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The Diary of an Old Drunk

Author : George Bothamley
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781788036542

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The Diary of an Old Drunk by George Bothamley Pdf

“Folks round here call me all kinds of things. They call me a waster, a good for nothing, a drunk. All sorts. And I don’t really mind...” The Diary of an Old Drunk is a book unlike any other: it is a fictional autobiography, a biography, a work of philosophy and a poem. Despite being an imaginary account of the story of a life spent on the street, it gives a very real and poignant insight into the experiences of an outcast and outsider of society. Highlights include poems about nothing, meditations on loneliness, theories of how life is a casino, and heaven is a bar, and even humorous interludes of the little victories that momentarily brighten life on the streets. There are also a number of short stories, where the ‘old drunk’ reminisces about his troubled past, giving clues as how he came to be in the position he is in, and confessing two pivotal romantic affairs – one with a tragic young girl named Chesca, and the other with a troubled prostitute named Grace. The Diary of an Old Drunk is a book of tragedy and pain, but also of great depth and sensitivity. The narrator of the work – known only as the ‘old drunk’ – is a charismatic and engaging writer whose honesty will touch your heart, and whose way of expressing will make you feel as if you are right there on the streets with him.

Drinking Diaries

Author : Caren Osten Gerszberg,Leah Odze Epstein
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781580054676

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Drinking Diaries by Caren Osten Gerszberg,Leah Odze Epstein Pdf

Whether you drink it or not, alcohol is likely a potent part of your life: our culture is saturated in it. Ask any woman you know to tell you a drinking story, and she’ll come up with one—in fact, she may even come up with five. With friends and with coworkers, at date night and at ladies' night, and on special occasions ranging from Valentine’s Day to the Super Bowl, we encounter alcohol—yet when it comes to discussing the nature of our relationship with drinking, few of us do so honestly and openly. In Drinking Diaries, editors Leah Odze Epstein and Caren Osten Gerszberg take women's drinking stories out of the closet and into the light. Whether it’s shame, sober sex, and relapsing, or college drinking, bonding, and comparing the benefits of pot vs. booze, no topic related to alcohol is off limits in this illuminating anthology. With contributions from celebrated writers including Jacquelyn Mitchard, Daphne Merkin, Kathryn Harrison, Ann Hood, Ann Leary, Pam Houston, Jane Friedman, Elissa Schappell, Asra Nomani, Priscilla Warner, Rita Williams, and Joyce Maynard, Drinking Diaries is a candid look at the pleasures and pains of drinking, and the many ways in which it touches women’s lives.

The Sober Diaries

Author : Clare Pooley
Publisher : Coronet
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781473661882

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BY THE AUTHOR OF NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE AUTHENTICITY PROJECT, THE BRAVE AND FUNNY MEMOIR THAT IS CHANGING LIVES. How one mother gave up drinking and started living. This is Bridget Jones Dries Out. Clare Pooley is a Cambridge graduate and was a Managing Partner at one of the world's biggest advertising agencies, and yet by eighteen months ago she'd become an overweight, depressed, middle-aged mother of three who was drinking more than a bottle of wine a day, and spending her evenings Googling 'Am I an alcoholic?' In a desperate bid to turn her life around, she quit drinking and started a blog. She called it Mummy Was a Secret Drinker. This book is the story of a year in Clare's life. A year that started with her quitting booze having been drinking more than a bottle of wine every day. It sees her starting a hugely successful blog, then getting and beating breast cancer. By the end of the year she is booze free and cancer free, two stone lighter and with a life that is so much richer, healthier and more rewarding than ever before. Sober Diaries is an upbeat, funny and positive look at how to live life to the full. Interwoven within Clare's own very personal and frank story is research and advice, and answers to questions like: How do I know if I'm drinking too much? How will I cope at parties? What do I say to friends and family? How do I cope with cravings? Will I lose weight? What if my partner still drinks? And many more.

Diary of a D.U.I. Victim

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781490784557

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Diary of a D.U.I. Victim by Anonymous Pdf

My brave wife is a victim of a DUI collision, a common tragedy Americans suffer and tolerate. Why? Americans are conditioned by perception management to crave alcohol! The culinary industry insists beer, wine, or a cocktail is necessary before, during, and after a meal. Advertisers feature star athletes and Hollywood celebrities to extoll the youthful pleasure of liquor. College curriculumdrink and be merry. Auto insurance agencies defend the drunk driver. The courts practice a catch and release rule of law for DUI crime. Politicians legislate DUI leniency. The public accepts the inevitability and unpredictability of the drunk driver, like a bad weather disaster. DUI victims are crybabies paying slick lawyers to exploit the system for undeserved reward. The truth is American DUI victims suffer, denied justice and restitution for injury. The drunk driver regains the privilege of driving, celebrates with a cocktail. Watching the game, the sport stars hawk a new brew. God bless the highway victims.

Diary of an Oxygen Thief

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501157868

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Diary of an Oxygen Thief by Anonymous Pdf

Hurt people hurt people. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer’s assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. He’s blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel, but above all, a very realistic account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us.

The End of My Addiction

Author : Olivier Ameisen
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-23
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781429949736

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The End of My Addiction by Olivier Ameisen Pdf

"After years of battling uncontrollable addiction, I have achieved the supposedly impossible: complete freedom from craving." Dr. Olivier Ameisen was a brilliant cardiologist on the staff at one of America's top teaching hospitals and running his own successful practice when he developed a profound addiction to alcohol. He broke bones with no memory of falling; he nearly lost his kidneys; he almost died from massive seizures during acute withdrawal. He gave up his flourishing practice and, fearing for his life, immersed himself in Alcoholics Anonymous, rehab, therapy, and a variety of medications. Nothing worked. So he did the only thing he could: he took his treatment into his own hands. Searching for a cure for his deadly disease, he happened upon baclofen, a muscle relaxant that had been used safely for years as a treatment for various types of muscle spasticity, but had more recently shown promising results in studies with laboratory animals addicted to a wide variety of substances. Dr. Ameisen prescribed himself the drug and experimented with increasingly higher dosages until he finally reached a level high enough to leave him free of any craving for alcohol. That was more than five years ago. Alcoholism claims three hundred lives per day in the United States alone; one in four U.S. deaths is attributable to alcohol, tobacco, or illegal drugs. Baclofen, as prescribed under a doctor's care, could possibly free many addicts from tragic and debilitating illness. But as long as the medical and research establishments continue to ignore a cure for one of the most deadly diseases in the world, we won't be able to understand baclofen's full addiction-treatment potential. The End of My Addiction is both a memoir of Dr. Ameisen's own struggle and a groundbreaking call to action—an urgent plea for research that can rescue millions from the scourge of addiction and spare their loved ones the collateral damage of the disease.

Belfast Diary

Author : John Conroy
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807002193

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Belfast Diary by John Conroy Pdf

Resolution of intractable problems around the world requires understanding ordinary people as well as leaders. This street-level view of Northern Ireland provides the best explanation of the twenty-five-year conflict.

Travel Diary - Bolivia

Author : Michael Hilburn
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781412019095

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Travel Diary - Bolivia by Michael Hilburn Pdf

Travel Diary: Bolivia is a travel guidebook with a slant. It uses personal travelogues from people's trips to Bolivia. By reading these travelogues, one can gain a greater perspective on the culture and customs of a country and they can also see the places that the author enjoyed (or didn't enjoy) visiting. The book is best used in conjunction with a 'regular' travel guide, which provides the basic information for travelers, like hotel and restaurant information. But Travel Diary: Bolivia will give you information on actual visits to some restaurants and hotels and can steer you towards good places to dine and sleep and it can help you avoid the bad places. Many people enjoy reading travelogues before visiting foreign countries, but it is very difficult to print and carry this information with you. Travel Diary: Bolivia allows you to have access to the information found only in those travelogues by printing the travelogues in a paperback format, which is easy to carry and convenient for the traveler.

The Diary of A Saint

Author : Arlo Bates
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752335576

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Reproduction of the original: The Diary of A Saint by Arlo Bates

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Author : Sherman Alexie
Publisher : Random House
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781448188567

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Pdf

An all-new edition of the tragicomic smash hit which stormed the New York Times bestseller charts, now featuring an introduction from Markus Zusak. In his first book for young adults, Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. This heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written tale, featuring poignant drawings that reflect the character's art, is based on the author's own experiences. It chronicles contemporary adolescence as seen through the eyes of one Native American boy. 'Excellent in every way' Neil Gaiman Illustrated in a contemporary cartoon style by Ellen Forney.

A Stupid Boys Diary

Author : Jason-James Johnson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781471073441

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A Stupid Boys Diary by Jason-James Johnson Pdf

ItÕs a good bet you donÕt know me. But who wouldnÕt want to read somebody elseÕs diary? At the time of starting this project, my first thoughts (If IÕm honest) were only real losers keep diaries. But the more I thought about it, the more appealing and cooler it sounded. I - Jason James JohnsonÉ..The Diary Keeper! It sounded mysterious, it sounded exotic (almost). Maybe I would gain some form of super-power, and wherever I walk in the future diaries will fling towards me. The secrets I would find out would be amazing! So here it is - My diary as such; or more of a record of crazy events that happened over the course of a year. Enjoy.

The Diary of Charles Holme's 1889 Visit to Japan and North America with Mrs Lasenby Liberty's Japan: A Photographic Record

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789004213166

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The Diary of Charles Holme's 1889 Visit to Japan and North America with Mrs Lasenby Liberty's Japan: A Photographic Record by Anonim Pdf

Charles Holme’s detailed record of his travels through Japan, including the homeward journey via the west coast of the US and Canada, is published here for the first time, together with all fifty plates from the original limited edition of his companion Emma Liberty’s Japan, A Pictorial Record, with commentaries – a rare archive.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934–1939

Author : Anaïs Nin
Publisher : HMH
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1970-03-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547543628

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The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934–1939 by Anaïs Nin Pdf

The second volume of “one of the most remarkable diaries in the history of letters” (Los Angeles Times). Beginning with the author’s arrival in New York, this diary recounts Anaïs Nin’s work as a psychoanalyst, and is filled with the stories of her analytical patients—as well as her musings over the challenges facing the artist in the modern world. The diary of this remarkably daring and candid woman provides a deeply intimate look inside her mind, as well as a fascinating chapter in her tumultuous life in the latter years of the 1930s.

The Diary of P.O. Jones

Author : C.J. Messina
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456072087

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The Diary of P.O. Jones by C.J. Messina Pdf

What is the meaning of life? Why do circumstances and situations turn out the way they do? Why did the terrorists on 9/11 commit their actions? Come explore one man's journey as he is confronted with these issues during his six months at the N.Y. City Police Academy during 2001.

The Timewaster Diaries

Author : Robin Cooper
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780751570304

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The Timewaster Diaries by Robin Cooper Pdf

Rita fell down the stairs at twenty-two minutes past midnight.' Robin Cooper, author of The Timewaster Letters, turns his hand to diary writing in this hilarious new novel. The year starts badly for Robin, who is fired for writing too many letters on company time, and for his wife Rita, who sprains her ankle (yet again). But Robin has a cunning plan - his marrying of the crossword and Sudoku into his devilish 'crossoku' - which might just make their fortune...