Confessions of 'A Gay Globetrotter'

Confessions of 'A Gay Globetrotter'
Author: Johnson O'Toole
Publisher: Authors On Line Ltd
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2003-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780755200795

A candid, humerous and often moving account of one man's secret life of homosexuality in a era when to be 'gay' risked not only being a social outcast but imprisonment if caught. The author's exploits and search for sexual happiness and expression start as a child on the Indian sub-continent, move on to his family's return to an austere post-war Britain, an unhappy and perhaps unjust dismissal from a promising army career in the Far East, through to the realisation that normal family life was never going to be an attainable goal in his global search for romantic bliss. From the shores of West Africa, where he finds true love, to Australia and the flesh pots of the Middle East, this a true human interest story of our time told with passion, humour and pathos. A real insight into a way of life that had to be secreted from the world for most of the author's life.

Tilly Maguire and the Royal Wedding Mess

Tilly Maguire and the Royal Wedding Mess
Author: Emma Grey
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2019-01-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1460709411

ROYAL WEDDING; ROYAL MESS! WHAT HAS 18-YEAR-OLD PR INTERN TILLY MAGUIRE LANDED HERSELF IN? Aspiring writer, 18-year-old Tilly Maguire, is a totally reformed ex-superfan of British boyband singer, Reuben Vaughan. Yeah, she was going to marry him when she was thirteen, but that fangirl phase is way in her past now, along with an unfortunate side ponytail and a weird obsession with galaxy leggings - ugh. Cringe! When her writing wins Tilly a six-week internship at a top London PR firm, she doesn't expect to stumble from a long-haul flight straight into an A-list debacle of her own making, but these things happen. She proves to the entire world that jet lag and social media definitely don't mix. Obviously, Tilly didn't intend to get tangled in a ridiculous scandal involving the British royal family. She's not the attention-seeking type! She's just a socially awkward introvert, with a galloping case of anxiety made even worse after a high-profile run-in with the very last person she ever imagined she'd meet for real. Not on her gap year, anyway. And not like this! PRAISE 'A pleasurable escape for any teen looking for a can't-put-downable read'. -- Books+Publishing, four stars

The Confession of Dorothy Danner

The Confession of Dorothy Danner
Author: Richard Alan Pride
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780826512703

Struggling through adolescence, after her mother's early death, with what she perceived as emotional abandonment by a distant father, Danner acted out a social script involving servants and private schools in the South, an elite Northern college, and extensive travel abroad.

Confessions of a Single Mum

Confessions of a Single Mum
Author: Amy Nickell
Publisher: Headline
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2018-07-12
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 147225788X

Want to know what it's really like to be a single mum? Perfect for fans of Part-Time Working Mummy and Why Mummy Drinks, this will inspire you to own your single status and make you realise that you're not alone. 'A joyful and moving first person account of solo parenthood and confronting societal expectations of "family" after falling pregnant age 24. Bravo Amy!' Pandora Sykes 'This goes off like a rocket and never lets up . . . this is like going out with your best mate for a coffee and them telling you their whole experience' Penny Smith 'Amy's frank and down-to-earth story is inspiring and honest' The Sun When Amy Nickell left university, she managed to nab herself a real life paid job as a celebrity reporter in London town. She literally got paid to ask Robert Downey Junior out for Nando's, while living with her gay best friend, their Harry Styles cardboard cutout and their pet toad, Snoop Frog. Things were good, they were fun and they definitely weren't serious. That life took a very grown up, very serious detour when Amy found herself unexpectedly pregnant. Pregnant and without a boyfriend. And so her life went in an altogether new direction... From plus one dating to lactating way too near to Simon Cowell, this is Amy's wonderfully frank, honest and hilarious story of a family that is anything but nuclear. So whether you've just arrived, are on the way or have been here a while, this is for anyone who's found themselves scratching their head and wondering: 'How the hell did I end up here?' What readers are saying about Confessions of a Single Mum: 'You don't have to be a single mum or female to love this book! Amy is an absolute hero and role model to everyone. Unbelievably funny and inspirational' 'Hilarious and heartwarming'

MacArthur Park

MacArthur Park
Author: Andrew Durbin
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1937658708

After Hurricane Sandy, Nick Fowler, a writer, stranded alone in a Manhattan apartment without power, begins to contemplate disaster. Months later, at an artist residency in upstate New York, Nick finds his subject in disaster itself and the communities shaped by it, where crisis animates both hope and denial, unacknowledged pasts and potential futures. As he travels to Los Angeles and London on assignment, Nick discovers that outsiders - their lives and histories disturbed by sex, loss, and bad weather - are often better understood by what they have hidden from the world than what they have revealed.

Within Our Gates

Within Our Gates
Author: Alan Gevinson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 1588
Release: 1997
Genre: Minorities in motion pictures
ISBN: 9780520209640

"[These volumes] are endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Eighty Days

Eighty Days
Author: Matthew Goodman
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 0345527267

Documents the 1889 competition between feminist journalist Nellie Bly and Cosmopolitan reporter Elizabeth Bishop to beat Jules Verne's record and each other in a round-the-globe race, offering insight into their respective daunting challenges as recorded in their reports sent back home. 50,000 first printing.

The Advocate

The Advocate
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1994-02-22
Genre:
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The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.

Sinful Tunes and Spirituals

Sinful Tunes and Spirituals
Author: Dena J. Epstein
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2003
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780252071508

Awarded both the Chicago Folklore Prize and the Simkins Prize of the Southern Historical Association From the plaintive tunes of woe sung by exiled kings and queens of Africa to the spirited worksongs and "shouts" of freedmen, in Sinful Tunes and Spirituals Dena J. Epstein traces the course of early black folk music in all its guises. This classic work is being reissued with a new author's preface on the silver anniversary of its original publication.

The Rover

The Rover
Author: Aphra Behn
Publisher: Joe Books Ltd
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2015-06-02
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1987955684

The magic of Naples during Carnival inspires love between a disparate group of local citizens and visiting Englishmen.