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In My Skin

Autor: Kate Holden

Número de Páginas: 274

This is the frank, harrowing, and true story of one young woman’s descent into addiction and prostitution, and the long arduous struggle to reclaim her life. A shy, bookish college graduate, a nice girl from a solid middle-class home but uncertain of her way in life, Kate Holden tried her first hit of heroin as a one-time experiment—an adventure with friends—but the drug took over. Hooked, she lost her job and her apartment, and she stole from her family. Desperation drove her onto the streets, where she became “Lucy,” offering her body for cash to the first car to stop, risking arrest and, worse, the human predators—anything for her next fix. With her name on the police blotter, she eventually left the streets and offered her services to a high-class brothel. There she discovered hidden strengths, as well as parts of herself that frightened her. Throughout, however hurt and dismayed, her family never abandoned her, and their acceptance and unyielding love helped her defeat the drug and leave her netherworld behind. In taut, devastating prose, Kate Holden recounts her journey with an emotional honesty and genuineness that will leave no reader untouched.

Más allá de las profundidades

Autor: Elizabeth Lowell

Número de Páginas: 219

Tras perder a sus padres trágicamente, Kate Donnelly había decidido abandonar el Caribe para siempre. Pero una desastrosa gestión había dejado la empresa familiar de buceo y rescate de tesoros al borde de la bancarrota. Y entonces su hermano le suplicó que regresara a la isla de St. Vincent para ofrecerles su experta gestión financiera. El antiguo buceador militar británico Holden Cameron era un adicto a la descarga de adrenalina que proporcionaba el servicio activo; incluso pasó por una experiencia cercana a la muerte en un accidente submarino con explosivos. Y lo último que deseaba era ejercer de niñera para una familia de ladrones en una isla tropical, aunque fueran los mundialmente famosos buceadores Donnelly. Cuando el equipo, el tesoro, incluso los buceadores, empezaron a desaparecer, Kate y Holden tuvieron que formar una inquietante alianza para descubrir la verdad. Pero, cuanto más profundamente se hundían en el misterio, más se acercaban el uno al otro. Pronto se encontrarían compartiendo sus más inquietantes temores y oscuros secretos... y una ardiente química. Demasiado ardiente para ser ignorada. "Cuando eliges un libro de Elizabeth Lowell, sabes que te ...

The Romantic

Autor: Kate Holden

Número de Páginas: 322

'Kate Holden's bestselling memoir In My Skin told the gripping story of her slide into heroin addiction and prostitution and her gruelling recovery. The Romantic tells what happened next. When Kate decides to leave her past behind in Melbourne, it is the beginning of a new journey. In the ruins of Rome and the piazzas of Naples, through poetry and passion, in strange streets and strange beds, she hopes to find truth. But this pilgrimage requires courage: in Italy she may find true love, or lose her heart altogether. Or even find herself. Sexy, dark, and intoxicating, The Romantic asks: when you ve traded in sex, what does it cost to love others? and yourself A sensual, sexy, brutally honest memoir.' Marie Claire'.

Ghosts of Crook County

Autor: Russell Cobb

Número de Páginas: 314

The true—and unsolved—story of unabashedly greedy men, their exploitation of Muscogee land, and the hunt for the ghost of a boy who may never have existed For readers of David Grann’s award-winning Killers of the Flower Moon In the early 1900s, at the dawn of the “American Century,” few knew the intoxicating power of greed better than white men on the forefront of the black gold rush. When oil was discovered in Oklahoma, these counterfeit tycoons impersonated, defrauded, and murdered Native property owners to snatch up hundreds of acres of oil-rich land. Writer and fourth-generation Oklahoman Russell Cobb sets the stage for one such oilman’s chicanery: Tulsa entrepreneur Charles Page’s campaign for a young Muscogee boy’s land in Creek County. Problem was, “Tommy Atkins,” the boy in question, had died years prior—if he ever lived at all. Ghosts of Crook County traces Tommy’s mythologized life through Page’s relentless pursuit of his land. We meet Minnie Atkins and the two other women who claimed to be Tommy’s “real” mother. Minnie would testify a story of her son’s life and death that fulfilled the legal requirements for his land to be transferred...

Six Feet Over

Autor: Mary Roach

Número de Páginas: 321

Does the light just go out and that's that - the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?" Mary Roach trains her considerable humour and curiosity on the human soul, seeking answers from a varied and fascinating crew of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die. Along the way she encounters electromagnetic hauntings, out-of-body experiences, ghosts and lawsuits: Mary Roach sifts and weighs the evidence in her hilarious, inimitable style.

The Lies

Autor: J. Michael Koppen

Número de Páginas: 326

The fragrance of the gun mixed with the pungency of the Crown Royal in his glass almost nauseated him as much as the lie he had sold out to. Holden Jeffries has all he has ever dreamed, yet lately it is hollow. A broken man on the edge of the end, he finds himself incapable of pulling the trigger. Disgusted with his weakness, another plan to end his life emerges. Holden obtains a new identity, forges documents, flips a canoe, and escapes for freedom. "The Lies" enters the private lives, thoughts, and insights of the victims in the wake of a harmless plan to bequeath his corporate world to the next in line. Holden's exit from fame and fortune to insignificance changes his life and the lives of the people entwined in those choices. His selfish plot leads both believers and cynics to question every aspect of their story, faith, and convictions. Each deceptive inner voice, with its darkness and lies, challenges everything God wants understood about life and the world served. Even the best self at times betrays the spirit within. In life, it becomes evident there is rarely a clear perception of the stakes involved. "The Lies" reveals that "the lost" are not always who we believe them...

Drilled

Autor: Jayne Rylon

Número de Páginas: 141

The original Powertools crew is back in a brand new series! Starting over is never easy. Especially when it means leaving your friends and lovers behind. An accident on the Hot Rods construction site draws Mike to Middletown. Not to assume his role as foreman, but to help his best friend, Joe, learn the ropes. It’s his turn to be caught off balance when his wife delivers shocking news. The rest of the Powertools crew join them to attend a wedding at their friends’ motorcycle garage, Hot Rides. The night could change everything—both personally and professionally. Because while celebrating their friends’ new commitment, it’s nearly impossible to deny the strength of their own complicated bonds or the fact that they’re evolving. Their marriages, their friendships, and their futures hang in the balance. At the end of the festivities, who will stay and who will go? This is a standalone book set in the Powertools universe. All your favorite Hot Rods and Hot Rides characters will be making appearances as well. Some come make new book boyfriends or hang out with old ones.

Saving Her Cowboy

Autor: H.c. Bentley

Número de Páginas: 219

Buck Pierce is doing his best to hold it all together. And he’s failing miserably. After the death of his wife, Buck is trying to balance grieving his loss while raising his twin toddlers and helping to run the family ranch. He’s not happy when his sister suggests a nanny, but he knows he needs the help. Kate Holden is fresh off of a broken engagement. After finding her former best friend in bed with her now ex-fiancé on the night of their rehearsal dinner, Kate’s looking for a new direction in life. So, when she gets a call asking if she’d be interested in interviewing as a nanny, she’s hesitant but decides to give it a try. When Kate and Buck meet, things don’t exactly go as planned. Kate’s trying to do a good job with the boys, but Buck is set on things being done his way. Even as the two butt heads, sparks start to fly between them. Will they each give themselves permission to love again, or will Kate have to move on from Broken Rock Ranch?

The Winter Road

Autor: Kate Holden

Número de Páginas: 370

An epic true story of greed, power and a desire for legacy from an acclaimed Australian storyteller. July 2014, a lonely road at twilight outside Croppa Creek, New South Wales: 80-year-old farmer Ian Turnbull takes out a .22 and shoots environmental officer Glen Turner in the back. On one side, a farmer hoping to secure his family’s wealth on the richest agricultural soil in the country. On the other, his obsession: the government man trying to apply environmental laws. The brutal killing of Glen Turner splits open the story of our place on this land. Is our time on this soil a tale of tragedy or triumph – are we reaping what we’ve sown? Do we owe protection to the land, or does it owe us a living? And what happens when, in pursuit of an inheritance for his family, a man creates terrible consequences? Kate Holden brings her discerning eye to a gripping tale of law, land and entitlement. It is the story of Australia. ‘An incredible writer.’ —Books+Publishing ‘Kate Holden finds the epic thread in this crime and weaves a quintessential Australian story.’ —Chloe Hooper ‘Beautifully written, meticulously researched, carefully plotted and seamlessly stitched...

The Time of My Life

Autor: Tilly Tennant

Número de Páginas: 397

She’s given up on love. But one little letter might change everything… Single mum Bonnie is a born romantic. But she’s been seriously let down by love. Her good-for-nothing husband walked out on her and daughter Paige two years ago, and hasn’t been heard from since. Between trying to make ends meet, managing teenage mood swings and the serious lack of eligible bachelors in her small town, Bonnie has all but given up on finding her happily ever after. Although if real-life romance is in short supply, it doesn’t mean Bonnie can’t indulge in a harmless imaginary one. She’s started writing to her totally unattainable dream man, baring her soul before screwing up the pages and tossing them straight in the trash… But when fate intervenes and Bonnie actually meets the man she never thought she could have, events take an interesting turn. Envelopes addressed to her start mysteriously arriving on her doorstep. Although Bonnie never sent him any of the letters she wrote, he has now begun writing to her. Is Bonnie about to discover that dreams really do come true? A fabulously funny and warm romantic comedy that fans of Josie Silver, Holly Martin and Lindsey Kelk will...

Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country

Autor: James Anthony Froude , John Tulloch

Número de Páginas: 866

Contains the first printing of Sartor resartus, as well as other works by Thomas Carlyle.

Behind The Text

Autor: Sue Joseph

Número de Páginas: 278

Behind the Text is a celebration of the often forgotten genre of creative nonfiction, through research about and interviews conducted with eleven prolific award-winning Australian creative nonfiction authors, including Paul McGeough, Doris Pilkington Garimara (the last interview before her death in 2014), David Leser, Kate Holden, Greg Bearup and Anna Goldsworthy. Joseph has written an account of each author/journalist, including their writing processes, as well as any ethical dimensions in their work. They are located in Australian settings around the country. The Australian creative nonfiction literary landscape is rich and vital, read with relish by Australians, and deals with important and burning national issues. Yet creative nonfiction in Australia is rarely discussed as a cohesive genre. This is the first definitive Australian text which brings together a disparate group of Australian creative nonfiction writers, recognising them and their writing in a way they would be recognised in the USA and Europe. Sue Joseph has been a journalist for more than 35 years, working both in Australia and the UK. She has published three other books: She's My Wife; He's Just Sex, The...

Colonialism and the Modernist Moment in the Early Novels of Jean Rhys

Autor: Carol Dell'amico

Número de Páginas: 230

Colonialism and the Modernist Moment in the Early Novels of Jean Rhys explores the postcolonial significance of Rhys’s modernist period work, which depicts an urban scene more varied than that found in other canonical representations of the period. Arguing against the view that Rhys comes into her own as a colonial thinker only in the post-WWII period of her career, this study examines the austere insights gained by Rhys’s active cultivation of her fringe status vis-à-vis British social life and artistic circles, where her sharp study of the aporias of marginal lives and the violence of imperial ideology is distilled into an artistic statement positing the outcome of the imperial venture as a state of homelessness across the board, for colonized and ‘metropolitans’ alike. Bringing to view heretofore overlooked émigré populations, or their children, alongside locals, Rhys’s urbanites struggle to construct secure lives not simply as a consequence of commodification, alienation, or voluntary expatriation, but also as a consequence of marginalization and migration. This view of Rhys’s early work asserts its vital importance to postcolonial studies, an importance that...

A Mistress for Penndrake

Autor: Tammy L. Bailey

Número de Páginas: 313

The Marquess of Wesley is out for blood. For a year, Lord Wesley has tried to undo the devastation his father left to Penndrake, their ancestral home, only to discover the man gambled it away right before his death. Now Wesley is being blackmailed by the new owner into marrying a woman he’s never met in order to get it back. But his intentions are less than honorable... At one and twenty, Miss Kate Holden intends to become a governess, having sworn off all men years ago. However, her plans are halted when she receives a daunting letter from her cousin about a Lord Wesley. Ignorant of the name, and the devilish marquess that wears it all too well, she nearly ends up compromised. Refusing to fall prey to Wesley’s skillful seduction, Kate decides to turn things around on the rake. But the high-stakes game between them soon leads to her losing the last thing she expected...her heart.

Missionary Positions

Autor: Lauren Mcgrow

Número de Páginas: 259

Missionary Positions examines the context for Christian outreach to people in the sex industry. Over the last 20 years, faith-based organisations have become more engaged in ministering with sex workers. But what are the methods and desired outcomes that undergird pastoral practice in this field? Most Christians see prostitution as evil, and those who sell sex are considered broken victims in need of restoration. Yet the voices and experiences of sex workers themselves often challenge these assumptions. Using feminist and postcolonial perspectives, interviews with Christian practitioners in Australia and personal narrative, Lauren McGrow carves out a space for the dynamic theological agency and life complexity of sex workers to be more fully acknowledged in faith-based outreach projects.

Stuck

Autor: Anneli Rufus

Número de Páginas: 338

"The brilliant mind behind Party of One examines the striking social trend: people are stuck and they want to change, but..." (San Francisco Chronicle) In this book, Anneli Rufus identifies an intriguing aspect of our culture: Many of us are stuck. Be it in the wrong relationship, career, or town, or just with bad habits we can't seem to quit, we even say we want to make a change, but . . . Merging interviews, personal anecdotes, and cultural criticism, Stuck is a wise and passionate exploration of the dreams we hold dearest for ourselves-and the road to actually achieving them. When faced with the possibility of change, our minds can play tricks on us. We tell ourselves: I can't make it. Or, It's not worth the effort. How is it that in a time of unprecedented freedom and opportunity, so many of us feel utterly powerless and unsure? In this book, Rufus exposes a complex network of causes for our immobilization- from fear and denial to powerful messages in popular culture or mass media that conspire to convince us that we're helpless in the face of our cravings. But there can be a light at the end of the tunnel: Rufus also tells the stories of people who have managed to become...

Creative Writing Practice

Autor: Debra Adelaide , Sarah Attfield

Número de Páginas: 266

Creative Writing Practice: reflections on form and process explores the craft of creative writing by illuminating the practices of writers and writer-educators. Demonstrating solutions to problems in different forms and genres, the contributors draw on their professional and personal experiences to examine specific and practical challenges that writers must confront and solve in order to write. This book discusses a range of approaches to writing, such as the early working out of projects, the idea of experimentation, of narrative time, and of failure. With its strong focus on process, Creative Writing Practice is a valuable guide for students, scholars and practitioners of creative writing.

1,000 Ideas by 100 Manga Artists

Autor: Cristian Campos

Número de Páginas: 319

"Compiles each artist's ten most practical tips for manga enthusiasts on techniques, sources of inspiration, and the best way to build your portfolio"--P. [4] of cover.

What Readers Do

Autor: Beth Driscoll

Número de Páginas: 217

Shining a spotlight on everyday readers of the 21st century, Beth Driscoll explores how contemporary readers of Anglophone fiction interact with the book industry, digital environments, and each other. We live in an era when book clubs, bibliomemoirs, Bookstagram and BookTok are as valuable to some readers as solitary reading moments. The product of nearly two decades of qualitative research into readers and reading culture, What Readers Do examines reading through three dimensions - aesthetic conduct, moral conduct, and self-care – to show how readers intertwine private and social behaviors, and both reinforce and oppose the structures of capitalism. Analyzing reading as a post-digital practice that is a synthesis of both print and digital modes and on- and offline behaviors, Driscoll presents a methodology for studying readers that connects book history, literary studies, sociology, and actor-network theory. Arguing for the vitality, agency, and creativity of readers, this book sheds light on how we read now - and on how much more readers do than just read.

The Ordinances of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, Passed at the January Sessions, 1858(-1869). To which is Annexed the Mayor's Communication, Reports of City Officers (annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of Public Schools) and a List of the Members of the City Council and Officers of the Corporation

Número de Páginas: 1124

Disavowed in Wyoming

Autor: Juno Rushdan

Número de Páginas: 242

He'll put his own life on any line If it means keeping her away from the danger stalking him Fleeing from a CIA kill squad, former operative Dean Delgado is hiding out back in Wyoming, where the terrain—and the people—are all too familiar. Working undercover, he befriends veterinarian Kate Sawyer—the woman he was once forced to leave behind. But when an emergency call brings Kate under fire, Dean must blow his cover to save her. Now, despite the risks to his own life, protecting Kate is the only mission that matters. From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served. Discover more action-packed stories in the Fugitive Heroes: Topaz Unit series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order: Book 1: Rogue Christmas Operation Book 2: Alaskan Christmas Escape Book 3: Disavowed in Wyoming Book 4: An Operative's Last Stand

Annual Report of the Board of School Commissioners to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for the Fiscal Year Ending ...

Autor: Baltimore (md.). Board Of School Commissioners

Número de Páginas: 520

Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of Public Schools, to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore

Autor: Baltimore (md.). Commissioners Of Public Schools

Número de Páginas: 420

Official Report of the Proceedings of the Board of Education of the City of Chicago

Autor: Chicago (ill.). Board Of Education

Número de Páginas: 182

Remorse

Autor: Michael Proeve , Steven Tudor

Número de Páginas: 439

Remorse is a powerful, important and yet academically neglected emotion. This book, one of the very few extended examinations of remorse, draws on psychology, law and philosophy to present a unique interdisciplinary study of this intriguing emotion. The psychological chapters examine the fundamental nature of remorse, its interpersonal effects, and its relationship with regret, guilt and shame. A practical focus is also provided in an examination of the place of remorse in psychotherapeutic interventions with criminal offenders. The book's jurisprudential chapters explore the problem of how offender remorse is proved in court and the contentious issues concerning the effect that remorse - and its absence - should have on sentencing criminal offenders. The legal and psychological perspectives are then interwoven in a discussion of the role of remorse in restorative justice. In Remorse: Psychological and Jurisprudential Perspectives, Proeve and Tudor bring together insights of neighbouring disciplines to advance our understanding of remorse. It will be of interest to theoreticians in psychology, law and philosophy, and will be of benefit to practising psychologists and lawyers.

Preserving Dance Across Time and Space

Autor: Lynn Brooks , Joellen Meglin

Número de Páginas: 313

Dance is the art least susceptible to preservation since its embodied, kinaesthetic nature has proven difficult to capture in notation and even in still or moving images. However, frameworks have been established and guidance made available for keeping dances, performances, and choreographers’ legacies alive so that the dancers of today and tomorrow can experience and learn from the dances and dancers of the past. In this volume, a range of voices address the issue of dance preservation through memory, artistic choice, interpretation, imagery and notation, as well as looking at relevant archives, legal structures, documentation and artefacts. The intertwining of dance preservation and creativity is a core theme discussed throughout this text, pointing to the essential continuity of dance history and dance innovation. The demands of preservation stretch across time, geographies, institutions and interpersonal connections, and this book focuses on the fascinating web that supports the fragile yet urgent effort to sustain our dancing heritage. The articles in this book were originally published in the journal Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts.

Selling Sex

Autor: Raelene Frances

Número de Páginas: 356

Provides a history of prostitution in Australia from before European colonisation, and situates this history within an international context of labour migration and policy formation. This work draws on archival research and interviews to chart the ways in which prostitution contributed to women's economic survival and to colonisation.

Preprint of the Annual Report of the Board of Education

Autor: Chicago Public Schools

Número de Páginas: 682

The Writer Laid Bare

Autor: Lee Kofman

Número de Páginas: 366

The Writer Laid Bare is a book for everyone who loves the craft of good writing. Be they a voracious reader wanting to know more or an emerging writer themselves, best-selling author and writing coach Lee Kofman has distilled her wisdom, insight and passion into this guide to writing and emotional honesty. A combination of raw memoir and a professional writing toolkit, Lee examines her own life, rich in story and emotion to reveal how committing to a truthful writing practice helped her conquer writer’s block and develop her own authentic voice. ‘Show don’t tell’ has never been so compelling. Inspired by her popular writing courses, Lee also offers practical advice on drafts, edits and how to achieve a life/writing balance. How combining her writing with motherhood led her to recognise that ‘ the pram in the hall’ issue is real. Plus the ultimate reading list of books you really should read, from Chekhov to Elena Ferrante and Helen Garner. ‘The Writer Laid Bare takes us on an intimate journey into the magical, and often challenging, terrain an author inhabits. Kofman courageously shares with the reader her own probing writerly journey of self-discovery.’ - Leah...

Reclaiming Calliope

Autor: Fides Krucker

Número de Páginas: 322

The practice and politics of the unfettered female voice--reclaiming your power through voice, song, and opera-inspired exercises. For centuries, opera has used women’s voices to convey male stories. Within an art form dominated by men, the female voice is a means to an end: controlled, denatured, and crafted to carry words and intentions that belie the true depth and complexity of the female experience. Here, author and opera singer Fides Krucker shows readers what it means to find--and use--our authentic voice, to sing wildly and uninhibited from the depths of our bodies and spirits. Part memoir, part radical vocal guide, and part feminist call to action, Reclaiming Calliope offers an intriguing look at the rarified world of opera, with fascinating behind-the-scenes details to which outsiders don’t typically have access. Through incisive critique, personal stories, and intriguing exposé, Krucker razes the male gaze that packaged characters like Carmen, Tosca, and La traviata’s Violetta for viewer consumption--and radically envisions an empowered, new way of finding and fueling the authentic female voice. Through a series of breathing and vocal prompts that anyone--not...

Split

Autor: Lee Kofman

Número de Páginas: 276

In this compelling anthology of personal essays, curated by award-winning author Lee Kofman, some of Australia’s most beloved writers reveal, for the first time, powerful, occasionally funny and often heartbreaking stories of significant endings and their aftermath. Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project, shares how he discarded his past – perhaps autistic – self, while comedian Sami Shah writes about his public split from Islam, the religion of his birth. Ramona Koval delves into the bittersweet end to her career at the ABC and Fiona Wright explores how her anorexia has affected her romantic relationships. Whereas Kate Holden suggests that for some, splitting – whether from memorabilia, books or lovers – is unimaginable. Join eighteen acclaimed storytellers in their candid and courageous reflections on the intrinsic human experience of loss and leaving, that acknowledge the price we can often pay for a much-needed end, or new beginning.

A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut

Autor: Samuel Orcutt

Número de Páginas: 932

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