Author : Barry Yourgrau
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 12,12 MB
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0062034154
Why would criminals kidnap a cuddly teddy bear? Or monsters attack a kid for picking his nose? 'Cause Nice is overrated
Author : Bert Fegg
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
ISBN : 9780413327406
Author : Dr. XYZ
Publisher : Strebor Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,86 MB
Release : 2010-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781593092627
When a rich divorcée, an ambitious music mogul, and an extremely horny high school virgin cross paths, their insatiable web of lust, obsession, and revenge turns . . . NASTY Beautiful, wealthy, and newly divorced, Nicola is angry with the world over her life’s failures. Determined to destroy everything in her path, she goes on a sexual rampage beginning with one unsuspecting family. She starts up a hot-and-heavy relationship with Carlos, a young music executive with big dreams and an even larger sexual appetite. Then she deflowers Carlos’s wholesome brother, Jonathan, an up-and-coming basketball star. She’s definitely on fire, but the summer is already hot for so many other reasons. . . . Carlos’s mother is unexpectedly reunited with the love of her life. Eli is a recovering substance abuser and the father of her eldest child, Tarik, a talented neo-soul artist on the cusp of greatness. Thanks to Carlos’s expert music management, Tarik was only seconds away from signing a major record deal—but Eli’s unexpected arrival disrupts everything. As the family grows weaker, Nicola can finally be her truly ruthless self.
Author : Cameron White
Publisher : Random House
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 2011-11-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1780573634
Mr Nasty charts the rise, fall and ultimate redemption of a wannabe player in the global narcotics business. From humble beginnings on the streets of London's East End, Cameron White rapidly ascended the drug ladder of London's club scene before notorious local criminals forced him to move to the US. There, he soon found himself aboard a cocaine-fuelled roller-coaster ride, transporting him from encounters with psychotic, crack-dealing Jamaicans in New York to luncheons with Hollywood's glitterati. The American adventure was to reach its inevitable conclusion in a drive-by shooting in the barrios of LA.Back in London, a dull nine-to-five existence did nothing to quell White's narco-inclinations. Cue a chemical vacation in Thailand and an effortless metamorphosis from recreational drug user to fully fledged smack addict in Berlin. White's eventual wake-up call came after he robbed some innocent tourists to feed his heroin habit. Stunned to realise how low he had sunk, he was determined to get clean and his gold-star efforts at rehabilitation were rewarded with an opportunity to start again in Australia. Faced with temptation once more, White's good intentions were to prove short-lived and he slid into the murky world of substance abuse in Sydney. But this time things were different and a gradual but life-defining epiphany rescued White from the edge. Mr Nasty is a thrilling yet cautionary tale of a decade lived within the narcotics underworld. Illuminating both the exciting and destructive sides of such an existence, it is ultimately a testament to how a strong will can sometimes overcome the lure of vice and break the chains of addiction.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 13,38 MB
Release : 1976
Category : English wit and humor
ISBN : 9780425030844
Author : Jaime Cortez
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802158099
This debut story collection “masterfully navigates adverse conditions of migrant life while . . . managing to find joy and amusement, love and triumph” (San Francisco Chronicle). Gordo brings readers inside a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California in the 1970s. At the heart of these interrelated stories is a young, probably gay, boy named Gordo, who must find a way to contend with the notions of manhood imposed on him by his father. As he comes of age, Gordo learns about sex, watches his father’s drunken fights, and discovers even his own documented Mexican-American parents are wary of illegal migrants. We also meet Fat Cookie, high schooler and resident artist who runs away from home one day with her mother’s boyfriend, Manny. And then there are Los Tigres, the twins who show up every season and whose drunken brawl ends with one of them rushed to the emergency room in an upholstered chair tied to the back of a pick-up truck. These scenes from Steinbeck Country are full of humor, family drama, and a sweet frankness about serious questions: Who belongs to America and how are they treated? How does one learn decency when grown adults must fear for their lives and livelihoods? Gordo “announces a vibrant new voice on the literary scene, at once wise and authentic and supremely gifted” (Booklist, starred review). Finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
Author : Lionel Shriver
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 26,33 MB
Release : 2009-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007301758
Following the success of ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin’ and ‘The Post-Birthday World’, ‘Game Control’ is coming back into print after being unavailable for years.
Author : Scott Hershovitz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 22,6 MB
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1984881825
An NPR Best Book of 2022 * One of Christian Science Monitor's 10 best books of May “This amazing new book . . . takes us on a journey through classic and contemporary philosophy powered by questions like ‘What do we have the right to do? When is it okay to do this or that?’ They explore punishment and authority and sex and gender and race and the nature of truth and knowledge and the existence of God and the meaning of life and Scott just does an incredible job.” —Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic Some of the best philosophers in the world gather in surprising places—preschools and playgrounds. They debate questions about metaphysics and morality, even though they’ve never heard the words and perhaps can’t even tie their shoes. They’re kids. And as Scott Hershovitz shows in this delightful debut, they’re astoundingly good philosophers. Hershovitz has two young sons, Rex and Hank. From the time they could talk, he noticed that they raised philosophical questions and were determined to answer them. They re-created ancient arguments. And they advanced entirely new ones. That’s not unusual, Hershovitz says. Every kid is a philosopher. Following an agenda set by Rex and Hank, Hershovitz takes us on a fun romp through classic and contemporary philosophy, powered by questions like, Does Hank have the right to drink soda? When is it okay to swear? and, Does the number six exist? Hershovitz and his boys take on more weighty issues too. They explore punishment, authority, sex, gender, race, the nature of truth and knowledge, and the existence of God. Along the way, they get help from professional philosophers, famous and obscure. And they show that all of us have a lot to learn from listening to kids—and thinking with them. Hershovitz calls on us to support kids in their philosophical adventures. But more than that, he challenges us to join them so that we can become better, more discerning thinkers and recapture some of the wonder kids have at the world.
Author : Nigel Wingrove
Publisher : FAB Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,45 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Exploitation films
ISBN : 9781903254578
A comprehensive collection of video nasty and pre-certificate video sleeves, this text includes over 300 covers from the extreme imagery of SS Experiment Camp and the gross savagery of Cannibal Holocaust to the powerful I Spit on Your Grave.
Author : Caprice Crane
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 25,20 MB
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1250008476
High school was pretty much like this huge party I wasn't actually invited to, but I still had to show up to every day. Hailey Harper has always felt invisible. Now her dad has a new job and the family is moving to Hollywood. Just what Hailey needs: starting a new high school. As she's packing, Hailey finds a journal that belonged to her older sister, Noel, who is away at college. Called "How to be a Hater," it's full of info Hailey can really use. Has Hailey found the Bible of Coolness? Will it help her reinvent herself at her new school? Will her crush notice her? Will she and the other Invisibles dethrone the popular mean girls? After all, they deserve it. Don't they? In Confessions of a Hater, Caprice Crane's funny—and deeply felt—observations about high school, bullies, popularity, friendship, and romance will leave teens thinking . . . and talking.
