Tales From The Asylum

Author : Joe Pantoliano
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1602861994

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Asylum by Joe Pantoliano Pdf

Most people know Joe Pantoliano from his memorable roles in The Sopranos, The Goonies, The Matrix, The Fugitive, and Risky Business, but the Emmy-winning artist has another important role—as an outspoken advocate for smashing the stigma of mental illness, or mental “dis-ease” as he prefers to call it. As a kid in Hoboken, New Jersey, he was just “Joey Pants,” the son of a fiercely controlling, schizophrenic mother. As he grew up, Joey always knew he was different. “It was as if I was born with a huge hole inside of me,” he writes. Much later in life he would be diagnosed with clinical depression, and now he has a message for the millions of people who suffer from mental illness, and for the friends and family who care for them: you are not alone. Asylum is the story of Joe’s Hollywood success, his undiagnosed mental illness, and substance abuse, and how all three led to his awareness, diagnosis, recovery, and public activism. Picking up where his first memoir, Who’s Sorry Now, left off, this unflinching memoir will resonate with victims of mental illness and others who have witnessed its devastating effects and will give all his readers understanding and hope for the future.

Author : Jocelynn Drake
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062117892

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Dead Man's Deal by Jocelynn Drake Pdf

Dead Man's Deal by Jocelynn Drake continues the dark and dangerous adventures of a magical tattoo artist begun in Angel's Ink. In a gritty urban fantasy world where elves, faeries, trolls, werewolves, and vampires swim free in a sea of humanity, sometimes you need an edge. Looking for a little love? Need some luck? Desperate for revenge? Gage can give you what you need. The most talented tattoo artist in town, he knows the right symbol and the right mix of ingredients and ink to achieve your heart's desire. One tattoo is all it takes. But remember, everything has its price. The wizards know Gage is using forbidden magic, and they intend to punish him for his transgressions. Too bad if innocent humans and monsters—entire cities—get in the way. They will quell a nascent magical uprising and Gage will be the sacrifice they need. First, though, they have to find him.

Author : Simon Doonan
Publisher : Blue Rider Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780399173714

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The Asylum by Simon Doonan Pdf

"Humorous essays about the fashion industry"--

Author : Alan Grant
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:T0142800015001

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Batman: Arkham Asylum - Tales of Madness (1998-) #1 by Alan Grant Pdf

When the quake strikes Gotham, Arkham Asylum closes up tight as a drum. Freed from their cells, the inmates have taken a rookie guard hostage as part of a devious contest: whoever tells the scariest tale "wins" the guard…to do with him as they wish.

Author : Madeleine Roux
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062220981

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Asylum by Madeleine Roux Pdf

Madeleine Roux's New York Times bestselling Asylum is a thrilling and creepy photo-illustrated novel that Publishers Weekly called "a strong YA debut that reveals the enduring impact of buried trauma on a place." For sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, the New Hampshire College Prep program is the chance of a lifetime. Except that when Dan arrives, he finds that the usual summer housing has been closed, forcing students to stay in the crumbling Brookline Dorm. The dorm was formerly a sanatorium, more commonly known as an asylum. And not just any asylum—a last resort for the criminally insane. As Dan and his new friends Abby and Jordan start exploring Brookline's twisty halls and hidden basement, they uncover disturbing secrets about what really went on at Brookline . . . secrets that link Dan and his friends to the asylum's dark past. Because Brookline was no ordinary asylum, and there are some secrets that refuse to stay buried. Featuring found photographs from real asylums and filled with chilling mystery and page-turning suspense, Asylum is a horror story that treads the line between genius and insanity, perfect for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Don't miss any of the books in the Asylum series, or Madeleine Roux's shivery fantasy series, House of Furies!

Author : Katherine Sanger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0971586055

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Tales from the Asylum by Katherine Sanger Pdf

Author : Ali Smith,Marina Lewycka,Patience Agbabi,Jade Amoli-Jackson,Chris Cleave,Stephen Collis,Inua Ellams,Abdulrazak Gurnah,David Herd,Avaes Mohammed,Hubert Moore,Dragan Todorovic,Carol Watts,Michael Zand
Publisher : Comma Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781910974230

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Refugee Tales by Ali Smith,Marina Lewycka,Patience Agbabi,Jade Amoli-Jackson,Chris Cleave,Stephen Collis,Inua Ellams,Abdulrazak Gurnah,David Herd,Avaes Mohammed,Hubert Moore,Dragan Todorovic,Carol Watts,Michael Zand Pdf

Two unaccompanied children travel across the Mediterranean in an overcrowded boat that has been designed to only make it halfway across… A 63-year-old man is woken one morning by border officers ‘acting on a tip-off’ and, despite having paid taxes for 28 years, is suddenly cast into the detention system with no obvious means of escape… An orphan whose entire life has been spent in slavery – first on a Ghanaian farm, then as a victim of trafficking – writes to the Home Office for help, only to be rewarded with a jail sentence and indefinite detention… These are not fictions. Nor are they testimonies from some distant, brutal past, but the frighteningly common experiences of Europe’s new underclass – its refugees. While those with ‘citizenship’ enjoy basic human rights (like the right not to be detained without charge for more than 14 days), people seeking asylum can be suspended for years in Kafka-esque uncertainty. Here, poets and novelists retell the stories of individuals who have direct experience of Britain’s policy of indefinite immigration detention. Presenting their accounts anonymously, as modern day counterparts to the pilgrims’ stories in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, this book offers rare, intimate glimpses into otherwise untold suffering.

Author : Monica Ali,Lisa Appignanesi,David Constantine,Bernardine Evaristo,Patrick Gale,Abdulrazak Gurnah,David Herd,Emma Parsons,Ian Sansom,Jonathan Skinner,Gillian Slovo,Lytton Smith,Roma Tearne,Jonathan Wittenberg
Publisher : Comma Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781912697120

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Refugee Tales: Volume III by Monica Ali,Lisa Appignanesi,David Constantine,Bernardine Evaristo,Patrick Gale,Abdulrazak Gurnah,David Herd,Emma Parsons,Ian Sansom,Jonathan Skinner,Gillian Slovo,Lytton Smith,Roma Tearne,Jonathan Wittenberg Pdf

With nationalism and the far right on the rise across Europe and North America, there has never been a more important moment to face up to what we, in Britain, are doing to those who seek sanctuary. Still the UK detains people indefinitely under immigration rules. Bail hearings go unrecorded, people are picked up without notice, individuals feel abandoned in detention centres with no way of knowing when they will be released. In Refugee Tales III we read the stories of people who have been through this process, many of whom have yet to see their cases resolved and who live in fear that at any moment they might be detained again. Poets, novelists and writers have once again collaborated with people who have experienced detention, their tales appearing alongside first-hand accounts by people who themselves have been detained. What we hear in these stories are the realities of the hostile environment, the human costs of a system that disregards rights, that denies freedoms and suspends lives. ‘We hear so many of the wrong words about refugees – ugly, limiting, unimaginative words – that it feels like a gift to find here so many of the right words which allow us to better understand the lives around us, and our own lives too.’ – Kamila Shamsie All profits go to the Gatwick Detainee Welfare Group and Kent Help for Refugees.

Author : Karen Coles
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781787395169

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The Asylum by Karen Coles Pdf

Perfect for fans of The Familiars and The Glass House, this is the intoxicating story of one woman's fight for freedom in Victorian England. ????? 'Outstanding gothic psychological thriller!' ????? 'Fantastic character and fantastic story. Buy this book' ????? 'Beautifully written and incredibly addictive' ????? 'I can’t stop thinking about it' ___________ WHO IS MAUD LOVELL AND WHERE HAS SHE COME FROM? Maud has been at Angelton Lunatic Asylum for 5 years. She has no memory of her past or how she came to be here. They say she is violent and unstable, hysterical and untrustworthy. But when she's hypnotised, the memories come flooding back. And now it's time for revenge. Welcome to Angelton Lunatic Asylum. Once you're in, it's murder getting out . . . ___________ PRAISE FOR THE ASYLUM: 'Haunting and mesmerising' – Essie Fox, author of The Last Days of Leda Grey 'Vivid, disturbing and visceral, The Asylum is this year's must-read!' – Ruby Speechley, author of A Mother Like You 'This twisty rollercoaster story made me desperate for Maud's salvation and yearn for her revenge. Utterly compelling' – Kerry Fisher, author of The Woman I Was Before 'Evocative, menacing and darkly sinister. A brilliantly executed gothic thriller that will leave you breathless' – Jane Isaac, international bestselling crime fiction author 'A historic novel that seethes with claustrophobia, trauma and thoughts of revenge. What a sophisticated and gripping tale' – Fiona Mitchell, author of The Swap

Author : Jocelynn Drake
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062117861

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Angel's Ink by Jocelynn Drake Pdf

“A lot of fun, with a whole new take on the dark urban fantasy. Bright and breezy, with fascinating characters, and a background with hidden depths. Drake puts the ink in incredible.” —Simon R. Green “Angel’s Ink is an other-earthly blend of magic and technology in the best tradition of urban fantasy that refused to let me go. The continuing Asylum Tales promise to be intriguing and wildly inventive.” —Kim Harrison “Gritty, authentic and fast-paced! This urban fantasy series rocks!” —J.R. Ward The superstars of urban fantasy agree—Angel’s Ink, the first book in Jocelyn Drake’s Asylum Tales is a winner! Genre fans who know—and love—Drake’s phenomenal, New York Times bestselling Dark Days novels will be blown away by this dark and seductive new series. Meet Gage, a magical tattoo artist trying to remain hidden and alive in a world where elves, faeries, trolls, werewolves, and vampires mingle freely with humans, and warlocks and witches rule the roost with merciless cruelty. Angel’s Ink indelibly marks the beginning of something phenomenal and every reader whose tastes run to the supernatural—those who can’t wait to sink their teeth into the latest Patricia Briggs, Carrie Vaughn, Kelley Armstrong, or Jim Butcher—will want to fly with this Angel.

Author : Peggy Christie,December Lace,Shad Kelly,J. M. Van Horn,Jerrod Smelker,Justin Holley,Greal Lakes Horror Writers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1729452582

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Erie Tales 11 by Peggy Christie,December Lace,Shad Kelly,J. M. Van Horn,Jerrod Smelker,Justin Holley,Greal Lakes Horror Writers Pdf

What better place to set a horror story than in an asylum?Don't worry, you are not going to get a slew of ghosts haunting abandoned sites stories (although there may be one or two). The authors in this volume explore the dark history of some institutions and the dark nature of humanity.

Author : Jocelynn Drake
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062351531

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Demon's Fury by Jocelynn Drake Pdf

Jocelynn Drake continues her successful Asylum Tales urban fantasy series with Demon’s Fury, set in a world where elves, faeries, trolls, werewolves, and vampires walk free alongside humanity. Powerful warlock and tattoo artist Gage has managed to escape the magical Ivory Towers who terrorize the rest of humans and monsters—but at a price. Now he must join forces with his nemesis, Gideon, to stop an unknown entity who is using old magic to commit gruesome murders. And as if that’s not keeping him busy enough, an investigator recruits Gage to help her track a killer … who may be targeting tattoo artists.

Author : Ashley Hodges Bazer
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1449762247

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Asylum by Ashley Hodges Bazer Pdf

Ghost captain Chase Leighton’s wife, Trista, is captured by the Progressive Legacy and arrested for her affiliation with the Ghosts. Though publicly pronounced dead, she is handed over to the Legacy’s Experimental Medicine Agency. Chase searches for her, despite the news that she’s been executed. He and his men are ambushed and sentenced to the Straightjacket, a ship-based facility for the criminally insane. Systems analyst Krissa Carlisle is temporarily assigned to the ship to fix their computers. As she is working, Chase and the other inmates riot, taking Krissa as their prisoner. But when Chase comes face-to-face with Krissa, he recognizes her … as Trista.

Author : Katherine Sanger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0971586063

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Tales from the Asylum by Katherine Sanger Pdf

Author : Ralph Bonner
Publisher : E-Booktime, LLC
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1932701257

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Tales from the Asylum (School) by Ralph Bonner Pdf

Stories about people and the situations they get themselves into. The environment is the college-level schools I've taught in for the last forty years. Fellow teachers, students, and administrators all have stories to tell. Life is like an Opera with happiness, sadness, confrontations, treachery, intrigue, sex (usually implicitly), handicaps, and surprise, sometimes all at once! All that is needed is music to make an Opera! Being an Aquarius, I am fascinated by what makes people tick!