Download or read book True Notebooks written by Mark Salzman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-08-31 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.’s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and astonished him that he began to teach there regularly. In voices of indelible emotional presence, the boys write about what led them to crime and about the lives that stretch ahead of them behind bars. We see them coming to terms with their crime-ridden pasts and searching for a reason to believe in their future selves. Insightful, comic, honest and tragic, True Notebooks is an object lesson in the redemptive power of writing.

Download or read book Three Days of Happiness written by Sugaru Miaki and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HOW MUCH IS LIFE TRULY WORTH?Kusunoki used to believe he was destined for great things. Ostracized as a child, he held on to a belief that a good life was waiting for him in the years ahead. Now approaching the age of twenty, he’s a completely mediocre college student with no motivation, no dreams, and no money. After learning he can sell his remaining years—and just how little they’re worth—he chooses to divest himself of all but his last three months. Has Kusunoki truly destroyed his last chance to find happiness...or has he somehow found it?

Download or read book Murder by Tradition written by Katherine V. Forrest and published by Spinsters Ink. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Teddie Crawford is dead from multiple stab wounds in a restaurant kitchen awash with blood. LAPD homicide detective Kate Delafield is relentless in her pursuit and capture of his killer. But bringing that killer to trial imperils Kate’s professional standing and personal privacy—and her belief in the justice system to which she has devoted her life. The suspect claims self-defense—that Teddie Crawford made a homosexual advance and backed it up with a knife. Yet everything Kate learns about Teddie Crawford tells her that his murder was deliberate. And to develop proof of first degree murder, she must find clear answers to mystifying questions for the prosecuting attorney—a woman who has never before prosecuted a homicide case. Kate is increasingly isolated as she tries to shield her young lover from the brutal realities of this case and finds few allies among her LAPD brethren. Even her partner, Ed Taylor, is loathe to aggressively pursue a case involving a dead gay man and his gay associates. As the trial date looms, she discovers she has a personal stake: the defense attorney is a man from her past. A man with the power to expose the private life she has kept rigidly separate from her life as a police officer. Murder by Tradition reaches new heights in the powerful storytelling readers have come to expect from Katherine V. Forrest. Lambda Literary Award Winner.

Download or read book Indecent Liberties written by Stephen Armstrong and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-05-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Officer Adam Styles is back! Riding the mean streets of Petersburg on the midnight shift; where the calls for service are like no other!This dynamic sequel to the bestselling DO NOT GO GENTLE, opens with a bang! One cop is caught committing an unspeakable violation of trust as a tense hostage negotiation unfolds across town. All the while, a serial rapist is stalking the women of the Cockade City.From the squad car to the E.R., this HOT follow-up promises to be even more exciting than the original! Steve Armstrong takes you on another wild ride-along where you have a front seat for all the action!

Download or read book The Cockade City Collection written by Steve Armstrong and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midnight patrol officer Adam Styles struggles to keep peace on the streets of Petersburg, the Cockade City.

Download or read book Fairy Tale Blues written by Tina Welling and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-03-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Crybaby Ranch, who ?writes with insight, humor, and complete control? (Tim Sandlin). On the night of her twenty-sixth wedding anniversary, AnnieLaurie McFall does the unthinkable. Without a word to her husband Jess, she walks out on their celebration dinner and catches a flight to Florida. It?s time for a sabbatical from marriage?and some serious soul-searching. So she sets herself up in the small coastal town of Hibiscus and creates the perfect six-month retreat to reimagine a storybook ending that could actually come true with Jess still her prince. What she discovers along the way is far more surprising, outrageous, and just plain fun than she ever expects.

Download or read book Twice as Perfect written by Louisa Onomé and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Young Adult novel by Louisa Onomé, Twice As Perfect follows a Nigerian Canadian girl dealing with an estranged older brother, helping her cousin plan a big Nigerian wedding, and pressure from her parents about her future. She thinks the only things worth doing are those that will lead to success. For seventeen-year-old Adanna Nkwachi, life is all about duty: to school and the debate team, to her Nigerian parents, and even to her cousin Genny as Adanna helps prepare Genny’s wedding to Afrobeats superstar Skeleboy. Because ever since her older brother, Sam, had a fight with their parents a few years ago and disappeared, somebody had to fill the void he left behind. Adanna may never understand what caused Sam to leave home, but the one thing she knows is that it’s on her to make sure her parents’ sacrifices aren’t in vain. One day, chance brings the siblings together again and they start working to repair their bond. Although she fears how their parents will react if they find out, Adanna’s determined to get answers about the night Sam left—Sam, who was supposed to be an engineer but is now, what, a poet? The more she learns about Sam’s poetry, the more Adanna begins to wonder if maybe her own happiness is just as important as doing what’s expected of her. Amid parental pressure, anxiety over the debate competition, a complicated love life, and the Nigerian wedding-to-end-all-weddings, can Adanna learn, just this once, to put herself first?

Download or read book Patricia Highsmith s Diaries and Notebooks The New York Years 1941 1950 written by Patricia Highsmith and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential for understanding Patricia Highsmith’s transgressive life and prophetic work, this volume is also “one of the most observant and ecstatic accounts . . . about being young and alive in New York City” (Dwight Garner,—New York Times). Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for the big screen; before her suave and sociopathic Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense; and before The Price of Salt became a cult classic of romantic obsession, who was Patricia Highsmith? Focused on her formative years in Manhattan, this condensed edition of Highsmith’s monumental Diaries and Notebooks reveals “Pat” at her most passionate and florescent. Beginning in 1941 at Barnard College and encompassing the Texas native’s adventurous twenties,?The New York Years intertwines scenes from her dizzying social life—rife with sleepless nights barhopping in the queer underground Greenwich Village scene, always juggling too many lovers—with an intimate self-portrait of a young artist who by day dispassionately wrote comics for a paycheck. Amid all the hangovers and the breakups, she read voraciously and honed her craft with verve. Laid bare in this perennial reader’s edition are the bold, hilarious, romantic, tragic, and maddeningly contradictory observations of one of “our greatest modernist writers” (Gore Vidal).

Download or read book Listen written by Caleb Anderson and published by Made For Success Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of prayer, speaking personally with God, might sound strange to you – even more, hearing from God. But it doesn’t have to be! Hearing from God is not just a privilege limited to prophets of old, it is something that happens in our everyday moments. God is talking to us all the time in many ways. The question is not whether God speaks to you. The question is, are you listening? Caleb Anderson’s Listen will open your ears, eyes, heart and soul to the words God is speaking into your life. Whether prayer is something new for you or you have lived your whole life in faith, it will encourage you to hear God in new ways. If you can stop and learn to listen, it just might change everything.

Download or read book Bon S Echo written by Patricia T Runyon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two runaway teens struggle to make it together on the streets, facing obstacles and adventures. They go from city to city with the constant fear of being brought in by the police. Feeling frustrated and alone, Christy, a restless young teen, strikes out on her own. Fleeing a town and family she cant seem to fit into. Christy hitch-hikes to Denver to hide out at her uncles house. A short lived freedom when in the middle of the night her parents arrive to drag her back home. Despite their efforts, she barely escapes by hopping a train in the dark. Fate lands Christy in the arms of a boy named Bon, another runaway. She introduces herself to him as Echo, and soon a romance buds between them. Determined not to return to their previous lives, they head for the coast, getting by however they can. Pan handling, hitching on the open highways and enduring every conflict and adventure together. After years the two runaways realize that sometimes life is about making hard choices. Bon and Echo vow that they will find each other again one daybut only time will tell what fate has in store for them.

Download or read book Three Plays written by Frank Hatherley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-12-09 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These three plays - Open for Inspection, Manly Mates and My Henry Lawson are a farce, a comedy and a drama first presented by the Peninsula Theatre Company in Sydney. Enjoy reading about Sydney's famous real estate tug of wars, a taste of 'real life' political corruption and the fascinating true story of the relationship between Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson.

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Download or read book No Final Whistle written by John Barry and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A no punches pulled story of an American sailor in Vietnam. Action, adventure, mystery and intrigue. Written by a US Navy Vietnam veteran.

Download or read book Real and Phantom Pains written by and published by New Acdemia+ORM. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of ten plays embodying the Russian literary movement that began in the late twentieth century. The plays selected for this anthology reflect the issues and styles typical of the new wave of dramatic writing in Russia. New drama flourished (almost) exclusively in small spaces, often in dingy basements that employed and accommodated small numbers of people. The big theaters largely turned a blind eye to what was happening on small stages and in backrooms in playhouses, libraries, and community centers in a few chosen hot spots around Russia: primarily Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Togliatti. In many cases, they took actively hostile stances toward it. This would change, however. And by the beginning of the century’s second decade, new drama was threatening to become a mainstream phenomenon. Not every theater staged plays associated with new drama, but almost every one began staging plays influenced by the themes, methods, and language of the new drama movement. Featuring work from Yury Klavdiev, Olga Mukhina, Pavel Pryazhko, Vasily Sigarev, Maksym Kurochkin, Mikhail Durnenkov, Vyacheslav Durnenkov, Yaroslava Pulinovich, Yelena Gremina, and Maxim Osipov. “Few people know more about what is happening on the Moscow scene than John Freedman (including few Russians). As Moscow Times theater critic throughout the post-Soviet period John could well have seen more theatrical productions in Russia than anyone else. I can’t imagine anyone who would do a better job.” —Blair A. Ruble, Director, Program on Global Sustainability & Resilience, Woodrow Wilson Center “While other existing volumes focus on 18th, 19th, and early 20th century Russian drama, Freedman’s edition would present the unique and important contributions of the new generation of Russian writers portraying the realities and experiences of a post-Soviet generation. John has carefully selected a representative cohort of ten of the most visible, productive, and influential of these writers for the volume.” —Thomas J. Garza, University Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin

Download or read book The Longest Journey My Story A Memoir written by Tyler Madaski and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Longest Journey My Story is a story of Faith, Honor, Love, Survival and the fight for freedom. In this book the readers will see what many terrifying things go on in the systems we live in each day along with people in Northern Saskatchewan the many things they do that are truly horrendous. The facts that lay hidden of Girls as old as 15 years old being sodomized by two Men after they got them drunk under age in a bar. To then costing one man the love of his life after he tried to help get justice for those Girls. The Longest Journey My Story with Part 2 Out Cast The End tells of the story one man had to live there and the fear of not being able to live again nor be free.

Download or read book The Notebooks of Michael Mabius written by Elia Katz and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Mabius is a young writer who has experienced great success and great failure. He has hobbled a once-soaring literary career with the heavy burdens of too many drugs, too much sex, and the tragic wasting that comes with time-consuming, enervating social interactions among too many friends who are no friends at all. Now, to save himself, he needs two things - to write the great book he has known all his life he must write, and to live once again with the only woman he has ever loved - Susan. But Susan has recently married another man, though Michael refuses to accept this fact. And Michael's creative energies are being poured out in writing dialog for cartoon rodents to say in hopeless films, so he can earn the money to pay for the drugs that provide him with the only traces of warmth left in his world.

Download or read book Free Live Free written by Gene Wolfe and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Jim Stubb, the occultist Madame Serpentina, the salesman Ozzie Barnes, and the prostitute Candy Garth live together in Free's house before it is demolished. While there, Free offers clues to his origins and the ultimate key to returning to his homeland.