Lance Out Loud
Title | Lance Out Loud PDF eBook |
Author | Pat Loud |
Publisher | G Editions LLC |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9780983270263 |
Lance Loud came to represent the gay community, and in addition, embodied the creative spirit and genius of outsider status that became the 1980s and fuelled so much of what has evolved today in our culture in terms of art, music and literature. In 2003, PBS broadcast the program, Lance Loud: A Death in an American Family, which was filmed in 2001 while visiting the family again, at the invitation of Lance before his death at age 50. As seen here, short as Lance's life was, it was a monumental one that continues to resonate to the present day.
Living Out Loud
Title | Living Out Loud PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Quindlen |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2010-08-25 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0307763544 |
"A panopticon of life in this decade, sure to be valuable to future social historians She touches on life, love, home, family, work, men, women, children and issues large and small." CHICAGO TRIBUNE The voice is Anna Quindlen's. But we know the hopes, dreams, fears, and wonder expressed in all her columns, for most of us share them. With her NEW YORK TIMES-based column, "LIFE IN THE 30s," Anna Quindlen valued to national attention, and this wonderful collection shows why. As she proved in OBJECT LESSONS and THINKIN OUT LOUD, Anna Quindlen's views always fascinate.
Mama's Boy
Title | Mama's Boy PDF eBook |
Author | Dustin Lance Black |
Publisher | Vintage |
Total Pages | 416 |
Release | 2019-04-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1524733288 |
This heartfelt, deeply personal memoir explores how a celebrated filmmaker and activist and his conservative Mormon mother built bridges across today’s great divides—and how our stories hold the power to heal. Dustin Lance Black wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Milk and helped overturn California’s anti–gay marriage Proposition 8, but as an LGBTQ activist he has unlikely origins—a conservative Mormon household outside San Antonio, Texas. His mother, Anne, was raised in rural Louisiana and contracted polio when she was two years old. She endured brutal surgeries, as well as braces and crutches for life, and was told that she would never have children or a family. Willfully defying expectations, she found salvation in an unlikely faith, raised three rough-and-rowdy boys, and escaped the abuse and violence of two questionably devised Mormon marriages before finding love and an improbable career in the U.S. civil service. By the time Lance came out to his mother at age twenty-one, he was a blue-state young man studying the arts instead of going on his Mormon mission. She derided his sexuality as a sinful choice and was terrified for his future. It may seem like theirs was a house destined to be divided, and at times it was. This story shines light on what it took to remain a family despite such division—a journey that stretched from the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to the woodsheds of East Texas. In the end, the rifts that have split a nation couldn’t end this relationship that defined and inspired their remarkable lives. Mama’s Boy is their story. It’s a story of the noble quest for a plane higher than politics—a story of family, foundations, turmoil, tragedy, elation, and love. It is a story needed now more than ever.
For Laughing Out Loud
Title | For Laughing Out Loud PDF eBook |
Author | Ed McMahon |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Total Pages | 368 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0759520739 |
A humorous, anecdote-filled, behind-the-scenes look at the life of a television icon.
Lines of Thought
Title | Lines of Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Lance J. Rips |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 474 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0195183053 |
How can we think about maths, despite the immateriality of numbers, sets, and other mathematical entities? How are we able to think about what might have happened if history had taken a different turn? Questions like these turn up in nearly every part of cognitive science and are central to our human position of having limited knowledge of what is true.
Every Second Counts
Title | Every Second Counts PDF eBook |
Author | Lance Armstrong |
Publisher | Broadway |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0767914481 |
Continuing where "It's Not About the Bike" left off, recounts Armstrong's life after cancer, his relationship with the French, disproved accusations of doping, and his work restoring a chapel in Spain.
Lance
Title | Lance PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Stoffel |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 2016-08-19 |
Genre | Border collie |
ISBN | 9780986150005 |
Marley meets...Cujo?A dog down the block is being forced to live outside, at the mercy of abusers, wild animals and brutal weather. The author does nothing-at first. Then, an accidental meeting with Lance, a Border Collie, sets the wheels in motion for a life-saving rescue and a disappointing discovery: Lance turns out to be a semi-feral dog. During the first twenty-four hours of his liberation, he attacks both the author and his wife, and soon proves to be a threat to anyone he can get his teeth on. His rescuers ask themselves: Do we euthanize the dog we rescued? Making their soul-searching even more difficult is Lance's alter ego; when not threatening, he's getting into all kinds of highly entertaining mischief. Among the many "victims" of his hilarious quirkiness are a State Trooper, the local school bus driver, and a neighborhood drug dealer. This rollicking and-at times-heart-wrenching, true-life account of the unorthodox rescue of an unorthodox dog has been called "riveting," "spellbinding," and "jaw-dropping." Lance's compelling story reveals as much about the rescuers as it does the rescued. Lance: A Spirit Unbroken is a book for any reader looking to have her or his faith in the human race restored.