Download or read book Savage Joy written by Robert Dunn and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Savage Joy the narrator, Cole Whitman, straddles his uptown literary world and the budding Lower Manhattan punk scene. When an apartment in his building at 340 East 11th Street opens up, musician Slater Martin moves in, sweeping Cole along into his CBGBs world. Also moving into 340 is Cole's elegant and mysterious literary editor pal Emily Prosser, whom Cole desires unrequitedly. Cole needs a girlfriend, Slater needs a new band, Emily needs a new life. Together the three of them, along with a fiery female drummer called Sailor and a dweeby bassist, Wendell Walter, get a new punk group going, named, by Cole, Savage Joy. What follows among the five of them is both joyful and savage, a feast of love, music, sex, violence, blood, and madness.
Download or read book A Savage Joy written by David Lee Corley and published by White Mountain Commercial LLC. This book was released on 2023-03-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s called the “Black Widow”, a CIA gunship with three high-speed Gatling guns tasked with interdicting North Vietnamese weapon and supply convoys on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. It has no insignias or markings. Painted black it is invisible in the night’s sky… until it strikes. The communist troops call it a “dragon” because of its red tongues of fire that reach down from the heavens and consume whatever they touch. Officially the Black Widow doesn’t exist and neither does Tom Coyle its pilot. Coyle and his crew fly the world’s most dangerous combat missions in the steep mountains of Laos. The jungle-covered slopes are impenetrable and a death sentence for any unlucky aircrews that crash in them. Desperate to keep their supply lines open, the North Vietnamese deploy their most powerful anti-aircraft guns to hunt the dragonship. To cut off the communist troops already in-country, Coyle and his crew will tempt fate to annihilate the convoys before they enter South Vietnam. It’s a high-stakes game of cat and mouse… where the loser dies. Like all books in the airmen series, A Savage Joy is based on historical events and real people. It’s full of military action and suspense. As the Vietnam War escalates, it seems nothing can stop it.
Download or read book This Searing Light the Sun and Everything Else written by Jon Savage and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SUNDAY TIMES Top Ten Bestseller#1 Book of the Year, UNCUT#1 Book of the Year, ROUGH TRADEBook of the Year, MOJOOver the course of two albums and some legendary gigs, Joy Division became the most successful and exciting underground band of their generation. Then, on the brink of a tour to America, Ian Curtis took his own life.In This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else, Jon Savage has assembled three decades' worth of interviews with the principal players in the Joy Division story to create an intimate, candid and definitive account of the band. It is the story of how a group of young men can galvanise a generation of fans, artists and musicians with four chords and three-and-a-half minutes of music. And it is the story of how illness and inner demons can rob the world of a shamanic lead singer and visionary lyricist.
Download or read book A Savage Joy written by Luis E Rosas and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A soldier struggling to leave the missions behind him. A cosmopolitan lawyer searching for a higher purpose. A businesswoman succeeding in everything but love. And a dark secret with deadly consequences. What happens when the life you lead and the person you love can no longer share the same path? This is the question Hector Vidal struggles to answer when an energy company hires his team at Parabellum Risk to secure their newly acquired oil field in Iraq. Hector is ready to lead Bravo team, but for Kelly, his wife, this mission is more than she can bear. After too many sleepless nights over too many deployments, one more is something their strained marriage cannot survive. The choice should be simple, but as the threat of ISIS looms near, the choice between safeguarding his men and saving his failing marriage is anything but. In the end, Hector is compelled to go on one more mission-his last. Just when Hector and Kelly's marriage nears the breaking point, an unexpected arrival further strains their precarious bond-Jessica Beaumont. Jessica Beaumont, the lovely and intelligent lawyer for Norton-Allied Energy, is every man's dream: Attractive, confident, and smart-a femme fatale. As the lead negotiator, she's assigned to travel with Bravo Team to Iraq. There's just one thing: She also happens to be Kelly's estranged stepsister and a dangerous distraction for Hector, who must focus on the mission, his men, and the encroaching ISIS threat. And Jessica is dangerous in more ways than one. The dark secret she has been running from for years has followed her-and her shadowy past is about to burst into light with violent consequences for everyone she knows. Jessica's past will thrust Hector into the most important fight of his life, but will he and those he loves survive the hell to come? A Savage Joy is a gripping story that takes the reader into one man's journey through pulse-quickening danger and heartbreaking decisions and asks what or who do we love most, and how far are we willing to go to safeguard it.
Download or read book A Savage Joy written by Luis Rosas and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A soldier struggling to leave the missions behind, a cosmopolitan lawyer seeking a higher purpose, a businesswoman successful at everything but love, and a dark secret with deadly consequences. What happens when the life you lead and the person you love can no longer share the same path? This is the question Hector Vidal struggles to answer when an energy company hires his team at Parabellum Risk to secure their newly acquired oil field in Iraq. Hector is ready to lead Bravo team, but for Kelly, his wife, this mission is more than she can bear. After too many sleepless nights over too many deployments, one more is something their strained marriage cannot survive. The choice should be simple, but as the threat of ISIS looms near, the choice between safeguarding his men and saving his failing marriage is anything but. In the end, Hector is compelled to go on one more mission-his last. Just when Hector and Kelly's marriage nears the breaking point, an unexpected arrival further strains their precarious bond-Jessica Beaumont. Jessica Beaumont, the lovely and intelligent lawyer for Norton-Allied Energy, is every man's dream: Attractive, confident, and smart-a femme fatale. As the lead negotiator, she's assigned to travel with Bravo Team to Iraq. There's just one thing: She also happens to be Kelly's estranged stepsister and a dangerous distraction for Hector, who must focus on the mission, his men, and the encroaching ISIS threat. And Jessica is dangerous in more ways than one. The dark secret she has been running from for years has followed her-and her shadowy past is about to burst into light with violent consequences for everyone she knows. Jessica's past will thrust Hector into the most important fight of his life, but will he and those he loves survive the hell to come?
Download or read book Savage Joy written by Cassie Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in the world of white people, half-Iroquois Shanndel Lynn, secretly named Rain Singing by her Native American mother, is instantly drawn to visiting Shawnee chief Panther, who is the archenemy of the Iroquois tribe responsible for the death of his wife.
Download or read book The Mystery of Insch Brae House written by Susan Fiddes and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THRILLING DEBUT DETECTIVE AND ADVENTURE NOVEL FOR CHILDREN, PERFECT FOR INDEPENDENT READERS AGED 5 - 9 OR TO BE READ ALOUD BY A GROWN-UP AT BEDTIME. In this thrilling debut novel for children by Susan Fiddes, we first meet Muriel and her mother in the midst of an unexpected family crisis. A crisis that sees Muriel being packed off to the fictional Scottish seaside town of Moreland alone with a chaperone in the middle of winter. As Muriel tries to come to terms with the possibility of being away from home indefinitely; the history of Moreland and its quirky residents are revealed. Soon Muriel sets about investigating the mysterious story of why Moreland has gone from being a thriving seaside town to the run down and dreary place it has become. This an exciting and fantastical adventure, largely fuelled by Muriel's vivid imagination and moral compass as things start to go "bump in the night" at creepy Insch Brae House. When Muriel teams up with local boy Christopher, they soon discover that not everything at the house is what it seems and that there is much more to the fearsome governess, Miss Floss, than they could ever have guessed. The Mystery of Insch Brae House contains strong contemporary themes around bravery, tenacity, honesty, respect, friendship, family and forgiveness that both young independent readers and parents will relate to and enjoy.
Download or read book Harrow written by Joy Williams and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her first novel since the Pulitzer Prize–nominated The Quick and the Dead, the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after an environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic. "She practices ... camouflage, except that instead of adapting to its environment, Williams’s imagination, by remaining true to itself, reveals new colorations in the ecology around her.” —A.O. Scott, The New York Times Book Review Khristen is a teenager who, her mother believes, was marked by greatness as a baby when she died for a moment and then came back to life. After Khristen’s failing boarding school for gifted teens closes its doors, and she finds that her mother has disappeared, she ranges across the dead landscape and washes up at a “resort” on the shores of a mysterious, putrid lake the elderly residents there call “Big Girl.” In a rotting honeycomb of rooms, these old ones plot actions to punish corporations and people they consider culpable in the destruction of the final scraps of nature’s beauty. What will Khristen and Jeffrey, the precocious ten-year-old boy she meets there, learn from this “gabby seditious lot, in the worst of health but with kamikaze hearts, an army of the aged and ill, determined to refresh, through crackpot violence, a plundered earth”? Rivetingly strange and beautiful, and delivered with Williams’s searing, deadpan wit, Harrow is their intertwined tale of paradise lost and of their reasons—against all reasonableness—to try and recover something of it.
Download or read book Where All Light Tends to Go written by David Joy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DEVIL'S PEAK—starring Billy Bob Thornton, Robin Wright, Hopper Penn, and Jackie Earle Haley! In the country-noir tradition of Winter's Bone meets Breaking Bad, a savage and beautiful story of a young man seeking redemption—a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. The area surrounding Cashiers, North Carolina, is home to people of all kinds, but the world that Jacob McNeely lives in is crueler than most. His father runs a methodically organized meth ring, with local authorities on the dime to turn a blind eye to his dealings. Having dropped out of high school and cut himself off from his peers, Jacob has been working for this father for years, all on the promise that his payday will come eventually. The only joy he finds comes from reuniting with Maggie, his first love, and a girl clearly bound for bigger and better things than their hardscrabble town. Jacob has always been resigned to play the cards that were dealt him, but when a fatal mistake changes everything, he’s faced with a choice: stay and appease his father, or leave the mountains with the girl he loves. In a place where blood is thicker than water and hope takes a back seat to fate, Jacob wonders if he can muster the strength to rise above the only life he’s ever known. “Remarkable...This isn’t your ordinary coming-of-age novel, but with his bone-cutting insights into these men and the region that bred them, Joy makes it an extraordinarily intimate experience.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review “Lyrical, propulsive, dark and compelling. Joy knows well the grit and gravel of his world, the soul and blemishes of the place.”—Daniel Woodrell
Download or read book A Better Man written by Leah McLaren and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the only way you could get out of your marriage was to become the perfect husband? Nick and Maya Wakefield's relationship has been in crisis since Maya left her high-powered legal career to stay home with their now 3-year-old twins. Today she feels invisible, anxious, and under-appreciated, and Nick has checked out of family life. Sex is a distant memory and the love is gone. A workaholic and a consummate flirt, Nick has decided he wants out. But he balks when their old friend, a divorce attorney, shows him that as sole breadwinner, he stands to lose the most. Together, he and his friend hatch a plan: Nick will act like an ideal husband and father in order to ease the pain of leaving and make out better in court. So he encourages Maya to go back to work, spends time with the kids, and even takes her on a vacation without them. But with his cynical ruse comes a surprising change of heart. Nick is astonished to find his actual emotions match his act and now his marriage is truly on the mend. That is, until Maya finds out, and Nick's world falls to pieces. Now his only hope of saving his family is to prove to his wife that he really is the man he was pretending to be. A Better Man is a sharply observant novel of the pitfalls of marriage and success, and how one couple must lose it all before they can hope to find their way back.
Download or read book The Line That Held Us written by David Joy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accidental death, and the cover-up that follows, sparks a dark series of events that reverberates through the lives of four people who will never be the same again. When Darl Moody went hunting after a monster buck, a kill that could make the difference between meat for the winter and an empty freezer, he never expected he'd accidentally shoot a man digging ginseng. Worse yet, he's killed a Brewer, a family notorious for vengeance and violence. With nowhere to turn, Darl calls on the help of the only man he knows will answer, his best friend, Calvin Hooper. But when Dwayne Brewer comes looking for his missing brother and stumbles onto a blood trail leading straight back to Darl and Calvin--and to Calvin's girlfriend, Angie--a nightmare of revenge rips apart their world. A story of friendship and family, The Line That Held Us is a tale balanced between destruction and redemption, where the only hope is to hold on tight, clenching those you love. From a writer whose stories are "like a pull from a bottle of Appalachian moonshine: smooth and elegant with a punch in the gut that lingers a while after you're done" (Garden & Gun), Joy's book is another masterwork of Southern noir.
Download or read book Crimson Joy written by Robert B. Parker and published by Dell. This book was released on 2009-09-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Suspenseful . . . almost impossible to put down.”—Sacramento Union In the city of the Red Sox and the Red Line someone is leaving roses—red ones, of course—on the bodies of women he kills. For a psychologist named Susan Silverman and a P.I. named Spenser, the case is personal. But Spenser knows it's the wrong man. Because the right one has come calling on Susan—with a red rose in hand. “A novel worth reading with an ending that is worth waiting for.”—South Bend Tribune
Download or read book Savage Holiday written by Richard Wright and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Savage Holiday, first published in 1954 by noted American author Richard Wright, is a tense, well-written psychological thriller about Erskine Fowler, an insurance executive forced into early retirement, who, over the course of a bizarre weekend, is responsible for the accidental death of his neighbor’s young son. Tragic consequences follow as Fowler attempts to redeem himself and is forced to question his own life, as events spiral out-of-control to their inevitable conclusion.
Download or read book The Changeling written by Joy Williams and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we first meet Pearl - young in years but advanced in her drinking - she's sitting at a hotel bar in Florida, throwing back gin and tonics. Cradled in the crook of her arm is her infant son. But the relief she feels at having fled her abusive husband, and the Northeastern island his family calls home, doesn't last for long. Soon she's being shepherded back. The island, for Pearl, is a place of madness and pain, and her drinking might dull the latter but it spurs on the former. Through the lens of Pearl's fragile consciousness, readers encounter the horror and triumph of both childhood and motherhood. With language that flits between exuberance and elegy, the plainspoken and the poetic, Joy Williams has created a modern fairy-tale, entirely original and entirely consuming.
Download or read book A Savage Joy written by David Lee Corley and published by . This book was released on 2022-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's called the "Black Widow", a CIA gunship with three high-speed Gatling guns tasked with interdicting North Vietnamese weapon and supply convoys on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. It has no insignias or markings. Painted black it is invisible in the night's sky? until it strikes. The communist troops call it a "dragon" because of its red tongues of fire that reach down from the heavens and consume whatever they touch. Officially the Black Widow doesn't exist and neither does Tom Coyle its pilot.Coyle and his crew fly the world's most dangerous combat missions in the steep mountains of Laos. The jungle-covered slopes are impenetrable and a death sentence for any unlucky aircrews that crash in them.Desperate to keep their supply lines open, the North Vietnamese deploy their most powerful anti-aircraft guns to hunt the dragonship. To cut off the communist troops already in-country, Coyle and his crew will tempt fate to annihilate the convoys before they enter South Vietnam. It's a high-stakes game of cat and mouse? where the loser dies.Like all books in the airmen series, A Savage Joy is based on historical events and real people. It's full of military action and suspense. As the Vietnam War escalates, it seems nothing can stop it.A Savage Joy storyline includes:?Assault on Camp Holloway?Battle of Ban Ken Bridge?Operation Flaming Dart?Operation Rolling Thunder?Operation Steel Tiger?Battle of Song Be?Battle of Ba Gia?Battle of Plei Me?Battle of LZ X-Ray?Battle of LZ Albany
Download or read book So This is Permanence written by Ian Curtis and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasure trove of personal writings by the great post-punk singer-songwriter—with a foreword by his wife Deborah and an introduction by Jon Savage. So This Is Permanence presents the lyrics and personal notebooks of one of the most enigmatic and influential music artists of the late twentieth century, Joy Division’s Ian Curtis. The fact of the band’s relatively few releases belies the power and enduring fascination its music holds, especially in light of Curtis’s tragic suicide in 1980 on the eve of the band’s first American tour. This volume features Curtis’s never-before-seen handwritten lyrics, accompanied by earlier drafts and previously unpublished pages from his notebooks that shed fascinating light on his writing and creative process. Also included are an insightful and moving foreword by Curtis’s widow Deborah, a substantial introduction by writer Jon Savage, and an appendix featuring books from Curtis’s library and a selection of fanzine interviews, letters, and other ephemera from his estate.
Download or read book The Weight of this World written by David Joy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically acclaimed author David Joy, whose debut, Where All Light Tends to Go, was hailed as "a savagely moving novel that will likely become an important addition to the great body of Southern literature" (The Huffington Post), returns to the mountains of North Carolina with a powerful story about the inescapable weight of the past. A combat veteran returned from war, Thad Broom can't leave the hardened world of Afghanistan behind, nor can he forgive himself for what he saw there. His mother, April, is haunted by her own demons, a secret trauma she has carried for years. Between them is Aiden McCall, loyal to both but unable to hold them together. Connected by bonds of circumstance and duty, friendship and love, these three lives are blown apart when Aiden and Thad witness the accidental death of their drug dealer and a riot of dope and cash drops in their laps. On a meth-fueled journey to nowhere, they will either find the grit to overcome the darkness or be consumed by it.
