Download or read book Slag Like Me written by Barry B. Longyear and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detective Matthew Sikes and his Newcomer partner, George Francisco, inquire into the disappearance of journalist Micky Cass, who had gone undercover as a Newcomer to expose a campaign of discrimination against the Tenctonese--Novelist.
Download or read book Isle of Night written by Veronica Wolff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is life offering fewer and fewer options? Then join the dead. When Annelise meets dark and seductive Ronan, he promises her a new life-if she has the courage to chance the unknown. Now, she's whisked away to a mysterious island and pitted against other female recruits to become a Watcher-girls who are partnered with vampires and assist them in their missions. To survive and become a Watcher, Annelise has to beat out every other girl, but she's determined to do so, because to fail doesn't mean dishonor-it means death.
Download or read book Can You Read Me written by Jacki Pritchard and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents poems, stories and journal work spontaneously written by people, young and old, who have suffered serious abuse. The editors' explanations and commentaries suggest how health and social care workers can facilitate creative writing as a potential contribution to emotional healing in work with both individuals and small groups. In addition to individual contributors, the book records the activities of groups developed by Barnardos for children and young people and by Beyond Existing for adults. Although not written as a training manual per se, the book offers photocopiable exercises and an appendix of writings for use in staff training. Can You Read Me? illustrates the great potential for applying our creative imaginations and personal qualities like sensitivity in work with survivors of abuse and those with mental health and disability problems. .
Download or read book Wild Birds written by Dan Totheroh and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Violated A Shocking and Harrowing Survival Story From the Notorious Rotherham Abuse Scandal written by Sarah Wilson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shocking first true account from one of the young girls who lived through and survived the Rotherham sex abuse scandal.
Download or read book Violated Part 1 of 3 A Shocking and Harrowing Survival Story from the Notorious Rotherham Abuse Scandal written by Sarah Wilson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violated can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts. This is PART 1 of 3 (Chapters 1-7 of 24). You can read Part 1 two weeks ahead of release of the full-length eBook and paperback.
Download or read book The Asylum written by Simon Doonan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After nearly a lifetime spent in the Industry, author and fashion insider Simon Doonan is ready to let you in on a little secret: his peers in this multibillion-dollar industry are just as nutty as the denizens of your local loony bin. In The Asylum, an unabashedly hilarious collection of autobiographical essays, Doonan, the creative ambassador for Barneys New York, tells the real-life stories of glamorous madness and stylish insanity. Doonan has witnessed models unable to work for fear of ghosts, gone deep-sea fishing with a couturier pal and his jailbird companion, and watched Anna Wintour remain perfectly calm while the ceiling fell—literally—in the middle of Fashion Week. Once you start looking, he says, you’ll notice telltale signs of lunacy everywhere. Style insiders see patterns and trends in everything; they suffer from outsize personality disorders and delusions of grandeur; and of course, they have a predilection for theatrical makeup and artfully destroyed clothing. No one is more suited to the asylum than the truly die-hard fashionista—after all, eccentricity and extremism are the foundations of great style. With his gimlet eye for the absurd and a love for eccentricity, Doonan’s personal and professional stories never fail to entertain. “The David Sedaris of the style universe” (The Boston Globe) gives us the scoop on the kooky, cutthroat—but always fabulous—fashion world, and proves himself one of the sharpest humorists writing today.
Download or read book The Rise of the Forsaken Kingdom written by Steven O. Cupp Sr. and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise of the Forsaken Kingdom By Steven O. Cupp Sr. The Rise of the Forsaken Kingdom is a science fiction tale about Steven Black, who learns to use his powers and live life as they did back in Egyptian days. He is someone who has done wrong in this world but changes his lifestyle in his new life. Grow and learn with Steven and have a different look for the other characters in this riveting tale.
Download or read book The People of Sand and Slag written by Paolo Bacigalupi and published by Windup Stories, Inc. This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In “The People of Sand and Slag,” a Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated short story, Paolo Bacigalupi weaves a tale about the lives of three technologically modified guards, their barren, heavily mined landscape, and a chance encounter with a creature rare for their time period – a dog. What starts off as a hunt for an enemy ends up as a story of empathy, and what it means to be human. “The People of Sand and Slag” was nominated for the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, and the 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novelette. It was featured in Gardner Dozois’s “Year’s Best SF” Twenty-Second Edition, Jonathan Strahan’s “Best SF of the Year” 2004 Edition, and in John Joseph Adams’ “Wastelands” Anthology in 2008. Reviews: “A difficult and touching story, which steps pretty far outside the box to examine our relationship to pets, and to nature. At every stage, Bacigalupi gets it right.” --- Internet Review of Science Fiction “Bacigalupi posits a future where humanity has adapted itself to living in a hostile environment. ... There is plenty of techie stuff entwined with the premise itself to satisfy the hardest of hard sf readers, but the main attraction of this story is the faint hope that those parts of us that can accept the "other" might still exist in a world where self-preservation and survival come first.” --- Tangent Online
Download or read book Ecology of Fear written by Mike Davis and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles' urban ecology and the city's place in America's cultural fantasies Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, and a plague of bees. In this controversial tour de force of scholarship, unsparing vision, and inspired writing, Mike Davis, the author of City of Quartz, revisits Los Angeles as a Book of the Apocalypse theme park. By brilliantly juxtaposing L.A.'s fragile natural ecology with its disastrous environmental and social history, he compellingly shows a city deliberately put in harm's way by land developers, builders, and politicians, even as the incalculable toll of inevitable future catastrophe continues to accumulate. Counterpointing L.A.'s central role in America's fantasy life--the city has been destroyed no less than 138 times in novels and films since 1909--with its wanton denial of its own real history, Davis creates a revelatory kaleidoscope of American fact, imagery, and sensibility. Drawing upon a vast array of sources, Ecology of Fear meticulously captures the nation's violent malaise and desperate social unease at the millennial end of "the American century." With savagely entertaining wit and compassionate rage, this book conducts a devastating reconnaissance of our all-too-likely urban future.
Download or read book Proceedings of the Session written by Institution of Automobile Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in v. [1]-15.
Download or read book Terra Cotta written by Alice McAlilly and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book You Against Me written by Jenny Downham and published by David Fickling Books. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If someone hurts your sister and you're any kind of man, you seek revenge. If your brother's accused of a terrible crime but says he didn't do it, you defend him. When Mikey's sister claims a boy assaulted her, his world begins to fall apart. When Ellie's brother is charged with the offense, her world begins to unravel. When Mikey and Ellie meet, two worlds collide. This is a brave and unflinching novel from the bestselling author of Before I Die. It's a book about loyalty and the choices that come with it. But above all, it's a book about love.
Download or read book Greatest Hits Volume 1 written by Jon C. Trickey and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover a world where werewolves roam and demonic possession is a frightening reality, all interspersed with inane yet amusing pub banter. This collection of weird tales even features a talking narwhal with a surprising social conscience, adding an unexpected twist to the narrative mix. Inside these pages, you’ll encounter stories that range from the bizarre antics of unstoppable taxidermists to the chilling depths of old school folk horror. These tales are designed to both terrify and amuse, seamlessly blending horror with humour. As you delve into this unique volume, you might find yourself gripped by fear one moment and bursting into laughter the next. And, quite possibly, you’ll be inspired to visit the pub for a comforting pint after navigating these strange and surreal stories.
Download or read book Home in the Meadows written by Frederick Goodman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-12-30 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of a soldier returning home to the meadows and his encounters along the way.
Download or read book Postfeminist Education written by Jessica Ringrose and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges a contemporary postfeminist sensibility grounded not only in assumptions that gender and sexual equality has been achieved in many Western contexts, but that feminism has gone ‘too far’ with women and girls now overtaking men and boys - positioned as the new victims of gender transformations. The book is the first to outline and critique how educational discourses have directly fed into postfeminist anxieties, exploring three postfeminist panics over girls and girlhood that circulate widely in the international media and popular culture. First it explores how a masculinity crisis over failing boys in school has spawned a backlash discourse about overly successful girls; second it looks at how widespread anxieties over girls becoming excessively mean and/or violent have positioned female aggression as pathological; third it examines how incessant concerns over controlling risky female sexuality underpin recent sexualisation of girls' moral panics. The book outlines how these postfeminist panics over girlhood have influenced educational policies and practices in areas such as academic achievement, anti-bullying strategies and sex-education curriculum, making visible the new postfeminist, sexual politics of schooling. Moving beyond media or policy critique, however, this book offers new theoretical and methodological tools for researching postfeminism, girlhood and education. It engages with current theoretical debates over possibilities for girls’ agency and empowerment in postfeminist, neo-liberal contexts of sexual regulation. It also elaborates new psychosocial and feminist Deleuzian methodological approaches for mapping subjectivity, affectivity and social change. Drawing on two UK empirical research projects exploring teen-aged girls’ own perspectives and responses to postfeminist panics, the book shows how real girls are actually negotiating notions of girls as overly successful, mean, violent, aggressive and sexual. The data offers rich insight into girls’ gendered, raced and classed experiences at school and beyond, exploring teen peer cultures, friendship, offline and online sexual identities, and bullying and cyberbullying. The analysis illuminates how and when girls take up and identify with postfeminist trends, but also at times attempt to re-work, challenge and critique the contradictory discourses of girlhood and femininity. In this sense the book offers an opportunity for girls to ‘talk back’ to the often simplistic either wildly celebratory or crisis-based sensationalism of postfeminist panics over girlhood. This book will be essential reading for those interested in feminism, girlhood, media studies, gender and education.
Download or read book Coyote written by Nikita Slater and published by Nikita Slater Writing Services Ltd.. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Hell’s Jury MC romance novel by USA Today Bestselling Author Nikita Slater. Coyote... biding my time until I'm ready to strike. I’m walking a tightrope between what the world sees and who I really am. I’m waiting for the day I can release my boiling rage and annihilate my father. In the meantime, I burn with guilt and shame over my inaction. Then I meet her, Bryce, the catalyst for uncaging the monster inside. I killed a man for her for reasons I can’t understand. And how does she repay me? By bringing a horrific past with her that reveals my secrets and unleashes my fury. It’s too soon, but I have no choice. I’ll destroy the world to keep her safe, even if that means losing myself in the process. Bryce... I have a secret that could get everyone around me killed. I’m walking a tightrope between what the world sees and who I really am. I’m waiting for the day I can emerge from my self-imposed prison and return to the light. In the meantime, I burn with guilt and shame over my actions. Then I meet him, Coyote. I am the catalyst for uncaging his monster. He killed a man for me for reasons I can’t understand. And how do I repay him? By bringing a horrific past with me that reveals his secrets and unleashes his fury. It’s too soon for us, but we have no choice. He’ll destroy the world to keep me safe and I’ll destroy the world if I lose him. Coyote is the second book in the Hell’s Jury MC series. Each book in the series is completely standalone and can be read in any order. Coyote is a dark romance with scenes of sexuality and violence. Please read with caution. Hell’s Jury Series Information: Rocky Meeting Jess was a lightening bolt moment for me and despite her connections with the enemy, my love for her trumps everything and everyone in my life, including my MC. Coyote Bryce is a fearless thief who harbours a painful and explosive secret. When the past threatens our love and endangers our lives, I’ll move heaven and hell to protect what’s mine. Trigger It was lust at first sight from the moment I met Evanee. She’s too posh, too confident, too complex and I’m too crass, too wild, too dangerous. Turns out love conquers all, and when she ends up in the crosshairs of our enemy, I’ll burn the world to keep her safe. Reaper I don’t like complications and Ximina is the biggest complication I’ve ever met. Her demand for protection draws me into a deadly conspiracy that pushes me to choose between my MC and my love for her. Red My life is spiralling out of control when Stella storms into it. Despite the crazy, her love is the only thing I can count on when death and betrayal tear my world apart. When Stella is threatened, allies and enemies find out how dangerous it is to cross me. Eight It’s a family affair that starts and ends on a nightmare when Selkie and I are forced together for the sake of our kids. As we battle our demons and find our way to each other, outside forces conspire to destroy our fragile love. Joker Kate is the love of my life and my biggest regret. When old ghosts and new enemies conspire to separate us, I’ll forge a path of destruction to hang on to the only woman I’ve ever loved. Hangman We’re on opposite sides of the law, but resisting Del is a losing game. A brutal twist of fate binds us together as we struggle for our very survival. While our love heals us, my vengeance will know no bounds. My enemies will beg to die after I’m through with them.
