After Everybody Else Gave Up
Title | After Everybody Else Gave Up PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Priest |
Publisher | Page Publishing Inc |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2020-11-05 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 1684094534 |
“After Everybody Else Gave Up” provides an operational description of a supervised exercise training program in service since 1994 at a university in Texas. The trainers are undergraduate kinesiology students who have volunteered to provide special physical activities for individuals who have various degrees of weakness or paralysis from injury or disease. Having successfully completed studies in anatomy, exercise physiology, motor learning, adaptive and corrective exercise, thera
Devolution
Title | Devolution PDF eBook |
Author | Max Brooks |
Publisher | Del Rey |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2020-06-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1984826794 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The #1 New York Times bestselling author of World War Z is back with “the Bigfoot thriller you didn’t know you needed in your life, and one of the greatest horror novels I’ve ever read” (Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter and Recursion). FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined . . . until now. The journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing—and too earth-shattering in its implications—to be forgotten. In these pages, Max Brooks brings Kate’s extraordinary account to light for the first time, faithfully reproducing her words alongside his own extensive investigations into the massacre and the legendary beasts behind it. Kate’s is a tale of unexpected strength and resilience, of humanity’s defiance in the face of a terrible predator’s gaze, and, inevitably, of savagery and death. Yet it is also far more than that. Because if what Kate Holland saw in those days is real, then we must accept the impossible. We must accept that the creature known as Bigfoot walks among us—and that it is a beast of terrible strength and ferocity. Part survival narrative, part bloody horror tale, part scientific journey into the boundaries between truth and fiction, this is a Bigfoot story as only Max Brooks could chronicle it—and like none you’ve ever read before. Praise for Devolution “Delightful . . . [A] tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “The story is told in such a compelling manner that horror fans will want to believe and, perhaps, take the warning to heart.”—Booklist (starred review)
Everybody (Else) Is Perfect
Title | Everybody (Else) Is Perfect PDF eBook |
Author | Gabrielle Korn |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2021-01-26 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1982127783 |
From the former editor-in-chief of Nylon comes a provocative and intimate collection of personal and cultural essays featuring eye-opening explorations of hot button topics for modern women, including internet feminism, impossible beauty standards in social media, shifting ideals about sexuality, and much more. Gabrielle Korn starts her professional life with all the right credentials. Prestigious college degree? Check. A loving, accepting family? Check. Instagram-worthy offices and a tight-knit group of friends? Check, check. Gabrielle’s life seems to reach the crescendo of perfect when she gets named the youngest editor-in-chief in the history of one of fashion’s most influential publication. Suddenly she’s invited to the world’s most epic parties, comped beautiful clothes and shoes from trendy designers, and asked to weigh in on everything from gay rights to lip gloss on one of the most influential digital platforms. But behind the scenes, things are far from perfect. In fact, just a few months before landing her dream job, Gabrielle’s health and wellbeing are on the line, and her promotion to editor-in-chief becomes the ultimate test of strength. In this collection of inspirational and searing essays, Gabrielle reveals exactly what it’s truly like in the fashion world, trying to find love as a young lesbian in New York City, battling with anorexia, and trying not to lose herself in a mirage of women’s empowerment and Instagram perfection. Through deeply personal essays, Gabrielle recounts her struggles to reconcile her long-held insecurities about her body while coming out in the era of The L Word, where swoon-worthy lesbians are portrayed as skinny, fashion-perfect, and power-hungry. She takes us with her everywhere from New York Fashion Week to the doctor’s office, revealing that the forces that try to keep women small are more pervasive than anyone wants to admit, especially in a world that’s been newly branded as woke. From #MeToo to commercialized body positivity, Korn’s biting, darkly funny analysis turns feminist commentary on its head. Both an in-your-face take on impossible beauty standards and entrenched media ideals and an inspiring call for personal authenticity, this powerful collection is ideal for fans of Roxane Gay and Rebecca Solnit.
Life and Gabriella
Title | Life and Gabriella PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Glasgow |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2020-07-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3752308044 |
Reproduction of the original: Life and Gabriella by Ellen Glasgow
Time Bandit
Title | Time Bandit PDF eBook |
Author | Andy Hillstrand |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2009-03-31 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0345504127 |
Every Alaskan king crab season, brothers Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand risk their lives and seek their fortunes upon the treacherous waters of the Bering Sea. Sons of a hard-bitten, highly successful fisherman, and born with brine in their blood, the Hillstrand boys couldn’t imagine a life without a swaying deck underfoot and a harvest of mighty king crabs waiting to be pulled from the ocean floor. In pursuit of their daily catch, the brothers brave ice floes and heaving waves sixty feet high, the perils of thousand-pound steel traps thrown about by the punishing wind, and the constant menace of the open, hungry water—epitomized in the chorus of a haunting sailors’ sing-along: “Many brave hearts are asleep in the deep, so beware, beware.” By turns raucous and reflective, exhilarating and anguished, enthralling, suspenseful, and wise, Time Bandit chronicles a larger-than-life love affair as old as civilization itself—a love affair between striving, willful man and inscrutable, enduring nature.
Winslow’s Journey
Title | Winslow’s Journey PDF eBook |
Author | Ellsworth James |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2020-11-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1663209197 |
Two lost souls. Two epic journeys. The lone survivor of a plane crash in the remote Northwest, Evan Winslow embarks on a perilous journey for home. Lost and barely alive, he fights to survive in a hostile environment while witnessing inexplicable events. Mysterious lights in the sky. An ancient cabin hiding evidence of an infamous crime. An enormous grizzly stalking him. The wilderness harbors dark secrets, and things may not be as they seem. Someone else is fighting to survive. Evan’s wife knows she’s the reason he was aboard the doomed airliner and struggles to escape the nightmare her life has become. Lost in her own wilderness of guilt, self-loathing, and helplessness, she battles personal demons while desperately clinging to the belief that her husband will return. The difference between adventure and tragedy is whether you survive the experience. Winslow’s Journey is a thought-provoking tale of survival, shattered lives, and miracles.
Alma's Choice
Title | Alma's Choice PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Wheelock |
Publisher | iUniverse |
Pages | 256 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0595226477 |