Download or read book Life in the Breakdown Lane written by Paul Maurer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a twenty-two year old dreamer, Mike Johnson bicycled across the country. Four decades later, bitter and haunted, he again seeks the solace of the open road. It is there both physical and emotional exhaustion battle redemption one pedal stroke at a time.
Download or read book Meditations from the Breakdown Lane written by James Shapiro and published by Echo Point Books & Media. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspirational book is the captivating true chronicle of author Jim Shapiro's epic 80-day, 3,026-mile run across America in the summer of 1980. Balancing vivid descriptions of the ever-changing physical landscape and candid explorations of his own mental state, Shapiro offers an essential volume in the library of classic American travelogues.
Download or read book Life in the Sloth Lane written by Lucy Cooke and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHY ARE SLOTHS ALWAYS SMILING? Perhaps it’s because they’ve mastered the art of taking it slow in a world whose frenzied pace is driving the rest of us crazy. Here, in a mindfulness book like no other, heart-tuggingly cute photographs of these always-chill creatures are paired with words of wisdom, all to inspire us to slow down, stop to enjoy the little things, and come up relaxed, centered, and smiling.
Download or read book Life in the Fat Lane written by Cherie Bennett and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Lara, winner of beauty pageants and Homecoming Queen, is distressed and bewildered when she starts gaining weight and becomes a fat girl.
Download or read book The Breakdown written by B a Paris and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors If you can't trust yourself, who can you trust? It all started that night in the woods. Cass Anderson didn't stop to help the woman in the car, and now that woman is dead. Ever since, silent calls have been plaguing Cass and she's sure someone is watching her every move. It doesn't help that she's forgetting everything, too. Where she left the car, if she took her pills, the house alarm code – and whether the knife in the kitchen really had blood on it. Bestselling author B A Paris is back with a brand new psychological thriller full of twists and turns that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Download or read book This Thought s on Me written by Coronella Steve Coronella and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Steve Coronella moved to Ireland in the early 1990s, he thought he knew what to expect - double-digit unemployment, a pub on every corner and weather only a duck could love. In his entertaining memoir This Thought's On Me, Coronella shares a humorous and insightful collection of anecdotes about his new life in Dublin and the Boston upbringing he left behind. Soon after Coronella arrives, the Celtic Tiger economy springs to life. Ireland is suddenly importing workers rather than shipping people out. And as the money and the good times flow, a profound self-contentment causes the Irish to forget - almost - the hard decades that preceded the boom. Coronella discovers that this is an ideal setting for a writer with a fresh outlook and an interesting turn of phrase. In his dispatches home - which have appeared previously in the Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor and Cape Cod Times - Coronella brings his dual identity to life in such wide-ranging and revealing essays as "Why Europe Doesn't Get Patriotism," "No Blarney, I'm Raising A Dub!" and "The Summer Of My Irish Commune." These thoughtful reflections from a misplaced American provide an intriguing and witty glimpse into what life is really like on the Emerald Isle.
Download or read book Breakdown Lane Intl written by Jacquelyn Mitchard and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2005-04-05 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Twelve Times Blessed comes a novel of the breakdown of a family and of healing after a loss Giving advice is what Julianne Ambrose Gillis does for a living--every Sunday she doles it out to clueless people she doesn't know, in a column in her local Wisconsin paper. But when it comes to her personal life, Julie seems to have no insight whatsoever. She has worked hard to keep her marriage fresh and to be a good mother, so it's a mystery when Leo, her husband of twenty years, decides to defect from their life together and their three children: Gabe, Caroline and Aury. In his absence, Julie is diagnosed with a serious illness, which drives her children to undertake a dangerous journey to find Leo--before it's too late. But what they discover about their father is even more devastating than their mother's deteriorating health. As the known world sinks precariously from view and leaves them all adrift, the Gillis clan must navigate their way through the trenches of love, guilt and betrayal, back to solid ground and a new definition of family.
Download or read book Prison Tattoos written by Douglas Kent Hall and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-03-15 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In prison, the tattoo stakes a claim to individuality. In "Prison Tattoos", Douglas Hall Kent uses his camera as a sociologist's tool, photographing inmates from America's prisons whose tattoos, professionally done and homemade, indelibly imprint on their bodies what these men desire in their souls: autonomy and identity. Includes 80 pages of photos and a page of temporary tattoos.
Download or read book Critical Mass written by Dan Krzyzkowski and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is September 1996 when college roommates Dennis Carew and Curt Tobinesk realize they share the same frustration about academic life and the separate demons they battle every day. After they decide on a whim to take life by the horns, the young men set out in the dark of the night on an unplanned road trip from Pennsylvania to Delaware in search of Gretchen Sorenz, Denniss lost love. The night is long and the road is full of secrets. To pass the time, Dennis relates the story of how he met, fell in love with, and ultimately lost the girl of his dreams. Curt has his own story to tell. This night marks the seventh anniversary of his fathers death, a loss Curt has never completely overcome. As the two friends trade chapters for miles, it becomes mandatory for both to finish their stories before reaching the end of the road, where Gretchen waits. Finding Gretchen will be hard enough. Winning her back may take a miracle. In this tale of darkness, faith, love, and heroism, two young men, troubled for different reasons, find common ground in a unifying, magical goal that leads them on an unforgettable adventure to find the inner-peace they both so desperately need. Dan Krzyzkowski attended Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he earned a degree in psychology. He is the author of the novels The Caller and One-Lane Bridge. A writer and fisherman, Krzyzkowski lives in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and works for the US Postal Service.
Download or read book Long Island Sound written by Barbara Klaus and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The information about the book is not available as of this time.
Download or read book Choices Made and Promises Kept written by Latimore Praiseworthy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines choice as the following: 1. the act of choosingfinding it hard to make a choice 2. power of choosingyou have no choice 3. the best part; a person or thing chosenshe was their first choice. 4. a number and variety to choose amonga plan with a wide choice of options 5. care in selecting 6. a grade of meat between prime and good of choice 7. to be preferred This book touches on all these definitions of choice, but I consider Eleanor Roosevelts definition to be the testimony we should have when standing by the decisions we make in our lives: In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility (https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/choices.html). With that being said, enjoy the ride!
Download or read book Body Problems written by Ben Agger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the relationship between the body and society in a fast-food society. Agger focuses on issues of food, exercise, work, dieting and eating disorders, fashion, bariatric and cosmetic surgery, and health. He addresses the dilemma that we have ample access to abundant calories but lead lifestyles and have jobs that for the most part do not enable us to expend those calories. He proposes solutions, both individual and structural, that involve re-orienting ourselves to exercise as play. The book can be used in introductory sociology, social problems, work, sociology of sport, gender, health and illness. The goal of this new, unique Series is to offer readable, teachable "thinking frames" on today’s social problems and social issues by leading scholars, all in short 60 page or shorter formats, and available for view on http://routledge.customgateway.com/routledge-social-issues.html For instructors teaching a wide range of courses in the social sciences, the Routledge Social Issues Collection now offers the best of both worlds: originally written short texts that provide "overviews" to important social issues as well as teachable excerpts from larger works previously published by Routledge and other presses.
Download or read book High Energy Living written by William Gottlieb and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the benefits of living a high-energy life.
Download or read book Providence Blue written by David Pinault and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At his typewriter in little Cross Plains, Texas, Robert E. Howard created big characters—Bran Mak Morn, Solomon Kane, Conan the Barbarian—who shaped the art of fantasy fiction for generations. But Howard would never know it. On June 11, 1936, at the age of thirty, he shot himself outside his country home. Why would he do it, and where could death have taken him? Providence Blue imagines the strange underworld journey of Howard after his suicide, through Texas flatlands, ancient Egyptian ruins, and New England city gutters. Meanwhile, as his girlfriend Novalyne Price investigates what caused the tragedy, she is led to Providence, Rhode Island, home of the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, where she makes a terrifying, life-changing discovery. In Providence decades later, aging grad student Joseph Bonaventure struggles to finish his dissertation on Lovecraft. When he and a young librarian, Fay O''Connell, chance upon some of the author''s lost papers, this breakthrough locks both of them in a web of black magic, occult conspiracy, and dark cosmic forces—and ties them intimately to the fate of Robert E. Howard. Alongside a cast of Providence characters, including a local priest and a stray Chihuahua, Joseph and Fay join a supernatural quest for good against evil, heaven against hell, the Lamb of God against the horrors of oblivion. Written in a lean, direct style, with a native''s sense of Rhode Island''s geography and culture, David Pinault''s Providence Blue pushes the fantasy novel into new terrain, bringing the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft into contact with the startling reality of Christian doctrine.
Download or read book Whisper Down the Lane written by Clay McLeod Chapman and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A diabolically creepy hybrid of horror and psychological suspense that thrills as much as it unsettles. You’ll keep turning the pages even as your hands shake.”—Riley Sager, New York Times best-selling author of Home Before Dark A pulse-pounding, true-crime-based horror novel inspired by the McMartin preschool trial and Satanic Panic of the ’80s. Richard doesn’t have a past. For him, there is only the present: a new marriage, a first chance at fatherhood, and a quiet life as an art teacher in Virginia. Then the body of a ritualistically murdered rabbit appears on his school’s playground, along with a birthday card for him. But Richard hasn’t celebrated his birthday since he was known as Sean . . . In the 1980s, Sean was five years old when his mother unwittingly led him to tell a lie about his teacher. When school administrators, cops, and therapists questioned him, he told another. And another. And another. Each was more outlandish than the last—and fueled a moral panic that engulfed the nation and destroyed the lives of everyone around him. Now, thirty years later, someone is here to tell Richard that they know what Sean did. But who would even know that these two are one and the same? Whisper Down the Lane is a tense and compulsively readable exploration of a world primed by paranoia to believe the unbelievable.
Download or read book Macauley s Thumb written by Lex Williford and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A husband and wife, unable to speak to each other without arguing, face the dissolution of their marriage when they smuggle his mother's body out of Mexico. Two boys, confronting abandonment by their father, go to the Texas State Fair and stumble upon a way to get their mother out of bed. Thomas "Hoot" Ponder and his nephew find common ground in whiskey and storytelling amid the comedy surrounding death and dying. A chiropractor who loves science fiction movies struggles with his sexual fantasies about one of his patients, a Wal-Mart cashier who can't stop talking about her pain. In the powerful title story, Cal Macauley--driven mad by his wife's horrible death--faces mourning, regret, and the inevitability of forgetting by striking out against himself and the rattlesnakes on his mountain.
Download or read book The Breakdown Lane written by Jacquelyn Mitchard and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An advice columnist and mother searches for vanished husband in this dramatic novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean. An advice columnist for a Wisconsin newspaper, Julieanne Gillis dispenses wisdom to her readers, but somehow missed the signs that something was amiss in her own home. Devoted to being a good mother and keeping her twenty-year marriage fresh and exciting, she is shocked by her husband’s surprise announcement that he needs a “sabbatical” from their life together—and devastated when he disappears, leaving Julie with no funds to raise two teenagers and a small daughter alone. But it is the discovery Julieanne suffers from a serious illness that truly crumbles her family’s foundation—setting her children on a dangerous, quixotic journey to locate their missing father before it’s too late. Praise for The Breakdown Lane “Rousing melodrama; fluid, often funny, dialogue; and the convincing portrayal of children involved in the collapse of a marriage add up to another page-turner from Mitchard.” —Publishers Weekly “An astute observer of family dynamics, Mitchard renders her characters flawlessly, endowing them with a humanity that is both accessibly grounded and astonishingly deep.” —Booklist “A compelling mix of suspense, humor, and abiding humanity.” —Boston Globe “A novel you will read once, then again and again.” —Tulsa World
