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Author
Publisher
Inkling Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The Last Piano bar is set at Vahl's Restaurant in the lost port of Alviso. Beebe, as spry country musician Blackie calls her, loses her sorrows learning to sing. Dazzling Miss Rita of an indeterminate age lends elegance to a mature crowd--from baby boomers like Beebe, to dapper 90 year olds like Mr. Frank, who says, "Music is Happiness."
"Meanwhile, in the marshes dredged to make a canal to the San Francisco Bay, Beebe's real man from long ago--just...
3) On the road
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast.
Author
Publisher
Inkling Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Depiction of life on the edge of Silicon Valley after 9/11 events spark secret operations in a historic factory. It is revealed through the viewpoints of an "Arkie" fruit picker (as a child) and a man who lost his job due to the dot com crash and alcohol. This story is based on a life experience by the author.
Author
Publisher
Inkling Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Searching for the truth of what happened to her mentor, Elizabeth, in Edgar Cayce's organization fifty years earlier, Caroline Ryder is propelled on a cross country quest. Entering Cayce's graduate school resurrected after its closing in 1929, Ryder feels like a time traveler. Unseen forces above the humid beach and southern waters draw friends, foes and past life loves together in "Karma City," as insiders call Cayce's association in Virginia Beach....
7) Swan again
Author
Publisher
Inkling Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The continuing saga of Flower Child Caroline Ryder. This story is based on a life experience by the author.
9) Side roads
Author
Publisher
Inkling Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The continuing saga of Flower Child Caroline Ryder. This story is based on a life experience by the author.
Author
Publisher
Inkling Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Caroline Ryder meets a cross dresser pal who takes her into an unusual gender-bending milieu to work out the issues in her life. Finding her an understanding friend, transvestite Ken projects onto her, his past life fantasy of submission to a powerful Goddess. But can she take real Goddess power into her hand when men like her rogue lover Aidan Rose--and even Ken--become disrespectful to women? This story is based on a life experience by the author....
Author
Publisher
Inkling Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When Caroline Ryder determines to “live out her novels and write out her life,” she encounters a Southern writer who also has a “complicated life”. He calls her from karmic entanglements to the timeless realm of soul mates beyond time. This story is based on a life experience by the author.
13) Parting the veil
Author
Publisher
Inkling Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Caroline Ryder has taken dark Goddess power into her own hands, wielded havoc behind the scenes. Now while they visit a shadowy realm of dominance and submission one last time, relationships are breaking up--those of rogue professor Aidan Rose, and transvestite Ken, who has become ill. Soon Colly is at his side, reaching out to others at the Veteran's Hospital halls. Meanwhile Aidan wants her more than ever. She turns for advice to former cult leader...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Years before the Beats arrived in San Francisco, the city exploded with artistic expressions: painting, theatre, film, poetry. At its center was the groundbreaking filmmaker and poet James Broughton. Big Joyexplores Broughton's passionate embrace of a life of pansexual transcendence and a fiercely independent mantra: 'follow your own weird.' His remarkable story spans the post-war San Francisco Renaissance, his influence on the Beat generation, escape...
15) Beat hotel
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
1957, Paris. A cheap no-name hotel becomes a haven for a new breed of artists struggling to free themselves from the conformity and censorship of America. Called the Beat hotel, it soon became an epicenter of the beat generation. This revelatory new documentary delves deep into this amazing place and time. Fleeing the obscenity trials surrounding the publication of Howl, Allen Ginsberg, along with Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso, happened upon the...
16) On the road
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Traveling cross-country, young writer Sal Paradise has his life shaken by the arrival of free-spirited Dean Moriarty and his girl, Marylou. As they travel across the country, they encounter a mix of people who each impact their journey indelibly.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Publisher's description: Beginning in New York in 1944, James Campbell finds the leading members of what was to become the Beat Generation in the shadows of madness and criminality. Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs had each seen the insides of a mental hospital and a prison by the age of thirty. A few months after they met, another member of their circle committed a murder that involved Kerouac and Burroughs as material witnesses....
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