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Book The Suburban Bitch

Download or read book The Suburban Bitch written by Miss Billie Wong Tiller and published by Page Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't be deceived by the title of this book. The Suburban Bitch doesn't detail the delights and woes of suburban living. On the contrary, this book relives the experiences of a young black woman raised and bred in the ghettoes of Detroit. The reader becomes aware of the suffering and self-sacrifice the young woman struggles with throughout her life. Growing up in a family of sixteen that struggles through hunger, poverty, and despair, a young girl yearns for the all-American dream even as she constantly experiences violence, instability, and hatred growing up and in her first marriage. No matter her obstacles, she strives on patiently, and with determination and perseverance, she finds the meaning of unconditional love. Receiving only violence in her first marriage, fate runs her into the arms of another man, and though she still has the ring on her finger from the first marriage, she weds again. Suddenly, she has the life she has always dreamed of—a life of love. Two husbands, two families, two homes, and only one woman. One strong, beautiful black woman. To all of you ladies that have been riding the train called the bullshit train much too long, we must put a stop to all these liars in our lives. Put us first. Now don't get me wrong, if he is over twenty-two years old, he's already gently used. He has six outside kids. Later he wants to tell you those children came as a result of good loving from friendly fire. Most men are full of bullshit—NO EXCEPTIONS. The man I love, will love me, and when he hears my cry, he will pity every groan.

Book Suburban Dictionary

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  • Author : Timothy Fay
  • Publisher : Winking Words
  • Release : 2020-11-15
  • ISBN : 1732058407
  • Pages : 118 pages

Download or read book Suburban Dictionary written by Timothy Fay and published by Winking Words. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Know what a Tes-hole is? A Tesla owner who thinks he or she is the sh*t, and let's you know. Called “fun,” and “useful,” Suburban Dictionary is a guide to slang, and a guide to the quirky characters sighted in the ‘burbs. Suburbanese: The Subtle, The Funny, and The Snarky, with generous helpings of sarcasm. Over 130 pages of fun and (sometimes) snarky expressions to use at home, at work, and beyond. A guide to the “slang of the Rich” and beyond for old hands, newbies, and those learning English.

Book The Dark Corner

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  • Author : Mark Powell
  • Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
  • Release : 2012-11-30
  • ISBN : 1572339306
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book The Dark Corner written by Mark Powell and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The best Appalachian novelist of his generation.” —Ron Rash, author of Serena and The Cove "The Dark Corner is one of the most riveting and beautifully written novels that I have ever read. Trouble drives the story, as it does in all great fiction, but grace, that feeling of mercy that all men hunger for, is the ultimate subject, and that's just part of the reason that Mark Powell is one of America's most brilliant writers." —Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff “Mark Powell’s third novel powerfully tackles the ongoing curses of drugs, real estate development, veterans’ plights, and other regional cultural banes that plague an Appalachia still very much alive and with us as its own chameleon-like animal. Brimming with fury and beauty, The Dark Corner is a thing wrought to be feared and admired.” —Casey Clabough, author of Confederado “Powell’s work is so clearly sourced to the wellspring of all spiritual understanding—this physical world...He is heir to the literary lineage of Melville, Conrad, Flannery O’Connor, Denis Johnson, and Robert Stone.” —Pete Duval, author of Rear View A troubled Episcopal priest and would-be activist, Malcolm Walker has failed twice over—first in an effort to shock his New England congregants out of their complacency and second in an attempt at suicide. Discharged from the hospital and haunted by images of the Iraq War and Abu Ghraib, he heads home to the mountains of northwestern South Carolina, the state’s “dark corner,” where a gathering storm of private grief and public rage awaits him. Malcolm’s life soon converges with people as damaged in their own ways as he is: his older brother, Dallas, a onetime college football star who has made a comfortable living in real-estate development but is now being drawn ever more deeply into an extremist militia; his dying father, Elijah, still plagued by traumatic memories of Vietnam and the death of his wife; and Jordan Taylor, a young, drug-addicted woman who is being ruthlessly exploited by Dallas’s viperous business partner, Leighton Clatter. As Malcolm tries to restart his life, he enters into a relationship with Jordan that offers both of them fleeting glimpses of heaven, even as hellish realities continue to threaten them. In The Dark Corner, Mark Powell confronts crucial issues currently shaping our culture: environmentalism and the disappearance of wild places, the crippling effects of wars past and present, drug abuse, and the rise of right-wing paranoia. With his skillful plotting, feel for place, and gift for creating complex and compelling characters, Powell evokes a world as vivid and immediate as the latest news cycle, while at the same time he offers a nuanced reflection on timeless themes of violence, longing, redemption, faith, and love. MARK POWELL is the author of two previous novels published by the University of Tennessee Press, Prodigals and the Peter Taylor Prize–winning Blood Kin. The recipient of National Endowment for the Arts and Breadloaf Writers’ Conference fellowships, as well as the Chaffin Award for fiction, he is an assistant professor of English at Stetson University.

Book To Tell You the Truth

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  • Author : Enid Levinger Powell
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2008-08-26
  • ISBN : 1462811809
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book To Tell You the Truth written by Enid Levinger Powell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are these stories autobiographical or fiction? the author is asked. Yes, she says. Life does not provide perfect plots and all the cool characters you need if you hope to hook a readerbut imagination stitched to scraps of experience and observation can create a patchwork quilt called fiction. The stories follow the Law of the Imagination: Tell the truth and the lies take care of themselves. Any links that a reader may invent are reasonable even if not true. A teenage daughter enduring a home perm... a saleswoman coveting a thin gold chain a woman seeing off her college-bound son and visiting parents all on the same day... In this collection of exquisitely nuanced stories, it isnt so much what is said, but what is left unspoken that gives Powells work such emotional complexity and firepower. Proof positive that a good story is truer than the truth. Joni B. Cole , author of Toxic Feedback: Helping Writers Survive and Thrive What did you like best about this book? This book is filled with extraordinary characters and diverse plotting. I eagerly read through it while wondering what next the book held in store for me. I believe its strength, aside from the excellent writing skills, lies in the way you captured the essence of our lives. I identified with so many of the chapters, saying to myself, yes, that's the way it is, that's what happened, that's how I felt. I particularly liked Scenes with a View that captures the young daughter moving into her first place and the parents' discomfort with it. I remember how vulnerable I felt at that time. How hard I tried to make my place perfect, or at least good enough to gain my parents' approval. How can the author improve this book? It would be difficult to say how you could improve this book. I thought the writing was superb, characterization the same, and the stories tugged at my heart. I cried at the end. Tears fill my eyes even as I write these words. Congratulations on a lovely book. If you are not a winner this year, it is because there are so many excellent entries. Writer's Digest Judge's commentary

Book American Hardcore  Second Edition

Download or read book American Hardcore Second Edition written by Steven Blush and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American Hardcore sets the record straight about the last great American subculture"—Paper magazine Steven Blush's "definitive treatment of Hardcore Punk" (Los Angeles Times) changed the way we look at Punk Rock. The Sony Picture Classics–distributed documentary American Hardcore premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. This revised and expanded second edition contains hundreds of new bands, thirty new interviews, flyers, a new chapter ("Destroy Babylon"), and a new art gallery with over 125 rare photos and images.

Book The Sexual Laws

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  • Author : Kiyoshi Kobayashi
  • Publisher : Strictly Literary
  • Release : 2021-01-28
  • ISBN : 0992329795
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Sexual Laws written by Kiyoshi Kobayashi and published by Strictly Literary. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the series is a coherent unit with the unified purpose, each book is designed to be read independently from the others. The first three books are preparing for the proposal and the last book is augmenting the proposal. His core proposition is in Book Four The Third Prophecy; in fact it can be expressed in one simple sentence ‘To love a child is not to make one’.

Book The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture

Download or read book The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture written by B. Murphy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-21 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first sustained examination of the depiction of American suburbia in gothic and horror films, television and literature from 1948 to the present day. Beginning with Shirley Jackson's The Road Through the Wall , Murphy discusses representative texts from each decade, including I Am Legend , Bewitched , Halloween and Desperate Housewives .

Book The Suburban Bitch

Download or read book The Suburban Bitch written by Billi Wong Tiller and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks

Download or read book When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks written by Austin Clarke and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available after over four decades, the first collection of short fiction from bestselling author and Barbadian-born Canadian luminary Austin Clarke — winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and the Trillium Book Award for his novel The Polished Hoe — is a vital, lyrical, and provocative exploration of the Black immigrant experience in Canada. Originally issued in 1971, Austin Clarke’s first published collection of eleven remarkable stories showcases his groundbreaking approach to chronicling the Caribbean diaspora experience in Canada. Characters move through the mire of working life, of establishing a home for themselves, of reconciling with what and who they left behind — all the while contending with a place in which their bone-chilling reception is both social and atmospheric. In lyrical, often racy, and wholly unforgettable prose, Clarke portrays a set of provocative, scintillating portraits of the psychological realities faced by people of colour in a society so often lauded for its geniality and openness.

Book Word of Mouth in Contemporary Hollywood

Download or read book Word of Mouth in Contemporary Hollywood written by Simon Hewitt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Word-of-Mouth in Contemporary Hollywood provides a unique insight into the potential for online communication to enable audiences to exert a greater impact on film industrial practices than ever before. In an overarching analysis of contemporary Hollywood film financing, marketing, distribution, and exhibition practices, Simon Hewitt recontextualises word-of-mouth in light of social media and examines the growing impact of audience participation. Using a ‘Bourdieuconomic’ approach, he applies qualitative research methods to better understand the contemporary Hollywood film audience, the contemporary Hollywood film industry, and the mechanisms that connect the two. The book explores new film financing mechanisms that incorporate fans into the packages used to secure production funds. It assesses the role of ‘Grassroots Intermediaries’ in contemporary film marketing campaigns. It critiques ‘democratic’ crowdsourced methods of film distribution, and finally, it considers the possible future of Hollywood film exhibition. By helping to bridge the gap between the gift economy and commodity culture, this book will appeal to students and scholars of media industry studies, media finance and economics, fan and audience studies, film studies, film history, and media marketing.

Book The Next Town Over

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  • Author : Nathan DiLeo
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2018-04-16
  • ISBN : 1984513281
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book The Next Town Over written by Nathan DiLeo and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As autumn sets in, the small bucolic town of Beaumont Springs is rocked by a horrific tragedy. The brutal slayings of two of the towns most popular citizens send a shock wave through the community, leading to the fear that a dangerous killer is on the loose and ready to strike again at any time. With the tragic deaths of young Abby Lentz and Nicholas Coleman, two lovers with a once-bright future, the town of Beaumont Springs, an idyllic lakeshore paradise in Erie County, Pennsylvania, has forever lost its innocence. Detective James Donello, a hardened veteran and skilled homicide detective, is assigned to solve the ghastly murders. A transplant from Albany, New York, where he served for many years as a decorated homicide investigator with the state police, Donello is determined to bring the killer to justice by finding out the truth behind the vicious slayings at any cost. Having escaped from a scandal that nearly ruined his career and marriage, Donello and his team spend long hours combing through every possible clue and lead. The wounds from Albany still fresh in his mind, Donello risks destroying what is left of his rocky marriage and delicate family life all in the pursuit of justice and closing what will turn out to be the most important case of his long and illustrious career. Fresh and poignant in its tone and storytelling, The Next Town Over is a taut and enticing murder mystery that will leave the reader spellbound. With every suspect that emerges from the shadows of Detective Donellos dogged investigation, another tantalizing twist in the mystery unfolds to taunt and tease the audience. Will James Donello, the dedicated sleuth and streetwise law officer, solve the mystery in time to find justice for the victims? Or does the sleepy town of Beaumont Springs, with its tree-lined streets and wholesome family values, hold much darker secrets, ones that will prove to be the end of Detective Donello?

Book JACK D

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  • Author : Arthur Vanderbilt
  • Publisher : Riverdale Avenue Books LLC
  • Release : 2024-01-30
  • ISBN : 1626016720
  • Pages : 142 pages

Download or read book JACK D written by Arthur Vanderbilt and published by Riverdale Avenue Books LLC. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every once in a while, certainly not often, a god or goddess descends to earth and walks among us, a young person whose looks are so striking that they seem of another world, and who, for a brief moment, have no idea of the power of their looks over others. Jack is just such a god, strayed from Olympus, a 24-year-old who is hired as a Personal Trainer at a suburban gym. Often such gods have other powers beyond their looks. Jack's are an effortless strength and fitness and energy. If the best Personal Trainers at the gym struggle to execute 10 perfect pull ups, Jack performs 30 flawless ones and still looks like he could keep going, addressing every routine in the gym with a grace and style that keeps all eyes on him. Every member of the gym wants to hire Jack as their Personal Trainer. Two of his obsessed clients want to possess this god-like creature. Anne is ready to leave the fantasy world her hedge fund manager husband has created for her and their two teenage children, leave all to run away with her Personal Trainer. And Latham, a prominent tax attorney, thinks nothing of blowing off meetings with important clients to sit rink side with Jack at hockey games. Under Jack's spell, their lives revolve around him. And Jack's life, too, is turned upside down as he enters a strange new world of mansions and country clubs of summer homes and shopping sprees. JACK'D takes the reader into the curious world of today's gyms: where the regulars come daily to lift and press and pump and push, pulling and crunching and planking and squatting, lunging and curling and running and climbing, pedaling and jumping, all to look more like the genetically endowed Personal Trainers; where the true believers flock to their Neverland to keep from growing old, there to man the Maginot line against Eternity.

Book The Official Report on Human Activity

Download or read book The Official Report on Human Activity written by kim d. hunter and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz, opera, and various blues serve as the soundtrack for this collection of fairytales for grown-ups of all ages. The Official Report on Human Activityby kim d. hunter, which is neither official nor a report, is a collection of long stories that are linked by reoccurring characters and their personal struggles in societies rife with bigotry, in which media technology and capitalism have run amok. These stories approach the holy trinity of gender, race, and class at a slant. They are concerned with the process and role of writing intertwined with the roles of music and sound. The four stories range from the utterly surreal—a factory worker seeking recognition for his writing gives birth to a small black elephant with a mysterious message on its hide—to the utterly real—a nerdy black teen’s summer away from home takes a turn when he encounters half-white twins on the run from the police. Prominently known as a Detroit poet, hunter creates illusions and magic while pulling back the curtain to reveal humanity—the good, bad, and absurd. Readers will find their minds expanded and their conversations flowing after finishing The Official Report on Human Activity. The Official Report on Human Activityis sure to appeal to readers of literary fiction, particularly those interested in postmodernism and social justice.

Book The Suburban Crisis

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  • Author : Matthew D. Lassiter
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2023-11-07
  • ISBN : 0691177287
  • Pages : 680 pages

Download or read book The Suburban Crisis written by Matthew D. Lassiter and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most accounts of post-1950s political history tell the story of of the war on drugs as part of a racial system of social control of urban minority populations, an extension of the federal war on black street crime and the foundation for the "new Jim Crow" of mass incarceration as key characteristics of the U.S. in this period. But as the Nixon White House understood, and as the Carter and Reagan administrations also learned, there were not nearly enough urban heroin addicts in America to sustain a national war on drugs. This book argues that the long war on drugs has reflected both the bipartisan mandate for urban crime control and the balancing act required to resolve an impossible public policy: the criminalization of the social practices and consumer choices of tens of millions of white middle-class Americans constantly categorized as "otherwise law-abiding citizens."" That is, the white middle class was just as much a target as minority populations. The criminalization of marijuana - the white middleclass drug problem - moved to the epicenter of the national war on drugs during the Nixon era. White middle-class youth by the millions were both the primary victims of the organized drug trade and excessive drug war enforcement, but policymakers also remained committed to deterring their illegal drug use, controlling their subculture, and coercing them into rehabilitation through criminal law. Only with the emergence of crack cocaine epidemic of the mid-1980s did this use of state power move out of suburbs and remgaged more dramatically in urban and minority areas. This book tells a history of how state institutions, mass media, and grassroots political movements long constructed the wars on drugs, crime, and delinquency through the lens of suburban crisis while repeatedly launching bipartisan/nonpartisan crusades to protect white middle-class victims from perceived and actual threats, both internal and external. The book works on a national, regional, and local level, with deep case studies of major areas like San Francisco, LA, Washington, and New York. This history uses the lens of the suburban drug war to examine the consequences when affluent white suburban families serve as the nation's heroes and victims all at the same time, in politics, policy, and popular culture"--

Book The Story Sisters

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  • Author : Alice Hoffman
  • Publisher : Crown
  • Release : 2009-06-02
  • ISBN : 0307459934
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book The Story Sisters written by Alice Hoffman and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spellbinding coming of age novel about three sisters and the relationships and choices that shape their lives from the bestselling author of Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, The Rules of Magic "This bewitching novel explores the bonds of sisterhood like a haunting modern fairy tale."—Glamour Each of three sisters—Elv, Claire, and Meg—has a fate she must meet alone: one on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. Inhabiting their world are a charismatic man who cannot tell the truth, a neighbor who is not who he appears to be, a clumsy boy in Paris who falls in love and stays there, a detective who finds his heart’s desire, and a demon who will not let go. What does a mother do when one of her children goes astray? How does she save one daughter without sacrificing the others? How deep can love go, and how far can it take you? These are the questions this luminous novel asks. At once a coming-of-age tale, a family saga, and a love story of sensual longing, The Story Sisters sifts through the miraculous and the mundane as the girls become women and their choices haunt them, change them and, finally, redeem them. It confirms Alice Hoffman’s reputation as "a writer whose keen ear for the measure struck by the beat of the human heart is unparalleled" (The Chicago Tribune).

Book Hijacked

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  • Author : B. J. Daniels
  • Publisher : Harlequin
  • Release : 2015-05-18
  • ISBN : 1460347102
  • Pages : 165 pages

Download or read book Hijacked written by B. J. Daniels and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reader favorite from New York Times bestselling author B.J. Daniels Jack Donovan is in love with Angie Grant—and heartbroken when she unexpectedly marries his business partner. When Angie goes missing, declared dead, Jack is determined to prove her husband is the murderer. But then Jack begins catching glimpses of Angie…in a crowd, a taxi. Will Jack get a second chance with the woman he loves—or is there someone else orchestrating the ultimate revenge? Previously published Look for BJ Daniel’s latest title Reunion at Cardwell Ranch, part of her bestselling Cardwell Ranch series.

Book The Mortal Nuts

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  • Author : Pete Hautman
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2013-05-07
  • ISBN : 1480406201
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book The Mortal Nuts written by Pete Hautman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVTargeted by drug addicts, a carnival taco vendor must defend his fortune/divDIV After years playing professional poker, Axel Speeter knows not to trust people. Retired from the table, this no-nonsense old salt makes ends meet by selling tacos at the Minnesota State Fair, and he’s got two things on his mind: developing a state-of-the-art burrito, and keeping an eye on the $260,000 he’s got squirreled away in coffee cans inside his room at the Motel 6. He’s so busy perfecting his Bueno Burrito that he doesn’t even notice when James Dean walks into the carnival./divDIV /divDIVThis James Dean isn’t famous, but he’s certainly wild. A drug addicted ex-con with a taste for mayhem, he’s got his eye on Speeter’s coffee cans, but quickly finds that the old hustler is not as brittle as your average taco shell. When a crook meets a carny, someone’s bound to get hurt./div