Author: Megan Nolan Publisher: Little, Brown ISBN: 0316429848 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 247
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This "blistering anti-romance" (Catherine Lacey) paints a riveting, cathartic story about love addiction and what it does to us. Wouldn’t I do anything to reverse my loss, the absence of him? In the first scene of this provocative gut-punch of a novel, our unnamed narrator meets a magnetic writer named Ciaran and falls, against her better judgment, completely in his power. After a brief, all-consuming romance he abruptly rejects her, sending her into a tailspin of jealous obsession and longing. If he ever comes back to her, she resolves to hang onto him and his love at all costs, even if it destroys her… Part breathless confession, part lucid critique, Acts of Desperation renders a consciousness split between rebellion and submission, between escaping degradation and eroticizing it, between loving and being lovable. With unsettling, electric precision, Nolan dissects one of life’s most elusive mysteries: Why do we want what we want, and how do we want it? Heralding the arrival of a stunning new literary talent, Acts of Desperation interrogates the nature of fantasy, desire, and power, challenging us to reckon honestly with our own insatiability. "Hot as viscera." —The New Republic
Author: David Parnell Publisher: Health Communications, Inc. ISBN: 0757315232 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 294
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After more than 23 years addicted to methamphetamine and other drugs, Parnell put an SKS assault rifle under his chin and pulled the trigger. Here he chronicles how that desperate act pulled him out of his personal hell.
Author: Richard Montgomery Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 252
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The only way for an addict to stop is to hit bottom. But, what if your bottom has a basement? This heroin addict is learning the further you go to get high, the farther you dig down. Every act is desperately insane in The Gift Of Desperation. Follow along with his intense and crazy pursuit of one more high as it leads him into a gripping downward spiral. And discover how the 12 steps of recovery miraculously took that miserable desperation and turned it into absolute gratitude. (Book 2, The Gift Of Gratitude, coming soon!)
Author: Les Standiford Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0062218123 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 289
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“Popular history in its most vital and accessible form. Standiford has recovered the mentality of America’s first group of young radicals, the Sons of Liberty, and tells their story with flair and grace.” —Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Founding Brothers Les Standiford’s Last Train to Paradise, the fascinating true account of the building of a railroad “across the ocean” from Miami to Key West, is already a classic of popular history. With Desperate Sons, the New York Times bestselling author of Bringing Adam Home tells the remarkable story of America’s first patriots, the Sons of Liberty, whose revolutionary acts have become legend. With all the suspense and power of a historical action thriller, Standiford’s Desperate Sons recounts the courage and tenacity of a hardy group that included Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, and John Hancock—radical activists who were responsible for some of the most notorious events leading up to the American Revolution, from the Boston Tea Party to Paul Revere’s fabled midnight ride. Fans of David McCullough’s John Adams and 1776 will be riveted by this true history of young men inflamed by the fires of common purpose who helped a new nation to rise up against its British oppressor.
Author: Michael Farris Smith Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 0316353019 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 304
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In the vein of Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone and the works of Ron Rash, an Amazon Best Book of the Month set in a tough-and-tumble Mississippi town where drugs, whiskey, guns, and the desire for revenge violently intersect. For eleven years the clock has been ticking for Russell Gaines as he sits in Parchman Penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta. His sentence is now up, and he believes his debt has been paid. But when he returns home, he soon discovers that revenge lives and breathes all around him. On the same day that Russell is released from prison, a woman named Maben and her young daughter trudge along the side of the interstate under the punishing summer sun. Desperate and exhausted, the pair spend their last dollar on a room for the night, a night that ends with Maben running through the darkness holding a pistol, and a dead deputy sprawled in the middle of the road in the glow of his own headlights. With the dawn, destinies collide, and Russell is forced to decide whose life he will save -- his own or those of the woman and child. Delivered in powerful and lyrical prose, Desperation Road is a story of troubled souls twisted with regret and bound by secrets that stretch over the years and across the land.
Author: Pook Publisher: ISBN: 9781980603153 Category : Languages : en Pages : 695
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The complete collection of writings by the legend himself!A few years ago there was a man who posted on a PUA forum called So Suave and had his own blog called Pook's Mill. His basic message was that the PUA techniques were too simple, and focused on external manipulations, and focusing on others rather than focusing on yourself and your own masculinity.Sadly Pook disappeared from the scene, but his teachings live on in this ebook.
Author: Arthur Richter Publisher: Workbook Press ISBN: 9781955459334 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 424
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What makes this story more unique than another. Is that this heart-wrenching story is one, that has to be fictionalized for it to be told. For one, to able to rationalize the desperation. That one might have to endure over wanting just to survive. Having to have to deal with endless hardships, and despair being forced upon them. This is such a story. It tells of a young boy from the early age of ten, and even earlier. The into his teenage years who had to relentlessly struggle through, due to no fault of his own. Where he lost his battle. Trying to finally find peace from his anguish. That he was tormented with. During the short life that he lived. Where prior to his untimely death. Where after he finally found some happiness. When he was befriended by two, women. Who tried to help him escape the endless excruciating suffering that was unscrupulously tormenting him. Only for him to horrifically have to endure being tormented by being plagued with the anxieties of having to face another crisis. Having to carry his relentless curse into death itself. As emotionally traumatic as this story might be. It doesn't leave out the gruesome aftermath that followed those who survived the tragic ordeal. This story might not be as uncommon as one, might think. Where even today one, might look back, and recall moments in their life. That they felt very fortunate to be alive today. To be able to recall where it was equally as heart-wrenching on them or someone they knew. As the one they are about to read about.
Author: Emerson Shaw Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781495389207 Category : Languages : en Pages : 208
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**This highly anticipated debut novel was inspired by actual events.** Sember is a strong-willed attorney who's got it all: the budding career, the condo, and a marriage proposal right around the corner. When her sister, Sarah, needs a new attorney, Sember is torn. She wants to help Sarah, but she is terrified her emotions could compromise the case. With so much at stake, failure isn't an option. In walks Jax Alexander, a brilliant legal mind from New York who excites Sember's body and mind. When he offers to take on Sarah's case, he provides hope in a hopeless situation. Sember and Jax are thrust together as their passion ignites. As a web of lies is exposed, Jax works tirelessly to reveal the truth behind Sarah's case. But, he has a dark secret shadowing his past that threatens to destroy everything. In the midst of so many lies, can Jax really be trusted? His secret could put Sarah's case in jeopardy and could cost Sember her life. Will he risk it all to save them, or will he cut and run, leaving destruction in his wake? Sometimes, desperate acts call for desperate measures.
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