Download or read book Reign on Cloud Nine written by Dean Monet and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UK's answer to Maupin's, `Tales of the City.' Cloud Nine takes us on a brave, breathless and bawdy romp through a world of gutsy glamorous drag queens, and cut throat gangsters. When the world has turned its back on you, there is one place you can go to find family, Cloud Nine. The newest nightclub on London's South Bank and the epi-centre of a new purposely built gay village. Its creator, one time international drag star Trixie Lix; queen of the village and Momma to all that work there. There's Tye from Birmingham, the thirty something manager who's starting a new life after the homophobic murder of his life partner. Then we have Alf a six foot, Afro-Caribbean lovesick doorman. We also marvel at the ageing foul mouthed cleaner, Joan, who is fiercely protective over her friends and the family at Cloud Nine. The latest of the Cloud Nine family is Mickey, a troubled teenager trapped by his gangster father, Jimmy Loney, into a life of violent crime and sexual abuse. We also get to meet the sharp wit of Lady Alice `Nana Love' Lovett, the anti-establishment Lady of Little Munch, and her vengeful niece Lady Victoria. Families can be formed in the most unusual of places, Trixie and her family at Cloud Nine take us on an explosively funny journey, with more plot than a vegetable garden, their story will make you laugh and cry, but will definitely make you want to visit.... CLOUD NINE...The home of the misfit. Cloud Nine is like a gritty, sequined, urban Jackie Collins. (Samantha Tongue-Editor)
Download or read book Reign on Cloud Nine Ii written by Dean Monet and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reign on Cloud Nine II Theyre back! The modern day family from the fictitious gay village of Londons docklands. Joan, Nana, Tye, Alf and of course the momma of the village, Drag Queen Trixie Lix, embark on yet another roller coaster ride through tales of Love, loss, warfare and all done with exquisite costume changes and the right shade of lippy. This is the prequel, sequel to Reign on Cloud Nine, the first in the trilogy. Starting before Cloud Nine was built and ending in a new chapter of its history. We go back in time and discover how Joan met and fell in love with her kidnapper, Warrior Yogi. We discover the man that helped them escape to England, Bear. We learn that although the gangster Barry Ireland is dead, someone is still planning to take down Cloud Nine and the drag queens that worked there; but who is the secret assassin? Discover what happened to Lady Victoria, Why all the drag queens left home, and who is the new Mistress of ceremonies. With nail biting drama and laugh out loud humour the gang are back and ready for action. So sit back and enjoy the novel with more plot than a vegetable garden. As we go back once again to... Cloud Nine...The home of the misfit
Download or read book The Night the Midwife Came to Call written by Melinda Bybee and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NIGHT THE MIDWIFE CAME TO CALL is the recollections of a modern Midwife. It is mostly autobiographical, although there are times when two situations of different births fit one birth with more excitement. All birth stories are essentially true, the names may have been altered for privacy of the client or the Midwife. The stories begin in 1974 and go through 2003. It would be impossible to recall all the births as there were sometimes 3 or 4 births a week, even 3 in one day at one point. I have selected details from the most exciting births to keep your interest and for me to recall some of the most wonderful times of my life. I retired in 2003 as I was diagnosed with severe panic attacks. But the memories linger in my mind and heart, and I want to put them on paper in some fashion of organization to recall in my later years. Also the parents I lived with and delivered for will enjoy reading their story and sharing it with the baby born. I have lent my memories out to several friends for their opinions and they all said I didnt write enough, they wanted more to read. I hope those reading this book will feel the same way, find a Midwife who also delivered babies at home and pick their brains for stories unique to them. Every midwife has her own stories that will delight and intrigue you, ones no other Midwife has experienced. In the enclosed chapters I explain my desire of wanting to deliver babies at a time when hospital births were the norm, and my process of education to realize the dream. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I have enjoyed writing it down for you and for me. Love and affection to all my babies and their parents and extended families I was able to meet at such a precious time in their lives.
Download or read book Comic Agony written by Albert Bermel and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1996-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume to Contradictory characters, this book analyzes the juxtaposition of the tragic and the comic in modern drama.
Download or read book Fragments written by Crispin Demers and published by Fultus Corporation. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Category: Fiction/Poetry/Literary Have you ever walked in the rain? Have you ever wondered why things don't change? What is a snigal and have you ever dreamt? Well, of course, you have. Fragments is a compelling collection of poems by Crispin Demers. With over 220 pages, there's something for everyone. Do you love, hate, dream, sleep, wonder about God, about yourself? Who are you? Why are you? What is beauty and why do we work? How does one exist? These are just some of the questions and thoughts that are raised in Fragments by Crispin Demers. Featuring Happy Birthday Mary and The Most Beautiful Fish. Enjoy. 1975. He graduated in the class of 1999 from Umass Amherst with a B.A. in English. At home, he lives with his wife Debbie Blaise-Demers. Leisurely, he enjoys running marathons, hiking up mountains, and rocking on his chair. And, of course, listening to the great Def Leppard. He is currently a supervisor at his workplace, and also a co-owner of the popular Poetictimes.com website. The website features a no age limit, nor a talent level, and is a friendly community-based atmosphere. It's a site for poets and readers alike to feel free to comment and post poems, and strive to grow poetically-wise.
Download or read book The Struggle of an Absent Mind written by John Thomas and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Struggle of an Absent Mind is a unique poetry manuscript made up of spoken words, life, and inspiration. These poems go deep inside the mind of a poet's experiences, imagination, life, and creativity.
Download or read book The Supreme Team The Birth of Crack and Hip Hop Prince s Reign of Terror and the Supreme 50 Cent Beef Exposed written by Seth Ferranti and published by Gorilla Convict Publications. This book was released on 2023-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the crack era jumped off in the 1980s, many street legends were born in a hail of gunfire. Business minded and ruthless dudes seized the opportunities afforded them, and certain individuals out of the city's five boroughs became synonymous with the definition of the new era black gangster. Drugs, murder, kidnappings, shootings, more drugs, and more murder were the rule of the day. They called it "The Game," but it was a vicious attempt to come up by any means necessary. In the late 1980s, the mindset was "get mine or be mine," and nobody embodied this attitude more than the Supreme Team.The Supreme Team has gone down in street legend and the lyrical lore of hip-hop and gangsta rap as one of the most vicious crews to ever emerge on the streets of New York. Their mythical and iconic status inspired hip-hop culture and rap superstars like 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Biggie, Nas and Ja Rule. Born at the same time as crack, hip-hop was heavily influenced by the drug crews that controlled New York's streets. And the cliché of art imitating life and vice versa came full circle in the saga of the Supreme Team's infamous leaders- Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff and Gerald "Prince" Miller. In the maelstrom of the mid-80s crack storm and burgeoning hip-hop scene, their influence and relevance left a lasting impression.Going from drug baron to federal prisoner to hip-hop maestro to life in prison, Supreme was involved in hip-hop and the crack trade from day one. His run stretched decades, but in the end he fell victim to the pitfalls of the game like all before him had. His nephew, the enigmatic Prince, who had a rapid, violent, and furious rise in the streets also fell hard and fast to the tune of seven life sentences. The Supreme Team has been romanticized and glorified in hip-hop, but the truth of the matter is that most of their members are currently in prison for life or have spent decades of their prime years behind bars. This book looks at the team's climatic rise from its inception to its inevitable fall. It looks at Supreme's redemption with Murder Inc. and his relapse back into crime. This book is the Supreme Team story in all its glory, infamy, and tragedy. It's a tale of turns, twists, and fate. Meet the gangsters from Queens where the drug game influenced the style and swagger of street culture, hip-hop and gangsta rap and made the infamous cast of characters from the Supreme Team icons in the annals of urban lore.
Download or read book Theatre and Postcolonial Desires written by Awam Amkpa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the themes of colonial encounters and postcolonial contests over identity, power and culture through the prism of theatre. The struggles it describes unfolded in two cultural settings separated by geography, but bound by history in a common web of colonial relations spun by the imperatives of European modernity. In post-imperial England, as in its former colony Nigeria, the colonial experience not only hybridized the process of national self-definition, but also provided dramatists with the language, imagery and frame of reference to narrate the dynamics of internal wars over culture and national destiny happening within their own societies. The author examines the works of prominent twentieth-century Nigerian and English dramatists such as Wole Soyinka, Femi Osofisan, Davd Edgar and Caryl Churchill to argue that dramaturgies of resistance in the contexts of both Nigerian as well as its imperial inventor England, shared a common allegiance to what he describes as postcolonial desires. That is, the aspiration to overcome the legacies of colonialism by imagining alternative universes anchored in democratic cultural pluralism. The plays and their histories serve as filters through which Ampka illustrates the operation of what he calls 'overlapping modernities' and reconfigures the notions of power and representation, citizenship and subjectivity, colonial and anticolonial nationalisms and postcoloniality. The dramatic works studied in this book embodied a version of postcolonial aspirations that the author conceptualises as transcending temporal locations to encompass varied moments of consciousness for progressive change, whether they happened during the hey day of English imperialism in early twentieth-century Nigeria, or in response to the exclusionary politics of the Conservative Party in Thatcherite England. Theatre and Postcolonial Desires will be essential reading for students and researchers in the areas of drama, postcolonial and cultural studies.
Download or read book Dirty Blvd written by Aidan Levy and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Storyverse and the Time Ghosts Curse written by william stone greenhill and published by William Stone Greenhill. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tessa storm has just finished her first year at story the school and has a made her first two friends. But she is about to find out a terrifying secret, snow is the air of Abigail and the forbidden books have returned! If the Forbidden Books meet Abigail 's heir the forbidden queen could rise again... Also a Time Ghost is running around the boat waiting for the right time to strike. How will Tessa William and Snow make it out of an invasion of Abigail 's followers all across Sea Angel Academy!
Download or read book Twenty One Cardinals written by Jocelyne Saucier and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-one children of the Cardinal family have congregated to celebrate their father, who discovered the mine around which their now-desolate town was built. As the siblings run wild, we discover that Angèle, the only Cardinal with a penchant for happiness, is missing—although everyone pretends not to notice. Why the silence? What secrets does the mine hold? Jocelyne Saucier is the author of several novels, including Il pleuvait des oiseaux, which won the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie. Rhonda Mullins was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for her translation of Saucier's And the Birds Rained Down.
Download or read book Cloud 9 written by Caryl Churchill and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-act play in which preconceptions about gender, romance, and "lifestyle" are scrambled, neutralized, and possibly even rebuilt.
Download or read book Deflection of Pig Ponies written by Joan Anderson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marlene D. Morèl is an emotionally troubled Chinese-American teenage girl growing up in Utopia-Zurich, Switzerland. To avoid her drunk, abusive father, who is the Swiss version of Oscar Wilde and her American mother, a has-been soap opera star, who has no interest in her chubby, slant-eyed daughter, Marlene spends most of her time hiding inside the warehouse, which houses the family business, Morèl Theatrical Costumier. Preferring life among mannequins, props and costumes, Marlene has created over the years, a life of make-believe, where her imagination runs rampant. Trouble is, unbeknownst to her, she's also created an alter-ego named Bad Egg who happens to be a 'toon' and who wants to eliminate Marlene's personality all together. And to make things worse, Bad Egg has also created an alter-ego ego in the form of Kali, the Hindu Goddess of Sex and Destruction who plans on murdering Marlene's abusive father. Between these three out of control personalities, not to mention, Marlene's difficult circumstances with both parents, the poor girl ends up in a mental institution. With the help of a Jungian psychologist named Dr. Karin Sommerfeldt, Marlene D. Morèl's multiple act of misfits finally become solo again. Deflection of Pig-Ponies is a cross between the films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and American Beauty.
Download or read book Luke written by F. Scott Spencer and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story Luke tells in his gospel, says F. Scott Spencer, is “a compelling, complex narrative confession of faith in God. To what degree anyone joins Luke in that faith journey is up to them, but any responsible interpreter must attend considerately to Luke’s theological roadmap.” In this latest addition to the Two Horizons New Testament Commentary series, Spencer integrates close textual analysis of Luke’s unfolding narrative with systematic theology, spiritual formation, philosophical inquiry, and psychological research. With section-by-section commentary, Spencer highlights the overriding salvific message that runs through Luke’s gospel. Pastors, scholars, and students alike will benefit from Spencer’s insight into Luke’s theological significance.
Download or read book Pocket Oxford American Dictionary and Thesaurus written by Oxford Languages and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Pocket Oxford American Dictionary & Thesaurus" is the ideal all-in-one portable reference, with a dictionary and thesaurus combined in one handy, integrated volume.
Download or read book Oxford American Desk Dictionary Thesaurus written by Oxford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford American Desk Dictionary & Thesaurus Third Edition is a portable, all-in-one reference, seamlessly combining dictionary and thesaurus entries into one text. In addition to finding meanings, synonyms, and antonyms for a word together in one entry, users will appreciate a selection of the most helpful extra features.With up-to-date content backed by Oxford's language research program, and with an open, accessible new interior design, this is the ideal reference source for anyone requiring authoritative lexical information.
Download or read book Wear Your Dreams Like Your Skin written by N.L. Damoyi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a life with or without faith, love or compassion? What would be the purpose of life then? If it is happiness, it never lasts as it loses its sparkle after a while. But, happiness inspired by good deed or good intention is always fulfilling. Join NL Damoyi as he celebrates life greatest achievements, compassion, love and faith, through his poems. He pays tribute to people, events and work of art that served as his teachers to demonstrate the positive power of Love, Faith and Compassion during and after the dark days of Apartheid in South Africa.
