Download or read book Silk Scars written by Alex Eddarro and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotionally broken, psychologically haunted, and physically scarred, Trenton Jacobs is afraid to love. At 28, the tattooed Las Vegas mechanic has spent his life taking care of his little sister, Olivia, protecting her from all the ugliness in the world. He's worked hard to ensure her happiness and success, even though he struggles to find his own. Bouncing from one distraction to another, never settling long enough to disappoint anyone except himself, he seems destined to end up alone. Trenton's potential has been undermined by the tragic upbringing that taught him to hate the fundamental things that make him who he is. Seth Zewinski couldn't be more different. At 40, he is president of his own development company and owns a swanky penthouse, a fleet of fancy cars and a closet full of immaculate designer clothes. Seth is the envy of everyone he meets. But behind those expensive walls he's built around himself, he's lost. The death of his lover and long-time partner took a part of Seth away: the part that kept him breathing, the part that knew how to love. When their two worlds collide, chemistry can only take these damaged men so far. What could these two possibly have to offer each other...beyond Silk & Scars?
Download or read book The White Satin Miter written by Linton Morrell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Clive Colin OReith has invested $200 million to bring a giant oilfield on line in Afghanistan. A new warlord has just taken over. The Shah in Persia is shaking on his Peacock throne. The pipeline runs through South Persia. If the Shah goes down, so does the oilfield. He needs powerful political influence DC to save his investment. Sir George P. Cardinal McDonough can sway the Pope (Paul VI). OReith is a friend of General Haig, Chief of Staff to President Nixon. Nixon is in big Watergate trouble. OReith offers to save Nixon if Nixon will help him save his oilfield. A deal is struck. Unfortunately their well laid plans miscarry.
Download or read book SATIN SILK YOU written by Deborah Brooks Langford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I want to dedicate this book to Jesus, the one and only Son of God and my wonderful husband, plus my wonderful grandchildren and awesome friends. Especially to Susan Joyner-Stumpf, my very best friend and sister, plus to my sweet sweet beautiful granddaughter Franchesca.
Download or read book Homecoming Queers written by Marivel T. Danielson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-24 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homecoming Queers provides a critical discussion of the multiple strategies used by queer Latina authors and artists in the United States to challenge silence and invisibility within mainstream media, literary canons, and theater spaces. Marivel T. Danielson's analysis reveals the extensive legacy of these cultural artists, including novelists, filmmakers, students and activists, comedians, performers, and playwrights. By clearly discussing the complexities and universalities of ethnic, racial, sexual, gender, and class intersections between queer Chicana and U.S. Latinas, Danielson explores the multiple ways identity shapes and shades creative expression. Weaknesses and gaps are revealed in the treatment of difference as a whole, within dominant and marginalized communities. Spanning multiple genres and forms, and including scholarly theory alongside performances, films, narratives, and testimonials, Homecoming Queers leads readers along a crucial path toward understanding and overcoming the silences that previously existed across these fields.
Download or read book English Etymology written by Friedrich Kluge and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Feminism on the Border written by Sonia Saldívar-Hull and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-05-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sonia Saldívar-Hull's book proposes two moves that will, no doubt, leave a mark on Chicano/a and Latin American Studies as well as in cultural theory. The first consists in establishing alliances between Chicana and Latin American writers/activists like Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga on the one hand and Rigoberta Menchu and Domitilla Barrios de Chungara on her. The second move consists in looking for theories where you can find them, in the non-places of theories such as prefaces, interviews and narratives. By underscoring the non-places of theories, Sonia Saldívar-Hull indirectly shows the geopolitical distribution of knowledge between the place of theory in white feminism and the theoretical non-places of women of color and of third world women. Saldívar-Hull has made a signal contribution to Chicano/a Studies, Latin American Studies and cultural theory." —Walter D. Mignolo, author of Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking "This is a major critical claim for the sociohistorical contextualization of Chicanas who are subject to processes of colonization--our conditions of existence. Through a reading of Anzaldua, Cisneros and Viramontes, Saldívar-Hull asks us to consider how the subalternized text speaks, how and why it is muted? How do testimonio, autobiography and history give shape to the literary where embodied wholeness may be possible. It is a critical de-centering of American Studies and Mexican Studies as usual, as she traces our cross(ed) genealogies, situated on the borders." —Norma Alarcon, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
Download or read book Tribe written by K L Jones and published by Kirsten Jones. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England 1646. The Country is torn apart by civil war. Fear and uncertainty are rife. The terrifying reign of Matthew Hopkins, Witchfinder General, is at its peak. His relentless purges are forcing the Mage families from hiding, fleeing for the only sanctuary where their kind can exist without persecution. The Isle. The Isle cannot hope to remain secret in such dangerous times, leaving Mage Sphinx with a stark choice. To deny his brethren sanctuary will be to sign their death warrants, to allow them sanctuary will risk the Isle he has sworn to protect. Death comes with each decision, but need it be the death of many? Or just one man. The De Winter family travel to England to assassinate Matthew Hopkins, leaving Cassius, first born son and Divinus of the Ri, to face an inescapable fate alone.
Download or read book Not Quite Out written by Louise Willingham and published by SRL Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Anson is done with relationships, thanks. He's starting the second year of his medicine degree single, focused, and ready to mingle with purely platonic intentions. Meeting Daniel, a barely recovered drug addict ready to start living life on his own terms, might just change that. There are two problems. One: William isn't out. What's the point in telling your friends you're bisexual when you aren't going to date anyone? Two: Daniel's abusive ex-boyfriend still roams the university campus, searching for cracks in Daniel's recovery. No matter how quickly William falls for Daniel, their friendship is too important to risk ruining over a crush. William is fine with being just friends for the rest of forever. Well, not quite. Content warning - This book includes references to abortion, PTSD, drug addiction, abusive relationships, and self-harm.
Download or read book Official Stud Book and Registry of the American Quarter Horse Association written by American Quarter Horse Association and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death Comes in Threes written by Eric Watford and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her boyfriend reveals a stash of diamonds he stole, Myra Fresh rips him off and disappears. Ten years later as a homicide detective, Fresh is assigned to solve the cold case. She must conceal the fact that she stole the diamonds from her ex and still get him convicted of the robbery and the murders committed during the crime. Her partner, detective Mercy Rogers, begins to suspect Fresh had something to do with the crime. She has no idea how deep betrayal can go. Soon secrets from the past have their own deadly consequences.
Download or read book The House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisneros and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.
Download or read book The Book Of Little written by Jeff Collignon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Book of Little we follow the main character whose fractured journey begins in the sterile confines of a bus station and takes hm deep into the private estate of Dr. Wieskin's Clinic. Dr. Wieskin is a psychiatric practitioner of the Now, a state of being without a past or a future, only the present. His treatments and reprogramming have been highly successful. But all of this is about to change, as our character and his fellow resident discover the past is not so easily irreducible.
Download or read book Vintage Cisneros written by Sandra Cisneros and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers: The celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street “knows both that the heart can be broken and that it can rise and soar like a bird. Whatever story she chooses to tell, we should be listening for a long time to come" (The Washington Post Book World). A winner of the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature and the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, Sandra Cisneros evokes working-class Latino experience with an irresistible mix of realism and lyrical exuberance. Vintage Cisneros features an excerpt from her bestselling novel The House on Mango Street, which has become a favorite in school classrooms across the country. Also included are a chapter from her novel, Caramelo; a generous selection of poems from My Wicked Wicked Ways and Loose Woman; and seven stories from her award-winning collection Woman Hollering Creek.
Download or read book Memory Mambo written by Achy Obejas and published by Cleis Press. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory Mambo describes the life of Juani Casas, a 25-year-old Cuban-born American lesbian who manages her family's laundromat in Chicago while trying to cope with family, work, love, sex, and the weirdness of North American culture. Achy Obejas's writing is sharp and mordantly funny. She understands perfectly how the romance of exile—from a homeland as well as from heterosexuality—and the mundane reality of everyday life balance one another. Memory Mambo is ultimately very moving in its depiction of what it means to find a new and finally safe sense of home.
Download or read book Critical Explorations of Young Adult Literature written by Victor Malo-Juvera and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing the determination of a canon as an ongoing process of discussion and debate, which helps us to better understand the concept of meaningful and important literature, this edited collection turns a critical spotlight on young adult literature (YAL) to explore some of the most read, taught, and discussed books of our time. By considering the unique criteria which might underpin the classification of a YAL canon, this text raises critical questions of what it means to define canonicity and designate certain books as belonging to the YAL canon. Moving beyond ideas of what is taught or featured in textbooks, the volume emphasizes the role of adolescents’ choice, the influence of popular culture, and above all the multiplicity of ways in which literature might be interpreted and reflected in the lives of young readers. Chapters examine an array of texts through varied critical lenses, offer detailed literary analyses and divergent interpretations, and consider how themes might be explored in pedagogical contexts. By articulating the ways in which teachers and young readers may have traditionally interpreted YAL, this volume will extend debate on canonicity and counter dominant narratives that posit YAL texts as undeserving of canonical status. This text will be of great interest to graduate and postgraduate students, academics, professionals, and libraries in the field of young adult literature, fiction literacy, children’s literacy and feminist studies.
Download or read book The Journey written by Tracy Carol Taylor and published by Prince of Pages, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living up to the expectation of one’s family can be rough, especially when your father is the king. No matter what Prince Michael does, he cannot seem to measure up to his father’s expectations. Prince Michael’s problems are somewhat made better when he is assigned a personal bodyguard; And not just any bodyguard, but his father’s Captain of Guards only son. However, it seems that Sam has his own secrets. When Sam is chosen to take young Prince Michael to Swinton School, they doesn’t realize they are about to begin a journey of a lifetime.
Download or read book Trans Americanity written by José David Saldívar and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the author critiques the work of various writers within the framework of a globalized study of the Americas.
