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Book Synopsis In My Father's Basement by : T. J. Payne
Download or read book In My Father's Basement written by T. J. Payne and published by . This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dark journey into a serial killer's twisted mind. Out of nowhere, a retired 60-year old handyman goes on a murder-spree, abducting healthy young people and torturing them with hand-tools. After he's caught, a media fascination in The Handyman swells. People want to know why he snapped. They want to hear ALL the grisly details. But he'll only tell his gruesome story to one person-- His estranged son. From the author of the acclaimed horror novel Intercepts comes this must-read for anyone who is fascinated by serial killers. Not for the faint-of-heart.
Book Synopsis Fishing With My Fathers by : Paul D. Rath
Download or read book Fishing With My Fathers written by Paul D. Rath and published by Wood Lake Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Between fish, my father and I, two men who are as comfortable with each other’s voice as we are with each other’s silences, talk about the purpose of things, and how everything fits into the overall design.” This book is like no memoir you’ve ever read. Paul Rath writes with the soul of a poet, his prose alive with vibrant images and metaphors that capture the raw beauty and challenges of fishing for white fish in the frigid November air – “when the wind takes us into her cold mouth, and crunches us between her teeth. Her cold makes our eyes freeze – until they feel like stones, frozen in their sockets of mud ...” Yet this no mere fish story. As much as this book is about fishing, it is even more about relationships. Fishing with My Fathers explores the deep bonds that form between men of the earth, between men and the land and the water and the creatures that feed their spirits. Rath, the eldest son of a Lutheran pastor, pays homage to his father and tribute to the men who shaped and challenged him, even as he claimed his own space and place in their lineage. With wonderful humour and genuine sensitivity, he regales the reader with tales of his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, as well as of his mentors – of the men who taught him how to grow up, how to control his emotions, how to work, how to grow his spirit, how to love, as well as how to fish.
Book Synopsis Mermaids in the Basement by : Michael Lee West
Download or read book Mermaids in the Basement written by Michael Lee West and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reeling from the loss of her mother, plagued with a bad case of writer's block (and don't even talk about those extra twenty pounds), Renata DeChavannes feels as though everything is just plain wrong. And that was before the tabloids caught her sweetheart, filmmaker Ferg Lauderdale, sharing an intimate squeeze with Hollywood's hottest young tamale. But the granddaughter of the formidable Honora DeChavannes possesses more hell than belle in her backbone—and she's about to reclaim it. Heading south to Honora's home on the Gulf Coast, Renata is determined to stop feeling like a wilted gardenia and emerge as the unstoppable kudzu her beloved grandmother proudly proclaimed she would be. But for that to happen Renata's got to face some not-so-genteel ghosts from her past, discover the truth about the mother she desperately misses, and make peace with the first man who abandoned her and broke her heart: her handsome and distant father.
Book Synopsis Give Me My Father's Body by : Kenn Harper
Download or read book Give Me My Father's Body written by Kenn Harper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-02-27 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing, true tale of extraordinary darkness, Harper's critically acclaimed history is an absorbing and poignant portrait of the short, strange, and tragic life of the boy known as the New York Eskimo. Two 16-page photo inserts and one 8-page insert.
Book Synopsis My Father's Dragon by : Ruth Stiles Gannett
Download or read book My Father's Dragon written by Ruth Stiles Gannett and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy runs away from home to rescue an abused baby dragon held captive to serve as a free twenty-four hour, seven-days-a-week ferry for the lazy wild animals living on Wild Island.
Book Synopsis My Letter to My Father by : Deidre Reigel
Download or read book My Letter to My Father written by Deidre Reigel and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was your father? Was he your best friend, a stranger, or not in your life at all? In this book, you will read heartfelt letters from sons and daughters to their Fathers, whether deceased or still living. The thread that runs through this book is beautiful honesty. Vivid glances into people's lives appear in this book. All with a message: How we have been shaped has been largely the doing of Life; who we are and how we have responded is our decision. I invite you to journey with our many contributing writers from around the world.
Book Synopsis Secrets in the Cellar by : John Glatt
Download or read book Secrets in the Cellar written by John Glatt and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Josef Fritzl was a 73-year-old retired engineer in Austria. He seemed to be living a normal life with his wife, Rosemarie, and their family—though one daughter, Elisabeth, had decades earlier been "lost" to a religious cult. Throughout the years, three of Elisabeth's children mysteriously appeared on the Fritzls' doorstep; Josef and Rosemarie raised them as their own. But only Josef knew the truth about Elisabeth's disappearance... For twenty-seven years, Josef had imprisoned and molested Elisabeth in his man-made basement dungeon, complete with sound-proof paneling and code-protected electric locks. There, she would eventually give birth to a total of seven of Josef's children. One died in infancy—and the other three were raised alongside Elisabeth, never to see the light of day. Then, in 2008, one of Elisabeth's children became seriously ill, and was taken to the hospital. It was the first time the nineteen-year-old girl had ever gone outside—and soon, the truth about her background, her family's captivity, and Josef's unspeakable crimes would come to light. John Glatt's Secrets in the Cellar is the true story of a crime that shocked the world.
Book Synopsis My Father, the Pornographer by : Chris Offutt
Download or read book My Father, the Pornographer written by Chris Offutt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir in which "writer Chris Offutt struggles to understand his recently deceased father based on his reading of the 400-plus novels [Andrew Offutt]--a well-known writer of pornography in the 1970s and 80s--left him in his will"--Publisher marketing.
Book Synopsis A Cup of Comfort for Fathers by : Colleen Sell
Download or read book A Cup of Comfort for Fathers written by Colleen Sell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He gave you your eye color, your love of old movies, and the inspiration for countless inside jokes that only a father can appreciate. He's your Dad. A Cup of Comfort for Fathers celebrates the indescribable link between father and child through fifty stirring stories written by, for, and in tribute to dads. From a young father still figuring out his role in his new baby's life to an adult son recounting memories of his long passed-away dad, this collection gives fathers, sons, and daughters countless laughs as well as the opportunity to reflect on your own cherished moments. Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
Book Synopsis Your Honor, Your Honor by : Judge Leonia J. Lloyd
Download or read book Your Honor, Your Honor written by Judge Leonia J. Lloyd and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1949, twin sisters came into this world surprising everybody including their parents and the doctor because he heard only one heartbeat. On a path ordered by God, the twins touched the lives of many in their roles as teachers, attorneys, and judges. The rocky road the twins followed to achieve these professions was God’s way of preparing them for life. In Your Honor, Your Honor, author Judge Leonia J. Lloyd tells the story of this dynamic duo whose professional careers led them to become models, schoolteachers, and entertainment lawyers. Eventually, with their unique moniker, Twins for Justice, they became the first identical-twin district court judges to sit on the same bench at the same time in the country. Focusing on restorative justice, their careers were on a meteoric rise until the unexpected and sudden death of Judge Leona Lloyd put an abrupt halt to their successful lives together. Lost and alone, Leonia was in the storm of her life; despair had an iron clad grip around her. She turned to God for guidance, and her prayers were answered. Your Honor, Your Honor chronicles her life experiences including her relationship with her twin, her struggles against racism, her account of the grieving process, and her stride toward justice.
Book Synopsis The Age of Creativity by : Emily Urquhart
Download or read book The Age of Creativity written by Emily Urquhart and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving portrait of a father and daughter relationship and a case for late-stage creativity from Emily Urquhart, the bestselling author of Beyond the Pale: Folklore, Family, and the Mystery of Our Hidden Genes. “The fundamental misunderstanding of our time is that we belong to one age group or another. We all grow old. There is no us and them. There was only ever an us.” — from The Age of Creativity It has long been thought that artistic output declines in old age. When Emily Urquhart and her family celebrated the eightieth birthday of her father, the illustrious painter Tony Urquhart, she found it remarkable that, although his pace had slowed, he was continuing his daily art practice of drawing, painting, and constructing large-scale sculptures, and was even innovating his style. Was he defying the odds, or is it possible that some assumptions about the elderly are flat-out wrong? After all, many well-known visual artists completed their best work in the last decade of their lives, Turner, Monet, and Cézanne among them. With the eye of a memoirist and the curiosity of a journalist, Urquhart began an investigation into late-stage creativity, asking: Is it possible that our best work is ahead of us? Is there an expiry date on creativity? Do we ever really know when we’ve done anything for the last time? The Age of Creativity is a graceful, intimate blend of research on ageing and creativity, including on progressive senior-led organizations, such as a home for elderly theatre performers and a gallery in New York City that only represents artists over sixty, and her experiences living and travelling with her father. Emily Urquhart reveals how creative work, both amateur and professional, sustains people in the third act of their lives, and tells a new story about the possibilities of elder-hood.
Book Synopsis Summary of Albert DeMeo's For the Sins of My Father by : Everest Media,
Download or read book Summary of Albert DeMeo's For the Sins of My Father written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-24T22:59:00Z with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Roy Albert DeMeo was a member of the Gambino crime family, and he was the mastermind behind the biggest auto theft ring in New York history. He was murdered in 1983 as part of Castellano's purge of family members who had attracted FBI scrutiny. #2 I had been waiting for the call to come for several days. I was relieved it had finally happened, and I was ready to take action. I was going to leave my family and go live with my father. #3 I opened the door, and heard Major whining. I paused and whispered to the dog, It's all right, boy. I began to swim, my muscles warming quickly to the exercise. The only sounds were my breathing and the faint roar of the Atlantic. #4 I was born in 1966 in Brooklyn, the second child of parents barely out of their teens. I had an older sister named Debra and a teenage stepbrother in my Uncle Joe. My grandfather DeMeo had died when Joe was a baby, and when Grandma DeMeo returned to her native Italy without Joe, my parents took him in as their own.
Book Synopsis Preaching in My Yes Dress by : Jo Page
Download or read book Preaching in My Yes Dress written by Jo Page and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The frank and funny story of a church-geek girl who spent twenty years in the ecclesiastical trenches as a Lutheran pastor, preaching weekly words of hope she wasnt sure she even believed. After a series of childhood misfortunesher fathers death, her mothers ill-advised love affair, her disabled sister wrecking the family GTOself-avowed church-geek Jo Page decided it was her job to figure out how to stay on Gods good side and maybe spare the family any more tragedy. But she was a girl. And a Lutheran. That ruled out the Roman Catholic sisterhood as so quasi-erotically portrayed by Audrey Hepburn in Pages favorite movie, The Nuns Story. Though women were ordained in the larger branch of the Lutheran church, when Pages own pastor handed her a brochure enumerating all the ways in which she, as a female, was to be silent and submissive, she gave up on the church and went off in search of sex and drugs and rock-and-roll like any rejected adolescent Lutheran girl would. Eventually Page found her way back into the church and ultimately into ordained ministry, spending twenty years in the ecclesiastical trenches, presiding over lifes rituals and preaching compulsory weekly words of hope she wasnt sure she even believed. Comical, provocative, and heartbreaking, Preaching in My Yes Dress tells several stories: of a childs need to cleave to the very God who instills mortal terror; of the shape-shifting that a public pastoral identity entails; of the power of ritual and the weight involved in presiding over it; and of the rise of the religious right and the patriarchy endemic to both scripture and faith traditions. Page also raises the question of whether or not faith can heal the wounds the life of faith has itself inflicted. Preaching in My Yes Dress lives up to its wonderful title. Jo Pages memoir is a thoughtful, wide-ranging, and unusually frank chronicle of her spiritual journey. Anyone interested in Christianity, the daily realities of pastoral work, or the challenges of living an ethical life will find this book illuminating and inspiring. Tom Perrotta, author of The Leftovers In Preaching in My Yes Dress Jo Page tells the remarkable story of her journey in and outside the church over nearly fifty years. The result is all the things you hope a good memoir will be: profound, witty, deeply serious, wonderfully original, and utterly absorbing. Page is a remarkably intimate writer and this book offers the best kind of companionship. Margot Livesey, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy: A Novel
Book Synopsis Lands Where My Fathers Died by : Jack Stewart
Download or read book Lands Where My Fathers Died written by Jack Stewart and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stewart family has been the subject of history, chronicles, dramas, operas, and novels for hundreds of years. Lands Where My Fathers Died meticulously recreates that history from 1230 A.D., when the first family member used STEWART as his surname, to the present. Here are the High Stewards, founders and benefactors of Paisley Abbey, the Cradle of the Stewarts, the royal Stewart kings and queens, accounts of the Stewarts of medieval Glasgow, through the Protestant Revolution until exiled into Ireland. When Hugh Stewart gets on a ship in Belfast and arrives in Pennsylvania in 1735 there are new stories of pioneers, frontiersmen, Indians, farmers and merchants, wars and crimes, births and deaths. Each generation gives equal accounts of both the male progenitors and their wives who became Stewarts by marriage. Throughout this book celebrates family life, the fathers and mothers who are the forebears of today's generation of Stewarts.
Book Synopsis The Autumn Balloon by : Kenny Porpora
Download or read book The Autumn Balloon written by Kenny Porpora and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Every autumn, Kenny Porpora would watch his heartbroken mother scribble messages on balloons and release them into the sky above Long Island, one for each family member they'd lost to addiction. As the number of balloons grew, his mother fell deeper into alcoholism, drinking away her sorrows every night in front of the television, where her love of Regis Philbin provided a respite from the sadness around her. When their house was foreclosed upon, Kenny's mother absconded with him and his beloved dog and fled for the Arizona desert, joining her heroin-addicted brother on a quixotic search for a better life. What followed was an outlaw adolescence spent in constant upheaval surrounded by bizarre characters and drug-addicted souls. In the wake of unspeakable loss, Kenny convinced a college to take a chance on him, and turned to the mentors, writers, and poets he found to rebuild the family he lost, and eventually graduated from the Ivy League with a new life. Porpora's memoir is the story of a deeply dysfunctional but loving family, and follows his life from the chaos of his youth to his triumphs in the Ivy League. At times darkly comic, at times elegiac, The Autumn Balloon is a beautifully written testament to the irreplaceable bonds of family, even under the most trying circumstances, and one that marks the debut of an exciting new writer.
Book Synopsis At the Feet of Serenity by : Eve Gwartney
Download or read book At the Feet of Serenity written by Eve Gwartney and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1934 Grace photographed her favorite statue, a national monument named Serenity: The Statue of Friendship. Throughout the decades Serenity’s destruction, caused by vandals, parallels the destruction in Grace’s family because she died leaving behind five young children. Destruction in the family comes just as it comes to many families struggling to make everything right in a world full of mistrust, selfishness and defiance. Social injustice weighs heavily upon Henry, the widower and Derek, his divorced son. Derek, the main character, is introduced in the beginning of the story and becomes the focus of the family drama. As an adult he will defy social norms and embrace an unconventional lifestyle: polygamy. The family attempts to adhere to their Mormon faith as they face the challenges of parenthood and poverty. Serenity suffers and becomes symbolic of Hope for Restoration. Throughout the decades, Serenity remains stalwart and unwavering through strife, stationary upon the spot that her government assigned her. Join the Claylands through their ups and downs; and learn important truths about the need to feel acceptance, the complexities of unconventional families, the consequences of poverty, and imbalance of employment opportunity. At the Feet of Serenity.
Book Synopsis My Father's Closet by : Karen A. McClintock
Download or read book My Father's Closet written by Karen A. McClintock and published by Trillium. This book was released on 2017 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years after her father's death, Karen McClintock sets out to find the gay father she never really knew. As we follow the unraveling family secret, we find ourselves drawn into her story as they stumble into infidelity, grieve heartbreaking losses, and remain loyal in love. Set in Columbus, Ohio, My Father's Closet tells the story of how just before the war, McClintock's parents fell in love and married, while overseas in Germany the man whom she believes became her father's lover was concealing his Jewish and gay identities in order to escape to America. A set of her father's journals, letters her parents sent to each other during the Second World War, and a mysterious painting all lead her toward the truth about her gay father. McClintock weaves a complex secret into the fabric of lives we truly care about. And in the process, she leads us out of her father's closet. This gripping memoir captures the longing children feel for a distant or hidden parent and taps into the complexity of human connection and abandonment. The characters are resilient and vibrant. The hidden lovers, the nosey neighbors, and surprise lovers all show up. In the end, this extraordinary family finds ways to connect and freedom to love. Anyone who grew up with a family secret will appreciate the dynamics afoot in this fast-paced and compelling story.
