Shit So Happy I'm Fifty

Shit So Happy I'm Fifty PDF Author: Caramelize Publishers
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Languages : en
Pages : 108

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A Practical 50th Birthday Gift! Great blank journal notebook as a unique birthday gift idea for women/Men. Size Dimensions: 100+ pages / 50 Sheets, 6 x 9 inches Interior: Blank plain ruled paper with no margin lines. Multipurpose uses Use to stay organized or tear sheets out to use as stationery paper. A soft-bound paperback journal with a matte finish, ideal as a journal, scrapbook, diary, notebook, inventory, accounting, logbook, recipe journal, composition notebook, memory book. High-quality paper that can be used with gel pens, crayons, markers, pencils, paint brushes, fountain pens, ballpoint pens, ink pens. The cheap and thoughtful gift for 50th bday gifts e.t.c

Shit So Happy I'm Fifty

Shit So Happy I'm Fifty PDF Author: Caramelize Publishers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Book Description
A Practical 50th Birthday Gift! Great blank journal notebook as a unique birthday gift idea for women/Men. Size Dimensions: 100+ pages / 50 Sheets, 6 x 9 inches Interior: Blank plain ruled paper with no margin lines. Multipurpose uses Use to stay organized or tear sheets out to use as stationery paper. A soft-bound paperback journal with a matte finish, ideal as a journal, scrapbook, diary, notebook, inventory, accounting, logbook, recipe journal, composition notebook, memory book. High-quality paper that can be used with gel pens, crayons, markers, pencils, paint brushes, fountain pens, ballpoint pens, ink pens. The cheap and thoughtful gift for 50th bday gifts e.t.c

We Do This 'Til We Free Us

We Do This 'Til We Free Us PDF Author: Mariame Kaba
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1642595268
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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New York Times Bestseller “Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you’re going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order to be able to get the target to actually move in the way that you want to.” What if social transformation and liberation isn’t about waiting for someone else to come along and save us? What if ordinary people have the power to collectively free ourselves? In this timely collection of essays and interviews, Mariame Kaba reflects on the deep work of abolition and transformative political struggle. With a foreword by Naomi Murakawa and chapters on seeking justice beyond the punishment system, transforming how we deal with harm and accountability, and finding hope in collective struggle for abolition, Kaba’s work is deeply rooted in the relentless belief that we can fundamentally change the world. As Kaba writes, “Nothing that we do that is worthwhile is done alone.”

Figuring Shit Out

Figuring Shit Out PDF Author: Amy Biancolli
Publisher: Behler Publications, LLC
ISBN: 1933016469
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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"Your life isn't over." My dad says this. "I mean, YOUR life isn't over. Beyond the kids. You'll go on living, doing things. This isn't it." I know, I assure him. I have the kids. They need me. They're my life now. "OK," he replies, then grunts—more of a brief hum. He only hums when he thinks I'm full of shit. Shockingly single. Amy Biancolli's life went off script more dramatically than most after her husband of twenty years jumped off the roof of a parking garage. Left with three children, a three-story house, and a pile of knotty psychological complications, Amy realizes the flooding dishwasher, dead car battery, rapidly growing lawn, basement sump pump, and broken doorknob aren't going to fix themselves. She also realizes that "figuring shit out" means accepting the horrors that came her way, rolling with them, slogging through them, helping others through theirs, and working her way through life with love and laughter. Amy Biancolli is an author and journalist whose column appears in the Albany Times Union. Before that, Amy served as film critic for the Houston Chronicle where her reviews, published around the country, won her the 2007 Comment and Criticism Award from the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Association. Biancolli is the author of House of Holy Fools: A Family Portrait in Six Cracked Parts, which earned her Albany Author of the Year. Amy lives in Albany, New York, with her three children.

Memoirz of a Stick Up Kid

Memoirz of a Stick Up Kid PDF Author: Tone Capone
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1449069541
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Let us all take a walk on the wild side for a moment and into a world filled with cops and robber chases, beautifull women, intelligent hoodlums and crooked cops that murder just for the thrill of it! And once you've stepped into this world, you will meet Porgie and his notorious stick up kids, Flip, Renegade and Gangta Boy! These intelligent hoodlums has taken over the Raleigh, North Carolina's entire underworld! But that's just where the plot thickens. You see, the Raleigh's Police Department can't quite seem to catch these dangerous heist men. and so in the midst of their frustrations they have sunt two of the force's most deadliest detectives, Russ and Watkins to bring these men to justice by way of body bags! And to make matters more complicated, somebody has been watching and video tapping the gang's every heist, every move and every stick up! Who is it? And then when the two detectives get tired of the cat and mouse chase, they kidnap two of the gang's girlfriends! They have wicked plans to torchure, rape and punish these women until Georgie Porgie and his gang submit and turn themselves into them, where they have only one intention! But somebody is still watching. Read this sexy, suspensefull thriller and find out who. It will surprise you in the most vividest way, that only a Reginald Kornegay novel can! And with the second story, "The Island" Sooky Jordan is just about to have a nervous breakdown. At 23 years old, she is a prison guard at one of the most notorious and dangerous prisons in North Carolina, where she meets the man of her dreams, Patrick Jones. But mysteriously, this is when things take a turn for the worse.

Richard Pryor

Richard Pryor PDF Author: Audrey Thomas McCluskey
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253220114
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 610

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"This anthology captures the spirit, zest, and cultural impact of Pryor's complex artistry."--Back cover.

The 50 Funniest American Writers

The 50 Funniest American Writers PDF Author: Andy Borowitz
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1598531735
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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New York Times Bestseller The creator of The New Yorker’s long running satirical column, and “one of the funniest people in America,” pays tribute to comedic geniuses both past and present, including Mark Twain, George Saunders, Nora Ephron, and more (CBS Sunday Morning). Library of America’s collection of hilarious stories, essays, and articles is an exclusive Who’s Who of the very best American comic writing. Classic pieces of American humor appear here, such as “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O. Henry and a selection from Anita Loos’ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Contemporary writing is well represented, with entries from comedic geniuses like David Sedaris, Larry Willmore, Roy Blount Jr., Sloane Crosby, Bernie Mac, Wanda Sykes, and George Saunders plus laugh-out-loud lesser-known pieces from The New Yorker, Esquire, The Atlantic, National Lampoon, and The Onion. Full List of Contributors Mark Twain George Ade O. Henry Sinclair Lewis Anita Loos Ring Lardner H. L. Mencken James Thurber Dorothy Parker S. J. Perelman Langston Hughes Frank Sullivan E. B. White Peter De Vries Terry Southern Lenny Bruce Tom Wolfe Jean Shepherd Hunter S. Thompson Douglas Kenney Henry Beard Bruce Jay Friedman Philip Roth Nora Ephron Michael O’Donoghue George W. S. Trow Fran Lebowitz Charles Portis Donald Barthelme Veronica Geng John Hughes Mark O’Donnell Garrison Keillor Bruce McCall Molly Ivins Calvin Trillin Dave Barry The Onion writers Susan Orlean Roy Blount Jr George Carlin Ian Frazier David Rakoff Bernie Mac David Sedaris Wanda Sykes Jack Handey David Owen George Saunders Jenny Allen Sloane Crosley Larry Wilmore

Da Joka

Da Joka PDF Author: T. Fulton
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456875922
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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"As we continue to peek into Nick’s b.k.a. “Da Joka’s” life and what a life it is. We see how much she’s grown and what she’s grown into. Or really what she’s into now. She thought she was grown in the last one. So, you know in this one you can’t tell her nothin. But you’ll see or should I say read, and then you’ll really understand why there’s no one like, “Da Joka”"

Queer Intentions

Queer Intentions PDF Author: Amelia Abraham
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1509866159
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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This immersive, accessible and thought-provoking book takes the reader on a journey to explore the pros and cons, the myths and realities of life for LGBTQ+ people today. Shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2020 ‘Eloquent, empathetic and passionate, this book will not just resonate with a new generation of queer people, but with all those who seek to be their allies. A brilliant book.’ - Owen Jones, author of The Establishment Today, the options and freedoms on offer to LGBTQ+ people living in the West are greater than ever before. But is same-sex marriage, improved media visibility and corporate endorsement all it’s cracked up to be? At what cost does this acceptance come? And who is getting left behind, particularly in parts of the world where LGBTQ+ rights aren’t so advanced? Combining intrepid journalism with her own personal experience, in Queer Intentions, Amelia Abraham searches for the answers to these urgent challenges, as well as the broader question of what it means to be queer right now. With curiosity, good humour and disarming openness, Amelia takes the reader on a thought-provoking and entertaining journey. Join her as she cries at the first same-sex marriage in Britain, loses herself in the world’s biggest drag convention in L.A., marches at Pride parades across Europe, visits both a transgender model agency and the Anti-Violence Project in New York to understand the extremes of trans life today, parties in the clubs of Turkey’s underground LGBTQ+ scene, and meets a genderless family in progressive Stockholm. 'A landmark exploration into what it means to be queer today' – DAZED

A Naked Singularity

A Naked Singularity PDF Author: Sergio De La Pava
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226141799
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 690

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The critically acclaimed novel that is now a major motion picture starring John Boyega and Olivia Cooke, coming to theaters August 6, streaming August 13! A Naked Singularity tells the story of Casi, a child of Colombian immigrants who lives in Brooklyn and works in Manhattan as a public defender--one who, tellingly has never lost a trial. Never. In the book, we watch what happens when his sense of justice and even his sense of self begin to crack--and how his world then slowly devolves. It’s a huge, ambitious novel clearly in the vein of DeLillo, Foster Wallace, Pynchon, and even Melville, and it's told in a distinct, frequently hilarious voice, with a striking human empathy at its center. Its panoramic reach takes readers through crime and courts, immigrant families and urban blight, media savagery and media satire, scatology and boxing, and even a breathless heist worthy of any crime novel. If InfiniteJest stuck a pin in the map of mid-90s culture and drew our trajectory from there, A Naked Singularity does the same for the feeling of surfeit, brokenness, and exhaustion that permeates our civic and cultural life today. In the opening sentence of William Gaddis’s A Frolic of His Own, a character sneers, "Justice? You get justice in the next world. In this world, you get the law." A Naked Singularity reveals the extent of that gap, and lands firmly on the side of those who are forever getting the law.

I Use to Fall Down: 50 + 25 + 25 Selected Poems

I Use to Fall Down: 50 + 25 + 25 Selected Poems PDF Author: D. Alexander Holiday
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462801900
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Book Description
This edition of I Use to Fall Down: 50 + 25 + 25 Selected Poems contains all of the fifty (50) original poems that first appeared in the original chap book of the same name plus twenty-five (25) pieces that first appeared in Letters to Osama: Old and New Musings on Foreign and Domestic TerrorismAnd Other Matters with an additional twenty-five new poems. The original chap book was a labor of love, having comprised many of the pieces which appeared in the book during the Amadou Diallo trial of four New York City police officers charged with this young unarmed African males murder. The murder was senseless, but the trial was a travesty of justice, a mockery of both the justice system in America (and specifically how it relates to people of color) and Black people in general (and very specifically to black men in particular). The trial was to put Amadou (ergo black people/black men) on trial and to make whites see that black people are just guilty, guilty of being the wrong color. So, I had written one, and sometimes more than one, poem per day during the duration of the trial, which began at the end of January and primarily took place during February. What is sort of ironic, and lends credence to my position about racism in this country, is that Amadou was shot and killed in the month of February, which is Black History Month, and his trial was conducted and ended in the month of February, again, Black History Month. Amadou was found guilty and his murderers went free, innocent of all charges. Tragic, but this oftentimes is justice for blacks in America. In addition to writing all those poems during Black History Month, about the trial (and I had been working nearly two doors down from the very courthouse at the time), I hit on the idea of putting a few of the trial poems and others that I had written into a chap book that I would sell locally, but the chap book would primarily be for me, something to have in my personal library, a monument to Amadou (and others), a testament for Black America. I worked on a computer at the local public library, drafting each page and getting my printouts from the reference desk librarians. After doing all that work, the manuscript was ready to be printed into book format by a local Kinkos. Amazingly, once I actually had a few books in my hand, one of the very librarians who had been working at the times I was in and had helped with getting my printed pages for me, offered to buy a few copies of this very chapbook, putting one in the local archives and about three in general circulation. The library even hosted a reading for me. I am very proud of the chap book (and I had done about three others prior to this one), which has gone through several versions of both the cover and the very style of the book, and this is why Im making it available again for readers. A few of the poems would later in appear in Letters to Osama, my first major publication of my work, which I am also very proud of. This new version of I Use to Fall Down now has a new and exciting cover design, twenty-five poems from Letters to Osama, and some new poems about everything from deaths of celebrities to politics and wars. There is humor, sadness, revenge-writing, and plain anger at people, places, and things. Being misanthropic is just not easy. I hope that readers will both come away from my work having learned something and enjoyed the way I attempted to present the message.