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Book Synopsis My Brother's Madness by : Paul Pines
Download or read book My Brother's Madness written by Paul Pines and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Brother's Madness is based on the author's relationship with his brother—who had a psychotic breakdown in his late forties—and explores the unfolding of two intertwined lives and the nature of delusion. Circumstances lead one brother from juvenile crime on the streets of Brooklyn to war-torn Vietnam, to a fast-track life as a Hollywood publicist to owning and operating The Tin Palace, one of New York's most legendary jazz clubs, while his brother falls into, and fights his way back from, a delusional psychosis. My Brother's Madness is part thriller, part exploration that not only describes the causes, character, and journey of mental illness, but also makes sense of it. It is ultimately a story of our own humanity, and answers the question, Am I my brother's keeper?
Book Synopsis Imagining Robert by : Jay Neugeboren
Download or read book Imagining Robert written by Jay Neugeboren and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Imagining Robert" is the most honest book to date on the lives of the millions of families that must cope, day by day and year by year, over the course of a lifetime, with a condition for which, in most cases, there is no cure. By rendering his brother's mental illness in all its complexity and mystery, Jay Neugeboren has shown how even the grimmest of lives can be sustained by the power of love
Download or read book Foxcatcher written by Mark Schultz and published by Plume. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On January 26, 1996, Dave Schultz, Olympic gold medal winner and wrestling champion, was shot in the back by du Pont heir John E. du Pont at the family's famed Foxcatcher Farm estate in Pennsylvania. Following the murder, du Pont barricaded himself in his home for two days before he was finally captured. How did the so-called best friend of amateur wrestling come to commit such a horrifying, senseless murder? For the first time ever, Dave's brother, Mark--another Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler under du Pont's patronage--tells the full story. Fascinating, powerful, and deeply personal, Foxcatcher is a riveting account as told by the only person close enough to know the mind of the murderer." -- Page [4] cover.
Download or read book Street Freak written by Jared Dillian and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erroneously states "1st Touchstone hardcover edition" in paperback copy.
Download or read book Suspicious Minds written by Joel Gold and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Truman Show delusion and other strange beliefs"--Cover.
Book Synopsis Imagining Robert by : Jay Neugeboren
Download or read book Imagining Robert written by Jay Neugeboren and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1997 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning novelist tells the story of his relationship with his chronically mentally ill brother, Robert, detailing the brothers' childhood and the different paths their lives have taken since Robert's first breakdown at age 19. He chronicles his brother's hospitalizations and struggles and the impact of Robert's illness on the family, and shows how his relationship with his brother has been sustained by the power of love. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Stalking Irish Madness by : Patrick Tracey
Download or read book Stalking Irish Madness written by Patrick Tracey and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful, sometimes harrowing, deeply felt story, Patrick Tracey journeys to Ireland to track the origin and solve the mystery of his Irish-American family's multigenerational struggle with schizophrenia. For most Irish Americans, a trip to Ireland is often an occasion to revisit their family's roots. But for Patrick Tracey, the lure of his ancestral home is a much more powerful need: part pilgrimage, part investigation to confront the genealogical mystery of schizophrenia–a disease that had claimed a great-great-great-grandmother, a grandmother, an uncle, and, most recently, two sisters. As long as Tracey could remember, schizophrenia ran on his mother's side, seldom spoken of outright but impossible to ignore. Devastated by the emotional toll the disease had already taken on his family, terrified of passing it on to any children he might have, and inspired by the recent discovery of the first genetic link to schizophrenia, Tracey followed his genealogical trail from Boston to Ireland's county Roscommon, home of his oldest-known schizophrenic ancestor. In a renovated camper, Tracey crossed the Emerald Isle to investigate the country that, until the 1960s, had the world's highest rate of institutionalization for mental illness, following clues and separating fact from fiction in the legendary relationship the Irish have had with madness. Tracey's path leads from fairy mounds and ancient caverns still shrouded in superstition to old pubs whose colorful inhabitants are a treasure trove of local lore. He visits the massive and grim asylum where his famine starved ancestors may have lived. And he interviews the Irish research team that first cracked the schizophrenic code to learn how much–and how little–we know about this often misunderstood disease. Filled with history, science, and lore, Stalking Irish Madness is an unforgettable chronicle of one man's attempt to make sense of his family's past and to find hope for the future of schizophrenic patients. From the Hardcover edition.
Download or read book The World is a Ball written by John Doyle and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globe and Mail columnist John Doyle explores the international phenomenon of soccer In A Great Feast of Light, John Doyle viewed his childhood in Ireland through the television screen. Now, he turns his eye to the most popular sport on the planet: soccer. It's a journey that begins with the first game John saw, in 1960s-era Ireland, through soccer in the 21st century - the World Cups in 02 and 06, the European Championships in 04 and 08. And Doyle has traveled the globe during the build-up to next year's World Cup 2010. In between the drunken fans, crazed taxi drivers, leprechauns and lederhosen, Doyle muses on the evolution of soccer as a global phenomenon. He shows a sport where for 90 minutes on the pitch anything seems possible. A game where colonized nations can tackle the power of their colonizers; where oppressed immigrant groups can thoroughly trounce their host countries. This book examines soccer from a new angle. John Doyle offers a compelling social history of the ultimate sport, each country and team competing in the historic 2010 World Cup, and how the game has kept pace as the global village has sprung up around the playing field.
Book Synopsis I Think My Brother Is a Werewolf by : Jb Mounteer
Download or read book I Think My Brother Is a Werewolf written by Jb Mounteer and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brotherly love is taken through an awesome adventure, when three friends see one of their brothers going through some horrifying, crazy changes. When his brother Jaden, starts to change into a teenager, Jorey mistakes it for changing into something even more horrifying! With wild imaginations running at full speed, and with their only knowledge coming from horror movies, The boys think that poor Jaden is turning into a werewolf! The three friends try to do what ever it takes to save Jorey' beloved brother. Timmy, Porto and Jorey find some wild and humorous ways to prevent these changes, they come up with everything from hiding the silverware to trying to shave his face. After everything their little minds can think of fails, Jorey must reluctantly face his dad and tell him everything that is happening. But to Jorey's horror he finds out the worst, frightening, scary news ever! That in a few years these changes will happen to him too!
Download or read book My Brother's Secret written by Dan Smith and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating new perspective on World War II; a fictitious, personalized take on the real-life rebel German youth group, the Edelweiss Pirates. Karl Friedman is only twelve, but like all boys his age in Germany, he's already playing war games, training to join the Hitler Youth. Stefan, Karl's nonconformist older brother, wants nothing to do with it. Then their father is killed, and what had been a game suddenly becomes deadly serious. Karl's faith in the Fuhrer is shaken: Is Hitler a national hero--or a villain? What is the meaning of the flower symbol stitched inside Stefan's jacket, and what is the mission of the shadow group he belongs to? Karl soon finds out as he joins his brother in a dangerous rebellion against the burgeoning threat of Nazism.
Book Synopsis Me and My Brothers by : Charlie Kray
Download or read book Me and My Brothers written by Charlie Kray and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition of the bestselling autobiography of Charlie Kray, elder brother of the Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, who are brought to the screen this autumn in a major motion picture.
Download or read book The Quiet Room written by Lori Schiller and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-16 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving, harrowing, and ultimately uplifting, Lori Schiller's memoir is a classic testimony to the ravages of mental illness and the power of perseverance and courage. At seventeen Lori Schiller was the perfect child-the only daughter of an affluent, close-knit family. Six years later she made her first suicide attempt, then wandered the streets of New York City dressed in ragged clothes, tormenting voices crying out in her mind. Lori Schiller had entered the horrifying world of full-blown schizophrenia. She began an ordeal of hospitalizations, halfway houses, relapses, more suicide attempts, and constant, withering despair. But against all odds, she survived. In this personal account, she tells how she did it, taking us not only into her own shattered world, but drawing on the words of the doctors who treated her and family members who suffered with her.
Book Synopsis Finding My Platoon Brothers by : Glyn Haynie
Download or read book Finding My Platoon Brothers written by Glyn Haynie and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glyn Haynie carries the names of 13 brothers forever engraved on his heart. They are the names of brothers killed in combat during the War in Vietnam. The bonds formed in battle are unique and not understood by anyone who has not served in the military. The men in their foxholes do not fight for lofty ideals or principles; they fight to protect the man standing on either side of them. For these Vietnam Veterans, there is an additional element included within this bond of brotherhood. That is the disrespect and abuse these soldiers received when they returned from Vietnam. This newest book by author Glyn Haynie, Finding My Platoon Brothers, Vietnam Then and Now, describes his efforts to find and reconnect with his brothers of First Platoon. These men, with whom he served during the War in Vietnam, are a real part of his family. Join the family reunion as these veterans get together and share their experiences, rekindle past friendships, and reforge their bonds of brotherhood. Travel back to Vietnam with the author as he visits old battlefields and former Fire Support Bases and reconnects with, and comes to peace with, the memories of brothers who died in battle. This incredible story of honor, healing, and redemption will touch the hearts of readers in a great many ways. The author includes many photographs, maps, journal excerpts, and well-written descriptions that help the reader truly participate in this incredible journey. This story is a fantastic narrative that all Americans should read.
Book Synopsis Descent Into Madness by : Vernon Frolick
Download or read book Descent Into Madness written by Vernon Frolick and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story based on the diaries of murderer Michel Oros. Originally, after the fatal shootout with Oros at Teslin Lake, I had no intention of writing this book. In fact, when Garry Rodgers and I sat in the Skeena Pub after he got back and discussed the details of his experience, the very idea that someone might write the story - glorifying Oros, sensationalizing the murders and trivializing Mike Buday's death - was repugnant. Black and white reprint.
Book Synopsis Standing on My Brother's Shoulders by : Tara J Lal
Download or read book Standing on My Brother's Shoulders written by Tara J Lal and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suicide loss survivor tells her story. Tara Lal’s childhood was battered by her father’s mental illness and by her mother’s death when she was thirteen. Caught up in grief and despair, she developed a deep, caring bond with her charismatic and kind older brother Adam, though he struggled silently with growing anxiety and depression. Four years after their mother’s death, Adam committed suicide. Grief and insecurity threatened to engulf Tara, but eventually she found, through a dialogue with the words her brother left behind in his diaries, her reason to live. The book includes an Afterword on the possibilities for recovery and growth following a tragedy, written by Miriam Akhtar, author of Positive Psychology for Overcoming Depression.
Download or read book Sheer Madness written by Andrew McKenna and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-11-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A successful man's maniacal descent into emotional hell. Following repeated losses in family court, estrangement from his young sons, and the resulting depression, he checks himself into the psychiatric ward. Five months later he is indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for crimes that could put him in prison for 20 years. Sheer Madness is a story fo love, anguish, the fog of human experience, and the promise of resilience.--Back cover.
Book Synopsis The Madness of July by : James Naughtie
Download or read book The Madness of July written by James Naughtie and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Madness of July is set in the late 1970s, and takes place during six sweltering days in the month that gives the book its title. Will Flemyng was trained as a spy for a life behind enemy lines, but now he is in politics—and rising to the top. But when a bizarre death starts to unravel some of the most sensitive secrets of his government, Will is drawn back into the shadows of the Cold War and begins to dance with danger once more. Buffeted by political forces and the powerful women around him, and caught in interlocking mysteries he must disentangle—including a potentially lethal family secret—Flemyng faces his vulnerability and learns, through betrayal and tragedy, more truth about his world than he has ever known. Â Masterfully weaving together espionage, political intrigue, and family drama, James Naughtie has written a spy novel for the ages, worthy of comparison to the finest work of Charles McCarry and Robert Littell.
