Download or read book Let Me Stand Alone The Journals of Rachel Corrie written by Rachel Corrie and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-03-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A testament to how deeply we need the power and vision and energy of young women to transform the world."--Eve Ensler Rachel Corrie's determination to make a better, more peaceful world took her from Olympia, Washington, to the Middle East, where she died in 2003 as she tried to block the demolition of a Palestinian family's home in the Gaza Strip. A twenty-three-year-old American activist, Corrie also possessed a striking gift for poetry, writing, and drawing. Let Me Stand Alone, a selection of her journals, letters, and drawings as chosen by her family, reveals her story in her own hand, from her precocious reflections as a young girl to her final emails. Corrie's words--whether writing about the looming issues of our time or the ordinary angst of an American teen--bring to life all that it means to come of age: a dawning sense of self, a thirst for one's own ideals, and an evolving connection to others, near and far.
Download or read book Don t Let Me Be Lonely written by Claudia Rankine and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and unsparing examination of America in the early twenty-first century, Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely invents a new genre to confront the particular loneliness and rapacious assault on selfhood that our media have inflicted upon our lives. Fusing the lyric, the essay, and the visual, Rankine negotiates the enduring anxieties of medicated depression, race riots, divisive elections, terrorist attacks, and ongoing wars—doom scrolling through the daily news feeds that keep us glued to our screens and that have come to define our age. First published in 2004, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely is a hauntingly prescient work, one that has secured a permanent place in American literature. This new edition is presented in full color with updated visuals and text, including a new preface by the author, and matches the composition of Rankine’s best-selling and award-winning Citizen and Just Us as the first book in her acclaimed American trilogy. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely is a crucial guide to surviving a fractured and fracturing American consciousness—a book of rare and vital honesty, complexity, and presence.
Download or read book My Name is Rachel Corrie written by Rachel Corrie and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A deeply moving personal testimony... Theatre can't change the world. But what it can do, when it's as good as this, is to send us out enriched by other people's passionate concern."--Guardian Intensely topical account of the life and early death of a young female activist--adapted from her own writings and published alongside the premiere.
Download or read book Let s Pretend This Never Happened written by Jenny Lawson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy. “Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.”—O, The Oprah Magazine When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives. Readers Guide Inside
Download or read book Alone in the Wild written by Kelley Armstrong and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In #1 New York Times bestseller Kelley Armstrong's latest thriller, the hidden town of Rockton is about to face a challenge none of them saw coming: a baby. Every season in Rockton seems to bring a new challenge. At least that's what Detective Casey Duncan has felt since she decided to call this place home. Between all the secretive residents, the sometimes-hostile settlers outside, and the surrounding wilderness, there's always something to worry about. While on a much needed camping vacation with her boyfriend, Sheriff Eric Dalton, Casey hears a baby crying in the woods. The sound leads them to a tragic scene: a woman buried under the snow, murdered, a baby still alive in her arms. A town that doesn’t let anyone in under the age of eighteen, Rockton must take care of its youngest resident yet while solving another murder and finding out where the baby came from - and whether she's better off where she is. #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong again delivers an engaging, tense thriller set in perhaps the most interesting town in all of contemporary crime fiction.
Download or read book Persuader written by Lee Child and published by Dell. This book was released on 2003-05-13 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK REACHER SERIES • The inspiration for season three of the hit streaming series Reacher! “Gripping and suspenseful . . . Child ratchets up the suspense to new heights.”—The Denver Post Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. And with a burning desire to right wrongs—and rewrite his own agonizing past. DEA Susan Duffy is living for the future, knowing that she has made a terrible mistake by putting one of her own female agents into a death trap within a heavily guarded Maine mansion. Staging a brilliant ruse, Reacher hurtles into the dark heart of a vast criminal enterprise. Trying to rescue an agent whose time is running out, Reacher enters a crime lord’s waterfront fortress. There he will find a world of secrecy and violence—and confront some unfinished business from his own past.
Download or read book Let Me Off at the Top written by Ron Burgundy and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography every true American has been waiting for: a shockingly candid and raw confessional from a national treasure. From his humble beginnings in a desolate Iowa coal mining town, his years at Our Lady Queen of Chewbacca High School to his odds-defying climb to the dizzying heights of becoming America’s most trusted and beloved television News Anchor, Ron Burgundy pulls no punches in Let Me Off at the Top! In his very own words Burgundy reveals his most private thoughts, his triumphs and his disappointments. His life reads like an adventure story complete with knock down fights, beautiful women and double-fisted excitement on every page. He has hunted jackalopes with Bobby Kennedy and Peter Lawford, had more than his share of his amorous exploits, and formed the greatest on-air team in the history of televised news. Along the way, he hobnobbed with people you wish you knew and some you honestly wish you didn't -- celebrities, presidents, presidents' wives, celebrities' wives, dogs, and, of course Veronica Corningstone, the love of his life. Walter Cronkite, Barbra Streisand, Katie Couric, the list goes on. Who didn’t Mr. Burgundy, or “Ron” as he is known to his friends, rub elbows with in the course of his colorful and often criminal life? This may well be the most thrilling book ever written, by a man of great physical, moral and spiritual strength and not surprisingly a great literary talent as well. This book deserves a real shot at a Pulitzer Prize. In fact if it doesn’t win one then we will finally have proof that the Pulitzer is rigged. Ron Burgundy has taken the time to write a book. We owe it to him, as honest Americans, to read it.
Download or read book Let Me Be the One The Sullivans written by Bella Andre and published by Oak Press, LLC. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Vicki Bennett saved Ryan Sullivan's life as a teenager, it was the beginning of a close friendship that never wavered despite her failed marriage to someone else and Ryan's well-earned reputation as a ladies man. So when she suddenly needs a pretend boyfriend to protect herself and her career from a powerful man's advances, he is the only person she can imagine asking.
Download or read book Leave Me Alone written by Kes Gray and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling team behind Mum and Dad Glue comes an important story to help raise awareness at home or at school about stopping bullying. A little boy is feeling sad because every day he has to face a bully. But this story's little boy also has friends. A frog, a cat, a rabbit, a cow, and other animal friends insist on helping him, even after he tells them: "There's nothing you can do for me/ There's nothing you can say." Fortunately, he is mistaken, because the next time the bully approaches, they all join with him and shout, "LEAVE HIM ALONE!" And it works! The bully turns around and goes away. The gently clever use of rhyming verse gives a difficult subject a wonderfully light touch. A must-have for any child who has to deal with bullies. 'An empowering story.' - Books for Keeps
Download or read book Break Me written by K. V. Rose and published by ISBN Canada. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benji You don't know what you're in for, Princess. Most days, I don't even know what I'm in for. Nearly a year out of prison, and I still can't find that remorse they tell me I should be looking for.And when you come along...Well, my skeletons never did learn to stay in the closet for long.I can promise you a wild ride.I just can't promise it won't break you. Book 2 of Vengeful.Dark Romance
Download or read book I d Like to Play Alone Please written by Tom Segura and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A #2 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From a massively successful stand-up comedian and co-host of chart-topping podcasts “2 Bears 1 Cave” and “Your Mom’s House,” hilarious real-life stories of parenting, celebrity encounters, youthful mistakes, misanthropy, and so much more. Tom Segura is known for his twisted takes and irreverent comedic voice. But after a few years of crazy tours and churning out podcasts weekly, all while parenting two young children, he desperately needs a second to himself. It’s not that he hates his friends and family — he’s not a monster — he’s just beat, which is why his son’s (ruthless) first full sentence, “I’d like to play alone, please,” has since become his mantra. In this collection of stories, Tom combines his signature curmudgeonly humor with a revealing look at some of the ridiculous situations that shaped him and the ludicrous characters who always seem to seek him out. The stories feature hilarious anecdotes about Tom's time on the road, including some surreal encounters with celebrities at airports; his unfiltered South American family; the trials and tribulations of parenting young children with bizarrely morbid interests; and, perhaps most memorably, experiences with his dad who, like any good Baby Boomer father, loves to talk about his bowel movements and share graphic Vietnam stories at inappropriate moments. All of this is enough to make anyone want some peace and quiet. I’D LIKE TO PLAY ALONE, PLEASE will have readers laughing out loud and nodding in agreement with Segura's message: in a world where everyone is increasingly insane, sometimes you just need to be alone.
Download or read book One Insular Tahiti a stand alone literary fiction novel written by Thea Atkinson and published by Thea Atkinson. This book was released on 2010-12-18 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stand-alone contemporary novel by author Thea Atkinson with literary fiction leanings and dark themes of reincarnation and past lives. One Insular Tahiti is a BRAGG Medallion Honoree His secret will save her life…Will hers threaten to end it? Astrid has never been good at people. Her father assures her that a move to Nova Scotia will change everything. The sea has a way of washing away the past and painful memories, he says. She doubts it. Her memories are far too painful even for the Atlantic. Luke lived a horrible life. Now he's dead. But death isn't enough to shake the memories of his violent past and let him rest. He needs an escape. And an escape can only come from one thing. He decides to be reborn, and when he does, his past, his memories, and his new life will collide with Astrid's in a way that will change them both forever. One Insular Tahiti is an emotional coming of age novel. If you enjoy reads that are sad, hopeful, painful, forgiving, and thought-provoking, all at once, you will love One Insular Tahiti. Pick it up today and see why sometimes one liftetime isn't enough.
Download or read book Just Out of Reach A Neighbors to Lovers Standalone Romance written by Xavier Neal and published by Xavier Neal. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From best-selling author Xavier Neal comes a slow-burn romance that's full of the unexpected... They say all the best things in life are free. I say all the best things in life are easy. That is until easy gets me put on house arrest where I'm stuck with an estranged aunt, a needy cat, and drinking lemonade instead of tequila. Easy suddenly becomes hard. I basically have to sweat to get paid. I finally realize that great cheesecake doesn't magically materialize. And I have to deal with a law-appointed babysitter constantly showing up to c-block my chance of proving to the drop-dead gorgeous neighbor - who I want screaming my name every night - that I'm more than just the crime I committed. All the best things in life may be easy, but I'm slowly learning that all the greatest require real work. Real effort. And most importantly, real sacrifice.
Download or read book Playboy Billionaire written by Sophia March and published by PNK Publishing. This book was released on with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I don’t need a husband. But my family feels differently— Antonio San Giovanni is no one’s husband material. A sexy-as-sin playboy with as little interest in marriage as me, he’s nevertheless the husband that’s been picked for me by my family, eager to claw their way back up to our former status. Fortunately, Antonio and I are in perfect agreement on what to do. We’ll pretend to date, until I can convince my family that there’s a better way to do this. The rules? In public, we’re LA’s new golden couple, but in private? No kissing, no touching, and definitely nothing—more. Unfortunately, that’s easier said than done. Anthony is gorgeous, charismatic, and our chemistry is off the charts. And when a rogue FBI agent and encroaching danger forces us into closer proximity than ever? I might not be as immune to Anthony’s charms as I thought. I said I didn’t want to fall in love. But this playboy billionaire might just be the one to win my heart. Playboy Billionaire is a complete Standalone and ready to be devoured! But if you're interested in binge reading the complete series the reading order is as follows: Ruthless Billionaire Playboy Billionaire Model Billionaire Code Billionaire Heiress Billionaire
Download or read book Daylight Follows written by Michelle Dare and published by Daring Romance LLC. This book was released on 2023-05-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From USA Today Bestselling Author Michelle Dare comes a friends-to-lovers story of loss, the true meaning of friendship, and finding love when you least expect it. Feeling lost, Daniella goes through the motions every day. College doesn’t hold her interest. Her boyfriend doesn’t make her heart skip a beat. When tragedy strikes, she sinks deep into a dark spiral. Garrett secretly loved Daniella throughout their high school years. After he moved away, he finally put those feelings behind him, or so he thought. Now he spends his days under the hoods of vehicles as a mechanic. A sudden call from a friend brings Garrett rushing to his hometown. He doesn’t expect his feelings to come back when he sees Dani after years away. Garrett can’t stay. He has to get back to his apartment and job, to his life. However, the thought of never seeing her again has the potential to shatter him. Content warning for attempted suicide, emotional manipulation, death, violence, anxiety, and depression.
Download or read book Heiress Billionaire written by Sophia March and published by PNK Publishing. This book was released on with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’ve sworn to uphold my family’s legacy. But this might be a step too far… All my life, I’ve learned the lessons taught to me. As the eldest heiress of the San Giovanni family, certain things have been expected of me. Elegance, sophistication, manners. The right friends, the right connections, and in time—the right husband. I’ve only dated men who might serve the family. Only made the choices that would please my father—while my brothers ran rampant and even my younger sister gets to explore the world as she chooses, without the weight of marrying well on her shoulders. All this—with the caveat of one promise that was made to me. That when it came time to marry, I would get to choose my husband from the eligible men who courted me. Now I’m being told that I’m being given to a Bratva son to make peace. Without my consent, without my input—sold to the Russians to fulfill a bargain made by my brother Antonio to save his own bride. And with those words—everything I’ve ever known or believed shatters. Including the promises I made to my family. I, Esperanza San Giovanni, have always been a dutiful daughter. But I am the San Giovanni heiress. And I won’t be bartered away. Heiress Billionaire is a complete Standalone and ready to be devoured! But if you're interested in binge reading the complete series the reading order is as follows: Ruthless Billionaire Playboy Billionaire Model Billionaire Code Billionaire Heiress Billionaire
Download or read book Poisoned Vows written by M. James and published by PNK Publishing. This book was released on with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I've never been anything but a means to an end. But now the most powerful man in Chicago wants to make me his…forever. All my life I knew one thing about my father–that he wanted to be more than he was. More than a low-level nobody for the Chicago Bratva. And all my life, he's groomed me to be his ticket to a seat at the table. When he barters my innocence for that seat, the pakhan takes him up on his offer. I'm meant to be a plaything for the Bratva heir. Thrown away and discarded, all for a powerful man's pleasure. Except Nikolai Vasilev takes one look at me, and decides I'm his. Forever. He doesn't just plan to take me to his bed. He demands that I marry him. He'll stop at nothing to own me, mind, soul and body. No matter how broken I am, no matter how I fight. He's determined to make me his bride in every way–not just in name. And when he discovers what my father's plan has been all along–he'll stop at nothing to avenge me. When passion and devotion meet violence and sin, there's only one thing left to find out– Can a lasting love spring from poisoned vows like these? Poisoned Vows is a full-length standalone dark mafia romance featuring an alpha hero and a feisty heroine who fall in love hard. If you like enemies to lovers, forced marriage, and happily ever afters, you'll love this new book!
