Download or read book Gorilla and the Bird written by Zack McDermott and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Glorious...one of the best memoirs I've read in years...a tragicomic gem about family, class, race, justice, and the spectacular weirdness of Wichita. [McDermott] can move from barely controlled hilarity to the brink of rage to aching tenderness in a single breath." -- Marya Hornbacher, New York Times Book Review Zack McDermott, a 26-year-old Brooklyn public defender, woke up one morning convinced he was being filmed, Truman Show-style, as part of an audition for a TV pilot. Every passerby was an actor; every car would magically stop for him; everything he saw was a cue from "The Producer" to help inspire the performance of a lifetime. After a manic spree around Manhattan, Zack, who is bipolar, was arrested on a subway platform and admitted to Bellevue Hospital. So begins the story of Zack's freefall into psychosis and his desperate, poignant, often hilarious struggle to claw his way back to sanity. It's a journey that will take him from New York City back to his Kansas roots and to the one person who might be able to save him, his tough, big-hearted Midwestern mother, nicknamed the Bird, whose fierce and steadfast love is the light in Zack's dark world. Before his odyssey is over, Zack will be tackled by guards in mental wards, run naked through cornfields, receive secret messages from the TV, befriend a former Navy Seal and his talking stuffed monkey, and see the Virgin Mary in the whorls of his own back hair. But with the Bird's help, he just might have a shot at pulling through, starting over, and maybe even meeting a partner who can love him back, bipolar and all. Introducing an electrifying new voice, Gorilla and the Bird is a raw and unforgettable account of a young man's unraveling and the relationship that saves him.

Download or read book My Two Moms written by Zach Wahls and published by Avery. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An advocate and son of same-gender parents recounts his famed address to the Iowa House of Representatives on civil unions, and describes his positive experiences of growing up in an alternative family in spite of prejudice.

Download or read book Uncensored written by Zachary R. Wood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon his own powerful personal story, Zachary R. Wood shares his perspective on free speech, race, and dissenting opinions—in a world that sorely needs to learn to listen. As the former president of the student group Uncomfortable Learning at his alma mater, Williams College, Zachary Wood knows from experience about intellectual controversy. At school and beyond, there's no one Zach refuses to engage with simply because he disagrees with their beliefs—sometimes vehemently so—and this view has given him a unique platform in the media. But Zach has never shared the details of his own personal story. In Uncensored, he reveals for the first time how he grew up poor and black in Washington, DC, where the only way to survive was by resisting the urge to write people off because of their backgrounds and perspectives. By sharing his troubled upbringing—from a difficult early childhood to the struggles of code switching between his home and his elite private school—Zach makes a compelling argument for a new way of interacting with others and presents a new outlook on society's most difficult conversations.

Download or read book EXPECTING THE BEST written by Lynnette Kent and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 9 MONTHS LATER He's done raising kids…or is he? As the oldest of eleven children, Denver cop Zach Harmon spent a lot of time helping out with his siblings. Now he's enjoying his freedom, and although he loves his nieces and nephews, he doesn't plan on having a family of his own. Then Shelley Hightower invites him to a dinner being held in her honor. Shelley's a perfect date—beautiful, funny, independent, everything he admires in a woman. The whole evening passes like a dream—and the truth is, neither of them wants it to end. So when the blizzard begins, it seems logical to take shelter for the night…. Together. Six weeks later, he learns there's a baby on the way. Unexpectedly, Zach finds that he's looking forward to giving up his bachelor life for the woman he loves—and their child. All he has to do is convince Shelley!

Download or read book The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017 written by 826 National and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best-selling author Sarah Vowell works with a group of high school students to select the year's best new fiction, journalism, poetry, essays, and comics aimed at readers age fifteen and up.

Download or read book The Price of Peace written by Zachary D. Carter and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit” (The New York Times), illuminating the world of the influential economist and his transformative ideas “A timely, lucid and compelling portrait of a man whose enduring relevance is always heightened when crisis strikes.”—The Wall Street Journal WINNER: The Arthur Ross Book Award Gold Medal • The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism FINALIST: The National Book Critics Circle Award • The Sabew Best in Business Book Award NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times • The Economist • Bloomberg • Mother Jones At the dawn of World War I, a young academic named John Maynard Keynes hastily folded his long legs into the sidecar of his brother-in-law’s motorcycle for an odd, frantic journey that would change the course of history. Swept away from his placid home at Cambridge University by the currents of the conflict, Keynes found himself thrust into the halls of European treasuries to arrange emergency loans and packed off to America to negotiate the terms of economic combat. The terror and anxiety unleashed by the war would transform him from a comfortable obscurity into the most influential and controversial intellectual of his day—a man whose ideas still retain the power to shock in our own time. Keynes was not only an economist but the preeminent anti-authoritarian thinker of the twentieth century, one who devoted his life to the belief that art and ideas could conquer war and deprivation. As a moral philosopher, political theorist, and statesman, Keynes led an extraordinary life that took him from intimate turn-of-the-century parties in London’s riotous Bloomsbury art scene to the fevered negotiations in Paris that shaped the Treaty of Versailles, from stock market crashes on two continents to diplomatic breakthroughs in the mountains of New Hampshire to wartime ballet openings at London’s extravagant Covent Garden. Along the way, Keynes reinvented Enlightenment liberalism to meet the harrowing crises of the twentieth century. In the United States, his ideas became the foundation of a burgeoning economics profession, but they also became a flash point in the broader political struggle of the Cold War, as Keynesian acolytes faced off against conservatives in an intellectual battle for the future of the country—and the world. Though many Keynesian ideas survived the struggle, much of the project to which he devoted his life was lost. In this riveting biography, veteran journalist Zachary D. Carter unearths the lost legacy of one of history’s most fascinating minds. The Price of Peace revives a forgotten set of ideas about democracy, money, and the good life with transformative implications for today’s debates over inequality and the power politics that shape the global order. LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE

Download or read book Zachary Black Duke of Debauchery written by Carole Mortimer and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one knows how to sin quite like Zachary Black, Duke of Hawksmere. So when he finds a mysterious veiled woman hiding in his carriage, there's only one thing to do carry her to his bedchamber and find out what she wants! But coming face-to-face with beautiful Lady Georgianna Lancaster--his former love--unnerves Zachary. Maybe the best way to restore his equilibrium is to hold her captiveand turn the secrets of the past into the sins of the present!

Download or read book Zachary s Shrinkitis written by Joseph Crossen and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zachary's Shinkitis tells the story of a boy, Zachary, whose handwriting becomes progressively smaller in spite of the efforts of various teachers to help him. As his written words shrink and trail off the paper, he follows them down to a place where everything is smaller than he and where he feels very awkward.

Download or read book Zachary Taylor written by John S. D. Eisenhower and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation's highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would lead to the Civil War Zachary Taylor was a soldier's soldier, a man who lived up to his nickname, "Old Rough and Ready." Having risen through the ranks of the U.S. Army, he achieved his greatest success in the Mexican War, propelling him to the nation's highest office in the election of 1848. He was the first man to have been elected president without having held a lower political office. John S. D. Eisenhower, the son of another soldier-president, shows how Taylor rose to the presidency, where he confronted the most contentious political issue of his age: slavery. The political storm reached a crescendo in 1849, when California, newly populated after the Gold Rush, applied for statehood with an anti- slavery constitution, an event that upset the delicate balance of slave and free states and pushed both sides to the brink. As the acrimonious debate intensified, Taylor stood his ground in favor of California's admission—despite being a slaveholder himself—but in July 1850 he unexpectedly took ill, and within a week he was dead. His truncated presidency had exposed the fateful rift that would soon tear the country apart.

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

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Download or read book Zachary Goldman Private Investigator Cases 1 13 written by P.D. Workman and published by pd workman. This book was released on with total page 2430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ZACHARY GOLDMAN, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR, IS FLAWED WITH A CAPITAL F. Shattered by the tragedies of his own life, he will somehow still manage to pick himself up and dig just a little bit deeper than anyone else to find the vital clues. Maybe being broken makes it easier for others who have faced tragedy to trust him. Walk with Zachary as he solves cases that will stretch his abilities to the limit. A case is only unsolvable as long as it remains unsolved. This set includes: She Wore Mourning His Hands Were Quiet She Was Dying Anyway He was walking alone They Thought he was Safe He was not there Her Work was Everything She told a Lie He Never Forgot She was at Risk He Drowned in Memory Their Walls Were Empty They Came for Him ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Zachary Goldman has become one of my favorite fictional characters. He is so flawed and troubled and loyal and hardworking and, and…I want to be Zach when I grow up! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The writing is skillful, with a wonderfully complex plot and well-developed characters. Highly recommended! Looking for a gritty PI series without foul language and gore? Award-winning and USA Today Bestselling Author P.D. Workman brings you stories that delve into some of the darkest parts of society but leave you feeling good in the end Even with his own life in shambles, Zachary Goldman is still the one you want on the case. ADD ZACHARY TO YOUR BOOKSHELF TODAY.

Download or read book Seducing the Best Man written by Sasha Summers and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oh, what a night! Some guys look like trouble from the start. From where Cady Egerton is sitting, Patton Ryan is just the right kind of trouble. She doesn't want a gentleman—she wants him. A man meant for hot, passionate sex. Yep, Patton is just the guy to give her one heck of a night to remember… Cady did not expect her delectable one-night hookup to show up at her best friend's engagement party—or that he'd be the best man. Now all they have in common is a serious case of lust and a desire to break up their friends' whirlwind wedding. But every minute they don't spend plotting together is bound to be nothing but pure, naked trouble.

Download or read book Zachary Goldman Private Investigator Cases 5 7 written by P.D. Workman and published by pd workman. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zachary Goldman, Private Investigator, is flawed with a capital F. Shattered by the tragedies of his own life, he will somehow still manage to pick himself up and dig just a little bit deeper than anyone else to find the vital clues. Maybe being broken makes it easier for others who have faced tragedy to trust him. Walk with Zachary as he solves four cases that will stretch his abilities to the limit. Even with his own life in shambles, Zachary Goldman is still the one you want on the case. A case is only unsolvable as long as it remains unsolved. This set includes: 5 They Thought He Was Safe – When Pat asked him to look into the disappearance of an illegal, Zachary agreed to take it, but didn’t expect to find anything more than a man who had returned to his family or fled immigration officials. But it quickly becomes apparent that the disappearance was just the tip of the iceberg. 6 He Was Not There – Zachary Goldman just wants to put everything that happened to him that night at the hands of a monster behind him forever. But when Heather, his estranged sister, asks for his help in bringing her own rapist to justice, there is no way he can turn her down. 7 Her Work was Everything – There’s something going on at Drake Chase Gould. The death of intern Lauren Barclay is just the tip of the iceberg. When Lauren’s roommate hires Zachary to look into what was, on its surface, a tragic accidental death, Zachary gets more than he bargained for.

Download or read book The Imperfect Pastor written by Zack Eswine and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastors aren’t superheroes—they have fears and limitations just like everyone else. Zack Eswine knows this from personal experience and has a wealth of wisdom to offer those who feel like they don’t measure up. Written in a compelling memoir style, The Imperfect Pastor is full of insightful stories and theological truths that show how God works unexpectedly through flawed people. By talking honestly about the failure, burnout, pain, and complexities that come along with church ministry, Eswine helps pastors accept their human limitations and experience the freedom of trusting God’s plan for their church and life.

Download or read book Zach written by Jenna Myles and published by Myles High Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-26 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An image-conscious playboy hires a frumpy, shoe-losing, directionally challenged virgin. Let the chaos commence! Smooth, Playboy, Billionaire. All labels people apply to me. But the only label I actually care about is Brother. Everything I do is for them. For the empire we built together. Women are an enjoyable distraction, that’s all. So why can’t I stop thinking about the frumpy woman who’s taken over my marketing department? She’s constantly getting lost. She loses her shoes, and let’s face it, she’s just weird. I mean, yeah, she’s a brilliant marketer. And ok, my brothers like her. And fine, she has a backbone of steel and stands up to me when I’m being a dick. But no way am I going to get sucked into a relationship like my brothers have. I am a woman on the edge. Ok, fine, not on the edge. But I really have nothing left. So why not pick up and move to a new city, start a new job, and become a totally new person? I’ve never been on an airplane or outside of New York City, but so what? People-ing is hard. Harder than I thought. But I’ve gotten sucked into this big, wild family, and I kind of like it. So maybe I can start a new life. Maybe I can cross some things off my Get a New Life list. But never in a million years did I think I’d do any of them with my boss. But suddenly, there I am, laying on top of him in a crowd of people…Whoops, that came out dirtier than it was in my head. So what’s a virgin, frump of a woman supposed to do when her sexy boss starts staring, and touching and trying to take care of her? No really…I have no idea what I’m doing. Help!

Download or read book The Virgin and Zach Coulter written by Lois Faye Dyer and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cynthia Deacons was saving herself for the right man. That man was not Zach Coulter. The charming, second-born Coulter son had hired her to refurbish his family's legendary lodge. She refused to mix business with pleasure even if Zach was impossible to resist. But what happened once the footloose tycoon discovered Cynthia didn't play around…she played for keeps? Hiring Cynthia to run the newly restored Coulter Lodge was a stroke of pure genius. The petite blonde hotel manager had the hands-on expertise Zach needed. But the bachelor rancher was finding it hard keeping his hands off her. Someday soon, Cynthia was going to give up and give in to the powerful passion zinging between them. He'd bet the ranch on it….