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Author: Chantilly
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2008-07-25
Total Pages: 29
ISBN-13: 1435736524
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHave you ever sat in your room and just thought? Thought about who you are and where you want to go. Die Young Stay Pretty is about a soul searching teenager who eventually finds her way. It is a long road to being an adult and this book talks about it all.
Author: Martin Maloney
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 70
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rob Rufus
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-09-20
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1501142631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the tradition of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, this incredibly moving and harrowing true story of a teenager diagnosed with cancer is “a resounding affirmation of how music can lift one’s spirits beyond gray skies and bad news (Kirkus Reviews).” Punk’s not dead in rural West Virginia. In fact, it blares constantly from the basement of Rob and Nat Rufus—identical twin brothers with spiked hair, black leather jackets, and the most kick-ass record collection in Appalachia. To them, school (and pretty much everything else) sucks. But what can you expect when you’re the only punks in town? When the brothers start their own band, their lives begin to change: they meet friends, they attract girls, and they finally get invited to join a national tour and get out of their rat box little town. But their plans are cut short when Rob is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that has already progressed to Stage Four. Not only are his dreams of punk rock stardom completely shredded, there is a very real threat that this is one battle that can’t be won. While Rob suffers through nightmarish treatments and debilitating surgery, Nat continues on their band’s road to success alone. But as Rob’s life diverges from his brother’s, he learns to find strength within himself and through his music. Die Young with Me is a “raw, honest picture of the weirdness of growing up” (Marky Ramone) and the story of a brave teen’s battle with cancer and the many ways music helped him cope through his recovery.
Author: Tom Demalon
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 0595258069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStrangest angels play electric guitars… Set against the backdrop of the rough, seedy Hollywood club scene, four musicians struggle in a million to one shot bid for success in the music world. But, when guitarist Francis McCombe falls in love with Spriglet, a strange girl who doesn’t speak, their world will never be the same. Taking their name from the haunting lead singer, Spriglet, the band, creates a stir, fueled as much by their offstage antics as their growing reputation as a musical force. Spriglet will lead them on a surreal, bittersweet trip from the dives of Hollywood to the heights of superstardom. Although written with a firsthand insight into the music industry, that world is merely the setting for this warm, sweet, tender, funny love story that is weird, wonderful, and full of the real…steeped in fantasy and rooted in truth. Much more than only rock and roll, this is a story of love, faith, and friendship, an enchanting journey filled with an eccentric cast of characters and told with humor and grit. “…a great authentic-without-trying feel to it…I totally got sucked in by the characters and the dialogue…drama, sex, comedy, drugs, suspense, and tragedy” Kim Richey, Grammy-nominated, Lost Highway Records artist “…a poignant look at music and other matters of the heart…heartfelt and clever…engaging and amusing” Tyler Pittman, Columbia Records “…comes alive through references to past and present popular music…a fun and informative read…magical” Sandra Faucett, ROCKRGRL magazine
Author: Costa Papadatos
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1134936257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSelected papers from the 1st International Conference on Children and Death, held in October/November 1989 in Athens. It was attended by over 500 participants from all over the world.
Author: Jan Redford
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2019-05-14
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1640091963
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Jan Redford is a bad–ass. She is also a born storyteller." —John Vaillant, author of The Tiger In this funny and gritty debut memoir, praised by Outside, Sierra, Alpinist, and more, Jan Redford grows from a reckless rock climber to a mother who fights to win back her future. As a teenager, she sets her sights on the improbable dream of climbing mountains. By age twenty, she’s a climber with a magnetic attraction to misadventures and the wrong men. Redford finally finds the love of her life, an affable Rockies climber. When he is killed in an avalanche in Alaska, a grieving Redford finds comfort in the arms of another extreme alpinist. Before long, they are married, with a baby on the way. While her husband works as a logger, Redford tackles the traditional role of wife and mother. But soon, she pursues her own dream, one that pits her against her husband. End of the Rope is Redford's telling of heart–stopping adventures, from being rescued off El Capitan to leading a group of bumbling cadets across a glacier. It is her laughter–filled memoir of friendships with women in that masculine world. Most moving, this is the story of her struggle to make her own way in the mountains and in life. To lead, not follow.
Author: Julian Stallabrass
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2020-05-05
Total Pages: 551
ISBN-13: 178960267X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis searing book has become the authoritative account of the new British art of the 1990s, its legacy in the 21st century, and what it tells us about the fate of high art in contemporary society. High Art Lite provides a sustained analysis of the phenomenal success of YBA, young British artists obsessed with commerce, mass media and the cult of personality - Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Marcus Harvey, Sarah Lucas, among others. In this fully revised and expanded edition, Julian Stallabrass explores how YBA lost its critical immunity in the new millennium, and looks at the ways in which figures such as Hirst, Emin, Wearing and Landy have altered their work in recent years.
Author: Darrin Hagen
Publisher: Brindle and Glass
Published: 2011-02-01
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1926972201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Drag Dynasty is about to be divined from the high life decade of decadence. It is destined, pre-ordained — and perfectly coiffed. Darrin Hagen, under the mentorship of his drag mother, Lulu LaRude, rose to the height of glamour as Gloria Hole, performer extraordinaire at the legendary Flashback nightclub. Beneath the layers of nightlife, stage lights and make-up lay the complex relationships of a chosen family. Both hilarious and moving, The Edmonton Queen: The Final Voyage once again invites readers to the exclusive party that was, and should not be missed again.
Author: Sally Rogers-Davidson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2013-08-05
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 1291513396
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollow Mouse's epic journey from humble beginings as an orphaned D-grade inhabitant of The Greater Melbourne Megalopolis of the late 21st Century, to the end of the universe and back again. After escaping the secure state orphanage she grows up in, Mouse is taken in by the Ghosts, a gang of homeless teens who dwell in The Spirit World, a subterranean world of forgotten caverns and deserted basements sealed off from the towering skyscrapers above. Trained by the gang's leader, the Fagan-like Sensei, Mouse grows adept in the criminal arts, but when her life spirals into chaos she chooses the only option left to her: she trades her human body in for a cyboform, and joins the Space Corps. Will this be the escape she hopes for, or will her shady past catch up with her? From the author of Spare Parts and Polymer
Author: Ron Belpedio
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2001-04-10
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1462839762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDischarge is the comic story of four gay sailors being released from the Navy in 1995. While stationed in Western Australia, Hospital Corpsman Mickey Matlin, the married father of two young children, is discovered in an intimate situation with 19-year-old Seaman Apprentice Eddie Vasquez. Journalist Jon Gates is dumped by the base dentist at the same time, and in a somewhat dramatic fashion, he informs the Legal Officer he is gay and requests a release from the Navy ASAP. No hard feelings. He simply wants to be free of the military in the same way Elizabeth Taylor wanted to be rid of Eddie Fisher after she met Richard Burton. Arrangements are made for the sailors to journey to Treasure Island, off the coast of San Francisco. In Perth, they meet up with Machinists Mate Lawrence Watts who is also en route to the states for a medical discharge. Their travels take them through New Zealand, Sidney, and Honolulu. They consider the trip a last fling of sorts that is, until they reach Treasure Island where they are tossed into a daytime jail disciplinary barracks, which allows them evening liberty in San Francisco. There is screaming and some sex, as each man struggles to construct a new life outside of the military. Young Vasquez deals with coming out issues. Watts learns to accept his HIV status, and Mickey Matlin must confront his wife, who joins them in San Francisco from their rural Illinois home. Their stories are related through letters, journal entries, and other fairy tales that document their military discharges.
