Download or read book The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

Download or read book The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was written by Wendy Doniger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in life, tells us that people put on masks to discover who they really are under the masks they usually wear, so that the mask reveals rather than conceals the self beneath the self.In this book, noted scholar of Hinduism and mythology Wendy Doniger offers a cross-cultural exploration of the theme of self-impersonation, whose widespread occurrence argues for both its literary power and its human value. The stories she considers range from ancient Indian literature through medieval European courtly literature and Shakespeare to Hollywood and Bollywood. They illuminate a basic human way of negotiating reality, illusion, identity, and authenticity, not to mention memory, amnesia, and the process of aging. Many of them involve marriage and adultery, for tales of sexual betrayal cut to the heart of the crisis of identity.These stories are extreme examples of what we common folk do, unconsciously, every day. Few of us actually put on masks that replicate our faces, but it is not uncommon for us to become travesties of ourselves, particularly as we age and change. We often slip carelessly across the permeable boundary between the un-self-conscious self-indulgence of our most idiosyncratic mannerisms and the conscious attempt to give the people who know us, personally or publicly, the version of ourselves that they expect. Myths of self-imitation open up for us the possibility of multiple selves and the infinite regress of self-discovery.Drawing on a dizzying array of tales-some fact, some fiction-The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was is a fascinating and learned trip through centuries of culture, guided by a scholar of incomparable wit and erudition.

Download or read book So you wanna be a Real Estate Super Star written by Daniel Hayes and published by Fontaine Press Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 2010 Daniel Hayes earned a personal income of more than $900,000 after only 5 years working in Real Estate. He had never worked in sales anywhere before. He has a year 10 education, lived in a Caravan as a kid, no business degrees and no formal training. He is also a staunch member of Alcoholics Anonymous and got clean and sober on the streets of Sydney at the tender age of 19! This is the story of his journey in Real Estate, the ups and downs the trials and tribulations and there have been plenty of them, from the Number 1 Agent in the State, to various law suites he became entangled in, messy divorce and trying to be a good Father to his two beautiful kids Harry and Daisy, he holds nothing back. Compelling, authentic no bull shit reading.

Download or read book Secret Harmonies written by Paul McAuley and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The planet Elysium should be a paradise. Like Earth before the Age of Waste, it is both beautiful and bountiful, inhabited by peaceful aboriginals and human colonists. But in its chief city, Port of Plenty, the first colonists have kept the superior technology sent from Earth for themselves, governing the outlying settlements with an iron fist. As unrest grows, two unlikely allies, Richard Florey, an employee of the city's university, and Miguel Lucas, a settler who has 'gone dingo', are caught up in a revolution that could awaken the alien aboriginals and change the balance of power on Elysium forever . . .

Download or read book Gold Medal Flapjack Silver Medal Life written by Alison Mowbray and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Being an Olympian was not my first choice of career, or even my second.” Alison Mowbray wasn’t a sporty kid and thought that being good at sport was a pre-requisite for going to the Olympics. She thought she might be a doctor, a teacher, a Blue Peter presenter or maybe the first ever female naval submariner. “Then at 18 I discovered rowing. From that point on, for the next 15 years, I didn’t have a choice anymore.” You don’t choose to go to the Olympics. You lay out everything you have and let the Olympics take it – no deals, no bargains, no questions asked, no hope of return. Maybe it will be enough and the Olympics will choose you, and maybe it won’t. If you thought about the number of things outside your control between yourself and your dream, you’d never start. You just think about the things you can do, the things you can control and you start doing them and keep doing them until you get there or until control is wrested from you. That’s what you do. That is this book. “I never planned to be inspiring so really this is just the story of how I did the things I love, the very best I could do them, and how very far it took me. And if you too were not a sporty child, and you’ve never raced an Olympic final, maybe I can take you there…” This is a Silver medal life of achievement, addiction, alcoholism, anorexia and Alzheimer’s. But a Gold medal story of passion and perseverance and not letting anything or anybody get between yourself and your dream. Gold Medal Flapjack, Silver Medal Life is a fascinating sports autobiography that will appeal to fans of rowing, the Olympics and sports psychology. Written 8 years after that medal winning moment, it also deals with what happens next in an athlete’s life. There are many themes that will particularly resonate with women, and anyone who enjoys cooking will love Alison’s flapjack recipe and the many food references throughout the book. This is a book for people who love sports autobiographies and for those who never usually read them. Featured in The Bookseller

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Download or read book The Ring of Souls written by Vee R Paxton and published by WOOW Books. This book was released on 2022-12-17 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gran is gone and now I’m bound to the will of this spellbook, the legacy of my family passed to me. My first calling after her loss brought me here, to another world. The man who summoned me here says we are promised to each other, that our families agreed to our union. I don’t remember that. Vague memories of our childhood friendship are all my mind can conjure. There’s much I don’t remember about the time he says I spent here, with him, with his family. He says we had feelings for each other, that he still wants to marry me. Twelve years ago, that’s when this agreement was set. I’ve agreed to aid him in his quest to undo a curse upon his family. It’s a distraction from my growing affection for him. Marriage and family were never part of my goals Go it solo, see the world, live in the moment, that was the plan. He’s turning that all upside down with every glance, every touch. If I give in, I'm stuck here, my plans go up in smoke, but the longer I'm with him the more I wonder if that's such a bad thing. The Ring of Souls is a steamy fantasy romance with adult themes and situations. There is sex on page, some violence including one scene of sexual violence.

Download or read book The Dream Chasers written by Roger Hamner and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Delisted

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Download or read book Cimarron Denver Cereal Volume 4 written by Claudia Hall Christian and published by Cook Street Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's pay the piper time in Denver Cereal as the trauma and strife of the last few months must be reckoned with. Aden recovers from his life threatening beating to face his jail sentence. Delphie comes to terms with almost dying. Mike paints while Valerie takes on her first action movie role. Sandy holds herself together to create a family with Nash and Noelle only to become ill herself. And Jacob and Jill face their first real relationship test. Together, they fight their way through the problems to become a family. And just in time! Jacob finds the children's remains under the Castle and a murder mystery begins to unfold. Come along for the sweet and crunchy ride that is Denver Cereal. Cimarron is the fourth installment of the Denver Cereal. An Internet sensation, Denver Cereal is a serial fiction grounded in Uptown Denver, Colorado. Praise for Denver Cereal: "I just wanted to thank you for the wonderful books." N.H. "Keep up the great read." AC "I LOVE getting my daily dose of these extraordinary characters!" KZ Claudia Hall Christian is the author of the romantic serial fiction Denver Cereal set in Denver, Colorado; the mystery based serial fiction The Queen of Cool set in Fort Worth, Texas, and the fast paced Alex the Fey thriller series. She writes books and keeps bees in Denver, Colorado."--

Download or read book Inferno written by Charles Bowden and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Bowden has been an outspoken advocate for the desert Southwest since the 1970s. Recently his activism helped persuade the U.S. government to create the Sonoran Desert National Monument in southern Arizona. But in working for environmental preservation, Bowden refuses to be one who “outline[s] something straightforward, a manifesto with clear rules and a set of plans for others to follow.” In this deeply personal book, he brings the Sonoran Desert alive, not as a place where well-meaning people can go to enjoy “nature,” but as a raw reality that defies bureaucratic and even literary attempts to define it, that can only be experienced through the senses. Inferno burns with Charles Bowden's passion for the desert he calls home. “I want to eat the dirt and lick the rock. Or leave the shade for the sun and feel the burning. I know I don't belong here. But this is the only place I belong,” he says. His vivid descriptions, complemented by Michael Berman's acutely observed photographs of the Sonoran Desert, make readers feel the heat and smell the dryness, see the colors in earth and sky, and hear the singing of dry bones across the parched ground. Written as “an antibiotic” during the time Bowden was lobbying the government to create the Sonoran Desert National Monument, Inferno repudiates both the propaganda and the lyricism of contemporary nature writing. Instead, it persuades us that “we need these places not to remember our better selves or our natural self or our spiritual self. We need these places to taste what we fear and devour what we are. We need these places to be animals because unless we are animals we are nothing at all. That is the price of being a civilized dude.”

Download or read book Queen of the Wild Range written by Maggie Platt and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh from her perilous journey above the cloud, Tovi is impatient for more adventure and begs for Silas to give her a task. When his response is not what she wanted, Tovi takes matters into her own hands, battling floods and fire on her way to a strange land. Trapped on the mountain, King Damien and his loyal weapons build their army and plot their next moves. They must collect his heirs, root out the treasonous resistance, and stop the prophecies from ever coming true. An old magic stirs in Damien’s lungs, but he needs a jar of Silas’ paint to use his powers. When one in his most inner circle reveals a disgusting secret, Damien knows it is only a matter of time before the paint is in his hands. Then, victory will forever be his. Far from Adia, in a cave above the sea, another prophecy awaits Tovi, pointing to an overwhelming and unwanted destiny that will require another visit to her grandfather’s kingdom above the cloud. Queen of the Wild Range is the second book in the Tales from Adia series that chronicles the life of Tovi Tivka from angry, abandoned orphan to powerful heir of Mount Damien.

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Download or read book Dream Sequence written by J.J. DiBenedetto and published by Writing Dreams. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara Barnes thought her life was perfectly ordinary – until the night she began stepping into other people’s dreams. Follow Sara as she learns to cope with this extraordinary gift (or curse) in the first three books of the Dream Doctor Mysteries: DREAM STUDENT It’s bad enough that, thanks to her supernatural talent, Sara is learning more than she ever needed to know about her friends and classmates, watching their most secret fantasies whether she wants to or not. Much worse are the other dreams, the ones she sees nearly every night, featuring a strange, terrifying man who commits unspeakable crimes. Now Sara wonders if she’s the only witness to a serial killer – and the only one who knows when and where he’s going to strike next. DREAM DOCTOR Medical school and life as a newlywed would be enough by themselves for anybody to handle. But Sara’s got another problem – her dreams have started up again. Almost everyone at the medical school is dreaming about the death of the school’s least popular teacher, Dr. Morris, and once again, Sara finds herself in the role of unwilling witness to a murder before it happens. But this time, there are too many suspects to count, and it doesn’t help matters that she hates Dr. Morris every bit as much as any of his would-be murderers do. DREAM CHILD Sara thought she had made peace with her dreaming talent, but she’s got a surprise coming: her four-year-old daughter has inherited it, too. Unraveling a mystery with lives on the line is difficult enough under the best of circumstances. But when Sara has to view all the evidence through the eyes – and dreams - of a toddler, it may be an impossible task.

Download or read book Coldbrook written by Tim Lebbon and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An incredibly cool, parallel-universe thriller zombie apocalypse novel”—Barnes & Noble This gripping blend of science fiction and horror traces the catastrophic discovery of a secret lab in the Appalachian mountains and a deadly disease that will threaten humanity. Coldbrook is a secret laboratory located deep in Appalachian Mountains. Its scientists had achieved the impossible: a gateway to a new world. Theirs was to be the greatest discovery in the history of mankind, but they had no idea what they were about to unleash. With their breakthrough comes disease and now it is out and ravaging the human population. The only hope is a cure and the only cure is genetic resistance: an uninfected person amongst the billions dead. In the chaos of destruction there is only one person that can save the human race. But will they find her in time?

Download or read book Roliath written by Amber Schunk-Clubb and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries people have always viewed vampires as monsters! They can only go outside at night, be killed with a stake through the heart, harmed by garlic and holy water. They have no reflections, sleep in coffins and drain humans of all their blood to stay alive. As Alex Keen is told about the past of Geannifer Whitlence he quickly learns that all of the myths, legends and stories about vampires that we were told were all just lies covering up the truth. Even the name they go by; Vampires! They’re called Eidelon, they live out their lives every day alongside the human race with many similarities. They have different races/clans, they live with rulers, leaders and followers. They even have laws and a legal system of their own. The most forbidden law, is to not kill anyone from the human race. While they do have to feed off of humans to live, they do not have to kill them in order to do so. In present day Geannifer Whitlence is an Eidelon in the Azeron clan possessing many talents and abilities that no other Eidelon is capable of. Roliath is in a sense an origin story of how she became who she is today. How she met Devon, her life-long partner since Roliath’s beginning; Andrea, her best friend and progeny and all of the Eidelon that still travel with her in present day and how their life-long battle with the Osirians began.

Download or read book Sheltered By God written by Jennifer Pitts Adair and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 27, 2011 sixty two tornadoes touched down in Alabama claiming two hundred and fifty three innocent lives. One of those tornadoes, an EF5 that tracked across Northern Alabama and into Tennessee, killed seventy people over a 132 mile path. Jennifer Pitts Adair, alone in her Capshaw home, huddled under blankets and pillows in her master bathroom closet as the massive tornado ripped her home apart around her. When it finally ended nothing remained except for the foundation Jennifer lay on and a pile of rubble surrounding her. For the next year she documented her family's journey. Through her personal journal Jennifer invites us into the life of one survivor during the first year of recovery.