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Download or read book Girl Boy Girl written by Savannah Knoop and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a major motion picture starring Kristen Stewart (as JT) and Laura Dern. The JT LeRoy scandal is a story of our times. In January 2006, the New York Times unmasked Savannah Knoop as the face of the mysterious author JT LeRoy. A media frenzy ensued as JT’s fans, mentors, and readers came to terms with the fact that the gay-male-ex-truck-stop-prostitute-turned literary-wunderkind was really a girl from San Francisco, whose sister-in-law wrote the books. Girl Boy Girl is the story of how Savannah Knoop led this bizarre double life for six years, trading a precarious existence as a college dropout for a life in which she was embraced by celebrities and artists—Carrie Fisher, Courtney Love, Mary Ellen Mark, Winona Ryder, Asia Argento, Sharon Olds, Gus Van Sant, Mike Pitt, Calvin Klein, and Shirley Manson, to name a few—and traveled the world. Telling her side of the story for the first time, Savannah reveals how being perceived as a boy gave her a sense of confidence and entitlement she never had before. Her love affair with Asia Argento is particularly wrenching, as they embark on an intimate relationship that causes more alienation than closeness. As Savannah and Laura struggle over control of the JT character, Savannah realizes the limits of the game - - and inadvertently finds herself through the adventure of being someone else.
Book Synopsis The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique by : Dan LeRoy
Download or read book The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique written by Dan LeRoy and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derided as one-hit wonders, estranged from their original producer and record label, and in self-imposed exile in Los Angeles, the Beastie Boys were written off by most observers before even beginning to record their second album-an embarrassing commercial flop that should have ruined the group's career. But not only did Paul's Boutique eventually transform the Beasties from a frat-boy novelty to hiphop giants, its sample-happy, retro aesthetic changed popular culture forever.
Book Synopsis Shiloh and Other Stories by : Bobbie Ann Mason
Download or read book Shiloh and Other Stories written by Bobbie Ann Mason and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These stories will last," said Raymond Carver of Shiloh and Other Stories when it was first published, and almost two decades later this stunning fiction debut and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award has become a modern American classic. In Shiloh, Bobbie Ann Mason introduces us to her western Kentucky people and the lives they forge for themselves amid the ups and downs of contemporary American life, and she poignantly captures the growing pains of the New South in the lives of her characters as they come to terms with feminism, R-rated movies, and video games. "Bobbie Ann Mason is one of those rare writers who, by concentrating their attention on a few square miles of native turf, are able to open up new and surprisingly wide worlds for the delighted reader," said Robert Towers in The New York Review of Books.
Download or read book Sarah written by JT LeRoy and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Bestseller Featuring a foreword by Billy Corgan “JT LeRoy’s masterful imagination, command of story, and easy sense of the mythological are a rare combination that demands attention.” — Toronto Star Sarah never admits that she’s his mother, but the beautiful boy has watched her survive as a “lot lizard”: a prostitute working the West Virginia truck stops. Desperate to win her love, he decides to surpass her as the best and most famous lot lizard ever. With his own leather mini-skirt and a makeup bag that closes with Velcro, the young “Cherry Vanilla” embarks on a journey through the Appalachian wilds, dining on transcendental cuisine, supplicating to the mystical Jackalope, encountering the most terrifying of pimps, walking on water, being venerated as an innocent girl saint—and then being denounced as the devil. By turns exhilarating and shocking, magical and realistic, Sarah brings urgency, wit, and imagination to an unknown and unforgettable world.
Book Synopsis Looking for Leroy by : Melody Carlson
Download or read book Looking for Leroy written by Melody Carlson and published by Revell. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's official: Brynna Phillips is done with men. They only break your heart. But just when she makes this declaration, her friend Jan convinces Brynna to join her on a camping vacation in Sonoma Wine Country. As they wind their way toward their destination, spanking-new mini camper in tow, Brynna recalls her teenage camp romance with a boy named Leroy. How can it have been nearly 30 years ago? All she remembers is that Leroy was a genuinely good guy and that his family owned a vineyard--in Sonoma. She doesn't even remember his last name. Jan insists they look for him, and the search begins. Beyond the slim chance they'd ever be able to find him are questions that have haunted Brynna for decades, including What is the point of digging up the past? and Can Leroy ever forgive me for losing touch? Bestselling author Melody Carlson invites you on a trip to rediscover the carefree days of youth and, just maybe, to get a second chance at love.
Book Synopsis The Best of the Best by : Gardner Dozois
Download or read book The Best of the Best written by Gardner Dozois and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the finest science fiction writings from the past two decades of the annual "The Year's Best Science Fiction," including writings from such authors as Greg Bear, Pat Cadigan, Robert Silverberg, and Ursula K. Le Guin.
Book Synopsis Redemption and Recovery by : Daniel Hood
Download or read book Redemption and Recovery written by Daniel Hood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ethnography continues the "thick description" of faith-based and science-based drug programs begun in Addiction Treatment. Using extensive interviews and his own participation in daily rounds of treatment, Hood provides a vivid comparison of resident experience at each type of institution.Redemption and Recovery tells the stories of two houses in the Bronx, NY that serve people with drug problems: "Redemption House" and "Recovery House." These stories include the direct accounts of residents' "druggin'" lives before treatment and their search for normalcy after recovery or redemption. Other chapters dissect the religion of science-based treatment and compare success rates, religious vs. secular.Addiction Treatment had detailed a similar process of personal conversion central to both treatments. This sequel uses the "contextualized demographics" of residents to uncover profound parallels between the two "unique" programs and debunk their shared ideology of abstinence.
Book Synopsis Lucky To Be Here by : Dr. Patrick C. Horton
Download or read book Lucky To Be Here written by Dr. Patrick C. Horton and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Dr. Patrick C. Horton was wounded on the battlefield during Operation Iraqi Freedom, his life was endangered in more ways than one. The brush with death woke him up to what takes many people a lifetime to discover: We are lucky to be here, and it is our sacred opportunity to figure out what we want to achieve. With candor and insight, Dr. Horton outlines how living with leadership, character, passion, and determination helped him leave behind the foibles of his youth to achieve executive and entrepreneurial success. Even more importantly, he outlines how readers can pinpoint and pursue their own goals for an unapologetically successful existence in which they, too, feel lucky to be here.
Download or read book The Saturday Evening Post written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Raincrow written by JB Hamilton Queen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The raincrows warning rode upon a chill wind down the Kentucky mountainside to Katelin Stone that Indian Summer day. The rain would come, and her world as she knew it would end. There would be a new beginning for her. Her mothers death sets into motion the events that become her hell. Her fathers surprise marriage brings into their home a calculating and money-grabbing woman and her troubled teenage son, who terrorizes Katelin with vicious attacks and cold-bloodied threats that force her to forsake Walter, her true love, and at sixteen to marry a man she hardly knows. Her abusive marriage becomes her prison. She secrets her dreams and her love for Walter in a broken heart and almost loses herself after the consecutive deaths of her twin babies. Nurtured by loving friends, she finds renewed strength to escape her marriage and fulfill the promise made to her dying mother. But will she have the strength to overcome the paralyzing fear that keeps her from Walters arms? Southern fiction of often described as having a powerful sense of place. Acclaimed author and North Carolinas past Poet Laureate Fred Chappell defined Southern fiction as having eight elements: A deep involvement in place; family bonds; a celebration of eccentricity; a strong narrative voice; themes of racial guilt, human endurance, and local tradition; a sense of impending loss; a pervasive sense of humor in the face of tragedy; and an inability to leave the past behind. With precision and authenticity, JB Hamilton Queen and Louie Dillon cover all that ground in their first novel, Raincrow. Madonna Dries Christensen Author of Swinging Sisters and Masquerade; The Swindler Who Conned J. Edgar Hoover Their writing is professional and inventive. Collaborative imagination is rare, but they pull it off. Stuart M. KaminskyMystery Writers of America Grand Master, Edgar winner, and author of more than fifty mystery novels.
Book Synopsis A Collection of Short Stories by : Rocky T. Kinsley
Download or read book A Collection of Short Stories written by Rocky T. Kinsley and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is based on struggles in my personal life, including my struggles with drugs, alcohol and mental illness. It also tends to focus on the dark side of human nature, including victims of attempted suicide.
Book Synopsis Shot List - The Douglas Files: Book Four by : Nathan Birr
Download or read book Shot List - The Douglas Files: Book Four written by Nathan Birr and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being shot and left to bleed out in an L.A. cemetery on New Year's Eve, P.I. Jackson Douglas wakes in the hospital, attempting to recall the face of the shooter and the events that brought him to the cemetery in the first place. As he recovers, he replays the previous three months, trying to figure out who wants him dead. East Coast mobsters? Corrupt Mexican businessmen? Someone (a scornful starlet, a creepy stalker) from his brief stint working in Hollywood? All of them have motives, but even as he relives his adventures-one of which led him to the cemetery-the pieces refuse to fall into place. Identifying his shooter isn't the only thing on Jackson's mind. For several months, he's been tormented by the choices (and their repercussions) he's made since becoming a private eye. Is it time for him to give up the business for good? Will his quest to find his shooter give him new purpose? And how will he respond when he finds out he may not be the shooter's only target?
Book Synopsis The Spine-Chilling Tales for Halloween by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book The Spine-Chilling Tales for Halloween written by Charles Dickens and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 9071 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this unique Halloween collection with carefully picked out horror classics, gothic novels, ghost stories and supernatural tales. H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror From Beyond The Tomb Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars Dracula's Guest The Chain of Destiny Edgar Allan Poe: The Cask of Amontillado The Pit and the Pendulum The Masque of the Red Death The Black Cat Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan The Hill of Dreams William Hope Hodgson: The Ghost Pirates The Night Land Algernon Blackwood: The Willows The Wendigo The Damned Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla Uncle Silas The Dead Sexton M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle E. F. Benson: The Thing in the Hall The Terror by Night Wilkie Collins: The Haunted Hotel The Dead Secret Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles The Silver Hatchet The Beetle Hunter The Japanned Box Charles Dickens: The Hanged Man's Bride The Ghosts of the Mail The Haunted House The Mortals in the House To Be Read At Dusk Henry James: The Turn of the Screw Owen Wingrave The Ghostly Rental Rudyard Kipling: The Phantom Rickshaw My Own True Ghost Story At The End of the Passage Robert Louis Stevenson: Jekyll and Hyde The Body-Snatcher Robert E. Howard: Beyond the Black River Devil in Iron People of the Dark Nathaniel Hawthorne: Rappaccini's Daughter The Birth Mark Dr. Heidegger's Experiment Ambrose Bierce: Can Such Things Be? Present at a Hanging Some Haunted Houses Grant Allen: The Reverend John Creedy My New Year's Eve among the Mummies James Rymer: Sweeney Todd Frederick Marryat: The Phantom Ship The Were-Wolf Fred M. White: Powers of Darkness The Doom of London John Polidori: The Vampyre Richard Marsh: The Beetle Tom Ossington's Ghost F. Marion Crawford: The Screaming Skull The Doll's Ghost Eleanor M. Ingram: The Thing from the Lake Marie Corelli: The Sorrows of Satan J. Meade Falkner: Moonfleet Thomas Reid: The Headless Horseman George Viereck: The House of the Vampire
Book Synopsis A Roar in the Pinelands by : Matthew Lucas
Download or read book A Roar in the Pinelands written by Matthew Lucas and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something evil is lurking in the Pinelands. The lakes and springs are drying up, and scores of animals are falling ill from a mysterious disease. Roused by the growing alarm, LeRoy Thadeusthe alligator judge of all the swamp and streamsand an unlikely band of compatriots leave the safety of their homes and dens to investigate. It is a perilous journey for Judge LeRoy, his raccoon bailiff Bullbore, Javier Ortiz the marsh rabbit, Bobby Lee the bobcat, and an osprey messenger called Screech, as they travel along forgotten paths through wildfires and strange countries to reach the fabled headwaters of the Pinelands. The echoes of an ancient war can be heard once more when the animals discover a threat that is determined to settle an old score. Danger lies around every turn, and the lives of free animals everywhere hang in the balance as Judge LeRoy and his companions unite to save their world from destruction. An engrossing world stocked with vivid characters and an often frightening realism with an environmentalist bite. Kirkus Discoveries
Download or read book Youth's Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Storm Surge written by Sherilyn Decter and published by Shari Decter Hirst. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When someone wants to hurt you, they’ll come for the thing that matters most. Florida Coast, 1932. Edith Duffy intends to show her gloating enemies a woman can make it in a man’s world. Risen from the ashes of her embattled rum-running operation, her new saloon is thriving thanks to a smuggling partner in the Bahamas. But her success has enraged the conniving town preacher… With the boy Edith’s affectionately taken on as a ward, her heart’s left vulnerable to deceit. And when a flock of busybody “child protectors” start squawking, the sinister pastor strikes a devastating blow. Will Edith sacrifice her ambitious plans to protect those she’s come to love? Storm Surge is the second book in the Rum Runners’ Chronicles, a gripping historical women’s fiction trilogy. If you like strong female characters, temperance-battling settings, and unlikely friendships, then you’ll relish Sherilyn Decter’s compelling tale.
Book Synopsis Booktalking Nonfiction by : Jennifer Bromann-Bender
Download or read book Booktalking Nonfiction written by Jennifer Bromann-Bender and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booktalking Nonfiction: 200 Sure-Fire Winners for Middle and High School Readers will provide an introduction to selecting and writing booktalks for nonfiction books with a focus on unique informational texts and biographies and autobiographies. A booktalk is a summary of a book presented in a way that would interest someone in reading the book described. Why non-fiction? Because the Common Core Standards Initiative, which most states have adopted, requires that 70% of the materials students read be from the category of informational texts it is especially important to focus on nonfiction when sharing books with students. Here’s everything you need to do just that. Chapters cover selecting, writing, preparing, and presenting booktalks, special tips for high-interest, low-level books, and using non-fiction in the library and the classroom. Two hundred ready-to-present booktalks arranged by genre are also included. Genres include animals, famous people, sports, crime and serial killers, movies and television, religion, war, history, and the supernatural.
