Butchs Room

Download or read book Butch's Room written by James Boyd and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonard James is on an extraordinary quest: to be a man of value. The outcast of a dysfunctional family, Leonard is perplexed and incensed by life's injustices, beginning with the untimely death of cousin Butch. Leonard vows to overcome the adversity in his life. However, he resorts to alcohol and becomes addicted after failing to free himself from his frustration and anxiety. Life events, some of which are of Leonard's own making, leave him a vagabond without direction. Disillusioned, Leonard wanders back to a simpler time and discovers what it means to be a man of value.

Download or read book Then God Said to Me: "I Have Him" written by Judy Lawrence McGill and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Then God Said to Me, I Have Him is the true story of one fateful summer, when the authors husband suffered a horrific accident, her mother was nearing death, and all of the difficulties in trying to juggle both grave situations at once. It is the true story of Gods willingness to wrap His arms around His grieving child in a tangible way, bringing comfort and hope. It is an account of a heavenly visitation where a glimpse of whats to come brings a whole new outlook on this life.

Download or read book Butch Queens Up in Pumps written by Marlon M. Bailey and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Butch Queens Up in Pumpsexamines Ballroom culture, in which inner-city LGBT individuals dress, dance, and vogue to compete for prizes and trophies. Participants are affiliated with a house, an alternative family structure typically named after haute couture designers and providing support to this diverse community. Marlon M. Bailey’s rich first-person performance ethnography of the Ballroom scene in Detroit examines Ballroom as a queer cultural formation that upsets dominant notions of gender, sexuality, kinship, and community.

Download or read book Lighthead written by Terrance Hayes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018 In his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigates how we construct experience. With one foot firmly grounded in the everyday and the other hovering in the air, his poems braid dream and reality into a poetry that is both dark and buoyant. Cultural icons as diverse as Fela Kuti, Harriet Tubman, and Wallace Stevens appear with meditations on desire and history. We see Hayes testing the line between story and song in a series of stunning poems inspired by the Pecha Kucha, a Japanese presenta­tion format. This innovative collection presents the light- headedness of a mind trying to pull against gravity and time. Fueled by an imagination that enlightens, delights, and ignites, Lighthead leaves us illuminated and scorched.

Download or read book Brain Dead written by Eileen Dreyer and published by Oliver-Heber books. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Riveting plot, terrifying premise..." ~Tami Hoag, NYT Bestselling Author of Down The Darkest Road When forensic nurse Timmie Leary-Parker moves from LA to Puckett, Missouri to care for her ailing father, she's prepared for the slow pace, the small-town politics and the feeling that everyone knows her business. Then, patients in the hospital's Alzheimer's Unit start dying in unprecedented numbers. Everyone refuses to investigate the town's most lucrative business, and no one will challenge the hospital's Golden Boy director. No one, except Timmie. Convinced a serial killer walks the Alzheimer's Unit where her father lies ill, Timmie digs up a burned-out Pulitzer-winning reporter and dives into a quagmire of corruption and greed. "Dreyer writes with great wit and sensitivity, especially about the problems of loving and coping with older relatives." ~The Times-Picayune Eileen Dreyer knocks readers off their feet. You won't forget the power, pain and moral ambiguity of this incredible novel." ~Romantic Times Publisher's Note: As a former trauma nurse, Eileen Dreyer combines her real-world medical knowledge and superb story-telling to bring readers a series of uniquely plotted, spine-tingling, medical mysteries. Fans of Tami Hoag, Elizabeth George, Nora Roberts as well as John Lutz, Michael Crichton and Patricia Cornwell will enjoy these well-crafted medical thrillers.

Download or read book The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña written by Dagoberto Gilb and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A working-class vato looks for love, lust, and meaning in the Southwest in this “highly evocative” New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year (Publishers Weekly). Mickey Acuña is a man suspended between a shrouded past and an uncertain future. Emerging from the landscape of the Southwest, buffeted by life and licking his wounds, he moves into a YMCA to wait for a check that is coming to save him—a check that demands an address. As days and then weeks pass without its arrival, Mickey picks up work; odd jobs at first, then shifts at the Y’s cash register. He hangs out with his neighbors, plays handball, drinks coffee, shoots pool, gets drunk, and falls in love with the women he meets, works with, and passes on the street. In the vacuum of the Y, Mickey unwittingly finds himself becoming the center of a community starved for meaning: Sarge, with his fast-food coupons; Omar, with his drunken rages and obsession with the vanished Lucy; Rosemary, whose abundant physical presence both attracts and repels him. Mickey fights to maintain his distance and his freedom, until the narrative converges abruptly around him in a profound and shocking conclusion. “Gilb buoys his tale with sensitivity, acuity, and humor.” —Library Journal “His characterizations of the underemployed, mentally ill and abandoned men and women who congregate there are vibrant.” —Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Growing Up Italian Don't Talk Too Loud written by a.j. Lombardi and published by a.j Lombardi. This book was released on with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The funniest Italian American comedy you will ever read is here! Sunday dinner at the Luchanni Family is the place where everyone gets a double serving of great food, gossip, family love, arguing about who gave the least at a wedding, and the person who did not show up at a family funeral… Please come and join us for this funny new special episode!