Life Never Ends Well

Author : Jim Goad
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1530233771

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Life Never Ends Well by Jim Goad Pdf

In painstaking and often painfully funny detail, this book focuses on 500 cases where people died in ironic, unusual, or outright horrifying ways. Whether they died on roller coasters, in wood chippers, by shark bite, answering a Craigslist ad, while texting, in the course of masturbating, or simply because they laughed too hard, this book ties them all together in one big bloody red ribbon. You'll read about severed penises, concert tragedies, kids who killed their parents, moms who killed their kids, women who murdered their husbands, couples who killed for fun, and felonious Santa Clauses. As this book illustrates in lurid detail, death is never fun-but it doesn't have to be boring.

Author : Paulus Hochgatterer
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781623653064

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The Sweetness of Life by Paulus Hochgatterer Pdf

It's the Christmas holiday, the presents have been opened, and a six-year-old girl is drinking cocoa and playing with her grandfather. The doorbell rings, and the old man gets up. The next time the girl sees her grandfather, he is lying by the barn, his skull broken; his face a red pulp against the white snow. From that time on, she does not speak a single word. Along with Detective Superintendent Ludwig Kovacs, Raffael Horn, the psychiatrist engaged to treat the silent child, reluctantly becomes involved in solving the murder. Their parallel researches sweep through the town: a young mother who believes her new-born child is the devil; a Benedictine monk who uses his iPod to drown the voices in his head; a high-spending teenager who tortures cats. With his background as a child psychiatrist, Hochgatterer draws back the veil of normality and presents a disconcerting portrait of a winter-held town filled with unsavory inhabitants.

Author : Tom Scharpling
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781647000325

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It Never Ends by Tom Scharpling Pdf

From cult comedy icon and beloved radio host Tom Scharpling, an inspiring, funny, and thoughtful memoir It Never Ends is Tom Scharpling’s harrowing memoir of his coming of age, a story he has never told before. It’s the heartbreaking account of his attempt at suicide, two stays in a mental hospital, and the memory-wiping electroshock therapy that saved his life. After his rehabilitation, Scharpling committed himself to reinvention through the world of comedy. In this book he will lift the curtain on the turmoil that still follows him, despite all of his accolades and achievements. In the vein of candid memoirs from comedians like Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk with Me and Norm Macdonald's Based on a True Story, It Never Ends is a revealing book by a beloved comedy icon.

Author : Mel Robbins
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780307716743

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Stop Saying You're Fine by Mel Robbins Pdf

This hands-on guide from Mel Robbins, one of America’s top relationship experts and radio/tv personalities, addresses why over 100 million Americans secretly feel frustrated and bored with their lives and reveals what you can do about it. Mel Robbins has spent her career teaching people how to push past their self-imposed limits to get what they truly desire. She has an in-depth understanding of the psychological and social factors that repeatedly hold you back, and more important, a unique set of tools for getting you where you want to be. In Stop Saying You’re Fine, she draws on neuroscientific research, interviews with countless everyday people, and ideas she’s tested in her own life to show what works and what doesn’t. The key, she explains, is understanding how your own brain works against you. Because evolution has biased your mental gears against taking action, what you need are techniques to outsmart yourself. That may sound impossible, but Mel has created a remarkably effective method to help you do just that--and some of her discoveries will astonish you. By ignoring how you feel and seizing small moments of rich possibility--a process she calls “leaning in”--you can make tiny course directions add up to huge change. Among this book’s other topics: how everything can depend on not hitting the “snooze” button; the science of connecting with other people, what children can teach us about getting things done; and why five seconds is the maximum time you should wait before acting on a great idea. Blending warmth, humor and unflinching honesty with up-to-the-minute science and hard-earned wisdom, Stop Saying You’re Fine moves beyond the platitudes and easy fixes offered in many self-help books. Mel’s insights will actually help vault you to a better life, ensuring that the next time someone asks how you’re doing, you can truthfully answer, “Absolutely great.”

Author : Claudia Williams
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781973693727

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Daily Devotions for a Great Life by Claudia Williams Pdf

Honoring God by giving Him first place is an incredible way to greet the day! Start each day immersed in the loving words of God. Matthew 5:12-16 reminds us to be salt and light in this world. As light, the Daily Devotions for a Great Life shines rays of biblical truths into everyday life. As salt, these daily devotions add to the flavor of life with sustaining power and fullness from the word of God. Take the opportunity as salt and light, to make this a great life! Devotional reading, writing, and reflecting instill knowledge of God’s love deep within our souls. Gain new insight and perspective with each iteration of scripture. Reflecting on the loving words of our Creator gives spiritual insight that invites God to walk beside us on an extraordinary journey into the deeper recesses of our souls. Listen to what God is revealing and write it down in the space provided on each page. If you don’t write your thoughts down, they will, like a beautiful butterfly, flutter away as quickly as they appeared. Putting pen to paper helps capture spiritual insights that reveal a sharpened self-awareness and keener purpose. Journaling spiritual awareness allows us to imagine possibilities, experience the unknown, and achieve the success of biblical proportions. Regular reflective writing fosters a greater understanding of complex issues, increases creativity to find solutions, and strengthens our resolve. Journaling biblical insight is mysteriously good medicine for our hearts, lives, and future. The Daily Planner for a Great Life was written as a companion to this devotional. It is a great resource to use alongside Daily Devotions for a Great Life to organize daily priorities as they are revealed according to His will. Do you crave the richness of life that God deeply desires for you? This is the message you need.

Author : David Samuel Levinson
Publisher : Hogarth
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451496898

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Tell Me How This Ends Well by David Samuel Levinson Pdf

Why is tonight different from all other nights? Tonight we kill dad. In 2022, American Jews face an increasingly unsafe and anti-Semitic landscape at home. Against this backdrop, the Jacobson family gathers for Passover in Los Angeles. But their immediate problems are more personal than political, with the three adult children, Mo, Edith, and Jacob, in various states of crisis, the result, each claims, of a lifetime of mistreatment by their father, Julian. The siblings have begun to suspect that Julian is hastening their mother Roz's demise, and years of resentment boil over as they debate whether to go through with the real reason for their reunion: an ill-considered plot to end their father’s iron rule for good. That is, if they can put their bickering, grudges, festering relationships, and distrust of one another aside long enough to act. And God help them if their mother finds out . . . Tell Me How This Ends Well presents a blistering and prescient vision of the near future, turning the exploits of one very funny, very troubled family into a rare and compelling exploration of the state of America, and what it could become.

Author : Eduardo González
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807877135

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Cuba and the Tempest by Eduardo González Pdf

In a unique analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country's borders, Eduardo Gonzalez looks closely at the work of three of the most important contemporary Cuban authors to write in the post-1959 diaspora: Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005), who left Cuba for good in 1965 and established himself in London; Antonio Benitez-Rojo (1931-2005), who settled in the United States; and Leonardo Padura Fuentes (b. 1955), who still lives and writes in Cuba. Through the positive experiences of exile and wandering that appear in their work, these three writers exhibit what Gonzalez calls "Romantic authorship," a deep connection to the Romantic spirit of irony and complex sublimity crafted in literature by Lord Byron, Thomas De Quincey, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In Gonzalez's view, a writer becomes a belated Romantic by dint of exile adopted creatively with comic or tragic irony. Gonzalez weaves into his analysis related cinematic elements of myth, folktale, and the grotesque that appear in the work of filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock and Pedro Almodovar. Placing the three Cuban writers in conversation with artists and thinkers from British and American literature, anthropology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and cinema, Gonzalez ultimately provides a space in which Cuba and its literature, inside and outside its borders, are deprovincialized.

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307957337

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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Pdf

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Author : T. D. Allman
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813047515

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Miami by T. D. Allman Pdf

With trenchant observations and witty prose, T. D. Allman takes readers on a tour of Miami's people, cultures, politics, and neighborhoods. In doing so he lays out a portrait of the profound changes overtaking American life everywhere. This twenty-fifth-anniversary edition remains a classic guide to a city teeming with money, exotic cargo, illegal drugs, and immigrants from all corners of the globe. As readers of this long-time bestseller have always appreciated, this also is a prophetic book--describing an emerging new America that, today, is all around us, whatever city or suburb or gated community we call home.

Author : Steve Whiteman
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781665700702

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Corbett by Steve Whiteman Pdf

Young coal wagoner, Corbett Jones, has a bright future ahead of him. He’s got a good job and the love of a beautiful girl, when he is struck with an unspeakable tragedy. In one bloody afternoon, he loses everyone he loves. Adrift in a sea of terrible grief, he seeks out his one remaining family member, the embarrassing father he barely knows. Befriended by a tiny miner, a mothering prostitute and a powerful mine owner, Corbett navigates his way through trauma and into manhood. He discovers a love of reading and seeks to further his education. He is attractive to women but keeps them at a distance. To him, love equals death. Will he be able to put his tragic past behind him to find love again? Will the search for that love push him into ranching or will his love of reading propel him into being a schoolmaster? From the mining country of southern Colorado to the logging camps of Northern Oregon, Corbett ranges across the landscape of the West in the late nineteenth century. He faces danger and adversity every step of the way, trying to become the man his father never was. Although he is devastated by loss, he battles a tremendous set of obstacles to achieve his destiny. Will his path always be a lonely one? Will the guilty constraints of his broken heart ease enough to allow him to love again?

Author : Jeff Hillary
Publisher : Nowadays Orange Productions LLC
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Great Platypus Caper & Other Hilarious Misadventures: an unreliable autobiography by Jeff Hillary Pdf

THE GREAT PLATYPUS CAPER & OTHER HILARIOUS MISADVENTURES is a collection of short autobiographical stories that are often humorous, occasionally thought-provoking, and at times uplifting. It is filled with tales of situations spiraling wildly out of control, but at the end holds a message of hope for anyone who ever considered themselves an outcast or misfit. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and hopefully you'll buy copies for everyone you know.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858020800581

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The Works of William Shakespeare: All's well that ends well by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Mary Harrell-Sesniak
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781794788138

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Where There's A Will, There's Always A Genealogist! by Mary Harrell-Sesniak Pdf

Whether you are a serious or casual genealogist or looking for the perfect gift for a family historian, you'll enjoy blogger and genealogy columnist Mary Harrell-Sesniak's "Where there's a will, there's always a genealogist!" Inside you'll find a broad selection of historical genealogy humor alongside original quips and quotes. So take a break from your family history research and enjoy laughing at genealogy!

Author : Jr. D. Min Henry C. Blount
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781480911321

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Living Faithfully in the Age of Terror by Jr. D. Min Henry C. Blount Pdf

In this collection of essays and articles, including sermons and columns written for the Cen-La Focus, Henry C. Blount, Jr. D. Min walks us through his faith and unique way of seeing the world. Wise, worldly, and always quick with a quote or a witticism, these are meditations on life in a time of uncertainty that will bring comfort to anyone seeking it. Living Faithfully in the Age of Terror is the culmination of a lifetime of study, and brings together the experience of a man who has counseled families for decades. It offers Blount’s spin on subjects from displaying Grace to thumping watermelons, truly demonstrating his commitment to a “dynamic” Christianity that seeks truth wherever it may turn up – sometimes the most unlikely places.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781468920659

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Spiritual Obedience by Anonim Pdf