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My Life in Porn: The Bobby Blake Story
By Bobby Blake. 2008
The most successful African American in gay adult film, Bobby Blake has appeared in over one hundred movies. In My…
Life in Porn, Blake for the first time goes behind the scenes of the sex industry to reveal intimate stories that are sexy, fascinating, and sometimes disturbing. Blake also shares his private spiritual struggle and the quest for love.And Then Like My Dreams: A Memoir
By Margaret Rose Stringer. 2013
A celebration of the career of one of the most respected still photographers in the film industry of the 1970s…
and 1980s, this is the story of Charles “Chic” Stringer, written by his widow Margaret Rose. Written with a blend of humor and acuity, this work shares the career of the acclaimed photographer who worked on such films as Mad Max and Gone to Ground. It is intended for not only film buffs, but for those who, like Margaret Rose, are bereaved and alone. This work is not only a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at the film and television industry, but it also provides insight into recovery after the loss of a life partner. An intimate and touching work about the power of the human spirit and our will to persevere, this work is, above all, the story of two people who were made for each other and of life after absolute loss.Remember Me
By Liz Byrski. 2000
Separated from her true love at the age of 18, Liz dreamt of the day he would return to marry…
her, but fate had other plans. Thirty-seven years later, Liz answers the telephone to hear a voice from the past that still has the power to stop her in her tracks. A true story of love lost and found, this personal memoir journeys across continents and decades to relate the details of the couple’s original love affair and their reunion years later. Poignant and romantic, this story is a testament to the extraordinary powers of the heart.The Wreck of the Archangel
By George Brown. 1989
This collection of the poetry of George Mackay Brown centres on the theme of journeys - including an ill-fated 19th…
century trip ending off the Orkney island of Westray, from which the book takes its title.Three Jumpers
By Michael Marr. 2008
RX
By Rachel Lindsay. 2018
A graphic memoir about the treatment of mental illness, treating mental illness as a commodity, and the often unavoidable choice…
between sanity and happiness.In her early twenties in New York City, diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Rachel Lindsay takes a job in advertising in order to secure healthcare coverage for her treatment. But work takes a strange turn when she is promoted onto the Pfizer account and suddenly finds herself on the other side of the curtain, developing ads for an antidepressant drug. She is the audience of the work she's been pouring over and it highlights just how unhappy and trapped she feels, stuck in an endless cycle of treatment, insurance and medication. Overwhelmed by the stress of her professional life and the self-scrutiny it inspires, she begins to destabilize and while in the midst of a crushing job search, her mania takes hold. Her altered mindset yields a simple solution: to quit her job and pursue life as an artist, an identity she had abandoned in exchange for medical treatment. When her parents intervene, she finds herself hospitalized against her will, and stripped of the control she felt she had finally reclaimed. Over the course of her two weeks in the ward, she struggles in the midst of doctors, nurses, patients and endless rules to find a path out of the hospital and this cycle of treatment. One where she can live the life she wants, finding freedom and autonomy, without sacrificing her dreams in order to stay well.Diaries, 1984-1997
By Michael Bloch, James Lees-Milne. 2009
This final compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers the last fourteen years of his life, when he was living…
on the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton estate. Old age and infirmity have not dimmed his sharpness, literary skill or interest in the world around him, and his reflection on people, places and experiences are as vivid as ever. A tour of the Cotsworlds makes him ruefully aware of the yuppy trends of the Thatcher era, while he predicts that the New Labour victory will bring 'a descent into American-style vulgarity and yob culture'. Witty, waspish, poignant and candid, James Lees-Milne's last diaries contain as much to delight as the first, and confirm his reputation as one of the great commentators of his times.Diaries, 1942-1954
By Michael Bloch, James Lees-Milne. 2007
The diaries of the National Trust's country house expert James Lees-Milne (1908-97) have been hailed as 'one of the treasures…
of contemporary English literature'. The first of three, this volume, which includes interesting material omitted when the diaries were originally published during the author's lifetime, covers the years 1942 to 1954, beginning with his wartime visits to hard-pressed country house owners, and ending with his marriage to the exotic Alvilde Chaplin.I Wrote This For You: 2007 - 2017
By Iain S Thomas. 2017
I need you to understand something. Ten years ago, I started writing this for you. I wrote it for you…
and only you. Since then, millions of other people have read it, but none have understood it the way you understand it. I set out to find you a long time ago and today, I'm so glad I finally have. Thank you for reading these words.I Wrote This For You: Just the Words
By Pleasefindthis, Jon Ellis, Iain Thomas. 2013
The follow-up to the #1 bestseller, I Wrote This For You: Just The Words presents twice the number of entries…
with over 400 works from the internationally acclaimed poetry and photography project; including several new and never before seen poems. While focussing on the words from the project, new photography launches each section which portray everyone's journey through the world: Love Found, Being In Love, Love Lost, Hope, Despair, Living and Dying.The Mad Poet's Tea Party
By Sandy Jeffs. 2015
but I am madnessand madness is meit holds you captivelike a hapless bunnycaught in the headlights.In this moving collection of…
poems, award-winning writer Sandy Jeffs shares her journey through madness over four decades, drawing inspiration from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and the motley gathering of characters at the Mad Hatter's tea party. Both delightful and insightful, playful and serious, witty and whimsical, The Mad Poet's Tea Party provides a devastating commentary on how our society treats those with mental illness from the perspective of someone who has experienced all its interventions. It captures in poetic form the enigmas and contradiction in madness.Lupa and Lamb
By Susan Hawthorne. 2014
This collection of imagist poems combines mythology, archaeology, and translation. Susan Hawthorne draws on the history and prehistory of Rome…
and its neighbors to explore how the past is remembered. Under the guidance of Curatrix, Director of the Musæum Matricum, and Latin poet, Sulpicia, travelers Diana and Agnese are led through the mythic archives about wolves and sheep before attending an epoch-breaking party to which they are invited by Empress Livia. An enticing tapestry of real and imaginary texts that gladden the readers' hearts, Lupa and Lamb is poet Susan Hawthorne at her best.Valence: Considering War through Poetry and Theory
By Susan Hawthorne. 2011
Valence in chemistry, the number of bonds in an element's atom in linguistics, the number of arguments controlled by a…
verbal predicate in psychology, the emotional charge something has In this remarkable annotated poem, Susan Hawthorne commits to words the horrors of war that have been left unspoken. She shatters the conspiracy of silence and dares to draw links between militarism, fundamentalism and the sex industry. She rails against the violence of war and contemplates the link between place and the history of war that is infused into the earth. With a fresh examination of her surroundings, she considers the endless cycle of war that survives on the persistence of hope--hope of an end to war, hope of an end to suffering. This is a hope that Susan Hawthorne does not ultimately share, but her courage in telling the truth about war through her poetry is a gift for readers.The Abbotsford Mysteries
By Patricia Sykes. 2011
The Abbotsford Convent becomes more than the setting of this poetry collection; it emerges as presence, intimate and familiar as…
well as constraining and forbidding. But, it is childhood itself that becomes the subterranean geography and pulse of this compilation as the poems explore what it means to grow up in an orphanage. Subject to the rules of lay and religious adults, the voices herein create multiple pathways through memory and time as they map and navigate the many-stranded mysteries of their institutionalized lives.Cow
By Susan Hawthorne. 2011
An intriguing approach to the rewriting of myth, this poetry collection journeys through the history of languages and symbolic traditions.…
Through main character Queenie, a cow of many abilities, these poems delve into the creation of the universe as Queenie fashions the galaxies and travels through the sky as a herd of stars. Delightful and surprising, this compilation draws on the Greek lyric tradition of Sappho as well as on South India's Sangam poetry tradition to provide a balanced work of both humor and melancholy.Unsettling the Land
By Susan Hawthorne, Suzanne Bellamy. 2008
Unsettling the Land is a relection on the plight of the land in drought-stricken times, conjuring through both text and…
illustration, the complex relationships that create and sustain our unique Australian landscape in all its majesty, tranquility, and its present suffering.Poems From the Madhouse
By Sandy Jeffs. 2000
Quilt: A Collection of Prose
By Finola Moorhead. 1985
The Best American Poetry 1996
By Adrienne Rich, David Lehman. 1996
The Best American Poetry 1996 contains a diverse abundance of poems published in 1995. More African-American, Native American, Latin, gay,…
and women poets are represented here than in any previous volume.Diaries, 1971-1983
By Michael Bloch, James Lees-Milne. 2008
Funny, indiscreet, candid, touching and sharply observed, this second compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers his life during his…
sixties and early seventies, when he was living in Gloucestershire with his formidable wife Alvilde. It vividly portrays life on the Badminton estate of the eccentric Duke of Beaufort, meetings with many friends (including John Betjeman, Bruce Chatwin and the Mitford sisters) and the diarist's varied emotional experiences. Having made his name as the National Trust's country houses expert and a writer on architecture, he now established himself as a novelist and biographer. With some misgivings he published his wartime diaries, little imagining that it was as a diarist that he would achieve lasting fame.