Download or read book We Won t Make It Out Alive written by Kate Walls and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full length study of Patrick McCabe’s work, We Won’t Make It Out Alive, examines the mental instability and carefully constructed childhoods that McCabe has crafted for his various characters—the one eyed quasi Al Pacino, the sequin studded transvestite, the bachelor farmer who routinely exhumes his dead mother for a chat. Beneath the grotesque and often very funny narratives of Irish border town life lurks startlingly similar pasts for these characters, spanning all of McCabe’s catalogue. As children, they were subject to the cruelty of the orphanage/workhouse or deadbeat parents numbed by alcohol. Many were victims of sexual abuse by priests and witnesses to the senseless violence brought on by political divides. The outrageous personalities and later actions of these characters often overshadow these very real beginnings, and in this book, Kate Walls discusses the impact of these social problems and how McCabe’s unfortunate (and usually well-meaning) narrators are driven crazy as a result. We Won’t Make It Out Alive also discusses how these characters fare against the Troubles of the 1970s and, for the novels set in more contemporary times, the changing Ireland of the Celtic Tiger. Being on the fringes of society themselves, McCabe’s characters have a unique vantage point from which to comment on these defining moments of social upheaval.

Download or read book Make It Out Alive written by Ashley Vogel and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was quiet in my house, and I think I found the only flaw in having someone know about me. The quiet was deafening, I used to take comfort in the silence and now it was just this vast…nothingness. I logged onto my computer and stole a neighbors wireless. There were a bunch of people online I could talk to but the clicking of my keys didn’t really fill the room with any sort of comfort. Evan was off on a rant about his sixteen year old sister being pregnant, Ryan was regaling me with horrible math jokes, and Claire was saying little but usually gave me updates on what they were doing. Until finally I decided to go over there – just to get away from the black hole that was my house.

Download or read book Warriors Alliance Vol 4 written by Kasey Infinita and published by Youcanprint. This book was released on 2024-04-12 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now armed with the truth, Zack decides to face the traitor alone, creating distance between him and the Resistance. However, thanks to unforeseen (and sometimes unwanted) help, Zack finds himself leading the Resistance halfway across the world, tracking the leader of the Hunters. Some unexpected allies temporarily join the Resistance, but do they really want to help the team, or weaken it? As doubts begin to surface and tension brews within their ranks once more, the Resistance finds that there might be another reason why things keep taking a turn for the worst...and Zack might just be the scapegoat.

Download or read book Holland The Hades Rejects MC Book 4 written by Screaming Mimi and published by Author Screaming Mimi. This book was released on 2021-03-14 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notorious vs. Dangerous. Gangster vs. Biker. Who will prevail? Growing up, Holland Nash was constantly in search of a brotherhood, a unity, a place he could belong. He thought he found it when he joined the force, but he was wrong. Instead of a brotherhood, he found himself tangled up in red tape and roadblocks at every turn almost losing his sisters in the process. His father always told him the club would be waiting for him when he was ready, well that time has come, he's ready to become a Reject, a Hades Reject. Belladonna Reed left home at eighteen, married an MC president, and lived happily ever after. Well not exactly. When she finds herself on the run from one of Chicago’s most notorious gangsters, she sends her sister to Holland for protection. Now it’s up to Holland and the club to save Bella from imminent death.

Download or read book No One Here Gets Out Alive written by Jerry Hopkins and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2029-03-06 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is Jim Morrison in all his complexity-singer, philosopher, poet, delinquent-the brilliant, charismatic, and obsessed seeker who rejected authority in any form, the explorer who probed "the bounds of reality to see what would happen..." Seven years in the writing, this definitive biography is the work of two men whose empathy and experience with Jim Morrison uniquely prepared them to recount this modern tragedy: Jerry Hopkins, whose famous Presley biography, Elvis, was inspired by Morrison's suggestion, and Danny Sugerman, confidant of and aide to the Doors. With an afterword by Michael McClure.

Download or read book Refine written by Clay Collins and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-20 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the United States reaches the threshold of peak oil, the average citizen can't afford to drive to work and city infrastructures are unable to keep up with the demand for public transport. The Attila Corporation, the nation's largest energy supplier, offers a solution. It employs every member of the private sector and promises them a future of unlimited fuel and housing, at a cost. Stevens is an Enforcer employed by the Attila Corporation, biding his time until his work contract expires so he can reconnect with his long-lost love, Aubrey. It isn't until his refinery is attacked by Duster rebels that his dreams are forced to take a backseat to survival. Mistakenly left alive, Stevens flees the refinery and seeks revenge for his fallen Enforcers. Jacobson, the CEO of Attila, doesn't see Stevens' survival as an accident. Stevens is deemed a traitor and ordered to be captured by the Listeners, the secret police in charge of silencing those against the Corporation.

Download or read book Ghost written by Harrison Smith and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2019 in Mirror City, a man-made island off the coast of Georgia. Jax Kourt, along with the few surviving members of his former Bloodrunner gang, discover that the most popular president in United States history is a deep cover terrorist set on reshaping the world the way he sees fit. Fresh off a five-year prison sentence for armed robbery, and seeing an opportunity for one last score before retiring from the streets, Jax and his split personality alter ego ghost, along with the remains of his former gang strike a deal with a DOD agent who believes their story to expose the president for what he is in exchange for clean records. He and the rest of his friends will be forced to battle the mob, the United States government, a phantom terrorist organization, along with demons from their past that still haunt them if they're to come out on top. Jax has never been one to do anything unless it involves a big payday or protecting the ones he loves but soon realizes he's undertaken a project that will push him and his team to their physical, mental, and emotional limits and well beyond to stand for something far greater than money or power.

Download or read book Phantoms written by Dean Koontz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-02-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Phantoms is gruesome and unrelenting…It’s well realized, intelligent, and humane.”—Stephen King They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body, strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California. At first they thought it was the work of a maniac. Or terrorists. Or toxic contamination. Or a bizarre new disease. But then they found the truth. And they saw it in the flesh. And it was worse than anything any of them had ever imagined...

Download or read book But You Did Not Come Back written by Marceline Loridan-Ivens and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A French woman’s heartrending account of her survival in a WWII Nazi concentration camp—and a tribute to her father who died there. A runaway bestseller in France, But You Did Not Come Back has already been the subject of a French media storm and hailed as an important new addition to the library of books dealing with the Holocaust. It is the profoundly moving and poetic memoir by Marceline Loridan-Ivens, who at the age of fifteen was arrested in occupied France, along with her father. Later, in the camps, he managed to smuggle a note to her, a sign of life that made all the difference to Marceline—but he died in the Holocaust, while Marceline survived. In But You Did Not Come Back, Marceline writes back to her father, the man whose death overshadowed her whole life. Although her grief never diminished in its intensity, Marceline ultimately found her calling, working as both an activist and a documentary filmmaker. But now, as France, and Europe in general, face growing anti-Semitism, Marceline feels pessimistic about the future. Her testimony is a memorial, a confrontation, and a deeply affecting personal story of a woman whose life was shattered and never totally rebuilt. “But You Did Not Come Back is indisputably a story of survival . . . yet it is also a story of how trauma impacts through the generations.” —The Guardian

Download or read book Comfort Stations as Remembered by Okinawans during World War II written by Yunshin Hong and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Okinawa, the only Japanese prefecture invaded by US forces in 1945, was forced to accommodate 146 “military comfort stations” from 1941–45. How did Okinawans view these intrusive spaces and their impact on regional society? Interviews, survivor testimonies, and archival documents show that the Japanese army manipulated comfort stations to isolate local communities, facilitate “spy hunts,” and foster a fear of rape by Americans that induced many Okinawans to choose death over survival. The politics of sex pursued by the US occupation (1945–72) perpetuated that fear of rape into the postwar era. This study of war, sexual violence, and postcolonial memory sees the comfort stations as discursive spaces of remembrance where differing war experiences can be articulated, exchanged, and mutually reassessed. Winner of the 2017 Best Publication Award of the Year by the Okinawa Times.

Download or read book Goodbye Ben written by Annagail Lynes and published by Annagail Lynes. This book was released on 2020-11-21 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out who killed Ben! The first novel written by Annagail Lynes. The first novel in the Jaguar and Peacock Series. Set in 2150, Federal Agent Jessa Strazzer has just enduring a horrendous experience. She lost her husband and had to learn to walk again. Now a box arrives from her husband that reveals that the car accident that took her husband was no accident.

Download or read book Riding The Edge written by Elise Faber and published by Elise Faber. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharp words. Luscious curves. Killer sniper skills. I had been in lust with Ava from the moment she’d taken my ass to the mat in a training session. I had been in love with her since she single-handedly saved a mission that had gone FUBAR, getting herself and her team out unscathed. She, meanwhile, had been in hate with me the entire time I’d known her. All the sharp words. All the dark glares. All the— Hot, secret kisses. But KTS, the secret military agency I worked for, the group that existed by oftentimes walking the line of legality, was in utter disarray. We had a traitor in our midst. One that put our mission in jeopardy. One made us forget all about that mission . . . Because suddenly we were in a fight for our lives.

Download or read book Survival Machines written by Ste Sharp and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Survival Machines, book two of The Origin Trilogy, John and the army of survivors continue the search they started in Darwin’s Soldiers. Who brought them to this bizarre world and for what purpose? Discoveries are made and battle fought as the allied army are drawn into a world populated by alien armies who have survived the same tests as them. Factions fight to get to the core: a prized location which offers them the answers they are all searching for. But a new threat rises, in the hyper-evolved Tathon, who threaten to tear the new world apart. The very survival of all species is at risk as John desperately tries to get the factions to work as one and defend the core. Will their adaptations be strong enough against their new foe? And will anyone survive?

Download or read book No Place to Hide written by Lisa Harris and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witness to murder is on the run through the Brazilian rain forest in this inspirational and action-packed romantic thriller. Former navy diver Ryan Kendall is sent to Brazil with a simple assignment: find compromised witness Ellie Webb and bring her home safely. But Ellie isn’t going home until she gets evidence against the criminals who killed her father. As she treks into the Amazon to find it, Ryan must protect her. With cartel members and pirates close behind, they will need to find all their faith, strength, and trust in each other to survive the dangerous jungle . . . and take down a killer.

Download or read book Alien Colony War written by David Barnett and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political conflicts on Earth erupt into open hostilities between their colonies in space, with Xenomorphs as the ultimate weapon. On Earth, political tensions boil over between the United Americas, Union of Progressive Peoples, and Three World Empire. Conflict spreads to the outer fringes, and the UK colony of New Albion breaks with the Three World empire. This could lead to a... Colony War. Trapped in the middle are journalist Cher Hunt, scientist Chad McLaren, and the synthetic Davis. Seeking to discover who caused the death of her sister, Shy Hunt, Cher uncovers a far bigger story. McLaren's mission, fought alongside his wife Amanda Ripley, is to stop the militarization of the deadliest weapon of all—the Xenomorph. Their trail leads to a drilling facility on LV-187. Someone or something has destroyed it, killing the personnel, and the British are blamed. Colonial forces arrive, combat erupts, then both groups are overwhelmed by an alien swarm. Their only hope may lie with the Royal Marines unit known as "God's Hammer." Bonus Feature: An exclusive new game scenario based on the massively popular, award-winning Alien RPG from Free League Publishing!

Download or read book Over My Dead Body written by Michele Bardsley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single mom finds a man who's hot enough to wake the undead in this Broken Heart novel from New York Times bestselling author Michele Bardsley. With my ex-husband out of my life after attempting murder (on me!) and my little Glory not uttering a word since that awful night, Broken Heart, Oklahoma seemed like the perfect sanctuary for us. And I, Simone Sweet, was ready to start a new life. I just didn’t figure it’d be an eternal one. But then local hunk Braddock Hayes turns my undead world upside down. He’s the only one who sees me as I really am, and let me tell you, he makes my fangs quiver. But if he finds out the truth about my past, it would just about kill me (if I weren’t already dead, that is). Luckily, no one knows better than me that things aren’t always as they appear...

Download or read book Michael Winfield And The Lost City written by Sneha Shah and published by Notion Press. This book was released on with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: