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The Gilda Stories

Author : Jewelle Gomez
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1529910463
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Gilda Stories written by Jewelle Gomez and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A groundbreaking work of Afrofuturism before the term was even coined' Guardian 'A lush, exciting, inspiring read' Sarah Waters In this radically reimagined vampire myth, the night hides many things... Louisiana, 1850. A young girl escapes slavery and is taken in by two mysterious women. Rumoured to be witches, the pair travel only at night, dress in men's clothing and seem to know others' innermost thoughts. But the girl sees the promise of true freedom in their dark glittering eyes: the promise to 'share the blood' and live forever. They name her Gilda. Over the next two hundred years, Gilda moves through unseen spaces: through antebellum brothels, gold-rush bars, Black women's suffrage groups, hair salons and jazz clubs, searching for a way to exist in the world. Her body, powerful against the passage of time, will know both beauty and horror through the women she desires and the blood she craves. But can Gilda truly outrun the darkness of history and face a future where the lives of everyone she loves are at stake?

Don't Explain

Author : Jewelle Gomez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Don't Explain written by Jewelle Gomez and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories featuring lesbians. The story, Houston, is on a black lesbian vampire, while Water with Wine is on a love affair between a black professor and a white student.

It's Always Something

Author : Gilda Radner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439148864
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book It's Always Something written by Gilda Radner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh from the Second City troupe in Toronto, Gilda Radner created such memorable characters as Emily Litella and Roseanne Roseannadanna as a member of the original cast of Saturday Night Live. The wife of Gene Wilder, Gilda was plagued by persistent health problems and two miscarriages, and was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1986. Brave, funny, and painfully honest, the twentieth-anniversary edition of It's Always Something is the story of Gilda's journey while living with cancer and her determination to continue laughing. "Cancer," she said, "is about the most unfunny thing in the world." But Gilda's gutsy and unique sense of humor never left her as she describes two years of cancer treatment -- surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment, as well as the high and low points of her own career. Told as only Gilda could tell it, and newly revised to include a resource guide for those living with cancer, It's Always Something is the inspiring story of a courageous, funny woman determined to enjoy life no matter the circumstances.

Fledgling

Author : Octavia E. Butler
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 9781583228043
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Fledgling written by Octavia E. Butler and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fledgling, Octavia Butler’s last novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted—and still wants—to destroy her and those she cares for, and how she can save herself. Fledgling is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human.

Bunny, Bunny

Author :
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557832764
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Bunny, Bunny written by and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). In a series of funny, tender, and touching dialogues, former Saturday Night Live writer Zweibel recalls his buddy-and-almost-lover friendship with SNL actress Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer. Zweibel claims he "merely scribbled the dialogues playing in my head," and, indeed, these recreated conversations have a neurotic, sarcastic, and vulnerable air of aunthenticity. The actress and writer become fast friends on the SNL set and segue into personal revelation.

Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator

Author : Jennifer Allison
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142406988
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator written by Jennifer Allison and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-11-23 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since her father died, quirky Gilda Joyce has been working hard to sharpen her psychic skills. She's determined to communicate with spirits from the Other Side and become a crack investigator of spooky, twisted mysteries. After wrangling an invitation to visit relatives in San Francisco, Gilda discovers that her dreary, tight-lipped uncle and his strange, delicate daughter need her help to uncover the terrible family secret that has a tortured ghost stalking their home. From poignant to hair-raising and hilarious, this is a behind-the-scenes, tell-all account of the very first case in the illustrious career of Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator.

Gilda the Giant Sheep

Author : Emilio Urberuaga
Publisher : Nube Ocho
ISBN 13 : 9788417123246
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Gilda the Giant Sheep written by Emilio Urberuaga and published by Nube Ocho. This book was released on 2018 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gilda was living a quiet life, but being so big made things more complicated for her. Now she needs to set off to find a new home.

Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake

Author : Jennifer Allison
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101562870
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake written by Jennifer Allison and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-08-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zany Gilda Joyce leaves her wacky disguises at home but brings all her psychic and investigative skills with her as she sets out to investigate a mysterious death at a Catholic girls? school. Is Our Lady of Sorrows really haunted by the ghost of Dolores Lambert? Or is the student body suffering from group hysteria? Solving this mystery will put Gilda in more danger than she ever imagined? and will put all of her brashness, bravery, and smarts to the test.

Forty-three Septembers

Author : Jewelle Gomez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Forty-three Septembers written by Jewelle Gomez and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gomez writes about her experiences as a lesbian and an African American.

King of the Worlds

Author : M. Thomas Gammarino
Publisher : Chin Music Press Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1634059093
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book King of the Worlds written by M. Thomas Gammarino and published by Chin Music Press Inc.. This book was released on 2016-05-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dark comedy explores the lost universes of disgraced idol Dylan Greenyears. Dylan had always wanted to live as many lives as he could—that was the appeal of being an actor. But at the end of a brief stint as a Hollywood heartthrob, Dylan loses the lead in Titanic and exiles himself and his wife to a recently settled exoplanet called New Taiwan. At first, life beyond Earth seems uncannily un-wondrous. Dylan teaches at an American prep school, raises a family with his high school sweetheart, and lives out his restlessness through literature. But then a box of old fan mail (and the hint of a galaxy-wide conspiracy) offers Dylan a chance to recapture the past. As he tries to balance this transdimensional midlife crisis against family life, Dylan encounters a cast of extraordinary characters: a supercomputer with aspirations of godhood, a Mormon-fundamentalist superfan, an old-school psychoanalyst, a sampling of his alternate selves, and, once again, the love of his lives. King of the Worlds throws cosmology, technology, nineties pop culture, and religion into an existential blender for a mix that is by turns tragic and absurd, elegiac and filled with wonder. M. Thomas Gammarino is the author of the novel Big in Japan and the novella Jellyfish Dreams. His short fiction has appeared in the New York Tyrant, Tinfish, Word Riot, and the Hawai'i Review, among others. In 2014, Gammarino received the Elliot Cades Award for Literature, Hawaii's highest literary honor. He lives and teaches in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator

Author : Jennifer Allison
Publisher : Puffin
ISBN 13 : 9780142419908
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator written by Jennifer Allison and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gilda Joyce puts her sleuthing skills and psychic savvy to work in an effort to figure out what is really going on when her mother announces her premature engagement to a man from St. Augustine, Florida, who keeps calling Mrs. Joyce by his ex-wife's name.

Gilda Promise Me

Author : Tiziano Dossena
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Gilda Promise Me written by Tiziano Dossena and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cav. Dr. Gilda Battaglia Rorro Baldassari's Memoir, published by 'idea Press" is a three-dimensional journey of a universal woman. Rendezvous as her companion from the silver screen to academe; from an Italian mountain town to the Italian consulate; from Saint Joachim's Church in Trenton to the Vatican; from treasured family memories to the world stage; laced with compassion, humor, and challenges overcome through deep spirituality.Eileen L. Poiani, Ph.D.Special Assistant to the PresidentProfessor of Mathematics, Saint Peter's UniversityGilda, Promise Me takes you on a literary adventure to foreign places, to dramatic heights and to challenging paths undreamed of by most women of her generation.Albert Stark, Lawyer, Author, ActivistGilda makes her way around the world and experiences the ups and downs of a career in civil rights and public service. She brings you into a conversation where her present speaks to her past, whipping up stories that attract and sustain attention while documenting a life full of adventures few women of her time could have had. With a conscience shaped by her ancestors and a curiosity piqued by modern opportunities, she navigates a man's world with courage and class. Told in a unique voice, Gilda, Promise Me is full of life, love and faith in God and the USA.Fred Gardaphé, Distinguished Professor of English and Italian American Studies, Queens College/CUNY

Gilda Joyce: the Ghost Sonata

Author : Jennifer Allison
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780142412329
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Gilda Joyce: the Ghost Sonata written by Jennifer Allison and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gilda Joyce?s best friend, Wendy Choy, is chosen to participate in a piano competition in Oxford, England, so of course super-sleuth Gilda finds a way to go too. Once there, the grueling practice schedule takes a backseat to strange and spooky occurrences. There are foreboding tarot cards that keep appearing to the participants and ominous numbers etched in frosty windowpanes. But even more chilling are Wendy?s ghostly nightmares of a young boy?and the haunting melody she can?t shake out of her mind. Could there be a sinister connection to the piano competition? Gilda has a genuine haunting on her hands, and solving this one will take every ounce of psychic intuition she?s got!

How to Dispatch a Human

Author : Stephanie Andrea Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735906508
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book How to Dispatch a Human written by Stephanie Andrea Allen and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this daring collection of speculative fiction, Stephanie Andrea Allen attends to the lives of Black women, mostly lesbian or queer, all keenly aware of the forces seeking to consume them. A Black lesbian working the gig economy runs into a trio of motorized scooters and helps them escape from Earth. An enchanted sleep mask gives a woman the gift of slumber, but what will it cost her? A suburban housewife is framed for murder by her homophobic neighbor. And in the follow up to "Luna 6000," a young woman investigates her mother's untimely death, and learns the truth about her family. Stephanie Andrea Allen's How to Dispatch a Human: Stories and Suggestions is an unapologetic, often humorous, foray into the quotidian magic that envelops Black women's lives. The eleven stories in this collection are filled with characters who will entice and delight readers as they traverse the worlds around them. With a mix of fabulism, near future, and speculative fictions, Allen reminds us in exquisitely nuanced prose that the fantastical can be found amongst the ordinary.

Blood Read

Author : Joan Gordon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812216288
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Blood Read written by Joan Gordon and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1997-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vampire is one of the nineteenth century's most powerful surviving archetypes, owing largely to Bela Lugosi's portrayal of Dracula, the Bram Stoker creation. Yet the figure of the vampire has undergone many transformations in recent years, thanks to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and other works, and many young people now identify with vampires in complex ways. Blood Read explores these transformations and shows how they reflect and illuminate ongoing changes in postmodern culture. It focuses on the metaphorical roles played by vampires in contemporary fiction and film, revealing what they can tell us about sexuality and power, power and alienation, attitudes toward illness, and the definition of evil in a secular age. Scholars and writers from the United States, Canada, England, and Japan examine how today's vampire has evolved from that of the last century, consider the vampire as a metaphor for consumption within the context of social concerns, and discuss the vampire figure in terms of contemporary literary theory. In addition, three writers of vampire fiction—Suzy McKee Charnas (author of the now-classic Vampire Tapestry), Brian Stableford (writer of the lively and erudite novels Empire of Fear and Young Blood), and Jewelle Gomez (creator of the dazzling Gilda stories)—discuss their own uses of the vampire, focusing on race and gender politics, eroticism, and the nature of evil. The first book to examine a wide range of vampire narratives from the perspective of both writers and scholars, Blood Read offers a variety of styles that will keep readers thoroughly engaged, inviting them to participate in a dialogue between fiction and analysis that shows the vampire to be a cultural necessity of our age. For, contrary to legends in which Dracula has no reflection, we can see reflections of ourselves in the vampire as it stands before us cloaked not in black but in metaphor.

Our Vampires, Ourselves

Author : Nina Auerbach
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022605618X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Our Vampires, Ourselves written by Nina Auerbach and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “vigorous, witty look at the undead as cultural icons in 19th- and 20th-century England and America” examines the many meanings of the vampire myth (Kirkus Reviews). From Byron’s Lord Ruthven to Anne Rice’s Lestat to the black bisexual heroine of Jewelle Gomez’s The Gilda Stories, vampires have taken many forms, capturing and recapturing our imaginations for centuries. In Our Vampires, Ourselves, Nina Auerbach explores the rich history of this literary and cultural phenomenon to illuminate how every age embraces the vampire it needs—and gets the vampire it deserves. Working with a wide range of texts, as well as movies and television, Auerbach follows the evolution of the vampire from 19th century England to 20th century America. Using the mercurial figure as a lens for viewing the last two hundred years of Anglo-American cultural history, “this seductive work offers profound insights into many of the urgent concerns of our time” (Wendy Doniger, The Nation).

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

Author : Emily Austin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982167351
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead written by Emily Austin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she's there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace. In between trying to memorize the lines to Catholic mass, hiding the fact that she has a new girlfriend, and erecting a dirty dish tower in her crumbling apartment, Gilda strikes up an email correspondence with Grace's old friend. She can't bear to ignore the kindly old woman, who has been trying to reach her friend through the church inbox, but she also can't bring herself to break the bad news. Desperate, she begins impersonating Grace via email. But when the police discover suspicious circumstances surrounding Grace's death, Gilda may have to finally reveal the truth of her mortifying existence."--Amazon.