Download or read book Goodbye to the Nervous Apprehension written by Michael Heald and published by Perfect Day Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across eleven essays, Michael Heald compulsively measures himself against men like Eli Manning, Ryan Gosling, and Stephen Malkmus, and always comes up short. After a decade of failed relationships, estranged siblings, and abandoned hopes, he may or may not have learned his lesson. Goodbye to the Nervous Apprehension is not nearly as depressing as any of this sounds. "Sneaky deep" - The Oregonian "Truly brilliant" - The Baltimore City Paper "Fiercely observant" - The Portland Review "A kind of field guide to Heald's twenties. In his telling, this is a decade of self-definition and self-discovery -- a time that's both painful and thrilling. Above all, Goodbye is about dealing with disappointment, and learning how to embrace a life that doesn't fit the pattern you'd set for yourself.” —Think Out Loud, Oregon Public Broadcasting “Michael Heald is not a big guy, but he’s got huge balls. In these tales of fumbling young adulthood—written in quick, limber, lacerating prose—he peers deeply into the mess of ambition, privilege, envy, and horniness that defines our endless American adolescence, and comes out with something like wisdom.” —Jon Raymond, author of Rain Dragon and Livability “Full of compassionate warmth and just a little bit of snark, this great debut might steal your heart and/or break it.” —Kevin Sampsell, author of A Common Pornography “Michael Heald is a fearless writer. These sharply observed essays—about intense adolescent friendships, terrifically awkward sex, and the peculiar psychic pain of knowing famous people but not actually being one oneself—are funny and sad and wistful and shrewd. At their heart is a deep exploration of ambition, and of how we decide who we want to become.” —Emily Chenoweth, author of Hello Goodbye “Michael Heald is raw and funny, hopeful about all the wrong things, afraid of what might actually save him; he transcends everything but his own agonizing perception of self.” —Vanessa Veselka, author of Zazen “An insightful journey through the cultural landscape, Goodbye to the Nervous Apprehension captures perfectly the strain of those post-college years, especially for those of us who insisted on maintaining a consistency between our youthful artistic selves and our eventual adult personas.” —Blake Nelson, author of Girl and Paranoid Park

Download or read book The Dusty Jumper written by Jonah Hall and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of personal essays and reflections on the game of basketball, fandom, and identity. From childhood memories of growing up with the Boston Celtics, to playing the sport as a means of coping with adolescence, this is about basketball as a means of connection. Whether playing, watching, reading, writing, or cheering from the stands, the game has me firmly in its grasp. This book is my way of appreciating the game and how it has connected me to others.

Download or read book Never Say Goodbye written by Claire Lorrimer and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 17, Scilla's world fell apart when her first love, Dallas, returned to Australia without even saying goodbye. Ten years later she moves to Libya to make a fresh start as nanny to her sister's children. Her life, at long last, is moving on. But Benghazi was the last place she expected to hear an Australian accent...

Download or read book Elsie s Children written by Hendrickson Publishers and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the world of Elsie Dinsmore! These nineteenth-century fictional chronicles of a beautiful young heiress in the Civil War South have captivated generations of 10- to 14-year-old readers eager to follow Elsie's life from childhood to motherhood and beyond. Covers feature custom illustrations. Elsie's Children, Book 6: Pleasant times and new babies are mixed with dark secrets and deep sorrow. Will Elsie be strong in the Lord?

Download or read book Writing on the Moon written by Bonnie Zindel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing on the Moon: Stories and Poetry from the Creative Unconscious by Psychoanalysts and Others is a collection of the best works published over the past fifteen years in the Creative Literary Section of Psychoanalytic Perspectives, along with imaginative introductions by the author. Some writings are raw and honest, some are dark and access our primal being. Others, filled with beauty, illuminate the internal life, the playful mind, and unconscious doodlings that might otherwise remain unformulated.

Download or read book The Complete Year in Europe Mystery Bundle Books 1 4 written by Blake Pierce and published by Blake Pierce. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete bundle of books 1-4 in Blake Pierce’s A YEAR IN EUROPE Mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Blake Pierce, whose #1 bestseller Once Gone (Book #1) (a free download) has received over 1,500 five star reviews. Diana Hope, 55, is still adjusting to her recent separation when she discovers her ex-husband has just proposed to a woman 30 years younger. Secretly hoping they would reunite, Diana is devastated. She realizes the time has come to reimagine life without him—in fact, to reimagine her life, period. Devoting the last 30 years of her life to being a dutiful wife and mother and to climbing the corporate ladder, Diana has been relentlessly driven, and has not taken a moment to do anything for herself. Now, the time has come. Diana never forgot her first boyfriend, who begged her to join him for a year in Europe after college. She had wanted to go so badly, but it had seemed like a wild, romantic idea, and a gap year, she’d thought, would hinder her resume and career. But now, with her daughters grown, her husband gone, and her career no longer fulfilling, Diana realizes it’s time for herself—and to take that romantic year in Europe she’d always dreamed of. Diana prepares to embark on the year of her life, finally turning to her bucket list, hoping to tour the most beautiful sights and sample the most scrumptious cuisines—and maybe, even, to fall in love again. But a year in Europe may have different plans in store for her. Can A-type Diana learn to go with the flow, to be spontaneous, to let down her guard and to learn to truly enjoy life again? A YEAR IN EUROPE is a charming and laugh-out-loud cozy mystery series, packed with food and travel, with mysteries that will leave you on the edge of your seat, and with experiences that will leave you with a sense of wonder. As Diana embarks on her quixotic quest for love and meaning, you will find yourself falling in love and rooting for her. You will be in shock at the twists and turns her journey takes as she somehow finds herself at the center of a mystery, and must play amateur sleuth to solve it. Fans of books like Eat, Pray, Love and Under the Tuscan Sun have finally found the cozy mystery series they’ve been hoping for!

Download or read book British Women Writers 1914 1945 written by Catherine Clay and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine Clay's study examines women's friendships during the period between the two world wars. Building on extensive new archival research, the book presents a series of literary-historical case-studies exploring the practices, meanings and effects of friendship among a network of British women writers loosely connected to the feminist weekly periodical Time and Tide. Clay considers the letters and diaries, as well as fiction, poetry, autobiographies and journalistic writings, of authors such as Vera Brittain, Winifred Holtby, Storm Jameson, Naomi Mitchison, and Stella Benson, to examine women's friendships.

Download or read book The President s Daughter written by Nan Britton and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was born in Claridon, Ohio, a very small village about ten miles east of Marion, Ohio, on November 9th, 1896. My father, a physician, was at that time practising under the supervision of his cousin, an older physician who had an established practice of long standing. My mother, who had received some of her high school training in Marion, where she had come from New Philadelphia, Ohio, to live with her maternal grandmother, was teaching a country school in Claridon when father met her. I was still a baby and my older sister Elizabeth about three when we moved to Marion, where we settled permanently. Inasmuch as this book has much to do with President Harding and myself, I may sketch briefly the friendly relations which existed early between our families: While my father was working up a practice in Claridon, Mr. Harding, then in his twenties, was struggling with Marion’s now well-known newspaper, The Marion Daily Star. Father, being himself somewhat of a writer, often wrote humorously to Mr. Harding of his experiences among the country-folk, and these letters were edited by Mr. Harding and published in his paper; I remember Mr. Harding’s telling me how delighted he always was to receive them. My father always spoke of Mr. Harding with warmest affection, and, later on, was one of Mr. Harding’s strongest advocates despite the fact that my father was a Democrat. It is very likely that they developed mutual regard and affection for each other back in those days of ambitious editor and country doctor. Certainly no finer tributes could be paid any man than those which I have myself heard from Mr. Harding concerning my father. Mr. Harding’s father was a physician also, and this fact may have strengthened the bond of friendship which early grew to warm regard. As far back as I can remember Dr. Harding had his office in the old Star Building, right across the hall from his editor-son. I believe it is only recently that he has discontinued active practice. I know he has passed his eighty-second birthday. My mother’s attitude in the matter of my relationship to Mr. Harding has not been conducive to discussion with her about her own early acquaintance with the Harding family, but this I know: she must have been attending high school at the same time that some of the Hardings were, because she is only a few years Abigail Harding’s senior. There were, as Miss Abigail Harding has often told me, three “sets” of Harding children: first came Warren, the eldest, then Charity, these two forming the first set; then came “Deac” (Dr. George Tryon Harding III, only brother of Warren) and presumably Mary, the sister who was almost blind and who died about 1910, I think, soon after Warren Harding’s mother passed on; then came Abigail, known to everyone as “Daisy” Harding, and lastly Carolyn, the “baby” of the family. It seems to me there was a child who died very early, though I am not sure about this. My mother had a sister Della who also lived a good part of the time with mother’s and her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary Richards, in Marion, and, I believe, went to school there also. Della Williams married a missionary to Burma, India, Howard E. Dudley. Some time after, Carolyn Harding also married a missionary to Burma, Heber Herbert Votaw. Up to that time “Carrie” and “Dell” had been friends, if not intimate at least upon the friendliest kind of terms. However, their husbands were missionaries of decidedly different denominations. Carrie Harding married a Seventh Day Adventist and my Aunt Dell married a Baptist. So from then on their paths diverged. Diverged indeed so widely that my first recollection of hearing the Hardings discussed at any great length is identified with a heated argument between Aunt Dell and my older sister Elizabeth. I remember that Aunt Dell was almost ferocious in her condemnation of the Seventh Day Adventists and their religion which, to her certain knowledge, she said, was a detrimental influence upon the natives wherever it was promulgated. At that time Mrs. Carrie Harding Votaw’s cause was warmly espoused by my older sister who, then in high school and in the English class of Miss Abigail Harding, had met and had developed a girlish “crush” upon her sister, the missionary. I cannot forget that argument, which resulted in more or less of a family quarrel (for even my parents’ loyalty was divided) and was responsible for my aunt’s sudden departure. She took occasion to denounce the Seventh Day Adventist religion before a group of her own denomination at a camp meeting and almost immediately flounced out of the city with her very picturesque family.

Download or read book The President s Daughter written by Nan Britton and published by New York, Elizabeth Ann guild, Incorporated. This book was released on 1927 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If love is the only right warrant for bringing children into the world then many children born in wedlock are illegitimate and many born out of wedlock are legitimate." So contends Nan Britton in this account of Elizabeth Ann, her daughter by Warren G. Harding.

Download or read book A Year in Europe Mystery Bundle Vengeance in Vienna 3 and A Fatality in Spain 4 written by Blake Pierce and published by Blake Pierce. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bundle of VENGEANCE IN VIENNA (Book #3) and A FATALITY IN SPAIN (Book #4) in Blake Pierce’s A Year in Europe Mystery series! This bundle offers books three and four in one convenient file, with over 100,000 words of reading. In VENGEANCE IN VIENNA (Book #3), Diana travels to Vienna, hoping to fulfill her bucket list dream of being moved to tears by music. She is overwhelmed by the beauty, history and culture of the city and wonders if she’s finally settling into her trip in Europe—when an unforeseen catastrophe turns her plans upside down. Can Diana investigate her way out of this one? In A FATALITY IN SPAIN (Book #4), Diana decides to let go and take a chance at love, meeting up with her newfound friend in Barcelona, and trying to muster the courage to fulfill her lifelong dream of running with the bulls in Pamplona. Between the great food, the sunny streets, and her new love, life seems alive again—until a murder turns her world upside down. Can Diana save the case and herself—along with her summer? A YEAR IN EUROPE is a charming and laugh-out-loud cozy mystery series, packed with food and travel, with mysteries that will leave you on the edge of your seat, and with experiences that will leave you with a sense of wonder. As Diana embarks on her quixotic quest for love and meaning, you will find yourself falling in love and rooting for her. You will be in shock at the twists and turns her journey takes as she somehow finds herself at the center of a mystery, and must play amateur sleuth to solve it. Fans of books like Eat, Pray, Love and Under the Tuscan Sun have finally found the cozy mystery series they’ve been hoping for!

Download or read book A Fatality in Spain A Year in Europe Book 4 written by Blake Pierce and published by Blake Pierce. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “When you think that life cannot get better, Blake Pierce comes up with another masterpiece of thriller and mystery! This book is full of twists, and the end brings a surprising revelation. Strongly recommended for the permanent library of any reader who enjoys a very well-written thriller.” --Books and Movie Reviews (re Almost Gone) A FATALITY IN SPAIN is book #4 in a charming new cozy mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Blake Pierce, whose #1 bestseller Once Gone has received 1,500 five-star reviews. The series (A YEAR IN EUROPE) begins with book #1 (A MURDER IN PARIS). Diana Hope, 55, is still adjusting to her recent separation when she discovers her ex-husband has just proposed to a woman 30 years younger. Secretly hoping they would reunite, Diana is devastated. She realizes the time has come to reimagine life without him—in fact, to reimagine her life, period. Devoting the last 30 years of her life to being a dutiful wife and mother and to climbing the corporate ladder, Diana has been relentlessly driven, and has not taken a moment to do anything for herself. Now, the time has come. Diana never forgot her first boyfriend, who begged her to join him for a year in Europe after college. She had wanted to go so badly, but it had seemed like a wild, romantic idea, and a gap year, she’d thought, would hinder her resume and career. But now, with her daughters grown, her husband gone, and her career no longer fulfilling, Diana realizes it’s time for herself—and to take that romantic year in Europe she’d always dreamed of. Diana prepares to embark on the year of her life, finally turning to her bucket list, hoping to tour the most beautiful sights and sample the most scrumptious cuisines—and maybe, even, to fall in love again. But a year in Europe may have different plans in store for her. Can A-type Diana learn to go with the flow, to be spontaneous, to let down her guard and to learn to truly enjoy life again? In A FATALITY IN SPAIN (Book #4), Diana decides to let go and take a chance at love, meeting up with her newfound friend in Barcelona, and trying to muster the courage to fulfill her lifelong dream of running with the bulls in Pamplona. Between the great food, the sunny streets, and her new love, life seems alive again—until a murder turns her world upside down. Can Diana save the case and herself—along with her summer? A YEAR IN EUROPE is a charming and laugh-out-loud cozy mystery series, packed with food and travel, with mysteries that will leave you on the edge of your seat, and with experiences that will leave you with a sense of wonder. As Diana embarks on her quixotic quest for love and meaning, you will find yourself falling in love and rooting for her. You will be in shock at the twists and turns her journey takes as she somehow finds herself at the center of a mystery, and must play amateur sleuth to solve it. Fans of books like Eat, Pray, Love and Under the Tuscan Sun have finally found the cozy mystery series they’ve been hoping for! SCANDAL IN LONDON (Book #5), AN IMPOSTER IN DUBLIN (Book #6), SEDUCTION IN BORDEAUX (Book #7), JEALOUSY IN SWITZERLAND (Book #8), and A DEBACLE IN PRAGUE (Book #9) are now also available!

Download or read book Ben Jonson written by Anne Barton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-07-12 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Barton gives a reading of the plays that re-evaluates Ben Jonson as a dramatist.

Download or read book The Devil and the Giro written by Carl MacDougall and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited and Introduced by Carl MacDougall. The Scottish story has its roots in an oral tradition where stories were told to entertain. It is a tradition that has not diminished over the years and indeed there is today a body of young writers in the forefront of contemporary literature whose narrative voice is as compelling as that of their illustrious predecessors. The Devil and the Giro includes stories from all the major Scottish writers both famous and unsung. Hogg, Stevenson, Conan Doyle, Hugh MacDiarmid, Muriel Spark, James Kelman and Alasdair Gray are but a few of the fifty contributors. The anthology encompasses many examples of the themes in which Scottish writers have always excelled, most notably in that archetypal twinning of opposites where the ordinary meets the fantastic, man encounters the Devil, or the real and the supernatural converge. This is the stuff of the ancient storytellers and the tradition has persisted to this day where the hard reality of urban existence still involves coming to terms with life and death. ‘A big generous anthology . . . All in all a magnificent thematic and hugely enjoyable anthology which proves that the Scottish short story has been and is a flourishing form.’ Iain Crichton Smith, Scotsman

Download or read book Basic Psychology written by Howard H. Kendler and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Patricide Massacre at Oradour sur Glane written by D. Perigord and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shortly after the allied invasion of France in 1944 the tiny village of Oradour-Sur-Glane, located in the south of France, was suddenly and with no discernible reason surrounded by a German SS division. The inhabitants were segregated into groups then brutally massacred and the village burned to the ground. No reason was ever found for the atrocity and the village was never rebuilt. Gerard Beaulieu is a young boy who witnesses his parents being killed by the Commanding Officer of the division and vows revenge. He escapes and joins the Underground movement only to find out that the man he is chasing is his biological father. His chase ends when he finds evidence that the Officer has been killed by the Allies. Many years later he attends a war crimes trial and is reunited with a friend from his town. She informs him that the officer is alive and living in her village under an assumed identity. Gerard's thirst for revenge is rekindled and he takes up the quest he had started so many years before."

Download or read book Ben Hur written by Barry Clifton and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the love of a woman...For the love of his people...For the love of God...Ben-Hur: The Odyssey a legend lives again. A.D. 59 A shadow falls over the Roman Empire as Nero, the young emperor, begins to assert a foreboding independence. Disregarding the counsel of his advisers, he openly flaunts his unfaithfulness to his wife Octavia, and then orders the murder of his scheming mother Agrippina. Into this looming storm comes Judah Ben-Hur, his wife Esther and their friend, the great apostle Paul, who has been arrested for his missionary activities. Paul has appealed his conviction to Nero, and Judah - the founder of the church in Rome - offers to defend him, setting up a fateful collision of two worlds. Judah Ben-Hur, one of literature's great fictional heroes, rides again in this stirring sequel to the classic novel by General Lew Wallace. Like its predecessor, Ben-Hur: The Odyssey is woven into a solidly historical tapestry. Great events are brought to life from the first century's most turbulent decade, in this epic tale of love, passion and faith.