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Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Tales Of The City
Author: Armistead MaupinPublisher: Ablaze Publishing
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Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A CLASSIC OF LGBTQ LITERATURE THAT HAS BECOME A CULT SEN-SATION! THE HEROES OF THIS ENCHANTING GROUP HAVE BEEN ENJOYED BY MILLIONS OF READERS WORLDWIDE! Adapted on TV (BBC), Limited Se-ries (Netflix), Theater...and now in graphic novel form for the first time! San Francisco, 28 Barbary Lane, Anna Madrigal runs a boarding house. She wel-comes people who have nowhere else to go: the misfits. This matriarch is known for her unending kindness and her superb marijuana crop. The novel starts with the arrival of Mary Ann Singleton, a prudish, naïve, young woman who escaped her dull Ohio hometown for San Francisco. She settles in with her other fellow tenants: Michael “Mouse,” a personable young gay man, Brian Hawkins, an incor-rigible Don Juan, and Mona Ramsey, a young hippyish bisexual.
Tales of an All-night Town
Author: Elin SchoenPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Tales from the Town of Widows
Author: James CañónPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007241097
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
From a new literary star comes a beautifully crafted story about a group of women in a Colombian village who find their lives changed while their husbands and sons are away fighting a deadly civil war. The women of Mariquita - made widows when their men are swept away by the army or rebel forces - learn hard lessons about love and survival. Forced to grow in extraordinary ways, they challenge the tenets of male-dominated society, discover power with all its pitfalls and strive to create an entirely new social order, an all-female utopia. Their narrative is punctuated by short vignettes of the individual travails of the men and boys - left-wing guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries, national army officers and civilians - caught amidst these hellish forces. For the first 18 years of his life, the author, James Can, lived in his native Colombia and this pitch-perfect book - darkly comedic, its characters brilliantly etched - is a mighty achievement, an entirely fresh, startling perspective to Colombia's catastrophe where the longest and bloodiest civil war in this hemisphere has raged for 40 years.
Oakland Tales
Author: Summer BrennerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780977974160
Category : Time travel
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Ernesto from East Oakland and Jada from West Oakland have problems--big problems. Ernesto's parents have been deported, and Jada's dad is in prison. Now they are heading on a journey through time: back into Oakland's past and forward into Oakland's future. As they try to return to the present, their time, the things they see will change their lives forever. Packed with local sights and sounds and told in the language of the Town they call home, Oakland Tales is the unforgettable coming of age story of two young people who come to understand that they are part of history and can shape the future.
Index to Short Stories
Author: Tales for an Unknown City
Author: Dan YashinskyPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773509535
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Tales for an Unknown City is a vibrant selection of almost fifty stories from among the many told at One Thousand and One Friday Nights of Storytelling, a weekly open gathering in Toronto begun by Dan Yashinsky in 1978 and still going strong. There are tales from Canada and many other parts of the world; each followed by a brief word from the teller, giving us the flavour of the "Friday Nights."
Finding List
Author: Tales of the Five Towns
Author: Arnold BennettPublisher: IndyPublish.com
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
It was an amiable but deceitful afternoon in the third week of December. Snow fell heavily in the windows of confectioners' shops, and Father Christmas smiled in Keats's Bazaar the fawning smile of a myth who knows himself to be exploded; but beyond these and similar efforts to remedy the forgetfulness of a careless climate, there was no sign anywhere in the Five Towns, and especially in Bursley, of the immediate approach of the season of peace, goodwill, and gluttony on earth.
Mapping Tourism
Author: Stephen P. HannaPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816639557
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
At first glance, the relationships among tourists, tourism maps, and the spaces of tourism seem straightforward enough: tourists use maps to find their way to and through the sites of history, culture, nature, or recreation represented there. Less apparent is how tourism maps and those using them construct such spaces and identities. As the essays in Mapping Tourism clearly demonstrate, the extraordinary interaction of work with leisure and the everyday with the exotic makes tourism maps ideal sites for exploring the contested construction of place and identity. Construction sites in the "New Berlin, " Alabama's civil rights trail, Quebec City, a California ghost town, and Bangkok's sex trade are among the spaces the essays examined. Taken together, these essays allow us to see tourist space as it truly is: contested, ever changing, and replete with issues of power.
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