Download or read book Distant Voices Distant Rooms written by Ruth Bowley and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distant Voice, Distant Rooms is loosely based on my partner's many years spent behind the walls of mental institutions. It is factual in the humor that Megan, the main character, holds dear, and in the perseverance of strong women everywhere. The book talks of a woman's discovery of life outside of mental institutions. At forty, Megan begins to find that her disability can be her greatest ally, given the right direction. During Megan's journey through schizophrenia, she will open up to the voices held behind the walls of therapy. Her strong passion for life delves deep into the humor that saves her in the end. Megan is based on my spouse of eleven years. She has spent twenty-plus years in institutions and thirty-plus years in therapy. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, she deals with multiple voices in her head every second of every hour of every day of her life. She has inspired many to understand that being disabled does not mean you are not whole, and that being incarcerated by mental illness does not mean you cannot overcome.
Download or read book Distant Voices written by Barbara Erskine and published by Thorndike Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains over thirty short stories with themes ranging from love, romance, loneliness, and grief, to betrayal, passion, adventure, and compelling suspense.
Download or read book The Distant Voices written by William L. Stolley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The resonating metallic tone of the voice is a constant nuisance to Michael Tyler. As a boy, every time he hears it, he lashes out violently. By the age of ten, he's taking regular doses of medication, and it isn't long before he's institutionalized. But now, he's all grown up, out on his own and the phantom voice has returned. This time, it won't go away. It tells Michael it's an alien entity that is able to communicate with him through a portal in his own mind. Not everyone has these portals; he's one of a select few. Michael is happy for the first time in a long while, knowing that perhaps he isn't crazy after all. And with the help of the voice, he develops psychic abilities and uses them to win back control of a private trust that gains him access to a fortune. But now, the voice wants Michael to begin communicating with others who have portals as well. By linking with them, he can share his psychic abilities and they all can become powerful. Join Michael on a fantastic journey filled with adventure, unanswered questions and false appearances in The Distant Voices.
Download or read book Distant Voices The Birth written by Michael Bigerton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kyle wakes up to a world he doesn't know. To a family, he doesn't remember.
Download or read book The Green Room written by Nag Mani and published by Nag Mani. This book was released on 2015-10-18 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Victoria School, Nainital. Founded: 1855. "She wears an old uniform," Nisha continued, "pale white face, dark shadows around her eyes. She is often seen sitting on this very chair. And it is said that the chair is always found in front of the mirror no matter where you leave it." Rohan Agarwal has been appointed the manager of a play, and how excited he is to work with Chandni Joshi - his childhood crush, and unfortunately, his senior! A happy-go-lucky high school boarder, he has his fun with his friends, enjoys the odd sport and does not think twice before raiding his warden's office to leak question papers. Then, one misty night, he sneaks into the infamous Green Room; and there, he finds something that wasn't meant to be found... Mysterious happenings in the Green Room begin to follow. That's when Rohan stumbles on the fact that the same play was supposed to have taken place before, but it was cancelled. There was something evil associated with the play. Something terrible had happened in the Green Room the first time around, or at least, that's what the stories said. And yet, Rohan finds, the old stories turn out to be true. And then, he learns a dark secret the school had been hiding...
Download or read book The Marvels written by Brian Selznick and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Marvels, Selznick crafts another remarkable artistic and bookmaking achievement that weaves together two seemingly unrelated stories-one in words, the other in pictures-with spellbinding synergy. The illustrated story begins in 1766 with Billy Marvel, the lone survivor of a shipwreck, and charts the adventures of his family of actors over five generations. The prose story opens in 1990 and follows Joseph, who has run away from school to an estranged uncle's puzzling house in London, where he, along with the reader, must piece together many mysteries. Filled with mystery, vibrant characters, surprise twists, and heart-rending beauty, and featuring Selznick's most arresting art to date, The Marvels is a moving tribute to the power of story.
Download or read book THE SUICIDE ROOM written by Xavier Vidal and published by Xavier Vidal. This book was released on 2021-09-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1912. A mysterious and luxurious Casino hidden in the mountains outside Barcelona, the cradle of the European Art Nouveau explosion; a legendary secret room where gamblers who had lost everything could discreetly commit suicide; a serial killer on the loose; "Bicycle man", a young and peculiar police sub-inspector who will never give up. 2021. The ruins of an old casino are barely visible through the vegetation; a serial killer still on the loose; a journalist in search of a story that can revive his declining career; was the suicide room just an urban legend? Two people investigating the same crimes and chasing the same serial killer, but living one hundred years apart. One simple question. Could a man be forced to commit suicide to save the lives of his loved ones?
Download or read book Towering Pines Volume One Room 509 written by Bruce Sarte and published by Bucks County Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-18 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When star basketball player Liam Rider is sentenced to military school to serve out an aggravated assault charge, he thought his life was over. When he meets Lisbeth Harrington, she sparks feelings in him he didn't know he had. Pulled into the past of the historic school by nightmares of his own suicide, Liam and Lisbeth are spurned forward into the hidden history a murder, suicide and ghosts.
Download or read book Harry s Trees written by Jon Cohen and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you climb a tree, the first thing you do is to hold on tight… Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane works as an analyst for the US Forest Service. When his wife dies suddenly, he is unable to cope. Leaving his job and his old life behind, Harry makes his way to the remote woods of northeastern Pennsylvania’s Endless Mountains, determined to lose himself. But fate intervenes in the form of a fiercely determined young girl named Oriana. She and her mother, Amanda, are struggling to pick up the pieces from their own tragedy—Amanda stoically holding it together while Oriana roams the forest searching for answers. And in Oriana’s magical, willful mind, she believes that Harry is the key to righting her world. Now it’s time for Harry to let go… After taking up residence in the woods behind Amanda’s house, Harry reluctantly agrees to help Oriana in a ludicrous scheme to escape his tragic past. In so doing, the unlikeliest of elements—a wolf, a stash of gold coins, a fairy tale called The Grum’s Ledger and a wise old librarian named Olive—come together to create a golden adventure that will fulfill Oriana’s wildest dreams and open Harry’s heart to a whole new life. Harry’s Trees is an uplifting story about the redeeming power of friendship and love and the magic to be found in life’s most surprising adventures.
Download or read book EVP Chronicles II written by Dr John D. Gruber and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second in a paranormal EVP research journal targeting the Haunted Bissman Building in Mansfield, Ohio. A collection of evidence gathered, and photos.
Download or read book Living Room War written by Michael J. Arlen and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One doesn't have to be a panjandrum of Communications to realize that television does something to us," Michael Arlen (former TV critic of The New Yorker) writes in the Introduction to Living-Room War. He continues, "Television has a transforming effect on events. It has a transforming effect on the people who watch the transformed events-it's just hard to know what that is." Living-Room War is Arlen's valiant-and entertaining-attempt to figure out exactly what exactly television does to us. This timeless collection of essays provides a poetic look at 1960s television culture, ranging from the Vietnam war to Captain Kangaroo, from the 1968 Democratic convention to televised sports.
Download or read book The Cutting Room written by Ellen Datlow and published by Tachyon Publications. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The credits have rolled, but the lights are still off. Something is lurking on the other side of the screen. There are dark secrets, starving monsters, and haunted survivors who refuse to be left on the cutting room floor. But that’s okay, right? After all, everybody loves the movies.... Here are twenty-three terrifying tales, dark reflections of the silver screen from both sides of the camera. James Dean gets a second chance at life—and death. The Wicked Witch is out of Oz, and she's made some very unlucky friends. When God decides reality needs an editor, what—and who—gets cut? These award-winning, bestselling authors will take you to the darkest depths of the theater and beyond.
Download or read book The Secret Five and the Stunt Nun Legacy written by John Lawrence and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comic novel, a surreal parody of children’s adventure stories aimed at adult readers in which, unnervingly, the time-travelling characters are aware of their place in the narrative, and the author treats them with curmudgeonly disdain. The plot, creaky and with more holes than a Swiss cheese, is the vehicle for the quirky and unusual humour which is packed onto every page.Our young-adult heroes, Betty, Daniel, Ricky, Amy and their dog Whatshisname, think that they live life on the edge, dominated by secret passwords and meetings. They have a tetchy relationship with Whatshisname, who might just be cleverer than they think; they also have a tetchy relationship with the author, who definitely isn’t. The characters sometimes become uncontrollable. Ricky walks out of the book at one stage and, at another critical point, Daniel demands that his character should wear spectacles. A feeble attempt by the author to kill off his characters fails miserably. This book for adults is crammed with humour, occasionally a little cheeky, never offensive, but always unashamedly silly.
Download or read book The Dynamite Room written by Jason Hewitt and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accomplished, resonant and surprising (Guardian) -- a debut for fans of Summer of My German Soldier. In July 1940, eleven-year-old Lydia escapes life as a child evacuee in Wales. She arrives home to her English village, gas mask in tow, only to find it abandoned. Her family's house is shuttered and empty. Lydia settles in though, determined to wait out the war. Later that night he arrives: a wounded soldier, gun-wielding, heralding a full-blown German invasion. He says he won't hurt Lydia, but she cannot leave the house. The unlikely pair coexists in their claustrophobic confines, becoming dependent on each other for survival. Lydia soon realizes that the soldier knows more than he should about her family -- and that he's plotting something for them both. Eerie, gripping, and incredibly moving, The Dynamite Room brings an original and contemporary resonance to the great tradition of war classics.
Download or read book The Schutzstaffel Array written by Hermione Chase and published by Hermione Chase. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Schutzstaffel Array is a device crafted by Jewish prisoners of war that hides the whereabouts of Nazi stolen treasure taken from occupied countries. The treasure is Hitler's insurance should he lose the war to fund another uprising. The Array is a golden shield made from gold taken from Jewish prisoners of war in the death camps and at its centre is a secret compartment that houses the map to the location of the treasure. Around its perimeter are several golden daggers with gem encrusted hilts. When fully inserted simultaneously the compartment door opens. Without it, a vile of acid breaks destroying the map. Each dagger is to be entrusted to Hitler's closest generals, but before they can take possession the city of Dresden in East Germany is raised to the ground, the last resting place of the treasure. A crack team of British mercenaries looking to line their pockets for after the war, venture behind enemy lines after hearing rumors about Hitler's haul. In the confusion of the air raid the treasure disappears as planned but the mercenaries get their hands on the Schutzstaffel Array. Each take a dagger while the main shield is left behind as the bombing gets nearer. From 1960 to the early 1990s each mercenary is killed though the link with the past isn't made. One of the victims involves the New Scotland Yard detective Philip Graves who becomes embroiled in the investigation and the past and he begins to unravel what really happened toward the end of the war.
Download or read book The Projection Room written by Carol Golembiewski and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Mallory, a valuable scientist and engineer, wants nothing more than to get on with his life and leave the horrors and tragedies of the last two projection room incarnations behind him. But when he is recruited to a secret military installation in Wyoming to develop a new device, the enigmatic Agent Baker darkens his door once more. Soon after, Bruce begins suffering from a bizarre and potentially fatal condition that raises many questions, especially for his wife, Noelle. As Bruce does his best to recover from his mysterious ailment, he must contend with the cold-blooded, nefarious Dr. Casper Layton, who has constructed Bruces latest version of the projection room with a unique interface. Also in his way is his estranged brother and acoustic expert, Aaron Mallory. If that is not enough, Bruce must also face nightmares from his past military service and determine who he can trust as he races to protect his wife, family, and his sanity, all while attempting to decipher the perplexing images revealed within the walls of the projection room. In this continuing sci-fi thriller, a scientist must battle to survive after he is yet again conscripted into service by an evil genius on a quest for forbidden knowledge and technology.
Download or read book Where Bitter Dreams Grow written by Michael K. Perry and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Bollinger came from a bitter and troubled background. Growing up, he had experienced a myriad of horrible situations, but had managed to turn his life around despite the odds against him. Now he had everything to live for, he was blessed with a wonderful wife and loving children. He had just finished a long overseas military assignment and it was good to be home. But, something had changed within him. There was this strange sense of urgency tugging at him inside and he wasn't sure what was going on. There were unresolved issues that began to stir deep within him that had to be confronted. Little did he realize something was headed his way which would alter the course of his life forever. Truth, was indeed, stranger than fiction.