The Art Of Desperation

Author : Megan Nolan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473578500

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Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan Pdf

'Crushing...intensely vital' Observer 'It's impossible to tear yourself away' The Times 'Such brilliant writing about female desire...honest and visceral' Marian Keyes She's twenty-three and in love with love. He's older, and the most beautiful man she's ever seen. The affair is quickly consuming. But this relationship is unpredictable, and behind his perfect looks is a mean streak. She's intent on winning him over, but neither is living up to the other's ideals. He keeps emailing his thin, glamorous ex, and she's starting to give in to secret, shameful cravings of her own. The search for a fix is frantic, and taking a dangerous turn... We're all looking to get what we want - but do we know what we need?

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 067077605X

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Desperation, the Regulators by Stephen King Pdf

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781848940932

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Desperation by Stephen King Pdf

Welcome to Desperation. Once a thriving copper mining town in the middle of the Nevada desert, Desperation is now eerily abandoned. It's the last place that travellers like the Carver family, bound for vacation, and writer Johnny Marinville, astride his Harley, would expect to be stopped and charged. But Desperation still has a local cop - a unique regulator who patrols the wilderness highway. The secrets buried in Desperation are as terrifying as the forces summoned to encounter them. A terrifying transformation is taking place and the travellers will soon discover the true meaning of desperation . . .

Author : Richard Montgomery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798640907391

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The Gift Of Desperation by Richard Montgomery Pdf

The only way for an addict to stop is to hit bottom. But, what if your bottom has a basement? This heroin addict is learning the further you go to get high, the farther you dig down. Every act is desperately insane in The Gift Of Desperation. Follow along with his intense and crazy pursuit of one more high as it leads him into a gripping downward spiral. And discover how the 12 steps of recovery miraculously took that miserable desperation and turned it into absolute gratitude. (Book 2, The Gift Of Gratitude, coming soon!)

Author : Jessica Dorfman Jones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-23
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781416571384

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The Art of Cheating by Jessica Dorfman Jones Pdf

Cheat? ME? Never!!! Well, except that one time... Who says you should always tell the truth? With this handy informational guidebook you can con your way through life -- from finessing your resume, to lying about your age, to getting a date. Whether you've decided to cheat out of sheer desperation or the need to get ahead, The Art of Cheating provides essential tips and guidelines for how to be the ultimate swindler, and how to spot the con artists among us. You'll learn what it takes to be a great cheater, and the pros and cons to every swindle. As a newly minted master of deception, you'll be able to cheat: ¥ On a diet ¥ On your spouse or significant other (or both!) ¥ On your taxes ¥ On standardized tests ¥ Death And more! With clever illustrations and humorous deadpan delivery, The Art ofCheating will have you sleeping your way to the top, faking an illness, and forging someone else's handwriting -- without batting an eye.

Author : Doug Farrar,Louis Riddick
Publisher : Triumph Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781641250825

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The Genius of Desperation by Doug Farrar,Louis Riddick Pdf

If necessity has been the mother of invention throughout the history of professional football, it could also be said that desperation is the father. Rare are the football innovations that have occurred without an owner, general manager, coach, or player up against the wall and reaching for a way to succeed anyway. In this meticulously researched, lively book, Bleacher Report lead NFL scout Doug Farrar traces the schematic history of the pro game through these "if this/then that" moments—paradigm shifts in the game from 1920 through the present. More than just a book about schemes and strategies, The Genius of Desperation: The Schematic Innovations that Made the Modern NFL also tells the stories of the game's most prominent innovators, the adversities they endured, and the ways in which they learned to exceed their own expectations on the path to true greatness. Everyone from George Halas to Greasy Neale, Paul Brown to Sid Gillman, Bill Walsh to Chip Kelly is featured, as well as many more. The Genius of Desperation is a narrative arc through the history of the game as it's never been told before.

Author : Donald J. Trump,Tony Schwartz
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307575333

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Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump,Tony Schwartz Pdf

President Donald J. Trump lays out his professional and personal worldview in this classic work—a firsthand account of the rise of America’s foremost deal-maker. “I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: If you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.”—Donald J. Trump Here is Trump in action—how he runs his organization and how he runs his life—as he meets the people he needs to meet, chats with family and friends, clashes with enemies, and challenges conventional thinking. But even a maverick plays by rules, and Trump has formulated time-tested guidelines for success. He isolates the common elements in his greatest accomplishments; he shatters myths; he names names, spells out the zeros, and fully reveals the deal-maker’s art. And throughout, Trump talks—really talks—about how he does it. Trump: The Art of the Deal is an unguarded look at the mind of a brilliant entrepreneur—the ultimate read for anyone interested in the man behind the spotlight. Praise for Trump: The Art of the Deal “Trump makes one believe for a moment in the American dream again.”—The New York Times “Donald Trump is a deal maker. He is a deal maker the way lions are carnivores and water is wet.”—Chicago Tribune “Fascinating . . . wholly absorbing . . . conveys Trump’s larger-than-life demeanor so vibrantly that the reader’s attention is instantly and fully claimed.”—Boston Herald “A chatty, generous, chutzpa-filled autobiography.”—New York Post

Author : Melody Carlson
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781433679315

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Dating, Dining, and Desperation by Melody Carlson Pdf

A woman required to marry within the next year in order to inherit her eccentric late aunt's sizeable estate finds greater rewards in helping a young, parentless girl than in another round of speed dating.

Author : Heather King
Publisher : Loyola Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780829445152

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Holy Desperation by Heather King Pdf

2019 International Book Awards, Finalist: Christianity 2018 Catholic Press Association Book Awards, Third Place: Prayer, Books about Prayer 2018 Association of Catholic Publishers’ “Excellence in Publishing Awards,” First Place: Inspiration 2018 Association of Catholic Publishers’ “Excellence in Publishing Awards,” BOOK OF THE YEAR When life has driven you to your knees, the only thing that works is prayer. Desperation has many faces: the addict who has hit bottom; the laid-off worker struggling to make the next house payment; the person who seems to have it all together but is wracked with fear, guilt, anger, or shame. We know we need help, but we are afraid to let anyone—especially God—see how broken we truly are. In Holy Desperation, Heather King demonstrates that, when we’re desperate, it’s precisely the right time to cry out to God. King, a survivor of addiction and other forms of desperation, begins with the basics of how to pray when you’re uncertain that God exists or when you feel that you’re beyond God’s reach. She challenges the assumptions that only the saintly can pray and that prayer ought to be tidy and nice. She reveals how prayer leads us beyond ourselves and into a life of purpose, lived for the good of others. Ultimately, Holy Desperation is an invitation to engage in bold, come-exactly-as-you-are prayer, offering a way forward, upward, and outward for anyone desperate enough to cry out for God’s help and presence. You are not alone.

Author : Paula Fox
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 039331894X

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Desperate Characters by Paula Fox Pdf

First published in 1970 to great acclaim, this novel stands as one of the most dazzling and rigorous examples of the storyteller's craft in postwar American literature--a novel that, according to Irving Howe, ranks with "Billy Budd" and "The Great Gatsby".

Author : Caroline Paul
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Cats
ISBN : 9781408835579

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Lost Cat by Caroline Paul Pdf

What do our pets do when they're not with us? Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton used GPS, cat cameras, psychics, and the web to track the adventures of their beloved cat Tibia.

Author : Robin M. Gilliam
Publisher : Booklocker.com
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1632634244

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Gift of Desperation: A Claire Sebastian Novel by Robin M. Gilliam Pdf

Claire Sebastian leads a secret life. By day she is a junior curator at the NMWA in D.C., and by night she likes booze and hot, insatiable men. Tasked with curating a show entitled Art and Healing, Claire begins to face her past. And with the help of her childhood friend Evi, a wounded warrior who returns to D.C., Claire begins her journey of recovery from desperation to hope.

Author : Michael Farris Smith
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316353043

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Desperation Road by Michael Farris Smith Pdf

In the vein of Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone and the works of Ron Rash, a novel set in a tough-and-tumble Mississippi town where drugs, whiskey, guns, and the desire for revenge violently intersect. An Amazon Best Book of the Month An Indie Next Pick A Barnes & Noble Discover Pick A Southern Living Best Southern Book of the Year For eleven years the clock has been ticking for Russell Gaines as he sits in Parchman Penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta. His sentence is now up, and he believes his debt has been paid. But when he returns home, he soon discovers that revenge lives and breathes all around him. On the same day that Russell is released from prison, a woman named Maben and her young daughter trudge along the side of the interstate under the punishing summer sun. Desperate and exhausted, the pair spend their last dollar on a room for the night, a night that ends with Maben running through the darkness holding a pistol, and a dead deputy sprawled in the middle o the road in the glow of his own headlights. With the dawn, destinies collide, and Russell is forced to decide whose life he will save--his own or those of the woman and child. Delivered in powerful and lyrical prose, Desperation Road is a story of troubled souls twisted with regret and bound by secrets that stretch over the years and across the land.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Paddington Press, Limited
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:39000003202673

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The Book of Job by Anonim Pdf

With a new introduction by Michael Marqusee.

Author : Pook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1980603154

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The Book of Pook by Pook Pdf

The complete collection of writings by the legend himself!A few years ago there was a man who posted on a PUA forum called So Suave and had his own blog called Pook's Mill. His basic message was that the PUA techniques were too simple, and focused on external manipulations, and focusing on others rather than focusing on yourself and your own masculinity.Sadly Pook disappeared from the scene, but his teachings live on in this ebook.