Author: Ingrid Ricks
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698155122
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Discover the unforgettable New York Times bestselling memoir about growing up in a dysfunctional Mormon family--and finding escape, adventure, and hard-earned wisdom on the road... What would you do if your stepfather pinned you down and tried to cast Satan out of you? For thirteen-year-old Ingrid, the answer is simple: RUN. For years Ingrid Ricks yearned to escape the poverty and the suffocating brand of Mormon religion that oppressed her at home. Her chance came when she was thirteen and took a trip with her divorced dad, traveling throughout the Midwest, selling tools and hanging around with the men on his shady revolving sales crew. It felt like freedom from her controlling mother and cruel, authoritarian stepfather—but it came with its own disappointments and dysfunctions, and she would soon learn a lesson that would change her life: she can't look to others to save her; she has to save herself.
Hippie Boy
Author: Ingrid Ricks
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698155122
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Discover the unforgettable New York Times bestselling memoir about growing up in a dysfunctional Mormon family--and finding escape, adventure, and hard-earned wisdom on the road... What would you do if your stepfather pinned you down and tried to cast Satan out of you? For thirteen-year-old Ingrid, the answer is simple: RUN. For years Ingrid Ricks yearned to escape the poverty and the suffocating brand of Mormon religion that oppressed her at home. Her chance came when she was thirteen and took a trip with her divorced dad, traveling throughout the Midwest, selling tools and hanging around with the men on his shady revolving sales crew. It felt like freedom from her controlling mother and cruel, authoritarian stepfather—but it came with its own disappointments and dysfunctions, and she would soon learn a lesson that would change her life: she can't look to others to save her; she has to save herself.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698155122
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Discover the unforgettable New York Times bestselling memoir about growing up in a dysfunctional Mormon family--and finding escape, adventure, and hard-earned wisdom on the road... What would you do if your stepfather pinned you down and tried to cast Satan out of you? For thirteen-year-old Ingrid, the answer is simple: RUN. For years Ingrid Ricks yearned to escape the poverty and the suffocating brand of Mormon religion that oppressed her at home. Her chance came when she was thirteen and took a trip with her divorced dad, traveling throughout the Midwest, selling tools and hanging around with the men on his shady revolving sales crew. It felt like freedom from her controlling mother and cruel, authoritarian stepfather—but it came with its own disappointments and dysfunctions, and she would soon learn a lesson that would change her life: she can't look to others to save her; she has to save herself.
lost boy lost girl
Author: Peter Straub
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 1588363163
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son—beautiful, troubled fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill—vanishes from the face of the earth. To his uncle, horror novelist Timothy Underhill, Mark’s inexplicable absence feels like a second death. After his sister-in-law’s funeral, Tim searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help him unravel this mystery of death and disappearance. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before his mother’s suicide Mark had become obsessed with an abandoned house where he imagined the killer might have taken refuge. No mere empty building, the house on Michigan Street whispers from attic to basement with the echoes of a long-hidden true-life horror story, and Tim Underhill comes to fear that in investigating its unspeakable history, Mark stumbled across its last and greatest secret: a ghostly lost girl who may have coaxed the needy, suggestible boy into her mysterious domain. With lost boy lost girl, Peter Straub affirms once again that he is the master of literary horror.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 1588363163
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son—beautiful, troubled fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill—vanishes from the face of the earth. To his uncle, horror novelist Timothy Underhill, Mark’s inexplicable absence feels like a second death. After his sister-in-law’s funeral, Tim searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help him unravel this mystery of death and disappearance. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before his mother’s suicide Mark had become obsessed with an abandoned house where he imagined the killer might have taken refuge. No mere empty building, the house on Michigan Street whispers from attic to basement with the echoes of a long-hidden true-life horror story, and Tim Underhill comes to fear that in investigating its unspeakable history, Mark stumbled across its last and greatest secret: a ghostly lost girl who may have coaxed the needy, suggestible boy into her mysterious domain. With lost boy lost girl, Peter Straub affirms once again that he is the master of literary horror.
Handsome
Author: Holly Lorka
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1631527843
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
As a horny little kid, Holly Lorka had no idea why God had put her in the wrong body and made her want to kiss girls. She had questions: Was she a monster? Would she ever be able to grow sideburns? And most importantly, where was her penis? The problem was, it was the 1970s, so there were no answers yet. Here, Lorka tells the story—by turns hilarious and poignant—of her romp through the first fifty years of her life searching for sex, love, acceptance, and answers to her questions. With a sharp wit, endearing innocence, and indelible sense of optimism, she struggles through the awkward years (spoiler: that’s all of them) and discovers that what she thought were mistakes are actually powerful tools to launch her into a magical—and ridiculous—life. Oh, and she discovers that she can buy a penis at the store, too.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1631527843
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
As a horny little kid, Holly Lorka had no idea why God had put her in the wrong body and made her want to kiss girls. She had questions: Was she a monster? Would she ever be able to grow sideburns? And most importantly, where was her penis? The problem was, it was the 1970s, so there were no answers yet. Here, Lorka tells the story—by turns hilarious and poignant—of her romp through the first fifty years of her life searching for sex, love, acceptance, and answers to her questions. With a sharp wit, endearing innocence, and indelible sense of optimism, she struggles through the awkward years (spoiler: that’s all of them) and discovers that what she thought were mistakes are actually powerful tools to launch her into a magical—and ridiculous—life. Oh, and she discovers that she can buy a penis at the store, too.
Boy and Girl Tramps of America
Author: Thomas Minehan
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496843630
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
In 1933 and 1934, Thomas Minehan, a young sociologist at the University of Minnesota, joined the ranks of a roving army of 250,000 boys and girls torn from their homes during the Great Depression. Disguised in old clothes, he hopped freight trains crisscrossing six midwestern states. While undercover, Minehan associated on terms of social equality with several thousand transients, collecting five hundred life histories of the young migrants. The result was a vivid and intimate portrayal of a harrowing existence, one in which young people suffered some of the deadliest blows of the economic disaster. Boy and Girl Tramps of America reveals the poignant experiences of American youth who were sent out on the road by grinding poverty, shattered family relationships, and financially strapped schools that locked their doors. For these young people, danger was a constant companion that could turn deadly in an instant. The book documents the hunger and hardships these youth faced, capturing an appalling spectacle and social problem in America’s history before any effort was made to meet the problem on a nationwide basis by the federal government. Boy and Girl Tramps of America is a work unique in its ability to extend beyond statistical analyses to uncover the opinions, ideas, and attitudes of the boxcar boys and girls. Originally published in 1934, it remains highly relevant to the turbulent moments of the twenty-first century. This reprint features an introduction by scholar Susan Honeyman that puts the work into our current context.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496843630
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
In 1933 and 1934, Thomas Minehan, a young sociologist at the University of Minnesota, joined the ranks of a roving army of 250,000 boys and girls torn from their homes during the Great Depression. Disguised in old clothes, he hopped freight trains crisscrossing six midwestern states. While undercover, Minehan associated on terms of social equality with several thousand transients, collecting five hundred life histories of the young migrants. The result was a vivid and intimate portrayal of a harrowing existence, one in which young people suffered some of the deadliest blows of the economic disaster. Boy and Girl Tramps of America reveals the poignant experiences of American youth who were sent out on the road by grinding poverty, shattered family relationships, and financially strapped schools that locked their doors. For these young people, danger was a constant companion that could turn deadly in an instant. The book documents the hunger and hardships these youth faced, capturing an appalling spectacle and social problem in America’s history before any effort was made to meet the problem on a nationwide basis by the federal government. Boy and Girl Tramps of America is a work unique in its ability to extend beyond statistical analyses to uncover the opinions, ideas, and attitudes of the boxcar boys and girls. Originally published in 1934, it remains highly relevant to the turbulent moments of the twenty-first century. This reprint features an introduction by scholar Susan Honeyman that puts the work into our current context.
Cassell's primary series. The boy's and girl's third (fourth) reader
Author: Cassell, ltd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Bad Girls and Sick Boys
Author: Linda S. Kauffman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520919718
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Linda S. Kauffman turns the pornography debate on its head with this audacious analysis of recent taboo-shattering fiction, film, and performance art. Investigating the role of fantasy in art, politics, and popular culture, she shows how technological advances in medicine and science (magnetic resonance imaging, computers, and telecommunications) have profoundly altered our concepts of the human body. Cyberspace is producing new forms of identity and subjectivity. The novelists, filmmakers, and performers in Bad Girls and Sick Boys are the interpreters of these brave new worlds, cartographers who are busy mapping the fin-de-millennium environment that already envelops us. Bad Girls and Sick Boys offers a vital and entertaining tour of the current cultural landscape. Kauffman boldly connects the dots between the radical artists who shatter taboos and challenge legal and aesthetic conventions. She links writers like John Hawkes and Robert Coover to Kathy Acker and William Vollmann; filmmakers like Ngozi Onwurah and Isaac Julien to Brian De Palma and Gus Van Sant; and performers like Carolee Schneemann and Annie Sprinkle to the visual arts. Kauffman's lively interviews with J. G. Ballard, David Cronenberg, Bob Flanagan, and Orlan add an extraordinary dimension to her timely and convincing argument.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520919718
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Linda S. Kauffman turns the pornography debate on its head with this audacious analysis of recent taboo-shattering fiction, film, and performance art. Investigating the role of fantasy in art, politics, and popular culture, she shows how technological advances in medicine and science (magnetic resonance imaging, computers, and telecommunications) have profoundly altered our concepts of the human body. Cyberspace is producing new forms of identity and subjectivity. The novelists, filmmakers, and performers in Bad Girls and Sick Boys are the interpreters of these brave new worlds, cartographers who are busy mapping the fin-de-millennium environment that already envelops us. Bad Girls and Sick Boys offers a vital and entertaining tour of the current cultural landscape. Kauffman boldly connects the dots between the radical artists who shatter taboos and challenge legal and aesthetic conventions. She links writers like John Hawkes and Robert Coover to Kathy Acker and William Vollmann; filmmakers like Ngozi Onwurah and Isaac Julien to Brian De Palma and Gus Van Sant; and performers like Carolee Schneemann and Annie Sprinkle to the visual arts. Kauffman's lively interviews with J. G. Ballard, David Cronenberg, Bob Flanagan, and Orlan add an extraordinary dimension to her timely and convincing argument.
Happy Days for Boys and Girls
Author: Various
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In 'Happy Days for Boys and Girls' by Various, readers are transported to a collection of heartwarming stories that capture the innocence and joy of childhood. This anthology of tales is written in a simple and accessible style, reflecting the literary context of the late 19th century when it was first published. Each story is filled with vivid descriptions and relatable characters that will resonate with readers of all ages. The book offers a nostalgic glimpse into a bygone era, making it a delightful read for those looking to reminisce about simpler times. Various authors who contributed to 'Happy Days for Boys and Girls' were likely inspired by their own experiences growing up or by the desire to preserve the magic of childhood for future generations. Their diverse backgrounds and storytelling techniques add depth and variety to the collection, making it a well-rounded and enjoyable read for anyone interested in classic literature or children's literature. The book stands as a testament to the enduring power of storytelling and the universal themes of joy, friendship, and adventure. I highly recommend 'Happy Days for Boys and Girls' to any reader seeking a charming and uplifting escape into the world of childhood. From heartwarming tales of friendship to exciting adventures, this anthology offers something for everyone to enjoy and cherish for years to come.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In 'Happy Days for Boys and Girls' by Various, readers are transported to a collection of heartwarming stories that capture the innocence and joy of childhood. This anthology of tales is written in a simple and accessible style, reflecting the literary context of the late 19th century when it was first published. Each story is filled with vivid descriptions and relatable characters that will resonate with readers of all ages. The book offers a nostalgic glimpse into a bygone era, making it a delightful read for those looking to reminisce about simpler times. Various authors who contributed to 'Happy Days for Boys and Girls' were likely inspired by their own experiences growing up or by the desire to preserve the magic of childhood for future generations. Their diverse backgrounds and storytelling techniques add depth and variety to the collection, making it a well-rounded and enjoyable read for anyone interested in classic literature or children's literature. The book stands as a testament to the enduring power of storytelling and the universal themes of joy, friendship, and adventure. I highly recommend 'Happy Days for Boys and Girls' to any reader seeking a charming and uplifting escape into the world of childhood. From heartwarming tales of friendship to exciting adventures, this anthology offers something for everyone to enjoy and cherish for years to come.
Books for Boys and Girls
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Burke's Weekly for Boys and Girls
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Macon (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Macon (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Our Boys and Girls
Author: Oliver Optic
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description