Download or read book Shut Up Slow Down Let Go Breathe written by Marcus McCann and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shut Up Slow Down Let Go Breathe written by Marcus McCann and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half wisecracking tour guide and half flirtatious trick, the poems in Shut Up Slow Down Let Go Breathe examine how we respond to overwork and overstimulation. McCann's third collection speaks to a world that is too busy and too anxious, delivering the material with zero reverence and with loads of self-deprecating, disarming, observational - and sometimes catty - humour. Inviting readers to be his "bandmates / on life's slutty bus tour," Shut Up Slow Down Let Go Breathe marks a fresh new direction in Marcus McCann's poetics. "McCann's work is a must for any lover of poems."--Northumberland Today
Download or read book Park Cruising written by Marcus McCann and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate look at one of culture’s most enduring taboos: public sex. Park Cruising takes a long look at the men who cruise for sex in urban parks. Human rights lawyer Marcus McCann uses park cruising as a point of departure for discussions of consent, empathy, public health, municipal planning, and our relationship to strangers. Prompted by his work opposing a police sting in a suburban park, McCann’s ruminations go beyond targeted enforcement and police indifference to violence to examine cruising as a type of world-building. The result is a series of insightful and poetic walks through history, law, literature, and popular representations of cruising in search of the social value of sex. What McCann ultimately reveals is a world of connection, care, and unexpected lessons about the value of pleasure.
Download or read book Slow Down written by Nichole Nordeman and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The days are long, but the years are short. No matter if it’s your child’s first step, first day of school, or first night tucked away in a new dorm room away from home, there comes a moment when you realize just how quickly the years are flying by. Christian music artist Nichole Nordeman’s profound lyrics in her viral hit “Slow Down” struck a chord with moms everywhere, and now this beautiful four-color book will inspire you to celebrate the everyday moments of motherhood. Filled with thought-provoking writings from Nichole, as well as guest writings from friends including Shauna Niequist and Jen Hatmaker, practical tips, and journaling space for reflection, Slow Down will be a poignant gift for any mom, as well as a treasured keepsake. Take a few moments to reflect and celebrate the privilege of being a parent and getting to watch your little ones grow—and Slow Down. Nichole Nordeman has sold more than 1 million albums as a Christian music artist and has won 9 GMA Dove Awards, including two awards for Female Vocalist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year. Nichole released a lyric video for her song “Slow Down,” and it struck a chord with parents everywhere, amassing 14 million views in its first five days. She lives in Oklahoma with her two children.
Download or read book Soft Where written by Marcus McCann and published by . This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Soft Where by Marcus McCann is a hard-hitting cutting edge poetic expose of a world filled with experimentation and valour. This stunning book explores the possibilities of bringing image to life, written in the language of the people and soaked in a heart of sapphire. The jury was intoxicated by this book, and feels this young writer should be encouraged in every and all ways--to the full extent of poetic promise. The language in Soft Where is as stark and meaningful as the images which express a lifestyle hard-lived and yet as delicate as an origami bird."--Gerald Lampert Award jury citation
Download or read book Wicked and Weird written by Rich Terfry and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Star radio-host Rich Terfry presents the amazing tales of his alter ego, musician Buck 65, in this rollicking account of growing up poor, talented, baseball-obsessed, music-mad and girl-smitten. With wit, style and a born writer's knack for telling detail, Rich Terfry gives us the wildly entertaining story of his unusual life through the eyes of his shy but brilliant and preternaturally observant alter-ego, Buck. Born in a small town in Nova Scotia to a mother who begins yelling at him the moment he is born and a father who keeps his own counsel, Buck imbibes fear and insecurity like other kids guzzle milk. Hobbled by his fears and demons, Buck almost disappears into the “evil in the woods” that lurks just beyond the town's border . . . until he is saved by three gifts: baseball, romantic love and music. His epic journey—full of diversions, coincidences, and larger-than-life characters—out of the darkness of his suicide-plagued childhood and into the bright wide world begins with a killer pitching arm (Buck almost makes it to the pros) and continues with his transformation into hip hop artist Buck 65. Along the way, Buck develops into a hopeless romantic and an obsessively creative, shape-shifting man who both fears life and dives into it with abandon. Wicked and Weird is a lively, sometimes shocking portrait of a life lived on the edge, by turns funny and heartbreaking.
Download or read book Wild Side written by Allison Martin and published by A Martin Books. This book was released on 2021-06-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She wanted protection, and he offered her strength. Exotic dancer Cadence Miller doesn’t trust men, but she’s not above using them to get what she wants: protection. When hot-headed Jethro Stryker beats the hell out of a guy for disrespecting his sister, a sultry stranger gets caught in the wreckage. His attraction is instant, but a woman like her in a town like Raston means one thing: walk away. When Cade offers to rehabilitate an abandoned horse on his property, she gets a low-key place to disappear—but ignoring her feelings for Jet isn’t as easy as hiding from the two men hunting her. Jet’s never been one to back down from a challenge, especially one like Cade, so when her drama shows up on his doorstep, he’s already all in. Convincing Cade to trust him is the biggest fight he’s faced, and the only way to prove he loves her is doing the impossible: letting her go. If you like aggressive, hot-headed heroes, sassy heroines, stubborn horses, and sizzling chemistry to go along with your suspense, The Stryker Family Saga is sure to keep your pulse pounding. Wild Side is an opposites-attract, bodyguard romance that deals with SA, abuse, and violence.
Download or read book Gold Rush written by Claire Caldwell and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Poetry that explores what it means to be a woman--a settler woman--in the wilderness."--
Download or read book Still Point written by E. Martin Nolan and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Still Point contrast the calm and tumult of Hurricane Katrina, the deconstruction of Detroit, the financial crisis of 2008, and the BP Gulf oil spill, weaving lyrical sequences and individual pieces into a coherent whole focused on humanity's relationship to itself and to nature. Still Point tells a story of beauty and horror, and how normalcy stubbornly persists amid history's arc.
Download or read book Slow Down written by Lee Matthew Goldberg and published by All Due Respect, an imprint of Down & Out Books. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far would you go to make your dreams come true? For budding writer and filmmaker Noah Spaeth, being a Production Assistant in director Dominick Bambach’s new avant-garde film isn’t enough. Neither is watching Dominick have an affair with the lead actress, the gorgeous but troubled Nevie Wyeth. For Noah’s dream is to get both the film and Nevie in the end, whatever the cost. And this obsession may soon become a reality once Dominick’s spurned wife Isadora reveals her femme fatale nature with a seductive plot to get rid of her husband for good. Slow Down, a cross between the noir styling of James M. Cain and the dark satire of Bret Easton Ellis, is a thrilling page-turner that holds a mirror up to a media-saturated society that is constantly searching for the fastest way to get ahead, regardless of consequences. Praise for SLOW DOWN: “Slow Down is a frenetic first novel...full of unedifying characters scrambling for the elusive, perhaps imaginary, brass ring.” —Publishers Weekly “Lee Matthew Goldberg writes like a young Bret Easton Ellis doing a line of uncut Denis Johnson off the back of a public urinal. Memorable in the best possible way, also mostly illegal, Goldberg’s Slow Down is a mad man’s tour of Manhattan’s vices, follies, and ultimate betrayals.” —Urban Waite, author of The Terror of Living and Sometimes the Wolf “What would happen if one of Raymond Chandler’s 1940’s femme fatales were to join forces with one of Jay McInerney’s enfant terribles? Lee Matthew Goldberg wrings every delectable trope imaginable out of this mashup while still managing a fresh spin. A writer to watch out for.” —David Kukoff, author of Children of the Canyon “Slow Down starts fast and gets faster quick, gunning through yellow streetlights on its way to a full collision with your shattered soul. Lee Matthew Goldberg takes on the American Zeitgeist in this stunning debut.” —Stephen Jay Schwartz, LA Times bestselling author of Boulevard and Beat “Slow Down is a brilliant rush of a work charting the rise and fall of Noah and other pretentious losers. Savor this book.” —Foreword Reviews “Dark and hard-boiled writing that grabs you by the throat. Slow Down is one of those rare novels that’s so good you want it to go on forever!” —Nick Pengelley, author of Ryder: An Ayesha Ryder Novel “The plot takes off...there’s no denying it’s fun to watch rich snots destroy themselves.” —Booklist “Goldberg’s portrayal of the New York demimonde is one of the book’s strengths and brings to mind Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero. He also succeeds in marshalling a complicated plot.” —CrimeFictionLover.com
Download or read book Code Runner written by Rosie Claverton and published by Carina Press. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Two of the Amy Lane Mysteries Ex-con Jason Carr has faced down the toughest thugs in Cardiff, but being assistant to a brilliant, eccentric hacker who hasn't been outdoors in ten years has its own challenges. Still, he and Amy Lane can solve cases even the cops can't crack. And when a corpse washes up on a beach, Jason can't resist chasing the clues—or defying Amy by infiltrating the very gangs he once escaped. Amy is distraught when Jason's pursuit gets him framed for murder. He's thrown back in prison where he's vulnerable to people who want him dead. He needs Amy to prove his innocence. Fast. But Amy hasn't been honest with him—her panic attacks aren't getting better. And now, with everything that makes her feel safe ripped away, she must stand alone, using her technological skills to expose a baffling conspiracy and a new kind of online crime. Can she clear Jason's name before danger closes in? 89,000 words
Download or read book Revolting Book 1 written by Maureen Atsali and published by Infinite Joy. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nina, as part of the treaty negotiations with the Gold Mountain Pack, I have agreed to a marriage alliance. You, Nina Boyton, will marry the Alpha's son, Nolan Pierceson on the next new moon." I felt like someone had punched me, knocked the air out of me. "What? Daddy! How could you??" I whispered in shock. Arranged marriages were an archaic thing of the past. Nobody did that anymore, did they? Daddy looked pained. "I did it for the sake of our pack, Nina. We are a small pack, and since your mother..." he couldn't quite bring himself to say the word "died"..."We are weak and vulnerable. We need the protection of a larger, stronger pack. This political alliance will ensure our safety and our survival." I felt so many emotions whipping through me, I couldn't grab ahold of them. "But... why me?" I had two sisters, one older, and one younger. Janice was smart and strong, one of our best warriors. And the younger, Hannah was the beautiful one. None of us had found our mates, we were all single and available. I was almost sure if the Alpha of Gold Mountain had ever seen the three of us, he would have picked one of them. Not me. I am the most ordinary, non-descript, and insignificant of the Alpha's daughters. --------------------- My father has forced me into an arranged marriage with Nolan Piereson of the Gold Mountain Pack. What could be worse than being forced to marry a complete stranger that you don't love? Turns out, there are a lot of things that are even worse.
Download or read book Try Not to Breathe written by Holly Seddon and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Gillian Flynn, Laura Lippman, and Paula Hawkins comes Holly Seddon’s arresting fiction debut—an engrossing thriller full of page-turning twists and turns, richly imagined characters, and gripping psychological suspense. Some secrets never die. They’re just locked away. Alex Dale is lost. Destructive habits have cost her a marriage and a journalism career. All she has left is her routine: a morning run until her body aches, then a few hours of forgettable work before the past grabs hold and drags her down. Every day is treading water, every night is drowning. Until Alex discovers Amy Stevenson. Amy Stevenson, who was just another girl from a nearby town until the day she was found unconscious after a merciless assault. Amy Stevenson, who has been in a coma for fifteen years, forgotten by the world. Amy Stevenson, who, unbeknownst to her doctors, remains locked inside her body, conscious but paralyzed, reliving the past. Soon Alex’s routine includes visiting hours at the hospital, then interviews with the original suspects in the attack. But what starts as a reporter’s story becomes a personal obsession. How do you solve a crime when the only witness lived but cannot tell the tale? Unable to tear herself away from her attempt to uncover the unspeakable truth, Alex realizes she’s not just chasing a story—she’s seeking salvation. Shifting from present to past and back again, Try Not to Breathe unfolds layer by layer until its heart-stopping conclusion. The result is an utterly immersive, unforgettable debut. Praise for Try Not to Breathe “A brilliant, beautifully written thriller.”—Augusten Burroughs, New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors “A razor-sharp plot and wonderfully complex characters . . . Not since The Girl on the Train have I been so captivated by a work of suspense.”—New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen “A fast-paced debut about long-buried secrets and tangled truths.”—New York Times bestselling author Kimberly McCreight “Engrossing . . . Seddon’s storytelling skills are strong. . . . The world she’s constructed is fascinating and slightly dark.”—Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book Surfaces written by Eric Schmaltz and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Art. Pushing writing to its limits, SURFACES is Eric Schmaltz's compelling debut collection that's situated at the intersection of language, bodies, and digital culture. Opening toward the embodied and the intersubjective, SURFACES is at turns playful and unsettling as it explores the processes, interactions, and erasures that occur on and below the surface of writing with machinery. Composed with a minimalist aesthetic and conceptual elements, the book combines found elements, graphic design, imprint, translation, and experimental typography to engage questions about writing and feeling in the 21st century: Where does the body go when we write to one another thru digital channels? How and what do we feel when information is realized through taps, clicks, and pressures? What happens to meaning within a digital economy when information is considered to be bodiless? Concerned with these questions, Surfaces begins to probe for their depths. "With SURFACES, Eric Schmaltz directs our gaze to points of contact and friction, whether crafting mandalas and coptic weavings from letters' negative space, drafting a dance between letterforms as they engage in 'touch at the limits of a long passage, ' or printing reliefs from a keyboard's disassembled parts. In doing so, he draws attention to our expectation that language resolve into meaning--that letters present themselves in a contract of legibility entitling us not only to their forms, but also to some deeper content. In materializing language's embodied 'surfaces, ' Schmaltz returns words' secrecy, reminding us that those inner meanings we seek are ultimately not inherent in them but in our own projected desires and intentions--a dangerous dynamic. The beauty of these forms arises in part from their refusal to come into focus. A surface, here, becomes not only a point of contact but of resistance."--Amaranth Borsuk "SURFACES is, as the book itself confesses, a catalogue of stimulations. It welcomes the saccade of the eyes, the gambits of a distracted neck, the swim of attention in the purr and drone of the ambient. In SURFACES, Schmaltz collects works of various humours--at turns witty, stern, deeply unsettling, and playful. I appreciate what he offers as an intervention into the documents that surround the history of writing with machines, writing as machines. In taking on the pleasures of écriture, the making of the mark--embodied and digitized--the book evokes and then transcends the often gendered binary between the mechanical imprint and the embodied impression. [...] In SURFACES, there is great pleasure in navigating an alphabetic labyrinth in a time of totalizing records of space--one derives from the dérive emotive pleasures of stark abstraction and indulgent design, the tenor of a dark line or the opulent aria of a gray-scale curve."--Divya Victor "SURFACES reminds us that the page is a 3D object, each page the enactment of Duchamp's infrathin. The language skims and streaks across the thinnest of sheens, a glistening moment, an uncanny reminder of what language could be, if only we let it."--Derek Beaulieu
Download or read book Women s Voices and the Practice of Preaching written by Nancy Lammers Gross and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expert, practical help for women who preach or lead worship Many women preachers and worship leaders have trouble speaking; they struggle to fully use their physical voices. Maintaining that there is often a disconnect between the woman's self-understanding as a preacher and her own body, Nancy Lammers Gross presents not only techniques but also a theologically empowering paradigm shift to help women fully embody their God-given preaching vocations. Grounding her work in the biblical story of Miriam, Gross begins with a discussion of how women are instrumental in the work of God. She then tells stories, including her own, of women's experiences in losing connection to their bodies and their physical voices. Finally, Gross presents a constructive resolution with exercises for discovering and developing a full-body voice.
Download or read book The Big Sleep written by Raymond Chandler and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Stepbrothers Aiden Nate MM romance written by H.G. Ellis and published by H.G. Ellis. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tormented by nightmares, Aiden will need his arrogant stepbrother to save him from a threat that isn't only in his dreams. Aiden is vulnerable, always afraid until his new stepbrother moves in and takes over his whole life. Brash and headstrong, Nate is his opposite in every way. He's a new, forceful presence in Aiden's life. With his easy confidence and take charge attitude, he breaks apart Aiden's life of isolation. But Nate thinks Aiden is just a spoiled, rich kid. To Nate he might seem standoffish, but that's not it. Aiden is afraid to trust anyone and plagued by night terrors. The stepbrothers don't get along, but their attraction builds and they can't stay away from each other. When Aiden gets into a situation he can't handle, Nate comes to his rescue. Nate doesn't stop there. He is determined to find out why Aiden was left with such deep, emotional scars. As they get closer to the truth, the danger intensifies and both their lives are in peril. Can Nate's tough love chase away Aiden's nightmares, or will a very real threat be the end of them?
