Download or read book Without Me You ll Be Eating Out of Garbage Cans written by Lori Wilk and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a self-help book based on a true story about getting out of relationships or situations which are mentally, physically, or emotionally abusive. Ones you might be better off without.

Download or read book The Food Chain written by Geoff Nicholson and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] maniacal little caper . . . Curiosity demands that the reader devour each page to find out exactly what the author wants to say” (Los Angeles Times). Frank runs the Golden Boy fast-food chain, his wife, Mary, is having an affair with the chef, and his son, Virgil, modeled for the Golden Boy logo when he was a baby. All three get embroiled in the machinations of the Everlasting Club, a British organization dedicated to feasting and Dionysian activities that challenge even the most sophisticated of connoisseurs . . . “Nicholson does not stop at the Everlasting Club, with its gastronomic and erotic excesses, but paints a witty but grizzly picture of eating gone awry. Indeed, many readers have found his portrait excessive, which suggests that he is doing something right. This is a brilliantly witty attack on excess which no one who eats should miss.” —The Modern Novel “Kinky food and sex games are the stuff of this high-energy black comedy. . . . Nicholson sustains a tone of campy menace as he brings all these characters to London in a plot that zigs and zags entertainingly.” —Kirkus Reviews “Nicholson’s stateside debut, a dark parable of appetites carnal, commercial and culinary, sets him firmly in the contemporary British mode of savvy, morbid humor pioneered by compatriots like Martin Amis and Pete Davies.” —Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Urban Exile written by Harry Gamboa, Jr. and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of Harry Gamboa Jr. encompasses photography, video, performance, installation, essays, fiction, poetry, and lesser-known forms of his own creation. Working in the tradition of Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett, Gamboa has pioneered multimedia formats for nearly three decades, setting a precedent for the work of artists such as Coco Fusco, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, and Daniel J. Martinez. Urban Exile gathers Gamboa's diverse creations in a visually compelling collection that reveals a rich vein of Chicano avant-garde production reaching back to the early 1970s. Gamboa was a founding member of Asco (1972-1987), the East L.A. multimedia art group that critically satirized high art and cinema while parodying the utopian nationalism of the Chicano Arts Movement. Urban Exile comprises works Gamboa created with Asco as well as solo efforts -- Mexican fotonovelas rewritten as performance pieces, mail art, No Movies (images presented as stills from nonexistent movies). Firmly grounded in the megalopolis of Los Angeles, these texts present a unique perspective on the bizarre racialized and class-stratified fabric of that city -- the "urban desert in ruins". Gamboa's work is crucial to an understanding not only of Chicano art but also of the post-1968 avant-garde in the United States; he consistently debunks traditional categories, creates innovative alternatives, and reveals a history rendered invisible by the dominant art institutions and media industries. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes dreamlike, always unexpected, these texts present a compelling critique of urban life at the end of the millennium and are essential reading for all "orphans of modernism".

Download or read book A Private Dick s Assumption Two Lovers Change With Photos written by Alexxx Freebie Free Man and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2013-08-07 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two tales about a troubled couple how the come together and how the break up.

Download or read book Climbing out of the Rabbit Hole written by Terry Woods and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-09-16 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just like Alice in Wonderland, Michael lives in a crazy world. As a drug addict, he has tried to climb out of the rabbit hole for many years. His struggle to overcome his addiction becomes a journey for all of us. Michaels letters from prison unfold like episodes in a reality show. His sponsor is our hero. Bobs tough-love letters and guidance show us what most people fail to do in recovery and what causes them to relapse. We are there, watching Michael build the courage to put the not-so-easy Twelve Steps into action. Fortunately, we are also there when he finds his way out of the rabbit hole.

Download or read book Reshuffled written by Tracy Gharbo and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reshuffled tells the life stories of former foster children, who despite all odds, craft productive lives. Within Reshuffled, former foster children share their trials and strategies to gain footing in their unpredictable lives with the hope that their stories can model, inspire, and encourage youth facing similar situations today. Tracy Gharbo and Linda Palmer have captured the authentic voices of the abused and abandoned children who become lawyers, social workers, military officers, college graduates, scientists, teachers, parents, athletes, and foster care advocates. Inspiration abounds in unique lives, told honestly and without reserve.

Download or read book Letters from Jane written by Barbara Allan Hite and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a gray kitten named Jane is cruelly cast on the street at ten weeks old, she spends her time hiding in bushes and under porches, terrified of dangers around her. Hungry and cold, she finally meets a kind opossum who leads her around the neighborhood to yummy morsels of food. The odd duo stick together until fate shines upon Jane. Plucked from the clutches of street life, Jane is adopted into a loving home and makes a friend for life in the familys dog, a Labrador retriever named Danny Lunder. She is content, warm, and safe, and so writes heartfelt letters to her mother describing her life and good fortune, hoping to relieve any her mothers fears. But the man and woman of the family are elderly and before long, after a series of accidents, Jane ends up on the street again, and Danny finds a home with another master. This time, Jane writes to Danny, unaware of his new circumstances but desperately wanting to reconnect with her old friend. Despair tries to ensnare her once more, but she fights it desperately. After all, now she has more than herself to look after: she is expecting kittens. Letters from Jane offers a thoughtful, engaging tale of life as experienced through an animals eyes.

Download or read book inCAPABLE written by Sara Hubbard and published by Sara Hubbard. This book was released on 2015-05-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After spending four years caring for her mother, twenty-two year old Evie Crane is starting over with a new job in a new city. Unfortunately, her new life involves working for a woman with close ties to the mob. When a short walk home turns into tragedy and Evie is left broken and beaten, a mob hitman comes to her rescue. In his debt, she feels a bond to him and wants to help him as much as he helped her, but getting close to a criminal brings her more chaos than she bargains for. Declan Lewis grew up on the streets until taken under the wing of a man with a soft spot for a child he never had. The man taught Declan all he knew, only…all he knew was being a hired killer for the Dantes family. When Declan crosses paths with a girl so unlike himself, he can't help but be attracted to his polar opposite. However, bringing her into his life means bringing her into his world, a mistake that might prove fatal. He wants to be the man she deserves, but to give her what she needs, he'll have to change. And is change really possible for a killer? keywords: mob, hitman, contemporary romance, new adult, suspense, crime

Download or read book Meeting Jack written by Diane Charko and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If ever time marked a pivotal moment, it was when Donna and Jen first met Jack. Desire and regret took root that day. Though it seemed time was on their side, they discovered too late how choices can ruin friendships and even endanger lives. Now, a traumatic accident offers Donna a chance to change everything. Her fate rests on the alignment of two time frames. One traps Donna in a comma where years of mistakes relentlessly haunt her. The other arms her with the knowledge and determination to reverse those mistakes. Would new choices protect her from murder? Save Jen from a painful death? Can she divert the bullet racing toward Jack and the woman who destroyed him first? Donna has the power of second chances to correct it all and replace her..but time favors only one.

Download or read book Billy Thomas written by David Carlyle and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking over the family farm when his father dies unexpectedly, Billy Thomas becomes an adult before he is ready. But he keeps moving forward, working the family farm in Missouri and planning to marry Susan, the beauty down the road. Nearly killed in a wagon accident, Billy is on the mend when he and Susan marry. Though there is a bad element terrorizing Billy and his family, with the help of those around them, Billy and Susan begin their lives together. But the happy times would not last... Kidnapped and kept as a slave laborer for three years, Billy returns home to find his world torn apart. His thirteen-year quest to recover his family will take him to the far corners of the United States, in the hope of reuniting with the things that make life worthwhile. An engrossing tale set around and after the turn of the last century, Billy Thomas: Forever Fearless will lead readers into a time long past, with lessons still relevant today.

Download or read book On Addiction written by Darin Weinberg and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-23 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mainstream addiction science sees addiction either as a biomedical disease that renders one incapable of self-control or as a voluntary practice engaged in freely. In On Addiction, Darin Weinberg shows how this dynamic is deeply influenced by a series of binaries (free will/determinism, mind/body, objectivity/subjectivity) that hinder our understanding of addiction. Here, he offers a new theorization of addiction in which he breaks down these contradictions and incompatibilities, calling into question the taken-for-granted distinction between the “biological” and the “social.” To the extent that it is understood as a loss of self-control over one’s behavior, addiction, Weinberg contends, requires a supple theoretical framework that provides for movements into and out of self-control, for the social and natural processes that influence these movements, for the historical contexts within which they occur, and for the ethical ramifications of taking them seriously. To create this framework, Weinberg brings together history, ethnography, and critical theory as well as the clinical and social sciences. In this way, Weinberg takes a more holistic approach to examining the fundamental nature and ethics of addiction.

Download or read book Hurting Women Can Be Heal Saith the Lord written by Sheila Hargrove and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about little girl named Shy. Shy wants you know what she went through as a child, all during her childhood. She was a very, very sad little girl all the time. Not knowing what happiness was all about, because of the torments she endured. Shy was molested by family members. She was prey upon like and animal. They took advantage of shy, because she was a child. Shy did not understand what was going on and whats happening to her. Shy was ruined before she became and adult. She could not have a normal life as a child. As a child shy did not understand what took place. And what they did to her. You would not believe what Shy encountered. She did not believe it herself.

Download or read book Put Your Diamonds Up written by Ni-Ni Simone and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They're the daughters of celebrities - the kind all the teen magazines gossip about! But the 'It Girls of Hollywood High' are about to discover that fame has a price. And no friendship - or romance - is safe. YA Superstars Ni-Ni Simone and Amir Abrams reunite for the third novel in the glitzy series full of hidden secrets.

Download or read book Swamp Heads The Complete Series written by Esther E. Schmidt and published by Esther E. Schmidt. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swamp Heads; a seven book novella series based on a family born and raised in the swamp. Each sibling has their own “love at first sight” novella. Every story is a different genre, and even though it is a series, each story can be read as a complete standalone. This boxed set includes the complete series: Cyrus (Billionaire Romance) Claiming Elsie (Romantic Comedy) Chester (Single Mom Romance) Loving Mae (Office Romance) Cross Ties (Romantic Suspense) To Live (Royal Romance) To Love (a hint of MC Romance) *WARNING* Each have their own character and some use a twist to express themselves. Example: voila merde (for the s-word), yapper (for mouth), duck/effin (for the f-word) … well, you get the idea. All fun and games with a bite and a little mud.

Download or read book This Is My Story written by Tonya Lucas and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minister Tonya C. Lucas currently lives in Willingboro, New Jersey where she is surrounded by family and friends. She has spent a majority of her adult years in ROCHESTER NY where she began her long lasting walk with Christ. She has devoted her time to inspiring young women who are going through familiar situations giving them words of encouragement, as well as being living proof if you just believe you too can accomplish any and everything. A native of NEW YORK CITY Tonyas life has not always been easy but with every obstacle big or small she has never given up on her vision. She has been married to her husband Todd for 30 years. Their daughter Precious has given them the privilege of being wonderful grandparents to four beautiful grandchildren, two boys and two girls. Tonya plans to reopen her boutique shop (Tonyas Unique Boutique) someday where she plans to dedicate a lot of her spare time. Tonya continues to write and plans to release a part two of her book with hopes of blessing and encouraging more people the second time around. If you were to ask her how she is doing she would undoubtedly say I am blessed. After meeting this phenomenal women of God and hearing as well as seeing her strength, you too will know that she is not just blessed but TONYA C LUCAS is a force to be reckoned with.

Download or read book Enduring Change in Eating Disorders written by H. Charles Fishman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enduring Change in Eating Disorders provides a unique perspective on the successful treatment of eating disorders, which are among the most debilitating and recalcitrant psychiatric diseases. Unique in the field, this book details effective Structural Family Therapy with qualitative follow-ups of up to 20 years. A practical approach providing concrete tools to the clinician to creating change that holds over time with bulimia, anorexia, and compulsive overeating. The text draws on cases from the author's practice of over twenty-five years and follows his approach in the theoretical tradition of Intensive Structural Family Therapy (IST). Chapters discuss the nature and significance of eating disorders, a review of current treatment approaches, and the importance of the family in the therapeutic process. Cases of eating disorders in youths and adults are provided as well as instances of bulimia, anorexia, and compulsive overeating. Three appendices provide the reader with information regarding the scientific basis of the IST model, the effectiveness of the approach in treating conditions other than eating disorders and preventing eating disorders.

Download or read book The Candy Box written by Lock Cee Mangum and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English teacher by day turned hostess by night. Meet Elizabeth, a privileged, spoiled rich party girl from America’s Los Angeles, who has decided that in order to prove to her parents she isn’t a slacker, a year or two living and working in Japan will be the perfect pit-stop for her and boyfriend / future husband, Eddie. Life overseas will all be a breeze, easy money, and fun, right? WRONG. Not only does living abroad come with its share of challenges, it also comes with culture shock and danger as her unresolved substance abuse problems and craving for excitement get her into trouble and put a strain on her relationship. Will it survive? Her brushes with the underworld place her in life-threatening situations that can get her chopped up and dumped into the East Sea, because somewhere along the way, she has made enemies uninterested in fun and games! Based on and a true story and real-life events