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Frank

By: Barney Frank

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How did a disheveled, intellectually combative gay Jew with a thick accent become one of the most effective (and funniest) politicians of our time? Growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, the fourteen-year-old Barney Frank made two vital discoveries about himself: he was attracted to government, and to men. He resolved to make a career out of the first attraction and to keep the second a secret. Now, fifty years later, his sexual orientation is widely accepted, while his belief in government is embattled. Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage is one man's account of the country's transformation—and the tale of a truly momentous career. Many Americans recall Frank's lacerating wit, whether it was directed at the Clinton impeachment ("What did the president touch, and when did he touch it?") or the pro-life movement (some people believe "life begins at conception and ends at birth"). But the contours of his private and public lives are less well-known. For more than four decades, he was at the center of the struggle for personal freedom and economic fairness. From the battle over AIDS funding in the 1980s to the debates over "big government" during the Clinton years to the 2008 financial crisis, the congressman from Massachusetts played a key role. In 2010, he coauthored the most far-reaching and controversial Wall Street reform bill since the era of the Great Depression, and helped bring about the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. In this feisty and often moving memoir, Frank candidly discusses the satisfactions, fears, and grudges that come with elected office. He recalls the emotional toll of living in the closet and how his public crusade against homophobia conflicted with his private accommodation of it. He discusses his painful quarrels with allies; his friendships with public figures, from Tip O'Neill to Sonny Bono; and how he found love with his husband, Jim Ready, becoming the first sitting member of Congress to enter a same-sex marriage. He also demonstrates how he used his rhetorical skills to expose his opponents' hypocrisies and delusions. Through it all, he expertly analyzes the gifts a successful politician must bring to the job, and how even Congress can be made to work. Frank is the story of an extraordinary political life, an original argument for how to rebuild trust in government, and a guide to how political change really happens—composed by a master of the art.

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0374711429

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Frank

A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage

By: Barney Frank

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Frank

A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage

By: Barney Frank

The candid political memoir of Barney Frank, former House Representative from Massachusetts ... and a pioneering, openly gay politician"--

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0374280304

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Mountain Cabin

By: Doug Barney

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Mountain Cabin

By: Doug Barney

Bill being a caretaker for a wealthy man in a small town. With cabins around the lake and up around the mountain. Bill, while working, found a person buried in a clearing. He decided to help the F.B.I. to find out who was doing the robberies and the killing. Bill and his wife Ann being brought up in the same town all their lives knew everyone that came and went. So they had the best opportunity to help. But to everyone’s surprise everything seemed to change.

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Shredded

Death by Publishing

By: Barney Leason

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Shredded

Death by Publishing

By: Barney Leason

Shredded, or Death by Publishing, a spirited and disrespectful take on the third oldest profession. And why not? Foul play galore, deadly payoff, petty revenge, personality conflict, scandal, intrigue and much more, lit'ry agents Phil Ford and Gwen Mather live to tell about it. "Nothing is at it seems to be, Philippe," said Ulli Siegfried. "The lesson of life is living it. I tell you, it was Pomeroy Willow who killed Ben Grace. But you must not quote me." Other books by Barney Leason: Rodeo Drive. Scandals. Passions. Grand Illusions. Fortunes. North Rodeo Drive. Rich and Reckless. Richer Than Sin. Grand Cru. Available at iUniverse.

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0595305482

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9780595305483

Lowside of the Road

A Life of Tom Waits

By: Barney Hoskyns

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Lowside of the Road

A Life of Tom Waits

By: Barney Hoskyns

With his trademark growl, carnival-madman persona, haunting music, and unforgettable lyrics, Tom Waits is one of the most revered and critically acclaimed singer-songwriters alive today. After beginning his career on the margins of the 1970s Los Angeles rock scene, Waits has spent the last thirty years carving out a place for himself among such greats as Bob Dylan and Neil Young. Like them, he is a chameleonic survivor who has achieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and outsider mystique. But although his songs can seem deeply personal and somewhat autobiographical, fans still know very little about the man himself. Notoriously private, Waits has consistently and deliberately blurred the line between fact and fiction, public and private personas, until it has become impossible to delineate between truth and self-fabricated legend. Lowside of the Road is the first serious biography to cut through the myths and make sense of the life and career of this beloved icon. Barney Hoskyns has gained unprecedented access to Waits’s inner circle and also draws on interviews he has done with Waits over the years. Spanning his extraordinary forty-year career from Closing Time to Orphans, from his perilous “jazzbo” years in 1970s LA to such shape-shifting albums as Swordfishtrombones and Rain Dogs to the Grammy Award winners of recent years, this definitive biography charts Waits’s life and art step by step, album by album. Barney Hoskyns has written a rock biography—much like the subject himself—unlike any other. It is a unique take on one of rock’s great enigmas.

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Crown

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0767927095

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9780767927093

Turning for Home

By: Barney Norris

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Turning for Home

By: Barney Norris

The deeply moving second novel from the author of the award-winning FIVE RIVERS MET ON A WOODED PLAIN. 'Courageous...memorable...moving' - Guardian 'One of our most exciting young writers' - The Times 'Life-affirming, beautiful and achingly poignant' - Donal Ryan 'Isn’t the life of any person made up out of the telling of two tales, after all? The whole world makes more sense if you remember that everyone has two lives, their real lives and their dreams, both stories only a tape’s breadth apart from each other, impossibly divided, indivisibly close.' Every year, Robert's family comes together at a rambling old house to celebrate his birthday. Aunts, uncles, distant cousins - it has been a milestone in their lives for decades. But this year Robert doesn't want to be reminded of what has happened since they last met - and nor, for quite different reasons, does his granddaughter Kate. Neither of them is sure they can face the party. But for both Robert and Kate, it may become the most important gathering of all. As lyrical and true to life as Norris's critically acclaimed debut Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain, which won a Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards, this is a compelling, emotional story of family, human frailty, and the marks that love leaves on us.

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Random House

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1473540038

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9781473540033

Earth, Too

By: Alan Barney

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Earth, Too

By: Alan Barney

The crew members of Centaur II return to Earth in the late twentieth-first century after completing over 30 years on an exploratory mission to the first extra-solar planet having life. Since their departure, terrorism and global warming have radically changed the people and environment of their home planet. This story, the conclusion of a trilogy, follows the paths of three of the crew as they strive to uncover what became of their family, friends, and careers, and to rebuild their lives.

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Lulu.com

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1312194081

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9781312194083

The Truth

By: Doug Barney

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The Truth

By: Doug Barney

It's about a man that is reliesed from prison after serving 20 years for murdering a man. He takes his old job back being a caretaker for a rich man. But his prime job is to become a PI to find out who killed the second person that was poisoned by mushrooms. He was friend's with the FBI agent

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Recent Events in the Credit and Mortgage Markets and Possible Implications for U. S. Consumers and the Global Economy

Congressional Hearing

By: Barney Frank

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Recent Events in the Credit and Mortgage Markets and Possible Implications for U. S. Consumers and the Global Economy

Congressional Hearing

By: Barney Frank

Witnesses: Sheila C. Bair, Chmn., Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC); John C. Dugan, Comptroller of the Currency; Erik R. Sirri, Dir., Div. of Market Regulation, SEC; and Robert K. Steel, Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, Dept. of the Treasury. Prepared statements: Gary L. Ackerman; Ginny Brown-Waite; Paul E. Kanjorski; Tom Price; Sheila C. Bair; John C. Dugan; Erik R. Sirri; and Robert K. Steel. Additional Material Submitted for the Record: Rep. Barney Frank, Press release dated Sept. 4, 1007. Charts and tables.

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DIANE Publishing

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1437914942

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9781437914948

Hotel California

The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends

By: Barney Hoskyns

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Hotel California

The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends

By: Barney Hoskyns

Hoskyns brings a genuine love as well as an outsider's keen eye to the rise and fall of the California scene. . . . This is a riveting story, sensitively told." —Anthony DeCurtis, Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone From enduring musical achievements to drug-fueled chaos and bed-hopping antics, the L.A. pop music scene in the sixties and seventies was like no other, and journalist Barney Hoskyns re-creates all the excitement and mayhem. Hotel California brings to life the genesis of Crosby, Stills, and Nash at Joni Mitchell’s house; the Eagles’ backstage fistfights after the success of "Hotel California"; the drama of David Geffen and the other money men who transformed the L.A. music scene; and more.

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Turner Publishing Company

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1118040503

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9781118040508

From the Third Eye

The Evergreen Review Film Reader

By: Ed Halter,Barney Rosset

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From the Third Eye

The Evergreen Review Film Reader

By: Ed Halter,Barney Rosset

In this first collection of film writing from Evergreen Review, the legendary publication's important contributions to film culture are available in a single volume. Featuring such legendary writers as Nat Hentoff, Norman Mailer, Parker Tyler, and Amos Vogel, the book presents writing on the films of Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ousmane Sembene, Andy Warhol, and others and offers incisive essays and interviews from the late 1950s to early 1970s. Articles explore politics, revolution, and the cinema; underground and experimental film, pornography, and censorship; and the rise of independent film against the dominance of Hollywood. A new introductory essay by Ed Halter reveals the important role Evergreen Review and its publisher, Grove Press, played in advancing cinema during this period through innovations in production, distribution, and exhibition. Editor Ed Halter began working on this book in 2001 with Barney Rosset, using his personal files and interviews with him as initial research.

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Seven Stories Press

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1609806166

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9781609806163

Rodeo Drive

By: Barney Leason

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Rodeo Drive

By: Barney Leason

Beverly Hills, an enclave of the super-rich, where passion has its price. Rodeo Drive, a street where lives are bought and sold.

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Open Road Media

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1504032829

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9781504032827

102 Funny Jokes

By: Barney Garrison

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102 Funny Jokes

By: Barney Garrison

Do you want to read some good jokes? In this book you will have an incredible selection of 102 clean jokes for you to have fun in your free time.

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9798224999170

Puget Chase

By: Tim Barney

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Puget Chase

By: Tim Barney

Davis Jefferson, known to his friends as Deej, lives on Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound off the coast of Washington. Hes a good natured, well-meaning guy with tons of friends. He wishes the best for everyone, which is why hes friendly when newcomer Deirdre arrives in town with her young son Jimmy, all the way from Manhattan. However, Deirdre has a dark secret. She didnt move for a change of scenery; she moved to escape a dangerous past. Shes hoping to run from regret and find freedom in her new home, but the past has a way of coming back. Deej just happens to be in the right (or wrong) place at the right time and becomes embroiled in Deirdres troubles. The hunt for revenge is on. Deej and Deirdre have to dodge kidnappers and murderers in a world of misdeeds and gambling. Luckily, the small Puget Sound community bands together to protect their own, so ordinary folks and a troupe of war veterans team up to fight some angry mobsters in the hopes of good conquering all thats evil. A compelling action-intensive thriller that examines the idea which mankind ultimately seeks and needs--to be seen and understood and for others to take us as we are. This riveting tale highlights the fight between good and evil and the gray area that lies between as Barneys characters struggle for the things that matter most to them--family, honoring thy self, and love. --Melissa Toomey

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Archway Publishing

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1480825794

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9781480825796

Hidden History of Lake Champlain

By: Jason Barney,Christine Eldred

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Hidden History of Lake Champlain

By: Jason Barney,Christine Eldred

Lake Champlain is one of America's most historic waterways, but much of its history has remained hidden. With the arrival of Europeans, the lake became a vital route between the English in New England and the French in Quebec. Its isolated beauty contrasted sharply with the bloody military campaigns that unfolded there. While enormous forts were erected, colonial villages blossomed, and 18th century naturalist Peter Kalm spread the word of its bucolic charm. William Miller attracted large audiences as he preached that the world would end in the 1840s. Valcour Island developed its own commune, and when Prohibition took effect, the towns near the Canadian border became a hotbed of bootlegging. From presidential visits to shipwrecks, local authors Jason Barney and Christine Eldred chronicle some of the lake's lesser-known contributions to American history.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1540262669

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9781540262660

Deadly Secrets

By: Douglas Barney

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Deadly Secrets

By: Douglas Barney

The book is about a man who is a P I. That went to help an old friend that was being blackmailed. As the story went on, it was hard to tell who to believe or not to believe. Bill being a good P I. figured out that the syndicate was involved. Being a good P I Bill was hard to trick, but this case was getting the best of him. As the story continues Bill falls in love with Lilley, to find out latter she was lying to him, all the time. People were being killed and no one knew who was doing the killing.

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1481712489

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Words that Listen

A Literary Companion to the Lectionary

By: Ian Markham,J Barney Hawkins,Mark Oakley

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Words that Listen

A Literary Companion to the Lectionary

By: Ian Markham,J Barney Hawkins,Mark Oakley

A Bible commentary with a difference, Words That Listen provides readings from world literature to accompany every Gospel passage of the Revised Common Lectionary for Years A, B and C. For each Sunday Gospel reading, it offers four extracts, with commentary, from fiction, nonfiction, poems, great speeches and sacred texts, to plays, television and film scripts, social commentaries, and theologians past and present. Authors featured include: • writers from the classical Christian tradition, from Origen to Rowan Williams • many literary greats, including Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Emily Bronte, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf and Oscar Wilde • recent and contemporary poets: U. A. Fanthorpe, Seamus Heaney, Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry and Malcolm Guite • modern novelists and writers: P D James, Annie Dillard, Maya Angelou, Stephen King and Marilynne Robinson • filmmakers and screenwriters: Martin Scorcese, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg • songwriters and musicians: Leonard Cohen, U2, Led Zeppelin and Lady Gaga • paintings from leading artists that illuminate biblical events and encounters. Bound in two paperback volumes in a slipcase, Words That Listen brings together the worlds of art and faith to offer a unique resource for all who preach.

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Canterbury Press

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1786220644

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9781786220646

The Oregon Shanghaiers: Columbia River Crimping from Astoria to Portland

By: Barney Blalock

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The Oregon Shanghaiers: Columbia River Crimping from Astoria to Portland

By: Barney Blalock

In the hardscrabble early days of Portland's seaport, "shanghaiing" or "crimping" ran rampant. The proprietors of crooked saloons and sailors' boardinghouses coerced unwitting patrons to work on commercial ships. Shanghaiers like James Turk, Bunko Kelley and Billy Smith unashamedly forced men into service and stole the wages of their victims. By the 1890s, these shanghaiers had become powerful enough to influence the politics of Astoria and Portland, charging sea captains outrageous fees for unskilled laborers and shaping maritime trade around a merciless black market. For nearly a century, the exploits of these notorious crimpers have existed mainly in lore. Now historian Barney Blalock offers a lively and meticulously researched account of these colorful and corrupt men, revealing an authentic account of Oregon's malicious maritime legends.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625849672

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9781625849670

The Joshua Stone

By: James Barney

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The Joshua Stone

By: James Barney

“THE GENESIS KEY is a solid blend of science, myth, history, and suspense. It’s remarkable and unconventional, which together make for a great tale. There’s an intense brand of storytelling here, utilizing all of the elements I love. I can’t wait for more from James Barney.” — Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Jefferson Key and The Templar Legacy “Barney’s fast-paced debut novel demonstrates his knowledge of ancient history, the bible, and microbiol-ogy, as well as his fertile imagination. ” — Publishers Weekly “A strong debut thriller. . . . James Barney deftly explores elements of modern science and antiquity to mine the kinds of themes so ably explored by the likes of Dan Brown and James Rollins. . . . Barney is a welcome player in a crowded field.” — John Hart, New York Times bestselling author of The King of Lies, Down River, The Last Child, and Iron Horse “[A]n epic thriller - vivid, fast moving, and beautifully imagined. From the opening chapters to the final twist, it pulls the reader along at high speed, combining science, high technology, and ancient Biblical mystery into a fascinating and brilliantly original story. I highly recommend it!” — Douglas Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Impact and Blasphemy “Barney follows his Thriller Award-finalist debut, 2011’s The Genesis Key, with an engrossing standalone that combines biblical history and modern science.” — Publishers Weekly on THE JOSHUA STONE “Barney commands a large cast of characters [...] and sells his premise with conviction.” — Kirkus on THE JOSHUA STONE

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Harper Collins

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0062198041

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