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This poet's formal experiments once again bring into relief the beauties and absurdities from the dead past as they live on in our present age.
“A Man Named Clarke 1831” is a fictional story based upon an actual event, that happened to a family living in Ithaca, NY in 1831. The story here touches on an event that occurred and caused shock to much of Central New York. The event had caused such a disturbance that about 20,000 people came to Ithaca, a town of only 3,000 to see the happenings. There is so much to this story it had to be split into two parts, Volume 1 and Volume 2. Grab a cup of coffee, sit back, relax, and get ready to jump back to 1831 and experience the adventure with John Taylor as he unravels the story of Clark, a veteran of the War of 1812, the one they called “The Monster of Ithaca”.
I assure each reader that this novel will keep you alert, interested and on the edge of your seat while you read the same. You will, by any means, try to read the whole novel in one sitting, but it is recommended to read it in about six to seven days or two chapters per day. This way you will be able to absorb its complete enjoyable reading. It is a thriller you will enjoy a lot. The Perfect Crime, is about a serial Killer that travels throughout many states within the United States of America, particularly in the western and southern part of the states. It is a very calculative killer that prepares all his moves in advance and maintains the authorities in check mate. Enjoy it!!!
Native Wisconsin Sheri Mallo is a librarian whose only adventures happen between the pages of the mystery section. When an old friend from college unexpectedly passes, Sheri’s world is shaken. She vows to make a few life changes. With a little encouragement from her best friend, Jenni, Sheri decides to move to Alaska just in time for Christmas, her favorite holiday! Randall Graham is a full-time Alaskan fireman who enjoys serving his community from a distance in his own way. Christmas is creeping up on him. As usual he’s all out of holiday cheer. Between the sentimental music and everyone’s Christmas merriment, all it does is remind Randall he’s all alone. When Randall discovers a sleeping Sheri tucked beneath the covers on the top floor of a falling-down firetrap excuse of a house, a little mistletoe magic threatens to take him out at the knees. Marriage is the last thing on Randall’s mind, but seasoned Sheri won’t settle for anything less than a ring. With such different ideas, will either of them find love this Christmas?
A “triumphant” (The New York Times) memoir from beloved comedian Todd Glass about his decision at age forty-eight to finally live openly as a gay man, and the support from his illustrious collection of comedy pals. As Todd Glass tells it, growing up in a Philadelphia suburb in the 1970s was an easy life. Well, easy as long as you didn’t have dyslexia or ADD, or were a Jew. And once you added gay into the mix, life became more difficult. So Todd decided to hide the gay part, no matter how comic, tragic, or comically tragic the results. It might have been a lot easier had he chosen a profession other than stand-up comedy. By age eighteen, Todd was opening for big musical acts like George...
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1954.
The eighties were my formative years, and while other teenagers were gyrating to rock 'n' roll, we were praying for revival. We were taking communion, not cocaine. We treated virginity like a wedding present, not a cold sore. And why wouldn't we? We were told we could be, we already were, anything we wanted to be... We were armed and dangerous. Armed with the power of God and dangerous in the eyes of Satan. Tanya Levin grew up in the church that became Hillsong—the country’s most ambitious, entrepreneurial and influential religious corporation. People in Glass Houses tells how a small Assemblies of God church in a suburban school hall became a multi-million dollar tax-free enterprise and a powerful force in Australia today. Opening up the world of Christian fundamentalism, this is a powerful, personal and at times very funny exploration of an all-singing, all-swaying mega church.