Author: Aria Aber
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496218957
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Hard Damage works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Aria Aber explores the historical and personal implications of Afghan American relations. Drawing on material dating back to the 1950s, she considers the consequences of these relations--in particular the funding of the Afghan mujahedeen, which led to the Taliban and modern-day Islamic terrorism--for her family and the world at large. Invested in and suspicious of the pain of family and the shame of selfhood, the speakers of these richly evocative and musical poems mourn the magnitude of citizenship as a state of place and a state of mind. While Hard Damage is framed by free-verse poetry, the middle sections comprise a lyric essay in fragments and a long documentary poem. Aber explores Rilke in the original German, the urban melancholia of city life, inherited trauma, and displacement on both linguistic and environmental levels, while employing surrealist and eerily domestic imagery.
Author: Josephine Hart
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639363092
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
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**Soon to be appearing on Netflix as "Obsession," starring Richard Armitage and Charlie Murphy** This New York Times bestselling novel, now in a brand-new edition, is a daring look at the dangers of obsession and the depth of its shattering consequences. Damage is the gripping story of a man’s desperate obsession and scandalous love affair. He is a man who appears to have everything: wealth, a beautiful wife and children, and a prestigious political career in Parliament. But his life lacks passion, and his aching emptiness drives him to an all-consuming, and ultimately catastrophic, relationship with his son’s fiancée. Chilling and brilliant, Damage is a New York Times bestselling masterpiece of the romantic suspense genre.
Author: Colin Harvey
Publisher: Angry Robot, Limited
ISBN: 0857660640
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 469
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As the sea-levels rise in New York City, Detective Pete Shah, who, serving with the NYPD as a Memory Association Specialist, reads the last memories of murder victims, is accused of killing a glamorous woman in a bar and must race against time to save himself. Original.
Author: Amber Dermont
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312642814
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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A luminous collection of short stories focusing on privilege and entitlement, from the bestselling author of "The Starboard Sea," Dermont's remarkable giftfor portraying characters at crossroads is on full display.
Author: James Kennedy
Publisher: Eye Books (US&CA)
ISBN: 1785632159
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 245
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The tale that follows is not another clichéd collection of rock'n'roll debaucheries (sorry) nor is it another tired fable of triumph over adversity (you're welcome).It's the story of a half-deaf kid from a tiny, remote village in South Wales who was hailed as a genius by the UK's biggest radio station and headhunted by major record labels, only for the music industry to collapse. It crashed hard, taking with it an entire generation of talented artists who would never now get their shot. CNN called it &‘music's lost decade'.Along the way, there are goodies, baddies, gun-toting label execs, life-saving surgeons, therapy, true love, loyalty, hope, breakdowns, suicidal managers, betrayal, drummers and way too many hangovers. James Kennedy shows that the best lessons are to be learned from good losers. It really is all about the journey.Part memoir, part exposé of the music world's murky underbelly, Noise Damage is emotional, painfully honest, funny, informative and ridiculous. It's also a celebration of the life-changing magic of music.
Author: Ashley Farmer
Publisher: Sarabande Books
ISBN: 1946448915
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 179
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Two weeks before her grandfather purchased a gun, Ashley Farmer’s grandmother tripped as she walked across their living room. It was a swift accident on an ordinary day: her chin hit the floor; her cervical spine shattered. She asked, “I’m paralyzed, aren’t I?” Later, thinking to put her out of her misery, he kissed his sleeping wife of sixty-three years and shot her in the chest. He tried to shoot himself too, but the weapon broke apart in his hands. He was immediately arrested. This is the scene we are greeted with at the outset of Farmer’s stunning collection of hybrid essays. One of its greatest features is the variety of voices, a kaleidoscopic approach that corals in autobiography, audio transcripts, media, legal documents, Internet comments, short prose pieces, and more. The result is a moving, deeply satisfying, eye-opening story that will surely find many readers.
Author: Anya Parrish
Publisher: Flux
ISBN: 9780738727004
Category : Experiments
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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It took years of therapy to convince Dani that Rachel, the childhood "imaginary" friend that pushed her from a building, wasn't real. Now fifteen, Dani wants to make it as a dancer. But a deadly freak accident sends Dani a terrifying message: Rachel is real and she's trying to kill her.
Author: Robert K. Lewis
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 0738735760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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"Estranged from his wife and daughter, former undercover cop Mark Mallen has spent the last four years in a haze of heroin. And when his best friend from the academy, Eric Russ, is murdered, all the evidence points to Mallen as the prime suspect. Now Mallen's former colleagues on the force are turning up the heat and Russ's survivors are in desperate need of answers. But if he wants to serve justice to the real killer, Mallen knows he'll have to get clean. Turning a life around is murder for a junkie, especially when two low-life thugs want him dead. Bruised, battered, and written off by nearly everyone, Mallen must make amends for his damaged past and restore hope for a better future."--Back cover.
Author: Christopher Lehane
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1137050314
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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The foolproof guide to damage control from the "masters of disaster" Whether you're a politician caught with his pants down, a publicly traded company accused of accounting improprieties, a family-owned restaurant with a lousy Yelp review or just the guy in the corner cubicle who inadvertently pushed "reply all," a crisis doesn't have to be the make-or-break moment of your career. For those of us that aren't natural spin doctors, it's hard to resist the impulse to cover your tracks, lie, or act like nothing happened. But resist you must! In Masters of Disaster, Christopher Lehane and Mark Fabiani, reveal the magic formula you need to take control when it's your turn to be sucked into the vortex of the modern spin cycle. Covering the ten commandments of damage control, and based on their work for clients like Bill Clinton, Goldman Sachs and Hollywood studios, the authors outline the strategies that can make real time news alerts, Twitter trend lines and viral videos work for you rather against you. Full of both lively personal anecdotes and hard-knuckled straight talk, this is a must-read for anyone who wants to emerge with their reputation intact.
Author: Robert Maunder, MD
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487528345
Category : Adult child abuse victims
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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This is the story of a psychiatrist and his career-long relationship with a difficult patient showing how medical treatment should not just be about biology, but also about psychology.
