Author: Josefina Guardia Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1450288561 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 141
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Living Hell presents the uplifting and inspirational stories of some of the AIDS patients with whom author Josefina Guardia worked as a nursing assistant. She opens the door to the reality of AIDS and its victims, as well as that of the families who dont always know how to be supportive in the face of such devastation. She shares in their pain and acknowledges how alone some AIDS patients find themselves during the fight of their lives. This collection of stories recounts their battle to die with dignityto take their last breaths surrounded by loving kindness. She discusses how some families struggle with the reality of this frightening disease and offers the reminder that, with a little love and understanding, its possible to make the last days of an AIDS patient less scary. Guardia encourages families to gain knowledge about the disease that their loved one is facing and provide as much support as they can. The touching stories compiled here remind us not to be afraid to hug these courageous people so that they know that they are loved.
Author: Shane Russell Publisher: Author House ISBN: 1418406228 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 188
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LIVING HELL IS WRITTEN FOR A MATURE AUDIENCE. IT INVOLVES SEVERAL FAMILIES WHO ARE TORN APART BY CHILD MOLESTATION. THE STORIES OF THE VICTIMS ARE CLEVERLY INTERTWINED. IT CAN BE SAID THAT ALL FAMILIES ARE DYSFUNCTIONAL TO SOME DEGREE, BUT COMBINING CHILD MOLESTATION TO THE ABNORMALITY ONLY PROMOTES DEVASTATION. MY BOOK WILL SHOW THE FAMILIES SUBSISTED WITH FEELINGS OF INSECURITY, DEVIANCE, MENTAL ANGUISH AND IGNOMINY AS A WAY OF LIFE, BECAUSE OF THE COMPLACENT ATTITUDE OF THE PERPETRATOR PERMEATING THE FAMILY. MY NOVEL WILL SHOW THAT DESPITE THE PERIOD OF UPHEAVAL AND FRUSTRATION, MANY RECOVER. IF YOU SEE YOURSELF ON THESE PAGES, KNOW YOU ARE NOT ALONE. YOU CAN SURVIVE. THE KEY IS ACCEPTANCE AND ASSISTANCE. ACCEPTING YOU ARE A VICTIM THROUGH NO FAULT OF YOUR OWN; AND SEEKING ASSISTANCE.
Author: Jim Thompson Publisher: Mulholland Books ISBN: 0316195987 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 208
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Frank "Dolly" Dillon has a job he hates, working sales and collections for Pay-E-Zee Stores, a wife named Joyce he can't stand, and an account balance that barely allows him to pay the bills each month. Working door-to-door one day, trying to eke money out of folk with even less of it than he has, Dolly crosses paths with a beautiful young woman named Mona Farrell. Mona's being forced by her aunt to do things she doesn't like, with men she doesn't know -- she wants out, any way she can get it. And to a man who wants nothing of what he has, Mona sure looks like something he actually does. Soon Dolly and Mona find themselves involved in a scheme of robbery, murder and mayhem that makes Dolly's blood run cold. As Dolly's plans begin to unravel, his mind soon follows. In A Hell of a Woman, Jim Thompson offers another arresting portrait of a deviant mind, in an ambitious crime novel that ranks among his best work.
Author: E. D. Wott Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1477134603 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 278
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Growing up on a Dairy Farm in a small county in Ohio was not the easiest life. At most times it would become the enjoyment of times. I grew up watching birth, rebirth, death, and rebirth happen everyday in the first years of my life. The want to share to everyone and to let people know what kind of life I lived was a dream of mine. These poems represent my life. They're not your usual poetry reading material. Each one represents a day or week in my life whether I was strong, sad, happy, angry, delighted, or just feeling sexy. Over those years writing these poems became my diary. These tell the long nights, the deaths I encountered, and lives I helped. The love I shared for my family and animals I cared for hide within these pages. Written are words of my life, the Dairy Farmer's Daughter.
Author: E. Roy Hector Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1462047416 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 156
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Gangs of bloodthirsty and ruthless outlaws terrorized the American Southwest before and after Mexico ceded the land now called Texas. One such pack of thirty or forty cutthroats had what they thought was a perfectly impregnable hideout until a trio of U.S. Marshals was given the mission of bringing them to justice. These marshals were no barroom toughs, they'd been brought up church-going citizens, and all three had been schooled in the art of self-defense and survival. The leader of this outlaw gang made a fatal mistake when he ordered a rancher's beautiful virgin daughter kidnapped. His gunmen terrorized this beautiful maiden with a rattlesnake while threatening her with a life of abuse and humiliation at the hands of the outlaw boss. The boss of this lawless low-life gang of killers took great pride in using his blacksnake whip to maintain his unshakeable hold on his captives and even on the outlaws if they displeased him. He and his gang killed for the thrill of watching the innocent die. Members of this gang would lead the marshals on a chase throughout the Southwest and across the Rio Grande into Mexico, leaving a bloody trail of robbery and death.
Author: Diarmuid Jeffreys Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0805078134 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 498
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The remarkable rise and shameful fall of one of the twentieth century’s greatest conglomerates At its peak in the 1930s, the German chemical conglomerate IG Farben was one of the most powerful corporations in the world. To this day, companies formerly part of the Farben cartel—the aspirin-maker Bayer, the graphics supplier Agfa, the plastics giant BASF—continue to play key roles in the global market. IG Farben itself, however, is remembered mostly for its infamous connections to the Nazi Party and its complicity in the atrocities of the Holocaust. After the war, Farben’s leaders were tried for crimes that included mass murder and exploitation of slave labor. In Hell’s Cartel, Diarmuid Jeffreys presents the first comprehensive account of IG Farben’s rise and fall, tracing the enterprise from its nineteenth-century origins, when the discovery of synthetic dyes gave rise to a vibrant new industry, through the upheavals of the Great War era, and on to the company’s fateful role in World War II. Drawing on extensive research and original interviews, Hell’s Cartel sheds new light on the codependence of industry and the Third Reich, and offers a timely warning against the dangerous merger of politics and the pursuit of profit.
Author: Dewei Wang Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 9780804728454 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 460
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The reigning view of literary historians has been that the May Fourth movement of 1919 marks the division between the traditional and the modern in Chinese literature. This book argues that signs of reform and innovation can be discerned long before May Fourth, and that as China entered the arena of modern, international history in the late Qing, it was already developing its own complex matrix of incipient modernities. It demonstrates that late Qing fiction nurtured a creative, innovative poetics, one that was spurned by the reformers of the May Fourth generation in favor of Western-style realism. The author recognizes that a full account of modern Chinese fiction needs to ask why so many genres, styles, themes, and figures found in late imperial fiction were repressed by "modern" Chinese literary discourse. He focuses on four genres of late Qing fiction that have been either rudely dismissed in pejorative terms or simply ignored: depravity romances, court-case and chivalric cycles, grotesque exposés, and scientific fantasies. The author shows that in spite of the realist orthodoxy that has dominated Chinese literature since the May Fourth movement, these unwelcome genres have continually found their way back into mainstream discourse, their influence being increasingly evident in recent decades. This first comprehensive study of late Qing fiction discusses more than sixty works, at least half of which have rarely or never been dealt with by Western or Chinese scholars. Richly informed by contemporary literary theory, this book constitutes a polemical rethinking of the nature of Chinese literary and cultural modernity.
Author: Ian Fortey Publisher: Scare Street ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 200
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Murder is on the rise along hell’s highway… When Detective Jacinta Perez calls on retired Marine, Shane Ryan, to look into a bizarre series of deaths, the ghost hunter quickly confirms a supernatural connection to the crimes. Lost souls call out to him, all clamoring for justice to be served. But when Shane’s investigation leads him to a body hidden in the woods, he suddenly finds himself a suspect in the crimes. Framed for murder and with Jacinta getting kidnapped, Shane must use all the help he could get to destroy supernatural evil, once and for all. Will he succeed in stopping the murders? Or is it only the beginning of his terrifying journey to hell?
Author: Tracey Odessa Kane Publisher: Rowanvale Books ISBN: 1910832715 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 95
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We want Him there to announce and celebrate the arrival of our children. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #515151; -webkit-text-stroke: #515151} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} We want Him to be there when each of us says goodbye for the final time. We even want Him to reside over us and bless our wedding day... So again I ask, why isn’t God enough for the world He created? You see, we believe in God… but we don’t believe in God. We pray for miracles and yet we don’t believe in miracles. We pray for help, but we don’t really want God’s help. We ask for healing even though we don’t truly want to be healed, because to us it’s our brokenness, our debris, our sickness, our weakness, our fallibilities, our frustrations, our fears, our differences that define us, and we’re comfortable with that. And so we live our unfulfilling, tempered, agnostic lives, and secretly we hedge our bet both ways — just in case. And that is the point we are stuck at… hedging our bets! Welcome to the impasse of all that has been, and of all that could be…
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