Download or read book Tortured Souls Memoir written by Nerphetz Patrick Phiri and published by New York City Printing House. This book was released on 2024-08-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our world, where we often keep our pain and suffering hidden deep inside, “Tortured Souls” becomes a symbol of hope and connection. This deeply personal memoir takes you on a profound exploration through the darkest aspects of human experience, showcasing the incredible resilience of the human spirit. The author, who has faced their share of traumas and emotional challenges, shares their heartfelt story with a poetic touch that speaks to those who have felt lost or shattered. Through a collection of moving narratives, “Tortured Souls” delves into how our struggles can mould us with empathy, fortify our character, and ultimately guide us toward healing. By drawing inspiration from ancient Eastern philosophies, particularly from Chinese and Indian traditions, this memoir uncovers timeless wisdom that has provided solace and purpose to many grappling with hardships. Going beyond survival tales, this book acts as a companion for those looking to rediscover their inner strength and kindle their inner light amidst life's tribulations. Whether you are navigating your personal journey of healing or simply seeking deeper insights into human emotions, “Tortured Souls” offers a poignant and relatable storytelling experience that will resonate in your heart and soul. It's a must-read for anyone ready to embark on a quest toward self-discovery, compassion, and emotional resilience.
Download or read book A Tortured Soul written by Arthur Goodwill and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-02-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Goodwill, YOU ARE GOING TO DIE!' They pointed a gun at my head and they were going to kill me, they told me: 'Goodwill, YOU ARE GOING TO DIE.' how did I end up in this situation? I will tell you. My name is Arthur Goodwill and this is my story, I will start from the beginning... This book is the true story of an individuals experiences of psychosis (Hearing Voices) and recovery. It is essentially an autobiography or memoir of a sufferer of psychosis. If you have ever wondered what it is like to be a schizophrenic or to suffer from mental health problems such as psychosis then look no further than this book. It also provides tips on how the author coped with psychosis. It has been described as "sobering" but also "funny in places" as it demonstrates the life of Arthur Goodwill and the imagined torture that he suffers. Introduction: This book is the true story of my experience of having a psychotic breakdown. Everything written here is true, I have however changed the names of all of the characters to protect their identities, in case they do not want to be identified. I wrote this book to show the world what it is like to experience psychosis and hear voices. Hopefully having texts like this 'out there' will raise awareness of psychosis and other mental disorders such as schizophrenia and depression. My intention in writing this book is to normalize these experiences and limit the stigmatism and prejudice suffers of mental health problems experience. Hopefully those who have not suffered these problems will be able to see things from a sufferer's point of view and be more willing to accept them as individuals after reading this text. As one of the above quotes demonstrates people who do not know the facts about mental illness fill in the gaps of reality with fantasy or information they have gathered from the media, most of this negative. I hope to change this through education. This book is basically a short autobiography or memoir that mainly focuses on incidents which have lead me to experience psychosis, and that demonstrate what it is like to hear voices. I also found writing this book very cathartic and calming, for the first time I felt able to convey some of my experiences to others, ones that I could not convey in words before. In essence I am also attempting to decode my own experiences of psychosis in addition to sharing them with willing readers. In order for readers to have the experience of hearing voices I have included things the voices say throughout the text, this sometimes disrupts the narrative and is similar in style to Vladimir Nobokov's Pale Fire, or Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves, my aim being to mimic the effects the voices have on my own conscious and the interruption and distress they cause. I will italicize these comments so that they do not confuse the reader. The voices I hear are actually those of two former friends, whom I have chosen to call Kian Fosco and Dale Bile, and occasionally a third unknown voice also comes into play. Mostly it is Kian's voice that I hear and that you will read. I will explore the voices later in the book. I have however kept the use of this technique to a minimum to avoid unsettling the reader too much, I have also toned down some of the graphic details that the voices go into for the sake of everybody's sanity!
Download or read book The Life of a Tortured Soul written by G-Down and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tortured Soul written by Marley Brant and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those interested in the history of the infamous Younger Brothers of Missouri know eldest brother Cole’s story. Or at least they think they do. Cole told it enough times. Yet his autobiography, his dozens of interviews, and the stories he told to his friends and family members unfortunately tell a story quite different from researched history of the same times and events. John and Bob died young and never had the opportunity to tell their side of it all. And brother Jim remained silent. Until now. Tortured Soul: Jim Younger in His Own Words finally reveals Jim’s memories, thoughts, and opinions. Although Jim’s recollections are also mired in selective memories and a certain distortion brought about by the passage of time, a damaged psyche, and a need to protect himself and those he loved, the story Jim tells is based on his history and his desire to set Cole’s tall tales in their proper perspective.
Download or read book The Desolation of a Tortured Soul written by George Colby Hoffman and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My story begins in my home state of Maryland, where I was the youngest of three children. From my earliest memories, I was the victim of severe abuse at the hands of my birth father, which I endured throughout my adolescent years. During this time I was visited by two angels who have accompanied me my entire life. They told me that I would suffer many things and be hated by all men, but if I kept my faith in God, I would have a special place in heaven. Once my mother left my birth father, she moved us to her mother's house in Washington, D.C. Then my mother married my second father, who was from Germany. We moved back to Maryland, but he had a serious drinking problem and he committed suicide. She then married our third father and we moved to Florida, where he too became abusive. When our grandmother died, we moved back to Maryland. My third stepfather continually beat me. It became so bad, I had to live in the woods in the winter and eat out of trash cans. After I got a job, my mother took most of my paycheck for her husband's drinking and gambling money. This story of extreme child abuse promises to take you on a journey through the eyes of a child as the victim, to the young adult as the survivor. My sole purpose and motivation is to help child abuse victims and help those more fortunate to understand the victims! First-time author George Colby Hoffman now lives in Florida. His next book is titled From Exercise to Competitive Bodybuilding for the over 50. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/GeorgeColbyHoffman
Download or read book Tortured Souls written by Nikki J. Summers and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-07 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say the devil appears in many different forms. To the town of Sandland, his face was one of them.He was a rebel. A brawler. A bare-knuckle boxer you'd cross the road to avoid if you saw him coming the other way.When he left our town, no one shed a tear, because Brandon Mathers was trouble and trouble followed him wherever he went. The night he disappeared, he left behind a lifetime of devastation for the rest of us to bear.He didn't care.He enjoyed creating chaos and leaving a trail of destruction in his wake.But he was never going to stay hidden for long. He had too much bravado; too much ego. He couldn't cope with being ignored.So, in the dead of night, when the darkness welcomes all the dirty, filthy creatures to come out to play, so does he.He thinks nobody sees him or the wicked things he does.But I do.He thinks I don't know that he watches.But I see him. I watch him too.He thinks he's coming for me, but I'm already lying in wait.When the time is right, I'm going to destroy his blackened soul just like he's tortured mine. He'll never see it coming, but when it does, I'll be there to remind him that Karma is real...And her name is Harper Yates.Tortured Souls is a New Adult Romance and the second instalment in the Rebels of Sandland series from Nikki J Summers. Each book can be read as a standalone, but it will enhance the overall experience if you read Renegade Hearts prior to Tortured Souls. Brandon's story contains situations of a violent and sexual nature. Therefore, it is only suitable for readers 18 years+. Please take note of the trigger warnings.
Download or read book Blindfold written by Theo Padnos and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning journalist’s extraordinary account of being kidnapped and tortured in Syria by al Qaeda for two years—a revelatory memoir about war, human nature, and endurance that’s “the best of the genre, profound, poetic, and sorrowful” (The Atlantic). In 2012, American journalist Theo Padnos, fluent in Arabic, Russian, German, and French, traveled to a Turkish border town to write and report on the Syrian civil war. One afternoon in October, while walking through an olive grove, he met three young Syrians—who turned out to be al Qaeda operatives—and they captured him and kept him prisoner for nearly two years. On his first day, in the first of many prisons, Padnos was given a blindfold—a grime-stained scrap of fabric—that was his only possession throughout his horrific ordeal. Now, Padnos recounts his time in captivity in Syria, where he was frequently tortured at the hands of the al Qaeda affiliate, Jebhat al Nusra. We learn not only about Padnos’s harrowing experience, but we also get a firsthand account of life in a Syrian village, the nature of Islamic prisons, how captors interrogate someone suspected of being CIA, the ways that Islamic fighters shift identities and drift back and forth through the veil of Western civilization, and much more. No other journalist has lived among terrorists for as long as Theo has—and survived. As a resident of thirteen separate prisons in every part of rebel-occupied Syria, Theo witnessed a society adrift amid a steady stream of bombings, executions, torture, prayer, fasting, and exhibitions, all staged by the terrorists. Living within this tide of violence changed not only his personal identity but also profoundly altered his understanding of how to live. Offering fascinating, unprecedented insight into the state of Syria today, Blindfold is “a triumph of the human spirit” (The New York Times Book Review)—combining the emotional power of a captive’s memoir with a journalist’s account of a culture and a nation in conflict that is as urgent and important as ever.
Download or read book A Tortured Soul written by Gracie Lane and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a true story about how I was sexually abused from the time I was a small child into my adulthood. I talk about when a neighborhood boy and myself was kidnapped off my front porch by a stranger. My story goes on to talk about my mom being a divorced mother of two. She went to her sister and asked if she could babysit my older brother and myself while she worked? During that time I was sexually abused by my uncle and two of my cousins. My book talks about when my mom had met a man and had a baby with him. It goes on to talk about how much my moms, my brother and my life would change from that point on. It talks about our family vacations. How we dressed, from the type of clothes to the school and kids we were around. This book will tell you how I came to admire and adore this man as my father. How I would put in a little extra work to make him proud of me. Or how I would want to spend time with him like a daughter and father do together. How I felt that I had let him down, when I was nineteen years old. My story then comes to the point where my world came crashing down ( and my drug use began) at the age of twenty one, when the man I came to look so highly up to raped me.
Download or read book The Tortured Soul Trilogy written by C. J. Cassidy and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Tortured Soul Trilogy of Pain and Pleasure” is a raw and intimate inside look at the trials and tribulations of three women, Tobey Oceanside, Jennifer X. Jones and Katherine Stark. Adapted and edited from C.J Cassidy's previous novels, this loosely biographical account details the events that these three amazing women have experienced in both their separate and overlapping lives. Brutal and honest, yet erotic and sensual, the novel takes a no holds barred look into their private world of fetishes and sexual desires. Each had crosses that they had to bear and each found absolution in the most unexpected places. A must read for anyone who has their own demons to exorcise. The author is able to express their pain and heartache in a way that many of his readers have related to. Some readers have actually freed themselves of their own bonds of abuse because of these heroines. Not for the faint of heart, I dare you to try to put it down after you've begun to read it!
Download or read book Tortured Souls written by Clive Barker and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legend of Primordium.
Download or read book Tortured Sinner written by Tessa James and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Souls written by Poppy Brite and published by Dell. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampires . . . they ache, they love, they thirst for the forbidden. They are your friends and lovers, and your worst fears. “A major new voice in horror fiction . . . an electric style and no shortage of nerve.”—Booklist At a club in Missing Mile, N.C., the children of the night gather, dressed in black, look for acceptance. Among them are Ghost, who sees what others do not; Ann, longing for love; and Jason, whose real name is Nothing, newly awakened to an ancient, deathless truth about his father, and himself. Others are coming to Missing Mile tonight. Three beautiful, hip vagabonds—Molochai, Twig, and the seductive Zillah, whose eyes are as green as limes—are on their own lost journey, slaking their ancient thirst for blood, looking for supple young flesh. They find it in Nothing and Ann, leading them on a mad, illicit road trip south to New Orleans. Over miles of dark highway, Ghost pursues, his powers guiding him on a journey to reach his destiny, to save Ann from her new companions, to save Nothing from himself. . . . “An important and original work . . . a gritty, highly literate blend of brutality and sentiment, hope and despair.”—Science Fiction Chronicle
Download or read book Breaking Night written by Liz Murray and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the vein of The Glass Castle, Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen was living on the streets, and who eventually made it into Harvard. Liz Murray was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was taunted for her dirty clothing and lice-infested hair, eventually skipping so many classes that she was put into a girls' home. At age fifteen, Liz found herself on the streets. She learned to scrape by, foraging for food and riding subways all night to have a warm place to sleep. When Liz's mother died of AIDS, she decided to take control of her own destiny and go back to high school, often completing her assignments in the hallways and subway stations where she slept. Liz squeezed four years of high school into two, while homeless; won a New York Times scholarship; and made it into the Ivy League. Breaking Night is an unforgettable and beautifully written story of one young woman's indomitable spirit to survive and prevail, against all odds.
Download or read book Charred Souls written by Trena Cole and published by Oberpark Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a personal accounting of a young girl's childhood as she and her six siblings grew up with parents who used child abuse as a source of entertainment. In her book, Trena Cole describes the methods of intimidation and isolcation used to prevent the childen from seekigng help. It also describes how, since their extended family practiced the same type of abusive behavior, the children assumed the whole world lived this way. While these parents may have been reported as potential child abusers, they were never charged or prosecuted despite the sadistic torture they inflicted on their young children. Trena became the parental role model, nurturer and caretaker for the younger children from a very young age, never having anyone to nurture or care for her, and learned to dissociate to survive the chaos. The language is raw, ugly and harsh, just as it was screamed at the children until they were able to escape the madness. This inspirational book may be emotionally difficult to read but contains vital information for those in the helping professions: therapy, education, medicine or law.
Download or read book Uncounted victim written by Yael Eylat-Tanaka and published by Tektime. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the other victims of German occupation in France, the story of my mother who was separated from her family and fled, and the torture that remained with her forever. These are the memoirs as told to me by my mother. I have attempted to tell her story as accurately as she presented them to me, piecing together her own written journals, along with various anecdotes that supplemented and peppered stories over my lifetime, without embellishing by interposing my own interpretations of events. This is not a suspense novel, although certainly the events recounted herein were suspenseful to those who experienced them. They certainly sounded suspenseful to me as I heard and read them. So as to avert embarrassment to anyone reading these words, I have on occasion chosen to use pseudonyms, while trying to keep the gist of the story true to form. My mother was French, and occasionally some French words and phrases appear throughout the text. I have included translations wherever appropriate. She also lived and studied in Italy before moving to Israel, and eventually to the United States. Again, where words and phrases are included in those languages, and I have included translations to the best of my ability. Translator: Yael Eylat-Tanaka PUBLISHER: TEKTIME
Download or read book Uncounted Victim The Journey Of A Tortured Soul written by Yael Eylat-Tanaka and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the other victims of German occupation in France, the story of my mother who was separated from her family and fled, and the torture that remained with her forever.These are the memoirs as told to me by my mother. I have attempted to tell her story as accurately as she presented them to me, piecing together her own written journals, along with various anecdotes that supplemented and peppered stories over my lifetime, without embellishing by interposing my own interpretations of events. This is not a suspense novel, although certainly the events recounted herein were suspenseful to those who experienced them. They certainly sounded suspenseful to me as I heard and read them. So as to avert embarrassment to anyone reading these words, I have on occasion chosen to use pseudonyms, while trying to keep the gist of the story true to form. My mother was French, and occasionally some French words and phrases appear throughout the text. I have included translations wherever appropriate. She also lived and studied in Italy before moving to Israel, and eventually to the United States. Again, where words and phrases are included in those languages, and I have included translations to the best of my ability.
Download or read book Tortured written by Victoria Spry and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child, Victoria Spry was brutally beaten, neglected and starved by the woman she called Mummy. To the outside world Eunice Spry was a devoted parent, but behind closed doors she was an evil tyrant. Instead of protecting, loving and caring for Victoria, she forced bleach and urine down her throat, knocked out her teeth, tied her up naked and made her live in squalor. It took eighteen years of heartache and despair before she found the courage to expose her mum. Tortured is Victoria’s gripping story of survival.
