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- Billie's big audition / by Wyatt, Kimberly.;
- LSC
- Subjects: Dancers; Dance; Dance schools;
- Coexistence : stories / by Belcourt, Billy-Ray,author.; Belcourt, Billy-Ray.Short stories.Selections.;
- "A collection of intersecting stories about Indigenous love and loneliness from a Giller-longlisted author and one of contemporary literature's most boundless minds. Across the prairies and Canada's west coast, on reservations and university campuses, at literary festivals and existential crossroads, the characters in Coexistence are searching for connection. They're learning to live with and understand one another, to see beauty and terror side by side, and to accept that the past, present, and future can inhabit a single moment. An aging mother confides in her son about an intimate friendship from her distant girlhood. A middling poet is haunted by the cliché his life has become. A chorus of anonymous gay men dispense unvarnished truths about their sex lives. A man freshly released from prison finds that life on the outside has sinister strictures of its own. A PhD student dog-sits for his parents at what was once a lodging for nuns operating a residential school -- a house where the spectre of Catholicism comes to feel eerily literal. Bearing the compression, crystalline sentences, and emotional potency that have characterized his earlier books, Coexistence is a testament to Belcourt's mastery of and playfulness in any literary form. A vital addition to an already rich catalogue, this is a must-read collection and the work of an author at the height of his powers."--
- Subjects: Short stories.; Indigenous peoples; Interpersonal relations; Loneliness; Love;
- A minor chorus : a novel / by Belcourt, Billy-Ray,author.;
- "An urgent first novel about breaching the prisons we live inside from one of Canada's most daring literary talents. An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the shape of the novel he yearns to write, an autobiography of his rural hometown, the answers to existential questions about family, love, and happiness. What ensues is a series of conversations, connections, and disconnections that reveals the texture of life in a town literature has left unexplored, where the friction between possibility and constraint provides an insistent background score. Whether he's meeting with an auntie distraught over the imprisonment of her grandson, engaging in rez gossip with his cousin at a pow wow, or lingering in bed with a married man after a hotel room hookup, the narrator makes space for those in his orbit to divulge their private joys and miseries, testing the theory that storytelling can make us feel less lonely. Populated by characters as alive and vast as the boreal forest, and culminating in a breathtaking crescendo, A Minor Chorus is a novel about how deeply entangled the sayable and unsayable can become--and about how ordinary life, when pressed, can produce hauntingly beautiful music."--
- Subjects: Novels.; Authors; Families; Gay men; Homecoming; Indigenous peoples; Small cities; Storytelling; First Nations reserves;
- Killers amidst killers : hunting serial killers operating under the cloak of America's opioid epidemic / by Jensen, Billy(Journalist),author.;
- In Killers Amidst Killers, readers will ride shotgun with Jensen as he takes on serial killers who are walking among us and planning their next moves in real time. The facts are not in old police reports and faded photos. They unfold before our eyes on the page. Our story begins in 2017, when two young women, best friends Danielle and Lindsey go missing in Columbus, Ohio, within weeks of each other, and their bodies are found soon thereafter. As Jensen investigates Danielle and Lindsey's cases, he comes across other missing and murdered women, and before long, he uncovers eighteen of them. All unsolved. And no one was talking about it. These are not women who were raised in the street. They got hooked on pills. The pills were taken away. They get hooked on heroin. And when the money is gone, they have to sell themselves. It happens very quick. Through his investigations and the help of experts, Jensen identifies serial killers in Cleveland and Columbus. Why there? Because it's easy. Sharks go where the swimmers are. Serial killers go where the easy prey are: Ground zero of the opioid epidemic. The heart of America.
- Subjects: Case studies.; True crime stories.; Opioid abuse; Opioid abuse; Serial murder investigation; Serial murder investigation; Serial murderers; Serial murderers;
- Journey to the edge of the world / by Connolly, Billy.; ITV Productions.;
- National treasure Billy Connolly is our personal guide through some of the world's most dramatic landscapes in the vast wilderness of the Arctic.
- Subjects: Connolly, Billy; Voyages and travels.;
- © 2009., Headline,
- How to turn down a billion dollars : the Snapchat story / by Gallagher, Billy,1992-author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index.In the tradition of great business narratives, 'How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars' is the improbable and exhilarating story of the rise of Snapchat from a frat boy fantasy to a multi-billion dollar internet unicorn that has dramatically changed the way we communicate.
- Subjects: Snap Inc.; Snapchat (Electronic resource); Internet industry; Businesspeople; Entrepreneurship;
- Three Billy Goats Fluff. by Mortimer, Rachael; Pichon, Liz;
- Whitehots
- © 2011, Hachette Children's Group
- Billie Jean Peet, athlete / by Beaty, Andrea.; Roberts, David,1970-;
- Unlike her talented siblings, Billy Jean has no musical beat, but she improves her basketball game by finding rhythm in her feet.
- Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Picture books.; Ability; Basketball; Music; Rhythm;
- Where I am : heaven, eternity, and our life beyond the now / by Graham, Billy,1918-author.;
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-264)."While his earthly vision dims, the glory of heaven is illuminated as Billy Graham, the beloved evangelist, shares from his past, and present, the reality of eternity."--Book jacket.
- Subjects: Bible; Eternity; Future life; Heaven;
- The idea of an entire life : poems / by Belcourt, Billy-Ray,author.;
- "Daring and vulnerable, this is the highly anticipated new collection from Griffin Poetry Prize winner Billy-Ray Belcourt. In The Idea Of An Entire Life, Belcourt delivers an intimate examination of 21st century anguish, love, queerness, and political possibility. Through lyric verse, sonnets, field notes, and fragments, the poems, sometimes heart-breaking, sometimes slyly humorous, are always finely crafted, putting to use the autobiographical and philosophical style that has come to define Belcourt's body of work. By its close, the collection makes the urgent argument that we are each our own little statues of both grief and awe"--
- Subjects: Poetry.; Canadian poetry; Gay men; Indigenous peoples; Cree;
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