Head in the Clouds, Feet Treading Water
Author: Mark McCallister
Publisher: Writers Republic LLC
Published: 2021-11-30
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 1646209257
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Author: Mark McCallister
Publisher: Writers Republic LLC
Published: 2021-11-30
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 1646209257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Luis Algorri
Publisher: Bruno-Books
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 3867872716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJavier is a student who lives an uncomplicated life, until he gets to know the younger brother of his girlfriend. Immediately he feels an almost magical attraction to the boy. Everything on him appears to be perfect: His face, his smile, even the blue trunk he's wearing in the swimming pool. Javier is after him until he finally finds a way to get close to him. "You'll hear from me" is a novel full of deep feelings and devotion. Algorri's clear and intuitive style is alluring and erotically charged, capturing the reader in a web of love and passion.
Author: Michael Kelsay
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781578063697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRowdy and deep-dyed "southern," a comic first novel of politics, booze, and a ne'er-do-well's coming of age
Author: Patrick C Notchtree
Publisher: Patrick C Notchtree
Published: 2012-10-10
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 0957236115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA story of love and loyalty, betrothal and betrayal, triumph and tragedy; charting one gay man's attempts to rise above the legacy of a traumatic childhood. Based on the author's own life, it will strike a chord with many who have been through similar things. It's a varied, exciting, demanding, sometimes terrifying life story. It contains some explicit sexual narrative, including sexual violence. http://www.thecloudsstillhang.com
Author: Gregory Orfalea
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2010-04-14
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0815651228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA boy finds himself alone with his first love in a toboggan stalled atop the Matterhorn at Disneyland. A woman, bitter about her marriage to a man turned blind, must decide if he lives or dies. A man haunted by his role in creating the H-bomb suddenly disappears in old age, only to turn up at Alamagordo, seeking an Indian and redemption. Such characters, at the crossroads of emotion and ethics, confounding loss and resurrection, populate this unforgettable collection of tales. Loosely connected, the stories chronicle the lives of the Matters, a captivating, tragic, yet ultimately exultant Arab American family. Spanning continents and a century, the stories center on the balm that human relationships offer. In "The Chandelier," a boy desperate to feed his starving family hauls a stolen chandelier over a snowy mountain in Lebanon during World War I. A young Mexican nurse and her lover wind their way through eighteenth-century California missions in "Fabiola." Against the backdrop of the September 11 attacks, an Arab American man is thrown from a bus, echoing past racial discriminations, in "Get Off the Bus." With a poet’s ear and a historian’s keen eye for detail, Orfalea offers readers beautifully crafted stories filled with flawed yet irresistible characters who are rendered with great tenderness and aching complexity.
Author: Lidia Yuknavitch
Publisher: Hawthorne Books
Published: 2011-04-01
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 0983304904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is not your mother’s memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch, a lifelong swimmer and Olympic hopeful escapes her raging father and alcoholic and suicidal mother when she accepts a swimming scholarship which drug and alcohol addiction eventually cause her to lose. What follows is promiscuous sex with both men and women, some of them famous, and some of it S&M, and Lidia discovers the power of her sexuality to help her forget her pain. The forgetting doesn’t last, though, and it is her hard-earned career as a writer and a teacher, and the love of her husband and son, that ultimately create the life she needs to survive.
Author: David Lucero
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2009-10-27
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1453507086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Summary of Nephilim: Genesis By David Lucero The novel Nephilim: Genesis cannot be easily summarized. It’s a book about friendship, faith, destiny, and discovery. But it is so much more than that as well. Of course, there are main characters. Villains, heroes, supporting characters, those are the usual items found in a fiction book. There is a plot, of course, and tons of inspirations. But to break down the novel would not do it justice. To say that Alexander Luciano is the main character is just putting him into a role that he doesn’t fit easily into. A square peg in a round hole, so to speak. The Nephilim themselves are not easily described either. If you take the literal translations of them from the Old Testament, then they were giants born of mortal women who had been seduced by fallen angels. But they were briefly mentioned, almost impossible to spot if you’re not looking for them, and that leaves a vast amount of room for interpretation. I prefer to think of Nephilim as sons and daughters that, yes, were half-human/half-angels, but also much more than that. They were influential, giants not in the literal sense, but metaphorically, much as some people are “giants of industry.” These are not literally tall men or women, they are people that have shaped our commercial and financial institutions. They are individuals that have formed the basis of our society in such a way that we look up to them in reverence. So to say Nephilim are in that vein might be more accurate. They are “giants of destiny” if you will, leaders and warriors and thinkers. They are people that have walked with the gods and kept stride. They are idols and icons. Does that mean that I think Alexander Luciano is an icon? Yes, in a sense. He is what I wish I could be, not because he is almost supernatural, but because he has discovered his destiny and has embraced it with all his heart and soul. He is a shining example of what I would like to be. He is an angel, true, but he is still only a man. The novel Nephilim: Genesis was a long work in progress. I wrote several drafts, went through so many new characters and new plots that I can’t even remember all of them. It was crafted, not written, and I’m very proud of it. The characters in the book: Avatar, Sage, Epic, Arcadia, Magus, and Kheiron, are not just the characters I created for the book, they are characters that grew out of friendship, faith, and dedication. I didn’t write them, they came to life and I merely translated them onto the written page. Like so many stories in existence, there is sadness, happiness, pain, and joy in this novel. Some of it was my idea, some of it was not. And I don’t mean that I took other people’s ideas, but merely that the story became what it is because I was open to the possibility that this story was not entirely something I could create. I let the story go where it wanted to go, and I just tried to type fast enough to keep up. Alexander Luciano is a caring young man, but stubborn. He is a successful businessman. He is a son, a lover, a fighter. He is strong, brave, and a quick thinker. I am not any of these things entirely, but he is me. He is the idol I look up to. He is the “giant” in my storytelling. But all of the characters are important to me. Some of them were so easy to come up with, it was like a thunderbolt to my brain when I realized I was stupid for never thinking of them before. Some of them crept in and came to life and I never saw them coming. If and when you read the novel, I hope you find your own “giant” to look up to. Someone you wish you could be. It might not be Alexander Luciano, it might
Author: Laura Lynn Leffers
Publisher: Book World/Blue Star
Published: 1996-02
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781881542100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHaunted midnight chanting over the water and a lonely boy invoke an ancestral connection, and past merges into the present for Belle MacKay. This 'lost' child returns to her village, to her home, to the spiritual heart of her family...on an island at Lake Papakeechie. Northern Indiana's Miami Indian and lake cultures provide the setting for Dance On The Water, a novel of mysticism, spiritual awakening, romance and suspense.
Author: Carla Chesser Rn
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1412068363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLaughing through the Tears of Breast Cancer is a source of inspiration for women who have recently been diagnosed with breast cancer, and for their caregivers. The easy-to-read style of writing takes you through a year-long journey of dealing with the emotional experiences of the breast cancer diagnosis and the physical treatments that lead to eventual healing. Although it is a personal journey, this story offers enough similarities that help those who are part of the breast cancer "sisterhood" recognize that, even as they are experiencing their own pain related to this diagnosis, many blessings will result. By sharing her story through journal writings, emails and inspirational messages, Carla creates enjoyable reading, in a girl-talk format, with an abundant amount of practical information about breast cancer. You will laugh while the tears flow from your eyes as you read her story and share her experiences.