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Feeling Lucky

Author : M S M Barkawitz
Publisher : Independently Published
Release Date : 2021-05-22
ISBN 10 : 9798717286404
Pages : 186 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

Download Feeling Lucky in PDF Full Online Free by M S M Barkawitz and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-05-22 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some characters and situations are fictitious. Others are only too real in this modern-day thriller set amid the chaos of a global epidemic and a cultural uprising that set the world ablaze. She's Lucky one day-Jackie the next. Actress or con artist? Avenging angel or gold-digger? Hunter or prey? Straight or lesbian? Black Lives Matter activist? Only she knows the truth. Or does she? Controversial? No doubt. And all the while-the pandemic kills.

My Soul Is a Witness

Author : Mari N. Crabtree
Publisher : Yale University Press
Release Date : 2023-01-10
ISBN 10 : 9780300250411
Pages : 313 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (41 downloads)

Download My Soul Is a Witness in PDF Full Online Free by Mari N. Crabtree and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate look at the afterlife of lynching through the personal stories of Black victims and survivors who lived through and beyond its trauma Mari N. Crabtree traces the long afterlife of lynching in the South through the traumatic memories it left in its wake. She unearths how African American victims and survivors found ways to live through and beyond the horrors of lynching, offering a theory of African American collective trauma and memory rooted in the ironic spirit of the blues sensibility--a spirit of misdirection and cunning that blends joy and pain. Black southerners often shielded their loved ones from the most painful memories of local lynchings with strategic silences but also told lynching stories about vengeful ghosts or a wrathful God or the deathbed confessions of a lyncher tormented by his past. They protested lynching and its legacies through art and activism, and they mourned those lost to a mob's fury. They infused a blues element into their lynching narratives to confront traumatic memories and keep the blues at bay, even if just for a spell. Telling their stories troubles the simplistic binary of resistance or submission that has tended to dominate narratives of Black life and reminds us that amid the utter devastation of lynching were glimmers of hope and an affirmation of life.

Way I See It

Author : Wampus Reynolds
Publisher : Stephen Reynolds
Release Date : 2020-05-29
ISBN 10 : 9798646405747
Pages : 240 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

Download Way I See It in PDF Full Online Free by Wampus Reynolds and published by Stephen Reynolds. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norman, Oklahoma: the home of drinking, screwing around, and breaking down Sooners football. That’s how Cole Posel sees it. He came to college here years ago with Hilton, his childhood best friend and never left. All that changes the morning Holden Price is found shot dead on the side of a lake.Cole and his old classmate/megachurch pastor’s wife Robin, now look through their friend’s hidden life for clues and answers police can’t provide. They uncover a complex man who touched others in many ways and they uncover a town with many secrets. Can Holden’s killer be nearby? And did they kill those other victims? The first novel from standup comedian and game show veteran Wampus Reynolds contains many elements: a tightly plotted crime novel, a meditation on friendship and adulthood and an examination of the people who went to college and never let it end. Way I See It is a mystery with an ending that will make you question the way that you yourself see.

I Miss You, I Hate This

Author : Sara Saedi
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-10-11
ISBN 10 : 9780316629867
Pages : 330 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (863 downloads)

Download I Miss You, I Hate This in PDF Full Online Free by Sara Saedi and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five Feet Apart meets Kate in Waiting in this timely story of two best friends navigating the complexities of friendship while their world is turned upside down by a global pandemic. The lives of high school seniors Parisa Naficy and Gabriela Gonzales couldn't be more different. Parisa, an earnest and privileged Iranian American, struggles to live up to her own impossible standards. Gabriela, a cynical Mexican American, has all the confidence Parisa lacks but none of the financial stability. She can't help but envy Parisa's posh lifestyle whenever she hears her two moms argue about money. Despite their differences, as soon as they met on the first day of freshman year, they had an "us versus the world" mentality. Whatever the future had in store for them—the pressure to get good grades, the litany of family dramas, and the heartbreak of unrequited love—they faced it together. Until a global pandemic forces everyone into lockdown. Suddenly senior year doesn't look anything like they hoped it would. And as the whole world is tested during this time of crisis, their friendship will be, too. With equal parts humor and heart, Parisa's and Gabriela's stories unfold in a mix of prose, text messages, and emails as they discover new dreams, face insecurities, and confront their greatest fears.

Happy-Go-Lucky

Author : David Sedaris
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-06-02
ISBN 10 : 9781408714096
Pages : 272 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (94 downloads)

Download Happy-Go-Lucky in PDF Full Online Free by David Sedaris and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask-or not-was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes. But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he's stuck in lockdown, unable to tour and read for audiences, the part of his work he loves most. To cope, he walks for miles through a nearly deserted city, smelling only his own breath. He vacuums his apartment twice a day, fails to hoard anything, and contemplates how sex workers and acupuncturists might be getting by during quarantine. As the world gradually settles into a new reality, Sedaris too finds himself changed. His offer to fix a stranger's teeth rebuffed, he straightens his own, and ventures into the world with new confidence. Newly orphaned, he considers what it means, in his seventh decade, no longer to be someone's son. And back on the road, he discovers a battle-scarred America: people weary, storefronts empty or festooned with Help Wanted signs, walls painted with graffiti reflecting the contradictory messages of our time: Eat the Rich. Trump 2024. Black Lives Matter. In Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all. If we must live in interesting times, there is no one better to chronicle them than the incomparable David Sedaris. Praise for Calypso 'Sedaris is the premier observer of our world and its weirdnesses' Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt 'He's like an American Alan Bennett' Guardian 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing . . . Calypso is both funnier and more heartbreaking than pretty much anything out there' Hadley Freeman, Guardian

The Lucky Ones

Author : Rachel Cusk
Publisher :
Release Date : 2003
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015056673455
Pages : 248 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

Download The Lucky Ones in PDF Full Online Free by Rachel Cusk and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited new novel from the Whitbread Award winning author of SAVING AGNES and THE COUNTRY LIFE, which won her a Somerset Maugham Prize. In this profound study of human relationships, five overlapping narratives of love and detachment merge to form a powerful evocation of family identity. A young pregnant woman's misfortune; a new father's disaffection; a daughter's search for lost childhood; a mother's antagonism; a wife's secret suffering -- through it all runs the story of Victor Porter, a campaigning lawyer, and his journalist wife Serena, in whose relationship the conflict between the public and the personal, between love and morality, is played out. Rachel Cusk writes of life's transformations; of what separates us from those we love and what binds us to those we no longer understand. The Lucky Ones is a novel about creating and sustaining life. It illuminates with startling precision the texture and complexity of emotional existence within 'the bustling concourses of life.'

The Things That Keep Us Here

Author : Carla Buckley
Publisher : Bantam
Release Date : 2011-01-25
ISBN 10 : 9780440246046
Pages : 434 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (4 downloads)

Download The Things That Keep Us Here in PDF Full Online Free by Carla Buckley and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything seems quiet on Ann Brooks’s suburban cul-de-sac. Despite her impending divorce, she’s created a happy home and her daughters are adjusting to the change. She feels lucky to be in a supportive community and confident that she can handle any other hardship that life may throw her way. But then, right before Thanksgiving, a crisis strikes that turns everybody’s world upside down. Suddenly her estranged husband is forced back onto her doorstep, bringing with him his beautiful graduate assistant. Trapped inside the house she once called home, confronted by challenges she never could have imagined, Ann must make life-or-death decisions in an environment where the simple act of opening a door to a neighbor could jeopardize all she holds dear. The choices she makes will impact the lives of those around her irrevocably and linger in the reader’s memory in this marvelous first novel, written with authority, grace, and wisdom.

Pandemic: Patient Zero

Author : Amanda Bridgeman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-09-07
ISBN 10 : 9781839080227
Pages : 384 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (221 downloads)

Download Pandemic: Patient Zero in PDF Full Online Free by Amanda Bridgeman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the smash hit boardgame, here’s the debut of an incredible new novel series that shows just what humanity can achieve when experts work together, to ensure a global pandemic is never allowed to break out again Bodhi Patel is the brand new Lead Epidemiologist for the world’s top epidemic specialists, Global Health Agency, but there’s no time to settle in: his new boss, Helen Taylor, deploys GHA to contain a mysterious new killer virus spreading from Peru into Brazil. On the ground they learn that the virus is loose in a region controlled by a heavily armed drug warlord, and the race against time to discover a cure just got a whole lot tougher. Meanwhile, Bodhi finds himself with a newly reshuffled team still smarting from the changes, including his ex – the last person he expected to be working with.

Everything is True

Author : Roopa Farooki
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-01-20
ISBN 10 : 9781526652072
Pages : 240 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (72 downloads)

Download Everything is True in PDF Full Online Free by Roopa Farooki and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN 'The most powerful and evocative account of working through the pandemic that I have read' ADAM KAY 'An extraordinary writer ... Beautiful, heartbreaking, brilliant, furious and oh-so-honest - an amazing read' KATE MOSSE From the frontlines of the NHS, the story of a junior doctor's love, loss and grief through the Covid-19 crisis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In early 2020, junior doctor Roopa Farooki lost her sister to cancer. But just weeks later, she found herself plunged into another kind of crisis, fighting on the frontline of the battle taking place in her hospital, and in hospitals across the country. Everything is True is the story of Roopa's first forty days of the Covid-19 crisis from the frontlines of A&E and the acute medical wards, as struggling through her grief, she battles for her patients' and colleagues' survival. Working thirteen-hour shifts, she returns home each evening to write through her exhaustion, chronicling the devastating losses and slowly eroding dehumanisation happening in real time on the ward. At once an unflinching insider's account of medicine in the time of coronavirus, and the devastating story of a sister's grief, Everything is True is an exhilarating memoir of holding on to that which makes us human against insurmountable odds. 'A powerful, honest, angry, vivid book ... It will undoubtedly have a big impact ... and finds absolutely the right route through the personal, the political, the angry, the sad, the mundane' ALICE JOLLY 'An eloquent testimonial of grief and fury through the first forty days of the Covid crisis – Farooki's urgent, fragmentary diary of life on the wards conveys the fear, confusion and uncertainty of those first weeks with singular brilliance' GAVIN FRANCIS

The Down Days

Author : Ilze Hugo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-06-22
ISBN 10 : 9781982121518
Pages : 368 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (513 downloads)

Download The Down Days in PDF Full Online Free by Ilze Hugo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the aftermath of a deadly outbreak bearing similarities to the Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic, a city at the tip of Africa is losing its mind-complete with hallucinations, paranoia, and good old-fashioned ghost sightings. Is it the result of secret government experiments, an episode of mass hysteria, the effects of trauma, a sign of the end times? In a quarantined city in which the inexplicable has already occurred, rumors, superstitions, and conspiracy theories abound. In these strange days, Faith works as a full-time corpse collector and a freelance truthologist, putting together disparate pieces of information to solve others' problems. But after Faith agrees to help an orphaned girl find the girl's abducted baby brother, she begins to wonder whether the boy is even real. Meanwhile, Sans, a ponyjacker in the human hair trade, is so distracted by a glimpse of his dream woman that he lets a bag of money he owes his gang partners go missing-leaving him desperately searching for both and soon questioning his own sanity. Over the course of a single week, the paths of Faith, Sans, and a cast of other hustlers-including a data dealer, a drug addict, a sin eater, and a hyena man-will cross and intertwine as they move about the city, looking for lost souls, uncertain absolution, and answers that may not exist. Part ghost story, part whodunit, part palimpsest, THE DOWN DAYS is a rollicking exploration of the mutability of memory, the subjectivity of perception, and the notion that truth is ultimately in the eye of the beholder"--

Lucky Strikes...Again

Author : R. W. Lucky
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 1993-01-18
ISBN 10 : 0780304330
Pages : 308 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (34 downloads)

Download Lucky Strikes...Again in PDF Full Online Free by R. W. Lucky and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1993-01-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of the widely acclaimed "Reflections" column in Spectrum magazine, Lucky provides ten-years-worth of his own humorous and nostalgic refections on typical situations engineers encounter during their careers. Spiced with some new anecdotes and personal experiences, Lucky Strikes...Again takes good-natured gibes at corporate bureaucrats.

Create Together

Author :
Publisher :
Release Date : 2021-05-31
ISBN 10 : 1838407707
Pages : 124 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (47 downloads)

Download Create Together in PDF Full Online Free by and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create Together is an anthology of poetry, short prose and art created by women supported through Inspiring You CIC's 'Create Together' project. Made in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and in partnership with the National Lottery Community Fund, 'Create Together' is a place where beneficiaries could look after and support one another, and create a community of their own. We offer to all those involved and beyond a glimpse into their journey. "I feel really lucky to have stumbled across these workshops. It's been an amazing uplifting experience that I know will continue to impact on what I write, do and say." - Susan Doram

Salvation City

Author : Sigrid Nunez
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2010-09-16
ISBN 10 : 9781101443392
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (391 downloads)

Download Salvation City in PDF Full Online Free by Sigrid Nunez and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A NOVEL FOR LIFE AFTER THE PANDEMIC…Scratches a particular imaginative itch that we are all experiencing at the precipice of a new era." -- The New Yorker From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend comes a moving and eerily relevant novel that imagines the aftermath of a pandemic virus as seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old boy uncertain of his destiny. His family's sole survivor after a flu pandemic has killed large numbers of people worldwide, Cole Vining is lucky to have found refuge with the evangelical Pastor Wyatt and his wife in a small town in southern Indiana. As the world outside has grown increasingly anarchic, Salvation City has been spared much of the devastation, and its residents have renewed their preparations for the Rapture. Grateful for the shelter and love of his foster family (and relieved to have been saved from the horrid, overrun orphanages that have sprung up around the country), Cole begins to form relationships within the larger community. But despite his affection for this place, he struggles with memories of the very different world in which he was reared. Is there room to love both Wyatt and his parents? Are they still his parents if they are no longer there? As others around him grow increasingly fixated on the hope of salvation and the new life to come through the imminent Rapture, Cole begins to conceive of a different future for himself, one in which his own dreams of heroism seem within reach. Written in Sigrid Nunez's deceptively simple style, Salvation City is a story of love, betrayal, and forgiveness, weaving the deeply affecting story of a young boy's transformation with a profound meditation on the meaning of belief and heroism.

Who Your Friends Are

Author : Susan Day
Publisher : CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-06-18
ISBN 10 : 1512296066
Pages : 348 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (296 downloads)

Download Who Your Friends Are in PDF Full Online Free by Susan Day and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two little girls, Pat and Rita, back in the 1950s, become best friends. Who Your Friends Are tells the story, in Pat's words, of the way their lives diverged. Rita is ambitious and determined and becomes successful in a way neither her family nor Pat would ever have imagined. Pat follows Rita's career with interest but without envy. She herself follows a conventional route through marriage, children, a job in a caring profession, and always believing in the enduring quality of their friendship. Now Pat finds herself without a job, with her children all grown up and time on her hands. Her past history with Rita is due for a reassessment - what will she make of it?

Pandemic

Author : Scott Sigler
Publisher : Crown
Release Date : 2014-01-21
ISBN 10 : 9780770436773
Pages : 592 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (773 downloads)

Download Pandemic in PDF Full Online Free by Scott Sigler and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final book in the Infected trilogy, the entire human race balances on the razor’s edge of annihilation, beset by an enemy that turns our own bodies against us, that changes normal people into psychopaths or transforms them into nightmares. To some, Doctor Margaret Montoya is a hero—a brilliant scientist who saved the human race from an alien intelligence determined to exterminate all of humanity. To others, she’s a monster—a mass murderer single-handedly responsible for the worst atrocity ever to take place on American soil. All Margaret knows is that she’s broken. The blood of a million deaths is on her hands. Guilt and nightmares have turned her into a shut-in, too mired in self-hatred even to salvage her marriage, let alone be the warrior she once was. But she is about to be called into action again. Because before the murderous intelligence was destroyed, it launched one last payload: a soda can–sized container filled with deadly microorganisms that make humans feed upon their own kind. That harmless-looking container has languished a thousand feet below the surface of Lake Michigan, undisturbed and impotent . . . until now. Part Cthulhu epic, part zombie apocalypse and part blockbuster alien-invasion tale, Pandemic completes the Infected trilogy and sets a new high-water mark in the world of horror fiction.

Lucky G and the Melancholy Quokka

Author : Amy Wilinski-Lyman
Publisher : Loving Healing Press
Release Date :
ISBN 10 : 9781615995417
Pages : 44 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (412 downloads)

Download Lucky G and the Melancholy Quokka in PDF Full Online Free by Amy Wilinski-Lyman and published by Loving Healing Press. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raves for the Raven Who is a Therapist This book grabs you from the outset and takes you on a hopeful journey: A colorful, spunky raven (with a Ph.D.) travels to Australia to meet a quokka who has lost his true smile, finds it hard to move and isn't hanging out with friends anymore. Dr. G knows that depression is the culprit, and extends a listening ear and helping hand, all the while reassuring the quokka that lots of adults and kids feel depression, too! "The illustrations are colorful and whimsical, and the fact that Amy takes us on a journey to Australia provides the novelty that keeps the book captivating and moving right along. I truly enjoyed reading this and I believe children with depression, and their parents, will find acknowledgment, guidance and hope in this little book. Enjoyable, informative and capable of capturing a child's imagination." -- Eliana Gil, Ph.D., Founder, Gil Institute for Trauma Recovery & Education, Fairfax, VA "In her latest Lucky G book installment, Wilinski-Lyman makes the concept of play therapy accessible to children and parents. Speaking from experience, and from the heart, she presents therapy as a helpful tool for kids and fights stigma against depression. Her characters are easy to relate to for children and families alike. The vivid and expressive illustrations by Leela Green make this book a visual treat for all ages." -- Marta Manning, former president NAMI Midland, MI chapter (National Alliance on Mental Illness) "I liked the whole story. Blue was my favorite character--I would be friends with him. I liked how Blue was sad at the start and then was happy by the end." -- Astor, 7 years old AMY WILINSKI-LYMAN lives in Michigan with her three awesome children: Zach, Drew, and Kendall; and her big fluffy orange cat, Marshall. Amy became a mental health warrior in 2016 after she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Through her books and online presence she wants to show parents and children living with mental illness that there is hope. Learn more at AmyLymanAuthor.com From Loving Healing Press www.LHPress.com

Resigning during the pandemic

Author : Aaron Albalad
Publisher : Babelcube Inc.
Release Date : 2020-11-20
ISBN 10 : 9781071576007
Pages : 23 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (3 downloads)

Download Resigning during the pandemic in PDF Full Online Free by Aaron Albalad and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of October 2020 is the date when I start writing this book. Throughout the world we are in a difficult and unstable situation caused by an unprecedented health crisis that has forced states to impose measures such as lockdowns or curfews in an attempt to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. This health crisis, and more specifically, the measures put in place as a result, have in turn led to an economic and social crisis whose effects we are beginning to see with people who have lost their jobs or businesses that have been forced to close... Many will think that this book is nonsense because with all that is going wrong at the moment we don't need someone to tell us how they have taken advantage of this crisis to discover what they want after seeing what they don't want. The pages you will read below are simply a lesson I have learned from living this crisis and may serve as an inspiration for you to re-evaluate your qualities and face the next years of both your professional and personal life with something good from all the past experience. Without a doubt I feel lucky to be able to tell you about my experience and to have been able to make the decisions I have made. But what I am most grateful for is having lived what I have lived to learn what I will try to convey in the following pages.