The first volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, author of ‘The Grass is Singing’ and ‘The Golden Notebook’, and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Winner of the James Tait Black Prize 1994.
A twisty lesbian romance sequel to The Red Files about the family we can't choose, and the one that chooses us.
Meet Molly Sue. Once she's under your skin there's no getting rid of her... Seventeen-year-old Sally Feather is not exactly a rebel. Her super-conservative parents and her treatment at the hands of high school bullies means that Sally's about as shy and retiring as they come - but all that's about to change. Accidentally ending up in the seedier side of town one day, Sally finds herself mysteriously lured to an almost-hidden tattoo parlour - and once inside, Sally is quickly seduced by its charming owner, Rosita, and her talk of how having a secret tattoo can be as empowering as it is thrilling. Almost before she knows what she is doing, Sally selects sexy pin-up Molly Sue, and has her tattooed on her back - hoping that Molly Sue will inspire her to be as confident and popular as she is in her dreams. But things quickly take a nightmareish turn. Almost immediately, Sally begins to hear voices in her head - or rather, one voice in particular: Molly Sue's. And she has no interest in staying quiet and being a good girl - in fact, she's mighty delighted to have a body to take charge of again. Sally slowly realises that she is unable to control Molly Sue... and before long she's going...
Under my skin is a poignant journey taken through poetry and thought. drawing inspiration from life, heartache, personal growth, and love.
Beyond man’s consciousness lies the ability to generate a life of balance. In order to change our circumstances, we have to view relationships from the outside in. This way, we can transform our minds so they perceive our faults and what systems we can implement to alter our lives. The spectrum of our insights will endorse our desires to alter our circumstances. Self-evaluation will become apparent, revealed at our most unsettled moments. Hidden in these poetic verses are targeted lessons and questions to bring spiritual awareness that massages our minds and inspires us to take authority over our lives. We can provide our own solutions for the state of our relationships and involvements. We can become strengthened by renewing our minds.
Modern, Confessional Poetry from author Shiloh Wall
Under My Skin asks a lot of questions, questions that demand answers: Why are young black gay men invisible in Canada's queer and black communities? Do their lives really matter? How do young black men deal with the daily challenges of dealing with multiple oppressions in relation to our race and gender? Is Canada truly a multicultural nation? Why are the brothers dying due to gun violence on the streets of Toronto?
Elise Krentzel's fast paced memoir "Under My Skin: Drama, Trauma & Rock 'n' Roll" earned #1 on Amazon in new releases in all these categories: Biographies of Rock Bands, Music Business, Rock, Composers & Musicians, and Jewish Life. Elise shares how she took charge of the tumultuous 1970s by making a name for herself while still a teenager as a rock journalist. As a kid, she was encouraged by her parents to sing, play music, and write, but she wasn't allowed to be "herself." Alienated, she hid her heart and learned to become a stranger in her own skin as the torment of early childhood taught her to mistrust everyone, especially herself. As an adolescent traveling in Europe, she came to realize there was more to life than sex, money, and fame. With newly instilled vigor and drive, Elise set out to break her toxic cycles, determined to become someone people would notice. At 19 years old-the youngest journalist on the KISS Japan Tour-she negotiated a plum job with one of the biggest players in the Japanese music industry, desperately trying to fill the gaping hole left by feeling unheard and unloved by those she depended on most: her family. Spanning three continents and twenty years, ...
62 year-old June has lived alone in the same flat in Melbourne since 1975. She's worked at the same job in the city, wearing the same dress and cardigan year in, year out. She eats the same pizza on the same night of the week, has two goldfish, never been anywhere and hasn't taken any holidays. She has no friends. Her family in Beechworth are rotten and don't love her. She's always got her head stuck in a Mills & Boon book and that's about the extent of her excitement as she commutes into and out of the city. Then along comes 30-something April to work in her office. She turns June's life upside down, giving her a makeover. At the same time, June discovers a new sexual desire in herself that she hadn't known existed. Simultaneously, June discovers that her grandmother has died and that sets her (and April) off on a hunt for her real family who she learns about in a letter her grandmother left her.
Many people know me, yet none have seen my face.I'm the topic of conversation even with nobody knowing my name.I am a life thief.A soul destroyer.An invisible plague.But still wanted by many because my darkness reminds themof the desires that lurk within each and every one of them.Under my Skin is a dark standalone romance. It has triggers that may cause distress to some readers. Caution is advised.
Tucked away in her tattoo studio in the port city of Halifax, Shaz draws meaning and symbolism onto the bodies of her clients. After the ransacking of her home, the brutal attack on her friend and the sudden appearance of her white father, Shaz is compelled to explore the racial divides in her life and in the city around her. A chance encounter with Rashid, a parkour-performing refugee from Sri Lanka, provides a stabilizing counterpoint to the tumultuous relationships in her life. Ultimately, Shaz discovers the complexities of truth, the meaning of loss and how we are all coloured by our experiences. In a narrative that explores racism, family dysfunction and the experiences of refugees, Under Her Skin paints the canvas of our landscape, making us aware of who we are.
A brilliant scientist out to save the world. A jaded agent looking to save the one he lost. And a conspiracy that spans oceans, reaching into the deepest parts of American national security. Lennon is a genius. He’s devoted his energy and his time to designing products to save lives. He’s gotten rich doing it, too. This time he’s created something to revolutionize war, crime, and policing -- a bullet that heals. He’s on top of the world and the one thing he needs is someone to share it with. The one he loved disappeared without a trace years ago, and until he gets closure he can’t commit. Ben is an agent with an agency so secretive for years people didn’t know it existed. He screwed up years ago and fell in love with the man he was supposed to be guarding. Now his lost love is in danger again. He’s developed a product bad actors all over the world will want to get their hands on. When Ben’s superiors order him back to Lennon’s side, he goes without hesitation. There’s only one catch -- Lennon can’t know he’s there. When one of those bad actors strikes, all the rules go out the window. Can Lennon overcome his mistrust once he knows the truth about Ben? When...
Rita Latte works in middle-management for an unnamed film company, but her dream is to be a famous novelist. At a filmscreening she's organized, she meets a man whom she convinces to read her book, and the tale unfolds. In this tale within a tale, we meet "Rita, " a woman who works in film, and her two friends, Margo and Alice. We get to know their boyfriends, Pierre (Rita's married boss), Bo (Margo's cop husband), and Paul (Alice's fiance). And we learn increasingly more about Rita's doctor, Michael Skelton, and his wife Lily, unaware of her husband's horrifying pastime. This is a first novel for Mary di Michele, internationally recognized for her five books of lyric and narrative poetry. This novel is a work of intense linguistic magic; it is at once a horror story and a romance; it delves into the deep and desperate nature of women's and men's desires. This is a book that will disturb and move the reader; its intellectual and poetic content will delight those who enjoy a thought-provoking read. It is also a true psychological thriller: once you become involved in these lives, you won't want to stop until the very last page.
your touch on my skin, a poetry book. For about one year, it has accompanied me through one of my most eventful years until now. It deals with the topics of young love and the grave consequences that come with love. But most importantly, it was influenced by my coming-out in September 2018. Therefore, it also makes sexuality as great theme of this book. It is subdivided into five categories: to love, to hurt, to realize, to accept and to appreciate outlining the development of both love and growing up.
I made money I’d never imagined and I wore velvet dresses and shone in lamplight. I walked tall in crowds, knowing myself to be desired. I told people I was a prostitute, and smiled as I said it, and dared them to turn their gaze...The smile that I give when I talk about it now is, I can feel, nostalgic, provocative. A brightness comes into my eyes. And, I’m told, a hard look too. In My Skin describes an extraordinary journey through an often hidden world of heroin and prostitution. Kate’s story is one of survival and resourcefulness, and an unflinching look at the consequences of addiction. More than just a fearless and compelling narrative, In My Skin is the triumphant announcement of a new talent in Australian writing.
As Tom Grant saw it, when he and Louise turned up at London Airport to welcome Jay Nbola of Kenya, there was no reason for behaving as though anything extraordinary was happening: he had invited a friend to stay with them during his year at London University; what did it matter that the friend was black? Louise Grant couldn’t see the occasion as all that ordinary, but it did give her the chance to prove she was none of those things she would genuinely have hated to be—prejudiced, provincial, reactionary. Thus Louise’s greeting to Jay was more cordial even than her husband’s. In this affectionate and ironic novel, Nina Bawden has created two thoroughly decent and likable people. Yet the Grants, without realizing it, have settled for the most indulgent view of themselves and their own motives. The advent of a visitor from Kenya jolts that settled view. Reality gets under their skins: the presence in their homes of a “primitive” African triggers explosions of alarmingly primitive behaviour in their English hearts. And Jay Nbola goes through a considerable amount of hell before his host and hostess have suffered enough to see him as the wholly separate human being he is....
Five years ago, Sam O'Connor's sister Chloe died in New York, just another accidental overdose at the Chelsea Hotel. But now, someone has sent Sam a mysterious postcard claiming that Chloe actually died of gunshot wounds and that she was investigating a political conspiracy. Sam has to find out what really happened. As she navigates the twisted trail between fact and fantasy, she is forced to confront some difficult truths about her sister and, more frightening, about herself.
Love isn't real and true love is nothing but a farce. That's what Mia Slone believed for most of her life. Mia managed to live her life on her own terms, but that meant living without love. She never met a single man who could sweep her off her feet and make her forget her insecurities and imperfections. When she moves to Mooresville for a new teaching position, she didn't know what to expect, especially when she's confronted by the one man who's been on her mind since she was a young girl. Jake Hanson is the guy Mia never forgot. And Jake never forgot about her. The one who walked away, she was the only woman who ever made him come to life. Now Mia's back and she's everywhere. Not even the fitness center he owns with his brother gives him sanctuary. Mia's always there, exercising and wiggling her way back under his skin. As they grow closer, he finds himself warring with more than his personal feelings. And he discovers that persuading Mia to believe she is everything he sees in her is difficult, but opening himself for another heartache is nearly impossible.
Modern poetry mixed with old skool poetry. A compilation of poems written over the span of ten years, from a young twenty-something who has gone full circle and back again in less than a decade. Enjoy the emotional ride that is - Under My Skin.
The acclaimed author of The Sweet Hereafter and Rule of the Bone returns with a provocative new novel that illuminates the shadowed edges of contemporary American culture with startling and unforgettable results Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, the young man at the center of Russell Banks’s uncompromising and morally complex new novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known in his new identity only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather. With nowhere else to go, the Kid takes up residence under a south Florida causeway, in a makeshift encampment with other convicted sex offenders. Barely beyond childhood himself, the Kid, despite his crime, is in many ways an innocent, trapped by impulses and foolish choices he himself struggles to comprehend. Enter the Professor, a man who has built his own life on secrets and lies. A university sociologist of enormous size and intellect, he finds in the Kid the perfect subject for his research on homelessness and recidivism among convicted ...
In the small town of North River, every day that goes by bleeds into the next. Poverty begets hopelessness, hopelessness breeds violence, violence causes despair. The only way to change fate, a minister tells his son, is to leave. The minister’s son, Jake MacNeil, chooses to ignore his father’s advice. Only when he realizes what has become of his life — working a grueling dead-end job, living with a drunk, friends with a murderer — does he decide to make something of himself. But nothing comes without a cost: in choosing freedom, Jake abandons his own son, Nathan, to the care of the boy’s abusive mother. Years later, a reformed Jake comes back for Nathan, to finally set things right. But in North River, everything comes around again; and when a dangerous figure from the past becomes hell-bent on dragging the new Jake “back down where he belongs”, three generations of MacNeil men must come together to pay the full price of hope. Gritty, unrelenting, yet peppered with Darren Greer’s trademark poignance, Just Beneath My Skin is the work of an author at the height of his game.
In "Nothing But Your Skin," Louella, a mentally-challenged girl, grapples with the aftermath of her decision to have sex; and in "The Pool Was Empty," Celia is tried for the murder of her boyfriend Alex when he falls into a swimming pool.
Los Angeles. A would-be movie reviewer, looking for romance, takes an assignment to write a magazine article about celebrity look-alikes. After getting to know a Steve Martin impersonator, the writer decides to undertake his own process of transformation and becomes not Steve Martin but a version of him—graceful, charming, at home in the world. Safe in the guise of "Steve," he begins to fall in love. And that's when "Steve" takes over. Set in the capital of illusion, this is a story of one man's journey into paradise—and his attempt to come out the other side.
The Skin I'm In explores the importance of having skin covering while encouraging children to notice the similarities as well as the differences in skin tone and texture as a person ages, gains or losses weight, gets hot or cold, etc. It then asks the reader to draw a picture of himself/herself and explain how they view the importance of their skin. This book does not serve as a science book therefore it doesn't offer an in-depth view of the purposes. It only serves to stimulate the reader's interest in a subject generally taken for granted.
An inspiring story of a young asylum seeker's struggle to build a new life with his family in Britain told with wit and heart from Catherine MacPhail.
A collection of poetry that takes the reader through the many confusing and conflicting phases of teenaged life. The poems reveal all the rollercoaster moments of that time; from the dark thoughts to sexual feelings all the way to healing and maturity.
Caruso’s prose performs for us like a clown on highwire – funny but dangerous. Her characters unselfconsciously speculate about their sexuality amid the least likely of circumstances – from early morning Mass, to the doctor’s waiting room. These stories bristle with pathos beneath their apparently mundane veneers and are deadly accurate in anointing recognition to adult innocent yearnings.
A taxidermist with a secret. A soldier with nothing left to fight for. A mother determined to protect her young son. Together, can they fight a past that doesn't want to let them go? Taking a job in the studio of an Edinburgh taxidermist is probably not Walt's wisest move. Already suffering from combat stress, and struggling to outrun the horrors of his time on the front line, he finds himself confronted by the undead on a daily basis. His boss Alys and her sister Mouse are sharing a secret that is threatening to destroy them. When Mouse's eight-year-old son disappears, can Walt find the strength for one more battle and finally lay the past to rest? This compelling thriller peels back the skin of one modern family to reveal the wounds no one wants to see. It deals with the effects of trauma, and explores how facing up to vulnerability is sometimes the only way to let go of the past.
A feverish combination of stream of conscious, autobiography, collage, and narrative, Skin marks the arrival of a truly original literary voice. Reminiscent of Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts, it is as omnivorous as the bodies within it, as unrestrained as the appetites, terrors, and trysts that celebrated author Bjørn Rasmussen evokes in poetic detail. Deeply emotional, erotic, elegiac, and pansexual, it caresses the wounds we visit upon our body and soul in an attempt to serve the urges of our largest organ--the skin that covers and defines us.--Entropy, Best Fiction of 2019 What if your first true love broke all known taboos? What if your very first romance drowned you in a whirlpool of transgression? A coming-of-age novel that is minutely in tune with the perversions of its narrator's body, The Skin Is the Elastic Covering that Encases the Entire Body defines category. The desperate account of a teenage boy in love with a much older riding instructor, it follows the unforgettable Bjorn as he pushes his flesh to its very limits, annihilating boundaries of gender and sexuality in a search for impossible gratification. A feverish combination of stream of conscious, autobiography,...
Wrenching . . . powerfully sensuous. -- New York Times As searing and unforgettable as an electric shock. --Kirkus Reviews At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember an entire five-hour period of time. During the following years he slowly recalls details from that night, but these fragments are not enough to explain what happened to him, and he begins to believe that he may have been the victim of an alien encounter. Neil McCormick is fully aware of the events from that summer of 1981. Wise beyond his years, curious about his developing sexuality, Neil found what he perceived to be love and guidance from his baseball coach. Now, ten years later, he is a teenage hustler, a terrorist of sorts, unaware of the dangerous path his life is taking. His recklessness is governed by idealized memories of his coach, memories that unexpectedly change when Brian comes to Neil for help and, ultimately, the truth.
Stephen Pascarelli is gorgeous, rich and successful. He built his multi-million dollar business from the ground up. He's seemingly unshakable. Somewhat by chance he runs into Addie McDaniels, the high school crush he thought he was over, but is he really? Is twenty years long enough to extinguish the fire that burned for her or did it only make it burn hotter? Will Addison notice Stephen this time around?
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