On the Run
Author: Jade C. Jamison
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781519944894
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Vagabonds!
Author: Eloghosa Osunde
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2023-02-28
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 059333003X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE “If you read one debut novel in 2022, this should be it.” —Los Angeles Times In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of vivid characters—some haunted, some defiant—navigate danger, demons, and love in a quest to lead true lives. As in Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the queer, the poor, the displaced, the footloose and rogue spirits. They are those who inhabit transient spaces, who make their paths and move invisibly, who embrace apparitions, old vengeances and alternative realities. Eloghosa Osunde's brave, fiercely inventive novel traces a wild array of characters for whom life itself is a form of resistance: a driver for a debauched politician with the power to command life and death; a legendary fashion designer who gives birth to a grown daughter; a lesbian couple whose tender relationship sheds unexpected light on their experience with underground sex work; a wife and mother who attends a secret spiritual gathering that shifts her world. As their lives intertwine—in bustling markets and underground clubs, churches and hotel rooms—vagabonds are seized and challenged by spirits who command the city's dark energy. Whether running from danger, meeting with secret lovers, finding their identities, or vanquishing their shadowselves, Osunde's characters confront and support one another, before converging for the once-in-a-lifetime gathering that gives the book its unexpectedly joyous conclusion. Blending unvarnished realism with myth and fantasy, Vagabonds! is a vital work of imagination that takes us deep inside the hearts, minds, and bodies of a people in duress—and in triumph.
The Vagabonds
Author: Jeff Guinn
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2020-11-17
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1501159313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA “fascinating slice of rarely considered American history” (Booklist)—the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison—whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life. In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist John Burroughs visited Thomas Edison in Florida and toured the Everglades. The following year Ford, Edison, and tire maker Harvey Firestone joined together on a summer camping trip and decided to call themselves the Vagabonds. They would continue their summer road trips until 1925, when they announced that their fame made it too difficult for them to carry on. Although the Vagabonds traveled with an entourage of chefs, butlers, and others, this elite fraternity also had a serious purpose: to examine the conditions of America’s roadways and improve the practicality of automobile travel. Cars were unreliable and the roads were even worse. But newspaper coverage of these trips was extensive, and as cars and roads improved, the summer trip by automobile soon became a desired element of American life. The Vagabonds is “a portrait of America’s burgeoning love affair with the automobile” (NPR) but it also sheds light on the important relationship between the older Edison and the younger Ford, who once worked for the famous inventor. The road trips made the automobile ubiquitous and magnified Ford’s reputation, even as Edison’s diminished. The automobile would transform the American landscape, the American economy, and the American way of life and Guinn brings this seminal moment in history to vivid life.
On the Run
Author: Jade C Jamison
Publisher:
Published: 2021-04-19
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThey say things come in threes...like sex, drugs, and rock & roll.Love is not part of that equation.But tell that to my heart.From the first moment I met CJ Slavin, I fell for him hard. It was as if everything else in my world muted: the album my band was about to release, the coast-to-coast tour we were preparing for, all the adoring fans who were going to eat us up. Even the drama and bullsh*t from my bandmates couldn't bring me down when CJ was around.But he tells me I'm too young.And we're going to be thousands of miles apart.Add to it, his adoring fans will drop to their knees for him.So what's a girl to do?At least I still have sex, drugs, and rock & roll..."This author does it right. She doesn't just throw the rockstar title around. Nope, she gives her readers what they crave. You can go in knowing you're gonna get the whole experience." - Rosa, iScream Books***What Readers Are Saying: ****"Once again Jade has pulled another great book out of her magic hat of book tricks." ★★★★★"This book was great! I loved Kyle." ★★★★★"Loved this book can't wait to read more of this story. Jade is one of my favorite authors. I haven't read a book of hers that I haven't liked." ★★★★★"Kyle Summers is a bad ass!" ★★★★★"Can't wait for more of the Vagabonds story." ★★★★★If you're a fan of rock star romance and bad boys, this is one ride you can't miss!The Vagabonds TrilogyOn the RunOn the RoadOn the Rocks
On the Run (Vagabonds #1)
Author: Jade C. Jamison
Publisher: Jade C. Jamison
Published: 2015-11-30
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1517079586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeople say you can't fall in love in high school, But I did. As soon as I saw it, touched it, heard it, I was in love. And we make beautiful music together. Yeah, my electric guitar and I. When I finally get my chance, my big break, I go all out, proving that I'm born to play, Born to perform, Born to rock. And then I meet him, Rock star CJ Slavin, And everything just gets clearer. The music finally makes sense And means so much more. This is one riff that I never want to end. Keywords: female guitarist, first person POV, angst, new adult, contemporary romance, rock star romance, bad boy romance, romance with sex, romance and sex, romance ebook, rock star romance series, romance novel, romance book, romance series, romance free, romance with angst, romance hea, romance rockstar, romance explicit, contemporary romance, rock star romance, bad boy romance, sexy bassist, bass player, girl band, rock band, adult romance with sex, romance and sex, romance ebook, rock star romance series, romance novel, romance book, romance series, free, romance free, angsty, romance hea, romance rockstar, romance explicit, too young to fall in love, strong heroine, sassy heroine, new adult, new adult romance, free new adult, adult romance, rock star, rockstar, rocker, rocker romance, rock star romance, rockstar romance, contemporary romance, steamy contemporary, steamy contemporary romance, steamy ebook, alpha male, racy, bad boy romance, bad boy romance books, steamy romance books, hot romance books, love story and romance, romance series, rock star romance series, rock star romance, rockstar romance series, bad boy, romance, first in series, erotic books, erotic romance, coming of age, romance books, contemporary romance books, hero to love, hero to hate, hot, hot man, hot romance, hot read, love, sensual romance, sexy, sexy romance, sexy book, sexy novel, steamy, steamy romance, current, romance books, romance novel, steamy romance books, contemporary romance books, hot romance books, romantic fiction, romance fiction books, romance novel, female protagonist, romance series, romance trilogy, trilogy, romance series, something steamy to read, guitarist, woman guitarist, friends to lovers, Colorado, hot guy, romantic books, romantic books for women, romance series book one, free bad boy romance books, free steamy romance books, free hot romance books, free love story and romance, rock star romance free, romance free, romance freebie, free, free book, free books, free romance books, free romance novel, free steamy romance books, free contemporary romance books, free hot romance books, free romantic fiction, romance fiction books free, free romance novel, free novel, rock star romance free, free ebook, hot guy, romantic books for women, romance series book one
Musashi
Author: Eiji Yoshikawa
Publisher: Vertical, Inc.
Published: 2012-08-10
Total Pages: 1547
ISBN-13: 1568364512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Miyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by the hope of becoming a samurai—without really knowing what it meant—he regains consciousness after the battle to find himself lying defeated, dazed and wounded among thousands of the dead and dying. On his way home, he commits a rash act, becomes a fugitive and brings life in his own village to a standstill—until he is captured by a weaponless Zen monk. The lovely Otsu, seeing in Musashi her ideal of manliness, frees him from his tortuous punishment, but he is recaptured and imprisoned. During three years of solitary confinement, he delves into the classics of Japan and China. When he is set free again, he rejects the position of samurai and for the next several years pursues his goal relentlessly, looking neither to left nor to right. Ever so slowly it dawns on him that following the Way of the Sword is not simply a matter of finding a target for his brute strength. Continually striving to perfect his technique, which leads him to a unique style of fighting with two swords simultaneously, he travels far and wide, challenging fighters of many disciplines, taking nature to be his ultimate and severest teacher and undergoing the rigorous training of those who follow the Way. He is supremely successful in his encounters, but in the Art of War he perceives the way of peaceful and prosperous governance and disciplines himself to be a real human being He becomes a reluctant hero to a host of people whose lives he has touched and been touched by. And, inevitably, he has to pit his skill against the naked blade of his greatest rival. Musashi is a novel in the best tradition of Japanese story telling. It is a living story, subtle and imaginative, teeming with memorable characters, many of them historical. Interweaving themes of unrequited love, misguided revenge, filial piety and absolute dedication to the Way of the Samurai, it depicts vividly a world Westerners know only vaguely. Full of gusto and humor, it has an epic quality and universal appeal. The novel was made into a three-part movie by Director Hiroshi Inagai. For more information, visit the Shopping area
Vagabond
Author: Ceilidh Michelle
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Published: 2021-09-03
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 1771622997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA captivating memoir of living on the streets along California’s Highway 1, for fans of Mistakes to Run With and Nearly Normal. At twenty-one, Ceilidh Michelle was homeless, drifting through countercultural communities along California’s coast, from Venice Beach to Slab City to Big Sur. This restless and turbulent time began when she was sleeping on her sister’s couch in Vancouver and decided to become a yoga disciple in California. Denied entry at the US border in Washington state, and stuck overnight in the Greyhound station, her already shaky pilgrimage began to take another direction, away from the inward sanctuary of an ashram and toward the sea and light and noise of Venice Beach, and eventually up Highway 1 to the desert. Having spent much of her youth outrunning family turmoil, the peripatetic lifestyle once key to Michelle’s survival is now a habit she can’t or won’t break—unless it breaks her first. Sleeping in parking lots, camping out in abandoned beach cottages and mansions, she finds community, easy and fraught, with fellow travellers: musicians, veterans, ex-cons, addicts, drug dealers, artists and con artists. Still, dreams and fleeting notions of home fuel and shadow every encounter, haunting the places she stays, offering moments of both grace and violence. Told with deadpan humour and insightful lyricism, Vagabond is an observant and at times shimmering narrative suspended between a traumatic past and an as yet unimagined future. Coursing through it is the story of an emergent writer just beginning to find sanctuary in her own creative instincts.
Everett Ruess
Author: W. L. Rusho
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780879052102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEverett Ruess, the young poet and artist who disappeared into the desert canyonlands of Utah in 1934, has become widely known posthumously as the spokesman for the spirit of the high desert. Many have been inspired by his intense search for adventure, leaving behind the amenities of a comfortable life. His search for ultimate beauty and oneness with nature is chronicled in this remarkable collection of letters to family and friends.
Vagabond King, The
Author:
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published:
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9780573680601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVagabond Causasus
Author: Stephen Graham
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-03
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1317845994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2006. This book by Stephen Graham is a supremely unique take on travel through Russia and the Caucasus. Graham takes to the road in a modest fashion, with a bag and his camera at his side. As he arrives in Moscow not long after the Russian Revolution in 1917 he is not welcomed with open arms. Instead, Graham is greeted by a group of soldiers as he walks down the street and is arrested. He recounts this experience, as well as every moment of his time spent 'vagabonding' across the Caucasus with glorious detail. His photographs to accompany the text capture the fleeting moments of this politically heated time in Russia with candid accuracy. This momentous work is not to be overlooked by anyone interested in travel or history, or anyone with a taste for an unconventional account of the land of the Caucasus.
