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Charles Bukowski examines cats and his childhood in You Get So Alone at Times, a book of poetry that reveals his tender side. He delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.

As Keith Ferrazzi discovered early in life, what distinguishes highly successful people from everyone else is the way they use the power of relationships - so that everyone wins. His form of connecting to the world around him is based on generosity...

Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless...

Ela tem apenas 16 anos, canta, dança, compõe e já está dando o que falar. Com personalidade roqueira e jeito de menina, a mineira Lu Alone é a perfeita combinação de uma forte atitude com altas doses de feminilidade e carisma. Lu é a primeira cantora...

A stunning new collection from a 'beguiling and magisterial' poet (The New York Times Book Review)This is the End of Days.This is what we've been waiting for always.I walked over to the Hudson River, heading for Mars.Each poem of mine is a suicide...

Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting...

Excerpt from The Price of This Book Is One Dollar: Proceeds to Be Devoted Alone to Charity This little volume is purely an afterthought. It is in no sense a candidate for fame. Its merits or de merits are not up for consideration. It was not writ ten...

Com 17 anos de estrada, a banda de hardcore Questions lançou, pela HBB em parceria com a Seven Eight Life Recordings, o DVD “We’re Not Alone”. O registro ao vivo foi gravado em outubro de 2016 em São Paulo e conta com um show na integra com dezessete...

Perhaps it'apos;s a husband who'apos;s on the road, or one who is critically ill, or one trapped in a web of sin. Whatever the cause, there are times when the burden is on the wife. Susie Larson offers encouragement and shows how loneliness and...

Despite hundreds of Instagram friends and thousands of text messages, why do students feel so alone? It’s a sad irony that today’s students have never been more connected—and have never felt more isolated. Andy Braner believes the answer lies in...

'apos;Riveting...Honnold is neither crazy nor reckless. Alone on the Wall reveals him to be an utterly unique and extremely appealing young man.'apos;Jon KrakauerA twelve-year-old kid in the audience raised his hand and asked, 'apos;Aren'apos;t you...

I hope you get drafted and you go to Vietnam and you get shot and you die there!Those words, spoken in the anger of youth, marked the end of the torrid 1960s college romance of Annette DuBose and Gabe Pender. She would marry a fellow antiwar activist...

Muriel alone, safe at her own source of water deals with nature and remaking up with Glen.

'Molly isn't home Katrina. You just missed her.''Ok, I will be on my way.'But as she was planning to leave the house, Esther made that one move that Katrina never thought she would live to see. Esther decided to move forward and grabbed Katrina by...

Moses was not happy in his marriage since his wife Katy was really conservative and attended church regularly with her friends who looked down at him. During a trip, an avalanche forced Moses to stay alone with Valerie, his wife's best friend. He...

Ever popular with the grasping and greedy beauties of the Social world, the handsome Marquis of Elkesley is becoming disillusioned with their constant requests for expensive gifts and so he travels to Paris to forget them. There he receives a...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the...

It was 1935. Flame-haired Teddy Lynch finished singing "Alone Together" at the swanky nightclub the New Yorker and left the stage to find a charming stranger at her friends' table. It was Jean Paul Getty, enigmatic oil tycoon and America's first...

I had no money, could get no floats, my navigation was uncertain, plane inadequate.A true story filled with danger, adventure and achievement, Alone Over The Tasman Sea is Sir Francis Chichester'apos;s telling of his 1931 seaplane solo-flight over...

Gus D'Aoust (1897-1990) was a legend, an icon of the Northwest Territories. He was a well-known adventurer, explorer, hunter, and above all, a dedicated and passionate Barren Land trapper. In this inhospitable environment beyond the tree line, he...

<p>When I was twenty I came face to face with the old man convicted of paying five thousand dollars for the murder of my father.</p><p>From the gripping first line of this true story, you will follow a young man's journey through grief and despair to...

The only daughter of alcoholic parents, novelist Pip Granger spent much of her childhood outside looking in.No strangers to the demon booze, her parents were deeply involved in a passionate relationship that rose to exciting highs and plunged to...

Eight sled dogs and one woman set out from Barrow, Alaska, to mush 2,500 miles. ALONE ACROSS THEARCTIC chronicles this astounding expedition.

A young girl dreams at the seaside in communist Romania and slowly discovers that, like the sand, sun, and sea, life is complex and paradoxical-it is both ugly and beautiful, harsh and merciful, absurd and meaningful, ominous and promising. Though...

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award.One winter'apos;s night in 1976, over 20 million people in Britain watched John Curry skate to Olympic glory on an ice rink in Austria. Many millions more watched around the world....

This must-read for lovers of Stephen King's The Shining will leave readers breathless as Seda and her family find themselves at the mercy of a murderer in an isolated and snowbound hotel. Get ready for what Kirkus calls 'a bloody, wonderfully creepy...

This must-read for lovers of Stephen King's The Shining will leave readers breathless as Seda and her family find themselves at the mercy of a murderer in an isolated and snowbound hotel. Get ready for what Kirkus calls 'A bloody, wonderfully creepy...

In the final installment of an exhilarating sci-fi adventure trilogy in the vein of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Red Rising, Scott Sigler's unforgettable heroine, Em Savage, must come to grips once and for all with the perilous mysteries of her...

Uncovers the true history of American orphanages, revealing what it was like to eat, sleep, study, and play in such institutions, why children were sent to live there in the first place, and what happened to them after they left.

Convinced that Tatiana's mother is a double agent sent to betray her father, Gaia is determined to dislike Tatiana and prove Natasha's guilt, while Josh takes Heather to Loki, who injects her with the anti-fear serum.

Alone . . . Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. The...

Alone In Berlin - Penguin Modern Classics

MacDonald explores God's characteristics-those unique to Him and those shared with humanity. With this in-depth Bible study you will gain greater knowledge of God's attributes and cultivate the attributes you share with God in your daily Christian...

Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. When unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France, they are shocked out of their quiet existence and begin a silent campaign of...

When Bobby Dodge, a sniper with the Massachusetts State Police SWAT team, saves a woman and her young son from her armed husband, he finds himself investigating the shooting of a man who had accused his wife of poisoning their son.

When her dying father confesses that he is not her biological father -- and that he has a twin -- Washington, D.C., morning news anchor Ellery O'Brien is desperate for answers. Plagued by a recurring nightmare in which a blood-covered woman who has...

Eric Hoffer Book Award honorable mention I hope you get drafted and you go to Vietnam and you get shot and you die there! Those words, spoken in the anger of youth, marked the end of the torrid 1960s college romance of Annette DuBose and Gabe Pender....

Alone With the Horrors

Exhausted and burnt-out after dealing with a series of major homicides, Mars Bahr and his partner are assigned to investigate the unsolved, sixteen-year-old case of a missing girl, but their search for answers uncovers the subsequent death of the...

A collection of short works written over the course of thirty years is complemented by the writer's personal account of how the stories were written and an assessment of their flaws and merits.

‘The haiku in Alone at the Window resonate with warmth, wit and wisdom. The poet’s tender observations and clear imagery create an unfolding of meaning as the reader reflects on each poem. These moments of celebration are imbued with a sense of...

Excerpt from Alone With God, Children We might use these words in the treatment of our Saviour's solitariness, but it is our purpose rather to consider them as a general principle. In one sense, my friends, it seems natural to think of ourselves as...

Excerpt from Alone She is a weak, foolish baby! It will take an immensity of schooling to make her endurable; said Mr. Read, when the guests had gone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find...

Alone in the Crowd discusses the identity of nineteenth-century Paris, one of the most widely imaged cities in the modern world, whose most enduring attribute is that of a city of spectacle - a city of the pleasure of looking and being looked at...