Download or read book I Am Nobody written by Greg Gilhooly and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ”I Am Nobody is an honest, tragic account of child sexual abuse and a powerful resource for individuals struggling with recovery. Gilhooly clearly highlights the shortcomings of the Canadian justice system’s approach; hopefully, one day, the punishment will fit the crime." —Sheldon Kennedy, former NHL player and author of Why I Didn't Say Anything In this raw, unflinching look at how his dream of playing hockey was stolen from him by charismatic hockey coach and sexual predator Graham James, Greg Gilhooly describes in anguishing detail the mental torment he suffered both during and long after the abuse and the terrible reality behind the sanitized term “sexual assault.” Although James has been convicted of sexually assaulting some of his victims, including Sheldon Kennedy and Theo Fleury, he neither confessed in court nor was convicted of sexually assaulting many of his other victims, including Gilhooly, depriving him of the judicial closure he craved. Gilhooly also provides a valuable legal perspective—as both a victim and a lawyer—missing from other such memoirs, and he delivers a powerful indictment of a legal system that, he argues, does not adequately deal with serial sexual child abuse or allocate enough resources to the rehabilitation of the victim. Most important, Gilhooly offers hope, affirmation, and inspiration for those who have suffered abuse and for their loved ones.
Download or read book I Am Nobody s Nigger written by Dean Atta and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2013-03-04 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionary, reflective and romantic, I Am Nobody's Nigger is the powerful debut collection by one of the UK's finest emerging poets. Exploring race, identity and sexuality, Dean Atta shares his perspective on family, friendship, relationships and London life, from riots to one-night stands. Longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2014'Go Dean Atta. Speak the truth. Tweet the truth. Upload it. Let it ring out over the digital domain and strike at the heart of the offline wireless and disconnected.' Lemn Sissay 'Dean Atta's poetry is as honest as truth itself. He follows no trend; he seeks no favours ... Beyond black, beyond white, beyond straight, beyond gay, so I say. Love your eyes over these words of truth. You will be uplifted.' Benjamin Zephaniah 'Righteous and forceful' Peter Tatchell'I can do nothing but take my hat off to Dean Atta for speaking out, saying what he believed, and doing it so effectively and powerfully that countless people heard it who would never normally have done so. Poetry is a powerful tool, and I Am Nobody's Nigger is a perfect example of when that tool shows its full strength.' Huffington Post' Huffington Post 'Raconteur Dean Atta doing what he does best; articulating London's dark, deep-rooted social cancers through a beautiful and intricately personal narrative.' Clash
Download or read book I m Nobody Who are You written by Mary Anderson and published by Atheneum Books. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unattractive and lonely, Ellie is amazed and delighted when the unusual new girl at school singles her out as a friend and suggests that they combine the psychic powers they both seem to have.
Download or read book I m Nobody Who Are You written by Emily Dickinson and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2002 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the author's greatest poetry--from the wistful to the unsettling, the wonders of nature to the foibles of human nature--is an ideal introduction for first-time readers. Original.
Download or read book I am Nobody s Lunch Gone Missing written by Steven Cosson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written and directed by Steven Cosson with songs by Michael Friedman, (I am) Nobody's Lunch is a dark ride through the landscape of American public culture. This latest creation from the Obie-winning company The Civilians asks the thorny question-how do we know what we know when everyone in power seems to be lying? Is it possible to know what's really going on in the world when information is manipulated to serve particular interests? Does anyone really care? Turning extensive interviews into a mercurial cabaret-play, a versatile cast inhabits an eccentric cast of characters, all taken from real life. (I am) Nobody's Lunch opened at the Assembly Rooms at the Edinburgh Fringe festival in August 2006, transferring to the Soho Theatre, London in September. Published alongside a second short play, Gone Missing.
Download or read book The Truth about Santa written by Greg Kotis and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Santa Claus is tired of the lies. Like the gods of old, he, too, has his mortal mistresses. This Christmas Eve he will bring Mary, his favorite earthly consort, and Luke and Freya, their illegitimate, semi-divine children, back to his No
Download or read book Justin Doyle s I Am Nobody I Am Somebody written by Justin Doyle and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I am Nobody Who are you Are you Nobody too written by Nia B and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I did not have it, I craved it. When it worked incessantly to prove its love for me, IÍd flee. When I should not have it, I wanted it most and when it did not want me, I wanted it more. I felt most beautiful when it needed me. So, I have lied, cheated, and stole in its name. From the first time I had it, I knew I wanted it forever and decided then to do whatever it took to keep it. I just could not figure out how to get it to stay.
Download or read book Why I Didn t Say Anything written by Sheldon Kennedy and published by Insomniac Press. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996, Sheldon Kennedy rocked the insular world of Canadian hockey by announcing that his former minor-league coach, Graham James -- the Hockey News 1989 Man of the Year -- had sexually abused him more than 300 times. The media portrayed Kennedy as a hero for breaking the code of silence in professional hockey and bringing James to justice. The heroic myth intensified in 1998 when Kennedy announced that he was going to in-line skate from Newfoundland to British Columbia to raise awareness of sexual abuse. The skate raised over $1 million for Canadian Red Cross sexual abuse programs, and Kennedy settled in Calgary with his wife and young daughter. Anyone who has followed hockey in the last ten years is familiar with the story of ex-NHL player Sheldon Kennedy. As one of the most promising hockey talents to emerge from the Canadian minor leagues in the last two decades, Kennedy was destined for hockey greatness. But after he was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in 1988, he attracted more attention for his off-ice antics than for his contributions to the score sheet. Plagued by rumours of drug and alcohol abuse and a string of injuries, Kennedy drifted from team to team. The happy ending promised by the headlines never materialized. Still haunted by the demons of sexual abuse, Kennedy's life spiralled out of control. Now he has finally come forward to tell his story, and the story of coach Graham James, who is out of prison and currently coaching hockey in Europe.
Download or read book Nobody s Son written by Luis Alberto Urrea and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and an Anglo mother, Urrea moved to San Diego at age three. In this memoir of his childhood, Urrea describes his experiences growing up in the barrio and his search for cultural identity.
Download or read book Scrappy Little Nobody written by Anna Kendrick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of whimsical autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air recounts memorable milestones from her New England upbringing to the blockbuster films that have made her one of Hollywood's most popular actresses, "--Baker & Taylor.
Download or read book I m Nobody Who are You written by Edna Barth and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 1979-07 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the woman whose posthumously published poetry brought her the public attention she had carefully avoided during her lifetime.Includes many of her poems.
Download or read book I Am Nobody s Lunch Gone Missing written by Steven Cosson and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written and directed by Steven Cosson for The Civilians, a New York-based theater company, with songs by Michael Friedman, Nobody's Lunch is a dark ride through the landscape of American public culture. Turning extensive interviews into a mercurial cabaret-play, the versatile cast inhabits an eccentric cast of characters, all taken from real life.
Download or read book Nobody Will Tell You This But Me written by Bess Kalb and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: VOGUE • FORBES • BOOKPAGE • NEW YORK POST • WIRED “I have not been as profoundly moved by a book in years.” —Jodi Picoult Even after she left home for Hollywood, Emmy-nominated TV writer Bess Kalb saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever left her. Bobby was a force—irrepressible, glamorous, unapologetically opinionated. Bobby doted on Bess; Bess adored Bobby. Then, at ninety, Bobby died. But in this debut memoir, Bobby is speaking to Bess once more, in a voice as passionate as it ever was in life. Recounting both family lore and family secrets, Bobby brings us four generations of indomitable women and the men who loved them. There’s Bobby’s mother, who traveled solo from Belarus to America in the 1880s to escape the pogroms, and Bess’s mother, a 1970s rebel who always fought against convention. But it was Bobby and Bess who always had the most powerful bond: Bobby her granddaughter’s fiercest supporter, giving Bess unequivocal love, even if sometimes of the toughest kind. Nobody Will Tell You This But Me marks the creation of a totally new, virtuosic form of memoir: a reconstruction of a beloved grandmother’s words and wisdom to tell her family’s story with equal parts poignancy and hilarity.
Download or read book I Am Not a Nobody written by Jane B. Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine hundred twenty-five Appalachian women have graduated from the life-changing New Opportunity School for Women programs located in Kentucky, North Carolina, and Virginia/West Virginia. In I Am Not a Nobody eleven of these courageous women share their life stories-difficult and painful stories of abuse, poverty, limited education, drugs, and early marriages. They also share their life-changing journeys with the New Opportunity School for Women where they became empowered to believe in themselves and their values and abilities and gained the courage to succeed-for themselves and their families."[T]oday my life has purpose and that motivates me to want to help other women discover their own dreams. I know today I am intelligent, able, and beautiful." BRANDI C"I had to shed my past, set and follow my goals, and become the strong woman that God made me to be. If I can do it, anyone can." PATTY"Just know you are alive for a reason- you're not a nobody." -ELIZABETHYou will also read about the creation of this "miracle program" and its history (Part 2), and about its founder (Part 3), Jane B. Stephenson."This is Jane's story as I have attempted to construct it from her words, and this is how she tells it."-Crystal White KielochIn "Jane's Story," Crystal White Kieloch beautifully tells the story of Jane B. Stephenson's inspiring life of service and her passion for improving the lives of Appalachian women. In an opening scene, Kieloch recaptures in vivid, precise prose the moment Stephenson appeared with Oprah on her show to receive the Use Your life Award, become one of Oprah's Angles, and to accept for the program a $100,000 gift."[C]elebrate these highly motivated women¿experience what a privilege it is to get to know them through their life stories¿ rejoice in their extreme courage.-Jane B. StephensonAll profits received from the sale of this book go to supporting the work of the New Opportunity School for Women Foundation, Inc. and the program sites.
Download or read book This Is Who I Am Nobody Said You Had to Like It written by Pixametic Creation and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-22 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is Who I Am Nobody Said You Had To Like It is a 120-Page 6x9 Journal With Blank Lines so you can Record the precious irreplaceable moments and memories as you go through the journey of life, whether on your own or with family and friends. This journal makes a great gag gift.
Download or read book The Home Team written by Roy MacGregor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award “A truly magnificent book.”—Calgary Herald It’s the great Canadian icon: a frozen creek, a backyard rink, a father passing something precious on to his child—the love of a game. There is nothing quite so Canadian as hockey, and nothing quite so evocative in hockey as the relationships between Canadian hockey players and their fathers. Here are the personal tales of Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, Paul Coffey and Marty McSorley, told as the four NHL stars take their fathers on a hockey tour of Europe. Here are the memories of hockey’s grand families: Gordie, Mark and Travis Howe; Bill, Kevin and Gord Dineen; Murray, Ken and Michael Dryden. Here is Brett Hull’s story of the famous father who was never home. But The Home Team is about more than famous names. It is the story of the father and son left weeping in the stands at the end of a disappointing draft day. It is the story of a minor league coach and his house league son. This book is about hockey. It is also about where we live and who we are: a book for all fathers and sons in Canada.
