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Print: $13.91 Download: $1.95 This is the Podcast Edition of Paco the Great, read by the author on the Paco the Great Podcast, pacothegreat.net. What does it mean when you have a crush on your wrestling opponent after you just kicked his butt? Can you fall in love with a teammate? Paco's teammate Chad missed school, everyone in the baseball bleachers knows, for a sexual abuse trial. Most parents frown upon him because he acts out, but Paco's parents accept the friend their son brings home. Their friendship has evolved with the ferocity of a wolf pack by the time Paco's great-grandfather tells him he's a two-spirit. Will his parents accept their son for who he is? Do they know? Looking at sexual abuse, alcoholism, recovery, and the prejudice in cultural expectations, this is the writer's first novel and book one in the series narrated by Paco and his pack.
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Print: $13.92 Download: $1.95 Jeremiah Hoffereene may as well be an offering, for the sacrifices he makes to win on the wrestling mat. His coach, whose wife is cheating on him, takes out his problems on Jeremiah and ostracizes him after three days of not eating anything isn’t enough and he doesn’t make weight. But the kind of wrestling team Jeremiah has built isn’t just a gang of dumb jocks. Not with kids like Paco De Colores and the wolf pack from Paco the Great. This is book two in the series about the value of friendship and extended families to kids who are abused, gay, or from alcoholic families. This novel logs the end of a dream and the hope after awakening.
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Print: $12.92 Download: $1.95 This collection of short stories and poems elaborates the roller coaster emotions of a writer coming out while recovering from early childhood sexual abuse. His "others" found face and communicated their unique perspectives on what happened and how they searched for a new way to live rather than merely survive. The poems and stories of this collection share the triumphs, failures, HIV scares, sexcapades, and coming out of a writer detailing his mistakes and self-discovery. These pieces document the writer's early recovery, coming out, and writing.
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Print: $8.92 Download: $1.95 A gay poet's collection carries the reader along a lyrical journey through the local color of Chicago's boystown with its dancefloor romances and surreal, bath house encounters. Apellasios' style blends classical and contemporary elements, coupling traditional sonnet structure and allusions to mythology with onomatopoeia, internal rhyme, and metaphors extended to the godlike recipients of the writer's admiration. The poet paints pages with the details of affection and immortal moments that would have died if they had not been bound in this collection. The pieces show a shift from the writer's protest fiction into lyrical compassion for self and society.
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Print: $13.92 Download: $1.95 Everybody loves Elias Van J'Lis: the best dancer, teen pop star, unorthodox wrestler, and the weirdest, funniest, Christian kid in school. Everybody adores him, but no one knows his secrets and shame. Conversations with God are two-way as he ventures off to wrestle in college. Away from home, those rattling bones creak open his closet and he sees ancient, traumatic visions he thought he'd buried with his father. Called to the Mat uncovers a reality that doesn't neatly fit into the God box but lies more intimately between Elias's own front and back covers. This novel is the funniest of the series.
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Print: $13.92 Download: $1.95 Jeremy wrestles both on the mat and with his secrets. He loves winning almost as much as he loves his teammates! He starves himself to make weight, only to lose from weakness. Wrestling has been all he's lived for, but he's failing at this obstacle to suicide until his teammate Paco, who idolizes Jeremy, asks, "Why don't you come stay with me?" Jeremy isn't the first kid Paco's Native family has adopted into their clan; a foster brother, John, comes home from a halfway house to see his "cousins" wrestle. John's recovery depends on rigorous honesty, including the fact that he is gay. Jeremy and John share more than an orientation; they also entrust each other with personal histories of sexual abuse. Broken self-worth meeting drugs and diseases makes for a complicated inheritance of gay culture. “Is this what I hung on for?” Jeremy asks as he discovers the circuitry of the gay underworld on his search for intimacy. Novel VII is the author's favorite of the books available.
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Print: $21.82 Download: $1.95 Paco's wrestling teammate, Chad, missed so much school for the sexual abuse trial. Parents don't want their kids hanging around him because he acts out, but Paco's parents don't object when their son picks Chad as a friend. Paco feels horses gallop through his chest when they're together, and their closeness has evolved with the ferocity of a wolf pack by the time his great-grandfather tells him he's a two-spirit. Will his parents accept their son for who he is? Do they know? Can he have a crush on an opponent and still beat him in a match? Looking at sexual abuse, alcoholism, recovery, and the prejudice in cultural expectations, this book is the first in the Thunder Boys Series narrated by Paco and his pack.
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Print: $14.92 Download: $1.95 Your family is dark, and you stumble, nearly trip, over suicide. Even though you’re only fourteen, you drown yourelf in whiskey as often as you can find the true love who obsesses over you as much as you do him. You can’t get over him or any drug, but someone points to a way out where people tell your story as much as their own. John Grotten, from PACO THE GREAT and THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH, narrates this explicit story of abuse, addiction, and recovery: how he met Paco De Colores, how he lived with Lord Randolf My Son, how he came out. ON MY KNEES is a brutalized boy’s moony story seeking sunshine. Do not expect Disney; the kid is damaged goods and has to learn how to live the way he's become. This was readers' favorite of the first six books!
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