Download or read book Get Thick or Die Trying written by Mone Rose and published by Mone Rose. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a book of self expression , it shines the light on the extent of which women are willing to go all in the name of beauty.
Download or read book A Practical Way to Get Rich and Die Trying written by John Roa and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A scathingly honest memoir of entrepreneurship's dark reality... I would advise every entrepreneur--or anyone who dreams of becoming one--to read this book." --Eric Schurenberg - CEO, Fast Company and Inc. A young tech entrepreneur's memoir of building his hugely successful company and the mental and physical price he paid for it At the age of twenty-six, John Roa was an aspiring but struggling entrepreneur. He was broke, racking up debt, and ready to give up on his dream of being self-made. In a final effort, he founded the design firm ÄKTA, which quickly became one of the fastest growing startups in America, and just five years later, he sold it for a fortune to Salesforce, the largest company in San Francisco. This is his account of rising from a self-described below-average student to becoming a poster boy for the successful young entrepreneur, while nearly destroying himself in the process. His journey is an absurd, twisting, and often comical story of talent, luck, rapidly changing technology, larger-than-life personalities, sex, gambling, and excessive alcohol and drug consumption—which ultimately took their toll, resulting in a spectacular burnout that he almost didn’t survive. As he healed in the aftermath, he began to question the ethos that had brought him to that dark place, and over time, came to realize how common these debilitating issues are in entrepreneurship, even if they are rarely discussed openly. Rather than another glamorous rags-to-riches saga, A Practical Way to Get Rich . . . and Die Trying is a cautionary and deeply honest memoir about the price of success for ambitious young people, who are so often unprepared for the adversity, mental health issues, and abuse that can come along with “making it.” It also serves as the foundation for a campaign of honesty and vulnerability, in an industry that currently lacks both.
Download or read book A Practical Way to Get Rich and Die Trying written by John Roa and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A scathingly honest memoir of entrepreneurship's dark reality... I would advise every entrepreneur--or anyone who dreams of becoming one--to read this book." --Eric Schurenberg - CEO, Fast Company and Inc. A young tech entrepreneur's memoir of building his hugely successful company and the mental and physical price he paid for it At the age of twenty-six, John Roa was an aspiring but struggling entrepreneur. He was broke, racking up debt, and ready to give up on his dream of being self-made. In a final effort, he founded the design firm ÄKTA, which quickly became one of the fastest growing startups in America, and just five years later, he sold it for a fortune to Salesforce, the largest company in San Francisco. This is his account of rising from a self-described below-average student to becoming a poster boy for the successful young entrepreneur, while nearly destroying himself in the process. His journey is an absurd, twisting, and often comical story of talent, luck, rapidly changing technology, larger-than-life personalities, sex, gambling, and excessive alcohol and drug consumption—which ultimately took their toll, resulting in a spectacular burnout that he almost didn’t survive. As he healed in the aftermath, he began to question the ethos that had brought him to that dark place, and over time, came to realize how common these debilitating issues are in entrepreneurship, even if they are rarely discussed openly. Rather than another glamorous rags-to-riches saga, A Practical Way to Get Rich . . . and Die Trying is a cautionary and deeply honest memoir about the price of success for ambitious young people, who are so often unprepared for the adversity, mental health issues, and abuse that can come along with “making it.” It also serves as the foundation for a campaign of honesty and vulnerability, in an industry that currently lacks both.
Download or read book You Can Die Trying written by Gar Anthony Haywood and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVGunner attempts to set the record straight for a dead police officer with a racist past/divDIV/divDIVNo one in South Central is surprised when Jack McGovern, a brutally racist cop, is accused of gunning down a black teenager in cold blood. But they are shocked when the LAPD actually responds to the charges, firing McGovern and leaving him without badge, pension, or pride. Eight months later, a thief breaks into a stereo store and encounters the disgraced cop, now a night security guard. McGovern draws his gun and, to the thief’s surprise, shoots himself in the head./divDIV /divDIVFew mourn the suicide, but one citizen is unsettled. A witness to the shooting that ended McGovern’s career, Mitchell Flowers knows the cop wasn’t lying when he said the teenager had fired first. Flowers hires private detective Aaron Gunner to clear the dead cop’s name—pitting Gunner against every civilian in South Central. Soon Gunner tugs on a chain of police corruption that stretches all the way to the top of the LAPD./div
Download or read book Die Trying written by Lee Child and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Reacher finds himself in bad company in the second novel in Lee Child’s #1 New York Times bestselling series. DON'T MISS REACHER ON PRIME VIDEO! Jack Reacher is an innocent bystander when he witnesses a woman kidnapped off a Chicago street in broad daylight. In the wrong place at the wrong time, he’s kidnapped with her. Chained together, locked in the back of a stifling van, and racing across America to an unknown destination for an unknown purpose, they’re at the mercy of a group of men demanding an impossible ransom. Because this mysterious woman is worth more than Reacher ever suspected. Now he has to save them both—from the inside out—or die trying....
Download or read book Get Rich or Die Trying written by Steve Murphy and published by AbbottPress. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Steve Murphy dares to step where no humorist has stepped before in his compilation of hilarious short stories, jokes, sketches, and illustrations that he is sure will either make him rich or get him killed. In these stories, Murphy satirizes a childrens author as he is put on the stand and drilled about his questionable book titles by an attorney who speaks in italics; shares pick-up lines tailored for a polygamist; offers life lessons from a pee-wee football coacha former steroid user who is not afraid of anyone; and provides proof that men really can multitask by sharing the unedited thoughts of one such man as he visualizes a better future while taking a bath. Get Rich or Die Trying captures one mans absurd sensibilities as he encourages others to share in the joy of laughter and the craziness of life.
Download or read book How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying written by Django Wexler and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundhog Day meets Guardians of the Galaxy in Django Wexler’s laugh-out-loud fantasy tale about a young woman who, tired of defending humanity from the Dark Lord, decides to become the Dark Lord herself. "Takes the old saying 'If you can't beat 'em, join 'em,' to the next level. A sarcastic, action-packed, intrigue-filled (mis)adventure. One of the funniest books I've read in a long time."--Matt Dinniman, author of Dungeon Crawler Carl Davi has done this all before. She’s tried to be the hero and take down the all-powerful Dark Lord. A hundred times she’s rallied humanity and made the final charge. But the time loop always gets her in the end. Sometimes she’s killed quickly. Sometimes it takes a while. But she’s been defeated every time. This time? She’s done being the hero and done being stuck in this endless time loop. If the Dark Lord always wins, then maybe that’s who she needs to be. It’s Davi’s turn to play on the winning side. Burningblade & Silvereye Ashes of the Sun Blood of the Chosen Emperor of Ruin
Download or read book Riverkeep written by Martin Stewart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When 15-year-old Wulliam's father is possessed by a dark spirit, Wull must care for him and take on his family's mantle of Riverkeep, tending the Danek"--
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Download or read book HE BANNA Inside South Africa s First Imaginary Men s Conference written by Ace Moloi and published by Pen Pal Communications. This book was released on 2024-04-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IMAGINE one day men stopped clowning about attending a theoretical men’s conference, and actually organised a real one? Most of us ask ourselves this question each year on Valentine’s Day when the imaginary conference tantrums start, but only one man had all the boredom in the world to think it out loud. And now we’re here. HE BANNA: Inside South Africa’s First Imaginary Men’s Conference is a commissioned report filed by Ace Moloi about the conference’s developments, deliberations and resolutions as he imagined they would be. Headlined by mental health, gender-based violence, rape culture, fatherhood and more, this book aspires to be a journalistic offering that gives a blow-by-blow commentary of what transpired at the conference. Here, shebeen arguments are treated with the same literary respect enjoyed by superior logic. Disclaimer: The book itself is imaginary. So, you might have to verify the contents first before you tap to pay.
Download or read book The 17th Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK Alan E Nourse written by Alan E. Nourse and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACKTM series showcases great science fiction authors whose work might otherwise be forgotten. This time we focus on Alan E. Nourse, medical doctor and science fiction author, who paid his way through med school with his writing. He may be most famous as the author whose title was "borrowed" for the movie Bladerunner...though the movie was based on Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Nourse published just a handful of novels in addition to his magazine stories, but he was well regarded at the time, and his work has stood up well. We are delighted to include no less than 22 of his classic tales in this volume. Here are: MARLEY'S CHAIN CONSIGNMENT DERELICT INFINITE INTRUDER LETTER OF THE LAW BRIGHTSIDE CROSSING PRoblem BEAR TRAP THE COFFIN CURE MARTYR THE NATIVE SOIL CONTAMINATION CREW GOLD IN THE SKY STAR SURGEON AN OUNCE OF CURE CIRCUS THE DARK DOOR IMAGE OF THE GODS MEETING OF THE BOARD MY FRIEND BOBBY SECOND SIGHT THE LINK If you enjoy this book, search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 200+ other entries in the series, covering mysteries, science fiction, modern authors, westerns, classics, adventure stories, and much, much more!
Download or read book The Fourth Tier written by Penn Fawn and published by Penn Fawn Books. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fourth Tier is the first book of the Underworld series, a spin off from author Penn Fawn's Necropolis dark fantasy novels. For the deceased, the underworld represents a terrifying awakening. It is where men who believe after they die they will sleep in eternal peace go, as opposed to being in a state where they are forever at rest. The fourth tier is the deepest, darkest, most terrifying place in the afterlife where only the most unfortunate souls might be downcast. It is home to the master of sorcery and dark arts, the necromancer, and his alliance of beasts and the undead. This is precisely where our protagonist, Hespatia, and her peers who've fallen from grace find themselves. A desperate struggle to try and find a way out is their fare in this place filled with horror, and abound with curses and danger at every corner that the necromancer instills to keep all who try to escape in line.
Download or read book A Drinking Life written by Pete Hamill and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling memoir from a seasoned New York City reporter is "a vivid report of a journey to the edge of self-destruction" (New York Times). !--StartFragment-- As a child during the Depression and World War II, Pete Hamill learned early that drinking was an essential part of being a man, inseparable from the rituals of celebration, mourning, friendship, romance, and religion. Only later did he discover its ability to destroy any writer's most valuable tools: clarity, consciousness, memory. In A Drinking Life, Hamill explains how alcohol slowly became a part of his life, and how he ultimately left it behind. Along the way, he summons the mood of an America that is gone forever, with the bittersweet fondness of a lifelong New Yorker. !--EndFragment--"Magnificent. A Drinking Life is about growing up and growing old, working and trying to work, within the culture of drink." --Boston Globe
Download or read book Bloodlust written by Hubbard J. Tozer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A legion of warrior vampires must seek out the help of a mystical oracle to release them from their unwilling service to an evil creature known only as "The Seer." Cerrunos Mace has been the leader of the Elite for centuries and is desperate to free his warriors from the curse that he brought upon them before it's too late. Aron Ethos resents his responsibility to the temple of a goddess he does not believe in, but an event that threatens his sister's life forces him to choose between light and dark. Zackarius never wanted to be a part of the coven, but he never had a choice, and it will take a beautiful girl in white robes to give him a reason worth living. Eryka feels responsible for the unspeakable acts brought upon the people of Torrea, and is determined to make the Seer pay...at all costs.
Download or read book Ironheart written by Allan Boroughs and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘First comes the iron and then comes the snow, and then comes the winter when nothing will grow.’ Since her father went missing while prospecting for oil in Siberia, life has been tougher than ever for India Bentley. Little does she know that he was actually searching for Ironheart, a legendary fortress containing the secrets of the old world. A place some say could save humanity . . . or destroy the world. Along with tech-hunter Verity Brown and her android, Calculus, a killer from the old world turned protector in the new, India must make the journey to remote Siberia to try to find her father and finish his work. But there are others fighting to find Ironheart too – and they have very different goals in mind. If India fails, it won’t just be her father who pays the price. It will cost her the Earth.
Download or read book Lightning Has Struck written by Leila Adibmehr and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swooped up into a gloomy sky and hurled into a world of wacky wizards, brain-sucking monsters, and impenetrable mazes, the four best friends and the other kids they encounter, discover that they are caught up in a real-life computer game with hidden dangers at every turn. But it’s not all bad news for our adventurers because when they achieve certain objectives they are awarded superpowers! Fighting their way through this dark dimension, the friends uncover terrible secrets that test the limits of their friendship and threaten to keep them from ever getting home. Will they finally get out or will they be held there awaiting their dubious fate? This book is filled with plenty of suspense that will keep you at the edge of your seat to the very end.
Download or read book The Seeds of Wither written by Lauren DeStefano and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the Chemical Garden with an all-new eBook sampler! Discover the world author Lauren DeStefano created in Wither, a riveting dystopian thriller. In the not-so-distant future, fallout from genetic engineering causes all females to die at age twenty, and all males to die at twenty-five. Kidnapped from her home and torn from her twin brother Rowan, sixteen-year-old Rhine is forced into a polygamous marriage and taken to live in her husband’s mansion. She has everything she wants—except for freedom. But her plans to escape and return home are complicated by a devious father-in-law, as well as Rhine’s growing attraction to Gabriel, a servant who works on the estate. Read the first 100 pages of Wither and be captivated by Rhine’s journey. This eBook sampler includes an EXCLUSIVE, never-before-published short story by Lauren DeStefano! “The First Bride” reveals the events leading up to Wither, from the point of view of the bride that came before Rhine. Delve even deeper into Wither with a map of the wives’ floor, the Wither book trailer, and a video that takes you behind the scenes of the Fever cover shoot. You'll also get a sneak peak of Fever, the second book in the Chemical Garden trilogy, before it goes on sale 2/21/12!
