Download or read book Rantings of an Ivy League Madman written by Steven Lahr and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ive had no formal training either in class or from outside influence. What you see and read comes strictly from my heart. I simply wrote what I felt was truth in the form of poems. The readers looking between the lines will be able to relate somewhere in their own lives. I encourage them to join the many others who now write poems. The concept I had was to unlock thoughts and lifes true reality. Come on, lets take this ride together. Dont ask. This is all I have. Steve Lahr [email protected] 315-585-6185 315-757-4248

Download or read book The Incoherent Ramblings of an American Madman written by Joel Scott Waterman and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "May my thoughts flow freely until I am empty." Meet Spartacus, an independent biker, who takes you on a journey from more than 25 years on the roads of America and Canada. Discover and experience one man's travels through life as he struggles with alcohol, drugs and heart break. From Texas gin mills to fighting off cabin fever in his home on the banks of the Salmon River in Upstate New York. Within his pages you will discover philosophy, poetry, stories of travel, and advice from a man who lives what he writes and writes what he lives. From his trials and tribulations, to his near suicide. "The Incoherent Ramblings of an American Madman" is the first novel of its kind. Unedited and raw...it opens a new avenue into American Literature....

Download or read book Jesus written by Ian Curtis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you strong enough to handle the truth about your faith and belief? Since infancy you have been taught stories from the Bible. Did you know that they are simply myths and superstitions, gathered together from the veils of antiquity? The priests of the ancient world were seeking a new method of power and control over the masses. In this book you will be given truths and directed to paths of reality. All religions are created for control and wealth. Jesus never existed and there is no evidence that a benevolent God watches over his children. There is also the same lack of proof that an Allah, a Buddha, or a Krishna ever existed or exists today. What we have developed is a path to the total destruction of mankind. Our planet earth is being torn apart by foolish beliefs which are promoted and supported by the weaknesses of a mass of human beings who have to have a security blanket. Collectively the nations of the world are on an inevitable collision course and the cause is religion. This is the ultimate results of a child's game of, "my God is bigger than your God "

Download or read book Fever Dreams and Disturbing Visions written by Rick Carufel and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2012-07-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of strange and disturbing tales written over the past decade.

Download or read book Boyfriend Material written by Jon Jeffrey and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching for the perfect mate, Carson St. John, editor of the gay men's magazine Throb, devises a provocative questionnaire that sends Carson and his four best friends on a quest to find true love, with unexpected results. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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Download or read book Leaving the World written by Douglas Kennedy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 International Bestseller “In this surging epic, a veritable decathlon of the spirit, Kennedy incisively dramatizes the enigma of chance, petty cruelty, and catastrophic evil, ‘unalloyed grief,’ and the tensile strength concealed beneath our obvious vulnerability.” —Booklist (starred review) On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents: she would never get married, and she would never have children. But life, as Jane comes to discover, is a profoundly random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in love with a brilliant, erratic man named Theo. And then Jane becomes pregnant. Motherhood turns out to be a great welcome surprise—but when a devastating turn of events tears her existence apart she has no choice but to flee all she knows and leave the world. Just when she has renounced life itself, the disappearance of a young girl pulls her back from the edge and into an obsessive search for some sort of personal redemption. Convinced that she knows more about the case than the police do, she is forced to make a decision—stay hidden or bring to light a shattering truth. Leaving the World is a riveting portrait of a brilliant woman that reflects the way we live now, of the many routes we follow in the course of a single life, and of the arbitrary nature of destiny. A critically acclaimed international bestseller, it is also a compulsive read and one that speaks volumes about the dilemmas we face in trying to navigate our way through all that fate throws in our path.

Download or read book When Evil Rules written by Michele R. McPhee and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cape Cod beach town of Falmouth seemed like a lovely place to visit. But those who lived there year-round knew its other, darker side... Local businessman and infamous bully Melvin Reine had started setting the homes of his so-called enemies on fire. Few of his victims—or even the police—ever dared to implicate him. Because those who did would pay the price... Mysterious events kept creeping up in Falmouth. The disappearance of Melvin's wife, a dead man found in a cranberry bog, a teenager slated to testify against Melvin who boarded a ferry, never to be seen again—was Melvin somehow responsible? Only one police officer, John Busby, had the guts to press him for answers. One day he found himself on the wrong end of a sawed-off shotgun...but managed to survive the attack. This is the shocking true story about what can happen to an all-American town WHEN EVIL RULES.

Download or read book Kenneth Goldsmith written by Kenneth Goldsmith and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2011-06-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In einem Brief an Bettina Funcke, Leiterin der Publikationsabteilung der dOCUMENTA (13), verwebt der in New York lebende Dichter Kenneth Goldsmith (*1961) verschiedene Stränge seiner künstlerischen Tätigkeit zum Gesamtbild seines Schaffens. Am Anfang steht dabei das von ihm 1996 gegründete Online-Archiv UbuWeb: eine nichtkommerzielle Plattform, auf der er sonst meist schwer zugängliches Material aus allen Bereichen der avantgardistischen künstlerischen Produktion (u. a. Dichtung, Film, Video und Sound) zur Verfügung stellt. Die Beschreibungen seiner Arbeit an UbuWeb sowie als Autor (der bereits existierende Text abtippt), als Moderator einer wöchentlichen Radiosendung (der Musiklisten anderer DJs und Texte von Bloggern abliest) und als Professor für englische Literatur (der unkreatives Schreiben unterrichtet) verdichten sich im Zusammenspiel mit theoretischen und poetischen Einschüben zu einer komplexen Reflexion über Dichtung unter dem Einfluss der Appropriation. Sprache: Deutsch/Englisch

Download or read book Excellent Sheep written by William Deresiewicz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deresiewicz takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with demands for perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications received by college admissions committees. Students are losing the ability to think independently. College is supposed to be a time for self-discovery-- but the system is broken, and he offers solutions on how to fix it.

Download or read book Bunny written by Mona Awad and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER Soon to be a major motion picture "Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius!" —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter "A wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel." —Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times "Awad is a stone-cold genius." —Ann Bauer, The Washington Post The Vegetarian meets Heathers in this darkly funny, seductively strange novel from the acclaimed author of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl and Rouge "We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. We very nearly did, didn't we?" Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny," and seem to move and speak as one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon," and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into the Bunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus "Workshop" where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought into deadly collision. The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination. Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, Electric Literature, and The New York Public Library

Download or read book Spy written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-12 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart. Funny. Fearless."It's pretty safe to say that Spy was the most influential magazine of the 1980s. It might have remade New York's cultural landscape; it definitely changed the whole tone of magazine journalism. It was cruel, brilliant, beautifully written and perfectly designed, and feared by all. There's no magazine I know of that's so continually referenced, held up as a benchmark, and whose demise is so lamented" --Dave Eggers. "It's a piece of garbage" --Donald Trump.

Download or read book Ghosts of Saint Michel written by Jake Lamar and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marva Dobbs has a life most people would envy. An American who has lived in Paris for most of her adult life, she runs a popular African-American soul food restaurant, and her thirty-year marriage has produced a beautiful grown-up daughter. So why is she jeopardizing everything for a fling with her sous-chef, a mysterious twenty-eight-year-old Algerian man named Hassan? Marva begins to ask herself the same question when she returns from summer vacation to find that Hassan is missing, and that he is the main suspect in the investigation into the bombing of a building in Paris that left one man dead. And then she disappears, leaving her bewildered daughter and secretive husband to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Ghosts of Saint-Michel is the talented Jake Lamar's second romantic thriller to be set in the bohemian Eighteenth Arrondissement of the City of Light.

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Download or read book Acceptance written by Susan Coll and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comic chronicle of a year in the life in the college admissions cycle. It's spring break of junior year and the college admissions hysteria is setting in. "AP" Harry (so named for the unprecedented number of advanced placement courses he has taken) and his mother take a detour from his first choice, Harvard, to visit Yates, a liberal arts school in the Northeast that is enjoying a surge in popularity as a result of a statistical error that landed it on the top-fifty list of the U.S. News & World Report rankings. There, on Yates's dilapidated grounds, Harry runs into two of his classmates from Verona High, an elite public school in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There's Maya Kaluantharana, a gifted athlete whose mediocre SAT scores so alarm her family that they declare her learning disabled, and Taylor Rockefeller, Harry's brooding neighbor, who just wants a good look at the dormitory bathrooms. With the human spirit of Tom Perrotta and the engaging honesty of Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep, Susan Coll reveals the frantic world of college admissions, where kids recalibrate their GPAs based on daily quizzes, families relocate to enhance the chance for Ivy League slots, and everyone is looking for the formula for admittance. Meanwhile, Yates admissions officer Olivia Sheraton sifts through applications looking for something-anything-to distinguish one applicant from the next. For all, the price of admission requires compromise; for a few, the ordeal blossoms into an unexpected journey of discovery.

Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1991-03-04 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.