We all have one. A price. That magic number that will get us to agree to do anything, be anything. Don't sit on your gold-plated high horse and say you don't because you do. Everyone does. Each of us has something we covet enough that we'd sell ourselves to have it. What's my tipping point, you ask? Apparently a cool quarter mil will do the trick. What does one do for 250 large, you wonder? Anything the infamous, gorgeous playboy of Seattle wants. For the next four months I'll be Shaw Mercer's arm candy, his beck and call girl, his faux girlfriend. I'll be his to command, mold, push and pull in any direction he sees fit. I'll fight falling into bed with him. I'll fight falling in love with him even harder. I'll fail at both. And when my past and present collide in the most unexpected of ways, I'll learn that while one man's love for me has never died, the only man's love I really want will never be mine. *Due to mature content, 18+ years only.
Horror author Curtis Macintyre has recently rented an apartment in an historical building in San Francisco. But the apartment comes with more than just old charm. It also comes with the spirit of Aaron Carmichael, a man murdered five years before. After Curtis visits a medium, Aaron’s spirit comes to him for help in finding peace since he’s lost between two worlds, the living and the afterlife. When Curtis decides to visit Aaron’s boyfriend, Robbie Henley, a beautiful hairdresser, Aaron comes along ... inside Curtis. Now with Robbie’s help, it’s up to Curtis to find out what happened to Aaron so he can finally have peace. And maybe, together, Curtis and Robbie can find their own happily ever after.
We live in a world of accelerating change, marked by the decline of traditional forms of family, community, and professional life. Both within families and in work-places individuals feel increasingly lost, unsure of the roles required of them. In this book a psychoanalyst and an Anglican priest, using a combination of psychoanalysis and social systems theory, offer tools that allow people to create meaningful connections with one another and with the institutions within which they work and live. The authors begin by discussing how life in a family prefigures and prepares the individual to participate in groups, offering detailed case studies of families in therapy as illustrations. They then turn to organizations, describing how their consultations with an academic conference, a mental hospital, a law firm, and a church parish helped members of these institutions to relate to one another by becoming aware of wider contexts for their experiences. All the people within a group have their own subjectively felt perceptions of the environment. According to Shapiro and Carr, when individuals can negotiate a shared interpretation of the experience and of the purposes for which the group exists, they can further their own development and that of their organizations. The authors suggest how this can be accomplished. They conclude with some broad speculations about the continuing importance of institutions for connecting the individual and society.
Accepting a debilitating illness alone, with your marriage deteriorating because of your health. Emotional struggle to survive and still find happiness with acceptance. Still you battle the feeling of loneliness. Because you look different, your acquaintances treat you differently.
I had a love-hate relationship with hockey players. They’d won over my protected, carefully-controlled heart, and I accepted that they had a place in my town. And in my heart. Mostly because Joel had waltzed right in and made himself at home. And…I’d fallen for him. Deep. But now the man had decided he was going to waltz back out…leaving a giant, hockey-player-sized hole in my soul and my heart shredded beneath his sharp skate blades. The man had broken me. And he’d done it with a smile on his face.
Blending elements of Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak and Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet, this gripping story from Kathryn Holmes was deemed “a page turner” by author Richard Peck and “an intense story of survival” by ALA Booklist in its starred review. Sophomore Hallie Calhoun has just endured the most excruciating six months of her life. Once the rumors about her and the preacher’s son, Luke, made their way around school, her friends abandoned her, and as a result, Hallie has completely withdrawn. Now on a hiking trip in the Smoky Mountains with the same people who have relentlessly taunted her, Hallie is pushed to her limit. Then Hallie, outgoing newcomer Rachel, and Jonah—Hallie’s former friend—get separated from the rest of the group. As days go by without rescue, their struggle for survival turns deadly. Stranded in the wilderness, the three have no choice but to trust one another in order to stay alive…and for Hallie, that means opening up about what really happened that night with Luke. From the catty atmosphere of high school to the unpredictable terrain of the mountains, this novel is a poignant, raw journey about finding yourself after having been lost for so long.
In this collective work the author takes you on a hunt throughout their life, with 23 english and 6 german poems - including the first that combines both - to try and find what they've lost during childhood trauma, together; No matter if they have to trek through shimmering waves, thick foliage slowly decaying in autumn or crash though the morning clouds, they've faced it all to try and clasp their hands around it. They'll do their best to show you how their passion for art brought them back to life after not being able to hear hope for so long; Perhaps, you too find solace within this bloody poetry. They did.
The Multitude of Personalities Made Simple is a book that introduce a new revolutionary method in determining personalities accurately: Personalities are determined by attributes instead of types. Elements of personality are assessed through measurement rather than subjectively. Introduction of new categories that play a role in shaping personalities. Heart (Likes & Dislikes) Motivation (Belonging, Achievement, Daring, Indulging, Device, Ego and Affection) Interaction (By sound, sight or feeling) Process (According to rules, knowledge, creativity or relationship) Credibility Wisdom Integrity Allowing a mixture of elements from the same category, with one being the dominant, the next being the secondary, and so on. The method allows for a multitude of combinations of personality traits instead of confining personalities into 16 or 32 types. Personalities have different ways of interacting with others and the world. Either they are dominant in sound, sight or feeling (visual, auditory or kinaesthetic also known as VAK) Personalities have different ways of processing their thoughts and actions. There are laws that govern these categories and elements, without knowing them we will be confused (or even shocked) when people sometimes or seldom break their pattern of behaviors. The method is backed up with real life examples of famous people, stories and events. A total of 334 patterns of behaviors have been listed to help the reader to assess a person's personality. The Book points out symptoms of all villainous personalities, even the hardest one to spot like tricksters and psychopaths. The listed patterns of behavior also helps you to distinguish if the personality is acceptable, irritating, or villainous. It also helps you to determine how social, credible and wise a personality is. Books from The Lost Between Details series are meant to be: Easy to read: straight forward. Enjoyable to read: it has comics and stories as examples. Enlightening: Provides valuable information that will be used throughout life. I strongly recommend seeing the introductory video clip for the book I have added below as it list the categories and their elements https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uG3pPDC_1I
"I understand that you regard the film Schindler's Listas a total lie, as Zionist propaganda." Zundel clears his throat, preparing the posture of his body to pontificate, to deliver a speech he has obviously memorized for use at a hate rally: "Spielberg's movie is a perfect example of Hollywood hate propaganda . . . ." --from Lost Between the Edges In Eldon Garnet's Lost Between the Edges,a feverish intellectual, frustrated by the failures of government, acts alone to eliminate an infamous Holocaust denier. The protagonist, a renegade academic and punk intellectual known only as X, puts his radical ideas into action by firebombing the headquarters of Ernst Zundel, publisher of Did Six Million Really Die? With its incisive critique and its use of real documentation, Lost Between the Edgesblurs the boundaries between fact and fiction. Garnet, like W. G. Sebald before him, uses factual documentation of dubious authenticity to construct his narrative. But as the novel progresses, its story becomes so powerful that we find its truth lies not in its factual trappings but in the emotional and intellectual reality of its expression. Garnet reveals the illusory nature of facts, showing not only how they dazzle but also how they destroy. Lost Between the Edgescaptures the energy and verve of youth in revolt, fired by rage and ideas. Garnet's book will be hailed as a new classic of symbolic warfare waged in the street and the mind.
Lost Between Houses is about a turbulent year in the life of Simon Albright, a fifteen-year-old private school boy struggling to be his sophisticated mother's best friend, the rebel his girlfriend adores and the son his father respects. Which is a hard act to pull off when your mother is distracted, your girlfriend too beautiful and your father in and out of a mental institution. Lost Between Houses unfolds with mingled sarcasm, grief and awe, and grips the reader until its startling climax. From the Hardcover edition.
