Author: Sherryl WoodsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Sean's reckoning (large print).
Sean's Reckoning
Author: Sherryl WoodsDay of Reckoning
Author: Jack HigginsPublisher: Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781568958521
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Blake Johnson, the head of a clandestine government department, seeks to avenge his ex-wife's murder by attacking the crime boss who ordered it.
This Close to Happy
Author: Daphne MerkinPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374711917
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Favorite Read of 2016 “Despair is always described as dull,” writes Daphne Merkin, “when the truth is that despair has a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottled silver.” This Close to Happy—Merkin’s rare, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression—captures this strange light. Daphne Merkin has been hospitalized three times: first, in grade school, for childhood depression; years later, after her daughter was born, for severe postpartum depression; and later still, after her mother died, for obsessive suicidal thinking. Recounting this series of hospitalizations, as well as her visits to myriad therapists and psychopharmacologists, Merkin fearlessly offers what the child psychiatrist Harold Koplewicz calls “the inside view of navigating a chronic psychiatric illness to a realistic outcome.” The arc of Merkin’s affliction is lifelong, beginning in a childhood largely bereft of love and stretching into the present, where Merkin lives a high-functioning life and her depression is manageable, if not “cured.” “The opposite of depression,” she writes with characteristic insight, “is not a state of unimaginable happiness . . . but a state of relative all-right-ness.” In this dark yet vital memoir, Merkin describes not only the harrowing sorrow that she has known all her life, but also her early, redemptive love of reading and gradual emergence as a writer. Written with an acute understanding of the ways in which her condition has evolved as well as affected those around her, This Close to Happy is an utterly candid coming-to-terms with an illness that many share but few talk about, one that remains shrouded in stigma. In the words of the distinguished psychologist Carol Gilligan, “It brings a stunningly perceptive voice into the forefront of the conversation about depression, one that is both reassuring and revelatory.”
Royal Reckoning
Author: Emily SilverPublisher: Emily Silver
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
What happens when this Princess no longer wants to be Princess? Princess. Not just a title, but my entire life. I live my life for everyone but me. Destined to inherit the throne, one wrong move and I’m plastered across the tabloids. I’m tired of it. Tired of being in the public spotlight. With a royal holiday in sight, I make a run for it. Right into the arms of a mysterious tattoo artist. Who has no idea who I really am. For the first time in my life…I finally feel like me. No advisors demanding my attention or press snapping an unwanted picture of me. But when the real world comes crashing back down, I’ll have to make the biggest choice of my life. Putting the needs of my country first or following my heart?
The Reckoning
Author: Reckoning
Author: Candis CallisonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190067098
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
How do journalists know what they know? Who gets to decide what good journalism is and when it's done right? What sort of expertise do journalists have, and what role should and do they play in society? Until a couple of decades ago, journalists rarely asked these questions, largely because the answers were generally undisputed. Now, the stakes are rising for journalists as they face real-time critique and audience pushback for their ethics, news reporting, and relevance. Yet the crises facing journalism have been narrowly defined as the result of disruption by new technologies and economic decline. This book argues that the concerns are in fact much more profound. Drawing on their five years of research with journalists in the U.S. and Canada, in a variety of news organizations from startups and freelancers to mainstream media, the authors find a digital reckoning taking place regarding journalism's founding ideals and methods. The book explores journalism's long-standing representational harms, arguing that despite thoughtful explorations of the role of publics in journalism, the profession hasn't adequately addressed matters of gender, race, intersectionality, and settler colonialism. In doing so, the authors rethink the basis for what journalism says it could and should do, suggesting that a turn to strong objectivity and systems journalism provides a path forward. They offer insights from journalists' own experiences and efforts at repair, reform, and transformation to consider how journalism can address its limits and possibilities along with widening media publics.
Desert Reckoning
Author: Deanne StillmanPublisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN: 9781568588636
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction Contemporary Winner of the LA Press Club Award for Best General Nonfiction On a scorching summer day, Donald Kueck-a desert hermit who loved animals and hated civilization-gunned down beloved deputy sheriff Stephen Sorensen when he approached his trailer. As the sound of rifle fire echoed across the Mojave, Kueck vanished. In Desert Reckoning, Deanne Stillman recounts a tragic tale, delving into the hidden history of Los Angeles County and tracing the paths of two men on a collision course that could only end in the modern Wild West.
Best American Political Writing 2009 (Large Print 16pt)
Author: Royce FlippinPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458759830
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
A must-have anthology for political junkies, Best American Political Writing compiles the year 's best political stories from a variety of publications and points of view, in a single, comprehensive volume. Culling from the most memorable reporting of what promises to be a thrilling political year, the 2009 American Political Writing edition will include incisive coverage of the new Obama presidency and its impact nationwide, as well as the most pressing political concerns facing America today - from the depressed economy to our participation in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Reckoning on Cane Hill
Author: Steve MosbyPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643135880
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A terrifying and heartbreaking new novel of guilt and innocence, from CWA Dagger-winner Steve Mosby. The hardest crimes to acknowledge are your own. Charlie Matheson died two years ago in a car accident. So how is a woman bearing a startling resemblance to her claiming to be back from the dead? Detective Mark Nelson is called in to investigate and hear her terrifying account of what she's been through in the afterlife. Every year, Detective David Groves receives a birthday card for his son—even though he buried him years ago. His son's murder took everything from him, apart from his belief in the law, even though the killers were never found. This year, though, the card bears a different message: I know who did it. Uncovering the facts will lead them all on a dark journey, where they must face their own wrongs as well as those done to those they love. It will take them to a place where justice is a game, and punishments are severe. Nelson and Groves know the answers lie with the kind of people you want to turn and run from. But if they're to get to the truth, they must face their own wrongs, as well as those inflicted on the ones they love.