Author: Madhusree Mukerjee
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618197361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Author: Lillian Faderman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1448217547
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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This modern classic of LGBT writing includes an introduction from Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties, and a new afterword from Lillian Faderman. Born in 1940, Lillian Faderman is the only child of an uneducated and unmarried Jewish woman who left Latvia to seek a better life in America. Lillian grew up in poverty, but fantasised about becoming an actress. When her dreams led to the dangerous, seductive world of the sex trade and sham-marriages in Hollywood of the fifties, she realised she was attracted to women, and that show-biz is as cruel as they say. Desperately seeking to make her life meaningful, she studied at Berkeley; paying her way by working as a pin-up model and burlesque dancer, hiding her lesbian affairs from the outside world. At last she became a brilliant student and the woman who becomes a loving partner, a devoted mother, an acclaimed writer and ground-breaking pioneer of gay and lesbian scholarship. Told with wrenching immediacy and great power, Naked in the Promised Land is the story of an exceptional woman and her remarkable, unorthodox life.

Author: T. N. Pandit
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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Author: Charles Chaillé-Long
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Author: Eliza Redgold
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250066158
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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We know her name. We know of her naked ride. We don't know her true story. We all know the legend of Lady Godiva, who famously rode naked through the streets of Coventry, covered only by her long, flowing hair. So the story goes, she begged her husband Lord Leofric of Mercia to lift a high tax on her people, who would starve if forced to pay. Lord Leofric demanded a forfeit: that Godiva ride naked on horseback through the town. There are various endings to Godiva's ride, that all the people of Coventry closed their doors and refused to look upon their liege lady (except for ‘peeping Tom') and that her husband, in remorse, lifted the tax. Naked is an original version of Godiva's tale with a twist that may be closer to the truth: by the end of his life Leofric had fallen deeply in love with Lady Godiva. A tale of legendary courage and extraordinary passion, Naked brings an epic story new voice.

Author: Charles Wheelan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393337642
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Seeks to provide an engaging and comprehensive primer to economics that explains key concepts without technical jargon and using common-sense examples.

Author: Sheung-King
Publisher: Book*hug Press
ISBN: 9781771666411
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Short Stories. A young translator living in Toronto frequently travels abroad-to Hong Kong, Macau, Prague, Tokyo-often with his unnamed lover. In restaurants and hotel rooms, the couple begin telling folk tales to each other, perhaps as a way to fill the undefined space between them. Theirs is a comic and enigmatic relationship in which emotions are often muted and sometimes masked by verbal play and philosophical questions, and further complicated by the woman's frequent unexplained disappearances. YOU ARE EATING AN ORANGE. YOU ARE NAKED. is an intimate novel of memory and longing that challenges Western tropes and Orientalism. Embracing the playful surrealism of Haruki Murakami and the atmospheric narratives of filmmaker Wong Kar-wai, Sheung-King's debut is at once lyrical and punctuated, and wholly unique, and marks the arrival of a bold new voice in Asian-Canadian literature. Sheung-King has written a wonderfully unexpected and maverick love story but also a novel of ideas that hopscotches between Toronto, Macau, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Prague. It is enchanting, funny, and a joy to read.-Kyo Maclear

Author: Kevin Hazzard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501110837
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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A former paramedic’s visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta’s mean streets saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe. In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard felt that something was missing from his life—his days were too safe, too routine. A failed salesman turned local reporter, he wanted to test himself, see how he might respond to pressure and danger. He signed up for emergency medical training and became, at age twenty-six, a newly minted EMT running calls in the worst sections of Atlanta. His life entered a different realm—one of blood, violence, and amazing grace. Thoroughly intimidated at first and frequently terrified, he experienced on a nightly basis the adrenaline rush of walking into chaos. But in his downtime, Kevin reflected on how people’s facades drop away when catastrophe strikes. As his hours on the job piled up, he realized he was beginning to see into the truth of things. There is no pretense five beats into a chest compression, or in an alley next to a crack den, or on a dimly lit highway where cars have collided. Eventually, what had at first seemed impossible happened: Kevin acquired mastery. And in the process he was able to discern the professional differences between his freewheeling peers, what marked each—as he termed them—as “a tourist,” “true believer,” or “killer.” Combining indelible scenes that remind us of life’s fragile beauty with laugh-out-loud moments that keep us smiling through the worst, A Thousand Naked Strangers is an absorbing read about one man’s journey of self-discovery—a trip that also teaches us about ourselves.

Author: Jason Mintel
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781469732640
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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FREE ME! What pleasure seekers thrill to no end but the end of a smoking gun in your hand or what worse, the curse, life's egg either omelet or birth to a new undertow to shake the hand of your killer is to invite a cow to dinner. When Satirn, a young naive girl, stumbles on a ring of QueenBurger joints that hold very morale and very GRAVE consequences on her soul, all HELL breaks loose. If you imagine, is it real? Can you imagine the pain of finding no reality, only lost dreams and lost slippers which the dog does not fetch? Find your SELF inside! your SELF is growing; don’t deny your love; don’t hide your knowledge seeking explorations; we are meant for so much; we can do anything; say I will and I can, for in your most hour of need in your most agonized moment when you think nothing can get worse you may just be able to read the next line and there, my friend, my fiend, that is how you will finish this great challenge to YOU to your SELF; say I can I will finish this BOOK! NOW ARE YOU PUMPED?!!! GET PUMPED!! go read go read go read go read go read go read go read go read go read go read, stop reading this and get to your reading!

Author: Pamela Clare
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101185775
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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What do you do when desire drives you to the very brink? Someone wants the Native Americans off their sacred land. And when Navajo journalist Katherine James and park ranger Gabriel Rossiter team up to investigate why, their passion for the truth-and each other-makes them targets for those desperate enough to kill.