My Life as a Gay Man in a Straight Woman's Body

My Life as a Gay Man in a Straight Woman's Body
Author: Carol Sherman-Jones
Publisher: Five Star Publishing (MI)
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

There is little about Carol Sherman-Jones' life that one could characterise as normal. How many other sixth graders do you know who would hire the playground bully to break her arm just so she could get some attention? How many people do you know who have wrestled a midget in lime Jell-O to earn some rent money? How many people do you know who have purchased a run-down bar for one dollar and then, with no business experience whatsoever, turned it into wildly successful gay bar? Carol Sherman-Jones has done all that and a lot more. With an irrepressibly irreverent wit, she shares all in her autobiography titled My Life as a Gay Man in a Straight Woman's Body. In what she describes as an extremely cathartic experience, Sherman-Jones bares her most painful secrets as well as her most incredible highs.

A Message from Teddy

A Message from Teddy
Author: Celeste M. Messer
Publisher: Hushion House Publishing
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780970217158

When one of their friends commits suicide and another becomes depressed, thirteen-year-old Andi and her twin sister decide that they must do something.

Forever and Always

Forever and Always
Author: Celeste M. Messer
Publisher: Hushion House Publishing
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780971014503

Eighth-grader Andi reluctantly faces the imminent death of her unusual friend Miss Bluebonnet, who shares her perspective on life and death while at the same time helping Andi to protect the town's park wildlife.

The Ghost of Piper's Landing

The Ghost of Piper's Landing
Author: Celeste M. Messer
Publisher: Hushion House Publishing
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780970217172

Andi and her twin sister Lyra visit their Great-Aunt Sophie at an old lighthouse, where a family ghost helps Andi try to save her great-aunt's property.

The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox

The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2011-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674061667

In his final book, Gould offers a surprising and nuanced study of the complex relationship between our two great ways of knowing: science and the humanities, twin realms of knowledge that have been divided against each other for far too long.

The Object of the Atlantic

The Object of the Atlantic
Author: Rachel Price
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2014-11-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0810130130

The Object of the Atlantic is a wide-ranging study of the transition from a concern with sovereignty to a concern with things in Iberian Atlantic literature and art produced between 1868 and 1968. Rachel Price uncovers the surprising ways that concrete aesthetics from Cuba, Brazil, and Spain drew not only on global forms of constructivism but also on a history of empire, slavery, and media technologies from the Atlantic world. Analyzing Jose Marti’s notebooks, Joaquim de Sousandrade’s poetry, Ramiro de Maeztu’s essays on things and on slavery, 1920s Cuban literature on economic restructuring, Ferreira Gullar’s theory of the “non-object,” and neoconcrete art, Price shows that the turn to objects—and from these to new media networks—was rooted in the very philosophies of history that helped form the Atlantic world itself.

Jacob's Room

Jacob's Room
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Modernista
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2024-05-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9180949517

In Jacob's Room, readers are drawn into the fragmented life of a young man named Jacob Flanders, whose existence unfolds through a series of vivid snapshots and fragmented memories. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century England, the novel explores Jacob's journey from boyhood to adulthood, capturing his experiences, relationships, and inner thoughts with a lyrical and impressionistic style. Published in 1922, Jacob's Room stands as a pioneering work of modernist literature, as the first of Virginia Woolf’s novels were she steps away from conventional form and narration. Through its experimental prose and fragmented structure, the novel challenges traditional notions of plot and character development, offering readers a unique insight into the complexities of human experience. VIRGINIA WOOLF [1882–1941] was an English author. With novels like Jacob’s Room [1922], Mrs Dalloway [1925], To the Lighthouse [1927], and Orlando [1928], she became a leading figure of modernism and is considered one of the most important English-language authors of the 20th century. As a thinker, with essays like A Room of One’s Own [1929], Woolf has influenced the women’s movement in many countries.