Download or read book Head in the Clouds Feet Treading Water written by Mark McCallister and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book You ll hear from me written by Luis Algorri and published by Bruno-Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Javier is a student who lives an uncomplicated life, until he gets to know the younger brother of his girlfriend. Immediately he feels an almost magical attraction to the boy. Everything on him appears to be perfect: His face, his smile, even the blue trunk he's wearing in the swimming pool. Javier is after him until he finally finds a way to get close to him. "You'll hear from me" is a novel full of deep feelings and devotion. Algorri's clear and intuitive style is alluring and erotically charged, capturing the reader in a web of love and passion.
Download or read book The Clouds Still Hang written by Patrick C Notchtree and published by Patrick C Notchtree. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of love and loyalty, betrothal and betrayal, triumph and tragedy; charting one gay man's attempts to rise above the legacy of a traumatic childhood. Based on the author's own life, it will strike a chord with many who have been through similar things. It's a varied, exciting, demanding, sometimes terrifying life story. It contains some explicit sexual narrative, including sexual violence. http://www.thecloudsstillhang.com
Download or read book Too Close to Call written by Michael Kelsay and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rowdy and deep-dyed "southern," a comic first novel of politics, booze, and a ne'er-do-well's coming of age
Download or read book Available Light written by Nicholas Sumner and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Sumner is a photographer whose work has been published in twenty nine travel guide books. This, his first travel narrative, recounts the story of a seven-year journey across Asia in pursuit of beautiful pictures. "Before I left home, I thought that I knew something about photography, but I found that what knowledge I had was more hindrance than help and I had to admit, that really, I didn't know anything at all. This was humbling, and a little frightening, but it was also the beginning of a process of discovery in which my expectations as a photographer and as a traveller were constantly challenged, reassessed and revised. “I experienced moments that were terrifying and sublime, hilarious and tragic. I was mugged, threatened with guns and arrested; I journeyed among mountains, through jungles and cities, I encountered deserts both spiritual and physical, saw things so beautiful that they moved me to tears and received kindness so absolute that I can never repay it. I knew both joy and despair, I ate kangaroo pie, discovered the exact monetary value of my eyebrows and I fell in love. Twice.” His journey became much more than a quest for great images. Travelling and photography are pursuits of the curious, they complement and sometimes conflict with one another but both are driven by a desire to observe and a hunger for insight. Both can touch the spirit, move the heart, and both can reveal truth.
Download or read book Oh Pure and Radiant Heart written by Lydia Millet and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millet's latest novel is a black-comic tour de force depicting the "second coming" of atomic bomb creators Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard. Despite being dead, these scientists are spotted in Santa Fe by a shy librarian, who joins them on a pilgrimage to Washington, D.C.
Download or read book Dawn of our Solstices written by Aurélien Di Sanzo and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conceptual collection of poems about abstract and physical shelters : a memory, a place, a song, a feeling can be seen as a shelter that helps to escape reality for a limited period.
Download or read book The Wild Mandrake written by Jason Jobin and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the cusp of adulthood, a young writer’s life is stalled as he faces cancer that keeps coming back. Doctors used to tell him he was cured. That was a long time ago. Ever since he first left home at age nineteen, writer Jason Jobin has had cancer. Every five years, like clockwork, it relapses, and yet he always pulls through, surrounded by friends and family but isolated by illness. Chemotherapy, surgeries, radiation — these persist, but they aren’t the milestones of his life. They can’t be, he won’t let them be. From helicoptering into the Yukon backcountry to teaching in an elite writing program, Jason strives to enter adulthood with some normalcy, but his is the life of “a special case.” And he does live. He lives working at a deli for minimum wage as his students come down the hill to shop and ask what he’s doing there. He lives measuring out nausea pills and benzos while his roommates drink and smoke and party. He lives lying to girlfriends about past diagnoses because what can you say? What do you build on rubble? He lives high and low and in between. Again he is sick, again he is cured. It’s miraculous. A great gift. But never enough. Told in short glimpses, this story redefines what it means to survive. Jobin brings together the illuminated moments of loss and joy as he navigates chronic illness and builds from it something new and wildly unexpected.
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Download or read book Fracking Dinosaurs written by Dalton Mire and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In FRACKING DINOSAURS ancient aquatic carnivores that have lived quietly for eons at the bottom of Cayuga Lake in upstate New York are driven to the surface when fracking fluid pollutes their pristine environment. As university paleontologists discover ancient fossils in the strata around the lake, camp counselors discover the fossils are alive and hungry. Gas and salt executives put profit before safety as they compete for the the resources under Cayuga Lake. This competition causes fracking generated earthquakes that rip open the salt mine under the lake flooding it and generating waves that devastate the people living around the lake.
Download or read book NEPHILIM written by David Lucero and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Summary of Nephilim: Genesis By David Lucero The novel Nephilim: Genesis cannot be easily summarized. It’s a book about friendship, faith, destiny, and discovery. But it is so much more than that as well. Of course, there are main characters. Villains, heroes, supporting characters, those are the usual items found in a fiction book. There is a plot, of course, and tons of inspirations. But to break down the novel would not do it justice. To say that Alexander Luciano is the main character is just putting him into a role that he doesn’t fit easily into. A square peg in a round hole, so to speak. The Nephilim themselves are not easily described either. If you take the literal translations of them from the Old Testament, then they were giants born of mortal women who had been seduced by fallen angels. But they were briefly mentioned, almost impossible to spot if you’re not looking for them, and that leaves a vast amount of room for interpretation. I prefer to think of Nephilim as sons and daughters that, yes, were half-human/half-angels, but also much more than that. They were influential, giants not in the literal sense, but metaphorically, much as some people are “giants of industry.” These are not literally tall men or women, they are people that have shaped our commercial and financial institutions. They are individuals that have formed the basis of our society in such a way that we look up to them in reverence. So to say Nephilim are in that vein might be more accurate. They are “giants of destiny” if you will, leaders and warriors and thinkers. They are people that have walked with the gods and kept stride. They are idols and icons. Does that mean that I think Alexander Luciano is an icon? Yes, in a sense. He is what I wish I could be, not because he is almost supernatural, but because he has discovered his destiny and has embraced it with all his heart and soul. He is a shining example of what I would like to be. He is an angel, true, but he is still only a man. The novel Nephilim: Genesis was a long work in progress. I wrote several drafts, went through so many new characters and new plots that I can’t even remember all of them. It was crafted, not written, and I’m very proud of it. The characters in the book: Avatar, Sage, Epic, Arcadia, Magus, and Kheiron, are not just the characters I created for the book, they are characters that grew out of friendship, faith, and dedication. I didn’t write them, they came to life and I merely translated them onto the written page. Like so many stories in existence, there is sadness, happiness, pain, and joy in this novel. Some of it was my idea, some of it was not. And I don’t mean that I took other people’s ideas, but merely that the story became what it is because I was open to the possibility that this story was not entirely something I could create. I let the story go where it wanted to go, and I just tried to type fast enough to keep up. Alexander Luciano is a caring young man, but stubborn. He is a successful businessman. He is a son, a lover, a fighter. He is strong, brave, and a quick thinker. I am not any of these things entirely, but he is me. He is the idol I look up to. He is the “giant” in my storytelling. But all of the characters are important to me. Some of them were so easy to come up with, it was like a thunderbolt to my brain when I realized I was stupid for never thinking of them before. Some of them crept in and came to life and I never saw them coming. If and when you read the novel, I hope you find your own “giant” to look up to. Someone you wish you could be. It might not be Alexander Luciano, it might
Download or read book The Man Who Guarded the Bomb written by Gregory Orfalea and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy finds himself alone with his first love in a toboggan stalled atop the Matterhorn at Disneyland. A woman, bitter about her marriage to a man turned blind, must decide if he lives or dies. A man haunted by his role in creating the H-bomb suddenly disappears in old age, only to turn up at Alamagordo, seeking an Indian and redemption. Such characters, at the crossroads of emotion and ethics, confounding loss and resurrection, populate this unforgettable collection of tales. Loosely connected, the stories chronicle the lives of the Matters, a captivating, tragic, yet ultimately exultant Arab American family. Spanning continents and a century, the stories center on the balm that human relationships offer. In "The Chandelier," a boy desperate to feed his starving family hauls a stolen chandelier over a snowy mountain in Lebanon during World War I. A young Mexican nurse and her lover wind their way through eighteenth-century California missions in "Fabiola." Against the backdrop of the September 11 attacks, an Arab American man is thrown from a bus, echoing past racial discriminations, in "Get Off the Bus." With a poet’s ear and a historian’s keen eye for detail, Orfalea offers readers beautifully crafted stories filled with flawed yet irresistible characters who are rendered with great tenderness and aching complexity.
Download or read book The Student Actor s Handbook written by Louis John Dezseran and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Point Man written by Steve Englehart and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magickal novel by comics legend Steve Englehart in which an ex-Army DJ is recruited by a legendary alchemist to fight a cabal that is using magick as a weapon of mass destruction. Max August was a point man when he served during the Vietnam War, the guy who had to lead his patrol through dangers he couldn't possibly anticipate. Now he's a disc jockey, at one with the music and his faithful audience . . . until the day when he is swept into a battle invisible to all but the participants. For nearly five centuries, Cornelius Agrippa has fought against an evil that has threatened to corrupt and destroy everything good and untainted in the world. Now, Max has joined the battle. It wasn't his idea to fight a demonic entity that can become anything it wants: an undying monster or the most desirable woman in the world. Max has been chosen by fate to fight those who would use magick to destroy freedom and wreak havoc on an unsuspecting world. Along with Agrippa and Valerie Drake, a beautiful, talented singer, Max is the only hope of the free world. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book The Breath of Hellspur written by Michael C. Bosco Jr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-10-13 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Korbin Castlebane is a young mage who must live up to high expectations. After all, his uncle, Kendle, and The Heroes of Rothan are famous for their many brave deeds. When Korbin learns from his teacher about a magical artifact called The Breath of Hellspur, he is instantly enthralled. He believes that if he finds the sacred relic, he will finally live up to his family name. So, the mage teams up with a band of young adventurers on a quest to find the artifact. But when he runs into trouble, his famous uncle and his band of semi-retired heroes must come to his aid, not knowing the persuasive influence that the dark wizard Grazalon has had upon the decision to begin the journey. The wizard will call upon all of his powers to make sure that the Heroes of Rothan are crushed. They shall do no more good deeds. Join Korbin, his uncle and a band of heroes as they pursue adventure and seek to vanquish the forces of darkness in The Breath of Hellspur.
Download or read book Life Among the Dead written by Daniel Cotton and published by Permuted Press+ORM. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A virus turns humans into the ravenous undead in this zombie apocalypse thriller—first in the epic series of survival and sacrifice. There are over a million people in the city of Waterloo. Today, most of them have died, and now they are hungry. Corporal Dan Williamson is caught in the middle of the outbreak. He is desperately trying to reach his wife who is somewhere amid the urban decay. There are other souls out there, other tales of survival among the horror. Dan will soon learn that the living may prove to be an even bigger threat than the dead.
Download or read book The Chronology of Water written by Lidia Yuknavitch and published by Hawthorne Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not your mother’s memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch, a lifelong swimmer and Olympic hopeful escapes her raging father and alcoholic and suicidal mother when she accepts a swimming scholarship which drug and alcohol addiction eventually cause her to lose. What follows is promiscuous sex with both men and women, some of them famous, and some of it S&M, and Lidia discovers the power of her sexuality to help her forget her pain. The forgetting doesn’t last, though, and it is her hard-earned career as a writer and a teacher, and the love of her husband and son, that ultimately create the life she needs to survive.
