Vincent Truman's "This Is My First Time So Please Be Brutal" depicts over a hundred cartoons from the Chicago artist, ranging from bad puns (toad rage) to sharp-tongued commentary (a priest asks 'why are there no atheists in foxholes', to which a boy replies 'because atheists don't start wars'). This debut collection of illustrations, inspired by such diverse artists as Johnny Hart, B. Kliban and Matt Groening, is at once hysterical, subversive, vile and thought-provoking. Vincent Truman is a celebrated writer, director, actor, artist and producer in Chicago. His theater work is especially well-lauded, garnering him numerous positive notices and articles.

Baring the Truth in Your Memoir When you write a memoir or personal essay, you dare to reveal the truths of your experience: about yourself, and about others in your life. How do you expose long-guarded secrets and discuss bad behavior? How do you gracefully portray your family members, friends, spouses, exes, and children without damaging your relationships? How do you balance your respect for others with your desire to tell the truth? In The Truth of Memoir, best-selling memoirist Kerry Cohen provides insight and guidelines for depicting the characters who appear in your work with honesty and compassion. You'll learn how to choose which details to include and which secrets to tell, how to render the people in your life artfully and fully on the page, and what reactions you can expect from those you include in your work--as well as from readers and the media. Featuring over twenty candid essays from memoirists sharing their experiences and advice, as well as exercises for writing about others in your memoirs and essays, The Truth of Memoir will give you the courage and confidence to write your story--and all of its requisite characters--with truth and grace. "Kerry Cohen's The Truth of Memoir is a smart, soulful, psychologically astute guide to first-person writing. She reveals everything you want to know--but were afraid to ask--about telling your life story." --Susan Shapiro, author of eight books including Only As Good as Your Word, and co-author of The Bosnia List

If you want to read a crime thriller, why not try one written by a once notorious criminal who was incarcerated in some maximum-security establishments in Britain? The reader will quickly begin to realise that the material used by this writer is just not the product of a writer's imagination but material that could only have been gained by experience. The book "FOR THE LOVE OF A BROTHER" is an action packed crime novel in which our man Lawson during the final weeks of his prison sentence has been blackmailed into helping a dangerous killer and international drug dealer escape from Albany Prison on the Isle of Wight. The book sees many action scenes, love, fear, and revenge being played out and includes involvement of the American CIA. Whilst the reader will feel sorry for Lawson and want him to triumph, he both wins and loses in the end. The story rewards his commitment and love for his brother.

Hearing on the predicted coming storm of violent youth crime & how the Federal Government can work with the States & the Nation to prepare for this. Witnesses: Kevin Beary, sheriff; Linda Roster Clark; Richard Cullen, former U.S. attorney; Peter W. Greenwood, Rand Corp.; Ellen Halbert, Texas Board of Criminal Justice; Scott C. Newman, prosecutor; Karen Schreier, chair, Attorney General's Advisory Subcomm. on Juvenile Crime Issues, Dept. of Justice; Jefferson B. Sessions, III, Attorney Gen., State of Alabama; Hon. Sandra Storm; Patricia Thomas; Kathy Trammel; Public Defender Service, D.C.; Charles Wilson, attorney; & Safe Streets Coalition.

He had lost his love and went to a bar to get drunk, only to be miserably targeted by the Little Hooligan into an empty forest. Who would have thought that at this time, a man wearing a silver mask and drugged instead ... One night later, Yan Qiao was both angry and ashamed. She saw a piece of news about someone seeking her husband on TV. The mysterious man on the TV was the bastard that had bullied her yesterday, claiming that she had stolen his necklace. At this moment, a company called to inform her that she was interviewing for work. Yan Qiao had decided to temporarily put this matter aside and live a good life. She did not expect that the boss of this company was the bastard who bullied her ...

In todays world, a woman especially has a hard time relating her position to that of a man. Even in the military, you always hear about a mans point of view and experiences. Seldom do you hear about womens views or experiences. Candy describes exactly how she dealt with her position and the roles she played while serving in the military. Candy credits her time in the military to her strength, endurance, loyalty, and the ability to have someone elses back when they needed her. Candy is easygoing and will give anyone a chance, but things didnt always work out in her favor. Always hoping for the best, Candy was never desperate but always imagined being with the man of her dreams. It seemed that every time she let her guard down and felt it was safe to let go, time and again it turned out to be a disappointment. With her relationships always going south and being the target of someone elses advances, Candy continued to take one step at a time and vowed that there was still time for her dreams to one day come true.