I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well
Title | I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well PDF eBook |
Author | James Allen Hall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Gay men |
ISBN | 9780996316774 |
Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Winner of the 2016 Essay Collection Competition. "Growing up queer in Florida in the 1980s, James Allen Hall's life has taken him to places that high culture rarely treads. Losing their once-thriving family business in the pre-crash 2000s, his broke and unstable parents move into a two-bedroom student apartment shared previously with just his brother. His mother routinely attempts or threatens suicide, his father is depressed. In these essays, Hall lives alongside, and empathically lives through, his family's meth addiction, mental illnesses, and incarcerations, and considers his own penchants for less than happy, equal sex with an agility, depth, and lightness that is blissfully inconclusive. I LIKED YOU BETTER BEFORE I KNEW YOU SO WELL is a tragic, funny, graceful book." --Chris Kraus "The essays collected in I LIKED YOU BETTER BEFORE I KNEW YOU SO WELL are indeed harrowing--but more powerfully, they reveal a sensibility driven to make something beautiful and worthy of the raw and the rough. Hall's work lays bare all manner of vulnerability, not to confess or shock, but to reckon into language the nearly unsayable. And who exactly is at the center of this drive toward the light? A witness, an unrelenting seeker, a survivor, someone who's earned the right to judge but who withholds that too-easy gesture in favor of a clearer sight and the hard won belief that while we are bound together by so many complex tethers, including cruelty, we are especially linked by compassion, a force abundantly evident in this moving collection." --Lia Purpura "'What I am should be extinguished, ' writes James Allen Hall about his queerness, which despite a journey through youth troubled with violence and homophobia, manages to exist and persist. Yet the personal essays in I LIKED YOU BETTER BEFORE I KNEW YOU SO WELL are more than expressions of pain, they are testaments to perseverance shaped by the acceptance of a flawed self, love for a complicated family and an unflappable wit. Thank you, James, for this extraordinary book so full of honest and compelling moments that will resonate with the aching heart inside each of us."--Rigoberto Gonzalez
Stories to Touch the Heart
Title | Stories to Touch the Heart PDF eBook |
Author | Russ Lawson |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2008-02-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1435709845 |
This book is full of stories, some true happenings, some just good stories. Each of these short devotional lessons are a sermon unto themselves. I have had preachers write and tell me that they use them as sermon starters or for devotional lessons. Mostly they are written with the hopes that they will touch something in your heart and help you in your daily walk with Christ.
Blow Your Blues Away
Title | Blow Your Blues Away PDF eBook |
Author | Lulu De Zulu |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Pages | 539 |
Release | 2009-11-23 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 146532190X |
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Love, Lies and Fireflies
Title | Love, Lies and Fireflies PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Elder |
Publisher | Pelican Ventures Book Group |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2016-09-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1943104611 |
Didi O'Brien is engaged—at least she was an hour ago. Now she's not so sure. Her fiancé, the suave Kevin Cabot, has just revealed that he's been unfaithful, and he's not the least bit sorry. Reeling from the betrayal, with her plans for a happily-ever-after life in doubt, she prays for direction. The answer comes as a complete surprise. God has someone better in mind. Middle school teacher, Jake Montgomery, is struggling with some issues of his own. Sadly, a year previously his fiancée had been killed in a car crash. Battling anger and despair, in a mountain-top experience, Jake wrestles with the Almighty, and is ready to live again. In his youth, he'd felt an unmistakable call to the ministry but, like the prophet Jonah, since then, he's been running hard in the wrong direction. Through a crisis of faith, and glimpses of mercy, Didi and Jake find each other. But can they find the strength to resolve the many obstacles that conspire to keep them apart?
The Last Lecture
Title | The Last Lecture PDF eBook |
Author | Randy Pausch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Cancer |
ISBN | 9780340978504 |
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
It's Not About Me
Title | It's Not About Me PDF eBook |
Author | Max Lucado |
Publisher | Thomas Nelson Inc |
Pages | 160 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1418560898 |
'Net Wit
Title | 'Net Wit PDF eBook |
Author | Brandy House |
Publisher | Brandy House |
Pages | 606 |
Release | 2008-03-23 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 1434847438 |
'Net Wit is my compilation of jokes and short stories I have received in e-mail. There are some that I have given the writer their dues, most no one 'claimed' but have been around awhile. I thought people would like to have them in print, especially those without e-mail.