Author: Michael W. Clune
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1946022616
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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A classic of addiction and recovery. How do you describe an addiction in which your drug of choice creates a hole in your memory, a “white out,” so that every time you use it is the first time—new, fascinating, vivid? Michael W. Clune’s story takes us straight inside such an addiction—what he calls “the memory disease.” With dark humor, and in crystalline prose, Clune’s account of life inside the heroin underground reads like no other. Whisking us between the halves of his precarious double life—between the streets of Baltimore and the college classroom, where Clune is a graduate student teaching literature—we spiral along with him as he approaches rock bottom: from nodding off in a row house with a one-armed junkie and a murderous religious freak to having his life threatened in a Chicago jail while facing a felony possession charge. After his descent into addiction, we follow Clune through detox, treatment, and finally into recovery as he returns to his childhood home, where the memory disease and his heroin-induced white out begin to fade. White Out is more than a memoir. It is a rigorous investigation that offers clarity, hope, and even beauty to anyone who wants to understand the disease or its cure. This tenth anniversary edition includes a new preface by the author.

Author: Ken Follett
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0451225147
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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"Everyone likes a page-turner, and Follett is the best." —The Philadelphia Inquirer "A hell of a storyteller" (Entertainment Weekly), #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett reinvents the thriller with each new novel. But nothing matches the intricate knife-edge drama of Whiteout. . . . A missing canister of a deadly virus. A lab technician bleeding from the eyes. Toni Gallo, the security director of a Scottish medical research firm, knows she has problems, but she has no idea of the nightmare to come. As a Christmas Eve blizzard whips out of the north, several people, Toni among them, converge on a remote family house. All have something to gain or lose from the drug developed to fight the virus. As the storm worsens, the emotional sparks—jealousies, distrust, sexual attraction, rivalries—crackle; desperate secrets are revealed; hidden traitors and unexpected heroes emerge. Filled with startling twists at every turn, Whiteout rockets Follett into a class by himself.

Author: Christopher S. Collins
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN: 9781433135415
Category : Racism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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White Out: Understanding White Privilege and Dominance in the Modern Age is about the role of Whiteness and a defense of White dominance in an increasingly diverse society.

Author: W. C. Mack
Publisher: Scholastic Canada
ISBN: 1443148687
Category : Friendship
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Steven White is a perennial new-kid-in-town, avid snowboarder and occasional "white" liar. But at his new school, when his plan for instant popularity backfires, a humbled pro-snowboarder gives him a crash course in being himself. Seventh-grader Steven White's family has just moved - again - this time to Oregon. The upside is that there is lots of great snowboarding. But Steven dreads having to start over in yet another new school. So he devises a scheme to instantly boost his popularity: he tells his classmates that he's champion snowboarder Cody White's cousin and the friends will come to him. Of course it's only a matter of time before the White lie unravels, the kids shun him, and Steven finds himself facing the worst, loneliest Winter Break ever. Then he meets pro-snowboarder D-Day Davis on the slopes. D-Day is hiding out after a disastrous X-Games appearance. While Steven yearns to be a pro snowboarder, D-Day just wants to be a normal teenager again. But Steven doesn't respect Danny's request to stay under the radar, and soon their friendship is in jeopardy. Can D-Day show Steven that all he needs to do is be himself? And can Steven help his hero get his mojo back?

Author: Ashley W. Doane
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136064664
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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What does it mean to be white? This remains the question at large in the continued effort to examine how white racial identity is constructed and how systems of white privilege operate in everyday life. White Out brings together the original work of leading scholars across the disciplines of sociology, philosophy, history, and anthropology to give readers an important and cutting-edge study of "whiteness".

Author: Robert Marcum
Publisher: Shadow Mountain
ISBN: 9781573456524
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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When Raif and Terri make a grisly discovery in the mountains near Jackson, Wyoming, they are hurled into a harrowing run for their lives when the investigation leads them into the middle of a sinister international plot.

Author: Greg Rucka
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966712711
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Following a murder in Antarctica, the U.S. Marshal responsible for the area and a British intelligence agent work to discover who did it and why.

Author: Tariq Shah
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
ISBN: 1937512924
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101

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"Ant is borderline obsessed with funerals, likening the events to weddings as gatherings he looks forward to. Yet, when a childhood friend passes, Ant’s veneer starts to crumble. Weirdly funny, Whiteout Conditions tracks Ant and his friend Vince as they make their way through Chicogoland’s suburbs, which, in Shah’s telling, are as harrowing as any arctic climate." —Wendy J. Fox, BuzzFeed '15 Small Press Books To Kick Off Your 2020 Reading Season' Ant is back in Chicago for a funeral, and he typically enjoys funerals. Since most of his family has passed away, he finds himself attracted to their endearing qualities: the hyperbolic language, the stoner altar boy, seeing friends in suits for the first time. That is, until the tragic death of Ray — Ant’s childhood friend, Vince's teenage cousin. Ray was the younger third-wheel that Ant and Vince were stuck babysitting while in high school, and his sudden death makes national news. In the depths of a brutal Midwest winter, Ant rides with Vince through the falling snow to Ray’s funeral, an event that has been accruing a sense of consequence. With a poet’s sensibility, Shah navigates the murky responsibilities of adulthood, grief, toxic masculinity, and the tragedy of revenge in this haunting Midwestern noir.

Author: Claire Watts
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781410917393
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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This book explains what happens when a blizzard strikes. Find out why blizzards happen and how to survive if you find yourself trapped by a blizzard. There are loads of photos and facts to help you fully understand the topic and find answers quickly.

Author: Susan Kiernan-Lewis
Publisher: Susan Kiernan-Lewis
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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In Book 10 of the Irish End Games Sarah faces the world her children will inherit but one no mother should ever live to see. As life in post-apocalyptic Ireland teeters on the brink of the abyss, she’s forced to rise up to do what needs doing—alone and against all odds. In spite of Mike’s resistance and David’s deadly ultimatum, Sarah will need to do the unthinkable one last time. Once and for all.