Finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction "Talusan sails past the conventions of trans and immigrant memoirs." --The New York Times Book Review "A ball of light hurled into the dark undertow of migration and survival." --Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous A love story with the heart of Austen classics and a reflective journey of becoming that shift our own perceptions of romance, identity, gender, and the fairness of life. Fairest is a memoir about a precocious boy with albinism, a "sun child" from a rural Philippine village, who would grow up to become a woman in America. Coping with the strain of parental neglect and the elusive promise of U.S. citizenship, Talusan found comfort from her devoted grandmother, a grounding force as she was treated by others with special preference or public curiosity. As an immigrant to the United States, Talusan came to be perceived as white, and further access to elite circles of privilege but required Talusan to navigate through the complex spheres of race, class, sexuality, and queerness. Questioning the boundaries of gender, Talusan realized she did not want to be confined to a prescribed role as a man, and transitioned to become a woman, despite the risk of losing a man she deeply loved. Throughout her journey, Talusan shares poignant and powerful episodes of desirability and love that will remind readers of works such as Call Me By Your Name and Giovanni's Room.

John Robertson aka 'John the Hat' served with City of Glasgow Police, which became Strathclyde Police, for 32 years from 1963 until 1995. His book contains anecdotes and memories of some of the funniest and most comical situations which he and his colleagues had to deal with during those years. Overall this paperback book is a funny and at times comical collection of enjoyable and interesting anecdotes which sum up the true human spirit of family, friendship, comradeship and community in Glasgow particularly in the sixties and seventies.

My Voyage in Art includes 197 colour images of paintings, watercolours, sculptures and people over a 60 year period accompanied by a detailed essay. Encounters with Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Morrison, Andy Warhol and others illuminate.

This autobiography gives us a colourful insight into the life of Gary Punch, from his humble beginnings to him becoming a brilliant evangelist and preacher of the Gospel of Christ, to many, many people. This autobiography can be read and enjoyed by anybody and I do hope you enjoy reading this remarkable story of love, success, hard work and very importantly hope for us all.

If you could choose your fate What choice would you make? Like a rainbow has so many colours Each with it's own hue In the colours of Life & Love Which colours are for you? Choose them wisely, Grab & hold them fast. Wear them as clothes Make them last, and last. Life is a journey. We wear it and bear it as clothes.

Dogs have been cherished companions to Carol Reeve throughout her long life, and a Not Just for Christmasa is a collection of a tailsa about each one. Following these are more short stories, humorous verses and playlets, all of which will appeal to young people and older readers. This is Carol Reeve's eighth book, following a Soap In My Eyesa , a From Bottisham to Barcombea , a Stage Righta , a Simply Stage Strucka , a DiVerse Reflectionsa , a Murder in the Mountainsa and a The Cob Story.a

In kamera staan vir "in vertroue" en "in die kamera se oog". 'n Leunstoelsafari wat begin in 'n "nursing home" naby Babanango en oor Tuks se kampus loop deur Ienkkonserte, modderbaddens en broek-raids, Harvard se kampus, 12 jaar in Die Volksblad se redakteurstoel en jare as Uitvoerende Hoof van Nasionale koerante. In hierdie geharde koerantman se bars kyk ontbreek dit nooit aan humor en deernis nie.

Two days after the Winter Solstice in 2019 Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway cottage in the heart of Ireland. They were looking for a home, somewhere to stay put. What followed was a year of many changes. The pandemic arrived and their isolated home became a place of enforced isolation. It was to be a year unlike any we had seen before. But the seasons still turned, the swallows came at their allotted time, the rhythms of the natural world went on unchecked. For Kerri there was to be one more change, a longed-for but un-hoped for change. Cacophony of Bone maps the circle of a year - a journey from one place to another, field notes of a life - from one winter, to the next. It is a telling of a changed life, in a changed world - and it is about all that does not change. All that which simply keeps on - living and breathing, nesting and dying - in spite of it all. When the pandemic came time seemed to shapeshift, so this is also a book about time. It is, too, a book about home, and what that can mean. Fragmentary in subject and form, fluid of language, this is an ode to a year, a place, and a love, that changed a life.

Born in 1935 the heroine lives through the war years in a working class area of Cardiff to develop into a woman desperate to find happiness and success. Married and widowed whilst still young, and with three children to raise she leads a colourful life of adventure, and self-determination. Not content with the ordinary, her life is filled with her search for the glamourous and the exotic. Experiencing setbacks, successes, a remarkable and torrid love affair, heartache, renewed love and adventures in foreign lands she creates a world in which she, and her children, find the things that really matter in life. Her life is a remarkable testament to overcoming adversity and offers hope to many.

You know you wouldn't do that, Derek Haughton hopes he might not! In this follow up to What Are Yer? Bleeder! the struggle to maintain selfhood against convention and imposed morality continues. Disaffected, disgusted and delinquent after a young life of hospitals, special education, 'bleeding' and self questioning the haemophilic author does his best to live up to his own hard won maxim: Forget should and shouldn't. Do what you can.

In Mr Entertainment, we hear the voices of the people who knew Taliep Petersen best: his family, friends and collaborators. Their stories bring to life the spaces he inhabited, vividly recounting scenes from his childhood, his rise to fame from the Cape Coon Carnival stage to the West End, his artistic collaborations, most notably with David Kramer, his family life, and his tragic death and its aftermath.

In this pioneering biography of one of Cape Town’s most beloved entertainers, we encounter Petersen as a complex and many-sided personality whose influence continues to reverberate in national life. Mr Entertainment evokes not just Taliep’s life, but also the music and entertainment worlds of the 1950s to 2000s and their diverse and irrepressible cultural traditions. Along the way, it brings us to the front row of South Africa’s difficult history.

Drawing on the musician’s personal archive and on more than fifty interviews conducted over a decade, Paula Fourie has pieced together a fascinating portrait of Taliep Petersen, acutely observed and poignantly captured.

This is a true life story account of Len Garry's childhood memories of his childhood days spent with John Lennon and Paul McCartney and the forming of the band The Quarrymen. Also the day John Lennon met Paul McCartney for the very first time at St. Peter's Church fete on 6th July 1957, this book is a first hand account of what took place on that day plus more stories.

This book has been written in a kind of poetic style that Rosaleen has made her own. One American reader has compared her writing as 'balladeer' and indeed her work has been favorably reviewed over the years. This best selling author has received many awards - one being invited to the White House when Bill Clinton was President to read her poetry. Written with wisdom and wit this book 'Camilla Future Queen' can adorn any home, library or University. Indeed it is a positive addition to the mass produced material that adorn our bookshelves today. This author writes in a positive way encouraging the reader to look inside our Constitution and the part that the Monarchy play. One thing for sure the Monarchy will always have a place in our heart. There are obstacles at times, amid the turmoil of Palace staff relationships, and the banter downstairs from junior members of staff all creating an amazing story, making Rosaleen's writing awesome and profoundly interesting. Enjoy...

Unlocking the Sky tells the extraordinary tale of the race to design, refine, and manufacture a manned flying machine, a race that took place in the air, on the ground, and in the courtrooms of America. While the Wright brothers threw a veil of secrecy over their flying machine, Glenn Hammond Curtiss -- perhaps the greatest aviator and aeronautical inventor of all time -- freely exchanged information with engineers in America and abroad, resulting in his famous airplane, the June Bug, which made the first ever public flight in America. Fiercely jealous, the Wright brothers took to the courts to keep Curtiss and his airplane out of the sky and off the market. Ultimately, however, it was Curtiss's innovations and designs, not the Wright brothers', that served as the model for the modern airplane.

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A phenomenal memoir - the first of its kind - Somebody I Used to Know is both a heart-rending tribute to the woman Wendy Mitchell once was, and a brave affirmation of the woman dementia has seen her become.

On arriving in Providence Rhode Island in July 1970 Jim Bailey said that from a Wood and glue Determination emerged as a living being with whims of her own and her own peculiarities and funny ways.a But his vivid memories in many parts of the world in the Merchant Navy aboard ship learning every kind of seamanship made this solo crossing just par

Whilst stranded at a Dutch airport waiting for the darned plane to lift off I visited a number of gents toilets (Oh please!) to find something to read and came across this item in an American newspaper: 'To be a writer you must be good looking, with rock star cool and an intriguing ability to be fascinating'. Retreating from the mirror somewhat dismally I decided to write anyway.