Poetry in a Plain Brown Wrapper

Poetry in a Plain Brown Wrapper PDF Author: T. Sullivan
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Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Poetry in a Plain Brown Wrapper

Poetry in a Plain Brown Wrapper PDF Author: T. Sullivan
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Languages : en
Pages : 92

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The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper

The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper PDF Author: John D. MacDonald
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812984013
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat. He had done a big favor for her husband, then for the lady herself. Now she’s dead, and Travis McGee finds that Helena Pearson Trescott had one last request of him: to find out why her beautiful daughter Maureen keeps trying to kill herself. But what can a devil-may-care beach bum do for a young troubled mind? McGee makes his way to the prosperous town of Fort Courtney, Florida, where he realizes pretty quickly that something’s just not right. Not only has Maureen’s doctor killed herself, but a string of murders and suicides are piling up—and no one seems to have any answers. Just when it seems that things can’t get any stranger, McGee becomes the lead suspect in the murder of a local nurse. As if Maureen didn’t have enough problems, the man on a mission to save her will have to save himself first—before time runs out. “The Travis McGee novels are among the finest works of fiction ever penned by an American author.”—Jonathan Kellerman Featuring a new Introduction by Lee Child

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(woman.) PDF Author: Janet Kuypers
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ISBN: 1891470116
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Languages : en
Pages : 203

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Oeuvre

Oeuvre PDF Author: Janet Kuypers
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ISBN: 1891470221
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 347

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The Woman With the Wild-Grown Hair: Complete Poems

The Woman With the Wild-Grown Hair: Complete Poems PDF Author: Nita Penfold
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 136595725X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Nita Penfold has been writing poetry since the age of eight. These personae poems span almost 30 years of her writing, collected together for the first time in a complete form, chronicling her journey into learning to accept and honor her authentic self and her development as a feminist.

Poetry

Poetry PDF Author: Harriet Monroe
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Captain Beefheart: The Biography

Captain Beefheart: The Biography PDF Author: Mike Barnes
Publisher: Omnibus Press
ISBN: 0857127284
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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“Barnes gets the story, and with the full participation of those brave musicians who attempted to interpret Beefheart's sometimes otherworldly methodology” – The Times Through new interview material, and with reference to reports and eulogies that appeared in the media, Mike Barnes studies the star’s legacy – putting the last two decades into context with the revelation of Van Vliet’s battle with MS.

What They Did to the Kid

What They Did to the Kid PDF Author: Jack Fritscher
Publisher: Palm Drive Publishing
ISBN: 1890834378
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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"What They Did to the Kid" is a memoir spinning as a comic novel for general-fiction readers intrigued by boys' school tales, and baby boomers who "survived Catholic school." Ryan O'Hara, coming of age from 14 to 24, is the wise adolescent narrating readers' entry into the secret culture of 1950's altar boys who go to the seminary, meet priests, and must decide their own identities. The novel's interior ticking covers the clock and calendar of boys' emerging consciences and edgy consciousness. "The San Francisco Chronicle" says, "Jack Fritscher reads gloriously." Strong characters and snappy dialog propel the character-driven plot of male-dominant pecking order. At Misericordia Seminary (aptly nicknamed "Misery"), Ryan O'Hara exposes his own story. He's trapped for oxygen-with 500 other boys-by the imperial Rector Karg, the disciplinarian Father Gunn "of the USMC," the tart Father Polistina, and the rebel-priest Chris Dryden "who knows Fellini and JFK." The storytelling Irish-American author gives each ensemble character-hero or villain, student or priest, man or woman-a rich back story. Black civil rights of the 60's as well as three interesting women characters open this tale out of the suffocating seminary and on to the hot streets of Chicago's South Side and Old Town. The compelling psychological drama hinges on the very source and aspirations of priestly vocation versus self-esteem. "Is God calling me-and what about chastity? Or is it just the 'Bali Hai' of blind ambition and social climbing-and what about sex?" Fritscher makes deeper than usual sense of soulful coming-of-age material. The hearty supply of boarding school episodes cumulatively reveals the dueling dynamic between the boyish protagonist, Ryan O'Hara, and the callous ambition of the handsome bully, Tank Rimsky, as they fight toward the finish line of "manly men's" ordination to the priesthood. "The hardest thing to be in America today is a man." The novel is based on an under-reported story: the Catholic Church recruited 200,000 boys into seminaries in the 1950's. Only 20,000 were ordained. "Kid" details, in a nostalgic and not unkind take what happened to the missing 180,000 boys and the women and men in their families. Daring to step inside Catholic culture, without being parochial, this American story reveals the 1950's roots of 21st-century "recovering Catholic" panic and angst. The millions of post-Catholic baby boomers who have exited the Church will compare notes and laugh knowingly at the dead-on characterizations. Fashionably anti-Catholic campers will say, "but, of course " Readers might catalog "Kid" in the genre of "Young Torless, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," and "Lord of the Flies." Before now, no one of the surviving 180,000 ex-seminarians has dared reveal this insider confession on the secret milieu of the Catholic education of priests. From interviews with more than a hundred former seminarians, Jack Fritscher uniquely stages their true story arcs with wit, verve, and comedy. "What They Did to the Kid" is the fourth novel from Jack Fritscher whose twelve books have sold more than 100,000 copies. Jack Fritscher is a graduate of the prestigious Pontifical College Josephinum, a Roman Catholic seminary, located in Columbus, Ohio, and directly subject to the Vatican in Rome. He received his doctorate in American Literature from Loyola University, Chicago.

Exaro Versus

Exaro Versus PDF Author:
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ISBN: 1891470450
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 443

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Linda Rogers

Linda Rogers PDF Author: Harold Rhenisch
Publisher: Guernica Editions
ISBN: 9781550711912
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Writers Barbara Colebrook Peace, Harold Rhenish, and John Gould and critic Ronald B. Hatch all contribute essays to this collection dedicated to the life and work of Linda Rogers. Throughout her career Rogers has remained a diverse writer--by turns a storyteller, children's author, and novelist--whose work has consistently revealed the power and grace of childhood and its power to transform adults. Rogers is the author of The Bursting Test, a novel, as well as Worm Sandwich and Molly Brown Is Not a Clown, both children's books.