Author: Tamsen Courtenay
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1783525703
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
‘Touching, insightful and human – this book demands a social and, above all, a political response’ Jon Snow Tamsen Courtenay spent two months speaking to people who live on London’s streets, the homeless and the destitute – people who feel they are invisible. With a camera and a cheap audio recorder, she listened as they chronicled their extraordinary lives, now being lived four feet below most Londoners, and she set about documenting their stories, which are transcribed in this book along with intimate photographic portraits. A builder, a soldier, a transgender woman, a child and an elderly couple are among those who describe the events that brought them to the lives they lead now. They speak of childhoods, careers and relationships; their strengths and weaknesses, dreams and regrets; all with humour and a startling honesty. Tamsen’s observations and remarkable experiences are threaded throughout. The astonishing people she met changed her for ever, as they became her heroes, people she grew to respect. You don’t have to go far to find these homegrown exiles: they’re at the bottom of your road. Have you ever wondered how they got there?
Four Feet Under
Author: Tamsen Courtenay
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1783525703
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
‘Touching, insightful and human – this book demands a social and, above all, a political response’ Jon Snow Tamsen Courtenay spent two months speaking to people who live on London’s streets, the homeless and the destitute – people who feel they are invisible. With a camera and a cheap audio recorder, she listened as they chronicled their extraordinary lives, now being lived four feet below most Londoners, and she set about documenting their stories, which are transcribed in this book along with intimate photographic portraits. A builder, a soldier, a transgender woman, a child and an elderly couple are among those who describe the events that brought them to the lives they lead now. They speak of childhoods, careers and relationships; their strengths and weaknesses, dreams and regrets; all with humour and a startling honesty. Tamsen’s observations and remarkable experiences are threaded throughout. The astonishing people she met changed her for ever, as they became her heroes, people she grew to respect. You don’t have to go far to find these homegrown exiles: they’re at the bottom of your road. Have you ever wondered how they got there?
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1783525703
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
‘Touching, insightful and human – this book demands a social and, above all, a political response’ Jon Snow Tamsen Courtenay spent two months speaking to people who live on London’s streets, the homeless and the destitute – people who feel they are invisible. With a camera and a cheap audio recorder, she listened as they chronicled their extraordinary lives, now being lived four feet below most Londoners, and she set about documenting their stories, which are transcribed in this book along with intimate photographic portraits. A builder, a soldier, a transgender woman, a child and an elderly couple are among those who describe the events that brought them to the lives they lead now. They speak of childhoods, careers and relationships; their strengths and weaknesses, dreams and regrets; all with humour and a startling honesty. Tamsen’s observations and remarkable experiences are threaded throughout. The astonishing people she met changed her for ever, as they became her heroes, people she grew to respect. You don’t have to go far to find these homegrown exiles: they’re at the bottom of your road. Have you ever wondered how they got there?
Six Feet Under
Author: Alan Ball
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743480659
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This companion book to the popular HBO show combines the hidden with the revealed, the humorous with the morose.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743480659
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This companion book to the popular HBO show combines the hidden with the revealed, the humorous with the morose.
Four Feet, Two Sandals
Author: Karen Lynn Williams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781428765672
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Two young Afghani girls living in a refugee camp in Pakistan share a precious pair of sandals brought by relief workers. Includes author's note about refugees.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781428765672
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Two young Afghani girls living in a refugee camp in Pakistan share a precious pair of sandals brought by relief workers. Includes author's note about refugees.
Under Jill's Feet
Author: Sarah Lash
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781698275390
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
This is a true story. Brent and Jill actually exist, and this is the story of their first experiences. And how from there, Jill, master manipulator and evil genius, took Brent's foot fetish from sucking a few toes to places he never considered or wanted to go. Like the inside of Jill's toilet bowl. Or the bottom of her friends boots. How Jill, church girl, farm girl, seemingly the most innocent of women, created a game plan, a campaign, to make a helpless Brent her complete slave, and lovingly devoted slave at that. This book details her plan, step by step, taking Brent from foot play, to shoe and boot play, to water works, to the inside of her toilet bowl; eventually forcing Brent to truly believe and come to the realization he belonged on Jill's floor, under her feet. Read about Jill's campaign of humiliation; it's almost a handbook guiding the reader into developing their own slave, a guide book on how to take the foot fetishist into slavery, using just their sexual desires. Jill doesn't work, she has Brent for that. And when he's not at work, he's at home, working for Jill, cooking, cleaning, doing her laundry (sometimes in his mouth!!!). She owns him. He knows it.Jill is, without doubt, a genius, and no one knows it but her. And possibly Brent. Which is exactly how she wants it. If you love feet, this story will excite you, but will also warn you about how your fetish can be used against you if you aren't careful. If you're on the receiving end of foot love and want to develop it into slavery (and who doesn't want a slave?), this book will instruct you on how to do that too.However you take it, this book will illustrate a campaign of manipulation designed to lower a fetishist beyond sex, and into actual slavery. Jill hopes you enjoy it, comment on it, if only to take Brent's humiliation to a whole other level. She will be looking for your participation, likely reading those comments to Brent while he's in his place; on Jill's floor, under Jill's feet. And oh, one more thing, Jill really wants you to know there's actually a picture of her and Brent in the book. She insisted on it, and played Brent's horrified reaction into a vacation in Mexico if she didn't say which picture it was. She might be sipping on a margarita while Brent cleans her beach flip flops right now, who knows! Enjoy!!!Note: the paperback includes all three episodes currently available, the ebook version only two.Hello all! Something new for readers of the "Under Jill's Feet" books. We've created a Facebook group called Under Jill's Feet, where readers can ask Jill or Brent, or myself, questions about their lifestyle, the books, discuss fetishism, slavery, anything related to the topic. Proof of book purchase required! Hope to see you there!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781698275390
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
This is a true story. Brent and Jill actually exist, and this is the story of their first experiences. And how from there, Jill, master manipulator and evil genius, took Brent's foot fetish from sucking a few toes to places he never considered or wanted to go. Like the inside of Jill's toilet bowl. Or the bottom of her friends boots. How Jill, church girl, farm girl, seemingly the most innocent of women, created a game plan, a campaign, to make a helpless Brent her complete slave, and lovingly devoted slave at that. This book details her plan, step by step, taking Brent from foot play, to shoe and boot play, to water works, to the inside of her toilet bowl; eventually forcing Brent to truly believe and come to the realization he belonged on Jill's floor, under her feet. Read about Jill's campaign of humiliation; it's almost a handbook guiding the reader into developing their own slave, a guide book on how to take the foot fetishist into slavery, using just their sexual desires. Jill doesn't work, she has Brent for that. And when he's not at work, he's at home, working for Jill, cooking, cleaning, doing her laundry (sometimes in his mouth!!!). She owns him. He knows it.Jill is, without doubt, a genius, and no one knows it but her. And possibly Brent. Which is exactly how she wants it. If you love feet, this story will excite you, but will also warn you about how your fetish can be used against you if you aren't careful. If you're on the receiving end of foot love and want to develop it into slavery (and who doesn't want a slave?), this book will instruct you on how to do that too.However you take it, this book will illustrate a campaign of manipulation designed to lower a fetishist beyond sex, and into actual slavery. Jill hopes you enjoy it, comment on it, if only to take Brent's humiliation to a whole other level. She will be looking for your participation, likely reading those comments to Brent while he's in his place; on Jill's floor, under Jill's feet. And oh, one more thing, Jill really wants you to know there's actually a picture of her and Brent in the book. She insisted on it, and played Brent's horrified reaction into a vacation in Mexico if she didn't say which picture it was. She might be sipping on a margarita while Brent cleans her beach flip flops right now, who knows! Enjoy!!!Note: the paperback includes all three episodes currently available, the ebook version only two.Hello all! Something new for readers of the "Under Jill's Feet" books. We've created a Facebook group called Under Jill's Feet, where readers can ask Jill or Brent, or myself, questions about their lifestyle, the books, discuss fetishism, slavery, anything related to the topic. Proof of book purchase required! Hope to see you there!
Under the Feet of Jesus
Author: Helena Maria Viramontes
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101078235
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature “Stunning.”—Newsweek With the same audacity with which John Steinbeck wrote about migrant worker conditions in The Grapes of Wrath and T.C. Boyle in The Tortilla Curtain, Viramontes presents a moving and powerful vision of the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions in California's fields. At the center of this powerful tale is Estrella, a girl about to cross the perilous border to womanhood. What she knows of life comes from her mother, who has survived abandonment by her husband in a land that treats her as if she were invisible, even though she and her children pick the crops of the farms that feed its people. But within Estrella, seeds of growth and change are stirring. And in the arms of Alejo, they burst into a full, fierce flower as she tastes the joy and pain of first love. Pushed to the margins of society, she learns to fight back and is able to help the young farmworker she loves when his ambitions and very life are threatened in a harvest of death. Infused with the beauty of the California landscape and shifting splendors of the passing seasons juxtaposed with the bleakness of poverty, this vividly imagined novel is worthy of the people it celebrates and whose story it tells so magnificently. The simple lyrical beauty of Viramontes' prose, her haunting use of image and metaphor, and the urgency of her themes all announce Under the Feat of Jesus as a landmark work of American fiction.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101078235
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature “Stunning.”—Newsweek With the same audacity with which John Steinbeck wrote about migrant worker conditions in The Grapes of Wrath and T.C. Boyle in The Tortilla Curtain, Viramontes presents a moving and powerful vision of the lives of the men, women, and children who endure a second-class existence and labor under dangerous conditions in California's fields. At the center of this powerful tale is Estrella, a girl about to cross the perilous border to womanhood. What she knows of life comes from her mother, who has survived abandonment by her husband in a land that treats her as if she were invisible, even though she and her children pick the crops of the farms that feed its people. But within Estrella, seeds of growth and change are stirring. And in the arms of Alejo, they burst into a full, fierce flower as she tastes the joy and pain of first love. Pushed to the margins of society, she learns to fight back and is able to help the young farmworker she loves when his ambitions and very life are threatened in a harvest of death. Infused with the beauty of the California landscape and shifting splendors of the passing seasons juxtaposed with the bleakness of poverty, this vividly imagined novel is worthy of the people it celebrates and whose story it tells so magnificently. The simple lyrical beauty of Viramontes' prose, her haunting use of image and metaphor, and the urgency of her themes all announce Under the Feat of Jesus as a landmark work of American fiction.
Four for the Road
Author: K. J. Reilly
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1665902302
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"When seventeen-year-old Asher embarks on a road trip from New Jersey to Graceland to get revenge on the drunk driver who killed his mom, he brings along three new friends from his bereavement groups"--
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1665902302
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"When seventeen-year-old Asher embarks on a road trip from New Jersey to Graceland to get revenge on the drunk driver who killed his mom, he brings along three new friends from his bereavement groups"--
Heaven Is Under Our Feet
Author: Don Henley
Publisher: Berkley Trade
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Sixty-eight celebrities express their views on nature conservation.
Publisher: Berkley Trade
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Sixty-eight celebrities express their views on nature conservation.
Five Feet Apart
Author: Rachael Lippincott
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1534451560
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Also a major motion picture starring Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson! Goodreads Choice Winner, Best Young Adult Fiction of 2019 In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel that’s perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, two teens fall in love with just one minor complication—they can’t get within a few feet of each other without risking their lives. Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella Grant likes to be in control—even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions. The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. He couldn’t care less about his treatments, or a fancy new clinical drug trial. Soon, he’ll turn eighteen and then he’ll be able to unplug all these machines and actually go see the world, not just its hospitals. Will’s exactly what Stella needs to stay away from. If he so much as breathes on Stella, she could lose her spot on the transplant list. Either one of them could die. The only way to stay alive is to stay apart. But suddenly six feet doesn’t feel like safety. It feels like punishment. What if they could steal back just a little bit of the space their broken lungs have stolen from them? Would five feet apart really be so dangerous if it stops their hearts from breaking too?
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 1534451560
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Also a major motion picture starring Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson! Goodreads Choice Winner, Best Young Adult Fiction of 2019 In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel that’s perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, two teens fall in love with just one minor complication—they can’t get within a few feet of each other without risking their lives. Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella Grant likes to be in control—even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions. The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. He couldn’t care less about his treatments, or a fancy new clinical drug trial. Soon, he’ll turn eighteen and then he’ll be able to unplug all these machines and actually go see the world, not just its hospitals. Will’s exactly what Stella needs to stay away from. If he so much as breathes on Stella, she could lose her spot on the transplant list. Either one of them could die. The only way to stay alive is to stay apart. But suddenly six feet doesn’t feel like safety. It feels like punishment. What if they could steal back just a little bit of the space their broken lungs have stolen from them? Would five feet apart really be so dangerous if it stops their hearts from breaking too?
Six Four
Author: Hideo Yokoyama
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374715793
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Named one of the best books of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and Literary Hub. Winner of the Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year Award. One of Vulture's 10 Best Thriller Books of 2017. “Already a bestseller in Japan and the U.K., this cinematic crime novel suffused with fascinating cultural details follows a police department reinvestigating a chilling kidnapping that stumped them 14 years earlier.” —Entertainment Weekly, The Must List THE NIGHTMARE NO PARENT COULD ENDURE. THE CASE NO DETECTIVE COULD SOLVE. THE TWIST NO READER COULD PREDICT. For five days, the parents of a seven-year-old Japanese schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their daughter’s kidnapper. They would never learn his identity. And they would never see their daughter alive again. Fourteen years later, the mystery remains unsolved. The police department’s press officer—Yoshinobu Mikami, a former detective who was involved in the original case and who is now himself the father of a missing daughter—is forced to revisit the botched investigation. The stigma of the case known as “Six Four” has never faded; the police’s failure remains a profound source of shame and an unending collective responsibility. Mikami does not aspire to solve the crime. He has worked in the department for his entire career, and while he has his own ambitions and loyalties, he is hoping simply to reach out to the victim’s family and to help finally put the notorious case to rest. But when he spots an anomaly in the files, he uncovers secrets he never could have imagined. He would never have even looked if he’d known what he would find. An award-winning phenomenon in its native Japan—more than a million copies sold, and the winner of the Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year award—and already a critically celebrated top-ten bestseller in the U.K., Hideo Yokoyama’s Six Four is an unforgettable novel by a literary master at the top of his form. It is a dark and riveting plunge into a crime, an investigation, and a culture like no other.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374715793
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Named one of the best books of 2017 by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and Literary Hub. Winner of the Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year Award. One of Vulture's 10 Best Thriller Books of 2017. “Already a bestseller in Japan and the U.K., this cinematic crime novel suffused with fascinating cultural details follows a police department reinvestigating a chilling kidnapping that stumped them 14 years earlier.” —Entertainment Weekly, The Must List THE NIGHTMARE NO PARENT COULD ENDURE. THE CASE NO DETECTIVE COULD SOLVE. THE TWIST NO READER COULD PREDICT. For five days, the parents of a seven-year-old Japanese schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their daughter’s kidnapper. They would never learn his identity. And they would never see their daughter alive again. Fourteen years later, the mystery remains unsolved. The police department’s press officer—Yoshinobu Mikami, a former detective who was involved in the original case and who is now himself the father of a missing daughter—is forced to revisit the botched investigation. The stigma of the case known as “Six Four” has never faded; the police’s failure remains a profound source of shame and an unending collective responsibility. Mikami does not aspire to solve the crime. He has worked in the department for his entire career, and while he has his own ambitions and loyalties, he is hoping simply to reach out to the victim’s family and to help finally put the notorious case to rest. But when he spots an anomaly in the files, he uncovers secrets he never could have imagined. He would never have even looked if he’d known what he would find. An award-winning phenomenon in its native Japan—more than a million copies sold, and the winner of the Best Japanese Crime Fiction of the Year award—and already a critically celebrated top-ten bestseller in the U.K., Hideo Yokoyama’s Six Four is an unforgettable novel by a literary master at the top of his form. It is a dark and riveting plunge into a crime, an investigation, and a culture like no other.
Alone Time
Author: Stephanie Rosenbloom
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399562311
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
"In Paris (or anywhere else, really) a table for one can be a most delightful place." --Alone Time, as seen in The New York Times A wise, passionate account of the pleasures of traveling solo In our increasingly frantic daily lives, many people are genuinely fearful of the prospect of solitude, but time alone can be both rich and restorative, especially when travelling. Through on-the-ground reporting and recounting the experiences of artists, writers, and innovators who cherished solitude, Stephanie Rosenbloom considers how being alone as a traveller--and even in one's own city--is conducive to becoming acutely aware of the sensual details of the world--patterns, textures, colors, tastes, sounds--in ways that are difficult to do in the company of others. Alone Time is divided into four parts, each set in a different city, in a different season, in a single year. The destinations--Paris, Istanbul, Florence, New York--are all pedestrian-friendly, allowing travelers to slow down and appreciate casual pleasures instead of hurtling through museums and posting photos to Instagram. Each section spotlights a different theme associated with the joys and benefits of time alone and how it can enable people to enrich their lives--facilitating creativity, learning, self-reliance, as well as the ability to experiment and change. Rosenbloom incorporates insights from psychologists and sociologists who have studied solitude and happiness, and explores such topics as dining alone, learning to savor, discovering interests and passions, and finding or creating silent spaces. Her engaging and elegant prose makes Alone Time as warmly intimate an account as the details of a trip shared by a beloved friend--and will have its many readers eager to set off on their own solo adventures.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399562311
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
"In Paris (or anywhere else, really) a table for one can be a most delightful place." --Alone Time, as seen in The New York Times A wise, passionate account of the pleasures of traveling solo In our increasingly frantic daily lives, many people are genuinely fearful of the prospect of solitude, but time alone can be both rich and restorative, especially when travelling. Through on-the-ground reporting and recounting the experiences of artists, writers, and innovators who cherished solitude, Stephanie Rosenbloom considers how being alone as a traveller--and even in one's own city--is conducive to becoming acutely aware of the sensual details of the world--patterns, textures, colors, tastes, sounds--in ways that are difficult to do in the company of others. Alone Time is divided into four parts, each set in a different city, in a different season, in a single year. The destinations--Paris, Istanbul, Florence, New York--are all pedestrian-friendly, allowing travelers to slow down and appreciate casual pleasures instead of hurtling through museums and posting photos to Instagram. Each section spotlights a different theme associated with the joys and benefits of time alone and how it can enable people to enrich their lives--facilitating creativity, learning, self-reliance, as well as the ability to experiment and change. Rosenbloom incorporates insights from psychologists and sociologists who have studied solitude and happiness, and explores such topics as dining alone, learning to savor, discovering interests and passions, and finding or creating silent spaces. Her engaging and elegant prose makes Alone Time as warmly intimate an account as the details of a trip shared by a beloved friend--and will have its many readers eager to set off on their own solo adventures.