Download or read book Valerie written by Sara Stridsberg and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fever dream of a novel—strangely funny, entirely unconventional—Valerie conjures the life, mind, and art of American firebrand Valerie Solanas In April 1988, Valerie Solanas—the writer, radical feminist, author of the SCUM Manifesto and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol—was discovered dead at fifty-two in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco, alone, penniless, and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings. In Valerie, a nameless narrator revisits the room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried and convicted of attempting to murder Andy Warhol, the Georgia wastelands where she spent her childhood and was repeatedly raped by her father and beaten by her alcoholic grandfather, and the mental hospitals where she was shut away. A leading feminist in Sweden and one of the most acclaimed writers in Scandinavia, Sara Stridsberg here blurs the boundaries between history and fiction, self-making and storytelling, madness and art, love and tragedy. Through imagined conversations and monologues, reminiscences and rantings, she reconstructs this most intriguing and enigmatic of women, reaching back in time to amplify her voice and bring her powerful, heartbreaking story into new light.

Download or read book Dream House written by Valerie Laken and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The perfect haunted house story for these unnerving times.” —New York Times Dream House, the riveting debut novel from Pushcart Prize-winning author Valerie Laken, tells the story of one troubled house—the site of a domestic drama that will forever change the lives of two families. Embracing volatile issues such as race, class, and gentrification, while seamlessly mixing genres as diverse as crime fiction, suspense, and home renovation, Dream House is a “sexy, sharp-eyed, deeply haunted, [and] wonderful book.” (Charles Baxter, author of the National Book Award finalist The Feast of Love)

Download or read book What Do You Dare to Dream written by Valerie Jeannis and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you allowed people to define your dream for you? Have you allowed fear to keep you from going after dream? If yes, the message is simple - refuse to allow people, fears or circumstances to dictate what's possible for you and to keep you from going after your dreams. Why? Because your dream matters. It's the secret to creating the changes you want to see in your life. Is it great when people believe in you? Absolutely. Do you want the support of friends and loved ones? Without a doubt. However, if they doubt (and they might), and if they tell you you can't (and some will), even when "they" is really you (and it often is), I dare you to do it anyway. Dare to dream, then dare to pursue your dreams unapologetically. Because you can. Because you must. Because why not.

Download or read book The Faculty of Dreams written by Sara Stridsberg and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1988, Valerie Solanas - the writer, radical feminist and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol - was discovered dead in her hotel room, in a grimy corner of San Francisco. She was only 52; alone, penniless and surrounded by the typed pages of her last writings. In The Faculty of Dreams, Sara Stridsberg revisits the hotel room where Solanas died, the courtroom where she was tried and convicted of attempting to murder Andy Warhol, the Georgia wastelands where she spent her childhood, where she was repeatedly raped by her father and beaten by her alcoholic grandfather, and the mental hospitals where she was interned. Through imagined conversations and monologues, reminisces and rantings, Stridsberg reconstructs this most intriguing and enigmatic of women, articulating the thoughts and fears that she struggled to express in life and giving a powerful, heartbreaking voice to the writer of the infamous SCUM Manifesto.

Download or read book The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

Download or read book Valerie s Dream written by Jerry Gregory and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valerie’s Dream is a story of love, desire, betrayal, murder and redemption. A dramatic segment of this gripping tale takes place at a New England beach town where a frail old woman becomes the victim of a shocking crime. The story exposes the cunning and greed of a beautiful sociopath who destroys and manipulates everyone in her path. It also introduces the reader to a gifted woman who suffers much heartache when she loses her husband after only a year of marriage. However, the young widow, Valerie Carter, battles her loss and refuses to let it stop her from seeking significance in her world. The protagonist of the story becomes an endless dreamer, seeking the promise of a better and a more fulfilling existence for herself and those around her. Hosts of remarkable individuals weave their way through the story, exposing strengths and weaknesses inherent to their unique personalities. Valerie’s Dream is a story of scheming and murder as well as friendship and encouragement . . . but more importantly, it is a tale that promises you that when a dream dies, another one is waiting around the corner to fill its void.

Download or read book The Inner Lover written by Valerie Harms and published by Author's Choice Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding why we are passionately attracted to certain people can lead us to the "Inner Lover," a creative aspect of our own nature. Valerie Harms observes that the images, feelings, and fantasies that are aroused when we fall in love--in brief encounters and lasting bonds, in unrequited and "impossible" relationships--are the key to hidden potentials within ourselves. In this book, she presents techniques of journaling, dreamwork, and imaginal dialogues to guide the reader on an adventure of self-discovery in which the powerful energies of love may be transformed into creativity and fulfillment. Book jacket.

Download or read book Dream Stone written by Valerie Drake and published by Blackwyrm. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vashti Chamberlin is a 20 year old college student who wishes for nothing more than a quiet, unexciting, very routine life. Since she was a child Vashti has been plagued by the supernatural. For as long as she can remember she has seen what others do not, experienced the unexplainable and sometimes horrific manifestations; the only thing she truly desires is for it all to go away. For nearly five years her life has been quiet and she truly believed that maybe, just maybe, the universe was going to cut her a break and free her from this curse. Alas, the universe is not so kind. Vashti starts being haunted by visions of what she can only describe as a past life. Once the visions begin, there is no turning them off. She learns she has a power, a power passed down through generations, a power so great that none who have carried it before her have ever learned how to use it. The previous carriers of this gift, were either killed by it or died defending it, but none let it fall into evil's hands. Vashti also learns there isn't just this new power to defend, she is on a deadline to do so. If she isn't able to take full control of the power it will kill her by her 21st birthday, and more importantly the evil demons tracking her will win. But something else Vashti doesn't want to lose along with her life and relative peace of the universe, is this curious new love she has found on her journey. A love so pure it has spanned centuries. This book is for people who enjoy a roller coaster ride of past lives, alternate dimensions, demon attacks, and ass kicking weaponry. It is a first person narrative that will keep readers wanting to turn the pages to see more of the adventure, betrayal, love, and personal growth.

Download or read book Patriarchy Stress Disorder The Invisible Inner Barrier to Women s Happiness and Fulfillment written by Valerie Rein and published by Lioncrest Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite checking off the boxes of worldly accomplishments, most high-achieving women are secretly dissatisfied. They feel stuck in lives that look perfect on the outside, yet on the inside, they're unfulfilled, plagued by the nagging feeling that there's got to be more. They feel guilty and ungrateful for feeling trapped in lives that are so good. They disown their pain, or numb it with excessive work, eating, drinking, shopping, social media, or exercising. They search for solutions in books, meditation, yoga, therapy, medication, and workshops, but something is still missing. They wonder: What's wrong with me? Dr. Valerie Rein has worked with hundreds of high-achieving women and discovered that the issues they all struggle with are not just personal--they're rooted in the ancestral and collective trauma experienced by women in the patriarchal world for millennia. In Patriarchy Stress Disorder, Dr. Rein describes how this trauma creates an invisible inner prison, that holds them back from stepping into the full power of their authentic presence, unbridled joy, outrageous success, freedom, and fulfillment. In this book, Dr. Valerie explains: - Why you're dissatisfied in spite of your achievements, and why it's not your fault. - What secretly drains 90 percent of your time and energy, and how to reclaim it. - How to upgrade your game of "How much can I bear?" to "How good can it get?"

Download or read book Separate Kingdoms written by Valerie Laken and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Valerie Laken, the Pushcart Prize–winning author of Dream House, comes a powerful collection of short stories charting the divisions and collisions between cultures and nations, families and outsiders, and partners and misfits searching for love. Set in Russia and the United States, these are boldly innovative stories—tales of fractured, misplaced characters moving beyond the borders of their isolation and reaching for the connections that will make them whole. A family, shaken by an industrial accident, is divided, its members isolated in their home and only able to understand one another from their separate rooms. A young gay couple travels to Russia to meet the child they're desperately trying to adopt, but the experience reveals an emotional divide between the parents-to-be. A recent amputee removes herself from her body to keep her husband at bay. And the idyllic village life of a blind Russian boy is disrupted by an American dentist and the wonders of racy Western magazines. Separate Kingdoms is a rich and satisfying collection that traverses the distances between people and places in each marvelously rendered story.

Download or read book House written by Frank E. Peretti and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2008-08-31 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two stranded couples find shelter in an inn but find themselves trapped in a game with rules setting up a life-or-death situation.

Download or read book Devotedly written by Valerie Shepard and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their paths to God’s purpose led them together. Many know the heroic story of Jim Elliot’s violent death in 1956, killed along with four other missionaries by a primitive Ecuadorian tribe they were seeking to reach. Many also know the prolific legacy of Elisabeth Elliot, whose inspiring influence on generations of believers through print, broadcast, and personal testimony continues to resonate, even after her own death in 2015. What many don’t know is the remarkable story of how these two stalwart personalities—single-mindedly devoted to pursuing God’s will for their young lives, certain their future callings would require them to sacrifice forever the blessings of marriage—found their hearts intertwined. Their paths to God’s purpose led them together. Now, for the first time, their only child—daughter Valerie Elliot Shepard—unseals never-before-published letters and private journals that capture in first-person intimacy the attraction, struggle, drama, and devotion that became a most unlikely love story. Riveting for old and young alike, this moving account of their personal lives shines as a gold mine of lived-out truth, hard-fought purity, and an insider’s view on two beloved Christian figures.

Download or read book Finding My Voice written by Valerie Jarrett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Literary Work" "Valerie has been one of Barack and my closest confidantes for decades... the world would feel a lot better if there were more people like Valerie blazing the trail for the rest of us."--Michelle Obama "The ultimate Obama insider" (The New York Times) and longest-serving senior advisor in the Obama White House shares her journey as a daughter, mother, lawyer, business leader, public servant, and leader in government at a historic moment in American history. When Valerie Jarrett interviewed a promising young lawyer named Michelle Robinson in July 1991 for a job in Chicago city government, neither knew that it was the first step on a path that would end in the White House. Jarrett soon became Michelle and Barack Obama's trusted personal adviser and family confidante; in the White House, she was known as the one who "got" him and helped him engage his public life. Jarrett joined the White House team on January 20, 2009 and departed with the First Family on January 20, 2017, and she was in the room--in the Oval Office, on Air Force One, and everywhere else--when it all happened. No one has as intimate a view of the Obama Years, nor one that reaches back as many decades, as Jarrett shares in Finding My Voice. Born in Iran (where her father, a doctor, sought a better job than he could find in segregated America), Jarrett grew up in Chicago in the 60s as racial and gender barriers were being challenged. A single mother stagnating in corporate law, she found her voice in Harold Washington's historic administration, where she began a remarkable journey, ultimately becoming one of the most visible and influential African-American women of the twenty-first century. From her work ensuring equality for women and girls, advancing civil rights, reforming our criminal justice system, and improving the lives of working families, to the real stories behind some of the most stirring moments of the Obama presidency, Jarrett shares her forthright, optimistic perspective on the importance of leadership and the responsibilities of citizenship in the twenty-first century, inspiring readers to lift their own voices.

Download or read book Valerie and Her Week of Wonders written by Vítězslav Nezval and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written in 1935 at the height of Czech Surrealism but not published until 1945, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a bizarre erotic fantasy of a young girl's maturation into womanhood. Drawing on Matthew Lewis's The Monk, Sade's Justine, K. H. Macha's May, and Murnau's Nosferatu as well as the form and language of the pulp serial novel, Nezval has constructed a lyrical, menacing dream of sexual awakening involving a vampire with a taste for chicken blood, changelings, a lecherous priest, a malicious grandmother desiring her lost youth, and an androgynous merging of brother with sister. Part fairy tale, part Gothic horror, the novel is a meditation on youth and age, sexuality and death - an exploration of the grotesque that juxtaposes high and low genres with shifting registers of language and moods, thus placing it squarely in the tradition of the Czech avant-garde."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book I Am Beautiful written by Valerie Jeannis and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you could tell young women today one thing, what would your one message be?For me, the answer was simple, I AM BEAUTIFUL. It was the one thing I didn't believe about myself growing up and like so many young women today, it was the thing that I compromised so much just to have someone tell me.Through my story and journey and of self-discovery, I challenge you to embark on your own and to tap into the confidence to successfully pursue your dreams. Because if you want to do great things, you have to believe great things about you.

Download or read book Dream Love Reality written by Valerie A. Ancheta and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Remarkables. These are the crème de la crème and there are lessons to learn from each 342 insightful and sometimes humorous and irreverent segments on life, business and the pursuit to be memorable. In notebook style, Gerry Justice captures remarkable people, places and things that will knock your socks off.

Download or read book Lush Life written by Valerie Rice and published by Prospect Park Books. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lush Life is a California dream of a cookbook that will inspire readers to eat and drink what's in season, grow their own, cook it fresh, and pour a luscious beverage.