Author : Steve Lyons
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 37,71 MB
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1405926368
In Terminal of Despair, the TARDIS crew is quarantined in Terminal 4000, where the hideous Desponds have destroyed the hopes of all awaiting passengers. Can the Doctor and his friends help them without succumbing to despair themselves?
Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 11,88 MB
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0804171297
From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a neurological thriller about the dangers of cutting-edge medical experimentation. Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. So violent that he often blackouts when they take hold. Shortly after severely beating two men during an episode, the police escort Benson to a Los Angeles hospital for treatment. There, Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, is convinced he can cure Benson with an experimental procedure that would place electrodes deep in his brain’s pleasure centers, effectively short-circuiting Harry's seizures with pulses of bliss. The surgery is successful, but while Benson is in recovery, he discovers how to trigger the pulses himself. To make matters worse his violent impulses have only grown, and he soon escapes the hospital with a deadly agenda. . .
Author : Chris Collins
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,91 MB
Release : 2015-09-18
Category :
ISBN : 9780970070333
Each year millions of people find themselves confronted by a word that is as frightening as it is hopeless: Terminal. When author Chris Collins heard it for the first time, her world came crashing down around her. Three months. Apparently she'd had her last Thanksgiving, and not even known it. As the magnitude of the news receded, Chris realized she wasn't willing to accept a death sentence she didn't believe in. After all, if her body had been well once it could learn to be healthy again. And in that defining moment, a Revivor was born. In this guide to striking our own path and taking control of our own destiny, Chris takes us on an inspiring, sometimes heart breaking, and often hilarious journey from the pits of terminal despair to total revitalization. Founded on practical advice and brutally honest anecdotes, "Revivor" is a beam of light for those facing their darkest hour, and an answer to seemingly impossible questions like, "If the hospital treatment fails, then what?". Allow Chris to share with you the bliss of self-belief, and the secret to transforming an expiration date into the start of a whole new beginning.
Author : Nancy Johnson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 22,23 MB
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0063005654
Recommended by O Magazine * GMA * Elle * Marie Claire * Good Housekeeping * NBC News * Shondaland * Chicago Tribune * Woman's Day * Refinery 29 * Bustle * The Millions * New York Post * Parade * Hello! Magazine * PopSugar * and more! “The Kindest Lie is a deep dive into how we define family, what it means to be a mother, and what it means to grow up Black...beautifully crafted.” —JODI PICOULT "A fantastic story...well-written, timely, and oh-so-memorable."—Good Morning America “The Kindest Lie is a layered, complex exploration of race and class." —The Washington Post Every family has its secrets... It’s 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He’s eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to—and was forced to leave behind—when she was a teenager. She had promised her family she’d never look back, but Ruth knows that to move forward, she must make peace with the past. Returning home, Ruth discovers the Indiana factory town of her youth is plagued by unemployment, racism, and despair. As she begins digging into the past, she unexpectedly befriends Midnight, a young white boy who is also adrift and looking for connection. Just as Ruth is about to uncover a burning secret her family desperately wants to keep hidden, a heart-stopping incident strains the town’s already searing racial tensions, sending Ruth and Midnight on a collision course that could upend both their lives. Powerful and unforgettable, The Kindest Lie is the story of an American family and reveals the secrets we keep and the promises we make to protect one another.
Author : Brian Keene
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 11,68 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0553587382
Fated to die young--and soon--Tommy O'Brien enlists the assistance of his best friends, John and Sherm, in a bizarre scheme to provide for his family's future, but his plans spin shockingly out of control, bringing him face to face with a child possessing extraordinary healing power. Original.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Family Practice
ISBN :
Author : Kashyap Patel
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9353058805
Dr Kashyap Patel is a renowned oncologist in the US who works with terminally ill cancer patients. Through him, we meet Harry, who, after a life full of adventure, is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. As he stares death in the face, Harry leans on Dr Patel, an expert in understanding the process of death and dying. His questions and fears are addressed through the stories of many other patients that Dr Patel has treated-from the young and vivacious to those who had already lived full lives, from patients who could barely afford their rent to those who had been wildly successful. What ties these stories together is the single thread of the lessons Harry learns along the way, lessons that ultimately enable him to plan his own exit from the world gracefully-dying without fear.
Author : Susan Sallis
Publisher : Random House
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448109442
Readers of Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Fiona Valpy will simply love this utterly captivating, emotional and memorable novel from The Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis. Readers are loving The Apple Barrel! "A book you can become immersed in and just enjoy" - 5 STARS "Susan Sallis has such an insight into characters - a very moving, interesting story" - 5 STARS "Beautifully written....kept my attention to the end" - 5 STARS "One of those books where you are unaware how long you have been reading! Loved it!" - 5 STARS "A book that you have great difficulty putting down but very sorry when it's finished" - 5 STARS ******************************************************** WHEN FACED WITH BETRAYAL, CAN YOU FIND PEACE? Hope and Jack Langley's marriage gets off to a promising start: they spend their honeymoon in a primitive Cornish cottage called Widdershins and Hope falls in love with the place on sight - even though half of it has fallen down, water has to be pumped by hand and there are no sea views. Soon after they return home to begin married life in a small village outside Gloucester, Hope discovers she is pregnant. And, almost simultaneously, the glamorous Petersens, Henrik and Mandy, move in as new neighbours. Local rumour about the couple is rife: they are rich, they are Norwegian, they aren't married, they give crazy parties. To Hope and Jack, they seem reassuringly normal and kind and soon the two couples became close. With the birth of their second daughter, the Langleys' happiness seems complete. But appearances can be deceptive. The challenges that eventually confront Hope are almost overwhelming, and the only place that offers refuge and peace is her beloved Widdershins.
Author : Kathy Acker
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,19 MB
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802146570
A cyborg and her pirate lover travel through a violent Paris in this “apocalyptic tale that makes A Clockwork Orange look tame” (Publishers Weekly). Originally published in 1988, Empire of the Senseless marked a turning point in Acker’s wild, inimitable style. Considered one of her more accessible works, here Acker candidly addresses her lifelong obsessions: childhood and trauma, language and sexuality, criminality and corruption, oppression and rebellion. Abhor (part human, part robot) and her lover Thivai (a pirate) traverse Paris in a dystopian future, in search of a mysterious drug that Thivai needs in order to maintain his ability to love. Navigating the chaotic city, they encounter mad doctors, prisoners, bikers, sailors, tattooists, terrorists, and prostitutes, while a band of Algerian revolutionaries take over, and the CIA plots to thwart them all. Sexually explicit, graphically violent, Empire of the Senseless resists the desensitizing of cultural consciousness and the disintegration of interpersonal communication. A timeless, prescient parable, it speaks profoundly to our social and political history as well as our present reality. Praise for Empire of the Senseless “[A] complex, high-speed, intensely intellectual, intensely offensive, post-modernist, pained and painful, punk, fantastic, fictional construct and elaborate tattoo of a novel.” —New York Times “Empire of the Senseless is a family romance turned inside out, a twisted re-creation of quest sagas and Bildungsroman and TV sitcoms.” —Philadelphia Enquirer “A world of ugly truths, beautifully expressed. If you care to learn why Kathy Acker is such an important writer, I suggest you put aside your preconceptions, stop making sense, and read this book immediately.” —Alan Moore
Author : Helen Borel
Publisher : Fresh Ink Group
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 2020-01-18
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1947867709
Managing pain with opioids is a science—except politics, money, and overzealous law enforcement are denying American patients the relief they so desperately need. Demonizing the best pain reliever we have leads to needless suffering, even suicides, and it drives the rise in deadly street drugs. Helen Borel gathers and presents the evidence, the intimidation, the raids of clinics, the chilling effect on those very professionals we trust to care for our loved ones and ourselves. She looks hard at the Veterans Administration, Drug Enforcement Agency, Department of Justice, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Chapters include “The Suboxone Hoax,” “The Wrong Arms of the Law,” and “The Epidemic of Death,” plus an entire section on solutions for this widespread crisis. Read American AGONY now—or youmight be the next one hurt.
