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- Palaver : A Novel. by Washington, Bryan.;
In 'Palaver', the unnamed narrator is a gay man living and working in Tokyo. He is estranged from his family in Houston, particularly his mother, whose preference for the sons oft-troubled homophobic brother, Chris, pushed him to leave home. When his mother arrives uninvited on his doorstep wanting to reconcile, he struggles to forgive. But as life begins to steer them in unexpected directions, the two of them begin to see each other more clearly.Library Bound Incorporated
- Subjects: FICTION / Family Life; FICTION / LGBT / General; FICTION / Literary;
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- Family meal / by Washington, Bryan,1993-author.;
"Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, unexpected, and explosive. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he crashes back into the orbit of his former best friend, TJ, and TJ's family bakery. TJ's not sure how to navigate this changed Cam, impenetrably cool and self-destructing, or their charged estrangement. Can they find a way past all that has been said - and left unsaid - to save each other?"--
- Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Gay fiction.; Novels.; Bakeries; Bakers; Family-owned business enterprises; Gay men; Grief;
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- The Emperor of Gladness A Novel [electronic resource] : by Vuong, Ocean.aut; CloudLibrary;
“The Emperor of Gladness is a poetic, dramatic and vivid story. Epic in its sweep, the novel also handles intimacy and love with delicacy and deep originality. Hai and Grazina are taken from the margins of American life by Ocean Vuong and, by dint of great sympathy and imaginative genius, placed at the very center of our world.” —Colm Tóibín, author of Long Island and Brooklyn “A masterwork.” —Bryan Washington, author of Palaver and Family Meal Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak, with the power to transform Hai’s relationship to himself, his family, and a community on the brink. Following the cycles of history, memory, and time, The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which love, labor, and loneliness form the bedrock of American life. At its heart is a brave epic about what it means to exist on the fringes of society and to reckon with the wounds that haunt our collective soul. Hallmarks of Ocean Vuong’s writing—formal innovation, syntactic dexterity, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness—are on full display in this story of loss, hope, and how far we would go to possess one of life’s most fleeting mercies: a second chance.
- Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Asian American;
- © 2025., Penguin Publishing Group,
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- Redcoat. [graphic novel] / by Johns, Geoff,1973-author,creator.; Anderson, Brad,colourist.; Currie, Andrew(Illustrator),illustrator.; Hitch, Bryan,illustrator,creator.; Leigh, Rob,letterer.;
British redcoat and all-around rogue, Simon mysteriously became immortal in 1776 after a run-in with the clandestine cabal known as The Founding Fathers, which included George Washington, John Hancock, and many other prominent American Revolutionary War leaders. Since that fateful day, Simon has led a life of adventure and avarice, rubbing elbows (and sometimes fists) with many of history's most renowned figures including Benedict Arnold, Albert Einstein, Annie Oakley and many more. But what are the true origins and extents of Simon's power and the mysterious cult behind them? And how has it secretly shaped America and the world? Simon's on a quest to find out!Rated T+/teen plus.
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Graphic novels.; Adventure and adventurers; Immortalism;
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- The details [videorecording] / by Banks, Elizabeth,1974-; Estes, Jacob Aaron,1973-; Linney, Laura.; Liotta, Ray.; Maguire, Tobey,1975-; Washington, Kerry,1977-; Alliance Films.; Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada);
Music by Tomandandy.Laura Linney, Ray Liotta, Tobey Maguire, Dennis Haysbert, Kerry Washington, Elizabeth Banks.After ten years of marriage, Jeff and Nealy Lang have an idyllic suburban home, and a relationship on the skids. But, when a family of hungry raccoons ransacks their perfectly manicured backyard, Jeff becomes obsessed with eradicating the pests by any means necessary. Soon the relentless rodents aren't merely uprooting the lawn, but also overturning the Langs' entire bourgeois existence, as the man-versus-beast battle leads into an absurd mess of infidelity, extortion, organ donation and other assorted mayhem.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen (1.78:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Adultery; Comedy films.; Feature films.; Man-woman relationships; Raccoon;
- © c2013., Distributed by Alliance Films,
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- Mad men. [videorecording] / by Dewitt, Rosemarie.; Hamm, Jon,1971-; Hendricks, Christina,1978-; Jones, January.; Kartheiser, Vincent,1979-; Morse, Robert.; Moss, Elisabeth,1983-; Lion's Gate Films.; Lionsgate (Firm); Maple Pictures.;
Disc 1. Out of town -- Love among the ruins -- My old Kentucky home.Disc 2. The arrangements -- The fog -- Guy walks into an advertising agency.Disc 3. Seven twenty three -- Souvenir -- Wee small hours.Disc 4. The color blue -- The gypsy and the hobo -- The grown-ups -- Shut the door, have a seat.Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, Christina Hendricks, Bryan Batt, January Jones, Michael Gladis, Aaron Staton, Rich Sommer.At the office, the firings continue; Don is brought in to save the day on a PR campaign only to have the rug pulled out from under him; Peggy and Paul get stoned while working on an ad campaign; Sally steals money from her grandfather; Don had reservations about a misguided potential client; Betty has hallucinations of her dead father as she delivers her baby; Don and Betty renew their love affair while on a business trip.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
- Subjects: Advertising agencies; Advertising; Businessmen; Competition (Psychology); Corporate culture; Man-woman relationships; Nineteen sixties; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
- © c2010., Lionsgate : Distributed by Maple Pictures,
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