Author: Pennsylvania State PolicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Police
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The Communicator
Author: Pennsylvania State PolicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Police
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
'On and off duty', a monthly journal for policemen
Author: International Christian police associationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Lucky Star
Author: William T. VollmannPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399563520
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
The National Book Award winning author returns to his original fictional territory--the lives of the dispossessed in San Francisco--with a parable about the limitations of desire and life at the margins of society In such earlier works of fiction as The Rainbow Stories and The Royal Family, William T. Vollmann wrote of pimps, prostitutes, addicts and homeless dreamers in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. In this new novel, Vollmann returns there with a story that centers around a woman with magical powers whom everyone loves, and who has to love them all back. After being initiated into a coven of island witches, Neva begins to fulfill her fate in a Tenderloin dive bar. Her worshippers include Richard, the introverted, alcoholic, occasionally omniscient narrator; a profane, aggressive transgender sex worker named Shantelle; the brisk but motherly barmaid Francine; and the former Frank, who has renamed herself after her idol Judy Garland. When Judy starts to love Neva too much, Judy's retired policeman boyfriend embarks on a mission of exposure and destruction. Crafted out of language by turns spiritual and sexually graphic, The Lucky Star aches with compassion as it explores celebrity culture, gender identity, incest, Christian sacrifice and, most of all, the quotidian and sometimes faltering heroism of marginalized people who in the face of humiliation and outright violence seek to love in their own way, and stand up for who they are.
American Illustrated Magazine
Author: American Magazine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
Book Description
D&B Reference Book of Corporate Managements
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Directors of corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 2440
Book Description
The Welcome Guest
Author: Alarms and Diversions
Author: James ThurberPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Alarms and Diversions" by James Thurber. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Friendly Visitor
Author: William Carus WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The Polka Dot Century
Author: Margaret B. de WetterPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514425440
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
From earliest childhood, the author has lived in a rainbow world, surrounded by the astonishment of remarkable and loving adults. She rarely contemplated the realities presented by a polka dot world in which the grey and tan dominated the red and gold. Growing up in the American West where the freedom to achieve appeared unlimited, she reached for it all and embraced both the people and adventures she found at her fingertips. This is the story of her life as it reflects the unfathomable beauty of her childhood blessed by American freedom.