Such Good Boys

Such Good Boys
Author: Tina Dirmann
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2005-10-04
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1429954280

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AN ABUSIVE MOTHER Raised in the suburb of Riverside, California, twenty-year-old college student Jason Bautista endured for years his emotionally disturbed mother's verbal and psychological abuse. She even locked him out of the house, tied him up with electrical cord, and on one occasion, gave him a beating that sent him to the emergency room. His fifteen-year-old half brother Matthew Montejo also was a victim to Jane Bautista's dark mood swings and erratic behavior, but for some reason, Jason received the brunt of the abuse—until he decided he'd had enough... A SON'S REVENGE On the night of January 14, 2003, Jason strangled his mother. To keep authorities from identifying her body, he chopped off her head and hands, an idea he claimed he got from watching an episode of the hit TV series "The Sopranos." Matthew would later testify in court that he sat in another room in the house with the TV volume turned up while Jason murdered their mother. He also testified that he drove around with Jason to find a place to dump Jane's torso. A CRIME THAT WOULD BOND TWO BROTHERS The morning following the murder, Matthew went to school, and Jason returned to his classes at Cal State San Bernardino. When authorities zeroed in on them, Jason lied and said that Jane had run off with a boyfriend she'd met on the Internet. But when police confronted the boys with overwhelming evidence, Jason confessed all. Now the nightmare was only just beginning for him...

Such a Good Boy

Such a Good Boy
Author: Marianna Coppo
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 49
Release: 2020-02-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1452181322

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The ultimate kids' book about dogs, being good, being bad, and being yourself! From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of Petra. Meet Buzz the dog. He's such a good boy. Buzz seems to have a perfect life .. . and a lot of very well-behaved friends. Buzz would never dream of being anything other than good. Right, Buzz? Buzz . . . ? For anyone who has ever felt pressure to be "good" at the expense of their own self-expression, and for anyone who has ever owned and loved a dog, this beautifully illustrated picture book from author-illustrator Marianna Coppo will have you laughing, smiling, and longing for your own unfettered frolic in the park. • With charming art and a positive message, this is an ideal read-aloud book for parents and children to share. • For dog lovers, pet lovers, and any kid who knows how hard it is to be good all the time • Marianna Coppo's first book, Petra, was a Good Reads Choice Awards Picture Book Finalist and received starred reviews from Publisher's Weekly and Kirkus. For dog-loving children and fans of such picture books as Gaston, Harry the Dirty Dog, Antoinette, and Naughty Mabel. For any child who struggles to be "good" and understands the fun (and frustration) of being "bad." • Picture books for kids ages 5–8 • Dog books for kids • Books about acceptance, self-confidence, and being yourself Marianna Coppo is an author-illustrator who studied editorial illustration at MiMaster in Milan, Italy. Her first book in the United States, Petra, was published to critical acclaim. She lives in Rome.

Awards for Good Boys

Awards for Good Boys
Author: Shelby Lorman
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2019-06-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0143134310

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“Shelby and her art are extremely my shit. You need this book.” —Samantha Irby, New York Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life “The rare Instagram-turned-book that actually works.” —Jezebel A wickedly funny illustrated look at living and dating in a patriarchal culture that celebrates men for displaying the bare minimum of human decency Surely you’re familiar with good boys. They’re the ones who put “feminist” in their Tinder bio but talk over you the entire date. They ghost you, but they feel momentarily guilty. They once read a book by a woman author. (It was required, but they thought it was “okay.”) And of course, they bravely condemn sexual harassment (except when the perpetrator is their buddy Chad). This book explores why so-called and self-proclaimed good boys are actually not so great, breaking down our obsession with celebrating male mediocrity and rewarding those who clear the very low bar of not being outwardly awful. Through clever illustrations and written vignettes, Awards for Good Boys makes literal the tendency to applaud men for doing the absolute least and offers hilarious and cathartic cultural commentary through which we may begin to unravel our own assumptions about gender roles and how we treat each other, both on and offline.

No Heaven for Good Boys

No Heaven for Good Boys
Author: Keisha Bush
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2022-04-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0399591982

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NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • Set in Senegal, this modern-day Oliver Twist is a meditation on the power of love and the strength that can emerge when we have no other choice but to survive. “I loved this book because it is a story about generations of parents and children saving one another with a love so powerful that it transcends distance, time, and reason.”—Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward Six-year-old Ibrahimah loves snatching pastries from his mother’s kitchen, harvesting string beans with his father, and searching for sea glass with his sisters. But when he is approached in his rural village one day by Marabout Ahmed, a seemingly kind stranger and highly regarded teacher, the tides of his life turn forever. Ibrahimah is sent to the capital city of Dakar to join his cousin Étienne in studying the Koran under Marabout Ahmed for a year, but instead of the days of learning that Ibrahimah’s parents imagine, the young boys, called Talibé, are forced to beg in the streets in order to line their teacher’s pockets. To make it back home, Étienne and Ibrahimah must help each other survive both the dangers posed by their Marabout, and the darker sides of Dakar: threats of black-market organ traders, rival packs of Talibé, and mounting student protest on the streets. Drawn from real incidents and transporting readers between rural and urban Senegal, No Heaven for Good Boys is a tale of hope, resilience, and the affirming power of love.

The Complete Book of Naughty Stories for Good Boys and Girls

The Complete Book of Naughty Stories for Good Boys and Girls
Author: Christopher Milne
Publisher: Christopher Milne
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2000
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0646393952

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The Complete Book of Naughty Stories for Good Boys and Girls is a best of compilation volume of Christopher Milne's Naughty Stories for Good Boys and Girls. The Naughty Stories series has sold over 600,000 copies worldwide and Christopher Milne has won many Australian Children's Writing Awards including Young Australian's Best Book Award.

Good Boys and Dead Girls

Good Boys and Dead Girls
Author: Mary Gordon
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2013-08-06
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1480414751

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DIVDIVA collection of dazzling and thought-provoking essays from lauded author Mary Gordon/divDIV Much acclaimed for her novels, Mary Gordon is also a brilliant and wide-ranging essayist. Gathering together twenty-eight of her forays into nonfiction, Good Boys and Dead Girls provides a richly autobiographical context for the themes that mark her fiction, such as Irish-American life, Catholicism, embattled families, and the redeeming power of art. Many of the pieces offer insights into artists and other writers: There are admiring accounts of Edith Wharton, Stevie Smith, and Ford Madox Ford, and a piquant critique of the depiction of women by certain celebrated male novelists. Whatever the topic at hand, Gordon proves lively and illuminating company. /divDIV/div/div

Good Boys

Good Boys
Author: Paul Reidinger
Publisher: Dutton
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1993
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Examines ten years in the lives of Michael, Chris, and Drew, college pals--two straight and one gay--who face the choices and boundaries of adulthood.

Good Boys: Poems

Good Boys: Poems
Author: Megan Fernandes
Publisher: Tin House Books
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2020-02-18
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1947793497

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In an era of rising nationalism and geopolitical instability, Megan Fernandes’s Good Boys offers a complex portrait of messy feminist rage, negotiations with race and travel, and existential dread in the Anthropocene. The collection follows a restless, nervy, cosmically abandoned speaker failing at the aspirational markers of adulthood as she flips from city to city, from enchantment to disgust, always reemerging—just barely—on the trains and bridges and bar stools of New York City. A child of the Indian Ocean diaspora, Fernandes enacts the humor and devastation of what it means to exist as a body of contradictions. Her interpretations are muddied. Her feminism is accusatory, messy. Her homelands are theoretical and rootless. The poet converses with goats and throws a fit at a tarot reading; she loves the intimacy of strangers during turbulent plane rides and has dark fantasies about the “hydrogen fruit” of nuclear fallout. Ultimately, these poems possess an affection for the doomed: false beloveds, the hounded earth, civilizations intent on their own ruin. Fernandes skillfully interrogates where to put our fury and, more importantly, where to direct our mercy.

Raising Boys

Raising Boys
Author: Steve Biddulph
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2008
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 158761328X

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"A guide to the stages and issues in boys' development from birth to manhood"--Provided by publisher.

The Good Boy's Guide to Being Good

The Good Boy's Guide to Being Good
Author: Brussels Sprout
Publisher:
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2022-04-12
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0711265941

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The Good Boy’s Guide to Being Good is an entertaining collection of tips, tricks and wisdom to help raise a well-behaved puppy, written from the humorous point of view of Sprout the puppy.