Leaper
Leaper

Author: Geoffrey Wood

Publisher: WaterBrook

Published: 2011-10-12

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0307499413

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Has he gone crazy? Had too many espressos? Or is he really a brand new super hero? What if one day-suddenly, inexplicably-you discover you have a superpower? And what if it's not a very good superpower, either, like flying or super strength, and you have no idea what you are supposed to do? Leaper follows the confessions of reluctant hero James, a recently divorced, life-long barista who finds himself in just such a predicament and asking those very questions. Is his newfound leaping power a miracle from God? The result of a lifetime of over-caffeination? Or a final break from sanity? Should James “do good” with his ability? But if doing good proves trickier than expected, where do you go for a superpower manual? And what is “good” anyway? In this witty, unconventional novel, debut novelist Geoffrey Wood serves up equal doses of sharp humor and disquieting poignancy, exploring the meaning of redemption, beauty, and faith beyond all reason.

Living at the Movies
Living at the Movies

Author: Jim Carroll

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1981-09-24

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 0140422900

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From the Author of The Basketball Diaries Originally released in 1973, Living at the Movies was the first aboveground publication of the work of Jim Carroll, a singer-songwriter Newsweek called “contender for the title of rock’s new poet laureate.” In these poems, all written before the age of twenty-two, Carroll shows an uncanny virtuosity. His power and poisoned purity of vision are reminiscent of Arthur Rimbaud, and, like the strongest poets of the New York School, Carroll transforms the everyday details of city life into poetry. In language at once delicate, hallucinatory, and menacing, his major themes—love, friendship, the exquisite pains and pleasures of drugs, and above all, the ever-present city—emerge in an atmosphere where dream and reality mingle on equal terms. It is an astonishing debut by an important American writer and artist. “Jim Carroll has the sure confidence of a true artist. . . . He is steeped in his craft. He has worked as only a man of inspiration is capable of working. . . . His beginning is a triumph.”—Gerard Malanga, Poetry

@ Three O’ Clock in the World
@ Three O’ Clock in the World

Author: D. White

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2023-05-21

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 1669876993

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Gene Tierney lives with her husband on an air force base in central Nevada. There sinister experiments are performed by ex-patriot scientists from Germany. Gene is hoping to return to the movies soon, provided she can find a good script (and regain her health after nervous breakdowns that have involved a variety of hallucinations that may or may not include German scientists).

God Is My Landlord
God Is My Landlord

Author: Raymond John Jeffreys

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2018-12-02

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 178912736X

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Perry Hayden was a Christian who wanted to prove that the law of tithing was in fact the divine law of prosperity. To prove his theory, he set up an experiment in 1940 where he planted one cubic inch of wheat seed. His intention was to tithe the tenth each year from the crop. American industrialist and business magnate Henry Ford became interested in this effort and lent his support by loaning Mr. Hayden farmland in Tecumseh, Michigan to plant on and equipment to harvest his crop with. GOD IS MY LANDLORD, which was first published in 1947 and was dedicated to Henry Ford, who had died in April of that same year, tells the sensational inside story how Perry Hayden and Henry Ford proved through their spectacular Biblical Wheat Experiment that it pays to tithe and share with the Lord. The book contains 32 pages of priceless pictures of Henry Ford taking part in this phenomenal demonstration as his last public activity, as well as many other celebrities from every walk of life. Members of almost every faith, color and creed took part in this world-famous six-year project, which made many Biblical truths a living reality

Anagrams
Anagrams

Author: Lorrie Moore

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-02-22

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0307816877

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A revelatory tale of love gained and lost—from a master of contemporary American fiction. • "An extraordinary, often hilarious novel." —The New York Times Book Review Gerard sits, fully clothed, in his empty bathtub and pines for Benna. Neighbors in the same apartment building, they share a wall and Gerard listens for the sound of her toilet flushing. Gerard loves Benna. And then Benna loves Gerard. She listens to him play piano, she teaches poetry and sings at nightclubs. As their relationships ebbs and flows, through reality and imagination, Lorrie Moore paints a captivating, innovative portrait of men and women in love and not in love.

Santa Fe
Santa Fe

Author: Elizabeth West

Publisher: Sunstone Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0865348766

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This question-and-answer book contains 400 reminders of what is known and what is sometimes forgotten or misunderstood about a city that was founded more than 400 years ago. Not a traditional history book, this group of questions is presented in an apparently random order, and the answers occasionally meander off topic, as if part of a casual conversation.