In the Belly of the Big Black Beast

In the Belly of the Big Black Beast PDF Author: Brendan Granahan
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595303390
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Languages : en
Pages : 150

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In the Belly of the Big Black Beast

In the Belly of the Big Black Beast PDF Author: Brendan Granahan
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595303390
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Belly of the Beast

Belly of the Beast PDF Author: Da'Shaun L. Harrison
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1623175976
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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**The 2022 Lammy Award Winner in Transgender Nonfiction** Exploring the intersections of Blackness, gender, fatness, health, and the violence of policing. To live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by state and society, passed over for housing and jobs, and derided and misdiagnosed by medical professionals, fat Black people in the United States are subject to sociopolitically sanctioned discrimination, abuse, condescension, and trauma. Da’Shaun Harrison--a fat, Black, disabled, and nonbinary trans writer--offers an incisive, fresh, and precise exploration of anti-fatness as anti-Blackness, foregrounding the state-sanctioned murders of fat Black men and trans and nonbinary masculine people in historical analysis. Policing, disenfranchisement, and invisibilizing of fat Black men and trans and nonbinary masculine people are pervasive, insidious ways that anti-fat anti-Blackness shows up in everyday life. Fat people can be legally fired in 49 states for being fat; they’re more likely to be houseless. Fat people die at higher rates from misdiagnosis or nontreatment; fat women are more likely to be sexually assaulted. And at the intersections of fatness, Blackness, disability, and gender, these abuses are exacerbated. Taking on desirability politics, the limitations of gender, the connection between anti-fatness and carcerality, and the incongruity of “health” and “healthiness” for the Black fat, Harrison viscerally and vividly illustrates the myriad harms of anti-fat anti-Blackness. They offer strategies for dismantling denial, unlearning the cultural programming that tells us “fat is bad,” and destroying the world as we know it, so the Black fat can inhabit a place not built on their subjugation.

In the Belly of the Beast

In the Belly of the Beast PDF Author: Jack Henry Abbott
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679732373
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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A visionary book in the repertoire of prison literature. When Normal Mailer was writing The Executioner's Song, he received a letter from Jack Henry Abbott, a convict, in which Abbott offered to educate him in the realities of life in a maximum security prison. This book organizes Abbott's by now classic letters to Mailer, which evoke his infernal vision of the prison nightmare.

Achilles

Achilles PDF Author: Greg Boose
Publisher: Diversion Publishing Corp.
ISBN: 1635760534
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Young colonists find themselves stranded on an unpopulated moon—and not as alone as they thought—in a series debut from the author of The Red Bishop. The year is 2221 and humans have colonized Thetis, a planet in the Silver Foot galaxy. After a tragic accident kills dozens of teenage colonists, Thetis’s leaders are desperate to repopulate. So Earth sends the Mayflower 2—a state-of-the-art spaceship—across the universe to bring new homesteaders to the colony. For orphaned teen Jonah Lincoln, the move to Thetis is a chance to reinvent himself, to be strong and independent and brave, the way he could never be on Earth. But his dreams go up in smoke when their ship crash-lands, killing half the passengers and leaving the rest stranded—not on Thetis, but on its cruel and unpopulated moon, Achilles. Between its bloodthirsty alien life forms and its distance from their intended destination, Achilles is a harrowing landing place. When all of the adult survivors suddenly disappear, leaving the teenage passengers to fend for themselves, Jonah doubts they’ll survive at all, much less reach Thetis—especially when it appears Achilles isn’t as uninhabited as they were led to believe. Praise for Greg Boose’s The Red Bishop “Boose’s prose is quick, dark, exciting. He’s got the thriller element dialed. There are shades of Stephen King in the breathless horror of it all. This isn’t your everyday YA novel, there’s way more to it.” —Lauren Herstik, Nerdist

The Darwin Oversight

The Darwin Oversight PDF Author: Max Thorpe
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595432913
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Professor James Holdt comes into possession of a parchment encoding the entire life of a man spanning hundreds of years. Unlocking the record reveals a hidden race of beings called Markens who evolved on earth millions of years before humans. Holdt reveals his findings to longtime friend and student Sarc Rostant who is fascinated by the professor's discovery of this evolutionary oversight. Soon, both are on the run from these advanced, seemingly invincible beings. The professor decides that the only way to escape their clutches is to initiate the offensive, but that would mean infiltrating the Marken capital city. Their flight takes them to South America where the heart of the Marken civilization exists. Along the way Sarc's classmate Salia and the professor's brother Dragan get involved in the mission, but the foursome are in for a surprise, as many alarming truths lay hidden deep in the Marken city.

Scorned

Scorned PDF Author: Angela Addams
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
ISBN: 1802508295
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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FROM EXCITING AUTHOR OF WHY CHOOSE ROMANCE ANGELA ADDAMS Book one in the Hell Hath No Fury series Hell hath no fury like a werewolf scorned. All I'd ever wanted was to blend in among the humans, but my stepbrothers had other plans. When one of them sent a thug to abduct me, I had to let my true self out, claws and all. That was the thing... The men in my world were always underestimating me. Being the hothead that I was, I went straight to the source of the problem—the new alpha of my family's clan, my stepbrother Sal. He had a surprise of his own, though, and when he hit me with a magically infused pure silver collar, I crumbled like I didn't have A-plus DNA in my blood. That was when the Duke brothers entered my life. Heroes in their own minds, they worked a deal with Sal to buy me... as if I were a commodity. To the males in my species, that was what I was, but to the Duke brothers I was the final piece in a prophecy puzzle. They wanted me to rule their clan, be alpha to their pack, which meant they wanted me to take the bites of all three of them. To that I said, not on your life, boys. But, damn, they were hot, and I was willing to give cohabitation a try. I'd explore their old-world scrolls and prints and listen to their fairy tales about a superpowered queen alpha. I could even get behind training with their pack, but I wasn't ever going to let a werewolf take a bite out of me. At least that was what I kept telling myself. The beast inside me had other plans, and I'd never truly known how to stop her from getting what she wanted, no matter who she might have to destroy to achieve her goals.

Snickerdoodle's Shenanigans

Snickerdoodle's Shenanigans PDF Author: Meg Welch Dendler
Publisher: Serenity Mountain Publishing
ISBN: 1735608882
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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A young, energetic agent named Snickerdoodle is sent to join Kimba’s Earth household. Her mission: to locate the colony from the ship who settled in the Ozark forest five years ago and offer them the chance to return home. After making a surprising alliance with Max, The Big Black Beast, will Snickerdoodle be able to find the cats from the ship? And how will Kimba handle this new agent in her home . . . and face the rebel who kidnapped her years ago?

The Caian

The Caian PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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The Three Queens

The Three Queens PDF Author: Kristen Howe
Publisher: Kristen Howe
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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The three princess return to their mothers realm of Enchantia.. Only to find darkness. But Aristia the oldest of the three restores light into the realm of the Enchantians. The once darken realm that was stuck in darkness has now become bountiful and full of life once again. But the wicked Devina has other plans for the realm and for her sisters especially Aristia.. Devina knowing who she really is.. Had more right to be queen then any of them, she believed. But she felt Aristia stole that right. Aristia and Devina and Cassie begin a never ending battle for the realm. Which then includes a battle between Aristia's Champion Princess Alana and her cousin the Evil queen Alora. They both continue the battle of the realm.. As Alana forms rebellion in the enchanted Mountains and falls for a human prince Lansford English. Alana succumbs to the love for a human and the final champion of the realm is Born Ambrossia . The she-elves begin a war that will not cease for many moons to come.

Lucky Stiff

Lucky Stiff PDF Author: Deborah Coonts
Publisher: Chestnut Street Press
ISBN: 0985792523
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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“Evanovich…with a dash of CSI.” – Publishers Weekly Everyone Has a Hidden Talent For Lucky O’Toole it’s murder…solving it. Surviving in Sin City takes cunning, a pair of five-inch heels, and a wiseass attitude. Lucky has mastered them all and has a pair of legs she uses to kick butt and turn heads. As the Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Las Vegas’s most over-the-top destination, mischief is in her job description. She’s good at her job. She’s less good at life. But who has time for a life when there’s a killer on the loose? LUCKY STIFF Someone fed Numbers Neidermeyer to the tiger shark in the tank at Mandalay Bay resort. Lucky’s friend, the Beautiful Jeremy Whitlock, is suspect Numero Uno. Miss P, Jeremy’s squeeze and Lucky’s partner in crime, is in a tailspin. A tractor-trailer full of honeybees jackknifes on the Strip in front of the Babylon, spilling its load. The district attorney—apparently the odd man out in a threesome—is hiding in the buff in a laundry room. And Lucky’s mother decides to auction a young woman’s virginity. Can Lucky get Jeremy out of the hot seat, handle the new hot French chef and her mother…and restore order in her life? A light, funny, romantic mystery providing a Vegas escape appropriate for anyone looking for a good laugh. Join the fun! Get your copy today! AN INTERVIEW WITH DEBORAH COONTS Why did you decide to write humor? I’m not sure I decided to add snark to the Lucky books, specifically to Lucky’s own voice, it just happened that way. When I was a kid, my mouth always got me into trouble. Finally, I’ve found a way to harness the sarcasm for the Forces of Good—or at least in a way not to anger my grandmother. And when Lucky started talking to me, she had a strong dose of sass in her. The Lucky O'Toole Vegas Adventure series is hard to categorize. Is that by design? When I set out to write Wanna Get Lucky?, I knew I wanted to write a romp through Las Vegas. I had the characters and the setting but no real understanding of narrative drive. So, I threw a young woman out of a tour helicopter into the middle of the Pirate Show and let the story unfold. A bit of murder to keep the plot moving, some wisecracking and Vegas mischief to make you laugh, and some romance to keep it interesting. A bit of a mash up, but it works. PRAISE FOR Lucky Stiff “Lively, funny, scary! The pages will singe your fingers, and you’ll laugh yourself stiff.” - Barbara D’Amato, Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author “The pages turn so fast they give off blue fire.” - Carol McCleary, author and CrimeFest Award finalist "Las Vegas is the perfect setting for this witty tale of misdirection and larger-than-life characters. Fans of J. A. Konrath's Jack Daniels series will love this." - Library Journal, starred review “Fast-paced, witty, and full of colorful characters, Lucky Stiff is a sure bet to be a readers’ favorite.” - Booklist “A prize fight, a pop star and a virginity auction. Could we be anywhere else but Las Vegas?…[Lucky Stiff] is as lively and endearingly wacky as Wanna Get Lucky?” - Kirkus Reviews “This wonderfully funny and entertaining mystery stars Lucky O’Toole, head of customer relations at a Las Vegas resort. Readers who like cozy mysteries with a lot of sass, great dialogue and a plot that flies will love this.” - RT Book Reviews “Deb Coonts’ Lucky Stiff is a postcard of Las Vegas like you’ve never seen it, populated by outrageously imaginative characters embroiled in raucous high-stakes action. Toss in sizzling love affairs, deadly enemies, naughty humor and never-saw-it-coming twists and you’ve got a winning mystery with a heart of gold. Coonts has a gift for showcasing the darker realms of human nature against a wickedly funny backdrop. Irresistible!” - Sophie Littlefield, Anthony and RT Books award-winning author "Coonts covers Sin City territory with a dash of CSI and Janet Evanovich in her second glitzy, lighthearted novel." - Publishers Weekly