Download or read book White Out written by Michael W. Clune and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of addiction and recovery. How do you describe an addiction in which your drug of choice creates a hole in your memory, a “white out,” so that every time you use it is the first time—new, fascinating, vivid? Michael W. Clune’s story takes us straight inside such an addiction—what he calls “the memory disease.” With dark humor, and in crystalline prose, Clune’s account of life inside the heroin underground reads like no other. Whisking us between the halves of his precarious double life—between the streets of Baltimore and the college classroom, where Clune is a graduate student teaching literature—we spiral along with him as he approaches rock bottom: from nodding off in a row house with a one-armed junkie and a murderous religious freak to having his life threatened in a Chicago jail while facing a felony possession charge. After his descent into addiction, we follow Clune through detox, treatment, and finally into recovery as he returns to his childhood home, where the memory disease and his heroin-induced white out begin to fade. White Out is more than a memoir. It is a rigorous investigation that offers clarity, hope, and even beauty to anyone who wants to understand the disease or its cure. This tenth anniversary edition includes a new preface by the author.

Download or read book No Contest written by Warren Murphy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thrill of victory and the humiliation of defeat The Extreme Sports Network is the cash cow feeding off America’s lust for blood, guts and sex disguised as competitive athletics. From Extreme Nude Luge to the excruciatingly gory Extreme Outback Crocodile Habitat Marathon – it’s ESN’s life-or-death thrill ride to high ratings. But why do Americans always win and Europeans. . . die? The answer, Remo suspects, lies in Battle Creek, Michigan, where the creator of Extreme Nuggets breakfast cereal is putting a new spin on marketing. Unfortunately for CURE, Remo is busy peddling his skills in Hollywood as star of a new reality show, sending Harold Smith into a panic. Chiun’s taking matters into his own hands, which is no comfort to Smith, because he’s now convinced that CURE has plunged into an extreme out-of-control spiral. Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.

Download or read book Kurt written by Dale Mayer and published by Valley Publishing Ltd.. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a badass growing up had been fine for a while, but Kurt knew his life had to change. His best option? The US Navy. Fourteen years later a serendipitous request from Badger to check out reports of a missing War Dog hidden in the bushes and attacking people sends Kurt to the very place he couldn’t wait to get out of. When Kurt chose the navy over Laurie Ann so long ago, he left her with a gift she’d fought long and hard to keep. Plus she didn’t give up on her dream of becoming a doctor. When Kurt returns, it’s hard not to see the same person she’d loved in this older version. Yet the town has a long memory, and at least one person isn’t willing to see who Kurt is now. But, as always, he’s a trouble magnet. Was he capable of handling the nightmare they were in, or would he leave, just like he had last time? military romance; military; mystery and suspense; Action and adventure; Navy SEAL romance; SEAL; alpha hero; Romantic Suspense; Mystery; Suspense; light action; romance; Hero; strong female; Army Marine; Air Force; Broken Heros; Dogs

Download or read book Ultimate Terror written by Carole Holden and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It took ten more tries before he finally spied a tiny flashing light in the deep grass. He picked up the phone and held it tightly in his hand. "Hey, O'Brien, I found it!" he cried out. Hank didn't believe in magical thinking, but something about holding the tiny electronic gadget in his hand made him feel connected, as if Peter were sending him a message. It was the first positive feeling Hank had had since Peter's alarming call. Hank stuffed the phone in his pants pocket and ran back to the shoulder of the highway. A black sedan came speeding up behind him. He stepped back to let it go by. Instead the driver braked hard and swerved onto the shoulder in front of him. A hooded figure jumped out from the backseat and lunged at him. Hank raised his left arm and whipped his forearm against the man's throat. The attacker grunted and fell backward. Hank raced toward his car, but he wasn't fast enough.

Download or read book Sticker written by Henry Hoke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A unique perspective on one of the most infamous cities in recent American history." - Publisher's Weekly "A book that sticks with you long after you've read it." Volume 1 Brooklyn "Hoke's writing is blunt and honest, and Sticker is a collection worth keeping." Southern Review of Books "I will never forget this book." - T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls "Funny, nostalgic, and weird in the best possible way." - Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, author of My Monticello Featured in Electric Lit's “The Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of 2022” Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Stickers adorn our first memories, dot our notebooks and our walls, are stuck annoyingly on fruit, and accompany us into adulthood to announce our beliefs from car bumpers. They hold surprising power in their ability to define and provoke, and hold a strange steadfast presence in our age of fading physical media. Henry Hoke employs a constellation of stickers to explore queer boyhood, parental disability, and ancestral violence. A memoir in 20 stickers, Sticker is set against the backdrop of the encroaching neo-fascist presence in Hoke's hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia, which results in the fatal terrorist attack of August 12th and its national aftermath. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Download or read book Complicated written by M. M. Koenig and published by M. M. Koenig Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mia Ryan has learned the hard way that her choices can have horrible consequences. Taking an offer that was supposed to get her life back on track was nothing but a ploy. To keep the ones she holds dear safe, she's forced to finish what she started, without any hope of finding out why she was targeted in the first place. Though Mia has Ethan by her side, she can't seem to believe in him, especially since most of his life remains a mystery. Ethan Fitzgerald has done everything in his power to prove to Mia that she can trust him, but it never seems to be enough to convince her to drop the last wall around her heart. With deep and dark secrets lurking around every corner, he has his own plan to keep Mia from any danger, but it may just shatter their love forever. There are so many questions – with even more shocking answers – and when Mia uncovers the truth, nothing will ever be the same...

Download or read book For Love and Fortune written by Stuart Leopold and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Morgan, after thirty years of marriage, has left his old life behind him and has moved to a comfortable and modern log cabin in the woods of upstate New York, searching for the peace, solitude, and satisfaction he was never able to find as the titular head of a family and business. While walking through the beautiful wooded area that acted as the borders of the land that surrounded his home, he came upon a small shivering golden retriever puppy that was huddled against a huge pine tree. He named the puppy Fortune. William and Fortune enjoyed a mutually satisfying life together until Carolyn James, a battered and abused wife on the run from her husband, literally crashed into their lives. That was the beginning of a life together for the three of them that none of them had expected but lived it to the extreme.

Download or read book Aspho Fields written by Karen Traviss and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As kids, the three of them were inseparable; as soldiers, they were torn apart. Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago fought alongside Dom's elder brother Carlos at Aspho Fields in the epic battle that changed the course of the Pendulum Wars. There's a new war to fight now, a war for mankind's very survival. But while the last human stronghold on Sera braces itself for another onslaught from the Locust Horde, ghosts come back to haunt Marcus and Dom, as the return of an old comrade threatens to dredge up an agonizing secret Marcus has sworn to keep. As the beleaguered Gears of the Coalition of Ordered Governments take a last stand to save mankind from extinction, the harrowing decisions made at Aspho Fields have to be relived and made again. Marcus and Dom can take anything the Locust Horde throws at them--but will their friendship survive the truth about Carlos Santiago?"--Page 4 of cover.

Download or read book Katha Prize Stories written by Geeta Dharmarajan and published by Katha. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Gift of Daniel written by Carson Anders and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late in December, Daniel Gibson suddenly finds himself alone in the middle of the night, in a nearly deserted area of the city. A winter storm rages around him. With no memory of how he got there, he realizes there is something he must find and something he will lose. In his adventure he finds that, among a diversity of people, there are those who hold out a hand to give. Not all Christmas gifts come wrapped in brightly colored paper with ribbons and bows. Sometimes, they are damaged, wearing hand-me down clothes. Sometimes, they are a gift that can be given only once.

Download or read book Living Without Arms written by Dr. Mark Henry Miller and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clergy retreat is purposed by good intentions, not a time to tell lies on how well it goes. The exception to that is a retired minister, whose first name is not coincidentally Donald. He shouts down Oregons Interim Conference Minister Nathan Spark and makes it clear that you are rubbish to be dumped in a bin and left. There is not room for both of us on this earth! At which point, he stomps from the room. Nathan learns the rubbish remark isnt new. His predecessor, the irrepressible Creighton Yale, heard the same rant. So Nathan decides its better to see about catching Redside trout out of the Deschutes River near Maupin, Oregon. As he casts, someone walks up to him and holds a fly rod but wears no wading boots. They say the normal greetings. The last thing Nathan remembers is watching Madame Xs fly floating the surface. When he awakens, he cant see, and his hands and feet are bound. It doesnt take long to become rubbish. It was almost a week without water or food, and he was covered in slime from his excretions. Would help arrive in a cabin with no light? When help arrives, dehydration is in control. The battle between living and death is neither academic nor metaphorical. Shit is shit. Months later, no longer reeking with the bad odor, he and his new wife, Tricia Gleason, share with Tricias congregation in Tillamook, Oregon, that they are pregnant. The joy lasts until the fifth month, when a sonogram reveals their infant-to-be-born has no arms. What to do? When they share with their congregation, one member stomps out about the disgrace of having an armless baby. She tirades, God must be really furious with you. What have you done? You must be really bad! Apprehending the culprit who put Nathan in the cabin takes time. The most pressing matter is clear: having a baby with no arms. What should they do? Read on.

Download or read book The Savage Strength Of Starstorm Vol 1 written by Drew Craig and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orphaned amnesiac high school student Grant Garrison attempts to navigate his present and recall his past, but when a meteor decimates his school, Grant discovers an artifact from another galaxy, the weapon known as the Starstorm. The power that resides within will determine not only his future, but that of his friends and the fate of the entire universe. Collects SAVAGE STRENGTH OF STARSTORM #1-6

Download or read book Coming written by Oleg Borisov and published by Oleg Borisov. This book was released on 2022-08-27 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's an alien world after a war. Atomic, chemical, biological. A war of all against all. No chance of survival. No right to a future... But he has no choice. No right to lose. No right to die. He has to go home. Survive the battles with mutants and combat cyborgs. Not die of disease and body-eating contagion. Despite all the troubles of an alien world. To return home...

Download or read book Shark written by Bernard Smith and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Peter Van Damm finds himself passed over for the rank of admiral and retires. The Company makes him an offer he can't refuse: command of his old Triton sub, Oregon, and a large sum of money if he will take his old sub out on a shakedown cruise with an untried heavy water power plant. He ends up with a sub half full of women, the other half consists of retired sailors and marines, and everyone trying to sink the sub.

Download or read book Kelly Moran written by Brian Burford and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the book that speedway fans the world over have been waiting for: the inside story of the Californian hell-raiser, Kelly Moran. The charismatic American was one of the most spectacular and naturally talented riders to race speedway and very few share that incredible ability which ensured that he performed at the highest level for most of his career. A three-times World Finalist, double World Team Champio and US National Champion, Kelly's talent as a racer took him around the world, while his exploits off the trace have become legendary - making him one of the most popular riders ever. From leading the USA to world glory, via a near-death hotel accident, to joy-riding in a president's bus, Brian Burford's new book mixes the legendary tales of excess of the track with the success and popularity on the race circuit. With contributions from his family, friends and rivals, and written by one of his closest friends, this book finally brings you the real story of Kelly Moran.

Download or read book Time for a Fresh One written by Lexi Michaels and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kristen realizes that her days of juggling kids, work, and coffee are becoming lonely. She begins her journey into dating all the wrong guys while searching for her perfect blend. Kristen starts searching at the spa, gym, and bars to find the one. Her life is filled with lust while dating Mr. Not So Right. There are fun dinners and trips with endless dates, including a Rusty Knight, until finally she finds her perfect blend.

Download or read book The Florida Caper written by David Celley and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare and valuable jewelry piece is stolen from the Palm Beach mansion of a wealthy industrialist. The piece itself, called the Eye of the Sun, includes fragments of the famous Hope Diamond, rumored to be cursed. The industrialist asks his nephew, Greg, to find the lost treasure, with the assistance of private investigators Mike and Tina. The twisted trail of the Eye of the Sun leads up and down South Florida and over to San Juan, Puerto Rico, but finally ends at the mansion of a powerful drug dealer in the Bahamas. Greg uses his charm to befriend an attractive Cuban American named Flora, along with sly tipster Olivetti. With their help, Greg and his team steal the Eye of the Sun back. But just when he thinks his troubles are over, Greg begins to suspect the Hope Diamond curse to be true. He and anyone who comes into contact with the Eye of the Sun are on a downward spiral toward destruction. The only way to save their lives is to discover who stole the necklace in the first placebefore its too late.