Download or read book Fresh Pack of Smokes written by Cass Blanchard and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This night in Oppenheimer Park Dan asked me to shit-kick this chick in the face as she owed money and I said no because I didn’t know who she was and I wasn’t about to play with fire so he sat on the bench then stood up and did a flying kick twice to her chin and she convulsed and passed out he said he didn’t want to spill blood because she had HIV...” —“Tales” Dissecting herself and the life she once knew living a transient life that included time spent in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside as a bonafide drug addict, Blanchard writes plainly about violence, drug use and sex work in Fresh Pack of Smokes, offering insight into an often overlooked or misunderstood world.
Download or read book Fresh Pack of Smokes written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dissecting herself and the life she once knew living in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside as a bonafide drug addict, Blanchard writes plainly about violence, drug use and sex work in Fresh Pack of Smokes, offering insight into an often overlooked or misunderstood perspective.
Download or read book Lenny written by William Lynn Smith and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-06-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lenny is the story of the meeting of two different cultures, two different social classes, and two different generations in one improbable friendship. It takes the reader through time and distance from a present-day cemetery burial back to the forties when a young black man joined the Red Tail fighter squadron that protected American Bombers through to the sixties when a young white man started his railroad career and how their two lives intertwined.
Download or read book Who the Man written by Chris Lynch and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVEarl doesn’t want to be a bully. It’s not his fault that his body is as big as a football player’s!/divDIV/divDIVThirteen-year-old middle-schooler Earl has the body and facial scruff of a man—and this gets him into trouble. Everyone thinks Earl’s a tough guy, but he’s just trying to get by. Thinking he knows what’s right from wrong—and using his fists to prove his point—earns him a week’s suspension from school. Earl thinks he’ll have a relaxing week, but things soon slip out of his control when his home life starts to fall apart. He may be as big as a grown-up, but Earl will learn that being a man means more than how you look on the outside./divDIV/div
Download or read book Hollywood God written by Robert Polito and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood & God is a virtuosic performance, filled with crossings back and forth from cinematic chiaroscuro to a kind of unsettling desperation and disturbing—even lurid—hallucination. From the Baltimore Catechism to the great noir films of the last century to today’s Elvis impersonators and Paris Hilton (an impersonator of a different sort), Robert Polito tracks the snares, abrasions, and hijinks of personal identities in our society of the spectacle, a place where who we say we are, and who (we think) we think we are fade in and out of consciousness, like flickers of light dancing tantalizingly on the silver screen. Mixing lyric and essay, collage and narrative, memoir and invention, Hollywood & God is an audacious book, as contemporary as it is historical, as sly and witty as it is devastatingly serious.
Download or read book The War of the Givens written by Daniel Price and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: X-Men meets Blake Crouch in the explosive conclusion to Daniel Price’s genre-bending Silvers trilogy about six extraordinary people whose fates become intertwined on an Earth far different from our own...one that is headed for utter destruction. It's been two years since the world collapsed in a sheet of light, obliterating everything on Earth...but not quite everyone. Saved from the apocalypse by three mysterious beings, sisters Hannah and Amanda Given were marked with silver bracelets, along with four other survivors from their native world, and transported to an entirely different Earth, a place where the fabric of time is manipulated by common household appliances. Afflicted with time-bending powers they never wanted, and on the run from unexpected new enemies, “the Silvers” embarked on a dangerous journey for survival across an alien America—a hunt for answers that bound the group like family while revealing the gravely sinister intentions of their so-called saviors. But their new Earth is about to suffer the same fate as the old one and the Silvers have only ten weeks to prevent it. Their one hope is to find the remaining survivors of their home world—a quest that will take them from Mexico to England to a radically changed Japan—to gain more allies for the final confrontation with the godlike beings who first brought them to this Earth. Failure will mean death for billions of people. But victory may come at a cost the Silvers can’t afford.
Download or read book The Boy in the Box written by Jim Hoffmann and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life its challenges its rewards and everything in between. Experience a riveting journey through the lives of ordinary people with extraordinary circumstances, dysfunctional ideas, and exemplorary and unusual relationships. Take a voyeuristic glance into the lives of two estranged sisters', their family, and their friends. You'll discover the intense intrigue that often exists in the lives of "church folk". Your heart will race as you witness the monumental mystery and the breathtaking betrayal that often remains buried in the deepest corners of the hearts and minds of many. Through the lives of Anita and Alicia, you'll experience many facets of love, several disappointments of life, and various avenues of triumph. You will witness the fervency of friendship, the sadness & struggle of the family unit, the intensity of hate, and the many rewards that come from believing & serving God. Each character will spark a sudden streak of emotion that breeds a feverish familiarity to one's self or someone you know. You'll be privy to the daily life challenges of people ranging from a devoted Baptist minister to the small community of unbelievers within the congregation. "Until Now" focuses on the intensity of family relationships and the mystery of personal friendships with an overall quest and need for the presence of God in both.
Download or read book Changing The Status Quo written by Allan Strain and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allan Strain was raised in a good home. One in North Vancouver, British Columbia, a city surrounded by mountains, forests, and sea. But despite this seemingly unspoiled atmosphere, everything started to change for the worse when Strain was just 10. His dad died. Three year later, Strain learned he was adopted: his teacher announced it in front of the class. Strain discovered that his birth mother was Indigenous. Both parents had a history of alcoholism. And worse: a decade before, Strain’s birth father beat a sex worker to death. Forty years later, he’s still incarcerated for the crime. Changing the Status Quo is a memoir detailing the events that led Strain down a destructive path of alcohol abuse and addiction to crack cocaine. Although the subject matter can be difficult to endure at times, Strain’s compelling storytelling draws the reader into his self-destructive world. You can practically hear him whispering the words, “Act sober, act sober, act sober” (he knows the liquor store won’t let him buy more beer if he’s drunk) and holding your breath as he tumbles down his apartment building’s stairs—twice. The book also balances darkness with hope, namely Strain’s detailed descriptions of how he recovered from addiction. Strain has been clean and sober since September 3, 2002.
Download or read book Killed By Her Past written by Andrew Hall and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First novel in the Tallulah Drew Series. Upon her return to England to visit friends, Tallulah Drew feels that life is good. That all changes the moment she meets up with her best friend who becomes victim of a group known as The Four Branches. Tallulah must then team up with old enemies and new friends to stop the group before they finish their mission....kill Tallulah Drew !
Download or read book Spellbinder written by Melanie Rawn and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is magic in the big city...literally. New York City has a small, and by preference discrete, population of witches and wizards who live and love and go dancing just like everyone else. Holly McClure is one of them, a successful writer who tries to ignore her heritage, except when the local Magistrate needs her special gift in his coven. Holly is far more interested in Evan Lachlan, the handsome federal marshal who works with her best friend, assistant district attorney Susannah Wingfield. But trouble is coming to the City in the form of a black coven run by a murderous psychopath, and deputy marshals and ADAs are powerless to deal with that kind of crime. The danger to Holly is extreme, for her special gift is the power of her blood to strengthen and bind any spell, for good or for evil. Holly's passionate love affair will be derailed by those who want to drain her for their own purposes. In the end it will be magic against magic, and Holly McClure will have to risk all for life and love. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book A Plausible Reason for Your Lousy Behavior written by Jeff Smith and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1962. Spring, summer, and fall. The bay area and the Sacramento Valley beyond. The Giants and the Dodgers go to the wire for the National League pennant and a chance to play the New York Yankees. Five years previous, their hated American League next-door neighbor. Salvage work and farming are dirty and "get poor quick" occupations. Jim, John, and Frenchy weather accidents, prop up their aspirations, and wreak revenge, heading into an uncertain winter.
Download or read book Feeling Deported written by Peter F. K. R. Hall and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in America does not mean you are an American citizen. This is what you need to know. Make no mistake about it. If you have been born one moment away or one foot from the borders of this country, you must consider yourself a guest within the borders. So act accordingly and behave yourself! Or you will find yourself on the receiving end of a very tragic and unsympathetic deportation process. This book is crazy as hell. Its like having four books in one. Its a sequel to Do You Want To Go To Jail Today? and A Wrong Turn . . . A Bad Decision: The Extortion of Probation by Nick Rahaman. In this book the day-to-day struggles to survive within the walls of a deportation camp and racism is redefined. Many of us believe what is happening with deportation is appalling, cruel, and vicious. Many of us has certainly justified it is necessary for the safety of our citizens, property, livelihood, and the economic stability of our nation.
Download or read book Wild Irish Boxset written by Vi Carter and published by CARTER BOOKS. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 1145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blurb: Wild Irish The Complete Series Tropes: Enemies to Lovers Irish Mafia Romance Captive Romance Forbidden Romance Book One: Vicious Killing for me is easy. Loving is an entirely different thing. Book Two: Reckless She owns the land that I need… to hide bodies. Book Three: Ruthless She was only supposed to be a job, but now I can't seem to walk away. Book Four: Fearless He's rich, egotistical and a womanizer. She's angry dark and sarcastic. What could possibly go wrong? Book Five: Heartless She’s a Virgin and my prisoner. There is only one rule – I’m not allowed to touch her…
Download or read book Wasted Beauty written by Eric Bogosian and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-06-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his dark wit and corrosive dialogue, Eric Bogosian tells a powerful and emotionally wrenching tale of two lovers who form a mesmerizing and destructive bond while trying to evade the looming failure of their respective lives. Reba runs away from her shabby and desolate rural community for the lure of New York City. Her tall and awkward frame lands her work modeling, but she is not prepared for the glamorous, drug-fueled life of a celebrated mannequin. After a series of painful relationships, she sees hope and an exit toward stability and sanity in the man who saves her brother's life. This man is Rick, a successful SoHo general practitioner with a warm family and an idyllic life that has left him restless and hollow. He doesn't take Reba seriously until he finds himself so enmeshed in her beauty that he risks losing everything--his home, his children and his beloved wife. Master monologist and author of the acclaimed Mall returns with a sprawling novel of urban desperation and desire that brings to mind the winding narratives of Tom Wolfe salted with the dark urges of Philip Roth. Wasted Beauty is Bogosian's enthralling journey through the high life of drugs and fashion celebrity, middle-class guilt and sexual obsession.
Download or read book The Damned written by L. A. Banks and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2006-01-24 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lilith, the consort of the Unnamed One, has released the Damned, tortured souls from all levels of Hell, to walk the streets as the living dead. A dark chaos leaks onto Earth, taking the form of a deadly contagion that not even the Neteru team can handle. One touch from these deadly creatures infects a human, driving him to madness, death...and worse. This time, Damali Richards, the Vampire Huntress (aka the millennium Neteru), Carlos, and the Guardians cannot effectively close ranks. The infection spreads to key team members and threatens to wipe out the entire squad. Even the Covenant is infected. They must track down the Chairman before members of the Neteru-Guardian team are lost and the team implodes. The only antidote is to behead Lilith. But first they must find her.
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Download or read book Alone with the Living Dead written by Jonathan Crowl and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-11-19 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter Charlie Loomis. Locked safely behind a solid steel door in the embalming room of Pine Hills funeral home, he chronicles his experiences in the embalmers notebook, before he prepares to decide his fate! A gravedigger at Pine Hills cemetery, in his hometown of Dyersville. Charlie has started his day as he would any other. Digging a fresh grave with his workmate Bill Myers on a rainy summer morning. Except on this particular day, the people he worked so hard to put in the ground are returning to life! In fact, worldwide the dead are rising and Charlie flees for his life as the corpses rise from their muddy graves; hungry to feed on live flesh. Relive the nightmare as Charlie takes you through every gory detail as he battles rotted corpses, observes a feeding frenzy in the bedroom of a deserted home, falls elbow deep in the blackened guts of an obese zombie, and attempts to save the life of an eight- year -old little girl named Sally, All while on a frantic desperate search to find his wife and son. Body fluids spew and appendages fly as Charlie fights his way to the church where he desperately hopes to find his family, Only to experience a scene of horrific and epic proportions. Injured and in shock, Charlie and Sally face an impending doom. That is, until they are saved by an unlikely hero. A local homeless man named Archibald Jones. As the one time doctor turned local mad man performs surgery and tends to their extensive injuries, deep in his sewer home, Charlie starts to suspect that their savior might have a more sinister motivation for keeping them alive! Live (or die) with charlie as you follow his nightmare alone with the living dead!
