Frazier Folks and Related Families
Title | Frazier Folks and Related Families PDF eBook |
Author | Hilda Aldridge Barnette |
Publisher | |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
A genealogy of the descendants of Daniel Frazier of Bertie County, North Carolina. He applied for land grants there in 1728, 1734, and 1756.
The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days
Title | The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Frazier |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2012-10-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0374709491 |
Based on his widely read columns for The New Yorker, Ian Frazier's uproarious first novel, The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days, centers on a profoundly memorable character, sprung from an impressively fertile imagination. Structured as a daybook of sorts, the book follows the Cursing Mommy—beleaguered wife of Larry and mother of two boys, twelve and eight—as she tries (more or less) valiantly to offer tips on how to do various tasks around the home, only to end up on the ground, cursing, surrounded by broken glass. Her voice is somewhere between Phyllis Diller's and Sylvia Plath's: a hilariously desperate housewife with a taste for swearing and large glasses of red wine, who speaks to the frustrations of everyday life. Frazier has demonstrated an astonishing ability to operate with ease in a variety of registers: from On the Rez, an investigation into the lives of modern day Oglala Sioux written with a mix of humor, compassion, and imagination, to Dating Your Mom, a sidesplitting collection of humorous essays that imagines, among other things, how and why you might begin a romance with your mother. Here, Frazier tackles another genre with his usual grace and aplomb, as well as an extra helping of his trademark wicked wit. The Cursing Mommy's failures and weaknesses are our own—and Frazier gives them a loving, satirical spin that is uniquely his own.
On the Rez
Title | On the Rez PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Frazier |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2001-05-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780312278595 |
Raw account of modern day Oglala Sioux who now live on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.
Gay, Catholic, and American
Title | Gay, Catholic, and American PDF eBook |
Author | Greg Bourke |
Publisher | University of Notre Dame Pess |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2021-09-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0268201250 |
Catholic Greg Bourke's profoundly moving memoir about growing up gay and overcoming discrimination in the battle for same-sex marriage in the US. In this compelling and deeply affecting memoir, Greg Bourke recounts growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, and living as a gay Catholic. The book describes Bourke’s early struggles for acceptance as an out gay man living in the South during the 1980s and ’90s, his unplanned transformation into an outspoken gay rights activist after being dismissed as a troop leader from the Boy Scouts of America in 2012, and his historic role as one of the named plaintiffs in the landmark United States Supreme Court decision Obergefell vs. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015. After being ousted by the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), former Scoutmaster Bourke became a leader in the movement to amend antigay BSA membership policies. The Archdiocese of Louisville, because of its vigorous opposition to marriage equality, blocked Bourke’s return to leadership despite his impeccable long-term record as a distinguished boy scout leader. But while making their home in Louisville, Bourke and his husband, Michael De Leon, have been active members at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church for more than three decades, and their family includes two adopted children who attended Lourdes school and were brought up in the faith. Over many years and challenges, this couple has managed to navigate the choppy waters of being openly gay while integrating into the fabric of their parish life community. Bourke is unapologetically Catholic, and his faith provides the framework for this inspiring story of how the Bourke De Leon family struggled to overcome antigay discrimination by both the BSA and the Catholic Church and fought to legalize same-sex marriage across the country. Gay, Catholic, and American is an illuminating account that anyone, no matter their ideological orientation, can read for insight. It will appeal to those interested in civil rights, Catholic social justice, and LGBTQ inclusion.
Pizza Girl
Title | Pizza Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Kyoung Frazier |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2020-06-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0385545738 |
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST • An audacious and wryly funny coming-of-age story about a pregnant pizza delivery girl who becomes obsessed with one of her customers. Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles, our charmingly dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial. She's grieving the death of her father, avoiding her supportive mom and loving boyfriend, and flagrantly ignoring her future. Her world is further upended when she becomes obsessed with Jenny, a stay-at-home mother new to the neighborhood, who comes to depend on weekly deliveries of pickled-covered pizzas for her son's happiness. As one woman looks toward motherhood and the other toward middle age, the relationship between the two begins to blur in strange, complicated, and ultimately heartbreaking ways.
All the White Folks
Title | All the White Folks PDF eBook |
Author | Rena E. Lacey Parks Ph.D |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Pages | 115 |
Release | 2010-10-26 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1465328092 |
All The White Folks is a historical- biography of a family of African/ European descent who through hard work, education and diligence rose above the stereotypical depictions of people of color by the media- past and present.
Check All That Apply
Title | Check All That Apply PDF eBook |
Author | Sundee Tucker Frazier |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2001-12-28 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780830822478 |
Sundee Frazier draws from her own experience to help people from multiracial backgrounds understand their identity and get a sense of God's purpose for their lives.