John Woman
Title | John Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Mosley |
Publisher | Atlantic Monthly Press |
Pages | 387 |
Release | 2018-09-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0802146414 |
The New York Times bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins novels delivers “a taut, riveting, and artfully edgy saga” of one man’s self-transformation (Kirkus). At twelve years old, Cornelius Jones, the son of an Italian-American woman and a black man from Mississippi, secretly takes over his father’s job at a silent film theater in New York’s East Village—until the innocent scheme goes tragically wrong. Years later, his dying father imparts this piece of wisdom to Cornelius: The person who controls the narrative of history controls their own fate. After his father dies and his mother disappears, Cornelius sets about reinventing himself—becoming Professor John Woman, a man who will spread his father’s teachings through the classrooms of an unorthodox southwestern university and beyond. But there are other individuals who are attempting to influence the narrative of John Woman, and who might know something about the facts of his hidden past. Engaging with some of the most provocative ideas of recent intellectual history, John Woman is a compulsively readable, deliciously unexpected novel about the way we tell stories, and whether the stories we tell have the power to change the world
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Title | The French Lieutenant's Woman PDF eBook |
Author | John Fowles |
Publisher | |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Captivating
Title | Captivating PDF eBook |
Author | John Eldredge |
Publisher | Thomas Nelson Inc |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2022-08-16 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1400200385 |
What Wild at Heart did for men, Captivating is doing for women. Setting their hearts free. This groundbreaking book shows readers the glorious design of women before the fall, describes how the feminine heart can be restored, and casts a vision for the power, freedom, and beauty of a woman released to be all she was meant to be.
Stoney Creek Woman
Title | Stoney Creek Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Bridget Moran |
Publisher | arsenal pulp press |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2002-07-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1551523361 |
The captivating story of Mary John (who passed away in 2004), a pioneering Carrier Native whose life on the Stoney Creek reserve in central BC is a capsule history of First Nations life from a unique woman's perspective. A mother of twelve, Mary endured much tragedy and heartbreak--the pangs of racism, poverty, and the deaths of six children--but lived her life with extraordinary grace and courage. Years after her death, she continues to be a positive role model for Aboriginals across Canada. In 1997 she received the Order of Canada. This edition of Stoney Creek Woman, one of Arsenal's all-time bestsellers, includes a new preface by author Bridget Moran, and new photographs. Shortlisted for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize Now in its 14th printing.
About My Life and the Kept Woman
Title | About My Life and the Kept Woman PDF eBook |
Author | John Rechy |
Publisher | Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2009-03-17 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1555848117 |
The long-awaited memoir by “one of the few original American writers of the last century” is a testament to the power of self-acceptance (Gore Vidal). John Rechy, author of City of Night and The Sexual Outlaw, has always known discrimination. Raised Mexican-American in El Paso, Texas, at a time when Latino children were routinely segregated, Rechy was often assumed to be Anglo because of his light skin, and had his name “changed” for him by a teacher, from Juan to John. As he grew older—and as his fascination with the memory of a notorious kept woman in his childhood deepened—Rechy became aware that his differences lay not just in his heritage, but in his sexuality. While he performed the roles expected of him by others—the authoritarians in the US Army during the Korean War, the bigoted relatives of his Anglo college classmates, or the men and women who wanted him to be something he was not—he never allowed them to define him. The “riveting” story of a life that bears witness to some of the most riotous changes of the past century, About My Life and the Kept Woman is as much a portrait of intolerance as of an individual who defied it to forge his own path (The Advocate). “Rechy might be called the first bard of West Hollywood.” —The New York Times “A skillfully paced story . . . As a memoirist, Rechy is both participant and observer, and he segues as easily between narrative and exegesis as his younger self did between the lure of the wild streets and the embrace of his traditional family.” —Los Angeles Magazine
Born of a Woman
Title | Born of a Woman PDF eBook |
Author | John Shelby Spong |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2009-03-17 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 006173960X |
John Shelby Spong, bestselling author and Episcopal bishop of Newark, NJ, challenges the doctrine of the virgin birth, tracing its development in the early Christian church and revealing its legacy in our contemporary attitudes toward women and female sexuality.
What Every Man Wants in a Woman
Title | What Every Man Wants in a Woman PDF eBook |
Author | John Hagee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9781591855576 |
In this unique two-in-one book, bestselling author and pastor Hagee and his wife offer points of view from both a man and woman on understanding one's spouse and creating a happy marriage.