Download or read book Kissed by a Fat Waitress written by Dan Fante and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. In the not-so-gentle hands of Dan Fante, this book of new poetry is more akin to surgery or the body shop than to the techniques of music and painting. Fante excises whole slices of life and lays them bare for us in inspect. Pain and self-mocking humor are the writer's tools here. He pries open and exposes his heart with the kindness of a hammer or crowbar. Indeed, what could be more ego-sizing than to have all pretense flattened, laying bare the raw self underneath? "Dan Fante allows us a glimpse of the Southern California demimonde that surely escaped his father's attention"--Los Angeles Times Book Review.
Download or read book 26 Kisses written by Anna Michels and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kasie West meets Morgan Matson in this hilarious and heartwarming debut about a girl’s summer mission to get over her ex-boyfriend by kissing her way through the alphabet. Getting dumped by her boyfriend is not how Veda planned on starting her summer. When Mark makes it clear that it’s over between them, Veda is heartbroken and humiliated—but, more importantly, she’s inspired. So she sets out on the love quest of a lifetime: use the summer to forget about Mark, to move on, and move up. All she has to do is kiss twenty-six boys with twenty-six different names—one for each letter of the alphabet. From the top of the Ferris wheel at her hometown carnival to the sandy dunes of Lake Michigan, Veda takes every opportunity she can to add kisses (and boys) to her list, and soon the break-up doesn’t sting quite as much. But just when Veda thinks she has the whole kissing thing figured out, she meets someone who turns her world upside down.
Download or read book Fante written by Dan Fante and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dan Fante is an authentic literary outlaw." —New York Times From Dan Fante, son of novelist John Fante, comes an exploration of his family’s legacy—one of boozing, passion, writing, and survival. Long before his father achieved literary recognition for Ask the Dust or The Road to Los Angeles, and before Dan had conceived his novels 86’d, Chump Change, and Mooch, their difficult relationship as father and son evolved in a household where love and literary artistry were often overshadowed by emotional violence. Fante is the story of Dan’s struggle to find his own voice amidst the madness of his family’s dark inheritance, a memoir of his escape from his own vices and his eventual return to Los Angeles to embrace the man—and the calling—that once had driven him away.
Download or read book 86 d written by Dan Fante and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Los Angeles, struggling telemarketer-writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is jobless again. The publication of his book of short stories has been put off indefinitely. Searching the want ads for a gig, he finds a chauffeur job. When Bruno calls the number in the ad, he discovers the boss is his former Manhattan employer David Koffman, who is opening a West Coast branch of his thriving limo service. Koffman hires Bruno as resident manager of Dav-Ko Hollywood under one condition: he must remain sober. But instant business success triggers an abrupt booze-and-blackout-soaked downward spiral for Bruno, forcing him to confront his own madness as he struggles to keep his old familiar demons from getting the best of him yet again.
Download or read book Hey Waitress written by Alison Owings and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-09-02 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us have sat across the tray from a waitress, but how many of us know what really is going on from her side? Hey, Waitress! aims to tell us. Containing lively, personal portraits of waitresses from many different walks of life, this book is the first of its kind to show the intimate, illuminating, and often shocking behind-the-scenes stories of waitresses' daily shifts and daily lives. Alison Owings traveled the country—from border to border and coast to coast—to hear firsthand what waitresses think about their lives, their work, and their world. Part journalism and part oral history, Hey, Waitress! introduces an eclectic cast of characters: a ninety-five-year-old Baltimore woman who may have been the oldest living waitress, a Staten Island firebrand laboring at a Pizza Hut, a well-to-do runaway housewife, a Native American proud of her financial independence, a college student loving her diner more than her studies, a Cajun grandmother of twenty-two, and many others. The book also offers vivid slices of American history. The stories describe the famous sit-in at the Woolworth's counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, which helped spark the civil rights movement; early struggles for waitress unions; and battles against sexually discriminatory hiring in restaurants. A superb and accessible means of breaking down stereotypes, this book reveals American waitresses in all their complexity and individuality, and will surely change the way we order, tip, and, most of all, behave in restaurants.
Download or read book Kiss the Girl written by Tara Sivec and published by Swerve. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A struggling antiques collector finds herself falling in love with a millionaire playboy; but can she ever be a part of his world? Meet the Naughty Princess Club, a series from USA Today bestselling author Tara Sivec that brings readers to Fairytale Lane and the hilarity—and romance—that three women fall into once they decide to strut their stuff and bring on their own happily ever after. While her friends have broken free of their insecurities, Ariel Waters is struggling to come out of her shell. Her ex-husband took away her voice and her self-confidence, and Ariel is drowning under a sea of debt to afford the alimony she has to pay him. She refuses to ever fall for a man’s charms again, and is determined to make her own way. When her house and her beloved antiques are taken by the bank after too many missed payments, Ariel finds herself adrift until the infuriatingly charming Eric Sailor comes to her rescue. Although she can’t stand the millionaire playboy, Eric’s kindness and unconditional support reveal hidden depths and a love that Ariel never imagined she could find. But there are outside influences who will stop at nothing to keep them apart; can Ariel and Eric weather the storm and find a way to be together in Kiss the Girl?
Download or read book Kiss Me Twice written by Thomas Gifford and published by Overamstel Uitgevers. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mad Nazi plot gives Cassidy a chance to save his estranged wife—or lose her forever As the dust settles on World War II, detective Lew Cassidy’s wife has come back from the dead. A German figure skater with a film-star face, she had returned to her home country when the war began to care for her ailing father; Cassidy later heard she died during an Allied bombing raid. But in the weeks after the German surrender, the US Army finds her in Bavaria, stricken with amnesia and married to Manfred Muller, an SS swashbuckler at the top of the army’s most-wanted list. In the war’s last days, Muller escaped Germany with a historic golden minotaur sculpture, planning to sell the statue and use the proceeds to establish a Nazi underground in the United States. When Muller disappears in the wilds of Maine, the army gives Cassidy a chance to serve his country. To catch the Nazi, he’ll use his wife as bait, and hope he doesn’t lose her a second time.
Download or read book Mooch written by Dan Fante and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mooch, aspiring writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is finally sober, and has become the best boiler-room salesman in L.A. But Dan Fante’s anti-hero can’t keep a good thing going. Leaping headfirst into an impossibly destructive love-hate relationship with the addictive ex-stripper Jimmi Valiente, Bruno finds it’s not long at all before his world begins to spiral out of control…again.With prose that seeps with brutal aggression and biting wit, Fante portrays the unavoidable self-destruction of a man whose inner demons won’t allow him to live within the limitations of society.
Download or read book Who Will Kiss the Pig Sex Stories for Teens written by Richard Grayson and published by Richard Grayson. This book was released on 2008-03-03 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over three decades, Richard Grayson's idiosyncratic fictions have been appearing in literary magazines, anthologies and webzines, as well as in his book-length collections, including WITH HITLER IN NEW YORK, LINCOLN'S DOCTOR'S DOG, I BRAKE FOR DELMORE SCHWARTZ, I SURVIVED CARACAS TRAFFIC, THE SILICON VALLEY DIET, HIGHLY IRREGULAR STORIES and AND TO THINK THAT HE KISSED HIM ON LORIMER STREET. Now, in WHO WILL KISS THE PIG?: SEX STORIES FOR TEENS, Richard Grayson brings together twenty of his quirkiest fictions, from his first published story, "Rampant Burping," which appeared in NEW WRITERS in 1975, to such recent pieces as "This Person Is Already Your Friend," published online at 3: AM MAGAZINE in 2007. "The incessant familiarity of the writer's secret self makes his world entertaining and bizarre. The dialogue is consistently, even ingeniously funny...bright and keenly made." - The New York Times Book Review
Download or read book Banana Kiss written by Bonnie Rozanski and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robin Farber lives in a psychiatric institution. In her mind, she creates the world by looking at it: a quantum theory-world where matter pops in and out of existence as she observes it, a world where she is God. And, because the reader of "Banana Kiss" must take a long look through her schizophrenic eyes, this is our world, too, a world where the disembodied voices Robin hears are more real than the people who stand in front of her. Robin's world is populated by a rich variety of characters, both real and imaginary. Her father, a sailor who died when she was a baby, shows up in her head whenever he's on leave. Derek, her charming, lovelorn friend, goes from mania to depression and back several times a day. There's her insufferable sister Melissa, who stole her boyfriend, Max. And, of course, there's Dr Mankiewicz, or Whitecoat', the long-suffering therapist who, Robin tells us, thinks there are some things that are real, and some things that are not, and that he knows better than anyone else.' Finally, there is Robin herself, whose confused, psychotic, funny, compassionate voice is one you are not likely to forget.
Download or read book Demon s Kiss written by Maggie Shayne and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demon's Kiss Maggie Shayne Maggie Shayne spreads her wings in this new novel of immortal love Even by vampire standards, Reaper is a loner, and his current mission to destroy a gang of rogue bloodsuckers is definitely a one–vamp job. Then fate takes a hand, and before he knows it, he's surrounded by a ragtag crew of misfit helpers: the newbie, the princess, the shape–shifter and the human healer. Seth is new to immortality, but he's sharp and strong – and he'll risk anything for the rogues' strange female captive, a secretive creature he doesn't understand but feels compelled to save. Vixen is confused by the emotions that swirl through her at the sight of her impulsive hero. She only hopes the brutal Gregor and his bloodthirsty renegades will leave her alive long enough to explore them. Or will Reaper himself be the one to destroy them all? “Maggie Shayne has a talent for taking characters born in fantasy and making them come alive.” – Romantic Times BOOK reviews
Download or read book Chump Change written by Dan Fante and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he finds out his father is in a coma, aspiring writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante, fresh from the nuthouse, must head to Los Angeles for a fraught family reunion in Dan Fante’s Chump Change. Now back in print to coincide with the publication of his new novel, 86’d, Chump Change follows Bruno through the tension and stress of facing his family—and the inevitable, pain-dulling drinking that lands him naked in a stolen car with an underage hooker whose pimp has stolen his wallet. Chump Change is “an honest misfit’s view of America far too few know.” (John Fowles, author of The French Lieutenant’s Woman).
Download or read book Healing Kiss written by ChelleLee C. and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-09-07 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ChelleLee C. * 2 Healing Kiss is the first in an exciting trilogy following an athletic, caring, but smart aleck seventeen-year-old named JenaLeigh Perkins. For the first book, nothing in Jena's life excites or even interests her anymore. What else could she possibly need? She has the perfect boyfriend, the captain's spot on the cheerleading squad, and even offers for cheerleading scholarships. However, she feels nothing but friendship for her boyfriend, hates cheerleading, and starts to think love is a fluke. She goes through life as expected until she involuntarily kisses some random guy named Gabriel, who happens to be part of an ancient race that is thought to be extinct. The spark between them is undeniable. It awakens something inside her and puts excitement back into her life. That is, until Jena is thrown into the middle of a war within the race where both sides want her. One side wants to protect her while the other side wants to kill her. She can't help but wonder if her stumbling upon this race is coincidence or fate. Perhaps her boring life wasn't so bad after all, and maybe--just maybe--love is real.
Download or read book The Cold Kiss of Death written by Suzanne McLeod and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: View our feature on Suzanne McLeod's The Cold Kiss of Death. When sidhe-blooded Genny Taylor's friend is murdered and all evidence points to her, she goes on the run. But she's being pursued by some of the most powerful supernaturals in town-and one of them is most certainly the killer.
Download or read book The Kiss of the Prison Dancer written by Jerome Richard and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Holocaust survivor witnesses a murder in San Francisco and realizes that the suspect, a neo-Nazi skinhead, is innocent. The Kiss of the Prison Dancer plunges us into moral quandaries and modern mysteries that are riveting.
Download or read book Kiss of Fate written by Deirdre Dore and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bestselling tradition of Laura Griffin, the conclusion in a new romantic suspense trilogy features an officer with the Atlanta Police Department who teams up with a documentary filmmaker to delve into one of the darkest secrets of Fate, a secret that involves everyone she has ever loved. Christina, Tavey, and Raquel have been haunted for decades by the death of their best childhood friend—a crime that remains unsolved. Decades later, all three are still anchored in their small hometown of Fate, Georgia, and obsessed with discovering what happened to their friend so many years ago… Raquel Weaver is a member of Atlanta PD's sex crimes task force, a dedicated hunter of child abusers, and the daughter of a famous blues singer with a history of scandal. Raquel tries to avoid the limelight, partially because of Brent Burns, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, who made her private pain public knowledge. But when comes to her asking for help revealing a connection between her missing friend and his own sister, she puts aside her resentment and works with him to tie together the threads of love, greed, and desperation that led to the loss of her best friend, and teaches her to trust again.
Download or read book Kiss Me Again written by Dee Tenorio and published by Dee Tenorio. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A determined gigolo. A slightly conniving best friend. A really conniving best friend. A woman who won’t take no for an answer. And a couple of white lies with some very persistent consequences. For most people, all that would just add up to a very bad day. For Kira Weston, it might just be the answer she’s been looking for... Six months ago, she walked out of a three year relationship with the man of her dreams, saying goodbye to the life she thought they’d have. Not because she didn’t love him. Because she loved him too much to settle for only the pieces of his heart he was willing to share. Not a moment has gone by that she hasn’t wondered if she made a horrendous mistake, but there’s no going back now. Or is there? Suddenly, Ethan Rourke is back and he needs a small favor. All she'd have to do is pretend to be back in his life. Back in his arms. Back in his bed. He says it will save his career and his reputation. He says it’s an innocent request. But what he says and how he looks at her—how he touches her—are two very different things. Losing him once almost destroyed her. If she tries again with this new Ethan who is promising to finally be the partner she’s always needed, she’s going to have to do a lot more than face a few past mistakes. She’ll have to deal with a few present ones she never saw coming. But won’t it be worth it if she can get a second chance unlock his heart? Or will she discover that it belonged to her all along?
