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Author : Tony Pasquarello
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578849536
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (495 download)
Download or read book The Altar Boy Chronicles written by Tony Pasquarello and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Phil Stephens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997874501
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (745 download)
Download or read book The Altar Boy written by Phil Stephens and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black-robed nuns, priests, bishops, the select fraternity of Altar Boys, and the ancient ceremonies of the Catholic Church. Music of the '60s, boyhood shenanigans, Cootie doctors, and coming of age. This is the fictionalized tale of a funny, sensitive kid, who's caught in the middle when his family is fractured by a powerful priest.
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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595322956
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Altar Boys written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack Fritscher
Publisher : Palm Drive Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1890834378
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (98 download)
Download or read book What They Did to the Kid written by Jack Fritscher and published by Palm Drive Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What They Did to the Kid" is a memoir spinning as a comic novel for general-fiction readers intrigued by boys' school tales, and baby boomers who "survived Catholic school." Ryan O'Hara, coming of age from 14 to 24, is the wise adolescent narrating readers' entry into the secret culture of 1950's altar boys who go to the seminary, meet priests, and must decide their own identities. The novel's interior ticking covers the clock and calendar of boys' emerging consciences and edgy consciousness. "The San Francisco Chronicle" says, "Jack Fritscher reads gloriously." Strong characters and snappy dialog propel the character-driven plot of male-dominant pecking order. At Misericordia Seminary (aptly nicknamed "Misery"), Ryan O'Hara exposes his own story. He's trapped for oxygen-with 500 other boys-by the imperial Rector Karg, the disciplinarian Father Gunn "of the USMC," the tart Father Polistina, and the rebel-priest Chris Dryden "who knows Fellini and JFK." The storytelling Irish-American author gives each ensemble character-hero or villain, student or priest, man or woman-a rich back story. Black civil rights of the 60's as well as three interesting women characters open this tale out of the suffocating seminary and on to the hot streets of Chicago's South Side and Old Town. The compelling psychological drama hinges on the very source and aspirations of priestly vocation versus self-esteem. "Is God calling me-and what about chastity? Or is it just the 'Bali Hai' of blind ambition and social climbing-and what about sex?" Fritscher makes deeper than usual sense of soulful coming-of-age material. The hearty supply of boarding school episodes cumulatively reveals the dueling dynamic between the boyish protagonist, Ryan O'Hara, and the callous ambition of the handsome bully, Tank Rimsky, as they fight toward the finish line of "manly men's" ordination to the priesthood. "The hardest thing to be in America today is a man." The novel is based on an under-reported story: the Catholic Church recruited 200,000 boys into seminaries in the 1950's. Only 20,000 were ordained. "Kid" details, in a nostalgic and not unkind take what happened to the missing 180,000 boys and the women and men in their families. Daring to step inside Catholic culture, without being parochial, this American story reveals the 1950's roots of 21st-century "recovering Catholic" panic and angst. The millions of post-Catholic baby boomers who have exited the Church will compare notes and laugh knowingly at the dead-on characterizations. Fashionably anti-Catholic campers will say, "but, of course " Readers might catalog "Kid" in the genre of "Young Torless, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," and "Lord of the Flies." Before now, no one of the surviving 180,000 ex-seminarians has dared reveal this insider confession on the secret milieu of the Catholic education of priests. From interviews with more than a hundred former seminarians, Jack Fritscher uniquely stages their true story arcs with wit, verve, and comedy. "What They Did to the Kid" is the fourth novel from Jack Fritscher whose twelve books have sold more than 100,000 copies. Jack Fritscher is a graduate of the prestigious Pontifical College Josephinum, a Roman Catholic seminary, located in Columbus, Ohio, and directly subject to the Vatican in Rome. He received his doctorate in American Literature from Loyola University, Chicago.
Author : Chris Fuhrman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820335851
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys written by Chris Fuhrman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis for the film starring Kieran Culkin. “Evoked with the rare, genuine sort of candor that made Holden Caulfield—and J.D. Salinger—famous.”—Vogue Set in Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1970s, this is a novel of the anarchic joy of youth and encounters with the concerns of early adulthood. Francis Doyle, Tim Sullivan, and their three closest friends are altar boys at Blessed Heart Catholic Church and eighth-grade classmates at the parish school. They are also inveterate pranksters, artistic, and unimpressed by adult authority. When Sodom vs. Gomorrah ’74, their collaborative comic book depicting Blessed Heart’s nuns and priests gleefully breaking the seventh commandment, falls into the hands of the principal, the boys, certain that their parents will be informed, conspire to create an audacious diversion. Woven into the details of the boys’ preparations for the stunt are touching, hilarious renderings of the school day routine and the initiatory rites of male adolescence, from the first serious kiss to the first serious hangover. “Fuhrman takes wicked pleasure in scraping teen innocence against the graveled, perverse underbelly of suburban childhood.”—Newsday “The freshness of Fuhrman’s novel comes from his ability to squeeze out of a time of transition universal evocations of rebellion against growing up . . . Fuhrman provides his story and characters with enough originality to keep the narrative clipping along and his reader totally absorbed.”—Chicago Tribune “Heartbreaking yet hilarious . . . chronicles a school year in the life of narrator Francis Doyle, an eighth-grader at the parish school of the Blessed Heart . . . can be compared to many of the classic coming-of-age novels.”—Publishers Weekly
Author : Neal P. Gillen
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0741470527
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (414 download)
Download or read book Altar Boy written by Neal P. Gillen and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-30 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the New York neighborhoods of Astoria and Brooklyn Heights, the story reveals how a young man overcomes personal conflicts only to be detoured from his desire to become a priest through doubt and love. Instead, he becomes a devoted husband and fath
Author : Peter Moylan
Publisher : pmoylan (books)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Land of Rhapsody: Chronicles of a CEN survivor written by Peter Moylan and published by pmoylan (books). This book was released on with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Moylan of lower-middle-class stock, was English, Catholic, a suburbanite, an ex-altar-boy and had been deprived of love as a child. He'd wandered through early life, lost and bewildered until in his forties, a climax of mammoth proportion led to his imprisonment. A chance meeting with a masseuse/prostitute years later on a sub-tropical island in Southeast Asia initiated a two-week liaison of warm, intimate and passionate, objective love that finally and ironically cured him of his suffering. Inspired by real events, Moylan has created a novel and a female character of mixed race, Pene', to help convey the topsy-turvy journey to his 'place in the sun'. Land of Rhapsody tells the story of a love and trust between father and step-daughter in sharp contrast to the 'locked-out' existence of the author's own childhood and the 'love for sale' offered extensively on the island. Narrated by Pene', life on the island is seen through the eyes of various characters including the permanent and temporary inhabitants of the home cum guesthouse Peter. his partner, Fiona and Pene', his step-daughter occupy there. Described by many ex-pats as the most uncompromising, candid and accurate book set in Thailand to appear in recent times, Land of Rhapsody gets to grips in no uncertain terms with Childhood Emotional Neglect and Identity as well as making sense of the much misunderstood, fascinating and deeply rooted differences between cultures of European origin and a wonderfully unique state in Southeast Asia.
Author : Patty Jansen
Publisher : Patty Jansen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Dragon Prince (Ghostspeaker Chronicles Book 5) written by Patty Jansen and published by Patty Jansen. This book was released on with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tyrant Alexandre is gone from Saardam, but a new menace has come: the eastern traders in a ship of metal that is said to have been forged with dragon magic. They bring a chest of gold to buy an office in the city. The people don't want them in their town. The Church of the Triune, which forbids magic, has increased its hold on the population, despite the Red Baron's efforts to stamp it out. Newly-crowned queen Johanna is staring into the empty coffers after the extravagant spending by her husband's father before his death. King Roald is off in the garden to catch frogs, and she faces condemnation by the church in the knowledge that Saarland will need both money and magic to defeat the Red Baron's army. Dark epic fantasy. For readers who enjoy writers such as Robin Hobb, Karen Miller, Trudi Canavan, Morgan Rice, Lindsay Buroker and Glenda Larke.
Author : Patty Jansen
Publisher : Patty Jansen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1090 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Ghostspeaker Chronicles Complete series written by Patty Jansen and published by Patty Jansen. This book was released on with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Longmire
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105093441
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Humoristian Chronicles written by James Longmire and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wayne J. Martin
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781477587683
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (876 download)
Download or read book Confessions of an Altar Boy written by Wayne J. Martin and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous collection of memoirs from the perpsective of a pre-adolescent parochial student that may be called 'sins' by some.
Author : Lacey Webs
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493194070
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)
Download or read book The Chronicles of Tania written by Lacey Webs and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. Tania wanted to know whether he had had the stitches removed from his sides yet. You see the life she was living, in no way resembled the one she wistfully planned in her youth. Then there was her relentless search to find Mr Right, only to find Mr Right in a good light. Falling foul of her ousted sister-in-law Freda, with her latest get-rich-quick scheme; and her on-going, but failing, battle of the bulge, dashing all hopes of her achieving her true calling as a sex goddess. Finally, her yearning for a perfect, incorruptible, miserable David Grayson, her colleague/fantasy lover. Throw in her family into this mix, who if they were described as dysfunctional, it would be viewed as an elevation in status!
Author : Jim Aziere
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1649526156
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (495 download)
Download or read book The Sixteenth Street Chronicles written by Jim Aziere and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-05-02 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Missouri Hall of Famer and sports educator Jim Aziere has crafted a remarkable true story, a classically American story, about an essential part of his youthful struggles and our own, featuring a one-of-a-kind Kansas City parochial high school called De La Salle Academy that flourished in the years between wars--1941-1959--a time of great social strife in our city. It's an eye-opening tale of the seismic shifts in America in the 1960s, about a unique group of Christian educators who managed to integrate a high school before Brown v. Board of Education--but could not keep the dream alive beyond Watergate. You're sure to find Jim's story about his years at De La Salle--where he was first a student and later faculty--highly affecting and personal as he recounts his many life lessons, survives a learning disability, and uses athletic skill and determination to excel despite everything. It's bound to touch and inspire anyone who's ever felt more at home on AstroTurf than in a classroom. Michael Pritchett, Author of The Melancholy Fate of Capt. Lewis (Unbridled Books)
Author : Matt Forbeck
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0345509757
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Mutant Chronicles written by Matt Forbeck and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It will be a dangerous mission. I don’t expect that any of us will survive. But it’s a chance to save mankind, to save our world. Maybe the last chance.” By the end of the twenty-third century, Earth is a plague-ridden, war-ravaged cesspool dominated by megacorporations whose ruthless armies fight one another for power and for the very scarce resources there are left. Capitol fighters Mitch Hunter and Nathan Rooker are battling the opposing forces of the Bauhaus corporation when a cannon blast exposes and destroys an ancient stone seal in the ground. From the bowels of the Earth crawl hordes of necromutants with razorlike boneblades for arms, hideous humanoids that thrive and multiply by commandeering the bodies of dying soldiers. Mitch barely escapes– only to discover that both the rise of the mutants and the “Deliverer” who will save humanity have been prophesied. Unless Mitch and a group of warriors from each of the megacorporations succeed in reaching the hidden horrors and wiping out the mutant scourge, ouir world will literally become a hell on Earth. Now a major motion picture
Author : Patrick Miele
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1639375015
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)
Download or read book The Who-Man Chronicles written by Patrick Miele and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book Despite the words on the cover, the pages in no way are a type of a self-help rehabilitation guide, informative in any way, nor will you gain knowledge in any way. Instead, if you have ever been diagnosed with ADHD (or not and just went through undetected, as there are more out there than you think), there is absolutely no structure. Author Patrick Miele often changes direction in mid-thought, and there are no chapters more than about three pages long. If you get a "I never thought of that," "Yeah, he's right on there," “I hate it when that happens," or just a chuckle, then his intentions of The Who-Man Chronicles have been achieved. The entire memoire was written during a two-year off-and-on stint in drug/alcohol rehabilitation inpatient treatment programs. This was supposed to be his journal/notebook during sessions but he strayed a bit. Two years later these pages were compiled. As a people "observer," Patrick is intrigued by human behavior and some of the idiosyncrasies of society and these rehabs were an observer's utopia. If you don't comprehend the concept of "random" thoughts, you will by the time you finish reading these pages. About the Author Patrick Miele was a high school physical education/English teacher in the town of Westford, MA, for 26 years. He coached baseball, wrestling, golf, and volleyball during that time and bartended in various place all over Massachusetts. He ran summer camps and clinics as a form of fundraising for his school. Some of his demons and a major back surgery forced him to early retirement. He was a workaholic so when he early retired lull time was his worst enemy. As a result he really hit the bottle and his physical pain caused him to give up golfing and a Manchester, NH, baseball team he played for. Drinking got heavier with all his spare time and living alone after a recent divorce, which is why he ended up in the rehabs. Patrick currently lives in Worcester, MA. He takes an annual golf trip to the mountains of Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire with a dozen of his friends from old baseball/softball teams. His family is from Billerica, MA; he has two sisters, Eva and Betty, and a brother, Bruce. He has a daughter, Amanda, 22 years old, who lives in Bridgewater, MA. Patrick went to Worcester State College, received a degree in English and Physical Education, and played baseball and started his bartending journey mistake, sticking with it for almost 40 years, but now he would be like a kid working a candy counter.
Author : Anne Rice
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345544749
Total Pages : 5192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)
Download or read book The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle written by Anne Rice and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 5192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international bestseller and beloved cultural touchstone, Anne Rice’s classic novel Interview with the Vampire starts “where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth” (Chicago Tribune). But that’s only the beginning. Over the course of twelve interwoven novels, Rice crafts a richly imagined, magnificently transporting epic around her chilling, charismatic antihero, Lestat. An aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France who lives to become a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, Lestat rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying existence. Now, with the publication of the complete series in one convenient eBook bundle, there has never been a better time to devour the entirety of The Vampire Chronicles. Gathered here are the ten books that comprise the original saga: INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE THE VAMPIRE LESTAT QUEEN OF THE DAMNED THE TALE OF THE BODY THIEF MEMNOCH THE DEVIL THE VAMPIRE ARMAND MERRICK BLOOD AND GOLD BLACKWOOD FARM BLOOD CANTICLE . . . as well as the two books of the New Tales of the Vampires: PANDORA VITTORIO, THE VAMPIRE Praise for the novels of Anne Rice “Brilliant . . . [Rice’s] undead characters are utterly alive.”—The New York Times Book Review “If you surrender and go with her . . . you have surrendered to enchantment, as in a voluptuous dream.”—The Boston Globe “Frightening, sensual . . . Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature. . . . To read her is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time, to become lightheaded as if our blood is slowly being drained away.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Unrelentingly erotic . . . sometimes beautiful, and always unforgettable.”—The Washington Post “Rice has created universes within universes, traveling back in time as far as ancient, pre-pyramidic Egypt and journeying from the frozen mountain peaks of Nepal to the crowded, sweating streets of southern Florida.”—Los Angeles Times “Fiercely ambitious, nothing less than a complete unnatural history of vampires.”—The Village Voice
Author : Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359370519
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (593 download)
Download or read book Crook Chronicles: The Descendants of Henry & Margareth Crook = Volume 2 written by Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-02-20 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A genealogical compilation of the descendants of Henry & Margareth Crook and their seven children. The couple was married circa 1812 in South Carolina and by 1828 could be found in Rankin County, Mississippi. Many of the descendants are traced to the present, including biographies and photographs when available.
