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The Florida Room

Author : Alexandra T. Vazquez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781478015307
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book The Florida Room written by Alexandra T. Vazquez and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Florida Room Alexandra T. Vazquez listens to the music and history of Miami to offer a lush story of place and people, movement and memory, dispossession and survival. She transforms the "Florida room"--an actual architectural phenomenon--into a vibrant spatial imaginary for Miami's musical cultures and everyday life. Drawing on songs, ephemera, and oral histories from artists, families, and inheritors of their traditions, Vazquez hears Miami as a city that has long been shaped by Indigenous Florida, the Bahamas, the Caribbean, and southern Georgia. She draws connections between seemingly disparate artists, sounds, and stories, from singer Gwen McCrae to pirate radio innovator DJ Uncle Al, from the Miccosukee rock band Tiger Tiger to the Cuban-American songwriter Desmond Child, among the percussionists Dafnis Prieto, Obed Calvaire, and Yosvany Terry, and through the notes of Eloise Lewis, Betty Wright, and the Miami Bass group Anquette. By listening to musical collaborations and ancestral ties across place and time, Vazquez brings together formal musical details, the histories of people and locations they hold, and the aesthetic traditions transformed inside them.

The Printer's Error

Author : Aaron Fogel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Printer's Error written by Aaron Fogel and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Both funny and serious, this second poetry collection by Aaron Fogel matches stories with joltingly non-narrative poems. It mixes traditional forms like the villanelle with counter-forms like double alliteration, nine-syllable lines, words with all the vowel-letters crushed into them ("unsynchromadice"), and words with numbers interrupting the letters ("we5re"). Fogel's poems amount to what used to be called pasquinade or menippean satire, a lower-middle class art that refuses to buy into the easy caricatures of that class. The book includes a poem about a young man named Brat who breaks a sculptural portrait of himself done by his father; a prose-poem about Yiddish; and a set of comic sketches about the mock-sorrows of academic life, family aging, and the place of low jokes in poetry.

Looking for The Gulf Motel

Author : Richard Blanco
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822978393
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Looking for The Gulf Motel written by Richard Blanco and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2012-02-12 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family continues to be a wellspring of inspiration and learning for Blanco. His third book of poetry, Looking for The Gulf Motel is a genealogy of the heart, exploring how his family's emotional legacy has shaped—and continues shaping—his perspectives. The collection is presented in three movements, each one chronicling his understanding of a particular facet of life from childhood into adulthood. As a child born into the milieu of his Cuban exiled familia, the first movement delves into early questions of cultural identity and their evolution into his unrelenting sense of displacement and quest for the elusive meaning of home. The second begins with poems peering back into family again, examining the blurred lines of gender, the frailty of his father-son relationship, and the intersection of his cultural and sexual identities as a Cuban-American gay man living in rural Maine. In the last movement, poems focused on his mother's life shaped by exile, his father's death, and the passing of a generation of relatives, all provide lessons about his own impermanence in the world and the permanence of loss. Looking for the Gulf Motel is looking for the beauty of that which we cannot hold onto, be it country, family, or love.

Young House Love

Author : Sherry Petersik
Publisher : Artisan
ISBN 13 : 1579656765
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Young House Love written by Sherry Petersik and published by Artisan. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.

The Elephant in the Room

Author : Tommy Tomlinson
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501111620
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Elephant in the Room written by Tommy Tomlinson and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 A “warm and funny and honest…genuinely unputdownable” (Curtis Sittenfeld) memoir chronicling what it’s like to live in today’s world as a fat man, from acclaimed journalist Tommy Tomlinson, who, as he neared the age of fifty, weighed 460 pounds and decided he had to change his life. When he was almost fifty years old, Tommy Tomlinson weighed an astonishing—and dangerous—460 pounds, at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, unable to climb a flight of stairs without having to catch his breath, or travel on an airplane without buying two seats. Raised in a family that loved food, he had been aware of the problem for years, seeing doctors and trying diets from the time he was a preteen. But nothing worked, and every time he tried to make a change, it didn’t go the way he planned—in fact, he wasn’t sure that he really wanted to change. In The Elephant in the Room, Tomlinson chronicles his lifelong battle with weight in a voice that combines the urgency of Roxane Gay’s Hunger with the intimacy of Rick Bragg’s All Over but the Shoutin’. He also hits the road to meet other members of the plus-sized tribe in an attempt to understand how, as a nation, we got to this point. From buying a Fitbit and setting exercise goals to contemplating the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, America’s “capital of food porn,” and modifying his own diet, Tomlinson brings us along on a candid and sometimes brutal look at the everyday experience of being constantly aware of your size. Over the course of the book, he confronts these issues head-on and chronicles the practical steps he has to take to lose weight by the end. “What could have been a wallow in memoir self-pity is raised to art by Tomlinson’s wit and prose” (Rolling Stone). Affecting and searingly honest, The Elephant in the Room is an “inspirational” (The New York Times) memoir that will resonate with anyone who has grappled with addiction, shame, or self-consciousness. “Add this to your reading list ASAP” (Charlotte Magazine).

A Daughter’S Duty Part 1

Author : Linda D. Coker
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462031226
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book A Daughter’S Duty Part 1 written by Linda D. Coker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-07-08 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belinda Star is a highly decorated veteran of the United States Army. Her military background has created a woman adept in the art of battle, but even her specialized training and battlefield experiences could not prepare her to deal with the crimes committed by her own family. Crimes that not only were committed against the American public, but also against Belinda herself. In the midst of familial tension, Belinda must travel from Germany, where she lives with her active duty husband, back to the United States--back to a place and a family she left long ago. She knows that her mother has, once again, found herself in trouble with the law, but it is not until Belinda arrives that she realizes the extent of her mother's crimes and the secrets she has concealed. Despite the poor treatment Belinda has endured throughout her life at the hands of her own family, she finds herself alone in her efforts to save them from the debt they have created and the legal infractions they have committed. Violence. Alcoholism. Theft. Impersonation. The list of problems within Belinda's family is long, yet she remains steadfast in her commitment to them. Even when Belinda is the only family member who has surfaced to help, her family continues their lies and betrayal, causing Belinda to question her own pledges of allegiance to them time and time again. Belinda must remain the stoic and steadfast soldier she has always been to pull back the layers and layers of deceit and mystery her family has created over several decades. As Belinda uncovers the family secrets her mother will do anything to conceal, she begins to discover even more about her heritage and, consequently, even more about herself. Through her diligence and skill, Belinda not only finds a way to right the wrongs her family has committed, but she also learns a great deal about the true meaning of a daughter's duty.

Cuban Studies 34

Author : Lisandro Perez
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822970805
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Cuban Studies 34 written by Lisandro Perez and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.

Grace ... Within and Without

Author : Shirley Riley Seltzer
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450207634
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Grace ... Within and Without written by Shirley Riley Seltzer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1949, Grace Murphree is three years old when she first remembers thinking about God. Growing up in the sleepy community of Ocean Shores, Florida, Grace finds that life presents her with many challenges and that she often needs to seek God's guidance. Grace struggles through a turbulent childhood in a dysfunctional family as her parents divorce. She experiences a teenage pregnancy that leaves her heartbroken. She suffers the tragic loss of her beloved sister who commits suicide. She raises her children as a single mother. But she also reaps the joys of motherhood, home ownership, and a fulfilling life. Though her trials and tribulations have often had her living in a pervasive state of ongoing disruption to her psyche, the steadfast and tenacious Grace doesn't let life keep her downtrodden for long. In addition to her reliance on faith, she lives by the motto, "Where there is a will, there is a way."

6588: When Evil Lurks

Author : Daniel H. Gray
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514488388
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book 6588: When Evil Lurks written by Daniel H. Gray and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6588 is a riveting horror suspense thriller that promises to keep you on the edge of your seat. It is a story based on the true events of my family that moves from Dixie Cup, Mississippi, to Wolf Castle, Florida, for a better life. Clearly, they do not know what they have gotten their self into. Everyones faith will be challenged, and they need to dig deep within themselves to survive. This horror suspense thriller will leave you blown away. This book is about their trials and tribulations of 6588, but will the devil and his demonic spirits triumph over their Christian values. Readers beware once you start to read this book you wont be able to put it down, this book will leave you astonished and thinking about the devil and his demonic Klan, pray hard and fight even harder. It has been a pleasure writing this book, but not a pleasure dealing with the evil that lurks at 6588.

Finding Florida

Author : T. D. Allman
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802120768
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Finding Florida written by T. D. Allman and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a comprehensive look at the history of the state of Florida, from its discovery, exploration, and settlement through its becoming a state, to notable events in the early twenty-first century.

Silent Society

Author : Hosea Ivan Pelham
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781475948639
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Silent Society written by Hosea Ivan Pelham and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite growing up in a rough neighborhood, Nick Watkins Jr. succeeds in everything he tries. In his youth, his intelligence and athletic prowess provide him with popularity and respect, inspiring Nick to escape the gritty urban setting of his childhood. He joins the military, where he achieves great things. Now home from another tour, Nicks life is about to change in a way he never saw coming. Reunited with two of his best friends, Nick begins to recognize that things have changed at the old neighborhood. His neighbors, once a close-knitalbeit impoverishedcrowd, have developed into something Nick cant understand. It would seem that a secret group is getting rid of all the undesirables in the near vicinity. Nick, being the upright citizen he is, cant help but be drawn into this society of so-called do-gooders. Even so, even do-gooders make mistakes now and then. Th e further Nick falls into involvement, the more he begins to question the righteousness of his actions. He sought normalcy upon his return from the service, but now there is nothing but danger and chaos. When Nick meets a young woman that might save him, he may be too close to the edge already; he might pull her down with him.

Body Language

Author : James W. Hall
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429904992
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Body Language written by James W. Hall and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen years ago, a girl shot down a rapist while her father's lawnmower sputtered in the yard outside. Somewhere in the heat and shadows of that day, Alexandra Rafferty took on the burden of her deed, and forged a bond of silence with her cop father. But now Alexandra's husband has left, her father is clinging to his health, and a Miami serial killer is leaving behind death scenes that go beyond the horrific. For Alexandra, her life and work are exploding--exposing the truth about the killer she seeks, the lover she's choosing, and one summer afternoon that has never gone away... Body Language is one of James W. Hall's greatest Thorn mysteries--a heartfelt and gripping thriller.

Magnolia Nights

Author : Ashley Farley
Publisher : Leisure Time Books
ISBN 13 : 1956684336
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Magnolia Nights written by Ashley Farley and published by Leisure Time Books. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plagued by gaps in her childhood memories, Ellie Pringle has spent years in therapy trying to unlock the secrets of her past. But it's the unexpected death of a grandmother she hasn't seen in over three decades that catapults her into a journey of profound discovery. Inheriting a fortune along with an antebellum mansion in Charleston's historic South Battery, Ellie decides to leave behind her life in San Francisco—and a heart-wrenching breakup—to confront her past head-on. Stepping into the cavernous halls of her ancestral home, Ellie immediately senses she's not alone. The house seems to whisper with ghosts of the past, the most pressing of whom is her own deceased mother. When Ellie stumbles upon her mother's leather-bound journal on a dusty bookshelf, she's plunged into a maze of haunting revelations that demand answers. With the impending threat of Hurricane Lorene swirling toward the South Carolina coast, Ellie meets Julian Hagood—a charismatic architect with the skills to restore her crumbling mansion and perhaps heal her shattered heart. But delving deeper into her mother's diaries, her discoveries send her spiraling down a path of shocking realizations and harrowing truths.

The Queen of Whale Cay

Author : Kate Summerscale
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408830515
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Queen of Whale Cay written by Kate Summerscale and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1900 to a promiscuous American oil heiress and a British army captain, Marion Barbara Carstairs realised very early on that she was not like most little girls. Liberated by war work in WWI, Marion reinvented herself as Joe, and quickly went on to establish herself as a leading light of the fashionable lesbian demi-monde. She dressed in men's clothes, smoked cigars and cheroots, tattooed her arms, and became Britain's most celebrated female speed-boat racer - the 'fastest woman on water'. Yet Joe tired of the lime-light in 1934, and retired to the Bahamian Island of Whale Cay. There she fashioned her own self-sufficient kingdom, where she hosted riotous parties which boasted Hollywood actresses and British royalty among their guests. Although her lovers included screen sirens such as Marlene Dietrich, the real love of Joe's life was a small boy-doll named Lord Tod Wadley, to whom she remained devoted throughout her remarkable life. She died, aged 93, in 1993.

Demon Street, USA

Author : David Rountree
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1601634471
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Demon Street, USA written by David Rountree and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Lakota shaman embarks on a quest to exorcise a dangerous ghost in this true account of paranormal activity and spiritual power. A summoning gone awry leads to problems for Penelope, who is driven from her home by phantom parties, a dancing stove, and demonic force that toss her around like a ragdoll. Looking for help, she turns to her friend Robbie, who brings her to David Rountree, a Lakota shaman. Robbie and David embark on a desperate search for metaphysical knowledge, visiting sites of spiritual power, and acquiring artifacts and allies in their quest to exorcise the demon before it’s too late. David and Robbie’s mission culminates in an astonishing psychic battle on Halloween night. Demon Street, USA is a thrilling account of their encounter with evil and a warning to those who would explore the paranormal. Evil exists—but it can be battled and won!

Thyme To Depart

Author : Victoria LK Williams
Publisher : Sun, Sand & Stories Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thyme To Depart written by Victoria LK Williams and published by Sun, Sand & Stories Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An old southern plantation, a family ghost and murder: who said retirement would be dull? Prof. Eliza Higgins's decision to renovate the old family plantation stirs up more than just dust and dry rot... Lizzie's early retirement has her looking for a new project, but she never expected it to be solving the murder that ended her retirement party. The police are convinced it was mistaken identity, and Lizzie was the intended target, but why? Lizzie is determined to find out why Sonia, her replacement at the college, was murdered in the old garden shed. With the help of her two best friends, Trisha and Kevin, and her cat, Harry, she digs into the murder. Then help comes from unusual places, starting with a note from the victim containing a code to the clues to solve the murder. Now Lizzie is convinced she was not the target and is determined to solve the puzzle left by Sonia and find justice for the woman. Questions are swirling with the dust, demanding answers… *What did Sonia know to get her killed? *Is Lizzie the killer's next target? *Is it possible the ghost stories she and her friends grew up with are true? Lizzie never expected retirement to be so dangerous!

Blind Man's Bluff

Author : Ross S. Preston
Publisher : Vantage Press, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780533154036
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Blind Man's Bluff written by Ross S. Preston and published by Vantage Press, Inc. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: