In this collaborative memoir, a parent and a transgender son recount wrestling with their differences as Donald Collins undertook medical-treatment options to better align his body with his gender identity. As a parent, Mary Collins didn’t agree with her trans son’s decision to physically alter his body, although she supported his right to realize himself as a person. Raw and uncensored, each explains her or his emotional mindset at the time: Mary felt she had lost a daughter; Donald activated his “authentic self.” Both battled to assert their rights. A powerful memoir and resource, At the Broken Places offers a road map for families in transition.
As a preteen Black male growing up in Mount Vernon, New York, there were a series of moments, incidents and wounds that caused me to retreat inward in despair and escape into a world of imagination. For five years I protected my family secrets from authority figures, affluent Whites and middle class Blacks while attending an unforgiving gifted-track magnet school program that itself was embroiled in suburban drama. It was my imagination that shielded me from the slights of others, that enabled my survival and academic success. It took everything I had to get myself into college and out to Pittsburgh, but more was in store before I could finally begin to break from my past. "Boy @ The Window" is a coming-of-age story about the universal search for understanding on how any one of us becomes the person they are despite-or because of-the odds. It's a memoir intertwined with my own search for redemption, trust, love, success-for a life worth living. "Boy @ The Window" is about one of the most important lessons of all: what it takes to overcome inhumanity in order to become whole and human again.
Don Collins is the author of "Old Watchdogs," an aclaimed first novel where he introduces Tom Newberry and Barry Noonan, two hardnosed former detectives from NYPD's Fugitive Warrant Squad. When Newberry retired he opened a detective agency just to have something to do. But when a serial killer terrorized unsuspecting women in northern Queens he picked up the scent and he and Noonan joined the chase. Newberry's relentless, unconventional, and often maddening style brought criticism from high ranking police brass. But he had done his homework and, in time, his detractors had to admit Newberry was onto something. In "Diamond Dogs" the hunt is personal. When Noonan's nephew, Jack McGuire, a Manhattan attorney and former star pitcher for St. John's University goes missing, Newberry and Noonan do what they do best, and soon the chase is on.
When the Civil War ended, Jefferson Davis had fallen from the heights of popularity to the depths of despair. In this fascinating new book, Donald E. Collins explores the resurrection of Davis to heroic status in the hearts of white Southerners culminating in one of the grandest funeral processions the nation had ever seen. As schools closed and bells tolled along the thousand mile route, Southerners appeared en masse to bid a final farewell to the man who championed Southern secession and ardently defended the Confederacy.
Elaine Leblanc, a student at Queens College, hadn't called home in a month. Her aunt in Arizona contacted detectives in NYPD's Jackson Heights precinct. When they couldn't help she called the Newberry Agency. The investigation led Tom Newberry and Barry Noonan into the sordid life of Craigslist escorts and prostitutes and put them on the trail of a man who had a penchant for killing them after he had his kicks.
This book is a compilation of the best articles out of many published on the Church and State website written about Donald Trump from late August 2020 the first time when author Collins recommended that readers vote for Joe Biden for President of the United States. Collins has a no holds barred perspective of close to four generations of progress in America. He has travelled the world extensively and seen the best and worst of humanity in many forms. He understands that the most likely scenario for failure of the American democratic system is for a dictator to emerge and seize power away from the people. He recommends, like many before him, that the United States should set an example by giving it’s people and all of the people in the world free contraceptives to empower women and reduce our human population painlessly from its nearly 8 billion today to 2 billion by 2100.
This book is a compilation of the best articles out of many published on the Church and State website from January 2013 by Collins about the total absence of global leadership to address uncontrolled human population growth which is destroying our Earth. Collins has a unique perspective of close to four generations of viewing our progress having travelled the world extensively and seeing the best of humanity in many forms. He knows that the most likely scenario for destruction of Earth and all species will result from human leaders’ failure to understand and explain what needs to be done. He recommends, like many before him, that the United States should set an example by giving its people, and all of the people in the world, free contraceptives to empower women, raise billions out of poverty, and reduce our human population painlessly from its nearly 8 billion today to 2 billion by 2100.
“Collins addresses a subject that has been the object of much research and controversy in the past decade: the internment of tens of thousands of Japanese-Americans during WW II. More specifically, he focuses on the mass renunciation of citizenship by these persons of Japanese ancestry. The author contends that the renunciations were based on misinformation rather than on disloyalty... The book is well written, presenting some new data rather than merely relying on existing documents. The bibiliography is comprehensive for those who may have an interest in the general subject of the treatment of Japanese-Americans during the war. Readers in the fields of American and ethnic history, diplomacy, and Asian studies will find this book of use. College, university, and public library collections.”–Choice
Reflecting on Autoethnographic and Phenomenological Experiences: A Caregiver’s Journey is a unique critical qualitative inquiry study that uses the author’s experience as a caregiver to his wife suffering from dementia as the basis of a critical autoethnography. It explores components of positive caregiving that may be not only melancholic and empirical, but also emotionally painful. The book employs multiple approaches that include critical narrative, phenomenology, autoethnography and experiential writing. Through a phenomenological lens of an insider that includes self- and other-hood, marriage, career, fatherhood, suicide, despair, triple grief, loss, caregiving, cooking, housekeeping, advocating mind reading, and encouraging, a narrative illustrating self-reflection on particular experiences is constructed. These culminating experiences result in first-hand and didactical understandings by the caregiver. Individual, personal, and subjective interpretation of relational happenings are explored. Reflective journaling and observations of the seasons of marital life seek to understand if and how shared experiences transcend multiple contexts and help the reader understand experiences of dementia. Reflecting on Autoethnographic and Phenomenological Experiences: A Caregiver’s Journey is a volume that will be invaluable to qualitative inquiry researchers, autoethnographers, and those readers interested in the research of caregiving. Perfect for courses such as: Autoethnography | Advanced Qualitative Inquiry | Disability Studies | Educational Research | Research | Philosophy | Qualitative Research/Inquiry
Tom Newberry leaves his detective agency in the hands of Barry Noonan, his former NYPD partner, when he becomes Police Chief in Fleming Beach, a quiet village on Long Island's south shore. When the Memorial Day weekends kicks off with a dead body found in the doorway of a gas station on his first day on the job Tom assigns the case to his protégé Jeremy Demchek, a Fleming Beach detective and former beat-cop from one of New York's west side precincts. Meanwhile Barry, aided by his two part-time investigators, takes on a murder case of his own when Jimmy Rizzo, a high-priced Queens attorney is found dead in his Forest Hills office. Caught short-handed when a Jamaica bail-bondsman calls the agency, Barry hires Harry O'Rourke, a former NYPD detective with a checkered past, to go after Ron Bibby, a boxer-turned-burglar, and bring him back to face trial.
Former Detective Tom Newberry was finding retirement a difficult adjustment. His old NYPD partner Barry Noonan scoffed when Newberry told him he was getting closer to identifying the madman who had gunned down six unsuspecting women on the streets of Northern Queens. "Give it up," Noonan pleaded. "Our job is done. Let the new breed figure this one out. Our days of solving crimes are behind us, now. We're not the city's watchdogs anymore." Newberry soon clashed with Sergeant Ray Wheeler, the man Chief of Detectives Frank Armstrong appointed to spearhead the special task force he set up to catch the killer. Wheeler called Newberry a nuisance and threatened to arrest the former sleuth for interfering with an official police investigation. But, in time, Wheeler realized Newberry was onto something.
After the so-called golden age of postcards, the fancy and patriotic cards previously produced in large volume began to be replaced by others with more realistic, timely themes. Photographic postcards became the fashion as people became enamored with their ability to capture images of local events. In Saint John, local photographers began producing photographic postcards of parades, sporting events, and royal visits. Saint John: More Postcard Memories focuses on the years from 1915 to 1950, taking the reader through the cityas history as it developed after the golden age. Over 200 images contained in this book show the full variety and experience of life in Saint Johnawe observe everything from playground scenes to parades, and from formal dedications to times of war. These richly varied postcards will stimulate the memories of some of the cityas senior citizens and will give younger residents a glimpse of times gone by.
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