5/13/2023 0 Comments The zuni man woman by will roscoeIn 1978, he completed an internship at the Pacific Center for Human Growth in Berkeley, where, working with Harvey Milk and other community leaders, he helped organize a successful campaign to win United Way funding for the Center, the first Lesbian/Gay social service agency in the country to do so. The following year, he served an intern at the National Gay Task Force, and in 1977, as coordinator of the Gay People’s Alliance at the University of Oregon, he spearheaded the formation of the Oregon Gay Alliance, a statewide coalition of Gay/Lesbian groups. Will Roscoe has been active in the the Gay movement since 1975, when he helped found Lambda, the first Gay/Lesbian organization in Montana (still active today as the Lambda Alliance). Will Roscoe, Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love “Same-sex love occupies a special place in the patriarchal imaginary of Western cultures-as compulsory heterosexuality’s “other,” the unexplored territory of mutuality and mutual self-realization.Only now, after two millennia of religiously-inspired homophobia and repression, has it become possible for individuals from the broad mass of humanity to enter the untrammeled paths of this dream, to discover for themselves what it can mean.”
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It's to Taraborrelli's credit that he refuses to cast people as one-dimensional heroes, victims or villains. The book also benefits greatly from Taraborrelli's thoughtful analysis of conflicting viewpoints represented in published memoirs by Ross, Wilson, Berry Gordy, and a slew of Motown performers. Taraborrelli delves more deeply into Ross's psyche, allowing readers to fully appreciate her drive to escape Detroit and conquer the music world. This time out, there is more background about the early Supremes years that yields a complex and fascinating tale of ambition, ego, insecurities and harsh showbiz realities. The new book boasts epic research, including extensive interviews with Ross and virtually all the major people in her life (his enviable first-hand access began in the 1970s when he started an international fan club for the Supremes and later worked for Mary Wilson). To create what is now truly a definitive biography. Taraborrelli has totally rewritten, expanded and updated his 1989 bio Call Her Miss Ross 5/13/2023 0 Comments Blind Faith by Ellen WittlingerLiz isn't sure she believes it, but she does know the service gives her mother comfort - something no one else can seem to do at all.Īs Liz and Nathan become closer, and the summer draws nearer to its bitter end, questions of faith, mortality, and spirituality come to the forefront of their intimate friendship. Ever since Liz's grandmother Bunny died, Liz's mother hasn't been the same she's even started attending a spiritualist church that claims it can contact Bunny on the Other Side. Liz has been coping with tough questions like this all summer. What do you say to someone whose mother is dying? Liz just isn't sure she's the right person. Nathan and his adorable little sister just moved in across the street from Liz Scattergood, and both of them could use a friend. She has leukemia and she came here to die." "I might as well tell you before you hear it someplace else. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Underworld by Graham HancockGuided by cutting-edge science and the latest archaeological scholarship, Hancock begins his mission to discover the truth about these myths and examines the mystery at the end of the last Ice Age. In Underworld, Hancock continues his remarkable quest underwater, where, according to almost a thousand ancient myths from every part of the globe, the ruins of a lost civilization, obliterated in a universal flood, are to be found. Now he returns with an explosive new work of archaeological detection. While Graham Hancock is no stranger to stirring up heated controversy among scientific experts, his books and television documentaries have intrigued millions of people around the world and influenced many to rethink their views about the origins of human civilization. From Graham Hancock, bestselling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization that's been hidden for thousands of years beneath the world's oceans. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Kindred rebecca sykesSince their discovery 150 years ago, Neanderthals have gone from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. This book sheds new light on where they lived, what they ate, and the increasingly complex Neanderthal culture that researchers have discovered. In Kindred, Neanderthal expert Rebecca Wragg Sykes shoves aside the cliché of the shivering ragged figure in an icy wasteland, and reveals the Neanderthal you don’t know, our ancestor who lived across vast and diverse tracts of Eurasia and survived through hundreds of thousands of years of massive climate change. Jayne B- Reviews / Book Reviews archeology / History / non-fiction / paleontology / science Comments Off on REVIEW: Kindred – Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes OctoREVIEW: Kindred – Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes 5/13/2023 0 Comments Ernest cline booksHe is the author of the novels READY PLAYER ONE, READY PLAYER TWO and ARMADA, and co-screenwriter of the film adaptation of READY PLAYER ONE, directed by Steven Spielberg. Suddenly, he finds himself pitted against thousands of competitors in a desperate race to claim the ultimate prize, a chase that soon takes on terrifying real-world dimensions - and that will leave both Wade and his world profoundly changed. Ernest Cline is a 1 New York Times bestselling novelist, screenwriter, father, and full-time geek. For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that the riddles are based in the culture of the late twentieth century.Īnd then Wade stumbles onto the key to the first puzzle. Set in 2044, that first sci-fi adventure took place in. And like most of humanity, Wade is obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this alternate reality: OASIS founder James Halliday, who dies with no heir, has promised that control of the OASIS - and his massive fortune - will go to the person who can solve the riddles he has left scattered throughout his creation. Armada is the highly anticipated second novel from Ernest Cline, who hit the best-seller list in 2011 with his debut, Ready Player One. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. Are you ready? It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Stephen king duma key reviewEdgar often feels a painful stinging itch in his phantom right arm (the real appendage was burned in a hospital incinerator), and the only thing that relieves it is making pictures, but when he draws or paints it’s as if something takes over, until he’s unsure how much of his impressive art works are him and how much Something Else. As Big Pink is perched overlooking the Gulf of Mexico, Edgar immediately begins drawing intense sunsets, the days “ending in glory.” The new setting and his new occupation seem to be healing him.īut something’s funny. The setting for his new life is a house he dubs Big Pink on Duma Key, a narrow island which is mysteriously undeveloped but for a handful of houses on the northern end. Acting on the advice of his anger management psychiatrist, Edgar relocates from Minnesota to Florida to try to do something he liked to do when younger, draw. The latter caused him such frustrated rage when he couldn’t say the right words that he took it out violently on wife Pam. The first-person narrator is fifty-year-old Edgar Freemantle, who was a millionaire building contractor with a loving family until a crane crushed him inside his pick-up truck, taking his right arm and leaving him with serious trauma to his leg and brain. Stephen King’s Duma Key (2011) is an absorbing, ultimately disappointing novel about memory, artistic creation, family, friendship, and evil (and the something that’s “on the other side of the equation”). “God always punishes us for what we can’t imagine” 5/13/2023 0 Comments The wonder novel emma donoghueNurse Wright has suffered her fair share of tragedy - her baby daughter died and her husband left her soon after - and the night cap might be her way of coping. Nurse Wright's addiction to what looks to be laudanum, a tincture of opium, is another nod to that question of what's real and what isn't. What does Nurse Wright drink every night? This framing also sets us up to be aware of the transportive power of storytelling - you're quickly immersed in the creaking, drippy, smokey world of the ship and Nurse Wright's journey, a journey the narrator has invited us to believe in. Nurse Wright is enlisted to watch the girl for two weeks to determine how she's still alive. The whole reason Nurse Wright is summoned by a self-appointed committee to a village in Ireland is that many people want to believe a young girl called Anna O'Donnell has miraculously lived without food for four months. But it effectively sets up the main theme of the film: the power of belief. William (Tom Burke), Anna (Kíla Lord Cassidy) and Nurse Lib Wright (Florence Pugh). 5/13/2023 0 Comments The Happy Hollisters by Jerry WestFirst, the moving van carrying their toys and their father's important new invention disappears. This is a perfect gift for the young reader in your life *** The Happy Hollisters The adventures for the Hollisters begin as soon as they move into their new house on the shore on Pine Lake in Shoreham. Kids will be thrilled with the fast-paced action and will not want to put them down. Parents, grandparents, and teachers will love these books for their healthy celebration of life in simpler times. Integrity always pays off and right wins over wrong. Hooray, The Happy Hollisters are back First published in 1953, these charming mystery-adventure stories, faithfully reproduced, are now available in paperback for the very first time Written for boys and girls between the ages of six and twelve, The Happy Hollisters are wholesome books, with an accent on humor and good, clean fun. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Paul sheldon booksHe's an entertainer held captive by his audience. Wheelchair-bound, drug-dependent, locked in his room, Paul doesn't have much choice. And it's not good that her favorite writer has been a Don't-Bee and written a different kind of novel, a nasty novel, the novel he has always wanted to write, the only copy of which now lies in Annie's angry hands.īecause she wants Paul Sheldon to be a Do-Bee, she buys him a typewriter and a ream of paper and tells him to bring Misery back to life. It's not fair, for example, that her favorite character in the world, Misery Chastain, has been killed by her creator, as Annie discovers when Paul's latest novel comes out in paperback. A dangerous psychotic with a Romper Room sense of good and bad, fair and unfair, Annie Wilkes may be Stephen King's most terrifying creation. He wakes up to unspeakable pain (a dislocated pelvis, a crushed knee, two shattered legs) and to a bizarre greeting from the woman who has saved his life: "I'm your number one fan!"Īnnie Wilkes is a huge ex-nurse, handy with controlled substances and other instruments of abuse, including an axe and a blowtorch. Her name is Annie Wilkes and she is more than a rabid reader - she is Pauls. Paul Sheldon, author of a bestselling series of historical romances, wakes up one winter day in a strange place, a secluded farmhouse in Colorado. Hes a bestselling novelist who has finally met his biggest fan. Stephen King is arguably the most popular novelist in the history of American fiction. |