Download or read book Just Like Us written by Helen Thorpe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cloth bag containing eight paperback copies of the title, that may also include a folder with sign out sheets.

Download or read book Chasing the Scream written by Johann Hari and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Bestseller What if everything you think you know about addiction is wrong? Johann Hari's journey into the heart of the war on drugs led him to ask this question--and to write the book that gave rise to his viral TED talk, viewed more than 62 million times, and inspired the feature film The United States vs. Billie Holiday and the documentary series The Fix. One of Johann Hari's earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not being able to. As he grew older, he realized he had addiction in his family. Confused, not knowing what to do, he set out and traveled over 30,000 miles over three years to discover what really causes addiction--and what really solves it. He uncovered a range of remarkable human stories--of how the war on drugs began with Billie Holiday, the great jazz singer, being stalked and killed by a racist policeman; of the scientist who discovered the surprising key to addiction; and of the countries that ended their own war on drugs--with extraordinary results. Chasing the Scream is the story of a life-changing journey that transformed the addiction debate internationally--and showed the world that the opposite of addiction is connection.

Download or read book Daniel s Mood written by Robert Francis Flor and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-19 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S ynopsis “Daniel’s Moods” finds the protagonist, Maricela Barker, a Filipina immigrant in the midsixties, a victim of domestic violence. She and her young son, Agustin, escape her violent husband, Randy, and move to Seattle, hoping to find help and for a better life within her community. She finds work as a freelance journalist, covering stories in the early seventies. Agustin blames her for the divorce, and Maricela believes he is growing apart from her. She wishes that he become involved in the culture and traditions and, much to his dismay, enrolls him in a local Filipino dance troupe. She fears the loss of tradition. They meet Daniel Mallon at the Filipino youth agency. Daniel helps coach basketball for boys Agustin’s age. Maricela, against her desires, allows Agustin to join the team. Agustin comes to admire and respect Daniel. Daniel, in a moment of rage, is killed by the police. Maricela examines his life through interviews with his family and friends. She discovers he led a troubled and distressed family life brought on by abandonment. His life sounds a warning note as she fears Agustin may follow the same path. Through a dream, she encounters Daniel who helps her and Agustin resolve their problems.

Download or read book Valiente written by A.G. Castillo and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes, turning back the clock opens old wounds that can haunt you for a lifetime. After completing his first semester at Stanford University, Chente Jimenez returns to Avalon a different young man with a fresh outlook on life. With the help of a new circle of college friends, Chente is ready to put the chaos of high school behind him and eager to begin his future with his first love, Aaron Doss. That promising future collides with the unfortunate past as Chente recovers from a mysterious fever and transitions into a new chapter of his life. Things only get worse when an old family secret rises to the surface and threatens to tear the Jimenez family apart. As the New Year bells ring, Chente and his family and friends embark on a dangerous journey, which leads them into the dark world of the supernatural, where sins are exposed and old vendettas are to be collected. Chente soon learns that it’s the ones you love most that can hurt you the deepest.

Download or read book Ivan written by Kit Rocha and published by Kit Rocha. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gideon's Riders Book #3.

Download or read book Dirty Little Lies written by Julie Leto and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sultry Latina bounty hunter Marisela Morales is back, taking on the Boston elite -- and her gorgeous ex -- in a red-hot, roller-coaster adventure from USA Today bestselling author Julie Leto. Three months into her training for Titan International Investigations, Marisela Morales needs some R & R, and the tuxedoed hombre de misterio sending her scorching glances across a crowded ballroom looks like he'd be happy to fulfill her needs. Closer inspection reveals that the masked man is danger with a capital F -- as in Frankie Vega, her ex-lover and Titan colleague. But before their reunion reaches the boiling point, a senator is shot and Marisela must confront a female assassin with a wicked reputation -- and a link to Marisela's old life. Working under Frankie provides Marisela with plenty of aggravation, along with some sinfully sexy after-hours benefits, but she'll need to keep her mind on the job if she wants to beat the demons from her past...including an irresistible man who betrayed her...and a killer chica who's her biggest challenge yet.

Download or read book The Cliff House written by Greta Boris and published by Fawkes Press. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Murders Under the Sun, a podcast that takes a trip to the dark side of sunny Southern California. I’m Molly Shure, your host. Our journey begins on the stunning cliffs of Laguna Beach, the bright sun shining on the turquoise water below. But this idyllic setting quickly becomes a nightmare for real estate agent Gwen Bishop. She has just landed her dream listing, a multimillion-dollar beachfront property. The home has a dark past, however. Three months ago, another agent was found dead in one of the upstairs bedrooms. Gwen believes the unsolved murder was random. When unsettling things occur, she tells herself the menace she feels is her imagination. When even stranger things happen—things that throw a wrench in her plans to get the home on the market—she brushes off the icy dread creeping through her. The house itself couldn’t be evil…could it? Gwen’s story is the first of seven linked by an almost invisible thread across five years. A thread I noticed while working as a crime journalist. In Season One, I pull that thread to see what unravels. Travel with me to The Cliff House to learn what lay beyond its door. **Portions of this story previously appeared in A Margin of Lust by Greta Boris**

Download or read book Secrets of the forest 2 written by Jessica Razo and published by Jessica Razo. This book was released on 2022-04-09 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marisela meets a new friend whose name is Isabela. Marisela has many new adventures but no one believes her. Is she right or is she wrong? (This version is in color and has illustrations.)

Download or read book Lawrence Book One Goldweaving Book Two Elaborynth written by Rose Secrest and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence consists of two novels. The first one, Goldweaving, is set in the near future, where a new art form revolutionizes society. The second one, Elaborynth, is set over five hundred years in the future. The humans of Western civilization remain on the planet Earth in communes based on precepts commonly found in feminist utopias. The humans of the Third World, deported onto a satellite, at the end reunite with their fellow humans thanks to a construct developed by Lawrence.

Download or read book Nothing Lost written by R. T. W. Lipkin and published by Eclipse Ink. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do the secrets of the past hold hope for the future? Jillean's relentless search for her ancestors sends her down a dark path. Xan's yearning for love leads him to an unexpected place. Verna's desire for connection blossoms in unforeseen ways. Simeon's need for his son brings him to a startling realization. Logan's studies open him to infinite, transcendent possibilities. Yet West Hills comes to a standstill as catastrophe threatens to destroy everyone. Lives, loves, dreams, plans—so much has been lost . . . and yet nothing is ever really lost. Read the fourth and final book of this exciting new dystopic series right now! Nothing Lost is the fourth and final season in the West Hills saga. If you haven't already read the first three seasons—Nothing Personal, Nothing Sacred, and Nothing Gained—now's the time to read them all!

Download or read book Do It Anyway written by Courtney E. Martin and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you care about social change but hate feel-good platitudes, Do It Anyway is the book for you. Courtney Martin’s rich profiles of the new generation of activists dig deep, to ask the questions that really matter: How do you create a meaningful life? Can one person even begin to make a difference in our hugely complex, globalized world?

Download or read book White Bread written by Christine Sleeter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hundred-year-old letter launches Jessica on a journey into her family’s past, into herself, and into the bicultural students she teaches but does not understand. Ultimately, what happened to the Midwest’s German-American communities helps Jessica answer questions that plague her.

Download or read book Macuahuitl Pummeling Rain written by Francisco Lazos Carrasco and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-03-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macuahuitl Pummeling Rain is a collection of short stories that fall into the categories of metafiction, existentialism, and Chicano literature. Sometimes they have a tinge of horror, sometimes science fiction, but regardless, these are tales of border madness and isolation.

Download or read book Solution Focused Play Therapy written by Elizabeth Kjellstrand Hartwig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solution-Focused Play Therapy is an essential text that blends the process of play therapy with solution-focused therapy. With a focus on child strengths and resources, this book identifies key concepts and principles in solution-focused play therapy (SFPT). The author provides neurobiological and developmental support for SFPT and guidance on how practitioners can transition from using a non-directive approach to a more directive and activity-based approach based on the developmental needs of the child. Chapters describe the 12 basic skills needed for employing this approach with children of all ages and their families. Harnessing a strengths-oriented approach, the author presents expressive ways to use key SFPT techniques, including the miracle question, scaling, finding exceptions, and end-of-session feedback. Clinicians will come away from the book with a suite of interventions, strategies, handouts, and forms that can be employed with children of all ages and their families, from strength-based assessment and treatment planning to the final celebration session.

Download or read book Cure for Insomnia written by Laina Villeneuve and published by Bella Books. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to her family, Karla Hernandez spends far too many hours working in the lab. A dedicated research scientist, she has contributed to a drug that could vastly improve the quality of life in diabetic patients. Her quality of life, however, could use some help. She thought she would sleep better when she finished grad school or her post-doc, but launching a cutting-edge clinical trial isn’t helping. So when her eleven-year-old niece approaches her about participating in a school science project about insomnia, Karla agrees. Finding a girlfriend was not the conclusion she had anticipated, but Karla is not one to deviate from protocol—especially not when the judge at the science fair has some ideas about helping to cure her insomnia. All research requires troubleshooting, but Karla isn’t prepared for the complications that threaten to shut down more than her love life. Does she need to find a new project or dig in deeper to her professional work? Or will putting faith in her niece’s research project be the key to her ever elusive sleep?

Download or read book Worth The Wait written by Katherine D Jones and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While in the witness protection program, former basketball player Kevin DePalma encounters the beautiful FBI agent who saved his life and stole his heart, when he is forced to pose as her lover as part of an undercover assignment to infiltrate a Russian gun-selling operation. Original.

Download or read book Ain t No Trust written by Judith Levine and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2013-05-25 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ain’t No Trust explores issues of trust and distrust among low-income women in the U.S.—at work, around childcare, in their relationships, and with caseworkers—and presents richly detailed evidence from in-depth interviews about our welfare system and why it’s failing the very people it is designed to help. By comparing low-income mothers’ experiences before and after welfare reform, Judith A. Levine probes women’s struggles to gain or keep jobs while they simultaneously care for their children, often as single mothers. By offering a new way to understand how structural factors impact the daily experiences of poor women, Ain’t No Trust highlights the pervasiveness of distrust in their lives, uncovering its hidden sources and documenting its most corrosive and paralyzing effects. Levine’s critique and conclusions hold powerful implications for scholars and policymakers alike.