Download or read book Renaldo written by James S McCreath and published by Scottish Laddie Publications. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argentina 1978 . . . A brutal military junta suspends civil liberties for anyone who opposes it. Distraught mothers of "The Disappeared" parade daily in front of the capital building. In retaliation, violent acts of terrorism shatter what is left of normal life. Only one thing can unite all the people. The World Cup of football. Two brothers, Renaldo and Lonfranco De Seta, chart a different course for their futures. While both brothers fall in love with powerful women, Renaldo, a young soccer prodigy, strives to make a place on Argentina's national team. Lonfranco, angry and disenchanted, is seduced into becoming a Montonero terrorist. From the plains of the Pampas to boardrooms, boudoirs, battlefields, locker rooms, and seething stadiums, Renaldo is a love story unlike any ever written and a novel shockingly relevant to times we live in.
Download or read book Renaldo Joins the Circus written by Al Calienes and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-03-20 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al Calienes was born in Brooklyn New York. His first career choice was that of an artist; he did spot ads and storyboards but longed to create epic storybook adventures for children. One such story is that of a clown named Renaldo. Al had the idea in his mind to actually become the character of his storybook idea. He began his journey in the circus at the age of 26 with the Big Apple Circus. “ The show stopped three blocks from my place in Brooklyn so I didn’t run away to the circus, I walked”. He says. Starting at the bottom rung of the ladder ushering patrons to their seats, he worked his way up and saw the circus from a perspective that many seasoned and multi-generation performers don’t get to experience. After becoming a clown with the one ring wonder and being there for 8 years, Al began teaching his new found skills at the Luna Stage Theatre Company, then went back to performing circus at Sea World in Florida, Circus Sarasota, The Royal Hanneford Circus, The Garden Bros. Circus of Canada and Zippo’s Circus of England. Now after more than 20 years in the circus he still tours around the country and also teaches circus skills with the National Circus Project in New York and is ready to bring his stories to the world.
Download or read book Aldo Renaldo and the Renegade Alphabet written by George M. Johnson and published by Histria Books. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aldo Renaldo has been having trouble with his alphabet, but he finally thinks he knows it and wants to tell Mommy. When he checks one last time, he finds the letters around his walls behaving badly. The K knocks out the O, and the W does cartwheels with the M. He tries to restore order, but cannot. All is not lost, though, because when Mommy enters Aldo uses the new words he has heard from the letters, as he recites the alphabet. When he looks up, the renegade alphabet has restored its proper order.
Download or read book The Secret World of Renaldo Kuhler written by Brett Ingram and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sumptuous monograph presenting for the first time the extraordinarily imaginative and delightful work of visionary artist Renaldo Kuhler (American, 1931-2013). The Secret World of Renaldo Kuhler catapults a thrilling new discovery into the pantheon of the most accomplished visionary--or "outsider"--artists. Like Henry Darger, Howard Finster, George Widener, and Adolf Wölfli, Renaldo Kuhler was an exceptionally gifted artist and possessed an imagination all his own. By day Kuhler was a self-taught scientific illustrator under the employ of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, for which he created thousands of wonderfully precise illustrations of myriad natural history specimens--reptiles, fish, turtles, and the like. Renaldo Kuhler was an unusual individual, as was instantly clear from his appearance alone. Six-foot-four, with a white beard and ponytail, he wore a custom-tailored uniform consisting of a sleeveless Kelly green suit jacket with wide, black, notched lapels, epaulets, and brass buttons, a matching suit vest, yellow flannel dress shirt, a fleur-de-lis Boy Scout neckerchief, and tight-fitting knee-length shorts ("cotton-blend lederhosen"). However, unbeknownst even to family, friends, andcoworkers, Kuhler was more than an eccentric, gifted scientific illustrator. He was a prolific visionary artist, who, as a teenager in the late 1940s, invented an imaginary country he named Rocaterrania--after Rockland County, New York, where he had lived as a child. For the next sixty years, in secret, he illustrated the nation''s entire history and the prominent characters of its populace. Rocaterrania is a fantastical world, a richly illustrated amalgam of Kuhler''s personal cultural and aesthetic fascinations. Situated just north of the Adirondacks in New York, at the Canada-United States border, Rocaterrania is a sovereign nation of immigrants, from Scandinavia to Eastern Europe. Kuhler invented a complete world populated by a royal family and a succession of leaders resembling historical Russian figures, Women reminiscent of Marlene Dietrich and Janet Leigh play important roles as do bearded men of a seeming Hasidic Jewish heritage, men bearing curious physical similarities to American presidents, and neutants--individuals neither male nor female. Amid forests, mountains, lakes, and rivers, Kuhler''s imaginary country is made up of provinces and cities filled with distinctive Rocaterranian architecture and well-planned railroad and metro systems. Its government is unique, and it has its own religion, Ojallism, and its own evolving language and alphabet. With an organized labor service, a prison system (modeled after a New Jersey state penitentiary), a university system, a Rocaterranian Olympics, and an independent movie industry, Rocaterrania is a nation bustling with dozens of characters and their intrigues.Initially meant to be an escape, Kuhler''s Rocaterrania became a secret lifelong obsession, an intricately coded, metaphorical account through Rocaterrania''s tumultuous history, which dovetailed with Kuhler''s own struggles for independence and freedom.Renaldo was the son of the German-born industrial designer Otto Kuhler, renowned for his Art Deco-era streamlined trains; his Belgian mother had little patience for her son, who was ostracized and bullied throughout his life for being "different." The Kuhler family moved in 1948 from Rockland County, New York, to a remote cattle ranch in the Colorado Rockies--an unbearably isolated environment for the teenaged Renaldo. Retreating to his sketchbooks, journals, and watercolors to invent his imaginary nation of Rocaterrania, young Kuhler wrote, "The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive." The Secret World of Renaldo Kuhler is filled with more than 400 illustrations in pencil, ink, acrylic, oil, gouache, watercolor, colored pencils, and markers, demonstrating Kuhler''s phenomenal draftsmanship and wide range of style--from delicately shaded graphite works to comic-book ink drawings. Complementing Kuhler''s impressive artistry is his gift for analogical thinking, which flowered in his appropriation and reimagining of personalities, places, and events from world history to form a cohesive and fully imagined world. After decades of secrecy, Kuhler eventually first shared his work and the story of his imaginary country with filmmaker Brett Ingram, whom he met by chance in the mid-1990s. In 2009 Ingram released Rocaterrania, a feature-length documentary with prized footage of Kuhler at home and at work, and talking about his creation. WithThe Secret World of Renaldo Kuhler Ingram has written the complete story of Rocaterrania as relayed to him over time by Kuhler, resulting in a fascinating, highly entertaining first and major book about this rare, newly discovered, full-blown visionary outsider artist.
Download or read book Submerging with a Sea Snake written by Charlie Richards and published by eXtasy Books. This book was released on with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenny hates getting milked—the process where Doc Anthony eases his snake’s fangs through a thin lid covering a cup in order to collect his venom. Still, he knows it’s a necessary evil if he expects to live in a shifter pod. The doc needs it so he can always have anti-venom on hand, and since he used his last vial to save a human Kenny had bitten, he needs to make more. Imagine Kenny’s surprise when, as Doc Anthony sinks his fangs through the paper, an amazing scent teases his senses. The distraction causes him to pop his head up, and he nearly stabs a fang into the doc. In the doc’s shock, he fumbles Kenny’s snake form, dropping him to the counter. A set of hands Kenny doesn’t recognize grabs him. He struggles for an instant until he catches his new holder’s scent. Stilling, Kenny realizes the big human holding him with a firm and confident hand is his mate. He listens for a moment, learning the man is Renaldo Martinez, and he’s a snake enthusiast. When Kenny shifts, revealing what he is and declaring their connection—that Renaldo is the other half of his soul—will he be able to convince his human to be just as enamored with him in human form?
Download or read book Lockdown Prison Heart written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Camino del Sol written by Rigoberto González and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1994, the Camino del Sol series has been one of the premier vehicles for Latina/o literary voices. Launched under the auspices of Chicana/o luminary Ray Gonzalez, it quickly established itself in both the Latina/o community and the publishing world as it garnered awards for its outstanding writing. Featuring both established writers and first-time authors, Camino del Sol has published poetry and prose that convey something about the Latina/o experience—works that tap into universal truths through a distinct cultural lens. This volume celebrates fifteen years of books by bringing together some of the series’ best work, such as poetry from Francisco X. Alarcón, fiction from Christine Granados, and nonfiction from Luis Alberto Urrea. These voices echo the entire spectrum of Latina/o writing, from Chicana/o to Puerto Rican to Brazilian-American, and take in themes ranging from migration to gender. Awards bestowed upon Camino del Sol titles include the PEN/Beyond Margins Award to Richard Blanco’s Directions to the Beach of the Dead; Before Columbus Foundation American Book Awards to Diana García’s When Living Was a Labor Camp and Luis Alberto Urrea’s Nobody’s Son; International Latino Book Awards to Pat Mora’s Adobe Odes and Kathleen Alcalá’s The Desert Remembers My Name; the Premio Aztlán literary prize to Sergio Troncoso’s The Last Tortilla; and the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles National Literary Award to Kathleen de Azevedo’s Samba Dreamers. All of these works are represented in this outstanding collection. In a short span of time, Camino del Sol has cultivated an admirable and sizeable list of distinguished contemporary authors—and even garnered the first National Book Critics Circle Award for a Chicana/o for Juan Felipe Herrera’s Half of the World in Light. Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing is a benchmark for the series and a wonderful introduction to the world of Latina/o literature.
Download or read book Dead Man s Diary and A Taste for Cognac written by Brett Halliday and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A double shot of iconic Miami PI Mike Shayne—“one of the best of the tough sleuths” (The New York Times). Dead Man’s Diary: Florida private investigator Mike Shayne’s in New Orleans at the behest of a distraught wife whose war-hero husband, Jasper Groat, has gone missing—along with his diary, a harrowing soon-to-be-published daily account of being set adrift in a lifeboat with two shipmates. Rumor has it it’s also an incriminating confessional. With two corpses—and counting—it looks to Shayne like someone would prefer if Jasper and his damning revelations had been buried at sea. A Taste for Cognac: One minute, PI Mike Shayne’s having a quick afternoon cocktail in a Miami dive. The next, he’s been solicited to investigate an intoxicating conspiracy involving the parole of an aging bootlegger, a secretive old sea captain tortured to death, a missing female reporter, and two dozen bottles of prewar cognac—vintage, valuable, and apparently worth killing for. If anybody can pop the cork on this case, it’s Shayne. Brett Halliday’s “fast‐paced world of violence, intrigues, complex twists and voluptuous women” inspired film, radio, and television adaptations, as well as the long-running Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine (The New York Times).
Download or read book DEVASTATION POINT written by Paul R. Kirk and published by Paul R. Kirk. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DEVASTATION POINT What would you do if you were stranded halfway around the world when it crumbled? The world collapsed after the spread of the hyper-aggressive H5N1 Avian plague and several airborne mutations. By simply breathing the air, billions upon billions around the world died in less than a few months' time. Soon after, technology and infrastructure disintegrated. Electricity is gone; there are no cell phones, Internet, television or much else. Humanity lies in waste, disease and ruin. Among the remaining survivors, one very rare gene in the human DNA surfaced as resistant to the onslaught. Stuck in the remote mining town of Mudgee, Australia, Airborne Special Forces Colonel Connor MacMillen survives the dark and dangerous times. Motivated by family, he intends to get home to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania--or rather, the Fayette Mountains south of Pittsburgh. He has unfinished business to attend to there. After four impossible years traveling in a post-apocalyptic world, Connor Mac lands in San Francisco and commences the last leg of his journey across the continental United States. DEVASTATION POINT begins Connor Mac's exploits in the fifth year of the New Dark Ages as he encounters a strange and changed America turned upside down by the "Cuckoo Flu". Encountering new friends as well as making fierce enemies along the way, his personal journey reveals a furious and confident fight for life. But, unbeknownst to Connor Mac, his journey to get home is noticed by those still in power in America; and they’re looking for him. It seems he is decidedly different than most men left standing. While all living men are infertile, he is still able to reproduce. And, that changes everything. DEVASTATION POINT takes a comprehensive look at how one man, trained by America's best, would respond to a world completely altered by the pandemic destruction. To Connor Mac, family connections are critical and returning home can be a prime motivator for one last and final mission. “DEVASTATION POINT stands head and shoulders over the pulp that permeates the post-apocalyptic genre.” "A full and complete first novel of over 250,000 words, aficionados of the post-apocalyptic genre will fully enjoy reading this." "This is an exploration of what it might take to smartly survive the apocalypse and still retain the higher elements of what it means to be human. Sorry, but there are no Zombies.”
Download or read book Badman written by Bonz Buonopane and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Badman By Bonz Buonopane The Buonopanes are a dysfunctional family whose sense of normalcy has been twisted by years of violence and mayhem. There are no rules – except family rules. When Bonz Buonopane moves to South Carolina to work for his uncle as a low-level Mafioso, he finds himself caught in the middle of what appears to be a budding turf war between the Italians and the Russians. Bonz soon comes to realize that he has to choose between doing what is right and what is wrong. Badman is the first book in the saga of Bonz Buonopane.
Download or read book People of the State of Illinois V Melchor written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Smack a k a Plum Wine Dark Chocolate written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Destiny Comes on the Wind The Legend of Opechancanough written by James Wright and published by James A. Wright. This book was released on 2012-03-04 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Friendship written by David DeGeorge and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friends question each other's trust and respect as life presents serious challenges. Arturo and Sophia plan a spiel night following their senior party but circumstances prevent this from transpiring. Sophia then finds a suggestive photo of Arturo, which strains their relationship. Renaldo deals with alcoholic parents and his own temptation to drink, especially during a crisis with his girlfriend. Millicent struggles with her introversion and an overprotective mother. Conrad is out to prove his manhood. Wyatt has strong principles tested by the lure of the flesh. And Andrea thinks ever guys she meets is Mr. Right - until after a few dates, when he becomes Mr. Wrong. Impatient, she wonders if she will ever find her man. The responsibilities of adulthood have these friends drifting apart and feeling alone, even helpless. When the most formidable situations arise, will friendship last?
Download or read book Dark Caribbean written by Rick Magers and published by The eBook Sale. This book was released on 2007 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of fighting with pirates over their crawfish catches, Ray and Roland finally find a place to peaceful lay their traps but at what cost?
Download or read book Gospel written by Wilton Barnhardt and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-02-15 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search is on for a lost first-century gospel of the Bible, a document that could shake the foundations of Christianity. The narrative races through dozens of locales as a theologian and an ex-priest pursue rumors and clues about the gospel. In the end, what they discover will challenge and forever change the nature of faith.
Download or read book Nine Lives written by Shun Mie Shee and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine Lives is the true story of a simple woman plagued by her twenty-year addiction to drugs and alcohol. Rather than succumb to the miseries of an abusive home or to the addiction that began at only twelve years old, Gina continues to fight for the freedom of a normal life with the help of her very own Guardian Angel. Sometimes she loses her battles, but she finally wins her war because of her unfailing belief in God and her belief that God believes in her, no matter what. A story that exposes the perils of addiction and the power of God to overcome that addiction, Nine Lives shows the love of God for all his creatures and the manifestation of that love in man himself. The book also tells the story of the three men in Gina's life who love her, but who she feels she must reject in order to protect them from her crippled state. Finally, though, Gina learns to accept the unconditional love of the man who is now her husband, a man whose love mirrors the love she feels from and toward God.
