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- What it was : a novel / by Pelecanos, George P.(CARDINAL)357224;
- "Washington, D.C., 1972. Derek Strange has left the police department and set up shop as a private investigator. His former partner, Frank "Hound Dog" Vaughn, is still on the force. When a young woman comes to Strange asking for his help recovering a cheap ring she claims has sentimental value, the case leads him onto Vaughn's turf, where a local drug addict's been murdered, shot point-blank in his apartment. Soon both men are on the trail of a ruthless killer: Red Fury, so called for his looks and the car his girlfriend drives, but a name that fits his personality all too well. Red Fury doesn't have a retirement plan, as Vaughn points out - he doesn't care who he has to cross, or kill, to get what he wants. As the violence escalates and the stakes get higher, Strange and Vaughn know the only way to catch their man is to do it their own way. Rich with details of place and time - the cars, the music, the clothes - and fueled by non-stop action, this is Pelecanos writing in the hard-boiled noir style that won him his earliest fans and placed him firmly in the ranks of the top crime writers in America"--
- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; African American detectives; Ex-police officers; Private investigators; Strange, Derek (Fictitious character);
- ReCoVery The Spirit of the Lord Is Upon Me, He Hath Anointed Me to Share / by Bowser, Joy-Michael D.Th,author.; Bowser, Joy-Michael D.Th,author.;
- You do want to improve your well-being, health, and mindset by better understanding your situations, circumstances, and relationships? In ReCoVery, author Joy Michael Bowser offers a guide for those seeking ReCoVery from life-controlling issues as she solicits wisdom through the Book of Romans from the heartfelt words of the Apostle Paul's scripture references and focused driven questionnaires.Joy Michael discusses how ReCoVery is a constant in life. She believes that we are constantly recovering in this life from one thing or another. ReCoVery is not just about addiction. ReCoVery is about life! When there is a desire for ReCoVery there has been a perception of loss. ReCoVery is a rebuilding together in truth while helping you satisfy your losses and dethrone your lacks. Through her writings she aspires to encourage the believer and introduce the Bible to those individuals who do not know it. This is communicated by sharing Bible truths with real life experiences in hope that the reader would make a connection with the Bible and the truths that they are experiencing in their lives.ReCoVery tells how recovery is a discovery of self. Your lives can be taken from dysfunctional to functional. The transformation will allow you to function with full capacity for what you were designed and purposed to do as an individual. ReCoVery is an announced decree. ReCoVery is an edict of hope for anyone striving to live a victorious life, today.
- Subjects: Religion.; Christian Living.; Inspirational.; Spiritual formation.; Personal Growth.;
- Animal joy : a book of laughter and resuscitation / by Alsadir, Nuar,author.;
- Taking laughter's revelatory capacity as a starting point, and rooted in Nuar Alsadir's experience as a poet and psychoanalyst, Animal Joy is an ode to spontaneity and feeling alive."Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughter is an eruption from the unconscious that, like political resistance, poetry, or self-revelation, expresses a provocative, impish drive to burst free from external constraints. Taking laughter's revelatory capacity as a starting point, and rooted in Nuar Alsadir's experience as a poet and psychoanalyst, Animal Joy seeks to recover the sensation of being present and embodied. Writing in a poetic, associative style, blending the personal with the theoretical, Alsadir ranges from her experience in clown school, Anna Karenina's morphine addiction, Freud's un-Freudian behaviors, marriage brokers and war brokers, to "Not Jokes," Abu Ghraib, Frantz's negrophobia, smut, the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, laugh tracks, the problem with adjectives, and how poetry can wake us up. At the center of the book, however, is the author's relationship with her daughters, who erupt into the text like sudden, unexpected laughter. These interventions--frank, tender, and always a challenge to the writer and her thinking--are like tiny revolutions, pointedly showing the dangers of being severed from one's true self and hinting at ways one might be called back to it."--Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-279).
- Subjects: Essays.; Humor.; Laughter.; Laughter; Joy.; Wit and humor.; Joking.; Joking; Mothers and daughters.;
- Drinking [sound recording] : a love story / by Knapp, Caroline,1959-2002.(CARDINAL)383308; Zackman, Gabra,performer.(CARDINAL)558128;
- Performed by Gabra Zackman."It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out." So begins Drinking: A Love Story, journalist Caroline Knapp's brave and powerful memoir of her twenty years as a functioning alcoholic. Knapp writes that she loved liquor the way she loved bad men and, like all tragic love stories, hers is a tale of seduction and betrayal, a testament to the alluring but ultimately destructive powers of addiction. Fifteen million Americans a year are afflicted with the disease of alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Caroline Knapp, for example, started drinking at age fourteen. She drank through her years at an Ivy League college, through an award-winning career as a lifestyle editor and columnist. Publicly she was a dutiful daughter, attentive friend, sophisticated professional. Privately she was drinking herself into oblivion, trapped in love relationships that continued to undermine her self-esteem - until a series of personal crises forced her to confront and ultimately break free of the "liquid armor" she'd used to shield herself from the complicated battles of growing up. Caroline Knapp's ruthless self-examination, moral courage, and singular ability as a writer inform this remarkable memoir with many new insights about alcoholism, but more important, with many profound insights about life.
- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Knapp, Caroline, 1959-2002.; Alcoholics; Recovering alcoholics; Alcoholism;
- Writ in stone : a graphic novel / by Keene, Carolyn.;
- It's double trouble for Nancy and her friends, when an ancient artifact and a little boy are both suddenly missing. The artifact is a piece of an old stone marker that may prove that the Chinese were in America eighty years before Columbus. The little boy is Owen Zucker, a sweetie who Nancy sometimes baby-sits. Nancy's determined to recover both the artifact and little Owen, but someone's out to stop her - permanently! Ages 8 to 12. Papercutz is the exciting new graphic novel publisher that's building a huge following among the next generation of comics fans. Even the most reluctant readers are becoming addicted to the Papercutz approach of giving classic characters a modern makeover! Each Papercutz graphic novel features comics stories drawn in the style of the popular Japanese comics known as manga, and beautifully rendered with state of the art color. While educators rave about the high quality of the Papercutz writing and artwork, readers 8 and up are simply enjoying the great adventures found in each fun-filled volume.Accelerated Reader AR
- Subjects: Fiction.; Detective and mystery stories; Girls; Girls.;
- Baggage : tales from a fully packed life [sound recording] / by Cumming, Alan,1965-author,narrator.(CARDINAL)356238;
- Read by the author.There is absolutely no logical reason why I am here. The life trajectory my nationality and class and circumstances portended for me was not even remotely close to the one I now navigate. But logic is a science and living is an art. The release I felt in writing my first memoir, Not My Father's Son, was matched only by how my speaking out empowered so many to engage with their own trauma. I was reminded of the power of my words and the absolute duty of authenticity. But, no one ever fully recovers from their past. There is no cure for it. You just learn to manage and prioritize it. I believe the second you feel you have triumphed or overcome something, an abuse, an injury to the body or the mind, an addiction, a character flaw, a habit, a person, you have merely decided to stop being vigilant and embraced denial as your modus operandi. And that is what this book is about, and for: to remind you not to buy in to the Hollywood ending. Ironically maybe, much of Baggage chronicles my life in Hollywood and how, since I recovered from a nervous breakdown at 28, work has repeatedly whisked me away from personal calamities to sets and stages around the world. It is also about marriage(s): starting with the break-up of my first (to a woman) and ending with the ascension to my second (to a man) with many kissed toads in between! But in everything, each failed relationship or encounter with a legend (Liza! X Men! Gore Vidal! Kubrick! Spice Girls!), in every bad decision or moment of sensual joy I have endeavored to show what I have learned and how I've become who I am today: a happy, flawed, vulnerable, fearless middle-aged man, with a lot of baggage.
- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Cumming, Alan, 1965-; Actors; Bisexual people; Singers; Acteurs; Bisexuels; Chanteurs;
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