Download or read book It s Been A Business Doing Pleasure With You written by Jeff Snyder and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2016-01-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT'S BEEN A BUSINESS DOING PLEASURE WITH YOU is my autobiography of being a high profile gay escort, from early military upbringing and its clashes with my young gay identity, to tales of leaving home under threat of shotgun. Going out into the world I made my way to find a niche of survival, only to discover soon afterwards that I had something far harder to survive, a virus called HIV. With the lost lives of friends, lovers, and dogs, I met many in my Hollywood movie like life, famous and not so famous. In my pursuit of happiness I often found myself as shaman to many souls, some lost. Sometimes sex was the last thing required, instead many needed to be held or touched, and to be reassured of their humanity. This was not lost to me, I embraced it, as kindness was healing. Rounding out my years in the oldest profession are some bits of wisdom, folly, and finally closure with my father after years of distance with his gay son.

Download or read book Ripples written by Michael Ramel and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title was inspired by the ripples on a pond and the metaphor of certain events having a rippling effect throughout my life. The poetry has been inspired by many events I have experienced during my journey as a Christian, as God as Sovereign has guided by His grace.

Download or read book The New Messiah written by Daniel Biskar and published by Daniel Biskar. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Messiah is a novel of personal discovery set in the 1970's. Neal Shelley is an idealistic poet who falls in love with a woman he meets while hitchhiking across America during the Bicentennial summer of 1976. But despite the storybook beginning, the love affair soon fades and Neal is left disillusioned and searching for answers in his life. In his disheartened state, he conceives a utopian plan to launch a new messiah movement which he hopes will end his and everyone else's unhappiness. He enlists his charismatic friend, Andrew Moore, to pose as a modern-day savior. They begin their mission with a sermon on the Venice Boardwalk. The initial sermon succeeds brilliantly but then Neal's plan takes an unexpected turn as Andrew starts to truly believe he is the Chosen One. Inspired by actual events, The New Messiah shows how American youth culture in the mid-1970's-characterized by a quest for higher consciousness; pre-AIDS sexual promiscuity; recreational drug use; pop mysticism; irreverent humor; and cynicism and alienation in the post-Watergate "malaise" era-was the soil out of which a messiah movement could grow. One of the most striking features of The New Messiah is its play-like format. The story is told through the conversations of the characters. The authenticity of the dialogue in the party scenes, street scenes, and intimate one-on-one scenes will no doubt be appreciated by readers who lived through that time period. College-age readers today may also find much to identify with in the novel's depiction of 70's youth culture.

Download or read book Onansburg Iowa written by Peggy Lammers and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Onansburg, Iowa begins in the thick haze of unexpected grief: After Sonny Dawson’s wife Polly dies suddenly, he finds himself going through the motions of the funeral rites. Perhaps there’s a kind of comfort in what feels like a pre-written script of the mourning rituals Sonny is asked to perform as the whole town of Onansburg gathers for Polly’s death. But after the funeral, Sonny is left without a way to navigate the full loss of the shared life he worked so hard to build with his wife. In Polly’s absence, Sonny is confronted with revelations about who he is as he attempts to move forward with his new reality. He must now also contend with the underlying tension that has always strained his relationship with Polly’s family. The story takes place within the span of a week but weaves together the shared secrets, histories, and trauma of his family across multiple generations. As Sonny wades through the annals of his mind—guided by insights from friends and nemeses alike—he discovers the shocking memories responsible for shaping the way he is today. Poignant, painful, and honest, Onansburg, Iowa reads like a subtle, sprawling epic of small-town America, establishing the town itself as one of the most crucial characters. Author Peggy Lammers has created a vividly written novel filled with relevant sociological and psychological insights that will challenge readers to look deeply and with more empathy at the people around them. This book will appeal to those who love literary fiction and enjoy discussing themes that shake our beliefs yet keep us grounded.

Download or read book From Sand to Sea and Distant Shores written by Mac Magee and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With incredible clarity and in vivid detail, this 10-year Navy veteran, explains and involves you in the action of the times ... the Cold War in the Pacific Ocean during the mid to late 1950’s from Boot Camp and basic training, to service aboard a U.S. Navy Destroyer: the USS Theodore Edson Chandler (DD-717). Enjoy liberty ashore in Foreign ports in this first book of his trilogy; From Sand to Sea and Distant Shores. Be his shipmate as you: • Endure tear gas, an oil fire and nearly getting drowned during Basic Training. • Become one of the crew of a five-inch gun turret, when a buddy loader drops a live projectile while firing. • Experience A ONE IN A MILLION HAPPENING! the in-your-face terror of a full-blown typhoon that threatens to capsize your ship as a shipmate gets washed overboard ... Then back onboard again! • Learn everything a destroyer does from Gunnery and sub-chasing to stopping weapons-smuggling in the Formosa Strait. • Enjoy exchanges of American life styles and customs, as you live and eat with shipmates from New York to Tennessee. • Almost panic, when not only officers from your ship, but the Captain too; decide to throw you overboard at night into the black-as-ink waters of Subic Bay, P.I. and you can’t SWIM! You won’t have to have been or be, a sailor nor even in the Navy to read and understand this book! Explanations, foot notes and “Backgrounds” will make it clear for you to move through without stumbling (if you can catch your breath!)

Download or read book Dixie Rising written by Peter Applebome and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid reportage about why the South is increasingly dominating American life in public and private.

Download or read book Deadly Deterrent written by John Henrickson and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Weeks of the Vancouver Metro Police has just found out one of her informants has been murdered—a rotten smelling opportunist by the name of Hooper. And then her partner, who had a long and unsavoury relationship with the man, is murdered too. Then two more cops in quick succession, followed by even more. As the city’s police officers begin to look over their shoulders in fear, the gangs grow bolder, operating with less fear of reprisal and more lethal efficiency. The architect behind these killings is an unknown entity with methods unusual for the area, a man who seems to be motivated equally by cold cash and hot-blooded revenge. As the gangs mount an all-out-war on the police, Detective Weeks works desperately to track down this brazen killer, an individual who’s a ghost...from her past. Deadly Deterrent is an exciting urban thriller with a cast of unique and interesting characters that asks the question: What could happen if organized crime became truly organized?

Download or read book Mister Right written by Cooper and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-05-22 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as the terrific trio and inseparable college roommates, Freddy Forest, Jack Scratch and Ermine Tuft ducked graduation ceremonies at the University of Midland so they could set off without delay to romance the universe. After all, what's an education for?

Download or read book The Cocaine Diet written by Steven A. Finly and published by SAF Productions LLC. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can run, you can hide, but you can never leave your past behind. “Steven A. Finly’s final novel of The Hipsters Trilogy —“The Cocaine Diet”— is one hell of a thrill ride back into the 1980s and a true page turner.” -- Pamela Jaye Smith, award-winning writer Story: It’s been eleven years since Detroit Municipal Police Detective Gil Nelson first infiltrated the city’s underground drug syndicates, and he’s had enough. Now retired from the force, Detective Nelson has become a successful novelist, writing about the mind-bending crimes he once solved. However, when a narcotics dealer washes ashore on a California beach along with millions of dollars of cocaine, Nelson’s newly laid-back lifestyle is put on hold. Called back into the force, Nelson takes on the case, and when he uncovers the dead man on the beach was declared "deceased" five years ago, he quickly realizes this is no ordinary investigation. After all, you can’t die twice. Or can you?

Download or read book Muddle Earth written by John Brunner and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ANNOUNCING THE TOURIST EXPERIENCE THAT IS THE TALK OF THE GALAXY! MEET: The Cryogenic resurrectee Rinpoche Gibbs. He's not surprised to awaken in the twenty-fourth century, cured of cancer. He is, however, very surprised by everything else... The incredibly beautiful Nixy Anangaranga-Jones, who may or may not be haunted by ghosts, but to whom the unexpected always happens... The Yelignese Chief Bureaucrat - the Esteemed Thingitude in charge of restoring Earth who can't quite grasp what human history is all about... Spotch from the planet Trigon, whose trip to Earth really did cost an arm and a leg... The amazing Cardinal Numbernine and Her Wiliness Pope Joan II - religion may be gone, but the church will endure forever... The adolescent Sherlock Holmes and his Biker Street Irregulars...

Download or read book The Warlock Wandering written by Christopher Stasheff and published by Stasheff Literary Enterprises. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five hundred years from their own time and place on the magical planet Gramarye, Rod and Gwen Gallowglass are held captive on another planet - a world where purple-skinned, fur-kilted men challenge them in primitive battle. Lost within time and space, Rod and Gwen must fight for their survival, freedom, and to return home.

Download or read book Falling Into Queensland written by Jacqueline George and published by Q~Press. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Shirley's uncle leaves her a house in his well, she flies in from London. Port Bruce is a remote town in Far North Queensland, and everything is strange to a city girl from England.

Download or read book Racing the Rain written by John L. Parker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the author of the New York Times bestselling Once a Runner--"The best novel ever written about running" (Runner's World)--comes that novel's prequel, the story of a world-class athlete coming of age in the 1950s and 60s on Florida's Gold Coast. Quenton Cassidy's first foot races are with nature itself: the summer storms that sweep through his subtropical neighborhood. Shirtless, barefoot, and brown as a berry, Cassidy is a skinny, mouthy kid with aspirations to be a great athlete. As he explores his primal surroundings, along the Loxahatchee River and the nearby Atlantic Ocean, he is befriended by Trapper Nelson, "the Tarzan of the Loxahatchee," a well-known eccentric who lives off the land. In junior high school, quite by chance, Cassidy discovers an ability to run long distances, but his real dream is to be a basketball star. Still, Cassidy absorbs Nelson's view of running as a way of relating to and interacting with the natural world. Though he is warned of Nelson's checkered past, Cassidy dismisses the stories as superstitious gossip, until his small town is stunned by the disappearance of a prominent judge and his wife. Cassidy's loyalty to his friend is severely tested just as his opportunity to make his mark as a gifted runner comes to fruition. John Parker's prequel to the New York Times bestseller Once a Runner vividly captures how a runner is formed and the physical endurance, determination, and mindset he develops on the way to becoming a champion. Racing the Rain is an epic coming-of-age classic about the environments and friendships that shape us all"--

Download or read book Kill Me Twice written by Burt H. Slaughter and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desperate men do desperate and sometimes foolish things. This story chronicles the life of a compulsive gambler who chose to try to clean the slate by faking his own death and wound up on a slippery slope and in the business of prostitution. In the end, he paid with his life. John Cansler, Private Investigator, is called into action when Cindy the grieving widow who is (secretly) glad to be rid of the lying, cheating louse, receives a package from beyond the grave. Can she find love again? How will the knowledge that her dead husband is not really dead affect her ability to love again? Can she persuade John to give up his exciting, adventurous life as a P. I. in exchange for a ready-made family? A close-up look at how a weakness or addiction can lead to a disastrous end.

Download or read book WASTED written by Steven A. Finly and published by SAF Productions LLC. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tune in, Turn On, Drop Out, Make Money." The 60s were murder! In a world full of excessive wealth and bulletproof egos, where anything goes and everyone has a price, the award-winning novel, Wasted, takes readers into the dark underbelly of the 1960s rock and roll scene and lays the foundation of The Hipster Trilogy. Detroit, 1969. Money, power, and party drugs are fueling the sexual and political revolutions sweeping America, and everyone wants their share. So, when the beautiful daughter of Detroit’s richest man, Frank Wexler, is found dead at a remote city park, after overdosing on a psychedelic drug, he’ll stop at nothing to ferret out the person responsible. As the hunt escalates, the girl’s innocent boyfriend, Jesse Adams, soon finds himself the prime suspect as he’s pursued by Detroit Detective Gil Nelson, who is hell-bent on using the high-profile case to make his name. Once Jesse and Detective Nelson’s paths intersect, their lives are forever changed. (end) Other novels by Steven A. Finly including books two and three of the HIPSTERS TRILOGY ("High Life" and "The Cocaine Diet"), a dark -comedy called "SINdication," and a supernatural horror trilogy "The Rippers' Gambit" Book One: They Follow The Sun.

Download or read book The Woman Board written by Mick Omber and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mick searches for "Ms. Right" in an intense, 9-month, online adventure, with 63 women and others. A failed 34-year marriage launches him into a myriad of opportunities and experiences. He's confronted with stories of lies and espionage, distortions, compassion, rejection, misrepresentations, sexual fantasies and victims of abuse who share their stories.This book seeks to entertain, educate and enlighten you. How so? Well...because of: A very young girl and boy, a prostitute and adult virgin, 2 drunken sailors, a kidnapping, a "Priest," a "Human life preserver" a discovery, recovery and more. Mick asked when she wanted him to drive over? "How fast can you find your car keys?" An older woman says, "It's just that I believed it was DEAD! I'm actually afraid of myself, not YOU!" Mick said, ..".she was out of sight and I was very down...and alone...again." She asked, ..".what size boobs d'ya think I got?" Mick replies, "40's or more..." "No Dear, I don't got any at all." Be that "Fly on the wall," as you witness intimate conversations and adventures in bedrooms, cars, on couches and park benches; all generously depicted.

Download or read book The Cyrus Caper written by Karl Boyd and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Cyrus Caper the second lighthearted crime novel of a trilogy, Roger, Carl, and most members of their gang are running amok again. After escaping from prison and eluding the FBI Roger and Carl decide to take a cruise. When their cruise turns out to be a disaster, Roger and Carl make plans to get even with the Cyrus cruise line by hijacking and robbing the same ship. In a surprise move, Roger and Carl are given a chance to complete their plans under the supervision of their old nemesis, FBI Agent Jake Polk. The pair of con men agrees to assist the law, but Roger has other more devious plans. Double and triple crosses abound in this rollicking tale of deception, scheming and subterfuge. As always, with Roger and Carl, nothing is as it seems. Karl Boyd turns his outstanding talent into high gear, keeping you on the edge of your seat until the final, surprising conclusion. Come along with Roger and Carl on another superbly planned caper ' this time on the high seas.