Spitting on Diamonds

Spitting on Diamonds
Author: Clyde H. Hogg
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0826264824

"Biography of early twentieth-century baseball pitcher, Bradley Hogg"--Provided by publisher.

The Work of the Sun

The Work of the Sun
Author: Charles Edward Eaton
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2004
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780845348871

'The Work of the Sun', Charles Edward Eaton's 17th collection of poetry, includes selections from 'The Guest on Mild Evenings' (1992), 'The Country of the Blue' (1994), 'The Fox and I' (1996), 'The Scout in Summer' (1999), 'The Jogger by the Sea' (2000), and over 30 new poems, previously published in 'Salmagundi', 'The New Criterion', and others.

Saint Genet

Saint Genet
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 637
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0816677603

The remarkable and controversial study of the mind, life, and legend of Jean Genet

Coal to Diamonds: A Memoir

Coal to Diamonds: A Memoir
Author: Beth Ditto
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2012-10-09
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0385529740

A raw and surprisingly beautiful coming-of-age memoir, Coal to Diamonds tells the story of Mary Beth Ditto, a girl from rural Arkansas who found her voice. Born and raised in Judsonia, Arkansas—a place where indoor plumbing was a luxury, squirrel was a meal, and sex ed was taught during senior year in high school (long after many girls had gotten pregnant and dropped out) Beth Ditto stood out. Beth was a fat, pro-choice, sexually confused choir nerd with a great voice, an eighties perm, and a Kool Aid dye job. Her single mother worked overtime, which meant Beth and her five siblings were often left to fend for themselves. Beth spent much of her childhood as a transient, shuttling between relatives, caring for a sickly, volatile aunt she nonetheless loved, looking after sisters, brothers, and cousins, and trying to steer clear of her mother’s bad boyfriends. Her punk education began in high school under the tutelage of a group of teens—her second family—who embraced their outsider status and introduced her to safety-pinned clothing, mail-order tapes, queer and fat-positive zines, and any shred of counterculture they could smuggle into Arkansas. With their help, Beth survived high school, a tragic family scandal, and a mental breakdown, and then she got the hell out of Judsonia. She decamped to Olympia, Washington, a late-1990s paradise for Riot Grrrls and punks, and began to cultivate her glamorous, queer, fat, femme image. On a whim—with longtime friends Nathan, a guitarist and musical savant in a polyester suit, and Kathy, a quiet intellectual turned drummer—she formed the band Gossip. She gave up trying to remake her singing voice into the ethereal wisp she thought it should be and instead embraced its full, soulful potential. Gossip gave her that chance, and the raw power of her voice won her and Gossip the attention they deserved. Marked with the frankness, humor, and defiance that have made her an international icon, Beth Ditto’s unapologetic, startlingly direct, and poetic memoir is a hypnotic and inspiring account of a woman coming into her own.

Deadly Diamond

Deadly Diamond
Author: D. J. Martin
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2014-07-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1499046324

The Diamond

The Diamond
Author: Berthold Laufer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release: 1915
Genre: Diamonds
ISBN:

Black Diamond

Black Diamond
Author: Brittani Williams
Publisher: Kensington Books
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2008-11-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781933967677

When Diamond and Mica rekindle their friendship by plotting to get rid of one of North Philly's most notorious drug dealers and steal his fortune, betrayal once again rips them apart, leaving them with nothing except the will to survive. Original.

Dirty Diamond

Dirty Diamond
Author: J. P. Cardenas
Publisher: Booktango
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1468934996

When a little African boy finds a raw diamond, it sets a series of events showing the human spirit in each individual person it touches. The surprise here is not the diamond, which is a phenomenon in itself, but the dramatic reaction of each, bringing some to the end of their destruction and others to pick themselves up from the dark abyss that life can become.