Street Love
Title | Street Love PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Dean Myers |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2006-11 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0060280794 |
In this Harlem story told in free verse, seventeen-year-old Damien takes a bold step to ensure that he and his new love will not be separated.
Love Street
Title | Love Street PDF eBook |
Author | Leah Rachel |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2019-07-23 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 0062955926 |
Visually arresting, irresistibly sexy, and ferociously funny, this faux 1980s pulp love magazine is the perfect beach read, coffee table accessory, or gift from the brain that brought you @theyellowhairedgirl. Dedicated to broken-hearted girls who will always love again . . . Have you ever hooked up with a homeless hottie who stole your heart, but then also your potato chips? Flaked out on friends and changed the course of your entire life after meeting the “perfect” guy before discovering his multiple undiagnosed anti-social personality disorders? Planned a What-Would-Dolly-Parton-Do day but then realized you have no hair spray and just ate raw cookie dough by yourself instead? If it’s happened to Leah Rachel, it can happen to you. Instagram’s insanely popular Yellow Haired Girl, unloads in this brutally funny and vibrantly illustrated book about love, fluids, resilience, pain, and owning the whole marvelous mess we call womanhood. Filled with quizzes, recipes for the lost, mad libs, puzzles, horoscopes, and raw personal essays, Love Street is packed with screw-it-all advice on sex, drugs, diets, dating, self-esteem, body image, friends, romance, masturbation, fashion, and crashing into love so fast and hard you’re as sure as your lost dignity it’s the real thing. This unique, eye-popping work of pulp art is both aspirational and cringingly relatable. This is for any woman who isn’t afraid to wear her heart on her sleeve, no matter how many times it’s been through the washer. Paper dolls included.
Love, Castro Street
Title | Love, Castro Street PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine V. Forrest |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | American essays |
ISBN | 9781555839970 |
Recognized as perhaps the world’s most queer destination, San Francisco has a long, storied history of embracing—and influencing—gay and lesbian culture. Now, Michael Nava, Elana Dykewoman, Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Jim Tushinski, Michele Tea, K.M. Soehnlein, and many others offer up essays and stories about why they love Castro Street. Katherine V. Forrestis the Lambda Award-winning author ofCurious Wine, Daughters of the Emerald Dusk,and the Kate Delafield mystery series. Jim Van Buskirk, the director of the James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center at the San Francisco Library, co-authoredGay by the Bay.
Peace, Love & Barbecue
Title | Peace, Love & Barbecue PDF eBook |
Author | Mike Mills |
Publisher | Rodale Books |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2005-05-20 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN | 1605292540 |
This unique combination of cookbook, memoir, and travelogue features 100 recipes, photographs, and behind-the-scenes stories from legendary pitmaster Mike Mills. In Peace, Love, & Barbecue, Mike Mills, the unrivalled king of barbecue, shares his passion for America's favorite cuisine—its intense smoky flavors, its lore and traditions, and its wild cast of characters. Through conversational anecdotes and black-and-white photographs, readers meet a diverse circle of colleagues and friends and join Mills in a behind-the-scenes tour of the barbecue contest circuit, with stops at some of the best “shrines, shacks, joints, and right-respectable restaurants.” Also included are prizewinning recipes that have earned Mills his fame and fortune as a barbecue maestro. These 100 recipes will enable anyone with a grill to achieve champion barbecue flavor right in their own backyard. The selection features Mills own secret concoctions and treasured family recipes as well as choice contributions from his pitmaster friends, and it covers all manner of barbecued meat and fish, sauces and dry rubs, as well as the sides, soups, and down-home sweets that complete any great barbecue feast. With its folksy, fun tone and its unique insider’s take on a hugely popular—and deeply American—subject, Peace, Love, & BBQ is perfect for barbecue lovers, food mavens, and cooks of all stripes.
Love on a Two-Way Street
Title | Love on a Two-Way Street PDF eBook |
Author | J. L. King |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN | 141656313X |
A gripping novel about seven high-powered millionaires who each harbour a secret about their sexuality - they are all men that are part of an underground organisation on the down low: they sleep with men for pleasure. Just as King's bestselling book On the Down Low put the provocative topic of men who lie about their sexuality on the map, this new novel will have readers guessing about the real-life people behind these fictional characters - a music mogul, an NBA superstar, a pastor, a club owner, a businessman, a fashion designer and a senator.
Love, Christopher Street
Title | Love, Christopher Street PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Keith |
Publisher | Vantage Point |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | American essays |
ISBN | 9781936467341 |
The essays in this volume represent dozens of places in New York including the five boroughs and each speaks to the author's feelings about being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered in New York City.
What They Found
Title | What They Found PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Dean Myers |
Publisher | Wendy Lamb Books |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2009-02-10 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0375845453 |
By the groundbreaking author of the award-winning Monster–a visionary who influenced and inspired a generation–this story take us back to the world of 145th Street: Short Stories to show how love can be found, and thrive, in the most unlikely places. Curtis finds love in Iraq as he struggles to stay alive in a war he doesn't want to fight, and Letha discovers her own beauty in the love of her child. There is the "good daughter" who realizes that there's only one way to help her brother and her family. Other stories center on the daily drama of the Curl-E-Que beauty shop, or capture the slapstick side of passion. AWARDS FOR WALTER DEAN MYERS: New York Times Bestselling Author 3-Time National Book Award Finalist Michael L. Printz Award 5 Coretta Scott King Awards 2 Newbery Honors National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature (2012-2013) Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement Children’s Literature Legacy Award