Punch Me Up to the Gods

Punch Me Up to the Gods
Author: Brian Broome
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2021
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0358439108

Playful, poignant and wholly original, this coming-of-age memoir about Blackness, masculinity and addiction follows the author, a poet and screenwriter, as he recounts his experiences, revealing a perpetual outsider awkwardly squirming to find his way in. --


Summary of Brian Broome's Punch Me Up To The Gods

Summary of Brian Broome's Punch Me Up To The Gods
Author: Everest Media,
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2022-05-26T22:59:00Z
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I remember when I was a boy, I would sit on the back steps of our house after an ass-whuppin’, and my father would wander out with his head down and his hands in his pockets. He would just sit down next to me and quietly look off into the distance. #2 I remember how my own tears were seen as an affront. I was constantly expected to be tough, but also to sacrifice my sensitivity, humanity, and emotional intelligence.


The Routledge Introduction to American Life Writing

The Routledge Introduction to American Life Writing
Author: Amy Monticello
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2023-07-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000898253

The stories of lived experience offer powerful representations of a nation’s complex and often fractured identity. Personal narratives have taken many forms in American literature. From the letters and journals of the famous and the lesser known to the memoirs of former slaves to hit true crime podcasts to lyric essays to the curated archives we keep on social media, life writing has been a tool of both the influential and the disenfranchised to spark cultural and political evolution, to help define the larger identity of the nation, and to claim a sense of belonging within it. Taken together, individual stories of real American lives weave a tapestry of history, humanity, and art while raising questions about the veracity of memory and the slippery nature of truth. This volume surveys the forms of life writing that have contributed to the richness of American literature and shaped American discourse. It examines life writing as a rhetorical tool for social change and explores how technological advancement has allowed ordinary Americans to chronicle and share their lives with others.


Chase's Calendar of Events 2023

Chase's Calendar of Events 2023
Author: Editors of Chase's
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 753
Release: 2022-11-21
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1636710697

Find out what's going on any day of the year, anywhere across the globe! The world’s date book since 1957, Chase's is the definitive, authoritative, day-by-day resource of what the world is celebrating. From national days to celebrity birthdays, from historical milestones to astronomical phenomena, from award ceremonies and sporting events to religious festivals and carnivals, Chase's is the must-have reference used by experts and professionals—a one-stop shop with 12,500 entries for everything that is happening now or is worth remembering from the past. Completely updated for 2023, Chase's also features extensive appendices as well as a companion website that puts the power of Chase's at the user's fingertips. 2023 is packed with special events and observances, including National days and public holidays of every nation on Earth Scores of new special days, weeks and months Famous birthdays of new world leaders, lauded authors and breakout celebrities Info on milestone anniversaries, such as the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio, the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, the 125th anniversary of the Curies' discovery of radium, the 100th birth anniversary of Hank Williams, the 75th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, the 50th anniversary of Skylab Information on such special sporting events as the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Berlin, Germany And much more! All from the reference book that Publishers Weekly calls "one of the most impressive reference volumes in the world."


A Light in the Flame: A Flesh and Fire Novel

A Light in the Flame: A Flesh and Fire Novel
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Publisher: Blue Box Press
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2022-11-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1957568151

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes book two in her Flesh and Fire series… The only one who can save Sera now is the one she spent her life planning to kill. The truth about Sera’s plan is out, shattering the fragile trust forged between her and Nyktos. Surrounded by those distrustful of her, all Sera has is her duty. She will do anything to end Kolis, the false King of Gods, and his tyrannical rule of Iliseeum, thus stopping the threat he poses to the mortal realm. Nyktos has a plan, though, and as they work together, the last thing they need is the undeniable, scorching passion that continues to ignite between them. Sera cannot afford to fall for the tortured Primal, not when a life no longer bound to a destiny she never wanted is more attainable than ever. But memories of their shared pleasure and unrivaled desire are a siren’s call impossible to resist. And as Sera begins to realize that she wants to be more than a Consort in name only, the danger surrounding them intensifies. The attacks on the Shadowlands are increasing, and when Kolis summons them to Court, a whole new risk becomes apparent. The Primal power of Life is growing inside her, pushing her closer to the end of her Culling. And without Nyktos’s love—an emotion he’s incapable of feeling—she won’t survive her Ascension. That is if she even makes it to her Ascension and Kolis doesn’t get to her first. Because time is running out. For both her and the realms.


The First Law of Motion

The First Law of Motion
Author: K.R. Moorhead
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2009-11-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429984848

Living in Philadelphia, a young woman tries to outrun her regrets and the reoccurring approach of dawn with nothing but controlled substances, unfulfilling sex and sarcasm to sustain her anti-quest. Unable to find solace in her best friend Jason, her partner in crime Kat or her pot smoking mother she embarks on a relentless pursuit of distraction which leads her to New York and back, through night clubs, dive bars and dingy apartments until she finds herself hurtling towards a point where there is no up, only down. Then she notices a man on a train reading a book she loves, and convinced he is her only chance at salvation, sets out on mission to find out who he is. Infatuation becomes obsession and as her grip on reality shakes loose, she sinks to previously unfathomable lows before learning that redemption is never so close as when you hit the bottom. With dark humor and a biting tone, this compelling story moves along like a train careening down the track, leaving the reader pulling for its perfectly flawed heroine to the very last page.


Punch

Punch
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 390
Release: 1928
Genre: English wit and humor
ISBN:


Pick-me-up

Pick-me-up
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 442
Release: 1893
Genre: English wit and humor
ISBN: