Download or read book Sages and Sinners written by Ina Moody and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intending to open her own ashram in Florida, Honey Lisle studies to become a certified yoga instructor at Gujarati Ashram, a secluded spiritual retreat in the Poconos. Here she meets Guruji, head of the ashram, and Dr. Lahiri, her teacher. When Lahiri tells her that her present studio is too small to qualify for affiliation with Gujarati, Honey is devastated. But there are problems in the inner sanctum of Gujarati. Guruji, who was raised in the strict discipline of a Tibetan monastery, succumbs to the permissive atmosphere of American society and begins to sexually exploit his female students. Unaware of Gujarati's problems, Honey returns to Florida determined to expand her yoga studio. She hires architect Tom McAbby, and the two embark on a romantic relationship. Halfway through construction of the studio expansion, a contractor's drinking problem causes an accident, seriously injuring Tom. With the contractor gone and Tom in the hospital, Honey's vision of an ashram appears doomed. But things have changed at Gujarati Ashram, and the new spiritual leader is Honey's former teacher. Can Dr. Lahiri provide Honey with the chance to live her dream?

Download or read book Imaginary Life written by Gooding and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were scattered all around that squalid, filthy place, their feathered corpses splayed or huddled in a thousand different attitudes of inglorious decease. Or so it seemed to Duffy, anyway. In fact, there probably werent more than a dozen of the scruffy little wretches littering the plant at any given time. But they were there, all right; Ill grant that much. I saw them too, and so, Im sure, did everybody else. You never knew when you might round a pillar or a post and nearly stumble on one of the fat little lumps or, in some cases, cross paths with one that was still hobbling along in an agonized quest for relative privacy, a place to die in peace. One morning I opened the door to the john, and there was one of them lying on the floor by the trash can. It appeared to have nosed its way into the corner between the trash can and the block wallas far removed from the madness of life as it could get under the circumstances. Then it had tucked its beak down into its breast and expired. I dont know how the hell it got inside the john.

Download or read book The Haves and Have Nots written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected for the first time in one volume.How does money--or the lack of it--affect our lives? What happens when the rich meet the poor, when status comes with a price tag, when personal desires do battle with financial concerns? This unique anthology offers a mosaic of answers, with stories by: * Francine Prose * F. Scott Fitzgerald * Jack London * Kate Chopin * Ethan Canin * Gloria Naylor * Sandra Cisneros * O. Henry * Theodore Dreiser * Stephen Crane * Kate Braverman * James T. Farrell * Charlotte Perkins Gilman * and many others.

Download or read book Blue collar Aristocrats written by E. E. LeMasters and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Notes"--Page 205-215. Index.

Download or read book Never Look Down written by James Kingston and published by Bonnier Publishing Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Kingston loves to climb. Whether he's scaling a tree at his local park or ascending to the very top of a crane, looking down always brings about the best kind of rush. And yet it wasn't always this way. Afraid of heights as a child, James vowed to confront an almost crippling phobia. He was transformed, and became one of the most daring and unique free climbers on the planet. Today, James is the go-to man for everything HIGH. Think Wembley Stadium or the Eiffel tower - James has conquered some of the most iconic locations in the world. Packed with death-defying POV pictures, Never Look Down tells how James faces down danger, where his favourite free climbing locations are, and takes you to the top of the world.

Download or read book Figuring Shit Out written by Amy Biancolli and published by Behler Publications, LLC. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Your life isn't over." My dad says this. "I mean, YOUR life isn't over. Beyond the kids. You'll go on living, doing things. This isn't it." I know, I assure him. I have the kids. They need me. They're my life now. "OK," he replies, then grunts—more of a brief hum. He only hums when he thinks I'm full of shit. Shockingly single. Amy Biancolli's life went off script more dramatically than most after her husband of twenty years jumped off the roof of a parking garage. Left with three children, a three-story house, and a pile of knotty psychological complications, Amy realizes the flooding dishwasher, dead car battery, rapidly growing lawn, basement sump pump, and broken doorknob aren't going to fix themselves. She also realizes that "figuring shit out" means accepting the horrors that came her way, rolling with them, slogging through them, helping others through theirs, and working her way through life with love and laughter. Amy Biancolli is an author and journalist whose column appears in the Albany Times Union. Before that, Amy served as film critic for the Houston Chronicle where her reviews, published around the country, won her the 2007 Comment and Criticism Award from the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Association. Biancolli is the author of House of Holy Fools: A Family Portrait in Six Cracked Parts, which earned her Albany Author of the Year. Amy lives in Albany, New York, with her three children.

Download or read book Acharnians written by Aristophanes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their brilliant combination of fantasy and satire, their constantly inventive manipulation of language, and their use of absurd characters and plots to expose his society's institutions and values to the bracing challenge of laughter. This is the third and final volume of a new verse translation of the complete plays of Aristophanes. It contains four of his most overtly political plays: Acharnians, in which an Athenian farmer rebels against the city's war policies; Knights, a biting satire of populist demagogues; Wasps, whose main theme is the Athenian system of lawcourts; and Peace, in which escape from war is symbolized in images of rustic fertility and sensuality. The translation combines historical accuracy with a sensitive attempt to capture the rich dramatic and literary qualities of Aristophanic comedy. Each play is presented with a thought-provoking introduction and extensive editorial notes to accompany the vivid translations, balancing performability with faithfulness to the original.

Download or read book Strictly on the Edge written by Micheyeala and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-08-30 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Micheyeala "Stictly on the edge, Why a fisherman Carries a knife is the second book by MSR. The book is 107 pages of poetry and a 58 page short story about the adventures of Abraham Lacyrus a fictional commercial fisherman who finds himself entangled in the snares of the life of being a hardcore fisherman. The book features a factual chapter of a real life and death story that occured on the Bering Sea October 2002. Readers should read the back of The Bering Disease "The Current" sometimes the truth is to cold to be told. Micheyeala ́s third book will be out in the spring of 2009. The title is Micheyeala "Fierce Alliegance" The toils of Abraham Lacyrus continue until he meets a new faith in this book the fight begins as Abraham takes on a much bigger fight. "The Deity" THE DEITY MICHAEL SCOTT RABINE MICHEYEALA www.myspace.com/rabine1972

Download or read book The Playing Card Killer written by Russell James and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A masterfully crafted, horrifically powerful story. Expect the unexpected in this deliciously twisted tale." - Cemetery Dance Brian Sheridan may be losing his mind. Asleep, he’s plagued by dreams of murder, women strangled with a red velvet rope then left with a playing card tucked in the corpse. While awake, he’s hallucinating that he’s being stalked by a man painted like a skeleton. It’s getting hard to know what’s real. He hopes all this is driven by his cold turkey withdrawal from a lifetime of anti-anxiety medications. But when one of his nightmare’s victims shows up on the news, dead, Brian fears he himself may be the unwitting killer... FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launching in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.

Download or read book Wasps and Other Plays written by Aristophanes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third and final volume of a new verse translation of the complete plays of Aristophanes by Stephen Halliwell. The translations combine accuracy with an attempt to capture the rich dramatic and literary qualities of Aristophanic comedy.

Download or read book Infinite written by Jerry Strickel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-03-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story follows Allen Mead, the main character, through a series of events. Each new event leads to more questions for the reader, drawing the reader in, and requiring the reader to use their imagination. From the opening, when Allen disappears, no attempt is made to explain his departure [The tires screamed on the paving, attempting to stop the forward momentum of the vehicle! Then silence, the blue-white light faded to gray, then blackness, nothing, no sound, was he even breathing? Was this death? ]. Or his return, [A feeling of panic! A brilliant bluish-white light! Both feet jammed onto the brake pedal!]. He reappears as a 69-year-old man, with the physical appearance and the abilities of a 20-year-old. The exceptions, along with his young appearance, he has the strength of two men and reactions that are faster than normal. No explanation is offered to the physical changes that occur. The disappearance of Allen folds into his reappearance, only a lot of time has passed. A lot of questions are unanswered, at first Allen does not realize that he has changed. He finds himself in trouble with the Police and the INS. When he does see that he has changed, the shock puts him on the floor. Then comes the examination period that tries to prove he is not who he says that he is. Only each test, each check all go to prove he is just one old man that happens to looks like a kid! When he is finally released, he goes home to meet his wife, he finds her gone and news media camped in his front lawn. He finds his wife, only to have her disappear and be arrested for her disappearance. This leads into a duel with the Sheriffs Department and a few questionable Deputies. He is ultimately cleared of all legal problem and leaves town to get away from it all. While on his way to his sons home he gets a message from a stranger. A message that really makes no sense to him, at the time. At his sons home, he finds Deputies hard at work destroying the house. Allen finds a way to get the Deputies out of the picture and get his sons home restored. Then he gets another message to be at a given place, a path to find his wife, so he goes. Only when he gets there he gets another cryptic message and off he goes again in a different direction. When he arrives at his destination, he finds another problem to solve. This leads to armed conflict and working with the FBI hand in hand assisting a friend. The problems are taken care of. A short flight, supplied by his friend, solves one mystery and creates more. A new message and a new destination, only this time he has company. The woman that Allen found looks young but is old like Allen. Together they leave to solve the next mystery. Their search leads to major problems and big business in the grip of raw greed! After a daring rescue of yet another person, the husband of the old/young woman he found earlier is himself now young. Allen gets them established as real people with their identities restored. He goes on solving problems, getting the courts into the greed package, still looking for a clue to take him to his wife. With no new messages, which are just words popping into his unconscious or conscious brain and no signs to supply a clue as to where his wife might be. Allen tries to go back to days that are only memories, to see if they really exist, and if he is really who he thinks he is. What he finds, are memories from real events with real people? People that need real help. So Allen helps them and stays until he gets to feeling or need to go in search for a clue again. This leads to his findi? ????? ??? ???? ? ?????? ????????? ??????? ???? ??? ??? ??? ???? ??????? ????? ???????? ?? ?? ?? ? ???????? ????? ??? ???? ????? ????

Download or read book The Forbidden Journey written by Farhat Jah and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A failed attempt to assasinate a global terrorist in Khartoum leads to a quest for revenge, which threatens London and Istanbul. It falls to Sir Clifford Binney, a British civil servant and Major Ali, of the Turkish Army to avert tragedy.

Download or read book Treeborne written by Caleb Johnson and published by Picador USA. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Janie Treeborne lives on an orchard at the edge of Elberta, Alabama, and in time, she has become its keeper. She tells the story of its people: of Hugh--her granddaddy--determined to preserve Elberta's legacy through his art; of his wife Maybelle, who shook the town when she became its first female postmaster, then again when she died a sudden and mysterious death; of her lover Lee Malone, a black orchardist and musician harvesting from a land where he is less than welcome; of the local legend Ricky Birdsong, who scored touchdown after touchdown, only to run headlong into tragedy"--

Download or read book Final Hallucination written by Matthew Maggard and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-10-07 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “ KINGS, QUEENS, TALKING ANIMALS, CRAFTY CRIMINALS, DEMONS, EVIL CLOWNS, AND A LOT MORE AWAIT THOSE WHO DARE ENTER THE WORLD OF QUASARIA. A WORLD FULL OF LIMITLESS POSSIBILITIES. A WORLD THAT NO ONE, OR NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS TO BE. AND FOR TWENTY YEAR OLD MATT PHILLIPS THIS IS THE VERY THING THAT WILL CHANGE HIS LIFE, AND THE FATE OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE FOREVER, THAT’S IF HE CAN SURVIVE HIS “FINAL HALLUCINATION”. SO, JOIN MATT AND HIS OTHER HIS NEW ALLIES ON THEIR QUEST TO NOT JUST SAVE THE UNIVERSE, BUT TO ALSO SAVE THEMSELVES. GET READY AND PACK YOUR BAGS IT’S GOING TO BE ONE HELL OF A TRIP...” “ CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE NOW ADDICTED!” “

Download or read book Right Said Fred written by Andrew Flintoff and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When social distancing is over, can people still keep their distance? I only do the things I like now, rather than the things I should - is that alright? And these days, why has everyone got an opinion on everything and insist on sharing it? Oh. Scratch that one. From one of Britain's most-loved national treasures, comes a much-needed Bible of straight-talking honesty and sharp observational humour: following an unprecedented time of collective global insanity, Freddie is ready to impart his effortless charm, wit and wisdom on a wild array of topics. From the significant: climate change - maybe it's our time to go? To the time-worn: what even is political correctness and has the world really gone mad? To the essential: just what do you get when you receive the coveted Toby Carvery Gold Card? In Right, Said Fred, Freddie takes you on a whirlwind tour of his brain as he ponders more of life's most unfathomable questions.

Download or read book Macauley s Thumb written by Lex Williford and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A husband and wife, unable to speak to each other without arguing, face the dissolution of their marriage when they smuggle his mother's body out of Mexico. Two boys, confronting abandonment by their father, go to the Texas State Fair and stumble upon a way to get their mother out of bed. Thomas "Hoot" Ponder and his nephew find common ground in whiskey and storytelling amid the comedy surrounding death and dying. A chiropractor who loves science fiction movies struggles with his sexual fantasies about one of his patients, a Wal-Mart cashier who can't stop talking about her pain. In the powerful title story, Cal Macauley--driven mad by his wife's horrible death--faces mourning, regret, and the inevitability of forgetting by striking out against himself and the rattlesnakes on his mountain.

Download or read book Klara and the Sun written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me Go is “an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our futures ... a poignant meditation on love and loneliness” (The Associated Press). • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?