Author: John Kendrick Bangs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: Rajiv Surendra
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1682450511
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 145

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Rajiv Surendra was filming Mean Girls, playing the beloved rapping mathlete Kevin Gnapoor, when a cameraman insisted he read Yann Martel's Life of Pi. So begins his "lovely and human" (Jenny Lawson, author of Furiously Happy) tale of obsessively pursuing a dream, overcoming failure, and finding meaning in life. “This was a once-in-a-lifetime chance. I found myself standing dangerously close to the edge of a cliff. Far below me was an incredible abyss with no end in sight. I could turn back and safely return to where I had come from, or I could throw caution to the wind, lift my arms up into the air . . . and jump.” —From The Elephants in My Backyard What happens when you spend ten years obsessively pursuing a dream, and then, in the blink of an eye, you learn that you have failed, that the dream will not come true? In 2003, Rajiv Surendra was filming Mean Girls, playing the beloved rapping mathlete Kevin Gnapoor, when a cameraman insisted he read Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. Mesmerized by all the similarities between Pi and himself—both are five-foot-five with coffee-colored complexions, both share a South Indian culture, both lived by a zoo—when Rajiv learns that Life of Pi will be made into a major motion picture he is convinced that playing the title role is his destiny. In a great leap of faith Rajiv embarks on a quest to embody the sixteen-year-old Tamil schoolboy. He quits university and buys a one-way ticket from Toronto to South India. He visits the sacred stone temples of Pondicherry, he travels to the frigid waters off the coast of rural Maine, and explores the cobbled streets of Munich. He befriends Yann Martel, a priest, a castaway, an eccentric old woman, and a pack of Tamil schoolboys. He learns how to swim, to spin wool, to keep bees, and to look a tiger in the eye. All the while he is really learning how to dream big, to fail, to survive, to love, and to become who he truly is. Rajiv Surendra captures the uncertainty, heartache, and joy of finding ones place in the world with sly humor and refreshing honesty. The Elephants in My Backyard is not a journey of goals and victories, but a story of process and determination. It is a spellbinding and profound book for anyone who has ever failed at something and had to find a new path through life.

Author: Marc Longcor
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1645848035
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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It was just supposed to be another day at the tanning salon, nursing a hangover and hitting on a stripper and her girlfriend. But a doctor with an idea to cure the world of all sickness thought it was a good idea to use alien blood and DNA for the cure. Too bad the alien has other plans. Now with a city overrun with alien monsters, a special alien response team is outnumbered and seeking help, turn to an unlikely crew of people—a crazy old man who won't die, two strippers, and a drunk in a kilt. They must come together to save the city, the doctor, and maybe the world.

Author: Jack Stone
Publisher: Westview Publishing Co., Inc.
ISBN: 9780974432267
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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The story of a man with his wife and family who came out of Appalachia. An ex-Marine who accepted the challenge of making a living for his family while answering Gods eternal call on his life. A simple man who overcame the odds, finished college, bought a house, worked two or more jobs and maintained his sense of humor. This book is his story."Jack Stone tells his life story with amazing recall and detail that is entertaining, educational, and inspiring. After each chapter you want to read the next. He gives great insight into Appalachian, military, academic, religious, and political subcultures. He has written with frankness, an innocent kind of honesty. His story is enriched by the colorful descriptions of the people he has known. There is humor, conflict, crises, and even mystical experience in Jack's life. He tells how he received, resisted, and yet answered the call to preach. He describes the evolution of his theological and Biblical understanding. He reveals how God blessed his ministry.

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Publisher: John Galavan
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Author: Otto Penzler
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 1101971142
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 866

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Edgar Award–winning editor Otto Penzler's latest anthology takes its inspiration from the historical enigma whose name has become synonymous with fear: Jack the Ripper. Of the real-life serial killers whose gruesome acts have been splashed across headlines, none has reached the mythical status of Jack the Ripper. In the Ripper's wake, terror swept through the streets of London’s East End in the fall of 1888. As quickly as his nightmarish reign came, Saucy Jack vanished without a trace—leaving future generations to speculate upon his identity and whereabouts. He was diabolical in a way never seen before—a killer who taunted the police, came up with his own legendary monikers, and, ultimately, got away with his heinous crimes. More than a century later, the man “from hell” continues to live on in the imaginations of readers everywhere—and in some of the most spec­tacularly unnerving stories, both fiction and nonfiction, ever written. The Big Book of Jack the Ripper immerses you in the utterly chilling world of Red Jack’s London, where his unprecedented evil still lurks. Including: · Legendary stories by Marie Belloc Lowndes, Robert Bloch, and Ellery Queen · Captivating essays from George Bernard Shaw, Stephen Hunter, and Peter Underwood · Riveting new stories by contemporary masters Jeffrey Deaver, Loren D. Estleman, Lyndsay Faye, and many more · Astonishing theories from the world’s foremost Ripperologists From the Ripper Vault: · Demonic letters from Jack himself · Gruesome postmortem exams documenting all the bits and pieces of the cases · Harrowing witness statements taken on those hellish nights · Breaking newspaper accounts of the East End hysteria

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Category : Juvenile delinquency
Languages : en
Pages : 878

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Author: Vincent Zigas
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461244900
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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It has been a difficult, sometimes painful, story to tell in its entirety, but I have done my best to be accurate both in facts and in dates, for I feel that l owe the truth to the many who have become valued acquaintances, and sometimes friends. All these have constantly requested more news of my "Green Dwelling" and my discovery of a fatal neurological disease previously unknown to Western medicine. This book is for them, in lieu of letters that I ought to have written and did not. It is also my concern to produce innocent amusement, unrestricted by canon or precedent, for those who require some relaxation from the fatigue generated by so many parasitic forms of life in this less than perfect world. My peers, the medical scientists, who read this will realize that this book is neither a scientific treatise, nor a balance-sheet of all the achievements and failures of medical science, but a presentation of the major implications of the factors that continually determine our medical ethics - including some of the less prizeworthy drawbacks.

Author: Edith Layton
Publisher: Untreed Reads
ISBN: 1611878217
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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HER HEART WAS DIVIDED IN THREE Jessica Eastwood’s country sweetheart, Tom Preston, wanted her to be the free and independent spirit that her gallant officer father had raised her to be. Jessica’s irresistibly attractive distant European cousin, Anton Von Keller, wanted to mold her into a sophisticated woman of the world. Society’s most eligible aristocrat, the dazzling Lord Leith, wanted Jessica to be the star of the London Season, a model of feminine beauty and fashion. But before Jessica could find out which of these women she truly was, she had to decide which one of these maddeningly desirable men she really loved…

Author: Ed Turner
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411676483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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Narrative convention tells us that the moment when all of one's problems appear to be solved is, in almost all cases, a brief interlude before things get much more interesting. So, if you'd spent the last twenty years alone on a spaceship hurtling out of control in no particular direction, the appearance of people who can repair your ship using bits of theirs and open up a wormhole network that can get you back to Earth in weeks instead of generations would probably strike you as the solution to all your problems. Then you'd get a brief interlude to discover that centuries had passed since you left, the language you spoke was dead, and oh yeah...these people had no actual idea how to get back to Earth ...things are going to get much, much more interesting.