Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Author: Harry F. Saint
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 511
ISBN-13: 9780140099980
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Being Invisible
Author: Thomas Berger
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2013-03-12
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1480400947
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVFred Wagner thought his newfound ability would bring big opportunities, but some special powers aren’t as useful as they appear to be/divDIV/divDIV/divDIV Advertising copywriter Fred Wagner lives a mundane existence, dreaming of being a novelist but making scant progress on his first literary effort. His career has stalled and his personal life is falling to pieces, but everything seems poised to change when, one day, Fred realizes he can will himself in and out of visibility. A world of possibilities seems finally within reach—that is, until Fred learns that invisibility isn’t the panacea he hoped it would be./divDIV /divDIVFilled with humor and pathos, Being Invisible perceptively examines the life of a struggling writer and the power each of us has to change our own lives./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Thomas Berger including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection./divDIV /divDIV/div
Man Made
Author: Ken Baker
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2001-03-05
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1101655968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSoon to be a major motion picture, here is the funny, revealing, harrowing memoir of a star journalist and hotshot hockey pro who discovers that he is biochemically changing into a woman. On the surface, Ken Baker seemed a model man. He was a nationally ranked hockey goalie; a Hollywood correspondent for People; a guest-lister at celebrity parties; and girls came on to him. Inside, though, he didn't feel like the man he was supposed to be. Ken found that despite being attracted to women, he had little sex drive and even less of a sex life. To his anguish, he repeatedly found himself unable to perform sexually. Regardless of strenuous workouts, his body remained flabby and soft, earning him the nickname "Pear" from his macho teammates. Physically, matters grew even more bizarre when he discovered that he was lactating. The testosterone-driven culture in which Ken grew up made it agonizingly difficult for him to seek help. But in time he discovered something that lifted years of pain, frustration, and confusion: a brain tumor was causing his body to be flooded with massive amounts of a female hormone, which was disabling his masculinity. Five hours of surgery accomplished what years of therapy, rumination, and denail could not -- and allowed Ken Baker to finally feel -- and function -- like a man. Ken's story is coming to the screen in Fall 2016 in a much-anticipted Netflix feature film, The Late Bloomer, starring Academy Award-winner JK Simmons (Law & Order, Whiplash, Spider-Man) and Jane Lynch (Glee, The 40-Year-Old Virgin). Watch for the TarcherPerigee movie tie-in edition.
Man of the Year
Author: Lou Cove
Publisher:
Published: 2017-05-09
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1250123968
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Hilarious and poignant" — People Magazine For one 1970’s family, the center may not hold, but it certainly does fold. In 1978 Jimmy Carter mediates the Camp David Accords, Fleetwood Mac tops charts with Rumours, Starsky fights crime with Hutch, and twelve-year-old Lou Cove is uprooted from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Salem, Massachusetts– a backwater town of witches, Puritans, and sea-captain wannabes. After his eighth move in a dozen years, Lou figures he should just resign himself to a teenage purgatory of tedious paper routes, school bullies, and unrequited lust for every girl he likes. Then one October morning an old friend of Lou’s father, free-wheeling (and free-loving) Howie Gordon arrives at the Cove doorstep from California with his beautiful wife Carly. Howie is everything Lou wants to be: handsome as a movie star, built like a god and in possession of an unstoppable confidence. Then, over Thanksgiving dinner, Howie drops a bombshell. Holding up an issue of Playgirl Magazine, he flips to the center and there he is, Mr. November in all his natural glory. Howie has his eye on becoming the next Burt Reynolds, and a wild idea for how to do it: win Playgirl’s Man of the Year. And he knows just who should manage his campaign. As Lou and Howie canvas Salem for every vote in town – little old ladies at bridge club, the local town witch, construction workers on break and everyone in between – Lou is forced to juggle the perils of adolescence with the pursuit of Hollywood stardom. Man of the Year is the improbable true story of Lou’s thirteenth year, one very unusual campaign, and the unexpected guest who changes everything.
Memoirs of a Visible Man
Author: D. the 4th Letter
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Published: 2013-02
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781478716426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarcus was the light of his mother Lilas eye. Born small in stature but huge in heart on an unusually strange day at a particularly odd time, Marcus sought to better the world - together with his brother Darren, his mothers joy - through their inventive minds. But their father, Simon - domineering head of an escalating corporate juggernaut - had other plans; plans that meant for a lifetime of servitude, misery & fear. Motivated by an insatiable desire for power and greed, Simon controlled everything ... until tragedy and betrayal hastened Marcus towards an inevitable crossroads in his young life. Now a man, Marcus returns to face the father who was at the center of his torment - and reckon with revealed truths about the beloved family Marcus believed hed lost forever.
Missing Men
Author: Joyce Johnson
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780143035237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new memoir by the author of Minor Characters provides a unique female perspective on the dramatic implications of growing up fatherless, from her birth, childhood, and youth without a male figure in her life, through her unsuccessful marriages to two fatherless artists, to her adventures as a stage child managed by her mother, to own evolution into an artist in her own right. Reprint.
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching
Author: Mychal Denzel Smith
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Published: 2016-06-14
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1568585292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn unflinching account of what it means to be a young black man in America today, and how the existing script for black manhood is being rewritten in one of the most fascinating periods of American history. How do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, and too many more. It means celebrating powerful moments of black self-determination for LeBron James, Dave Chappelle, and Frank Ocean. In Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, Mychal Denzel Smith chronicles his own personal and political education during these tumultuous years, describing his efforts to come into his own in a world that denied his humanity. Smith unapologetically upends reigning assumptions about black masculinity, rewriting the script for black manhood so that depression and anxiety aren't considered taboo, and feminism and LGBTQ rights become part of the fight. The questions Smith asks in this book are urgent -- for him, for the martyrs and the tokens, and for the Trayvons that could have been and are still waiting.
Second Wind
Author: Bill Russell
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780345288974
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Author: Feliks Feliksovich I︠U︡supov (kni︠a︡zʹ)
Publisher: Helen Marx Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781885586582
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRasputin's is one of the most famous deaths in history. Now, his assassin's thrilling memoir is finally back in print. Born to great riches in the days before the Russian Revolution, and married to the niece of Czar Nicholas II, Prince Felix Youssoupoff observed at close range the rampant corruption and intrigues of the imperial court, which culminated in the rise to power of the sinister monk Rasputin. In 1916, Prince Felix and several aristocratic cohorts killed Rasputin, which more than any other single event brought about the cataclysmic upheaval of Tsarist Russia.
Becoming a Visible Man
Author: Jamison Green
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780826514578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA transsexual activist offers insights into the challenges of gender dysphoria. Born with a female body, and in a lesbian parent relationship prior to sex reassignment surgery, the author explores how we know our sex and discusses the complexities of the answer for those whose sex and gender are mismatched, examining medical options, psychosocial and legal implications, and media representations of "transpeople."
