Ditch the Doom


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Embark on a Digital Detox and Revitalize Your Life Imagine liberating yourself from the ever-present pull of the smartphone, breaking free from the chains of endless scrolling. "Ditch the Doom: A Journey Away from Endless Scrolling" offers a guiding light out of the tech-induced trance and into a more fulfilling, mindful existence. As we dive into the vortex of the digital world, it's time to ask ourselves: What are we missing while our eyes are glued to our screens? This transformative book isn't just about recognizing the harmful effects of doomscrolling--it's about discovering the joy and richness that life has to offer beyond that bright rectangle in your hand. Within these pages lies a journey to reclaim control from the 'lure of the scroll' you experience daily. By understanding the mechanics behind why we become absorbed in our devices (The Science of the Scroll) and the impact of this habit on our wellbeing (The Impact on Mental Health), we equip ourselves with the knowledge necessary to initiate change. It's easy to overlook the signs of digital dependency (Recognizing the Signs), but this book provides a path to recognition and a way forward to implement immediate, impactful changes. Learn practical strategies for disrupting your scrolling habits with Digital Tools for Digital Rules and Scheduled Breaks from Technology. Explore ways to replace the digital void with activities that nurture your soul and foster human connections (Filling the Void). Create a foundation for your mornings and evenings that serve you, not your phone (Reclaiming the Night and Productive Mornings). Beyond personal betterment, this guide encourages the strengthening of real-life relationships and engagement in community service (Building Stronger Real-World Connections), ensuring your journey enriches not just your own life, but also the lives of those around you. Empower yourself with a 30-Day Challenge that provides actionable steps to transform your digital habits. Start your 30 day challege with us. Take the first directive toward a more mindful, fulfilling life, and put down your phone. The world is waiting for you.




Toward a Theory of True Crime Narratives


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Toward a Theory of True Crime Narratives vivifies how nonfiction murder stories are told, what role they play in society, and in the form of true crime why they remain enduringly popular internationally on every platform. This book establishes for the first time the actual line—or dotted line—between mainstream journalism and the multimedia phenomena of true crime. Presenting a stable definition of what is—and what is not—true crime will either challenge or justify Truman Capote’s claims regarding the creation of a "new journalism" with In Cold Blood, and accordingly expose the reluctance of the promoters of NPR’s Serial, HBO’s The Jinx, and Netflix’s Making a Murderer to refer to their products as such. This research codifies true crime texts of various types on multiple platforms—radio, television, print, digital, and film—to reveal the defining characteristics of the genre.




Savage Art


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Robert Polito recounts Thompson's relationship with his father, a disgraced Oklahoma sheriff, with the women he adored in life and murdered on the page, with alcohol, would-be censors, and Hollywood auteurs. Unrelenting and empathetic, casting light into the darker caverns of our collective psyche, Savage Art is an exemplary homage to an American original. A National Book Critics Circle Award winner. 57 photos.







Syruptown


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His goal is to fall in love, but along the way, he starts cults, becomes a rapper, a true outdoorsman, a leader, a hero of his own time. How do I know all of this? I am the author, Grant H. Fishtruck, and I channel the experiences of this young man, alien, in my dreams. But, what is more important, the dream, or the dreamer? If you want to enjoy this book, go with both at the same time.




Illustrations of English Philology. Consisting of I. A Critical Examination of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary. II. Remarks on Mr. Dugald Stewart's Essay "On the Tendency of Some Late Philological Speculations". To which is Now Added, an Advertisement; Containing Extracts from the English Lexicon, Publishing in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, and from the English Dictionary of Dr. Johnson


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The Pacific Reporter


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The Quick and the Dead


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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • From one of our most heralded writers comes the “poetic, disturbing, yet very funny” (The Washington Post Book World) life-and-death adventures of three misfit teenagers in the American desert. Alice, Corvus, and Annabel, each a motherless child, are an unlikely circle of friends. One filled with convictions, another with loss, the third with a worldly pragmatism, they traverse an air-conditioned landscape eccentric with signs and portents—from the preservation of the living dead in a nursing home to the presentation of the dead as living in a wildlife museum—accompanied by restless, confounded adults. A father lusts after his handsome gardener even as he's haunted (literally) by his dead wife; a heartbroken dog runs afoul of an angry neighbor; a young stroke victim drifts westward, his luck running from worse to awful; a sickly musician for whom Alice develops an attraction is drawn instead toward darker imaginings and solutions; and an aging big-game hunter finds spiritual renewal through his infatuation with an eight-year-old—the formidable Emily Bliss Pickless. With nature thoroughly routed and the ambiguities of existence on full display, life and death continue in directions both invisible and apparent. Gloriously funny and wonderfully serious, The Quick and the Dead limns the vagaries of love, the thirst for meaning, and the peculiar paths by which all creatures are led to their destiny. A panorama of contemporary life and an endlessly surprising tour de force: penetrating and magical, ominous and comic, this is the most astonishing book yet in Joy Williams's illustrious career. Joy Williams belongs, James Salter has written, "in the company of Céline, Flannery O'Connor, and Margaret Atwood."




Fireworks


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Drawn from Thompson's extensive vintage magazine fiction and voluminous unpublished writings is an astonishing array of gritty short stories and two recently discovered novellas, This World, Then the Fireworks and The Expensive Sky.