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Download or read book Caged Eyes written by Lynn K. Hall and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider’s account of misogyny and rape in the US military and her extraordinary path to recovery and activism Desperate to realize her childhood dream of being an astronaut, Lynn K. Hall was an enthusiastic young cadet. For Hall, the military offered an escape from her chaotic home—her erratic mother, absent biological father, and a man she called “dad” who sexually abused her. Resolute and committed to the Air Force Academy, Hall survived the ordeals of a first-year cadet: intense hazing from upperclassmen, grueling physical training, and demanding coursework. But she’s dismissed from the Academy when, after being raped by an upperclassman and contracting herpes, she is diagnosed with meningitis and left with chronic and debilitating pain. Betrayed by the Academy and overcome with shame, Hall candidly recounts her loss of self, the dissociation from her body and the forfeiture of her individuality as a result of the military’s demands and her perpetrator’s abuse. Forced to leave the military and return to the civilian world, Hall turns to extreme sports to cope with and overcome PTSD and chronic pain. She, in turn, reclaims herself on the mountain trails of the Colorado Rockies. An intimate account of grappling with shame and a misogynistic culture that condones rape and blames victims, Caged Eyes is also a transformative story of how it’s possible to help yourself and others in the aftermath of a profound injustice.
Book Synopsis I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by : Maya Angelou
Download or read book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings written by Maya Angelou and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin From the Paperback edition.
Download or read book Caged written by Ellison Cooper and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FBI profiler Sayer Altair hunts a brilliant serial killer with a dangerous obsession in Caged, a gripping thriller from debut author Ellison Cooper. In a residential Washington, D.C. neighborhood, a young woman's body is found in the basement of an abandoned house--starved to death in a cage, along with the video footage of a dark and deadly ritual. The victim is identified as the daughter of a prominent D.C. politician, and it falls to the FBI to track down the unconscionable psychopath who murdered her. FBI special agent Sayer Altair would rather conduct research on criminality than catch actual criminals. But when she's offered a promotion hinging on her next assignment, she reluctantly accepts the "Cage Killer" case. Taunted by a photo of another victim at the mercy of this vicious killer, Sayer and her team are driven to put an end to these grisly homicides. During the investigation, clues emerge connecting the murders to Sayer's past. Now, the stakes are personal, and the deeper Sayer is drawn into the deadly web, the more she believes she is the only one who can uncover the killer's identity. Told with devastating detail, shocking twists and unrelenting suspense, Cooper proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall.
Book Synopsis Meet Me at the Apex by : Steven Townsend
Download or read book Meet Me at the Apex written by Steven Townsend and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever revel in the wonder of your inner world? Ever wonder if ours is a universe that smiles with us when we grow and evolve, and its processes are nurturance to that end? Meet Me at the Apex smiles, and yet it will shake you from your comfort zone and goad you toward transcendence---whatever your path. This novel is hilarious at times and will carry you to heights of joy, and yet is capable of dragging you through pits of sorrow; it is sublime and ethereal, and yet there are moments when it is sensual, raw and earthy; it is iconoclastic and controversial, and yet it celebrates as sacred each person's belief and path. This diary of protagonist Joshua Denton's 3-day stream of consciousness while buckled by illness forces readers to inspect even their most entrenched beliefs, whether God-fearing or atheistic. His hiatus quickly becomes a luring toward epiphany, his path to which is intense processing of events and enigmas.
Book Synopsis Intuition's Logic; Poetry by : Kanika Badhan Raina
Download or read book Intuition's Logic; Poetry written by Kanika Badhan Raina and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is what this is to you, because this is how I sing, how I paint, how I dance, how I live. It is freedom in the limitless space that allows words to unrestraint the self through slanted blacks, that became, become; people, places, and thoughts of my past present future. Feel the poems as photographs taken in a real and raw snap as the moment is captured. Through the years it has become a story of a meditation in love. Written without editing or re-reading to keep to its truth. These poems are a memoir/autobiography in words that are intuitive and immediate reactions to breaths taken and forgotten to take and never taken, and the broken sighs in between. We breathe in, and breathe out. The air and everything between these breathes are the experiences that materialize life; become words. Taking readers through travels, growth, spirituality and finally, finding the soul mate of this timeless existence; these are my insides turned outside.
Book Synopsis Best European Fiction 2012 by : Aleksandar Hemon
Download or read book Best European Fiction 2012 written by Aleksandar Hemon and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its third year, the Best European Fiction series has become a mainstay in the literary landscape, each year featuring new voices from throughout Europe alongside more established names such as Hilary Mantel, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Ingo Schulze, George Konrad, Victor Pelevin, and Enrique Vila-Matas. For 2012, Aleksandar Hemon introduces a whole new cross-section of European fiction, and there are a few editorial changes as well. For the first time, the preface will be by an American—Nicole Krauss—and the stories, one per country/language, will be arranged within themes (love, art, war, the body), to facilitate book club and reading group discussions.
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Book Synopsis Trick of the Trade by : Ralph Cotton
Download or read book Trick of the Trade written by Ralph Cotton and published by Cotton-Branch Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeston Nash knew horses—he’s stolen enough of them in his time. But the lookalike cousin of Jesse James was going respectable, almost. Then, in a New Orleans teeming with drunks and blue uniforms, he sold a horse to a well-bred lady. It was the biggest mistake of his career .... He hit Fort Lincoln with a belly full of wounds and minus a boot. His horse had been stolen, and he’d stolen it back—along with some bootleg crackers. All in all, it hadn’t been a pleasant trip through the dreaded Black Hills. But at least Jeston Nash—for the time being calling himself Beatty—hadn’t drowned. Now he fully intended to fulfill a promise: to deliver an unridable horse called Honest Bob to a woman named Custer. The trouble was, the wife of General George Armstrong Custer, Elizabeth, wasn’t very interested in the horse she’d persuaded Nash to deliver. In fact, Mrs. Custer was on the warpath. So were the Sioux—and General Custer’s commanders in Washington. Suddenly, Nash finds himself in the middle of the most dangerous kind of fight: a marital squabble. Before he knows it he’s riding alongside a hardheaded, buffalo-hunting, blond-haired general who’s sure glory awaits them—at a place called Little Big Horn ....
Book Synopsis A Wilderness of Stars by : Shea Ernshaw
Download or read book A Wilderness of Stars written by Shea Ernshaw and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illness cursing the land forces seventeen-year-old Vega, the Last Astronomer, to venture across the wilderness to discover the stars message that will save her people.
Download or read book The Trailsman #388 written by Jon Sharpe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fargo is going to cross the line. After an explosion on the U.S.–Mexico border almost blows him out of his boots, Skye Fargo goes up against a ruthless robber baron’s agent who is planting charges to change the course of the Rio Grande so he can grab valuable mining land on the Mexican side of the border. But any way the river runs, the Trailsman is riding straight into trouble.…
Book Synopsis It’s OK to Cry in the Garden by : Nanditta Colbear
Download or read book It’s OK to Cry in the Garden written by Nanditta Colbear and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-09-27 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is not about the destination but about the journey. The path is not always smooth—there are obstacles and potholes. It’s OK to Cry in the Garden is a true story of a couple navigating the trials and tribulations that life throws out. It is about trading the rigours of a city lifestyle for the challenges of country living. It is about choices and decisions—some good, some bad. They grow in their relationship as each starts to understand what is truly important to them. As they make discoveries, alter paths, and learn from nature, they realize that the lows raise them to new heights.
Download or read book Exile Nation written by Charles Shaw and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An "extraordinary" work of spiritual journalism that grapples with the themes of drugs, prisons, politics, and spirituality through Shaw’s personal story (Chicago Tribune), originally published as a series on Reality Sandwich and The Huffington Post. In 2005, Shaw was arrested in Chicago for possession of MDMA and was sent to prison for one year. Shaw not only looks at the current prison system and its many destructive flaws, but also at how American culture regards criminals and those who live outside of society. He begins his story at Chicago’s Cook County Jail, and uses its sprawling, highly corrupt infrastructure to build upon his overarching argument. This is an insider’s look at the forgotten or excluded segments of our society, the disenfranchised lifestyles and subcultures existing in what Shaw calls the “exile nation.” They are those who lost some or all of their ability to participate in the full opportunities of society because of an arrest or conviction for a non-violent, drug-related, or “moral offense,” those who cannot participate in the credit economy, and those with lifestyle choices that involve radical politics and sexuality, cognitive liberty, and unorthodox spiritual and healing practices. Together they make up the new “evolutionary counterculture” of the most significant epoch in human history.
Book Synopsis When Boomers Go Bad by : Joan Boswell
Download or read book When Boomers Go Bad written by Joan Boswell and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This newest anthology of short crime fiction from the Ladies’ Killing Circle takes a spirited look at baby boomers as they go from young, hairy and hip to old, bald and bad. The children of the sixties are are up to no good in another wicked anthology from this prolific collective of writers. The editors, themselves celebrated short crime fiction writers, have assembled such luminaries of crime fiction as Barbara Fradkin, H. Mel Malton, Vicki Cameron and Melanie Fogel, as well as Arthur Ellis Award winners Barbara Fradkin, Mary Jane Maffini and Sue Pike.
Book Synopsis Bad Day at Willow Creek by : Ralph Cotton
Download or read book Bad Day at Willow Creek written by Ralph Cotton and published by Cotton-Branch Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence Shaw, aka Fast Larry, aka the Fastest Gun Alive, in this 4th book in the Gunman’s Reputation series, appears to have given up . . . but not just yet. First, he will take Rita Vargas to Willow Creek in search of William Bonney—the infamous Billy the Kid—who, unbeknownst to the Kid, is the father of her unborn child. On Shaw’s trail are gunmen hell-bent to leave him dead on the ground, not realizing that having people out to kill him might be the only thing that keeps “Fast Larry” alive. Lawrence Shaw had heard the thunder of horses’ hooves from the north trail long before the five riders slid the animals to a halt out front of the plank shack. He’d heard them stop suddenly, fifty yards away, and he’d pictured the riders sitting there discussing him in the pale purple darkness, deciding the best way to kill him. After a moment he’d heard the horses come forward again, this time slower, with stealth and deliberation. Oh, yes, they mean to kill me, Shaw told himself. . . . He did none of the things a man might do under such dire circumstances. Shaw had lost interest in such matters of life and death. They would arrive to kill him; but he would kill them instead. It was that simple. The matter deserved no deeper thought.
Download or read book Coming to Terms written by William Safire and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 659 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When William Safire delineates the difference between misinformation and disinformation or “distances himself” from clichés, people sit up and take notice. Which is not to say that Safire’s readers always take the punning pundit at his word: they don’t, and he’s got the letters to prove it. Among the entries in Coming to Terms, this all-new collection of Safire’s “On Language” columns, you’ll read the repartee of Lexicographic Irregulars great and small. John Haim of New York sets in concrete what properly to call a cement truck, while Charlton Heston challenges an interpretation of Hamlet’s “to take arms against a sea of troubles” and Gene Shalit passes along his favorite Yogi Berra-ism. Bringing them all together are dozens of Safire’s most illuminating and witty columns, from “Right Stuffing” to “Getting Whom.” When William Safire comes to terms, there’s never a dull moment.
Download or read book Wings written by Beardslee and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would it not be interesting to know if your partner was as sexually energetic as you? Would it not be great if you can tell which day love making would be more enjoyable for you? Would it not be great if you can explain why your sexual session with your partner was a failure the other day? How about if you knew exactly all the best ways to satisfy your partner sexually; then the marriage will be a guaranteed success! How about a science that can explain all your sexual problems and cure them without the need for Viagra-like medicines.It is important to note that there are many sexual advisory books in the market starting with the oldest ,. "THE KAMA SUTRA" of the ancient Aryans, "THE PERFUME GARD etc. WHAT MAKES THIS BOOK DIFFERENT is that this book not only incorporates the science of those great epics, it also uses the Vedic Code of Science where a person's individual karma is matched against the partner's karma so that the negative effects can be eliminated and the positive effects of the couple can be maxmimized and pleasure can be enjoyed equally in sexual , mental, physical , conversational and vocational stimulation and so on. When there is a lack of sex, severe spiritual and physical illness are generated as a result of building up of sexual energy. Each of us need to understand that the underlying force behind Human Existence is the need for LOVE, SEX and PHYSICAL TOUCH. Lacking of this basic energy creates imbalance in our human body thus producing bad anomalies in our life. Remember LOVE is equal to GOD . Lack of sex in our life create quarrels, disagreements, separation, increased lonliness, lack of good food, back pains, prostate problems, skin problems from unhealthy eating, etc...
Book Synopsis Of The Garden by : Richard A. Trobridge
Download or read book Of The Garden written by Richard A. Trobridge and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-07-14 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vision, danger, darkness, light, lost souls in a wayward universe with intriguing poetic defiance of the norm - that is what you will find here. Starting with Of The Garden, wrapping you in visual bliss and delivering you unto the other poems. At times a consuming darkness or heart felt stimulation will provide an intense separation of body and mind. Come with me and experience the only poetic carrousel with a screaming calliope of emotions and imaginative illusion.
