Author: Mark Manson
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 006245773X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 197
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#1 New York Times Bestseller Over 10 million copies sold In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up. Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek. There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.
Author: Adam Mansbach
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1453271023
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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The #1 New York Times Bestseller: “A hilarious take on that age-old problem: getting the beloved child to go to sleep” (NPR). “Hell no, you can’t go to the bathroom. You know where you can go? The f**k to sleep.” Go the Fuck to Sleep is a book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, it captures the familiar—and unspoken—tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. Read by a host of celebrities, from Samuel L. Jackson to Jennifer Garner, this subversively funny bestselling storybook will not actually put your kids to sleep, but it will leave you laughing so hard you won’t care.
Author: Sherraleagh Ryan
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412046793
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Here I sit in a cold dark room wondering if you know what's really going on in my head, is it sane or am I going out of my mind? How did I get here? What am I doing? does anyone know i'm here? Is there anyone out there? that is still alive or is it just me, someone anyone help me, if anyone can here me I need help. A small country town set amongst the bushland of South East Queensland, it all unfolds when a detective of the Crime Investigations Bureau of the small town reopens a case that was to stay closed. He upsets all in the process until he finds out that he falls into the brink of it all when he himself is kidnapped and tortured by the deranged killer that has just resurfaced. Detective Taylor's world starts to fall apart rite under his nose with the hallucinations and the kidnaps and the murders that continue to start all over again. Daniel a deranged physcopathic killer mother and father had a bad affect on him as a child and he finds that he feels safe when he hides himself behind a alien's mask. Does he really think that people are out to hurt him? Did his family have that much affect on him as a child? Miss Bradshaw is a new Detective that is brought in to be put on the case when Detective Taylor can't keep up to the standard of a real detective. But is she the brilliant detective they suspect her to be or does she have a deep dark secret. The love, hate, betrayal and murder when the person you never suspect turns out to be the culprit all along.
Author: Jon Mcgregor
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1948226731
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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"A ferocious book, at once intense and alarmingly unsentimental" (James Wood, The New Yorker), this intimate exploration of life at the edges of society is littered with love, loss, despair, and a half–glimpse of redemption―now reissued with an introduction by Yiyun Li On a cold, quiet day between Christmas and the New Year, a man's body is found in an abandoned apartment. His friends look on, but they're dead, too. Their bodies found in squats and sheds and alleyways across the city. Victims of heroin, they're ghosts in the shadows, a chorus keeping vigil as the hours pass, paying their own particular homage as their friend's body is taken away, examined, investigated, and cremated. All of their stories are laid out piece by broken piece through a series of fractured narratives. We meet Robert, the deceased, the only alcoholic in a sprawling group of junkies; Danny, just back from uncomfortable holidays with family, who discovers the body; Laura, Robert's daughter, who stumbles into the drug addict's life when she moves in with her father after years apart; Heather, who has her own home for the first time since she was a teenager; Mike, the Falklands War vet; and all the others. Theirs are stories of lives fallen through the cracks, hopes flaring and dying, love overwhelmed by more immediate needs. These invisible people live in a parallel reality to most of us, out of reach of food and shelter. And in their sudden deaths, it becomes clear, they are treated with more respect than they ever were in their short lives. Winner of the International Dublin Literary Award, Even the Dogs is a daring and humane exploration of homelessness and addiction from "a writer who will make a significant stamp on world literature. In fact, he already has" (Colum McCann, winner of the National Book Award).
Author: David Ross
Publisher: Orenda Books
ISBN: 1910633011
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Bobby and Joey's new mobile disco business seems like the answer to everything, until they lock horns with the local gangster ... First in the critically acclaimed, hilarious and heartbreaking Disco Days Trilogy, by one of Scotland's finest writers. ***Longlisted for the Authors' Club First Novel Award*** 'This is a book that might just make you cry like nobody's watching' Iain MacLeod, Sunday Mail 'Ross creates beautifully rounded characters full of humanity and perhaps most of all, hope. It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. It s rude, keenly observed and candidly down to earth' Liam Rudden, Scotsman 'Warm, funny and evocative' Chris Brookmyre –––––––––––––––––––––––– Early in the decade that taste forgot, Fat Franny Duncan is on top of the world. He is the undoubted King of the Ayrshire Mobile Disco scene, controlling and ruling the competition with an iron fist. But the future is uncertain. A new partnership is coming and is threatening to destroy the big man's empire... Bobby Cassidy and Joey Miller have been best mates since primary school. Joey is an idealist; Bobby just wants to get laid and avoid following his brother Gary to the Falklands. A partnership in their new mobile disco venture seems like the answer to everything. The Last Days of Disco is about family, music, small-time gangsters ... and the fear of being sent to the Falklands by the biggest gangster of them all. Witty, energetic and entirely authentic, it's also heartbreakingly honest, weaving together tragedy and comedy with an uncanny and unsettling elegance. A simply stunning debut. –––––––––––––––––––––––– 'Crucially Ross's novel succeeds in balancing light and dark, in that it can leap smoothly from brutal social realism to laugh-out-loud humour within a few sentences' Press & Journal 'More than just a nostalgic recreation of the author's youth, it's a compassionate, affecting story of a family in crisis at a time of upheaval and transformation, when disco wasn't the only thing whose days were numbered' Herald Scotland 'There's a bittersweet poignancy to David F. Ross's debut novel, The Last Days of Disco' Edinburgh Evening News 'Full of comedy, pathos and great tunes' Hardeep Singh Kohli 'Dark, hilarious and heartbreaking' Muriel Gray 'Captures the time, the spirit ... I loved it' John Niven 'If I saw that in a store I would buy it without even looking at what was inside' Irvine Welsh 'Like the vinyl that crackles off every page, The Last Days of Disco is as warm and authentic as Roddy Doyle at his very best' Nick Quantrill
Author: A.A. Aldazabal Jr.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 9781438940458
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Cocaine memoirs is a roller coaster ride through the insane world of Anvil. A long road trip seems to be never ending after every encounter with everyone he meets becomes another twist in the trip. The trip to Key West Florida in search of His late father's ex wife Margaret. The mission to find Margaret and give her a set of letter left behind by Javier with instructions to find her. The redemption is the ghost of Anvil's father coming along for the ride and the ghost of his mother who Anvil has never seen. The ride is from Pennsylvania to Key West, with stops in every state for another exciting twist. The motivation is to find Margaret and to locate his ex girlfriend and reunite with his son. Ending with Anvil's inspirational reunion, and the becoming of his new future.
Author: Julius Henry
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615142826
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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in this book of experimental prose and poetry, julius henry unleashes a world of madness; a world where nothing is sacred, every taboo is shattered; where blood hungry satyrs walk backward through liquid streets. strange things i've named is a work of uncompromising vision unlike anything you've read before. from the book: I am a man--I am a god--witness the birth of a new form of literature-- witness the rotting corpses of our buried pasts--the soaring fountains of meat and blood--where words flow like water--the cacklin jackals laugh at your satire--your emptiness is open--brutal honesty grips you like black cancerous fists--and eyeballs are cinematic windows--all words are mere words but liquid words excite me--I hold cancer like vodka--see--and uncontrolled visions of bloody orgasms explode in your head--
Author: Daniel Henderson
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456630520
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
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Set in the early 2000's before cellphones and social media ruled the world. Lavender is an examination of an unlikely insurance agent sweating from the night's excesses, haunted by the memory of his dead wife and forced to face the realization that she committed suicide within the first two years of her insurance policy and thus did not pay him anything. In addition Dave is haunted by visions of his dead wife and strange surrealistic flashes that seem to indicate that what he believes is real may not be. Lavender examines the world of insurance and annuities from the perspective of a grieving unbalanced individual who is not capable of taking care of himself, much less helping anyone else. A touch Catch 22 with a bit of Ellis and Palahniuk blended into a simple story that asks is surviving worth it.
Author: Zachary Kyle Elmblad
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557329469
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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What do we have to say for ourselves in this third Millenium of the common era? Zach graduates from high school, finds the real world quite captivating, travels to Egypt, and comes back to find the world around him much more interesting than before. With his faithful sidekick, Stan, Zach ventures down the rabbit hole of drugs, alcohol, fast food, fast living, and social experimentation culminating in the tragic death of Stanley Slavin following a sordid love parallelogram that tore the worlds of many people apart.
Author: Paddy Armstrong
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 071717249X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 421
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Paddy Armstrong was one of four people falsely convicted of The Guildford Bombing in 1975. He spent fifteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Today, as a husband and father, life is wonderfully ordinary, but the memory of his ordeal lives on. Here, for the first time and with unflinching candour, he lays bare the experiences of those years and their aftermath. Life after Life is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of forgiveness. It reminds us of the privilege of freedom, and how the balm of love, family and everyday life can restore us and mend the scars of even the most savage injustice. 'This book captures the sweet soul of Paddy. Beautifully written. For lovers of freedom everywhere.' Jim Sheridan
