishing, their emotional lives are a wreck. Rhonda has just broken up with her boyfriend (but is unable to jettison the oversize
Download or read book Smashed written by Koren Zailckas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garnering a vast amount of attention from young people and parents, and from book buyers across the country, Smashed became a media sensation and a New York Times bestseller. Eye-opening and utterly gripping, Koren Zailckas’s story is that of thousands of girls like her who are not alcoholics—yet—but who routinely use booze as a shortcut to courage and a stand-in for good judgment. With one stiff sip of Southern Comfort at the age of fourteen, Zailckas is initiated into the world of drinking. From then on, she will drink faithfully, fanatically. In high school, her experimentation will lead to a stomach pumping. In college, her excess will give way to a pattern of self-poisoning that will grow more destructive each year. At age twenty-two, Zailckas will wake up in an unfamiliar apartment in New York City, elbow her friend who is passed out next to her, and ask, "Where are we?" Smashed is a sober look at how she got there and, after years of blackouts and smashups, what it took for her to realize she had to stop drinking. Smashed is an astonishing literary debut destined to become a classic.
Download or read book Herald and Presbyter written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ecofeminist Science Fiction written by Douglas A. Vakoch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecofeminist Science Fiction: International Perspectives on Gender, Ecology, and Literature provides guidance in navigating some of the most pressing dangers we face today. Science fiction helps us face problems that threaten the very existence of humankind by giving us the emotional distance to see our current situation from afar, separated in our imaginations through time, space, or circumstance. Extrapolating from contemporary science, science fiction allows a critique of modern society, imagining more life-affirming alternatives. In this collection, ecocritics from five continents scrutinize science fiction for insights into the fundamental changes we need to make to survive and thrive as a species. Contributors examine ecofeminist themes in films, such as Avatar, Star Wars, and The Stepford Wives, as well as television series including Doctor Who and Westworld. Other scholars explore an internationally diverse group of both canonical and lesser-known science fiction writers including Oreet Ashery, Iraj Fazel Bakhsheshi, Liu Cixin, Louise Erdrich, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Larissa Lai, Ursula K. Le Guin, Chen Qiufan, Mary Doria Russell, Larissa Sansour, Karen Traviss, and Jeanette Winterson. Ecofeminist Science Fiction explores the origins of human-caused environmental change in the twin oppressions of women and of nature, driven by patriarchal power and ideologies. Female embodiment is examined through diverse natural and artificial forms, and queer ecologies challenge heteronormativity. The links between war and environmental destruction are analyzed, and the capitalist motivations and means for exploiting nature are critiqued through postcolonial perspectives.
Download or read book Imagine written by Heather Nichole Rice and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-03-03 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joann Penki questions love what it is, how it makes a person, and what its worth; she finds out. Joann comes across confusion and acts on feelings and uncovers her lust for women. feelings also surface for someone while shes with someone else. there is a greater good who tries to come in between the love that she has discovered lets just say there is balance in her relationship that creates an epic love story and original masterpiece. This book Is full of drama, lust & supernatural romance.
Download or read book Ethan and Annie s Spiritual Journey written by T.F.T. Heart and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selecting a church is one of the most important decisions you’ll make.in your life. Your spiritual life and your attitude will be greatly affected by your choice. In Ethan and Annie’s Spiritual Journey, author and minister T.F.T. Heart discusses the issues church members and ministers face as they strive to serve God. He shares a fictional story about Ethan and Annie Hudson, a just-married couple who are in search of a church home and a spiritual life. Heart tells how as simple as that sounds, it is not the word to describe their journey. Through the Hudson’s story, Heart focuses on the churchgoers and the issues they may encounter in their Christian walk, while highlighting the minister and his effect on the congregation. Ethan and Annie’s Spiritual Journey serves as an illuminating force to encourage and restore those who may have walked away from Christ, and it seeks to strengthen those who are striving to stay on the right path. Many view death as life’s greatest tragedy, but Heart maintains that a life without Christ and a purpose is the ultimate tragedy.
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Download or read book Fathers on Film written by Katie Barnett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The father is an enduring and iconic figure in Hollywood cinema and in the 1990s, narratives of redemptive fatherhood featured prominently in some of the decade's most popular films like Kindergarten Cop (1990), Mrs Doubtfire (1993), Jurassic Park (1993) and The Lion King (1994). Interpreting such films through the lens of feminist and queer theory, along with masculinity studies and psychoanalysis, Katie Barnett offers an insightful and interdisciplinary discussion of cinematic fathers. Barnett reveals that the father figure is often portrayed as one that invests in and is part of a discourse of reproductive futurism. This plays out across a range of genres including rom-coms, fantasy, sci-fi, drama, and disaster. By exploring both blockbuster and more low-budget films of the 1990s, Barnett explores the figure of the father against the crisis of masculinity in the United States, and indeed more globally, at this time.
Download or read book Munsey s Magazine for written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
