The Misery of Meagan
The Misery of Meagan

Author: James Mean

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2021-06-16

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1662439393

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Denny, California, a place so far removed from the norm of the state, you would swear it was part of the deep South, a logging town seemingly hidden from the modern day. The year is 1971, and this is The Misery of Meagan. War is ongoing in Vietnam, cultural icons are dying fast, Civil Rights have reached its greatest height thus far, and yet in a town called Denny, life is untouched by the previous three. Life itself is controlled by a group of men called the Elders, seven men who deem it best that everyone live in their shadow. Civil Rights passed and enacted, social mores changed, but in Denny, such things are but a nuisance to be swept under an age worn rug. In such a land, no law is greater than what the Elders have set forth, no greed nor corruption greater than that which lies within each of the seven who stand. Denny has long since been a breeding ground for the otherworldly, and it is the Elders themselves who hold the knowledge and design of such rights. The population is far from a thousand of the living, but threefold in number of the dead that roam the streets and country roads all hours of the day, unseen, but surely there! In the middle of it all is a beautiful young girl, Meagan Worth, morally fit among a town full of racist degenerates, her own parents, some of the lowest lifeforms the town has seen. She must get away, and when she meets Donald Griffin, a stranger and passerby, she finds more than an escape, but love, undeniable. Eldritch terror and the horror of man begin and end the misery of Meagan.

The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye

Author: Meghan O'Rourke

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-04-14

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1101486554

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"Anguished, beautifully written... The Long Goodbye is an elegiac depiction of drama as old as life." -- The New York Times Book Review From one of America's foremost young literary voices, a transcendent portrait of the unbearable anguish of grief and the enduring power of familial love. What does it mean to mourn today, in a culture that has largely set aside rituals that acknowledge grief? After her mother died of cancer at the age of fifty-five, Meghan O'Rourke found that nothing had prepared her for the intensity of her sorrow. In the first anguished days, she began to create a record of her interior life as a mourner, trying to capture the paradox of grief-its monumental agony and microscopic intimacies-an endeavor that ultimately bloomed into a profound look at how caring for her mother during her illness changed and strengthened their bond. O'Rourke's story is one of a life gone off the rails, of how watching her mother's illness-and separating from her husband-left her fundamentally altered. But it is also one of resilience, as she observes her family persevere even in the face of immeasurable loss. With lyricism and unswerving candor, The Long Goodbye conveys the fleeting moments of joy that make up a life, and the way memory can lead us out of the jagged darkness of loss. Effortlessly blending research and reflection, the personal and the universal, it is not only an exceptional memoir, but a necessary one.

Acts of Desperation
Acts of Desperation

Author: Megan Nolan

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2021-03-04

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1473578507

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'Crushing...intensely vital' Observer 'It's impossible to tear yourself away' The Times 'Such brilliant writing about female desire...honest and visceral' Marian Keyes She's twenty-three and in love with love. He's older, and the most beautiful man she's ever seen. The affair is quickly consuming. But this relationship is unpredictable, and behind his perfect looks is a mean streak. She's intent on winning him over, but neither is living up to the other's ideals. He keeps emailing his thin, glamorous ex, and she's starting to give in to secret, shameful cravings of her own. The search for a fix is frantic, and taking a dangerous turn... We're all looking to get what we want - but do we know what we need?

And Now We Have Everything
And Now We Have Everything

Author: Meaghan O'Connell

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2018-04-10

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0316393835

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Selected as One of the Best Books of the Year by: National Public Radio, Esquire, Bustle, Refinery29, Thrillist, Electric Literature, Powell's, Autostraddle, BookRiot, Women.com "Smart, funny, and true in all the best ways, this book made me ache with recognition." -- Cheryl Strayed A raw, funny, and fiercely honest account of becoming a mother before feeling like a grown up. When Meaghan O'Connell got accidentally pregnant in her twenties and decided to keep the baby, she realized that the book she needed -- a brutally honest, agenda-free reckoning with the emotional and existential impact of motherhood -- didn't exist. So she decided to write it herself. And Now We Have Everything is O'Connell's exploration of the cataclysmic, impossible-to-prepare-for experience of becoming a mother. With her dark humor and hair-trigger B.S. detector, O'Connell addresses the pervasive imposter syndrome that comes with unplanned pregnancy, the fantasies of a "natural" birth experience that erode maternal self-esteem, post-partum body and sex issues, and the fascinating strangeness of stepping into a new, not-yet-comfortable identity. Channeling fears and anxieties that are still taboo and often unspoken, And Now We Have Everything is an unflinchingly frank, funny, and visceral motherhood story for our times, about having a baby and staying, for better or worse, exactly yourself.

Songbirds & Stray Dogs
Songbirds & Stray Dogs

Author: Meagan Lucas

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 9781599487526

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"Twenty-one-year-old Beaufort waitress Jolene has spent the majority of her life living in the shadow of the pain her mother caused, and trying to prove herself worthy of her aunt's stingy love. Unintentionally pregnant and abandoned again, Jolene tries to outrun her shame in the mountains of western North Carolina"--

A Treasure Revealed
A Treasure Revealed

Author: Pamela Griffin

Publisher: Barbour Publishing

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 1624165613

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Can love put out the bitterness that burns inside Clay? Clay Burke burns with bitterness toward his older brother, Derek, who deserted him and their ma when they needed him most—just like Pa did. Derek even tried to steal the silver mine Pa had bequeathed to his children. Then Meagan crosses Clay’s path, stirring feelings of compassion and concern he hasn’t felt since his mother died. Meagan Foster barely remembers her own name. She certainly doesn’t know what happened to her family or why she was found wandering across the Nevada wilderness with severe injuries. Nor is she convinced she wants to remember. Something tells her that knowledge will bring shame and earn the rejection of the kind people who have taken her in. Will turmoil from the past keep Meagan and Clay apart, or will the true treasure God has prepared for them be revealed? “Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place." Psalm 66:12

What Price Success
What Price Success

Author: Cormac Thomas

Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group

Published: 2010-07

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1936107562

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"What Price Success" is about "Being able to have an independent life through Real Estate." It is about the author's life and how he was able to overcome many disappointments in his life but still able to succeed by purchasing other people's real estate problems and having the foresight to turn them into winners.

Eternity's Handmaiden
Eternity's Handmaiden

Author: R. Peter Ubtrent

Publisher: LULU BOOKS

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 587

ISBN-13: 097449917X

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Eternity's Handmaiden is a fast paced espionage thriller taking the reader from one end of the timeline to another. No one ever escapes The Agency. Tuesday, 6 August 2085 1500 Archangel Her frowned deepened as she erased the message and then all traces that it had even made it to her. It was what she had feared: a rendezvous. They would be by this afternoon to pick her up, take her away from her pristine Alaskan solitude and into a world that she had sworn off of. Or so she had thought. She quickly learned long ago, much to her dismay, that one ever left the agency. Its insidious fingers, like the very talons of death, were always there, ready at any moment to pounce and dig themselves in, dragging one back into a world of intrigue and treachery, death and foulness that filled her mouth with such a taste of shit that she almost gagged. When she had left fifteen years ago, after forty years of faithful service, she had made it clear that she was done with it all, finished with walking in the shadows and killing in the darkness. But they had had other plans.

Stuck
Stuck

Author: Martin A. Bowman

Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2023-04-11

Total Pages: 93

ISBN-13:

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(BACK COVER) Why can't we change our inappropriate, compulsive behaviors? Is it because we aren't trying? Surveys show that most people claim a lack of self-control was their reason for relapsing back to old bad habits. Although we believe in miraculous change as Christians, the church is often notorious for creating faith expectations that distort and skew the psychology of achieving lasting sobriety and weight loss goals. The problem is that cogent observations of our compulsive behaviors aren't always entirely rational. We underestimate and remain unaware of factors controlling our behavior. We have influences, biases, preferences, triggers, and traumas that cannot easily be undone. We overestimate our rational ability, failing to understand, actually ignoring our irrational selves. Although Jesus came to save us, his most important work was his efforts to reset our patterns of thought. Quite simply, he came to change our thinking! This book will examine psychological disciplines and techniques in our journey to break free from those habitual behavior cycles and achieve transformative release.