Download or read book Technicolor Nightmare written by Twyla Sampaco and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 2000's, I was a Filipina engineering student at Seattle's University of Washington, diligently pursuing the Immigrant kid's American Dream - getting a good education & building toward stable employment, making my parents proud, and finding true love. But Bipolar Disorder had other plans for me. At least I had coffee shops, vintage film cameras, and mix cd's?"This book is not a success story, and it is not a confessional. It's a whispered secret, a hypothetical question I'm asking for a friend about a terribly dark and confusing part of my life... Technicolor Nightmare is a compilation of bad dreams, old blog posts, unsent love letters, and fantabulist bullshit, written and shot on film in the lost years of my twenties. I edited it together during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, where I found myself falling into familiarly unstable territory as I reached my mid-30's."

Download or read book For Joshua written by Richard Wagamese and published by Milkweed+ORM. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An expansive work about healing, resilience, humanity, respect, inheritance, Indigenous teachings, and most of all, love” from the author of Indian Horse (Literary Hub). “We may not relight the fires that used to burn in our villages, but we can carry the embers from those fires in our hearts and learn to light new fires in a new world.” Ojibwe tradition calls for fathers to walk their children through the world, sharing the ancient understanding “that we are all, animate and inanimate alike, living on the one pure breath with which the Creator gave life to the Universe.” In this intimate series of letters to the six-year-old son from whom he was estranged, Richard Wagamese fulfills this traditional duty with grace and humility, describing his own path through life—separation from his family as a boy, substance abuse, incarceration, and ultimately the discovery of books and writing—and braiding this extraordinary story with the teachings of his people, in which animals were the teachers of human beings, until greed and a desire to control the more-than-human world led to anger, fear, and, eventually, profound alienation. At once a deeply moving memoir and a fascinating elucidation of a rich indigenous cosmology, For Joshua is an unforgettable journey. “Told lyrically and unflinchingly, For Joshua is both a letter of apology and another attempt at self-identification for the writer. A must-read for Wagamese fans, and a good primer for his novels.” —Minneapolis StarTribune “A well-written, introspective book on fatherhood and loss that will especially interest readers and students of First Nations life and literature.” —Library Journal

Download or read book Roger Should Have Said Yes written by Jack Fitzgerald and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seasoned screenwriter, playwright, and script doctor Jack Fitzgerald knows the sting of rejection all too well. In Roger Should Have Said Yes, he shares details of his personal journey as he attempted to sell screenplays in Hollywood, along with four unproduced screenplays that leave it up to others to decide whether they are yes or no people. Screenplays included in the anthology include Piece of Cake, in which a young prostitute reinvents her life on South Beach in Miami; Bad Trip, which tells the story of a religious couple honeymooning in Hollywood who discover how quickly good can turn to bad; Pasadena, in which a poor family must immigrate to wealthy Pasadena during the early 1900s to save their child; and Cleo de Janeiro, in which a young band employs a ninety-five-year old hottie as their lead singer. Included at the end of each screenplay is a form that encourages individuals, book clubs, and budding screenplay writers to step into the shoes of a movie studio executive named Roger and provide positive or negative feedback. In this anthology of screenplays, Jack Fitzgerald leaves his destiny in the hands of perfect strangers as they attempt to decide whether Roger Should Have Said Yes.

Download or read book Diana Lively Is Falling Down written by Sheila Curran and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trained as an architect in England, Diana Lively accompanies her second husband, Ted, on a trip to Arizona to assist in an American billionaire's project to construct a King Arthur Theme Park in the middle of the local desert, and finds her life transformed forever. A first novel. Original.

Download or read book Freaks Series Bundle written by Maree Anderson and published by Maree Anderson. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three of your favorite teenage cyborg heroine's adventures in one eBook bundle: The Freaks Series Bundle is approximately 215,000 words and contains: Freaks of Greenfield High (Book One of the Freaks series), Freaks in the City (Book Two), Freaks Under Fire (Book Three). Book One, FREAKS OF GREENFIELD HIGH: With a covert organization hot on her trail, now’s so not the time for a cyborg to fall in love and get all emotional! Jay’s a cyborg who looks just like a normal teenage girl. She’s super-strong, super-smart, and she can even appear to age like a human. When a covert organization intent on using Jay as a weapon comes after her, she needs to find a place where she can blend in. Greenfield High seems perfect… except that the boys all think she’s totally hot and keep hitting on her, and she has no clue how to handle the attention. Who knew high school could be so perilous? To add to her confusion Jay’s evolving—experiencing human emotions for the first time—and her encounters with ex-jock-turned-outcast Tyler send her logical brain into a spin. She’s just starting to get the hang of this girlfriend/boyfriend thing when her pursuers track her down. Now’s sooo not the time for a cyborg to fall in love and get all emotional! **Optioned for TV by Cream Drama, Inc., Canada; over 2 million reads on Wattpad Book 2, FREAKS IN THE CITY: True love isn't a cakewalk when your girlfriend's a cyborg! For Jay and Tyler, living together is… challenging—especially when the secrets they’re keeping from Tyler’s family blow up in their faces. The last thing they need is the ex-girlfriend from hell showing up on their doorstep. Nessa’s not exactly Jay’s favorite human right now, but Tyler’s ex is destitute, and desperate for a place to stay until the latest hot mess she’s embroiled in gets sorted. Besides, it’s better to keep your enemies close, right? Sure enough, Nessa has designs on Tyler and a hidden agenda. But discovering who is manipulating her behind the scenes isn’t easy, even for a super-smart computer-savvy cyborg like Jay. Everything falls apart when a vulnerable member of Tyler’s family is threatened, forcing Jay to confront a ghost from her past who’ll stop at nothing to destroy her. And this time, the weapon he’s sent after Jay really could be the death of her. Book 3, FREAKS UNDER FIRE: For a cyborg like Jay, life was never going to be simple. Jay’s still reeling from her encounter with a rogue cyborg assassin when she discovers she has a twin—a severely damaged Beta unit. Jay is determined to find the Beta, and help her if she can. Now all she needs to do is convince her boyfriend Tyler that it’s best for him to stay behind. But Jay’s not the only one searching for her twin. With enemies who’ll stop at nothing, and Tyler and his family caught in the crossfire, Jay’s life is about to get a whole lot more complicated… and a whole lot more dangerous. Warning: Contains language and themes more suited to older readers

Download or read book The Soul Reader written by Michel Prince and published by Fire & Ice Young Adult Books. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Souls are sacred to the human experience. We talk about saving our soul, selling our soul, or how one is soulless. The biological microchip holding the essence of who we are, and if seen, can expose truths a person may not even want to know. For Claire Lawrence, the soul is a blueprint. Colors glowing inside and through the body culminating at the center explaining the structure of owner. Over the years, she’d learned the base color is a better guide than the shade. Her blessing as a soul reader has her commonly tasked to looking and weighing the good from the evil. Her purpose is to protect those of Satori from one’s whose soul has been corrupted. Holding out for a rescue, Claire is forced to find her own way in a world turned upside down, in a time before women had rights. Her soul, torn from her body and transported back decades before she was born. Lost and stumbling, in a world both familiar and backwards, until she recognizes a few a familiar elders caught in their own nightmares. Can the elders help get her home? Will they even want to help, or are they as lost as she is? The truth is in front of her i,f only she can let go of what she knows and open her eyes to see it. With muddled messages and no clear path, can Claire find a way to cross the bridge of time to make her way home again? Or will both her body and soul expire before they can be reunited?

Download or read book Relative Strangers written by Kathy Lynn Emerson and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waycross Springs, Maine boasts a grand old hotel, Sinclair House, where a ghost appears to Corrie Ballantyne. Adrienne is an ancestor of handsome Lucas Sinclair, who owns the hotel, and she seems to push Lucas and Corrie together. Is this just ghostly matchmaking, or does Adrienne have a more urgent agenda this Christmastime? Contemporary Romance by Kathy Lynn Emerson; originally published by Bantam Loveswept

Download or read book Badlands Cursed written by Wade Peterson and published by Wade Peterson. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once a victim, now a survivor... Jasmine continues the search for her missing brother, armed with his dark secret and her own emerging powers. When she gets caught in a civil war, she will have to choose sides. Determined to fix the afterlife, she undertakes a daring journey to find her twin. Pursued by those that would possess her and put her in her brother’s chains, she finds herself fighting deadlier enemies from both without and within. If she’s caught by either, she’ll be stuck in Hell forever. The Badlands gave Jasmine has the power to heal, but will its curse destroy her? Badlands Cursed is the second book in the Badlands Born series. If you like page-tuning action and rich fantasy with a rock n’ roll vibe, this is the book for you. Buy Badlands Cursed and continue the adventure! Keywords: Adventure, Post-Apocalyptic, Afterlife, Dark Fantasy, magic, survival, monsters, zombies, Max Brooks, Neil Gaiman, spellbinding, magic, journey, road trip, undead hell, cannibal maniac, free, free first in series, free fantasy, action-packed, magic power, rock and roll, rock n' roll, metaphysical, portal fantasy, Enter the Samurai, Badlands Born, Mad Max, World War Z, The Gunslinger

Download or read book The Young Writer of the Year 1969 written by John Anstey and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Young Writer of the Year 1969 is a collection of literature submitted to The Young Writer of the Year Competition. The book presents 17 articles that cover a particular feature of contemporary Britain. The papers in the text tackle various issues, such as foreign immigrants, armed forces enlistment, and substance abuse. The text will be of great use to readers who have an interest in how young writers see various social issues in modern day Britain.

Download or read book Saxon written by Stuart Davies and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Saxon, the level-headed commander of an elite serial killer detection squad and his loyal partner Detective Sergeant Guy "Nosey" Parker are sent to the village of Sewel Mill, near Brighton on the south coast of England to catch a devious killer who has mastered the ability to commit murder without leaving forensic evidence. Several men are murdered and just when Saxon believes a pattern is emerging, the killer changes his strategy, which is almost unheard of with serial killers. He starts to play games with Saxon, sending him riddles to unravel with the expectation he won't. When Saxon proves a worthy adversary, the killer turns the tables on Saxon threatening those close to him. Saxon, continually struggling to come to terms with the murder of his father and stressed by his recent separation from his wife, starts to think the unthinkable - the only way to catch the killer is unthinkable...let him kill again. With no solid leads to go on, what else can he do? This is a multifaceted tale with red herrings and blind alleys that will leave the reader wishing there were more pages to turn after they're through...and there will be.

Download or read book Last of the Lancasters written by Martin W. Bowman and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Lancasters looked like enormous deadly black birds going off into the night; somehow they looked different when they came back. The planes carried from this field 117,000 pounds of high explosives and the crews flew all night to drop the load as ordered. Now the trains would not run between France and Italy for a while, not on those bombed tracks anyhow. Here are the men who did it, with mussed hair and weary faces, dirty sweaters under their flying suits, sleep-bright eyes, making humble comradely little jokes and eating their saved-up chocolate bars' Martha GellhornThis riveting and highly intriguing collection of pilot and civilian reminiscences works to commemorate the spirit of the almighty Lancaster bomber. Each chapter is dedicated to a unique individual or group of individuals who took part in its history in some capacity. Be they pilot, civilian, or journalist, each played their own part and their accounts offer a host of fascinating insights. Episodes featured include the battle for Munich and the Nuremburg and Berlin Raids. Stories of PoWs downed in their Lancasters and captured in enemy territory also feature, communicating a real sense of peril experienced behind enemy lines. Two sections of fascinating black and white photographs supplement and complete this trawl through the history of the Lancaster bomber and the men and women who witnessed its glory days.

Download or read book Bleeders written by Bill Pronzini and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Everybody Knows written by Jordan Harper and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “dazzling” (New York Times Book Review) mystery from an Edgar Award winning author, a fearless black-bag publicist exposes the belly of the L.A. beast. A New York Times Best Crime Book of the Year • A NYTBR Editors' Choice Selection • An ABA January 2023 Indie Next List Pick • Recommended by New York Times Book Review • NPR/Fresh Air • Wall Street Journal • Washington Post • LA Times • CrimeReads • The Boston Globe • South Florida Sun Sentinel • Alta Online • Lit Hub• Kirkus Reviews• Publishers Weekly• NBC/TODAY and many more! Welcome to Mae Pruett’s Los Angeles, where “Nobody talks. But everybody whispers.” As a “black-bag” publicist tasked not with letting the good news out but keeping the bad news in, Mae works for one of LA’s most powerful and sought-after crisis PR firms, at the center of a sprawling web of lawyers, PR flaks, and private security firms she calls “The Beast.” They protect the rich and powerful and depraved by any means necessary. After her boss is gunned down in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel in a random attack, Mae takes it upon herself to investigate and runs headfirst into The Beast’s lawless machinations and the twisted systems it exists to perpetuate. It takes her on a roving neon joyride through a Los Angeles full of influencers pumped full of pills and fillers; sprawling mansions footsteps away from sprawling homeless encampments; crooked cops and mysterious wrecking crews in the middle of the night. Edgar Award-winner Jordan Harper’s Everybody Knows is addicting and alarming, a “juggernaut of a novel” and “an absolute tour de force.” It is what the crime novel can achieve in the modern age: portray the human lives at the center of vast American landscapes, and make us thrill at their attempts to face impossible odds. "The book everybody's been waiting for" —Michael Connelly "An absolute tour de force"—S. A. Cosby "The best mystery novel I've read in years" —James Patterson

Download or read book All Things All at Once New and Selected Stories written by Lee K. Abbott and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited new collection from Lee K. Abbott, "Cheever's true heir, our major American short story writer" (William Harrison). Here are stories about fathers and sons, stories about men and women, and stories about the relationships between men by one of our most gifted story writers. The narrator of "The Who, the What and the Why," begins breaking into his own house as a sort of therapy after his daughter dies. In "The Human Use of Inhuman Beings," the main character realizes that his closest relationship is to an angel, who appears to him only to announce the death of loved ones. All Things, All at Once reminds us why Lee K. Abbott is to be treasured: his perfect pitch for tales of hapless Southwesterners, his way with sympathetic irony, his eye that skillfully notes the awkward humiliations—common heartbreak, fractured families—and records it all in lyrical, affectionate language. In tales new and from previous collections Abbott examines lived life and the lies we necessarily tell about it.

Download or read book Third Degree written by Greg Iles and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-23 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the span of 24 hours, everything Laurel Shields believes about her life and her marriage to a prominent doctor will be shattered if she survives.

Download or read book Best Friend for Hire written by Mary Carlomagno and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Need someone to talk to or a friend to lean on? Call Best Friend for Hire. I am here for you. Jersey Girl Jessie DeSalvo has her dream job at one of New York’s top publishing companies. After ten years of hard work the day of her big promotion has arrived. Unfortunately, her company has other ideas. Instead of a corner office, Jessie is handed her pink slip. Left with little more than her cell phone and an unusable contact list, Jessie retreats to less-than-fashionable Hoboken, New Jersey, to figure out her life—and deal with the attentions of her loving but inquisitive Italian-American family. Then she accidentally stumbles into a career as a professional best friend—by helping friends and strangers straighten out whatever is wrong with their lives. Her jobs include planning the New Jersey wedding of the year and saving a bankrupt rock club in town. Soon, things get complicated when she falls in love with the club manager—and promises an appearance by Bruce Springsteen. In the end, Jessie realizes that not even “The Boss” can make things right—and that she needs to become her own best friend to be truly happy.

Download or read book Mindbreaker written by Kate Dylan and published by Hodderscape. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'FIZZES WITH ENERGY AND REBELLION' SAMANTHA SHANNON 'WITTY, GRITTY, AND VICIOUS FUN' HANNAH KANER 'UTTERLY ENTHRALLING' SAARA EL-ARIFI An explosive cyberpunk SF thriller from the author of Mindwalker, set in a world of corporate intrigue and dangerous technology. No more quiet rebellions. Born into a religious cult, Indra Dyer lives a simple, tech-free existence. But when an illicit trip leaves her with a debilitating - and terminal - condition, Indra must choose: die faithful or betray her Order and accept the cure Glindell Technologies is offering. Forced to sign over her life, Indra is horrified to learn the true nature of Glindell's plans. Instead of saving her body, they upload her mind to a MindDrive, housed in a robotic shell. On the outside, Indra looks the same; on the inside, she's not so sure. She keeps finding herself in places she really shouldn't be, with no memory of how she got there, and dangerous abilities she can't explain. So when news breaks of an attack against Glindell's biggest rival, Indra suspects the worst. With the help of Tian - a research assistant with questionable morals and a smile that won't quit - Indra must uncover the truth, before Glindell can use it to change the face of technology, and what it means to be human, forever . . . READERS LOVE KATE DYLAN 'I LOVE this universe - we are literally encased in a dystopian/sci-fi bubble with all the representation and I am solidly here for it!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'This was an absolute thrill-ride: fast-paced, utterly compelling, and with the right balance of science and fiction' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I read Mindbreaker as I had just read and loved Mindwalker also by Kate Dylan - and I was not let down!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'This book should be a movie' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'YA RAGE HULK SMASH . . . a PERFECT sapphic romance' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐