Author: Sophie Campbell
Publisher: IDW Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Michelangelo takes to the airwaves as tensions in Mutant Town grow! New mutants have grievances with both the Turtles and the Mutanimals as both groups plan for the future. Plus Casey Jones returns!
Author: Howard Kaylan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1480342947
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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(Book). If Howard Kaylan had sung only one song, the Turtles' 1967 No. 1 smash hit "Happy Together," his place in rock-and-roll history would still be secure. But that recording, named in 1999 by BMI as one of the top 50 songs of the 20th century, with over five million radio plays, is only the tip of a rather eye-opening iceberg. For nearly five decades, Howard Kaylan has been a player in the rock-and-roll revolution. In addition to his years with the Turtles, Kaylan was a core member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention and the dynamic duo Flo and Eddie, and part of glam rock history with Marc Bolan and T. Rex. He's also given street cred and harmonies to everyone from John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen and Alice Cooper to the Ramones and Duran Duran, to name just a few. Howard Kaylan's life has been a dangerous ride that he is only too happy to report on, naming names and shedding shocking tales of sex, drugs, and creative excess. Shell Shocked will stand alone as not only one of the best-told music-biz memoirs, but one with a truly candid and unmatchable story of rock-and-roll insanity and success from a man who glories in it all.
Author: Gabriel Tallent
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735211191
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FINALIST ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017 ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST’S MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017 ONE OF NPR’S ‘GREAT READS’ OF 2017 A USA TODAY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AN AMAZON.COM BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A BUSINESS INSIDER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Impossible to put down." —NPR "A novel that readers will gulp down, gasping.” —The Washington Post "The word 'masterpiece' has been cheapened by too many blurbs, but My Absolute Darling absolutely is one." —Stephen King A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul. Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone, student or teacher, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father. Then Turtle meets Jacob, a high-school boy who tells jokes, lives in a big clean house, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush, Turtle starts to imagine escape, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. What follows is a harrowing story of bravery and redemption. With Turtle's escalating acts of physical and emotional courage, the reader watches, heart in throat, as this teenage girl struggles to become her own hero—and in the process, becomes ours as well. Shot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting, My Absolute Darling is an urgently told, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer.
Author: B R Yeager
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733569453
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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"Like smoke off a collision between Dennis Cooper's George Miles Cycle and Beyond The Black Rainbow, absorbing the energy of mind control, reincarnation, parallel universes, altered states, school shootings, obsession, suicidal ideation, and so much else, B.R. Yeager's multi-valent voicing of drugged up, occult youth reveals fresh tunnels into the gray space between the body and the spirit, the living and the dead, providing a well-aimed shot in the arm for the world of conceptual contemporary horror." -Blake Butler, author of Three Hundred Million "Ever wonder where teenage children go at night? Perhaps it's best not knowing the answer. There's something amiss in Kinsfield, a drab, boring city much like your own, except for the teenage suicide epidemic, stagnant, ineffectual parents, cultish behavior that borders on psychosis, and strings, strings everywhere. B.R. Yeager's Negative Space is a hypnotic collage of message boards, memes, and ruined bodies twisting at the end of a rope. Most modern novels have lost all concept of magic. B.R. Yeager's Negative Space is a stunning refutation of the quotidian." -James Nulick, author of Haunted Girlfriend & Valencia
Author: Brandy Devoid
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557029635
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345
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This is everything strange and wonderful that you are not supposed to write about in a first novel. Metaphysical weirdness.
Author: Deborah Burford
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 142693985X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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In 1998, Deborah Burford and her husband, David, loaded their cars and trailer with their belongings-along with four cats, two dogs, and one ferret-and departed New Jersey for a new home in the North Georgia mountains. In Love from the Mountains, Deborah shares a compilation of her weekly columns, originally published in The North Georgia News and The Towns County Herald, bringing to life the humorous voices of the animals-both wild and domestic-who share the woods with her. There's a squirrel named Howard, who taunts Miss Adventure the cat with unsavory language; there's Mangefur, the opossum who develops a taste for high-priced birdseed, and Bosley and Cosette, the miniature poodles who possess an insatiable appetite for puddle-surfing. Exploring the entertaining world of nature, Deborah includes amusing anecdotes about a hungry bear with an eclectic appetite, a ferret who likes women's toes, and four mutt cats who rely on their patience to torment other animals crazy enough to traipse into their environment. The true animal stories in Love from the Mountains prove that the furry creatures who share our world with us really do have opinions on just about everything we humans do.
Author: Ian Douglas Robertson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456731963
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Pericles (Peri) Pontakis, investigative journalist and host of the controversial TV show Under World, is fighting a losing battle against corruption in the upper echelons of Greek society. He has little to show for a life's committment to social justice, except a ruined marriage, two alienated children, a mountain of debt, and a multitude of powerful and dangerous enemies. Among his many admirers and acquaintances, his only true friends are Jack, his feisty cat, and the down-and-out journalist, Christos, to whom he lets the apartment below. When his life starts collapsing around him, he decides to change tack and make a documentary about the threatened Loggerhead turtle, in the hope that this 'undemanding' project will enable him to save not only the turtle but his own soul. However, the path to salvation is strewn with unforeseen obstacles, some of which prove not altogether unpleasant."
Author: Arthur Andrew Longley
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1796037559
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 165
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This book is exciting, and it shows the New Age generation exactly what is going on in our realm today. It shows us how to combat the things that are just tearing us down in our daily lives without us even really noticing it. This book will show you how to persevere—not with miraculous signs and wonders, but with down-to-earth methods that are backed by age-old concepts, like the Constitution and the reason our preachers only preach the gospel. It reveals newly discovered secrets, well-defined and plainly written. To the end that it allows God and his Christ to be with us more than ever before. We’ve all got a little weak spot in us that we’ve got to work on within ourselves, because it’s written. Our role wouldn’t be as the rulers of this world. When people say they’re not going to heaven. Try this: “I’m not ready to go to heaven yet.” We have a lot that we may lose, but one thing we won’t lose is our hope. I’m not trying to block anything that’s in existence. I’m trying to provide a means to a better end result so that people can find their way into a more productive faith. By showing forth things right, like these, you could wind up being a real angel. This one girl told me that I don’t really believe in anything. When I was young, I went to church because my parents made me. I couldn’t understand the preacher because he spoke Polish, and I could never understand the Bible. I told her I couldn’t understand my preacher either. But I read the story in the Bible about the man who died on the cross, and it made me want to help him. People who don’t do the gospel, they’re saying “I don’t have to” or “I don’t want to.” What they’re falling into is spiritual death. That’s a faith that’s not living or growing. When talking to them sometimes, you see they’re on cloud nine, not in reality, doing everything and nothing. What this reminds me of is the prodigal son spending all his money on whores. He wasn’t doing the gospel and saving his treasure up in heaven where his heart ought to be. I don’t see what all the contention is about? If they’re saved into life eternal, it’s going to be by those who do the gospel of our Lord, Jesus Christ, slain from the foundation of the world. You know there is only one right way to do it. So get yourself a bag that grows not old and let’s see how you do out there. Have mercy on the poor. Temper your faith. Carry on. Doing the gospel shows the Bible is to be mainly used for defense of the children of the cross. People are thinking that the poor or homeless people aren’t Christ-like. But because that sort of suffering is a cross, it makes them Christ-like. That’s also what the church shows. How the preachers don’t accuse any but defend by saying you are forgiven by the Godhead. It says in the Bible God adds glory to the parts that have none. That’s what he’s doing by defending the poor—basically saying they’re loved. When anybody says anything, and I have to reply, I give respect to him who has the right: Jesus. Know that being human is the first quality of being Christ-like. But also, for the animals, they are living breathing beings. If that’s not Christ-like, I don’t know what is. Following these guides, you will be tempering yourself into right actions. What does being self-righteous have to do with love? Guiding people to what’s right in a loving way gives you soul. It builds your soul to be of love. That’s not self-righteous; it’s not parental. It’s loving. Those demons and devils have been practicing their evil for like 150 million years. If you don’t think you’re going to have to study and do works accordingly to beat them, you’re wrong. The thing that makes mass assembly generate low prices and large volume is simplicity. When I see everybody just sitting around and complicating everything, I know exactly what’s going on.
Author: Joshua Safran
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 1401304958
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 251
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An Unforgettable Journey Through an Unconventional Childhood When Joshua Safran was four years old, his mother--determined to protect him from the threats of nuclear war and Ronald Reagan -- took to the open road with her young son, leaving the San Francisco countercultural scene behind. Together they embarked on a journey to find a utopia they could call home. InFree Spirit, Safran tells the harrowing, yet wryly funny story of his childhood chasing this perfect life off the grid--and how they survived the imperfect one they found instead. Encountering a cast of strange and humorous characters along the way, Joshua spends his early years living in a series of makeshift homes, including shacks, teepees, buses, and a lean-to on a stump. His colorful youth darkens, however, when his mother marries an alcoholic and abusive guerrilla/poet. Throughout it all, Joshua yearns for a "normal" life, but when he finally reenters society through school, he finds "America" a difficult and confusing place. Years spent living in the wilderness and discussing Marxism have not prepared him for the Darwinian world of teenagers, and he finds himself bullied and beaten by classmates who don't share his mother's belief about reveling in one's differences. Eventually, Joshua finds the strength to fight back against his tormentors, both in school and at home, and helps his mother find peace. But Free Spirit is more than just a coming-of-age story. It is also a journey of the spirit, as he reconnects with his Jewish roots; a tale of overcoming adversity; and a captivating read about a childhood unlike any other.
Author: Eddie Huang
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
ISBN: 0679644881
Category : Downloadable audio books
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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A Taiwanese American rebel restaurateur chronicles his rise to success from his difficult childhood in the American South to his decision to embrace all he had learned about food in his father's restaurants and his mother's kitchen to create his own culinary identity.
