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Stand by Your Man

Author : Gil McNeil

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 354 pages

File Size : 18,23 MB

Release : 2011-07-04

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1408825910

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Is it better to forgive and forget, or should you just get even? Is it possible to live in the country and not lose your mind completely? Do chickens really make good pets? And what exactly is a hardy perennial? Alice Mayhew, part-time architect and full-time mother to Alfie, is to gardening what Alan Titchmarsh is to deep-sea fishing. So finding she's been volunteered to design a new garden for the village comes as a bit of a shock, because apart from anything else she's far too busy trying to convince Alfie that wearing green trousers doesn't make you Peter Pan, and that flying is best left to the experts. Molly O'Brien is finding it hard enough coping with Lily (aged four and likes washing up) and Matt (aged thirty two and doesn't) before she discovers she's pregnant. And then there's Lola Barker, who causes havoc wherever she goes, and brings a whole new meaning to the word high-maintenance. Toddlers, jelly, bad behaviour, romance and gardening tips all loom large in Gil McNeil's hilarious and heartbreaking new novel. Stand By Your Man turns prejudices and assumptions upside down with humour and passion, telling it like it really is. Sometimes it's hard to be a woman...



Stand By Your Man

Author : Kathy Clark

Publisher : Harlequin

Page : 297 pages

File Size : 23,23 MB

Release : 2009-03-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1426830289

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Crystal Creek…where power and influence live in the land, and in the hands of one family determined to nourish old Texas fortunes and to forge new Texas futures. Something sinister is going on at Gibson's Flying Horse Ranch, and veterinarian Manny Hernandez is determined to get to the bottom of it. But his single-mindedness might cost him the love of Tracey Cotter, the numbers whiz behind the success of the new Cal McKinney boots. The stakes are unbearably high: his career, his reputation—and Tracey! CRYSTAL CREEK reverberates with the exciting rhythm of Texas. Each story features the rugged individuals who live and love in the Lone Star state. And each one ends with the same invitation… Y'all come back…real soon!



Voices from the Wasteland and Other Stories

Author : Brian Crane

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation

Page : 237 pages

File Size : 19,18 MB

Release : 2022-05-23

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1664117768

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VOICES FROM THE WASTELAND and other stories. Showcase.....................................a weekend for entertainment agent trouble-shooter Ronnie Littlewood, that does not go according to his well thought through planning, in this third story about the ex-comedian. The Box.........................................is a Kodak box Brownie Camera that holds a dark, sinister secret for its owner. But it is his loyal friend who takes on the task to unravel what it all means. The Park Bench............................is a refuge, a place of solace and tranquillity for one woman to contemplate where her life has led her. It is also a place where she finally come to terms with her situation. Voices From The Wasteland......began as a Theatre In Education Project inspired by a cutting in a Manchester newspaper under the heading ‘body of an unidentified man found in alley’. From there it became a musical and then a fourteen track album. However, it has always been the wish of the author to write it as a story and now with many of the lyrics from the original musical interspersing with the narrative, his wish has come true. Cover illustration. ‘Winter Moon On Canal’ By R S Gardner. Courtesy of Clark Art Ltd



Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-Novel of San Francisco 1970-1982

Author : Jack Fritscher

Publisher : Palm Drive Publishing

Page : 673 pages

File Size : 18,10 MB

Release : 2010-09

Category :

ISBN : 189083405X

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Some Dance to Remember has been reviewed as ¿the gay Gone with the Wind.¿ But such popular praise does not do literary justice to this eyewitness classic of that ¿first golden decade after Stonewall.¿ This best-selling epic of San Francisco¿s Castro seethes with sex, drugs, panic, and passionate characters: a gay writer, a drop-dead gorgeous bodybuilder, a cabaret singer, a Vietnam vet, a Hollywood bitch, and a rough-trade porn mogul. Narrator Magnus Bishop channels Ryan O¿Hara, a writer pioneering a tell-all voice in the emerging subculture of gay magazines. When Ryan meets Quentin Crisp¿s ¿perfect man¿ in Kick Sorenson, lust and politics collide. Steroids rule Castro Street. Gender fascism divides queens versus clones into gay civil war over correct queer identity. White assassinates Milk. Gay rioters burn City Hall. Ryan, romancing the morphing trickster Kick, cruises through nightclubs, ecstatic sex, and leather rituals in legendary bathhouses. Sprung from Isherwood¿s Cabaret, 1970s San Francisco mirrored 1930s Berlin: decadent, dazzling, diverse, doomed. It¿s all here. A city. A murder. A plague. A lost civilization. A love story. Some Dance to Remember is dedicated to Jack Fritscher¿s 1970s bicoastal lover, Robert Mapplethorpe.¿My God, what a book! It¿s all there, done with Fritscher¿s usual élan and verve. I wouldn¿t be surprised if he has written what will be looked on as that period¿s Great American Gay Novel. What lovely stuff! ¿Sam Steward (Phil Andros)¿Jack Fritscher didn¿t invent the Castro. He just made it mythical. HEADY, EROTIC, COMIC....A comprehensive fictional chronicle of the best of times....If one can learn American history via the novels of Gore Vidal, one can learn gay American history through Some Dance.¿ ¿ The Advocate, David Perry¿Cinematic intensity....A brilliant record of gay life before AIDS....An astonishing spectrum of queer lives....This sprawling saga...has not lost a whit of its muscular passion, punchy immediacy, or transformative literary impact.¿ ¿ Books to Watch Out For, Richard Labonté¿STAGGERINGLY ORIGINAL and completely absorbing....Here is San Francisco¿s gay male scene in the 1970s and ¿80s as never told, or documented, before.¿ ¿ Michael Bronski, Author of Culture Clash: The Making of Gay Sensibility



Gay San Francisco

Author : Jack Fritscher

Publisher : Palm Drive Publishing

Page : 734 pages

File Size : 26,37 MB

Release : 2006-11

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1890834394

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Built on all new information recently unearthed, this stylishly written and illustrated "timeline archive" of art, sex, obscenity, gender, culture wars, homophobia, pop culture, and the gay mafia, will get 21st-century readers and researchers up to speed fast on the serious fun of who did what to whom when and why.



Beowulf and Other Stories

Author : Joe Allard

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 577 pages

File Size : 20,57 MB

Release : 2014-04-23

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1317860411

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Beowulf & Other Stories was first conceived in the belief that the study of Old English – and its close cousins, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman – can be a genuine delight, covering a period as replete with wonder, creativity and magic as any other in literature. Now in a fully revised second edition, the collection of essays written by leading academics in the field is set to build upon its established reputation as the standard introduction to the literatures of the time. Beowulf & Other Stories captures the fire and bloodlust of the great epic, Beowulf, and the sophistication and eroticism of the Exeter Riddles. Fresh interpretations give new life to the spiritual ecstasy of The Seafarer and to the imaginative dexterity of The Dream of the Rood, andprovide the student and general reader with all they might need to explore and enjoy this complex but rewarding field. The book sheds light, too, on the shadowy contexts of the period, with suggestive and highly readable essays on matters ranging from the dynamism of the Viking Age to Anglo-Saxon input into The Lord of the Rings, from the great religious prose works to the transition from Old to Middle English. It also branches out into related traditions, with expert introductions to the Icelandic Sagas, Viking Religion and Norse Mythology. Peter S. Baker provides an outstanding guide to taking your first steps in the Old English language, while David Crystal provides a crisp linguistic overview of the entire period. With a new chapter by Mike Bintley on Anglo-Saxon archaeology and a revised chapter by Stewart Brookes on the prose writers of the English Benedictine Reform, this updated second edition will be essential reading for students of the period.



Cover Girl & Other Stories of Fly-Fishermen in Maine

Author : J. H. Hall

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 168 pages

File Size : 42,73 MB

Release : 2005-12

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0595372880

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With humor and compassion, author J. H. Hall chronicles the joys and tribulations of Maine fly fishermen, their loved ones, and their adversaries. Hall's characters share a passion for fly-fishing-their lifeline-and an indifference to most of society's other conventions. Whether building an indoor trout stream, robbing a bank, or waging mischief against a market-savvy, modernist guide, these characters gallantly struggle to preserve a way of life and a part of Maine that is rapidly disappearing. Praise for previously published works by J. H. Hall: Paradise: Stories of a Changing Chesapeake: 'Hall's portrayal glows like a watercolor. He mobilizes his language in quick, sure strokes: subdued, taut, winsome by turns." -Ramon de Rosas, Maine In Print 'Michael Crichton is not the only doctor-turned-writer to come down the pike in the past few years.In fact, I would.say he's not even the best. The author I've just discovered [J. H. Hall] is considerably better." -Cheryl Nowak, Eastern Shore News Selling Fish: Stories from a Fishing Life: '.Jim Hall has always been dead serious about fishing. Those of you who feel the same way will love and understand this book" -John Cole, author of Striper and In Maine



The Black Creek Stopping-House, and Other Stories

Author : Nellie L. McClung

Publisher : DigiCat

Page : 122 pages

File Size : 20,18 MB

Release : 2022-11-22

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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"The Black Creek Stopping-House, and Other Stories" is a volume of short stories by Nellie McClung about pioneer life on the Canadian prairies. The stories contain well-developed characters, fascinating situations, and easily visualized settings. The author provides a glimpse into a world that has, in some aspects, disappeared but is still much with us in others. The book's primary focus is the pioneering women of the west and their joys, pains, and talent to make a new land home to new generations.





How to Survive Your Husband's Midlife Crisis

Author : Gay Courter

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 292 pages

File Size : 36,87 MB

Release : 2003

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 9780399528828

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Explains how to deal with a husband's mid-life crisis, covering topics including infidelity, thrill-seeking behavior, and financial irresponsibility, and deciding whether or not to continue with the relationship.