Download or read book Drowning in Silence written by Carmeletta Joseph and published by Powerful You! Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-14 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone who knew Carmeletta Joseph thought she lived the perfect life--just in her early twenties, she had a handsome, charismatic man who loved her and their two beautiful little girls. They had no idea that this vivacious, seemingly happy young woman was living under a reign of terror. Like many who suffer from intimate partner violence, Carmeletta's ordeal began not with fists but with the words she heard from early childhood. From her mother's boyfriend who told her she wasn't as pretty as her sisters to the teacher who berated her in front of her grade school class, they eroded her self-esteem and made her seek out ways she could "earn" respect and love, particularly from men. She also learned to hide her feelings behind a dazzling smile. This smile, along with carefully applied makeup, would continue mask her physical bruises and emotional pain for six years. It was only after she removed this mask that she was able to leave the relationship and begin the healing process. Ultimately, Drowning in Silence explores not only the complex dynamics of domestic violence, but also attests to the cost of not speaking one's truth. It is about the journey from wounded child to warrior. Most importantly, it is about knowing that no matter how inescapable one's circumstances appear, there is always a way out.
Download or read book Drowning Instinct written by Ilsa J. Bick and published by Carolrhoda Lab ®. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are stories where the girl gets her prince, and they live happily ever after. (This is not one of those stories.) Jenna Lord's first sixteen years were not exactly a fairy tale. Her father is a controlling psycho and her mother is a drunk. She used to count on her older brother—until he shipped off to Iraq. And then, of course, there was the time she almost died in a fire. There are stories where the monster gets the girl, and everyone cries for his innocent victim. (This is not one of those stories either.) Mitch Anderson is many things: A dedicated teacher and coach. A caring husband. A man with a certain...magnetism. And there are stories where it's hard to be sure who's a prince and who's a monster, who is a victim and who should live happily ever after. (These are the most interesting stories of all.) Drowning Instinct is a novel of pain, deception, desperation, and love against the odds—and the rules.
Download or read book The Sound of Drowning written by Katherine Fleet and published by Page Street YA. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A heartbreaking love triangle, for readers who can't stand love triangles." – Kirkus reviews “A moody and moving, richly scenic romance.” – Kelly deVos, author of Fat Girl on a Plane “An emotional riptide of a read! I’m still searching for my next breath...and my next tissue.” – Darcy Woods, author of Summer of Supernovas Meredith Hall has a secret. Every night she takes the ferry to meet Ben, her best friend and first love. Though their relationship must remain a secret, they’ve been given a second chance, and Mer's determined to make it work. She lost Ben once before and discovered the awful reality: she doesn't know how to be happy without him... Until Wyatt washes ashore—a brash new guy with a Texas twang and a personality bigger than his home state. He makes her feel reckless, excited, and alive in ways that cut through her perpetual gloom. The deeper they delve into each other’s pasts, the more Wyatt’s charms become impossible to ignore. But a storm is brewing in the Outer Banks. When it hits, Mer finds her heart tearing in half and her carefully constructed reality slipping back into the surf. As she discovers that even the most deeply buried secrets have a way of surfacing, she’ll have to learn that nothing is forever—especially second chances.
Download or read book Censorship and Silencing written by Robert Post and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Censorship was once a predictable topic, dividing liberals and conservatives down the middle on issues like obscenity and national security. Today, the debate over the regulation of speech offers no such easy dichotomy, with feminists joining forces with religious fundamentalists to control pornography, and abortion rights advocates seeking to restrict clinic demonstrations while prolife groups defend their freedom to picket. Underlying this trend is a fundamental intellectual shift--exemplified by the work of Michel Foucault--that holds that the state is not the only agent of censorship. The thirteen contributors here explore the topic of censorship from the viewpoint of numerous disciplines and viewpoints.
Download or read book The Thin Line written by Camilla Draymarch and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ludwig Bonhoeffer has been looking forward to this opportunity for all of his life. Ever since he attended a lecture by one Doctor Berwick, he's dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon and assisting Berwick on his project: CORD. A computer system designed to perfectly interface with the human mind and help to wake comatose victims. But when an accident leaves Ludwig at the mercy of CORD, he finds that not all is as it seems. Inside CORD is a labyrinth of imprisoned minds and haunted people. Only one has managed to retain her sanity - Mara. The rest have given free reign to their darkest tendencies, led chiefly by Lucy - a psychopath who believes himself the incarnation of Satan. With Lucy out for his blood, can Ludwig unravel the mysteries of CORD and wake the sleepers up?
Download or read book Edgework written by Wendy Brown and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Edgework' brings together seven of Wendy Brown's recent essays in political, cultural and feminist theory. They range from explorations of the post 9/11 political landscape to critiques of the norms in the fields of political theory and feminist studies.
Download or read book Silent Secrets written by Mia O'Connell and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca McCabe knows trauma. Fueled by her desire to let go of her troubled past and live a simpler life, she buys an old New England cape house on a dead-end road in small town Eden, Vermont. She hires contractor Jack Corcoran, a sexy and sweet local, to handle the repairs and, if the universe is willing, to provide some much-needed sexual healing. Determined to uncover the truth behind the spirits residing in her house, she delves into the cape’s history. There, the spirits and her research lead her into a web of abuse, sadness, and danger. But will unearthing the cape’s secrets provide comfort or threaten her life?
Download or read book How to Disappear written by Akiko Busch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is time to reevaluate the merits of the inconspicuous life, to search out some antidote to continuous exposure, and to reconsider the value of going unseen, undetected, or overlooked in this new world. Might invisibility be regarded not simply as refuge, but as a condition with its own meaning and power? The impulse to escape notice is not about complacent isolation or senseless conformity, but about maintaining identity, autonomy, and voice. In our networked and image-saturated lives, the notion of disappearing has never been more alluring. Today, we are relentlessly encouraged, even conditioned, to reveal, share, and promote ourselves. The pressure to be public comes not just from our peers, but from vast and pervasive technology companies that want to profit from patterns in our behavior. A lifelong student and observer of the natural world, Busch sets out to explore her own uneasiness with this arrangement, and what she senses is a widespread desire for a less scrutinized way of life—for invisibility. Writing in rich painterly detail about her own life, her family, and some of the world’s most exotic and remote places, she savors the pleasures of being unseen. Discovering and dramatizing a wonderful range of ways of disappearing, from virtual reality goggles that trick the wearer into believing her body has disappeared to the way Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway finds a sense of affiliation with the world around her as she ages, Busch deliberates on subjects new and old with equal sensitivity and incisiveness. How to Disappear is a unique and exhilarating accomplishment, overturning the dangerous modern assumption that somehow fame and visibility equate to success and happiness. Busch presents a field guide to invisibility, reacquainting us with the merits of remaining inconspicuous, and finding genuine alternatives to a life of perpetual exposure. Accessing timeless truths in order to speak to our most urgent contemporary problems, she inspires us to develop a deeper appreciation for personal privacy in a vast and intrusive world.
Download or read book New Alliances in Joyce Studies written by Bonnie Kime Scott and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays ... initially presented in less formal versions as independent papers ... at the James Joyce Conference, held in Philadelphia in June 1985--Introd.
Download or read book ERIKA written by Russell Joseph Geary and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, not too long ago, in a familiar world, there were: the perfect woman, a professor of Buddhology, a punk rock musician, an albino elephant, a playwright, and Chicago. Find humor, mental awakening, social commentary and outlandish events in this display of magical realism.
Download or read book Amazing Spider Man written by Marvel Comics and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazing Spider-Man (1963) 169-180, Annual (1964) 11, Nova (1976) 12, Marvel Treasury Edition (1974) 14
Download or read book Black Mamba Boy written by Nadifa Mohamed and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yemen, 1935. Jama is a "market boy," a half-feral child scavenging with his friends in the dusty streets of a great seaport. For Jama, life is a thrilling carnival, at least when he can fill his belly. When his mother—alternately raging and loving—dies young, she leaves him only an amulet stuffed with one hundred rupees. Jama decides to spend her life's meager savings on a search for his never-seen father; the rumors that travel along clan lines report that he is a driver for the British somewhere in the north. So begins Jama's extraordinary journey of more than a thousand miles north all the way to Egypt, by camel, by truck, by train, but mostly on foot. He slings himself from one perilous city to another, fiercely enjoying life on the road and relying on his vast clan network to shelter him and point the way to his father, who always seems just a day or two out of reach. In his travels, Jama will witness scenes of great humanity and brutality; he will be caught up in the indifferent, grinding machine of war; he will crisscross the Red Sea in search of working papers and a ship. Bursting with life and a rough joyfulness, Black Mamba Boy is debut novelist Nadifa Mohamed's vibrant, moving celebration of her family's own history.
Download or read book Amazing Spider Man Epic Collection written by Len Wein and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #165-185, Amazing Spider-Man Annual (1964) #11-12, Nova (1977) #12 And Marvel Calendar 1978. J. Jonah Jameson has uncovered proof that Peter Parker is Spider-Man - and that's just the beginning of the web-slinger's problems! Dinosaurs are fighting the Lizard on Broadway. Doctor Faustus plots to drive our hero insane. And the Molten Man and Punisher are back in town! That's just another day in the Big Apple for Spider-Man! But when the Green Goblin returns, all bets are off! Spider-Man's secret identity, the lives of Aunt May and Mary Jane - everything is on the line! Also featuring a team-up with Nova, the first appearance of Rocket Racer, the return of the crime boss Silvermane, an Annual with more spiders than men…and Peter Parker proposes to Mary Jane! Will she accept?
Download or read book Collected Works 1985 2020 written by Jonathan Elliott and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-03-08 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the collected works of Jonathan Elliott. Cities of travel include Berkeley, Los Angeles, Florida, Normandy France, New York City and others.
Download or read book Soul s Temptation written by Navi' Robins and published by Urban Renaissance. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wealthy Chicago man with a beautiful wife and son is haunted by the warning from a mysterious assassin from South Sudan, who promised to return one day and finish the job he started.
Download or read book Her Last Breath written by Stacy Claflin and published by Stacy Claflin. This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I thought I was chasing a mystery. Instead, I walked into a nightmare. As a true crime podcaster, moving into the notorious "murder house" felt like the ultimate scoop. I returned to my quiet hometown, desperate for answers and a story that could launch my career. My goal? To uncover the truth behind the brutal death of Caroline, a young wife. But each new clue drags me deeper into a deadly web of secrets this town is desperate to keep hidden. A missing locket. Hostile neighbors. Whispers of a sinister cult. The more I dig, the more I realize the nightmare isn't just about Caroline—it's personal. My sister's past is tangled in this dark mystery, and someone is watching my every step. As I navigate treacherous lies and unexpected allies, I can't shake the feeling that someone close to me knows more than they're letting on. Now, with danger closing in, I have to decide: how far will I go for the truth? Because in this town, asking questions could lead to my last breath. Her Last Breath is the first book in a spine-tingling, unputdownable psychological thriller trilogy that will keep you guessing until the very end.
Download or read book The Singing Siren written by BreAnna Kave and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name? I have two names that I go by, whereas most people only have one. To those who dont know me, Im Annabelle Donley, the average, every-day, troublemaking teenage girl. I skip school, pull pranks, have amazing friends, and I never do anything that is bad on a serious level. Then there is my other name, the name that people scream as I walk into the underground rings, the name that became me when my world was destroyed, when people who should have been there to love me left without a backwards glance, when I watched my mother get ripped out of my life because of my new name. That new name saved my own life in more ways than one. I am the Singing Siren.
