Take This Man
Title | Take This Man PDF eBook |
Author | Brando Skyhorse |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2014-06-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1439170908 |
Named one of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2014 One of NBC News’s 10 Best Latino Books of 2014 “A West Coast version of Augusten Burroughs’s Running With Scissors...A funny, shocking, generous-hearted book” (Entertainment Weekly) about a boy, his five stepfathers, and the mother who was determined to give her son everything but the truth. When he was three years old, Brando Kelly Ulloa was abandoned by his immigrant father. His mother, Maria, dreaming of a more exciting life, saw no reason for her son to live as a Mexican American just because he was born one. With the help of Maria’s ruthless imagination and a hastily penned jailhouse correspondence, the life of “Brando Skyhorse,” the Native American son of an incarcerated political activist, was about to begin. Through a series of letters to Paul Skyhorse Johnson, a stranger in prison for armed robbery, Maria reinvents herself and her young son as American Indians in the colorful Mexican-American neighborhood of Echo Park, California, where Brando and his mother live with his acerbic grandmother and a rotating cast of surrogate fathers. It will be thirty years before Brando begins to untangle the truth, when a surprise discovery leads him to his biological father at last. From this PEN/Hemingway Award–winning novelist comes an extraordinary literary memoir capturing a mother-son story unlike any other and a boy’s single-minded search for a father, wherever he can find one.
I Take this Man
Title | I Take this Man PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Sharkey |
Publisher | Samuel French, Inc. |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780573692468 |
An outrageous concoction of wild, warm, and lightning-paced hilarity that is perfect for the entire family.
Take this Man
Title | Take this Man PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Zeniter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781609450533 |
"Alice is about to marry Mad. Alice is white. Mad is black. Alice is French; Mad, though he has studied and lived in France for years, is not. They have been friends since childhood and never been romantically involved. But now Mad is being threatened with deportation and marrying Alice strikes both friends as the best solution to their problems. On the eve of her wedding, Alice reflects on their years of friendship--from their childhood together to the first time she ever heard racial slurs being directed at her friend to the victory of Jean-Marie Le Pen in the presidential primaries in 2002"--Publishers website, viewed September 30, 2011.
I Take This Man
Title | I Take This Man PDF eBook |
Author | Emilie Baker Loring |
Publisher | |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1986-03-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780884113706 |
In order to pay for her sick mother's operation, Penelope Sherrold marries Donald Garth while thinking she's in love with Dick Wentworth. Don, head of the Garth Airplane works (fabulously wealthy and important to the nation's defense), discovers her feelings and vows to keep away from Penny until he can win her love. Though Penny realizes quite quickly that Dick is a cad and that she is madly in love with Don, it takes many misunderstandings, jealousies, and international intrigue before the two can declare their love for each other and get their marriage underway.
Take This Man
Title | Take This Man PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Cochran |
Publisher | AuthorHouse |
Pages | 94 |
Release | 2010-12-19 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1452081387 |
Take the Measure of the Man
Title | Take the Measure of the Man PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Aaron |
Publisher | Veritas Press (PA) |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780970968807 |
Take Off Your Shoes
Title | Take Off Your Shoes PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Feder |
Publisher | Radius Book Group+ORM |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2018-05-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1635763681 |
A success-driven CEO goes on a year-long journey of self-discovery in Bali in this memoir about rediscovering what’s truly important. A hard-charging CEO of a large enterprise, Ben Feder discovers that he is losing the very things that sustained him over his years of business success. Unsettled by his insight, he becomes determined to rebuild family relationships and rejuvenate his sense of purpose. Risking his career, Feder left New York with his wife and children and set off on a self-prescribed sabbatical year. That experience transforms them all. As Feder navigates the thrills and pitfalls of his time away, he draws readers into remarkable examinations of modern values and modern life. Take Off Your Shoes is Feder’s candid and personable account of a journey across the world, and within himself.